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horse. Edward Dillingham died in 1667. His will was made the previous year and probated on June I, immediately succeeding his death. It would appear from matters mentioned in his will that he had taken cattle and horses from several former neighbors in his native place to be kept for a portion of their increase. Ed- ward Dillingham's wife, Dusilla (maiden name unknown), died February 6, 1656. Their chil- dren, of record, were: Henry, John and Osiah (daughter).
(II) Henry, elder son of Edward and Du- silla Dillingham, was born 1627, in England, and lived in Sandwich, Massachusetts. His name appears on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643, and nine years later he was one of those appointed to lay out the most convenient way from Sandwich to Plymouth. In 1659 he was fined two pounds, ten shillings, for refusing to serve as constable, and three
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years later he was fined fifteen shillings for refusing to assist the marshal in prosecut- ing Quakers. In the same year, October 2, his wife was fined ten shillings for attending a Quaker meeting. He is recorded in Sand- wich, February 23, 1675, as having a just right to the privileges of the town. From this it would appear that his leaning toward the Quakers had been condoned. In the same year he was made one of the council of war. On a list made July 15, 1678, he is recorded as one of those who had taken the oath of fidelity and in 1702, June 25, he is listed as one of the freemen in Sandwich. He was married June 24, 1652, to Hannah Perry, who died June 9, 1673. Children : Mary, Edward, John and Dorcas.
(III) John, younger son of Henry and Han- nah (Perry) Dillingham, was born February 24, 1658, in Sandwich, and died there. May 2, 1733. He appears to have been a good hus- bandman who took no part in public affairs. His name appears in the records of 1681, as a freeman who had taken the oath of fidelity. No record of his wife appears. His children were: John and Meletiah.
(IV) Meletiah, younger son of John Dil- lingham, was born about 1700, and died Janu- ary 25, 1786. He appears to have resided in Hanover, where he exchanged lots in 1744, and in 1748-49 bought land in Hanover. He was engaged in shipbuilding and is also de- scribed in deeds as a blacksmith. He bought land in Scituate in 1768, and in Hanover in 1771. He built a home near "The Corners," in Hanover, and his descendants lived in that town for some generations; in the last century the name has not appeared in Hanover. He was married October 28, 1723, at Scituate, to Mary, daughter of Benjamin Curtiss, of Han- over, Massachusetts. She was born August 22, 1691, and died December 17, 1727, leaving a son. He was married (second) February 18, 1730, to Phoebe Hatch, of Hanover, who died January 31, 1732, leaving no living issue. He was married (third) January 31, 1735, to Mariah Gilford, who died December 21, 1784, aged seventy-five years. His children were: Lemuel, Lydia, Hannah, Content, Thomas, Joshua, Meribah, William, Ann and Phoebe. The first was the child of first wife.
(V) Lemuel, child of Meletiah and Mary (Curtiss) Dillingham, was born before Decem- ber 17, 1727, in Hanover or Scituate, and settled in Bristol (Bremenport), Maine, where he died after 1800. He was in Bristol as early as June 21, 1774, on which date he bought seventy-five acres of land, and in November,
five years later, he wrote from that point, ask- ing a removal certificate from the Quaker church, in Massachusetts. In December, 1779, this certificate was sent, directed to Falmouth, Maine, to the monthly meeting of Friends at Casco Bay. The seventy-five acre lot which he purchased was sold by him, in 1795, to John Johnson, and was again purchased by Dilling- ham in 1796. This was again conveyed to Johnson, September 9, 1800. He was a con- sistent Quaker and was buried in the Quaker cemetery in Bristol, in an unpainted coffin according to the custom of that sect. The fol- lowing anecdote is related to indicate the char- acter of men like Lemuel. On one occasion he invited David Collamore to have breakfast, but the latter declined at first, but afterwards said, "I believe I will have a cup of coffee." To this Dillingham replied, "Thee cannot lie in my house," and Collamore was obliged to forego the refreshment. The brother of the last named, John Collamore, of Bristol, mar- ried Dillingham's daughter, Sarah, and a con- tract appears on record, dated September 9, 1800, which shows that John Collamore under- took the care of Lemuel Dillingham, in his old age, agreeing to provide him with whole- some victuals, drink and clothing, with com- fortable bed and bedding and a fire when necessary, and also medical attendance, and the care of a nurse if required. Collamore further bound himself to see that Dillingham was decently buried at death. He was married September 23, 1756, to Sarah Palmer, born in Hanover, Massachusetts, and died in Bristol, Maine. Their children were : Lemuel, Joshua, Sarah, Josiah and Lydia.
