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MILITIA.
The first company of militia was organized in 1794. Eben Symmes was chosen Captain, James Crummet, Lieu- tenant, and David Chellis, Ensign. At the second elec- tion Josiah Towle was chosen captain; and at the third election, Captain Towle having been promoted to be major of the regiment, Ensign Chellis was promoted Captain,
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Gideon Straw was elected Lieutenant, and Joseph Dunnels, Ensign. The next year the town was divided into two dis- tricts and reorganized into two companies.
General David Chellis, son of Capt. David, and grandson of William Chellis, was a member of the company, and rose through all the grades from ensign to brigadier-general of the 2d Brigade 1st Division of Maine State Militia. He received his commission as colonel June 11, 1841, and general, June 4, 1842. He is still living in the old Chellis homestead.
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL COURT.
Maj. Josiah Towle, 1809, 1811 ; David Moulton, 1812, 1813, 1814 ; Gamaliel E. Smith, 1819 ; Capt. James Ayer, 1820.
Among the prominent men of the present time are Dr. I. M. Trafton, Dr. Stephen Adams, Roscoe G. Holmes, James M. Moulton, Charles F. Sanborn, Nathan N. Loud, W. D. Ham, Usher B. Thompson.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
SAMUEL C. ADAMS,
second son of Thomas Adams, was born in Newfield, Oct. 11, 1807. He received his education in the common school and at Limerick Academy, and for four years was a teacher. In 1829 he began trade in Acton, where he re- mained for four years, and in 1835 removed to Newfield, where he remained in trade until elected register of deeds for York County, in 1857. He served in this capacity for five years, and returned to Newfield, where he served on the board of enrollment as commissioner for 1864 and 1865. He was a member of the State Senate for 1851-52, and in 1857 was a member of the House. Besides filling various
town offices, he was appointed justice of the peace in 1833, and has held the office continuously until the present time (1879).
In 1833 be married Miss Theodate D., daughter of
Photo. by Conant, Portland.
Samuel L. Adams
Samuel P. Page, of Acton. Of this uuion were born two children,-Francis P. (a graduate of Bowdoin College in the class of 1857; he married Susan P., only daughter of Adam Brown, of Wolfborough, N. H.) and Harriet Narcissus (born April 30, 1838, died Sept. 9, 1850).
Mr. Adams is a member of the Congregational Church, and a supporter of church and kindred interests.
LYMAN.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION.
THE town of Lyman is included in the oldest Indian grant of land in the north of York County, west of the Saco River. The original boundary lines of the grant are those of the present town. It is bounded on the northcast by Ifollis and Dayton, on the southeast by Kennebunkport and Kennebunk, on the southwest by Alfred, and on the northwest by Waterborough. Its form is that of a paral- lelogram, with its acute angles to the north and south. There are included within its bounds 14,250 acres of land, about one-half of which is improved.
The surface is low and moderately broken in the east, and rises gradually to the highest point at Grant's Hill, in the centre, betwecu the two main pouds. To the north of
this hill the land is mainly plains. South and west the surface is more broken by deep ravines and water-courses, dividing the lands into broad, rolling farms, which are well tilled and productive. The northwest is more broken, and granite boulders are numerous. The soil consists of sand, clay, and granite, producing good crops of grains and grass. Apples are produced to some extent. Wool is a leading product, and cultivated forests produce lumber. The town is well watered by numerous small streams connected with the seven ponds lying wholly within its limits. Swan Pond has an area of 480 acres. On its outlet are two im- proved privileges, saw- and shingle-mills.
Kennebunk Pond has an area of 544 acres. On its southeru or eastern outlet there are two good privileges,
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with a fall of five feet each. On the other outlet there is one privilege ; water sufficient on both outlets to operate two-thirds of the year .* Below the junction of these out- lets is a privilege giving a five-feet fall. On a western branch, coming in at the head of the last-named privilege, is another power improved by a saw-mill. Lumbering is still a source of considerable income to the inhabitants.
SETTLEMENT.
In 1660, John Sanders, John Bush, and Peter Turbat purchased of an Indian sagamore named Flnellen a tract lying north of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, embracing the present limits of this town. The proprietors sold their title in 1668 to Harlackindine Symonds, who conveyed his right to Roger Haskins and 35 others. Under their pro- prietorship it was settled in 1767.
