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George W. Strout, son of Jonathan, born in Durham 16 May 1809, married 7 Sept. 1832, Sarah H. Hibbard, who was born in Lisbon 17 June 1811 and died 30 June 1887. He died in Lewis- ton 15 Dec. 1890. He lived at South West Bend in the house next to the Union Church, which now serves as a Masonic Hali and Hall for the Grange.
ELIZABETH A. b. 23 June 1833; m. - Jordan; d. 29 Mch. 1888.
JACOB A. b. 21 May 1835; m. Sophronia Clymens; d. at Gold Hill, Nev., 9 Dec. 1873.
HARRIET A. b. 10 May 1837; d. 22 Sept. 1855.
SARAH M. b. I Dec. 1839; m. George Roberts.
MARGERY H. b. 2 Mch. 1842; m. Frederick Reed.
GEORGE J. b. 5 Sept. 1844; d. 12 May 1864.
LUCY E. b. 19 June 1847; m. Frank Brooks.
I. C. KNOWLTON b. 29 June 1850; d. 9 Dec. 1883. FRANK H. b. 9 Oct. 1854.
Merrill W. Strout, son of Barnabas, married, 28 Nov. 1839, Mary Gerrish. He was a prominent and good citizen of Dur- hanı and of Brunswick. Died in Woburn, Mass., 8 Feb. 1893.
ADALANTHA b. 4 Dec. 1842; m. G. P. Lombard of Belfast.
HOWARD EVERTON b. 4 July 1846; lives in Brockton, Mass. CHARLES MERRILL b. 30 Nov. 1848; lives in Woburn, Mass.
OSCAR L. b. 24 July 1850; lives in Boston, Mass.
Revillo M. Strout, son of James Strout Jr., born 3 Aug. 1843, married, 4 Aug. 1872 Mary V., dau. of James and Sarah (Her- rick) Newell. He has been in trade at South West Bend since 1872. It was principally through his influence that the stage and mail route was established between Durham and Auburn, and he drove the stage several years. His social and obliging ways have made him well and widely known. Nothing can be truthfully said to his discredit. His children are as follows :
BELLE GILMAN b. 13 July 1874. HARRY HERRICK b. 21 June 1878.
CHARLES EMERY b. I March 1881.
Solomon, son of Elisha and Eunice (Freeman) Strout, was born 13 April 1777 in Gotham, Me. He was related to Joshua Strout. He married, 20 Nov. 1800, Mrs. Patience (Wallace) Fickett of Falmouth, and lived in Limington. They had two sons who settled in Durham, Elisha and William W.
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REVILLO M. STROUT.
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Elisha Strout, born 8 Sept. ISII, married 14 Oct. 1838 Mary Ann Tyler of Pownal, who was born 29 May 1816 and died 12 Nov. 1895. He died 17 Sept. 1887. They had two daughters, Emma who married in California, and Maggie who married Wesley Day of Durham.
William Wallace Strout was born in Limington 4 Feb. 1804. He married, 25 Aug. 1830 Harriet A., dau. of William and Anna (Hoyt) Newell. He died in Durham II Nov. 1872.
WILLIAM N. b. 25 Jan. 1832; m. 25 Feb. 1865 Carrie Turner of Dur- ham. Lives in Winthrop, Me.
FREEMAN b. 9 Dec. 1834; m. 25 Dec. 1860 Harriet E. Mitchell of Bath. He was killed at the battle of Chantilly I Sept. 1862. No children.
MELISSA J. b. 7 Mch. 1837; m. 18 Feb. 1863 William S. Miller.
FREDERICK b. 2 Jan. 1840; in. 6 April 1871 Myra R. Fogg of Bath; d. 19 Aug. 1878.
SYDLEMAN.
John Sydleman, sea-captain, was born in Norwich, Conn., in 1763. He married Esther Stickney of Portland and settled in Durhanı, on the lower County Road, in 1791. Died 3 Oct. 1805, lost at sea. His wife died 27 April 1850, aged 84 years.
MARY m. 25 Nov. 1811 William Gerrish.
SOPHIA m. Elisha Jones of China, Me.
