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Waverly, New York. His first and second sons were educated at Cornell University.
(VII) Anson, son of Constantine Bates, was born March 11 or 18, 1812. He was a farmer of Fairfield, also an expert mechanic and of fine musical attainments. He married (first) Sally Gibbs, of Fairfield. Married (second) Cordelia Sarah, born in 1815, died when fifty- three years of age, daughter of David and Mary (Ricker) Huston, of Oakland, Maine, formerly of Waterville. Children of first wife: I. William T., enlisted in the Sixteenth Maine Regiment of Volunteers in the civil war; was a hospital steward and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg. 2. Sarah E., died March 19, 1864. 3. Emma J., born July I, 1845, married Stephen C. Watson, and lived on the Ten Lots, later called Oakland Heights ; children : Arthur T., Henry and Harry B .; Arthur T. now resides in Des Moines, Iowa, and was graduated from Colby University, Maine; Harry B. was a graduate of Colby University ; is now living in Hinckley, Maine; is principal of the school at Goodwill Home. Children of second wife: 4. Henry Anson, see forward. 5. Helen Delia.
(VIII) Henry Anson, fourth child of Anson Bates, was born in Fairfield, Maine, April 26, 1848. He was educated at the public schools of that town, also attending high school at Oakland, finishing with a course at the Com- mercial College of Augusta, Maine. In 1869 he left home for Providence, Rhode Island, working at the carpentering trade for about two years. Subsequently was engaged in the dry goods business for fourteen years in that city, when he removed to New York City, and became buyer for J. A. Bluxome & Company. He was subsequently employed by Adams & Company, and later with B. Altman & Com- pany, until he engaged with the importing house of J. R. Leeson & Company, of Boston, with New York offices, and remained with them several years. He then became interested in thread manufacturing, the company being called The Bates Thread Company, of which he was president. Later the Bates Thread Company `consolidated with the Summit Thread Company, of which he is now vice- president. Mr. Bates has always been of an inventive turn of mind and has invented and patented many valuable attachments for sew- ing machines and sewing machine shuttles, and is used in connection with thread manu- factured by the Summit Thread Company, and has also patented other inventions of lesser importance. The Summit Thread Company is located at East Hampton, Connecticut. Mr.
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Bates is a member of St. Johns Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M., Middletown, Connecticut ; Washington Chapter, No. 6, which is one of the oldest in the United States; Cyrene Com- mandery, No. 8, Knights Templar, of Middle- town, Connecticut ; also Knights of Malta. He is also a member of the Baptist Church of Middletown, Connecticut, treasurer, and one of the board of trustees. Mr. Bates married (first) Ellen Stone, of Providence, Rhode Is- land. Their children were: I. Arthur Henry, born April 6, 1878, is now living in Brockton, Massachusetts; is a graduate of Princeton University; now employed in the interest of the Summit Thread Company. Married Blanche Happenstat, of Yonkers, New York; child, Dorothy Ella Bates. 2. Alfred Stone, died one year old. Mr. Bates married (second) Emma Bethia Smith, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, daughter of George and Han- nah Adelia (Morton) Smith. Emma Bethia Smith was born March 24, 1856. Her father was the son of Elisha and Clarissa ( Parks) Smith, a descendant of Benjamin, who served in the revolutionary war. Her mother was the daughter of John and Bertha (Cook) Morton, of Friendship, Maine, and a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford, and Francis Cooke, of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mrs. Bates's paternal emigrant ancestors came from Sudbury, England, and named the Massachu- setts town where they settled. A monument has been erected there: "In memory of John Smith and Mary his wife, the first of the name who came to America from Sudbury, Eng- land, some time in 1600." Their children are : Ethel Smith, born in New York City, August 17, 1887 ; Helen Delia, born in New York City, March 1, 1889; Henry Anson Jr., born in Yonkers, New York, July 25, 1893; William Bradford and Alger Huston, twin brothers, born in Yonkers, April 29, 1897. Ethel Smith and Helen Delia are both being educated, one at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the other at Wesleyan University of Middletown. The other three sons are preparing for a col- lege education. This family was also very musical throughout.
