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William Tyng, b. Sept. 21, 1800, d. July 15, 1801.
William Tyng, b. June 19, 1802, m. Margaret Duncan.
Peter Wendell, b. June 6, 1805, m. Mary Shaw ; d. Mar. 28, 1862.
Edward Tyng, b. Dec. 17; 1807, m. Margaret Foster, 1837.
Arthur McL., b. Dec. 8, 1810, d. unm., Aug. 4, 1847.
John Duguid, b. Dec. 2, 1813, d. in Alabama, May 29, 1836.
Thomas S., b. Oct. 17, 1816, d. unm., in Windham, Dec. 15, 1894.
They also had an adopted daughter, Elizabeth Webb, who died Dec. 4, 1845, aged 26. Col. John T. Smith and his wife were both members of the Congregational church in Gorham; excellent, upright, Christian people. They had the respect of their townsmen, as well as of a large circle of acquaintances. Col. Smith in his younger days had command of the Gorham regiment of militia, and was called to Portland for the defence of the town in the War of 1812. He died in Gorhanı, Oct. 22, 1856, aged 84, and his wife, Jan. 19, 1855, aged 84.
(2) Edward T. Smith, son of John T., lived near his father, on what had been a part of the latter's farm. He held the rank of brig- adier general in the militia. He married Margaret, daughter of William H. and Betsey Foster. Children :
Mary D., b. May 8, 1839, m. William H. White of Windham ; d. July 30, 1869. Edward H. F., b. Aug. 30, 1844, m. Bertha Humphrey of Yarmouth.
Gen. Edward T. Smith died April 20, 1885, and his wife Margaret July 21, 1897.
Jacob Sheaff Smith, son of Ebenezer and Mehitable (Sheaff) Smith, was born in Durham, N. H., April 28, 1786. He came to Gorham in 1808, and took the office at the village made vacant by the death of Col. Samuel Whitmore. Here he continued in the prac- tice of law till 1833, when he bought a farm about two miles south of the village, where he spent thirty-four years of quiet home life. In 1867 he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he spent the remainder of his days in the home of his son, Lothrop L. Smith. He married, Oct. 12, 1816, Mary L., daughter of Hon. Lothrop and Tabitha (Longfellow) Lewis. Children :
Lothrop L., b. Ang. 24, 1817, m. Margaret J. Mallett; d. in Brooklyn, Apr. 14, 1872.
Samuel L., b. Dec. 13, 1818, d. Nov. 5, 1839.
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Mrs. Mary L. Smith died Feb. 15, 1820, aged 23, and Mr. Smith married Tabitha, daughter of John and Tabitha. (Longfellow) Stephenson (pub. March 24, 1821). There were no children by this marriage. Mrs. Tabitha Smith died Dec. 1, 1857, aged 69. Lawyer Smith died in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 1, 1880, aged 94.
James Smith married, about the year 1785, Mrs. Mary (Brackett) Halliday, daughter of Anthony and Kerenhappuck Brackett of Port- land. Children :
Jane B., b. about 1786, m. Samuel Miller, Apr. 12, 1810.
William H., b. about 1787, m. Sally, dau. of William and Jane Mayberry of Windham, Dec. 25; 1810. Ch : Samuel, Simeon, Jane, and William M. Mrs. Sally Smith d. Oct. 20, 1821, aged 35. Mr. Smith m. Oct. 27, 1823, Esther, dau. of Cornelius and Meribah Bramhall, and moved to Wind- ham, where he d. He was a joiner by trade.
James, b. about 1792, m. Mary L., dau. of John and Anna Darling, June 20, 1814. Ch : Caroline P., b. Apr. 4, 1815, d. unm. in New York ; Mary B., b. Jan. 1, 1817, m. Charles O. Cole, of Portland, d. in Malden, Mass. Mr. Smith built the house on the western side of South St., now occu- pied by Gardner M. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. Smith removed to New York where Mrs. Smith d. Mr. Smith d. in Portland, Sept. 27, 1875- Keziah, b. about 1794, m. Elisha A. Whitmore, Jan. 28, 1821.
After the death of Mr. Smith his widow married, in 1800, Capt. Isaiah Thomas.
