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POOL.
MELVIN POOL, son of Joshua, of Norway, married Abigail Bryant, daughter of Solomon, and once lived in this town. He was first taxed here in 1827. He moved from here to Green- wood. His son Calvin was taxed here in 1837, and Thomas in 1839. Besides these, he had William, Joshua, George, Francis and Frederick, and perhaps others. He also had sev- eral daughters. They all left town many years ago.
RAND.
LAZARUS RAND, born July 29, 1755, died in 1816, was living in the east part of the town in 1815. His wife, Betsey, was born October 9, 1757. Their children recorded on our records,
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are ; David, b. June 21, 1787, m. Rachel Townsend, he emigrated to Ohio ; Eunice, b. May 31, 1792, m. Daniel Cox, of Sumner ; Lydia, b. April 24, 1794; William, b. October 24, 1800, m. Rebecca Crockett ; Christania, b. May 16, 1802, m. Jacob Hasey.
RANDALL.
JOHN and RUFUS S. RANDALL, both master mariners, were here occasionally with their mother, who married Joseph Frye. They were the sons of Robert Randall, grandsons of Robert, and great-grandsons of Nathaniel, who came from Scituate, Mass., and settled in North Yarmouth; their mother was Lydia Mitchell, daughter of Jonathan, of Cape Elizabeth. Both of these sons commenced before the mast and worked their way up to command large ships. John is now in California, and Rufus in Freeport. Rufus married Annie Townsend, of Free- port, daughter of Earl and Sarah (Hoyt) Townsend, and has six children. Mrs. Randall has spent most of her married life on the ocean with her husband, having made voyages with him to several countries of Europe, to South America, the West Indies and to Hong Kong. Captain Rufus has been an energetic and successful shipmaster, and has retired on a competency to the quiet town of Freeport, to spend the remainder of his days in pursuits of agriculture.
RICKER.
DAVID RICKER, son of David and Lydia (Noble), of Somers- worth, N. H., born August 18, 1776, married Lydia Chase, daughter of Enoch, of Dover, born October 16, 1777, and came to Minot, where he was in the employ of Michael Little, and thence came here in 1805. He began on the farm where he died, and where his son David now lives. His children, all except the oldest, born in Woodstock, were:
CAPT. RUFUS S. RANDALL.
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I Mary, b. July 11, 1804 ; never married.
II Eliza, b. August 31, 1805 ; m. Alexander Day, Jr.
III Lucy, b. March 7, 1806; never married.
IV David, b. June 19, 1809 ; m. first, Eunice Estes ; second, Lois Bryant.
Thomas N., b. September 26, 1814 ; m. Mary Wood, of Hebron.
VI Harriet, b. April 11, 1817 ; m. John Wyman.
DAVID, son of the preceding, was born in and has always resided in Woodstock. His first wife was Eunice A. Estes, and the second Lois Bryant. He is a farmer, brick mason and car- penter, and has also been an occasional preacher in the Baptist denomination for many years. He had no children by his first wife, but by his second wife he had :
George W., b. September 23, 1834; m. Etta, daughter of Rev. M. Lawrence, of Sumner. He was a soldier in the late war, and died a few years after his discharge, of consumption.
Eunice, b. September 6, 1835 ; m. Ephraim M. Lawrence ; resides in Wood- stock.
Eliza R., b. June 14, 1837; m. Isaac F. Lapham, and has Lois A., b. Octo- ber 30, 1856, m. Edward T. Packard; and Ernest M., b. September 4, 1867. All reside in Litchfield.
Dustin B., b. June 28, 1841 ; m. Elizabeth Lawrence.
Ruth, b. February 4, 1843 ; unmarried.
Lois A., b. August 3, 1845; d. March 6, 1846.
David I., b. September 9, 1850; d. September 3, 1854.
THOMAS N., son of David Ricker, Senior, is a blacksmith, and resides at Bryant's Pond, but formerly at Rumford. His wife was Mary Wood, of Hebron. Children :
Rozina E., b. August 1, 1841 ; m. Charles A. Young. She died April 11, 1865.
Augusta M., b. April 26, 1843; unmarried.
Charles H., b. November 27, 1844; d. August 21, 1851.
Della A., b. July 23, 1847; m. George Davis and resides in Auburn.
Charles H., b. December 15, 1852 ; m. and lives in Auburn.
T. Willard, b. October 9, 1856.
Arthur C., b. December 21, 1858.
. ROBBINS.