(For ancestry see preceding sketch.)
BATES (VII) Asa Blackwell, son of Constantine Bates, was born in China, Maine, October 6, 1807, and died April 24, 1890, in Oakland, Maine. He was four years old when the family moved to Fairfield and he attended the public schools there. He learned the trade of carpenter in Fairfield ; worked for a few years as journey-
man and then engaged in business as a carpen- ter and builder on his own account at Oakland. He built many of the houses in Oakland and Waterville and was one of the leading contrac- tors of that section for many years. He lived in Oakland from 1863 until the time of his death, and in addition to his other business conducted a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Oakland. He was an active and use- ful citizen. In politics a Republican, he repre- sented the town in the state legislature. He was a member and deacon of the Baptist church at Oakland. He married, September 18, 1831, Azuba Sturtevant, born January 25, 1810, in China, died June 5, 1890, in Oakland, daughter of William Sturtevant, of China. Children : 1. Ellen A., born October 20, 1832, married, April 1, 1854, Gustavus Mower, of Dexter, Maine. 2. Erastus W., May 8, 1834, married and lived in Augusta, Maine. 3. Liz- zie M., November 13, 1837, married, March 14, 1864, Warner Farr; she died April II, 1905. 4. Martha F., July 1, 1840, married, January, 1868, Samuel Hersom. 5. Mabel, October 17, 1841, married, October 19, 1866, William H. Fessenden, and lived in Boston. 6. Mary B., August 30, 1843, married, July 13, 1871, Charles A. Whiting, of Norwidgwock. 7. Henry E., mentioned below. 8. Julia A., May 27, 1898. 9. Albert M., March 14, 1850, died March 13, 1857. 10. Herbert M., Janu- ary 25, 1853, died January 26, 1863. 11. Lil- lian F., June 23, 1854.
(VIII) Henry Edward, son of Asa Black- well Bates, was born April 21, 1846, in Fair- field. He was educated in the district schools of Fairfield and West Waterville, Maine, and afterward worked with his father in the build- ing business, and learned the trade of carpen- ter. He was associated in business with his father. They had a saw mill on Messalonskee stream and manufactured various kinds of lumber, saw frames and saw horses. Upon the death of his father he succeeded to the business. The saw mill was destroyed by fire in 1885, was promptly rebuilt ; and in October, 1907, fire again destroyed the mill and it was again rebuilt. The firm of A. B. Bates & Company was organized in 1893 with Mr. Bates at the head and Henry E. and Julia A. Bates as members. It is one of the representa- tive business houses of Oakland. At the pres- ent time the Bates saw mill is manufacturing boxes largely for the manufacturers of Oak- land, in addition to the lumber and other work of the mill, employing a dozen regular hands. Since 1907 Mr. Bates has been the owner of the Benjamin Allen Machine business and has
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conducted it successfully. In Oakland Mr. Bates is one of the leading citizens. Actuated by motives of public spirit he has supported every movement for the welfare and improve- ment of the town; he is interested in public affairs and is an influential Republican. He has demonstrated unusual capacity for busi- ness, and great persistence and enterprise. He is a prominent member of the Baptist church of Oakland. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen of Oakland. He married, January 16, 1873, Helen Messenger, born Au- gust 24, 1847, in Corinth, Maine, died May 4, 1898, in Oakland, daughter of Hazen and Harriet (Oak) Messenger. Their only child, Lena Evelyn, was born October 31, 1876, in Oakland.
This family name is found SAWYER among those derived from oc- cupation and the race is proverbially one of mechanics. It has been said by a descendant that "a Sawyer was never known who could not handle the saw easily and they usually follow the occupation of a wheelwright, millwright, cooper, carpenter, machinist, engineer or master builder." In England the Sayers are mentioned as an old family of wealth and municipal importance of Colchester county, Essex, in the sixteenth cen- tury. About two hundred years earlier they held of the king eighty-two acres of land in Copperfield in the village of Latchingdon in that county. Sayere and Sayer was an ancient name in Norfolk county, in the thirteenth cen- tury, and this branch were lords of Pulham Manor in the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies. A John Sayer was of Worsall, York- shire, in the time of Henry VIII, 1509-1547; Francis Sayer, of Marriet Park North Riding, was one of the Yorkshire Roman Catholics who lost his estate in 1505. In Hertfordshire, at early date, the name is said to have been Sears. The American Sawyers, "according to the best traditions," were originally from Lin- colnshire, England, though the town or the ex- act locality is not mentioned.
