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Sarah K., b. Nov. 21, 1829, d. at Castleton, Oct. 23, 1858.
Ellen A., b. Mar. 24, 1831, m. William A. Upton of Cal., Aug. 10, 1859 ; d. in Cherryfield, June 9, 1861.
Mr. Hight died at Castleton, Vt., at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Guernsey, Dec. 26, 1870, aged 80. Mrs. Hight died in Castle- ton, Oct. 25, 1859.
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HILLIARD.
Rev. Timothy Hilliard, born in Barnstable, Mass., July 21, 1776, was the son of Rev. Timothy and Mary (Foster) Hilliard. His father was for some years pastor of the Congregational church at Barnstable, and afterwards installed pastor at Cambridge, Mass., as colleague of Dr. Appleton.
Timothy Hilliard, the son, was stated preacher from 1801 to 1809 of St. Paul's Episcopal church in Portland. He married, July 21, 1801, Eliza Heddle, the adopted daughter of Col. and Mrs. Wm. Tyng, and niece of Mrs. Tyng, with whom he and his wife made their home during Mrs. Tyng's life. Their children were :
Elizabeth T., b. Nov. 13, 1802, d. in Bangor, Nov. 8, 1891.
Mary, b. Mar 24, 1804, m. Rev. Henry S. Smith, 1834; I'd in Claremont; d. . Jan. 7, 1892.
William T., b. Feb. 21, 1806, m. F. O. Smith; was a lawyer in Bangor ; d. Nov. 19, 188 1.
John H., b. Jan. 13, 1808, m. Anna Hayes ; was a lawyer in Old Town; d. in 1880.
Harriet S. W., b. Nov. 5, 1809, d. Aug. 17, 1811.
Maria W., b. Aug. 3, 1812, d. in Bangor, Aug. 2, 1879.
Rev. Timothy Hilliard died Jan. 21, 1842, aged 65, at Claremont, N. H. Mrs. Hilliard died July 15, 1837, aged 62. 1
HINKLEY.
Stephen Hinkley, son of Stephen and Mary (Coss) Hinkley, was born in Standish, May 5, 1799. His father, Capt. Stephen Hinkley, who was a sea captain, was the son of Stephen and Martha (Sawyer) Hinkley, and was born Dec. 3, 1774, in Falmouth, now Portland. - He was lost at sea in a hurricane, Dec. 25, 1804, when starting on a voyage, and when but one night out from Portland. His wife Mary, whom he married Nov. 5, 1797, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Jan. 4, 1778, and died in Pearsonstown (Standish) May 12, 1812. By her death the son Stephen was left, a lad of thirteen, to make his own way in the world. Diligent, honest and persevering, he made a place for himself, and succeeded in winning the respect and confidence of all who knew him. When only a youth he came to Gorham and learned the tanner's trade of John R. Clark. After completing his apprenticeship he spent some years in Massachusetts in perfecting his knowledge of the work. He then returned to Gorham in 1829, and in 1832 bought out Mr. Clark and established himself here in the tanner's business, which he carried on until his death. Mr. Hinkley was town treasurer from 1855 to 1859. He married, Nov. 8, 1829, Sophronia Shedd of Chelmsford, Mass. Children :
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Rufus H., b. Oct. 12, 1830, m. Frances E. Prindle; was a broker in Portland ; d. Mar. 5, 1900.
Mary C., b. Jan. 20, 1833.
Susan S., b. May 31, 1835.
Stephen, b Feb. 10, 1838, m. Mary Carter; 2d, Maria Paine.
William H., b. May 17, 1840, d. July 8, 1842.
-- Charles K., b. Nov. 16, 1843.
John A., b. Mar. 12, 1848, m. Mary E. Tolford, Oct. 12, 1892 ; she d. May 31, 1900.
Mr. Hinkley died April 19, 1867. Mrs. Hinkley died Jan. 5, 1890. -
(2) Stephen Hinkley, son of Stephen and Sophronia, was a prom- inent, influential and valued citizen of Gorham. He took an active part and filled a prominent place in the affairs of the town. He was Representative in the State Legislature in 1883. He was a director of the Gorham Savings Bank from the time of its foundation.