One of the earliest conveyances of land is by a deed from Harlaekindine Symonds to Richard Lord, from him to Samnel Lord, and from him to William Waterhouse, the old school- master, 100 aeres of land, by a deed bearing date of 1753. Jacob Waterhouse, grandfather of the present town clerk, came from Kennebunk with his brother, the William above named, and each married daughters of James Wakefield, who lived ou the Hauscomb place, near where they settled. Peter Roberts and Joseph Dennett married two other daughters of Mr. Wakefield, and all lived on joining farms near Roberts' Corner, in South Lyman. Robert Dennett came first, and sold one-half of his lot to Jacob Water- house, in 1781, for £27. Jacob and William were sons of Samuel Waterhouse, who deserted from an English vessel and swam ashore in this province. Their father settled in Kennebunk.
Love Roberts came to Lyman about 1775, and was killed at a barn-raising in 1780. Peter, his son, who was then fourteen years old, became the head of the family, and car- 'ried on the work of opening the farm at Roberts' Corner. He married at the age of twenty-one, and had seven sons, two of whom are living,-James W. Roberts, aged ninety, who has been county commissioner for six years, and other- wise a prominent citizen, and Dimon Roberts, also well known in public life.
Alexander Grant took his lot between Kennebunk and Swan Ponds in 1774, and Silas, his son, joining, in 1779.
Thomas Lord settled north of where the Congregational- ist meeting-house stands, in 1776.
James Lord and Richard Shackley settled two miles north of the Arundel line, the same year.
Thomas Murphy took up land on the point between the two branches of the Kennebunk River. His father, Pat- rick Murphy, came with him. The old gentleman ran
away from his home in Ireland when a boy of twelve years, and eame to America. Both father and son were in the same company in the Continental army, Thomas enlisting at the age of cighteen. He was taken prisoner and sent to Ifalifax, where he escaped and returned home. He had twelve children, of whom Patrick was the father of Enoch Murphy, and Joseph was father of Cyrus W. and Granville W. Murphy and Nathaniel Low, whose name was changed from Murphy to Low while a resident of Boston.
Richard Hambleton was living in Lyman as carly as 1781, when he was married to Experience Hatch.
Gideon Merrill and Robert Swainson were surveyors. Mr. Swainson came to America as a surveyor for the Brit- ish government, but abandoned that calling at the outbreak of the war, and settled in Lyman, where he became a school- master and prominent citizen.
James Brock came from Somerville in 1789.
William Brock, Mark Ricker, Amaziah Goodwin, and Sylvanus Knox were early settlers; they married four daughters of Elijah Baker, who lived just over the line, in Waterborough.
Among the early settlers were, also, Abram Day, Lient. Samnel IIarris, Caleb Losdell, Joseph Burke, Benjamin Evans, Capt. Jeremiah Roberts, Wm. Brock, Thomas Rankens, Valentine Hill, Richard Thompson, James Ray- mond, Wm. Quint, Gershom Downs, Capt. Joseph White, James Sand, John Emmons, and Josiah Tibbetts, who all came previous to 1787.
Benjamin and Mark Goodwin were sons of John Good- win, of Kennebunkport. They were prominent among the early settlers.
Jacob Rhoades was an early settler. Miles Rhoades, his father, died in Kennebunkport about the time of the Revo- lutionary war, aged one hundred, and his wife, who was Mary Huff, died four years after him, at the same age.
Among the earliest marriages were Moses Wentworth, of Massabesic, to Nabbie Ricker, Mareh 25, 1781 ; Pendleton Emmons to Mrs. Elizabeth Wells, of Wells; and Abel Hamilton to Merey Clark, of Dover, N. H., in 1781.
INCORPORATION.
The town of Lyman was incorporated under the name of Coxhall, April 20, 1780. The first town election was held at the house of Alexander Grant, between Swan and Ken- nebunk Ponds, June 5th of that year. John Low was elected Moderator of the meeting ; Paul Chadbourne, Town Clerk ; Joshua Ricker, Elisha Littlefield, and Benjamin Goodwin, Selectmen and Assessors ; John Low, Treasurer ; Lewis Martin, Constable; Thomas Low, Tithingman ; Thomas Hoof, Joseph Taylor, John Low, and Simeon Chadbourne, Surveyors of Highways ; Richard Yeaton, Field-Driver and Fence-Viewer; Joseph Roberts, Hog- Reeve; John Low, Deer-Reeve ;} Paul Chadbourne, Culler of Staves ; Jeremiah Roberts, Ezra Kimball, and Daniel Kimball, Wardens ; Robert Swainson, Lot-Layer ; Robert Swainson, Alexander Grant, and Nehemiah Gray, Com- mittee to run out the town of Coxhall.