(I) William Sawyer, immigrant ancestor, came from Lincolnshire, England (with his brothers Thomas and Edward) in 1636. He was on record in Salem, Massachusetts, 1640; went for a short time to Wenham and thence to Newbury, 1643. His birth date was about 1613, as he called himself sixty-five years of age when he took the oath of allegiance in 1678. He was one of the founders of the Bap- tist church at Newbury in 1682. He died there 1702-03, administration on his estate be-
ing granted to his widow, Ruth, March I, 1703. There still remains in the burying- ground at Newbury, various tall slate grave- stones inscribed with birth-dates that antedate that of the arrival of the emigrants and indi- cate that these burials were of the family of William of Newbury. The children of Wil- liam and Ruth were: John, born August 24, 1645; Samuel, November 22, 1646; Ruth, Sep- tember 13, 1648, married, August 27, 1667, Benjamin Morse; Mary, February 7, 1650, died June 24, 1659; Sarah, November 20, 1651, married, January 15, 1669, Joshua Browne; Hannah, February 23, 1654, died January 25, 1660; William, February 1, 1656; Frances, March 24, 1658, died February 7, 1660; Mary, July 29, 1660, married, June 12, 1683, John Emery; she died November 3, 1699; Stephen, April 25, 1663; Hannah, Jan- uary II, 1665, died August 28, 1683 ; Frances, November 3, 1670.
(II) Samuel, second son of William and Ruth Sawyer, was born in Newbury, Massa- chusetts, November 22, 1646. He married, March 13, 1670-71, Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Webster) Emery, of Newbury, born June 24, 1652. He was made freeman May 12, 1675, and was known as "Lieuten- ant." He died in Newbury, February II, 1718. Children were: Mary, born January 20, 1672; Samuel, June 5, 1674, married Martha Moores; John, March 15, 1676; Hannah, Jan- uary 12, 1679; Josiah, January 20, 1681 ; John, February 23, 1683, married Mary Merrill; Joshua, February 23, 1683; Benjamin, Octo- ber 27, 1686, married Elizabeth -; and two others who died young.
(III) Josiah, third son of Lieutenant Sam- uel and Mary (Emery) Sawyer, was born in Newbury, January 20, 1681, and died April 4, 1756. He married, January 22, 1708, Tirzah, daughter of Thomas and Tirzah (Titcomb) Bartlett, of Newbury. She died September 2, 1739. Their children were: Josiah, born 1709; Moses (Dr.), February 21, 17II, died August 25, 1778; Tirzah, November 7, 1715, died 1782, married David Ring; Israel, October 9, 1717, died August 2, 1739; Gideon, December 15, 1719, died December 26, 1816; Hannah, died August 16, 1739; James, May 12, 1722, died September 27, 1723.
(IV) Josiah (2), eldest son of Josiah (I) and Tirzah (Bartlett) Sawyer, was born in Newbury, April 12, 1709. He married, about 1735, Mary, daughter of Deacon John Ord- way, born November 2, 1714, died March 2, 1796. He died June 10, 1792. He was a far- mer and resided in Newbury until 1746, when
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he purchased a farm at Southampton, New Hampshire, and removed there with his family in April of the same year. Children were: Josiah; Israel; Miriam, died September 4, 1780, unmarried; John; Hannah, born 1746, died September 24, 1770, unmarried; Richard ; Matthias; Moses; Tirzah, 1758, died Septem- ber 2, 1832, unmarried ; Molly, 1764, died Sep- tember 21, 1789, unmarried.
