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Lucretia Ann, b. Oct. 22, 1819, m. Jefferson Mabry, 1841.
Charles Clark, b. Apr. 16, 1824, d. unm. Sept. 8, 1854.
Josiah Swett, son of Stephen and Hannah (Knight) Swett, and nephew to Capt. Joshua Swett, was born Jan. 19, 1800. He lived at Horse Beef Falls, near the canal, then moved to Little Falls, where he built the house where Tyng Libby has since lived. He married, Oct. 10, 1825, Clementine, daughter of Joseph and Mary Knight. Children :
John L., b. Jan. 8, 1828, d. Aug. 6, 1832.
Mary M., b. Feb. 9, 1830, m. George Warren, 1852.
Miriam E., b. Aug. 2, 1832, m. D. B. Pike of Farmington, N. H., 1851.
Joseph S. K., b. Apr. 22, 1834, l's in Cal.
John A., b. Feb. 29, 1836, killed at the Powder Mills, Oct. 12, 1855.
George W., b. June 13, 1840, was in the Army.
Mark D., b. June 15, 1842, I's in Milwaukee, Wis.
Clementine A., b. Aug. 9, 1845, m. Levi Wentworth.
Josiah Swett died Feb. 11, 1851, and his wife, July 21, 1884, aged 1 78.
SYKES.
Thomas Sykes, son of Richard and Ann Sykes, was born in Crowle, Lincolnshire, England, March 10, 1804. He was married in the old Crowle church, Oct. 25, 1825, to Catherine, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Maw of Crowle. Mr. Sykes came to Gorham about 1827, where for many years he carried on the business of a tailor. His shop and house were next to the old Congregational vestry, on the east side. The house has been raised and a story built under it. The shop has been moved on to Main St., just west of Mrs. Sawyer's. In 1829, Mr. and Mrs. Sykes went to England and spent a year or two, and there their son Charles was born. In 1861 they embarked from Quebec on the "Canadian," which was wrecked and sunk in an ice field in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and they with difficulty escaped with their lives. Returning from England in the famous "Great Eastern," they were again in peril. The steamer lost its rudder and floated helpless on the sea for several days until a temporary rudder was contrived by an American engineer, with which they made the
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harbor of Cork. There they again embarked, and finished their voy- age in safety on the "Norwegian." In 1860 Mr. and Mrs. Sykes removed to Auburn. Their children were :
George, b. Sept. 4, 1826, m. Lois Reed of Auburn.
Richard M., b. Nov. 26, 1828, m. Susan Ingalls, Nov. 30, 1852 ; served in the Civil War; d. in Manchester, N. H., Nov. 16, 1872.
Charles Henry, b. Oct. 9, 1830, I'd in San Francisco ; d. Feb. 6, 1892. Elizabeth A., b. Aug. 22, 1832, m. Wm. Wiley of Lowell, Sept. 1, 1856. . Robert M., b. Jan. 16, 1835, m. Theda Carey of Gray.
Kate M., b. Mar. 4, 1837, m. Wm. E. Wood; d. in Portland, Feb. 10, 1898.
Thomas E., b. July 6, 1839, d. in Auburn, Jan. 15, 1878, unm.
Thomas Sykes died in Auburn, Oct. 31, 1884, aged 80, and his wife, in Lewiston, Nov. 7, 1898, aged 91 years, 6 mos.
THACHER.
The Rev. Josiah Thacher was the second settled minister in the town of Gorham. He married, July 13, 1768, Apphia Mayo. Their children were :
Peter, b. July 13, 1769, d. young.
Apphia, b. Aug. 19, 1770, d. young.
Peter, b. Aug. 5, 1771, d. young.
Apphia, b. March 23, 1773, d. Jan. 30, 1782.
Peter, b. July 21, 1774, m. Deborah Gordon of Portland. She d. Dec. 7, 1810. Mr. Thacher read law with Wm. Symmes, Esq., of Portland, and entered into practice at Saccarappa in the year 1804, where he remained about five years, when he returned to Gorham to the old family mansion which stands near the Cong'l church and is now owned by Lewis Johnson, where he d. Jan. 26, 1811. He left a legacy of two thousand dollars to the village of Saccarappa, for the purpose of keeping a grammar school for the children of that village.
