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Anna, b. Sept. 26, 1725, m. Simon Lombard, and remained in Truro.
Jedediah, b. Apr. 8, 1728, m. Susan Dorsett; 2d, Mrs. Susanna Libby.
Sarah, b. June 8, 1730.
Hannah, b. May 11, 1732, living., unm, in 1784.
Susanna. b. Aug. 5, 1734, m. Wentworth Stuart, Feb. 7, 1753.
Salome, b. June 10, 1736, m. Austin Alden, Nov. 25, 1756.
Solomon, b. May 15, 1738, m. Lydia Grant, June 15, 1759.
Mary, b. Sept. 9, 1740.
Richard, b. Feb. 23, 1743/4, m. Lydia Bangs, June 18, 1764.
Ebenezer, b. Mar. 26, 1745.
Hezekiah, b. Sept. 30, 1746.
Calvin, b. May 25, 1748, m. Martha Grant ; 2d, Mary Walker.
Rev. Mr. Lombard died in 1781, aged 79 years.
(2) Jedediah Lombard, son of Solomon, was a man possessed of great strength. He was a sailor, following the sea for forty years, twenty of which was as mate. He was cast away on Cape Cod during a violent snow storm on Sunday, March 29, 1769, but escaped without injury. During the Revolution he served on board a privateer, in company with a number of other Gorham men. Being captured, and confined on board the prison ship " Jersey," he made his escape in company with Lieut. Cary Mclellan and two others. His home was on the western half of the hundred acre lot 105, on what has since been called Mighty street. He married for his first wife, Susan Dorsett. Children, of whom we have no perfect record : "
Sarah, b. - -, m. Benjamin Green, Sept. 29, 1774.
Jedediah, b. 1760, m. Lydia Rand, July 12, 1785.
Hezekiah, b. - -, said to have been lost at sea.
Phebe, b. -, m. Benjamin Blake, Jr., Oct. 20, 1785.
Salome, b. 1764, m. - Dorsett; 2d, Sargent Shaw (2d wife) of Standish.
Mrs. Susan Lombard died July 18, 1784, and Mr. Lombard mar- ried, Oct. 20, 1784, Mrs. Susanna (Lombard) Libby, widow of Joab Libby. Jedediah Lombard died Jan. 24, 1820, aged 92.
(2 ) Solomon Lombard, Jr., son of Solomon,' lived on the hundred acre lot, 5, where his grandson Lewis Lombard now lives. He was a member of Capt. Joseph Woodman's company in the Northern army in 1757. His wife was Lydia Grant of Berwick. Children :
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Richard, b. May 17, 1761, d. when about 14 or 15 years of age.
Susanna, b. June 15, 1762, m. Christopher Dunn, Feb. 3, 1782.
Hannah, b. Jan. 23, 1764, m. Ebenezer Murch, Nov. 30, 1786.
Solomon, b. Oct. 23, 1766, d. young.
James, b. Oct. 19, 1768, m. Bethiah Smith, Dec. 13, 1792.
Lydia, b. Oct. 25, 1771, m. Abram Nason, Feb. 14, 1793.
Peter, b. Nov. 9, 1772, d. young.
Ephraim, b. Jan. 18, 1774, m. Polly Perkins, Nov. 20, 1794 ; 2d, Jane Larrabee. Solomon, b. Apr. 21, 1775, m. Susanna Hunt, June 26, 1796; moved to Read- field.
Mary, b. May 10, 1777, m. John Godsoe, Sept. 26, 1811 ; 2d, - Chamberlain. Samuel, b. Oct. 8, 1779, m. Charity Merrill, Apr. 12, 1810.
