Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine, Volume IV, Part 31

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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Ellen M. Crockett, born in Portland, April 25, 1838, daughter of Leonard and Frances Ellen (Talbot) Crockett, of Portland (see Crock- ett). Children: I. Alma Crockett, born Au- gust 2, 1859; unmarried. 2. Frances Talbot, died young. 3. Charles Cheney, next men- tioned.


(X) Charles Cheney, youngest child of Charles F. and Ellen M. (Crockett) Manning, was born in Baltimore, November 1, 1869. He graduated from the Maryland Agricultural College as a civil engineer in 1890. He' was employed as such one and a half years on the Western Maryland railroad. He is now in the United States engineer department of the army, at Portland, entering the government employ in 1898, under Major Roessler, the department having charge of the extensive fortifications and other works now in progress of construction. He is a member of the Maine Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He re- sides in Portland. He married, September 15, 1897, Mary Elizabeth White, born in Portland, May 27, 1873, daughter of James and Eliza- beth (Foster) White, of Portland. Children : Leonard Foster, born September 10, 1902; William Cheney, August 10, 1904; Margaret, January 7, 1906.


CHENEY In nearly every part of Eng- land this name is found, and it has been identified with the history of the United States from the earliest settlement.


(1) The founder of the family in America was John Cheney, who came with his wife Martha and four children to Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1635. He was a member of Rev. John Eliot's church, but removed in the latter part of 1636 to Newbury, where he was at once received in the church. He became a large landholder and was a very busy man, as indicated by the record of remission of a fine of two shillings for non-attendance at town meeting. This remission was voted April 21, 1638. His home was in the old town, and he was granted lot 50 in the "New Towne," on the "ffield" street, January 10, 1643. He took an active interest in affairs of the colony, and was one of ten who walked forty miles to Cam- bridge to take the freeman's oath, which was administered May 17, 1637. He was an active supporter of Governor Winthrop, and was chosen selectman in 1652-61-64. He was elected grand juror April 27, 1648, and was chosen on committees for executing various town business, such as laying out ways. He


died July 28, 1666, and the inventory of his estate shows him to have been a wealthy man for that day., His children were: Mary, Mar- tha, John, Daniel, Sarah, Peter, Lydia, Han- nah, Nathaniel and Elizabeth.


(II) Peter, third son and sixth child of John and Martha Cheney, was born about 1639, in Newbury, where he passed his life. On June 18, 1663, he bought of John Bishop, for two hundred and fifty pounds, a mill and house, with all appurtenances and riparian rights. On March 7, 1660, he proposed to the town meeting to erect a windmill if granted an acre of land for the purpose, and this propo- sition was accepted. November 4, 1693, he deeded to his son John one-half of his mill, dam and belongings, including fifty acres of land, and January 10, 1695, he deeded the other half to his son Peter. He died in Jan- uary, 1695. He married, May 14, 1663, Han- nah, daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Cut- ting) Noyes. She was born October 30, 1643, in Newbury, and survived her husband. She married (second) June 3, 1700, John Atkin- son, and died January 5, 1705. Her father was a son of Rev. William and Anne (Par- ker) Noyes, of Cholderton, England, the lat- ter a daughter of Rev. Robert Parker, a cele- brated preacher and author. The children of Peter and Hannah (Noyes) Cheney were : Peter, John, Nicholas, Hulda, Mary, Martha, Nathaniel (died young), Jemima, Nathaniel, Eldad, Hannah, Ichabod and Lydia.


(III) John (2), second son and child of Peter and Hannah (Noyes) Cheney, was born May 10, 1666, in Newbury, and became mas- ter of many mechanical operations. He was a house carpenter and millwright, a cloth- finisher and miller, and operated the mill pur- chased by his father shortly before his birth. He inherited from his uncle, Nathaniel Cheney, a considerable tract of land in Suf- field, Connecticut, which he sold a part in 1698, and the balance in 1723. On August 23, 1724, he was received with his wife in the church at Weston (Sudbury), and on the 27th of October, same year, he purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in that town, and one-half of this he deeded to his son John. The time of his residence in Wes- ton is indicated by his dismissal from the church there, July 26, 1730, and his admis- sion to the west parish of Newbury in 1731. He was subsequently dismissed from this so- ciety to the Second Church of Rowley, now Georgetown. He married, March 7, 1693, Mary, daughter of James and Mary (Wood) Chute. She was born September 16, 1674.