JOHN m. 3 Nov. 1820 Mary Woodbury. Was Deacon in the Cong. Ch. Farmer on the homestead. Died 20 Aug. 1867, aged 70 yrs. 10 mos. His wife died in 1880, aged 84 yrs. Ch. Esther; Louise who ni. 10 Oct. 1848 Reuben H. Byram and is now living in Colorado Springs; George A., who in. 29 Nov. 1849 Frances E. Sylvester; and John, who died, leaving a family in Mass.
REBECCA b. 22 Mch. 1795; m. 20 Oct. 1814 James Woodbury.
CHARLOTTE b. 25 Sept. 1799; m. 21 Oct. 1817 Joshua Gerrish; d. in Lisbon 22 Jan. 1879.
GEORGE A. d. at San Jago 30 Dec. 1820, aged 22 yrs.
ELIZA m. 21 Feb. 1841 Amasa Sylvester of Freeport.
SYLVESTER.
Richard Sylvester came from England about 1630 and settled in Weymouth, Mass. He married in 1632 Naomi Torrey and had eleven children. One was Joseph, born 1638, whose son Amos was born 15 Nov. 1685 and married 20 Nov. 1706 Eliz- . abeth Henchman. He died 23 Oct. 1753. Amos Jr., born 14 Sept. 1707, married Patience Palmer 7 Feb. 1732 and had a son Job, born 1742, who married Margaret Stetson in Hanover,
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Mass., 8 June 1765. He moved to Durham and died there 6 Oct. 1832. His wife died 8 Dec. 1818. Revolutionary soldier.
JOB JR. b. 9 Nov. 1767. See below.
AMOS. Killed in War of 1812, leaving widow and children, one of whom, Eben, m. 10 Nov. 1822 Eliza Tyler. Henry Sylvester of Dur- ham is his son, who m. Clara Lunt and has two sons and two daughters.
CYNTHIA m. Ezekiel Merrill of Freeport 9 Sept. 1798.
DEBORAH m. Wm. Tuttle of Pownal. Died in Ohio.
ZILPHA m. 8 Feb. 1810 Zebulon York. Lived in Strong.
ROLAND 11. 1804, Mrs. Ruth (Estes) Barstow, widow of Daniel Bars- tow; d. 17 Jan. 1812.
JOSEPH m. 20 Dec. 1813 the widow of his brother Roland; d. 28 Feb. 1852. Had a son Roland.
Roland Sylvester, son of Joseph, born 21 Sept. 1815, married 15 Jan. 1839 Ursula Nichols. Is still living on the old home- stead. Blacksmith and farmer. Six children.
ELLEN A. Unm.
JOSEPH H. m. Mary E. Gay. Lives in Freeport. Has seven daugh- ters.
WILLARD N. m. 24 May 1876 Leona Parker. Lives on the home- stead. Has nine sons.
SAMUEL N. m. April 1885 Ella Cushing of Freeport. Died, leaving one son.
SABIE E. m. 26 Mch. 1875 Leroy Bowie.
ZILPHA IDA m. Marcus W. Eveleth of Durham.
Job Sylvester, Jr., born 9 Nov. 1767, married 25 Nov. 1790, in Hanover, Mass., Lydia Phillips, who was born 12 Feb. 1769. They settled in Durham about 1800. He was a blacksmith and farmer. About 1840 he and his wife went West to live with his son Benjamin. He died at Manchester, Ind., 19 Oct. 1859. His wife died 3 March 1850. They had nine children, of whom the first five were born in Hanover, Mass.
JOHN b. 10 Aug. 1791; m. Esther Collier. Settled in Avon. 6 ch.
LYDIA b. 14 Dec. 1792; m. 22 April 1811 Luther Plummer. Settled in Manchester, Ind.
JOB PHILLIPS b. 5 Dec. 1794. See p. 261.
WILLIAM b. 27 April 1797. See p. 261.
BENJAMIN b. 18 Dec. 1799; m. (1) 22 Jan. 1824 Sarah Noyes. She died in Aurora, Ind., 19 Jan. 1838. m. (2) Ann A. Drake, who died 27 Oct. 1872 in St. Paul, Minn. He died in St. Peter, Minn.