(2) Richard Lombard, son of Solomon, lived near his brother Jedediah, on the place where Charles Martin Libby now lives. He married Lydia Bangs of Cape Cod. Children :
John, b. Ang. 11, 1764, m. Elizabeth Sawyer, Jan. 13, 1785. Paul, b. June 30, 1766, m. Betty Libby, Aug. 15, 1791 ; moved to Limington. Joseph, b. Dec. 24, 1768, m. Fanny Silla, May 12, 1788 ; 2d, Hannah Bolton. Lydia, b. Mar. 16, 1770, m. Joseph Morton, Nov. 22, 1789.
Ebenezer, b. Jan. 3, 1773, m. Jenny Freeman, Nov. 12, 1794. Bathshuah, b. Dec. 3, 1776, m. Elisha Morton, Feb. 18, 1796. Richard, b. June 3, 1782, m. Eunice Sawyer; was a Methodist preacher. Simon, b. Aug. 11, 1784, I'd on his father's place; d. unm. May 9, 1843. Sarah, b. June 28, 1789, m. Simeon Libby, Mar. 25, 1810.
Col. Richard Lombard died Oct. 21, 1825, and was buried in the old Fort Hill yard. His wife died Sept. 18, 1823, aged 83.
(2) Calvin Lombard, son of Solomon, lived on the farm where his father had lived, and which he left to him in his will. He was a very impulsive man, caring little for consequences. At the time when Col. Phinney's regiment was called into Falmouth, in consequence of Capt. Mowatt's ship being in the harbor and about to burn the town, Lombard accompanied his neighbors, the Gorham men, as a volun- teer. The ship lay some distance from the landing - Lombard had what he thought to be an extraordinarily good gun, and wished to try it. Accordingly, getting as near the landing as he could con- veniently, and not be seen by those on the ship, and screening himself behind a hogshead, he let go from thence at the sentry as he passed the gangway, and the ball hit directly at the feet of the man, in the side of the ship. Some of the officers reached over and with a knife took the ball from the place where it hit; and in a few min- utes the ship was worked to a safer distance. It is said that Lombard afterwards served in the regular army. He married Martha Grant of Berwick, and their children were :
Polly, b. Aug. 4, 1768, m. Nelson Fogg, June 3, 1790. Martha, b. Dec. 4, 1769, m. Edmund Flood, Aug. 10, 1788. Luther, b. Jan. 24, 177 I, m. Mary Plummer, Jan. 10, 1793. (Monmonth.)
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Dorcas, b. Apr. 7, 1772, m. Jeremiah Fogg, Jr., Dec. 24, 1794 ; d. May 11, 1802,
Rachel, b. Aug. 5, 1773, m. Stephen Hopkinson of Buxton.
Wentworth, b. Oct., 1776, m. - - Moody of Cape Elizabeth ; I'd in Wales.
Hezekiah, b. Feb. 12, 1779, m. - McLucas.
Salome, b. Oct. 18, 1780, m. Joshua McKenney of Limington.
Mr. Lombard moved to Limington, where his wife Martha died, and he married Mary Walker, by whom he had :
Calvin, b. Ang. 21, 1799, m. Eunice Chapman of Limington, Apr. 13, 1824 ; d. in Baldwin, Dec. 13, 1871.
Eliza M., b. Dec. 18, 1803, m. Samuel Huntress ; I'd in Limington.
Calvin Lombard died in Limington in 1808, and Mary, his wife, in 1834, also in Limington.
(3) Jedediah Lombard, Jr., son of Jedediah, lived in Gorham until about the year 1800, when he moved to Standish Neck. He served for seven years in the Revolutionary army. He was a member of Capt. Richard Mayberry's company, in Col. Tupper's regiment, in 1778. In 1781 he was a member of Capt. Whitmore's militia com- pany. Mr. Lombard was also a soldier in the War of 1812. He married Lydia, daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia Rand. Children :
Marcy, b. Apr. 27, 1786, m. Jeremiah McLucas, p. July 8, 1809 ; d. in 1874. Nathaniel, b. June 24, 1788, m. - -- McLucas; d. on Raymond Cape. Betsey, b. Aug. 13, 1796, m. Ebenezer Meserve, Dec. 29, 1824; I'd in Standish. Hezekiah, b. , m. Mrs. Witham.
