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JUDITH m. II Sept. 1813 Wmn. Tyler of Pownal.
SALLY b. at Salisbury, Mass. 23 June 1780; m. 27 Nov. 1800 Enoch Davis.
CURTIS.
Lendall Curtis, brother of Rebecca, wife of Elisha Stetson, was taxed in Durham 1799-1809. He married 9 March 1801, Sarah Randall. Nothing more is known of him.
Abel Curtis, probably the son of William and Martha Curtis of Hanover, Mass., b. 10 Aug. 1752 ; m. 12 Feb. 1776 Ruth Tur- ner, was in Durham earlier than 1788. Was last taxed in 1798. He had sons Gideon and Abel Jr. They built a mill at Lisbon Factory in 1801. Gideon, born II Jan. 1779, served as Select- man in Lisbon 1808-1I. He was Selectman in Durham 1819-20.
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Moved to Kingfield. He had a son, Rev. Reuben B. Curtis of East Maine Conference, whose son is now Prof. Olin A. Curtis of Drew. Theological Seminary. Gideon's daughter, Orpha, mar- ried Rev. C. D. Pillsbury, and moved to Wisconsin.
Abel Curtis, Jr., m. 18 Oct. 1798, Tamar, dau. of Capt. Jona- than Strout. He lived just above the Bend till 1802 when he moved to a house still standing just across the river in Lisbon. Later he moved to Parkman and died there 7 Jan. 1862, aged 84 yrs. His wife died 14 June 1859, aged 77 yrs. Their children were :
JOSEPH b. I July 1799; m. 30 May 1822 Julia Ann Macomber; d. in Bangor 21 April 1885.
SOPHRONIA b. 29 July 1801; in. Rev. Isaac Lord; d. in Durham 28 Nov. I865.
ABEL d. 24 Oct. 1863, aged 60 yrs.
RUTH m. - Briggs; d. 17 Nov. 1855.
TRUE G. d. June 1875.
JAMES.
WILLIAM d. 4 Sept. 1878, aged 65 yrs.
CUSHING.
John Cushing of West Durham was distantly related to the John Cushing elsewhere presented. He was second son of Adam Cushing of Cape Ann, some say of Abington, Mass., and grand- son of Adam Cushing who graduated at Harvard College in 1714. John's brothers and sisters were Greenword, Ezra, Avis, Sarah, Mary, Adam and Hannah.
John Cushing, born 24 Feb. 1746, was living in Royals- borough earlier than 1774, on lot 69. He married Silence Vining. They had five children :
JOHN b. 15 Sept. 1770. See below.
SILENCE b. 30 Nov. 1711; m. 7 Jan. 1798 Gershom Flagg of Clinton. They settled in Augusta. She died 28 May 1816.
Avis b. I Dec. 1774: m. 1797 Wm. Mitchell, Jr., of Durham.
ADAM b. 21 Dec. 1782; m. 1816 Mary Thompson of Brunswick. He built the brick house where G. W. Wright lives. Died insane. A daughter Ruth taught school in Brunswick. A son Alonzo lived in Gardiner.
JAMES m. 5 Feb. 1813 Nancy Newell and settled in Dover, Me.
John Cushing, Jr., m. 28 Jan. 1791, Elizabeth, sister of George Goodwin. They lived on the homestead. He died 24 Dec. 1863,
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and is buried in Topsham. His wife died 26 May 1843, aged 76 yrs.
SAMUEL b. 6 June 1791; d. 28 June 1791.
POLLY b. 6 July 1792; m. 27 Mch. 1823 Wm. Fogg, Jr., of Wales. He was born in Scarborough and died in Wales 31 May 1876.
JOHN b. 12 May 1794; d. 8 April 1796.
BETSEY b. 9 April 1796; m. 30 Nov. 1821 Job Sylvester 3d; d. 26 May 1873.
SALLY b. 21 April 1798; m. 30 Dec. 1818 Wm. Sylvester; d. 24 Nov. 1877.
HANNAH b. 22 Mch. 1800; m. 27 Jan. 1825 Ebenezer, son of Enoch Strout of Wales. Judge Sewall C. Strout of Portland is their son. She died 5 Oct. 1873. Enoch Strout b. 29 May 1802; d. I June 1880.