Stevens Smith was born in Epping, N. H., July 17, 1796. He came to Gorham, and kept a watchmaker's and jeweller's store on the hill at the village. He afterwards went into the boot business. He was postmaster in Gorham for four years, from 1841 to 1845. He married in 1829, Nancy, daughter of Samuel and Nancy (McLellan) Staples. She died Oct. 23, 1829. Mr. Smith married, Oct. 30, 1831, Sophia, daughter of Nahum and Desire (Watson) Chadbourne. Children :
Frederic C., b. Oct. 10, 1832, m. Elvira Crane of Quincy, Mass., Oct. 16, 1860; was Adj. in an Ohio regt. in war of '61 ; d. in W. Va., Apr. 16, 1862.
Emeline, b. June 3, 1835, m. Josiah S. Hobbs, May 13, 1858.
Nancy S., b. June 12, 1837, m. Chandler A. Libby, Jan. 1, 1866.
Charles L., b. Apr. 10, 1839, d. Sept. 9, 1840.
Martha L., b. Mar. 10, 1811, d. Oct. 31, 1861.
Francis M., b. Nov. 6, 1842, d. Mar. 14, 1843.
Hendric, b. June 30, 1844.
Charles, b. Aug. 29, 1845.
Alfred S., b. Dec. 10, 1847.
Ella, b. Aug. 10, 1850, m. Elmer H. Marble, Aug. 25, 1870.
Mr. Smith bought a farm in Waterford, and moved to that place from Gorham. His wife Sophia died in Waterford, Oct. 8, 1859, aged 52, and he married Mrs. Sanborn. He died at Paris, Me., Sept. 13, 1876, aged 80.
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Henry P. A. Smith, son of Isaac and Priscilla (Welch) Smith of Portland, was a lawyer here for a few years. He came to town about 1842, in which year, Sept. 14, he married Caroline Fox of Portland. Children :
Francis W., b. Aug. 27, 1843, was in the Union Army.
Horatio F., b. July 4, 1845, was in the Union Army; d. Aug. 28, 1864. Emma C., b. Aug. 21, 1847, m. Prof. H. L. Chapman of Bowdoin College, Aug., 1870; d. in Brunswick, June 14, 1892.
Mary E., b. Oct. 26, 1849, m. Hon. John A. Waterman, Sept., 1885.
Mrs. Smith and family resided in Gorham for many years. She died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Waterman, Nov. 4, 1896, aged 75. Mr. Smith died in Helena, Montana, Nov. 20, 1870, aged 50. Mrs. Priscilla P. Smith, mother of H. P. A. Smith, died in Gor- ham, May 10, 1877.
SNOW.
Benjamin Snow, said to have come from Barnstable, bought in November, 1773, of Daniel Eldridge a part of the hundred acre lot, 58, and about this time moved here with his family consisting of his mother, wife and seven children. He was living in a part of Capt. Eldridge's house when it was burned in 1774. His wife's name was Bathsheba --. They have the births of two children recorded in Gorham :
Ruth, b. Sept. 8, 1774.
Hannah, b. Dec. 27, 1777, m. Samuel Whitney, Aug. 24, 1798.
Among other children in this family, born before coming to Gor- ham, were probably ·
Bathsheba, m. Nathaniel Edwards, Sept. 29, 1786.
Jenny, m. Michael Philbrick, Jr., of Standish, Sept. 4, 1788.
Mary, m. Joseph Hodgdon, Feb. 24, 1789.
Lucy, m. Israel Hodgdon.
Benjamin Snow left town about 1794, going to Orrington, and from there moving to Bucksport.
William Snow came from Eastham, Mass., in 1778, with Capt. Joseph Higgins, and bought land with him. Mr. Snow lived on the hundred acre lot, 118, on the farm since owned by Lewis Douglass, and which joined that of Capt. Higgins on the east. His wife was Dorcas Cook, sister of Mrs. Higgins. She was born in 1753. The children of William and Dorcas (Cook) Snow on the Gorham records are :
William, b. July 1, 1795, m. Betsey Bacon, p. July 8, 1815.
Mehitable, b. 1797, m. Joseph Cotton, Nov. 20, 1817.
