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Lydia, b. Nov. 1, 1765.
Samuel, b. Oct. 27, 1767, d. with the Shakers at Alfred, Jan. 15, 1814.
Joseph, b. Aug. 8, 1770, m. Hannah Elder, Oct. 28, 1798.
Bethiah, b. Feb. 11, 1775, d. with the Shakers at Alfred, May 2, 1807. Barbara, b. Mar. 25, 1777.
Lucy, b. May 10, 1782.
Samuel Brown was drowned at sea Oct. 12, 1798, aged 53. Bar- bara, his wife, died with the Shakers at Alfred, June 11, 1825, aged 79 years, ro months.
Sylvanus Brown was a brother to Samuel, above. They had a sis- ter Martha, who married Capt. Samuel Harding of Eastham, and lived in Gorham ; also a sister Bethiah H., who married Simeon Tryon. Sylvanus Brown was a cordwainer. His wife was Fear -. He probably married her in Eastham, before coming here, and their first child was probably born there. Children :
Fear, b. July 10, 1767, m. John Poland, Apr. 26, 1791.
Daughter, b. July 2, 1769, d. young.
Hezekiah, b. May 28, 1771, m. Abiah Moody, July 3, 1794.
Martha, b. Aug. 30, 1773. d. in Alfred with the Shakers, Oct. 20, 1863.
Sylvanus, b. Mar. [, 1775, d. young.
Sylvanus, b. July 5, 1776, m. Hannah Harding, p. Nov. 21, 1801.
Heman Merrick, b. Feb. 13, 1778, m. Elizabeth Hicks, Dec. 20, 1802.
Sylvanus Brown lived at West Gorham. He bought of Barnabas Harding, Jan. 18, 1769, a part of the hundred acre lot 89. This was probably about the time of his coming to Gorham. He died about 1786.
(2) Hezekiah Brown, son of Sylvanus, was a hatter, and carried on his business in a small shop which stood on the same lot with his house, but nearer West Gorham village. His house which is still known as the " Brown house," is yet standing at West Gorham. It is the house lately occupied by J. Hanson Clement. Mr. Brown mar- ried Abiah Moody of Standish. Children :
Betsey, b. July 9, 1795, m. Eben Harmon of Buxton, Nov. 20, 1817.
James M., b. Apr. 24, 1797, m. Ruth Wentworth, Apr. 6, 1821; I'd in Brown- field.
Eliza, b. May 26, 1799, m. Abram Linscott of Brownfield.
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Mary L., b. Nov. 11, 1801, m - - Gerry of Brewer.
Hepsibeth, b. Oct., 1804, m. Abram Berry of Buxton, May 7, 1826; d. Feb. 26, 1867.
Sylvanus, b. Sept. 9, 1806, m. Aurelia Kennison, I'd in Brownfield; d. in Buxton.
Samuel M., b. June 15, 1810, m. Sally Linscott of Brownfield.
Martha A. H., b Aug. 4, 1816, d. young, unm.
Mr. Brown sold his Gorham property in 1817, and shortly after moved to Brownfield, where both he and his wife died.
Joseph Brown probably came to Gorham about 1751 or '52. He purchased of David Gorham the hundred acre lot 64, and May 3, 1758, sold fifteen acres off the east corner to Zephaniah Harding. As previously stated Joseph Brown probably lived on the thirty acre lot 41 which he bought in 1751. His wife was Susanna We find no complete record of the family. Several of the children were doubtless born before their parents came to Gorham.
Joseph, b. about 1747, m. Hannah Whitney, Oct. 19, 1769.
Benjamin, b. , m. Sarah Phinney.
Simeon, b. May 9, 1753, m. Elizabeth Emery, p. June 22, 1776. Susanna, b. July 26, 1756, m. William Adams, Dec. 3, 1772.
(2) Joseph Brown, Jr., son of Joseph, married Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Whitney. He lived on the Flaggy Meadow road on the western part of the hundred acre lot 64. Children :
Timothy, b. Nov. 3, 1769.
Sarah, b. June 19, 1772, m. Benjamin Bolter of Standish, Nov. 1, 1788. (?)
Susanna, b. Jan. 15, 1775.
Joseph, b.
Joseph Brown died before 1777, and his widow married (pub. July 26, 1777) Joshua Adams.
