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Edwin, b. Dec. 5, 1813, m. Betsey Coolbroth, Dec. 7, 1834. Ch: Byron G., b. Dec. 23, 1835, m. Theano J. Pollard, was murdered at his home in Gorham, Dec. 13, 1894 ; Edwin, b. Nov. 7, 1837, I's in S. America; Charles S., I's in New York. Mr. Coburn succeeded his father in trade at Little Falls. About the time that his brother Jacob went to Patten he removed to the Lincoln place, where he spent the remainder of his life. He d. Oct. 23, 1891, and his wife d. May 20, 1884, ag. 70.
Jacob Coburn died Aug. 2, 1855, aged 76 years and 10 months ; and his wife died Oct. 30, 1856, aged 76.
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CODMAN.
James Codman, the oldest son of Dea. Richard Codman of Port- land, was born in 1763. He was for many years an active, energetic shipmaster, and acquired an honorable name and a good property. He came to Gorham about the year 1790, and lived on the old Bux- ton (Flaggy Meadow) road, on the hill, which is called to this day Codman's hill. Here he engaged in farming and also kept a store on the opposite side of the road in the building which still stands there, but has since been converted into a dwelling house. He mar- ried, Oct. 23, 1791, Elizabeth Waite of Portland, by whom he had two children :
Randolph, A. L., b. 1793, m. Elizabeth W. Stephenson, Jan. 6, 1825. Frederick, b. -, d. in Baltimore, Md.
After the death of his wife Elizabeth, who died in Jan., 1797, aged 31, Capt. Codman married Abigail Loring. He died on his farm in Gorham, Jan. 3, 1840. His widow Abigail married in 1844 Rev. Caleb Bradley, and died Aug. 16, 1855, aged 75.
(2) Randolph A. L. Codman, son of Capt. James, married Eliza- beth W., daughter of Col. Samuel and Abigail Stephenson. Children :
Elizabeth, b. Apr. 21, 1826, m. Henry G. Day ; d. Sept. 29, 1902 ; he, June 19, 1902.
Margaret. b. July 15, 1829, m. George Payson, Oct. 5, 1857 ; d. May 12, 1899. Catherine, b. July 15, 1829, m. Capt. Sherwood of Iowa, Jan. 27, 1857.
Mrs. Elizabeth Codman died July 16, 1829, and Mr. Codman married Caroline P. Porter, by whom he had two children, Annie and. Grace. Mr. Codman was a prominent lawyer in Portland, in which city he died.
After the burning of Portland by Mowatt in 1775, Dea. Richard Codman, father of Capt. James, lived for a time in Gorham; not far from where Freeman Richardson lately lived. His house probably stood a little west of the house of the late Merrill Mosher, on the northern side of the road.
COFFIN.
Isaac Coffin, son of Simeon and Eleanor ( ---- ) Coffin, was born, probably in Thorndike, June 1, 1756. The first I find of Isaac Coffin in Gorham, and his is the first of the name here, by the old tax bills was in 1788, and I find him as late as 1795. Only three of his children are recorded here, viz. : James, John and Molly. Soon after 1795 he exchanged property here with his brother-in-law
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Jacob H. Clement, and took property in Alfred or Waterboro, where he moved with his family, and afterward joined the Shakers, carrying his property with him. He married Lydia Hubbard. Their children were Peter, James, b. Jan. 13, 1791 ; John, b. Dec. 22, 1792 ; Molly, b. May 4, 1795 ; Isaac and Eleanor. Peter, James, John, Isaac and Eleanor lived and died with the Shakers. Isaac Coffin, Sr., died May 16, 1841.
COTTON.
Deacon William Cotton of Portland appears among the Proprie- tors of this town as early as 1743, but it does not appear that any of the family or name were residents till 1760, when William, the son of Dea. William, moved in with his wife, and one child who was born in Falmouth. Soon after, John, another son of the Deacon, came here. Dea. Cotton came from Portsmouth, N. H., and settled in Portland about the year 1732, on Fore St., at the foot of Cotton St., where he had a tannery. He was twice married ; first to Sarah --- , who died May 3, 1753, and second, in November, 1753, to Mrs. Martha Hudson. His children, all of whom, excepting Mary, were by his first wife, were :
Sarah, b. - , m. Wm. Thomes; 2d, Elisha Turner.