Several families of Robbins have lived in this town, but few of them are upon the town records, and only a small number bearing this name now remain here.
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NATHANIEL ROBBINS, originally of Plymouth County, Mass., came here from Sumner about the year 1835. His wife was Ruth Robbins, daughter of Eleazer, also of Plymouth County, Mass., and Sumner, and he had sons, Charles, Nathaniel, Jr., Oliver, Thomas A. and Samuel, and perhaps others. Charles Robbins m. Mary A. Cotton, and was living here in 1835; Oliver, m. in 1829, Ann S. Thurlow, and in 1846, was living near the saw mill north of Pinhook. He also had daughters, Rebecca, m. Cyrus Andrews, and Lois C., m. Mark F. Cotton, and perhaps others. Harriet H. Robbins, daughter of Nathaniel, Jr., married Francis E. Hammond ; Emily R. Robbins married Isaac Dunham ; Eliza Robbins married Samuel Hammond.
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OLIVER ROBBINS, son of Eleazer, of Sumner, his wife a Tripp, came from Sumner to this town in 1837, and settled on a lot between Sigotch and West Sumner, on the County road. He had Susannah, died unmarried; Oliver, Jr., and Elvira, who married Lyman R. Durell, adopted son of Antepast. Oliver, Jr., was three times married : first, to Calista Knight, of Peru, second to Eliza Dunn, of Sumner, and third, to Judith T. Perry, of Woodstock. He lives on the old homestead of his father, and is an intelligent and thrifty farmer. His daughter Estella married Nathan H. Perry, formerly of Woodstock.
ROWE.
BENJAMIN ROWE, born February 8, 1767, in Gloucester, Mass., came to New Gloucester and thence to Norway, being one of the early settlers in the latter town. He married first, February 2, 1790, Judith Rowe, of New Gloucester, and had :
I Judith, b. November 7, 1790.
His wife died December 17, 1790, and for second wife, he married February 20, 1792, Elizabeth Jordan, and had :
II Simeon, b. November 21, 1792, died March 2, 1864.
III Timothy, b. May 19, 1794, d. July 8, 1800.
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IV Solomon, b. July 29, 1796, m. Hannah Millett.
V William, b. March 20, 1800.
VI Willison, b. March 10, 1802.
VII Joseph, b. February 15, 1805.
VIII Harriet, b. May 21, 1807.
Benjamin Rowe died January 13, 1859, and his second wife October 17, 1852; both died and are buried in Norway.
SIMEON ROWE, eldest son of the preceding, married December 28, 1818, Rebecca Merrill, born in Andover, Mass. He lived in that part of Hebron that is now Oxford, and came to this town in 1833, and settled on half of wild lot number 67, in the west part. Here he lived twenty-four years, and then moved, with his son, to the Bartholomew Cushman farm, where he died as above. His wife died July 9, 1860. Children :
I Merrill Jordan, b. October 18, 1819, m. December 22, 1824, Betsey G. Perham, daughter of Joel, and had Edwin Merrill, b. September 6, 1844, d. March 7, 1861 ; Ellen E., b. November 26, 1849, d. March 10, 1861; Edwin.M., b. May 2, 1858, m. June 1, 1879, Annie C. Burn- ham, and has two children. Merrill Rowe now resides in Norway.
Il Judith, b. June 22, 1822, m. Atwood Rowe; no children.
III Benjamin E., b. August 16, 1824, d. March 13, 1825.
IV Harriet S., b. November 29, 1827, m. Augustus Billings, son of Jon- athan, and has always lived in Woodstock,
v Infant, b. February 10, 1833, died February 12, 1833.
WILLIAM ROWE, brother of the preceding, came to Woodstock and settled on the other half of the same lot as his brother. His wife was Sarah Merrill, sister of Simeon's wife. They had Newell F., m. Sarah A. Bryant, daughter of Abram, of Bethel, and had six children, all of whom died of diphtheria in 1861; Semantha, m. Benj. F. Farrar and died in Woodstock; Ellery, m. Mary A. Hathaway, daughter of Lazarus, of Paris, and has resided many years in Portland ; Daniel, m. and moved to Saco ; Willison, m. Laura A. Billings, daughter of Silas, and moved to Oxford.
JOSEPH ROWE, brother of the preceding, married Katherine Virgin, of Rumford, and has lived more or less in this town.