ANNA LOUISA b. 22 Feb. 1802; d. 6 Nov. 1876. Unm.
JOHN 3d b. 12 Feb. 1804; d. 12 Jan. 1843. Unm.
JAMES b. 9 Jan. 1809. Preacher. Sce p. 69.
SEWALL b. 23 April 1806; m. 1834 Hannah Webster; d. 30 Jan. 1884. 6 ch., Royal J., John Wesley, Hannah E., Frances E., Harriet L. and Ros- well S.
KATHERINE b. 13 May 1814; m. Benjamin Flagg of Topsham; d. 22 Jan. 1871. He died 29 Feb. 1884, leaving one dau. Emma.
IRENE b. II June 1816; m. Joel Bonney, M. D. Moved to Victoria, Texas. Died 3 May 1859. He died in Texas 28 Oct. 1853. 3 ch.
The children of Hon. John (See Biog.) and Dorothy (Bagley) Cushing were :
ELIZABETH b. in Salisbury 1 Sept. 1767; m. 1792 Wm. Hoyt of Durham. They had one son who d. at sea, and three daughters. Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt d. at Freeport June 1858.
DOROTHY A. b. 2 May 1769; m. 2 Feb. 1785, in New Gloucester, Roger Merrill. She died in Litchfield 28 Dec. 1863.
JOHN b. 23 June 1771; m. Betsey Soule of Freeport. Died in Pownal.
JONATHAN b. 14 Sept. 1773; m. 30 July 1794 Lucretia dau. of David Dennison of Freeport. Died in Freeport.
EDWARD b. 17 Jan. 1778; d. 16 Jan. 1797.
SARAH b. 12 Mch. 1785; d. same day.
DAIN.
John Dain (spelled also Dane and Dean) of Conn.(?) bought lot 67 in 1771. John, Jr., received it from his father and sold forty acres of it in 1778 to William McGray. His house stood opposite the old North Meeting House. Here McGray had his hotel. The main part of the house was carried to Brunswick by Nathaniel Lincoln and erected on Noble St. The part now standing, called the "Philip Douglas House," was built by Lin- coln.
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John Dain, Jr., was a Revolutionary soldier. He married Elizabeth Proctor, moved to Lisbon and kept Dain's Ferry, 1799- 1817. He died 4 Aug. 1837. His wife died 28 Sept. 1838. They were married in Portland, 24 Feb. 1778. Rachel Dain married, 27 Dec. 1770, Edmund Lane. Mercy Dain married, 23 July 1780, John Blake and lived in Lisbon. Joseph Dain was living in Durham in 1789. William Dain married Mary Wagg and lived in Lisbon. Hannah Dain married George Sawyer of Lisbon. Ebenezer Dean or Dain was a Revolutionary soldier and died in the Army.
DAVIS.
William, son of Nathaniel and Martha Davis, was baptized in Scarborough 26 July 1730. He married Judith Their son, Capt. Isaac Davis, was born in Scarborough 26 Mch. 1758. He was a Revolutionary soldier and Capt. of militia. Moved to Royalsborough in 1780 and settled on lot 124. He married, I April 1784 Dorcas, dau. of Judah Chandler. He was select- man and Town Clerk sixteen years, one of the leading men of the town. Died II Nov. 1846. His wife, born 28 Oct. 1758, died 26 Sept. 1842.
JUDITH b. II Mch. 1785; m. 11 Dec. 1806 William Blake of Lisbon; d. 26 June 1863.
MARY b. 29 Oct. 1786; m. 31 May 1806 Thomas Sawyer of Westbrook.
PHEBE b. 20 Nov. 1788; m. 28 Sept. 1809 her cousin Jonathan Larra- bee; d. 16 Oct. 1869 in Mexico, Me.
WILLIAM b. 5 Oct. 1790; m. (Int. Rec. 12 Nov. 1814) Lydia Batchel- der of Phippsburg. Killed by lightning 8 June 1819.
MERCY b. 25 Mch. 1793; d. 28 Mch. 1796.
JOHN CHANDLER b. 1I May 1795; m. (Int. Rec. 12 Jan. 1820) Betsey Booker of Durham; d. 26 Dec. 1835.
MERCY b. 21 Dec. 1797; m. 15 Aug. 1819 William Roak.