Mary, b. May 8. 1776, d. Jan. 5, 1789.
Faith, b. Oct. 30, 1778, d. unm. in Gorham in 1811.
John, b. Feb. 18, 1781, d. unm. in Gorham, Jan. 9, 1810. He was for several years previous to his death employed as clerk, or bookkeeper, in the store of Mr. Webster in Portland ; he never was in business for himself. Apphia, b. Apr. 7, 1785, m. Reuben Nason, Oct. 14, 1807.
Josiah, b. Jan. 21, 1789, is said to have been a young man of much promise, and a remarkable scholar for one of his age. He was preparing for college at Exeter Academy, when taken sick. Hed. in Gorham, in 1807.
Mr. Thacher died Dec. 25, 1799, and his wife some years before. He and his family all died of consumption, at the family mansion in Gorham, and all, including his grandchild (Apphia T. Nason), are interred in the Thacher tomb in the back part of the old burying- ground at Gorham village.
THOMAS.
Capt. Isaiah Thomas was born in Newbury, Mass. He was an adjutant in one of the Massachusetts regiments in the war of the Revolution. We have no record of where he married his first wife,
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or of her name. By her he had four children : Spencer ; Isaiah ; Mary C., and Michiel. All these children remained in Massachusetts, except Mary, who came with her father to Gorham. She married John Kenniston, and by him had one son. Capt. Thomas's second wife, whom he married in 1800, was Mrs. Mary Smith. Her maiden name was Mary Brackett, daughter of Anthony and Kerenhappuch Brackett of Portland. She married, May 22, 1783, a Mr. Halliday who died soon after, leaving no children, and about the year 1785 she married James Smith, by whom she had four children (see Smith). After the death of Smith, Mary married, as before said, Capt. Isaiah Thomas. Capt. Thomas by his second wife Mary had but one child :
Holmes, b. in Gorham, Aug. 15, 1803, m. Lucy Harding, May 11, 1828.
Capt. Thomas and his family lived on Fort Hill on the farm recently owned by Zenas Chase. Mrs. Mary Thomas, wife of Isaiah, died in 1815, and Capt. Thomas, Aug. 15, 1828.
(2) Holmes Thomas, son of Capt. Isaiah, married Lucy, daughter of Nicholas and Miriam Harding. Children, all born in Gorham :
William E., b. July 5, 1829, m. Caroline Hoyt.
James S., b. Jan. 28, 1834, m. Mrs. Georgiana Knight of Pownal.
Samuel M., b. July 4, 1836, m. Sarah Fickett of Pownal; 2d, - Merritt. Lucy J., b. May 11, 1839, m. Chas. C. Burgess of Durham.
Charles C., b. Mar. 8, 1841, m. Nellie Watts of Pownal.
Holmes Thomas with his family moved to Durham, where his wife Lucy died March 15, 1866, aged 58. Feb. 24; 1867, he married Mrs. Mary H. (Brackett) Tracy, daughter of Nathaniel Brackett of Gorham, and widow of Rev. Jonas Tracy. Mr. Thomas died in Durham, and his wife Mary in Wales.
Tufts Thomas came to Gorham about the year 1776 from Tam- worth, N. H. His wife's name was Fanny Bootman. Children :
James, b. May 7, 1771, m. Charlotte, dau. of Joseph and Mary Libby, Dec. 19, 1795. Ch. recorded in Gorham : Peggy, b. Oct. 4, 1796, d. 1798 ; Polly, b. Nov. 3, 1798, m. Apr., 1821, John Richards, d. May 30, 1847; Sophia, b. Mar. 8, 1800. James Thomas moved to Durham, where other ch. were b .: Sally ; James L .; Elias; Benjamin ; Eliza.
John, b. Sept. 9, 1772, m. Miriam, dau. of Lt. Joshua and Hannah Crockett of Gorham, Jan. 17, 1796. Ch. recorded here: Hannah, b. Dec. 15, 1796; Susan, b. Feb. 22, 1799.
William, b. Mar. 14, 1774, m. Anna Ross, Nov. 29, 1798.
Isaac, b. Dec. 31, 1777 ; have no further record of him.
