Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 108

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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"a tender mother a prudent wife at God's command resigned her life."


Her children were: John, Edmund, Samuel, Thomas, Anthony, Elizabeth and Lydia.


(II) Samuel, third son and child of An- thony and Elizabeth (Whipple) Potter, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, about 1656, and died in 1714, in that town. He married (first) Joanna Wood, born 1661, daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Thompson) Wood; (sec- ond) Ruth Dunton, whom he married April 18, 1692. She died before December 4, 1705, on which date he married Sarah Burnett, widow of Robert Burnett. Children of first marriage : David, Sarah, Joanna, Samuel, Thomas, Elizabeth and Henry. Of the sec- ond there were, namely, Anthony, Esther and Ezekiel; the second died in infancy, as did probably the first, since he is not mentioned in his father's will. The children of the third marriage were Esther, Lydia and Abigail.


(III) David, eldest child of Samuel and Joanna (Wood) Potter, was born March 27, 1685, in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and died after 1714. He married, in 1710, Mary Mer- riam, of Lynn; children: Alexander, James and William.


(IV) William, youngest child of David and Mary (Merriam) Potter, was born about


1715, in Ipswich, removed to Topsham, Maine, about 1736, and died at the latter place March 9, 1747. He married Catharine Mustard; children : James, Alexander, John, David, Joseph, Matthew, Samuel and William.


(V) Lieutenant John, third son of William and Catharine (Mustard) Potter, was born April 28, 1736, at Topsham, Maine, and died February II, 1792. He joined the revolu- tionary army under General Washington at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was made lieutenant. He married Sarah, daughter of Charles and Ann Snipe; children: Nancy, Catharine, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Martha, Jane, Mary, Charles, Joseph and George.


(VI) William (2), eldest son of John and Sarah (Snipe) Potter, was born July 16, 1765, at Georgetown, Maine, and died there May 30, 1831. He married Mary, daughter of Jeremiah and Jane Pattee, born 1767, died 1832; children: David, Margaret, Charles, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Nancy, Catharine, Susanna Stewart, Jane, William, Woodbury H., and Jeremiah P., all born at Georgetown. (VII) William (3), fourth son of William (2) and Mary (Pattee) Potter, was born Jan- uary 17, 1805, at Georgetown, Maine, and died July 22, 1879. He married (first) in 1833, Jane M., daughter of Richard and Jane Morse, who was born in 1814 and died in 1834, and their one child, Alden Morse, born February 14, 1834 ,at Arrowsic, Maine, mar- ried Anne E. Goodwin. He married (sec- ond) Pamelia, daughter of John and Joanna Gilmore, of Woolwich, Maine, born in 1818; children : Jane Morse, born April 1, 1840, married Edwin W. Street; Edwin Augustus; Captain John Gilmore, a shipmaster, born January 25, 1845, married Lena Brown; William Frederick, born August 28, 1848, married Annie E. Youland; Ellen Maria, born November II, 1850; Sarah Lilly, born Sep- tember 3, 1856, married James G. Dunning.


(VIII) Edwin Augustus, eldest son of William (3) and Pamelia (Gilmore) Potter, was born September 18, 1842, at Arrowsic, Maine, and received his education in the pub- lic schools. Until he reached the age of thirty he was connected with his father's lumbering and shipbuilding business at Bath, Maine, but since that time he has embarked upon various enterprises on his own account, in all of which he has met with more than ordinary success. His first venture was in 1872, when he estab- lished at Chicago, Illinois, a branch house of French & Company, dealers in china and glass- ware, later incorporated as French & Potter Company, under which name the firm did bus-