JOSEPH b. 23 Feb. 1802; m. 13 Oct. 1826 Sarah Vining.
Joseph Davis, the last mentioned, lived as a farmer on the homestead. He died 28 Mch. 1873. Five ch.
WILLIAM H. b. 5 June 1827; m. (1) Ann Doughty (2) Lucretia M. Robinson.
WESLEY b. 3 Aug. 1829; in. Sarah Avery; killed on R. R. 10 Jan. 1856. WILLARD B. b. 26 Sept. 1834; m. Matilda Turner.
WENDALL P. b. 27 June 1838; m. Mehitabel Hurlburt.
WILEY L. b. 15 Sept. 1841; m. Nellie E. Merrill. Lives in Durham.
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There were other Davises in Royalsborough, but none seem to have remained long. Elias Davis is mentioned as early as 1775. His taxes were abated in 1791. The same year Joseph Davis was chosen moderator. Elias Davis' wife's name was Bethiah. Joseph may have been their son. They lived at S. W. Bend. In 1793 Elias Davis of Bakerstown (Poland) was warned to leave town. Moses, son of Michael Davis, is recorded as born 14 Oct. 1786. Enoch Davis, born in Wentworth, N. H., 24 Feb. 1772, married, 27 Nov. 1800 Sally Currier. Their children were Abel b. 10 Nov. 1801 ; Sally b. 9 May 1803 ; Lucy b. 2 April 1805.
Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Dorcas (Wharff) Davis of Pownal, was born 16 April 1803. He married 31 Dec. 1829 Patience Douglas. They lived on the old Douglas homestead in Durham. He died 21 Oct. 1862. His wife died 24 April 1887. 6 ch.
DORCAS WHARFF, b. 13 Aug. 1831; m. II Jan. 1849 Joseph Tuttle; d. 27 Dec. 1888.
MARGARET SNOW, b. 31 Aug. 1833; d. 16 Dec. 1854. Unm.
JOSEPH HENRY, b. 2 Oct. 1835; m. (1) 21 Nov. 1864 Hattie W. Rich- ardson of Brunswick; (2) Julia Ann Day. He is a carriage maker and farmer. Has been Selectman and Representative to the Legislature. Has only one child living, Hattie.
LYDIA ELLEN b. 23 Nov. 1837; m. 17 June 1858 Samuel Webber of Guilford.
WILLIAM PENN b. 15 May 1841; m. 16 April 1865, Louisa Day of Durham. Two children, Everett who lives in Bath, and Ella who m. Burton B. Brown of Durham.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN b. 5 Dec. 1843; m. 8 Sept. 1867 Augusta E. Record, born 18 Jan. 1844. He died in Freeport 30 Sept. 1880. One son, George, lives in Portland.
DAY.
The American progenitor of the Day family was Anthony Day of Gloucester, Mass. A branch of the family settled in Georgetown in the first half of the eighteenth century. Josiah Day m. 24 July 1770, Wealthy Blethen in Georgetown and set- tled in Royalsborough in 1773. He bought lot 21 of Job Blethen, 3 March 1777. He was Selectman and on the Com- mittee of Safety. Died in 1837, aged about 95 yrs.
JOSIAH JR. b. II Nov. 1774. See below.
PHEBE b. II Dec. 1776; m. Joseph Hacker.
ISAIAH b. 30 Sept. 1778; m. 1805 Deborah Philbrook; d. 20 Oct. 1819. His wife was born 19 July 1782 and died 2 April 1882. See below.
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CHARLOTTE b. 27 Aug. 1780; m. 1805, Caleb Estes; d. 12 Sept. 1821.
WEALTHY b. 4 Nov. 1782; m. 2 Feb. 1806 Samuel Moulton; d. in Lee, Me., 17 Aug. 1849.
LEVI b. 1784; m. Rebecca Spear; moved to Litchfield; d. 1829. For family see Hist. of Litchfield.
SARAH b. -; m. Joseph Philbrook.
JEREMIAH, drowned in Sabattus Pond. Unm.
JESSE b. 22 July 1788; m. Hannah Jones; lived in No. Brunswick; d. ! July 1865. His wife was born 2 Nov. 1792 and died 12 Sept. 1893. See below.