(VI) Joshua, son of Lemuel and Sarah (Palmer) Dillingham, was born November 12, 1758, in Hanover, and removed to Bristol, Maine, prior to 1774. He bought land in Bristol, December 10, 1779, located on the south branch of Pemaquid pond. During that year he served as a seaman on the colonial frigate "Boston." He is described as a black- smith in a deed of land made June 10, 1782, and the next year he sold that land in Megunti- cook. In 1795 he gave a deed in which he is described as a resident of Camden. On Sep- tember 16, 1798, he received from Henry Knox, of Thomaston, a deed of land embrac- ing one hundred and eighty-seven acres, on the west bank of Penobscot Bay, for which he paid $441.32. In 1801 he purchased another tract of seventy acres in the same locality, and in 1803 a lot of nearly thirty-four acres. He was one of the first settlers in Camden, hav- ing removed from Bristol about 1782, in a ves-
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sel, and landed on what has ever since been called Dillingham Shore. He had previously erected a log cabin near the shore, and in this he lived for some time. He was followed to Camden within a few years by his brothers, Lemuel and Josiah. Their lands were prob- ably taken on warrants as revolutionary vet- crans, and when the Waldo patent came into the hands of General Knox, their titles had to be confirmed by deeds which were granted after he moved his family to Thomaston. Joshua's land was subsequently divided into several farms on which three of his children settled. He was one of the first Universalists in the town of Camden, and often read ser- mons at meetings of that sect held in private houses. This section was then a part of Mass- achusetts, and in 1808, he was a member of the Massachusetts legislature. He died May 6, 1820, in Camden. He was married Febru- ary 4, 1778, to Mary Palmer, a sister of the wife of his elder brother, Lemuel. She was born October 28, 1760, and died March 18, 1848, having survived her husband nearly twenty-eight years. Their children were: Nathaniel, Rachael, Sally and Joshua.
(VII) Nathaniel, eldest son of Joshua and Mary (Palmer) Dillingham, was born Oc- tober 13, 1783, in Camden, and settled on a part of his father's land in that town. He was first selectman of Camden, from 1824 to 1831, and was for many years cashier of the Megunticook bank of that town. He was a staunch supporter of the temperance move- ment, and was president of the Camden Tem- perance Society in 1829. His chief occupa- tions were farming and lumbering. About 1850 he moved to Old Town, Maine, where his son resided, but subsequently resided with a son in Bangor, where he died May 30, 1863. He was married August 25, 1805, to Deborah Myrick, of Princeton, Massachusetts, born November 4, 1782, in that town, and died September 2, 1862, in Old Town, Maine. Children : Theodore Heald, Frederick Hart- well, Edward Hamilton, George Humphrey, Harriet Maria and Nathaniel Himelius. The second son was a deputy and special deputy collector in the Bangor custom house twenty- six years, and died there in 1901. The third son died in infancy, as did the fourth. The daughter lived and died in Camden, unmar- ried. The youngest son lived in Bangor where he died April 19, 1899.