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iness until 1890. Though having a residence in Chicago, Mr. Potter spent considerable time between 1879 and 1889 in Idaho and other western states, where he was extensively in- terested in lands, and in 1889 became a mem- ber of the firm of Lyon, Potter & Company. The same year he became one of the original stockholders, later one of the directors of the American Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago, of which institution he has been president since 1898. Mr. Potter is a Republican, and a member of the Episcopalian church. He be- longs to several clubs-the Chicago, Union League, Chicago Athletic, Midlothian and Kenwood, and is ex-president of the last named. He was at one time inspector of rifle practice of the Illinois State Militia, and held the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He has for many years been a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, having joined Solar Lodge, at Bath, Maine. Mr. Potter married, October 15, 1873, Harriet, daughter of Alfred and Mary (Smith) Berry; Alfred, son of General Joseph Berry, of Georgetown, Maine, married Mary White, daughter of Captain John White, of Phipsburg, a descend- ant of Deacon John White, who came from England to Massachusetts about 1625. Ed- win A. and Harriet (Berry) Potter have children as follows: I. William Chapman, born October 16, 1874, graduate of Boston School of Technology, is a mining engineer, and lives at Aguascalientes, Mexico, where he is employed as general manager of the Amer- ican Smelting Company of Mexico. He mar- ried, October, 1901, Caroline, daughter of Hon. Paul Morton, ex-Secretary of the Navy, and they have children: Jean, born Decem- ber 31, 1903, and Charlotte, born in 1905. 2. Edwin A. Potter Jr., born August II, 1877, graduate of Michigan University, Ann Arbor. Michigan; is assistant manager of the bond department of the American Trust & Sav- ings Bank. 3. Gertrude, born July 12, 1879, married May, 1905, W. Roland Cox, of Den- ver, Colorado, and they have one child, Har- riet, born in May, 1908.


(For first generation see Philip Towle I.)


(II) Caleb, eighth son of Philip TOWLE and Isabella (Austen) Towle, was born at Hampton, New Hampshire, May 14, 1678, and died in Chester, New Hampshire, September 20, 1763. He was a member of the society formed for the purpose of settling the Chestnut County, and was made a member of the com- mittee to manage the affairs of the society and


of the committee to lay out town lots. As a pioneer settler of the town of Chester, he was one of the grantees of the right to erect the first saw mill and this valuable franchise he left his share to his sons Anthony and Francis. He married, April 19, 1697, Zip- porah, daughter of Anthony and Susanna (Drake) Brackett, born September 28, 1680, died August 14, 1757. Their children were : Philip, born August 18, 1698, married Lydia Dow, and died February 15, 1785; Elizabeth, December 9, 1699, married Josiah, son of Thomas Brown; Caleb, May 9, 1701, married January, 1729, Rebecca, daughter of James Prescott, and had children: Anna, Elisha, Mary, James and Caleb; Anthony, April 30, 1703, married Sarah, daughter of Morris Hobbs, and settled in Chester, where were born their children: Reuben, Samuel, Jona- than, Phineas, Morris, Brackett, Sarah, Simon, Mary and Anthony; Zachariah, August 13, 1705, married Anne Godfrey and died August 5, 1787 ; Matthias, born August 13, 1707, died before September 16, 1764; Jeremiah, Decem- ber 5, 1709, married (first) Hannah Dear- born, and (second) Sarah Tuck, died Novem- ber 7, 1800; Francis, January 13, 1711-12, married, June 4, 1738, Judith Sargent, of Chester, settled in that town where their chil- dren: Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Zipporah and Francis, were born; Hannah, March 28, 1714; Nathaniel, May 25, 1716 (q. v.) and Samuel, September 9, 1722, died May 14, 1736. The names of the nine sons of Caleb Towle were remembered as: "Philly, Chaley, Anty, Zach, Thias, Jerny Frank and Nat and long-legged Sam."


(III) Nathaniel, eighth son of Caleb and Zipporah (Brackett) Towle, was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, May 25, 1716. He married, September 17, 1740, Lydia Til- ton, who bore him nine children, their home being on the "Towle road" in a house located a little north of the present Towle homestead, where Samuel A. Towle was living in 1893. The mother died in October, 1800, aged eigh- ty-two years, and the father died April 9, 1803. Children: Elizabeth, baptized Novem- ber 29, 1741, died single, April 19, 1785; Jo- siah, January 16, 1743, died the same year ; Huldah, May 13, 1744, died 1746; Josiah, baptized August II, 1745, married Hannah Towle, died July 21, 1817; Jabez, baptized April 5, 1747 (q. v.) ; Daniel, baptized June II, 1749, died 1754; Huldah, baptized June 9, 1751, died 1754; Zipporah, baptized May 27, 1753, married Robert Drake, died July 16, 1828; Lydia, baptized June 8, 1755, married


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Lieutenant John Lovering, died in North Hampton, August 15, 1829.