MANNING MANSE, BILLERICA, MASS. SAMUEL MANNING-1696.


CHENEY MANSION, NEWPORT, N. H.


HOME OF COL. WM. CHENEY, WHERE LAFAYETTE WAS ENTERTAINED IN 1824.


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Her father was a son of James, who was a son of Lionel Chute. John Cheney died Sep- tember 2, 1750, and was survived by his wife only eight days. Their children were: Ed- mund, Martha, Mary, Sarah, John and Ju- dith.


(IV) John (3), younger son and fifth child of John (2) and Mary (Chute) Cheney, was born May 23, 1705, in Newbury, and resided in that part of Weston now Sudbury. He was a large landholder in that town and the ad- joining one of Framingham. The record shows a purchase in the latter town of seventy- five acres November 15, 1729, the considera- tion being four hundred pounds. January 14, He inherited from his uncle, Nathaniel 1732, he purchased for two hundred twenty pounds ten shillings, a tract of forty-eight acres with buildings. November 8, 1729, he sold the land in Weston deeded to him by his father in 1724. Numerous sales are re- corded in Sudbury, Weston and Framingham, indicating that he had a large estate. He was a subscriber to "The Land Bank," and paid his subscription before December 22, 1740. July 3, 1750, he sold to his son John his home- stead in Sudbury, which had been the estate of his father-in-law, Noah Clap. Mr. Cheney was a member of Captain Josiah Brown's troop of horse, mustered June 4, 1739, and per- formed active service in quelling the Indians. In 1753 he was again in service, and was acci- dentally killed while loading a gun in garri- son at Georgetown, Maine, July 31, 1753. He married (first) in Weston (intention published October 2, 1725), Elizabeth, daughter of Simon and Elizabeth Dakin. She was born August 25, 1703, in Concord, and died June 13, 1730. They were received in the church at Framingham, February 4, 1728. Mr. Cheney married (second) December 25, 1730, Mary, daughter of Noah and Mary (Wright) Clap. She was admitted to the church in Sud- bury, October 3, 1731, and he was admitted January 31, 1733. Mary (Clap) Cheney died January 2, 1745, and he married (third) No- vember 15, 1745, Keziah Kendall, of Lancas- ter. She was received in the Sudbury church, October 26, 1745. After the death of Mr. Cheney she married John Tarp, and resided in Woolwich, Maine. Mr. Cheney's children were: Tristram, John, Elizabeth, Elias, Hes- ter, Ralph, Nathaniel Carter.


(V) Tristram, eldest son of John (3) and Elizabeth (Dakin) Cheney, was born October 14, 1726, in Weston, and grew up under the care of Deacon Noah Clap, the father of his stepmother, who regarded him much as a son


and made him his executor. He was a very active and vigorous man, and accumulated a handsome property. Much of his life was passed on the frontier, and he was always a leader. He was foremost in the settlement of a tract in Worcester, granted to Dorchester men who served in the military campaign of 1690. This settlement became the town of Ashburnham, in which Mr. Cheney was the first selectman, 1765, and moderator in 1767. He became a member of the church there by letter from Sudbury in 1763, and was on nu- merous important committees, and served as tithingman and deacon. After about ten years of residence at Ashburnham he moved to An- trim, New Hampshire, and helped to organize the church at Hillsborough, October 12, 1769. He was one of its first deacons. In 1798 he went to Walpole, this state, and about 1805.to St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He bought a farm in West Concord, Vermont, on which he re- sided until his death in December, 1816. He married, November 28, 1745, in Sudbury, Mar- garet, daughter of Edward Joyner. Their children were : Elizabeth, John, William, Mary, Sarah, Susannah and Elias.


