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2. John, April 10, 1693, died September, 1694. 3. Ann, February 2, 1694, died 1787. 4. Sarah, February 17, 1696. 5. Moses, December 27, 1698, died February 9, 1782. 6. Samuel, No- vember 27, 1700. 7. Edmond, February 27, 1702. 8. Abigail, March 2, 1704. 9. Elizabeth, February 3, 1706. 10. Mehitable, November 14, 1709. II. Joanna, January 6, 1711. 12. Simon, September 2, 1713. Captain John Wingate died in 1715.
(III) Simon, youngest son and child of Captain. John (2) and Ann Wingate, was born on the homestead in Dover Neck, New Hampshire, September 2, 1713, two years be- fore the death of his father, who left him to the care of his mother and eldest son John to be brought up. He sold, in 1736, in conjunc- tion with his youngest sister, Joanna, to their brother, Moses Wingate, for thirty pounds, "a part of thirty acres of land granted by Dover to our honored father, John Wingate, late of Dover, deceased." The deed is dated May 26, 1736. He removed from Dover to Biddeford, Maine. where he was admitted to the First Church of that town, October 17, 1742, and he soon after was elected a deacon of the church. He married Lydia, daughter of Ebe- nezer and Abiel (Snell) Hills, and she was admitted to the First Church, November 29, 1774. They had twelve children born to them in Biddeford, as follows: I. Anne. 2. Eliza- beth. 3. Hannah. 4. Snell, baptized February 3, 1744. 5. Simon, baptized June 21, 1747. 6. John, baptized April 8, 1750. 7. Lydia, bap- tized April 26, 1752. 8. Edmond, baptized January 5, 1755. 9. - IO. Lucy, bap- tized December 25. 1757. II. Sarah, baptized March 22, 1761. 12. Susanna.
(IV) Snell, eldest son and fourth child of Simon and Lydia (Hill) Wingate, was bap- tized February 3, 1744. He married (first) Margaret Emery, of Biddeford, Maine, who died November 29, 1783, and ( second) Me- hitable Davis Crocker, of Dunstable, Massa- chusetts, widow of Elijah Crocker, who was a sea captain and sister of Daniel Davis, so- licitor-general. After his marriage, Snell Win- gate removed from Biddeford to Buxton, Maine, and built a house on Lot No. 12, Range D., Third Division. He was a select- man for eleven years. His five children by his first wife were: I. Molly, baptized April 13, 1770, married Daniel Bradbury, of Athens, Maine. 2. Samuel, baptized August 26, 1772. 3. Daniel, baptized August 27, 1775 or 1776, married Sarah Whittier in 1802, settled in Buxton near his father, had one son Jolin, who left Buxton and was never heard from,
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and his large family of daughters married and removed from Buxton. 4. Abigail, baptized August 3, 1777. 5. Simon, born August 27, 1780 (or baptized September 1, 1781). Chil- dren of second wife: 6. Robert Davis, born August 8, 1789, died April 23, 1806. 7. Elijah Crocker, born December 17, 1790, married Mary Lombard, of Gorham, Maine, and died without issue. 8. Snell, born August 7, 1792, died 1814. 9. Ansel, born March 16, 1794, died 1814, while a soldier in the American army in the war of 1812. 10. Margaret Em- ery, born January 3, 1797. II. John, born April 28, 1799, married, January 22. 1821, Salome Small, of Buxton, Maine, and (sec- ond), September 22, 1829, to Sophronia, wid- ow of Mr. Frost. John Wingate lived in Gor- ham, Maine, and had by his first wife three children and by his second eight. He died at Gorham, Maine, in 1859. Snell Wingate, his father, died in Buxton, Maine, early in the nineteenth century, but no date is on rec- ord.
