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Early in the spring of 1813 two British cruisers, the Rattler with sixteen guns and the Bream with eight, hovered along the coast from the mouth of the Kennebec to St. George, paying special attention to Bristol and Boothbay. On March 31st, just off Pemaquid Point, they captured five schooners on their way to Boston loaded with lumber. Prize crews were put aboard, but on April 2d, while becalmed just outside Boothbay Harbor, three boats with twenty men put off and recaptured
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one of the schooners. The record of the act exists, but who the actors were is now unknown. Two days later than this, on April 4th, a Liverpool packet captured three sloops and a schooner in sight of the harbor.
After the recapture of the lumber-laden schooner had been made, and it with its cargo securely hidden in Campbell's Cove, the Rattler came along and anchored inside Squirrel Island. Capt. William Maxwell Reed, who commanded the militia in shore defense, ordered an "all out " alarm fired. This brought Capt. Daniel Rose, who had command of the Damariscotta fort, with a company of soldiers to the assistance of the har- bor. During the night the Rattler landed one boat load of marines on Spruce Point, but they were discovered, fired upon by the town militia, beat a retreat to their boat and made their way back to their vessel.
It was thought best to try and raise a home force between Bristol and Boothbay and capture the Bream. The sloop Increase, 100 tons, was engaged, but who should command ? Commodore Tucker, then sixty-six years of age, the old Rev- olutionary hero, offered to do so and his services were gladly accepted. With forty-five men they left Bristol and sailed into Boothbay Harbor. Here the commodore met them and took command, thirty Boothbay men joining the expedition. While laying in the harbor they had sent to Wiscasset for some fieldpieces and more ammunition. They cruised about outside steadily for two days, when, running short of provisions, they came back into the harbor, returned the fieldpieces and ammu- nition, and the Boothbay contingent went to their homes. The commodore then sailed for Bristol with no other arms than their muskets. Just as they made Pemaquid Point they spied a sail to the east of them. Tucker kept his course as though for the St. George River, while the strange sail ahcad tacked as if to intercept them. Tucker ordered all his men below except a few hands as sailors, and appeared to be trying to escape. He realized his only chance was a fight at close quar- ters, so, at an opportune time, he suddenly tacked ship, bear- ing down upon them, hoisted the American flag and ordered his men on deck. The British fired the first shot, which was instantly answered by Tucker's men. The surprise met with
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probably largely influenced the enemy's action, for they rushed beneath decks and the old commodore added another prize to his list. It proved to be the Crown, a privateer from Halifax, thirty-five tons, carrying twenty men. They had been out eight days, captured one American brig and had the prisoners aboard. The British prisoners were taken into Round Pond and from there sent to the jail at Wiscasset.
On June 20, 1814, the Bulwark, a 74-gun ship, entered the Sheepscot, landing six barges of her marines somewhere on the west side of Boothbay, though opposed by about forty of the militia. They marched between seven and eight miles, when meeting a larger force of militia they were beaten back, retreating to their boats and thence to their vessel. June 27th and 28th other barges came into Boothbay Harbor, but were fired upon from various points on the shore, so that they retired. During the early fall Moose Island, where Eastport is now situated, Castine, Bangor and Belfast fell into English possession. Lieut. Gen. Sir John Sherbroke issued a procla- mation that all territory lying east of the Penobscot River was subject to the British Crown by right of conquest. A descent was then expected about the Sheepscot, as the next natural step westward. Gen. William King, Maine's first Governor, ordered out his entire division of militia, making his head- quarters at Wiscasset, but stationing most of his troops in Edgecomb ; meantinie nearly every man and boy, irrespective of age, who could handle a musket, went into the local militia in Boothbay, Bristol and other neighboring towns.
Though the darkest hour of the war along this part of the coast was in the latter part of 1814, at that very time the British cause was waning. A treaty was concluded December 24th that year, the news of which reached Maine sometime in February, almost simultaneously with the tidings from the battle of New Orleans, which had occurred January 8th. No such demonstrations of joy had ever been witnessed as now took place in nearly every town. Jollification meetings were the order of the day. The war had never been a popular one as had the struggle for independence through which the pre- ceding generation fought ; but there was no lack of loyalty or patriotism in its support. But this feeling existing had the
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effect to emphasize the rejoicings of the inhabitants when the end was announced.
