Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 3

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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(VI) James, second son of Edward (5) and Mary (Bassett) Sturges, was born in Yarmouth, October 6, 1776, died November 5, 1839. He married (first) Hannah Faught and (second) in 1813, Nancy A. Packard, born April 27, 1794, died September 18, 1873. Children by the first marriage were: I. John S., born October 17, 1799. 2. Samuel, June 2, 1807. 3. Ambrose, 1809. 4. James, May 7, 1810. Children by the second marriage were: 5. Ira Daggett, November 20, 1814. 6. Nancy Ann, September 27, 1817. 7. Han- nah E., November 10, 1818. 8. Caroline Ma- tilda, August 27, 1822. 9. Emmeline P., April 15, 1825. IO. Harriet Angelia, April 10, 1832. II. Esther. Kendall, December 18, 1836, died February, 1853. (Four daughters who died young. )


(VII) Samuel, second son of James and Hannah (Faught) Sturges, was born in Vas- salboro, June 2, 1807. He married, March 6, 1829, Lois Danforth, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Cross) Colman, and granddaughter of John and Lois (Danforth) Colman, of Newbury. Her immigrant ancestor was To- bias Colman, born in Marlboro, Wiltshire, England, in 1602, who came to Cape Cod with the colonists in 1630 and settled on Nantucket. Tobias Colman had a son Thomas, born March 16, 1672, who married Phoebe Peerson and had a son Benjamin, born February 6, 1720, who married Annie Brown, born April 2, 1724, and had a son John, whose son Joseph was the father of Lois Danforth Colman. Lois (Colman) Sturges was born April 26, 1800, and died in Lewiston, Maine, Septem- ber 5, 1883. Her husband, Samuel, died at Vassalboro, April 12, 1843. Their children, all born in Vassalboro, were: I. Mercy Ann, born September 6, 1830. 2. Hannah Jane, November 2, 1832. 3. Almon Packard, March 6, 1835. 4. Albert Henry, May 2, 1837. 5. Perley Franklin, October 31, 1839. 6. Alonzo Walton, June 16, 1842.


(VIII) Alonzo Walton, fourth and young- est son of Samuel and Lois D. (Colman) Sturges, was born in Vassalboro, June 16, 1842, and resided in Lewiston. He married, April 4, 1867, Frances Ann Murray, of Greene, Maine, born August II, 1841. She


was the great-granddaughter of Peletiah War- ren, a soldier of the revolutionary army in Captain John Lane's company from July 29, to December 31, 1775; roll call dated "Cape Ann; residence North Yarmouth, Maine"; and was the granddaughter of Nathaniel War- ren, soldier of the war of 1812. Peletiah War- ren was a cousin of General Joseph Warren, of Bunker Hill. Alonzo Walton Sturges was educated in the public schools of Augusta and Lewiston, Maine, and the Maine State Semi- nary (now Bates College). He early learned the printer's trade, but in 1862-66 was en- gaged in mercantile business in Belmont and Boston, Massachusetts, Patterson and Jersey City, New Jersey, and in New York City. In 1866, at the request of the late Congressman Nelson Dingley, of Maine, he resumed work on the Lewiston Journal and in 1868 became foreman of the paper. In 1886-87 he was a member of Lewiston city council and was in- strumental in establishing the Lewiston Mu- nicipal Electric Lighting Plant. He was a member of the Lewiston school board, 1891-97, and a member of the committee on Text- books. He was the compiler and publisher of the Sturges Genealogy, and was a mem- ber of the Mayflower. Society. He died Au- gust 12, 1907, at Old Orchard Beach, where for more than twenty-five years he had spent his summers. He was a member, active worker and trustee of the Hammond Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Lewiston. The children of Alonzo Walton and Frances A. Sturges were two sons: Ralph Alonzo and Leigh Francis.