John, b. -, m. Sally Welch or Witham ; d. in Raymond.
Polly, b. -, m. Wm. Knight, Nov. 27, 1822; d. on Standish Neck.
Sargent, b. - , 1803, m. Eunice West; I'd in Standish, near the lake; d. Nov. 11, 1876.
William, b. - , 1806, m. Sally Cole; I'd at "Richville," in Standish ; d. in 1868.
Esther, b. , d. unm.
Sally, b. -, d. unm.
Jedediah Lombard, Jr., died in Standish, March 16, 1842, aged 82, and his wife Lydia, Jan. 13, 1830, aged 61.
(3) James Lombard, son of Solomon, Jr., married Bethiah, daughter of Hezekiah Smith. He lived on the hundred acre lot, 19, which he bought of his father-in-law, Smith, in 1796, and is now known as the old Weeks farm. Children .
Polly S., b. July 6, 1793, m. Elijah C. Wingate, July 14, 18II.
Richard, b. Mar. 20, 1795, m. Temperance L. Hamblen, Mar. 17, 1818.
James, b. Dec. 2, 1796, m. - - - Snell; was a doctor ; d. in the West.
Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1798, d. Feb. 16, 1815.
Peter, b. Mar. 4, 1801, m. Harriet (Florida.)
Sukey, b. Apr. 11, 1803, m. Solomon Baker, p. Apr. 20, 1822.
Samuel, b. May 11, 1807, m. Harriet Huston.
James Lombard died Sept. 18, 1808, aged 40, and Mrs. Lombard married, Dec. 13, 1808, Robert Weeks.
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(3) Ephraim Lombard, son of Solomon, Jr., lived on the hundred acre lot No. 9, where John E. Meserve now lives. He married Polly, the daughter of John and Lois (Hadaway) Perkins. Children :
James H., b. Ang. 7, 1795, d. May, 1796.
Lncy P., b. Dec. 2, 1796, m. James Nason of Standish, Mar. 24, 1829.
Solomon, b. Feb. 23. 1798, m. Sarah Wescott, Mar. 30, 1823; I'd in Standish. Eliza, b. Feb. 22, 1800, m. Daniel Knowlton of Angusta.
Louisa, b. -, m. Piper. Susanna, b. Jan. 31, 1802, d. Feb., 1802. Bethiah, b. July 18, 1803, [ d. yonng.
Polly,
m. Ebenezer Hawkes of Windham, Dec. 30, 1824.
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Mrs. Polly Lombard died July 18, 1803, aged 29, and Mr. Lombard married Mrs. Jane (Norton) Larrabee of Bluehill, (pub. Sept. 1, 1804,) by whom he had :
Sophronia, b. May 8, 1807, m. Richard Dunn ; went to Fredericktown, N. B. Ephraim, b. Sept. 17, 1808, went to sea - U. S. N.
Josephine, b. Apr. 29, 1810, m Dennis Harmon.
Margaret, b. Jan. 23, 1812, m. Francis Beverly ; went to Fredericktown, N. B. James, b. Apr. 23, 1814, m. Mrs. Stevens; d. at Mobile, Ala.
Octavia, b. Jan. 21, 1816, m. Charles Watts of New Brunswick.
Stephen, b. June 2, 1819, went to sea; d. in .Miss.
Olive, b. Sept. 8, 1821, m. Daniel Merrill ; d. July 26, 1846.
Rosalia B., b. Ang. 27, 1823, m. Samuel Libby, 3d, Dec. 7, 1843.
Ephraim Lombard died July 23, 1843 ; his wife Jane died March 23, 1859, aged 82.
(3) Samuel Lombard, son of Solomon, Jr., was a soldier in the War of 1812. In October, 1813, he was a teamster under Col. Eustice, from Chesterton to Burlington, Vt. He married Charity, daughter of Daniel and Dorcas Merrill. Children :
Alvin, b. May 17, 1811, d. Dec. 16, 1890, unm.
