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ROUSE HOWLAND, b. 1773; m. Anna Robinson; 2d, Anna Wescott.
HANNAH, b. 1776; m. Nathaniel Beals.
STEPHEN, b. 1779; drowned at sea in 1800.
JOHN, b. 1781; d. 1848 ; m. Lydia Howland, d. 1823, aged 41. 2d wife, Abigail Soule, a cousin to his father's wife.
LYDIA, b. 1784; d. 1885, aged 100 years and 9 months; m. Samuel Fuller, d. 1855, aged 70.
MARCY HALL, b. 1787; m. Seth Ballou (Turner) .
ANSTRUS, b. 1789; m. Stephen Fisher, who d. 1835, aged 57. 2d husband, Joshua Whitman (Turner).
LEAVITT, ROUSE HOWLAND. Of these:
B. 1773; m. Anna Robinson. 2d, Anna Wescott. He settled on Butter Hill and afterwards exchanged farms with Sidney Turner, of Turner. This farm is now included with the Briggs farm owned by Geo. G. Young.
Children by 1st wife :
MALORA, m. Moses Norton, father of Ransom Moses Nor- ton, who was blind, and for the last thirty years of his life lived in this town.
JOSEPH. (Mass.).
SUSAN, m. Morse (New Portland) .
STILLMAN, m. Clarissa Sampson (Mass.).
LIBBEUS, m. Mary Alden (Buekfield).
THADDEUS, a twin to Libbeus (Buckfield).
ANNIE, m. Amos Braley.
HOWLAND, m. Mary Tabor (Mass.). Children 2d wife:
SETH, m. Ann Libby (Raymond).
ABBY, m. John R. Davis (Mass.).
LYDIA, m. Hannibal Holt (Turner).
PETER MORRILL, b. 1822; m. Angenette F. Peck (Mass.). He, and four of his sons, were veterans of the Civil War and the family relic that he treasured most was the old flintlock gun and powderhorn that his grandfather, Dea. Joseph
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Leavitt, took from a wounded Hessian soldier and carried through the Revolutionary War.
CLARK, m. Ann Place (Mass.).
STEPHEN (Mass.).
MARY JANE, m. Augustus Hammond (Mass.).
JEROME, m. Mary Green (Mass.).
LEAVITT, JOHN, CAPT.
B. 1781; d. 1848; m. Lydia Howland of Pembroke, Mass .; d. 1823, aged 41. 2d wife, Abigail Soule. He lived on his father's farm, now called the Thompson apple farm, and his children by the 1st wife were: Peddy, m. Amos Braly (Mass.). Stephen, m. Sally Ellis of Hartford. John, Jr., m. Jeannette Hutchinson (N. H.). Ethan, m. Mary Hutchinson, sister of Jeanette. Calvin, m. Sarah Whitman (Mass.). Leonard H., d. 1888, aged 69 (Weld). Frank- lin, m. Matilda Turner (Mass.). Lydia Howland, d. 1859, aged 36; m. Howard W. Damon (Mass.).
2d wife's children : Dana. Ohio. Howard W., d. 1829, aged 2, and Charles O.
Of these :
LEAVITT, STEPHEN, d. 1895, aged 90; m. Sally Ellis, d. 1892, aged 87.
He followed the sea for eleven years, ten of which he was first mate of the vessel; and on one voyage, upon the death of the captain, he navigated the ship from the west coast of South America, around Cape Horn home. This gave him the title of captain, by which he was familiarly known for the rest of his life, which he spent in Livermore on the farm at the head of Brettun's Mills Pond.
About 1883 he became financially embarrassed, but later on, when in better circumstances, he paid into the town treasury, $56 of abated taxes ; this was a sample of his life and nothing more need be said. His children were Milton and Volney, and they were both soldiers in the Civil War, Volney losing his life in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., in 1864, aged 22.
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LEAVITT, MILTON, b. 1839; d. 1923; m. S. Jane Nash, b. 1842, and they both spent their lives on the old farm, respected by their neighbors and friends. Children : Fred Volney, b. 1865; d. 1915; m. Mabel A. Hatch, d. 1915. Addie M., b. 1866 .; d. 1925; m. Victor Robinson. Ida M., b. 1868; m. Marcus E. Keith (Livermore). Charles D., b. 1871; m. Iola Johnson Ellis. Lillie M., b. 1874; m. H. L. Nason (Auburn). Bertha J., b. 1881; m. S. E. Shackley. 2d, S. W. Spencer (Wilton) .