PATIENCE b. 22 Dec. 1808; m. (1) I Feb. 1823 Rev. James Harring-
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ton of R. I. 3 ch. m. (2) 17 Nov. 1860 Henry Parker of Jay. She died in Lynn, Mass., 19 Jan. 1890.
ROLAND b. 13 Oct. 1814; m. (1) Aurelia Nichols 23 Oct. 1839. (2) 25 Nov. 1847 Grace Nichols. He died in Portland 23 May 1888. 4 daughters by first marriage; 4 sons by second.
William Sylvester, born in Hanover, Mass., 27 April 1797, married 3 Dec. 1718 Sarah Cushing, who was born in Durham 21 April 1798 and died 24 Nov. 1877. He died in Durham 8 Feb. 1884. Farmer.
HARRIET b. 27 Dec. 1820; m. Isaac Yeaton. She still lives in Auburn. Mr. Yeaton was a soldier in the Rebellion and died in New Orleans 14 Aug. 1864. 5 ch.
BENJAMIN F. b. 20 April 1822; m. Eudora Baker. Lives in Chicago. JOHN C. b. 15 Oct. 1824. Lives on the homestead. Unm.
FRANCES E. b. 11 Oct. 1827; m. 29 Nov. 1849 Geo. A. Sydleman. WILLIAM J. b. II Oct. 1829; d. 24 May 1888. Unm.
JAMES C. b. 12 Feb. 1832; m. 6 July 1859 Margaret Tuttle of Pownal. Farmer in Afton, Iowa. One son.
GEORGE W. b. 30 April 1836; m. 19 Feb. 1870 Elizabeth Boyce. Sol- dier in the Rebellion. Lives in Illinois. No ch.
Job Phillips Sylvester, born in Hanover 5 Dec. 1794, mar- ried 30 Nov. 1821 Elizabeth G. Cushing. Blacksmith. Post- master. Town officer several years. Justice of Peace. Capt. of Militia in 1828. Died 29 Mch. 1870.
MARIA L. B. b. 15 Jan. 1822; m. 25 Nov. 1847 Philip W. Capron of R. I .; died in Quincy, Ill., 23 May 1870. He died in Chicago 2 Jan. 1885.
DELPHINA P. b. 13 Dec. 1825; m. 7 April 1844 Wm. U. Thwing, son of Rev. James Thwing of Maine Conf. Residence, Chicago. 8 ch.
CLARISSA D. b. 22 Dec. 1831; m. 29 April 1861 Hiram J. Drinkwater. He was a farmer in Durham and died 3 April 1892. To her we are indebted for the history of several families. They had a daughter who d. young. They adopted Minnie G. Thwing in 1878 in legal form, b. 16 Oct. 1866.
CUSHING b. 27 May 1833; d. 6 Oct. 1883. He served three years in the Rebellion on the gun-boat Cumberland. Married in Chicago 27 June 1865 Mary McLaughlin. 4 ch., only one of whom is living. His wife died in Chicago 13 Sept. 1895.
ROSCOE G. b. 17 Nov. 1836. Served throughout the Rebellion. Was Lieut .; m. in Carbonsdale, Ill., 24 Dec. 1867 Marietta A. Bricker. One son. He is a druggist in Carbonsdale, Ill.
EUGENE B. b. 7 Aug. 1842; n1. 5 Dec. 1870 Phebe Ella Haskins. She died at Cape Elizabeth 15 Oct. 1896. A son and three daughters live in Auburn.
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THOMAS.
Humphrey, Moses, Peter and William Thomas were taxed in old Falmouth in 1766. William and Sarah Thomas owned the covenant at the First Parish Church 25 Nov. 1764. It seems that by the first marriage with Sarah - - William Thomas had children, William, Joseph and Sarah who married Jacob Stanford, all of Cape Elizabeth. William Jr., married 19 Dec 1793, Eunice Robinson and lived in Durham 1798-1804 on lot 100. He was a sea-captain and moved back to Cape Elizabeth.
