Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 102

Author: Little, George Thomas, 1857-1915, ed; Burrage, Henry Sweetser, 1837-1926; Stubbs, Albert Roscoe
Publication date: 1909
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 896


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(VII) Colonel John Augustus, United States Army, son of Amos Buck and Caro- line (Hooper) Darling, was born in Bucks- port, June 7, 1835. He was a very distin- guished soldier in the civil war. He now has a beautiful summer home at Bucksport. He married (first) January 28, 1866, Encar- necion Yniguez, of Chili, South America ; married (second) Mrs. Clara L. Hastings, of San Francisco, California, 1895. Since Colonel Darling retired from the army he and his wife have made three tours around the world.


This family is ancient in NORWOOD England, and its name is derived from the place of its original abode-Northwoods-which, by plainly discernible philology, became Nor- wood. The family intermarried with those of Clark, Croucher, Crowell, La Tour, Hard- ing, and Maitland-names closely associated with the earlier upbuilding of Great Britain. Few of the forefathers of this line of Nor- woods died natural deaths, nor have their de- scendants. They were officers and men in the sea and land forces of Great Britain, back to the days of the tribe Northwooders, from which ancient race the present family sprang. Their "cry" has always been, "When you have an enemy at the point of the bayonet, take him prisoner, or run him through." An American


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branch of the family was established in the colonial period, but the present line dates back but three generations. They have proven their worth and devotion to American institu- tions by the last test-the offer of life in de- fence of the land of their adoption-as their forefathers did for their native soil.


(I) Rev. Joseph William Norwood was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In early life he was a sea captain, and in one of his voy- ages he was called upon to assist in quelling an insurrection at an English port in Africa, being then an officer in the Royal Naval Re- serve Corps. His entrance upon his final ca- reer was deferred by the outbreak of the civil war. He enlisted under the first call of Pres- ident Lincoln for troops, in the First Regi- ment, Massachusetts Infantry, and partici- pated in the battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded by a bayonet thrust-one of the comparatively few incidents of the great war, where the contestants came to- gether in hand-to-hand conflict. In another engagement he received a bullet in the ankle, and a slash in the face from a Confederate sabre, which left an ugly scar. His only brother, James William, was killed in action at Antietam Bridge, Virginia, during the self- same war. Joseph William Norwood served faithfully throughout the war, and was one of the victorious host which marched down Penn- sylvania Avenue, in the national capital, in the Grand Review in May, 1865, just on the eve of disbandment.


At the close of the war, Mr. Norwood pre- pared for the ministry by taking a course in the General Theological Seminary (Episco- pal) at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On leav- ing that institution he was sent by the Epis- copal Church to the west coast of Africa, with a shipload of freedmen, this being one of the earliest attempts at their colonization in the land of their origin (a favorite scheme of President Lincoln during his life), and which proved abortive. Mr. Norwood was for some time a missionary there, at Sierra Leone, Monravia, Cavalla and Cape Mount. He sub- sequently returned to the United States, and labored in the missionary fields in western states and territories, and where he broadened his education by attendance at the Kansas State University, from which he graduated. Later, he was also in Canada, in the British provinces. Rev. Mr. Norwood married Edith Matilda Harding, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Their children were: I. James William (died in infancy). 2. Rev. Joseph Robinson (see forward). 3. Florence Edith. 4. Rev. Rob-


ert Wentworth; educated at Kings College, Nova Scotia; now rector at Spring Hill, Nova Scotia; widely known as a poet, a writer of cantatas, and contributor to magazines and other periodicals. 5. Edmund Bambrick; graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; a physician at Hubbard's Cove, Nova Scotia. 6. Nellie Haines.


