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(1) James Babson and wife Isabel, together with infant son James, left England with a party of emigrants for the United States. On the trip over James died. Isabel Babson, widow, was the first of the name in America, and she and her only son James are progeni- tors of all of the name in this country. She was a mid-wife and nurse at Gloucester, Massachusetts. She had several grants of land, of which the earliest was in 1644. Even before this grant she bought a lot of Mr. Mil- ward, known as the Ashley lot, two acres, part of which is now the site of 75 and 77 Front street, which she left to her son James, valued at twenty-seven pounds, six shillings. The place remained in the Babson family a hun- dred and fifty years. She died at Gloucester, April 6, 1661, aged about eighty-four years, indicating that her birth-year was 1577. James appears to be her only child, although tradi- tion says there was a son John.
(II) James (2), son of James (I) and Isa- bel Babson, was born in England about 1620-25. His age is given as about thirty in a deposition dated 1663, but he was married as early as 1647 and grantor in a deed of that year, and must have reached his majority. He settled in Little Good Harbor, Gloucester, and was a cooper by trade, making barrels for the fishermen, etc. He had a small farm also. The town granted December 23, 1658, twelve acres of fresh meadow lying above the mill, and twenty acres of upland lying alongside it. On this grant he settled and it finally passed into the hands of his son-in-law, Thomas Witham, husband of his daughter Abigail, and it has remained in the Witham family to the present generation. He died December 21, 1683. His will was dated December 4, 1683, and proved March 25, 1684, bequeathing to wife Elinor, son John and other children, making his son Philip executor. The in- ventory of his estate amounted to one hundred and eleven pounds, sixteen shillings, an aver- age estate for his day. He married, Novem- ber 16, 1647, Elinor Hill, at Gloucester, who died March 14. 1714, aged eighty-three years, sister of Zebulon Hill, who came from Bristol, England. Children, all born at Gloucester : 1. James, born September 29, 1648. 2. Elinor, June 15, 1651. 3. Philip, October 15, 1654, settled in Salem, married Hannah Baker, Oc- tober 22, 1689; had daughter Anna, who mar- ried Israel Hendricks. 4. Sarah, February 15,
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1656-57, died 1676. 5. Thomas, May 21, 1658, soldier in King Philip's war. 6. John, Novem- ber 27, 1660, married, 1686, Dorcas Elwell, had grant at Strattsmouth in 1695 to set up fishing ; both he and wife died 1737; had nine children. 7. Richard, June 1, 1663, mentioned below. 8. Elizabeth, October 8, 1665. 9. Ebenezer. February 8, 1668, a notorious char- acter, called by Cotton Mather a "playmate of the devil." 10. Abigail, 1670.
(III) Richard, son of James (2) Babson, was born June 1, 1663, at Gloucester. He married (first) Mary Jane Reading, who died February 14, 1718, aged fifty-four years. He married (second) October 14, 1718, Jane Reading, probably widow of John Reading. He was a mariner or coaster and may have removed to Falmouth, Maine, before 1727, as a deed conveying his house and land at Fresh Water Cove to his son John for thirty-four pounds was acknowledged at that place Octo- ber 10, 1720. He had ten daughters and one son. Five of the daughters lived to marry. Of the son John, mentioned below, there are many descendants.
(IV) John, son of Richard Babson, was born July 9, 1687. He had the homestead of his father at Fresh Water Cove, Gloucester. He married, August 20, 1711, Hannah Hodg- kins. Children: I. Thomas, born and died 1712. 2. John, born 1713, married (first ) Jan- uary II, 1739; (second) December 2, 1756, Abigail Allen, perhaps widow of John, and (third) March 20, 1771, Anne Savery ; he re- sided in what is known as the old Garrison House on Back street and died March, 1797, aged eighty-four years; son Samuel settled in Lincoln, Massachusetts. 4. Samuel (twin), June 12, 1715. 5. Solomon (twin), June 12, 1715, married, November 9, 1739, Elizabeth Parsons, probably daughter of John: had six daughters, and three sons, Solomon, John and Zebulon. 6. Philip, July 29, 1719, married, July 24, 1744, Mary Elwell. 7. William, Octo- ber 18, 1721, married (first) July 24, 1744, Mary Williams; (second) Elizabeth Choate. 8. Joseph, mentioned below. Others died young.
