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Edward,.b. Apr. 8, 1821, m. Susan E. Jameson; pastor of Cong. church in Greenland, N. H., for more than fifty years.
Lucinda A., b. Nov. 1, 1822, d. Aug. 13, 1832. Thomas S., b. Dec. 22, 1826, d. July 31, 1832.
Benjamin A., b. July 1, 1828, d. Sept. 13, 1832. Joseph Adams, b. Jan. 9, 1830, d. July 31, 1832.
Catherine P., b. Apr. 19, 1831, d. Dec. 11, 1834.
Lucinda E., b. Feb. 8, 1833, I's with her brother Edward.
Thomas S., b. Sept. 21, 1834, m. Virginia D. Pendleton, Sept. 21, 1859; is a clergyman.
Benjamin A., b. Sept. 9, 1836, m. Lucy Wiggin ; was a clergyman ; d. 1900.
Dea. Thomas S. Robie died Oct. 22, 1838, aged 47, and his wife Clarissa, July 27, 1860, aged 68.
(2) Francis B. Robie, son of Toppan, fitted for college at Gorham Academy, and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1829. He studied
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medicine with Dr. Gilman of Portland, and received a diploma from Bowdoin Medical School. He lost his eyesight, Oct. 11, 1833, by the explosion of a bottle of fulminating powder which he was holding in his hand. He married Martha L. Prince. Children :
Toppan, b. Mar. 17, 1839, m. Abbie Inez Gardiner of Hallowell, Nov. 12, 1863; d. in Woburn, Mass., Jan. 30, 1875.
George F., b. Mar. 20, 1844, m. Susan E. Farwell of Hyde Park, Mass., Feb. II, 1872.
Silvanus P., b. Aug. 25, 1848, m. Lena M. Smith of Lewiston, Nov. 25, 1875.
Francis B. Robie died Oct. 8, 1876, aged 67. His wife died Jan. 12, 1886, aged 73.
(2) Charles Robie, son of Toppan, married Emily, daughter of Col. James and Sally March. At the time of his marriage he was a trader in Harrison .. He afterwards returned to his native town and lived in Gorham for some years on the farm now owned by Marshall Sturgis. He then removed to the brick house on State St., now owned by his niece Miss Sarah Robie, and kept store for a time in the building lately occupied by Roscoe G. Harding. Children :
Charles T., b. 1836, d. . Oct. 5. 1853.
Eliza, b. June 28, 1841, d. Sept. 23, 1852.
Lincoln, b. Oct. 3, 1842, was a soldier in the Civil War ; d. in 1867.
Charles Robie died Dec. 21, 1886, aged 74. His wife, Emily, died Oct. 11, 1893, aged 79.
(2) George Robie, son of Toppan, was for some years a teacher in the South. He afterwards returned to Gorham and engaged in trade with Joseph Ridlon. About 1852 he moved to Portland, and went into the dry goods business with Jose and Marrett, under the firm name of Jose, Marrett & Robie. He married in Madison, Flor- ida, Frances Barrett of Troy, N. Y. Children :
Georgia A., b. in Troupville, Ga., d. in 1859; ag. 17.
Sarah L., b. in Gorham.
Prescott, b. in Gorham, d. in 1862; ag. 17.
George T., b. in Gorham, d. Sept. 19, 1850.
Chester, b. in Gorham, m. Ella Randolph of Pittsburg, Pa .; d. July, 1893.
Mrs. Frances Robie died Jan. 25, 1854, and Mr. Robie married, Aug. 3, 1854, her cousin Mary Palmer of Stillwater, N. Y. Mr. Robie died in Gorham, Dec. 2, 1856.