William, b. Oct. 24, 1739, m. Elizabeth Cobb, in 1759.
John, b. 1741, m. Rebecca Bryant, Aug. 5, 1769.
Abigail, b. 1742, m. Ebenezer Owen, 1763.
Mary, b. 1754, m. Moses Holt, Jr., 1771 ; 2d, Rev. Stephen Hall, 1778.
(2) William Cotton, son of Dea. William, married Elizabeth Cobb. After coming to Gorham, they first settled on the thirty acre lot, 65, lately owned by Ezra Thomes, where he had a tannery and carried on the business with his brother John for some years. This yard has disappeared. It was on the back end of the lot, and the entrance to it was by a two-rod town road running west from King street, between lots 65 and 121, toward where Geo. Elwell lately lived. This road was discontinued on the opening of Horse Meadow road, so called. Mr. Cotton's tannery business was not of the magnitude of the pres- ent time ; only to tan the cowhides and calf skins of his neighbors, and that generally on a share; the custom of the time being for about every householder to kill his beef-creature every fall, and have the skin tanned for his family's shoes.
Mr. Cotton became a zealous Baptist in his latter days. He died leaving the reputation of an honest, upright man. The children of William and Elizabeth Cotton, all born in Gorham but John, who was born in Falmouth :
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John, b. Feb. 16, 1760, d. at New Gloucester, Oct. 15, 1847.
Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1761, m. Jonathan Elwell, Feb. 5, 1794.
Ebenezer, b. Feb. 18, 1764, m. Elizabeth Chase, Mar. 5, 1789.
Susanna, b. Apr. 17, 1766, m. Nathan Carsley, Mar. 2, 1792.
Mary, b. June 7, 1768.
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 10, 1770.
William, b. July 1, 1773, was a sea-faring man ; d. unm. in Gorham, Mar. 9, 1854.
Abigail, b. Aug. 26, 1775, d. in Alfred, Sept. 10, 1846.
Dorcas, b. Jan. 11, 1778, d. in Alfred, Dec. 17, 1821.
(2) John Cotton, the brother of William, lived above Fort Hill. His house was on the left hand side of the road, and has been moved back, and forms the ell of the Motley house. He married Rebecca Bryant of Scarboro. Their children were :
Eunice, b. Sept. 29, 1770.
Loruhama, b. Aug. 22, 1772, m. John Coffin, Dec. 11, 1791 ; went with the Shakers to Alfred.
William, b. Oct. 5, 1776.
Elisha, b. Apr. 25, 1779. John, b. Apr. 11, 1781.
Pamela, b. Oct. 16, 1782, d. at Alfred, July 7, 1851.
Samuel, b. June 6, 1784.
Mr. Cotton was a peculiar man. He had a great gift at prayer and exhortation, and was of a very religious turn of mind. He also had the reputation of being an honest, upright man, but almost a monomaniac on the subject of religion, and the old Standing Order of clergymen, as they were then called. Parson Smith speaks of John Cotton exhorting and praying about the streets in Falmouth, and of his disturbing him in his meetings, and puts him down as insane. He often made disturbances in the meetings in Gorham, by telling Rev. Mr. Jewett, when preaching, that he lied; or by commencing his wild exhortation when the services of the meeting were going on, had to be removed from the house, and put under keepers till the ser- vices were over, at which time he would work himself into a perfect frenzy, denouncing his opponents as persecutors, calling down the vengeance of heaven on all, and curses on their heads to the last generation. This was in the time of the . Come-outers, or New Lights, as they were called, and some there were who, in their zeal for the new order of things and opposition to the Standing Order, were fain to call Cotton an inspired man and to say that these parox- ysms of frenzy were the working of the Holy Spirit in him. He went with the Free Will Baptists, where he was made an Elder, and an unordained preacher in 1790, under the ministrations of Rev. James McCorson, but even here things did not go smoothly with him. He was often brought before the Quarterly Meeting for his singularities. At one meeting, it was "concluded that John Cotton
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has a gift to improve in the church, but it is possible he has some- times spoken too much, or often spoken after he should have left off." The Religious Magazine says, " This Cotton had an excellent gift of exhortation, but it may be said of him, as it was of Elias, he was a man subject to like passions as we are, and sometimes his zeal for God carried him to a great length, and exposed him to great persecutions."