(2) Benjamin Brown, son of Joseph, lived on the old Buxton road. He owned the thirty acre lot 44 which had belonged to Geo. Brown, of Eastham. He married Sarah, daughter of Col. Edmund and Betty Phinney. Children :
Edmund, b. Sept. 22, 1772, m. Elizabeth Skillings, Aug. 6. 1797; no children. Joseph, b. July 22, 1774.
Betty, b. Sept. 24. 1776, m. Simon Davis McDonald, July 16, 1800.
Isaac Cole, b. Nov. 25, 1778.
John, b. May 20, 1780.
Nancy, b. Dec. 20, 1783.
Hannah, b. Jan. 20, 1786.
Polly, b. July 29, 1788.
Patience, b. Aug. 10, 1791.
Sally, b. July 23, 1795.
(2) Simeon Brown, son of Joseph, served in the army during the Revolution. He lived on the eastern part of the hundred acre lot 64 till he sold this homestead in 1787 to his brother Benjamin, and
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moved to the farm afterwards occupied by his son Samuel. He mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary (Bean) Emery. Children :
James, b. July 3, 1777, lost at sea.
Mercy, b. Jan. 22, 1779, d. Nov., 1784.
Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1782, m. Mercy Strout.
Simeon, b. Jan. 17, 1785; d. unm.
Levi, b. Mar. 23, 1787, m. Betsey Ridlon of Buxton, Mar. 25, 1812. Ch: Ebe- nezer, d. y .; Samuel ; Isaac, m. Harriet Penfield; Martha m. Mr. Leavitt of Portland ; Hannah, Elizabeth and Jane. Mr. Brown lived on the new Buxton road, near the railroad crossing. The house is now gone. He d. in Gorham, Jan. 29, 1838.
Sally, b. Mar. 27, 1789, m. Capt. Wm. Chandler of Saco.
Charles, b. Mar. 1, 1792, m. Lydia Noble.
Solomon, b. Mar. 5, 1795, m. Sarah Elizabeth Rumery of Biddeford, Oct. 17, 1813; 2d, Sarah P. Shurline of Gorham, Oct. 11, 1824, d. Jan. 22, 1852; 3d, Julia Plimpton, of Walpole, Mass., 1854 d. Mar. 16, 1875. Ch : by Ist w. : Elizabeth E., b. 1817, m. Jabez Nickerson, and 2d, Thos. J. Cole of Vt., d. in Defiance, O., Nov. 11, 1883, no ch. ; Priscilla, b. May 18, 1823, d. Nov. 17, 1864, m. Nov. 25, 1843, Stanwood Alexander of Rich- mond, had three ch., of whom De Alva Stanwood, a Representative in Congress from Buffalo, N. Y., survived her. Ch : by 2d w .: Margaret, b. Sept. 15, 1827, d. Mar. 1, 1869, m. 1847, Israel Preble of Richmond ; had fourch., of whom Sarah L. and Horace W. survived her ; Edward Payson, b. Sept. 15, 1828, d. Nov 12, 1855, m. 1849, Margaret, dau. of Gen. John Scott of Terre Haute, Ind., one child, Ida Scott, survived her. Solomon was one of the incorporators and trustees and first treasurer of Litch- field Academy. He d. in Defiance, O., July 19, 1875.
Polly, b. Feb. 28, 1797, d. Aug. 1, 1798.
Simeon Brown died Mar. 13, 1821.
(3) Samuel Brown, son of Simeon, lived for many years on the farm opposite the old McDougall place, not far from the Buxton line. The place is now occupied by Mr. Ridgeway. He married Mercy Strout. Children :
Sarah, b. May 20, 1817, d. unm at Cumberland Mills, Feb., 1890.
Solomon, b. Dec. 10, 1819, m. Eleanor Gerry, Feb. 14, 1847 ; d. Feb, 1890. Mrs. B. d. Apr. 12, 1880. Ch : Mary E., m. Wm. B. Dole; George.
Elizabeth, b. Apr. 24, 1822, m. Sylvester Bachelder.
Phebe, b. Ang. 19, 1824, m. Appleton Emery, Aug. 22, 1848.
Samuel, b. Apr. 20, 1827, d. young.
William, b. June 26, 1828, d. young.
Freeman, b. May 10, 1830, m. Lydia E. Brown ; d. Apr. 21, 1865 ; child, Appleton E., b. July 28, 1863.
