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George K. Sherman, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. July 26, 1878.
Nathaniel C. Sherman, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. July 9, 1863.
Silas Smith, priv. 1st Cal. reg. ; d. at Boothbay Harbor, Dec. 17, 1883.
William M. Smith, serg. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; res. Booth- bay Harbor.
John G. Spinney, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay. Joseph Spofford, priv. co. H, 2d Mass. Cav.
Gardner Stewart, priv. co. F, 1st Me. Cav .; res. Linekin.
Thomas Z. Tibbetts, priv. co. C, 24th Me. reg. ; killed at Drury's Bluff, May 14, 1864.
William B. Tibbetts, priv. co. E, 4th Me. reg. ; killed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 29, 1862.
Charles Webber, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg .; d. Aug. 23, 1863.
Richard M. Webber, priv. co. F, 5th N. H. reg. ; b. in Belfast ; d. Nov. 12, 1893.
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Leonard Webster, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg .; d. Dec. 1, 1866.
Lorenzo R. Webster, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg .; d. Jan. 18, 1878.
John H. Welch, cook ship Jacob Bell; b. in Newfoundland ; d. in Boothbay Harbor, 1905.
Robert Welch, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 29, 1863. Charles S. Weston, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; b. in Augusta. Albert Wheeler, priv .. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; res. Boothbay. A. R. Wheeler, priv. co. C, 102d N. Y. reg.
Jerome Wheeler, priv. co. G, 17th Mass. reg. ; d. in ser- vice, Nov. 19, 1862.
John C. Willey, priv. co. G, 1st, 10th and 29th Me. reg. ; res. Wakefield, Mass.
Alden Winslow, priv. co. E, 13th Mass. reg. ; also serg. 1st Me. Sharpshooters ; wounded at Petersburg ; b. in Noble- boro ; res. Boothbay Harbor.
Alexander Wylie, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg. ; d. Aug. 23, 1863.
Charles Wylie, priv. - Mass. reg. ; res. Chelsea, Mass.
James A. Wylie, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec. 25, 1862.
Levi Wylie, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg. ; killed at the bat- tle of Pleasant Hill, Oct. 27, 1864.
Samuel Wylie, 2d, priv. co. K, 19th Me. reg. ; d. Dec. 26, 1862.
Veteran associations have been organized in both towns. Weld Sargent Post, No. 92, was first, at Boothbay Harbor, and this included the G. A. R. of the three towns for a time. Their by-laws were approved in January, 1884. Soon after the division of Boothbay, Harvey Giles Post, No. 157, was organized with quarters at East Boothbay.
SOUTHPORT.
The first special town meeting in Southport relating to war measures was held April 29, 1862. The action of that was to raise the amount authorized by the State for aid in support of dependent relatives of soldiers, sailors and marines actually engaged in military or naval service. The selectmen were authorized to hire the money. A meeting held August 6, 1862, voted to raise $200 for each volunteer to fill the town's quota, and those from Southport were to be received first. Four days' time was given the resident population to volunteer and
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then, according to the vote, it was given to other towns. Of the $200 offered volunteers, one-half was to be paid when mus- tered into service and the other half to be in town scrip, in one and two years. On September 6, 1862, another meeting was held, when $100 was voted to be paid each nine months' vol- unteer, twenty dollars to be paid at mustering in and eighty dollars when honorably discharged.
At the annual meeting of 1863 a bounty of $150 was voted to each man who should volunteer before March 18th following, and to the families of such volunteers seventy-five cents per week to the wife and fifty cents to each dependent child during the term of service. Two hundred dollars was voted volun- teers at a special meeting, November 24, 1863. At the annual meeting, 1864, a bounty was voted to those who had been drafted on July 18, 1863, and passed to the credit of the town. A meeting held on August 20, 1864, in response to the Presi- dent's call for 500,000 men, instructed the selectmen to fill the town's quota as best they could ; and at another special, held January 19, 1865, responding to the President's call for 300,000 men, it was voted to raise $5,000 to fill the town's quota.
THE SOUTHPORT CIVIL WAR LIST.
Similar sources for information were pursued as in the case of Boothbay. It is thought that the list on Southport, how- ever, is likely to be free from omissions, from the fact that William T. Maddocks, who was a town officer soon after the close of the war, made and retained private records which were kindly furnished the author. Further than this, it is an easier matter to obtain a thorough familiarity with affairs of this kind over an area like that of Southport than over one as extended as Boothbay.
William H. Alley, priv. co. E, Ist Vet. Inf. ; d. July 21, 1898.