I have dealt somewhat at length with John Cotton, for he was quite a character in the time of the New Lights, but he finally died quietly at his home, and no one called him a bad man. We have not the date of his death.
(3) Ebenezer Cotton, third child of William and Elizabeth, mar- ried Elizabeth Chase. From this couple all of the name now in town are descended. They settled and lived on the farm recently owned by William Cotton, deceased, near West Gorham. Their children were :
Joseph, b. Oct. 26, 1789, m. Mehitable Snow, Nov. 20, 1817. Ch : Ebenezer, b. Sept 24, 1818, d. Jan. 9, 1848 ; Dorcas S., b. May 22, 1821, m. N. Hutchinson of Fryeburg, Sept. 2, 1848 ; Mary, b. Apr. 25, 1825, d. y. ; Hannah, b. July 15, 1827, d. Dec. 12, 1850 ; Joseph J., b. Apr. 3, 1832 ; William S., b. Sept. 21,. 1834, m. Mary E. Emery of Buxton, Mar. II, 1860, d. May 7, 1862. Joseph Cotton d. May 15, 1854.
Susanna, b. Mar. 12, 1791, m. Chas. Hamblen, May 25, 1817.
Nathaniel, b. May 20, 1794.
Polly, b. Apr. 30, 1796, d. Apr. 14, 1825.
Lydia, b. Mar. 20, 1799, m. Cotton Owen of Portland, Nov. 25, 1817. (Mr. Owen was a descendant of Ebenezer Owen and Abigail Cotton, who were married,in 1763.)
William, b. Oct. 12, 1801, m. Maria, dau. of Joseph Sturgis, Mar. 23, 1835. Ch: Charles B., b. Nov. 5, 1836, m. Lizzie E. Douglass, Oct. 25, 1862 ; Howard, b. Dec. 9, 1843, m. Hannah E. Billings, Sept. 24, 1867. Wil- liam Cotton I'd on the place formerly owned by his father, where he d. Mar. 27, 1876 ; his wife d. July 23, 1885.
Elizabeth, wife of Ebenezer Cotton, died May 11, 1838.
CRESSEY.
As far back as any of the name can be traced, there lived a family in Beverly, Essex County, Mass., by the name of Cressey, and the head of this family whose name was John Cressey had eight children, five sons and three daughters; John, Daniel, Joseph, Richard and Ebenezer, Mary, Ruth and Anna. It is supposed that about the year 1745, the several members of this family moved to different places. John moved eastward and settled in Gorham, then Narra- gansett No. 7. Daniel moved to New Sharon, N. H., thence to Hopkinton, and finally settled in the town of Bradford, N. H. Joseph
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moved to Charlemont, west of the Connecticut river, in Mass. Rich- ard moved to Bradford, where his brother Daniel lived. Eben lived in Abington, Conn. The daughters all lived in Connecticut. Mary married Abner Ashley, Ruth married Samuel Ashley, and Anna married Nathan Griggs.
John, the eldest son, who settled in Gorham, was born July 31, 1721, and was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old when, about 1747, he married Deborah, daughter of Capt. Amos Wadley of Boston. He came to Gorham when his son John was an infant, and settled first on the hundred acre lot, 69, or 70, west of Little river, near where David Warren lately lived. From thence having exchanged farms with Chas. McDonald he moved to the thirty acre lot, 53, where he lived a part of the time during the Indian war.
