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years. He was a magistrate in 1645. He sold a part of his land in 1647, and perhaps went to Dover, New Hampshire; possibly he went to the Isle of Shoals. All in all it is most probable that he tired of a rough life in the wilderness and returned to England. Tra- dition says that he and John, the father of Eastham, were brothers, and many facts strengthen that tradition. The name of his wife I have not yet learned. In addition to Francis, I am confident that he had an older son, named Edward, who once lived in Dover, New Hampshire."
(II) "Francis Small, who may be regarded as the father of the Small family in America, was born in England in 1620, and came to America in or about 1632. He received his name from his famous kinsman, Captain Francis Champernowne. In 1648 he resided in Dover, New Hampshire, and had a wife named Elizabeth (nee Leighton). In 1657 he lived in Falmouth, and in July of that year bought of the Indian chief, Scitterygusset, a large tract of land near Portland called Ca- pisic. In 1663 he was attorney for Falmouth in some of the government squabbles of the times. He was at Cape Small Point for a time, and the place took its name from him. In 1668 he resided in Kittery and had a house and trading camp where the village of Cornish now is, and his was doubtless the first house built in that town, or on any part of the Os- sipee lands. In the history of Shapleigh we find the following story, which the author found among the old papers of Colonel Shap- leigh. In the summer of 1668 Francis Small sold goods to the Newichawannoch tribe of Indians on credit, to be paid for in furs in autumn, but when the time of payment drew near, the red men deemed it easier to kill Small than to pay him, and they decided to fire his house and shoot him when he came out to escape the flames. Captain Sundy, the chief of the tribe, was friendly to Small, and told him what the Indians were to do, and as he could not control them in the matter he ad- vised Small to flee for his life. Small thought the tale a cunningly devised fable to frighten him away in order to avoid payment, but when night came, thinking it wise to be on the side of safety, he secreted himself in some pines on a hill nearby, which I assume to have been on the south of the present village known as Dr. Thompson's hill, and there watched through the long November night. With the coming of the first gray of approaching dawn, a flame shot up from the burning house, whereupon Small took to his heels with all possible speed
and paused not until he reached the settle- ment at Kittery. The chief followed Small to Kittery, and there made good the loss by debt and fire by selling Small the entire Ossipee tract of land for a merely nominal sum. The deed was made November 28, 1668, and has the Indian signature of a turtle. It conveys all the land between the Great Ossipee, the Saco, the Little Ossipee and the Neihewonoch rivers known as Ossipee, the same being twenty miles square, that is 256,000 acres. It is as large as a German principality. Dis- tances were not well known in those days, and Small soon learned that the two Ossipees were not twenty miles apart, whereupon he sold all the land south of the Little Ossipee and re- served to himself Ossipee proper, which is now divided with the towns of Limington, Limerick, Newfield, Parsonfield and Cornish, and constitutes the entire northern part of York county, Maine. Aside from Capisic and Ossipee, Francis Small bought other large tracts of land in Maine, and was known as "the great land owner." When the Indian wars came on, he left his son Samuel in Kit- tery, and with his wife and other children re- moved to Truro, Cape Cod, which adds a bit to the belief that John, the founder of East- ham, was his uncle. April 30, 1711, he deeded Ossipee to his son Samuel. He died in Truro or Provincetown, about 1713, aged about ninety-three years. Of the personal appear- ance of this greatest of his race in America, we know nothing. He was active and alert. Governor Sullivan in his history of Maine says that he was one of the most enterprising and wealthy men in the state. His children were: Edward, Francis, Samuel, Benjamin, Daniel and Elizabeth."
(III) "Samuel, third son and child of Fran- cis and Elizabeth Small, was born in Kittery, in 1666, and seems to have spent his entire life in that neighborhood. When his father fled to Cape Cod to escape the Indian wars, he remained in Maine, and his name appears frequently upon the public records of his time, but he was not an ambitious man like his father. He married Elizabeth, widow of James Chadbourne, and daughter of James Heard. In 1711 he received from his father a deed of the Ossipee lands, hence was the second owner thereof. He was living in 1737 at the age of seventy-one years. His children were: Elizabeth, Samuel and Joseph."
