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Israel H., b. Jan. 20, 1824, m. Amanda E. Frank, Nov. 10, 1853.
Sarah M., b. Jan. 11, 1826, m. Robert Dodge, of Londonderry, N. H., Nov. 29, 1846; d. in Wisconsin in 1860.
George C., b. June 11, 1828, d. Oct. 19, 1846.
Lucius S., b. July 13, 1831, m. Susan Klinefelter.
David Kemp died July 4, 1853, aged 60. Mrs. Anna Kemp died in Wisconsin in August, 1854.
(3) Willis B. Kemp, son of David, lived on the old homestead now occupied by his children. He married Sarah C. Fellows of Lowell. She lived but a few months after her marriage, dying Oct. 17, 1848, at the age of 23, and Mr. Kemp married, April 15, 1849, her sister Elizabeth P. Fellows. Children :
George C., b. Dec. 27, 1849, m. Ellen C. Peck of Manchester, N. H., Dec. 23, 1872.
Sarah C., b. Aug. 19, 1851.
Willis B., b. Apr. 27, 1853.
Anna H., b. Aug. 16, 1855, m. Wm. G. Clark, Nov. 13, 1883.
Augustus F., b. Jan. 13, 1857.
Lucy E., b. Apr. 6, 1859, m. Benj. F. Irish, Feb. 12, 1881.
Jessie B., b. Sept. 11, 1862.
Eda M., b. July 8, 1865.
Mr. Kemp died April 14, 1892, aged 70. Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp died May 15, 1898, aged 77.
(3) Israel H. Kemp, son of David, married Amanda E. Frank of Gray. She died July 18, 1857, aged 24 years, leaving one daughter, Lena, born Feb. 25, 1856, who married, Oct. 15, 1888, Charles E. Babb.
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KING.
James King was the son of Lieut. James King of Littleton, Mass., and was born in Littleton, Nov. 22, 1774. He was a cooper, and meat-packer, and also a farmer. He resided for a time in Cornish, then in Gorham, also in Otisfield, and returned to Gorham about 1810. He lived in Gorham for many years in the Dr. Bowman house, now occupied by Mrs. Stephen Hinkley. He married Susanna, daughter of Joseph M. Thompson of Cornish. Children, all born in Gorham, but Cyrus, who was born in Otisfield :
Rufus, b. Sept. 23, 1807, m. Ann Bixby ; I'd in Westbrook ; d. Feb. 3, 1889.
Cyrus, b. Aug. 10, 1809, m. Esther Kennard; I'd in Westbrook ; d. Mar. 28, 1898; she, Apr. 15, 1898.
James, b. July 8, 1811, d. Aug. 23, 1814.
Joseph, b. Mar. 18, 1813, d. unm. in N. Y. City, Feb. 26, 1892.
Susan A., b. Feb. 23, 1817, d. May 15, 1898.
James T., b. Mar. 4, 1821, d. in Cornish, unm., Aug. 22, 1878.
Charles, b. Oct. 24, 1823, d. unm. in Crittenden, Ariz., Apr. 14, 1884.
Sarah C., b. Jan. 6, 1827, m. Capt. Frederick Gorham (son of Wm. Gorham of Portland) July 8, 1857. He d. at Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 31, 1878, ag. 57. Mrs. G. d. at Norwalk, Conn., 1899. James King died June 7, 1847, aged 73. Mrs. King died in Cor- nish, Oct. 5, 1874, aged 90 years, 8 mos.
(2) Susan A. King, daughter of James and Susanna, was a woman of marked characteristics. Starting in life with no unusual advan- tages, but possessed of great energy and resolution and uncommon business ability, whatever enterprises she engaged in prospered. When quite a young woman, she was greatly disturbed because in those days women had so few avenues open before them by which to obtain a livelihood, and set herself to work to inaugurate means and industries in which they could be employed.