(IX) Ralph Alonzo, older son of Alonzo Walton and Frances A. (Murray) Sturges, was born in Lewiston, April 29, 1871. He was educated in the public schools of Lewiston, and from there went to Bates College and was graduated with first honors in mathematics, with the degree of A. B., in 1893. In 1893- 94 he was principal of the high school at Winthrop, Maine, and in 1894-95 of the high school at East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was graduated from the law school of Columbia University, where he was president of his class, in 1898; was admitted to the bar in June of that year and began practice in the office of Bowers and Sands, New York, after three years practicing independently. He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York; New York County Law- yers' Association; State Bar Association ; American Bar Association ; charter member of Maine Society of New York ; charter member of Bates Alumni Association of New York


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City; member of Columbia University Club; University Club; New York Yacht Club; Re- publican Club of New York City; and is also a Free Mason. He married, April 10, 1901, Edith Masury, of New York City, daughter of the late John W. Masury, the pioneer paint manufacturer of New York. They have four children : Ralph Alonzo Jr., Grace Frances, Edith Mary and John Masury.


(IX) Leigh Francis, younger son of Alonzo Walton and Frances A. (Murray) Sturges, was born in Lewiston, Maine, April 3, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of that place and was graduated from the Nichols Latin School (president of his class) in 1893. He entered Bowdoin, College, but did not finish his course, leaving to enter upon the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege in 1900, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After serving as interne at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Utica, New York, for one year, he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession in New York City. He is instructor in nervous and mental dis- eases and electro-therapeutics at New York Post Graduate Medical School; visiting phy- sician to Post Graduate Hospital and chief of X-Ray Clinic; also late attending surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Clinic. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, New York State Medical Society, New York County Medical Society, American Medical Association, Eastern Medical Society, Greater New York Medical Association, American Roentgen Ray Society and American Electro- Therapeutic Association. He is also a mem- ber of Sagamore Lodge, No. 371, F. and A. M., New York City ; B. P. O. E., No. I, New York City; and Maine Society of New York.


The several families of CRAWFORD Crawfords who, early in the eighteenth century, set- tled in New Hampshire were of Scotch origin, and were descendants of very ancient ances- tors. The surname Crawford originally was derived from the barony of Crawford, in Lanarkshire, which had long been held by feudal lords who eventually took their title from it. The first person bearing this sur- name of whom there is any account in the public records was Johannes de Crawford, who is frequently mentioned in the Registry of Kelso, about 1140, and from him has been traced a long line of descendants in England and Ireland, as well as in Scotland. During


the reign of Alexander II, Sir Reginald de Craufurd was appointed heritable sheriff of the shire of Ayr (Ayrshire). His family ap- pears to have been closely associated with the history of Scotland down to Alexander, son of Sir Malcolm and Margaret (Cunningham) Crauford, who was a seafaring man and owner of the ship in which he sailed. About 1612 he went to Ireland, and there his descendants became numerous. It is impossible to trace the course of the family in that country, but it is reasonable to assume that most of the persons of the surname in the region were his descendants.


(I) George Crawford, immigrant, was born in Leitrim, in the north of Ireland, in 1787, of Scotch ancestors, and came to America probably about the time of the second war with the mother country. He lived for a time in Bethel, Maine, and his name appears there in December, 1815, as one of the petitioners to the governor and council of Massachusetts, praying "that they, together with such others as may lawfully join within the bounds of the first regiment of the second brigade, be or- ganized into a company of artillery and au- thorized to elect their officers and fill up the company." In 1818 he bought an acre of land in the center of the town of Bethel, paying therefor the small sum of sixty-five dollars. He removed to Durham, however, before 1820. Mr. Crawford was a man of middle age when he united with the Methodist Epis- copal church in Durham, "and his devout con- versation attested the thorough transformation of his character." He was a well-informed man and had a remarkable family, four of his sons having become clergymen of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. His first wife, Eliza Ann Lyttle, was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1790, and died in Durham, December II, 1856. He married (second) December 6, 1860, Catherine Newell. Children: I. Ann, married, March 22, 1837, Isaac Graves, of Topsham. 2. James, died in infancy. 3. John, married, September 4, 1842, Sarah A. Bon- ney, of Durham, and lived in Brunswick, Maine. 4. Thomas, married, December 18, 1842, Thankful D. Johnson, and died July 25, 1852, aged thirty-four years, seven months. 5. Rev. George C., died September 25, 1878, aged fifty-eight years; married (first) Febru- ary 15, 1848, Mercy H. Booker, and (second) Mrs. Julia A. (Varney) Coombs, who died April 2, 1888. 6. Rev. William Henry, men- tioned below. 7: Lemuel, lost at sea. 8. David F., died September 14, 1854, aged twenty- eight years; was studying for the ministry


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and preached occasionally. 9. Rev. James Barbour, died March -31, 1869 ; married, June 2, 1855, Harriet A. Woodside.