(V) Samuel, eldest son and second child of Snell and Margaret (Emery) Wingate, wa's born in Buxton Center, Maine, and baptized August 26, 1772. He married Molly Wood- man, of Buxton, Maine, October 17, 1796, and lived in West Buxton, where five children were born of the marriage: I. William. 2. Edmund, who lived and died in Saco, Maine, and left a son who lived at Boston. 3. Mar- garet. 4. Nabby, married a Mr. Scribner, lived at Buxton, Maine, and had three sons. 5. Harriet.
(VI) William, eldest son of Samuel and Molly (Woodman) Wingate, was born at West Buxton, Maine, his birth probably oc- curring in 1797 or 1798. He was married to Mary Ann Coolberth, of Standish, Maine, and they lived first at Steep Falls in the town of Standish and later at Limerick, Maine. He was a merchant, a member of the Baptist church, a devoted advocate of the principles of the Whig party, and as a Republican he was elected selectman in 1861. He served in the Thirteenth Maine Regiment in the civil war and was a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Will- iam and Mary Ann (Coolberth) Wingate had two children, Edwin R. and Mary Ann.
(VII) Edwin R., only son of William and Mary Ann (Coolberth) Wingate, was born at Steep Falls, town of Standish, Maine. He became a merchant, and also held the office of postmaster at Steep Falls, in the township of Standish, Maine. He was also a manufac- turer. In the civil war he enlisted in the
Thirteenth Maine Volunteer Regiment and served during the entire war, receiving the credit of being a good soldier, a faithful officer and a patriot of undoubted repute. His church affiliation was with the Free Will Baptist de- nomination, and his political faith was with the party that put down the Rebellion and pre- served the Union of the states. He was a com- panion of the military order of the Loyal Le- gion of the United States and a commander of the Grand Army of the Republic. He mar- ried, 1868. Harriet Boulter, of Steep Falls, and they had three children: I. Edwin R., who became a hotel clerk in Swampscott, Mas- sachusetts. 2. Thomas H., a clerk and partner in his father's business. 3. William W. (q. v.).
(VIII) William W., son of Edwin R. and Harriet ( Boulter) Wingate, was born at Steep Falls, Standish township, Maine, September 12, 1870. He attended the public school and was graduated at Fryeburg Academy, Bowdoin Col- lege, and Harvard University Law School, and was admitted to the bar. He established him- self in the practice of law in Brooklyn, New York, with offices at 44 Court street. He became a Republican politician and served as counsel for the sheriff of Kings county, New York, and as undersheriff of the county. He was appointed attorney for the state comp- troller, January 1, 1909. He affiliates with the Masonic fraternity and with the order of Elks, and is a member of the Republican Club of New York, of the Reform Club and of the Maine Society of New York. He is a mem- ber of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn. Mr. Wingate is unmarried.
BURLEIGH The surname Burleigh is an ancient English family name. The most common spellings of this name in the early records are Burleigh, Burley, Burly, Birle, Birley, Birdley and Burd- ley. No less than nineteen branches of this family in England had or have coats-of-arms. (I) Giles Burleigh, immigrant ancestor of the American family, was an inhabitant of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as early as 1648, and was born in England. He was a commoner at Ipswich in 1664. He was a planter, living eight years on what was later called Brooke street, owning division lot No. 105, situate on Great Hill, Hogg Island. His name was spelled Birdley, Birdly, Burdley and Budly in the Ipswich records, and his name as signed by mark to his will is given Ghils Berdly. He bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth (called else- where Rebecca) ; his son Andrew; his son
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James; his son John, and an uncle whose name is not given. Theophilus Wilson was execu- tor, Deacon Knowlton and Jacob Foster, over- seers, Thomas Knowlton Sr. and Jacob Foster the witnesses. Soon after his death his widow was granted trees for a hundred rails and a hundred posts, June 13, 1668. She married (second), February 23, 1669, Abraham Fitts, of Ipswich. Children: 1. Andrew, born at Ipswich, September 5, 1657, married Mary, daughter of Governor Roger Conant. 2. James, February 10, 1659, mentioned below.