Josiah Day, Jr., born 11 Nov. 1774, married Jan. 1799, Mercy, (latı. of Caleb and Peace (Goddard) Jones, and died 20 Oct. 1825. She was born in Brunswick 21 Jan. 1777 and died in Durham 15 Sept. 1861.
THANKFUL b. 17 Nov. 1799; m. 6 April 1820 Reuben Blethen; d. 4 July 1880.
ISAIAH b. 30 Oct. 1802. See below.
SIMON b. 20 Oct. 1804; m. (1) Lucinda Graves, (2) Hannah Skolfield, (3) Kate Jordan.
JEREMIAH B. b. 23 Feb. 1808; m. 4 April 1832 Mary Gerrish. Ch. Alonzo, Albert, Charles H., Harriet m. David Stackpole, Caroline m. Edward Crockett, and Wesley.
PHOEBE b. 30 July 1810; m. Dec. 1830 Jeremiah Moulton.
LORENZO b. 19 Dec. 1812. See below.
JULIA A. b. 1817; m. 18 Dec. 1836 Isaac Hopkins.
CHARLOTTE b. 1820; m. 17 Nov. 1847 Elisha Lunt; (2) 29 May 186g Peter Swett.
Family of Isaiah and Deborah (Philbrook) Day.
CAROLINE b. 22 Dec. 1805; m. 30 May 1833 John Plummer; d. 26 Nov. 1882.
WEALTHY b. II Aug. 1807; m. Elijah Jenkins of Rochester, N. H.
JEREMIAH b. 12 Aug. 1809; m. (1) Caroline Gerrish; (2) Phebe Blake of Lisbon.
LUCY b. 6 Jan. 1812; m. Nathan Douglas.
GEORGE P. b. 27 June 1815; m. (1) Eunice Douglas; (2) Sarah P. Estes. Eunice d. 5 Nov. 1866.
JANE b. 16 Feb. 1818; m. Waitstill W. Douglas; d. 28 Jan. 1892.
SUSAN P. b. 17 June 1820; m. Joseph Cartland.
Family of Jesse and Hannah (Jones) Day.
LYDIA b. 8 May 1821; m. Charles B. Robinson of Brooks, Me.
JAMES b. I April 1823. Unm.
JOSIAH b. 14 July 1826; d. 18 Aug. 1850. Unm.
LEVI b. 12 Sept. 1830. Unm.
ELISHA b. 6 June 1832; m. Mercy E. Moulton; d. 4 May 1873.
LORENZO DAY.
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ALVAH b. 30 Mch. 1834; d. 12 Aug. 1860. Unm.
ALMIRA b. 4 Jan. 183 -; m. Stephen Cartland.
Family of Isaiah and Mary (Hanson) Day.
JOSIAH b. 21 Oct. 1832.
GEORGE b. 22 Dec. 1833.
LOVISA b. 25 Mch. 1835.
ISAAC b. 7 Jan. 1837; d. 2 July 1854.
FRANCIS b. 17 Dec. 1838; d. 5 Jan. 1879 in Cal.
AUGUSTUS b. 21 Oct. 1840.
JULIA b. 24 May 1842.
MARY J. b. 7 July 1844.
LOUISA b. 26 July 1846; d. 15 Nov. 1854.
ISAIAH b. 6 July 1848.
Lorenzo Day, son of Josiah, Jr., and Mercy (Jones) Day, was born in Durham, 19 Dec. 1812. He married 14 Feb. 1837, Mary Louise Hopkins of Brunswick, who was born 27 Oct. 1818, and died 8 April 1897. He was a shoe manufacturer at North Brunswick until 1850, when he moved to Brunswick village, where he continued that business till 1859.
He opened a retail shoe store, 1850, on the corner of Maine and Mason Sts., in Hinkley Block, which after its partial destruc- tion in 1853 he rebuilt under the name of Day's Block. Here he did business till 1877.
He also had retail stores in Racine, Beloit and Jonesville, Wisconsin, and for a short time in Topsham, Me. He died in Brunswick, 27 March 1880.
FESSENDEN IRVING b. 26 Nov. 1837; m. 20 Dec. 1861 Mary Alma Hol- land. He is a shoe-merchant in Lewiston, Me.
LIZZIE HOPKINS b. 22 Aug. 1839; m. 4 July 1869 Elisha M. Whit- ten, M. D.
