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(V) Ebenezer, youngest child of Samuel and Abigail (Hubbard) Fletcher, was born March
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17, 1725, and resided in Rutland, Massachu- setts, where his children were born. He was married February 28, 1748, to Elizabeth Fletcher. Their children were: Elizabeth, Eli and Samuel.
(VI) Samuel, youngest child of Ebenezer and Elizabeth Fletcher, was born April 2, 1754, in Rutland, Vermont. He does not ap- pear further in the records of that town, and there is little doubt that he was the Samuel Fletcher who enlisted July 15, 1776, as a sailor at Kittery, Maine. In the entry of his en- listment he is described as an American, sta- ture five feet, seven inches, complexion dark. His wages were eight dollars per month. He subsequently served under John Paul Jones on the "Bon Homme Richard," and probably resided at Kittery after the war, from which arose the tradition that he was born there. There is no record of such birth in that town, or of any Fletchers. The name of his wife is not preserved.
(VII) Furber, son of Samuel Fletcher, was born at Kittery Point, and lived in the town of Kittery. He married Eunice Gunnison, and they were the parents of Joseph, Furber, Benjamin G., Lorenzo and Samuel.
(VIII) Benjamin G., third son of Furber and Eunice (Gunnison) Fletcher, was born 1817, at Kittery Point, and was drowned at sea in 1860. He followed the sea, as did most of his neighbors, and was first engaged in fishing. Subsequently he became a master mariner, and followed the coasting trade to the West Indies, sailing on such vessels as the "Carl Hanson," "Jacob Rudd," "William Aus- tin," and others. He was a member of the Christian Church, and affiliated politically with those who formed the Republican party shortly before his death. He married Mary J. Sew- ard, a native of Gerrish Island, and their chil- dren were: Elizabeth Jane, William James, Mary Jane and Joseph Benjamin.
(IX) Joseph Benjamin, youngest child of Benjamin G. and Mary J. (Seward) Fletcher, was born June 10, 1846, at Kittery Point, and received his educational training in his home town and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, going to sea for a short time with his father. At the age of fifteen years he began an apprenticeship at the government navy yard at Kittery, and served his time as shipwright. He was sub- sequently employed in the yard as a pattern- maker. On account of his skill and efficiency he was employed by Thomas Davidson, in an expedition, of which Davidson had charge, to Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, where Mr.
Fletcher assisted in the launching of the United States ship "Monongahela." The ex- pedition went from the Brooklyn navy yard in a sailing bark, and occupied five months. The unfortunate "Monongahela" had been thrown up on the shore by a tidal wave, and its relaunching was a task of considerable mag- nitude. Mr. Fletcher continued in the ports- mouth navy yard until 1884, when he served on board the "Bear," in the Greeley relief expedition, lasting five months, having been fitted out at the Brooklyn navy yard. The nine survivors of the Greeley party were found at Cape Sabine, in a pitiable condition, and returned to their homes. On February 4, 1885, Mr. Fletcher received an appointment as car- penter in the navy from William E. Chandler, then secretary of the navy, and was later pro- moted to chief carpenter, with the rank of ensign, which position he now holds. Having been identified with the United States navy since fifteen years of age, Mr. Fletcher has seen many adventures and valuable experi- ences. He was at one time on duty at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and also at Cramp's shipyard near Philadel- phia. For seven and one-half years he was on board the cruiser "New York," with which he visited the West India and South Ameri- can ports, and Copenhagen and Kiel, being present at the opening of the German ship canal at the latter point. He sailed through the Suez Canal, visited Honolulu and the Philippine Islands, numerous Chinese, Japan- ese, Korean and Siberian ports, spending ten months in the Philippine Islands. For a time the "New York" was flag ship of the Pacific fleet, and visited Puget Sound, Unalaska and Californian ports, and Panama. Mr. Fletcher left the vessel at Panama and returned to Kittery, where he has since been employed in the office of the department of construction and repairs. He takes an intelligent interest in the progress of the community, especially in education, and has served as agent of the town schools. In political principle he is a Republican. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Portsmouth, and of Long Island Council, Royal Arcanum, of Brooklyn, New York; also New Hampshire Lodge, No. 17, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was married in 1867 to Mary Louise, daughter of Samuel Hanscom, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and they have a son and daughter, namely: George Pierce, born 1868, and Bertha Noyes, 1871.
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John Mclaughlin, of MCLAUGHLIN Washington, District of Columbia, aide to the commandant at the Washington navy yard and an officer of the United States navy for the last thirty-five years, is a native of Ham- den, Maine, born October 7, 1852, son of Michael and Mary (Kane) Mclaughlin, both natives of Ireland, and the former a soldier of the union army during the war of 1861-65, and who was killed in battle. Michael and Mary (Kane) Mclaughlin had two children : Francis M. and John Mclaughlin.