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His children are Celia A., m. Edmund E. Landers, son of Seneca ; Henry, m. and lives in Boston; Mary, m. Wallace Besse and died in Buckfield; Sarah J., m. Benj. D. Thurlo; and Charles.
. HARRIET ROWE, sister of preceding, married Enoch French ; they lived in this town, on a lot adjoining Simeon Rowe's on the east. Subsequently, they lived in Greenwood, Oxford and Paris. They had one son, Harrison, who married and lives in Bethel. Harriet died in Paris.
STEPHEN P. ROWE, distantly related to the families already mentioned, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Whittemore) and grand- son of John, who was brother of Benjamin, of Norway, came here from Greenwood and built a house' at Bryant's Pond. He was born July 4, 1815, and married first, Elizabeth P. Mixer, of Oxford, and second, Ruth B. Stevens, of Norway. His children by the first wife, were: Augustus L., b. January 26, 1841, m. Lucinda Pray, and by second, Lizzie, b. September 8, 1849, m. Eli B. Whitman, son of Zeri, of Hebron.
ISAAC A. ROWE, brother of the preceding, also came here from Greenwood and repaired up the mill at North Woodstock, which he operated until he died. He married Judith Rowe, daughter of Simeon, ante, who survived him and became the wife of Cyrus Millett.
RUSS.
HORATIO G. Russ, born in New Sharon, Franklin County, whose first wife was a Houghton, daughter of Moses, and second wife, a Rust, from South Paris, was here in 1843, and carried on the clover mill above Pinhook. He was not here long. He died in Livermore several years ago.
JAMES RUSS, brother of the preceding, was here in 1843. His wife was an Adams, of Boothbay. He was a clothier and cloth dresser by trade, but carried on a farm here. . He was a soldier in the late war, and died from disease contracted in the
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service. He had several sons ; Benton, m. Jane Cushman, daughter of Geo. W .; Samuel, m. Sibyl J. Felt, daughter of Jeremiah ; Henry H., m. Alice J. Cotton. His daughter, Nettie F., m. James F. Bragg.
RUSSELL.
MOSES M. RUSSELL came here from Newry, and lived in the Billings neighborhood; he afterwards moved to Pinhook. He had a family, and one of his sons once kept the Bryant's Pond House
SESSIONS.
DARIUS SESSIONS, whose parents lived in Newry and after- wards in Milton Plantation, lived a while in this town, and the births of three of his children are here recorded, namely : Francis C., b. July 13, 1844; Asa O., b. January 1, 1846, and Betsey E., b. August 1, 1847. His wife was Eunice Chase, daughter of Merrill, Jr. They had other children after leaving this town.
SHAW.
ELEAZER C. SHAW came here in March, 1830, and suceeded John R. Briggs, in the store at Stephens' Mills. He was the son of Gilbert and Silence (Cole) Shaw, of Paris, and was born May 10, 1807. His wife was Polly Kinsley, daughter of Azel, of Minot, born October 26, 1809. He moved from here to Paris and thence to Portland. While here, he was Town Clerk and Postmaster. He moved from here to Paris, in December, 1837. His children were : Charles H., b. December 16, 1830, and George R., b. May 5, 1844.
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STARBIRD.
JOHN STARBIRD was here at the time the town was incorpor- ated. In 1825, his farm was set off to Paris. He was born October 3, 1767, and his wife, Sally Tobey, September 20, 1772. His children were : Hannah, b. November 6, 1796, m. Thayer Townsend ; Sally, b. September 9, 1798; John, b. August 11, 1800, m. Betsey Benson, of Sumner ; Jemima T., b. February 3, 1802 ; Louisa, b. September 9, 1803, m. Jacob Brown ; Levi H., b. August 20, 1806; Richard T., b. March 31, 1808; Martha M., b. May 29, 1810 ; Stephen R., b. May 16, 1812; Dorothy, b. September 11, 1815, m. John M. Bowker.
CLARENDON STARBIRD, probably son of John, Jr., came to Woodstock and married Eliza, daughter of Eli Bryant, and re- mained here some years. He died here several years ago.
STEPHENS.
