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OLIN R. b. 15 Feb. 1869.
MELIE M. b. 14 July 1872.
BLETHEN.
Tradition says that John Blethen was born at Small Point, Phippsburg, and was in the garrison house at the age of four years when the Indians attacked it in 1722. A brother James m. 1757 Miriam Day of Georgetown and settled in Cape Elizabeth. Another brother Increase is said to have settled in Phillips, but this may have been a son.
John Blethen is accredited with three wives, and twenty-seven children by first two marriages. His first wife's name is unknown. He m. (2) 1763, Dorcas Getchell of Brunswick; (3) 27 Aug. 1789, Hannah Hibbard of Durham. He bought lot 12 in 1770, afterward moved to Lisbon and died there at the house of his daughter HANNAH, who m. 1790, William Green. He also had children, REUBEN m. 28 Nov. 1799 Ruth Curtis of Little River ; JOB of Lisbon ; JONATHAN; INCREASE; JOHN m.
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5 Sept. 1794 Sally Pomroy and lived in Lisbon ; JAMES ; SIMEON ; and DAVID, d. young. The following were probably his daugh- ters, MIRIAM m. 6 Dec. 1781 Nathaniel Getchell ; WEALTHY, m. Josiah Day ; JOANNA, m. 9 April 1808 James Estes ; DORCAS m. Edsel Webber; PHEBE m. 1770, Charles Gerrish ; POLLY m. 1795 Josiah True ; AXIL, m. - Rideout ; and RHODA m. 26 Dec. 1785 Simeon Kimball.
Janies, son of John Blethen, married Longley and lived in Durham as a farmer on lot 62.
JOHN b. 6 Sept. 1789; m. (1) Rebecca Blethen who died 7 Jan. 1832, aged 36 yrs. (2) 30 Mch. 1834 Mary, dau. of John and Mercy (Dain) Blake, who was born 17 Dec. 1787. He died 3 April 1870.
JAMES b. 14 April 1791; m. - Hacker. They had one son.
SARAH b. 2 Feb. 1793; m. 17 Nov. 1812 Thomas Cotton of Lisbon.
ANDREW b. 2 Jan. 1795; m. (Int. Rec. 12 Jan. 1820) Arzilla Gerrish. He was a Free Baptist minister. Lived in Foxcroft.
REUBEN b. 14 Sept. 1797; m. 6 April 1820 Thankful Day.
ABIGAIL b. 14 July 1799; m. Benj. Peterson of Lisbon.
ISAAC b. 30 June 1801; settled in Dover, Me. Seven sons and two daus.
GEORGE b. 28 July 1804; m. 13 April 1826 Ruth Booker of Durham.
MARY m. (1) 17 April 1831 John Stoddard of Lisbon (2) Joshua Rob- inson (3) Wm. Young.
Simeon Blethen, son of John, married 25 Dec. 1805, Dolly Strout. Lived in So. Danville, where Dea. Wm. Dingley lately lived. He died 25 Oct. 1846, aged 65 yrs. His wife died 27 May, 1849, aged 65.
ASENATH b. 8 Sept. 1805; m. Bradbury Merrill, moved to Dover, Me. JOSHUA b. 5 Aug. 1807; drowned in Florida 9 Jan. 1846.
JOHN b. 4 Mch. 1810; m. 30 Mch. 1834 Mary D. Blake of Durham.
BETSEY b. 13 July 1812; m. 4 Dec. 1834 James Dingley.
MARIA b. 9 July 1814: m. 16 Mch. 1837 Wm. Dingley; d. June 1898.
DOLLY b. 14 Nov. 1816; m. 30 Mch. 1837 Jason Pettengill; d. 4 Mch. 1897.
ABIGAIL b. 8 April 1821; m. Increase N. Kimball.
JULIA ANN b. 17 Sept. 1823; m. Capt. Christopher Kilby; d. 2 May 1852. SIMEON JR. b. 27 May 1826; lived in Danville; d. 12 June 1862.
BLISS.