Mary L., b. July 6, 1832, m. Lorenzo Thompson.
Ann, b. Nov. 10, 1833, d. Mar. 15, 1835.
Samuel, b. May 20, 1836, d. Nov. 15, 1838.
John F., b. July 18, 1840, d. Sept. 2, 1844.
Samuel Brown died in Gorham, Nov. 1, 1859. Mrs. Mercy Brown died Nov. 29, 1867, aged 72.
(3) Charles Brown, son of Simeon, was a brick mason by trade. He married Lydia Noble of Baldwin, and lived for a time in that town, and afterwards in Gorham. He finally moved to Buxton, and lived on the old Jonathan Emery place. Children :
SOLOMON BROWN. SON OF SIMEON AND ELIZABETH BROWN.
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Simeon, b. July 6, 1815, m. Abigail D. Babb, May, 1843; d. Nov. 21, 1861 ; was
a brick-mason, also a teacher. Ch: Lydia E., m. Freeman Brown, 2d, Edmund F. Mayo ; James Wm., Mary J. and Arthur Willard.
Joanna, b. Aug. 31, 1817, m. Samuel Harding, 1846.
Martha, b. - -, d. young,
Lydia, b. Aug. 29, 1820, d. Feb. 27, 1836.
Martha J., b. Feb. 18, 1823, d. young.
James N., b. Feb. 9, 1828, m. Eliza A. Taylor; 2d, Sarah M. Lamprey; 3d. Mary F. Lamprey.
Chas. Wesley, b. Dec. 18, 1830, perished Feb. 16, 1885 in a snow storm, not far from his home in Buxton.
George K., b. Oct. 29, 1834, d. young.
Charles Brown died Sept. 17, 1869, and his wife, July, 1878.
Joshua L. Brown was the son of Ezra and Sarah (Lowell) Brown, and was born in Gorham, Oct. 27, 1803. He kept a grain store at Great Falls which, together with a farm, he exchanged with Alfred Libby for Libby's farm at the North part of the town, and there he lived for some years. About 1860 he removed to a place near Little Falls, where he lived till his death. He married, Dec. 14, 1827, Betsey Hawkes of Windham. Children :
Lendall, b. Oct. 17, 1830, m. Evelyn C. Hamblen, Aug. 2, 1862 ; d. June 23, 1893.
Daniel S., b. May 16, 1832, m. Ellen Burnham.
Rebecca H., b. Oct. 11, 1834, m. Dr. Nathan R. Morse of Salem, Mass., Dec. 7, 1864.
Charles R., b. May 26. 1836, m. Mrs. Maggie McDavitte, Oct. 30, 1877; physi- cian in Lynn, Mass.
Joshua L. Brown died Mar. 28, 1882, and his wife, Oct. 23, 1879, aged 76.
Elijah R. Brown was the son of John Brown of Windham. He bought the old Murch farm, where Caleb Murch lately lived, and lived there for a time. He then moved to the John Walker place. He married Harriet N. Hawkes. Children':
Almira, b. Jan. 30, 1836, m. Edmund Green.
Ann M., b. Jan. 10, 1838, m. Frank Irish.
Edward H., b. Mar. 1, 1840, d. July 3, 1842.
James B., b. Mar. 16, 1842, d. Aug. 1, 1863 ; member of Co. I, 17th Me. Vol. Eliza P., b. Mar. 24, 1846, m. Edward P. M. Bragdon.
Frank H., b. Apr. 16, 1848, m. Ellen Anderson of Portsmouth, N. H.
George W., b. Aug. 6, 1850, I's in Conn.
Elijah Brown died Nov. 8, 1852, aged 43. His wife died Feb. 19, 1875, aged 58.
Darius Brown and his brother Edward were natives of Windham, sons of John Brown, and brothers to Elijah R. Brown, above. They both lived in Gorham for some years; Darius owned and ran the mill at Fort Hill. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Abigail McDonald of Windham, in which town their children were born.
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Their daughter, Abbie, married Augustus Black, and died in Gorham in Oct., 1897. Darius Brown and family moved back to Windham.
Edward Brown married Mary McDonald, a sister to Elizabeth, and had a family of children. This family moved to Bradford, Me.
BRYANT.