(2) Frederick, son of Toppan Robie, fitted for college at Gorham Academy, and was graduated at Bowdoin in the class of 1841. After teaching for a time in Georgia and Florida he decided to study medi- cine, and entered Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in 1844. In April, 1844, he
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opened an office in Biddeford, where he remained eleven years. He then removed to Waldoboro in which town he practiced successfully for three years at the end of which time he returned to his native town. At the beginning of the War of the Rebellion he was appointed addi- tional Paymaster by President Lincoln. He was stationed at Boston in 1863 as chief paymaster of the Department of New England. In 1864 he was transferred to the Department of the Gulf at New Orleans. At the end of the war he returned to Maine where he had charge of the paying off of the Maine soldiers. His efficient services at that time earned for him the honor of being the first Maine pay- master to receive the brevet of Lieut. Col. He was honorably mustered out July 20, 1866. He was a member of the Maine Senate in 1866 and 1867. He was also appointed in 1866 by William Pitt Fessenden as special agent of the Treasury Department in which capacity he served two years. From 1868 to 1873 he was a member of the Republican State Committee. He was a member of the House of Representatives eight years, and Speaker of the House in 1872 and 1876. He was a member of Gov. Washburn's Executive Coun- cil in 1861, of that of Gov. Davis in 1880, and of that of Gov. Plaisted in 1881 and 1882. The establishment of the State Normal School at Gorham was largely due to his influence while in the Legislature. In 1878 he was one of the Committee to the Paris Exposition, and travelled extensively in Europe. In 1882 he was chosen Worthy Master of the State Grange, and was its chief officer for eight years. In the fall of 1882 he was elected Governor of the State by a large majority ; and was reelected in 1884 by a majority still larger. He was in office from January, 1883 to 1887, and was one of the most efficient and popular chief magistrates the State has ever had. He has been for many years a director of the Portland and Rochester R. R. Company ; also a director of the First Nat. Bank of Portland, of which he is now president. In 1885 he was president of the Eastern Telegraph Co .; and a director of the Financial Committee of the Mutual Life Insurance Co., and at one time business manager of the Portland Press Publishing Co. He was State Commander of the G. A. R. for 1899. He married Mary Olivia Priest of Biddeford. Children :
Harriet, b. Sept. 3, 1848, m. Clark Barker.
Mary F., b. Mar. 3, 1852, m. George F. McQuillan.
Eliza, b. Feb., 1856, d. Sept. 3, 1863.
William P. F., b. Nov. 5, 1863, m. Flora Barton of Cherryfield.
Mrs. Robie died Nov. 5, 1898, aged 70 years, and Mr. Robie mar- ried, Jan. 10, 1900, Martha E. Cressey.
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ROLFE.
We find the name of Rolfe quite early in the history of the town. Daniel Rolfe lived on Queen street, near the brook, easterly from the Moses Fogg farm. His house was on the thirty acre lot, 82, which, with 84, comprised his farm and homestead. This land he bought of Gov. Shirley, and on April 16, 1760, sold to Joseph Libby of Gorham. He also purchased, in 1750, of Bryant Morton, the hundred acre lot, No. 94, which lot he sold in 1764 to William Wood for £130-6s-8d. Of his family we can find no record, other than that he had a wife Elizabeth.
Moses Rolfe lived in Gorham at one time. He married, Nov. 12, 1759, Abigail Jones of Gorham. By Mr. Alden's diary we find that she died Jan. 24, 1763.
The Rolfes now in town are descended from Capt. Benjamin Rolfe, whose father came over from France with Lafayette. After the Rev- olution he settled in Portland. Capt. Benjamin Rolfe was born in Portland, Jan. 18, 1780. He was a sea captain, and had his home in Portland. He owned a farm in Gorham on Horse Meadow road above Fort Hill (where Vincent Hanson lately lived) where he was fond of spending some of his time when on shore. He married, June 7, 1804, Rebecca Williams of Portland, by whom he had seven children. In 1813 he moved to Gorham, where he lived until 1818, when the family moved back to Portland. Children :
Eliza Ann, b. Mar. 26, 1806. Rebecca, b. June 26, 1807.
Joseph, b. Feb. 27, 1809: Benjamin, b. June 26, 181 1.
Daniel, b. in Gorham, July 7, 1813.
William, b. in Gorham, Oct. 26, 1814.
Dudley, b. in Gorham, Apr. 24, 1816, d. July 27, 1816.
Mrs. Rebecca Rolfe died May 26, 1816, aged 32, and Capt. Rolfe married, Oct. 20, 1816, Nancy, daughter of Thomas Bangs of Gor- ham, by whom he had one child :
David F., b. July 25, 1817, m. Elizabeth Buzzell; 2d, Kate B. Eastman.
Capt. Rolfe died Aug. 6, 1818. Mrs. Nancy Rolfe died Nov. 6, 1824.
ROSS AND TYNG.
After the conclusion of the Indian war of 1744, Capt. Alexander Ross came to Portland. He brought his family Nov. 23, 1753. He had but one child, Elizabeth, who was born in South Ronaldsha, one of the Orkney Islands, about 1751, and afterwards married Col. Tyng. They came from Stroma, in Scotland. Capt. Ross carried
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on a large business, and was thought to be one of the most wealthy men in Falmouth. He was a large proprietor in Gorhamtown. We find his name as early as 1756 in a call for a Proprietors' meeting. Capt. Ross was never a resident of Gorham. He died in Portland, Nov. 24, 1768, aged 59. After his death his widow, Madam Elizabeth
ELIZABETH (ROSS) TYNG. AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN. -From Portland in the Past.