The name of the first American ancestor of the Bliss family of Durham was Elias. His son Samuel was born at Columbia, Conn., in 1758 and died in 1834. He was with his father at Valley Forge, his father being a Captain in the Army. He mar-
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ried, in 1780, Sarah Loomis, and had eleven children, of whoni three lived in Durham, viz. Sophia b. 9 June 1790, d. 25 April 1845 ; Achsah b. 3 Jan. 1793, d. 30 May 1886; and Charles b. at Columbia, Conn., 1800, d. at Durham in 1873. The latter moved to Durham in 1836 and bought the old O. Israel Bagley farm. The house is the oldest one in Durham, and is still a fine build- ing of heavy timbers and curious finish.
Charles Bliss m. (1) 1825, Mary Webster of Conn. She died 13 Oct. 1833, leaving two daughters.
CLARINDA b. 16 Aug. 1826; m. Wm. B. Thomas of Durham. MARTHA b. II April 1829; d. 15 Sept. 1848.
He married (2) 1843, Lydia E. Cox of Brunswick who was born 29 Sept. 1814 and died 13 Oct. 1896. They had four children.
MARY R. b. I Nov. 1844; d. 15 July 1856.
CHARLES O. b. 9 July 1846; d. 16 Jan. 1847.
HARRIET S. b. 13 Mch. 1848; d. 3 Aug. 1852.
CHARLES H. b. 28 Aug. 1850; m. 6 April 1873 Etta L. Tracy, b. at Durham 3 June 1853. Lives on the homestead. Eight children. The first two died in infancy. Henry P. b. 13 Oct. 1875; Charles Fred b. 10 Feb. 1878; George Warren b. 20 Oct. 1879; Emma Tracy b. 17 Mch. 1883; Mary Fannie b. 31 Oct. 1885; Louisa Loring b. 28 Feb. and d. 9 Nov. 1892.
BOOKER.
Jolin Booker came from England to York, Me., about 1707. He married Hester Adams of York, and had eight children, of whom James was born 18 Dec. 1723. He married Mercy Young, dau. of Benaiah Young, II Nov. 1747, and settled in Harpswell. They had eleven children, of whom Daniel was born 25 Feb. 1760. He married 12 May 1782, Mary Douglas. Their oldest son James was born in Harpswell 15 Sept. 1783. He married (1) Patience Dinslow ; (2) Lydia Getchell. Settled in Durham as a farmer; where he died 2 April 1867. His first wife was born 6 April 1788 and died 30 Jan. 1826. His second wife, born 24 July 1795, died 24 Oct. 1870. 12 ch.
ISAAC b. 3 May 1808; m. Hannah Harding: d. 27 May 1868.
ISABEL b. 15 Nov. 1810; m. Elisha Beal; d. 23 June 1881.
WILLIAM b. 21 Dec. 1812; m. (1) Hattie Dunning; (2) Martha Jones; d. 9 Mch. 18SI.
JANE b. 21 Mch. 1816; m. Luther Storer of Bath; d. 11 Feb. 1891. WASHINGTON b. 4 Oct. 1818; m. Sarah Owen; d. 8 Aug. 1890.
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RACHEL b. 6 April 1822; Unm .; d. 7 Mch. 1892.
JAMES B. b. 23 Jan. 1826; m. (1) Abigail Coombs; (2) Widow Walker.
ISAIAH b. 26 Mch. 1828; Unm .; d. in Iowa 5 Nov. 1891.
ISRAEL b. 18 Jan. 1830; Unm .; d. 23 April 1855.
ALBERT b. 6 Sept. 1832; m. Lydia E. Hayes. One son, Eugene L. Lives in Durham.
MARCIA b. 2 Sept. 1837; d. 29 Jan. 1855.
HARRIET b. 6 Jan. 1840; m. Oliver P. Snow; d. 4 Aug. 1876.
The James and Mercy (Young) Booker mentioned above had a son James born in Harpswell 25 Dec. 1748. He married 23 Aug. 1792 Catherine Adams and had seven children, of whom the oldest was Daniel, born in Harpswell 21 March 1793. He settled in Durham about 1815 and spent fifty years there as a farmer. He married in 1816 Lorania Hacker of Brunswick. His second wife was Rhoda Graves, whom he married about 1825. She died in 1840. His third wife was Mary Farr Alexander, m. 1841, d. Aug. 17, 1873. He died at Lisbon Falls, 3 May 1880. Three ch. by Ist marriage.
