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He sometimes preached in Lancaster between the years 1681 and 1688 and perhaps resided there a short time. His widow married for her second hus- band Captain James Parker. After his death she became the wife of John Kendall. Of the time and place of her death we have no infor- mation. Children of Samuel and Eunice (Brooks) Carter were: Mary, Samuel (died young), Samuel, John, Thomas, Nathaniel, Eunice, Abigail (died young), and Abigail.
(III) Thomas (2), fourth son of Rev. Sam- uel and Eunice (Brooks) Carter, was born April 3, 1682, in Woburn, and died March 31, 1737, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he made his home. He was married in 1707 to Ruth, daughter of Edward and Ruth ( An- drews) Phelps; they had ten children.
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(IV) Colonel John, son of Thomas and Ruth (Phelps) Carter, was born in Woburn, April 23, 1713, died May 8, 1766, in Lancas- ter, where he resided through life. He mar- ried, March 10, 1737, Abigail Joslin, of Lan- caster, and they were the parents of nine chil- dren.
(V) Joseph, son of Colonel John and Abi- gail (Joslin) Carter, was born November 17, 1745, in Lancaster, and removed in old age to Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, in 1803. He bought land at the north end of the common and there resided and died, June 17, 1804. He married (first) February 22, 1769, Beulah, daughter of Ephraim and Abigail (Wilder) Carter, of Lancaster. She was a descendant of Rev. Samuel Carter (2), born October 14, 1747, and died October 22, 1774. He mar- ried (second) Ann, daughter of Josiah and Hepzibah (Stearn) Smith, of Weston, Mas- sachusetts. She was born January 19, 1751, died November 30, 1834. Their children, born in Lancaster, were: Joel, Joseph, William, Elizabeth, Ann, Lucy, Sophia, Josiah, Abigail and Joel.
(VI) William, third son of Joseph Carter and child of his second wife, Ann ( Smith) Carter, was born May II, 1779, in Lancaster, and removed to New Hampshire, as did some of his brothers. He settled in the town of Mason, where he died May 7, 1857. He mar- ried (first) March 7, 1813, Jane Scott, of New Ipswich, who soon after died with her child. He married (second) Priscilla Cambridge, daughter of a British soldier who came to this country and enlisted in the patriot army in the Rhode Island regiment. She died at Unity, New Hampshire, at the age of seventy-three years. William Carter was a member of the unfortunate party who marched in Benedict Arnold's company in the winter of 1775-76, through the woods of northern Maine to at- tack Quebec.
(VII) Horace Black, only son of William and Priscilla (Cambridge) Carter, was born November 20, 1812, in Mason, New Hamp- shire, died at West Lebanon, October 25, 1877. He engaged in the manufacture of woolen cloth in company with his cousin, Philip Cambridge, in a mill erected on the Mascoma river, in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The mill was removed to make way for the railroad in 1847, and he was employed to fur- nish brick and stone for the buildings of the railroad. He never used tobacco or intoxicat- ing liquors, and was a kind husband and father, respected in the community where he lived. He married (first) May 20, 1839, at
West Lebanon, New Hampshire, Ruth Jane Wood, born September 22, 1818, in Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, eldest daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Wiggins) Wood, the former a son of Benjamin and Ruth ( Bailey) Wood, and the latter a descendant of Captain Thomas Wiggin, all of early English families. He married (second) Beda Maria Powers, who died July 1, 1863, at the age of thirty years. He married (third) Laurena Bates, of Lebanon, who died 1876, at the age of fifty-two. Horace Carter's children, all born of the first wife, were: Clarissa Jane, Har- vey Horace, George Henry, Elizabeth Ann, Ella Melissa.
(VIII) Clarissa Jane, eldest daughter of Horace B. and Ruth J. (Wood) Carter, was born March 15, 1841, in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, and became the wife of Rev. Horace Bacon Sawyer (see Sawyer, VII). She survived her husband and is still living in West Lebanon. She was educated at the Tilden Ladies' Seminary, of that town, where she was a student from 1854 until 1859, when the death of her mother caused her to leave school.