(V) Joseph, son of John Babson, was born in Gloucester, July 18, 1732, died in Brooklin, Maine, January 15, 1815. In November, 1773, he removed to Naskeag (now Brooklin), Maine, where he was active in repulsing the encroachments of the British upon the terri- tory about Castine when it was occupied by them during the revolutionary war, and also upon their occupancy of Castine during the
war of 1812; during that war he was captain and owner of privateer and captured at Cas- tine after having captured a vessel loaded with supplies for the British army. He mar- ried Martha Somes, June 12, 1755. Children : Joseph, born December 6, 1756, died in New- buryport, April 1, 1843; Martha, Abram, Eliz- abeth, Susanna, John, mentioned below ; James, born at Naskeag, 1775, died 1863.
(VI) John (2), son of Joseph Babson, was born in Gloucester, December 1I, 1768. He married Emma Brown. They lived in Brook- lin, Maine. Children, probably not in order of birth: John W., Sivilian, mentioned be- low ; Samuel Brown, mentioned below ; James Madison, Elizabeth, Sophia, Susan and Louisa.
(VII) Captain Sivilian, son of John (2) Babson, was born in Brooklin, Maine, 1810, and died in Brookville, Maine, in 1888. He was educated in the public schools. Early in his youth he began to go to sea and he was mariner until 1875, when he retired. He be- came a master' mariner when a young man and commanded his own vessel and owned his cargoes for many years. He traded between Boston and Baltimore to the south and to St. John, New Brunswick, to the northward. Dur- ing the civil war he owned several vessels chartered by the government for transports. In politics Captain Babson was a Republican. He married Abbie Perkins, born in Penob- scot, Maine, 1823, died 1904. Children: I. Emma F., born 1849, died in 1863. 2. George Jay, born 1855, mentioned below. 3. Edwin P., born 1857, merchant at Blue Hill, Maine, married Rose A. Billings ; child, Mabel. Clara P., born 1868, married William H. Chadbourne, of East Waterford, Maine ; raises fancy cattle and is a lumberman ; children : I. Fred Chadbourne and Philip Chadbourne.
(VIII) George Jay, son of Captain Sivilian Babson, was born in Brooksville, Maine, 1855. He was educated in the public schools of Brooksville, Maine, and at the State Normal school, Castine, Maine. He taught school for a time, then traveled through the west buying wool. He came to Foxcroft, Maine, in 1887, and was engaged in merchandizing and lum- ber business, and built up a large and flourish- ing business which was incorporated in 1907 as Babson & Company. He married (first) in 1885, Lillian A. Perkins, born in Penob- scot, daughter of Horace Perkins. He mar- ried (second) in 1900, Jessie Oakes, born in Sangerville, daughter of William P. and Edith (Lewis) Oakes, of Foxcroft. Child of first
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wife: Horace P., born June 19, 1889. Chil- dren of second wife: Keith O., born June 13, 1901 ; George Jay Jr., August 2, 1905.
(VII) Samuel Brown, son of John Babson, was born in Brooklin, Maine, October 2, 1812. Married Nancy Tapley, born Brooksville,
Maine, March 29, 18II. Children : John
Walker, mentioned below. Albert M., born December 18, 1844, died July 31, 1848. James A., born November 7, 1847, died November 4, 1889.