(IV) "Deacon Samuel (2), second child of Samuel (I) and Elizabeth (Heard) (Chad- bourne) Small, was born in Kittery, April 17, 1700. In that town before he was quite six-
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teen years old he married Anna Hatch, and in no very long time thereafter removed to Scarborough, where he spent all the remaining years of his long and eventful life. His house was opposite to and a little south of the Black Point cemetery, and is supposed to be the one now standing, sometimes known as the Robinson house. In 1728, when the Old Con- gregational Church was organized, he was made deacon. He was the third and last single owner of the Ossipee lands. In 1773 he deeded the land to some of his children as fol- lows: To Samuel and Joshua, three-eighths each. To Anna, Elizabeth, and his grandson, Benjamin, son of Samuel, one-twelfth each. The three men went up to Limington and took possession of their ancestral acres, and after a contest in the courts, the Indian deed was pronounced valid, and the title perfect. It should be noted that in 1712, when Francis was too feeble to even write his name, he deeded Ossipee to his son Daniel, with whom he was then living in Provincetown, Cape Cod, but the deed was invalid. When the Smalls had the land divided into towns, they reverentially named one of them Francis- borough in honor of the first owner, but the settlers changed the name to Cornish. It should have been Smallton, as Carrollton was named for Carroll." Deacon Samuel was chosen clerk of Scarborough in 1727 and filled that office for many years. He was very often moderator of meetings, and usually one of the selectmen and a member of all impor- tant committees. Samuel Small, though sev- enty-five years of age in 1775, was active on the committees of correspondence, inspection and safety. For many years his was the most conspicuous name on the Scarborough record. The date of his death is unknown, but his years probably equalled those of his grand- father, Francis. Deacon Samuel had a son Samuel who was also a deacon, and whose name frequently appears on the Scarborough record prior to 1775, and to him are now credited some acts formerly ascribed to his father. Of Deacon Samuel's wife we know only her name. Their children were: Sam- uel, Anna, John, Joshua, Elizabeth, Sarah, Benjamin, James and Mary.
(V) Samuel (3), eldest child of Samuel (2) and Anna (Hatch) Small, was born in Scarborough, May 26, 1718, and some time after the outbreak of the revolution removed to Limington. He was town clerk and held various other town offices in Scarborough. He married Dorothy Hubbard and had eleven children.
(VI) Benjamin, son of Samuel (3) and Dorothy (Hubbard) Small, was born in Lim- ington, August 11, 1744, and died there. He was a farmer in comfortable circumstances fand much respected by his fellow townsmen. He married Phebe Plummer.
(VII) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) and Phebe (Plummer) Small, was born Feb- ruary II, 1771. He resided in Limington. He married Mary Chase, born 1780. Children : Benjamin, Moses, Richard, Sewell, Maria, married a Mr. McArthur; Nathan, Joseph and Annice.
(VIII) Colonel Richard, third son and child of Benjamin (2) and Mary (Chase) Small, was born September 29, 1808, died August 18, 1882. He was a native of Lim- ington, and resided there until he was twenty- one years old. He then went to Buxton, where he became a merchant. In 1845 he moved to Guildhall, Essex county, Vermont, where for many years he was a prosperous farmer. While a resident of Maine he took a deep in- terest in military affairs, in which he was active and attained the rank of colonel in the militia. In Guildhall he took a leading part in local affairs, and served as selectman many years, and twice represented the town in the legislature. He was also associate or side judge for some years, and was known as Judge Small. He married Abigail Ann Jose, born April 23, 1810, daughter of Alexander and Sally Emery Jose, of Buxton, Maine. She died March 8, 1898, aged eighty-seven years, eleven months, fifteen days. Judge Small and wife were members of the Congregational church. Their children were: I. Sally B., married Ossian Ray, of Lancaster, New Hampshire; he was one of the leading men in the New Hampshire bar, a Re- publican, and served two terms in the national house of representatives. 2. Hora- tio N., graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege; soon after the beginning of the slave- holders' rebellion he enlisted as assistant sur- geon in the Seventeenth New Hampshire Vol- unteer Infantry ; this regiment did not leave the state, and Dr. Small was transferred to the Thirteenth Regiment, with which he saw active service some months. He was then made surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire, later brigade surgeon; remained until the end of the war, being on the staff of General Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, whose regi- ment was the first to enter Richmond. After the close of the war Dr. Small settled in Portland, Maine, and became one of the most popular physicians, attaining a very large
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practice ; he died in 1887. 3. John Chase, men- tioned at length below. 4. Abbie A., married Horace Porter, of Lancaster, N. H.