We find the name of Samuel Bryant of Barnstable on the list of the grantees of Narragansett. No. 7. The number of his right was 54. Whether William Bryant was descended from him, we have been unable to learn. William was the first whom we know to have settled on the thirty acre lot No. 5. He, having moved in with his family, built a house ; and having performed the duties enjoined by the General Court Act of Settlement, received from Shubael Gorham, Aug. 10, 1739, his deed, which is on record. Mr. Bryant, with four of his children, was killed by the Indians on the 19th of April, 1746. His son James alone made his escape. John Motley of Portland settled the Bryant estate in July, 1746, and was guardian to the son. June 5, 1766, James Bryant of Falmouth, presumably the son above mentioned, sold the thirty acre lot No. 5 to Benjamin Frost of Gorham.
Mrs. Sarah Bryant, after the killing of her husband and children, was taken prisoner by the Indians, and finally carried to Quebec. From a journal kept by William Pote, Jr., a fellow prisoner, we learn that she arrived there, Sept. 30, 1746. She was married in the fort- ress, Nov. 20, 1746, to Leonard Liddle, also a prisoner, and died May 8, 1747.
BUKER.
Livy Buker, the only one of the name who has ever settled in Gorham, came here about the year 1814, and soon after married Ann, daughter of Edward and Sarah Webb of Gorham. The Webb family then owned the land and the falls on the Gorham side of the river at Gambo. Here Mr. Buker in 1816 built a mill for carding wool. He lived in the house which stands on the sand hill. Children :
Sarah W., b. Apr. 16, 1815, m. Carlisle Whipple of Boston, May 24, 1835. Edward W., b. Aug. 28, 1816.
James, b. July 23, 1818, d. in Savannah, Ga.
George, b. Feb. 20, 1821, d. at sea, Aug. 11, 1842.
Anna M., b. Feb. 28, 1823, d. in Savannah, Ga., about 1839 ; was a teacher. Solomon, b. Mar. 5, 1825.
Caroline F., b. Mar., 1827, d. Sept. 29, 1829.
Mary, b. Apr. 28, 1829, d. Aug. 2, 1832.
Mary, b. about 1833, m. - Nichols ; I's in Savannah, Ga.
Mrs. Ann Buker died May 2, 1845, aged 54.
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BURNELL.
There appears to have been a John Burnell in town as early as 1763. His wife was Elizabeth -. They had nine children, all born in Gorham.
Mary, b. Dec. 17, 1763, m. Thomas Skillings, p. Nov. 24, 1781.
John, b. Feb. 14, 1766, m. Jane Holbrook, Jan. 25, 1787.
Benjamin, b. Feb. 27, 1768, m. Dorcas Carsley, Dec. 28, 1788.
Samuel, b. July 17, 1770, m. Amy Irish, Sept. 18, 1791, who d. about 1861, aged 91.
Elizabeth, b. Sept. 21, 1772, m. William Nason, Sept. 8, 1791.
Stephen, b. Apr. 22, 1775.
Jonathan, b. Aug. 14, 1778.
Nabby, b. June 11, 1781.
Sally, b. October, 1784.
It also seems probable that this same John was here as early as 1755, for we find that the new fort in Pearsonstown (now Standish) was built about that time, and eight men assigned to keep it; and amongst these eight names we find John Meserve, Clement Meserve, Jr., Wentworth Stuart, Timothy Crocker, Israel Thorn, Joseph Me- serve, that we know were of Gorham; John Burnell we believe to have been, and Elijah Dunham of whom we find no other record. John Burnell of Gorham, whom we believe to have been the same John, by his deed, Feb. 20, 1767, conveys to Ebenezer Shaw of Pearsonstown a five acre lot of land, being the five acre lot, No. 2, the same lying about twenty rods southeasterly from where the fort formerly stood, and where the meeting house now stands. The same John Burnell sells to Daniel Cram the thirty acre lot, No. 39, in said Pearsonstown. He also bought of Jonathan Freeman and Jonathan Freeman, Jr., of Gorham, June 10, 1768, the westerly half of the 100 acre lot 7. This family of Burnells must have left town about the year 1779, and moved to Flintstown, now Baldwin, for we find none of the name on the tax list from that date till 1787, when there appear John Burnell and John Burnell, Jr.
