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gust 14, 1623, she married for her second hus- band Governor William Bradford, and sub- sequently sent for her two sons, Constant and Thomas Southworth, who were born in Ley- den in 1615 and 1616 respectively. She died in Plymouth, March 26, 1670. Constant Southworth, who died in Duxbury, March IO, 1678, married, November 2, 1637, Elizabeth, daughter of William Collier. His brother Thomas, who died in Plymouth, December 8, 1669, married Elizabeth, daughter of John and Frances Clark Reyner. Samuel G. Web- ber, A. B., M. D., in his "Genealogy of the Southworths" (Southards), states that the John Southard of Boothbay, mentioned be- low, was without doubt descended from the Plymouth Southworths, but being unable to obtain the name of his father, he could not trace his line of descent.
(I) John Southard, of Boothbay, born about 1763, was captured by the British dur- ing the revolutionary war, and subsequently making his escape from Halifax, journeyed on foot through the wilderness to his home. After the close of the war he settled in Boothbay, Maine, taking up two hundred and sixty acres on Bak river (so-called) and became a farmer, shipbuilder and master mariner, prospering greatly for his time. In 1790 and again in 1794 he served as constable in Boothbay; was surveyor of highways for the years 1794-95- 99, 1800, 1805 and 1806, and was fish warden in 1795. He married Sarah Lewis, of Chel- sea, Massachusetts, born in 1763, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Dexter) Lewis. She died in Gray, Maine, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Nash, October 18, 1847. The children of this union, all natives of Boothbay, were: I. Frances, born March II, 1783; mar- ried, January 16, 1803, Stephen Lewis, of Boothbay; she died prior to April 13, 1814. (Tradition says she was John's fifth child.) 2. Rebecca, born March 17, 1786, died at Boothbay, October 31, 1817; married, Jan- uary 21 (April 15), 1804, John Matthews Jr., of Boothbay. 3. Sarah, born August 9, 1787; married, January 28, 1811, Rev. Timothy Dun- ton Jr., of Boothbay. 4. Elizabeth, born De- cember 29, 1789, died February 7, 1804. 5. John, born October 27, 1791 (see forward). 6. Mary, born August 17, 1794, died Febru- ary 6, 1804. 7. Phebe, born December I, 1796, died February 4, 1804. 8. Ebenezer, born November 18, 1799; married, January I, 1822, Martha Stone, of Boothbay. 9. Clar- issa, born October 6, 1801 ; married, December 3, 1818, Nathaniel Tibbetts (2d), of Booth- bay. IO-II. Elizabeth (twin), married Rich-
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ard Baker, of Charlestown, Massachusetts; Mary (twin), married Daniel Nash, of Gray, Maine, born December 27, 1804. 12. Thomas Jefferson, born May 10, 1808, died at Rich- mond, Maine, September 15, 1896; married, August 8, 1831, Jane Jones Springer (born October 19, 1810, died October 20, 1896), daughter of Stephen and Comfort (McLellan) Springer, of Richmond.
(II) Captain John Southard, of Richmond, fourth child and eldest son of John and; Sarah (Lewis) Southard, was born in Boothbay, Oc- tober 27, 1791. He was reared upon the homestead farm, and in common with the ma- jority of his boyhood associates took kindly to a seafaring life, becoming a captain at the age of twenty-one years. In early manhood he settled upon a farm in Richmond, Maine, given him as a wedding present by his father, and which, being located on the river, offered excellent facilities for ship-building, and he followed that occupation in connection with tilling the soil and occasional voyages to the West Indies for purposes of trade. As a pioneer in the ship-building industry of that locality, he constructed a number of vessels, one of which he commanded himself, naming it after his daughter Emeline, then seven years old, and giving it her colors. His labors both upon sea and land were attended with pros- perous results. His death occurred in Rich- mond, February 21, 1854. On March 15, 1814, he married, at Richmond, Maine, Eliza- beth Cathland, of Newcastle, born August 16, 1788, died at Richmond, October 29, 1844. The name "Cathland" has often been mis- spelled, but as a child Elizabeth Cathland worked a sampler, still in existence, in which her name is so spelled. The sampler also states that it was made in the year 1800, and in the twelfth year of her age. She was the mother of seven children: I. Freeman, born November 10, 1814. 2. Reuben, born Novem- ber 10, 1815, died September 4, 1849. 3. Emeline, born May 17, 1818, died at Portland, Maine, July 4, 1898 ; married October 3, 1842, John H. Gumbert, of Richmond, Maine, died May 2, 1891, at Chicago, Illinois. 4. William Lewis, born June 2, 1820, mentioned below. 5. Frances Luella, born July 13, 1822, died April 7, 1863; married Isaac Alexander, born February 18, 1820, died March 9, 1892. 6. Joseph Amsbury (twin brother of Frances Luella), married, November 2, 1852, Mary Luella Chamberlain, who married (second) Chapman. 7. Mary Elizabeth, born November 5, 1827, died December 28, 1832.