3. Giles, July 13, 1662. 5. John, July 13, 1662, died February 27, 1681.
(II) James, son of Giles Burleigh, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, February 10, 1659, died in Exeter, New Hampshire, about 1721. Married (first), May 25, 1685, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Susannah ( Worces- ter) Stacy. She died October 21, 1686. Her mother was a daughter of Rev. Witham Worcester, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. His sons Joseph, Giles, Josiah and James made a written agreement in 1723. Children : I. William, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Feb- ruary 27, 1692-93, was at Newmarket in 1746. 2. Joseph, April 6, 1695. 3. Thomas, April 5, 1697. 4. James, Exeter, 1699. 5. Josiah, 1701, mentioned below. 6. Giles, 1703, mar- ried, December 9, 1725, Elizabeth Joy, of Salis- bury, Massachusetts.
(III) Josiah, son of James Burleigh, was born in Ipswich in 1701, died in Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1756. He married Han- nah, daughter of Hon. Andrew Wiggin, judge of probate, son of Andrew Wiggin (2) and his wife, Hannah (Bradstreet) Wiggin. Thomas Wiggin, father of Andrew (2), was the immigrant, coming in 1631 as agent for the proprietors of New Hampshire. Hannah Bradstreet was a daughter of Governor Simon and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet, and grand- daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley. A tract of land at Exeter was set aside for him by the committee in 1718. He signed a petition for a bridge at Newmarket in 1746. Children : I. Josiah, died at Newmarket, married Judith Tuttle. 2. Thomas, born about 1730, men- tioned below. 3. Samuel.
(IV) Thomas, son of Josiah Burleigh, was born about 1730. He was an inhabitant of Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1766, and was appointed on a committee to locate the meet- ing-house. He married Mercy Norris. In 1775 he settled at Sandwich, New Hampshire, on what is now known as Burleigh Hill. He was a farmer. Children : I. Deacon Thomas, married (first), April 6, 1779, Hannah Ether-
idge; (second) Susan, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia ( Hanson) Watson, widow of Colo- nel Lewis Wentworth, of Dover. 2. Mercy, married, March 5, 1784, Eliphalet Smith, son of Colonel Jacob and Dolly (Ladd) Smith. 3. Benjamin, born about 1755, mentioned be- low. 4. Samuel, died at Sandwich, July 5, 1851 ; married, March 7, 1785, Ruth, daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Carr) Prescott. 5. Jo- siah, died at Sandwich, August 31, 1845; mar- ried, February 27, 1788, Rosamond Watson, of Moultonborough, New Hampshire. 6. Dolly.
(V) Benjamin, son of Thomas Burleigh, was born about 1755, in Deerfield, New Hamp- shire. He was a merchant, having a general store at Sandwich, New Hampshire, the first in that town. He married, November 23, 1779, Priscilla Senter, of Centre Harbor, New Hampshire, born November 1, 1759, died Jan- uary 1, 1819. She married (second) Colonel Parker Prescott, son of Lieutenant John and Molly (Carr) Prescott, born at Manchester, Massachusetts, April 4, 1767, died December 17, 1849. Children: I. Colonel Moses, born March 25, 1781, mentioned below. 2. Ben- jamin, born at Holderness, March 1, 1783, died at Oakfield, Maine; married Hannah Sanborn, of Centre Harbor. 3. Thomas, March 1, 1783, married, April 21, 1808, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Hannah ( Etheridge) Burleigh. 4. Priscilla, 1785, married William Cox. 5. Polly, born at Sandwich, 1787, died May, 1831 ; married Captain Ezekiel Hoit, son of Joseph and Betsey Hoit. 6. Olive, April 12, 1789. 7. - , born 1790.