(II) Rev. William Henry Crawford, son of George and Eliza Ann (Lyttle) Crawford, was born in Pownal, Maine, October 4, 1821, and. was reared in Durham. After a thorough ele- mentary education he studied for the minis- try, and was admitted to the Maine confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church. He afterward served on several important charges in the eastern part of the state until 1870, when he was superannuated. "He was a very godly, useful and beloved pastor and preach- er." He died February 18, 1889. He mar- ried, July 7, 1848, Julia A. Whittier, born in Athens, Maine, October 19, 1825, daughter of Artemas N. Whittier (see Whittier VII). Children : I. George Artemas, born April 29, 1849. 2. Carrie C., Wiscasset, Maine, July 20, 1853, lives in Camden, Maine. 3. Melzer Thomas, Waldoboro, Maine, April 24, 1858; married Mary Howard, and had Donald, born April 27, 1899. 4. William Morrison, Hamp- den, Maine, February 15, 1865, now pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, Spring- field, Massachusetts.


(III) George Artemas, eldest son of Rev. William Henry and Julia A. (Whittier) Craw- ford, was born April 29, 1849, at Calais, Maine, and received his early education at the public schools and the E. M. C. Seminary at Bucksport, Maine; he graduated from Boston University in 1878, with degrees of A. B., and later A. M. and Ph. D., and in 1890 received the honorary degree of D. D. from the New Orleans University. He served for a short time in the civil war, though very young, and May 10, 1870, received commission of chap- lain in the United States navy, being retired March 2, 1890, on account of the disability incurred in line of duty. During this time he served in the West Indies on the "Severn" and "Worcester," in the East Indies on the "Richmond," also at the navy yard at Charles- town, Massachusetts, and on the receiving ship "Wabash." Much of this time he was in active service, and at the time of the Spanish- American war he re-entered service for a time. Rev. George O. Crawford has also spent many years of useful work as pastor of various churches, his charges having been : St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church, Temple Street, Broomfield Street Church, all in Bos- ton ; Methodist Episcopal churches in Pittston and Waterville, Maine; also at South Law- rence and Woburn, Massachusetts. He is an earnest and gifted speaker, and his wide ex-


pericnce and many years of travel have been of great value in his chosen field of labor. He has a large circle of friends and is a man of pleasing and genial disposition. He takes an interest in the affairs of his day, and is treas- urer of the National Automatic Heater Com- pany. He belongs to the following clubs and societies : Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 161, at Woburn, Massachusetts; Boston- ian Society ; Sons of the American Revolution ; Society of Colonial Wars; Naval and Mili- tary Order of Spanish-American War, and he is a Royal Arch Mason. He is prominent in Beta Theta Pi, one of the largest and most influential college fraternities in the United States. Rev. George A. Crawford married (first) September 3, 1872, Mary E., daughter of John M. Patten, of Waldoboro, Maine; by this marriage three children were born. He married (second) May 21, 1904, Clara L. Loveland. His children are: I. Howard Tri- bou, born June 16, 1874, in Gardiner, Maine; married Nell Tallant Cutler and has a son, Howard Tribou Jr., born April 30, 1908. 2. Kendrick Patten, November 27, 1875, in Chel- sea, Massachusetts; married (first) Susan Young, and had one daughter, Evelyn L., born May 1, 1898, and died January 2, 1905; mar- ried (second) Hattie W. Muirhead. 3. Tru- man Kimpton, June 13, 1878, in Charlestown, Massachusetts.


