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George Denison; Lydia, Barnstable, Novem- ber 16, 1661, married John Thacher ; Hannah, Barnstable, November 28, 1663, married Jo- seph Wheelding; Shubael, Barnstable, October 21, 1667, married Puella Hussey.
(IV) James (2), eldest son of Captain John and Desire (Hlowland) Gorham, was born at Marshfield, Massachusetts, April 28, 1650, and died in 1707. In the division of his father's homestead he had the northwesterly and cen- tral portions on which he built a large and ele- gant mansion house. In 1703, according to the division of the common lands, he was the richest man in the town of Barnstable. On February 24, 1673-74, James (2) Gorham married Hannah Huckins, daughter of Thom- as Huckins, of Barnstable. She died February 13, 1727, aged seventy-four years. There were eleven children : Desire, February 9, 1674-75 ; James, May 6, 1676-77, married May Joyce ; Experience, July 28, 1678; John, August 2, 1680, married Anne Brown; Mehitable, April 28, 1683; Thomas, December 16, 1684; Mercy, November 22, 1686: Joseph, March 25, 1689; Jabez, March 6, 1690-91 ; Sylvanus, October 13, 1693; Ebenezer, whose sketch follows.
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(V) Ebenezer, youngest son of James (2) and Hannah (Huckins) Gorham, was born at Barnstable, February 14, 1695-96, died Novem- ber 16, 1776. As a young man he lived in Scituate, and on November 1, 1725, he was dismissed from the South Church in that town to the East Church in Barnstable. He was a farmer, lived in a large two-story house, and seems to have been the only one of his father's eleven children who did not squander the wealth they inherited. On September 22, 1727, Ebenezer Gorham married Temperance Hawes, daughter of Deacon Joseph Hawes, of Yar- mouth. She died February 21, 1767, in the sixty-second year of her age. Both she and her husband have monuments in the old grave- yard near the Unitarian meeting-house in Barnstable. Nine children were born to Ebe- nezer and Temperance (Hawes) Gorham : Ebenezer, August 7, 1729; Prince, March 14, 1730-31 ; Hannah, April 16, 1733; Mary, June 16, 1735; Sarah, baptized May 22, 1737; Thankful, baptized April 22, 1739; Sarah, bap- tized April 19, 1741; Temperance, baptized May 20, 1744; Sylvanus, baptized July 17, 1746.
(VI) Temperance, sixth and youngest daughter of Ebenezer and Temperance (Hawes) Gorham, was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1744, and was baptized on May 20 of that year. She died November 26, 1824, at the age of eighty-two,
probably at Gorham, Maine, where she had lived since 1769. On February 7, 1765, Tem- perance Gorham was married to Jonathan Sturgis, of Barnstable, who later became one of the early settlers of Gorham. (See Stur- gis, X.) This is only one of several inter- marriages that have taken place between the Gorhams and Sturgises, both ancient families of Plymouth Colony and Cape Cod.
HAYES This patronymic and its cognate forms, Hawes, Heywood, Haw- ton, Hawley and the like, are un- doubtedly derived from hay, meaning hedge- a word which finds its counterpart in the Mediaeval Latin haga; Anglo-Saxon hege; Dutch Hague; French haie; English haw ; and Scotch hag or haigh. The direct meaning of hawthorn is hedge-thorn. The hayward, in ancient times, was the person who kept the cattle that grazed on the village common from straying outside the hay or hedge. Gradually it referred to more general guardianship. In "Piers Plowman" we have the expression :
"I have an horne, and he a hayward, And liggen out a nightes And keep my corne and my croft From pykers and thieves."