(II) Rev. Joseph Robinson, son of Rev. Joseph William and Edith M. (Harding) Norwood, was born in Vineland, New Jersey, April 22, 1869. His birth occurred while his father was a student in the Theological Semi- nary at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a babe when his parents went to Liberia, and he was the first white child in this Black Re- public. His preliminary education was ob- tained in the various towns to which his fath- er's ministerial duties called him. His col- lege preparatory training was pursued in Greenville (New York) Academy, and Key- port (New Jersey) Academy. From the last of these fitting schools he entered Bishop's University, Lenoxville, Province of Quebec, Canada, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After com- pleting his collegiate course he was appointed to the rectorship of St. John's Church, Fish- ers Island, New York; and, subsequently, to Christ Church, Bellport, Long Island, New York. He then accepted the rectorship of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, at Northeast Harbor, Maine, remaining nine years, and as a result of his efficient labors two stone church edifices and a parish house were erected there. In 1904 he came to his present charge at East- port, Maine, where his services are bearing good fruit. His knowledge of general re- ligious conditions and needs is attested by his superior placing him upon the committee on new parishes and missions, Diocese of Maine. Deeply interested in education, he was for seven years superintendent of schools at Mount Desert, Maine, during his rectorship there, and was founder of the Northeast Har- bor Village Improvement Society, and chair- man of its executive committee throughout his residence in that place. He was associated in the latter work with President Eliot, late of Harvard University; President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University; Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Al- bany; and Hon. Seth Low, LL.D., of New York City; as well as others of the summer colony at Mt. Desert. He is a member of Ocean Lodge, No. 140, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Northeast Harbor, of which he is past grand; of Mt. Desert Encamp-


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ment, Patriarchs Militant, of the same order, at Sag Harbor ; of Atlantic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Northeast Harbor, of which he is past chancellor, in which order he is in mem- bership with the Grand Lodge of Maine, and member of the committee on warrants and charters of that august body. He is a mem- ber of the Sons of Veterans, having been initiated in Camp No. 2, Department of New Jersey. He is chaplain of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, Company No. II, of East- port, Maine.


Rev. Mr. Norwood married Myrtie May (born in Hatley, Province of Quebec, Can- ada), daughter of Squire and Ann Colby, both deceased, of Lenoxville, Province of Quebec, Canada. Her parents were respectively of old New Hampshire and Vermont families, her father's line tracing to the vicinity of Con- cord. Children of Rev. and Mrs. Norwood : Myrtie May, born July 26, 1892; and Joseph Maitland, born July 26, 1897.


WEBBER The name of Webber is obvi- ously derived from the Ger- man weber, meaning weaver, which occupation is also responsible for the cognate patronymics, Webb, Webster and Weeber. Some of these forms appeared in England at a very early date. Langland in his "Visions of Piers Plowman," written in 1362, says :


"My wife was a webbe And woolen cloth made."


It is interesting to know that in those early days Webber was the masculine and Webster the feminine form of the name. The sim- plicity of the Webber coat-of-arms shows it to be of very ancient design. The emblem is described in heraldic language as: Gules; on a chevron engrailed or, between three hurts (azure roundels), as many annulets azure. This may be expressed in untechnical terms as a crimson field crossed by a gold bar set be- tween three blue circles and three blue rings. We find that in 1462 Henry Webber was Dean of Exeter, and in later times the name is as- sociated with Saint Kew parish in Cornwall, where it is inscribed on a chime of bells and on a flagon in the communion service. At present the Webber family is prominent among the Irish land-owners of county Cork.