Mr. Cressey built his first house on the above-named thirty acre lot, near where Charles Cressey's cider house now stands. At the time of his coming to Gorham, 1749, or 1750, the Indians in conse- quence of their many defeats had become less troublesome, though they were often seen, singly or in small parties, but committed but little depredation, as the settlers had become better armed and more wary. Nevertheless, many of the settlers who were near enough made the fort their home during the night. Such was the case with Mr. Cressey. Although his name does not appear with those who made the fort their home during the Indian war, the fact is that he did so most of the time with his wife and children, always going to the fort to spend the nights. He had a road across lots direct to the fort, which was a short half mile from his clearing. The first land he cleared was in front of his log house, on the thirty acre lot, 53. Here he would work, while his wife and her son John would sit on a stump with the gun by her side in order to give the alarm, should the Indians appear. At one time, while husband and wife were thus situated, an Indian came upon them. Discovering Mr. Cressey at work, and not seeing his wife, he crept stealthily toward Mr. Cressey, with his tomahawk raised and knife ready, not being armed with a gun. Mrs. Cressey sat with her gun in her hand, with fear and trembling. When the enemy got quite near to her husband she could bear it no longer, his danger overcame her fear. She rose up and called out to him, at the same time pointing her gun toward the Indian, who thought it prudent to beat a hasty retreat, for the savages had had several lessons that had taught them that the " white squaws" were not bad shots. Here the couple lived and toiled. Mrs. Cres- sey, although reared in the city of Boston, and never having known
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what hard work was, took hold resolutely with her husband, taking care of the house and aiding in the field, helping him in the toilsome work of cutting and piling up the partially burned logs in order to clear the land for crops, often not knowing from whence the next meal of victuals was to come. Sometimes there was not a particle of food in their house, nor did they know where they could obtain any. Such was the case one day when they were at work on their land. The season was advancing ; their crops must be in; if they were to raise anything they had no time to spare, they must work, and then hunt for food. While thus at work, nearly dead for want of food, Mrs. Cressey found a partridge nest, with thirteen eggs in it. This was good fortune, and when their day's work was done they had a good square supper of partridge eggs on which to go to rest. Bread was hard to be got. When they first came into town they could occasionally procure game when their work would allow them time for hunting and when they thought the Indians were not prowl- ing around.
Mr. Cressey died in 1785, and his wife Deborah, in 1796. Their children were :
John, b. Feb. 22, 1749, m. Susanna McDonald.
Joseph, b. Oct. 26, 1753, m. Hannah Ashley, Aug. 28, 1776.
Betsey, b. Apr. 18, 1757, m. Simon Harding, Jan., 1775 ; I'd in Baldwin.
Mary, b. May 1, 1762, m. David Watts, Oct. 4, 1784.
Noah, b. May 6, 1765, [ d. in 1776.
+ Job, { d. in 1766.
(2) John Cressey, the eldest son of John, married, Dec. 1, 1770, Susanna McDonald, who was probably the sister of Charles McDon- ald. Soon after his marriage Mr. Cressey purchased a farm in Buxton, near what was formerly called Spruce Swamp, now Grove- ville, where by industry and prudence he brought up a family, and left a good farm, which is still owned by his descendants. Two of his children, Daniel and Betsey, were born in Gorham; Daniel married Elizabeth Harding of Baldwin, and Betsey married Edmund Watson. Another of his sons, Benjamin, was captured in a privateer during the War of 1812, and for some time held a prisoner in Dart- moor Prison. Mr. Cressey died Dec. 23, 1842, in Buxton.