Tufts Thomas had a daughter by a second wife. She married a Mr. Cobb of Windham.
(2) William Thomas, son of Tufts, lived on a farm near Little Falls, which he purchased of Col. Wm. Tyng ; it being a part of the
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estate of Capt. Alexander Ross, one of the early proprietors of Gor- ham. He married Anna, daughter of James Ross. Children :
Betsey, b. 1799, d. May 30, 1847.
Merrill, b. Aug. 27, ISO1, m. Charlotte Knight, June 10, 1828.
Eliza, b. 1803, m. John Elder; 2d, Jos. Hamblen ; 3d, Wm. Frost.
Samuel F., b.
Sarah, b. 1811, d. Mar. 5, 1817.
Sarah L., b. - , d. Mar. 15, 1847.
William Thomas and his wife, who was a niece of Capt. Alex. Ross, were members of the Socity of Friends, and good citizens. She died Oct. 11, 1836, aged 56, and he, Feb. 25, 1860.
(3) Merrill Thomas, son of William, lived at Little Falls, a much respected citizen, for several years one of the selectmen of Gorham. He married Charlotte, daughter of Joseph and Mary Knight. Children :
Charles M. T., b. Mar. 16, 1829, m. Sophronia Webb; d. Jan. 6, 1900.
Mary A., b. Nov. 10, 1832, m. John F. Smith of Standish (who was in trade for some years at Little Falls).
Eliza F., b. Nov. 10, 1835, m. Joseph Nason; d. Apr., 1873.
Charlotte K., ( b. Nov. 21, 1838, 3 d. Dec. 9, 1838. [ m. Josiah C. Shirley. Albert,
Georgiana, b. Aug. 2, 1842, m. Chas. E. Emery.
Merrill Thomas died in January, 1885, and his wife, July 7, 1895. The farm on which he lived is now owned by George Thomas of Portland. The buildings are burned.
THOMES.
Thomas Thomes was an inhabitant of Falmouth Neck as early as 1716. He built and lived in a house which stood in Clay Cove. He and his wife Elizabeth united with Parson Smith's church in 1738. March 13, 1721 Mr. Thomes received a grant of land on the Neck. This grant his son Thomas sold in 1765 to John Thomes of Falmouth. Thomas and Elizabeth had at least three sons, Joseph, who married Mary , John, who married Mary , and Thomas.
Joseph and Mary had a son Joseph who married Sarah Pickering in 1759. Joseph, Jr. and four of his brothers were lost at sea. Several of Joseph Jr.'s children lived in Gorham, the family coming out here soon after the burning of Falmouth by the British.
Thomas Thomes, son of Thomas, married Mary They joined the church in Falmouth in 1743. There is no perfect record of their children but there were :
Betty, bapt. in Falmonth in 1743.
George, b. about 1745, m. Lydia Brown, Apr. 6, 1780.
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Samuel, b. about 1747, m. Sarah Lombard, Dec. 23, 1779.
Charles, b. about 1750, m. Anna Gray, Sept. 1, 1782.
Amos, b. about 1755, m. in Portland, Mehitable Burnell, Dec. 20, 1781, and shortly after moved to Pearsonstown. Amos Thomes was a member of Capt. Whitmore's Gorham militia company in 1777. In this year also his name first appears on a Gorham tax bill.
Comfort, b. - -, m. Andrew Cates, Oct. 6, 1785.
Susanna, b. - -, m. James Gray, Jan. 2, 1791.
Some time previous to the year 1763 Thomas Thomes and his wife Mary came to Gorham where they took up and cleared land on the easterly side of what is now the Fort Hill road. This land is now owned by the widow and children of Leonard Roberts, the great- grandson of Thomas, and son of Mary Thomes who married Joshua Roberts. In clearing this land a large apple tree was found among the trees of the forest, and was carefully preserved. This was doubtless the first apple tree in Gorham. It stood a little south of Leonard Roberts' house, near the foot of the hill, close to the spring. It is very probable that the Indians dropped the seed there. Our informant, an elderly man and a descendant of the Thomes family, says he well remembers the tree, and when a boy, often gathered apples from it. One year seventeen barrels of cider were made from the apples gathered from this tree. After the tree had grown old and begun to decay, the hollow in its trunk was large enough to con- tain a full grown person, and on more than one occasion served to do so as a shelter from the storm. Thomas Thomes died Dec. 16, 1790. His wife Mary died Dec. 13, 1786. 1
(2) George Thomes, son of Thomas, came to Gorham with his father. He lived at West Gorham where Alonzo Douglass now lives. He married Lydia, daughter of Ezra and Mary Brown of Windham. Children :
Betty, b. Mar. 1, 1781, m. Joseph Brown, Nov. 5, 1801.