Lydia, b. June 19, 1813, m. George Knight, Jan. 7, 1831.
Adeline, b. Oct. 28, 1816, m. John Hodgdon, June 2, 1844.
Susanna, b. May 5, 1818, d. July, 1820.
Lewis, b. Dec. 31, 1819, I'd on his father's place; d. Nov. 18, 1902.
Susanna, b. Dec. 19, 1821, m. Isaac Harmon, May 24, 1843; d. in Canton, Me., Apr. 16, 1895.
Martha A., b. Oct. 6, 1823, m. Reuben Wescott, Nov. 14, 1847.
Almira, b. Apr. 3, 1826, m. Jeremiah T. McQuillan, Jan. 31, 1854.
Mr. Lombard lived on South St., a mile and three-quarters from the village, on the farm which had been his father's. He built the house since owned and occupied by his son Lewis. His wife Charity died Jan. 13, 1830, aged 39. April 8, 1832, he married Martha, daughter of Jeremiah Towle. Samuel Lombard died July 19, 1863, and his wife Martha, Nov. 23, 1872, aged 74.
(3) John Lombard, son of Richard, married Elizabeth Sawyer of Otisfield, daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Martha Sawyer. Children :
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Hannah, b. Sept. 8, 1785, m. Geo. Keyes, and 2d, David Silla.
Lydia,
Martha, b. June 24, 1787, m. Green.
Abraham L., b. Feb. 2, 1790, d. at Megalloway.
Salome, b. Mar. 11, 1793.
Elizabeth, b. Mar. 14, 1795, m.
Stubbs ; 2d, Thing Moore; moved to
Wisconsin ; d. Apr., 1823.
Mary, b. June 6, 1797.
Richard, b. May 31, 1799, m. - Gallison.
Deliverance, b. May 10, 1802.
Sarah, b. June 14, 1807, d. Feb. 27, 1808.
John, b. May 2, 1810, d. Apr. 28, 1811.
John Lombard died in Otisfield in 1853, aged 89 years.
(3) Joseph Lombard, son of Richard, married Fanny, daughter of William and Anna Silla. Children :
Nancy, b. Oct. 6, 1788, m. Joseph Stuart, p. Nov. 2, 1805.
Lydia, b. - -- , m. Hezekiah Green of Otisfield, July 18, 1807.
Joseph, b. , m. Mary Peabody ; was a joiner; I'd in Otisfield.
Mr. Lombard married, July 11, 1795, Mrs. Hannah Bolton, widow of Thomas Bolton, and daughter of Lieut. Joshua and Hannah Crockett. Children :
Sewell, b. I'd in Portland.
Harry, b. - , m. Tabitha, dan. of Ebenezer Lombard, Feb. 24, 1820. Ch : Martha A .; Joseph, was a carpenter; Ellen; Albert; Eunice; Wm. H. P., was a hatter in Portland; Betsey, d. y. Henry Lombard d. Apr. 3, 1837, and his widow m. Nov. 20, 1842, Levi Bragdon, and I'd in Saco or Biddeford. She d. Ang. 3, 1865.
Betsey, b. Jan. 6, 1801, m. Morris Irish, Apr. 23, 1823.
This family moved to Otisfield. Mrs. Hannah Lombard died Dec. 28, 1843, aged 83.
(3) Ebenezer Lombard, son of Richard, was a Methodist minister. He was the first Methodist class-leader in Gorham. He lived near Winship's corner, on the place where Geo. Libby now lives. He married Jenny, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Freeman. Children :
Tabitha, b. Apr. 15, 1795, m. Henry Lombard, Feb. 24, 1820; 2d, Levi Bragdon.
Mary, b. Feb. 7, 1797, m. John Craigue, Jr., of Windham, p. June 20, 1817.