William Thomas, Senior, married (2) 24 Dec. 1769 Mrs. Abi- gail (Marriner) Simonton, widow of Capt. Theophilus Simonton, whom she had married 10 Jan. 1765. Her daughter by first mar- riage married Joshua Miller. After the death of her second husband Mrs. Simonton married, 4 April 1793, William Ray. In her old age she lived in the family of Joshua Miller, Senior, of Durham, and was known as "Granny Ray." . It is related that on one occasion there was a husking at Mr. Miller's and the young people were having a social time, when some one in sport offered to give a bushel of corn to Samuel Jordan, familiarly called "Linsey," if he would kiss Granny Ray, who sat quietly knitting in her high-backed chair in the corner. While the old man hesitated and the laugh went round, the old lady exclaimed encouragingly, "come right along, Mr. Jordan, come right along, you can't get a bushel of corn any easier." This turned the tide of merriment in another direction.
William and Abigail (Simonton) Thomas had a son Theophi- lus Simonton Thomas, born in Cape Elizabeth in 1775. He mar- ried, 20 Nov. 1794, Elizabeth, daughter of Josiah and Priscilla Stanford, who was born in Cape Elizabeth in 1779. He was first taxed in Durham in 1809 and died there 2 Mch. 1841. His wife died 13 Mch. 1863.
JAMES b. 20 Feb. 1799. See p. 263.
WILLIAM b. 30 May 1802. See p. 263.
WOODBURY b. 14 Jan. 1804. See p. 263.
EUNICE b. 30 July 1806; m. 12 April 1840 John Merrill; d. 21 Feb. 1875.
JOSEPH b. 1809. Lost at sea. Unm.
LOUISA J. b. 1 Jan. 1813. See p. 264.
MARY b. 22 July 1814; m. 8 May 1845 Benj. Duran; d. I June 1885. RUFUS b. 9 Oct. 1717. See p. 264.
WOODBURY THOMAS.
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James Thomas, son of Theophilus, born in Cape Elizabeth 20 Feb. 1799, married, 19 Nov. 1822, Eunice, dau. of Samuel and Catherine (Clark) Robinson.
LIZZIE b. 21 Jan. 1824.
JAMES W. b. in Lewiston 28 Aug. 1826; d. 29 Mch. 1870.
SYLVANUS D. b. in Lewiston 19 Jan. 1829. Living in Lewiston.
SARAH J. b. in Lewiston 7 Oct. 1831; d. 10 Dec. 1850.
DEXTER S. b. in Lewiston 21 Oct. 1833; died in 1897, in Ill.
ELBRIDGE G. b. in Lewiston 27 May 1837.
William Thomas, son of Theophilus, born in Cape Elizabeth 30 May 1802, married 30 Dec. 1828 Harriet Lucy Fennelly, b. 21 Dec. 1806. He died 17 April 1851. His wife died 24 Aug. 1871.
JOSEPH EDWARD b. 2 Jan. 1830. Soldier. Died in Andersonville Prison 17 Oct. 1864.
HARRIET ELIZABETH b. 2 Jan. 1832; d. 30 Mch. 1832.
MARY ELIZABETH b. 5 Mch. 1833; m. Wm. D. Carter.
HARRIET LUCY F. b. 26 May 1835; m. Arthur Harmon.
Woodbury Thomas was born in Cape Elizabeth 14 Jan. 1804. He came to Durham with his parents about 1809. They lived at first near Parker Hill, but soon moved to the Brunswick Road, a third of a mile below the Free Baptist Church. After mar- riage he settled on lot 58, where he resided till his death. He was a man of genial nature and made many friends. His firm- ness of character made him hold tenaciously to opinions once formed, whether in religion or in politics. When the Whig party disbanded, his transition was easy to the Republican ranks. About 1835 lie united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he continued a zealous supporter. A large part of the New Testament was stored in his memory, and he made good use of it in public exhortations.