Capt. SAMUEL STEPHENS, whose first wife was a Howard, is said to have come from Plymouth County, Mass., to Paris. He moved from there into Woodstock, and was here at the time of taking the first town census in 1815. He bought the mill built by Rowse Bisbee, near Abel Bacon's, and owned also the farm on which Bacon lives. He was a highly respected citizen, holding town office frequently, and serving two terms in the State Legislature. His second wife was Emma Swan, daughter of William. The children by first wife, were Samuel, married Betsey Doten ; he was killed while working in Locke's Mill, in Greenwood, and his widow married Capt. Barrett, of Sumner ; Eleazer married and lived in Paris; Desire married Artemas Felt. By second wife he had: Jesse, b. December 12, 1802, m. Abigail T. Lurvey; he was a Methodist preacher, and became insane and committed suicide, under the influence of
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Miller's doctrine of the Second Advent, in 1843; Emma, b. December 30, 1804, m. Richard T. Lurvey; Benjamin, b. March 28, 1807, m. Julia M. Davis; she has daughters Esther and Emma, and a son Oren, who is a physician in Oxford ; Oren, b. October 6, 1809, died young ; Jane, b. April 29, 1812, m. Joseph Davis, and Mary, b. April 9, 1815.
EZRA STEPHENS came here from West Paris. His father, Benjamin Stephens, whose wife was a Sampson, occupied a farm near Trap Corner, in that town. Ezra married an Andrews, of North Paris; he was for a long time an itinerant peddler and watch and clock repairer, but when he came to Bryant's Pond, he went into general trade. He has several children, the oldest of whom, Cora M., is the wife of E. C. Allen, of Norway.
STEVENS.
FRANCIS F. STEVENS came here from Bethel in 1851, and married Charlotte, daughter of Eli Bryant. His father was Joseph, of Norway. Francis F. lived on a farm near the old Hannaford hotel afterwards occupied as a dwelling by Jacob Whitman. He moved to Norway several years ago.
BENJAMIN STEVENS, son of John and Lucy (Mugford), of Bethel, formerly of Gorham, for a year or two kept a livery stable at Bryant's Pond. He went back to Bethel. He married first, Harriet Swift, of Lewiston, and second, Lydia Robertson, of Bethel.
· SWAN.
WILLIAM SWAN, an early settler in Paris, and among the first families in Woodstock, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Septem- ber 4, 1737. He was the son of John and Elizabeth, his wife,
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grandson of Gershom and Sarah Holden, and great-grandson of John Swan, who came from England as a servant in the family of Mr. Thomas Bittlestone, in whose recorded will it is provided that his wife, Elizabeth, shall have the services of his boy, John Swan, and shall pay him five pounds. John Swan, the emigrant, married Rebecca Palfrey, and had a grant of land in Cambridge, of twenty acres. Many of his descendants settled in Woburn, and among them was William. He was a soldier in the war for independence and a pensioner. He came to Paris with a large family, and lived there several years. About the year 1802 he moved to Woodstock, accompanied by his son William, Jr., who was then married, and his grandson Gideon, who was then fifteen years old. They settled on the " Thousand Acres, " so called, on the west side of the old County road. They built the first framed barn in the plantation, which is still standing on the old farm sometimes called the Gilbert place. William Swan, Senior, bought the improvements made by Luther Briggs, on the opposite side of the road, on the place now occupied by Samuel S. Swan. The frame house on this place is the oldest in town. The children of William Swan and Lucy Robbins, were :
I Lydia, b. November 16, 1761, never married.
II William, b. July 3, 1763, m. Bethiah Pratt.
III Betsey, m. Calvin Cole, of Paris.
IV Emma, b. September 2, 1767, m. Samuel Stephens.
v Sally, b. August 21, 1774, m. Solomon Bryant, Jr.
VI Susannah, b. March 24, 1777, m. Christopher Bryant.
WILLIAM SWAN, JR., was married October 15, 1790, by Ichabod Bonney, Esq., of Turner, to Bethiah Pratt, of Paris. He lived to an advanced age, and died in Woodstock, we believe of measles. His children, born in Paris and Woodstock, were:
I William, Jr., b. May 18, 1792, m. first, Hannah, daughter of Samuel B. Locke, of Bethel, and second, widow Twitchell, of Norway, whose maiden name was Bird, daughter of John, of Norway. He lived in Paris the last years of his life, and died in 1880. He had a large family residing in Paris and elsewhere.
II Oliver, b. January 15, 1797, m. Rhoda Bryant, daughter of Samuel,
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of Woodstock, and reared a large family. He also moved to Paris, and died there many years ago.
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John, b. June 8, 1799, m. Louisa Briggs, daughter of Luther. He moved to Greenwood, where he left children.