. From 1865 to 1898 he was town treasurer. For more than thirty years he was a consistent member of the Congregational church, and for twenty-five years clerk of the First parish. He married Mary, daughter of Enos and Martha ( Haines) Carter, by whom he had Caroline H., Stephen, William F., Clifford C., Frederic H., and Maria E. Mrs. Hinkley died Feb. 17, 1877, and Mr. Hinkley married, sec- ond, Maria, daughter of Charles Paine. There are two children by this marriage, Mary C. and Robert L. Stephen Hinkley died sud- denly, Jan. 4, 1898.
HODGDON. -
Jeremiah Hodgdon came from Falmouth, and was a housewright. He was in the fort during the Indian war, and must have had a family. We have no account as to what became of him, but find his estate administered upon in October, 1749, by his wife Mary, so that we know he died previous to that time. We find the Hodgdon family in town as late as 1784. Jeremiah Hodgdon paid a tax on property that year. This was probably the son of the Jeremiah of the fort. By administrator's papers and deeds on record it would appear that the given name of the wife of the first Jeremiah Hodgdon was Mary, and it is probable her name was Cotton. She was alive as late as 1777, when she deeds land to Jeremiah, who was probably her son. This was the northerly half of the hundred acre lot 81, at what is now West Gorham, being the farm owned later by Zebediah Jackson and Joseph Gilkey, and included the old Jacob Clement's lot, on which the tavern now stands. How many children Jeremiah and Mary had we have no means of knowing, but we find the follow- ing recorded as baptized by Parson Smith of Falmouth :
STEPHEN HINKLEY, JR.
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James, bapt. Aug. 20, 1732.
Benjamin, bapt. Aug. 20, 1732.
Elizabeth, bapt. Aug. 20, 1732, m. Benjamin Donnell of Buxton, Nov. 13, 1755. Seth, bapt. Sept. 17, 1732.
John, bapt. 1734, m. Susanna Brown, Apr. 6, 1770.
Jeremiah, bapt. 1737, m. Abigail - -, about 1760 ; 2d, Thankful Keen. Polly, bapt. 1740, was living, unm., in Josiah Davis's family in 1780.
William Cotton of Falmouth was guardian to minor children - Jeremiah, John and Mary Hodgdon, late of Gorham.
It is probable that the homestead lot of Jeremiah, the first, was the thirty acre lot 93, being the easterly part of the farm lately owned by Ichabod Leighton, near the house of the late William Burton. This lot, Mrs. Mary Hodgdon, widow, sold to William Lake- man, weaver, Sept. 10, 1763 ; on the southerly side of Queen street, and westerly side of the Black Brook road, so called.
It is also probable that Jeremiah, the second, who married Abigail , lived at West Gorham, on the northerly half of the hundred acre lot, No. 81, six acres of which he sold to Samuel Brown, where the old Brown house now stands, also three acres to Colman P. Wat- son, where the old hotel now stands, and in the year 1782, April 22, he sold the remainder of his lot to Maj. George Lewis of Barnstable. In 1778 he was a private in Capt. Richard Mayberry's company of Massachusetts Bay forces, under Col. Tupper, mustered out at West Point, Jan. 1, 1779. In the year 1779 Jeremiah Hodgdon was a corporal in Capt. Mclellan's company, in the Penobscot Expedition. In 1781 he was one of the dissenters, and signed the petition to the town, asking to be exempted from paying the ministerial tax, claiming to be a Baptist. His children by his wife Abigail were :
Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1762. James, b. Jan. 17, 1765.
Joseph, b. Jan. 20, 1768, m. Mary Snow, Feb. 24, 1789 ; moved to Orrington, and died there.
Mehitable, b. July 22, 1770.
Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1772.
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 1, 1774.
Jeremiah, b. Sept. 9, 1776.
Ebenezer, b. May 17, 1781.
Jeremiah Hodgdon moved to Bucktown, now Buckfield. He married a second wife, Thankful Keen, by whom he had four children, Abigail, Israel, who married Lucy Snow, sister to his brother Joseph's wife, John, and Lydia.