The local militia had been kept up throughout Maine towns from the close of the Revolution to the breaking out of the War of 1812. After the close of the latter more attention than ever was given to the regular "training days," or musters. They originated in a fancied necessity and developed into a sort of holiday, - in fact, almost the only one which the peo- ple in country places obtained. There were no libraries, no halls of entertainment, no traveling theatrical companies, no ball games, no fairs or horse trots, - for Boston Blue, the first horse to trot a mile in three minutes, did not accomplish that feat until 1818, -no magazines, few books, no daily newspapers and few weekly ones, no lodges, no regular com- munication with other places. It can hardly be a matter of surprise, then, that the inhabitants, with natural social instincts, hailed the "training days" of their local militia companies with unfeigned anticipations of pleasure. The music of the fife and drum, the drill maneuvers of the company, the sham fights, the refreshment tents with taffy and gingerbread for sale, - each possessed its entertaining features.
A muster equipment consisted of a musket with bayonet, a cartridge box, an iron gun rod, one scabbard and belt, a cleaning wire and brush, three flints, twenty-four balls and one-half pound of powder. It was the author's fortune to find an old account, dating 1819, charged up to Capt. Ephraim McCobb, for cash paid out for the use of the company by David Merry, which here follows :
May 4, 1819. Payed at Kennistons 2.00
Sept. 4, 66 Payed at John Tullys
1.50
66 11, 66 Payed John Elder, for playing the fife 1.00
66
Payed Francis Smith Do. for drumming 1.00
Payed for rum
1.50
Oct. 12, 66 Payed for refreshments 2.69
May
2, 1820. To pay for refreshments 1.53
Sept. 29, 66 To rum for the use of the Company 1.34
To repairing Drum for the Company 1.50
Oct. 6, 66 To rum Do. for the Company .87
20, To rum for use of the Company 1.42
Many of the interior towns had cavalry companies, and
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some had a company of artillery, but there is no record that Boothbay had anything but infantry or companies of foot. The military system and regular muster days came to an end about 1843, though some towns had volunteer organizations some years subsequent to that date.
It is unfortunate that the 1812 rolls are not accessible, like those of the Revolution, in the Massachusetts Archives. By information from the Massachusetts State Department it was learned that when the Federal Government reimbursed that State for war expenses incurred from 1812 to 1815, the rolls were surrendered to the general Government at Washington. By inquiry of the War Department it was ascertained that the rolls were very incomplete, and the Boothbay companies were not to be found. At last an old record book was found by William O. McCobb, which had belonged to his grandfather, Joseph McCobb. It contained the muster roll of Capt. Wil- liam Maxwell Reed's company in 1812, and Capt. David R. Adams' company for the same year. Captain Reed's com- pany is given in full, for they were all Boothbay men and served through the war in scacoast defense, while that of Captain Adams, though numbering seventy-five privates, only thirteen of them resided in Boothbay, the remainder being made up from Edgecomb, Newcastle and Wiscasset, and it was about Wiscasset that Captain Adams was stationed for the most part of the war. Capt. Daniel Rose, who was stationed at Fort Island, had a company made up largely from the north part of the town and Pleasant Cove, but the roll of his com- pany has failed to appear, though diligently searched for.
MUSTER ROLL, 1812.
CAPT. WILLIAM MAXWELL REED'S COMPANY OF FOOT.
Joseph McCobb, Lieut. ; Jacob Auld, Ensign.
Sergeants : George Gilbert, Samuel Giles, Alfred Wads- worth, Ephraim McCobb.
Musicians : William Bragg, fifer ; Paul M. Recd, drummer. Clerk : Samuel Giles.
PRIVATES.