(VIII) Theodore Heald, eldest child of Na- thaniel and Deborah (Myrick) Dillingham, was born December 2, 1806, in Camden, and died March 7, 1858. He moved from Camden
to Warren, Maine, where he engaged in trade. He moved to Old Town prior to 1835, and was in lumber business and in trade. He served for a time as Indian agent. In 1838 he re- moved to Bangor, but returned to Old Town in October, 1844, and continued there until his death. He was married (first) January 2, 1831, to Angelica Hovey, daughter of Dea- con John Miller, of Warren, Maine. She was born March 13, 1812, and died November 16, 1839, and he was married (second) in Feb- ruary, 1842, to Susan Kent Beverage, of Cam- den, Maine. She died in that town August 19, 1873. Their children were: Edwin Frederic, George Francis, Harriet Maria, Charles Theo- dore, Albert Heald and Henry N. The second son died in Bangor in 1904. The daughter died at the age of sixteen months. The third son resides in New York City, member of firm Charles T. Dillingham & Company, wholesale booksellers. The youngest son died before two years of age.
(IX) Edwin Frederic, eldest child of Theo- dore Heald and Angelica H. (Miller) Dilling- ham, was born June 6, 1832, in Warren, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor and was for a short time a student in a private school at Old Town. In 1844 he became a student of the Bangor high school and continued there one year. He entered the book store of David Bugbee in Bangor, May 24, 1847, and continued as a clerk until 1854. From August 25 of that year, until February 9, 1899, he was a member of the firm of D. Bugbee & Company, and on the last named date became sole proprietor of the business. This concern has remained in the same local- ity, and in connection with the sale of books, stationery and wall paper, since June, 1836, in- cludes a blank book factory and bindery. He is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, of which he is junior warden ; has been a mem- ber of the Parish for more than fifty years, and is the oldest living male communicant. He has been the longest in active business of any one in Bangor, covering a period of sixty- one years in the same store. He is the oldest member and past master of St. Andrew's Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and is also the oldest past high priest of Mount Moriah Chapter, R. A. M. He is the oldest past commander of St. John's Commandery, K. T., and the oldest member of the Scottish Rite body of that town. He has been treasurer of this association for twenty years and for forty- six years has been treasurer of Saint An- drew's Lodge. He holds the oldest policy in the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
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Company in the state of Maine and province of New Brunswick. Mr. Dillingham is first vice-president of the Bangor Loan and Build- ing Association and is recognized as one of the leading business men of his own town. He is an active supporter of the Republican party, and served as a member of the common coun- cil of Bangor in 1864-5-6, being the only sur- vivor of the former body. For over fifty years he has spent his summers at Camden, where he and his sons own a tract of ten acres, with cottages, the location being known as Dillingham's Point. He was married May 8, 1855, in Bangor, to Julia, daughter of Martin and Jane (Cutter) Snell, a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden. (See Alden.) Children : I. Frederick Henry. 2. Edwin Lynde. 3. Jenny Cutter, wife of Dr. George S. Macpher- son, of Boston ; daughter, Janice Russell. 4 . Julia Field, married William H. Stalker, and resides in New York City.
(X) Frederick Henry, eldest child of Edwin F. and Julia (Snell) Dillingham, was born April 7, 1857, in Bangor, and attended the public schools of that city. He was graduated from Bowdoin College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877, and three years later received the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution. Having decided to en- gage in the practice of medicine, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1880, and since that date has been continuously and ac- tively engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City. In January, 1882, he was appointed a member of the board of health, and continued as a member of that body, hold- ing the position of assistant sanitary superin- tendent, when he resigned May 1, 1903. He is an adjunct professor of dermatology in the New York Polyclinic and Hospital, visiting physician and dermatologist of St. Joseph's Hospital, and consulting dermatologist of St. Francis' Hospital. Dr. Dillingham is a mem- ber of the Academy of Medicine of New York and the State and County Medical societies. He is a member of the Medical Association of Greater New York; the New York Polyclinic Clinical Society ; and the West Side Clinical Society. He is also a member of the Phy- sicians' Mutual Aid Association, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and of the Maine Society of New York. Since 1887 he has been secretary of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of New York. He is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, affiliating with the Blue Lodge and
Royal Arch Chapter. A man of genial nature and large heart, he brings to the practice of his profession that personal magneusm which is one of the strongest equipments in a phy- sician. Possessed of a fine literary taste, Dr. Dillingham is and always has been a student, and keeps abreast with the best thought of the times and the progress and advancement in his profession. He was married (first) November 15, 1893, to Helen Alexandra, daughter of James Edward and Helen Ganson, of New York City. She died January 20, 1894, and he was married (second) November 3, 1897, to Susy Maria Ferguson, of New York City, widow of John Henry Ferguson, and sister of his first wife.