MARIA LOUISE b. 12 Aug. 1841; m. 25 Nov. 1863 John Furbish.
LEANDER HOWARD b. 23 Jan. 1844; m. 21 Oct. 1869 Nellie Seymour Phelps.
MARY ELLA b. 14 April 1849; d. 23 Feb. 1852.
ELLEN CARO b. I Jan. 1851 ; m. 22 Oct. 1879 Fred Burns Valpey. Two ch. Harold Day b. 22 Aug. 1880, and Frederick Louis b. 21 July 1882.
Children of Fessenden I. and Mary A. (Holland) Day.
HERBERT IRVING b. 15 Feb. 1864; d. 29 July 1864.
DANIEL HOLLAND b. 19 May 1865.
FESSENDEN LORENZO b. 18 June 1868.
MARY ALMA b. 2 June 1872.
ANNIE HOLLAND b. 19 Oct. 1873; d. 2 April 1875.
HELEN LOUISE b. 8 April 1877; d. 29 July 1880.
ETHEL WILSON b. 21 Aug. 1884.
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Children of Leander H. and Nellie S. (Phelps) Day.
RENA' ELLS b. 29 Oct. 1870.
IRVING SEYMOUR b. 22 Sept. 1873; d. 23 Oct. 1895.
BESSIE FLORENCE b. 27 Oct. 1875.
JESSE GOULD b. 2 June 1882.
Children of John and Maria L. (Day) Furbish.
EDWARD PAYSON b. 12 Oct. 1864; d. 10 Aug. 1878.
BENJAMIN LINCOLN b. 10 Dec. 1866.
MARY ALICE b. 20 Sept. 1869.
CHARLES WESTON b. 5 March 1872; d. 20 July 1872.
SAMUEL BENSON b. I Aug. 1874.
JOIIN ARTHUR b. 14 Oct. 1878.
DINGLEY.
The ancestor of the Dingley family in the United States was John Dingley (1608-58) who came to Lynn in 1637 and settled in Marshfield, Mass., in 1640. The descent to the Dingleys of Dur- ham is through Jacob (1642-91), John (1670-1763), Jacob (1703-92), Jacob (1727- ) and William (1749-1812) to Jeremiah. William Dingley married in Cape Elizabeth, 7 Feb. 1771, Sarah Jordan and moved to So. Danville in 1793. He lived on the River Road, where Orin Libby now lives. Jeremiah his son was born in Cape Elizabeth 14 Jan. 1779. He married, 12 May 1805, Lucy, dau. of Rev. James Garcelon. She was born 13 July 1786 and died 6 Aug. 1831. . He married (2) 24 Nov. 1833 Mrs. Sarah (Miller) Jordan, and lived thereafter on lot 88 in Durham. He died in Auburn 14 Feb. 1869, aged 90 yrs.
JORDAN b. 2 April 1806; m. Jane Gilpatrick of Unity; d. 20 Oct. 1877. His wife died 7 April 1873, aged 53 yrs. 4 mos. He lived at S. W. Bend. Ch. John b. 10 April 1839, now living in Auburn; Abby b. 23 Sept. 1841; Albion b. 31 May 1850, deceased; and Helen b. 2 Sept. 1856.
JULIA A. b. 16 July 1807; m. Socrates Dow.
NELSON b. 15 Nov. 1809; m. 1831, Jane Lambert. Their children were Nelson Jr. (See Biog. Sketch) and Frank L. b. in Unity 7 Feb. 1840, 110w Editor of Lewiston Journal.
JAMES b. 7 Jan. 18II; m. (1) Betsey Blethen; (2) widow Howard.
WILLIAM b. 27 Mcl1. 1814; see below.
NANCY b. 13 June 1814; m. Wm. Brewster and has a son William who lives in Auburn.
LUCY b. 18 Aug. 1819; m. 21 Dec. 1837 Isaac Lambert.
JEREMIAH JR. b. 13 April 1822; m. 29 May 1845 Minerva Williams; (2) Ruth P. McKenney. Res. Auburn.
SARAH E. b. 9 Aug. 1824. Lives in Auburn.
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SUSAN G. b. 3 April 1828; m. 14 Dec. 1850 Cornelius Stackpole. She died in Auburn 4 June 1882.