Manley S. Brewer, priv. co. C, 32d Mass. reg. ; res. South Bristol.
George W. Brown, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg.
Samuel F. Cary, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto.
James Coolen, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg. ; d. Jan. 4, 1904. Henry O. Davis, priv. co. D, 4th Me. reg.
Albert Dyer, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Constitution; d. 186 -; see Casualties.
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John Gray, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto. Samuel N. Gray, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Morning Light.
Charles B. Gilman, priv. co. B, 1st Me. Cav. George Huskins, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Mound City. James M. Jones, priv. co. F, 28th Me. reg.
Hiram Marr, priv. co. J, 20 Me. reg .; d. Feb. 26, 1869. Jeruel Marr, priv. co. D, 7th Me. reg. ; res. Bath.
William F. Marr, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto ; res. Southport.
John T. Marshall, priv. co. G, 3d Me. reg.
Alden B. Moore, priv. 14th Me. reg. ; res. Southport.
Thomas J. Neal, priv. co. C, 1st Me. Cav.
Edward Nelson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Constitution.
Plummer Nelson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Powhatan; d. Sept. 3, 1882.
Benjamin Orne, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Gen. Putnam. Elbridge Orne, priv. co. C, 14th Me. reg.
James E. Orne, seaman U. S. Navy ; res. Southport. Charles B. Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto. Edward Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Katahdin.
Jesse Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard and ship San Jacinto; d. in Southport, 1905.
Jonathan Pierce, seaman U. S. Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard, ships North Carolina and San Jacinto; d. Sept. 24, 1903.
Mark Rand, seaman U. S. Navy, ship San Jacinto; res. Southport.
Amherst Spofford, priv. co.G, 3d Me. reg. ; res. Skowhegan. Sidney Spofford, priv. co. G, 3d Me. reg. ; d. in service. Andrew Westman, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Wabash. John H. Wilson, seaman U. S. Navy, ship Com. Jones.
George L. Witham, priv. co. I, 20th Me. reg. ; b. in Wash- ington ; res. Southport.
Southern privateersmen to some extent infested Northern waters during the war and in several instances came along the coast of Maine. There were two or three cases where our peo- ple lost schooners by being captured by some Southern priva- teer, but no case quite the equal to that of the Archer. This little fishing schooner, about ninety tons, was principally owned by William Decker, Southport. She was in the Bay of Fundy on a fishing trip in command of Capt. Robert Snowman, now living at Cape Newagen.
Lieut. C. W. Read, of the Confederate Navy, had been under the noted Moffitt on the cruiser Florida up to May, 1863.
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Read was a mere boy, a graduate of Annapolis and twenty-three years of age-a Missippian by birth. Moffitt captured the brig Clarence and placed Read in command, with one howitzer, a crew of twenty men and a roving commission to burn and destroy Northern property, exposed towns on the seaport and unarmed vessels. Moffitt wrote him on May 6th :
"This is the time when our best exertions should be made to harm the common enemy and confuse them with attacks from all unexpected quarters. Act for the best and God speed you. If success attends the effort you will deserve the fullest consideration of the department."
The first acts were against shipping in Baltimore, but, with the daring of a Mosby, Read concluded to go along the New England coast. His report to the department states that from June 12th to June 24th he captured and burned or bonded nineteen vessels. On June 12th, just east of Mount Desert Rock, he captured the Tacony and burned the Clarence. On the 24th, in the Bay of Fundy, to use their words :
" We ran alongside a smart-looking little fishing schooner, called the Archer, which we captured. Her crew were just about sitting down to a nice fish supper. Their captain asked us to join them, and as they had a first-class chowder, besides some nice tongues and sounds, cooked as they knew how to cook them, we accepted the invitation. After dark we trans- ferred one six-pounder and such other articles as we needed from the Tacony to the Archer. We then set fire to the Tacony and stayed by her till she burned to the water's edge."
The day before this capture they were hailed by a Yankee gunboat with : "Bark, ahoy, what and where bound ?" Read replied : "Bark Mary Jane, from Sagua La Grande bound to Portland." The captain of the gunboat then informed them that there was a rebel privateer cruising along the coast, burn- ing and destroying shipping, and to keep a sharp lookout. Read thanked them as they steamed away to the south in search of the privateer. All were speechless for a moment at their escape, when Read broke the silence, saying : "Boys, we have had a close call, but we are still on deck."