(IV) Jabez, third son of Nathaniel and Lydia (Tilton) Towle, was born in Hampton, New Hampshire, and baptized April 5, 1747. He married, January 6, 1778, Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Moulton) Garland, of Hampton, New Hampshire. She was born January 4, 1754, and died November 17, 1829. They lived in the Towle homestead, and had five children, all sons: Samuel, born Decem- ber 9, 1778, married Fanny Jenness, died De- cember 20, 1852; Daniel, December 28, 1780, was selectman of the town sixteen years, and died unmarried, November 17, 1843; Na- thaniel, February 14, 1783 (q. v.); Jabez, April 19, 1785, married Elizabeth Dow, died June 6, 1847, in Hampton, while residing in the mansion built by General Jonathan Moul- ton; Jonathan, born about 1799, died unmar- ried, March 5, 1832.


(V) Nathaniel (2), third child of Jabez and Sarah (Garland) Towle, was born in the homestead at Hampton, New Hampshire. Feb- ruary 14, 1783. He married, about the be- ginning of the nineteenth century, Esther Davis, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and they had three sons and three daughters.


(VI) Nathaniel M., son of Nathaniel (2) and Esther (Davis) Towle, was born in Ep- ping, New Hampshire, and married Mary Bacon, of Freeport, Maine, and they made their home in Kennebunk, Maine.


(VII) George Bacon, son of Nathaniel M. and Mary (Bacon) Towle, was born in Ken- nebunk, Maine, September 25, 1837. He was prepared for college at the public schools of Saco, Maine, and matriculated- at Bowdoin College in 1854, graduating A. B. 1858. He adopted the profession of pedagogue after he had studied law in the office of Rauncy & Morse, in Boston, and had served as assist- ant secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, which office he accepted before completing his law course. He was a frequent contributor of articles on commercial subjects that came within his personal notice and investigation while secretary of the Board of Trade, which appeared regularly in the Boston Post during the editorial connection of Colonel Greene with that newspaper, and he continued to re- side in Boston up to the time of the great fire in 1872. This incident in the history of the city determined his taking up his chosen pro- fession, and he was master of the high school at Midway, Massachusetts, and superintendent of the public schools of the town, 1872-84. He was next head-master of St. Paul's school,


Salem, Washington county, New York, 1884- 87 ; principal of the Mount Morris School for Boys, New York City, 1888-91; in 1892 he was elected head-master of the Trinity Church School, New York City, founded in 1709 and conducted by the corporation of Trinity Church, the school house being at No. 90 Trinity Place. He is a member of the Chester Club of New York City, and of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. His political faith is that promulgated by the Democratic party, but he is in no active connection with any party organization. He married, Decem- ber 15, 1886, Mary Louisa, daughter of Will- iam N. and Susan B. Haskell, of Medway, Massachusetts, and after the death of his wife he married (second) Laura Stevens, of Staten Island, New York. Not having children of his own, both Mr. and Mrs. Towle give to the boys of Trinity Church school the whole of their love and devotion, without discrimina- tion or favoritism, as their great family of boys are continually growing up and going out into the world, while equally attractive ones are periodically taken into their home, and by this means become the better fitted for life's battle in which they were just entering.