Jeremiah Hodgdon died in Hebron, Aug. 24, 1823.
Caleb Hodgdon, son of Israel Hodgdon of Standish, lived in the White Rock school district about a third of a mile from the Standish line. He was Representative from Gorham to the State Legislature
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in 1838-39. He married Nabby, daughter of Josiah Harmon of Standish. Children :
Joanna, b. Dec. 6, 1812, m. Jonathan Leavitt, Jr., of Windham, 1845.
Peter, b. May 3, 1818, m. Eliza A. Fogg, Jan. 1, 1843; 2d, Elizabeth A. Cars- ley of Harrison ; d. July 2, 1891.
Mr. Hodgdon also had an adopted son, Charles. Mrs. Nabby Hodgdon died May 11, 1834, aged 46, and Mr. Hodgdon married, Oct. 5, 1834, Martha, daughter of William and Anna Bolton. Esquire Hodgdon died June 10, 1875, aged 83. His wife Martha died June 7, 1882, aged 90.
HOLBROOK.
The name of Mrs. Margaret Holbrook appears on the tax list as early as 1773 as an owner of real estate in Gorham. In 1777 she, then of Wellfleet, Mass., and a widow, purchased of John Burnall of Gorham the west half of the hundred acre lot No. 7, and there made her residence. In 1783 she sold to 'Anthony Murray the east half of the west half of No. 7, together with the house and barn where Murray then resided. Mrs. Holbrook was the daughter of Isaac Doane. She was born at Eastham, Mass., Mar. 6, 1710/11, and mar- ried, Jan. 2, 1734/5, Thomas Holbrook of Wellfleet. Thomas and Margaret Holbrook had several children :
Thomas, b. Jan. 30, 1739/40, m. Hannah Harding; d. in 1806.
Isaiah, b. May 23, 1742, m. Price Hatch ; was drowned.
John, b. Oct. 18, 1748, m. Ruth Hamblen and removed to Maine, 1771.
Isaac D., b. Feb. 18, 1751.
Jerusha.
Margaret.
Isaac Doane Holbrook, son of Thomas and Margaret (Doane) Holbrook, was born in Wellfleet (Billingsgate), Mass. He was a sailor. He came to Gorham from Eastham about 1778, in which year he purchased of Caleb Chase the thirty acre lot No. 15, which covers the whole south side of Main St., beginning at the corner of South St., and running to the eastern line of the late Stephen Hinkley's land, where the new road to Westbrook enters Main St., and running also down South St., sixty rods to the lot where the late Dr. Henry H. Hunt resided. At the same time he purchased on the opposite side of the road a strip, which was bounded by Main and King (now School) Sts., and ran north as far as the present Church
I Anthony Murray and his wife Abiel probably came to Gorham about 1770. Their children were Anthony, b. Dec. 28, 1767, m. Betty Preston, Feb. 27, 1789 ; Mary, b. Dec. 5, 1769, m. Isaac Murch, Sept. 12, 1790; Miriam, b. in Gorham. June 16, 1772; James, b. in Gorham, Oct. 27, 1775; Thomas, b. in Gorham, Mar.29, 1778, and Arnold, b. in Gorham, Dec. 8, 1780. Anthony Murray left town in 1794, going probably to Standish.
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St., and east eighty rods, to the land of Silas Chadbourn, about to the east line of the tannery lot. On this strip or lot at that time was a house, barn and shed. In 1782 Mr. Holbrook bought of Thomas Pote the western half of the hundred acre lot No. 9. This he sold in 1783 to John Perkins. It is the farm since owned by Horace Meserve. Isaac Doane Holbrook married at Eastham, Feb. 18, 1773, Lucy Doane. Children :
Isaac, b. in Eastham, Nov. 1, 1773, d. young.
Martha, b. in Eastham, May 4, 1778.
Hephzibah, b. in Gorham, Jan. 15, 1780.
Lucy, b. in Gorham, Jan. 11, 1782, d. young.