They ran the Archer after her capture at once for Portland, with intention of "cutting out" the Caleb Cushing, revenue cutter, then laying there, and destroying the unfinished gun-
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boats Pontoon and Agawam, moored at Franklin Wharf, and any other shipping as opportunity might offer. All of the crew not necessary to be above on the run to Portland were busily employed below making oakum balls and saturating them with turpentine, to be used in firing the shipping. A little to the east of Damariscove two fishermen, Bibber and Titcomb by name, were captured and ordered to serve as pilots. They refused and were put below in irons.
At sunset on the 26th they anchored near Pomeroy's Rock, off Fish Point. At two in the morning of the 27th, with muf- fled oars, they ran a boat's crew alongside the Cushing, which they boarded, gagged and bound the watch and then the officers and men as fast as they appeared, having disguised their char- acter by assuming the fishing garb of the Archer's crew, who were prisoners below. They then towed the cutter via Hussey's Sound, to avoid the forts, out of the harbor, followed by the Archer. At ten A. M. they were fifteen miles at sea, when the wind died away and left them becalmed.
As the news spread over Portland in the morning that city was wild with excitement over the dare-devil act, and steamers in the harbor were impressed into the chase. Capt. John Lis- comb in the Forest City, a Boston steamer, and the Chesapeake, a New York boat, made the chase. When nearly overhauled boats were lowered from the cutter and she was fired. A truce was hung out and the fishermen captured the day before, the Archer's and the cutter's crews, prisoners but shortly before, and the privateersmen, now prisoners themselves, were taken aboard the Chesapeake. But while this was going on, almost immediately after the last boat left the cutter, the flames reached the magazine and a terrific explosion followed, hurling splinters from her timbers hundreds of feet in the air and, for the time, fairly darkening all about, then with a lurch sank from sight.
Bibber, the captured fisherman, informed them where the Archer was in hiding, and the Forest City found her that after- noon and took her into the harbor, where she discharged the effects of her captors and was turned over to her owners. She had been left in the charge of a single Confederate, Bob Mullins, of New Orleans. Captain Read stayed with the navy while the Confederacy lasted, then engaged in business at
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Meridian, Miss., dying there in 1891. During his imprison- ment in Portland he wrote to his family asking for money to buy clothing, stating in his letter that the Portland people had nearly all of his for souvenirs.
With the foregoing imperfect record of the part our com- munity took in that great conflict-the greatest in modern times - we pass to other matters; but for a moment thought reverts to those patriotic meetings at East Boothbay and the Center in April, 1861. The men who were old then have been of the past for many years. Of those who were then in mid- dle age three or four isolated instances may still be cited where they are yet with us. But of the young men present those evenings -the life and hope of the community in which they lived - eager to go forth and battle for the land of their birth, some fell before a Southern foe, some went down victims of camp and climatic diseases, some famished in prison pens, some have been dropping along the highway of time in the years since that struggle closed, and the remainder-few only-with whitened locks are bearing the burdens of threescore and ten.
CHAPTER XXVI. MONOGRAPHS AND INCIDENTS.
I.
D R. J. H. WEBBER, Boston, in the Register of Septem- ber 22, 1883, described West Boothbay Harbor in 1822 as follows : In August of that year his father, in com- pany with Seba Smith, came from Portland and settled there. Only five houses then stood in the vicinity. Mr. Webber built his house just south of where the ice house stands. Squire Smith lived a little farther to the east. There was a large stone house occupied by Abijah Kenney, it having been occupied by the soldiers as a barracks in the War of 1812. Besides Kenney, Benjamin Wylie lived in a part of it and Robert Wylie lived in the hall. A few years later it burned down. Seba Smith owned fishing vessels and kept a store. Mr. Webber built a foundry near the shore which soon was lost by fire and was replaced by a blacksmith shop. A few years later the shop was burned and rebuilt.
II.
A letter from Benjamin Blair, Esq., which appeared in the Boothbay Register, March 21, 1883 :
MR. EDITOR.
Dear Sir :- As time changes everything around us and we are boasting of the growth and prosperity of our village, I thought it might be interesting to the present inhabitants to know how it looked fifty years ago, the number of dwelling houses, their location and by whom occupied at that time, on both sides of the Harbor, from the end of Spruce Point, on the east side, around to McFarland's Point on the west side.
1 .- Beginning at Mr. McFarland's old house, which stood near the head of W. M. Sawyer's wharf and occupied by David Newbegin as a dwelling and bakery, he being a baker by trade. This house has long been removed.
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2. - Next coming north is John McFarland's, looks about the same as then, when occupied by himself, now by his heirs.