John Mclaughlin attended public school in Bangor, Maine, until he was about fourteen years old and then for several years followed the sea in the West Indies trade, until the "Virginia affair," when he enlisted at Boston navy yard for three years as an able seaman in the United States naval service, and very soon afterward became a petty officer. In 1880 he quit the service with the intention of going west, and while on his way to Colo- rado stopped in Washington to visit some of the places of interest at the National capital ; and while there events occurred which materi- ally changed the plans he had formed, for on the advice of Admiral Nichols, United States navy, he determined to enter the service again, and accepted an appointment as boatswain which through the admiral had been offered him. Since 1881 he had been in continuous naval service on various ships at the govern- ment navy yards. In 1899 he was commis- sioned chief boatswain, United States navy, agreeable to an act of congress creating an office of that grade. Thus in one capacity and another Mr. McLaughlin has been in the naval service for the last thirty-five years, and for twenty-seven years of that period has been an officer. During this period he has at various times been in command of transport vessels, the "Triton" and the "Uncas," and was on board the United States ship "Trenton" when she was wrecked at the Samoan Islands; was on the "Wachusetts" on her first cruise in Pa- cific waters and when that ship was delegated to attend the function of the crowning of King Kalakauka of Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1883. During his long career he has been stationed, among other places, at the Brooklyn navy yard and also the Newport training station. For a time, too, he was executive officer of the United States transport "Fern," and was aboard the "Newark" in 1898 when she trans- ported the American marines to Cuba, in 1898. Mr. Mclaughlin is a thirty-third degree Ma- son, president of the Maine Society of Wash-
ington, District of Columbia, in 1909-10, a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian in religious preference. He married (first) in November, 1881, Jessie R. Cole, of Washing- ton, a descendant of Arthur Middleton, of South Carolina, one of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence. She died in August, 1892, and he married (second) Theodora, daughter of Rev. J. B. North, of Washington. Mr. McLaughlin has three children, all born of his first marriage: I. Edna Middleton, born February 19, 1885. 2. Stanley Briggs, Sep- tember 21, 1887. 3. Frances Alice, August 26, 1890.
BLAIR The earliest of the Blair family of Scotland (of which Hugh Blair (1718-1800), Scottish di- vine, licensed as a minister of the church of Scotland in 1741, minister of the Canongate church, Edinburgh, 1743-58, of the High Church of Edinburgh, 1758-1800, professor of Rhetorical Belles-Lettres University of Edin- burgh, 1760-1762, regius professor, 1762-82, distinguished author and doctor of divinity, is a distinguished member) to come to America was Dr. James Blair ( 1656-1743). He was an Anglican clergyman in Edinburgh, Scotland, and removed to Virginia in 1685 to become commissary of the bishop of London for the provinces of Maryland and Virginia. He was instrumental in procuring for William and Mary College in Williamsburg its charter, February 14, 1691, and he was the first presi- dent of this now ancient college. With him came his brother, Dr. Archibald Blair, the father of Judge John Blair (1689-1771), who was president of the council of Virginia, and acting governor of the colony, and grand- father of Justice John Blair, 1732-1800, jus- tice of the United States supreme court, 1789- 96; James Blair, attorney general of Kentucky, the father of Francis Preston Blair ( 1791- 1876), the eminent statesman, and his son, Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821-1875), and Montgomery Blair (1813-1883), are of the same family. The New Jersey family came from John Blair, a Scotch Presbyterian who came from Scotland between 1730 and 1740, and was the grandfather of John Insley Blair (1802-1899), who gave during his lifetime over $1,000,000 to educational institutions, in- cluding $150,000 to Princeton University, and $50,000 to Lafayette College, and when he died his fortune was computed to be $75,- 000,000. The Blair family in New England came from James Blair (q. v.), the Scotch immigrant of 1738.