This John Burnell, who appears in 1787, is probably the one who married, July 3, 1776, Lydia, daughter of Abel and Mary Whitney. We think he originated in York, or Wells. He was a caulker by trade, and worked at Stroudwater for a number of years, where some of his children were born. We have no perfect record of his children, but there were
John, b. prob'y in York, 1766, m. Martha Libby, dau. of Matthew of Scarboro, Nov. 27, 1788 ; d. June 3, 1843.
Joseph, b. in Falmouth, Nov. 22, 1769. Mary, b. in Boothbay, Jan. 15, 1771, m. William T. Riggs, Apr. 13, 1794. Jenney, b. in Boothbay, Jan. 15, 1775, d. in Scarboro, Aug. 15, 1849. Samuel, b. in Gorham, Sept. 22, 1778.
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Sally, b. in Gorham, Jan. 23, 1785.
David; b. in Gorham, Aug. 16, 1787, m. Hannah Riggs, p. Aug. 15, 1818. Eunice, b. in Gorham, Mar. 15, 1790, m. Andrew Meserve, Sept. 23, 1810.
John Burnell when he first came to Gorham lived on the south- easterly corner of the thirty acre lot, 17. The entrance to his house was by the two rod road running easterly between the land of Daniel Whittier and John Simmons on South St. Some years after, he pur- chased the northerly half of the thirty acre lot, No. 20. His house stood nearly on the spot where Mr. Simmons now lives on South St. Mr. and Mrs. Burnell, though not rich, were valuable members of society. She understood well the use of roots and herbs, which were much used in her day ; was a good nurse, and kind to those in sick- ness and distress. He was a good grave-digger, and helped deposit more bodies in the old cemetery at the village than any other man since the yard was first opened. He died Jan. 13, 1822, aged 80, and his wife, Oct. 29, 1834, aged 89.
BURTON.
William Burton was a native of Gloucester Co., Virginia; being born at Little York, in 1759. His father being dead, he was brought to Maine, while still a young lad, by a Captain Doane in his coasting vessel, who had promised Mrs. Burton to keep her boy but a year and then return him to her, but failed to keep his word. At the age of seventeen Burton enlisted in the Revolutionary army and saw much service, among other engagements being in the battle of White Plains. After the close of the war he went to Virginia to visit his mother, but finding that she had married again, returned to Gorham where he lived with Capt. Alexander Ross, who resided on the Col. Tyng place. William Burton was one of the first members of the Society of Friends in Gorham, and a leading man among them -an honored and honorable man. To the day of his death he wore the peculiar dress of the Sect -a broad-brimmed hat, a coat with full, ample skirts, and drab-colored breeches. In 1804 he was a member of the committee chosen to look after the building of the Friends' meeting house in Gorham. Apr. 26, 1781, he married Mary, daughter of James and Hannah Ross, and niece of Capt. Alexander Ross, and lived on the place where Frank Hopkinson now lives. Children :
Rebecca, b. Sept. 25, 1784, m. Stephen Hopkinson of Buxton, Nov. 27, 1810. Sarah, b. Dec. 3, 1786, m. Thos. Bacon, Dec. 1, 1803 ; 2d, Jessee Cloudman. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 18, 1791, m. Amos Hamblen of New Portland, 1811.
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Mary, b. Jan. 19, 1794, m. Joseph Hamblen, 3d, p. July 18, 1812.
William, b. Jan. 7, 1796, d. young.
William, b. Jan. 13, 1798, m. Mary Berry, June 11, 1823.
Mildred F., b. -- , m. Jasper Johnson of Pownal, Apr. 24, 1821.
William Burton died Sept. 23, 1841, aged 82, and his wife Mary, Apr. 11, 1830, aged 72.
(2) William Burton, son of William, married Mary, daughter of Joshua Berry. After his marriage he lived for some years in the house which once formed a part of the Shaker village and stands nearly opposite to the house of the late Nelson Merrill. The last years of his life he lived on the cross road running east from the old Shaker neighborhood. He was one of the selectmen of the town in 1858 and 1859. Children :
Alfred M., b. Mar. 9, 1824, m. Martha J. Larrabee, Nov. 20, 1851 ; was cashier of the Maine Savings Bank in Portland ; d. in Portland.
Edwin M., b. Feb. 14, 1826, m. Lucy Ford of Gray ; d. Dec. 3, 1855.
William Burton died June 9, 1882. Mrs. Burton died Mar. 23, 1876.