(III) William Lewis Southard, third son
and fourth child of Captain John and Eliza- beth (Cathland) Southard, was born in Rich- mond, June 2, 1820, died June 6, 1878. He became a successful merchant, and was also interested quite extensively in shipping, trans- acting business in Gardiner and at other points- on the Kennebec river, and also in Portland. In April, 1844, he married Lydia Carver Den- nis, of Gardiner, daughter of Captain John Dennis, formerly of Taunton, Massachusetts, who was born at Taunton, June 1, 1819. The children of the union are: I. William Free- man, born in Gardiner, Maine, September 8, 1845; married Clara O'Brion, of Cornish, Maine, September 4, 1872. 2. Charles Bar- stow, born at Damariscotta, Maine, April 7, 1847; married, September 12, 1872, Kate J. Pool, born December 25, 1851, daughter of William and Joanna (Stoddard) Pool. 3. Elizabeth Dennis, born August 8, 1850; mar- ried William Bradford French, December 24,. 1875. 4. Louis Carver, born April 1, 1854; see forward. 5. Harry Codding, born Febru- ary 16, 1859, at Portland, Maine; married Julia Hess, of Washington, D. C. 6. Anna Cathland, born in Boston.
(IV) Louis Carver Southard, LL. D., third son and fourth child of William Lewis and Lydia Carver (Dennis) Southard, was born in Portland, April 1, 1854. His early educa- tion was acquired at Portland, Eaton's School for Boys at Kent's Hill, Maine, the Westbrook (Maine) Seminary and the Dorchester (Mas- sachusetts) high school, graduating from the latter in 1872, and entering the University of Maine he took the degree of Bachelor of Science with the class of 1875. His prepara- tion for the legal profession began in Port- land, was continued at the Boston University Law School, and completed at Portland. He was admitted to the bar in both Maine and Massachusetts, in 1877, taking up his resi- dence in North Easton, Massachusetts. While a student he was also active in newspaper work. For the ensuing three years after his admission to the bar, in addition to his prac- tice of law, he was editor of the Easton (Mas- sachusetts) Journal, but relinquished journal- ism in 1880 in order to devote his time ex- clusively to his profession, and in connection with his practice in Bristol county opened an office in Boston, which he has ever since main- tained. He was admitted to practice in the United States circuit court in 1887, and in the United States supreme court in 1889. In addition to conducting a profitable general law business, he has devoted much time to various outside matters of importance con-
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nected with his profession, and his eminent. legal attainments have received wide recogni- tion. From 1897 to the present time he has served with distinction as a lecturer in the Law School of the University of Maine, which, in recognition of his abilities and filial devotion to the interests of his alma mater, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1904. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers at St. Louis, Missouri.
Politically Mr. Southard is a staunch Re- publican, and on various occasions has figured prominently in public affairs. In 1887 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Rep- resentatives, representing the towns of Easton, Raynham and Mansfield, and of the State Senate in 1895 and 1896, representing the First Bristol District, of which the city of Taunton, the birthplace of his mother, was a part, and was an alternate delegate at large to the National Republican Convention at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896, which nominated President Mckinley, and a member of the Republican State Central Committee from 1890 to 1896, serving on the executive com- mittee. He was a state delegate to the United States Centennial Convention at Philadelphia in 1887. He is president of the American Invalid Aid Society, a member of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, of the Suffolk County and the American Bar Associations ; is a thirty-second degree Mason and past deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In his religious belief he is a unitarian.