Benjamin Wheeler, Elisha Sherman,
Abraham Springer, Francis Crooker,
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George Race, Jr.,
George Kelloch,
Elihu Bryer, Jr.,
Ezekiel Holbrook,
James Auld,
William Auld,
John Leishman,
James Brewer,
Samuel Bryer, 3d,
Robert Wylie, 3d,
John Wylie, Jr.,
Jonathan Hutchings,
Jeremiah Holton,
Nathaniel Pinkham, Jr.,
John McFarland,
James Murray,
Samuel Murray,
Joseph Grimes,
John Bennett,
Robert Montgomery,
Nathaniel Montgomery,
William Montgomery,
James Montgomery,
Jeremiah Beath,
John Bryer,
Robert Bryer,
Joseph Bryer,
William Trask,
John Alley, Jr.,
John Pinkham,
Samuel Bryer,
John Lewis, 2d,
George W. Boyd,
William Alley,
Joseph Farnham,
Thomas Sargent,
Jacob Perkins,
Joseph Gillette,
William Matthews,
Michael Robinson,
Peter Savors,
James Fullerton,
Andrew Boyd,
John Burnham,
Andrew McCobb,
John B. Booker,
Alexander Boyd,
John Grover,
Andrew Wall,
Robert Sherman,
John M. Morrison,
Elcazer Sherman,
Ephraim McFarland,
John Knight,
Samuel Knight,
John Fullerton,
Thomas Boyd, 2d,
Joseph Morse,
Joel Thompson,
Ephraim Brown,
Joseph Booker, Jr.,
Henry Pierce, William Bragg,
William McCobb,
John Farnham, Jr.,
Isaac Kelley,
George Farnham,
Samuel Bryer, 4th,
Richard Adams,
Willianı Robinson.
MUSTER ROLL, 1812. CAPT. DAVID R. ADAMS' COMPANY OF FOOT. Sergeants : William Thompson, Samuel Thompson.
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Musicians : Nathaniel Tibbetts, fifer ; John Lewis, drum- mer.
PRIVATES.
George W. Merrill,
Benjamin Barter,
Benjamin Hodgdon,
Joseph Horn,
Samuel Barter, 3d,
Francis Gray,
John Barter, 4th,
Palgrave Maddocks,
Henry Gray,
John Webber,
John Floyd,
Samuel G. Smith.
Nathaniel Pinkham,
George Kelloch and Thomas Boyd, 2d, appearing in Cap- tain Reed's company, were killed in January, 1814, at Platts- burgh Bay, under Commodore McDonough. Marshal Smith, long a prominent resident, enlisted in Portland from the town of Bridgton. Timothy Hodgdon, then a resident of Westport, served there, stationed at Fowle Point. John, son of Benja- min and Anne Kelley, Benjamin Bennett, Jr., Isaac, son of Nathaniel and Martha Pinkham, Robert, son of James and Sarah Reed, are four persons who are known to have served at Fort Island under Captain Rose.
At the close of the war there were 323 polls in town. The total commitment of tax (not including ministerial tax) was $1,386.02. The ten largest taxpayers, in order of amount, follow : Benjamin Pinkham, $20.93; Samuel Thompson, $16.17 ; Nathaniel Pinkham, $15.53; Nicholas T. Knight, $14.17 ; John M. McFarland, $14.06; Andrew McFarland, $13.56 ; Nathaniel Pinkhanı, Jr., $13.56; William M. Reed, $13.28 ; Jonathan Pierce, $12.85 ; Joseph Carlile, $12.14.
CHAPTER XV. BOOTHBAY PUBLISHMENTS OF INTENTIONS OF MARRIAGE. 1766-1820.
T HE following list of publishments of intentions of mar- riage is as complete as the records will permit. I have found a few instances where I was positive that the par- ties were married since the organization of the town, and have been unable to find any publishment of the intentions of the contracting parties. These instances, however, are very rare. It was the carly custom to write out the publishment, wherever space might be found, in the old first book of records. I care- fully went over this book and copied those publishments which it contained, and then arranged them chronologically. I have verified my copied list with the original and believe the work to be practically correct. It is not in verbatim form, for that varied according to the caprice of the various clerks. I have dropped all unnecessary words, simply giving date and names of the contracting parties, and the town, where either party lived in some other than Boothbay. Where no town is given, Boothbay is to be understood. It may be well to caution the reader who expects exact correspondence in names with those to be found in the genealogical department, that variations in form often occurred in the record. To illustrate : Ichabod Pinkham recorded his five daughters in the town records as Mercy, Sarah, Mary, Martha and Betsey. His will, on file in the Lincoln registry, makes bequests to Mary, Sally, Polly, Patty and Betsey. In other families Elizabeth appears in one place and Betsey in another, while in the very early records, among those of Scotch descent, Jane and Jean are interchange- able ; so, also, are Abigail and Nabby, and several other names. The middle initial letter of a name is observed in some records and omitted in others. In men's names less confusion exists, but in these there are instances where the suffix, Jr., is used
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for a nephew, or some other relative, of the oldest member of a family, while the son may have the suffix of 2d, 3d or some other number for designation.