He married, Nov. 1832, Pamelia, daughter of James Jordan of Lisbon, who was born 14 April 1810 and died 2 Mch. 1840. His second wife was Lovina N., daughter of Dea. Christopher Tracy, born 18 Sept. 1814, died 27 Mch. 1882. He died 26 Feb. 1875. Children by first marriage :
JOSEPH W. b. 22 Sept. 1833; m. 28 Feb. 1861 Matilda G. Vining. Ch. Fred b. 18 Jan. 1862; Mary E. b. 29 Nov. 1867; Everett b. 9 Feb. 1870.
MARY FRANCES b. 24 May 1836; d. 2 Nov. 1859.
GEORGE H. b. 13 April 1838; d. 26 April 1840.
PAMELIA A. b. 15 Feb. 1839; d. 23 May 1840.
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Children by second marriage.
GEORGE HARVEY b. 2 May 1842; d. 7 Oct. 1844.
WILLIAM HARRISON b. 24 Aug. 1843. See Biog. Sketch.
ELVIRA JANE b. 2 Dec. 1844; d. 21 July 1883. MARQUIS LESLIE b. 28 Nov. 1847.
MARGARET ELIZABETH b. 7 Feb. 1850; m. Seward A. Parker. JAMES BRADFORD b. 27 July 1852; d. 6 Aug. 1855.
Rufus Thomas, born 9 Oct. 1817, married (1) Lydia, dau. of Moses Jones, who was born 19 Sept. 1826, and died 8 Nov. 1856; (2) 3 June 1858, Esther Hodgkins of Lewiston, who was born 5 May 1823 and died 28 Sept. 1896. He died 12 Oct. 1880.
GEORGE H. b. 5 May 1846. ALBION S. b. 6 Sept. 1848. FRANCIS E. b. 8 Jan. 1852.
ELIZA J. b. 8 Jan. 1855; d. 14 Mch. 1857.
Louisa J. Thomas, dau. of Theophilus, married (1) 19 Oct. 1833 John Orr Jordan, who was born in Freeport 3 Dec. 1809, and died 8 Dec. 1842; (2) 28 Dec. 1847 Samuel Wooster Chase. who was born in Yarmouth 12 July 18II and died 20 May 1869. She died 23 Mch. 1895. Ch. by first marriage.
FRANCES EMERY JORDAN b. 4 Aug. 1834; m. 6 June 1857 Sophronia Curtis of Harpswell; lost at sea 1874. Ch. Jennie L., Nellie, Frank and Curtis.
JOHN ALBERT JORDAN b. 13 April 1837; d. 8 Dec. 1852.
Ch. by second marriage.
HOWARD WOOSTER CHASE b. 19 Oct. 1849; m. 3 April 1881 Sarah Abbie Hoyt of Freeport, who was born 22 Feb. 1857.
Tufts Thomas of N. H. married Fannie Bootman and settled in Gorhanı, Me. His oldest son James was born 7 May 1771 and married (Int. Rec. 25 Aug. 1795) Charlotte, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Hanson) Libby, b. 25 Sept. 1776. They lived in Dur- ham not far from Gerrish's Mill, where he died I Oct. 1847. His wife died 2 Sept. 1829.
MARY b. 3 Nov. 1798; m. April 1821 John Richards.
SOPHIA b. 8 Mch. 1800.
SALLY m. (I) II Jan. 1821 Joel Jones; (2) John Richards.
JAMES LEWIS m. Almira Moulton. Removed to Lee.
ELIAS m. Martha Ann Moulton. Removed to Lee.
BENJAMIN. See below.
ELIZA m. 20 Dec. 1834 Samuel Williams.
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Benjamin, son of James and Charlotte Thomas, was born in Gorham 25 May 1807 and died in Durham 29 May 1881. He married in 1834 Adaline Favor, who was born in North Yar- mouth 20 Feb. 1811 and died in Durham 15 Oct. 1886. Their children were:
MARY E. b. 18 Nov. 1835; CHARLES E. b. 2 July 1837. WILLIAM B. b. 27 Mch. 1839; AMANDA A. b. 15 Oct. 1840.
MAHALA b. 24 Jan. 1848; GEORGE P. b. 3 Aug. 1849.
HOWARD b. 15 April 1853; LAURA b. 16 April 1855.
TRACY.