Lydia, b. Jan. 6, 1799, m. Adams Whitney of Standish, June 3, 1816. Eunice, b. June 20, 1801, m. Joseph Libby, Jr., Oct. 5, 1823.
Jane, b. July 24, 1803, m. John Walker, Apr. 22, 1821.
Alfred, b. July 29, 1805, m. Eleanor Gilpatrick, June 4, 1826. Ch: Sarah J., b. Apr. 23, 1827 ; Harriet, b. May 22, 1828, d. July 18, 1832; Robert A., b. May 6, 1830; Andrew S., b. June 15, 1832; Martha. b. Apr. 14, 1834, d. y. Alfred Lombard d. July 14, 1837, and his wife, Apr. 22, 1834, ag. 27.
Harriet, b. July 31, 1807, m. Andrew Sawyer of Oldtown.
Anna, b. Oct. 31, 1809, m. Wentworth Files of Portland, p. Mar. 25, 1837.
Benjamin F., b. Feb. 11, 1812, d. in Alabama.
James L., b. Mar. 2, 1814, m. Abigail Lunt ; d. in California.
David F., b. May 12, 1816, m. Joanna Senate, p. 1840 ; 2d, Miss Varrell ; 3d, Mrs. Cynthia (Floyd) Thompson.
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Simon H., b. Nov. 4, 1817, m. Maria, dau. of Nath'l and Lucy Phinney, Sept. 22, 1839. Ch: Ebenezer, m. Mary Read; Eliza, m. Almon Files ; Angela, m. Gardner Haines; Viola, m. Albert O. Hill; Lucy, m. Edwin Nichols, 2d, Sallust Field; Lucius, d. y. Mr. Lombard I'd in Sebago, from which place he moved to Gorham, where he and his wife d. at Little Falls, he Mar. 18, 1885, and she, Jan. 5, 1898.
Rev. Ebenezer Lombard died in Sebago. Both he and his wife are buried in the graveyard at " the North."
(4) Richard Lombard, son of James, lived on the farm near the Buxton line, where Mr. Holt now lives. He afterwards moved to the village and built a house on State St. He was a blacksmith. His wife was Temperance, daughter of Samuel, Jr., and Molly Hamblen. Children :
William H., b. Apr. 9, 1819, m. Mary R., dau. of John R. and Sally Clay, Feb. 22, 1843. Ch: Margaret L., b. Nov. 22, 1843, m. Charles Alexander, d. about 1888; Ellen, b. Sept. 27, 1847, d. y. ; William H., b. Jan. IO, 1852, m. Lydia A. Barrett. Mrs. Mary Lombard, d. July 19, 1862, ag. 39, and Mr. Lombard m. Nov. 6, 1863. Adeline M. Beane. He is a machinist and blacksmith and I's on the Saco road.
Mary Ann, b. Dec. 17, 1820, d. young.
Harriet, b. Apr. 17, 1822, m. John Murray.
Stephen, b. June 5, 1824, m. Mary A. Beckford of Saco ; I'd in Saco ; d. in 1866. Albert, b. Dec. 25, 1827, m. Sarah Silla of Saco, 1846. Ch: James, b. Dec. 24, 1846, m. Eunice Whitney ; Mary Ann, b. Dec. 20, 1848, m. Edwin S. Harding ; Francis A., b. June 1, 1850, m. Jennie Small, d. in Portland ; Georgietta, b. June 27, 1851, d. y. ; Sarah E., b. Nov. 27, 1854, m. John Curtis, 2d, Eugene Davis ; Jessie, d. y. ; Charles O., b. 1861, d. July 14, 1880. Albert Lombard d. Mar. 26, 1887, and his wife, Mar. 29, 1887, ag. 60. He was a blacksmith, and I'd at Gorham village.
Jeanette, b. June 29, 1829, m. Leander Graffam.
Eliza, b. July 29, 1831, m. David L. Taylor.