(VIII) John Walker, son of Samuel Brown Babson, was born in Brooksville, Hancock county, Maine, August 15, 1835. He attended the local schools, Blue Hill Academy and the academy at Kent's Hill. He served as post- master of the town of Brooksville from 1856 to 1859; appointed clerk to Hannibal Hamlin, vice-president of the United States in 1861 and served in the United States capitol until 1866, when he was transferred to the pension bureau and made deputy commissioner of pensions in 1869; in 1872 was transferred to the United States patent office and appointed chief of the issue and gazette division, which position he held for more than thirty-five years. A staunch Republican in politics, he has served as chairman of the county com- mittee four years. He is a member of B. B. French Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D. C., 1866; National Geo- graphic Society; East Washington Citizens' Association ; Anthropological Society, and a director of the Board of Trade of Washing- ton, D. C. He married (first) November 5, 1855, at Bangor, Maine, Louise A. Tibbetts, born in Brooklin, Maine, March 14, 1838. Married (second) September 1, 1868, in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, Eliza A. Tibbetts, born in Brooksville, Maine, February 8, 1838, daugh- ter of Noah N. and Elvina (Norton) Tib- betts, who were the parents of six other chil- dren: Elvina, Clara, Lydia, Minnie, Noah and James; Noah N. Tibbetts was a sea cap- tain for more than forty years. Children of first wife: I. May Winifred, born Brooks- ville, August 3, 1856, married, 1877, Dr. Wil- liam B. French at Washington, D. C. 2. Ab- bie Nancy, Brooksville, November 28, 1857, died October 2, 1861. 3. Eugene St. L., Brooksville, February 4, 1861, died February I, 1888. Children of second wife: 4. Rosie Myrtle, Washington, D. C., June 29, 1869, died March 8, 1904. 5. Don Hamlin, Wash- ington, D. C., January 19, 1871, died same day. 6. John Walker, Washington, D. C., April 22, 1876, educated in public schools and high school of Washington, graduating from
the latter institution in 1893; immediately en- gaged in business with the Norris Peters Com- pany, lithographers, where he has gradually worked his way to the front until now he is secretary of the corporation. In 1899 he mar- ried Mary Elizabeth Halley in Washington, D. C .; children : Isabel, Berwyn B., Beulah Louise and John W., the third. 7. Bertha Belle, Brooksville, August 28, 1878, died June 7, 1889. 8. Berwyn, Washington, D. C., July 27, 1879, died December 30, 1884.
DEARTH Occasionally one finds a name so unusual that it seems to be in a class by itself. In such cases it is not unreasonable to suppose that the form under consideration may be a modi- fication, brought about either by accident or design, of some patronymic more widely dis- tributed. In this case it is possible that Dearth may be derived from Death, a surname rather uncommon in this country, but still more nu- merously found than Dearth. The family of Dearth appears to be non-existent in England, and in America it has been traced to but two localities outside of Maine. "One Thomas Dearth, born March 26, 1777, lived at Brim- field, Massachusetts, where he married Me- hitable Bliss. Henry Golden Dearth, born at Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1863, is an artist of repute, and a member of the American Na- tional Academy. He is probably a descend- ant of Captain Golden Death who lived at Bristol in the early part of the nineteenth cen- tury and was part owner of a privateer during the war of 1812.
(I) Leonard Dearth was born at Sherborn, Massachusetts, in 1792, and died at East Sangerville, Maine, in 1880. In early life he moved from Massachusetts to Sangerville, and cleared the land where he spent the remainder of his days, and where all his children were born. Leonard Dearth married Fannie Cars- ley of Sangerville, and their children were : Freeman D., Leander, Henry L., Mercy, Hul- dah and Rebecca.
(II) Freeman Daniel, youngest son of Leonard and Fannie (Carsley) Dearth, was born at Sangerville, Maine, about 1829, and died in that town in 1886. He was educated in the common schools and at Foxcroft Acad- emy. He was a farmer all his life and lived and died on the old home place, which his father had cleared and where he himself was born. He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist church. About 1853 Freeman Daniel Dearth married Mary B. Spooner, daughter of Daniel and Jemima
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(Knowlton) Spooner, of Sangerville, Maine. ( See Spooner, VI). Freeman D. and Mary B. (Spooner) Dearth had children: Elwin, deceased ; Charles F. and Amelia E. (twins), the former of Foxcroft and the latter of Bos- ton; Leonard, of California; Albert E. and Alice (twins), the former of Lowell and the latter deceased; Freeman Daniel, mentioned below; Elbridge H., of Lowell; Huldah H. (Mrs. Warnell), deceased; Asa E., of Lowell ; Arthur L., of Boston; Gertrude M., of Dex- ter ; Blanche E., of Boston.