Deciding to make her home in New York, she invested in real estate in the upper part of that city, and buying and selling with great judgment and foresight she amassed a large fortune. Her advice and opinion on pieces of real estate were not infrequently asked by prominent business men. About 1870 she conceived the idea of the formation of a Woman's Tea Company, all of whose agents should be women, and which should in various other ways give employment to women. Of this company Madam Demorest was chosen president, and Miss King, treasurer. Determined to have only a pure and satisfactory article to sell, Miss King went herself to China and Japan, and travelled alone through these countries for eighteen months, till she had found and selected a tea which she judged to be suitable.
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Miss King abounded in deeds of public and private benevolence and kindness, and was ever ready to help the deserving. She died in Norwalk, Conn., May 15, 1898.
KNIGHT. .
The family of Knight trace their origin back to English ancestry. Capt. Joseph Knight, the first of the name that we find in Gorham, was the son of William who came from Manchester, Mass. This William lived at different times at Falmouth, Windham, Saccarappa, and again at Windham. He was twice married. It was his daughter Abigail, by his first wife, born Dec. 5, 1744, who married April 20, 1765, Uriah Nason and lived in Gorham. Of his children by his second wife Hannah, Ruhama married William Whitmore of Gorham ; Sarah married in 1770, Sargent Shaw of Standish, and was published as being of Gorham ; John married, June 22, 1784, Mercy Gregg of Gorham, and lived here for a time where he has the birth recorded of one child Hannah, born Dec. 7, 1784 ; he was a Revolutionary soldier, serving in Capt. Jenkins' company, Col. Brewer's 12th Mass.
Capt. Joseph Knight was the son of William Knight and his first wife, who is said by some of her descendants to have been Mary Haskell. During his youth he was an Indian scout. He and his brother William were both captured by the Indians in April, 1747, while the family were living at Saccarappa. He was captured a second time by the Indians in February, 1756. Having learned something of their language during his former captivity, he compre- hended enough of their talk among themselves to know that an attack was intended upon all the frontier towns in this region, from Saco to Brunswick. By his bravery and intrepid daring he managed to escape the following May, and succeeded in making his way from the Indian camp on the Androscoggin to N. Yarmouth and Falmouth, and giving an alarm by means of which the schemes of the savages were frus- trated ; and by the death of Poland, their chief, who fell in the town of Windham, May 14, 1756, an end was put to all trouble with the Indians in this locality.
Capt. Knight came from Windham to Gorham, and settled at Little Falls about 1767. He owned the water power on the Gorham side, and built a saw mill there. He married, Jan. 10, 1760, Lydia, daughter of John and Mary (Miller) Libby of Scarborough ; at which time he (Knight) is recorded as of Falmouth. His children, all of whom were born in Gorham, except the two eldest, Lydia and Phebe, who were born respectively in Falmouth and Windham, were :
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Lydia, b. Apr. 4, 1761, m. Jonathan Jordan, 1781.
Phebe, b. July 30, 1763, m. John Libby, Mar. 12, 1789.
Nathaniel, b. Oct. 9, 1765, m. Hannah McKenney, Sept. 19, 1782; 2d, Sarah Webb; 3d, Susanna Roberts.
Daniel, b. Sept. 7, 1768.
Joseph, b. Feb. 19, 1771, d. Nov. 15, 1778,
Nabby, b. June 1, 1773, m. Joseph Lakin, Nov. 28, 1798.
Joseph, b. Oct. 22, 1775, m. Mary Lovitt, Aug. 23, 1798.
Samuel, b. Mar. 5, 1778.
Morris, b. June 30, 1780.
Winthrop, b. Oct. 17, 1782.
Benjamin, b. Nov. 23, 1785, d. Feb. 15, 1788.
Capt. Joseph Knight was drowned in the Presumpscot river while at work about his mill, Sept. 8, 1797, at the age of 62.