1766.
Mar. 3, Ichabod Pinkham and Mercy Catlin. Dec. 21, John Murray and Anne Montgomery.
1767.
Jan. 31, Solomon Pinkham and Mary Perry.
May 15, Eleazer Sherman and Lydia Kelley.
July 27, Samuel Pierce and Elizabeth Thompson, Monhegan. Aug. 24, Joseph Floyd and Mary Dizer, Charlestown. Oct. 31, Benjamin Thomas and Mary Jordan, Cape Elizabeth. Nov. 16, Patrick McKown and Margery Fullerton.
Nov. 21, Nathaniel Brewer and Elizabeth Sampson, Arundel.
1768.
Mar. 26, Faithful Singer and Susanna Knight. Oct. 7, Daniel Knight and Mary Winslow, Bristol.
Oct. 22, Moses Cross, Freetown, and Mary Kelley. Nov. 19, Samuel Perkins and Abigail Stevens. Nov. 26, James Kennedy and Phebe Alley. Nov. 26, John Leishman and Sarah Reed. Nov. 26, John Daws and Mary McKown. Dec. 1, Jonathan Daws and Elizabeth Barter.
Dec. 10, Hezekiah Herinton and Elizabeth Linekin.
1769.
Jan. 13, Nathaniel Brewer and Elizabeth Salloway. Mar. 25, John Fullerton and Jean McCobb. May 27, Samuel Montgomery and Jean Wyer. Benjamin Kelley and Sarah Kennedy. Nov. 20, John Montgomery and Lydia Winslow, Bristol. Dec. 4, Robert Wylie and Mary Kennedy.
Dec. 29, Thomas Boyd, Bristol, and Katherine Wylie.
1770.
Jan. 9, John Auld and Mary McCobb. Feb. 3, Zebedee Linekin and Susanna Linekin.
Apr. 12, Jemuel Ripley and Margaret Nail. Apr. 17, Andrew Wall and Hannah McFarland. May 7, Thomas Slowman, Woolwich, and Lydia Daws. - John Call, Pownalboro, and Sarah Lewis.
Francis Cummings and Mary Kelley.
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1771.
Jan. 5, David Colbath and Elizabeth Hutchings.
Feb. 2, William Decker and Molly Decker, Jeremisquam.
Mar. 2, Benjamin Pinkham and Ella Catland, Bristol. Aug. 28, Timothy Young, Monhegan, and Susanna Pierce. Nov. 21, Thomas Rines, Jeremisquam, and Elizabeth Crummett. Nov. 30, Arad Powers and Mary Colley.
1772.
Jan. 1, John Brewer and Susanna Day. Jan. 2, William Booker and Hannah Booker.
Jan. 4, Joseph Decker, Freetown, and Sarah Davis.
Apr. 17, Samuel Wylie and Margaret Beath.
Apr. 17, James Auld and Frances McCobb.
Oct. 17, Cornelius Horn and Masse Chaples.
Oct. 24, John W. Brown, Ipswich, and Susanna Pierce.
Nov. 20, Rev. John Murray and Susanna Lithgow, Georgetown. Nov. 20, John Barter and Frances Lewis.
1773.
Mar. 23, George Lewis and Dorcas Lemcord, Pownalboro.
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- 8, Andrew Reed and Hannah Davis.
May 29, Ichabod Tibbetts and Deliverance Cook.