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(I) James Blair, with his wife, Jane (Todd) Blair, came to New England in 1738, having but recently been married, and they settled in Wiscasset, Maine. They had a family of eleven children born to them, the oldest while on a passage to America, and the others in Wiscasset, Lincoln county, Maine. The order of their birth was as follows: I. Robert (q. v.). 2. James Jr., married Mehitable Robin- son, who died October 7, 1812, and he mar- ried as his second wife Mary, widow of a Mr. Monroe, on February 2, 1815; he had seven children by his first wife, and one child by his second; Mary (Monroe) Blair died March 28, 1838, aged fifty-eight years, and James Blair Jr. died March 28, 1828. 3. Nancy, married, December 5, 1780, Thomas Stinson, and died September 25, 1830. 4. John, born in 1760, married (first) Hannah Russ, Octo- ber 7, 1780; she was born November 17, 1757, and died November 16, 1782, leaving no chil- dren ; married (second) March 28, 1783, Mar- tha Carlton, who bore him seven children ; married (third) September 17, 1801, Eliza- beth, widow of Pushard Marson, who bore him five children. 5. Polly, or Mary, married, June 7, 1792, Richard Knowles. 6. Jane, married, September 20, 1785, Joseph Atkins, and had eight children. 7. William, married, September 19, 1790, Mary Bean and (second) February 23, 1793, Rebecca Knowles.
8. Thomas, married Polly Lung. 9. Sarah, or Sally, married, May 3, 1791, Charles Perry. 10. Margaret or Peggy, married, October 31, 1802, Francis Norris. II. Alexander, mar- ried, January 7, 1808, Elizabeth Pollard.
(II) Robert, eldest son of James and Jane (Todd) Blair, was born at sea on the pas- sage of his parents to America in 1738. He married Charity Robinson Knight, of Bow- doinham, Maine, and they had six children born in Woolwich, as follows: I. Jane, mar- ried, May 28, 1815, Alfred Stinson. 2. Mar- tha, married, April 25, 1820, James Mains. 3. Sarah Todd (q. v.). 4. Margaret, married Rufus Stinson. 5. Charlotte, married Benja- min Fowle. 6. Charles, married Sophia Libby.
(III) Sarah Todd, daughter of Robert and Charity Robinson (Knight) Blair, was born in Woolwich, Maine, May, 1786, married John Blair and had two children, John (q. v.) and Daniel Blair. John Blair, the father of these children, died, and his widow married Sam- uel Higgins, of Bowdoinham, Maine, and they had two children, Mary Elizabeth (q. v.) and Ephraim Higgins.
(IV) John, eldest son of John and Sarah Todd (Blair) Blair, was born in Wiscasset,
Maine, in 1810. He married Isabel Staples, of Topsham, Maine, and their children were: Charles Albert (q. v.), Elizabeth Plummer, Cora Lena and John. John Blair was a farmer and carpenter, and resided with his family first at Woolwich and subsequently at Richmond, Maine.
(IV) Mary Elizabeth Higgins, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Todd (Blair) Higgins, was married to Captain Reuben Mooers, of Pitt- ston, Maine, and they had six children: I. Albion King, married Frances Weston. 2. Ella M., married Charles R. Donnell, of Bath, Maine; children : Florence E. and Charles J. 3. Mary E., married George Sanford; chil- dren : May B., Harold A., Euna R., Blanche and Joseph R .; Euna R. married Stephen Bunker, of Bar Harbor; children: Jennette, Paul S. and Ruth Bunker. 4. Annie L., un- married. 5. Lillie M., married Charles Al- bert Blair, of Bath. 6. Lula E., married Frank Haggett, of Bath, Maine, and resided in that city ; child, Eric Blair.
(V) Charles Albert, eldest son of John and Isabel (Staples) Blair, was born in Richmond, Maine, December 16, 1856. He has a common school education. He worked as a boy on tug- boats on the river, and at the age of eighteen went to sea, and in 1876 was made captain of a tugboat. From that time he has been con- tinuously a master mariner, and from 1898 in command of coastwise steamers, including the swift and elegantly equipped turbine steamer "Yale," launched in 1907, and having a speed of twenty-three knots per hour, and plying between Boston and New York by the out- side route and between Boston and Bath. He had previously commanded the steamers "Bay State" and "Governor Dingley," plying be- tween Portland and Boston, and the steamer "Ransom B. Fuller" plying between Boston and Bath. He has had charge of the trial trips of the United States battleships launched at the Bath Iron Works (Limited) in their various trials of speed and endur- ance, before being accepted by the gov- ernment. This has placed him in temporary command of the United States battleship "Georgia," the United States scout ship "Ches- ter," and others included in the present United States naval fleet. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 934. Captain Blair married, De- cember 25, 1879, Lillie M., daughter of Cap- tain Reuben and Mary Elizabeth (Higgins) Mooers, his wife's mother and his own father being half brother and sister. No children were born of this marriage.
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William Harrison Schoppee,
SCHOPPEE born Gilman, son of Richard E. and Sally ( Weston) Gil- man, of Jonesboro, Washington county, Maine, was legally adopted by his uncle, Francis Schoppee, when he was a boy, and was there- after legally William Harrison Schoppee. He was married in 1868 to Antoinette, daughter of Levi and Delia (Watts) Farnsworth, and their children, all born in Jonesboro, were: I. James, November 2, 1869, married Mary Atherton Hallowell ; was a millman. 2. Albert Dana, January 30, 1874, became a farmer. 3. Frank Harvey (q. v.). 4. Fannie, who died young.