Of the two common forms of the surname, Hay and Hayes, the former seems to belong to Scotland and the latter to England. As early as 1185 the lands of Errol were granted by William the Lion, King of Scotland, to William de Haya, and for six generations the name appears in that form; afterwards it is re- corded as Hay. In England, on the other hand, the name Hayes is quite common from the fifteenth century down. There are seven- teen Haves coats-of-arms given by Burke; and there is a village named Hayes in Kent and another in Middlesex. The former was the seat of the great Lord Chatham, the place where he died, and the spot where his son, the second William Pitt, was born. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth we find the name associated with the early efforts for coloniza- tion in America. Edward Hayes was captain and owner of the "Golden Hinde," the only ship in Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Newfound- land expedition of 1583 which ever returned to England.
Four men by the name of Hayes emigrated to New England during the seventeenth cen- tury. Three of these, Thomas, Nathaniel and George, settled in Connecticut, while John came to New Hampshire. Thomas Hayes es- tablished himself at Milford, Connecticut, in 1645, but removed a few years later to New- ark, New Jersey, where his descendants are
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living to this day. Nathaniel settled at Nor- walk in 1651, but this line disappears after 1729. George came to Windsor, Connecticut, as early as 1680, and there is a tradition that he was a brother of John of New Hampshire, but no proof has been found. The following family traces its origin to the New Hamp- shire immigrant.
(I) John Hayes settled at Dover Corner, New Hampshire, in 1680, and is the ancestor of most of the people of that name living in the surrounding region and along the Maine coast. It is said that he came from Ireland, but the form of his name is English ; however, it would be quite easy to add additional letters upon coming to a new country. It is also said that John had a brother Ichabod, who came over with him, but afterwards went south. John Hayes had a grant of land at Dover in 1693-94, and he died there October 25, 1708. On June 28, 1686, he married Mary Horne, and there is a tradition that she was but thir- teen years old at the time. There were ten children : John, born in 1687 ; Peter, mentioned below ; Robert; Ichabod, March 13, 1691-92; Samuel, March 16, 1694-95; William, Sep- tember 6, 1698; Benjamin, September, 1700; a daughter who married an Ambrose of Salis- bury (probably Massachusetts) ; a daughter who married an Ambrose of Chester.
(II) Peter, second son and child of John and Mary (Horne) Hayes, was born about 1688, at Dover, New Hampshire. He lived at what was called Tole End in that town, and married Sarah, daughter of John Wingate. There were eight children : Ann, June 3, 1718; Reuben, May 8, 1720; Joseph, March 15, 1722; Benjamin, March 1, 1724; Mehitable, Decem- ber II, 1725; Deacon John, whose sketch fol- lows; Elijah and Ichabod, who lived at Ber- wick, Maine.
(III) Deacon John (2), fourth son of Peter and Sarah (Wingate) Hayes, was born Octo- ber 27, 1728, probably at Dover, New Hamp- shire, where his father lived. He moved to North Yarmouth, Maine, and died there March 19, 1795. He married Jane, born in 1732, died August 24, 1812, daughter of John and Eliza- beth Loring. Her father was the elder brother of the Rev. Nicholas Loring (see Loring IV). Jane Loring was twice married, and the rec- ords vary as to whether Jacob Mitchell was her first or second husband. From the dates of birth of the children it seems probable that Deacon John Hayes married Jane Loring, De- cember 5, 1754, and that after his death she married Jacob Mitchell. If her marriage to Jacob Mitchell came first, in 1754, as one docu-
ment states, and she married Deacon John Hayes November 11, 1756, he must have had a previous wife, of whom there is no record. Records of baptism of six of the children of Deacon John Hayes have been preserved : David Allen, December 14, 1755; Jacob, Au- gust 6, 1757; Joseph, February 7, 1760, died March 8 of that year; Reuben, February 15, 1761 ; Levi, October 20, 1765 ; Jane, July 19, 1767. There were probably three others. Judith, who died February 28, 1760, was un- doubtedly twin to Joseph. Deacon John (3), born in 1770, was probably the youngest, though we have no record of his baptism. The records for 1763 have been lost, as that was the year the minister died, and the church was repaired and enlarged, but it is reasonable to suppose that a child was born to Deacon John and Jane (Loring) Hayes during that year. David Allen, the eldest son, married Dorcas Allen, and their son, William Allen Hayes, born October 20, 1783, became a lawyer at South Berwick, Maine, and for twenty years was the judge of probate for York county. The memory of Levi Hayes, the fifth son, is preserved by an epitaph in the old Yarmouth graveyard : "In memory of Mr. Levi Hayes, son of Mr. John Hayes member of the Senior Class in the College at Providence Rhode Island who departed this life May 8, 1789 in the 24th year of his age.