(IX) John Chase, third child and second son of Judge Richard and Abigail Ann (Jose) Small, was born in Buxton, Maine, Novem- ber 5, 1841, and at three years of age was taken by his parents on their removal to Guild- hall, Vermont. He was educated in the com- mon school, Guildhall, and in Lancaster Academy, just across the river from his home, in New Hampshire. At seventeen years of age he returned to Maine and entered the employ of his uncle, Charles E. Jose, a whole- sale dealer in crockery, in Portland. He be- gan as a clerk, showed an aptitude for the business, performed his work well, pleased his employers and their patrons, and in 1866 was taken into the firm. In the twenty-two years which followed, he put his best efforts into the firm's business, and in 1888 saw it the leading establishment of the kind in the state. Withdrawing from this business, he became a partner with another uncle, Horatio N. Jose, dealer in lumber, under the firm name of Bartlett Lumber Company. After remaining there two years, he became a clerk in the em- ploy of Richard Briggs, of Boston, an ex- tensive dealer in china ware, and there spent two years. From 1890 to December 16, 1891, he was again engaged in the lumber business in Portland. On the last mentioned date he was appointed postmaster of Portland, the metropolis of Maine, whose postoffice is the most important in the state, being the deposi- tory of all postoffices in Maine, northern New Hampshire and Vermont. This office he held until February, 1895. While postmaster, he was custodian of the building in which the United States courts and the postoffice are situated, and also had charge of the improve- ments on the building. Mr. Small is an ener- getic and practical business man, and is a director of the West End Land Association, and one of the executors of the will of the late Horatio N. Jose. From 1897 to 1905 he was special executive agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and from 1906 to the present has been cashier of the Portland Water Company. Mr. Small, it is hardly necessary to state, is a Republican-one of that kind of men who always supports the principles of his party and never flinches. In 1908 was alderman of ward 5. In religious sentiment he is a Unitarian. In fraternal circles he is prominent, and is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 17, Ancient and Free Accepted Masons; Mount Vernon
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was high priest two years; Portland Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, in which he filled all the offices, serving as commander for three years ; and Maine Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, in which he has received the thirty-second degree. He is a member of the Cumberland Club. He married, October 20, 1869, Mary S. Dresser, born in Buxton, 1850, daughter of Richard and Mary Dres- ser, formerly of Buxton, who removed to Portland in Mrs. Small's childhood. Children : I. Sally B., married John M. Kimball, who was superintendent of Slater's Mills, at Slat- ersville, Rhode Island; after the mills ceased to operate Mr. Kimball became the general agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Com- pany for Eastern Massachusetts, office in Bos- ton ; he was active and efficient, and acquired a large business; he died in 1902. 2. Rich- ard D., mentioned at length below. 3. Mary S., died young. 4. John C. Jr., resides in Portland, selling agent for Strawbridge & Clothier, of Philadelphia ; member of the Cum- berland Club, Unitarian in religious sentiment and in politics Republican.
(X) Richard Dresser, second child of John C. and Mary S. (Dresser) Small, was born in Portland, March 15, 1872. He obtained his primary and preparatory education in the com- mon and high schools of Portland, and en- tered Harvard University in 1890, graduating in 1894. The following four years he spent as a student at the Harvard Medical College, from which he received his diploma in 1898. In 1898 and 1899 he was house surgeon in the Worcester City Hospital, and from there he returned to Portland, where with his ex- cellent preparatory training he has established an extensive practice. He is associate sur- geon of the Maine General Hospital, and in- structor in obstetrics and histology in the Maine Medical School. He is a member of the Boyleston Medical Society, Boston ; the Maine Medical Society and the American Medical Society. He is a Unitarian in religious belief, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Cumberland Club. Dr. Small married, 1901, Grace Florence Cogswell Potter, born in Boston, 1878, daughter of Henry Staples and Grace (Robbins) Potter. One son, Carle- ton Potter Small, born October 31, 1902.
SMALL Small is an abbreviation of Smal- ley, Smalle, Smalls, and Smale, and was originally descriptive of the stature of the person who first bore it. It has been a family that has produced strong
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men and handsome women who have made their mark on the stage of action. For two generations, father and son were country physicians, that noblest of professions, that re- lieves the sufferings of humanity, sympathizes with their misfortunes and vexations of spirit. The old family physician! He knew the se- crets of every home and the skeletons in the closets, but he was mutely noncommittal about other people's affairs, and no breath of scan- dal ever escaped from his sealed lips. Ex- posed to the inclemency of the weather in all hours of the day and night, much of his work he did gratuitously. He had a kind word for everybody, and was solicitous for their wel- fare. He was more than a physician to the body, he was a comforter to the spirit, he was a friend, guide and counselor as well, often consulted in matters material. He knew every- body, and everybody knew him. He was pres- ent at the birth of every child born in town during the period of his active practice, and he attended them in their ailments, and of many of them it may be said he closed their eyes in death. Long will live in memory the sweet old country physician. He was the friend in whom was no guile, whose bosom was transparent and deep; in the bottom of whose heart was rooted every tender and sym- pathetic virtue, every kindly cmotion.