(VI) Colonel Moses, son of Benjamin Bur- leigh, was born at Sandwich, New Hampshire, March 25, 1781 ; died at Linneus, Maine, Feb- ruary 13, 1860; married Nancy Spiller. He settled before 1812 in Palermo, Maine, where he lived until 1830, when he removed to Lin- neus, Aroostook county, where he resided until his death. At Palermo he was elected to various offices of trust and honor. He was captain of the militia company there when called into service in the war of 1812, and marched with his company to Belfast at the time that the British vessels entered the Penob- scot river, to destroy the United States frigate 'Adams." He was commissioned captain in the Fourth Regiment, Second Brigade, Eleventh Division, Massachusetts militia, in 1814, and promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1816. He was a representative to the general court of Massachusetts when Maine was a part of that state and afterward was in the Maine state legislature. He was a delegate to the convention in 1816 at Brunswick, to frame the
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constitution for the state of Maine. He car- ried the first mail by carriage from Augusta to Bangor, it having been carried on horseback previously. At Linneus he was appointed by the marshal to take the census in the north- ·ern section of Washington county. When he was engaged in that service, the provincial warden, alleging that he was in disputed ter- ritory in violation of the provincial law, pur- sued with authority to arrest Colonel Burleigh, but the latter was successful in cluding the pursuit and completing his work. In 1831 he was appointed assistant land-agent, to guard that section of the public lands, and in that office drove various parties of Canadian squat- ters back to the provinces. He was for several years postmaster at Linneus. We are told by his biographer that he was a man of activity, energy and probity of character; his hospi- tality was particularly marked, the hungry were fed and the weary found rest beneath his roof.
His wife died January 2, 1850, aged sixty- four. "She lived a life of usefulness, was kind and beneficient, beloved and respected by her numerous friends." Children of Colonel Moses and Nancy (Spiller ) Burleigh : I. Elvira Senter, born January 7, 1806, died October 27, 1829. 2. Benjamin, March 6, 1809. 3. Benjamin, February 21, 1811. 4. Hon. Parker Prescott, May 16, 1812, mentioned below. 5. Nancy Spiller, married Jabez Young, of Houl- ton, Maine. 6. Moses Carlton, born at Paler- mo, May 15, 1818, married, 1843, Caroline Elizabeth Frost, of Lubec, Maine. 7. Samuel Kelsey, January 8, 1820, married Keziah By- ron, of Linneus. 8. Olley Seaver, September II, 1822, died March 20, 1876; married Dud- ley Shields. 9. Rufus Burnham, February 9, 1826, died at Fulton, Arkansas, April 30, 1864; married, at Belfast, Maine, September 21, 1857, Ann Sarah Flanders.
(VII) Hon. Parker Prescott, son of Moses Burleigh, was born in Palermo, Maine, May 16, 1812. He was educated at the Hampden Academy, in Maine, and the Hartford (Con- necticut ) grammar school, at that time one of the best-known schools of the country. At the same time he received instruction in mili- tary tactics from Colonel Seymour, afterwards governor of the state. He removed with his father from Palermo to Linneus in 1830, and devoted some time to obtaining instruction in land-surveying. His knowledge of timber lands in the Maine wilderness was excelled by none, and he invested extensively in this form of property. He followed the profession of civil engineering and surveying, in addition to
farming. As state chairman in 1869 of the Maine commission on the settlement of the public lands of Maine, he contributed largely to the development and settlement of Aroos- took county. He was elected state land-agent in 1868 and served in that office eight years .. He himself was one of the pioneers there, in 1830, and at the incorporation of the town of Linneus in 1836 he was chosen town clerk, treasurer, collector of taxes and chairman of the school committee. Throughout his long life he held nearly all the time some office of trust and honor. In 1839 he was commis- sioned captain of Company M, Sixth Regiment, First Brigade, Third Division, of Maine mili- tia, and in 1840 was elected lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Regiment, a position he held for seven years. He was appointed county commissioner by Governor Kent in 1841, and was subsequently elected to that office; was county treasurer also, and postmaster at North Linneus for twenty-five years. He was a member of the house of representatives in 1856-57, and a state senator in 1864-65, 1877- 78. He was chairman of the board of select- men several years. He died .April 29, 1899, in Houlton, Maine.