HARRIET b. 7 Oct. 1819; d. 15 Nov. 1819.
OCTAVIA b. II Nov. 1820; d. II Nov. 1841.
MERCY b. 4 Mch. 1823; m. Rev. George A. Crawford.
Five ch. by 2d marriage.
ALFRED JAMES b. 14 Jan. 1826; m. Mary Ann Woodard.
EMERY b. I July 1828; m. Elizabeth Woodard.
LORANIA HACKER b. 20 Sept. 1830; m. James S. Campbell. Deceased.
DANIEL ALVAH b. 8 Oct. 1832; m. (1) Nementhis Loring; (2) Emma Swift.
JEREMIAH HACKER, b. 15 Aug. 1834. Deceased.
Five ch. by 3d marriage.
MARY ELIZA b. 24 Oct. 1842; m. Wm. M. Hickok.
AUSBON b. 8 Nov. 1846; m. Josephine S. Bessie.
MELISSA ANN b. II Nov. 1848; m. Wm. L. Witham.
ARTHUR WILDER b. 15 Feb. 1852; m. Mary Ella Libby. Deceased. CHESTER HERMAN b. 8 Jan. 1855; m. Rachel Murray.
James, son of James and Catherine (Adams) Booker, before named, was born 8 Oct. 1798; m. 28 Nov. 1824, Emily, dau. of Thomas Pierce, Esq .; d. 25 June 1882. They lived in Durham and Lisbon.
IRA P. b. 28 Nov. 1832; m. 21 Nov. 1855 Clara W. Whittemore. Res. Brunswick.
LAURA A. b. 31 June 1827; m. 4 Jan. 1851 Edmund Berry of Lisbon Falls.
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BOWIE.
George Bowie came from Scotland with a brother Alexander. He was a Revolutionary soldier. He married in Cape Elizabeth, 20 Dec. 1775, Rachel Strout and had children, George, Frank, Alexander, James, David, Nathaniel and Jane. He was drowned about 1793. Of his children Frank had daus. Betsey and Rachel ; Alexander d. s. p .; James was imprisoned at Halifax in War of 1812, escaped, married in Nova Scotia and had several children there; Nathaniel had children, Alexander, James, Nathaniel and Rhoda.
George Bowie Jr. was born at Cape Elizabethi 12 Dec. 1777. He came to Durham before 1800 and settled on the east end of lot III. He married Betsey Stoddard, who was born at Charles- town, Mass., 12 Dec. 1777 and d. 22 Sept. 1856. He died 2 April 1863. Their children were :
ARNOLD S. b. 20 July 1800; m. 1822 Deborah Ames; (2) 31 Mch. 1833 Jane Ridlon.
ABEL S. b. 16 July 1802; m. 1827 Rebecca Nichols; d. in Portland 16 Feb. 1874.
DAVID b. 13 July 1804. See below.
DANIEL b. 24 June 1806; m. 16 Mch. 1837 Susan Turner; d. 4 June 1886. Had ch. Daniel, Charles M., William H., d. 9 Mch. 1875, Mary J., Willard, Sidney and Emily.
ELIZA b. 18 Aug. 1808; m. David Farr; d. 5 May 1861.
GEORGE 3d b. 16 July 1811; m. 11 Sept. 1831 Caroline Hunnewell. Had ch. Geo. Wesley, Edward T., Emerson, Melvin, Alonzo, James, and Eliza.
David Bowie, born 13 July 1804, m. 1830, Betsey, dau. of William and Avis (Cushing) Mitchell, and spent his entire life on the homestead, as a farmer. He died 27 May 1884. He served on the Board of Selectmen and as an officer in the militia, and was a useful and respected citizen. See portrait. His wife died 30 March 1898. Their children were:
IVORY b. 8 Jan. 1831; m. Cordelia F. Parker. Res. Auburn.