The Scotch-Irish immi- PATTERSON gration of 1718 brought to our shores many people of energy, intellect and sound sense. They were very strict Presbyterians and set up a moral example which had a most beneficent influence upon the civilization of the primitive com- munities wherein they settled, and has also developed a progeny rich in the virtues which go to make good citizenship.
(I) Robert Patterson was born in 1671 in Northern Ireland and came to New England in 1718, and settled at Saco, Maine, in 1729. He maintained a ferry across Saco river and built a house at Rendezvous Point. Soon after he settled at Saco, his wife and children came from Ireland, landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and were thence conducted through the wilderness to their pioneer log cabin home. Mr. Patterson was one of the thirteen charter members of the first church at Saco, and was one of the first selectmen chosen upon the organization of that town. He was very active in the affairs of the town and was often chosen as chairman of committees. He died August 27, 1769, and four gener- ations have occupied his farm upon the Saco ferry road.
(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) Pat- terson, was born 1713 in Northern Ireland, and was a boy of sixteen years when he joined
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his father in America. He was a member of the Congregational church at Saco, suc- ceeded his father in the ownership of the farm and ferry, and dicd there June 27, 1797. Hc married Jean Gilmore, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who survived him more than twelve years and died August 19, 1809, at Saco, at the age of cighty-eight ycars. Their sons werc Andrew, Samucl, Benjamin, David, Abraham and Daniel.
(Ill) Abraham, fifth son of Robert (2) and Jean (Gilmore) Patterson, was born about 1755 at Saco, and died there February 16, 1832. He was a soldier of the revolution. He married, December 7, 1780, Sarah Sawyer, who died August 3, 1828. Their children were: Sarah, Mary, Abraham, Elizabeth, Janc, James, Almira, Isabel and Asenath.
(IV) Asenath, youngest child of Abraham and Sarah ( Sawyer) Patterson, was born March 27, 1803, in Saco, and married, April 21, 1825, Mark Sawyer, of that town (see Sawyer, VI).
STURGIS Few American names boast a longer record than this, for it can be traced five generations
beyond the Colonial ancestor who came to Massachusetts in 1634, even to Roger Sturges, of Clipston, England, whose will was dated in 1530. The patronymic is spelled in vari- ous ways, Sturgis and Sturges being used in- terchangeably in modern times; the first Eng- lish form is De Turges. If we may be per- mitted to go back into the somewhat shadowy days before William the Conqueror, we may find the original owner of the name in one Turgesius, a Scandinavian prince of the ninth century. The following quotation is a trans- lation from a book published in French by Abbe Mac Groghegan : "About the year 815, during the reign of Conor, who reigned four- teen years, Turgesius, a son of a king of Nor- way, landed a formidable fleet on the coast of Ireland; and again, about the year 835, a fleet commanded by the same man landed on the west side of Lough Rea, where he fortified himself, and laid waste Connaught, Meath and Leinster, and the greater part of Ulster, and was declared king. He reigned about thirty years. Finally, the people revolted, and, under the lead of Malarlin, Prince of Meath, he was defeated by a stratagem and put to death."
In English history the first authentic men- tion of the name occurs in the reign of Edward I, when William de Turges held grants of land from the king. This estate, which included the village of Turges, was situate in the county
of Northampton, where for many generations the family was located. The village of Turges was afterwards called Northfield. Thc sur- name was changed to substantially its present form some time during the sixteenth century. The coat-of-arms, according to Burke, reads : "Sturgis, Hannington, co. Northampton, Eng- land. Arms, Azurc, a chevron between three crosscs crosslet, fitchée or, a border cngrailed of the last. Crest: A talbot's head, or, eared sable. Motto: Esse quam videri (To be, rather than to scem). The crest, in untech- nical language, depicts a hunting-dog in gold with black ears.