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William Snow had also a daughter Harriet, who married Samuel Whitney, and as he was taxed for two polls in 1795 it is probable that he had other children. Samuel Snow who married Polly McCol- liff, March 26, 1798, and Thankful Snow who married Samuel Jenkins, Jr., Jan. 23, 1794, may have been among these. William Snow died Jan. 24, 1832, aged 85, and his wife Dorcas, Jan. 9, 1832, aged 79.
Edward Snow's name appears on the tax lists for 1781-82-83. He came from Eastham, Mass., where he married, Jan. 23, 1755, Martha (-) Brown, widow of - Brown. Samuel and Sylvanus Brown, Mrs. Martha A. Harding and Mrs. Bethiah H. Tryon were children of Mrs. Snow by her first husband. We have the record of but one child of Edward and Martha (Brown) Snow: Eliza- beth, born in Eastham, Jan. 3, 1766, married in Gorham, Feb. 23, 1781, Saul Cook (recorded Solomon). Thankful Snow, who died in Gorham, Feb. 15, 1837, aged 75, may perhaps have been of this family.
Thomas Snow came from Cape Cod to Gorham about 1778, and settled in the northern part of the town ; his farm comprising parts of the seventy acre lots, 68 and 78. His house is now gone, but the barn is still standing. His wife was Jane Magne. The mother and sister of Mrs. Snow came with the family to Gorham, where the sister died while a young woman. Children of Thomas and Jane Snow :
Mercy, b. on Cape Cod, m. John Chase about 1782-83 ; had son Josiah, b. May 25, 1784.
Aaron, b. on Cape Cod, m. Eunice - -; went to Livermore.
Gideon, b. on Cape Cod, m. Joanna Edwards, Dec. 28, 1788 ; 2d, Susan Par- sons ; two children, Susan and Joseph.
Thomas, b. on Cape Cod, about 1773.
Lydia, b. Feb., 1776, m. Joseph Young, 3rd, Nov. 7, 1793.
Jemima, b. in Gorham, July, 1785, m. Uriah Nason, Jr., June 5, 1807.
Thomas Snow died about 1825, and his wife Jane, March 5, 1837, aged 102.
STAPLES.
The Staples family came from Kittery to Scarboro, and thence to Gorham. Samuel and Ai Staples were cousins. They came to Gorham about the year 1790. They married sisters, Nancy and Eunice, daughters of Lieut. Cary and Eunice Mclellan. Samuel Staples had a sister, Catherine, who married Isaac Gilkey of Gorham, Aug. 26, 1792.
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Samuel Staples lived at the village, in the house on the southwest corner of Main and Elm Sts., now owned by Henry Jose. He was a blacksmith, and his shop stood on the spot where Miss Kelsey's shop now stands. He married, April 28, 1794, Nancy Mclellan, and their children were :
Samuel, b. Mar. 25, 1795, m. Adeline Burnham, Aug. 9, 1825; 2d, Jane Barbour. William, b. Apr. 26, 1797, m. Mary McLellan, Nov. 11, 1824.
Stephen McL., b. June 13, 1800, m. Elizabeth P. Lewis, Oct. 17, 1831.
Nancy McL., b. Nov. 9, 1804, m. Stevens Smith, May, 1829.
Elizabeth M., b. Apr. 9, 1807, d. unm. July 12, 1831.
Albert B., b. Aug. 9, 1816, m. Eliza Nason ; d. in Niles, Mich., June 14, 1856.
Samuel Staples died Feb. 4, 1837, aged 71. Mrs. Nancy Staples died June 15, 1839, aged 65.
(2) Samuel Staples, Jr., son of Samuel, lived on South St., in the house now occupied by B. Frank Whitney. He married Mary Ade- line Burnham of Scarboro. Children :
Stephen M., b. June 27, 1826, d. Jan. 5, 1829.
Thomas B., b. July 15, 1828, d. Dec. 25, 1832.
Stephen McL., b. May 17, 1830, I'd in Illinois.
Elizabeth L., b. June 7, 1832, I's in the West.
Mrs. Adeline Staples died Feb. 12, 1834. Mr. Staples moved to Portland, where he married Jane Barbour, by whom he had Susan, Charles, George, Caroline, and Albert. He died in Portland.
(2) William Staples, son of Samuel, lived for some years in Bald- win. He married Mary, daughter of James and Rebecca Mclellan of West Newfield. Children :
Nancy M., b. in Baldwin, May 27, 1828, d. unm. Mar. 7, 1851.