GEORGE W. b. 9 Oct. 1832; d. 3 June 1857.
JAMES C. b. 16 Jan. 1834; d. 7 Oct. 1853.
ELLEN b. 2 Nov. 1836; d. 27 April 1838.
SUSAN C. b. 5 Oct. 1838; m. Frank Bowie.
ROYAL b. 13 Dec. 1840; m. 24 Oct. 1872 Roxana Hilton. Res. Lisbon Falls.
RACHEL b. 19 Aug. 1842; m. Lewis C. Robinson.
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CYRUS S. b. 8 Nov. 1844; d. 30 Sept. 1866.
LEROY S. b. 21 Sept. 1848; m1. 5 April 1875 Sabie E. Sylvester. Lives on the home farm and has five children.
David, son of George and Rachel (Strout) Bowie, was born in March, 1787. He had the only public bakery Durham ever had. He m. 19 Dec. 1811 Nancy Ann Becket. He died in Danville 17 Dec. 1860. His wife died 3 Jan. 1854, aged 70 yrs. 10 mos. They had children :
DAVID R. See below.
ROBERT S. b. 14 Oct. 1818; :. 8 Nov. 1838 Mrs. Ann L., widow of Theophilus Miller. Has a son and two daughters. Res. Lisbon Falls. Has been since 1842 a licensed preacher in the Methodist and Free Bap- tist churches.
SARAH, m. 17 May 1840 Wm. Wagg; lives in Lisbon.
PAMELIA, m. Charles Robinson.
David R., son of David Bowie, was born in Durham 31 May 1810; m. Betsey F., adopted dau. of Dea. Christopher Tracy. He lived on lot 113. Moved to Phippsburg where his wife died about 1868. He married the second time and is still living.
ELKANAH b. 23 June 1837; d. 27 Mch. 1841.
FRANCIS W. b. 31 Mch. 1839.
GREENFIELD H. b. 2 Oct. 1840. See p. 72.
ELKANAH W. b. 28 Dec. 1842; d. 21 June 1843.
GERALDINE H. b. 28 Feb. 1845.
JOSEPHINE H. b. 10 Aug. 1848.
ELERGENE b. 20 Mch. 1855; d. 1897.
BRAGDON.
There were several families of this name, but the records are scanty. Ebenezer, Ephraim, John and Jonathan Bragdon were taxed in 1799. Josiah, Gideon, and David appear before 1810. Ephraim and Gideon were brothers.
Ephraim came from Scarborough. He married Abigail Hunnewell in Durham. Intentions recorded 15 April 1797. He lived near Parker Hill. Died 22 Sept. 1849, aged 77 yrs.
DENNIS d. in Savannah at early age, leaving wife and child.
JANE m. 13 Sept. 1840 Abram Libby of Freedom.
MARY m. Robert Knight. Lived in Portland.
ELIZA m. John Bragdon of Durham.
GIDEON b. 6 Oct. 1804; m. Susan Staples of Freeport; d. 19 Feb. 1863. DORCAS, Unm.
ELIJAH m. 1835 Hannah Libby of Freedom.
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PATIENCE m. Seward Hunnewell.
ABIGAIL m. Luther Shaw of Portland.
ELEANOR, Unm.
Ebenezer Bragdon was born at York 6 May 1766. He mar- ried Huldah, dau. of Judah Chandler. The birth of one son is recorded, George, b. 7 MIch. 1796. George Bragdon m. 19 Mch. 1815 Nancy Turner.
BURNHAM.
John Burnham, grandson of John the emigrant, was born in 1738 and settled on Falmouth Neck in 1760. He was a cooper. Built the first wharf in Portland. Was on the committee for formation of the Constitution of Mass. Married I April 1762 Abigail Stickney and had eight sons and five daughters. Died 29 July 1798.