# The eastern outlet, or Redwater Brook, which rises to the north, towards Swan Pond, was opened by Charles Day, who cut a channel about thirty rods in length, connecting it with the east end of the lake, in order to control the supply of water for his mills below in Kenne- bunkport. This was between 1830 and 1840. T. L. Lord, who then owned the Lord saw-mill, two miles below, was much alarmed lest the new outlet should carry away his mill and buildings when opened. J. B. Palmer owned a mill a short distance below,-since abandoned, -on the western outlet. A long course of litigation followed, which for more than thirty years was unable to decide upon the natural out- let.
t The duty of a deer-reeve, who was in some towns called " deer- informer," was to inform against persons wantonly destroying deer or killing them out of season.
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Two hundred pounds, lawful money, was voted to defray the charges of the town. July 12th another meeting voted £2000, lawful money, for expenses. At the fall election John Hancock was " unanimously elected Governor," but there is no record that the votes were counted. The first book for records was presented to the town by Gideon Bachelder, Esq.
CIVIL LIST. TOWN CLERKS.
Pnul Chadbourne, 1781-89; Issachar Dam, 1790; Robert Swainson, 179] : Paul Chadbourne, 1792-95 ; Timothy Lyman, 1796; John Carll, 1797-1808; Nathan Hanson, 1809-17; Robert Cousens, 1818-27 : John Roberts, 1828; James W. Roberts, 1829; Robert Cousens, 1830-33; John Roberts, Jr., 1834 ; Stephen Welch, 1835 : John Roberts, 1836-37 ; John Grant, 1838 ; Dimon Roberts, 1839-4] : Luke Ricker, 1842; James H. Staples, 1843; Eastman H. Tripp, 1844-45 : Cyrus Bock, 1846-49; Eastman H. Tripp, 1850 ; Cyrus Bock, 1851 ; Simon L. Dunnett (2d), 1852-53; Jesse Kimball, 1854; Hiram Waterhouse, 1855-56 ; James Nasen, 1857; James B. Roberts, 1858 : Hiram Waterhouse, 1859-61; Thomas J. Murphy, 1862; John M. G. Emerson, 1863-64: John C. Libby, 1865-68; Benjamin F. Bennett, 1869-71 ; Alonzo Roberts, 1872; Samuel C. Gilpatrick, 1873-75 ; Hiram Water- house, 1876-79.
SELECTMEN.
1780 .- Joshua Ricker, Elisha Littlefield, Benjamin Goodwin. 1781 .- John Low, Robert Swainson, Benjamin Goodwin. 1782-84 .- Joshua Ricker, Ezra Kimball, James Lord. 1785 .- Benjamin Cousens, Capt. John Low, Lieut. Issachar Dam. 1786-87 .- Paul Chadbourne, Ezra Kimball, Valentine Hill. 1788 .- Ezrn Kimball, Paul Chadbourne, Benjamin Goodwin. 1789 .- Lieut. Issachar Dam, John Waterhouse, Heber Kimball. 1790-91 .- Heber Kimball, Joseph Roberts, Jr., Robert Swainson. 1792-94 -Paul Chadbourne, Elisha LittleGeld, Joseph Roberts, Jr. 1795 .- Paul Chadbourne, Heber Kimball, John Goodridge. 1796 .- Paul Chadbourne, Heber Kimball, John Carll. 1797 .- Elisha Littlefield, Simeon Chadbourne, Robert Swainson. 1798 .- Jobn Carll, Heber Kimball, Joseph Roberts, Jr. 1799-1800 .- John Carll, Elisha LittleGeld, Stephen Smith. 1801 .- John Carll, Elisbn Littlefield, Robert Wells. 1802-3 .