3 .- North and easterly was the Boothbay House, owned and kept by William Maxwell Reed as a public house. It has since been remodeled and greatly improved.
4. - The Dole house, so-called, occupied by John McClin- tock, who carried on the shoemaking business. It was after- ward known as the Parker Wilson house.
5. - Next north is the brick house, which looks about the same as then, owned and occupied by Col. Jacob Auld and Joseph McCobb, Esq. ; Mr. Auld in the northerly part and McCobb's widow and family in the south part.
6. - The old Esquire McCobb house stood where the Wey- mouth House now stands and was hauled up town, on the east side of Adams Pond, for Capt. Matthew Reed, whose house was burned not long before.
7. - The Avery house, so-called, occupied by John Parsh- ley, afterward became the property of Marshal Smith, Esq., and has since been remodeled and greatly improved by his son Silas.
8. - Next was John W. Weymouth's, recently built, since owned by Jacob Orne and now by his daughter, Mrs. Foster. It has been remodeled within a few years.
9. - The Fullerton house, occupied by Henry Reed and Newbury Morse, now by your humble servant, who is the only one now living who occupied either of the houses fifty years ago around this harbor.
10. - Next the Doctor Merrill house, occupied by Doctor Kennedy, afterward by Capt. William S. Emerson, who remod- eled and greatly improved it, and now by his widow and heirs.
11. - The old Captain Mac, or yellow, house, so-called on account of its yellow paint and brass knockers on the front door. It was considered the most aristocratic in town in those days, occupied by Alfred Hodgdon, and stood about southeast from the Second Congregational Church. It has been moved out to the street and greatly improved by I. C. Sherman, Esq.
12. - William Montgomery's house stood where Russell Holton's new house, now D. W. Hodgdon's, now is, and was taken down to make room for this new one.
13. - Coming south was Edmund Wilson's, a little to the westward of Capt. S. S. Wylie's, which stood near the street and was removed by fire some forty years ago; no trace of it now remains.
14 .- Edward B. Sargent, near the street as it then led along the shore, just to the north of what was recently Mr.
BENJAMIN BLAIR. 1 806-1895.
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Sawyer's, on east side, now J. W. Dow's. It was taken down some years ago.
15 .- The Russ house stood on the hill, east side of the new schoolhouse, then occupied by David Booker Adams, and was destroyed by fire some twenty-five years ago.
16. - The Parson Fisher house stood on Mount Pisgah, where James Harris' widow now lives, and was burned about twenty-five years ago. It was then occupied by a Springer family and others.
17. - Coming down near the water again we find the Nor- wood house, owned and occupied by John Norwood and his son William, more recently by M. E. Pierce as a store and dwelling.
18. - James Campbell's house, now occupied by one of his grandsons, looks about the same as then.
19. - John Love lived where Luther Maddocks' buildings now are and the house was removed to make room for better buildings.
20. - Following down Spruce Point along the shore, in a footpath, we come to Samuel Brewer's, near Brewer's Cove, which was destroyed by fire some twenty-five years ago.
21 .- Still following the shore toward the end of the Point, we find John Tibbetts. The house was destroyed by fire some thirty years ago.
22 .- To the east of the Cumberland Bone Company still stands James Brewer's house.
Thus it may be seen that five of the twenty-two dwellings of fifty years ago have been burned and some removed to make room for better ones, leaving about twelve of the original num- ber. Now I ask where are the former occupants? Yes, where are they ? It is a subject for us all to think of.
BENJAMIN BLAIR.
BOOTHBAY, March 19, 1883.
III. DEPOSITION OF JOHN BEATH.
January 1, 1771.