(III) Freeman Daniel (2), fifth son of Freeman Daniel (I) and Mary B. (Spooner) Dearth, was born at Sangerville, Maine, April 16, 1861. He obtained his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools, at Foxcroft Acad- emy, from which he was graduated in 1881, and at the Maine Central Institute, from which he was graduated in 1883. He entered Bowdoin College, from which he took his de- gree in 1887. After graduation he became the principal of the high school at Castine and also taught school at Bolton, Massachusetts, for one year. He was then appointed to a government position in the railway mail ser- vice on the route between Bangor and Green- ville, and also between Bangor and Vance- boro. While holding these positions he be- gan reading law and studied in the office of Crosby & Crosby at Dexter. He was admit- ted to the Maine bar in 1896. He opened a law office in Dexter on November 16 of that year, and has been in successful general prac- tice there ever since. He is a Republican in politics, and has for three years served as judge of the municipal court. He resigned this office in order to accept that of postmaster, to which he was appointed in 1900. Mr. Dearth takes an active part in the affairs of the town, and holds many positions of trust. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Abbott Memorial Library, is a director of the First National Bank, and has been chair- man of the school board. He belongs to Bedivere Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Dex- ter ; and to Penobscot Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, also to the East- ern Star. He attends the Universalist church.
This family is descended SPOONER from the Spooners of Ply- mouth and Dartmouth, Mas- sachusetts, who were among the first settlers in the last named town, and figured quite prominently in the early history of that sec- tion of Bristol county. One of the most notable representatives of the family was the
Hon. Walter Spooner, a staunch revolution- ary patriot, and descendants of the original settler are scattered through the New Eng- land and other states.
(I) William Spooner, the first of the name on this side of the ocean, probably arrived in New England from the mother country in 1637, locating in Plymouth, and as he is first mentioned in the records of that town as an apprentice, it may be inferred that he was a minor. He was admitted a freeman in 1654 and resided in Plymouth until about the year 1660, when he removed to that part of Dart- mouth which is now Acushnet. He died at Dartmouth, 1684. He married (first) Eliza- beth Partridge, who died April 28, 1648. Mar- ried (second) March 18, 1652, Hannah, daughter of Joshua Pratt. His children were : John, Sarah, Samuel, Martha, William, Isaac, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer.
(II) Samuel, elder son of William Spooner and his second wife, Hannah (Pratt) Spooner, was born, probably at Plymouth, Massachu- setts, January 14, 1655, and died at Dart- mouth, Massachusetts, in 1739. When Sam- uel was five years old, his father removed to the new settlement of Acushnet in the Dart- mouth purchase, and the son spent all of his long life in that place or the immediate neigh- borhood. He inherited lands from his father, and his homestead contained one hundred and four acres and a half "Situate and being on ye eastward side of Acooshnet river." Sam- uel Spooner was constable in 1680 and also in 1684, served on the grand and petit juries, and held other positions of trust. He and his brother John, with others of the Dartmouth proprietors, were successful defendants in suits brought by Zachary Allin, William Wood and others in 1684 and 1686. Samuel Spooner's will was dated September 27, 1731, and proven February 19, 1739. In it he pro- vides for his wife and eleven children ; but the provisions of the will indicate that he had already divided a considerable portion of his estate among the latter. About 1688 Samuel Spooner married Experience, daughter of Daniel Wing, and his second wife, Anna (Ewer) Wing. Daniel Wing came from Eng- land with his parents in 1632 and settled in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where he was sev- eral times fined for being a Quaker. On four of these occasions he was obliged to pay five pounds, and at another time ten. Experience (Wing) Spooner was born August 4, 1668, and was living in 1731. To her and her hus- band, Samuel Spooner, were born eleven chil- dren : William, February 13, 1689; Mary,
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January 4, 1691, married Caleb Peckham ; Samuel, February 4, 1693; Daniel, whose sketch follows; Seth, January 31, 1695; Han- nah, January 27, 1697; Jashub, November 13, 1698; Anna, April 18, 1700; Experience, June 19, 1702; Beulah, June 27, 1705, married John Spooner ; Wing, April 30, 17 -.