- John Carll, Nathan Ilanson, Robert Wells. 1804 .- Jobn Carll, Nathan Smith, John B. Ilill. 1805 .- John B. Hill, William Warren, Nathan Smith. 1806 .- John Carll, Ileber Kimball, Nathan Smith. 1807 .- William Warren, Nathan Hanson, Nathan Smith. 180% .- John Carll, Nathan Hanson, Nathan Smith. 1809-10 .- Lieut. Thomas Sands, Jr., Nathan Hanson, Nathan Smith. 1811-14 .- William Warren, Nathan Ilanson, Nathan Smith. 1815 .- William Warren, Nathan Hanson, John Brock. 1816-17 .- William Warren, Nathan Hanson, Nathan Smith. 1818 .- Robert Cousens, Jobn Broek, Capt. Benjamin Gould. 1819 .- Natban Hanson, Nathan Smith, William Warren. 1820 .- Robert Cousens, Nathan Smith, William Warren. 1821 .- Robert Cousens, Stephen Smith, Enoch Hill. 1822 .- Jesse Kimball, Stephen Smith, Enoch HIill. 1823-24 .- Robert Cousens, Abiel Ricker, William Warren. 1823-28 .- Robert Cousens, Abiel Ricker, John Raymond. 1829 .- Joseph Dennett. Jr., James Nason, John B. Perter. 1830 .- Robert Cousens, James Nason, Joseph Dennett, Jr. 1831-33 .- David Low, James Nason. Joseph Dennett, Jr. 1834-35 .- Robert Cousens, Francis Warren, Edward Card. 1836 .- Simon L. Dennett, Capt. Francis Warren, John B. Porter. 1837 .- Simon L. Dennett, Capt. Francis Warren, James Nason. 1838 .- Nathan Hill, George Waterhouse, James Nason. 1839-10,-Nathan W. Hanson, Daniel Low, James Nason. 1841 .- Nathan W. Hanson, Daniel Low, Valentine Ilill, Jr. 1842 .- John Whitten, Daniel Hill, Valentine Hill, Jr. 1843 .- John Whitten, Robert Cousens, Valentine Hill. 1844 .- Edward Cord, Magnus J. Smith, William Waterbouse. 1845-47 .- Francis Warren, Magnus J. Smith, William Waterhouse.
1848-49 .- Nathan Hanson, Robert Roberts, William Waterhouse, Jr. 1850 .- Nathan W. Hanson, Robert Roberts, Leonard Weymouth. 1851 .- King Smith, Edward Card, Magnus J. Smith.
1852 .- William Waterhouse, Jr., Nathan W. Hanson, Magnus J. Smith.
1853 .- William Waterhouse, Jr., James Nason, King Smith. 1854 .- Joseph Hanson, James Nason, King Smith. 1855 .- Fred. T. HTill, William Waterhouse, Dimon Roberts. 1856-57 .- Thomas Tibbetts, William Waterhouse, John Whitten. 1858 .- Thomas Tibbetts, Nathan W. Hanson, Eastman H. Tripp. 1859-60 .- James B. Roberts, Jacob Goodwin, Simon Pierce. 1861-62 .- James B. Roberts, Jacob Goodwin, Solomen Drown (2d) 1863 .- Sylvester Hill, Eastman H. Tripp, Nathaniel Roberts (2d). 1864 .- Joseph W. Hanson, Themas Tibbetts, James L. Walker. 1865 .- William Waterhouse, Dimon Roberts, George W. Grant. 1866 .- Nathan W. Hanson, James B. Roberts, Solomon Drown (2d). 1867 .- Zophar R. Folsom, James B. Roberts, Solomon Drown. 1868 .- Zophar R. Folsom, James B. Reberts, James L. Walker. 1869 .- Sylvester Hill, James B. Roberts, James L. Walker. 1870-72 .- Sylvester Hill, Frank W. Blaisdell, Richard S. Stanley. 1873 .- Richard S. Stanley, Hiram Waterhouse, James B. Roberts. J874 .- Robert S. Stanley, Solomon Welch, Leonard C. Walker. 1875-78 .- Solomen Welch, Jesse Kimball, Leonard C. Walker. 1879 .- Thomas Tibbetts, Selemon Welch, James L. Walker.
THE REVOLUTION.