(I) Roger Sturgis, and his wife Alice, with whom the authenticated linc begins, lived at Clipston, Northampton, England. The exact dates of birth and death are unknown, but the will of Roger Sturgis was executed November 10, 1530. They had six children, three sons and three daughters: Richard, Robert, Thom- as, Ellen, who married a Raullen; Agncs, who married a Hull; and Clementina.
(II) Richard, eldest child of Roger and Alice Sturgis, lived at Clipston. His wife's name is unknown, but there are three children recorded : Roger (2), mentioned below : John, who had five children living in 1579; and Thomas, of Stannion, Northampton county.
(III) Roger (2), eldest son of Richard Sturgis, lived at Clipston. The date of his death is unknown, but his will was executed September 4, 1579. His wife was named Ag- nes, and two children are recorded: Robert, mentioned below ; and John.
(IV) Robert, elder son of Roger. (2) and Agnes Sturgis, lived at Faxton, Northampton county, where he was church warden in 1589. He was buried at Faxton, January 2, 1611, and his will, dated April 9, 1610, was proved on September 19, 1611. His wife's name is unknown; but two children are recorded : Philip, whose sketch follows; and Alice.
(V) Philip, elder son of Robert Sturgis, lived at Hannington, Northampton county, and his will was dated 1613. The name of his first wife was unknown, but the children were Ed- ward, whose sketch follows; Robert and Eliza- beth. The second wife of Philip Sturgis was Anne Lewes; and their three children were : Alice, baptized January 17, 1698; Anne, born September 29, 1609; and William, born Octo- ber 10, 16II.
(VI) Edward, eldest child of Philip Sturgis and his first wife, was born in Hannington, England, emigrated to this country in 1634, and died at Sandwich, Massachusetts, in Oc- tober, 1695. He seems to have spent most of
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his life at Yarmouth on Cape Cod, though Sandwich was the place of his landing and his burial. He reached this country in 1634, and the same year he moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he remained five years, going to Yarmouth in 1639. He was constable at Yarmouth in 1640-41 ; member of grand in- quest, 1650 ; surveyor of highways, 1651 ; ad- mitted freeman on June 5, 1651; committee- man on affairs of the colony, 1657; constable, 1662; and deputy to the general assembly in 1672. He left a large estate, heavily encum- bered. If the dates of the births of his eldest children are correct, he must have been a very old man at the time of his death, approaching one hundred. The name of the first wife of Edward Sturgis is variously given as Alice and Elizabeth, with the preponderance of evi- dence in favor of the latter name. She died February 14, 1691, and in April, 1692, when he was past ninety, Edward Sturgis married his second wife, Mary, widow of Zachariah Rider, who was the first male child born of English parents in Yarmouth. The eleven children of Edward and Elizabeth Sturgis, of whom the first four were born in England, were: Alice, December 23, 1619; Maria, Oc- tober 2, 1621; Edward, April 10, 1624; Re- becca, February 17, 1626-27; Samuel, 1638; Thomas, appointed in 1695 "to seat men, women and others in the meeting-house"; Mary, baptized at Barnstable, January 1, 1646, married Benjamin Gorham; Elizabeth, born at Yarmouth, April 20, 1648; Sarah, married Jo- seph Gorham; Joseph, buried March 29, 1650, aged ten days; and Hannah, who married (first) a Gray, (second) Jabez Gorham, and moved to Bristol, Rhode Island. The interval of eleven years between the births of Rebecca and Samuel would indicate that some children must have died unrecorded; or possibly that the children belonged to two wives, one named Alice and the other Elizabeth. The latter proposition is simply advanced as a theory, but the confusion of names in regard to the mother of the children and the discrepancy between the dates of their birth would seem to lend it some credence.
(VII) Samuel, second son of Edward and Elizabeth Sturgis, and according to the rec- ords the first child of his parents after they had emigrated to America, was born in 1638, probably at
Charlestown, Massachusetts, though he must have gone with his parents the next year to Yarmouth. He died November 3, 1674, at the early age of thirty-six years. In 1667 Samuel (1) Sturgis married Mary Hedge, daughter of Captain William Hedge,
and they had a son, Samuel (2), whose sketch follows. Five years after the death of Sam- uel (1) Sturgis, his widow married Thomas Cockshall, of Rhode Island, October 10, 1679.