June 1, 1881, Mr. Southard was united in marriage with Miss Nellie Copeland, daughter of Joseph and Lucy Ann (Keith) Copeland. Of this union there are three children: I. Louis Keith, born June 29, 1882; married, January 18, 1908, Carrie Edith Gumbart, daughter of Rev. Adolph S. and Lucinda B. Gumbart, and has one daughter, Margaret, born November 29, 1908. 2. Frederick Deane, born July 9, 1883. 3. Lawrence, born Feb- ruary 20, 1892.
This name seems to have PETERSON come from Great Britain to America, and may have been of Scotch origin. It was not very common in the early New England days, and was not probably associated with the Puritans. De- scendants of the American immigrant have been active in the settlement and development of Maine.
(I) John Peterson was a citizen of Dux-
bury, Massachusetts, before 1670, and died there in 1690. He married, about 1669, Mary, third daughter of George and Mary (Beckett) Soule. Soule came to the Plymouth Colony in 1630 and settled in Duxbury about 1638- 40. The daughter Mary was placed in the family of John Winslow in 1652, for a period of seven years.
(II) Joseph, son of John and Mary (Soule) Peterson, was a native of Duxbury, but no record appears of his marriage. He lived in that town and had sons: Jonathan ; Benjamin, born 1670; David, October 1, 1676; Isaac and John.
(III) Jonathan, son of Joseph Peterson, born about 1668-69, resided in Duxbury, where he died, 1756. He married Lydia Thatcher, born January 24, 1679, died May 26, 1756, fourth daughter of Rodolphus and Ruth (Partridge) Thatcher. Children : John, born August 22, 1701 ; Hopestill, January 20, 1703, married John Delano; Jonathan, Sep- tember 20, 1706; and Reuben.
(IV) Reuben, son of Jonathan and Lydia (Thatcher) Peterson, was born April 8, 1710, in Duxbury, where he resided. He married there, July 6, 1732, Rebecca, born 1713, per- haps daughter of Joseph and Mary (Weston) Simonds, died January 25, 1764. Children : Mary, born 1734; Nehemiah, Elijah, Abigail (married Zenas Thomas) ; Sarah (married Cornelius Deleno) ; Lydia, 1742; Thaddeus, Luther and Reuben.
(V) Nehemiah, eldest son of Reuben and Rebecca (Simonds) Peterson, born about 1735, resided in Duxbury, where he married, December 13, 1764, Princee Dillingham. Chil- dren : Nehemiah, George, Lydia, Mary (mar- ried Stephen Churchill), Princee (married Joshua Bryant), Elisha (drowned), and Ezias.
(VI) Nehemiah (2), eldest child of Nehe- miah (I) and Princee (Dillingham) Peter- son, born about 1765, in Duxbury, settled at Brunswick, Maine, before 1792, and died No- vember 27, 1843. He married, at Brunswick, October 4, 1792, Lydia Larrabee, born Jan- uary 16, 1769, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Larrabee, of Brunswick. Nehemiah Peterson and wife are buried in the old cem- etery near Hardings Crossing. Children : Benjamin, mentioned below; Hannah, born July 14, 1795; Elisha, February 6, 1799; Re- becca, March 7, 1801; Lydia, November I, 1805; Nehemiah, June 2, 1808; Stephen, 1812. (VII) Benjamin, eldest child of Nehemiah (2) and Lydia (Larrabee) Peterson, was born March 30, 1793, in Brunswick, and died there
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October 7, 1856. He married Mary E. Foss, probably a member of the ancient Foss family of New Hampshire and Maine, who died Au- gust 3, 1884, and is buried beside him in the old cemetery near Hardings Crossing. Chil- dren : Lydia L., born November 15, 1826; Benjamin O., died young ; Mary H., April 12, 1829; Cyrus, July 26, 1831 ; Benjamin, June, 1835; Georgianna.