(2) Joseph Knight, Jr., son of Capt. Joseph, lived at Little Falls, and after the death of his father in 1797, carried on the lumber business until he sold the mill in 1823. He married Mary, the daughter of Jonathan Lovitt of Windham. Children :
Miriam, b. Jan. 9, 1800, m. Freeman Blake of Harrison.
Charlotte L., b. Nov. 28, 1803, m. Merrill Thomas, June 10, 1828.
Clementine, b. July 31, 1806, m. Josiah Swett, Oct. 10, 1825.
The fate of his father overtook Mr. Knight also, and he was drowned in the Presumpscot river at Ray's Landing, July 14, 1829.
LAKEMAN.
William Lakeman is supposed to have moved into town about the year 1749. On March 6, 1750 he purchased of Ebenezer Mayo of Falmouth for ten pounds and thirty shillings the right No. 93, which had been granted to John Hallitt, of Yarmouth. This right Andrew Hallett, the eldest male heir of John Hallitt, deceased, sold to the aforesaid Mayo. Lakeman when he purchased this right agreed to perform all the duties devolving upon him as a first settler. The thirty acre lot belonging to this right Lakeman propably sold, for we find that he bought this same lot, 93, of Mrs. Mary Hodgdon, Sept. 10, 1763. This lot was situated on the southerly side of Queen street, and the westerly side of the old Black Brook road. This was near the house of the late Wm. Burton, and was part of the farm lately occupied by Ichabod Leighton. Mr. Lakeman finally settled on the northern side of the Portland road. He was a weaver by trade. Nov. 16, 1754, he married Hannah Doane. It is said that she made it a condition of her marrying Lakeman that she should have a two story house in which to live. So he built for her the house since known as the Royal Lincoln house which was a good substantial structure but was removed some years since to make room
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for the Coburn house which occupies its site. Mrs. Bethiah Freeman, granddaughter of Wm. and Hannah Lakeman, said that her grand- mother Hannah was a Harding of Eastham, and a sister to Bethiah, the wife of John Freeman of Gorham. She appears to have been the widow of an Ebenezer Doane, and to have had children by him, one of whom, Lydia, married her cousin Nathan Freeman in 1775. Children of William and Hannah Lakeman :
Mary, b. June 5, 1756.
Hannah, b. Mar. 25, 1758, m. Thomas Bangs, p. Sept. 20, 1777.
Josiah Harding, b. Mar. 6, 1762, m. Esther Cobb, Dec. 24, 1783.
William Lakeman died with the Shakers at Poland Hill, aged 96. Mrs. Hannah Lakeman died with the Shakers at Gorham, aged 94.
(2) Josiah H. Lakeman, son of William, lived on the road leading from Mark Mosher's to Horse Beef in the second house north of Little river where the Plummers now live. He married Esther, daughter of Jedediah and Reliance Cobb. Children :
Solomon, b. Jan. 18, 1785, m. Betsey, dau. of Peter and Mary (Warren) Crockett, Dec. 8, 1814; I'd at Horse Beef in a house which has since been moved to Little Falls, near the Canal. Ch: Josiah, b. Jan. 18, 1816, d. y .; Mary Ann, b. Sept. 5, 1817, m. Geo. W. Goodrich, p. Oct., 1837; Martha, b. Mar. 30, 1821 ; Josiah, moved east ; Peter, b. 1826. Polly, b. Oct. 13, 1787.
Betsey, b. Jan. 19, 1790, m. James Bangs, Sept. 10, 1809.
William, b. -, m. Mary Stevens, 1818; moved to Waldo Co.
Ebenezer, b. -, m. Mary Haskell of Westbrook, 1820.
Esther, b. -, m. Andrew Cates of Thorndike, 1823.
Hannah, b.
-- , m. Eli Moulton of Standish ; I'd in Unity.
Thomas, b.
Josiah H. Lakeman moved to Standish and then back to Gorham where he died. His wife survived him.
LARRABEE.