(I) The paternal ancestor of the people we now have in hand was John Small, who was in Plymouth, Massachusetts, as early as 1632; freeman in 1642, in which year he moved to Cape Cod; constable in 1646; surveyor in 1649; and of the grand inquest in 1654. In 1637 he was appointed with other "honest, lawful men" to lay out hay ground in Ply- mouth. Married Ann Walden in 1638. He was living as late as 1668. He was one of the first settlers in Eastham, Massachusetts, and later lived in Truro, same state. Chil- dren : Samuel, Taylor, Francis, Mary, Isabel, Lydia and Hix.
(III) Taylor, who may have been a grand- son of John and Ann (Walden) Small, was born in Truro, Massachusetts, in 1716, mar- ried Thankful, daughter of Thomas Ridley, and settled in Harpswell, Maine, in 1755. There was an island in the eastern part of Quohaug Bay named after him. His children were: Deborah, Thankful, Taylor, Joseph, David, Thomas, Samuel, Ephraim, Lydia and Mark.
(V) The supposition is, and there is the, most reasonable ground for maintaining the belief, that Samuel Small, who was a physi- cian in Jay, Maine, all his life, was a grand-
son of Taylor of Harpswell. He married Elizabeth Barnard, of Dixfield, Maine. Chil- dren: Harrison, Samuel F., William, Mary Ann and Eliza.
(VI) Samuel F., second son and child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Barnard) Small, was born in Jay, Maine, in 1820, and died in 1881. Educated in the schools of his native town, he completed his schooling at the town academy, and taught a country school several years. He attended the Maine Medical College at Bow- doin, graduating in 1848, and began the prac- tice of medicine in Temple, Maine, where he lived the greater part of his life, and where he died. He was a Republican, and served as selectman of Temple, represented that town in the legislature for two terms, the last session being in 1878. He was a member of Maine Lodge, No. 20, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Farmington. Dr. Small married, in 1848, Rachel C. Tuck, born in Phillips, Maine, in 1850, and died in Farmington, Feb- ruary 8, 1908. Children : Elizabeth, Ella and William Wallace.
(VII) William Wallace, youngest son and child of Dr. Samuel F. and Rachel C. (Tuck) Small, was born in Temple, Maine, October 10, 1857. Educated in the common schools of that town, he concluded his studies at Wil- ton Academy, and began business in a gen- eral store at Temple, in which he was en- gaged fourteen years. In 1895 he removed to Farmington and opened a general store, which he now operates in connection with a grist mill. The business is now merged in a stock company, called the W. W. Small Com- pany, of which Mr. Small is treasurer and the largest stockholder. Like his honored and respected father, he is a Republican and has served on the school committee of Farming- ton. He is a director of the First National Bank of Farmington, Maine. He is a mem- ber of Maine Lodge, No. 20, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Farmington; Franklin Royal Arch Chapter; Jeptha Council; Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar; Franklin Lodge, No. 58, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Small married, in 1883, Delia, daughter of Henry Conant, of Temple. Chil- dren : I. Elizabeth E., born in Temple, 1884, married Benjamin J. Woodman, of West- brook, Maine, who is postmaster there; chil- dren : William Small, Clyde and Rachel. 2. James H., born in Temple, 1886, is a graduate of the high school in Farmington, and is now completing his studies in the academical de- partment of Bowdoin College. 3. Frances Jo- sephine, born in Farmington, 1889.
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A statement on early Irish
STURGES history. in a French publica- tion by Abbe MacGroghegan in substance recites : That about the year 815, during the reign of Conor, Turgesius, a son of the King of Norway, landed a fleet on the North coast of Ireland; and again about the year 835, another fleet commanded by the same man landed on the west side of Lough Rea, where he fortified himself, and after laying waste Connaught, Meath, Leinster and the greater part of Ulster, was declared king and ruled about thirty years. The first accurate records from English history is of William de Turges who held a grant of land from Edward I, including the village of Turges, afterwards called Northfield, in Northampton county, where for many generations this family was located. In the sixteenth century some of the family 'settled at Clipston in the same county, and the name became Sturges. Descent is claimed by the American family from Roger Sturges, of Clipston, whose will was dated in 1530, and wife Alice, through his son Rich- ard, whose first son Roger had a son Robert, whose son Philip was of Hannington, North- amptonshire, whose will was made in 1613.