BOGART This family is of Dutch extrac- tion, the name originally being spelled Bogaert. among the best of the good old Dutch settlers They were of New Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century, and one of the family was one of the founders of Albany, New York. During the revolution some of the descendants moved with other loyalists to Nova Scotia ; Cornelius and Thennis settled there in Annapolis county, at Lower Granville. The name of the wife of Cornelius is not learned, but he had several children, among whom were sons Luke and Abraham. The latter married (first) in 1810, Alice Brown, and (second) in 1819, Rachel Bent. Abraham and Alice had a son Cornelius, born in 1811, who married Alice Bent, in 1835. It is not recorded that they removed to Maine, but it is quite possible, as dates are consistent and the name Cornelius seems to prevail in this line, that they left Nova Scotia and were the parents and grand- parents of the following :


(II) George Alpheus, youngest son of Cor- nelius and Alice (Bent) Bogart, was born in Hampden, Maine, July 17, 1836. His occu- pation has been that of carpenter. He is con- nected with the Baptist church, and in politics is a Republican and Prohibitionist. He mar- ried, in 1856, Eliza Foster, of Chester, Con-


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necticut. Children : Emma Eliza; Addie, married Emmons; George Arthur, who married January 1, 1893, Susan Tracy Leete, and had two children: Bessie and Susan ; Fred Hanson Hammond.


(III) Fred Hanson Hammond, son of George A. and Eliza (Foster) Bogart, was born in Chester, Connecticut, January 16, 1877.


He was educated at the district school of Chester, the high schools of Deep River and Middleton, Connecticut, and the Uni- versity of Maine, Orono, Maine. On his graduation from college he entered the auto- mobile business as machinist with the Knox Auto Company, and later filled the position of draftsman with the same firm. His next engagements were as draftsman with the Electric Vehicle Company, chief draftsman Bristol Motor Car Company, chief engineer Corbin Motor Vehicle Company. Mr. Bogart then organized an auto business which was incorporated April, 1905, when he was chosen vice-president and manager. He is a Repub- lican and an Odd Fellow, a member of Webb Lodge, No. 81, I. O. O. F. He married. Oc- tober 15, 1902, at Salem, Massachusetts, Florence Rogers, daughter of Captain and Lucy (Very) Powers, who was born Feb- ruary 24, 1877. Her father was a sea captain in the East India trade, and served in the navy during the civil war. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bogart were: George Wil- fred, born January 1, 1906, and Gerald, Feb- ruary 28, 1907.


HATCH The surname Hatch of ancient English origin is common in England and America. No less than six pioneers of this family, some of them doubtless nearly related, came to Massachu- setts before 1650. Thomas Hatch, of Barn- stable, had the unique distinction of owning an "instrument called a violin," mentioned in the inventory of his estate, dated May 27, 1661, though Hatch had been dead since be- fore June 14, 1646. Several of the first set- tlers went to Cape Cod-in fact, all of them seem to have settled there eventually.


(I) Philip Hatch, immigrant ancestor of the Maine family, was born in England about 1600. According to his own deposition made July 6, 1660, he was living in 1638 (twenty- two years before) with John Winter, when Winter and Trelawny mowed the marsh grass on both sides of the Swurrumke river at Spurwink. This land was subsequently conveyed to Ambrose Boden by Robert Jor-


dan, and the title was attacked. Philip Hatch married Patience - -. He was a fisher- man. He, mortgaged his property at York, July 18, 1663, to Captain Bryan Pendleton, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. This mort- gage was subsequently released by James Pendleton, son and heir of Bryan. He bought his homestead November 23, 1648, of George Parker, "house out-houses and field enclosed" in Agamenticus (York), adjoining William Dixie. His widow, some years after his death, made an agreement with Henry Simpson, Au- gust II, as to her occupancy of land in York. He had one son Samuel, mentioned below. Perhaps other children, including the wife of Henry Simpson.