Death is a debt to nature due As I have paid so must you."
(IV) John (3), son of Deacon John (2) and Jane (Loring) Hayes, was born in 1770, probably in Yarmouth, Maine, and died in Au- burn in 1842. He was educated in the com- mon schools of his native town, and was a tan- ner by trade. Owing to his integrity and strict attention to business, he soon became a prominent and highly respected citizen. John (3) Hayes married Mrs. Jane Moulton, widow of Captain Myrick Moulton, who was lost at sea. There were eight children, seven daugh- ters and one son: Eliza; Penelope, married Rev. George Giddings, of Galena, Illinois; Jane, married Colonel Elijah Hayes, of North Berwick, Maine; William, whose sketch fol- lows; Sarah, married Deacon David R. Lor- ing, of Yarmouth, Maine, and died in 1890; Rachel, married John Barrall, of Turner, Maine; Huldah and Hannah.
(V) William, only son of John (3) and Jane (Moulton) Hayes, was born at Yar- mouth, Maine. He married Hannah Patter- son Boynton, of Portland, and they had six children : Thomas, died young ; Mary H., mar- ried Luther Jones, of Lewiston; Harriet A.,
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married Melville Sawyer, of Saint Louis; John, died in the west in 1862 at the age of twenty-four; Carrie E., married William E. Worthen, of Amesbury, Massachusetts; and Richmond B.
(VI) Richmond B., son of William and Hannah P. (Boynton) Hayes, was born Jan- uary 20, 1849, at Lewiston, Maine. He at- tended the public schools of his native town, and at an early age entered the Lewiston Mills as an office boy. After remaining there some time, he became money clerk in the office of the American Express Company. His accuracy as an accountant and readiness in handling cash brought him the position of teller of the Manu- facturers' National Bank of Lewiston, where he was advanced to cashier in 1900. Mr Hayes is a Mason of the thirty-second degree. belonging to Rabboni Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He is a Republican in politics and attends the Congregational church. On July 13, 1886, Richmond B. Hayes married Nellie M., daugh- ter of Hiram and Betsey (Hatch) Fairbanks, of Auburn. They have had four daughters : Bessie B., born May 26, 1887, died at the age of six years ; Mildred B., June 16, 1889; Ruth M. and Florence M. (twins), born March IO, 1895. Mrs. R. B. Hayes is a lineal descendant of "Mayflower" stock, being descended from Governor Bradford.
(For early generations see John Hayes I.)
(IV) Deacon Jacob, second son HAYES of Deacon John (2) and Jane (Loring) Hayes, was born at North Yarmouth, Maine, August 6, 1757, but date of his death is unknown. At the age of eighteen he enlisted, probably with other boys in the neighborhood, and did some local work for the revolution. The Massachusetts Rolls say : "Jacob Hays, private Captain George Rogers' Co. Served 4 days. Company de- tached from Second Cumberland Co. regi- ment by order of Col. Jonathan Mitchel to work on the fort at Falmouth in November, 1775." About 1780 Deacon Jacob Hayes mar- ried Jane, daughter of John and Sarah ( Mitch- ell) Gray, of North Yarmouth, who was born November 23, 1760, and died October 4, 1839. Their five oldest children, Andrew, Jacob, Sarah, Dorcas and Jane, were all baptized on the same day, July 31, 1791 ; this was during the time of the great revival. There are rec- ords of two younger children : John, baptized September 8, 1793, and Rachel, July 2, 1797. (V) Jacob (2), second son of Deacon Jacob (I) and Jane (Gray) Hayes, was born at North Yarmouth, Maine, about 1785, and was
a farmer in that town. Married Eleanor Skillin.