LEACH, HARTSON B.
B. 1824; d. 1892; m. Nancy J. Robbins, b. 1824; d. 1913. He came to Livermore in 1850 and settled on the old Hatha- way place. Beside managing a large farm he carried the mail from Livermore Falls to North Livermore for twenty- eight years.
Children : Calvin R., b. 1852. Ida C., b. 1856. Frank A., b. 1857.
LEACH, CALVIN R. Of these :
D. 1919; m. Abbie R. Goding, b. 1852; d. 1912.
Children : Lottie I., b. 1874; d. 1912; m. W. H. Norton. Alice L., b. 1877; m. Samuel W. Coolidge.
LEACH, IDA C., m. Ira T. Monroe.
LEACH, FRANK A.
D. 1891; m. Mary L. Libby; b. 1858; d. 1890, leaving one child, Frank L., b. 1890, who married Mabel Wood. 2d, Mrs. Anna Moore. They reside in Hartford, Conn.
MUNRO-MUNROE-MONROE
At the battle of Worcester, Cromwell captured several regiments of Scotch soldiers, and among them were ROBERT, JOHN, HUGH and WILLIAM MUNRO. With other prisoners they were deported to Boston, consigned to Thomas Kemble. They all worked out their freedom and William, the progenitor of all the Monroes in New England, lies buried in Lincoln, Mass. He had a great-grandson,
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whose name was Benjamin, and he as a soldier, assisted in the capture of Port Royal, Nova Scotia, in 1710. For this service they received grants of land [see "The Beginning"]. He was one of the original proprietors of this township, but when the lots were drawn, he being dead, his son, Benj. Munro, Jr., being the heir, claimed his rights and drew Lots 39, 92, 102 and 33.
MUNRO, BENJ., JR. (2d Gen.)
Of Lincoln, Mass., had five sons, John, Abel, Abijah, Isaac and Micah, and to each of these with the exception of Micah, who was young, he gave a lot of land in Livermore.
MUNROE, JOHN. (3d Gen.)
B. 1764; d. 1856. As an example of the everlasting, multiplying links in the endless chain that wraps the earth in a network of connection, let me state that Grinfill Han- over, a Spaniard, married an English lady by the name of Polly Marcer; their only daughter, Anna, married a Scotchman by the name of Bisbee and their daughter mar- . ried an Irishman by the name of Blake, and their daughter, Jerusha, who married John Keene, of Turner, was the mother of Mary Bisbee Keene, b. 1767; d. 1861, who mar- ried John Munroe. He was in the Revolutionary service on board a privateer, and in 1790 came from Boston in a sloop as far as Falmouth and then walked to Livermore. He told his children that when he reached Livermore, only a King's shilling was in his purse. His lot, No. 39, was just east of Abel's and he built a log house near a spring of water in the orchard, northeast of the present buildings, which were erected in 1801.
Children: (4th Gen.) Mary, b. 1793; d. 1820. Sally, b. 1795 ; m. Edward Keene (Sumner). Hannah, b. 1798; d. 1893; m. Alfred Swift (Wayne). Luda, b. 1800; d. 1845; m. Rev. Caleb Fuller (Wayne). John, b. 1803; d. 1873; m. Clarinda M. Thompson. Allen, b. 1805; d. 1892; m. Mary
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Ann Perley (Milo). Abijah, b. 1808; d. 1880 (Richmond, Va.).
Of these :
MONROE, JOHN, JR.
M. Clarinda M. Thompson ; b. 1809; d. 1893 and lived on the old place until 1867, when he sold the farm, and bought the Elder Ransom Norton place at North Livermore. Children: (5th Gen.)
LIEUT. CHARLES FRED MONROE.
B. 1834; killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864. JULIA A. MONROE.
B. 1837; d. 1899; m. A. R. Swift, d. 1911, of Wayne, and their children were: Charles P. Swift, b. 1862; m. Edith Lord (Wayne). Clara Mabel Swift, b. 1864; m. N. K. Lin- coln of Wayne. Julia Estelle Swift, b. 1868; m. G. B. Beers of Bridgeport, Conn.
JOHN PITT MONROE.
B. 1848; d. 1862.
IRA THOMPSON MONROE.
B. 1852; m. Ida C. Leach, b. 1856. They continue to live on the Norton farm at North Livermore and he is the author, of these notes and records, collected and compiled during a period of twenty years. He was Deputy Sheriff for seven years; Supt. of Schools, four years; and Moderator at the annual March meetings for 28 years.