The ancestor of the Tracys came from Normandy with Wil- liam the Conqueror. His coat of arms may be seen in the Roll of Battle Abbey, "Argent, an escallop in the chief point sable, between two bandlets gules." Grace, dau. of Henri de Traci, Lord of Barnstable, married, 1104, John de Studeley, and her second son assumed the name of his maternal ancestor, William de Traci, and had the coat of arms above described, except that the color argent was changed to or. The tenth Sir William Tracy of Toddington had a son, Richard Tracy Esq. of Stanway, whose son Nathaniel was the father of the Lieut. Thomas Tracy, born about 1610, who was enrolled at Salem 23 Feb. 1637. He married in Wethersfield, Conn., 1641, the widow of Edward Nason, and lived in Saybrook fourteen years. He settled in Norwich, Conn., about 1655. He was Deputy or Representa- tive of the town twenty-one semi-annual sessions, and his son Solomon nineteen sessions. He m. (2) 1676 Mrs. Martha Brad- ford; (3) Mrs. Mary (Foot) (Stoddard) Goodrich. He died in Norwich 7 Nov. 1685.
By first marriage he had seven children, of whom Jonathan was born in 1648. He married 11 July 1672 Mary, dau. of Fran- cis Greswould and settled in that part of Norwich, Conn., which is now Preston. He was Town Clerk, Lieut. in the Training Band, and Justice of the Peace. He died in 1711. He had a son Christopher, who was the father of the Jonathan Tracy who was born in Norwich (or Preston) 29 Dec. 1713. This Jonathan came to old Falmouth, Me., and married in 1743 Abigail, dau. of Jeremiah and Rachel Riggs. (Riggs was a tanner, son of John and Ruth (Wheeler) Riggs of Gloucester, Mass. He came to Falmouth in 1725 and lived near Stroudwater.) Their first
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four children were baptized at the First Parish Church, of which the parents became menibers in 1744. They lived in the vicinity of Back Cove, and he was Sergeant of a militia company there in 1757.
In Aug. 1762 Jonathan Tracy moved to Gouldsborough, Me., induced by the proprietors by the free grant of lots of land for himself and sons. His descendants in that town and vicinity are very numerous. In an old family Bible, now in the possession of Wm. H. Thomas, the following children are recorded :
JEREMIAH b. 9 Aug. 1744; JONATHAN b. 24 Mch. 1746.
LYDIA b. 21 Feb. 1748; SOLOMON b. 4 Mch. 1750.
MARY b. 17 May 1752; ABIGAIL b. 3 June 1754.
RHODA b. 17 Aug. 1756; CHRISTOPHER b. 2 Oct. 1758. AsA b. 4 Aug. 1760; SAMUEL b. 30 June 1762.
WHEELER b. 3 Feb. 1765; THOMAS b. 30 May 1767. DANIEL b. 16 Aug. 1769.
Of these Solomon, Christopher and Samuel settled in Dur- ham. Solomon Tracy married 8 April 1773 in Falmouth Mary Getchell. They lived for a while in Durham, where sons Solo- mon Jr., Nathaniel, who m. 24 Dec. 1801 Molly Beal, and prob- ably other children1 were born. They removed to Rome, Me. Solomon Jr. returned to Durham, married Deborah Dunn of Poland and had the following children :
NATHANIEL b. 10 July 1795, d. in Rome, Me., at the age of 93 yrs. POLLY b. 26 May 1797; JOSEPH b. 4 Aug. 1799; PEGGY b. 16 May 1802; BENJAMIN b. 7 Mch. 1804; JAMES; and SOLOMON 3d.
Rev. Christopher Tracy (See Biog. Sketch and Revolutionary Record) born in Falmouth 2 Oct. 1758, came to Royalsborough about 1778. He married Anna Getchell in 1780 and settled on lot 79. Tracy's Island still bears his name. His wife was born 14 June 1761 and died 19 Oct. 1835. He died 12 Nov. 1839. The number thirteen did not prove very unlucky in the Tracy family, since he, his father and his brother Samuel had each thirteen children.
HANNAH b. 25 Oct. 1780; m. 28 Nov. 1799 Joseph Orr.