(VI) Samuel S., son of Jacob (2) and Eleanor (Skillin) Hayes, was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, about 1809, and died Jan- uary 29, 1884. He was a farmer by occupa- tion, a Republican in politics, and a Congrega- tionalist in religion. Samuel S. Hayes mar- ried Mary Richmond Loring, October 10, 1833, eldest child of Lot and Sabra ( Blanch- ard) Loring. (See Loring, VII.) They had eight children : David G., Jacob L., Lydia S. who married G. G. Knapp ; Charles E., Desiah, Sylvanus B., whose sketch follows; Augustus M., and Mary R., who married W. J. Mc- Cullum.
(VII) Sylvanus Blanchard, fourth son of Samuel S. and Mary Richmond (Loring) Hayes, was born at Yarmouth, Maine, Septem- ber 1, 1846, and was educated in the public schools and at the North Yarmouth Academy. After leaving school he followed the sea for one voyage, visiting New Orleans, Havana, Cuba and Scotland. While in Havana he was attacked by the yellow fever. He went to Lewiston, and in company with his brother, Jacob L., established the present grain busi- ness. Mr. Hayes has served two years in each branch of the city government, and is a Re- publican in politics. He is a deacon in the Congregational church, and is also on the Sun- day-school commission. He belongs to the Masons and to the Odd Fellows. On January 1, 1877, Sylvanus Blanchard Hayes married S. Amanda Flewelling, daughter of Samuel E. and Amaret (Covert) Flewelling, of King's county, Kingston, New Brunswick. They have six children: Frank Carleton, born May 4, 1878; William Richmond, March 2, 1880; Helen Gage, May 18, 1882; Lincoln Loring, May 31, 1883, married, May 6, 1908, Alice M. Kimball, daughter of George E. Kimball; Mary Louise and Naida Flewelling (twins), September 26, 1886.
HAYES Joseph Hayes was born in Port- land, Maine, June 2, 1787. His father died when he was a mere lad and he was brought up by an uncle, the brother of his deceased mother, whose name was Long, and the family descendants of Richard Warren of the "Mayflower" and of Thomas Clark, a passenger of the "Ann," which ship arrived at Plymouth in 1623, through Thomas and Bathsheba (Churchill) Long, whose son Zadoc married Julia Temple Davis, lived in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, and were the parents of John Long
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Davis, governor of Massachusetts and secre- tary of the United States navy. The uncle lived in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where Joseph Hayes was brought up, and received a fair public school training. In early life he left his uncle's home, went to Portland, Maine, where he was apprenticed to a rope-maker, and after completing his term of apprenticeship he was twenty years old, and he went to Topsham, Maine, with Samuel Veazie, and they carried on the tobacco business in partnership, 1804- 06. Seeking a larger field for the business, he removed to Bath in 1806, and opened a to- bacco establishment on his own account, which was phenomenally successful. He employed a large number of hands in the manufacture of cigars, and these were sold to the retail trade throughout the country towns from wagons, thus employing a large number of teams. His factory was /enlarged from time to time as trade increased, at last called into requisition a three-story building erected expressly for the business. He was a recruiting officer in Bath during the war of 1812, and held the non- commissioned rank of orderly sergeant while in this service for the United States army. In 184I he embraced the temperance cause with extraordinary ardor, and he advocated the cause on the lecture platform in all parts of the state of Maine during the remainder of his life with effective results to the cause. He
was employed in this cause by the promoters of the Washingtonian movement, and whether Mr. Hayes was, as were so many of their ef- fective speakers of the period, reformed drunk- ards, as was John B. Gough of later period, does not appear, but that he was a means of doing great good and securing pledges of total abstinence from large numbers of every one of his audiences is well established, and it may be said to his credit that he remained, not only an advocate but an example of total abstinence himself to the end of his life, which was not true generally of the large number of advo- cates employed in the movement which was spectacular in its full glory, but subsided as suddenly as it reached its zenith. He was mar- ried in 1806 to Anstress Davis, daughter of Captain Elisha Turner, of Topsham, Maine. They had ten children, including Joseph Mars- ton (q. v.).