In America the Webber name is found among the earliest records of Maine and Mas- sachusetts. Thomas Webber, mariner of Boston, joined the church on April 7, 1644, and was master of the ship "Mayflower." In 1652 he sold about a quarter of this vessel of


two hundred tons, and removed to Maine. One statement says that he was living at Res- keagan, an island near the mouth of the Ken- nebec, as early as 1649. He married Mary, daughter of the proprietor, John Parker, and owned immense tracts of land reaching from Kennebec river to Casco Bay. Thomas and Mary (Parker) Webber had five sons, who settled about Falmouth and Harpswell, and it is probable from these sons that most of the Maine Webbers are descended. The Indian wars, beginning in 1688 and lasting about ten years, drove the Webbers into Massachusetts, where they lived at Charlestown and Glouces- ter. They appear to have been a seafaring people, and there is record that Captain John Webber, probably the eldest son of this family, sailed from Boston to Barbadoes on Decem- ber 6, 1664. Massachusetts has produced many distinguished Webbers, among them Samuel Webber, born in 1760, who was pro- fessor of mathematics and afterwards presi- dent of Harvard College. Beside the Web- bers of English antecedents in this country, there are some who can boast Dutch lineage. Wolfert Webber came from Holland in the seventeenth century. It is believed that he went first to New York, and later migrated to Maine, living first at Richmond and after- wards at Litchfield. Some of his sons re- mained in Richmond and some went to Harpswell. The following line is descended from Wolfert Webber, the immigrant.


(I) Edsell Webber, the great-grandson of Wolfert Webber, was born in Lisbon, Maine, and was a farmer. Little else is known of his career except that he married, about the be- ginning of the nineteenth century, Dorcas Blethen, and had a family of seven children, three boys, four girls, among them Edsell Bates, whose sketch follows.


(II) Edsell Bates, son of Edsell and Dorcas (Blethen) Webber, was born March II, 1822, at Lisbon, Maine, and died September 12, 1878. In 1856 he married Clementine Brown, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Allen) Brown, of Durham, Maine. Seven children were born of this marriage: 1. Millard C., March 4, 1857 ; Cora Charlotte, September 14, 1858; Mary Lillian, August 24, 1860; George Bertrand, April 4, 1864; John Roderick, whose sketch follows; and Hiram Ashton, Oc- tober 30, 1872. Of this family Millard C., the eldest son, married, July 30, 1890, Cora Ellen Blethen, daughter of Horace K. and Ellen (Frost) Blethen. She died May 20, 1894, leaving two children: Rena Ellen, born July 1, 1892 ; and Fred Carroll, April 20, 1894.


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On October 5, 1904, Millard C. Webber mar- ried (second) Lilla Ardelle Ludwig, daughter of Alphonse and Sophronia (Pease) Ludwig, of Waldoboro, Maine.


(III) John Roderick, third son of Edsell Bates and Clementine (Brown) Webber, was born July 21, 1866, at Lisbon, Maine. He early had to learn to care for himself, and at the age of fourteen entered the woolen mill at Lisbon, where he remained about a year and a half, going to school for one term mean- time. For a short period thereafter he worked in a saw-mill and then was employed by his brother in a grocery store. By this time he had acquired an ambition to become a printer, which resulted in his coming to Lewiston and learning that business, which is a liberal edu- cation in itself. On March 1, 1890, in part- nership with John H. Merrill, Mr. Webber went into business for himself, buying out a small establishment, which soon became so crowded that they were compelled to move into more commodious quarters, which in turn had to be enlarged. The strict attention paid to business and the executive ability soon gave John R. Webber a reputation for sound judgment and large common sense. These qualities, added to his known integrity, have brought him honors that many who had far better early advantages have failed to reach. His first office was that of warden, and soon after he was called to serve the city as coun- cilman in 1903. He was elected alderman in 1905, and was then nominated by the Repub- lican party for mayor. and was elected. He is chairman of the board of public works and also of the board of education. Mayor Web- ber is prominent in fraternal. organizations, being a Mason of the thirty-second degree. He is a past master of the Blue Lodge, past high priest of the chapter, past thrice illustri- ous master of the council, and holds offices in the Commandery of the Scottish Rite bodies and in the Shrine. He is past chief of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, belongs to the Calumet Club and is treasurer of the Corn Roasters' Club, one of the most select social clubs in the state. On October 25, 1893, John Roderick Webber married Etta G. Getchell, daughter of Ezra and Abigail ( Hall) Getchell, of Winthrop, Maine, where Mrs. Webber's father was a prominent hotel-keeper for years.