JONATHAN b. 28 Dec. 1782. See Biog. Sketches of ministers. MARY b. 3 May 1785; m. Wm. Beals of Augusta; d. 27 June 1874. CHRISTOPHER b. 13 July 1788. See p. 267.
1m. 25 Sept. 1803 Wm. Beal and Mary Tracy.
m. 5 Dec. 1805 James LeBarron and Rhoda Tracy.
nı. int. 24 Feb. 1810 Wm. Grant and Peggy Tracy.
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SALLY b. 18 April 1790; m. 12 June 1810 Isaac Witham.
ASA b. 12 May 1792; m. 1814, Fannie Briggs of Greene. Lived in Carmel, Me.
SAMUEL b. II April 1794; m. 10 May 1815, Olive D. Tibbetts, who was born 13 July 1791 and died 19 Jan. 1875. He died 19 Aug. 1873. A daughter Betsey, born 14 Oct. 1818 married 29 July 1841, Elisha Keene of Auburn, and died 5 Nov. 1883. Other daughters died young.
DANIEL b. 6 April 1796; m. 1817, Polly Bicknell of Buckfield; m. (2) 19 Dec. 1830, Thirza Bicknell. Lived in Durham. Died 23 Mch. 1875. First wife died 23 Sept. 1830, aged 32 yrs. Second wife died 16 Dec. 1880, aged 76 yrs. 4 mos. One dau., Margaret, who died 4 Jan. 1893.
ANNA b. 28 Mch. 1798; m. - Gould. Lived in Farmington.
INFANT b. and d. 16 May 1800.
DAVID b. 6 Oct. 1801; in. I Sept. 1822 Sally Sawyer.
LYDIA b. 2 Jan. 1804; m. 1828 Wm. B. Joy of Minot.
INFANT b. 27 July 1806; d. young.
Samuel Tracy, born 30 June 1762, married Elizabeth W. Getchell, sister of the wives of his brothers Solomon and Chris- topher. Lived in Durham.
ABIGAIL b. 29 June 1783; m. 25 Nov. 1806 Stephen Story of Bowdoin. JUDITH b. II Mch. 1785; d. young.
SAMUEL b. 17 Mch. 1787; m. 21 April 1811 Susanna Vining. Ch. Alvin F. b. 24 Sept. 1812; mn. May 1835 Joan Brewer of Freeport; d. June 1897; and Mary V. b. 27 Sept. 1814, d. 10 Aug. 1854. After Sam- uel's death his widow m. James Newell.
DOROTHY b. 23 Oct. 1789; m. 7 June 1812 Benj. Witham of New Gloucester.
JEREMIAH. Unknown.
WHEELER b. 5 May 1797; m. 4 Dec. 1819 Nancy Gould of Lisbon; died in Auburn in 1878, having lived in Livermore and Peru. Eight children.
HUGH b. 16 June 1799; m. 1820 Polly Hill of Durham. Lived and died on the old Getchell homestead in Durham. Five daughters and a son Phineas.
ABEL b. 21 May 1801; m. 1824 Rachel Orr of Harpswell. Lived in Durham opposite Lisbon Falls. Sons, Emor, who died young, and John.
MOSES b. 20 July 1804; died when a young man, leaving widow and two children.
COMFORT m. 16 Sept. 1813 John McCathlin of Montville.
SARAH m. - Littlefield of Brunswick.
OLIVE m. 31 . Dec. 1829 James L. Getchell.
PATTY m. 26 Mch. 1826 John Manuel or Manwell.
Dea. Christopher Tracy, son of Rev. Christopher, born 13 July 1788, married 31 Dec. 1809 Margaret Gatchell and lived in
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Durham. He died 18 Dec. 1864. His wife, born 26 April 1787, died 26. May 1862. Besides four children, who died in infancy, they had.
BETSEY W. b. 4 Mch. 1812; m.
LAVINA N. b. 18 Sept. 1814; m. Woodbury Thomas; d. 27 Mch. 1882.
ELVIRA J. b. 19 Sept. 1817; m. 29 Nov. 1838 Bradford Sprague of Bath.