IV Moses, b. December 1, 1801, m. Mary Locke, sister of his brother William's wife. He was a carpenter, and he and his wife went to California and both died there. They left two daughters, Lucetta,
who is married in Chicago, and Mary, who resides in California. Aaron, b. December 1, 1801, d. February 16, 1815.
VI Lucy, b. May 3, 1804, m. John R. Briggs.
VI Bethiah, b. May 3, 1804, m. Luther Briggs.
VII Emma, b. April 6, 1807, d. young.
VIII Samuel S., b. April 10, 1811, m. Sabra Dacy. He also married a second time.
IX Edmund, b. February 14, 1814, m. Elmira Morgan, of Greenwood. He died in Greenwood.
GIDEON SWAN, son of Lucy and grandson of William, Senior, as stated, came to Woodstock when fifteen years of age, and died here, aged about ninety years. He was the last survivor of the early settlers. He was a carpenter and farmer. His wife was Katie, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Trull) Clifford (see Clifford), and they had six children. A daughter Lucy, m. first, Dexter Billings, second, Levi Churchill, and third, James Lapham.
FOXWELL SWAN (no connection of the William Swan family) came here from Paris and married widow Knight, of North Woodstock. He was the son of James, of Bethel, grandson of James, who came from Methuen to Fryeburg, and then to Bethel, and a descendant of Richard, who was early at Boston, and moved thence to Rowley. Foxwell Swan lived at North Paris many years, and raised up a family there. He died at North Woodstock, at an advanced age.
THORN.
SAMUEL THORN came to Sigotch from Phillips. He lived in a log house on the shore of Concord Pond, on land now owned
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by Benjamin Davis. By his first wife he had Hannah, Abbie, Louisa, married George S. Webster, Barnet, married Julia F. Farrar, of Milton Plantation, and Edmund. For second wife, Samuel Thorn married Amy Dolloff, daughter of Abner, and had Samuel, Abby, Sarah, Rosannah and William D., who mar- ried Violetta D. Wing. Edmund and Samuel both died in the army.
THURLO.
ASA THURLO, or Thurlow, as his descendants write the name, born June 3, 1760, with wife Abigail, came early into Wood- stock from Buckfield, and settled on the line of the road which afterwards led from the David Ricker place south-easterly to North Paris. His children were :
I Amos, b. May 3, 1784, m. Sarah Keene.
II Judith, b. March 1, 1786, m. Richard Green.
III Mercy, b. December 7, 1793, m. Jeremiah Foster, of Norway.
IV Bethiah, b. February 10, 1796.
Asa, b. August 25, 1798, m. Lucy Billings.
VI» Abigail, b. April 8, 1801, m. Asa Dunham.
VII John, b. April 16, 1804, m. Charity Bessee.
VIII Sally, b. April 27, 1807, m. Jason Hammond.
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AMOS THURLO, son of preceding, his wife a Keene, had Leonard B., b. March 22, 1815 ; Benjamin D., b. March 30, 1819, m. first, Charlotte Fuller, daughter of Harvey, second, Melissa J. Young, daughter of Atwood M., and third, Sarah J. Rowe, daughter of Joseph ; Arvilla, b. September 24, 1821, m. William F. Harvey ; Aaron, b. July 28, 1825, m. Betsey Davis, daughter of Aaron ; Amos, b. January 8, 1828, m. Sylvina Whitman, daughter of Zephaniah B .; they went west and she died there ; Andrew, b. November 4, 1831, died young ; Andrew T., died young.
ASA THURLO, brother of the preceding, had : Miranda, b. October 4, 1823 ; Cyrus, b. December 15, 1815 ; he married a
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daughter of Ezra Ridlon, and was killed at the battle of Spott- sylvania Court House ; Mary, b. December 8, 1828 ; Eliza, J., b. December 8, 1830, m. Ezra Ridlon, Jr .; Jeremiah, b. August 18, 1835; Isaac, b. June 25, 1838; Albion, b. November 29, 1841, and Alpheus, b. February 28, 1845.
JOHN THURLO, brother of the preceding, had : Franklin H., b. September 20, 1830, m. Phebe A. Lane, of New Gloucester ; Nehemiah D., b. June 28, 1832, m. Mrs. Emma C. Thurlo; Nancy C., b. June 27, 1835, m. Eli M. Benson ; Emily J., b. March 28, 1837, m. Wm. H. Severance ; Clarinda, b. March 2, 1841, and Arvilla A., b. May 12, 1845, m. James A. Thompson.