Mary Elizabeth, b. in Gorham, Nov. 20, 1838, d. unm. July 16, 1874.
William Staples died July 28, 1838, aged 41. Mrs. Staples died July 16, 1852, aged 56.
(2) Stephen McLellan Staples, son of Samuel, was educated at Gorham Academy, and at Bowdoin College, where he was graduated in 1821. He then went to Philadelphia, in which city, in company with a Mr. Toppan, he opened an academy, and was for several years a successful English and Classical instructor. In 1825 he published a grammar of the English language for the use of Spaniards, which was the first work of the kind published in this country. In the fall of the same year he went to Mexico, where he remained for sev- eral years. He was for a long time Surveyor General of the State of Chihuahua. In 1830 he was obliged by the failure of his health to return to the United States. He married, Elizabeth P., daughter of Hon. Lothrop and Mary J. Lewis of Gorham. Col. Staples died of consumption Feb. 17, 1832, in Philadelphia.
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Ai Staples was the son of Jeremiah of Scarboro, who lived on the farm now owned and occupied by James W. Libby. Ai Staples was a farmer, and lived in the south part of the town, on the farm now owned and occupied by John Sanborn. He married, May 28, 1801, Eunice Mclellan. Children :
Statira R., b. Mar. 1, 1802, m. Capt. John Curtis, May 22, 1823.
Alexander M., b. Oct. 26, 1803, m. Bethiah T. Lincoln, Aug. 2, 1827.
Ai, b. Mar. 8, 1806, m. Ann Cascolina Merrill ; I'd and d. in Augusta.
Jeremiah, b. Apr. 22, 1810, m. Ann Murray of Baltimore ; '2d, Mrs. Sarah B. Emery ; enlisted in the summer of 1846 in the Mexican war on board the schooner " Morris," which was wrecked at Key West, Oct. 10, 1846 ; d. May 19, 1868.
Robert, b. Sept. 5, 1812, m. Eliza Marks of Phila. ; d. at Panama.
Eunice E., b. Dec. 18, 1814, d. Aug. 10, 1815.
Charles A., b. Oct. 9, 1816, lost at sea, May 6, 1839.
Eunice J., b. Jan. 7, 1820, m. Capt. Charles Frost, Aug. 14, 1848.
Ellen R., b. Apr. 11, 1823, d. unm. Nov. 14, 1846.
Ai Staples died Feb. 22, 1835, aged 58. Mrs. Eunice Staples died Sept. 28, 1841, aged 63.
(2) Alexander McLellan Staples, son of Ai, was a sea captain. He married Bethiah T., daughter of Capt. John Lincoln of Gorham. Children :
Lydia A. T., b. June, 1828, d. Feb. 5, 1833.
Statira C., b. May 17, 1830, d. July 20, 1832.
J. Alexander, b. Sept. 20, 1835, d. May 19, 1842.
Harriet, b. , m. Joseph Webster of Portland.
Charles, b. 1839, d. in 1895.
Lincoln T., b. June 27, 1843, d. May 8, 1872.
Capt. Staples moved to Portland. He died at St. Mary's, Ga., Oct. 10, 1844. His widow married Mr. Green, and died Sept. 16, 1896, aged 93.
STEPHENSON.
Capt. John Stephenson was a sea captain. He came to Portland from New York. May 1, 1771, he married Tabitha, daughter of Stephen Longfellow. His house, before the Revolution, stood front- ing the beach, near Clay Cove. He removed to Gorham in October, 1775, having been driven from Portland, when Mowatt destroyed the town by the fire which burned his house, as also that of his father-in- law, and most of Portland. He had, some years before, purchased of the Hon. John Hancock of Boston, the hundred acre lot, 116, a little above West Gorham. Here he built a large house, long since removed. The two-story ell of this house was moved on to the cross road leading from the Gorham and Standish road to the road from Standish village to Lake Sebago, and was used by Levi Phinney for a paint shop, till within a few years. While Capt. Stephenson was
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building this house he lived at West Gorham in the Brown house, so called, and here his son, Samuel, was born. In 1784 he returned to Portland, and built, on the site of the one destroyed by fire, a new gambreled roofed house, which is still standing (1877). The children of John and Tabitha (Longfellow) Stephenson were, as given on their family record :
John, b. in Portland, Mar., 1772, d. at sea, of yellow fever, in 1791.