(VIII) Georgianna, youngest child of Ben- jamin and Mary E. (Foss) Peterson, born 1851, in Brunswick, became the wife of Wes- ley Bailey, of Sidney (see Bailey IX).
BAILEY There were numerous immi- grants of this name very early in New England. The most prolific families were located in Northeastern Massachusetts, and no connection has been discovered between them and the family in Plymouth county. The latter, as well as the former, contributed many settlers among the pioneers in Maine, and has been honorably represented there and among the sons of Maine to the present time. There is a record of Palmer Bailey, a miller who came from Kingston, near London, in 1635, in the ship "Planter," being then aged twenty-one years. He may have been the father of John Bailey of Weymouth, and William Bailey of New- port.
(I) William Bailey was in Newport in 1655, and purchased on June 14 of that year, from Gabriel Hicks, a piece of land lying by the sea. Hicks was probably the owner of other lands adjoining, as both joined in a sale March 5, 1656, a parcel of twenty-one acres in Newport to Joshua Coggeshall, of Ports- mouth. It is said that he was a silk weaver in London before he came to America, but there is no authority for this except tradition.
(II) William (2), son of William (I) Bailey, died in Newport before 1676. His widow Grace (Parsons) Bailey became the second wife of Thomas Lawton, of Ports- mouth, and died in 1677. They had children living in 1677, but record is found of only one by name.
(III) John, son of William (2) and Grace Bailey, was born about 1656, in Newport, and resided at Portsmouth. On April 20, 1677, he leased from Thomas Lawton a house, land and orchard, the annual rental being ten pounds, to be paid to his mother, Grace Law- ton, and three pounds to Elizabeth Sherman, a married daughter of Thomas Lawton. On the same day he entered into a bond in the sum of eighty pounds to fulfil the engagement
made by the town with his father's estate, which involved a payment of forty-four pounds to the children of William and Grace Bailey. John Bailey died between May 8, 1734, and February 2, 1736, in Portsmouth. His chil- dren : William, John, Thomas, Abigail, Sam- uel, Mary, Ruth, and a daughter (christian name is not preserved) who married Daniel Sabear.
(IV) Thomas, third son of John Bailey, was born 1690, in Portsmouth, and resided in Little Compton, Rhode Island, where he died February 4, 1741. He married, July 10, 1712, Mary, daughter of John and Mary Wood, of that town. She was born March 14, 1691, and died October 7, 1745. Children : John, Thom- as, Constant, Joseph, Oliver, Barzilla, James, William, Laura and Mary.
(V) Thomas (2), second son of Thomas (I) and Mary (Wood) Bailey, was born March 1, 1715, in Little Compton, where he passed his life, dying in March, 1793. He married (first) January 14, 1734, Mary Ben- nett, who died soon after the birth, in 1736, of twin babes, Bennett and Phoebe. He mar- ried (second) August 21, 1736, Abigail Lynd, born February 28, 1818. She was the mother of Sarah, Abigail, Thomas, and Rachel. He married (third) April 30, 1750, Deborah Carr, born April 18, 1728, died in August, 1810. She was the mother of Mary, Susanna, Rhoda and Lydia.
(VI) Thomas (3), second son of Thomas (2) Bailey and only son of his second wife, Abigail Lynd, was born March 5, 1742, in Little Compton, and married Susanna Pal- mer, born January II, 1746, in Little Comp- ton, daughter of Simeon and Lydia (Dennis) Palmer. He resided in Little Compton and died before 1792.
(VII) Humphrey, son of Thomas (3) and Susanna (Palmer) Bailey, was born Septem- ber 22, 1766, at Little Compton, and bought land in Hollowell, Maine, in 1795. This land was at that time in the town of Augusta, and he sold it April 29, 1800. On June 9, same year, he bought lot No. 75 in Sidney, Maine, on which he lived the remainder of his life, and which to this day remains in the Bailey family. He married, September 19, 1793, at Westport, Massachusetts, Meribah Davis; sons : Benjamin, Silas and Humphrey.