His son, Josiah Burnham, was born 23 Jan. 1770, in Fal- mouth. He moved to Durham before 1793 and settled on the lower County Road. Farmer and cooper. He was Justice of Peace and Representative to General Court in 1803 and 1809. Served as Selectman twelve years. He returned to Portland in 1834 and died there 5 Aug. 1843. Was married four times. His first wife was Lucy Berry of Westbrook, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. She died in 1808, aged 45 yrs. He m. (2) Oct. 1808, Plebe Bishop of Freeport. His third wife was Ellen Jameson, and his fourth, Mary Baker of Portland. Eight children :
JOHN b. 22 July 1797; m. 1823 Louisa Soule of Freeport.
JOSIAH b. 14 April 1799.
GEORGE b. 20 Aug. 1801; m. 1828 Margaret Burr of Freeport. Moved to Portland in 1825. Was forty-four years inspector of fish. Died 10 Oct. 1884. His wife b. May, 1807, d. 25 Mch. 1885. Ch. Margaret B., George, Perez B., Josiah and John E., all of Portland.
HARRIET b. 14 Jan. 1805; m. Sept. 1825 Alfred Soule of Pownal.
LUCY b. 24 Feb. 1807; m. 4 Nov. 1826 Perez Burr of Freeport.
PHEBE BISHOP b. 21 Mch. 1814.
ELEANOR JAMESON b. 10 Dec. 1815; m. Arnold Burrows of Charles- town, Mass.
CARY.
Nelson Howard Cary, son of Simeon, was born in Bridg- water, Mass. 5 Jan. 1807. He was descended from Jolin Cary of Somerset, Eng., who came to America in 1634. See Hist. of Bridgewater. He graduated at the Medical School of Bowdoin
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College in 1828; married 13 Sept. 1829 Maria, dau. of Willianı R. and Olive (True) Stockbridge of Yarmouth, who was born I Aug. 1806 and died in 1850. They were married at the Bap- tist Mecting House in Yarmouth. He practiced medicine suc- cessively in Gorham, Wayne, and Durham. He married (2) 1852, Julia Warren of Durham. He died in Durham 10 April 1877.
His three sons were members of the 13th Regt. of Mass. Vols. in the Rebellion. Samuel was taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg and was twenty-one months in rebel prisons. Annie Louise Cary became the famous contralto. I remember in my childhood of hearing her sing in the choir of the Union church at S. W. Bend. She was thought then to possess a good strong voice, but most people can not tell diamond till it is polished. I remember, too, to have secured her services at the Commencement Concert at the time of my graduation at Bowdoin College in 1871, and I still preserve her autograph receipt for $250 paid. This was her first appearance in Maine as a singer, after her reputation had been established abroad and at home. Special trains were run for that Concert from Bath and from Lewiston. There was a crowded and delighted house. Miss Cary's encores of old familiar songs produced the greatest applause. The cultured were satisfied; the uncritical were charmed. Since a long sketch of her musical career has recently been published in the History of Wayne, her native town, I need say no more here. Her sister, Mrs. Ada Sturgis, became a singer of no mean reputation.
The following is Dr. Cary's family.
WILLIAM H. b. 24 Aug. 1830.
JOSEPH S. b. 16 May 1832; m. Flora E. Harlow; d. s. p. in Boston 25 April 1877.
MARCIA A. b. 23 May 1834; m. 26 Jan. 1855 John Cushing Merrill; d. 26 June 1897.
ELLEN M. b. 11 Oct. 1837; m. (1) 15 Nov. 1855 John Q. Warren: (2) the Rev. W. H. Haskell, now of West Falmouth.
SAMUEL G. b. 25 Dec. 1839; m. 11 April 1871 Catherine Lanning of Boston. One child, Annie Louise, b. 12 May 1872.
ANNIE LOUISE b. 22 Oct. 1842; m. 29 June 1882 Charles Monson Raymond, of New York.
ADA was the only child by Dr. Cary's second marriage. She married Mr. Sturgis.
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CHANDLER.
Judah Chandler (See Biog. Sketch) married (1) Martha Sea- bury; (2) Rebecca Seabury. They had at least nine children, eight of whom are recorded in North Yarmouth.