In the maternal line, George A. Crawford is descended from Thomas Whittier, the immi- grant (q. v.), through Nathaniel (II), Reuben (III), Nathaniel (IV), and


(IV) Joseph, fifth son of Reuben and De- borah (Pillsbury) Whittier, was born May 2, 1721, at Salisbury, Massachusetts; he mar- ried, January 13, 1743, Martha, daughter of Hon. John Evans, of Nottingham, New Hampshire, and they lived in Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts. Their children were: Deborah, born September 4, 1744; Dorothy, November 30, 1745; Sarah, September 18, 1747; John, June 19, 1749; Reuben, September 19, 1751; Chase, October 6, 1753 ; and Joseph.


(V) Joseph (2), fourth and youngest son of Joseph (1) and Martha (Evans) Whittier, was born October 31, 1755, at Salisbury, Mas- sachusetts, and died May 18, 1833, at Solon, Maine. He removed with his brothers to War- ren, New Hampshire, though he remained there but a short time. He enlisted in the revolution as private in Colonel Gilman's regi- ment, September, 1777, and was also on the payroll of Captain Porter Kimball's company, in the regiment of Colonel Stephen Evans, that marched from the state of New Hamp-


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shire and joined the northern continental army at Saratoga in September, 1777, discharged November 30, time two months and sixteen days. His name also appears on the payroll of Captain Joseph Parson's company, Colonel Moses Nichol's regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, Rhode Island Expedition, in Au- gust, 1778, entered August 5, discharged Au- gust 27. He afterward married, March 7, 1778, Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Lydia (Eastman) Chandler, of Epping, New Hamp- shire, sister of General John Chandler, and they settled in Epping, where the five eldest of his nine children were born, and then they removed to Solon, Maine. Their children were: John, born April 24, 1779, married Abigail Titus; Enoch, November 12, 1780; Joseph, October 13, 1782; Nathaniel, Novem- ber 17, 1786; Lydia Claramond, August 18, 1784; Jemima; Martha; Artemas N. and Hannah.


(VI) Artemas N., fifth and youngest son of Joseph (2) and Lydia (Chandler) Whit- 1820, Alice Cass, daughter of Captain Moses and Mary (Page) Cass. Children: Sarah, tier, was born June 4, 1795, at Haverhill, New Hampshire, and died in Cornville, Maine, June 20, 1876. He lived most of his life at Cornville, Maine. He married, June 2, Moses, a son Francis, died young, Julia A., Lewis Cass, McKendree, Ploma M., married (second) March 15, 1865, Sophia Fox.


(VII) Julia A., second daughter of Arte- mas N. and Alice (Cass) Whittier, was born October 19, 1825, at Athens, Maine; she mar- ried, July 7, 1848, William Henry Crawford. (See Crawford II.)


In the early English and New OAKES England records the surname now almost universally written Oakes is found written Oak, and Oaks, as well as Oakes, but however the name appears in New England it has reference to some descendant of Nathaniel Oak, whom tradition says came from Wales to America as a cabin boy on an English ship which foundered nine miles off the New England coast, and he alone of the entire crew was saved, by swim- ming ashore. Notwithstanding the fact that he may have come from Wales it is under- stood that Nathaniel Oak was a descendant of stood that he was a descendant of English ancestors.


(I) Nathaniel Oak, born about 1645, was, a boy of about fifteen years when he came in the ship which was wrecked off the coast of New England, between 1660 and 1665. While strug-