SOPHRONIA B. b. 9 Oct. 1823; d. 21 Aug. 1885. Unm.
SYLVIA A. b. 22 April 1826; d. 14 Jan. 1827.
FRANCIS J. b. 14 Oct. 1835; m. Corp. in Co. C, 31st Me. Regt. Wounded at Port Hudson 14 Jan. 1863. Died at Baton Rouge, La. 19 June 1863.
TRUE.
Deacon William True was the son of Deacon Benjamin and Judith (Morrill) True and was born in Salisbury, Mass., I Aug. 1737 and died in Durham, Me., I Nov. 1816. He married (I) 16 Jan. 1764, Miriam, dau. of Aaron Clough of Salisbury, Mass .; (2) 29 Jan. 1778 Mary, dau. of Ezekiel and Mary (Morrill) True, who was born in Salisbury, 16 May 1755. He bought land in Bagley's Gore, Royalsborough in 1785 and 1787, the last being lot 18 of the plan made by Amos Davis, Surveyor. It was the farnı now owned by William Miller at Methodist Corner. He evidently moved into Royalsborough about 1785. Jan. 28, 1791 his son Abel bouglit of him 50 acres of land. His remaining estate was sold aiter his death to Matthew Duran, Jr. William True was for many years Deacon in the Cong. Church. He united with the Methodist Church at its organization in Durham and was an active member till his death, singing in the choir led by his son-in-law, Daniel Harmon. His family were as fol- lows. By first marriage.
ABEL b. 10 Nov. 1764; m. 11 Feb. 1787 Abigail, dau. of Reuben and Deborah Brown, who was born in Salisbury, Mass., 17 Sept. 1761. He sold his farm in Durham, in 1810, to Wm. Fickett.
BETSEY b. 7 Feb. 1767; n. 6 March 1788 Nathan Weston of N. Yar- mouth. Res. Pompey, N. Y.
JONATHAN b. 19 Nov. 1768; m. 20 Nov. 1794 Hannah Hoyt. He m. (2) in Durham 2 June 1804 Rebecca Woodbury. Moved to Pitts- ford, N. Y. The children by first marriage were, WILLIAM b. 2 Oct. 1795; ANNA b. 3 July 1797; ABIGAIL b. 18 Nov. 1799, and died 3 Oct. 1803. First wife died 15 Dec. 1801. The children by second marriage recorded were: WOODBURY b. 27 Mch. 1805; PRISCILLA b. 5 Jan. 1808.
SAMUEL b. 15 April 1771; m. 28 May 1792 Lucy Currier of Durham, who was born in Salisbury. They had children in Durham JONATHAN
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JR. b. 15 Dec. 1792; SAMUEL JR. b. 26 April 1796. This family moved to Pittsford, N. Y., about 1817.
DANIEL b. 17 Sept. 1773; m. (1) 13 April 1797 Lettice York. She died in Mendon, N. Y., 12 Sept. 1812. He m. (2) Mrs. Sarah Williams Ingersoll. He moved to N. Y. State in 1811, and died 18 Sept. 1824. Ch. b. in Durham. ENOCH b. 29 April 1798; d. 10 Oct. 1803; DANIEL, JR. b. 10 Jan. 1800; d. in Lima, N. Y., 3 June 1870; HANNAH b. 21 April 1802; ELLET b. I March 1804; drowned 1807; JOSEPH b. 1808; ELEA- ZER WELLS, b. 4 Oct. 1810; d. in Armada, Mich., 18 June 1874; ELIZA- BETH b. in Mendon, N. Y., Jan. 1812; d. in Armada, Mich., 28 May 1886.
The children of Wm. True, Sen., by second marriage were :
WILLIAM b. 9 Aug. 1778; m. 30 July 1805 Rebecca Mariner of Cape Elizabeth, dau. of Moses and Rebecca Mariner. She was born 4 July 1785 and died in Ottawa, Ill., II Mch. 1864. He died at same place 5 April 1850. For a long time he was a merchant in Portland. One of his six children was Prof. Charles K. True of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., distinguished scholar and author.
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