(III) Daniel, third son of Samuel and Ex- perience ( Wing) Spooner, was born Feb- ruary 28, 1694, at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and died at Petersham, that state, in 1797. He went from Dartmouth to Newport, Rhode Is- land, where he was admitted a freeman of the colony in May, 1732, and where he carried on the business of house carpentry in company with his brother, Wing Spooner. After a time Daniel returned to New Bedford, but he removed to Hardwick prior to June 16, 1748. In a deed of July 14, 1750, he is described as of Nichewoag ( Petersham), but he moved there more than a year earlier, because on April 2, 1749, Daniel Spooner and his wife were received into the membership of the First Church at Petersham on letters from the church at Dartmouth. On July 11, 1750, Dan- iel Spooner was chosen one of the deacons of the First Church at Petersham, which office he held many years. Deacon Spooner was an energetic, reliable man and a sturdy patriot. Although eighty-one years of age when the revolution broke out, he took a decided inter- est in the struggle and gave his ardent sup- port to the American cause. In the town offices of Petersham he served in one capacity or another from 1755 to 1768. As an evi- dence of his vigorous old age, it is said that after he had passed his ninetieth year, he made the journey to Vermont on horseback to visit his sons. Although devoted to his family and an excellent provider, he was a stern disci- plinarian, after the fashion of the times. A great-grandson of his relates that the "Dea- con was a carpenter and joiner, and worked much from home during the week, and on his return Saturday night, he would call up his large family of boys, and, without any inquiry, would give each of them a whipping, presum- ing that, by their conduct through the week, they had deserved it." On October 10, 1728, Daniel Spooner married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Devotion) Ruggles, who was born October 21, 1710, and died in August, 1767. They had ten children, many of whom seemed to have inherited their fath- er's trait of longevity, for three of them lived to be past eighty, and three more continued well along into the nineties. The children were: Lucy, born August 29, 1729, died
April 2, 1821 ; Elizabeth, January 14, 1731, died November 24, 1756; Philip, December 13, 1733, died September 30, 1826; Shearjashub, August 14, 1735, died April 25, 1785; Rug- gles, March 24, 1737, died in 1831; Wing, whose sketch follows; Eliakim, April 7, 1740, died January 3, 1820; Daniel, December 10, 1741, died in November, 1828; Hannah, June 25, 1743, died young ; Paul, March 20, 1746, afterwards lieutenant governor of Vermont, died September 5, 1789. The next month after the death of his first wife, on September 3, 1767, Deacon Daniel Spooner married Bethiah Nichols. The funeral baked meats must literally have furnished forth the mar- riage tables. Perhaps the good deacon must not be too harshly judged, however, for both his elder daughters had married at the age of eighteen, his youngest daughter had died young, the youngest of his seven sons was twenty-one, and house-keepers were probably hard to get. Wives were evidently to be had in indefinite succession, for on October 16, 1780, at the age of eighty-six, he espoused his third, Mrs. Mary Dean, widow of Paul Dean, and daughter of Nathaniel and Rosilla (Coombs) Whitcomb. She was comparatively a young woman at the time of her Spooner marriage, being thirty-three years the junior of the Deacon, whom she survived a quarter of a century. Mary (Whitcomb) (Dean) Spooner was born October 9, 1727, and died May 9, 1822. She was admitted to the church in Petersham, September 10, 1781, on a letter from the church in Hardwick.