Hannah M., b. Mar. 11, 1835, m. Richard Ingham ; I'd in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mary E., b Apr. 17, 1837, m. Ai Libby, Feb. 27, 1868; d. in Gorham, Dec. 17, 1869.
Caroline P., b. 1839, m. Jacob Warren Libby, Sept. 2, 1856.
Georgiana J., b. May 9, 1842, d. unm., July, 1868.
Mrs. Temperance Lombard died Nov. 21, 1864, aged 70, and Mr. Lombard married Mrs. Sarah (Spencer) (Merrill) Plowman. She died in March, 1880, and he died Sept. 30, 1880.
Nathaniel Lombard lived in town before the Revolution. He owned no land, but settled back of Waterhouse's, probably on the hundred acre lot, 57, or thereabouts. He served in the Revolution- ary army ; a member of Capt. Williams' company in 1775, and in 1778, a corporal in Capt. Mayberry's company. He married, June 7, 1783, Ruth, daughter of Daniel and Dilla Hamblen of Gorham, by whom he had the following children recorded in Gorham : Abigail, born April 20, 1784 ; Nathaniel, born January 8, 1786. The family lived at one time on the Worcester place. They finally moved to Otisfield.
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There was a Caleb Lombard who lived in Gorham in 1776, when he enlisted in Capt. Mayberry's company for three years. He seems to have left town about 1782, when his name disappears from the tax lists, going to Turner, where he died April 19, 1833. He had a wife named Hannah, but we have no record of a family.
John Lombard, with his wife and family, came to Gorham from Barnstable. He settled on the Flaggy Meadow road. Lombard was a seafaring man, and served in the navy during the Revolution- ary war. We have no record of his children, but there are said to have been :
John, m. Priscilla Harding, Aug. 13, 1780.
Thomas, m. Hannah Linnell of Pearsonstown, Dec. 15, 1785.
Sarah, m. Thomas Thomes, Dec. 23, 1779.
Butler, m. Jemima Clay, Aug. 9, 1787.
Hannah, m. Joshua Harding.
Susan, m. Samuel Harding.
(2) John Lombard, Jr., son of John, married Priscilla, the daughter of Zephaniah and Mary Harding. Children :
Joseph, b. Mar. 15, 1781, d. unm., Feb. 26, 1862.
Polly, b. Feb. 11, 1784, d. unm., June, 1822.
John, b. Aug. 26, 1786, d. at sea, unm., probably July 3, 1813.
Samuel, b. May 14, 1789, m. Eleanor Murch of Buxton, Oct. 21, 1813; d. at sea, Sept., 1816.
James, b. Aug. 11, 1791, d. unm., May 18, 1841.
Sally, b. June 17, 1794, d. unm., Apr. 19, 1852.
Edmund, b. June 20, 1796, d. June 20, 1797.
Edmund, b. Feb. 16, 1799, m. Sally W. Davis, June 21, 1821.
Harding, b. June, 1802, d. Nov. 28, 1874.
John Lombard died May 24, 1844, and his wife Priscilla, March 21, 1837, aged 76.
(2) Butler Lombard was probably the son of John Lombard. He lived on the Edmund Lombard lot on Flaggy Meadow road. He was a member of Capt. Williams' company, Col. Phinney's regiment, in 1775, and in 1778 of Capt. Mayberry's company, Col. Tupper's regi- ment. He married Jemima Clay, a sister of Molly Clay, who married Samuel Hamblen, Jr. Children :
Molly, b. Dec 4, 1787. Anna, b. Sept. 25, 1789.
(3) Edmund Lombard, son of John, Jr., lived on the northern side of the Flaggy Meadow road. His house, which is now gone, stood a little west of where the new house built by Mr. . Talbot stands. He married Sally W. Davis of Buxton, and their children were :
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Simon, b. Aug. 8, 1822, d. June 26, 1826.
Mary, b. Apr. 8, 1824, m. Joseph Knight ; d. in Cal.