(VIII) Samuel (2), only son of Samuel (I) and Mary (Hedge) Sturgis, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, about 1668. On October 14, 1679, he married Mrs. Mary Or- ris, widow of Nathaniel Orris, and they had seven children: Nathaniel, born January 8, 1699, died January 20, 1711; John, June 6, 1701 ; Solomon, September 25, 1703; Mary, February 14, 1706; Moses, June 18, 1708; Jonathan, November 1, 17II; and Nathaniel, whose sketch follows. Mrs. Sturgis had by her first husband, Nathaniel Orris, who came from Nantucket to Barnstable and died No- vember 23, 1696, three daughters: Susan, Deborah and Jane.
(IX) Nathaniel, youngest of the seven chil- dren of Samuel (2) and Mary (Orris) Stur- gis, was born February 2, 1715, at Barnstable, Massachusetts. On February 20, 1734, he mar- ried Abigail Cobb, and they had eight children : James, born April 27, 1735; Elizabeth, De- cember 31, 1736; Nathaniel, October 28, 1739; Jonathan, whose sketch follows; David, May II, 1745; Joseph, May 4, 1748; Abigail, July 22, 1752; Ebenezer, January 28, 1756.
(X) Jonathan, third son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Cobb) Sturgis, was born at Barn- stable, Massachusetts, April 9, 1743, and died May 10, 1833, at West Gorham, Maine. Jona- than was the first of his name in the new state, coming up there from Barnstable with his wife and two children in 1769. He was a revolu- tionary soldier, enlisting in April, 1775, in Captain Hart Williams' company, Thirty-first Regiment, commanded by Colonel Edmund Phinney. Colonel Phinney led his regiment into Cambridge soon after the battle of Bunker Hill, and Jonathan Sturgis was among the first to march into Boston after its evacuation by the British. It may be mentioned here that the Phinneys, like the Sturgises, were of Barnstable origin. Colonel Edmund Phinney, then a youth, came with his father, Captain John Phinney, to what is now Gorham, in May, 1736. Edmund Phinney cut the first tree in the new settlement, and they raised a good crop of corn, some peas, and about ten cartloads of watermelons the first year. The watermelon seed were brought along by acci- dent, instead of pumpkin seed; but the melons proved to be useful in feeding the hogs. When Jonathan Sturgis arrived in 1769 he took up a hundred acres in the new settlement, and cleared a farm on which he lived and died. On
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February 7, 1765, Jonathan Sturgis married, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, Temperance Gorham, daughter of Ebenezer and Temper- ance ( Hawes) Gorham, of Barnstable. ( See Gorham VI.) She died November 26, 1824, at the age of eighty-two. Jonathan and Tem- perance (Gorham) Sturgis had ten children : Hannah, born December 9, 1766; Temperance, November 5, 1768; James G., December 3, 1771; Nathaniel, September 3, 1774; Abigail, March 4, 1776; David, January 27, 1779; Jo- seph, January 30, 1783 ; Sarah, July 21, 1785 ; Jonathan, February 6, 1788; and Ebenezer, June 9, 1790.
(XI) James Gorham, eldest son of Jona- than and Temperance (Gorham) Sturgis, and the first of their children to be born in Maine, was born at Gorham, in that state, December 3, 1771, and died there February 14, 1825. He lived in that part of the town of Gorham known as White Rock. On November 15, 1791, he married Molly Roberts, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Weeks) Roberts, whose father was a soldier in the revolution. She died September 7, 1859, aged ninety-two. James Gorham and Molly ( Roberts) Sturgis had nine children: A son, who died at the age of nine months ; Susan, born December 14, 1794, married Solomon Libby; Mary W., Au- gust 19, 1796, married John Littlefield, of Topsham ; Temperance G., August 4, 1798, married Joseph Cannell; William R., Febru- ary 4, 1801, married Joan McDonald ; Abigail, April 23, 1803, married James McDonald (2) ; John, whose sketch follows ; Ebenezer G., De- cember 3, 1807, married Mary Ann Babb ; Ben- jamin R., January 18, 18II.