gling against the waters in his heroic and suc- cessful attempt to swim ashore from the foun- dered ship young Oak "solemnly promised the Lord if He would preserve him to get to land he would never go onto the water again." This promise he sacredly kept, for never afterward could he be persuaded even to cross Charles river, in a boat, but always would go around by way of "the neck." ; It is said that after safely reaching the land young Oak, was bound out to a farmer to earn the means of his support, and that on one occasion, while picking up pine knots for his master in the forest, he was attacked by a catamount (wild -. cat), and that he slew the animal with a heavy pine knot which he happened to hold in his hand when attacked. The master gave the lad the bounty money received for the hide of the wildcat, and this he invested in sheep, which he let out for their increase, and thus was laid the foundation of his own subsequent fortune; for ultimately he became possessed of a fortune, and his name is mentioned in the records sometimes as yeoman, and planter and also as gentleman, the latter indicating some- thing of the standing he attained among the townsmen and the success which was the re- ward of his industry and thrift. He served as a soldier of the early colonial wars, and after King Philip's war he was one of the garrison in 1692 and again in 1707. He mar- ried (first) December 14, 1686, Mehitable, daughter of John and Ann Rediat. She was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1646, and died November 25, 1702. He married (sec- ond) May 20, 1703, Mary, daughter of Adam and Hannah (Hayward) Halloway, and widow of Jacob Farrar, who was killed in King Philip's war, 1676. Nathaniel Oak had eight children: I. Nathaniel, born June 7, I704. 2. William, February 18, 1706, died 1723. 3. Hannah, December 27, 1707, died March 23, 1807. 4. Mary, March 31, 1710, died April 4, 1805. 5. Ann, September 9, 1712. 6. John, March 16, 1715, died 1752. 7. Jonathan, August 21, 1717. 8. George, February 15, 1720, died after 1777.


(II) Captain Jonathan Oaks, son of Na- thaniel and Mary (Holloway) Oak, was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, August 21, 1717, and died in Skowhegan, Maine, in 1784. He was a housesmith and farmer and lived in Westboro, Massachusetts, until about 1741. He was living in Bolton, Massachusetts, in 1744, and in Stow, Massachusetts, from 1745 to 1749. He held various town offices, such as trial juror, constable, tithingman, surveyor of highways, tax collector, and was called cap-


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tain.The tradition is that he was a soldier of the French and Indian wars, that he served under Wolf at Quebec, and that he made the coffin in which that soldier hero was buried. About 1750 he bought a valuable farm on Bare hill in the town of Harvard, Massachu- setts, built a mansion house, and. lived there until 1771, when he sold his lands in Massa- chusetts and secured by grant a large tract of land in Canaan, Maine, where he settled with his family in 1772. : The city of Skowhegan is built up partly on land originally owned by Captain Jonathan Oaks. He married (first) about 1740 Rebecca, daughter of Robert and Rebecca (Osgood) Barnard. She was born about 1725-27, and died before 1748. He married (second) January 2, 1749 (inten- tions), Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Wheeler. She was born February 15, 1727, and died November 23, 1750 .. He married (third) about 1751, Sarah Wheeler, sister of his second wife. She was born Au- gust 23, 1733, and died May 22, 1761. He married (fourth) April 23-6, 1762, Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail (Whitney) Rand. She was born November 14, 1736, and died in 1813. Captain Jonathan Oaks had in all sixteen children: I. Mary, born July 16, 1741, died September 13, 1794. 2. Lydia, born June 6, 1743, died 1802. 3. Eliza- beth, baptized November 25, 1751. 4. Sarah, born January 12, 1752. 5. Jonathan, born about 1754. 6. Rebecca, born about 1756. 7. John, born October 22, 1757-58, died in 1844; soldier of the revolution and served four en- listments. 8. Daniel, born about 1760-61 ; sol- dier of the revolution from 1777 to 1781. 9. Lois,' baptized October 23, 1763. 10. Levi, baptized October 23, 1763, died 1831. II. Millie, baptized September II, 1768, died 1783. 12. Solomon, born May 9, 1769, died Parkman, Maine, January 24, 1857. 13. Sy- bil, baptized November 19, 1769, died about 1845. 14. Abel, born' April 10, 1771. 15. Elder William, born June 4, 1774, died 1851. 16. Lucy, born December, 1776, died Decem- ber 27, 1852.