Lucy, b. Jan. 20, 1826, m. James Hutchins.
Rebecca. b. Oct. 22, 1827, m. Jacob Howe ; I'd in Malden.
Caroline, b. - , m. Elias Gould.
Louisa, b. , d. when 18 years old.
Maria, b. -, d. when 16 years old.
Blanchard, b. , m. Martha Perkins; I'd in Biddeford.
Cornelia, b. July, 1839, m. Samuel Farnsworth Bacon.
Asa Frank, b. May 2, 1845, d. Jan. 17, 1850.
Edmund Lombard died December 17, 1867, aged 68. Mrs. Lom- bard died about 1880.
LONGFELLOW.
Stephen Longfellow, the first of the name in Gorham, moved here from Portland when that town was destroyed by Mowatt in 1775. Mr. Longfellow's house, which stood on Fore St., east of India, was burned at that time. He was the son of Stephen, and grandson of William Longfellow, a native of Hampshire, England, the first of the name in New England, who married Anne Sewall in 1678, and was a merchant in Byfield, Mass.
Stephen Longfellow, born in Byfield, Feb. 7, 1723, was a grad- uate of Harvard, class of 1742. He came to Portland in 1745, and was master of the Grammar School, and the principal instructor in town for some years. He held many important and honorable offices in Portland. He was town clerk for twenty-two years; clerk of the first parish for twenty-three years ; clerk of the Proprietors of Com- mon Lands for many years, and was the first to hold the offices of Clerk of the Judicial Courts, and Register of Probate for this County, which offices he held for sixteen years. Mr. Willis says: " His handwriting, in beautiful characters symbolical of the purity and excellence of his own moral character, is impressed on all the records of the town and county through many successive years." He married Tabitha Bragdon of York, Oct. 1, 1749. Children :
Stephen, b. Aug. 13, 1750, m. Patience Young, Dec. 13, 1773.
Tabitha, b. 1752, m. Capt. John Stephenson, in 17.71.
Samuel, b. -, d. on Long Island, N. Y., about 1780-1 ; left no children.
William, b - -, d. young.
Abigail, b. Feb. 3, 1756, d. young.
Mr. Longfellow died in Gorham May 1, 1790, aged 67, and his wife Tabitha, Jan. 10, 1777, aged 54 years.
(2) Stephen Longfellow, son of Stephen, came here with his father about 1775. He was one of the leading citizens of Gorham ; a man highly honored and esteemed. He held many town offices ; was
INDIAN CAMP BROOK, SHOWING ALSO THE JUDGE LONGFELLOW HOMESTEAD.
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selectman for several years; Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts eight years; also Senator under Massachusetts. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1798 to 1811. He owned and occupied the farm where Alpheus S. Boothby now lives, which at that time included also the Stephenson farm, which Judge Longfellow gave to his daughter, Mrs. Stephenson, about 1812-14. The rows of fine elms which border this farm, and are still known as the "Longfellow elms," were planted, a hundred years ago, under Judge Longfellow's directions, and at his expense ; he paying his hired men nine-pence (twelve and a half cents) above their wages, for every tree which they would set out, outside of their work- ing hours. Mr. Longfellow married Patience Young of York. Their children were :
Tabitha, b. Oct. 9, 1774, m. Lothrop Lewis, Jan. 20, 1794; d. Apr. 15, 1807. Stephen, b. Mar. 23, 1776, m. Zilpha Wadsworth of Hiram.
Abigail, b. Jan. 18, 1779, m. Col. Samuel Stephenson, Oct. 18, 1801.
Anna, b. Nov. 26, 1781, d. Dec. 7, 1817.
Catherine, b. Aug. 20, 1786, d. July 5, 1804.
Samuel, b. July 30, 1789, m. Sophia Storer of Saco, 1816.
Hon. Stephen Longfellow died May 28, 1824. Mrs. Patience Longfellow died Aug. 12, 1830.