July 31, William McClintock, Bristol, and Margaret Fullerton. Dec. 25, John Holton and Priscilla Beath.
1774.
Jan. 17, Samuel Alley and Sarah Linekin. - Neal Wylie and Esther Crawford.
Mar. 19, Thomas Kennedy and Sarah Dodge, Freetown.
Mar. 19, Benjamin Pinkham and Rhoda Hutchings, Freetown.
Mar. 19, Nuoles Booker and Mary Davis.
Mar. 31, John Booker and Mary Rackliff.
June 18, Nathaniel Pinkham and Martha Catland. Abner Dunton, Egham, and Hannah Barter.
Aug. 4, Christopher Stevens, Edgecomb, and Hannah Hofsom.
Oct. 15, Thomas Kenney and Jemima Foster.
Nov. 12, Ichabod Tibbetts and Betty Hutchings.
Dec. 4, David Gilmore, Woolwich and Janet Fullerton.
1775.
Jan. 15, Nathaniel Tibbetts and Elizabeth Alley. Mar. - , Jeremiah Barter and Mary Bachelder. Apr. 5, John McCobb and Mary Beath. Apr. 22, Henry Bond and Marian Fullerton. June 23, Samuel Herren and Elizabeth Ingraham. Dec. 2, William Poor and Mary Leach, Haverhill.
The Mckown Fishing Stand.
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1776.
Mar. 29, John Parker, Georgetown, and Elizabeth Beath. Aug. 10, Israel Davis and Hannah Barter. 31, Samuel Kenney and Abigail Barter. Dec. 14, William Wheeler and Phebe Linekin.
1777.
Feb. 1, Abraham Serote and Jean Lambert, Pownalboro. Feb. 1, Joseph Pierce and Sarah Thompson. Mar. 1, Jeremiah Crommett and Sarah Floyd. Mar. 10, Benjamin Rollins and Rhoda Pinkham. May 26, Joseph Lewis and Jean Wylie. July 26, James McCobb and Sarah Allen, Georgetown. Sept. 17, Samuel Sanders and Jean Reed.
1778.
Jan. 1, James Pinkham and Polly Rollins. Mar. 7, Andrew Reed, Jr., and Phebe Sawyer. Apr. 26, Nicholas Barter and Molly Coll. June -, James Rollins and Mary Floyd. Aug. 6, William Reed and Jean McFarland. Aug. 8, John Irskine and Sarah Reed. John Borland and Sarah Campbell, Newcastle. Nov. 26, John Tibbetts and Lydia Lamson.
1779.
Jan. 4, Benjamin McFarland and Margaret Murray. Jan. 22, Andrew Reed, 3d, and Mary McFarland. Feb. 7, Joseph Booker and Anna Booker. Mar. 20, Benjamin Hutchings and Abigail Tibbetts. June 6, John Murray and Elizabeth Chapman, Ipswich. June 7, James Rollins and Mary Floyd. Dec. 4, John Barter and Jemima Kenney.
1780.
Mar. 27, Allen Sawyer and Sally Hodgdon, Edgecomb. Apr. 12, Jacob Sawyer and Elizabeth Herrington. June 22, Nicholas Webber and Rachel Love. Aug. 30, William Lewis and Sarah Pinkham. Aug. - , John Parrish and Susanna Serote. Nov. 29, Jeremiah Crommett and Jude Knight. Dec. 4, James Brewer and Mary Barter.
1781.
Jan. 1, Thomas Decker and Catherine Fullerton. Mar. 10, Calvin Pinkham and Elizabeth Barter.
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May 14, Joseph Humphreys, Newcastle, and Catherine Mc- Clintock.
Oct. 7, Chestain Messing and Mary Brewer.
Nov. 1, Samuel Thompson and Mary Reed. . Nov. 6, James Rollins and Mary Alley.
Dec. 27, Alexander Wylie and Hannah Kennedy.
1782.
Jan. 21, Joseph Carlile and Elizabeth Merry. Feb. 8, Patishell Knight and Susanna Brown.
May 4, Abijah Kenney and Esther Wylie. Dec. 21, Samuel Adams, Jr., and Mary Bryer.
Dec. 21, Stephen Lewis and Abigail Barter.