(X) Edwin Lynde, second child of Edwin F. and Julia (Snell) Dillingham, was born in Bangor, Maine, May 3, 1861. He attended public schools in Bangor and was graduated from Yale in 1882 (A. B.). He engaged in business in New York City after graduating, and in November, 1886, moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he was connected with Ticknor Company and Lee & Shepard antil February, 1892, when he returned to New York to enter the firm of Charles T. Dilling- ham & Company, wholesale book sellers, where he continued until March 25. 1896. Since October, 1896, has been head of the F. Dillingham, is descended from John Alden subscription book department of Charles Scribner's Sons.
Julia ( Snell) Dillingham, wife of Edwin. (who is fully written of in other pages of this work) and his son Joseph, through the follow- ing line :
(III) Deacon Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) and Mary (Simmons) Alden, was prob- ably born at Bridgewater, and lived in South Bridgewater. He married Hannah, daughter of Daniel Dunham, of Plymouth, in 1690. Children : Daniel, Joseph (died young), Eleazer, Hannah, Mary, Joseph, Jonathan, Samuel, Mehitabel and Seth.
(IV) Eleazer, third child of Deacon Joseph (2) and Hannah (Dunham) Alden, was born 1694, at South Bridgewater, and died in 1773 .. He lived all his life in South Bridgewater, where he was a highly respected citizen, at- taining to a ripe old age. He married, 1720, Martha, daughter of Joseph Shaw; she died in 1769, aged sixty-nine years. Children : Jonathan, Eleazer, Abraham, David, Joshua, Caleb, Ezra and Timothy.
(V) Eleazer (2), second son of Eleazer (I) and Martha (Shaw) Alden, was born in 1723, at South Bridgewater, and died there in
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1803. He married, in 1748, Sarah, daughter of Nicholas Whitman, who died in 1819, aged ninety-three years. Children : Martha, Mary, Abigail, Sarah, Hannah and Eleazer.
(V1) Abigail, third child of Eleazer (2) and Sarah ( Whitman) Alden, was born in 1756. She married, in 1774, William Snell, at South Bridgewater, and there their first three children were born; afterward they re- moved to Ware, and again to Tamworth, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in the French war, where he lost a leg, and was a very great sufferer from his wounds. He was also a teacher in the schools of his town, and was called "Master Snell." Children : William, Seth, Smyrdus, Eleazer, Alden and Martin.
(VII) Martin, sixth child of William and Abigail ( Alden) Snell, was born May 4, 1793, in Ware, Massachusetts, and was graduated from Brown University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1818. He took a post- graduate course at Yale, and received the de- gree of Master of Arts in 1821. He engaged in teaching, and was a candidate for orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, but did not take them on account of poor health. He mar- ried, March 9, 1825, Jane Cutter, born July 15, 1801, and died in Bangor, Maine, May 29, 1854. Children: William Cutter (died at age of seven years), Elizabeth Jane, Henry Martin, Julia and William.
(VIII) Julia, younger daughter of Martin and Jane (Cutter) Snell, was born July 18, 1831, in Eastport, Maine, and became the wife of E. F. Dillingham. (See Dillingham, IX.)