The Larrabees are descended from William Larrabee, who, it is said, was a Frenchman. He married in Malden, in. 1655, Elizabeth, daughter of George Felt of No. Yarmouth, Me., and moved to No. Yarmouth. He returned to Malden, and died there about 1692. His son Thomas, born about 1660, settled in Scarborough, and most of the name in this region can claim descent from him. Thomas and one son, Anthony, were killed by the Indians, April 19, 1723. Phebe, the great-granddaughter of Thomas, bapt. May 9, 1756, married Joseph Gilkey of Gorham, Aug. 18, 1774.
Philip Larrabee, son of Philip Larrabee and his wife, Sally (Smith) of Berwick, and great-grandson of Thomas, was born in Scarboro, July 2, 1783. He moved to Gorham and was a farmer in the south
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part of the town living nearly opposite to the place lately occupied by his son James. Nov. 12, 1812, he married Polly Grant of Falmouth. Children :
Nancy, b. Sept. 2, 1813, m. James Storer, Apr. 16, 1851.
James G., b. Nov. 14, 1818, m. Elizabeth S. Pike, Feb. 21, 1849.
Ivory K., b. June 26, 1823, m. Betsey H. Hodsdon, Mar. 25, 1847 ; d. July 13, 1859.
Mr. Larrabee was a sergeant in Capt. Robie's company, and marched to Portland, for the defence of that place, in 1814. His wife Polly died Nov. 15, 1844, aged 58, and in 1847 he married Nabby Hall of Westbrook, who died Sept. 25, 1849. Philip Larrabee died Sept. 7, 1872, aged 89.
(2) James Larrabee, son of Philip, was a farmer, and lived in the south part of the town, on the road leading past the old Dyer place. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey and Martha Pike. Children :
Mary Lizzie, b. Nov. 16, 1852, m. Henry Jose.
Martha Ellen, b. Mar. 25, 1855, m. William Pillsbury.
Betty Emma, b. Apr. 20, 1857, m. Charles G. Alden.
Henrietta Maria, b. Sept. 28, 1870, m. William Sherman.
James G. Larrabee died Dec. 25, 1898, and his wife, in 1892.
LARRY.
Dennis Larry was born in Ireland. It was said that he came over from England as a British soldier in the time of one of the Indian Wars. He is said to have been in the battles of Crown Point and Louisburg. By some means he obtained his discharge, and came to the town of Gorham, about the year 1755, where his name appears on the tax list as early as 1763. Mr. Larry married first, Margaret Brown, who was the mother of two of his children. He married sec- ond, Patience Wooster of Pearsonstown, April 20, 1761. After his marriage with Miss Wooster, he settled on the thirty acre lot 22, on South St., which was then called "the Scarborough road." This lot was afterwards owned and occupied by his son Stephen. The old house is the same lately occupied by Francis B. Robie, at the village, in which Dr. Lincoln now lives, having been moved and remodeled. During the French and Indian war Mr. Larry was with the Colonial troops in one of the Ticonderoga and Canada Expeditions, as a substitute in place of George Tate of Falmouth (who was drafted). It is possible that his taking Tate's place in the army had something to do with his owning the thirty acre lot, as this lot was at that time owned by Tate. Previous to his marriage with Miss Wooster, Mr.
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Larry lived most of the time with the Mclellan family. He was never in possession of a large amount of worldly estate, but had the reputation of being an honest, upright man, and his wife was an excellent woman. He died in December, 1796, at the great age of 102 years, being the oldest man who has ever died in Gorham. His wife Patience died Jan. 6, 1809, aged 94. The children of Dennis and Margaret Larry were :
John, b. - , d. at sea, when a young man, unm.
James, b. July 4, 1757, m. Molly Hobbs, in 1782.
By second wife, Patience, he had :
Stephen, b. Feb. 14, 1763, m. Abigail Hamblen, Nov. 29, 1788.