He married (first) Caroline Peabody, daugh- ter of Jacob and Sally (Clark) Chick, of Bangor. She was born January 31, 1815, died April 6, 1861. He married (second) May 29, 1873, Charlotte Mehitable, daughter of Colo- nel James and Mehitable (Jones) Smith, of Bangor. Children of first marriage: I. Hon. Albert Augustus, born at Linneus, October 12, 1841, married Lucinda G. Collins ; enlisted in the Union army in the civil war in 1864; was wounded, taken prisoner and confined at Petersburg and Richmond ; resided at Oakfield and Houlton, Maine; was commissioner of Aroostook county twelve years; surveyor of land by profession : children : i. Everett Edwin, born November 9, 1862; ii. Albert Augustus, January 8, 1864, died July 30, 1864; iii. Pres- ton Newell, born at Oakfield, February 18, 1866; iv. Parker Prescott, February 15, 1868; v. Frances Lucinda, November 19, 1871 ; vi. Harry Ralph, October 5, 1874. 2. Hon. Edwin Chick, mentioned below.
(VIII) Hon. Edwin Chick, son of Hon. Parker Prescott Burleigh, was born in Lin- neus, Maine, November 27, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at the Houlton Academy, where he fitted for college. Following the example of his father, he educated himself as a land sur- veyor, a profession that offered excellent op- portunities at that time to young men on ac-
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count of the necessity of surveying timber lands. For a time after leaving the academy he taught school, but when the civil war broke out he and his brother went to Augusta and enlisted in the District of Columbia cavalry, but he was rejected, on account of the state of his health, by the examining surgeon, Dr. George E. Brickett. Disappointed in his am- bition to enter the service, he accepted a clerk- ship in the office of the adjutant general of Maine, and remained to the close of the war. He then followed his profession of surveyor and the business of farming until 1870, when he was appointed clerk in the state land office at Bangor, and two years later made his home in that city. In 1876-77-78 he was state land agent, and during the same years also assistant clerk of the house of representatives. In 1880 he was appointed clerk in the office of the state treasurer and removed permanently to Augusta. In 1885 he was elected treasurer of the state, an office that he filled with con- spicuous ability and success. He was reelected in 1887, and in the year following was chosen governor of the state, with a plurality of 18,- 053 votes. In 1890 he was reelected governor with a plurality of 18,899 votes. His adminis- tration of state affairs was pre-eminently con- structive and progressive in character. His experience in public life, his executive ability and well-balanced character fitted him admir- ably for the office of governor. Democratic in his ways, indefatigable in his attention to the varied duties of his position, he strengthened himself in the hearts of the people during his term of office. He was popular and won the commendation of press and public alike. His appointments were satisfactory. His addresses to the legislature and on public occasions marked him as a master of expression. Through his influence and action, the plan to remove the state capitol from Augusta to Portland was defeated, and an appropriation of $150,000 made for the enlargement of the old state house. He was chairman of the com- mission in charge of the state-house addition. Incidentally the state saved at least two mil- lion dollars by refusing to abandon the old capitol. In 1899 Governor Burleigh became chairman of a committee to locate and pur- chase a permanent muster field, and after something of a contest he secured the selection of historic Camp Keyes, in Augusta, an ideal field for the purpose, at a cost of $3,500. The value of the real estate has since then tripled, and the wisdom of the choice has been often applauded. During the winter of 1889 he called attention through the columns of his