1783.
July 24, Giles Tibbetts and Hannah Alley. Sept. 4, Ephraim Alley and Susanna Day, Edgecomb.
Nov. 1, Solomon Burnham and Anna Wheeler.
1784.
Feb. 18, David Reed, Jr., and Jenny Reed.
Apr. 3, Ebenezer Fullerton and Eunice Beath.
June 26, Benjamin Kenney and Susanna Lewis.
Aug. 26, Obadiah Trask, Edgecomb, and Martha Kelley. Sept. 16, David Atkins, Saco, and Sarah Serote.
Dec. 1, Samuel McCobb, Jr., and Sarah McFarland.
Dec. 2, Samuel Clifford, Edgecomb, and Mary Adams.
1785.
July 10, Edward Bird and Elizabeth Wooten. July 23, Ebenezer Sawyer and Martha Giles. Mar. 29, John Emerson and Rebecca Hodgdon. Dec. 3, Joseph Bath and Mary Pelham.
1786.
Sept. 16, Stephen Rollins and Martha Crommett. Sept. 19, William Burns, Bristol, and Margaret Mcclintock. Nov. 17, David Reed, 2d, and Jane Reed.
1787.
Jan. 30, Elias Skidmore, Newtown, Conn., and Mary Reed. Apr. 2, David Linekin and Elinor Farnham. May 30, Jonathan Greenough and Catherine Reed. Oct. 16, David Give (Gove?) and Lydia Alley.
Nov. 24, William Trask, Edgecomb, and Abigail Carlile.
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1788.
Jan. 4, Patrick Herren and Jane Taylor.
May 27, Joseph Linekin, Jr., and Jane Brewer. June 6, Ruggles Cunningham, Edgecomb, and Mary Giles. Sept. 2, James Reed and Sarah Kenney.
Sept. 8, Joseph Carlile and Phebe Alley.
Sept. 16, Frederick S. Arnold and Elizabeth Matthews.
Sept. 26, John Kent and Susanna Thompson. Nov. 1, Levi Ball and Judy Crommett.
Nov. 29, Samuel Stimson, Georgetown, and Mary Fullerton.
1789.
Mar. 20, David Kenniston and Sarah Beath.
Mar. 25, Nathan Maness and Jane Brewer.
Mar. 26, Joseph Pinkham and Mrs. Alice Cunningham, Edge- comb.
Apr. 20, William Reed and Martha Reed.
June 6, Ephraim Burnham and Jane Brown.
July 15, Andrew McFarland and Betsey Mckown, Bristol. Aug. 8, Robert Mitchell, Belfast, and Martha Wylie.
Aug. 8, Henry Kenney, and Elizabeth Emerson, Edgecomb.
Sept. 4, Edward Tierney, Nobleboro, and Susanna Wylie. Sept. 25, John Lewis and Rebecca Tibbetts.
Oct. 17, Adam Boyd and Martha Boyd.
Oct. 30, Anselm Farnham and Betsey Plummer, Bristol.
Dec. 26, Joseph Giles and Sarah Reed.
1790.
Jan. 2, John Stover and Mary Barter. Jan. 23, James Tibbetts and Nabby Lewis.
Mar. 1, William Durong and Ruth Burnham.
Apr. 11, David Emery, Pownalboro, and Jean Pierce. May 22, Joshua Crommett and Sarah Adams.
June 7, David Nelson and Deborah Clenningbowl. June 9, Timothy Carroll and Susanna Webber. Oct. 3, Thomas Boyd, 3d, and Eleanor McGlathery, Bristol.
Oct. 4, William Adams and Betsey Sawyer. Oct. 8, Eleazer Sherman and Susanna Wylie.
Nov. 6, John Maddocks and Elizabeth Kennedy.
Dec. 21, Thomas Bracket, Bristol, and Polly Yeaton.
1791.
Jan. 13, Samuel Barter and Judith Abbott. Mar. 30, Lemuel Lewis and Sarah Tibbetts. Apr. 25, Samuel Day and Betsey Reed. May 10, Thomas Reed and Sarah Reed.