(2) Joseph Cressey, second son of John, married Hannah Ashley, his cousin, daughter of Abner of Pomfret (or Hampton), Conn. He remained in Connecticut a while, and in Pomfret in that State, his oldest son, Ebenezer, was born, Jan. 16, 1779. At the commence- ment of the Revolution, when Capt. Williams' company was raised, Mr. Cressey enlisted as a private, marched to Cambridge and thence
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with Col. Phinney's regiment to Ticonderoga. This military service was before his marriage. Mr. Cressey lived on his father's old place, where he carried on the tanner's and shoemaker's business, until Dec. 20, 1804, when he moved out to the main road, called the Flaggy Meadow road, where he had purchased a farm of Barnabas Harding - the hundred acre lot 67,-where Miss Martha Ann Cressey now lives.' In less than a year, Sept. 5, 1805, his buildings seven in number were consumed by fire and he with his family returned to the. old farm where he remained until he had finished new buildings, November, 1811, when he came back to the road, where he lived till his decease, July 22, 1832. His wife survived him several years, and died Dec. 27, 1848, aged 89. Mr. Cressey was never an aspirant for military or civil honors. He and his wife were members of the Congregational church, in good standing. They never ate the bread of idleness ; hard working, industrious and prudent, they accumulated a handsome property, and left numerous descendants, who rank among our best citizens. The children of Joseph and Hannah Cressey were :
Ebenezer, b. Jan. 16, 1779, m. Sally Chick, Aug. 6, 1803.
Elvin, b. July 12, 1781, d. unm. Apr. 24, 1799.
John, b. Aug. 22, 1785, m. Martha Higgins, Apr. 8, 1812.
Joseph, b. Mar. 14, 1788, m. Sarah Watts, Jan. 21, 1817; 2d, Sarah Harding. Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1792, m. William Ashley, Mar. 6, 1815.
Sally, b. Mar. 7, 1796, d. nnm. May 14, 1814.
Noah, b. July 28, 1798, m. Hannah Watts, Feb. 22, 1820.
(3) Ebenezer Cressey, son of Joseph, lived on the Standish road, on the thirty acre lot, 38. He married Sally Chick of Berwick, Me., or Somersworth, N. H. Children :
Alvin, b. Feb. 27, 1806, m. Sarah Flagg, of Topsham, Mar., 1838. Ch : Eliza A., b. Feb. 22, 1839, d. Sept. 14. 1869; Eben F., b. Apr. 20, 1841, d. in 1866; Caroline A., b. Mar. 11, 1843, d. in 1869; Elizabeth M., b. Sept. 17, 1845, d. Jan. 8, 1850 ; Mattie, b. May 3, 1849, m. Hon. Frederick Robie, Jan. 10, 1900 ; Hattie E., b. Aug. 31, 1851, d. in 1888. Mr. Cressey I'd on his father's place ; d. Apr. 30, 1858; his wife d. in May, 1888, aged 78. Caroline, b. May 19, 1808, m. Oliver Veaton of Somersworth ; d. abont 1895. Martha, b. Apr. 25, 18to, m. Daniel McCorrison of Standish ; d. in 1851.
Joseph, b. Mar. 10, 1812, d. in 1858.
John R., b. Oct. 8, 1814, d. in Boston, in 1892, unm.
Mary E., b. Sept. 16, 1818, m. Dr. John G. Pike of Somersworth, N. H.
Eliza Ann, b. Dec. 19, 1820, d. Oct. 26, 1831.
Ebenezer Cressey died July 31, 1829, aged 50 ; his wife died Feb. 14, 1863, aged 79.
(3) John Cressey, son of Joseph, lived on his father's homestead, on the Flaggy Meadow road. He married Martha, daughter of Ebenezer and Rebecca Higgins. Children :
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Hannah A., b. Dec. 25. 1813, m. Wm. Dudley, Apr. 11, 1834. Samuel, b. Aug. 12, 1815, d. young.
Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1817, m June, 1847, Rebecca, dau. of Joseph and Louisa Harding ; I'd on the place owned by his father and grandfather before him ; d. Feb 22, 1893 ; his wife d. Apr. 26, 1896, aged 74. Ch : Ella, b. May 2, 1851 ; Henry, b. Jan. 28, 1855, m. Villie E. Bragdon of Buxton, Nov. 30, 1890.