MONROE, ABIJAH. (4th Gen.)
Emigrated to Richmond, Va., in 1837, and m. a widow with three sons, all of whom were in the Confederate army. He being a Northern sympathizer, his property was confis- cated except $500 in gold, which he buried in his garden.
MONROE, ABEL. (3d Gen.)
B. 1769; d. 1861; m. Martha Bixby of Keene, N. H. 2d, Salome P. Hinds, d. 1876, aged 75. He settled on Lot 48,
Lieut. Charles F. Monroe
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just west of John's and adjoining Sanders or Bartlett's Cor- ner, where he built a house but later erected the buildings on top of the hill, now owned by Mrs. Dana H. Richmond. Not far from the northeast corner of this farm, can be seen the stone fireplace that Nathan Bartlett built and used when he by night watched a coalpit, the charcoal of which he used on the forge in his blacksmith shop.
ABEL MONROE'S children by his 1st wife (4th Gen.) were:
Sally, d. 1879, aged 84; m. John Morse of Jay. Martha, d. 1872, aged 73; m. Isaac Strickland. Nathan, drowned, 1813, aged 10. Joseph Snelling, b. 1812; d. 1870; m. Abby S. Thompson (Abbot). Isaac, m. Jane Kincaid. Mary, d. unmarried. Lucy, m. Isaac N. Bonney. Abel, d. 1818; infant. Julia, m. Elias Aldrich.
2d wife's children : Ann, d. 1864, aged 31; m. Levi Cole (Mass.). George, b. 1835; d. 1915; m. Fannie B. Bray, d. 1922. Abby, b. 1842; d. 1927; m. Andrew Faxon, d. 1877, aged 32 (Mass.). They had four children, only two of whom are now living.
MONROE, ISAAC. Of these: (4th Gen.)
Who m. Jane Kincaid, went south and was engaged in the slave trade; has not been heard from since the Civil War. They had three children, one of whom, Abel, b. 1823; m. Margaret Mayo, and lived at Paris Hill.
MONROE, MICAH. (3d Gen.)
As a boy lived with his brother, Abel; was kicked by a horse and died.
MONROE, GEORGE.
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B. 1835; d. 1915; m. Fannie B. Bray, d. 1922. He went to California in 1859, returning to Livermore in 1868. For several years he had charge of a repair station, for the Over- land Stage Co., on the summit of the Sierra Navada Range. Later on, he made two trips to California and Nevada, but returned to his native town, and lived at Brettun's Mills.
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MUNROE, ABIJAH.
B. 1755; d. 1823, one of the four brothers who were given lots by their father, Benjamin, and who married a daughter of Benj. Park, who at one time lived on what we call the Pullen place. Abijah's lot was No. 47 and is the south-east part of Bartlett's Corner. The house stood on the east side of the road, about half way between Bartlett's Corner and where the present house stands. It was called a tavern and maintained as such by Abijah as long as he lived. In 1833 it was taken down and moved to the "Inter- vale," and is a part of the house now owned by Myron A. Eames.
They had no children and are buried in the yard near Robert H. Boothby's. Rev. Paul Coffin in his diary of Aug. 30, 1798, speaks of stopping with him and adds that Munro and his wife were "sensible and agreeable." No doubt that Coffin esteemed them such, for they joined him in criticising the Baptists which, at that time, were becoming the most numerous and powerful religious society in town. Abijah and his brothers, John and Abel, were strong Methodists and the writer well remembers hearing Uncle Abel "Ex- hort," after the regular sermon in the old church at Liver- more Center.
MONROE, ISAAC. (3d Gen.)
Was given the lot now owned by F. A. Billington, on Jug Hill, East Livermore, which he sold and for a short time traded in the old Nathan Bartlett house, at Bartlett's Cor- ner. He returned to Massachusetts where many of his descendants reside.
MERRILL, JOSEPH. (1st Gen.)
B. 1750; d. 1820; m. Fanny Moon, an Indian maiden. She and her only child died, and he m. Eunice -, b. 1755; d. 1813. 3d wife, Patty Strickland, a distant cousin of Maj. Isaac Strickland. Joseph first appeared one fall driving cattle past Dea. Livermore's up to the "Great
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Meadows," or Phipps' Canada, to winter; and the Dea. ban- tered him to purchase the lot next north of his, but Joseph, after looking at the land, declined, saying, "There isn't enough stone on it, to fence the land;" but on his return in the spring, a trade was made and he settled on the road spoken of in relation to Samuel Livermore, and built a house, the cellar of which can still be seen.