Isaac D., b. Aug. 15, 1783.
Lucy, b. in Gorham, June 13, 1785.
Mr. Holbrook died soon after the birth of his last child, and in March, 1787, his widow, Lucy Holbrook, bought of Simon Harding seven acres of land from the hundred acre lot 75, with the buildings thereon, and a share in the grist mill, dam, and privileges of the river at Stephenson's bridge. On this land, which lies on the west bank of the river, Mrs. Lucy Holbrook and her mother-in-law Margaret resided. Jan. 27, 1789, Mrs. Lucy Holbrook married James Rolfe, and Aug. 20, 1789, James and Lucy Rolfe, both of Gorham, sold to Capt. John Stephenson the eighth part of the grist mill, dam and privileges above mentioned.
Mrs. Margaret Holbrook was living as late as 1793, when she sold the remaining twenty-five acres of her lot, No. 7, to James Lombard of Gorham. She is said to have returned to Wellfleet, and to have died about 1808, aged 97.
There was a Jane Holbrook, who married John Burnall of Gorham, Jan. 25, 1787, a Nancy, who married Mark Dresser of Scarborough, Aug. 9, 1789, and a Sally, who was published to Charles Cavano, Feb. 12, 1790. These were perhaps granddaughters of Mrs. Margaret Holbrook.
HORTON.
John Horton, son of Benjamin and Patience Horton of Milton, Mass., was a land owner and trader at Gorham village in 1798 and 1799. His store stood on Main St., just west of where the house of Llewellyn Brown now stands. About the year 1800 he removed to Portland where he was in business with his brother Rufus for a few years. He married, Jan. 28, 1807, Mrs. Elizabeth (Estes) Bangs of Gorham, daughter of Henry Estes of Berwick, and widow of James Bangs. Mrs. Bangs lived on the farm known as the Robert Meserve
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place, and Mr. and Mrs. Horton after their marriage resided on this farm. They were prominent members of the Society of Friends, and were the first couple to be married in the Friends' new meeting house, built in Gorham in 1805. Mr. Horton had several children by a former wife, Elizabeth
John, was a mason ; I'd in Philadelphia.
Nancy, m. John Read of Windham, Jan. 28, 1818.
Charles, b. Mar. 3, 1796, m. Esther, dau. of William Cobb. Ch: Lydia C., b. Dec. 14, 1820, m. George Nichols, Oct. 4, 1843 ; John, b. Dec. 5, 1822 ; Phebe C., b. May 8, 1824, m. Luther Whitney, 1848 ; Elizabeth W., b. Mar. 10, 1826; Charles E., b. May 7, 1828, m. Harriet Allen of Liming- ton, June, 1847; William C., b. Aug. 29, 1830 ; Esther A., b. Sept. 29, 1832; Daniel C., b. July 27, 1839 Charles Horton I'd on the Jedediah Cobb place, where Stephen B. Anderson now I's. In 1878 or '79, after Mr. H. had left town, his house was burned.
Ruth, b. Oct. 31, 1797, m. Nathan Read of Windham, Jan 28, 1824.
Patience, b. - -, d. unm. with her sister Ruth in Windham.
John Horton died July 7, 1829, aged 76 years.
HUNT.
Among the original proprietors of Gorham we find the name of Thomas Hunt of Duxbury, Mass. The claim to his right was made in his name by his heirs, as he was slain on Sunday, March 26, 1675, in the battle with the Narragansetts, at Pawtucket. This Thomas was a soldier in Capt. Pierce's company, and a descendant from Edmund Hunt, the original emigrant from England who founded the Duxbury line of the family. Thomas was probably of the third generation. We do not find that any of his heirs settled in Gorham.