MARY JOHNSON b. Oct. 25, 1745; EDMOND b. Jan. 7 1747; JOHN b. Feb. 4, 1748, d. in Rev. Army in 1778; JONATHAN, b. Dec. 24, 1750; MERCY b. April 4, 1754; ABIGAIL b. Sept. 23 1756; DORCAS b. Oct. 28, 1758, m. April 1, 1784 Isaac Davis; HULDAH b. Feb. 9, 1861, m. (Int. Rec. Dec. 1, 1787) Eben Bragdon; SARAH bap. June 28, 1767, m. Nov. 21, 1785 William Blake and moved to Ohio .*
CLOUGH.
Samuel Clough came from Berwick. He married Sarah, dau. of Caleb Estes and settled on lot 16 in 1771. His will, made 10 Jan. 1799, mentions children Anne, Isaac, Joshua, Abigail, Tabi- tha, Patience, Esther, Isaiah, Elizabeth and Jeremiah. Isaiah married Mary Haskell and settled in Litchfield. For his family see History of that town. Tabitha married Ebenezer Bailey. It has been impossible to get full records of this family.
COLLINS.
Benjamin Collins came from England, settled in Salisbury, Mass., and married Martha, dau. of John Eaton of that town in 1668. His oldest son John, born in 1673, married before 1695 Elizabeth Their son Tristram of Hampton Falls, N. H., married Judith and had a son Samuel who married 3 Jan. 1759 Hannah, dau. of John and Patience Dow of Kensington, N. H. They lived in Weare, N. H., till about 1780, when they moved to Durham and settled on lot 15. He brought his family with four oxen, and seventeen hundred Spanish milled dollars in saddle-bags on his horse. The children were:
MARY, m. 8 Aug. 1787 at Harpswell Joseph Spaulding and lived in Dixmont; PATIENCE, d. unm. at age of 85 yrs; JOHN, m. Hannah God- dard; ESTHER, b. 17 Feb. 1770; m. 4 May 1797 Edward Douglas, settled in Brunswick; d. in Dover, Me. abt 1875, aged 97 yrs; PAUL, m. Mary Winslow, settled in Litchfield, d. at age of 93 yrs; JUDITH, m. 14 Mch. 1791 John Douglas, lived in Brunswick, d. at age of 76 yrs; BETSEY, m. - Bryant, remained in Weare, N. H .; HANNAH, m. Marmaduke Gifford, lived in Fairfield, d. at age of 80 yrs; LYDIA, m. Joslyn Allen of
*For Genealogy of Chandler Family see Old Times in North Yar- mouth, p. 1098, and History of Duxbury, p. 242.
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Durham; ABIJAH, m. Dolly Jones; HULDAH, unm. d. 22 Dec. 1860, aged 83 yrs. 8 mos.
John, son of Samuel and Hannah (Dow) Collins, was born 14 Aug. 1765 and died in Durham 29 June 1845. He married Hannah Goddard, who was born 2 Aug. 1769 and died 31 Oct. 1850. Their children were :
ZERUIAH b. 7 July 1790; m. 3 Dec. 1818 Wm. Porterfield; d. 19 April 1875.
PEACE, b. 6 Sept. 1792; m. Waitstill Webber; d. 19 April 1877.
SAMUEL b. 19 Feb. 1795; d. 1805.
JOHN b. 10 Feb. 1797; m. Ann Lunt; d. 24 Oct. 1870.
HANNAH b. 14 Jan. 1800; m. 26 Nov. 1835 Wm. H. Johnson; d. 30 Oct. 1882.
MARK b. 1803; lost at sea.
MAXIMILLA b. 15 April 1805; m. David Larrabee of Brunswick.
JAMES b. 26 Feb. 1809, m. Dorcas Loring; d. 4 Dec. 1885.
BETSEY, b. 20 Oct. 1811; unm. d. 30 Mch. 1887.
Abijah, son of Samuel and Hannah (Dow) Collins, was born in Weare, N. H., 24 April 1780. He married 21 Dec. 1817 Doro- thy Jones and settled in Durham. She was born in Durham 24 May 1795. He died 11 Aug. 1863. Their children were :
SAMUEL b. 19 May 1818; d. 6 Nov. 1862.
MARY b. 2 July 1820; m. 4 Nov. 1840 Bailey T. Royal of Pownal.