SCOTT According to the historian Boeth- ius (and his theory is supported by Vermundus, Cornelius and Scoleger), the origin of this name goes back to extreme antiquity. Boethius avers that it


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is derived from Scota, the daughter of that Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who was drowned in the Red Sea. The history reads like a fairy tale. Gathelus, son of Cecrops, first king of Athens, and a native of Egypt, became so in- solent and troublesome at his father's court that he was banished the kingdom. Ac- companied by a large band of fugitives, he left Greece and went to Egypt in the time of Moses, at a time when Pharaoh was engaged in a war with neighboring nations. Joining his forces with the Egyptians, he was made a general and soon subdued the natives at war with Pharaoh, and so soon won the favor of that monarch that the latter gave his daughter, Scota, in marriage to Gathelus. About this time Egypt was visited with the plague men- tioned in the Bible. In order to escape from this scourge, Gathelus and Scota, his wife, with a large number of Greeks and Egyptians, put to sea, and landing in Spain, called that portion of the country Port Gathale, now known as Portugal. On account of the affec- tion that Gathelus bore his wife, Scota, he named the people "Scottis."


After years of bloody warfare with the bar- barians of Spain, Gathelus, with his colony, sailed for and landed in Ireland, and after- wards went over to the northern part of Britain, which was called Scotland (the land of the Scots) from the Scots who planted themselves there. We have the testimony of Seneca that the name of Scot was known to some writer in the first century. The Bishop of Aberdeen, who searched all the monuments of antiquity in Scotland, says that all agree that the name of Scot was derived from Scota, the most important person in the colony. Long anterior to the general use of surnames, na- tives of Scotland who migrated to England or other countries, added Scotus to their proper name to denote their nativity or de- scent. Among these was John Duns Scotus, one of the greatest scholars of his time, of whom Halles says that thirty thousand people attended his lectures at Oxford. As we come down to the Norman period in England, dis- tinguished people who had Scotch blood in their veins added the Christian name "le Scot," as John le Scot, last Earl of Chester, and his grand nephew, William Baliol le Scot, ancestor of the Scotts of Scotts Hall, Kent. The old Norman church at Brabourne, Kent, contains many monuments of the Scotts of Scotts Hall, some of which date back to the thirteenth century. In Kent, Staffordshire and the Scotch border, for long generations the family of Scott has been one of great


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wealth and power. At one period it was said that the Scotts of Scotts Hall could travel from Bradbourne to London, some fifty or sixty miles, without leaving the estates of the family connections. It is an historical record that in 1665 "Lady Anna Scott was esteemed the greatest fortune and most accomplished lady of the Isle of Britain." In Scotch his- tory we meet with John Scott, a native of Cheshire, England, who was elected Bishop of Saint Andrews in 1178. The first of the name of Scott in England after surnames came into general use, was John Scott, the last Earl of Chester, born in 1206. Sir Peter Scott, first mayor of Newcastle in 1251, and Sir Nicholas, his son, capital bailiff of Newcastle in 1269, date from the same century.


(I) David Scott, earliest known ancestor of this line, was born January 29, 1793, in County Armagh, Ireland, and died at Green- bush, Maine, April 28, 1850. He migrated to Belfast, Maine, in 1814, and about 1820 mar- ried Betsey Coombs, who was born at Isles- boro, Maine, June 12, 1802, and died Octo- ber 4, 1890, at the age of eighty-eight. She was descended from the Warner Quakers, and was prominent in the Society of Friends. David and Betsey (Coombs) Scott (a de- scendant of General Joseph Warren) had children : James C., born September 30, 1821, died August 25, 1905; Martha C., November 6, 1822, died March 12, 1899; William H., whose sketch follows; David, March 27, 1828, died in 1907; Anna B., February 1, 1832; Olney T., November 26, 1834; and two who died in infancy.