(2d Gen.) Children by 2d wife: John, b. 1775. Ben- jamin, b. 1777; m. Polly Merserve. Jane N., b. 1778. Jon- athan, b. 1780; d. 1840. Susanna, b. 1782; d. 1852; m. Simeon Howard. Levi, b. 1784; m. Betsey Millett. Sam- uel, b. 1785 (Rumford). Jane M., b. 1787; m. G. Hanson Hayes. Hannah, b. 1789; m. John Hayes. Mary, b. 1791; m. Abraham Hodsden. 2d, G. H. Hayes. Abigail, b. 1793. Richard, b. 1794. Eunice, b. 1797; m. Gott (Wayne). John, b. 1798. Joseph, b. 1799 (Westbrook). Betsey, b. 1803; d. 1874; m. Jonathan Lane.
Child by 3d wife: Sally, b. 1815; m. Daniel Brackley (Freeman) .
Of these: (2d Gen.)
MERRILL, BENJ.
B. 1777; m. Polly Merserve and lived on the farm now owned by G. H. Dixon, and his children were: (3d Gen.) IRENE, b. 1819; d. 1888; m. Abner Holman. 2d, Calvin Bumpus.
ROXANNA, m. Kinney.
SORANUS, d. 1858; m. Jane Hill and their children were: Aratus, Cleveland, Roxanna, Melville and Marcellus. SILAS. ELI.
MERRILL, JONATHAN. (2d Gen.)
B. 1780; d. 1840; m. Sarah Coffin, b. 1787; d. 1870; a half-sister to Napthalia. Children: (3d Gen.)
AMBROSE. (Hallowell.)
JEFFERSON. (Damariscotta.)
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WILLIAM C., b. 1814.
GEORGE W., b. 1821; m. Mary Dexter.
ELIZA J., b. 1816; d. 1876; m. J. F. Merrill; b. 1817; d. 1857.
EMERLINE, b. 1810; d. 1891 ; m. Isaac Harrington, b. 1802;
d. 1860. Their children were: Charles H., b. 1843, d. 1864, a soldier in the Civil War ; Thomas and Francis. MERRILL, WILLIAM C. (3d Gen.)
B. 1814; d. 1886; m. Anaril Hill, d. 1898, aged 72.
Children: (4th Gen.) Lyda A., b. 1845; m. Abel Old- ham (Peru). Hattie B., d. 1868, aged 22. Charles E., b. 1847. Daniel W., d. 1851, aged 2. Clarranett, d. 1851, aged 1. Daniel W., d. 1854, aged 1. Ella, d. 1861, aged 5. John W., b. 1858. Wallace W., b. 1862; d. 1896. Addie M., b. 1867 ; m. H. E. Merrill.
Of these: (4th Gen.)
MERRILL, CHARLES E.
B. 1847; m. Lucy W. Gilman. Children : (5th Gen.) Oscar W., b. 1869; m. Lanella L. Edgecomb (N. H.). Charles Edward, b. 1871; m. Lizzie M. Wood. Alfred G., b. 1873; m. Grace M. Berry (N. H.). Wilfred A., b. 1874; m. Emma H. Ryder. Joseph P., b. 1876.
MERRILL, JOHN W. (4th Gen.)
B. 1858; d. 1924; m. Vilona Smith.
Children : (5th Gen.) Alice L., b. 1888. Winnie L., b. 1894. Wallace W., b. 1898.
MERRILL, GEORGE W. (3d Gen.)
B. 1821; d. 1866; m.Mary Dexter, b. 1828; d. 1899. She m. 2d, Geo. Neal. He lived on the Strickland ferry road in a house long since removed.
Children: (4th Gen.) Elizabeth, d. infant. John Everett, b. 1846; d. 1866. William Henry, d. 1898, aged 52; m. Sarah French; 2d, Belle Potter (Monmouth). George Edwin, m. Anna Walton; 2d, Emma Burnham (Monmouth) .
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Mary E., b. 1850; d. 1866. Emily F., b. 1852; d. 1866. Charles W., m. Christania Hallowell (Monmouth). Frank Davis. Herbert E., m. Addie Merrill.
Of these: (4th Gen.)
MERRILL, FRANK DAVIS.