(III) Abel Oaks, son of Captain Jonathan and Abigail (Rand) Oaks, was born in Har- vard, Massachusetts, September 10, 1771, and died in Sangerville, Maine, December 21, 1856. He was an infant when his father re- moved to Maine, and in his business life was a farmer in Sangerville, where he settled about 1806-07. He married, at Canaan, Maine, November 23, 1792, Betsey Hamlin, born Gorham, Maine, May 22, 1770, died April 9, 1850. They had twelve children: I. Lucy,


born Canaan, March 28, 1793. 2. Simeon, born Sangerville, December 21, 1794. 3. Stephen, born February 28, 1797, died. May 29, 1874- 4. Abel, born March 22, 1798, died February 1,2, 1858. 5. James, born March, 24, 1800, died in Foxcroft, Maine. 6. Samuel, born, Novem- ber 27, 1801, died December 24, 1884: 1 7. Eliza, born August 10, 1803, died October. 31, 1854. 8. William, born May 18, 1804-06. 9. Ebenezer Gardner, born October, 16, 1808, died July 26, 1882. 10. Rev. John Ames, born Sangerville, June 28, 1809, died August 26, 1886. II. Lovina, born July, 1812, died March 16, 1873. 12. Daniel, born July, 1815, drowned in, 1836.


(IV) Colonel William Oakes, son of Abel and Betsey (Hamlin) Oaks, was born, in Canaan, Maine, May 18, 1804, or 1806, and died February 28, 1888. He was a man of much prominence and influence, a Mason of high standing in the order, and a colonel of the state militia. He went to California and was one of the pioneers of the far west, al- though he did not live permanently in that region. In 1829 he married Sarah Partridge, who died April 1, 1852, having borne her hus- band five children : Emily, Abigail, Florence, Drucilla, who married Isaac Fairbrother (see Fairbrother), and Corydon.


This surname is found among ROUNDS the descriptive ones, Bigge, Small, Little, Heigh, Haupt, Strong, Low, etc., and in England it is usu- ally spelled without the final s. A Robert Rounds is recorded in the calendar proceed- ings in chancery (time of Elizabeth), and the Round family were located in Kent and Ox- ford counties, England. Savage gives the name of early date as Roundy, Rounday and Roundee. He records a "Samuel Roundy of Salem, Mass., married November, 1671, Ann Bush and died 1678 (as the inventory of his estate was made that year)," and adds, "per- haps Mark Round, one of the soldiers, etc., was his son," but this statement is erroneous, as Mark was engaged in King Philip's war, 1675, but four years after the marriage of Samuel.


(I) Mark Rounds, the immigrant ancestor (as far as known), was probably born in England. He was a gunsmith, and is first on record as one of those who marched from Sudbury, Massachusetts, in King Philip's war, February 15, 1675, to Marlboro. In 1681 he is credited under Captain James Oliver, and his name appears in the list of soldiers in garri- son at Fort Mary, February, 1699, and also


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"among the wounded of Capt. Oliver's com- pany that are at Rhode Island, December 19, 1675." Mark Rounds was located at Fal- mouth (Portland), Maine, July 20, 1716. His will, dated 1720, proved 1729, shows that he left a widow Sarah, and had three sons: Jo- seph, George and Samuel.


(II) Samuel, youngest son of Mark and Sarah Rounds, was born in Falmouth, per- haps in 1717, and settled in Narragansett township No. I (now' Buxton), Maine, in 1740, in the near vicinity of Gorham. He was in the Penobscot expedition under Captain Alexander McClennan, of Colonel Jonathan Whitney's regiment, in 1779. The name of his wife is not recorded. Their children were: Samuel (2), married Dorcas Edwards, lived at Buxton; Theodora, lived at Shapleigh, Maine; Joseph; Jonathan, married John Mc- Donald, of Buxton.


(III) Joseph, son of Samuel Rounds, was probably born in Buxton and resided in that town on "the Gore" near Gorham, where he died. He was a soldier of the revolution in Colonel Phinney's regiment, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. In May, 1775, he marched with the regiment to Cambridge and went thence to Ticonderoga. When the British troops evacuated Boston the next year, his regiment was the first to enter the town. He married Sarah Gerry, of York, Maine. Children : Joseph, Mark, Lemuel, James, Bet- sey and Polly. The names of Mark and Lem- uel Rounds also appear in the list of those who rendered revolutionary service.




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