Dea. William, son of Jeremiah Dingley, m. 16 Mch. 1837, Maria Blethen. He was well known in Durham and Auburn as a good man and the religious leader of his neighborhood. He died 4 July 1898. His wife died in June 1898.
LUCY b. 6 Dec. 1837; 111. William Stackpole.
SARAH b. 6 Dec. 1837; m. Rev. George Leavens; d. 22 Jan. 1886.
LAVINA b. 16 Mch. 1839; d. 6 June 1845.
WM. FRANKLIN b. 29 Sept. 1845. Lives on the homestead in So. Auburn.
MILLARD F. b. 9 Oct. 1850. Lives on lot 88 in Durham.
Albion, son of Jordan Dingley, married Mahala, dau. of Ben- jamin Thomas, and died 28 Oct. 1894.
BELLE J. b. 28 June 1874.
FRED J. b. 18 Oct. 1875.
HELEN E. b. 23 Sept. 1878; d. 8 Sept. 1879.
ALICE L. b. I Sept. 1881.
DOANE.
RICHARD DOANE, son of Edward and grandson of Ebenezer Doane who m. Elizabeth Skillin, was born in Cape Elizabeth 26 Dec. 1772. He married, (1) 26 Nov. 1793, Mary, daughter of John Randall, who was born in Portland 17 April 1775, and died in Durham 10 April 1829; (2) 17 April 1831 Mary E. Cobb of West Bath. He died in Durham 4 May 1848. He lived near Methodist Corner on farm recently owned by George Estes. He had ten children by the first marriage. He was a staunch adherent of the Methodist church.
JOANNA b. in Cape Elizabeth 13 Jan. 1795; in. 23 March 1824 Ammi Loring; d. 29 Dec. 1843 in Pownal.
SARAH C. b. in Durham 8 Jan. 1797; m. 24 Nov. 1820 Stephen H. Davis; d. 8 Aug. 1874 in Farmington.
JOHN R. b. in Durham 29 Jan. 1799; m. 19 May 1832 Lucy Strout of Poland and died in Durham 18 June 1834, leaving a dau. Mary Jane who married Samuel Churchill of Poland.
MARY R. b. 9 April 1801; m. 21 March 1821 David Loring; d. 13 Feb. 1879 in Guilford, Ind.
NANCY C. b. 25 Aug. 1803; m. 23 Aug. 1826 Benj. Randall of Pownal; d. 30 Sept. 1860.
OLIVE S. b. 7 July 1806; unm. d. in Durham 14 Feb. 1849.
WILLIAM b. 27 July 1808; d. in Durham 3 Aug. 18II.
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MARGARET A. b. 10 April 1810; m. 9 Feb. 1832 David M. Nichols; d. 19 Oct. 1882 in Durham.
HARRIET A. b. 22 July 1816; m. 9 Oct. 1834 Joseph Nichols of Lisbon.
LUCY ANN b. 19 June 1820; m. 10 Aug. 1845 Charles Libby; d. 29 March 1850 in Pownal.
DOUGLAS.
This family is of Scotch descent, claiming connection with the old Earls of Angus. John Douglas, born in 1695, was the first emigrant to America and settled in Middleborough, Mass. His oldest son Elijah b. about 1720 in Middleborough, m. (1) 27 April 1742 Phebe Taylor and had three sons; (2) Elizabeth dau. of Edward and Patience Estes, born in Hanover, Mass. 7 April 1731 and had & children. Lived in Harpswell for a while and settled in Royalsborough in 1775 on the Meadow Road. He died in 1814, aged 94. He was the first of the name to unite with the Society of Friends, having joined them at Falmouth 29 June 1754.
Cornelius Douglas, son of John, was born in Middleborough, Mass., 12 Sept. 1749 ; m. 10 Nov. 1767 Ann, dau. of Edward and Patience Estes, who was born in Hanover, Mass., 14 March 1735. She was sister to his stepmother. He moved to Royalsborough in 1773 and bought Lot 28. His log house is said to have been the fifth built in Royalsborough, but this is doubted. It was on a little hillock some distance from where the highway now is. His wife d. 28 Jan. 1790. He m. 23 June 1791 Lydia, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Buffum of Berwick, Me. He was a Friend. Died in Durham 20 June 1821. His second wife died 31 Aug. 1837.