(I) Edward Sturges, the American ances- tor, was first son of this Philip of Hanning- ton, and was born in England, coming to this country in 1634, settling first at Sandwich, Massachusetts, and then going to Charlestown, removing thence in 1639 to Yarmouth, Cape Cod. He was constable at Yarmouth in 1640- 41 ; member of grand inquest, 1650; surveyor of highways, 1651; admitted freeman, June 5, 1651 ; committeeman on the affairs of the col- ony, 1657; constable, 1662; deputy to general assembly, 1672. He died at Sandwich, Octo- ber, 1695, and was buried at Yarmouth. He left a large estate. The following record of children is believed to be correct: I. Alice, born in England, December 23, 1619. 2. Maria, born in England, October 2, 1621. 3. Edward, born in England, April 10, 1624. 4. Rebecca, born in England, February 17, 1626- 27. 5. Samuel, born in Charlestown, 1638. 6. Thomas. 7. Mary, baptized in Barnstable, January 1, 1646, married Benjamin Gorham. 8. Elizabeth, born in Yarmouth, April 20, 1648. 9. Sarah, married Joseph Gorman, who was born at Yarmouth in 1653. 10. Joseph, died in infancy, 1650. II. Hannah, married (first) a Gray and (second) Jabez Gorham, and moved to Bristol, Rhode Island (possibly also a son, John, born about 1624, who went to Connecticut). Elizabeth, first wife of Ed- ward Sturges and mother of his children, died
February 14, 1691, and he married (second) April, 1692, Mary, widow of Zachariah Rider, the first male child born in Yarmouth of Eng- lish parents.
(II) Edward (2), eldest son of Edward (1) and Elizabeth Sturges, was born in Eng- land, April 10, 1624. He went to Yarmouth with his father and married Temperance, : daughter of Captain John and Desire ( How- land) Gorham, and granddaughter of John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley, daughter of John and Bridget (Van de Velde) Tilley. The last four ancestors were "May- ·flower" Pilgrims. Temperance Gorham was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1646, and died March 12, 1715. Edward Sturges died December 8, 1678. His will (nuncupative) recorded at Plymouth, June 3, 1679, left one-third of his property to his widow and two-thirds to the children, the es- tate being valued at nine hundred pounds-a large one for those days. His widow mar- ried (second) January 16, 1679-80, Thomas Baxter and had three sons, John, Thomas and Shubael. Children of Edward and Temper- ance Sturges were: I. Joseph. 2. Samuel, born 1665, married Mercy Howes. 3. James, born 1668, married Rebecca Thatcher, died January 3, 1718. 4. Desire, married (first) Captain Thomas Dimmock and (second) John Thatcher. 5. Edward, born 1673.
(III) Edward (3), fourth and youngest son of Edward (2) and Temperance (Gor- ham) Sturges, was born in Yarmouth, 1673. He married, November 25, 1703, Mehitable Hallett, who died January 20, 1745. He died January 1, 1738. Their children were: I. Abigail, born October 25, 1706. 2. Temper- ance, October 29, 1708. 3. Edward, July 24, 1710. 4. Jonathan, December 15, 1714. 5. Jerusha, February 21, 1716. 6. Mehitable, February 16, 1718. 7. Benjamin, July 1, 1721. 8. Mary, March 8, 1722. 9. Mehitable, November 17, 1723.
(IV) Edward (4), eldest son of Edward (3) and Mehitable (Hallett) Sturges, was born in Yarmouth, July 24, 1710. He mar- ried, February 3, 1730, Thankful Hedge. They had six children: I. Temperance, born June 23, 1731. 2. Elizabeth, August II, 1734. 3. James, August 23, 1735. 4. Edward, July 27, 1737. 5. Abigail, January 17, 1739. 6. Samuel, December II, 1742.
(V) Edward (5), son of Edward (4) and . Thankful (Hedge) Sturges, was born in Yar- mouth, July 27, 1737. He married, in Barn- stable, January 28, 1767, Mary Bassett, born January 20, 1744. Children : I. Mary, born
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December 12, 1767. 2. Abigail, January I, 1770. 3. Samuel, April 15, 1772. 4. Thank- ful, April 12, 1775. 5. James, October 6, 1776. 6. David, January 10, 1779, died De- cember 6, 1882. 7. Olive, December 13, 1780. 8. Jonathan, November 26, 1782. 9. Lucy, August 5, 1786. 10. Heman, November 9, 1789.
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