B. 1858; m. Rose N. Fales, b. 1860; d. 1914, and cu- riously enough he for several years owned the same farm that Dea. Livermore chose above all others in the town of Livermore, and on which he lived when he importuned the first Merrill that came here, to buy the adjoining lot of land next to the north.
Children: (5th Gen.) Ida M., b. 1879; m. C. F. Edge- comb, b. 1876. Earl F., b .. 1887; m. Pearl Edgecomb, b. 1890. Arthur C., b. 1892; m. Vera Young, b. 1895.
Of these :
MERRILL, EARL F.
M. Pearl Edgecomb.
Children : (6th Gen.) Frank Alonzo, b. 1909. Rose Alma, b. 1915. Madaline Beatrice, b. 1919. Annie Irene, b. 1923.
MERRILL, ARTHUR C.
M. Vera Young. Child : (6h Gen.) Herman C., b. 1914.
MERRILL, RICHARD. (2d Gen.)
B. 1794; d. 1861; m. Mary Clark, b. 1793; d. 1825. 2d, Eunice Livermore, b. 1802; d. 1883. He lived and died on the "Intervale," where his son, Henry R., lived, and where his son, Ernest R., now resides.
Children : 1st wife (3d Gen.) John Franklin, b. 1817; d. 1857; m. Eliza J. Merrill. He was the father of Fred Mer- rill, who lived in the same neighborhood for many years, but moved to Damariscotta where he died. Another son was Rosco, b. 1884; d. 1865. He was a soldier in the Civil War.
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Children : 2d wife, Mary A., b. 1828. Augusta M., b. 1832; m. Capt. John Manter (Mass.). Martha J., b. 1833; m. Millett Cummings. Phebe, b. 1843. Henry R., b. 1845; a soldier in the Civil War.
Of these :
MERRILL, HENRY R.
B. 1845; m. Ordelia A. Norris, b. 1845.
Children: (4th Gen.) Mabel A., b. 1871; m. Adam A. Kaercherd (Cal.). Ernest R., b. 1875; m. Winnie L. Berry, b. 1875.
Children : (5th Gen.) Lillian S., b. 1906; m. George S. Thompson. Raymond L., b. 1910.
MOORE, ABNER.
D. 1880, aged 70; m. Eliza Bemis, b. 1819. He was postmaster at Livermore Center fourteen years and after- wards lived on the G. H. Dixon farm.
Children: William S., b. 1841. George W., b. 1844. Emery B. Frank B., b. 1850. Lizzie B., b. 1850; twin to Frank.
Of these: (2d Gen.)
MOORE, WILLIAM S.
B. 1841; d. 1915; m. Louise B. Hewitt, b. 1845; d. 1904. He was a soldier in the Civil War and resided at South Liv- ermore. Children: (3d Gen.)
ARTIE, d. 1872, aged 2.
EVERETT L., b. 1875; m. Lillian M. Boothby, b. 1869. He resides in South Livermore on the farm where his father died. He purchased the adjoining farm, formerly owned by Chandler Dennen, and is an extensive farmer. Children: (4th Gen.)
WENDELL E., b. 1900; m. Hildred M. Thompson and they have one son, Thompson Wendell, b. 1927.
BLAKE C., b. 1903; m. Mary J. Miller and they have one daughter, Jane Miller, b. 1927.
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WILLIAM D., b. 1906; m. Susie E. Whitten. CHARLES B., b. 1909.
MOORE, GEORGE W. (2d Gen.)
B. 1844; m. Mary Fuller. He was a well known car- riage and harness dealer and resided at Canton. He was a soldier in the Civil War. Roy Moore is his son and married Myrtie A. Campbell.
MOORE, EMERY B. (2d Gen.)
M. Isabelle Knapp. Children: (3d Gen.) Asa Adelbert. Harry L.
MOORE, FRANK B.
B. 1850; m. Arzilla Campbell and for many years was the proprietor of the hotel at Lake Auburn. His twin sister, Lizzie B., m. Decatur Knapp of Leeds.
MORSE, DAVID. (1st Gen.)
Of Mass .; d. 1792; m. Mary Church, d. 1808. She was a relative of Maj. Church, the renowned Indian fighter.
Children : (2d Gen.) Jonathan. David, m. Azuba 2d, Sukey Anna, m. Jonathan Bryant. Elijah, m. Mary Walker.
MORSE, JONATHAN. (2d Gen.)