(V) Richard, fourth son of Josiah (2) and Mary (Ordway) Sawyer, was born in South- ampton, New Hampshire, March 31, 1748, and died June 22, 1818. He married Eliza- beth Clark. He was a farmer and lived at Corinth, Vermont. Children: Hannah, born October 21, 1774; Richard, December 14, 1776; Plant, April 19, 1779; Betsy, September I, 1782; Sally, November 17, 1785; Abigail, August 15, 1789.
(VI) Plant, second son of Richard and Elizabeth (Clark) Sawyer, was born in South Hampton, New Hampshire, April 19, 1779. He married Ruth, daughter of Obadiah and Mehitable Eastman, of Coventry (Ben- ton), New Hampshire, born July 26, 1785. He was a farmer, "died of dropsy, February 28, 1840." Their children were: Ira, born No- vember 6, 1808, died November 26, 1823; Ro- silla, August 25, 1810, married Horace Rich- ardson, of Corinth, Vermont; Otis, February 17, 1813; Alvira, March 31, 1815, died March 7, 1817; Dana, August 14, 1817; Alvira, Sep- tember 13, 1819; Emeline, January 9, 1822, married Hilas Dickey, of Manchester, New Hampshire; Lucinda, September 14, 1826, married Amos P. Collins; Moreau, June 14, 1829, unmarried, resided in Missouri. The father of Plant's wife, Obadiah Eastman, was a leading man in the public affairs of the town of Coventry (Benton) ; was the moderator of the first town meeting ; appointed first justice of the peace, 1789. He rendered good service in the revolutionary war, and his marble mon- ument erected in the High Street cemetery has been marked by the Sons of the Revolution with the insignia of the Society.
(VII) Dana, third son of Plant and Ruth (Eastman) Sawyer, was born August 14, 1817, and married Sally C. Sanborn, of Cov- entry, who was born February, 1818. They had two children: Emma V. and Henry T., and probably others, but the record is not ex- tended and the father, Dana Sawyer, probably removed from New Hampshire to Maine.
(VIII) Ira Cole Sawyer, M. D., was born in Hiram, Oxford county, Maine, March 2, 1840. His childhood days were spent on the
farm of his father, and he received his early education in the academies of Limington and Parsonsfield. He was but sixteen years of age when death bereft him of his father's care, and he was practically thrown upon his own re- sources. He was a lad of great force of char- acter, and having determined to make the med- ical profession his life work, he taught school in various places for a period of four years in order to obtain the necessary means to pursue his course of studies. By dint of great econ- omy, he ultimately succeeded in his ambition. He was eighteen years of age and teaching school at the time when he commenced his professional studies under the preceptorship of Dr. Moses Sweat, of Parsonsfield, a most able physician. With him he studied for four years, and in November, 1863, was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth College. He immediately established himself at Naples, Maine, where he was engaged in successful practice for many years. During the early part of this period of time, he took a special course of study at Bellevue Medical College, New York City. He removed to Springvale in 1884, and built up an excellent practice in that town. He was a close and painstaking student, working hard to qualify himself for his profession, and as a physician and surgeon ranked among the foremost in the country. He was also greatly esteemed per- sonally. His political affiliations were with the Democratic party, and he was an attendant at the Congregational church. He was a member of Oriental Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Bridgton, Maine. His death occurred April 12, 1906. He married (first) Ellen Edes; (second), 1878, Georgiana Page, born in Windham, Maine, daughter of Warren and Mary Caroline (Hormon) Page, and grand- daughter of Samuel Page. Dr. and Mrs. Saw- yer had children: Florence Mildred, born July 3, 1879, died February 21, 1896; Claude B., born August 13, 1886, married, November 28, 1907, Ada Durgin, of Sanford, Maine. Warren Page, father of Mrs. Sawyer, was born in Windham, April 7, 1824, and died October, 1903. He was educated in the com- mon schools of his district, was a farmer in Harrison and Naples, and also operated a mill in Windham. In politics he was a Democrat. His children were: Howard and Georgiana. Georgiana (Page) Sawyer was educated in the schools of Harrison, Maine. She is a woman of great ability and noble aspirations, and is prominent in all charitable undertakings in the community.