(II) Joseph Marston, son of Joseph and Anstress Davis (Turner) Hayes, was born in Bath, Maine, June 4, 1832. He was educated in the public schools of Bath, and when four- teen years of age went to the college that has turned out so many successful men, the print-
ing office. He learned the trade of printer in the office of the Old Weekly Times, became foreman of the shop, and left the Times office to start a weekly newspaper for a syndicate at Damariscotta, Maine, and he made the name of his venture the American Sentinel, which he removed to Bath in 1854, and he continue 1 its publication up to 1863, when he resigned the editorship to accept the political office of clerk of the Sagadahoc county courts, and his first service in the court was when Edward Kent was judge of the court. He continued this service to his county for thirty-five years, resigning in 1898. It seems needless to add that his political faith is that of the Republican party, as his tenure in office readily suggests the fact. His Masonic service carried him to the highest degree in the fraternity, and his progress is marked by membership and initia- tion in Solar Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, No. 14; Montgomery and St. Bernard Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2; Dunlap Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 5, of Bath; Maine Consistory, S. P. R. S., of Port- land, Arcadia Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 13, of Bath. His Masonic associates have honored him with the offices of senior grand warden, grand high priest, and for several terms district deputy. In Blue Lodge and in Royal Arch he was district deputy. His finan- cial and commercial interests made him a di- rector of the Marine National Bank of Bath, serving from 1856 to the present time, and was vice-president of the bank at one time. His religious life has been associated with the Universalist church and Sunday-school since 1861, and he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school since 1867. He married, Feb- ruary 22, 1870, Ella Frances, daughter of Jeremiah and Betsey (Tucker) Cotton, and they had one child, Velmer Francis (q. v.). The mother, Ella Frances (Cotton) Hayes, died in Bath, Maine, January 13, 1871, and the father, Joseph Marston Hayes, retired from active business life in 1899, and is, in 1908, living with his son and grandchild at the old homestead in Bath-one of the notable old places in the town.
(III) Velmer Francis, only child of Joseph Marston and Ella Frances (Cotton) Hayes, was born in Bath, Maine, January 3, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of that city, Gray's Commercial College, Portland, and Eastman's Business College. Poughkeepsie, New York. He married, April 16, 1905, Loweno Thomas. Children : Frances and Joseph.
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LORING The Lorings of Massachusetts and New Hampshire descend from three brothers, John, David and Solomon, who emigrated from the prov- ince of Lorraine, France, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. It is said that these three were the younger brothers of a marquis, and that the original family name was Lorraine.
(I) Deacon Thomas Loring, the first Amer- ican ancestor, came from Axminster, now a manufacturing town on the river Ax, Devon- shire, England, to Dorchester, Massachusetts, December 22, 1634. He moved to Hingham, and then settled upon a farm in Hull, where he died in 1661. Deacon Loring brought with him from England a wife whose maiden name is unknown, and two sons, the younger four years old at the time. Two other sons were born in this country. The names of the chil- dren are: Thomas (2) ; John, whose sketch follows : Josiah and Benjamin. Three brothers settled in Hull, Massachusetts; but Josiah con- tinued to live in Hingham. Josiah Loring married Elizabeth, daughter of John Prince, the first of the Prince family who came to America.
(II) John, second son of Deacon Thomas Loring, was born in England, probably at Axminster, about 1630, and came with his people to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1634. The date of his death is unknown. John Lor- ing was twice married ; (first) to Mary Baker, who bore him fourteen children, many of whom died young ; and (second) to Mrs. Rachel Buckley, of Braintree, by whom there were four more. The children of the first marriage were : John, Joseph, Thomas, Isaac, Nathaniel, David, Jacob, Israel, Sarah, Mary, Rachel, John, Sarah and Israel. The children of the second marriage were : John (2), whose sketch follows; Israel, Caleb, and a daughter who died young.