(VI) William, second son of Tristram and Margaret (Joyner) Cheney, was born in Sud- bury, February 1, 1750, and grew to manhood in Ashburnham. His first residence of which we know, after reaching maturity, was Ac- worth, Cheshire county, New Hampshire. He bought a tract of land in the adjoining town of Marlow, September 18, 1778, and soon after made his home in one of the neighboring vil- lages4-Alstead, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was a revolutionary soldier, on the payroll of Captain Samuel Canfield's company, Colonel Benjamin Bellow's regiment, July 3, 1777, and September 21 following in Ashley's company among those "who went to reinforce the Northern Continental army at Saratoga, under command of General Gates." He enlisted "from Marloe," July 16, 1779, for one year, receiving £60 bounty and "billeting money." He died July 15, 1802. His widow and his son William administered on his es- tate June 29, 1803. By his wife Rebecca, sur- name unknown, he had children: William, "Lewman," Lucy, Margaret, Laura, Amasa and Rebecca.


(VII) Colonel William (2), eldest child of William (I) and Rebecca Cheney, was born in Alstead, New Hampshire, August 9, 1776. He learned the carpenter's trade, but soon be- came a merchant, and resided in Newport. In 1810 he built a block of stores, a part of which he occupied until his death. In 1815 he


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built a large public house known as Nettle- ton's Hotel. Three years later he erected a large building four stories high and one hun- dred and fifty feet long, called the "Tontine," designed for stores and mechanic shops. At about this time he sold the town the tract of land since used as a common. During the year 1815 he constructed the dam and canal which feed the upper tannery and the New- port and Eagle mills. On the canal he built a cotton factory and linseed oil mill, and a grist mill and a sawmill at the dam below. About the year 1819 he purchased all the waterpower at Sunapee Harbor, and built there a grist mill, sawmill and carding mill. Colonel Cheney had few educational advantages, but his indomitable energy and perseverance in all that he undertook, whether in private or pub- lic enterprises, brought him success. He had a generous heart. It is related of him that he once took a poor friendless old lady who was on the way to the poorhouse, into his own family, where she enjoyed all the hospitalities of his home for a long time. He was often moderator of the town meeting, and member of the board of selectmen of the town, and during the years 1816-1827 a representative to the state legislature. It was mainly through his efforts that a division of Cheshire county was effected, and Newport became the county seat of the new county of Sullivan. He was a friend of education, and assisted several young men who were fitting for college, and con- tributed generously to the support of the New- port Academy. He was a deacon of the Bap- tist church, to which he presented the ground for church and parsonage, and contributed largely toward the construction of the edifices. The bell was his own gift, a surprise to the society. He was an ardent lover of music, and in his earlier years played the violin. The Masonic body of which he was a member met for a long time in a hall in his residence. Passing through all the subordinate grades he became a colonel in the state militia. When, in 1824, Lafayette passed through the town, he was received by a large escort and conducted to the residence of Colonel Cheney, where he met the warm and enthusiastic congratulations of the people. He died of consumption, June 15, 1830, leaving the largest estate ever ad- ministered in town up to that time. He mar- ried, February, 1801, Tryphena, daughter of Phineas Hatch, who survived him many years. The Rev. Baron Stow, of Boston, in an obit- uary notice of her, said: "Naturally amiable, she was regarded by all as a model Christian wife and mother. Though of the wealthiest


family in town she seemed not to know it, and like a true lady mingled with the poor and the more fortunate as upon the same level, and thus won the hearts and commanded the respect of all." Their children were: Chloe, Philena, Persis Hatch, William Hutchinson, Tryphena, Sophia, George Hallett, Alice, Prentice, Charles Franklin and James Edwin.


(VIII) Sophia, fourth daughter of Colonel William and Tryphena (Hatch) Cheney, was born July 21, 1810, and married April 25, 1833, Franklin Manning, a merchant, of Portland, Maine. (See Manning VIII.)


CROCKETT Thomas Crockett, who


seems to be progenitor of all the New England families of this name, was probably a brother of an- other Crockett who was the founder of the family of this name in Virginia. Both were of English birth.