(IV) Wing, fourth son of Deacon Daniel and Elizabeth (Ruggles) Spooner, was born December . 29, 1738, and died at Petersham, Massachusetts, December 7, 1810. Like his elder brothers, Shearjashub and Ruggles, and his younger brothers, Eliakim and Daniel, Wing Spooner entered the army and fought in the wars of his country, finally reaching the rank of captain. At the breaking out of the French and Indian war, Wing Spooner, then only nineteen years of age, enlisted in the company of Captain Stone, and in 1758 was transferred to the company of Captain Alex- ander Dalrymple where he served for a long time. He was one of the first to advocate the cause of American independence, and was ac- tive and efficient in raising volunteers and in helping to devise ways and means for the prosecution of the war. So great was his patriotic ardor that he caused his two eldest sons to enlist in the Federal service when they were mere youths and not legally re- quired to bear arms. In April, 1775, Wing
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Spooner enlisted in the company of Captain John Wheeler, and soon after was raised to the rank of captain. He commanded a com- pany in the regiment of Colonel Nathan Spar- hawk at the battle of Bennington, and took part in the battle of White Plains and other important conflicts. He was a resident of Petersham most of his life, and the house where he and his wife passed the entire forty- eight years of their union was standing in that town in 1883, situated about half a mile west of the village. Wing Spooner held many important local offices, and showed good judgment in his management of public trusts. On January 27, 1763, Wing Spooner married Eunice, daughter of Joseph Stevens, who was born August 31, 1746, and died in August, 1838. Twelve children were born to Wing and Eunice (Stevens) Spooner: Stevens, whose sketch follows: Ruggles, April 18, 1765 ; Hannah, January 7, 1767; Dolly, May 12, 1769; Joel, April 26, 1771 ; Charles, Janu- ary 13, 1773: Wing and Eunice (twins) No- vember 20, 1775; Asa, February 20, 1778; Daniel, May 25, 1780, moved to Walpole, New Hampshire ; Joseph, August 29, 1782, died on October II of that year; Lois, December 24, 1783.
(V) Stevens, eldest child of Captain Wing and Eunice (Stevens) Spooner, was born at Petersham, Massachusetts, August 17, 1763, and died at Sangerville, Maine, August 17, 1827. While a lad he enlisted as a soldier in his father's company, and later was a volun- teer in the company of Captain Peter Wood- bury. He saw considerable active service ; was engaged in the battle of Bennington ; was present at the surrender of Burgoyne (being but fourteen at the time these two events oc- curred) : and was on duty at West Point at the time of the attempted treason of Arnold. Soon after marrying Mr. Spooner moved to Sangerville, Maine, where he bought land and became a farmer. He was an active, indus- trious and enterprising citizen, and enjoyed the respect of the community where he dwelt. On July 2, 1787, Stevens Spooner married Sally, daughter of John and Rebecca (Rice) Hodgkins, who died July 4, 1841. Eight chil- dren of this couple are recorded: Lois, De- cember 3, 1791; Lewis, August 23, 1793; Clarissa, October 26, 1795; Leonard, Septem- ber 10, 1798; Paul, December, 1800; Eunice, January 2, 1802; Lucretia, February, 1805; and Daniel (2), mentioned below.
(VI) Daniel (2), youngest of the eight children of Stevens and Sally (Hodgkins) Spooner, was born at Sangerville, Maine, De-
cember 26, 1808, and died November 19, 1884. On December 6, 1832, he married Jemima Knowlton, born April 2, 1811, died Septem- ber 14, 1895; they had six children : Mary B., married Freeman Daniel Dearth ( see Dearth, II) ; Benjamin F., died young ; Asa S., Benja- min F., Lucretia, Ella Maria.
WOODCOCK This family was one of the earliest in Massachu- setts, and its descendants now number many thousands. In early times they were prominent in Indian wars, and later in the revolution they bore their part. They have always been energetic and progressive.
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