CHAMPLIN The Champlin family in the United States is of Nor- man-French rather than of English origin, it is supposed. Families of this name are still found in Normandy, and few if any in England. Samuel de Cham- plain, the distinguished navigator and explor- er, the founder of Quebec and the first gov- ernor of New France, was a Norman. A cel- ebrated French painter, born at Les Andelys in 1825, bore the name, Charles J. Champlin. (I) Geoffrey Champlin, the first to bear the Champlin name in this country, reached the new world in some way not now known. It is thought that he may have landed in Bos- ton or some other Massachusetts port, and have left there with the company of Dissen- tients who followed Coddington and Arnold into the wilderness. He was on the island of Rhode Island as early as 1638. and within a year after the earliest white settlers made
their homes there. We find him at first a resident of Portsmouth, but he soon made his home in Newport. On the twenty-fourth of the eleventh month, 1638, he was admitted an inhabitant, and was made a freeman Sep- tember 14, 1640. While at Newport, if not before, he acquired property, and in 1661 re- moved to Misqiamacut, now known as West- erly. His home lot and dwelling in Newport, with forty acres of land, he sold in 1669. His name appears in the list of free inhabit- ants of Westerly in 1669. In 1661 he took the oath of fidelity to the colonv. During King Philip's war, 1675-76, he probably returned to Newport. He died on or before 1695, as in that year he is mentioned in a confirmation of a deed by his son Jeffrey as "my deceased father." Previous to 1650 Geoffrey Champlin married (probably in Newport), but the name of his wife is unknown. His children, so far as has been ascertained, were Jeffrey, William and Christopher.
(II) Jeffrey, the oldest son of Geoffrey Champlin, was born probably at Newport, about 1650, some say in 1652. May 17, 1671, he was called to take the oath of allegiance to the colony, but did not appear. He took the oath September 17, 1679. The same year he was chosen a member of the town council in Westerly. In 1680 he was the moderator of the town meeting. His is the earliest rec- ord of a moderator in Westerly. He was the moderator of town meetings also in 1681-84. With the exception of 1683 he represented Westerly in the general assembly from 1681 to 1685. In 1685 he bought of Anthony Low six hundred acres of land in Kingston, and removed thither in 1686. In 1690, when Cap- tain of the train band of Kingston, he was appointed on a commission to raise money to pay soldiers to be used "against their Maj- esty's enemies." The government of Rhode Island as organized in 1647 in accordance with the terms of the patent brought from England in 1644 by Roger Williams, con- sisted of a president and an assistant from each town. In case of the absence or death of the president, his place was to be taken by the assistant of the town from which the president was chosen. Jeffrey Champlin was the Kingston assistant from 1896 (with the exception of 1697) to 1715, the year in which he died. He had one son Jeffrey, and a daugh- ter Hannah, born about 1677, who married John Watson Jr., April 8, 1703.
(III) Jeffrey (2), only son of Jeffrey (I) and Hannah Champlin, was born probably in Westerly, about 1672. About 1700, while re-
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siding in Kingston, he married Susanna El- dred, daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Cole) Eldred, and granddaughter of Susanna Hutchinson, youngest child of the well-known Anne Hutchinson. Their children were En- blin. born January 30, 1701-02, married, De- cember 25, 1721, Joseph Wilbour, and Jeffrey, born February 2, 1702-03, married, September 26, 1725, Mary Northrup. Mrs. Susanna ( El- dred) Champlin died about 1705-06, and Jef- frey Champlin married (second) Hannah Hazard, daughter of Robert and Mary (Brownell) Hazard, of Kingston, and grand- daughter of the first Thomas Hazard, of Bos- ton, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Their children were: Thomas, born September 3, 1708, Stephen, see forward, and William, born March 3, 1712-13, probably died before 1730. Mrs. Hannah (Hazard) Champlin died March 5. 1713, and Jeffrey Champlin married (third) Susanna
Their children were Hannah, born January II, 1715; and John, born February 12, 1716- 17, married Freelove Watson. Jeffrey Champ- lin died in 1718. His will, made February 14, 1717-18, was proved March 10, 1718. The inventory amounted to £1,457. 7s, Id. His widow married, May 26, 1720, Samuel Clarke, of Westerly.