(II) William H., second son of David and Betsey (Coombs) Scott, was born at Albion, Maine, August 27, 1825. He was educated in the common schools and at Freedom Acad- emy. About 1845 he moved from Albion to Greenbush, and worked at carpentry and farming, and was quite an extensive lumber operator. He is a Republican in politics, and served as selectman, in various town offices, and represented Greenbush in the state legis- lature of 1862. He married Caroline A., daughter of Joseph G. and Hannah Folsom, who was born in Bangor, Maine, February 22, 1830, and died in 1872. Children: Win- field, born July 30, 1861, now living at South Braintree, Massachusetts ; and Clarence, whose sketch follows.


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Joseph G. Folsom, father of Mrs. Caroline (Folsom) Scott, was born in 1792, and died July 31, 1857. His wife Hannah was born in 1806, and died July 20, 1888. They had children: Joseph O., William H., Emma A.,


Caroline A., Charles, George A., Fernando and Frank. The two youngest sons were killed in the War of the Rebellion.


(III) Clarence, younger son of William H. and Caroline A. (Folsom) Scott, was born at Greenbush, Maine, August 24, 1866. He was educated in the town schools of Greenbush, at Old Town Academy, and at the Maine State College. He read law in the office of J. F. Gould, of Old Town, and was admitted to the Maine bar April 26, 1894, and to the United States Circuit Court, April 22, 1899. In the former year he began the practice of law in Old Town, where he has remained ever since. He is a Republican in politics, and has served on the ward and city committees. He belongs to Knights of Pythias, of Old Town, and other social and beneficial orders. On April 15, 1902, Clarence Scott married Charlotte Chase Folsom, daughter of Franklin W. and Lillie A. (Hopkins) Folsom. (See Folsom IX.) Children: Robert Folsom, born January 9, 1906; and Gorham, November 22, 1907.


The earliest period at which FOLSOM this name appears in history is in the first half of the four- teenth century. There was a John Foulsham, of Foulsham, prior of a Carmelite monastery in Warwick, England, and his brother Rich- ard was more prominent. Foulsham, the seat of the family, probably took its name from be- ing the home (hame) of many foules (birds).


The first traceable ancestor of the American family is Roger Foulsham, of Necton, Nor- folk county, England, whose will is dated 1534. His son William married Agnes Smith, of Besthorpe; their son Adam married, and had Adam, baptized in 1560, resided in Hing- ham, England, and his son Adam married Agnes --- -, and had sons John, Adam and Peter.


(I) John Foulsham, son of Adam Foul- sham, last named, was baptized in Hingham, England, in 1615. From him are descended, as far as known, all the Folsoms of America except a family which is found in South Caro- lina. He sailed April 26, 1638, in the ship "Diligent," of Ipswich, with a company of one hundred and thirty-three persons. With him were his wife Mary, whom he married Octo- ber 4, 1636, and her parents, Edward and Mary Clark Gilman, and three younger broth- ers-Edward, not quite twenty-one, John and Moses; and younger sisters, Sarah and Lydia. They landed at Boston, August 10, 1638. John Foulsham (Folsom) received a grant of land that year, and built a house which was stand-


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ing until 1875. He was prominent in the community, and while in Hingham was elected "one of the men to order the prudential af- fairs of the town." In the trouble over the selection of a captain of militia, he strongly opposed the governor, and he and ninety oth- ers were fined, his share being twenty pounds, but by some means he appears to have been exempted from payment. About 1650 he re- moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, where his father-in-law had already gone. He lived on the west side of the river, where the first set- tlements of Exeter were made. As surveyor he ran the lines between Exeter and Dover; was selectman in 1659; on the jury in 1662; and in July, 1665, was one of a committee from Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter and Hamp- ton to consult on political grievances. In ad- vanced life he became involved in his pe- cuniary affairs, but his sons assisted him to retain a home for himself and his aged wife, who lived about ten years after his death, in 1681. He was an intelligent, earnest, enter- prising man, a decided Christian, ready to sacrifice wealth, ease and popularity, for the sake of principle, and he successfully trained up six sons to become efficient laborers in lay- ing the foundations of New Hampshire. His children were: Samuel, John, Nathaniel, Israel, Peter, Mary and Ephraim.