The town contributed as well as it was able to the sup- port of the army during this war, both in men and means. A meeting was held to provide beef for the army in 1781, and it was then voted to send instead £1900 lawful money. September 10th it was voted to send two more soldiers when called for. Benjamin Evans and Benjamin Grant were the two men selected. They were voted a salary of $10 per month, to be paid iu silver, gold, or labor, at 2s. a day, and corn at 4s. a bushel, and the town was to draw their wages from the State. Three oxen were bought that year and sent by Alex. Grant to Berwick Landing for shipment. These were bought by a town vote, payable in lumber and powder. A call for a meeting to be held April 22, 1782, says, " We may come under damage for not getting our soldiers for the Continental army for the year past." The selectmen were empowered to procure three soldiers if they could. Ezra Fluent went for three years for £30 in stock and $100 in lumber " at the old way," to be delivered at Kennebunk Landing. (He was Capt. Fluent in 1787.) John Foster, Asa Lasdel (Laisdel), and Ebenezer Cousens were each sent for three years. One-third of the soldier-tax was added to the poll-tax, and the town was divided into three classes, each of which was to support its proportion of soldiers.
John Burbank was a Revolutionary soldier in Capt. N. M. Littlefield's company in 1775 ; a sergeant in Capt. Eliph- alet Daniels' company at Portsmouth in 1776; entered on board privateer " Dalton ;" was captured and carried to Eng- land in 1777 ; enlisted as master-at-arms in 1779 on board the " Bonne-Homme Richard," and was in the action with the "Serapis" and " Countess of Scarborough" in Septem- ber of that year, under John Paul Jones. He had but one daughter,-Sally,-who married Jos. Taylor, a resident in the southern part of the town. Mr. Burbank spent the last years of his life with Mr. Taylor. In 1803 he was elected to keep the proprietors' records.
A meeting was held in 1794 to see how much money to invest in tin kettles, powder, lead, and flints, and £15 were voted for that purpose.
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INCORPORATION.
A proposition was made in 1799 to divide the town and join the eastern half to the lower part of Phillipsburgh in forming a new town.
An act to change the name of Coxhall to Lyman was passed by the General Court, Feb. 25, 1803. The new name was given in honor of Theodore Lyman, Esq. The boundaries, which had been a subject of contention with the town of Phillipsburg on the east, now Dayton, were also de- fined by the General Court, as follows :
" WHEREAS, By act passed April 20, 1780, incorporating the Plan- tation of Coxhall into a town, the boundaries thereof are vague and uncertain, be it enacted that the town of Lyman, formerly Coxball, shall hereafter be bounded as follows: Beginoiog at the westerly side of Mousam River, at a pitch pine stump on the edge of the bank of said river, and on the head line of the town of Wells; from thence to run on the head line of Aurundel six miles to the west line of the town of Phillipsburgh ; thence north about twenty-four degrees and one half west, joining on said Phillipsburgh six miles one hundred and twenty rods, to a stake; thence on a south west course parallel to the head line of Wells and Aurundel, six miles or until it comes to the easterly side line of the district of Alfred ; from thence south about twenty-one de- grees, east joining on the Alfred line, to the pine stump first men- tioned."
This caused a shifting of the lines about fifty-three rods, and the location of a new corner on the western angle of the town, since known as the " Governor's Corner."
Elections were first held at the house of Alexander Grant, north of Kennebunk Pond, and at the house of John Low, now the residence of Mrs. Bradford Raymond, near the Alfred and Biddeford road, in the southeast part of the town, and from 1787 to 1830 at the meeting-house. They were then held in a barn for three years, after which town- meetings were called "to assemble around a big rock in front of the meeting-house." This was the Town-Meeting Rock until 1835, when the town-house was built at the east end of Kennebunk Pond. In 1878 the town-house was sold, and the town records and business transferred to Union Hall, at Goodwin's Mills. The Town-Meeting Rock was broken up to make the wall which surrounds the bury- ing-ground near the church. A town farm, for the support of the poor, was purchased in 1852.
GOODWIN'S MILLS.
This, the only village in the town, was the site of one of the first mills, erected as early as 1782, in a heavy growth of white pine, and since almost continuously in operation. It is now a neat little cluster of buildings with church and store, and surrounded by smooth, rolling farms and thin groves of pine, oak, and maple. A part of the village is in Dayton. The trade of the town centres here. Benjamin Dudley, whose monument is conspicuous in the churchyard near, was a prominent merchant and innkeeper here in 1829. He and John and William Dow were licensed retailers of liquors at that time. The business now consists of the general merchandise store of Emerson & Co., established 1876; saw- and grist-mill, Sylvester Hill, and shingle- and clapboard-mill of Simon Pierce. There are here both Ma- sonic and Grange lodges. Mails are daily ; John M. G. Emerson, postmaster. Resident physicians : Eben Hurd, a native of Newfield, since 1850; D. G. W. Sylvester, since 1876.