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(XII) Deacon John, third son of James Gorham and Molly ( Roberts) Sturgis, was born July 2, 1805, at Gorham, Maine, and died from an accident, July 14, 1854. He was a deacon of the White Rock church. In 1834 he married Mary Purinton, daughter of Meshach and Sarah (Gerrish) Purinton, of Windham, Maine. They had five children : Jane, died in infancy, September 25, 1836; Benjamin F., whose sketch follows: William P., born September 4, 1840, married Margaret Libby, of Portland, and lives in Brooklyn, New York; John Irving, December 24, 1844, mar- ried (first) Myra Hayden, (second) Jennie Hayden, and is a physician at New Gloucester ; James Edgar, December 14, 1847, married Ida Barrett, of Portland, and lives in the west. The death of Deacon and Captain John Sturgis occurred in a singular and painful manner. On July 14, 1854, Berry's shoe-shop, which stood near the White Rock church, and also near the
home of Captain Sturgis, was burned. While the latter and his son Benjamin were helping to remove property from the burning building, both were severely burned by an explosion of camphene. The son recovered, but the father died the same day. His widow married George Hammond, of New Gloucester, and died in that town, September 14, 1887, aged seventy-seven.
(XIII) Dr. Benjamin Franklin, eldest son of Deacon John and Mary ( Purinton ) Sturgis, was born at Gorham, Maine, October 28, 1837. He studied medicine and became a physician at Auburn, where he has also been prominent in church work and has held several offices under the city government ; was mayor of Au- burn in 1884. He has served as councilman and alderman, was representative in 1874-75, and state senator in 1876-77. December II, 1859, Dr. Sturgis married Ellen Hammond, daughter of George and Martha Hammond, of New Gloucester. There were two children : Alfreda H., born August 29, 1860, died Au- gust 9, 1864; and Mary, born December 25, 1861. Mrs. Ellen ( Hammond) Sturgis died March II, 1868. On February 4, 1870, Dr. Sturgis married Jennie Brooks, daughter of Ham and Margaret Brooks, of Lewiston, Maine. They have had five children: Dr. John, born September 6, 1871 ; Margaret El- len, September 21, 1873, died April 1, 1892; Dr. Benjamin F. Jr., March 14, 1875 ; Chester King, April 20, 1878, died November, 1879; Dr. Karl B., born April 11, 1881.
This family traces its gene- GORHAM alogy back to the De Gorrams of La Tanniere near Gorham in Maine, on the borders of Brittany, where William, son of Ralph de Gorham, built a castle in 1128. During the reign of William the Conqueror several of the name moved to England, where many of them became men of learning, wealth and influence. In America the name has an ancient and honorable stand- ing. Although Ralph Gorham, the immigrant, did not come over in the "Mayflower," both the parents and grandparents of his son's wife were passengers in that famous vessel, so that descendants of this line have the blood of four "Mayflower" Pilgrims in their veins.
(I) James Gorham, of Benefield, Northamp- tonshire, England, was born in 1550 and died in 1576. In 1572 he married Agnes Berning- ton, and the only son of whom we have record, and perhaps the only child, was Ralph, men- tioned in the next paragraph.
(II) Ralph, son of James and Agnes (Ber-
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nington) Gorham, was born in 1575, probably at Benefield, England, and died about the year 1643, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Ralph Gor- ham married in England, and came with his family to America in the ship "Philip" about the year 1635. Of his family but little is known, the only recorded child being John, whose sketch follows. It is probable that there was a son Ralph, born in England, as the records of Plymouth Colony indicate that there were two persons of that name in Plymouth in 1639. At the time of Ralph Gorham's death he left no widow and an only son John, who inherited his father's estate. No other Gor- hams are known to have been in the colony during the seventeenth century, after the death of Ralph, besides John and his descendants.