Ichabod Hunt and his family lived in Falmouth, as early as 1760. He was a shipwright, and by deeds his land was described as being at a place called Meeting-House Point, on Mountjoy Neck. He and his wife Susanna on Oct. 3, 1760, conveyed land in that locality to Ilsley and Waite. Jan. 1, 1768, Moses Pearson conveys to Ichabod Hunt and his son Ephraim the hundred acre lot 27, in Gorham. Ephraim was also a shipwright. They were at this date of Falmouth, but by records it appears they were in Gorham, July 19, 1789. They probably came from Amesbury, or that neighborhood, as they were from the Amesbury line of the family and descendants of Edmund Hunt, who took the oath of fidelity in 1677. This family was the first of the name that settled in Gorham, and probably in this county.
Of the children of Ichabod and Susanna Hunt we find no perfect record, showing date or place of birth. Their names, as far as we can find, were as follows: Ephraim (who must have been born as early as 1746), Ichabod, William, George, Daniel, Enoch, Sarah,
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Susanna, Polly, and Rebecca. Of these children, Sarah married Nathaniel Edwards, Sept. 16, 1775, in Gorham. Three of Ichabod's sons were in the army of the Revolution - Daniel, Ichabod and George,- all in Capt. Hart Williams' company, Col. Phinney's regiment, in 1776 at Cambridge, Ticonderoga and Fort George. George died at Fort George, March 14 ,1776. We do not know if he was married, but he paid a poll tax in 1772 in Gorham. Daniel was a corporal in Williams' company. Of him and Ichabod we find no more war record; probably they served out their time and were discharged. William was a seafaring man, and when on land is said to have made his home in Gorham. He joined the naval service in the Revolutionary war, was taken prisoner nine times by the enemy, and is said to have been finally lost at sea after the close of the war. Nor do we find any record of Enoch, or know what became of him. Rebecca married in 1764 Andrew Crockett of Gorham.
Ephraim, who was probably the oldest son of Ichabod and Susanna, married Abigail, daughter of Elder Joseph Cates of Gorham, Oct. 6, 1769, and settled in Gorham on the lot purchased by his father and himself of Mr. Pearson. This farm descended to his son Daniel, and was lately owned by the heirs of Mr. David Mclellan. It is situated on the road leading from the Scarboro road to Saccarappa.
The children of Ephraim and Abigail Hunt were :
Lydia, b. Apr. 2, 1770, d. Sept. 16, 1771.
Lydia, b. Oct. 9, 1771, d. Feb. 23, 1773.
Francis, b. June 3, 1773, m. Nancy Merrill, Mar. 1, 1796 ; had three chn.
Daniel, b June 28, 1775, m. Mrs. Angelina (Griffin) Hastie of Philadelphia.
Susanna, b. June 12, 1777, m. Solomon Lombard, Jr., June 26, 1796
Betsey, b. Oct. 9, 1779, m. John Crockett, Dec. 15, 1796.
Ephraim, b. Apr. 9, 1781, d. Nov. 8, 1782.
Abigail, b. Sept. 18, 1783, m. James Lord, p. Feb. 18, 1804.
John, b. Jan. 5, 1785, m. Mrs. Augusta (Hilton) Shaw, widow of Capt. Sam'l Shaw.
Nancy, b. June 7, 1788, m. - Johnson.
Polly, b. Oct. 1, 1790, m. - - Kent.
Katherine, b. Sept. 3, 1792, m. - -- Cochran.
Of this family, Daniel, who married Mrs. Hastie (who had one son by her first husband), was a seafaring man and master of a vessel many years. He afterwards kept a hotel at Gorham village, where he died April 20, 1833. His wife died in Brooklyn, N. Y., leaving three children, Mrs. Angelina Prentiss, born Jan. 24, 1810; Mrs. Ellen Augusta Atkins ; and Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards. John was a sea captain, and died in New Orleans many years since, leaving his wife and one daughter.
Ichabod Hunt, son of Ichabod, and brother of Ephraim, was, as we have said, a soldier of the Revolution, in Capt. Williams' com-
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pany, Phinney's regiment. He was probably born in Falmouth; the time we cannot say, only that he was old enough to enlist in the army in 1775. He married, July 19, 1780, Mary Stone, sister of Jonathan Stone of Gorham. His residence was somewhere in West Gorham, probably near where Joseph Cotton lived, possibly near Bachelder's and William Cotton's farm. By his first wife, Mary, he had eight children born in Gorham :
William, b. Mar. 21, 1781.