Albert, b. Feb. 14, 1820, m. Emily A. C. Hobson of Buxton, Dec. 21, 1852, who died Nov. 23, 1853, aged 23, and he m. June 4, 18.54, Elizabeth, dau. of David Patrick. Ch : Emma H., b. Nov. 22, 1855; Edwin G., b. Oct. 8, 1857, m. Nellie Clement ; Nellie, b. Apr. 16, 1861 ; Ernest, b. Feb. 27, 1860, m. Fannie M. Baker of Boston, Apr. 21, 1897. Mrs. Elizabeth Cressey d. July 19, 1882, aged 55.
Martha Ann, b. Sept. 7, 1822, 1's on the old place.
Thaddeus P., b. Feb. 23, 1826, m. Asenath C. Swain of Dover, N. H., Aug., 1850 ; I'd in Dover; d. Feb. 22, 1895.
John Cressey died Sept. 21, 1871, aged 86; Mrs. Cressey died Mar. 27, 1863, aged 79.
(3) Joseph Cressey, son of Joseph, lived for many years on the farm which was cleared by John Cressey the first, on which the old log house was situated. Here he lived until he bought out his brother Noah, and moved on to his farm. He married Sarah, daughter of Capt. David Watts. Children :
Charles H., b. Nov. 21, 1817, m. Sarah W. Anderson of Windham, who d. July 7, 1851, aged 29, and Mr. C. m. her sister, Emeline Anderson. Ch: Herbert B., b. May 29, 1856, m. Ella Warren of Hopkinton, Mass .; Julia F., b. Feb. 6, 1858, m. Charles Clement, Dec. 25, 1897; Hattie P., b. July 28, 1860 ; Guy R. P., b. Nov. 12, 1862, m. Hattie Whitney of Standish, Mar. 19, 1892. Charles Cressey d. Nov. 22, 1872.
Joseph, b. Oct. 30, 1820, m. Rhoda Lowell of Hiram, June 7, 1853. Ch : Isa- bel Marie, b. Apr. 9, 1854, d. Mar. 7, 1864 ; Francis O., b. Mar. 18, 1858, d. Feb. 9, 1864; Carrie Emma, b. July 28, 1860, m. Abial Rounds, Nov. 18, 1891 ; Laura Celia, b. Jan. 29, 1862, d. Feb. 10, 1864. Mrs. Cressey d. Sept. 20, 1868, aged 36, and Mr. Cressey m. Sarah E. Libby of 1.im - erick, Nov. 24, 1870 ; one son, Joseph Francis, b. Dec. 30, 1871. Mr. Cressey d. in Newfield, Aug. 28, 1898.
Emily, b. Dec. 23, 1824, m. Thos. H. Smith of Buxton, Nov., 1851 ; d. Sept. 16, 1855.
William W., b. Oct. 1, 1828, m. Frances Ellen, dau. of Robert Rounds, Jan. 26, 1854. Ch : Charles R., b. Dec. 7, 1854, m. Annie Johnson, Nov. 12, 1882 ; Mary L., b. Oct. 13, 1861, d. Feb. 27, 1864 ; Melville W., b. Feb. 2, 1867, m. Jeannette Fifield. William W. Cressey d. May 2, 1892. Mary Eliza, b. Oct. 29, 1835, d. unm. Jan. 3, 1866.
Edward K., b. Mar. 12, 1838, d. Sept. 12, 1863.
Mrs. Cressey died Sept. 29, 1847, aged 53, and Mr. Cressey mar- ried, Jan. 7, 1849, Sarah J. Harding of Baldwin, by whom he had :
Sarah Ellen, b. Feb. 21, 1853, m. Fred A. Giddings.
John H., b. Jan. 3, 1857.
Mr. Cressey died Feb. 9, 1858, aged 70 years.