(I) Thomas Crockett was born about 1606, according to one deposition; another would seem to show 16II as the birth date. In 1630 Captain Walter Neal arrived at Little Harbor (or Piscataqua) as governor of Mason's Prov- ince. Ambrose Gibbons came at the same time as factor or general manager of the plantation. Thomas Crockett was in the em- ploy of Ambrose Gibbons in 1633-34. A num- ber of witnesses testified that Gorges granted him a neck of land containing 187 acres, on the east side of Spruce creek, in 1641, and called Crockett's Neck. To show they were not squatters, there is a record of the proceed- ings of York court, February 23, 1639, in which "John Billing and John Lauder, both of Piscataquack, fishermen," sold to Joseph Mills (Miles) eight acres of land situated upon Spruce creek, conditioned that he should pay the grantees six pence per acre for each and every acre he should clear and plant upon, which rent was to be paid annually upon the feast day of Michael the Archangel. The rec- ord declares they had the land from Sir Fer- dinando Gorges. Miles sold his interest in this land to Thomas Crockett, planter, No- vember 16, 1647, and Crockett sold to Rice Thomas, December, 1647. Thomas Crockett sold, September 21, 1647, a house and four acres of land which he had bought of William Wormwood, to Robert Mendum. He lived at Warehouse Point, and at Kittery Point till later than 1658, though he was for a short time near the head of Braveboat Harbor. In June, 1648, Thomas Crockett was appointed to keep ferry at Braveboat Harbor, and to "have for a freeman three pence, and for a foreigner


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four pence per man." In 1659 Thomas Crock- ett was allowed to keep the ferry from Hugh Gunnison's to Captain Pendleton's, for which he was to have "six pence a p'son for his fer- riage, and to have the use of for his life tyme, pr'vided he fitt conveniently for itt, for the doing we'of the town of Kittery is to take effectual care upon penalty of the losse of five pounds for y'r neglect." He had .a grant of land in York in 1651, and signed the submis- sion to Massachusetts in York, in 1652. He was constable in 1657. In 1667 he had built a house upon Crockett's Neck, and was living there. This neck was divided among his sons and sons-in-law. His widow Ann adminis- tered his estate in 1679, and married, before 1683, Diggory Jeffreys, at Kittery Point. She was living in 1712. Children of Thomas Crockett : I. Ephraim, born about 1641 ; mar- ried Ann -; son Elihu deeds land in 1683, living in 1698. 2. Joseph, married Han- nah 3. Joshua, married Sarah Trickey. 4. Hugh, married Margaret --; children : Mary, married Barton ; Ann, married William Roberts; Sarah, married John Parrott. In 1722 the town of Kittery ordered certain houses made "Defencible in sd town," and Joseph Crockett's was one of the number, and certain families were "to lodge therein" in times of peril for united defence against the Indians.


(II) Ephraim, son of Thomas Crockett, was born about 1641, and died about 1688. He was a tailor. He married Ann -, before 1672. In York deeds there is a record, "I, Ephraim Crockett, of Kittery, in ye county of York, Taylor," to "Charles Ogradoe, of Ports- mouth, in Piccataqua River, Yoeman, . my ten acre Lott," etc., etc .; "said ten acres of Land was given unto me by the town of Kit- tery and laid out unto me by ye select men of the town," June 3, 1672, and signed Ephraim Crockett, September 16, 1672. His will is dated July 17, 1688; inventory returned Sep- tember 10, 1688. His children: 1. Richard; see forward. 2. Ephraim, married Rebecca Frink, March 13, 1728-9. 3. Sarah, married Henry Barter. 4. Mary, named in father's will.