(2) James Larry, son of Dennis, was a private in 1776, in Capt. Williams' company, Col. Phinney's regiment, for one year. He next enlisted in Capt. Burbank's company, 12th Mass. regiment, Col. Brewer ; and was present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. He was severely wounded at Hobartown by a ball in the left arm ; and at Valley Forge in an engagement received a sabre-cut cleaving off a portion of his cheek, left shoulder and cutting the cords of the arm. He was taken prisoner and carried to Philadelphia, but on his liberation returned to his company. Lieut. Means alludes to his faithful discharge of his duties, and bravery as a soldier. He mar- ried Molly Hobbs of Falmouth. Children :
Olive, b. Nov. 24, 1783, d. in 1802.
Nancy, b. Nov. 29, 1785.
John, b. Oct., 1787.
Daniel, b. Nov., 1789.
Isaiah, b. June 24, 1793, m. Lydia Heath, and moved out of town.
Jane, b. Sept. 4, 1795.
Sally, b. 1797.
Jonathan, b. 1799.
This branch of the family spell their name Lara. James died Jan. 31, 1842. His wife lived to be more than ninety years old.
(2) Stephen Larry, son of Dennis, married Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Dilla Hamblen of Gorham. Children :
Patience, b. Dec. 12, 1790, d. young.
John, b. Feb. 20, 1795, m. Eunice Harmon, Nov. 20, 1823; 2d, Lucy Harmon.
James, b. July 31, 1798, m. Martha J. Anderson, June 29, 1852. Stephen, b. June 12, 1801, m. Rebecca Hamblen, Oct. 20, 1822.
Joseph C., b. June 15, 1804, m. Mary Purinton, Aug. 9, 1825. 1
Mr. Larry died at Gorham, April 23, 1838, aged 76. Abigail his wife, died in Gorham, in March, 1844, aged 83.
Of their children, John married Eunice Harmon of Scarboro, by whom he had a daughter Ann Maria, born Aug. 27, 1829. Mr.
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Larry married second, Lucy Harmon of Scarboro, by whom also he had a daughter, Eunice, born April 9, 1831. John Larry lived in the lower part of Gorham. He died April 23, 1872, and his wife Lucy, March 12, 1876, aged 79.
James was a graduate of Bowdoin College, class of 1821. He married Martha J. Anderson of Richmond, Va. He lived for many years in Washington, D. C., and had two children. He was long a clerk in the 2d Auditor's Office Treasury Department. He died Aug. 27, 1872.
Stephen married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and Molly Hamblen of Gorham. They had two children, Mary and Margaret Ann, born in Gorham. Mr. Larry lived in South Paris.
Joseph C., lived in the "Hurricane District," then on " Quaker lane," and afterwards moved to Windham. He married Mary, daughter of Daniel and Lois Purinton, and had the following children :
James L., b. in Windham, m. Abby L. Emery of Falmouth; was in the Civil War, d. in hospital at New Orleans, July 6, 1864.
Lois B., b. in Gorham, d. in Gorham, aged 1 year.
Daniel P., b. in Gorham, m. Abigail Hicks of Gorham, Mar. 18, 1851.
Abigail L., b. in Gorham, m. Samuel North of Westbrook.
Meshach P., b. in Windham, d. unm .- killed at the battle of the Wilderness ; May 6, 1864.
Phebe C., b. in Gorham, m. Samuel T. Dole of Windham.
John Hale, b. in Windham, m. Mary White of Lynn, Mass ; is a Cong. minister. William A., b. in Windham, m. Ellen True of Windham.
Charles J., b. in Windham, m. Rachel Haskell of Windham.
Joseph C. Larry died Sept. 8, 1888, aged 84, and his wife Mary, May 13, 1885, aged 79.
LEWIS.