James, b. Mar. 11, 1783.
Archelaus S., b. Sept. 12, 1785.
Mary, b. Mar. 16, 1788.
Ichabod, b. Dec. 25, 1790.
Eunice, b. May 12, 1793.
Enoch, b. Nov. 13, 1795.
Ephraim, b. May 3, 1798.
Mrs. Mary Hunt died in Gorham, Sept. 10, 1800, and Ichabod Hunt married, April 9, 1801, Eunice Stone, the sister of his first wife. The family moved to Unity in this State, where two children of Ichabod and Eunice were born : George and Stephen.
Ichabod Hunt died in Unity, April 30, 1822.
One of the sons, George, married Miriam Whitney of Gorham, and returned to Gorham, and lived several years on Fort Hill, on the farm now owned by Samuel Roberts. Mr. Hunt died here June 27, 1860, aged 57, and his wife Miriam, Feb. 18, 1873, aged 73. Children : Elizabeth E., died July 15, 1854, aged 19 ; Louisa W., died Jan. 15, 1861, aged 24; George A., was a merchant in Portland, died Jan. 11, 1902, and Abbie, married Lendall J. Lowell, died July 16, 1900.
Oliver and Joseph Hunt came to Gorham soon after 1790. They were the sons of Abner of Milton, Mass. Abner was born July 28, 1731, and was the son of Joseph, 2d, of Milton. Joseph, 2d, was born in 1696, and was the son of Joseph, of Milton. Joseph, of Milton, was born in 1670, and was the son of Ephraim, of Weymouth. Ephraim, of Weymouth, was born in 1610 in England, and was the son of Enoch the emigrant, and first of the family to live in Wey- mouth. Enoch came over with his son Ephraim, and the records say he took the oath, and was admitted a freeman of Newport, R. I., in 1638. It is said that after establishing his family in America, he returned to England.
Abner Hunt of Milton married Abigail Miller, Jan. 14, 1751. Children :
Richard, b.
Oliver, b. Jan. 18, 1755, m. --; 2d, Sarah Morse.
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Rachel, b. Apr. 24, 1757, m. Cotton Hardwick of Roxbury, June 28, 1789.
William, b. June 18, 1759.
Susanna, b. Sept. 16, 1761, m. James Bowman, July 21, 1789.
John, b. May 26, 1764.
Abigail, b. May 19, 1767.
Deborah, b. .
Ruth, b.
Jerusha, b. - , 1776.
Joseph, b. June 3, 1778, m. Polly Mclellan, Nov. 14, 1803.
Mrs. Abigail (Miller) Hunt died Dec. 19, 1795.
Capt. Oliver Hunt, son of Abner of Milton, was a soldier of the Revolution, and served three years. He was at Ticonderoga, a first lieutenant in a company of Massachusetts troops. His service was honorable, for which he received a pension from the United States of twenty-four dollars per month, during life. Capt. Hunt was an honest, upright man ; by trade he was a tanner and currier of the old class, and by his trade made a good living. Notwithstanding, a large number of establishments like his would not produce the amount of goods now made in one of our modern yards. His bark- grinding mill was an upright round stone about five feet in diameter revolving on an axle as it was drawn around by a sweep, by his old horse, thus slowly crushing the bark. His yard and buildings were on South St., at the westerly end of the (now) railroad bridge. The lot has long since disappeared, carried down the railroad to help build the " fill" half a mile east of the depot. His lot of land he purchased, of James and John Gilkey, who then owned the thirty acre lot 18, by deed dated Aug. 21, 1794.
Capt Hunt had a first wife, of whose name and residence we have no record, whom he married before 1780, and resided a while in Provi- dence, where he had two children born, Oliver, born Oct. 9, 1780, and John, born Dec. 19, 1785, and where probably his first wife died. The eldest of his sons was lost at sea; of the other we have no record. He never came to Gorham. On Dec. 28; 1790, Capt. Hunt married Sarah Morse of Newton, Mass., for his second wife. She was the daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Jackson) Morse, and died Jan. 4, 1810. By a tax bill for the town of Gorham, Capt. Hunt appears to have been in town in 1792, probably not here long, as the Assessors did not know his christian name, and he is taxed as " Hunt, the tanner." In the year 1795 he commanded the South Company of militia in the town of Gorham. His children by his second marriage were :
William, b. May 19, 1792, was twice m .; has descendants in the eastern part of the State.