(III) John (2), eldest child of John (I) Loring and his second wife, Rachel (Buckley) Loring, was born at Hull, Massachusetts, about 1680, and died in that town in 1720. John (2) Loring married Jane Baker, and they had six children : John, born January 15, 1708; Jane, October 7, 1709; Nicholas, whose sketch follows; Thomas, August 30, 1713; Solomon, January 12, 1715; and Rachel, Oc- tober 17, 1717. Of these children all but two finally settled in North Yarmouth, Maine. Jane Loring married Ephraim Andrews, of Hingham, and both died early, leaving one son, Joseph. Thomas Loring was a hatter, and also lived at Hingham. John Loring, the eldest son, first occupied the ancestral home in
Hull, and then moved to North Yarmouth, where he was soon followed by his brother Solomon, who had learned the blacksmith's trade at Pembroke. Rachel Loring married Deacon John White, of Weymouth, Massachu- setts, and eventually moved to North Yar- mouth, where he was deacon of the First Church.
(IV) Rev. Nicholas, second son of John (2) and Jane (Baker) Loring, was born at Hull, Massachusetts, September 1, 17II, and died at North Yarmouth, Maine, July 21, 1763. He was but nine years old when his father died, so that for much of his training and success he must have been indebted to his mother. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1832, at the age of twenty-one. In February, 1735, he began preaching in various places near his early home, and in May, 1736. he was directed to North Yarmouth by a col- lege classmate, Rev. Ephraim Keith, who had declined settlement on account of feeble health. After the usual preliminaries, Mr. Loring was ordained November 17, 1736, and settled by the town, where he continued to preach till his death, a period of twenty-seven years. In those days the parish embraced the present towns of Cumberland, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Freeport and Harpswell. From this wide range his hearers gathered in the old meeting-house "below the ledge," and over it the young minister extended his pastoral labors. About ten years before Mr. Loring's death, the church of Harpswell was set off, and since that time six other churches have been formed from the original "North Yarmouth First Church." When Mr. Loring was called to his labors, the town voted a settlement of two hundred and fifty pounds, and an annual salary of one hun- drey and fifty pounds. During his ministry the Indians frequently attacked the place, once near the meeting-house, June 20, 1748. Three men were fired upon, and one, Ebenezer Eaton, was killed. The neighbors, including Mr. Loring, seized their guns and gave chase. The savages dropped a tomahawk, which their pursuers picked up and gave the minister as a reward for his valor. Mr. Loring has been represented as tall and slender and of rather delicate physique, but this incident shows that he was not lacking in courage.
On February 17, 1737, Rev. Nicholas Loring married Mary Richmond, of Tiverton, Rhode Island. She was brought up in affluence, and as a part of her marriage portion received "Billinder," a young colored woman, who served the family faithfully, and was supported by the heirs, according to the provisions of
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the minister's will. Mrs. Loring was charac- terized by good sense, dignified deportment and precise dress, and was called Madam Lor- ing, after the fashion of the day. There were ten children, all of whom lived to adult years. These were trained to habits of industry and economy that they might be examples to the flock. In warm weather they went to meeting bare-footed, that those who could not have shoes might not stay away.
The children of Rev. Nicholas and Mary (Richmond) Loring were: 1. Richmond, born March 29, 1738, married Lucinda Bucknam. 2. Bezaleel, April 13, 1739, married Elizabeth Mason. 3. Levi, December 3, 1740, was twice married. 4. Lucretia, January 3, 1742, mar- ried Deacon David Mitchell. 5. Mary, Novem- ber 22, 1744, married Captain Joseph Gray. 6. Elizabeth, February 22, 1746, married Hum- phrey Chase. 7. Rachel, November 2, 1748, married Jotham Mitchell. 8. Thomas, whose sketch follows. 9. Nicholas, June 23, 1755, was lost at sea. 10. Jeremiah, April 12, 1758, married Jane Hayes.
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