(II) Samuel, son of Philip Hatch, was born about 1650, in York. He bought a home- stead of three hundred acres May 30, 1684, beyond the Ogunquit river, and three acres near Wheelwright's Neck, in Wells, of Mary Bolles. The history of Wells states that he came there about 1670. The town granted to him, Daniel Littlefield and William Frost, lo- cation for a mill on the Upper Falls of Little river, and in 1699 gave them one hundred acres at the head of the lots first laid out. He petitioned for the abatement of taxes after the Indian wars. He left the homestead to his son Joseph. His will was dated February 7, 1740. He was over ninety years old at the time of his death. He bought of Caleb Kim- ball, July 10, 1710, one hundred acres in Wells, laid out to Joseph Credifer ; he bought of Ezekiel Knight and wife December II, 1712, fifty-two acres between Webhannet river and the town commons, half meadow and marsh on the Webhannet, in Wells. Sam- uel Hatch, David Littlefield and Joseph Hill and Jonathan Littlefield divided two hundred acres with water power, fulling mill and saw mill adjoining Merry land marshes in Wells. Samuel Hatch, Joseph Hill and David Little- field deeded to George Butland, April 21, 1710, land bounded by land granted originally to Samuel Hatch, William Frost and David Littlefield. Hatch deeded a hundred acres of land on the north side of the Ogunquit river at Wells, April 26, 1701 ; also exchanged lands at Wells, March 29, 1721, with John El- dridge. He was then called "senior." Chil- dren: I. Bethiah. 2. Benjamin, to whom his father deeded land at Wells, adjoining land of Samuel Emery, September 20, 1718, ac- knowledgment dated May 13, 1719. (York Deeds ix, p. 167.) 3. Jemima. 4. Samuel. 5. Joseph, mentioned below. 6. John. 7. Eu- nice. 8. Phillip.


Chut Hatch


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(III) Joseph, son of Samuel Hatch, was born about 1689-90 in Wells, Maine.


(IV) Joseph (2), son of Joseph (I) Hatch, was born in 1710; died March 9, 1752, aged forty-two years. He married Jerusha


who died January 3, 1776. (See p. 247, "His- tory of York County," for lineage as given.) His son Joseph removed to Kennebunk, Maine, after the revolution. His wife Jeru- sha died January 3, 1776, aged sixty-four. Children : I. Lemuel, mentioned below. 2. Joseph. 3. Joshua, married Susannah Heath ; he was killed July 7, 1777, at Ticonderoga ; children: i. Ann, married Joseph Wood- cock; ii. Joseph, born October 10, 1766; iii. Abigail, died unmarried February 15, 1752; iv. Jotham, died March 14, 1794; v. Elizabeth; vi. Samuel; vii. Mary; viii. Mary Johnson; ix. Susanna; Joshua was a soldier in the revolution.


(V) Lemuel, son of Joseph (2) Hatch, was born about 1740; owned a pew in the church at Wells in 1769.


(VI) son or nephew of Lemuel Hatch, lived in Wells, Maine. Children: I. Elijah, born 1804; mentioned below. 2. Levi. 3. Lemuel. 4. Simon. 5. Benazia.


(VII) Elijah Hatch was born in Wells, Maine, in 1804. He settled in Lyman, Maine, where he died in 1873, aged sixty-nine years nine months. He married Frances Kane. He was educated in the common schools and learned the wheelwright's trade. He was also a farmer. Children : I. Charles P., men- tioned below. 2. Alvah L., lives at West Ken- nebunk, Maine.


(VIII) Charles P., son of Elijah Hatch, was born in Lyman, Maine, December 25, 1868. He was educated in the common schools of Portland. He attended a night school and a business college later. He was clerk for three years in the law office of Mr. Mear, and during that time studied stenography. In 1887 he became cashier and bookkeeper in the office of the Maine Mutual Accident Associa- tion. In January, 1889, he resigned to be- come assistant bank examiner, with offices at Buckfield, under Hon. George D. Bisbee, and continued in this office after Mr. Bisbee was succeeded by Charles R. Whitten, in August, 1892, until January, 1893, when he was ap- pointed national bank examiner for the state of Maine. He resigned this office in May, 1903, to become auditor and accountant of the International Paper Company of New York. He resigned later to accept the appointment of state auditor, a new office, which he has filled with ability and credit to the present time.