Tabitha, b. in Portland, Feb. 13, 1773, d. in Portland, Feb., 1777.
Catherine, b. in Portland, June 3, 1774, m. Ebenezer Storer, June 16, 1800. Samuel, b. in Gorham, Apr. 5, 1776, m. Abigail Longfellow, Oct. 18, 1801. Stephen, b. in Gorham, Dec. 28, 1778, m. Harriet Storer, Oct. 7, 1806. Henry, b. in Gorham, 1782, d. in 1793.
William, b. in Portland, 1785, m. Harriet Lincoln, Aug. 30, 1818.
Tabitha, b. in Portland, Aug. 24, 1788, m. Jacob S. Smith in 1821.
About 1788, the Stephensons returned to Gorham, where Capt. Stephenson died Dec. 6, 1817, aged 76. His wife Tabitha died May 24 of the same year, aged 65.
(2) Samuel Stephenson, son of John, married his cousin, Abigail, daughter of Stephen and Patience Longfellow. He followed the sea for some time, and then entered into business in Portland with his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Storer, and was a prosperous merchant for many years, till the difficulties arose in connection with the embargo, and our troubles with England. He removed to Gorham and settled on a part of the farm of his father-in-law, Judge Longfellow. The home of Col. and Mrs. Stephenson was noted for its genial and grace- ful hospitality. He and his most excellent wife were members of the Congregational church, and were honored by all who knew them. Children, the three oldest born in Portland.
Elizabeth W., b. 1802, m. Randolph A. L. Codman, Jan. 6, 1825.
Catherine L., b. 1804, d. Dec. 6, 1820.
John, b. Dec. 10, 1806, d. Dec. 4, 1845.
Almira S., b. Mar. 31, 1809, d. unm. Dec. 21, 1836. Samuel L., b. June 28, 1811, was a doctor ; went West.
Ann L., b. Jan. 1, 1814, d. unm. Apr. 21, 1861.
Mary L., b. Mar. 1, 1816, d. unm. Apr. 18, 1857.
Abigail C., b. May 7, 1819, d. unm. Aug. 5, 1885.
Stephen L., b. Aug. 30, 1821, d. unm. May 28, 1892.
Col. Stephenson was Representative to the General Court of Mass- achusetts in 1816, and to the Maine Legislature in 1825. He died in Gorham, May 23, 1858, aged 82. His wife Abigail L. died Feb. 14, 1869, aged 90.
Stephen, youngest son of Col. Samuel Stephenson, was a civil engineer. He did much work in this vicinity, including the surveys for the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad. He resided on the old homestead, where he died.
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(2) Stephen Stephenson, son of Capt. John, was also for many years a successful sea captain. He afterwards moved on to the farm, at West Gorham, where his father had formerly lived. He married Harriet, daughter of Ebenezer Storer. Their children all excepting Edward born in Portland :
Stephen S., b. Aug., 1808, d. unm. in Gorham, Feb, 12, 1846. William H., b. Jan. 1810, d. in Singapore, Oct. 31, 1850.
George S., b. Aug. 24, 1811, m. Ellen T. Brewster, May 13, 1852 ; d. Apr. 8, 1873.
Frederick S., b. May 10, 1813, d. unm. Apr. 29, 1887, in Gorham.
Charles L., b. Apr. 13, 1815, m. Martha B. Washburn of Livermore; d. Aug. 31, 1880, in St. Paul, Minn.
Harriet S., b. Mar. 15, 1817, m. Geo. Motley of Lowell, Dec. 18, 1850.
Eben S., b. 1819, m. Elizabeth Champlain of Essex, Conn. ; d. May, 1868. Edward H., b. May 27, 1823, m. Charlotte Beers, 1865.
George, Frederick, Eben, and Edward Stephenson went into busi- ness in New York. Capt. Stephen Stephenson died on his farm at West Gorham, March 19, 1831, aged 52. His wife Harriet died Feb. 9, 1838, aged 52.
(2) William Stephenson, son of Capt. John, at one time kept an hotel in Gorham, in the old Thacher house, now owned by Lewis Johnson. About 1832 the family moved to Portland, where he kept an hotel till they removed to New York. Mr. Stephenson married Harriet, daughter of Capt. John Lincoln. Children :
Tabitha L., b. June 21, 1819, d. unm. in New York.