A second post-office, in the south part of the town, called South Lyman, has been kept at the residence of Hiram Waterhouse, postmaster for the past thirty years. Mails are Wednesdays and Saturdays from Biddeford by private conveyance, the government having discontinued the mail contract in 1877.
Among the manufactories are the old Wadleigh mill, near Barker Pond, at the Dayton line; M. Littlefield's mill, on a branch of the Kennebunk River, in the south ; shingle- and stave-mill, Orrison Huff; shingle-mill, Lord Bros.', on the east outlet of Kennebunk Pond; saw-mill, Low & Mur- phy, South Lyman, established 1869, by N. M. Low and Cyrus W. Murphy ; smiths, Hiram Waterhouse, John Dow ; painter, C. F. Roberts; carpenters and builders, Wm. Hoff, C. W. Hoff, W. H. Dennett.
CHURCHES.
CONGREGATIONALIST.
The first record of any religious or church action in the town books is a vote to sell the parsonage lot, passed in October, 1780. A second meeting reversed the action, however, and it was not sold. In 1781, £30 were voted " to be paid as money went in 1775" for the support of the gospel, and John Low and Joshua Ricker were made a committee for its disposal. A committee was appointed in 1783 to look out a place to set a meeting-house ; chose the northwest end of lot No. 57, and marked the place by a tree in the woods. In 1786 its erection was commenced by a tax of £60, to be paid in timber, labor, or in marketable lumber at Kennebunk Landing. Town officers were accord- ingly chosen " of every denomination that is necessary for the peace and good order of the town." The meeting-house was built on lot No. 35, now occupied by the Second Church. The pews were sold Dec. 5, 1787, by Issachar Dam, " vendue-master." Rev. John Kimball preached pre- vious to 1794, in which year it was voted to give him a call to return.
A church was formed in 1801, and, December 2d, Rev. Jonathan Calef was installed pastor. There were three other candidates for the ministry,-Revs. Daniel Merritt, Thomas Toby, and Nymphas Hatch, who had undoubtedly preached here before.
The first members of the church were Rev. Jonathan Calef, Simeon Chadbourne, Jeremiah Roberts, Gideon Batchelder, Esq., and Sylvanus Knox.
At the ordination of Mr. Calef, in 1801, the following ministers composed the council : Rev. Paul Coffin, Na- thaniel H. Fletcher, Isaac Hasey, Dr. Hemingway, Silas Moody, Moses Sweat, and Mr. Thompson. The church was constituted at the same time, and was composed of 23 members, whose names were as follows : Jonathan Calef, Simeon Chadbourne, Jeremiah Roberts, Gideon Batchelder, Sylvanus Knox, Josiah Goodridge, John Goodridge, Heber Kimball, Samuel L. Raymond, Benjamin Stephens, Ezra Kimball, Benjamin Cousens, Issachar Dam, Thomas Sands, Jr., Anna Kimball, Esther Goodridge, Lucy Roberts, Polly Bachelder, Elizabeth Brock, Hannah Knox, Rebecca Kim- ball, Betsy Emmons, Eunice Sands.
Rev. Jonathan Calef, the first settled minister of Lyman, was born in Chester, N. H., May 8, 1762; entered Dart-
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month College, and took the degree of A.M. in 1791. He then studied divinity with Rev. Moses Hemingway, D.D., at Wells, and was ordained at Canaan, where he remained for five years, after which he came to Lyman, and supplied the people of Lyman as pastor until his ordination over them, in 1801. He was a man of uncommon ability, and was honored with the respect and confidence of all classes of people. A new meeting-house was built near the close of his pastorate, and dedicated by him in September, 1829. His text was " The glory of this house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the Lord God." The service, which continued the whole day, was conducted in the after- noon by Rev. Mr. Bacon, of Sanford. He closed his labors, May 12, 1831. He died April 24, 1845, and was buried in the yard of his church, among the members of his first congregation. Ilis grave is marked by a marble slab, rising to a height of six feet above the ground, and surrounded by an iron railing, which incloses also the grave of his wife, who died in Portland in 1853.
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