George Lewis, the ancestor of the Gorham branch of the Lewis family, came from England in 1633. He was a clothier from East Greenwich, Kent Co. He lived first in Plymouth, then in Scituate, and was of Barnstable in 1640-1. He died in 1663, his will being proved, March 3, 1662-3. His son Lieut. James Lewis was born in England in 1631, and married Sarah Lane of Hingham, Mass. ; Ebenezer, son of James and Sarah, born in 1666, married Anna Lothrop; George, son of Ebenezer and Anna, born in 1704, married Sarah Thacher of Yarmouth, Mass.
Major George Lewis, son of George and Sarah (Thacher) Lewis, was born in Barnstable in 1741. In November, 1781, he, then of Barnstable, purchased of Joseph Otis of Barnstable and Samuel Alleyne of Boston the hundred acre lot No. 87, and half the adjoin- ing hundred acre lot No. 88, in Gorham, and by agreement with
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Samuel Harding who owned one-half of 88, Mr. Lewis had the southern half of the lot. April 22, 1782, he purchased the Jeremiah Hodgdon lot, about forty-one acres, a part of No. 81. July 5, he purchased of William Irish his fifty acres from No. 80. At this time his residence was in Barnstable. These two last lots made his home farm of ninety-one acres, on which his son Lothrop, then about eighteen years of age, commenced operations, about a year before the family moved into this town. Before the family arrived he had made a handsome clearing, and gotten up a house in which to receive his father and mother, and a large family of brothers and sisters all younger than himself. In May, 1783, the family came from Barnstable and settled permanently. They brought with them -in a schooner to Portland all their furniture, a horse, cow and heifer, and six sheep.
Mr. Lewis was a soldier in the Revolution. His name appears also among the list of Majors in 1776 and 1777, as Major of the 1st Reg- iment. He was a man of great weight and force of character, decided in all his convictions. He was a very prominent man in the affairs of the town, and in the old Orthodox church, of which latter he was for many years a deacon. He married, Oct. 12, 1760, Mary, daughter of Hon. Daniel Davis of Barnstable. She was the mother of all his children, who were :
Mehitable, b. July 21, 1762, m. Nathaniel Crocker of Barnstable, Apr. 13, 1783 ; d. in Oakham, Jan. 31, 1835.
Lothrop, b. Feb. 13, 1764, m. Tabitha Longfellow, Jan. 20, 1794; 2d. Mary J. Little.
Sarah, b. Jan. 13, 1766, m. Ebenezer Peabody, Mar. 9, 1792.
Annah, b. Mar. 21, 1768, m. John Darling, Oct. 14, 1785.
James, b. Aug. 21, 1770, m. Hannah Harding, Sept. 24, 1793.
Ansel, b. Feb. 2, 1773, m. Comfort Manchester in Portland, Mar. 29, 1795; made his home in Portland, where he d. Oct. 8, 1826; his wife d. in Gorham, May 4, 1865, ag. 89.
George, b. Mar. 28, 1775, m. Ruthy Lincoln, Feb. 3, 1800.
Daniel D., b. July 22, 1777, m. May 13, 1798, Polly, dan. of Capt. Jonah Dyer. Mr. Lewis was a minister of the Baptist denomination. He removed to New Jersey, where he preached in different places. He has many descendants living in that State and in Penn. He d. in New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 24, 1849; Mrs. Lewis d. in Philadelphia, Aug. 17, 1876, ag. 96.
Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1779, d. in Gorham, unm. Sept. 27, 1804. At the time of her death she was engaged to be married to Joseph Skillings, a neighbor. Her pocket-book, marked "Mary Lewis, 1804," is now in the Skillings family ; at the time of her death it was given to Mr. Skillings as a keep- sake; the scissors, tweezers and pencil are all as perfect as when she left it. A funeral sermon was preached the next Sabbath after her death from the text, " The flower soon withereth, and the blossom fadeth, the fair blossom, the beautiful flower - But all flesh is grass."
Robert,
b. Jan. 12, 1782. 5 d. young.
Abigail, S
{ m. Capt. William Prentiss, Dec. 11, 1804.