John L., b. Dec. 18, 1821, m. and I'd in Elmira, N. Y.
Anna Maria, b. Dec. 9, 1823, m. Mr. Butler of New York ; d. in N. Y.
Mr. Stephenson died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 7, 1849, aged 63. Mrs. Stephenson, in New York City, many years later, at an advanced age.
STEVENS.
Benjamin Stevens came from Falmouth and settled in Gorham before the French and Indian war. He had a daughter, Sarah, born in Gorham, 1744. It is probable, though by no means certain, that he moved to Falmouth in 1745. If so, he had returned to Gor- ham before 1750. He was a scout among Capt. George Berry's men in 1747. He sold to Simon Huston in 1759 the hundred acre lot, 106, in Gorham, drawn for the right 98. He also owned the hundred acre lot, 115, and in September, 1760, sold one-half of it to John Williams, and in December, 1761, sold the remainder (the eastern half) to James Lowe1. Benjamin Stevens, with the help of the slave Limbo, took care of the Gorham cattle on the "Great Meadows " in
. James Lowe married in Gorham, Feb. 19, 1762, Mrs. Esther Linsket.
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the winter of 1760. He was one of the town's first board of select- men, chosen in 1764. He married, May 29, 1741, Sarah Pride of Falmouth. Children, all born in Gorham, except Nathaniel, born in Falmouth :
Nathaniel, b. Dec. 12, 1741, m. Elizabeth Sinclair, Jan. 9, 1766.
Sarah, b. Jan. 7, 1744, m. Ezekiel Rich, Nov. 21, 1765.
Mehitable, b. July 15, 1750, m. Joseph Whitney, Oct. 13, 1765.
Abigail, b. Apr. 27, 1753, m. James Rich, p. May 3, 1775.
Catherine, b. Aug. 5, 1757, m. Barnabas Bangs, Jr., Nov. 20, 1777. . Benjamin, b. May 9, 1760, m. Amy Webb, p. May 6, 1784.
Joseph, b. Mar. 14, 1764, m. Joanna Rackley of Pearsonstown, Sept. 2, 1784. Ch. on Gorham records : Polly, b. June 22, 1787 ; Benjamin Rackley, b. Feb. 23, 1789; Ebenezer, b. June 8, 1792. In 1794 Joseph Stevens had left Gorham.
Samuel, b. Apr. 14, 1766, m. Alice Goff of Allenstown, p. Mar. 12, 1791. Ch. on Gorham records : Sarah, b. Nov. 1, 1792 ; Anna, b. Aug. 8, 1794; Samuel Goff, b. Sept. 10, 1796. July 19, 1793, Samuel and Alice Stevens sold to Lemuel Hicks of Gorham the seventy acre lots, 82 and 88, reserving five acres from 88, which Samuel sold in 1799 to Charles Lord of Gorham.
Benjamin Stevens died about 1791. Sarah, his widow, married, Nov. 21, 1796, Col. Edmund Phinney.
(2) Nathaniel Stevens, son of Benjamin, was a soldier of the Revolution, a corporal in Capt. Stuart's company in 1775. He mar- ried Elizabeth Sinclair. Children :
Lucy, b. Dec. 17, 1766, m. Edmund Waite of Falmouth, May 15, 1788. Robert, b. Feb. 17, 1769.
Nathaniel, b. Jan. 17, 1772, m. Anna, dau. of Capt. Wentworth and Susanna Stuart, Nov. 17, 1791. Ch : Mehitable, b. Jan. 9, 1792 ; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 18, 1795 ; Hezekiah, b. July 25, 1797. Moved to Unity.
Frederick, b. May 5, 1774, m. Betty Gilkey, Mar. 3, 1801 ; I'd in Unity. Hezekiah, b. Nov. 3, 1776.
Polly, b. Oct., 1779, d. June, 1780.
John, b. July 2, 1781 ; I'd in Unity.
Benjamin Stevens deeded to Nathaniel Stevens, March 7, 1774, the hundred acre lot, 90.