newspaper, the Kennebec Journal, to the crowded condition of the state insane hos- pital, and the legislature authorized the ap- pointment of a commission to purchase grounds near Bangor for the erection of a new state hospital for the insane. At the sugges- tion of Governor Burleigh the valuations foi the purpose of taxation were investigated by a commission, and the state valuation, as a con- sequence, increased from $236,000,000 to $309,000,000, and a state board of assessors created. Taxes have since then been more justly and equitably levied in Maine. In fund- ing the state debt, Governor Burleigh effected a substantial saving to the taxpayers. At his suggestion the legislature authorized an issue of bonds to take up the entire state debt which was then bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. These three per cent. bonds were sold at a premium of $79.900 and an annual saving of $71,520 effected at the same time. In 1891 he advocated the Australian ballot system in his address before the legislature. The house of representatives voted against the bill, but the governor fought hard. the popular support was given him, and in the end the bill was enacted. Since then, this system of voting has been adopted in almost every state in the Union. On the recommendation of Governor Burleigh, the secretary of the board of agri- culture was given a larger salary and quarters in the state house, largely increasing the effi- ciency of the board. On his recommendation, the appropriation for state aid for soldiers, dis- abled veterans of the civil war, was increased from $70,000 to $135,000. At the same time he effected great improvements in the National Guard of Maine. It was upon his recommen- dation that the law was passed providing heavy penalties for the careless setting of forest fires, making the land agent the forest commissioner of Maine, with wardens in every section. The results of this legislation have been very ef- fectual and valuable. When the state library was to be moved to its new quarters in the state-house extension in 1891, he advocated a modern card catalogue, the appropriation for which was made, and to-day the state library of Maine in convenience and usefulness is sec- ond to none in New England. During his ad- ministration, it should be added, the rate of taxation reached the lowest point in the history of the state, notwithstanding the progress and improvements mentioned.
When his four years as governor expired, Mr. Burleigh had aspirations to go to con- gress, and in the campaign of 1892 he sought the nomination, against Hon. Seth L. Milliken,
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of Belfast, then member from the third district. Mr. Milliken won after a lively and close con- test, and was given the cordial support of Mr. Burleigh. In 1897, when Mr. Milliken died, the nomination was given Governor Burleigh by acclamation. In congress Mr. Burleigh's ability and usefulness have been conspicuous. His first important achievement in congress was the apportionment bill in the fifty-sixth congress, when he served on the select com- mittee on the census. Chairman Hopkins, of Illinois, had a bill for three hundred and fifty- seven members, based on a population of 208,- 868 for each member, while Governor Bur- leigh's bill provided for three hundred and eighty-six members, based on a population of 194,182 for a district, the smallest number that would allow Maine to retain four members of the house. The Hopkins bill was approved by the majority of the committee, but on the floor of the house the Burleigh bill was suc- cessful. As a legislator Mr. Burleigh has been remarkably successful, having the tact and ability to persuade others to his way of think- ing. After the custom of his state, he has been reelected at each successive election to the present time. Since the death of the late Congressman Boutelle, Governor Burleigh has been Maine's member of the National Repub- lican Congressional Committee.
Mr. Burleigh has large investments in tim- ber lands, especially in Aroostook county. He was interested with his brother, Albert A., in constructing the Bangor & Aroostook railroad into the Aroostook wilderness, an enterprise that has had a great influence in the develop- ment and upbuilding of that resourceful re- gion. For a number of years past his chief business interest has centered in his newspaper, The Kennebec Journal. Associated with him in the management and ownership is his son, Clarence B. Burleigh, who holds the position of managing editor, and Charles F. Flynt, a practical printer of long experience, who has charge of the business department. When congess is not in session he may nearly always be found at his desk in the Journal building, or in the private office of his summer cottage on the shore of Lake Cobbosseccontee, where he spends part of the summer with his family. Congressman Burleigh is a frequent contribu- tor to the newspaper, which has held its posi- tion and the high reputation it won under the management of Luther Severance, James G. Blaine and John L. Stevens as an organ of the Republican party, to which the growth and strength of that party were in no small degree due. He is a director of the First National
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