PHINEAS b. 26 Feb. 1822; d. 10 July 1890.
ALMOND b. 17 July 1824.
HANNAH Dow b. 12 May 1826; d. 12 Aug. 1845.
WM. HENRY b. 7 July 1828.
PAUL b. I Aug. 1830; d. 14 April 1896.
HARRIET STROUT b. 18 Sept. 1832.
GEORGE ELBRIDGE b. 12 May 1835; d. 27 Dec. 1836.
SARAH F. b. 17 July 1845; d. 26 July 1863.
CONVERSE.
Dr. John Converse settled in Durham before 1797. He lived first in the house now owned by Dea. Wm. Hascall when it stood north of " Eunice's Brook." He afterward built and lived in the house on the bank of the river where Simeon Bailey long lived. It was burned a few years ago. Dr. Converse still lives in tradi- tion as a good citizen and skillful physician. He died 5 Dec. 1815, aged 45 years, and is buried in the old Cemetery near the
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North Meeting House. The epitaph on his tombstone reads thus :
"Thousands of journies night and day I've traveled weary all the way To heal the sick, but now I'm gone A journey never to return."
He married, 17 Mch. 1799, Sally, dau. of Ichabod and Abigail (Hayes) Hanson of Windham. She was born 4 Oct. 1774. Did she marry, (2) 9 July 1817, Seth Chandler of Minot? The chil- dren of Dr. Converse were :
ORRILLA b. 14 May 1800; d. 7 April 1805.
VERANUS b. 18 Oct. 1801; d. 22 April 1805.
SALLY b. 28 March 1803; m .. 13 May 1821 Winslow Haywood.
MARY b. 19 Nov. 1804; m. 15 Oct. 1827 Edward Merrill.
MINERVA b. 27 Feb. 1807; m. 28 Dec. 1829 Wm. R. Kendall of Free- port.
JOHN HARRIS b. 27 Dec. 1808; d. 13 June 1880. Bowdoin Coll., 1830. Lawyer. Judge of Probate for Lincoln County. Left two sons.
ELIZABETH b. 20 Aug. 1810; m. Dr. Durgin of Portland.
HARRIET b. 16 April 1812; m. Capt. Howland of New Bedford, Mass. LAURA W. b. 27 Jan. 1814; m. Capt. James Currier and lived in Buxton.
CRAWFORD.
The Crawfords migrated from Scotland to North Ireland. George Crawford was born in Leitrim, Ireland, in 1787 and died in Durham 27 April, 1874. His wife, Eliza Ann, was born in Sligo, Ireland, in 1790 and died in Durham II Dec. 1856. He married (2) 6 Dec. 1860, Catherine Newell. He settled in Dur- ham before 1820, having lived for a short time in Bethel. He united with the M. E. Church in middle life, and his devout con- versation attested the thorough transformation of his character. He was a well informed man and had a remarkable family. Four sons became preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
WILLIAM b. 4 Oct. 1821; d. 18 Feb. 1889. See Biog. Sketch.
LEMUEL. Lost at sea.
JOHN m. 4 Sept. 1842 Sarah A. Bonney of Durham. Resided in Brunswick.
THOMAS m. 18 Dec. 1842 Thankful D. Johnson; d. 25 July 1852, aged 34 yrs. 7 mos.
GEORGE m. (1) 15 Feb. 1848 Mercy H. Booker; (2) Mrs. Julia A. (Varney) Coombs; d. 25 Sept. 1878, aged 58 yrs. His second wife died in Cal. 2 April 1898. See Biog Sketch.
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JAMES BARBOUR b. 22 Dec. 1822; m. 2 June 1855 Harriet A. Wood- side of Durham; d. 31 Mch. 1869. See Biog. Sketch.
DAVID F. d. 14 Sept. 1854, aged 28 yrs. He was studying for the min- istry and had preached occasionally.
ANN m1. 22 Mch. 1837 Isaac Graves of Topsham.
CROSSMAN.