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NYE Benjamin Nye, son of Thomas Nye, was born May 4, 1620, at Bidlen- den, county Kent, England. He came in the ship "Abigail" to Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, in 1635 and settled in 1637 in Sandwich. He was on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. He took the oath of fidelity in 1657, and held many impor- tant positions in public affairs ; was supervisor of highways 1655; on the grand jury 1658 and at other times; constable 1661 and 1673; col- lector of taxes 1674. The town voted August 8, 1675, to give permission to Benjamin' Nye to build a fulling mill on Spring Hill river. It is said that the ruins of the old saw mill at Little Pond are still extant, at Spring Hill, just west of East Sandwich. He married, in Sandwich, October 19, 1640, Katherine, daughter of Rev. Thomas Tupper, who came over on the same ship. Children: I. Mary, married June 1, 1670, Jacob Burgess. 2. John, mentioned below. 3. Ebenezer. 4. Jonathan, born November 29, 1649. 5. Mercy, born April 4, 1652; married Matthias Ellis. 6. Caleb. 7. Nathan. 8. Benjamin, killed by In- dians at battle of Rehoboth, in King Philip's war, March 26, 1676.
(II) John, son of Benjamin Nye, was born in Sandwich. In 1678 he took the oath of fidel- ity. With his brother Ebenezer he bought a hundred acres of land in Falmouth, and in 1689 they were granted two hundred acres more. He resided in Sandwich, and in 1695 served on the school committee. He married Esther Shedd, and died in 1722. His will was dated July 19, 1720, and proved November 27, 1722. He bequeathed his Falmouth property to his son Benjamin, who lived there. Chil- dren : I. Benjamin, born November 24, 1673. 2. John, November 22, 1675. 3. Abigail, April 18, 1678; married September 26, 1695, Edward Dillingham. 4. Experience, December 16, 1682 ; married June 23, 1718, Josiah Swift. 5. Hannah, January 19, 1685; married, October 31, 1723, Isaac Jennings. 6. Ebenezer, Sep- tember 23, 1687. 7. Peleg, November 12, 1689. 8. Nathan, mentioned below. 9. Joseph, 1694. 10. Cornelius, 1697.
(III) Nathan, son of John Nye, was born in Sandwich, and died there November 27, 1747. His will was dated November 14, 1747, and proved January 20, 1748. He was a cord- wainer by trade, and his will shows him to have been a man of property. He married, April 12, 1715, Dorothy Bryant. Children: I. Rebecca, born November 26, 1715; married July 15, 1739, Solomon Foster, of Sandwich. 2. Mary, born April 26, 1718; married
Bourne. 3. Stephen, born June 6, 1720; men- tioned below. 4. Nathan, born October 13, 1722. 5. Deborah, born October 5, 1726; mar- ried, June 29, 1748, John Freeman Jr .; died January 29, 1770. 6. William, born Septem- ber 1, 1733.
(IV) Stephen, son of Nathan Nye, was born in Sandwich, June 6, 1720, and died July 6, 1810. He was very prominent in town affairs, and served as deputy to the general court eighteen years. He was a member of the committee of safety, and a delegate to the first and third provincial congresses of Massachu- setts. He married, June 7, 1744, Maria Bourne, who died August 29, 1814, aged eighty-four years. Children: I. Elisha, born April 27, 1745; mentioned below. 2. John, December 26, 1746. 3. Nathan, February 20, 1749.
4. Hannah, May 10, 1751; married Tobey. 5. Stephen, April 30, 1753. 6. Susanna, July 27, 1755. 7. Abigail, July 27, 1755 (twin) ; married Motto Bryant. 8. Jonathan, November 27, 1757. 9. William, July 24, 1760. 10. Zenas, March 31, 1763. II. Rebecca, January 24, 1766; married Paul Gif- ford. 12. Christina, April, 1768. 13. Sabra, married George Ellis, of Sandwich.