Hannah, b. Mar. 31, 1794, d. unm.
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Nabby, b. May 12, 1796, m. a Mr. Rice of Boston, Mass ; no chn. Charles, b. Jan. 31, 1800, m. Mary G. Fogg, Dec. 31, 1831.
(2) Charles Hunt, son of Capt. Oliver, was a teacher for some years. He afterwards kept store in a building which stood on the hill at the village, and which was burned in August, 1846. He rep- resented the town two years in the Legislature, and was State Senator for two years. He married Mary G., daughter of Daniel and Hannah Fogg. Children :
Mary E., b. Oct. 18, 1832, m. Mr. Carson of Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1856.
Charles E., b. Oct. 29, 1834, d. Dec. 19, 1837.
William R., b. Nov. 29, 1836, d. Aug. 22, 1838.
Charles O., b. Apr. 26, 1839, Resident Physician and Superintendent of the Me. Gen. Hospital.
Henry H., b. July 7, 1842, for many years a practicing physician of Gorham, and afterwards of Portland, where he d. Nov. 30, 1894.
Hon. Charles Hunt died Dec. 23, 1844, and his wife Mary, April 19, 1893, aged 88.
Joseph Hunt, son of Abner, of Milton, was a hatter by trade. His shop, which stood on the hill at the village was destroyed by fire Aug. 15, 1846. He lived and died in the house on South St., now occupied by Alonzo L. Drown. He married Polly, daughter of Thomas and Jenny Mclellan. Children :
Jane McL., b. Apr. 16, 1804, d. in Wilton, unm.
Joseph, b. Mar. 12, 1806, m .; I'd in Wilton.
Mr. Hunt died April 14, 1861, aged 83, and his wife Polly, Oct. 6, 1865, aged 81.
HUSTON.
Simon Huston came to Gorham from Falmouth about 1763. He lived on what is now the Gorham Town Farm, near- Little Falls. July 23, 1761, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Elder. Their oldest child, David, was born in Falmouth, before they moved to Gorham where their other children were born. Their children were :
David, b. Sept. 29, 1762, d. Apr. 8, 1782.
Elizabeth, b. Mar. 1, 1764, m. Reuben Elder, Feb. 4, 1787.
Eunice, b. Oct. 28, 1765, m. Samuel Harding of Buxton, Aug. 5, 1790.
Anna, b. Dec. 26, 1767, m. Stephen Phinney, Sept. 22, 1788; 2d, Simeon Libby. Simon, b. Oct. 1, 1769, d. July 3, 1773.
Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1771, m. Richard Mayberry, Oct. 22, 1798.
William, b. Nov. 20, 1772, m. Hannah Waite of Falmouth ; I'd in Portland.
Rebecca, b. Dec. 25, 1774, m. James Warren, Jr., p. Nov. 1, 1806. Lydia, b. Nov. 21, 1776.
Simon, b. Apr. 5, 1779, m. Betsey R. Whitmore, Mar. 22, 1801 ; 2d, Ruth Elder.
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DR. HENRY H. HUNT.
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GENEALOGY.
(2) Simon Huston, son of Simon, lived on the farm formerly owned and occupied by his father. He married Betsey Ross Whitmore, daughter of Capt. Samuel Whitmore. She died Aug. 10, 1808, and he married May 28, 1812, Ruth Elder. Simon Huston died Jan. 5, 1817. He left no children, and by his will he gave his farm, after the death of his widow, to the town of Gorham, to be used as a home for the worthy poor of the town. This farm is now occupied by the Superintendent of the Poor, and is called the Gorham Town Farm. Mrs. Ruth Huston died Nov. 27, 1865, aged 76.
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