(3) Stephen Longfellow, son of Hon. Stephen, entered Harvard College at the age of eighteen, and graduated in the class of 1798. He was admitted to the Bar in 1801, and practiced law in Portland for many years, and attained great eminence in his profession. He was distinguished not only for his legal acquirements, but for his probity and uprightness, and was often called upon to exercise important trusts. He was a member of the Hartford Convention in 1814; and later was elected Member of Congress. In 1828 he received from Bowdoin the degree of LL. D. He married, in 1804, Zilpha, the daughter of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth. They were the parents of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that most famous of Amer- ican poets, whose sweet songs are known and read in every corner of the civilized world.
Stephen Longfellow died Aug. 3, 1849, in Portland.
(3) Samuel, son of Hon. Stephen Longfellow, spent quite a por- tion of his life at sea, as a captain in the merchant service. He married Sophia Storer of Saco, and after his marriage lived with his father at the old homestead. He died there, Oct. 13, 1818, leaving a widow, and one child, Ann Sophia. In 1824 Mrs. Longfellow mar- ried Judge Asa Redington of Waterville; a former Principal of Gorham Academy.
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
LORD.
Nahum and James Lord, with their sister Anne, came from Berwick. They were the children of Jeremiah and Grizzel (Grant) Lord, and were the nephews and niece of Mrs. Calvin Lombard. Nahum Lord was born March 1, 1778. He came to Gorham in 1797, where he learned the tailor's trade. He lived on the farm where M. C. Burnell now lives, about a mile and a half south of Gorham village. This farm was settled by George Waterhouse, whose daughter, Charlotte, Nahum Lord married July 11, 1802. Mr. Lord built the house now standing on the place. His name appears on the roll of Capt. Robie's company, on duty in Portland in 1814. He removed with his family to Chandlersville, now Detroit, Me., Oct. 31, 1830. All his children, except the youngest, were born in Gorham. They were :
George W., b. Dec. 5, 1802, m. Ann Bickford of Falmouth ; no ch ; was a sailor for some y'rs, but becoming crippled by an accident on a voyage, left the sea, and followed shoemaking at Coal Kiln Corner; d. Dec. 15, 1833 ; his wife, in Kennebunk, Nov., 1880.
Jeremiah, b. Dec. 11, 1804, m. Sarah Purinton, Mar. 27, 1831.
Infant, b. July 1, 1807, d. young.
Joseph W., b. Dec. 20, 1808, m. Mary C. Hodgdon ; 2d, Sybil Brackett; d. Nov. 30, 1881.
Infant, b. May 15, 1811, d. young.
Mary Ann, b. Sept. 7, 1813, d. young.
Nahum, b. Apr. 25, 1815, d. Oct. 19, 1834.
Harriet B., b. July 4, 1817, m. James Lord, Nov. 24, 1836.
Martha A., b. May 13, 18 20, d. Jan. 11, 1835.
Leonard, b. June 1, 1822, m. Ellen Crosby, Jan. 9, 1855.
Major, b. Oct. 12, 1824, m. Susan McNalley, Sept. 14, 1847 ; d. in Clinton, Feb. 13, 1881. F
James, b. Apr. 13, 1829, d. Nov. 25, 1834.
Alvin L., b. June 8, 1831, drowned in Detroit, Sept. 19, 1833.
Nahum Lord died Oct. 26, 1846. His wife died March 12, 1870, aged 86.
James Lord, brother to Nahum, was born in 1782, and came to Gorham about the year 1800. He later resided in Readfield, Hal- lowell and Wiscasset, Me. He built a house and mill in Detroit, and at one time kept a hotel in Stillwater. He married Abigail, daugh- ter of Ephraim and Abigail Hunt (pub. Feb. 18, 1804). Children :
Mary Ann, b. 1805, m. Hubbard Nichols.
Nancy, b. 1806, m. William Ross.
Gracey, b. 1807, m. John Holbrook.
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