Ross lived some years in Portland. On the breaking out of the war of the Revolution she built a house - at that time thought to be one of the most elegant country mansions in the State - on a part of her late husband's Gorham property, into which she moved with her daughter Mrs. Tyng, soon after the commencement of the war. This house, which was on what is called the old Tyng place, on the road
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from Gorham village to Saccarappa, near the eastern line of the town, was completed about 1781, and was destroyed by fire in June, 1808. Afterwards, Mrs. Tyng had the present house much in the style of the old one erected on the old foundations. We find many deeds on record from Madam Elizabeth Ross showing that the family
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had a large landed interest here in town. Madam Ross died at her house in Gorham, March 1, 1798, aged 80.
Col. Tyng who married the daughter Elizabeth, Nov. 3, 1769, was born in Boston in 1737, where he resided many years, doing business as a merchant. He was a descendant from George Cleves, the first settler in Portland. Maine being under the government of Massa-
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chusetts, he received the appointment of sheriff for the County of Cumberland in 1767, and soon after made Portland his home. Col. Tyng was a decided royalist, not because he did not love his native country, but from an honest conviction in his mind that the American people were wrong ; that they were rebels against one of the best of kings and against a nation that would ultimately crush them, and that their fate would be that of traitors and rebels. In 1774 he received a commission as colonel, from Gen. Gage, the royal Gover- nor of Massachusetts. Finding his situation unpleasant, and being denounced as a tory, he went to New York, then under the English, leaving his wife with her mother, Madam Ross. In May, 1775, while Col. Tyng was in New York, Capt. Mowatt went to Portland with his armed ship, and while walking on the hill with his surgeon and the Rev. Mr. Wiswall, all three were made prisoners. For fear that there might be a rescue all the fighting men from the neighboring towns came into town, and among them Col. Phinney and his Gorham men. The next morning they were much exasperated on finding that the prisoners had been liberated on their parole of honor. This, with the great quantity of spirits both good and bad going about, made the troops rather demoralized, and their conduct rather disorderly. Among other excesses several houses and places of business belong- ing to the disaffected, or tories as they were called, were broken into and rifled of valuable property. Amongst others, the houses of Capt. Coulson and Col. Tyng were rifled of their family plate. Coulson's loss was about £141-1-1, that of Tyng £50-o-o. These articles were carried to Gorham by Phinney's men, and secreted. There was at the time some trouble in finding the goods, which was finally accomplished, and they were delivered to the proper authorities. There was great excitement in town about this property. Several town meetings were held. Mrs. Ross claiming that taken from the house of Tyng as being her property, and she not being attainted as a rebel, the Tyng plate was returned to her, by order of Congress. Among her property was a silver cup, silver tankard and gold-laced hat. A silver tankard, supposed to be the same mentioned above, is now in the possession of the Burton family, having descended through the Ross family. This tankard was in the possession of Mr. Merrill Burton, late president of the Portland Savings Bank, at the time of his decease.
Col. Tyng, as has been said, removed to New York during the war. Though a confirmed tory, he was nevertheless kind and benevolent toward the American prisoners confined in the prisons and prison-
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ships. He often visited them and administered to their wants by lending them money and giving them food and clothing. He looked more particularly after those from Portland, Gorham and the vicinity. Many a Gorham man received his bounty with grateful heart, and never forgot him ; and by them at least, he was kindly received and respected when he returned to Gorham. Col. Tyng did not return to Gorham immediately after the close of the war. He was appointed Judge of the Courts in Nova Scotia, where he went with his family ; Madam Ross remaining to take care of the property. By reference to an Act of the General Court of Massachusetts to prevent the return of certain persons to the State, who left to join the enemy (1785), the name of William Tyng is found, whereby he was thus prevented from returning and all his estate was confiscated. As to property this did not have much effect, as Madam Ross claimed and was allowed to hold about all that belonged to the family.
A story was told of Col. Phinney and Col. Tyng - of their first meeting after Tyng's return, on Sunday in front of the old meeting- house. Tyng offered his hand to Phinney, who turning on his heel muttered (in the hearing of some twenty of the good citizens who had been watching to see the interview) that he would not take the hand of a tory. At this all within hearing rushed up to Tyng, extending their hands, and greeted him pleasantly. This seemed to please Tyng more than it did Phinney, for he immediately disap- peared into the meeting-house, and probably enjoyed the sermon. However they afterward became reconciled, and were passable friends during after life.