(III) Captain John, son of Ralph Gorham, was baptized in Benefield, Northamptonshire, England, January 28, 1621, and died at Swan- sea, Massachusetts, while in command of his company, February 5, 1676. He had a good common school education, and was brought up in the Puritan faith. His occupation was that of a tanner and currier of leather, which busi- ness he carried on in the winter, working on his farm in the summer. In 1646 he moved from Plymouth to Marshfield, and in 1648 was chosen constable of that town. On June 4, 1650, he was admitted a freeman of the colony, and in 1651 was a member of the grand inquest of the colony. In 1652 he moved to Yarmouth, purchasing a house-lot adjoin- ing the Barnstable line; and from this time he added to his estate till he became a large land- owner and also the proprietor of a grist mill and a tannery. He was deputy from Yar- mouth to the Plymouth colony court at the special session of April 6, 1653, and the fol- lowing year he was surveyor of highways in the town of Yarmouth. In 1673-74 he was one of the selectmen at Yarmouth, and during the former year received the appointment of lieutenant of the Plymouth forces in the Dutch war. King Philip's men made an attack upon Swansea the next June, and on the twenty- fourth of that month, which was observed as a day of fasting and prayer, Captain John Gor- ham and twenty-nine mounted men from Yar- mouth took their first march for Mount Hope. In August the war was transferred to the banks of the Connecticut and Captain Gorham and his company marched into Massachusetts. The results were discouraging, and in a letter to the governor, still preserved in the office of the secretary of state at Boston, Captain Gor- ham says that his soldiers are much worn, "having been in the field this fourteen weeks
and little hopes of finding the enemy, -- but as for my own part, I shall be ready to serve God and the country in this just war, so long as I have life and health." October 4, 1675, he was appointed by the court captain of the sec- ond company of the Plymouth forces in King Philip's war. Captain Gorham and his com- pany were in the sanguinary battle at the Swamp Fort in the Narragansett country, fought December 19, 1675, which crushed the power of King Philip and his allies. There was great suffering and exposure, beside loss of life. The troops of the United Colonies had to remain all night in the open field, "with no other covering than a cold and moist fleece of snow." On the dawn of the nineteenth they started on their weary march, and at one o'clock they reached the fort, which was built on an island containing five or six acres, set in the midst of a swamp. Entrances could be ef- fected in only two places, by means of fallen trees, to cross which meant almost certain death from the Indian sharpshooters. After three or four hours' of hard fighting, the Eng- lish succeeded in taking the fort, sustaining a loss of eighty men, beside the wounded. Hub- bard estimated that no less than seven hun- dred Indians were killed. Captain Gorham never recovered from the cold and fatigue to which he was exposed during this expedition. He was seized with a fever and died at Swan- sea, where he was buried February 5, 1675- 76. In 1677, in consequence of the good service Captain Gorham had rendered the country in the war in which he lost his life, the court confirmed to his heirs and successors forever the hundred acres of land at Papas- quash Neck in Swansea which he had selected during his lifetime. In 1643 Captain John Gorham married Desire Howland, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, and granddaughter of John and Bridget (Van De Velde) Tilley, all of whom came over in the "Mayflower." Desire (Howland) Gorham was born at Plymouth in 1623, and died at Barn- stable, October 13, 1683. Eleven children were born to this couple: Desire, Plymouth, April 2, 1644, married John Hawes, of Yarmouth ; Temperance, Marshfield, May 5, 1646, mar- ried (first) Edward Sturgis; (second) Thom- as Baxter; Elizabeth, Marshfield, April 2, 1648, married Joseph Hallett; James (2). whose sketch follows; John, Marshfield, Feb- ruary 20, 1651-52 ; married Hannah Huckins ; Joseph, Yarmouth, February 16, 1653-54, mar- ried Sarah Sturgis ; Jabez, Barnstable, August 3, 1656, married Hannah (Sturgis) Gray ; Mercy, Barnstable, January 20, 1658, married
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