Ezra, b. May 18, 1782, d. unm. in Harrison, June 16, 1818.
Mary, b Dec. 20, 1783, m. Jacob Emerson, of Harrison.
William, b. Feb. 13, 1787, m. Sally Plaisted, Mar. 18, 1817; 2d, Hannah Plaisted. Amos, b. Oct. 30, 1788, m. Abigail Higgins, Mar. 29, 1810; went to Harrison. Eunice, b. Dec. 20, 1790, m. Joseph Plaisted, Dec. 5, 1820 ; I'd in Harrison. Mehitable, b. Dec. 7, 1792, m. John Johnson of Harrison.
Lydia, b. Nov. 22, 1795, m. Jeremiah Staples of Buxton, Sept. 24, 1821.
Nancy, b. June 3, 1799, m. Zebulon Johnson, 1821 ; I'd in Harrison.
George Thomes died April 28, 1821, aged 76. His wife Lydia died May 13, 1822, aged 67 years.
(2) Samuel Thomes, son of Thomas, lived'at West Gorham where Granville Clements now lives. He married Sarah, daughter of John Lombard. Children :
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Sarah, b. Sept. 7, 1781, m. Moses Baker, Feb. 28, 1800.
Nathaniel, b. Jan. 23, 1784, m. Mary Higgins, Jan. 29, 1807.
George, b. - -, I'd in Bethel; was a Universalist minister.
Samuel, b. -, m. Betsey Harmon, Sept. 9, 1810; I'd in Denmark.
Samuel Thomes died March 3, 1798, aged 51. His wife Sarah died May 20, 1846, aged 83.
(2) Charles Thomes, son of Thomas, was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary army. He made his way home to Gorham on foot in nine days and a half from Peekskill, N. Y., where he was discharged from the army. He lived on the Fort Hill road on the old homestead. He married Anna Gray. Children :
Comfort, b. Apr. 19, 1785, d. unm. Feb. 7, 1857.
James, b. Nov. 27, 1786, m.'Abigail Libby, Feb. 28, 1819 ; d. Nov. 9, 1865.
Susanna, b. July 3, 1788, m. Stuart Green, Sept. 13, 1835 ; d. in Hiram.
Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1789, m. Joshua Roberts, Apr. 15, 1810.
Job, b. May 19, 1791, served in War of 1812 ; d. unm. Dec. 7, 1843. Hannab, b. Oct. 12, 1793, d. unm.
Martha B., b. June 17, 1795, m. Cyrus Hamblen, Apr. 29, 1846.
Stephen H., b. Apr. 13, 1797, m. Abigail Twombly, Mar. 24, 1833; 2d, Ann Berry.
Joseph C., b. Aug. 26, 1800, m. Catherine Bacon, Nov. 15, 1829 ; I'd in Harrison ; d. May 22, 1859.
Charles Thomes died Nov. 25, 1833, aged 83 years, 9 mos. His wife Anna died July 14, 1824, aged 63.
(3) William Thomes, son of George, lived on the road from West Gorham to Fort Hill, on the place where his father had lived before him. He married Sally, daughter of Andrew and Molly Plaisted. Children :
Miranda P., b. Oct. 25, 1818, d. unm. Nov. 22, 1895.
Octavia, b. Oct. 3, 1823, m. Israel S. Hopkinson of Limington, Jan. 15, 1850.
Mrs. Sarah Thomes died April 7, 1852, aged 64, and Major Thomes married, March 17, 1854, her sister Hannah. He died Sept. 3, 1861, aged 75, and his wife Hannah, April 26, 1874, aged 71.