BUTTRICK.
The Buttrick family came from Kingston-on-Thames, in Surrey, England, in 1635. William Buttrick was one of the first settlers of Concord, Mass.
Willard Buttrick, son of Willard and Esther (Blood) Buttrick, born in Concord, Mass., Sept. 10, 1772, was a clothier and fuller, and located first at Dracut, Mass. ; then removed to Gorham and bought of James Tyler his part of the lot, 122, (Blenham lot), with the privi- leges and all the buildings. He had his principal mill near the bridge, with his fulling-mill and dye-house on the Blenham falls below. Mr. Buttrick carried on the business for many years at the same places till his fulling-mill and dye-house were burned, Aug. 29, 1813. After the fire he abandoned the Blenham falls, and moved all his machinery into his other mill, near the bridge. He lived in a house, since removed, at the top of the hill, on the east side of the Fort Hill road, above the mill on Little river. He married, Apr. 28, 1799, Mary Bartlett of Cambridge. Children :
Samuel B., b. Oct. 16, 1801, m. Ann Merritt. d. Nov. 20. 1870.
John P., b. May 5, 1804, m. Mary
Mary A., b. Apr. 23, 1806, m. Oliver Abbott; d. Dec. 29, 1861. Esther, b. Oct. 14, 1808, m. Eben Hayward, d. Dec. 13, 1861. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1810, m. Samuel Rice; d. July 9, 1869.
Susanna E., b. Dec. 2, 1813, m. Isaac P. Bacon; d. Oct. 28, 1887.
Harriet, b. Mar. 31, 1816, d. unm. Apr. 6, 1861.
Sarah C., b. Apr. 19, 1818, d. unm. June 27, 1840. Willard, b. July 14, 1822, m. twice.
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Mr. Buttrick remained here in town until he sold out to Peter Whitney, and in 1817 bought a farm in Bedford, Mass., and removed to that place, where his two youngest children, Sarah and Willard, were born. He died in Bedford, July 25, 1849. His widow died in Salem, Mass., July 23, 1859.
Willard Buttrick, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Wooley) But- trick, born in Concord, Mass., Nov. 11, 1746, father of Willard Buttrick above, lived with his son in Gorham, and died at his house, Jan. 3, 1813, aged 66.
Willard Buttrick's uncle, Major, afterwards Colonel, Buttrick, gave the command to fire on the British at the Concord fight.
CANNELL.
Philip Cannell, with his wife Jane, came from the Isle of Man to America before the Revolution, and settled first in Falmouth, and about 1770 removed to Pearsonstown (Standish). Thomas Cannell, son of Philip, married Margaret, daughter of Uriah and Abigail (Knight) Nason of Gorham, (pub. June 30, 1797). The records give him as being then of Standish. Shortly after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Cannell moved to Gorham, and settled in what is now called the Nason district. Children :
Hannah, b. Mar. 28, 1798, m. Ebenezer Gilman, p. July 22, 1820.
William, b. June 2, 1799, m. Ann Plaisted of Standish, Nov. 1, 1832.
Joseph, b. Mar. 28, 1801, m. Temperance Sturgis, Apr. 29, 1821; d. Oct. 22, 1873; she, Dec. 26, 1887.
Wyer, b. Feb. 23, 1803, m. Francis Plaisted, 1831; 2d, Sarah Harmon of Scarboro; d. Mar. 8, 1848.
Lot, b. Feb. 13, 1805, went to Bangor when young ; d. in California.
Jane, b. Oct. 23; 1806, m. Daniel Nason of Sebago, Sept. 21, 1828.
Margaret, b. Aug. 1, 1808, m. John Bennett of New York ; d. May 13, 1882. Huldah, b. Jan. 26, 1811, d. June 10, 1821.
Esther, b. Jan. 27, 1813, m. John Rhodes (or Rowe).
Clark, b. Jan. 28, 1815, m. Sarah A, Harmon, Mar. 15, 1840; 2d, Dorcas M. Plaisted, 1846; 3d, Elsie Wood; d. Feb. 1900.
Barnabas, b. Nov. 28, 1816, m. Lorana Manchester, May 16, 1847; d. Mar. 1900.
Heman, b. Mar. 5, 1821, m. Lucy A. Gilman.