(2) Benjamin Stevens, Jr., son of Benjamin, was a member of Capt. Mclellan's company, and took part in the expedition against Baga- duce in 1779. He lived near Horse Beef Falls. He afterwards moved to Gorham village where he lived in the house lately remodeled by Clark Dyer. Mr. Stevens's wife was Amy Webb of Falmouth, prob- ably daughter of John and Elizabeth (Larrabee ) Webb. Children :
Harry, b. Dec. 17, 1784, m. Hannah Libby, Apr. 20, 1816. John, b. Dec. 11, 1786, m. Lucy Mugford, Nov. 13, 1813; d. in Bethel. Charlotte, b. Nov. 5, 1788, d. unm. in Gorham, Nov. 11, 1844. Amy, b. June 4, 1790, d. unm. in Bethel.
Rev. Mr. Rand records the death of Mrs. Stevens, Nov. 25, 1814, aged 60. Benjamin Stevens died Nov. 29, 1843, aged 83.
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(3) Harry Stevens, son of Benjamin, Jr., was a carriage maker. He was a member of Lieut. Leighton's troop of cavalry, and took part in the defence of Portland in 1814. He married Hannah, daughter of John and Phebe Libby. Children :
Eliza H., b. 1816, m. John Cloudman, Dec. 22, 1839.
Charlotte A., b. 1819, d. unm. Jan. 20, 1840, aged 21.
Albert B., b. Dec. 1, 1826, m. Martha Morton ; 2d, Sarah Hamblen ; d. aged 71.
Harry Stevens died April 11, 1835, aged 51. Mrs. Stevens died Oct. 12, 1866, aged 77.
Jonathan Ignatius Stevens was born in Mt. Desert, Jan. 26, 1812. He was a sea captain, and resided in Gorham for many years. He married Sarah Pitts, daughter of -- and Mrs. Susan Pitts. Chil- dren :
Nelson C., b. in Gorham, Nov. 6, 1841, d. young.
John M., b. in Baltimore, Mar. 7, 1844, m. Helen B. Emery; served in the Civil War; d. at Baltimore, Jan. 4, 1865.
Henry M., b. in Gorham, Nov. 19, 1845, d. Dec. 25, 1850.
Madelein, b. in Gorham, Oct. 6, 1848, d. Sept. 30, 1850.
Zilmorah, b. in Gorham, Feb. 4, 1851, d. Jan. 30, 1853.
Mrs. Stevens died March 15, 1855, aged 38, and Capt. Stevens married March 11, 1858, Mrs. Elizabeth (Wescott) Chadbourne. Capt. Stevens died July 26, 1867. Mrs. Stevens died April 21, 1889.
STONE.
A Joseph Stone was in town as early as 1770 as the following, probably from the church in Berwick, shows : "This day April 5, 1770, Joseph Stone, a member of this church, having removed his habitation to Gorham, and requesting to remove his relation from us, which being proposed to the church, it was voted to dismiss him from us to the Congregational Church there." A Joseph Stone of Gorham was published, March 30, 1781, to Elizabeth Kneeland. His name appears on the tax lists as late as 1786. 1In November, 1782, Elisha Pote, Nathan Freeman and Joseph Stone came from Gorham, Me., into what was then called Thompson Pond Plantation and held meetings in the house of Gowen Wilson, Sr. They were all preachers and singers.
Jonathan Stone, was born in Cape Elizabeth, and was an only son. His father was Archelaus Stone probably of Scarborough, who may have been the Archelaus Stone who married, Jan. 3, 1746, Sarah
I Address of Otis Sawyer, given Sept. 7, 1874 at the Centennial exercises of New Gloucester.
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
Weston of Falmouth. The name of Archelaus Stone appears, together with that of his son Jonathan, on the tax lists of Gorham for the first time for the year 1780. Jonathan settled in the northwestern part of the town, on the farm recently owned and occupied by his grand- son Samuel .. Soon after he came to Gorham, his mother, then a widow, moved into the town with her six daughters and settled on a part of his farm, on the old road to Standish, near where the house formerly occupied by William Bangs now stands. Her six daughters married as follows :
Hannah, m. Zebulon Whitney, Nov. 10, 1774.
Elizabeth, m. Joel Sawyer, Dec., 1773.
Abigail, m. Daniel Whitney, Dec. 7, 1780.
Mary, m. Ichabod Hunt, July 19. 1780.
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