Mrs. Ross and Col. Tyng owned several slaves, some of whom continued in the service of Mrs. Tyng several years after their liber- tion by the Act of Massachusetts. Col. Tyng was the first person who brought a four-wheeled pleasure carriage into Gorham. It was a lumbering old affair compared to the present but a big thing in its day, with two horses, and a colored man in livery for a driver; the wonder of the young, and the envy of the old.
Col. Tyng spent the remainder of his days, after his return, on his farm, in easy circumstances, neither seeking or having any offices ; a benevolent and kind-hearted gentleman, much beloved and respected by a large circle of friends and neighbors. He received a pension from the English government, which at his death was continued to his wife during her life. No mansion in town was more noted for its hospitality and politeness than that of Col. Tyng, none of which was lost while in the hands of his estimable lady, and her family. Having
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no children Madam Tyng brought from Scotland her niece, Eliza Heddle, whom she adopted. Miss Heddle was to her a daughter, to whom at her decease she gave her property. Miss Heddle married Rev. Timothy Hilliard. Col. Tyng died in Gorham Dec. 10, 1807, aged 70, and was buried in the cemetery on Munjoy, Portland. Madam Tyng died in Gorham, Oct. 25, 1831, aged 81, and was buried in the new yard, so called, at the village.
James Ross was probably the brother of Capt. Alexander Ross of Portland. He was taxed in Gorham in 1772 for one poll. He was one of the first schoolmasters in the town of Gorham. Mr. Ross owned a farm of about fifty acres, situated opposite to that of Charles Horton, in the Quaker neighborhood, on the Gov. Shirley grant. His house stood opposite Mr. Horton's barn. His wife's name was Hannah Dyer. The record of their children is imperfect.
Mary, b. about 1758, m. William Burton, Apr. 26, 1781.
Rebecca, b. -, m. Jasper Johnson, Dec. 23, 1784; 2d, David Johnson.
Elizabeth, b. ---- , m. Jotham Whitney, Apr. 1, 1792.
Sarah, b. Dec. 13, 1766, m. Richard Libby, Nov. 16, 1788.
Alexander, b. Aug. 7, 1769, m. Patience Howell, Mar. 8, 1789; d. in Gray, leav- ing a family.
Walter, b. Apr. 20, 1771, m. Elinor Purington, Sept. 21, 1800 ; d. in Chesterville ; had a family.
Olley, b. Oct. I, 1773, m. John Marston of No. Yarmouth, Sept. 13, 1795.
John Fleet, b. May, 1778, d. June, 1779.
Anna, b. Sept. 15, 1780, m. William Thomas, Nov. 29, 1798.
James Ross died in 1780, aged 68. Hannah his wife died Oct. 19, 1833, aged 98.
ROUNDS.
Abial Rounds was an Englishman. He came to Gorham early in life, and settled at White Rock, near where Merrill T. Files's store now stands. He was a farmer. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mehitable Whitney, (pub. March 12, 1791). Children :
Hezekiah, b. -- , m. in Troy, N. Y .; d. there.
James, b. -- , m. Betsey Porterfield ; I'd in Biddeford.
John, b. -, m. Catherine Badger of Boston ; I'd in Portland.
Mary, b. 1797, m. Christopher Plummer, Jr., Mar. 12, 1821.
Robert, b. 1800, m. Harriet Sturgis, p. Dec. 28, 1828.
Cyrus, b. - - -- , d. unm., in the West.
Phebe, b. 1805, m. Sylvanus Files, Mar. 1, 1827.
Sarah, b. , m. Capt. Lunt of Portland. He was a sea captain. Eunice, b. , m. Erastus Emerson of Portland,
Abial Rounds died Nov. 16, 1815, aged 45. Mrs. Rounds died at Mr. Harvey Murch's Nov. 10, 1854, aged 87.
(2) Robert Rounds, son of Abial, lived at West Gorham, on the farm once owned by Dea. George Lewis. He married Harriet, daughter of David and Betsey Sturgis. Children :
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Emily, b. Dec. 21, 1829, m. Chas. Jones of Windham, Sept. 12, 1855.
Elizabeth, b. Mar. 31, 1831, d. Dec. 16, 1846.
Frances E., b. June 9, 1834, m. William Cressey, Jan. 26, 1854.