(II) Frank Harvey, third child of William Harrison and Antoinette (Farnsworth) Schoppee, was born in Jonesboro, Maine, June 23, 1879. He was educated in the public school of Jonesboro and at Westbrook Semi- nary, Portland, Maine. He returned to Jones- boro, where he found his first employment in a lumber mill and as a lumberman in the Maine woods. March 14, 1907, he opened a general store for the sale of guns and gunners' sup- plies, adding to it stationery and small wares, fruit, confectionery, tobacco and cigars, in fact such goods as met the needs of the tour- ists who entered the Maine woods from Jones- boro every summer, as well as the other army of lumbermen who laid in a winter supply when entering the woods to spend the winter there, maintaining also a telephone station for his convenience and his customers. In 1907 he was appointed postmaster of Jonesboro, the business of the office growing to the dignity of a presidential postoffice and he received his appointment direct from President Roosevelt. He was made a member of the Ben Hur Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Machias, Maine, and of Jonesboro, Maine, Lodge No. 357, Na- tional Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. His church affiliation is with the Universalist de- nomination and his political faith that of the Republican party. His ancestry embraces the Weston. Gilman and Watts families.
(I) Samuel Watts came to Mas- WATTS sachusetts Bay Colony, 1635-40, at the time the new settlers came from England to the Colony to the number of upwards of three hundred souls.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) Watts, was a deputy from the district of Maine to the general court of Massachusetts, 1704-05. He married Abigail, only surviving child of Thomas and Hannah (Emerson) Dustan. Hannah (Emerson) Dustan, born probably in
1660, was taken captive by the Indians at Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1697. Hannah and her nurse, Mary Neff, were spared the toma- hawk that killed her infant in her arms, scarcely a week old. Many of the inhabitants of the place shared the fate of Hannah Dus- tan's eighth child. At her earnest solicitation her husband had fled to a place of safety with their seven elder children. The two women were marched through the snow without shoes and in the dense wilderness day after day until they reached the wigwam of the Indian chief on an island near the present city of Con- cord, New Hampshire, and known thereafter as Dustan Island. In the company of Indians who were her captors was a white boy, Samuel Leonardson, who had been captured by the Indians at Worcester, Massachusetts, a year before, and with this boy as an ally, Hannah Dustan determined to escape. She took ad- vantage of a dark night, and the three cap- tives, finding the Indians sleeping soundly, se- cured each a tomahawk, and Mrs. Dustan suc- ceeded in scalping the nine braves of the party, while Leonard killed the chief, while a badly wounded Indian boy and a squaw escaped in the darkness. The victors then possessed them- selves of the guns, tomahawks and scalps of the slain Indians, and provisioning one canoe, they sank the others and proceeded to make their way down the river ; on reaching Haver- hill she was joyed to find her husband and seven children safe. On learning of the powers of the captive whites, the general court voted Mrs. Dustan and Samuel Leonardson each $250, and Mrs. Dustan presented the trophies she had so bravely won to Governor William Stoughton. In 1874 the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts united in erecting at Haverhill a granite monument on the bronze tablets of which were inscribed the names of Hannah Dustan, Mary Neff and Samuel Leonardson, with bas-reliefs of the scenes that called the monument in existence, the whole surmounted by an heroic statue of the chief heroine. The seventh child of Thom- as and Hannah (Emerson) Dustan married John Watts, a relative of Samuel Watts, who himself married Abigail, the eighth of the thirteen children who lived to reach maturity. Children of Samuel and Abigail Watts: Sam- uel, Hannah, Thomas, Joseph, Abigail, Mary. The mother of these children died May 5, 1727.