Children by first wife.
JOHN b. 8 Sept. 1768; m. 14 Mch. 1791 Judith Collins, d. in Brunswick I, June 1820.
EDWARD b. 30 June 1770; m. 4 May 1797 Esther Collins.
PHEBE b. 12 Nov. 1772; m. 24 Jan. 1793 Ebenezer Austin; d. 15 Jan. 1817.
JOSEPII b. I Aug. 1774 in Royalsborough; d. 6 June 1782.
Children by second wife.
ANNA b. 15 July 1792; m. 7 Feb. 1822 Saml. Goddard; d. 4 Oct. 1840. JOSEPH b. 28 May 1793; drowned at Hebron 27 Aug. 1814.
JOSHUA b. 8 Sept. 1794; m. (1) Jane Adams; (2) Lucy Beal.
DAVID, b. 16 July 1796; m. (1) Hannah Davis; (2) Chloe Davis.
CORNELIUS b. 12 June 1798; m. 27 Jan. 1820 Phebe Nichols of Berwick. See p. 68 and portrait.
CORNELIUS DOUGLAS.
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LYDIA b. 28 Dec. 1799; n1. 15 Nov. 1827 George W. Morse; d. 29 Nov. 1843.
PATIENCE b. 15 Feb. 1803; m. 31 Dec. 1829 Benjamin Davis; d. 24 Apr. 1887.
Joseph Douglas, brother of Cornelius and son of Elijah, was born in North Yarmouth (now Harpswell) 8 April 1753; m. 4 Sept. 1773 Mary McFall who was born 31 Dec. 1751. In 1781 he bought a farm of Stephen Chase in Royalsborough for £213 6s. 18d. in depreciated currency. The farm was 100 acres, half of lots 5 and 12. Here he built a log house. He was a powerful preacher in the Society of Friends, and a man of natural ability and deep piety. He died 22 Dec. 1821. 6 ch.
ELIJAH b. 24 June 1775; d. young.
DAVID b. II July 1779; m. Waite Hawkes.
MOSES b. 28 July 1784. Unm. ELIZABETH b. 20 May 1786. Unm.
RACHEL b. 29 June 1788; m. 30 Oct. 1823 Hanson Hussey of Albion. REBECCA b. 29 May 1790. Unm.
John Douglas, son of Elijah, b. in Harpswell, 8 Nov. 1774; m. (1) 5 Aug. 1796 Sarah Booker ; (2) Catherine (Briry) Booker. Settled on a part of his father's farm in Durham. In 1820 bought a farm near the River. Died in Brunswick 18 Oct. 1853.
POLLY b. 16 May 1797; d. same day.
ELIZABETH b. 18 June 1798; d. 5 April 1814.
HUGH b. 18 Aug. 1800; m. Julia A. Goddard.
JOHN b. 21 Mch. 1803; d. Sept. 1820.
JOANNA b. 20 Aug. 1805; d. 1808.
NANCY B. b. 6 Feb. 1808; m. 8 Mch. 1829 John B. Douglas.
ISAAC b. 7 Feb. 1811; m. Abigail K. Webber.
SALLY b. 30 Jan. 1814.
Children by second wife.
ENos b. 2 Sept. 1816; m. Nov. 1842 Nancy M. Jordan; m. (2) Sept. 1895 Mrs. Hannah (Foss) Hanscomb. Res. Lewiston.
WAITSTILL WEBBER, b. I Nov. 1818; m. Jane Day; d. I Apr. 1876.
Joshua Douglas, son of Cornelius and grandson of Elijah, was born in Royalsborough 8 Sept. 1794; m. (1) II June 1818 Jane, dau. of Andrew and Ruth (Lufkin) Adams ; (2) 29 Aug. 1839, Lucy, dau. of Jonathan and Lucy Beal of Durham. Bought his father-in-law's farm near Gerrish's mill in 1818, which he sold in 1835 to Henry Plummer and bought of Caleb Jones a farm on
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the River. He died 21 Jan. 1881. He was an excellent man, a worthy minister of the Society of Friends.
JOSEPH b. 24 Mch. 1819, m. Ann G. Beal.
ELIZA JANE b. 28 Feb. 1822; 111. James Goddard.