(VIII) Benjamin, eldest son of Humphrey and Meribah (Davis) Bailey, was born Octo- ber II, 1815, on his father's homestead in Sid- ney. He owned and carried on a large farm in that town, and died there December 10, 1884. He married Hannah Lewis, who sur-
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vived him, dying in Sidney about 1886. They had four sons: Theodore, Wesley, Frank and Edward.
(IX) Wesley, son of Benjamin and Han- nah (Lewis) Bailey, was born on the home- stead in Sidney, about 1850, and was a far- mer residing in that town, where he owned a farm on the Pond road until his death in 1882. In 1874 he married Georgianna, young- est daughter of Benjamin and Mary E. (Foss) Peterson, of Brunswick (see Peter- son VII), who still survives him. In 1884 she married Frank Skillin, and now resides in Auburn. They had a son, Adelbert Wesley, and a daughter, Lillian Gertrude, who died in infancy.
(X) Adelbert Wesley, only son of Wesley and Georgianna (Peterson) Bailey, was born in Sidney, February 19, 1875. He attended the public schools of Sidney, and of Lewiston in 1883-84. In 1884 he moved to West Bath, where he attended the town schools, later graduating from the Bath high school in 1893. He graduated from Bates College in the class of 1897, having paid his way through college by teaching school. In the Spanish-American war he served as a member of Company A, First Maine Regiment, and from January, 1899, to June, 1900, was principal of the South Grammar School in Bath, resigning to study law.
He entered a law office in New York City in October, 1900, attended the law lectures at the New York Law School for two years, paying his way by teaching in the city night schools. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, and was managing clerk for five years for Thomas W. Butts, a prominent New York attorney, and opened his own law office in March, 1908, when he became identified with the Independent Telephone interest, and at- torney for a number of the leading com- panies. Mr. Bailey is a member_of Solar Lodge, No. 14, F. and A. M., of Bath, Maine. He is unmarried.
The families of Young and YOUNG Yonge are undoubtedly from a common origin. The line now under consideration may have originated in Scotland, but it is more probable that it came from Devon or Cornwall, England. In the Yonge family, to which belonged the distin- guished Charlotte Mary Yonge, and who came from southern England, the names Na- thaniel and William predominated, as in the branch considered in the present narrative. The latter is undoubtedly descended from
John Young, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, of whom little is known except that he married, December 13, 1648, Abigail , and that he died January 29, 1691. The names of their eleven children are of record, and some of these intermarried with grandchildren of Gov- ernor Thomas Dudley. In this connection it may be noted that in his maternal line, Dr. Albion G. Young traces his ancestry to the time of William the Conqueror, who gave the great castle and lands pertaining thereto, be- longing to the Saxon Prince Dudo, to one of his principal knights, William von Ausculph. The family founded by the last named, through various changes and intermarriages, merged its name into Dudley. The ruins of the ancient castle are yet to be seen, near the mansion of the present Earl of Dudley.
(I) Nathaniel Young, descended from John Young, named above, was of Boston, where he married, February 1, 1721, Esther Wallis (Wallace), a Scotch girl. They had one child recorded at Boston-Stedman, born July 23, 1723. Anthony Young and William Young lived in Boston in the early part of the eighteenth century.
(II) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (I) Young, was born about 1730, and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. He married, July 4, 1754, a French girl, Susanna Le Moyne (in- tentions dated June 15). Children, born in Dedham: I. William, born September 16, 1754; he was stolen by the British when three years old; he became master of a vessel; when grown, he made search for his parents, and found them in Gray, Maine; he after- ward married and went to live in northern New York. 2. Abraham, born October 16, 1756, baptized October 17. 3. Ann, born March 16, 1758. 4. Nathaniel, born October 5, 1760, mentioned below. 5. Susanna, born at Greenville, Nova Scotia, December 16, 1762. 6. Mary, born April 24, 1767.