Abial, b. Sept. 4, 1835, m. Carrie E. Cressey, Nov. 18, 1891 ; I's on his father's place ; has one son, Robert.
Sarah L., b. Jan. 26, 1838, 1's with her brother.
Harriet, b. June 13, 1844, m. Geo. F. Hawkes of Biddeford ; d. Nov. 13, 1886.
Capt. Robert Rounds died March 6, 1860, aged 60. Mrs. Rounds died Feb. 20, 1889, aged 82.
RUST.
Meshach Rust, who came to Gorham from Wolfboro, N. H., was the son of William Rust, and was one of triplets who were named respectively Meshach, Shadrach, and Abed-nego. Shadrach died young. Abed-nego was long a citizen of Great Falls, N. H. Meshach for many years worked here in Gorham at his trade, that of a tailor. His shop stood on the northerly side of Main St., where the store of the late John C. Card now stands. This shop was bought by Jos. Harmon and moved on to High St., above the town house, and made into the dwelling house now occupied by Chas. B. Harding. Mr. Rust married, Nov. 25, 1821, Martha, daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Frost. Children :
William Appleton, b. June 22, 1823, m. Frances Goodnow ; 2d, Sarah Good- now; graduated at the Medical dept. of N. Y. University in 1846, and practiced at S. Paris, Me. for eighteen years ; moved to Boston in 1866. Martha A., b. Nov. 3, 1825, d. Aug. 5, 1832.
Sarah Jane, b. Jan. 21, 1828, m. Horatio Russ of Paris, Nov. 19, 1860.
Susan Maria, b. Mar. 15, 1830, d. Sept. 10, 1832.
Nathaniel Johnson, b. Nov. 28, 1833, m. Martha C. Carter, Apr. 27, 1863.
Mrs. Rust died March 25, 1835, and Mr. Rust married, July 27, 1836, Sally, daughter of Geo. and Dorcas Waterhouse. Children :
Charles, b. Apr. 21, 1837, d. Jan. 19, 1843.
George W., b. Feb. 17, 1842, m. Susan Plummer; 2d, Mrs. Jane M. York.
Meshach Rust died Aug. 5, 1874, aged 78, and his wife Sally, Feb. 23, 1881, aged 80.
William Appleton Rust and his brother Nathaniel Johnson Rust were for many years in the wholesale drug business in Boston. They have been prominent men in the municipal affairs of that city, where they now reside.
RYAN.
John B. Ryan was the adopted son of Capt. Hart Williams and his wife Martha. He was a farmer, and lived on the old Portland road, on the farm owned and occupied, not many years since, by Mr. Joseph Barbour. This farm was left to Mr. Ryan by Capt. Williams.
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In 1791 Mr. Ryan married Hannah Wallace of Portland, and their children were :
Sarah, b. Feb. 27, 1792, m. Capt. Robert Harding, May 1, 1814; 2d, Nathan Harris.
Mary, b. June 8, 1794, m. Capt. William Cammett of Portland, p. June 15, 1816. Martha W., b. Apr. 1, 1801, m. Chas. Harding, Oct. 11, 1827 ; 2d, Caleb Adams. Louisa, b. Mar. 18, 1803, m. Hervey Kimball, Jan. 29, 1829.
Mr. Ryan died July 22, 1839, aged 68, and his wife Hannah, in Portland, Aug. 15, 1858, aged 87.
SANBORN.
John Sanborn, who died in England, had two sons John and William, born about 1620 and 1622, who came to America with Rev. Mr. Bachelder, and moved with him to Hampton, N. H., where they settled. They had large families, and are the ancestors of all the Sanborns in this country, so far as known.
Joseph Sanborn's name appears on a Gorham tax bill for the year 1779, which is probably about the time he came to town. He was a soldier in the Revolution. His wife was Esther Tuttle. Children :
Betsey, b. -, m. Abraham Hall, Apr. 18, 1790.
Miriam, b.
Josedeck, b. about 1775, m. Martha Murch, Sept. 22, 1796.
Elisha, b. Nov. 28, 1777, m. Eunice Hanscom, Dec. 22, 1799.
Sarah, b. - -, m. James Crockett, Dec. 25, 1796.
Drusilla, b. Aug. 7, 1782, m. Enoch Crockett, Sept. 13, 1801.
Samuel Bursley, b. Feb. 25, 1793, d. when a young man.
(2) Josedeck Sanborn, son of Joseph, was a farmer. He lived near White Rock, on the place where Isaiah Nason now lives. He married Martha, daughter of John and Anna Murch. There is no record of the births of their children. They were :
Esther, b. 1798, d. unm. Aug. 29, 1876.