(V) Captain Elisha, son of Stephen Nye, was born in Sandwich, April 27, 1745, and died May 12, 1843. He served in the revolu- tion, lieutenant in Captain John Grannis's company, stationed at Elizabeth Island; en- listed July 1, 1775, service to December 31, 1775; also captain, on list of seacoast officers stationed at Elizabeth Island and Martha's Vineyard, commissioned January 1, 1776; also captain, entered service January 4, 1776, to February 2, 1776, stationed at Elizabeth Is- land for defence of seacoast; also in same company from April 5 to November 21, 1776, at the same place; also captain of a company stationed at Naushon, December 16, 1776; also chosen captain of a company stationed at Naushon in 1777. In 1781 he removed to Hal- lowell, Maine, where he died. He married (first) April 2, 1767, Lucy Tobey, who died September 22, 1775, daughter of Eliakim Tobey, of Sandwich. He married (second) Mehitable, daughter of William Robinson, of Falmouth. Children, born at Sandwich : I. Alvin, May 22, 1768. 2. Ansel, December 17, 1769. 3. Maria, March 25, 1771. Children of second wife, born at Chilmark: 4. Elisha, June 8, 1776. 5. Lucy, January 1, 1778; mar- ried Stephen Hinckley. 6. Abigail, born De- cember 25, 1780, at Falmouth ; married Philip Lord. 7. Susanna, born January 5, 1783, at Hallowell, Maine; married (first)
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Kent; (second) Captain Caleb Heath. 8. Eunice. born September 26, 1784; married, August 31, 1803, John Charles Schoff ; died July 17, 1877. 9. Mehitable, born May 30, 1786; married, and was mother of General George H. Nye. 10. Charles, born February 4, 1788.
(VI) General George Henry Nye was born at Hallowell, Maine, February 24, 1828. He adopted his mother's maiden name, Nye. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town. He began work in a cotton mill at Hallowell, and later served on a steamboat ply- ing between Boston and Portland. After a few years he was employed in a cotton mill at Brunswick, Maine, and later worked at farm- ing a year at Rome, Maine, then returned to Lewiston and worked at his trade in the cotton mill. He won promotion, and when the civil war broke out was an overseer. He left this position, in which his wages were five dollars a day, to enlist as a private when the call for volunteers came. His pay as a soldier was $II a month. but the financial sacrifice he under- took cheerfully, as well as the hardship and danger of the service. He enlisted April 20, 1861, in Company K, First Maine Regiment of Infantry, for three months ; as he was com- missioned previous to the company being mus- tered in, he forfeited a bounty of one hundred dollars, and was commissioned second lieuten- ant May 3, 1861. At the expiration of his term of enlistment he raised a company for the Union service, and on October 4, 1861, was commissioned captain of Company K, Tenth Maine Regiment. With this regiment he took part in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Moun- tain, Rappahannock, Sulphur Springs, South Mountain and Antietam. At the end of two years his company was mustered out of ser- vice, and he raised another for the Twenty- ninth Maine Regiment, enlisting the men for three years, and was given Company K. He was commissioned captain on November 13, 1863 ; on October 18, 1864, promoted to major, and on December 20, 1864, to colonel. He was breveted brigadier-general October 28, 1865, and major-general, to rank from March 13, 1865. The Twenty-ninth regiment served in Louisiana, and took part in the engagements at Sabine Cross Roads, Pleasant Hill, Cain River Crossing, and later in Virginia at Ope- quan, Fisher Hill and Cedar Creek. He was badly wounded in the battle of Cedar Moun- tain, but was able to take his place at the head of his regiment at the Grand Review at the close of the war. He was wounded in the mouth at Cedar Creek. The official report of
the battle of Cedar Mountain states that he was struck three times, but was not off duty a day in consequence. At the close of the war he was stationed with his regiment at Savan- nah, Georgia, then at Georgetown, South Carolina, also at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and finally at New York City, where he and his command were mustered out of service June 29, 1866, at Hart's Island. General Nye was probably the only man to enlist as a pri- vate and rise during the war to the rank of major-general.
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