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Mrs. Mary Lewis died in 1782, and on Jan. 27, 1783, Mr. Lewis married Desire Parker of Barnstable, who died May 19, 1815, aged 79. Dea. Lewis died July 24, 1819, aged 79.
(2) Lothrop Lewis, son of George, was a man high in the esteem of his fellow citizens and cotemporaries. He was a man of singular purity and uprightness; of much dignity, and of calm and well balanced mind, and excellent judgment. He was repeatedly called upon to fill places of public trust. He was for twenty-four years chairman of the board of selectmen ; was Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts twelve years, and Representative to the Maine Legislature at the time of his death. He was Massa- chusetts Senator in 1808 and 1815.
When a young man Mr. Lewis was much engaged as a surveyor of lands, and in locating land. He was the surveyor in locating the first road from Standish, through Baldwin to Bridgton. He was often a referee in important and difficult cases. When Maine was separated from Massachusetts in 1820, he was chosen one of the delegates from Gorham to attend the convention which was called to prepare a constitution for the new State. This convention assembled at Portland, Oct. 11, 1820, and in due time prepared a constitution which was shortly afterwards adopted by the people. For several years before the separation, Mr. Lewis held the office of Surveyor- general of lands in the Province of Maine, and after the passing of the Act of Separation he was commissioned anew by Gov. King for the management, sale and settlement of eastern lands, and also as Surveyor-general. In the military line he rose to the colonelcy of a regiment of cavalry. He was one of Gov. Strong's Board of War in 1812-15 ; and one of the commission which divided the arms and equipments of Massachusetts between Massachusetts and Maine after the separation. Col. Lewis married Tabitha, daughter of Hon. Stephen Longfellow, and lived at West Gorham on the old home- stead. Children :
Stephen Longfellow, b. Mar. 14, 1795, m. Jane Thomas of Wayne. Ch: Mary, d. in Portland, Mar. 9, 1844, ag. 21 ; Elizabeth W., d. in Gorham, July 10, 1825, ag. 2. Stephen L. Lewis was a graduate of Bowdoin College, class of 1816. He studied law and commenced practice at Athens, Me., but I'd but a few years, dying Feb. 4, 1825. His widow m. Samuel Lincoln of Gorham.
Mary Longfellow, b. Nov. 15, 1796, m. Jacob S. Smith, Oct. 12, 1816.
On the farm formerly owned by Col. Lewis at West Gorham there are five graves of younger children of Lothrop and Tabitha, who died in infancy with the exception of one aged eight. Mrs. Tabitha
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Lewis died April 15, 1807, and Mr. Lewis married, April 19, 1810, Mrs. Mary J. (Prescott) Little, daughter of Hon. Oliver Prescott of Groton, Mass., and widow of John Park Little, Esq. She was a woman of rare native gifts, and of fine culture. After his second marriage Col. Lewis settled at the village in the three-story house on Main St., built by Lawyer Little. The children of Lothrop and Mary J. Lewis were :
Annah D., b. May 30, 1811, d. Oct. 4, 1811.
Catherine B., b. May 14, 1813, d. Mar. 17, 1825.
Elizabeth P., b. Mar. 19, 1816, m. Col. Stephen McL. Staples, Oct. 17, 1831 ; 2d, Col. Hugh D. Mclellan, Dec. 25, 1833.
Col. Lothrop Lewis died suddenly, Oct. 9, 1822, at Bangor where he had gone to attend to his duties as Land Commissioner. His wife died May 30, 1863, aged 88 years and 6 mos.
(2) James Lewis, son of George, was a Methodist preacher of much power; an earnest and devout Christian. It is said that he never accepted a dollar in pay for his preaching services. He was well known throughout the State, and there are many now living who remember his fervent piety and earnest exhortations. He married Hannah, the daughter of Capt. Samuel Harding, and lived on the farm at West Gorham, formerly owned by his wife's father. The place is now owned and occupied by his grandson Charles E. Jordan. Children :
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