(3) Nathaniel Thomes, son of Samuel, lived at West Gorham, on his father's place. He married Mary, daughter of Capt. Joseph Higgins. Children :
Catherine, b. May 3, 1808, m. Samuel Merrill, Apr. 22, 1847 ; d. June 20, 1848. Eleanor, b. 1812, d. Nov. 19, 1830.
Frank, b. 1817, m. Salome Gilkey (adopted dau. of Jos. Gilkey) ; moved to Ill.
Major Nathaniel Thomes moved to Standish, where he died June 3, 1850, aged 66. His wife Mary died at Bunker Hill, Ill., Feb. 26, 1874, aged 87.
(3) Stephen H. Thomes, son of Charles, married Abigail, daughter of Andrew Twombly. She died Feb. 4, 1838, and he married, in 1839, Ann, daughter of Joshua Berry. They had one son :
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Charles B., b. in Windham, m. Caroline Johnson, May 22, 1864; d. on Fort Hill, Feb. 7, 1873, aged 31 ; his widow m. Benj. L. Harmon, and d. Feb. 10, 1876, aged 28.
Stephen H. Thomes died in Windham, April 13, 1847, and his widow married Robert Files. She died June 1, 1871, aged 71.
Ebenezer Scott Thomes was the son of Joseph and Sarah (Picker- ing) Thomes, of whom we have already spoken. He was in town as early as 1777. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a member of Capt. Whitmore's militia company, in Col. Fogg's regiment. He married Mary, daughter of Moses Plummer of Scarborough, (pub. Sept. 23, 1780,) by whom he had two children, Moses and Abigail. He left Gorham about 1787, and afterwards lived in N. Yarmouth and Scarborough.
Ebenezer S. Thomes had a number of brothers and sisters, among whom were Joseph who married, July 12, 1781, Abigail Weston of Buxton who was the daughter of Thomas and Abigail Weston of Gor- ham, and Esther who married, Sept. 28, 1786, Samuel Files of Gorham.
Ezra Thombs, born in 1812, was the fourth son of Joseph and Betty (Thomes) Brown of Windham. He was brought up by his uncle Joseph Plaisted of Harrison, and took the name of Ezra Thombs. About 1835 he came to Gorham and worked for nine years for Robert Johnson. In 1845 he bought the old Dr. Swett place above Fort Hill, where his son Llewellyn now resides. Here he lived till his death. He married, May 22, 1844, Sarah J. Brackett of Westbrook. Children :
Llewellyn T., b. Apr. 2, 1846, m. Rebecca E. Elliott.
Samuel B., b. Apr. 22, 1853, is a physician in Portland.
Mr. Thombs died July 23, 1895, and his wife, Dec. 19, 1892.
THURRELL.
The Thurrell, or Thurlo, family came to Gorham from Berwick, where Richard " Thurold " joined the church by profession of faith March 27, 1719/20, and Ann, his wife, Jan. 30, 1741/2. Their children :
James, b. - , m. Judith Crediford, June 4, 1749.
Jonathan (?), b. ---- , m. Sarah Grant, July 26, 1749.
Mary, bapt. Sept. 11, 1740.
Jacob, bapt. Sept. 11, 1740.
Ann, bapt. Sept. 11, 1740.
Jerusha, bapt. Sept. 11, 1740.
John, bapt. Mar. 27, 1743/4, I'd in Gorham ; enlisted in Capt. Stuart's company in 1775; was a sergeant in the following year under the same captain,
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and was at Bagaduce in 1779 under Capt. Wm. McCobb; was "out of town " in 1782.
Ann, b. May 13, 1746.
Abigail, b. Apr. 8, 1752.