(III) Nathaniel (3), son of Nathan- iel (2) Young, was born October 5, 1760, in Gray, Maine. He married Chloe Cummings, born at Topsfield, Massachusetts, July 24, 1764, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Will- iams) Cummings, of Gray, Maine. He re- moved to Norway, Maine, in 1800. He was a soldier in the revolution from Dedham. He died in Greenwood, Maine, in 1838, and his wife died at Bethel. Children: I. Charles, born March, 1784, married Mary, daughter of Peter Buck. 2. Amos, married Sophia Bradbury, daughter of Joseph. 3. Susan, married James Buck. 4. Anna, married Elias Blake. 5. Jabez, served in war of 1812, in
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Captain Bodwell's company, at Plattsburg. 6. Nathaniel, born 1793; mentioned below. 7. Williams, born April 2, 1795; married Sally Briggs. 8. Hannah, born March, 1797; mar- ried John Noyes. 9. Daniel, born July 10, 1800; married Elvira Buck. 10. Mary, born March, 1813; married Levi Noyes. II. David F., married Louisa Twombly, of Nor- way. 12. Jared L., married (first) Rachel Hathaway; (second) Mary, widow of Daniel Cummings and daughter of John Millett.
(IV) Nathaniel (4), of Aroostook, son of Nathaniel (3) Young, was born in the town of Gray, Maine, April 1, 1793, and died in Linneus, April 30, 1893. He married (first), November 28, 1817, Lydia, born May 8, 1796, died July 27, 1867, daughter of Ephraim Briggs. He married (second), in Houlton, July 27, 1868, Mrs. Sarah Lunt, formerly of Boston, Massachusetts; she died in 1888.
Nathaniel (4) Young lived in Gray five years, when (1798 ) his father moved into Norway. Sometime between 1822 and 1828 he moved to Foxcroft, Piscataquis county, Maine, thence across the river to Dover, where seven of his children were born, 1828- 40. About 1839, while his older children were merging into young manhood and young womanhood, he left them in care of the mother and the younger children while he sought a new home for them elsewhere. Saddling his horse he turned his face towards that region now termed the Garden of the State, but then known only as the distant wilds of Aroostook. In Linneus the new home was founded, and his wife and their ten children were moved to it the year following. One move was made in the town of Linneus to a farm more cen- trally located than the first, and on this he passed many of his remaining years, saw his sons and daughters married and settled, many near him, and some in the west, suffered the loss of her who, through thick and thin had been a helpmeet in truth, and finally sold his farm and went to live with one of his sons.
This Nathaniel Young, Captain Young, as he was called, through virtue of his service as militiaman and in the war of 1812 was known in all that region as a remarkable man. Physically he was of only medium height and weight, but his strength, celerity of muscular action when occasion required, and his pow- ers of endurance, were well known. In his younger days, when wrestling was the inev- itable accompaniment of the muster field and barn-raisings, his quickness of strength won the respect of the most powerful champions of the ring. Of a remarkably peaceable dis-
position, he could on occasion tame a bully when he was obliged to act in self-defense. One incident which occurred when he was called an old man, may suffice to show his promptness of action in the face of danger, great or small. An unknown man came to his home and was hired as a farm laborer. The next morning the man was found to have been an early riser and to have disappeared with some small pieces of personal property which did not belong to him. Captain Young saddled his horse, overtook the thief, and asked him what he had in his pack. "I will show you what," was the answer, as the man whipped out a pistol. Quick as a flash the rider sprang from his horse, snatched the pis- tol from the man, threw it into a swamp at hand, searched the pack and recovered the stolen articles. For many winters he carried on the business of lumbering, and his power of endurance was shown many times in his advanced years by long tramps day after day "exploring" in the fall and early winter, chances for the lumbering operation of the coming winter. It was often noted that he could outdo younger men in this work, al- though years before he had suffered a frac- tured thigh, and a two inches shortening of the limb gave him a troublesome limp. While on his farm at work he often worked all day, going without his dinner rather than take the time to go for it. He was a constant worker, even to near the century mark. Nevertheless, Nathaniel Young lived to the good old age of one hundred years and one month. To those who knew him best, it would seem that one great secret of his long life was his constant cheerfulness. He could work and not fret.
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