Several families of Thurlow, of a different family than the last, have lived in the east part of the town, in the Lunt neigh- borhood. They came here periodically from Raymond and Auburn, and returned. Some of the names of these were: Abraham, Davis, Emerson, James and Richard, and their fam- ilies. They first began to come here in 1853, and were con- nected by marriage with the Lunts and Youngs, of the same part of the town. They were generally a shiftless lot and often helped by the town.
TOWNSEND.
GEORGE TOWNSEND, born December 6, 1765, with his wife Rachel, born September 20, 1767, was here at the time of the incorporation of the town in 1815. Most of the family went to Ohio. Their children recorded here are: Thayer, b. Decem- ber 17, 1790, m. Hannah Starbird; Rachel, b. April 29, 1792, m. David Rand; William, b. July 22, 1799 ; Melansa, b. Sep- tember 15, 1802 ; Edward T., b. January 21, 1805 ; Susanna, b. May 6, 1807 ; John, b. January 3, 1810; Polly, b. October 10, 1812, and Mercy B., b. August 13, 1814.
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TRUE.
JOHN TRUE, from Poland, son of Jabez, began on the lot in the Curtis neighborhood, which he subsequently sold to Enoch Hammond. He remained in town only a short time and re- turned to Poland; perhaps he never moved his family here, though some things go to show that he did.
TUTTLE.
JOSEPH TUTTLE, son of John and Polly (Snell) Tuttle, came here from Norway in 1858, and, with E. M. Hobbs, bought out the Bryant's Pond House and the stage route to Andover and Dixfield. His father, John Tuttle, was of Turner, and his ancestors from the western part of the State or New Hampshire ; his mother from Poland. He married Martha J. Stevens, daughter of Ethiol, of Greenwood; they had no children. He sold out in 1865, and moved to a farm on the Rumford road, in Bethel. From there he removed to Providence, R. I.
TWITCHELL.
JACOB TWITCHELL, whose wife's name was Betsey, lived in the south part of the town in 1816, and the birth of one child is on our records, namely, Polly, b. April 14, 1816. .
WHITMAN.
JACOB WHITMAN, the first of the name here, was the son of Jacob, of Buckfield, who came there from Bridgewater, Mass., when his son Jacob, Jr., was two years and a half old. He was born October 11, 1779, and married Dorcas Berry, daughter of Deacon William, of Buckfield, born June 16, 1779. In
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1799, in the spring, he came into Woodstock, being the fourth family. He settled on a piece of land which he subsequently bought of Michael Little, being lots numbered 24, 58 and 64, according to Greenwood's survey. He built a log house and planted corn, but his house was burned during his absence, and also his young corn, but he replanted it and raised a good crop. He lived here many years, and was a hard-working and prudent man. He was a lay preacher, and often held meetings in his own and the adjoining towns. His wife died in Woodstock, May 24, 1867, and he in Hebron, September 6, 1873. His children, all born in Woodstock, were :
I Zilpha, b. July 4, 1801, m. Luther Whitman, Jr.
II Abigail, b. February 15, 1803, d. unmarried.
III Jacob, b. December 31, 1805, m. Polly Benson.
IV Zeri, b. August 4, 1807, m. Mary Dale; he died in Hebron, leaving several children.
v Joshua S., b. May 9, 1809, m. Sophia Dacy, daughter of John. He settled in Greenwood.
VI Reuben, b. May 25, 1811, m. Lucy Hodsdon, of Bethel, and moved to the Luther Briggs farm, in the south part of the town.
VII Remember B., b. November 28, 1813, m. Daniel P. Bennett, of Green- wood.
VIII Dorcas, b. March 11, 1816, m. Dustin Bryant, son of Deacon Christo- pher, of Greenwood.
IX Irene, b. May 15, 1818, died unmarried.
X Elon G., b. July 31, 1823, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of Oliver, and lived many years on the old homestead of his father, where he reared a large family of sons and daughters. A few years ago he sold his farm to the town for a town farm, and moved to Greenwood.
LUTHER WHITMAN, formerly better known in this town as Doctor Whitman, elder brother of the preceding, born in Bridge- water, May 5, 1778, married Polly, oldest child of Deacon William Berry, of Buckfield, born February 22, 1775, came to Woodstock in 1800, and settled on land which the following year he bought of Michael Little, it being lot numbered 37, according to Greenwood's survey. Here he spent his days, and died July 20, 1849. His wife died December 28, 1837, and Mr. Whitman, for second wife, married Mrs. Fanny Wight, of
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