James Thurrell, son of Richard, was in town as early as May, 1766. He lived on the north half of the hundred acre lot, 38. His house stood just east of where the house of Freeman Richardson now stands. This lot was granted and laid out to Joseph Weston, of whom Thurrell purchased it together with the buildings thereon. In 1772 James sold the south half of this lot to his son Richard of Windham. James Thurrell was a soldier of the Revolution, a mem- ber of Capt. Stuart's company in 1776. He married in Berwick, Judith Crediford. We have no list of the children of James and Judith Thurrell, but their son Davis was baptized in Berwick, April 8, 1752, and married Jan. 28, 1773, Abigail, daughter of Stephen and Sea Fair Manchester, born Nov. 19, 1753. In July, 1777, Davis Thurrell sold to John Thurrell the south half of the seventy acre lot, 72, which lot he had purchased of Enoch Ilsley. This lot, which now forms a part of the farm of Augustus F. Kemp near White Rock, Davis Thurrell in 1782 sold to Amos Brown of Gorham, and left town. In 1797 he and Richard, both being then " of a plantation called Sabbath Day Pond plantation " (New Gloucester) sold land in Buckfield. He is said by some to have lived in Poland.
Another son of James Thurrell was Richard. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a member of Capt. Paul Ellis's company in 1776. He lived at one time in Windham.
There was an Asa Thurrell who lived in Gorham, who may have been a son of James. He also served in the Revolutionary army, being in Capt. Martin's company in the Rhode Island service, and in 1779 was at Bagaduce under Capt. Mclellan. He left Gorham about 1782, and is thought to have gone to Shephardsfield (now Hebron). It is possible that he is the Asa Thurrell who, with his wife Abigail, sold land in Hebron in 1794.
A James Thurrell of Gorham was published Nov. 25, 1780 to Elizabeth Philbrick.
TOWLE.
The first of the name on the Gorham records, Jeremiah Towle, came from Hampton, N. H., to Gorham about the year 1787. He married Jan. 20, 1791, Martha, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Harding, and lived on the farm once owned by his father-in-law. Children :
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Jael, b. May 22, 1791, m. John McQuillan, May 4, 1817.
William, b.
Theophilus, b. Feb. 1, 1794, moved to Cherryfield.
Stephen, b. Dec. 14, 1795, m. Miriam Plummer of Scarboro, Dec. 25, 1825.
Martha, b. Apr. 25, 1799, m. Samuel Lombard, Apr. 8, 1832.
Mary Ann, b. Nov. 10, 1804, m. Jonathan Hamblen, p. Oct. 18, 1835.
Jeremiah Towle died March 17, 1846, aged 78 years.
Abner Towle was a brother of Jeremiah Towle. He lived on the eastern side of South St., near where the house of Daniel Whittier now stands. He married Mary C., daughter of Capt. Josiah and Prudence Jenkins. Children :
Cynthia, b. May 1, 1806, m. Ira Baker, Dec. 20, 1842.
Lorenzo, b. Feb. 17, 1808, m. Harriet Merrill, Oct. 10, 1830.
Edward C., b. Mar. 19, 1809, m. Martha Bryant.
Robert H., b. Sept 11, 1810, d. unm. Dec. 14, 1896.
Miriam B., b. Oct. 8, 1812, m. Samuel T. Buck, p. Sept. 12, 1836; d. Nov. 11, 1890.
Henry, b. Sept. 11, 1814, m. Adeline Hill of Portland.
Brainard, b. July 25, 1815, I'd in Boston.
Serena, b. May 7, 1818, d. June 20, 1840.
Mary M., b. Apr. 26, 1820, d. unm. Mar. 6, 1887.
Almira, b. Apr. 11, 1823, m. Eli Clay of Hiram in 1841.
Catherine, b. Nov. 25, 1827, m. John E. Naylor, Mar. 23, 1857; 2d, J. Holmes Smith.
Abner Towle died Nov. 8, 1860, aged 80, and his wife Mary, July 22, 1849, aged 64.
TRYON.
Simeon Tryon, a descendant of William Tryon who came from England and settled in Wethersfield, Conn., about 1673, was a grad- Date of Yale College in 1769. In 1776 he enlisted in the Continental army as a first lieutenant. He was a physician, and the family tradition, first given by his widow, is, that while serving as surgeon in the army, he died of small pox, at West Point, in 1778. He mar- ried, in 1772, Bethiah Harding Brown, who was born in Eastham, Mass., and was the daughter of - and Martha ( ---- ) Brown. After the death of her husband and the burning, by the British, of her house at New Fairfield, Conn., Mrs. Tryon came with her chil- dren to reside in Gorham, where her brothers, Samuel and Sylvanus Brown, and her sister, Mrs. Martha A. Harding, had settled. Her children were :
Jane, b. in Fredericksburg, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1774, d. Sept. 18, 1795. ยท
James, b. in Fredericksburg, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1776. While engaged in assisting to raise the frame of the First Parish meeting house, June 8, 1797, James Tryon was so injured by the giving way of some of the rigging, and by the falling timbers, that he died the following day, June 9, 1797.