Achsah, b. --- , d. unm.
Betsey, b. ---- , m. George Murch of Portland, Apr. 7, 1823.
Sally, b. 1804, m. Rev. King Atkinson, Nov. 20, 1832 ; d. in Eaton, N. H., Aug., 1897.
Anna, b. -, d. unm., Feb. 2, 1824.
John, b. June 30, 1806, m. Mary J. Beck, Mar. 2, 1831.
Rebecca, b. -- , m. John A. Odell, Oct. 27, 1831.
Samuel, b. - - -, d. unm. in Mexico.
Mary, b. - -- , m. John Harvey.
Joanna, b. . , m. David Davison of California.
Martha, b. -, d. young. Martha, b. - -, m. George Murch (2d wife).
Caleb, b. Apr. 12, 1814, m. Catharine Fernald; 2d, Mary Harvey ; d. in So. Berwick, Dec. 20, 1871 ; was a doctor.
Josedeck Sanborn died May 31, 1820. Mrs. Martha, his wife, died Oct. 12, 1824, aged 47.
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(2) Elisha Sanborn, son of Joseph, married Eunice Hanscom, probably daughter of George and Eunice Hanscom. Children :
Martha, b. Oct. 11, 1800.
Mary, b. Apr. 1, 1803, m. - Chesley.
Eunice, b. -, m. - -- Anderson ; I'd in Windham.
(3) John Sanborn, son of Josedeck, lived at Winship's corner in the house lately occupied by his widow, Mrs. Tyler. He married Mary Jane, daughter of Capt. Thomas and Jane Beck. Their chil- dren were :
Caroline L., b. Nov. 24, 1831, m. Isaac Richardson, 1852.
John Jay, b. Nov. 30, 1833, d. Jan. 1, 1836.
Jane L., b. Nov. 1, 1835, m. John Gilman of So. Berwick ; 2d, J. D. Moore of Portland.
Martha M., b. Sept. 9, 1837. m. William Tompson of So. Berwick.
Elizabeth F., b. Oct. 9, 1839, m. Seward Wescott, Dec. 12, 1858.
Harriet B., b. Oct. 20, 1841, m. B. F. Tyler of Gorham ; d. in Hyde Park, Mass., Nov. 8, 1896.
Frederic C., b. Oct. 10, 1843, d. Oct. 3, 1849.
John, Jr., b. June 21, 1846, d. Apr. 24, 1848.
Louisa C., b. Mar. 24, 1848, m. E. G. Goodwin of Boston ; d. Oct., 1893.
Leroy S., b. Apr. 5, 1850, m. Julia Hall of Portland.
John T. G., b. Mar. 25, 1853, m. Julia - ; I's in Brainard, Minn.
Dr. John Sanborn died in March, 1854. Mrs. Mary J. Sanborn married second, James E. Tyler. She died Dec. 3, 1891.
SAWYER.
John Sawyer, son of James and Sarah ( Bray) Sawyer, came from Gloucester, Mass., to Falmouth, where in 1719 he kept the Cape Elizabeth ferry. He married, in Gloucester, Rebecca Stanford. His second child, John Sawyer, Jr., was born in Gloucester, Jan. 24, 1704, and married, July 4, 1726, Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (York) Robinson. John and Sarah Sawyer came from Cape Eliza- beth to Gorham to live about 1754. He owned, and in 1764 sold to Josiah Noyes of Falmouth, the thirty acre lot, 111. This is the lot on which the pumping station is now located. In September, 1777, he sold to his grandson, Nathaniel Hatch, one-half of the thirty acre lot, 113, on which he then lived, together with half the house, barn and fences thereon. This lot was near the mouth of the Black Brook road, and west of the house where Mrs. Rufus Mosher now lives. Children, all born in Falmouth :
John, b. Dec. 22, 1726, d. young. Sarah, b. Nov. 19, 1728, m. Joseph Hatch.
Mary, b. Sept. 8, 1731, m. Samuel Yeaton, Jr., Apr. 6, 1751. (?) Rebecca, b. June 13, 1735, m. John Phinney, Jr., Jan. 24, 1755. Jonathan, b. Oct. 22, 1736, m. Martha Rich, Oct. 17, 1763.
David, b. , served in the Provincial Army in 1757.
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We find no record of the death of either Mr. or Mrs. Sawyer, but Mrs. Sawyer was living Sept. 17, 1777, and her husband, Jan. 31, 1778.
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