GEORGE b. II May 1825; m. Elizabeth A. Prescott; d. 20 April 1888. JOHN b. 26 Feb. 1828; m. Ann Maria Hamblin.
CHARLES b. 24 Aug. 1830; m. Annie E. Fisher.
JOSHUA LUFKIN b. 17 April 1833; m. Helen L. Harvey. Res. Bath.
WM. HENRY b. 13 Oct. 1847; m. (1) Ella H. Rolfe; (2) Mrs. Eliza B. (Tibbetts) Clason.
As an excellent Genealogy and History of the Douglas family has been published by Joshua Lufkin Douglas, of Bath, it is not deemed necessary to give further particulars about this family.
DOW.
John Dow of Gilmanton, N. H., was born about 1764. He went to Portland, Me., and failed in business. Came to Durham about 1790 as a school-master. Married I Mch. 1791 Betsey, dau. of Joshua Strout. They lived at first in a house fronting that of Benjamin Vining, on the east side of the County Road. Here he had a small store and also made potash. He sold this place, II Aug. 1792 to Eben H. Goss of Brunswick. He after- ward lived on the River Road, where the late Dea. Wm. Dingley lived. About 1825 he sold this farm to Simeon Blethen and Dea. Isaac Lambert and moved to Avon, where he died and was buried about 1834, aged 70 yrs. He was a tall, spare man, of dark complexion and thin face. His wife died in Wilton in 1847. He was a Revolutionary soldier.
EDMUND b. 28 March 1793. See below.
JOHN JR. b. 23 April 1796; died young.
SALLY b. 24 Mch. 1798; m. Moses Sanborn.
BETSEY b. 24 May 1800; died young.
SOCRATES b. 16 July 1802; m. Julia Dingley; d. in Foxcroft.
MARY m. Isaac Clark.
JOSHUA. WILLIAM died in Vienna, Me.
JAMES.
Edmund Dow bought a farm adjoining that of his father, one tier of lots back from the river, in what is now So. Auburn. Here he built a house and lived till 1828. The farm is still called the "Ned place." He moved to Wilton and died there 25 Nov. 1879. In his youth he was well known throughout Durham.
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GENEALOGICAL NOTES
He married 20 Aug. 1820 Jane, dau. of Samuel Robinson of Durham ; (2) 1856, Sara Mace; (3) 1864, Sarah Eames. He drew a pension for his service in the War of 1812. His children were.
BETSEY b. 1821; SAMUEL R. b. 6 April 1823; JOHN D. b. 1825; living in Lowell, Mass .; CHARLES R. b. 25 July 1827, living in Brookline, Mass .; EDMUND b. 1829; MARY JANE b. 1832; JAMES HILLMAN b. 1834, d. 1865: JOSHUA b. 1836, d. 1863; LORENZO b. 1874, d. 1875. Edmund, James and Joshua were soldiers of the Union Army in the Rebellion.
DRINKWATER.
Thomas Drinkwater of Taunton married Elizabeth Haskell before 1700. His family had then been in New England many years. Their eighth child was Joseph, born about 1710. He moved to No. Yarmouth in 1730 and married May 18, 1732, Jane Latham. The ninth child of Joseph and Jane Drinkwater was Daniel, who married Rebecca Fisher, and these were the parents of Retiar Drinkwater, born in Cumberland 9 Nov. 1789. He married Feb. 16, 1815 Mary Whitney, who died 2 May 1823; (2) Dec. 16, 1824, Elsa D. Jones of Pownal. By the first mar- riage were three children, Mary and Retiar, both of whom died young, and Roxana who married Charles Hicks of Falmouth. By second marriage were eight children.
MARY W. b. Sept. 27, 1828; d. 29 Sept. 1828.
RETIAR b. 29 May 1827; m. 10 Feb. 1853 Sarah E. Noyes, who died 5 Dec. 1868; m (2) Betsey Jane Dunn of Cumberland.
HIRAM J. b. 22 Nov. 1828; m. 29 April 1861 Clarissa D. Sylvester; d. 3 April 1892. A daughter Marion died in infancy.
FRANCES E. b. 22 March 1830; d. 8 May 1874; m. Benj. F. Nason. LOIS U. b. 4 June 1832; m. 28 Sept. 1854, Allen Weeks.
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