Thomas Cannell died at Great Falls (North Gorham) Mar. 12, 1854, aged 86 ; his wife died Dec. 28, 1855, aged 78.
CARD.
John C. Card, son of Peter Card, was born in Lyman. When about fourteen years of age he came to Gorham, and learned the trade of a mason of William B. Harding, at which trade, however, he never worked. After having been employed for some years as clerk
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in the Robie store in 1848, he entered into partnership with his brother- in-law, Joseph Ridlon, which partnership lasted till 1879, when Mr. Card went into business by himself. For nine years Mr. Card was town clerk. He married Dorcas Maria, daughter of Abijah Usher, Jr., of Hollis. He died Oct. 5, 1885, aged 69, and his wife, August, 1893. They have two sons living, John H., a lawyer, and Horatio S., a physician.
CARSLEY.
This name was formerly quite numerous in town. John Carsley - the first we find - and soon after him, Ebenezer, came here probably about the year 1760. We find John taxed a poll tax in 1763. They were then young men, and came from Barnstable, Mass., and it is supposed were the sons of John and Dorcas (Hamblin) Carsley.
John Carsley married, Apr. 5, 1764, Mercy, daughter of John and Bethiah Freeman, and their children were :
Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1765, m. James Watson, Feb. 23, 1792.
John, b. Aug. 19, 1766, m. Martha Crockett, Apr. 16, 1790.
Nathan, b. Apr. 6, 1768, m. Susanna Cotton, Mar. 2, 1792.
Ebenezer, b. April 9, 1770.
Bethiah, b. Feb. 6, 1772, d. Feb. 26, 1772.
Isaac, b. Feb. 17, 1773, m. Jenny Mosher, June 18, 1797.
Sarah, b. Oct. 12, 1774, m. John Blanchard, June 4, 1792.
Benjamin, b. Dec. 17, 1776, m. Eunice Moody, Sept. 23, 1799.
Dorcas, b. Jan. 26, 1781, d. May, 1781.
Seth, b. July 18, 1782, m. Susanna Whitney, Jan. 22, 1809.
Ennice, b. Apr. 30, 1784, m. Dennis Hamblen, Apr. 7, 1805.
John Carsley lived on the road leading from Fort Hill to West Gorham, near where the late Stephen Files lived. He and most of his family moved to Harrison, in the spring of 1793.
Ebenezer Carsley, brother of John, married, Nov. 25, 1766, Patience, daughter of Col. Edmund and Betsey Phinney. Their children were :
Dorcas, b. Aug. 5, 1768, m. Benjamin Burnell, Dec. 28, 1788.
Patience, b. -_ , m. Philemon Rand, Mar. 20, 1796.
Mrs. Patience Carsley died July 19, 1769. Her husband, Ebenezer, outlived her many years, and died about 1794, aged 50.
(2) Isaac Carsley, son of John, married Jenny, daughter of James and Abigail Mosher. Children :
James M., b. Jan. 28, 1798, m. May 8, 1822, Eliza B., dau. of Royal Lincoln. Ch: Abigail P., b. June 11, 1823, m. Thos. S. Furman, Feb. 7, 1854, d. in Columbus, N. J., Feb. 28, 1895; William L., b. March 4, 1825, d. y. ; Royal L., b. Jan. 16, 1828, d. unm., killed by a fall in Boston, Ang. 20, 1862 ; Eliza Jane, b. Aug. 9, 1831, m. Geo. H. Everett, Jan. 26, 1853; Woodbury, b. April 18, 1833, m. Mary C. Greely, Sept. 22,
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
1859; James H., b. Mar. 21, 1835, d. July 19, 1836. This family moved to Boston, where Mr. Carsley died Dec. 27, 1866, and Mrs. C., Aug. 20, 1872.
Louisa, b. Mar. 13, 1801, m. Chas. Davis ; d. Feb. 15, 1880.
Jane, b. Aug. 3, 1806, m. Sylvanus Davis; d. May 2, 1883.
Isaac, b. Apr. 1808, m. Julia A. Chandler ; d. June 27, 1850.
Mary Ann, b. -, d. young.
Mary Ann, b. June 3, 1815, m. John McLain.
Benjamin F., b. 1819, d. young.
Isaac Carsley died in Wilton, Jan. 22, 1851, aged 78, and his wife in Farmington, Oct. 20, 1858, aged 82.
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