John Beath of more than fifty years of age testifieth and saith on or about the 22d. of August 1739, he, this deponent being an inhabitant of a place called Townsend now within the town of Boothbay County of Lincoln Province of Massachusetts Bay, was called to the house of Edmund Brown another of the inhabitants of Said Townsend : that he found Said Edmund sitting in his house in company with a number of his neighbors
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expecting the arrival of an officer to apprehend him, no officer being yet come : That said Edmund Brown declared to this deponent that he had resolved to give to the first ordained min- ister that should settle in said Townsend a lot of land then in his possession, which he had bought of David Bryant of Said Townsend deceased. That the Said Edmund Brown requested this deponent to write a deed of gift agreeable to that intention ; that this deponent in compliance therewith, did forthwith write a deed of gift, conveying to said first minister in fee simple forever a lot of land the bounds of which begin at John McFar- land's line, at a poplar tree, running fifty-five rods S. W. along the side of Lobster Cove to Samuel McCobb's line, then run- ning N. W. eighty-eight rods to an heap of Stones, then run- ning N. to the head of the lots to a Spruce Tree marked, then E. to a certain Ash Tree at John McFarland's line then S. to an oak in Said line ; then S. E. sixty rods to where it begins. That Said deed also conveyed a lot in Reed's meadow to the Said Minister in the same manner : that this deponent presented the Said deed to the Said Edmund Brown. That the Said Edmund Brown signed and sealed the same in the presence of John McFarland and James McFarland who subscribed as wit- nesses to the same deed ; that the Said deed was delivered to this deponent in trust for the above use and has been in his care ever since till the Rev. John Murray was called & settled as pastor in Said Town, when it was given up by order of the inhabitants to him : That the deed of the aforesaid tenor and purport now in the hands of the Rev. John Murray is the very same paper letter and syllables which this deponent then wrote with his own hand : That he knows the hand writing of the said Edmund Brown particularly and that the words Edmund Brown signed to the Said deed are written by the hand of the Said Edmund Brown.
That the inhabitants of the Said Townsend further took possession of the premises for the above use; that he this deponent helped with them to build an house on the same, and that they have kept possession till the Rev. John Murray was by them put in possession of the same. This deponent further saith that the next day after the Said Edmund Brown had exe- cuted the Said deed he was made prisoner and in consequence thereof committed to gaol where he remained till his death : that no magistrate was at that time convenient to the inhabitants of Said Townsend ; that this deponent not being acquainted with the forms of law, and not suspecting that any doubt would ever ensue as to the validity of Said deed, added to the fore- going circumstances were the reasons why this deponent took no care to have the Said deed acknowledged & that he believes
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the Same were the reasons why none of the other inhabitants concerned took any Pains therein, and further saith not.
JOHN BEATH.
IV. A TOWN-MEETING INCIDENT.
Mr. John K. Corey relates that sometime in the fifties, he thinks it was during Pierce's administration, political feeling ran rather high and was carried into local affairs to quite an extent. At that time the road from the Center to the Harbor ran almost directly south from the store of J. H. Welsh & Sons, along the foot of the Kenniston Hill, so-called. The townhouse stood end to that street, as it now does to the pres- ent one. By being brought to the street level at its easterly end, the western end was at an elevation from the rear windows to the ground of some ten or twelve feet. Mr. Corey, as a boy, was in his father's dooryard and, hearing some commotion in the direction of the townhouse, looked up and saw an old man springing from the rear window into a snowdrift beneath. He scrambled up and ran as fast as he could to the westward, past the Corey house, without once looking around. Boy-like, Corey hurried to the townhouse to see what was the trouble, for in those days town-meeting scraps were not always wordy affairs. When he reached the door some were outside the building and the rest presented a varied view. Some were clinging around the inside at the edge of the room, some were trying to get the old men out of the building, and some of the more vigorous of the younger element were down in a sort of pit, near the center of the room, trying to get the stove out so as to prevent a conflagration. The fact was the floor had given away near the center of the room, caused by too great a num- ber collecting at that point during a little excitement, and precipitated people, stove and all to the ground, several feet below. The worst of the excitement over, the moderator adjourned the meeting until the next day. The remainder of that day and all night following citizens worked in getting the floor back in place with a suitable foundation, so that the meet- ing was carried to a finality the next day. The old gentleman who went through the window and ran so precipitately home
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turned out to be Samuel Bryer, who lived where John S. Knight now does.
V. THE FATE OF A SLAVE CATCHER.
Records show that Boothbay's first physician was a Dr. Edward Creamer, who was in town somewhat earlier than 1790. He lived at West Harbor, just easterly from the resi- dence of Thomas Orue, close to the shore. There he had a landing, and old ledgers show him to have been engaged at building vessels and keeping store as well as healing the sick. He was evidently a man of energetic qualities, but lacking in some of the moralities of life. He began to make extended trips at sea and some mystery seemed connected with their nature. Finally it became quite generally suspected that he was engaged in catching negroes on the African coast and bringing them across to the Southern or slave States and sell- ing them there into slavery. He evidently made several suc- cessful trips when, for his own welfare, he made one too many. While in his nefarious undertaking he was ambushed and cap- tured, together with his son, by the objects of his plunder. Like all savages, they employed torturous methods upon their victim. He was hung up by his feet for several hours, when, finding life not extinct, he was cut down and hanged by the neck until dead. The son was either liberated or escaped ; but he and the others engaged under his father came back empty and reported the catastrophy.
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