(IV) Stephen, of South Kingston, second son of Jeffrey (2) and Hannah (Hazard) Champlin, was born February 16, 1709-10. He married, in 1733, Mary Hazard, daugh- ter of Robert and Sarah ( Borden) Hazard, of North Kingston. He lived on Point Judith Neck. He was admitted a freeman May 2, 1732. In 1746 he bought of Thomas Hazard two hundred acres of land on Boston Neck, and later three hundred and thirty acres on the coast. He died on his estate July 22, 1771. In his will, July 1, 1771, he gave each of his daughters £400. His children were Ste- phen, born September 29, 1734; Hannah, Jan- uary 20, 1735-36; Sarah, August 18, 1737; Mary, April 14. 1739; Susanna, March 26, 1742; Jeffrey, March 21. 1744-45; Robert, April 12, 1747; Thomas, November 26, 1755. Mary Champlin, widow of Stephen Champlin, born February 23, 1716, died March 13, 1773. Her father, Robert Hazard, left her £500 at his decease, May 20, 1762.
(V) Robert, of South Kingston, third son of Stephen and Mary (Hazard) Champlin, born April 12, 1747, married, in 1768, Mary Browning, daughter of John and Ann ( Haz- ard) Browning, of South Kingston. He was a sea-captain, sailing from Newport to the coast of Africa, West Indies, &c. He died in
South Kingston, September 25, 1809. Mrs. Mary (Browning) Champlin, born in 1737, died April 8, 1823. Their children were Rob- ert, born November 1, 1769; Sarah, June I, 1771; Lucy, 1774, John, April 7, 1775; Ste- phen, 1776.
(VI) John, second son of Captain Robert and Mary (Browning) Champlin, married (first) Abigail Carpenter, daughter of Daniel and Ruth (Cornell) Carpenter, of North Kingston, Rhode Island. She died at Col- chester, Connecticut (to which place they had removed), November 13, 1800, and John Champlin married (second) in 1803, Martha Armstrong, of South Kingston. He died there June 4, 1852. Mrs. Martha (Armstrong) Champlin, born September 9. 1779, died at Lebanon, May 24. 1843. Their children were Robert, born January 22, 1805; Sarah, March 17, 1806; John, April 28, 1807; Stephen, April II, 1808; James Tift, June 9, 1811 ; George, May 17, 1813 ; Lydia, August 29, 1816; Mar- tha, September 19, 1819; Mary, September 19, 1819 (twins).
(VII) James Tift, the fourth son of John and Martha (Armstrong) Champlin, was born in Colchester, Connecticut, June 9, 1811. Not long after his birth his parents took up their residence in Lebanon, Connecticut. His was a typical New England home, in which were taught lessons of duty, frugality and piety. When about fourteen years of age he united with the Baptist church in Lebanon. A thoughtful, studious boy, both father and mother easily discovered the bent of his mind, and his aptitude and wishes for school advan- tages found in them hearty support. The de- sire for a collegiate education early took pos- session of him, and in the autumn of 1828 he entered the academy at Colchester and de- voted himself to college preparatory studies. These studies were continued at the academy in Plainfield, Connecticut. Having completed his preparatory course, he entered the fresh- man class of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in September, 1830. At Brown he came under the influence of Francis Way- land, the distinguished president of the Uni- versity, and one of the foremost educators of his time. From Dr. Wayland he received an impulse along intellectual and spiritual lines that followed him through life. During his college course he won first rank as a stu- dent and at graduation was the valedictorian of his class. Even before his graduation he was looking forward to the vocation of a teacher, and was elected principal of the Nor- mal Labor School at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island ;
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