(III) Richard, son of Ephraim Crockett, married Deborah, daughter of Andrew Haley. He lived in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1714, and in Stratham in 1719. York deeds record that Richard Crockett, of Kittery, in the county of York, yeoman, sold to Mr. John Fernald, of the same place, yeoman, land ly- ing in the township of Kittery, between the long Reach and Spruce Creek, containing


forty acres of land that was granted unto his father, Ephraim Crockett, by the town of Kit- tery, July 28, 1679, and laid out unto him October 2nd, 1679, etc., etc. "And further- more, I the said Richard Crockett Do for my Self and my heirs covenant to and with the said John ffernald. . that I am the true and proper owner thereof and have within my self full power and Lawful authority to sell," etc., etc. Signed October 14, 1708. Richard Crockett personally appeared and made oath that he saw Nicholas Tucker to sign, seal, etc., "Kittery ye County of York," May 13, 1712. No record has been found of his children, ex- cept Samuel, mentioned below.


(IV) Samuel, son of Richard Crockett, was the first of the name in Gorham. There were other Crockett families there, but not related. In old deeds the name is spelled Crockit. Samuel Crockett was born in February, 1717, and died December 19, 1798. He came from New Hampshire, and settled in Falmouth (Portland), where he lived on the northeast corner of Middle and Plum streets. He was a shipwright. He exchanged a grant of land in Gorham for land on the foreside of Port- land. He was of Falmouth in 1754, and of Gorham in 1755. In Gorham he built and occupied a two-story house on Main street, which he sold to Rev. Caleb Jewett, lately occupied by Henry Broad. He married, in 1738 (pub. March 10), Sarah, born March, 1717, daughter of Jonathan Cobb; she was his first wife, and the record of their children is imperfect : I. Sarah, baptized 1740. 2. Betty, baptized 1741; married Jonathan Fickett, of Buxton, December 21, 1763. 3. Susanna, born about 1743 ; married Moses Whitney, Decem- ber 27, 1760. Samuel Crockett married (sec- ond), 1750, Mrs. Priscilla (Swett) Jackman, daughter of John Swett, of Falmouth. Chil- dren: I. Samuel; see forward. 2. Martha A., born November 29, 1754 ; married Nathan- iel Hill, of Buxton, December 30, 1773. 3. Dorcas, born April 14, 1756; married Daniel Merrill, of Falmouth, January 12, 1775. 4. Abigail, born April 10, 1758; married Silas Chadbourne, April 23, 1775. The mother of these children died March 7, 1763, and Sam- uel Crockett married (third), June 10, 1763, Mrs. Mary Whitney, widow of Abel Whitney. She died about 1794. They lived the latter part of their lives at West Gorham, with the son Samuel. The lot on which the latter set- tled, and the seventy acre lot on which Isaac and Mary Whitney lived, were located and run out by Mr. Crockett.


(V) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) Crock-


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ett, was born September 6, 1752, and died March 8, 1830, aged seventy-eight. He lived at West Gorham, on the hundred acre lot 79, which joined that of Nathaniel Cobb. His house was on the road leading to Fort Hill. He served in the war of the revolution as ser- geant in Captain Samuel Whitmore's company, Colonel Reuben Fogg's regiment, which left Gorham Christmas day, 1777, for Peekskill, New York. He married Tabitha, probably daughter of Jacob and Content Hamblen. Children : I. Eunice B., born 1771, died young. 2. William, born September 19, 1772; mar- ried Nancy Fickett, of Stroudwater. 3. Nancy, born September 18, 1774; married Caleb Page, of Conway, December, 1797. 4. Susanna, born July 31, 1777 ; married Joseph Bradbury Jr., July 22, 1798. 5. Content, born May 18, 1779; married Joseph Moody, of Buxton, Au- gust 1, 1802. 6. Martha, born March 19, 1781 ; married James Merrill, of Buxton. 7. Joseph, born October II, 1782; married Mary Bradbury (sister of Joseph Jr. above men- tioned), November 28, 1813.' The mother of these children died soon after the birth of the last-named child. Samuel Crockett married (second) April 17, 1783, Elizabeth Fickett, of Buxton, who died March 6, 1845, aged eighty-eight. Children: I. John, died young. 2. James; see forward. 3. John, born March II, 1788; married Sally Richards, of Cape Elizabeth. 4. Samuel, born February 20, 1790; married (first) Priscilla Harmon, March 6, 1817, (second) Harriet Folsom. 5. Mary, born February 3, 1792; married Colonel Sew- ard Merrill, September 13, 1829. 6. Nathan- iel, born April 22, 1794 ; married (first) Nancy Sisk, and had daughter Nancy; (second) Florinda True, of New Gloucester. 7. Silas, born August 5, 1796, died May 24, 1868; mar- ried Hannah Marriner, of Cape Elizabeth, who died December 28, 1863, aged sixty-six. 8. Daniel, born May 21, 1800; married Ellen Thomas, of Charleston, South Carolina, March 19, 1829, and died at St. Augustine, Florida.