Mr. Hatch is a member of Evening Star Lodge of Free Masons; of Buckfield Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons; of Portland Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters; of Portland Commandery, Knights Templar; and Kora Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston; of the Maine Society of New York; of the Under- writers' Club of New York. He married, 1892, Helen Louise Morrill, of Buckfield, Maine.


Edmund Goodenough,


GOODNOUGH Goodenow or Good-


now, with his wife Anne


and two sons, John and Thomas, aged three and one years, and a servant named Richard Sanger, aged nineteen, made up one of the families among the one hundred and ten pas- sengers "great and little" of the "goode shipp the 'Confidence' of London," that sailed from Southampton, England, April 1I, 1638, of which passengers twenty-eight are recorded as having settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and formed the nucleus of the future town set off from common land known as "The New Plantation by Concord," and es- tablished with church and town government September 4, 1639. Captain Edmund Good- enow, Lieutenant Jonah Haynes, John Good- enow, John Bingham and Joseph Freeman constituted the committee appointed by the general court of Massachusetts Colony to pur- chase from the Indians the land so occupied. On the same ship and among the list of pas- sengers are given the names of John Good- enow, of Semley, Wiltshire, a member of the committee named above, and his brother, Thomas Goodenow, of Shasbury, both prob- ably brothers of Edmond. With the brothers came their families, and as Edmond's two sons were named John and Thomas, some con- fusion has resulted in the tracing of the vari- ous lines of descent, the proverbial "three brothers" causing the confusion.


(I) Edmund Goodnow was a yeoman and an original proprietor of the town of Sudbury in 1639, and took the freeman's oath May 13, 1640. In the history of the town he is named on records of 1648 as having been named with William Brown to direct the building of a pound, so necessary in the new towns to pro- tect the fields and gardens of the settlers from the stray cattle owned by their neighbors, but not properly fenced in so as to do no damage. His taxable estate in the town of Sudbury was twenty-four acres, and for his services as deputy to the general court he received an additional six acres of upland and five acres


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of meadow land, and his son in 1651 was em- ployed to beat the drum twice every election day, and twice every forenoon and twice every afternoon upon the Lord's Day to give notice of church services, and for this the town paid Edmond Goodnow twenty shillings annually. The records of 1654 named Edmund Goodnow and Thomas Noyes and William Kerley as having been appointed by the general court as commissioners to lay out a highway towards Lancaster, through Sudbury. Edmund Good- now was selectman of the town 1641 ; deputy to the general court of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1645 and 1650; commissioner to try and determine small matters of dispute, in 1661. As leader in the militia company and lieutenant of the train band he, during the ab- sence in England of Captain Pelham, was in command of the bands. He removed to Marl- borough, which had been organized as a town May 31, 1660, through the efforts of inhabit- ants of Sudbury. Among the original peti- tioners to the general court in May, 1656, is named Thomas Goodnow, and the English plantation thus created was called Whip- enfferadge, from the Indian hill Whipsuf- fenecke, and contained 29,419 acres. The pro- prietors of the English plantation met Septem- ber 25, 1656, and in 1660 thirty-eight house lots, including one for the minister and one for the smith, were set off and confirmed to their several proprietors, these grants taking up less than one thousand acres of the town- ship. The balance of the land known as com- mons was left subject to future grants. Thomas Goodnow was one of the first select- men, and Rev. William Brimsmead their first minister. The town records between the first settlement and April 27, 1699, are missing, and we fail to find any official record of Ed- mund Goodnow as a resident of the town, but it is claimed that he settled on a lot on North street, east of the meeting house, and next to one of John Haynes. Edmund Goodnow died April 5, 1688, and was buried in the Sudbury berving ground beside his wife, who died May 9, 1675. The Sudbury church records of the children of Edmund and Anne Goodnow is as follows: John, born in England, 1635; Thomas; Hannah, November 28, 1639, mar- ried, April, 1656, James Pendleton; Mary, August 25, 1640; Sarah, March 17, 1642-43, married John Kettell ; Joseph, July 19, 1645; Edmund, married Dorothy Mann.




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