(3) Noah Cressey, son of Joseph, lived where William Cressey's family now live, on the thirty acre lot, No. 40, until he sold out to
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his brother Joseph, when he moved to Standish, and went into trade there. He married Hannah, daughter of Capt. David Watts. Chil- dren :
Sally, b. Apr. 18, 1820, m. Hugh Moore of Standish.
William, b. Jan. 10, 1823, d. young.
Harriet, b. Sept. 23, 1824, m. Jonathan Clay of Buxton, Ang. 18, 1846.
George, b. May 24, 1829, m. Harriet Smith.
Eliza A., b. Aug. 9, 1831, d. unm.
Almon, b. - - , m. Abbie Boothby.
Noah Cressey died in Standish, Apr. 20, 1839, aged 40. His wife also died in Standish.
CROCKETT.
There seem to have been at least three distinct families of this name who came early to town and as it appears were not related to each other. In the old deeds we find the name spelled " Crockit."
Samuel Crockett, the first of the name that we find in town, was the son of Richard, and grandson of Ephraim Crockett, whose father, Thomas was of Kittery in 1647. Samuel, who was born in February, 1717, came from New Hampshire, and settled in Falmouth (Portland) where he lived on the northeast corner of Middle and Plum Sts. From his grandson, Nathaniel Crockett of Portland, we learn that he had a grant of land in Gorham which he exchanged for land on the foreside of Portland. His occupation was that of a shipwright. He married in 1738, (pub. Mar. 10,) Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Cobb. She was born in March, 1717. There is no perfect record of their children, but there were :
Sarah, bapt. in 1740.
Betty, bapt. in 1741, m. Jonathan Fickett of Buxton, Dec. 21, 1763.
Susannah, b. about 1743, m. Moses Whitney, Dec. 27, 1760.
In 1750, Mr. Crockett married Mrs. Priscilla (Swett) Jackman, daughter of John Swett of Falmouth, by whom he had :
Samuel, b. Sept. 6, 1752, m. Tabitha Hamblen, p. Feb. 2, 1'771 ; 2d, Elizabeth Fickett.
Martha A., b. Nov. 29, 1754, m. Nathaniel Hill of Buxton, Dec. 30, 1773.
Dorcas, b. Apr. 14, 1756, m. Daniel Merrill of Falmouth, Jan. 12, 1775. Abigail, b. Apr. 10, 1758, m. Silas Chadbourn, Apr. 23, 1775.
Mrs. Priscilla Crockett died Mar. 7, 1763, and Mr. Crockett mar- ried, June 10, 1763, Mrs. Mary Whitney, widow of Abel Whitney of Gorham.
According to the record of deeds, Samuel Crockett was of Fal- mouth in 1754, and of Gorham in 1755. He probably moved to Gorham in 1755. He built and occupied the two story house on
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Main St. in this village which he sold to Rev. Caleb Jewett, (lately occupied by Henry Broad). It is probable that Mr. and Mrs. Crockett lived during the latter part of their life at West Gorham with their son Samuel Crockett, Jr. The lot on which the latter settled, as well as the seventy acre lot on which Isaac and Mary Whitney lived, were located and run out by Mr. Crockett. Samuel Crockett died Dec. 19, 1798, aged 82. His wife Mary died about 1794. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crockett are buried in the old cemetery at the village.
(2) Samuel Crockett, Jr., son of Samuel, lived at West Gorham, on the hundred acre lot, 79, which land joined that of Nathaniel Cobb. His house was on the road leading to Fort Hill. He mar- ried Tabitha Hamblen, who was probably the daughter of Jacob and Content Hamblen. Children :
Eunice, b. -- , 1771, d. young.
William, b. Sept. 19, 1772, m. Nancy Fickett of Strondwater.
Nancy, b. Sept. 18, 1774, m. Caleb Page of Conway, Dec., 1797.
Susanna, b. July 31, 1777, m. Joseph Bradbury, Jr., July 22, 1798. Content, b. May 18, 1779, m. Joseph Moody of Buxton, Ang. 1, 1802.
Martha, b. Mar. 19, 1781, m. James Merrill of Buxton.
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