(II) Peter, fifth son of John (1) and Mary (Gilman) Folsom, was baptized at Hingham, Massachusetts, April 8, 1649, and died at Exe- ter, New Hampshire, in 1717. He lived at Hampton, New Hampshire, east of the village, on the road to Kensington, a neighborhood oc- cupied by several generations of his descend- ants. He was an active business man and ac- quired a goodly property. He always bore the title of Lieutenant Peter. About 1675 he married Susanna ; children: Eliza- beth, born about 1676, married Lieutenant Samuel Colcord, of Kingston, New Hamp- shire; and (second) Lieutenant Samuel San- born, of the same place; Susanna, married Caleb Gilman; Mary, married Joseph Thing ; Peter, born 1682, married Catharine Gilman ; John (2), whose sketch follows; Benjamin, married Rachel Gilman.


(III) John (2), second son of Lieutenant Peter and Susanna Folsom, was born at Exe- ter, New Hampshire, about 1685, and died in 1757. He lived on a farm in the northwest part of Exeter, and owned land in Newmarket and Epping. His first wife was Hannah Gil- man, and her children, as near as can be as- certained, were: Peter (2), whose sketch fol- lows; Elizabeth, married a Thurston; Mary,


married William Folsom; and Joshua, born: 1719, married Abi Mead, and died at Epping, New Hampshire, in 1796. The second wife of John Folsom was Sarah, daughter of Fran- cis Lyford, and granddaughter of Captain Theophilus Dudley, from whom her children, Sarah and Susanna, inherited lands, which they deeded to others in 1748 and 1749. Sa- rah (Lyford) Folsom died before 1748. Her daughter, Sarah Folsom, married Abraham Folsom, of Epping, New Hampshire; and her daughter, Susanna Folsom, married Nathaniel Bean, of Exeter and Warner, New Hamp- shire. The youngest son of John Folsom was Joshua, born September 25, 1725. In one place he is recorded as the seventh child, which would make him the son of the second wife. If that were the case, it seems strange that he did not receive some of the Dudley lands like his sisters Sarah and Susanna. Per- haps the fact that he inherited the homestead would account for his failure to be remem- bered in the Dudley will. The date of his birth, however, comes so near that of the other sons as to make it quite probable that he was the child of the first marriage, and that his place as seventh in the list is incorrect. The third wife of John Folsom was Mary, whose maiden name is unknown.


(IV) Peter (2), eldest child of John (2) and Hannah (Gilman) Folsom, was born in. 1718, probably at Exeter, New Hampshire, and died at Gilmantown, New Hampshire, in. 1815. He lived most of his life in that part of Newmarket called Piscassic, near the Exe- ter line, and a part of his farm was in Exeter, where he paid taxes many years. His lands are described in his father's will, and the cel- lar remains where his house stood. He had twelve children, and later in life followed them to Gilmanton, where he made his will in 1800. About 1739 he married Hannah Morri- son ; children: Benjamin, born September 5, 1740; Mary, 1742, died an infant ; Peter, 1744,. died an infant; Peter, August 8, 1745; Han- nah, 1747, died young; Lydia, February 22, 1749, died young; Judith, February 2, 1751 ; Mary, June 17, 1754, married a Swett; Han- nah, October 10, 1756, married a Fifield, (second) a Carroll; John, whose sketch fol- lows; Lydia, 1761, married John Parsons ; Mehitable, April 7, 1764, married Jesse Wedgwood.




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