Two brothers, David and Solomon Crossman, came to Royalsborough, tradition says from Nova Scotia, before 1780. David lived on lot 44, where Frank Bowie now resides. He once planted fourteen acres of corn on that sand-hill, but no sand was then visible. The cutting of the primeval forest exposed the hill- top to the winds with disastrous result. David married Sarah Bounds of Maryland. A part of her dowry was three slaves, the only ones ever owned in Durham. The name of the female slave was Jennie Deshelle who married, 1808, Tobias Hill of Bruns- wick. Another slave was John Meshack, or Messick. The family of David Crossman is here given :
SARAH b. 19 Aug. 1775.
MARY b. 2 May 1777; m. Isaac Clough.
COMFORT b. 21 June 1779; d. 5 Sept. 1865. Unm.
KEZIA b. I July 1781; m. Walter Davis of Scituate, Mass.
DAVID b. 28 May 1783; d. young.
JESSE b. 10 April 1785. See below.
BOUNDS b. 7 Feb. 1787; m. 19 Feb. 1808 Judith Dinsmore; moved to China, Me.
ESTHER b. 16 Mch. 1789; d. 20 June 1879. Unm.
CYNTHIA b. 16 Mch. 1789; d. - April 1858. Unm.
ABIGAIL b. 28 .Dec. 1790; m. Amos Goddard of Pownal.
EUNICE b. 18 Jan. 1792; m. Thomas Dinsmore of China. II sons.
DAVID b. 23 Jan. 1797; m. 16 Feb. 1826, Mary, dau. of Aaron True, of Litchfield. Lived on the homestead.
LoIs b. 5 Dec. 1798; m. Samuel Beal.
HANNAH b. 6 May 1804; n1. Amos Goddard; d. 16 Jan. 1877.
Jesse Crossman married Charity Goddard. He died 31 July 1867. She died 5 May 1866. 9 ch.
ALMIRA b. 25 June 1809; m. 5 June 1836 John P. Sutherland.
JOSHUA b. 18 Sept. 1811; m. 25 Dec. 1838 Mary Porter and 1. in Wis- casset.
WILLIAM b. 15 July 1813; moved to China, Me.
LYDIA b. 20 Aug. 1815; m. Benj. Harmon of Brunswick.
NARCISSA b. 6 June 1818. Unm. Living.
LUCY b. 5 July 1820. Unm. Deceased.
SEWALL CUSHING.
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES
CHARLES b. 13 May 1824; died in Lynn, Mass., 4 Jan. 1899. GEORGE b. 23 Sept. 1826; m. Mary Jones. Res. Lisbon Falls. ISAIAII b. 13 Mch. 1829; m. Mary Spollett; d. in Lynn, Mass.
Solomon Crossman, after living in several places in Durhanı, bought lot 24 of Nicholas Pinkham in 1794. He married Mehit- abel Goddard, b. in Falmouth 20 April 1763. He m. (2) 5 Nov. 1820, Lucy Pierce. 7 ch. recorded among the Society of Friends.
PRUDENCE b. 8 June 1788; m. John Baxter of Burnham.
JOHN b. 2 Aug. 1790; m. Anna Field.
NATHAN b. 6 Mch. 1793; m. and l. in Portland.
PHEBE b. 27 June 1795; m. Abram Winslow of Limington.
JESSE b. 11 Oct. 1800; m. Judith Goddard.
ASA b. 5 May 1803; m. widow Abigail (Smith) Davis.
LEVI b. 27 Jan. 1807; m. and 1. in Portland.
CURRIER.
Jonathan Currier came from Salisbury, Mass., in 1780, and settled near Methodist Corner, on lot opposite Wm. Miller's. Ide m. 4 May 1775, Sarah Graves, in So. Hampton, N. H. He was killed by the falling of a tree in 1791. Lucy Currier, born in Salisbury, married Samuel True, 28 May, 1792. Sarah Currier of Durham married Josiah Mitchell of Lewiston 29 March 1792. The children of Jonathan Currier were :
JOSEPH b. 17 May 1785; lived in Freeport.
ISRAEL b. 17 May 1785; n1. 5 July 1807 Mary Stover of Freeport; d. I Sept. 1812. She died 22 June 1813.
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