Simeon, b. in New Fairfield, Conn., Sept. 28, 1778, m. Feb. 16, 1802, Mercy Cook; 2d, Jane Cook; daus. of Saul and Elizabeth (Snow) Cook.
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Saul Cook was b. in Marshfield, Mass., May 27, 1757, and was the son of Barnabas Cook, and prob. brother to Mrs. Mercy Higgins and Mrs. Dorcas Snow of Gorham. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Edward and Martha (-) (Brown) Snow, and half-sister to Mrs. Bethiah Tryon. Saul Cook was a soldier of the Revolution. He settled in Litchfield. Simeon Tryon set- tled in North Pownal. He d. Aug. 7, 1847.
Mrs. Bethiah H. Tryon left Gorham about 1800, going with her son Simeon. She died at North Pownal, March 19, 1838, aged 94.
TWOMBLY.
Andrew Twombly came to Gorham about 1819, when he exchanged his farm in Poland with the Shakers, for a part of their Gorham property. His first wife was Mary Huston, and their children, born in Poland, were :
Solomon, d. unm.
Harry, lost at sea.
William, m. Lucy Perry; moved to N. Yarmouth ; d. there.
Eliza, m. Col. Jabez Cushing of N. Yarmouth, Mar. 10, 1827.
Abigail, m. Stephen H. Thomes, Mar. 24, 1833.
Mrs. Mary Twombly died in Poland, and Mr. Twombly married, Mrs. Ruth (Wilson) Merrill. Children :
Andrew, m. Bethia Whitney.
Charles, m. Jane Wyman.
Deborah, d. unm. about 1840.
Andrew Twombly died Aug. 15, 1856, aged 88. Mrs. Twombly died Jan. 26, 1859, aged 81.
(2) Andrew Twombly, Jr., son of Andrew, lived in the Shaker neighborhood, in the house formerly occupied by his father. He was a soldier in the Madawaska war. He married Bethia Whitney of Standish. Children :
Wilson, b. July 12, 1844, m. Georgie Maxim of Byron; served two enlistments in the Civil War.
George, b. Apr. 8, 1846, m. Emma Brooks; d. Mar. 1, 1879.
Jennie, b. July 12, 1854.
Mr. Twombly died April 6, 1874, and Mrs. Twombly, Oct. 29, 1874.
TYLER.
James Tyler was a clothier and fuller by trade. He came to Gor- ham, probably, about 1794. He lived in the one-story house above Little river bridge, on the eastern side of the Fort Hill road, where Peter Whitney since lived, and carried on the principal part of his business at the mill by the bridge. He had his fulling-mill and dye- house on the Blenham falls below. He sold out his part of the
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Blenham lot, 122, with the privileges and all the buildings, to Willard Buttrick, Feb. 23, 1801. He married, Dec. 11, 1796, Frances, daugh- ter of Judge William Gorham. They had one child :
William, b. June, 1798, d. Oct. 20, 1798.
Mrs. Frances Tyler died at the home of her father, Sept. 22, 1798, aged 24. James Tyler married for his second wife, Dorcas Bridges of Andover, Mass., (pub. Jan. 11, 1800).
Capt. Abraham Tyler, son of James and Phebe Tyler of Scar- borough, lived in Scarborough, where he was the last person to keep the Blue Point ferry. He was a soldier of the Revolution, being a captain for two years under Col. Edmund Phinney. He married, Aug. 11, 1743, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown of Biddeford, who was probably his second wife.
Joseph, Daniel, and James Tyler were sons of Abraham and Martha Tyler of Scarborough, and probably grandsons of Capt. Abraham. Abraham Tyler, their father, married second, in 1809, Mrs. Sarah Jordan, widow of Benjamin A. Jordan of Gorham. He is probably the Abraham Tyler who died in Gorham, June 26, 1816, aged 77 years.
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