(III) Captain Samuel, son of Samuel and Abigail (Dustan) Watts, was born in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, August 16, 1716. He was a captain in the colonial army during the
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French and Indian wars, his service extending over a period of seven years. His commis- sion to the captaincy, which bears date of more than a hundred years, he always preserved. It was in 1903 in the possession of Captain Samuel Watts, of Jonesboro, Maine, as was also the muster roll of the company which he commanded, and both, having always been kept in the original tin box or case, are in a tolerably good state of preservation and can be read with but little difficulty. The improve- ment in the art of printing and manufacture of paper of the present day compared with what existed upwards of a century ago, rend- ers these papers interesting relics of the past. In the same tin box or case is another commis- sion to the captaincy issued by Thomas Hutch- inson, "Lieutenant Governor and Commander- in-Chief of his Majesty's forces in the Massa- chusetts Bay," to serve in the regiment of foot whereof John Whitcomb was colonel. This bears date, the Ioth day of June, 1760, and is signed in the handwriting of Governor Hutch- inson, also by A. Oliver, secretary of the province. In the year 1759 he accompanied General Wolfe on his expedition for the reduc- tion of Quebec, and commanded a company of forty-one privates, four secretaries and four corporals, in Colonel Whitcomb's regiment. About 1760-62 Captain Watts removed from Haverhill to Falmouth, now Portsmouth, or Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He resided there but a few years, as in 1769, in company with a large number of families, he settled on Chand- ler's river, now Jonesboro. He built a log house on what has ever since been known as the Watts' lands, and devoted himself to clear- ing his fields and farming in the summers, and in the winter to lumbering. Captain Watts married Elsie Bean. Children: Samuel, born February, 1756, died March, 1849; Hannah, see forward; David, 1761; Betsey, 1764; El- sie, 1767; Abigail, 1780, died 1852; Sally, 1783, died 1838; Thomas, 1786.
(IV) Hannah, eldest daughter of Captain Samuel Watts, was born in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, November 22, 1758, died in Jones- boro, Washington county, Maine, December 12, 1855. In October, 1774, she married Jo- siah Weston, who was born at Falmouth, Maine, July 22, 1756, died in August, 1827. He came to Chandler's River some time be- fore 1772. After his marriage, which was performed by the Rev. James Lyon, they set- tled on a farm in Jonesboro, which he cul- tivated and occupied until his death. He served in the revolutionary war. Subsequently he became a mill owner and did considerable
lumbering at Chandler's River. He was a very active and industrious man, and in hunting excursions after moose and deer he generally excelled, as his bodily strength enabled him to endure great fatigue. In religious faith he was a Baptist, having united with the church in Columbia as early as 1807. He was bap- tized at Epping, and from that time after- wards continued a member of the society in good standing. In religious views Mrs. Wes- ton was no bigot; her faith was of a liberal order. A monument was erected to her mem- ory and placed over her grave at Jonesboro ; it was mainly paid for by contributions of descendants. On it is inscribed the follow- ing: "This stone was erected June 12, 1902, under the direction of the Hannah Weston Chap- ter, Daughters American Revolution, Machias, Me. In memory of Hannah ( Watts) Weston, wife of Josiah Weston, born in Haverhill, Mass., Nov. 22, 1758, died in Jonesboro, Dec. 12, 1855. She was a woman of great courage and bravery. She manifested it during the battle at Machias on June 12, 1775, by col- lecting ammunition and carrying it through the wilderness to aid the citizens in defense of the town." Children of Josiah and Hannah (Watts) Weston, born in Jonesboro, Maine : I. Eliza, born October, 1775. 2. Hannah, Feb- ruary, 1778, died 1779, being burned in the house. 3. Hannah, February, 1780. 4. Susan, September, 1783. 5. Betsey, November, 1785. 6. Elsie, April, 1788. 7. Aphia, February, 1790. 8. Sophia, May, 1792. 9. Frances, De- cember, 1794. 10. Phoebe, August, 1797, died 18II. II. Sally, November, 1799, married Richard E. Gilman, and their son, William Harrison, was adopted by Francis Schoppee, of Jonesboro, and his name changed to William Harrison Schoppee as above related. 12. Amelia, October, 1802. 13. Joseph, April, 1806.
JEWETT The genealogy of the Jewett family has been traced to one Henri de Juatt, a knight of the first Crusaders. Being Huguenots, the family fled from religious persecution to England, where some of its members still reside. In ancient records the name appears as Juett, Juit, Jewit, and in various other forms, but in all cases the spelling preserves the pro- nunciation. The record of the Jewett family in America begins with the settlement of Rowley, Massachusetts. In 1638 about sixty families led by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers came from Yorkshire, England, and began the set- tlement of Rowley early the following season.
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Among these pioneers were the brothers, Maximilian and Joseph Jewett, men of sub- stance from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, and they were the ancestors of all the Jewetts in this country, a large family, which includes many members of distinction in various walks of life. Maximilian Jewett was the first dea- con of the church in Rowley, was several times a representative at the general court, and many of his descendants were well known in New England history as prominent divines, au- thors, journalists and statesmen. Others were active on the field of battle, among them Moses Jewett, who participated in the revolutionary war. These brothers were the sons of Ed- ward Jewett, of Bradford, England, whose will was dated February 16, 1614, and proved by his widow, Mary (Taylor) Jewett, July 12, 1615.
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