Nathaniel Crockett, before mentioned, was a trader in Congress street, near Congress Place. In about 1825 he built what is now the Hunt house, in State street, next the State street Church (on north side). The French roof was added by Mr. Hunt. Mr. Nathaniel Crockett lived in this house about fifteen years, and the land was all open to Longfellow Square and Congress street. (Nathan Gould's "History of State Street.") Nathaniel Crockett afterward lived in Dan- forth street, and died in 1878.


(VI) James, son of Samuel (2) Crockett,


was born December 14, 1785. He was a mason and builder. He lived on Pleasant street, on . Cumberland avenue, on Winter street, and he built a brick house on High street, west side, between Danforth and York, known later as the John Bradford house, and here he died, March 19, 1825. He married Sally Poore (see Poore), of Portland, who died November 18, 1829, aged thirty-nine. Children: I. Mary Ann, born July 17, 1809; teacher at Fryeburg Academy ; married


Bradbury. 2. Martha, born September 15, 1811; married William C. Poland, of Boston. Mr. Poland was a builder and mason. He secured the contract to build the Portland postoffice, completed in 1857, and which was so damaged that it had to be rebuilt after the fire of 1866. 3. Harriet, born December 26, 1813; married Charles H. Knox; moved to Boston, 1838; died September 24, 1907. 4. Leonard ; see forward. 5. Sarah, born May IO, 1819; married Albert Lyon, of Boston. 6. James Poor, born February 22, died in Cali- fornia, July 19, 1851.


(VII) Leonard, son of James Crockett, was born August 4, 1816, in Portland, in the mem- orable summerless year, when in August ice formed half an inch thick, and Indian corn was so frozen it was dried and used for fod- der; in the spring of 1817 farmers used corn of 1815, which sold for four and five dollars a bushel. In 1824 Leonard Crockett was a pupil in the old South School, a large square one-story building on the corner of Free and Center (Love Lane) streets. A new brick schoolhouse had been built that year in Spring street, corner of Oak, and in November this building was dedicated under the Lancastrian system, with one hundred and forty scholars. Leonard was one of the scholars in the pro- cession, consisting of citizens and children of the school, led by their instructor, Master Jackson, which formed at the old school and walked to the new building, where religious services were held. There was a prayer from Dr. Payson. Governor Parris addressed the school and the exercises closed with a prayer from Dr. Nichols.


Mr. Crockett entered business life early, the exact date not known, and was a draughts- man for Wyer & Noble, of whom he learned the business of coppersmith and brass founder, after which he went into a manufacturing business for himself. In 1858 the Portland Fire Department had nine engines, seven of them built by Mr. Crockett: "Atlantic, No. 2," built in 1848; "Casco, No. 1, 1850; "Port- land, No. 5," and "Deluge, No. 7," 1851 ;


Leonard Crockett


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"Dirigo, No. 8," 1852; "Ocean, No. 4," 1853 ; and "Davidson, No. 6," 1854. At the time of Mr. Crockett's death, in 1894, the old "At- lantic," the property of the Veteran Firemen's Association, was at Mr. Crockett's undergoing repairs. He also built engines for Matanzas, Cuba; for Wilmington, Delaware, and other places, and carried on a large business in cop- per and brass work for locomotives, steam- ships, the United States lighthouse department, and large manufacturing plants in New Eng- land. He was considered an authority in all branches of his business, and was well and favorably known in Boston, having large con- tracts from the government for the lighthouses on the Massachusetts coast.




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