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May 20, Benjamin Pinkham and Nabby Giles. Sept. 1, Joseph Thompson and Lucy Sally. Sept. 5, Dependence Stover and Mary Bell, Edgecomb. Sept. 15, Edmund Leason and Mary Pierce. Nov. 7, Nicholas T. Knight and Rachel Auld. Dec. 14, Joseph Campbell, Newcastle, and Jenny Reed. Dec. 14, Ebenezer Lundy and Joanna Thompson.
1792.
May 5, Nathaniel Whitaker, Jr., and Sally Swanton, Bath.
May 14, John Brown, Jr., and Betsey Perkins.
May 24, Oliver Jack, Bristol, and Elizabeth Arnold.
June 29, Rev. Ezekiel Emerson, Georgetown, and Mrs. Mar- gery Mckown.
Sept. 25, Benjamin Kent, Jr., and Celia Smith.
Oct. 10, Joshua Hodgdon, Edgecomb, and Phebe Sawyer.
Oct. 13, Ichabod Pinkham, Jr., and Betty Cunningham, Edge- comb.
Oct. 24, Ichabod Willey and Sally Horn.
Nov. 5, Faithful Singer and Mary Fullerton.
Dec. 11, Reuben Alley and Lucy Dunton, Edgecomb.
Dec. 11, Edward Cooper, Kennebec, and Elizabeth Arnold.
1793.
Jan. 12, William Knight and Martha Burnham.
Mar. 8, Benjamin Kelley, Jr., and Anne Auld.
Apr. 10, John M. McFarland and Margaret Reed.
Apr. 10, Pelatiah Maddocks and Mrs. Clarecy Bird. Apr. 20, John Perkins and Mary Goudy.
Apr. 25, John Norwood and Anne Smith. June 8, John Farnham and Abigail Plummer, Bristol.
July 2, Calvin Pinkham, Jr., and Julia Kenney.
July 19, Ebenezer Chase, Edgecomb, and Jane Adams. Sept. 6, James Moore, Edgecomb, and Phebe Kennedy. Sept. 10, Benjamin Dunton, Edgecomb, and Patty Alley. - Samuel Bryer, Jr., and Bethrige McCobb.
Oct. 23, Eleazer Sherman, Jr., and Elizabeth Reed.
Oct. 25, Thomas Cleaves, Bristol, and Hannah Wheeler. Nov. 22, Nathan Dole, Pownalboro, and Mary Matthews. Dec. 20, John Love and Lydia Straw.
1794.
Jan. 4, John Daws, Jr., and Elizabeth Barter. Jan. 10, Ichabod Pinkham, Jr., and Lucy Hunt, Bristol. Jan. 15, John Giles and Mary Tibbetts. Feb. 9, John Wall and Susanna Brewer.
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Feb. 28, Robert Reed, 3d, and Ellice Wylie.
Mar. 19, James Plummer, Bristol, and Martha Farnham. May 5, Edward Emerson, Edgecomb, and Anne Sawyer. June 10, William Maxwell Reed and Rosanna McFarland. June 15, James Brewer and Margaret Wall. July 7, Nathaniel Merchant and Sarah Kent.
July 24, Joseph Barter, Jr., and Sarah Pinkham. July 31, Adam Boyd, Jr., and Mary Kellah, Warren. July 31, Fenly Kellah, Warren, and Mary Boyd.
Aug. 2, Thomas Ball and Sarah Holbrook.
Sept. 13, Capt. Ephraim McFarland and Elizabeth Mitchell, Belfast.
Oct. 31, William Fullerton and Sally Montgomery.
Nov. 13, Ephraim Linekin, Cushing, and Betsey Daws.
Nov. 15, John Andrews, Ipswich, and Patty Knight. Nov. 26, John A. Kennedy and Judith Dunton, Newcastle.
Nov. 30, William Bryer and Margaret Smith.
Dec. 6, Thomas Gove, Edgecomb, and Elizabeth Reed.
1795.
Jan. 6, Zenas IIutchins, Edgecomb, and Mary Auld.
Jan. 15, Solomon Pinkham, Jr., and Sally Ball.
Jan. 24, Thomas Ball and Betsey Horn.
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