D. 1848, aged 77; m. Anna Lovering. who was killed by a falling barn frame in 1779, and whose grave was the first to be made in the Adney Boothby cemetery. His second wife was Betsey Welcome who died in 1822, aged 48; and his third wife Abigail Hurd, who died in 1861. There is evi- dently a mistake, in the intentions of marriage, as recorded in the old town books, in regard to Mr. Morse.
Children : 1st wife (3d Gen.) Horace, b. 1794; m. Pamelia Harmon. 2d, Pamelia Dearborn. Anna L., b. 1797; m. Joseph Jackson.
Children: 2d wife (3d Gen.) Jonathan C., b. 1802; m. Emerline Knight. Silas, b. 1803; m. Elizabeth H. Waite.
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Michael W., b. 1805; d. 1807. Betsey W., b. 1808; m. Ephraim Knight. Stephen W., b. 1810; m. Emily B. Waite. Sally W., b. 1813; m. Orison Rollins.
Of these: (3d Gen.)
MORSE, HORACE.
D. 1877, aged 83; m. Pamelia Harmon, d. 1824, aged 29. 2d, Pamelia Dearborn, d. 1864, aged 69.
Children: 1st wife (4th Gen.) Rosilla, m. Reuben Webster. Samuel H., d. 1866, aged 44; m. Mary Thorndike Strickland, d. 1883, aged 50. So many people were in attendance at his funeral, that it was held in the dooryard of his home which was the George Monroe house at Brettun's Mills. It was conducted by Oriental Star Lodge of Masons, of which he was a member. Judge Reuel Washburn was the Master and the writer well remembers how he called the Lodge to perform the last ceremonies by rapping with his gavel on the coffin, and pronouncing these words, "And in accordance with an ancient custom, I deposit the sacred roll within the coffin."
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Serethia D., m. Whit- man Swett. Richard D., d. 1884, aged 57; m. Eliza Lara. Elizabeth A., m. Louis A. Farrar. Eugene C., d. 1862, aged 34; m. Melissa Page. They had one son, Eugene C., b. 1862; m. Flavilla B. Spencer, b. 1866, who resides at Livermore Falls. The only girl, Grace E., b. 1863, m. Hershal Wellington Boothby and they live at Mechanic Falls. Silas, m. Julia Bray (Turner). Julia, m. Leander D. Farrar (Turner).
MORSE, SILAS, COL. (3d Gen.)
B. 1803; d. 1887; m. Elizabeth H. Waite, b. 1806; d. 1887. He lived in Fairfield, Bloomfield, North Auburn, and finally at Brettun's Mills. He was captain of the militia and drilled the soldiers who enlisted for the Civil War. Their uniform was a blue sash and red belt and in addition, the Colonel always wore a silk hat and was a model officer of the old school. Children: (4th Gen.)
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LUCY W., b. 1828; m. Michael Egan (Mass.).
SARAH E., b. 1834; m. Ezra Packard (Mass.).
SILAS RUTILLUS, b. 1840; m. Mary J. North, b. 1846; d. 1909. 2d, Mary S. Gordon, b. 1870.
MELVIN R., b. 1847; m. Catherine Hudson. He is cashier of the First National Bank at May's Landing, N. J.
MORSE, SILAS RUTILLUS. Of these :
B. 1840; resides in Atlantic City, N. J. He owns the old home at Brettun's Mills and returns every summer to his boyhood home. He is a dear lover of the "great out-doors," having a summer camp at Rangeley Lake and also at Andro- scoggin Lake. He never has missed the Reunion of the High Schools of Livermore, for in these schools he began the work that led him to success.
He was principal of Atlantic City High School, 1861 to 1869, superintendent of the city schools, 1869 to 1877. Superintendent of schools in Atlantic County, 1877 to 1892. Member of N. J. State Board of Education, 1894 to 1914. Curator of the New Jersey Museum, 1894 to 1914. A director in two banks and Treasurer of Atlantic City Loan & Building Association since 1888. He has one son, Her- bert North Morse, b. 1872, who is Assistant Commissioner of Education, N. J.
MORSE, J. BAILEY.
M. Betsey Mitchell. 2d, Mercy Rice, d. 1908. He lived on the Stephen Pollard farm. The last house in Livermore on the road leading north and south over Butter Hill.
Children: 1st wife, Fremont. Angie. Bethiah, d. 1856, aged 8. Lizzie, m. Nymphus Turner. Henry. Clara, m. Frank Griffin. Rose, m. Corydon Purdy. Angie, m. Jennie Palmer. Edna, m. Frank Jones.
Child by 2d wife: Nettie M., b. 1874; m. Charles W. Gammon.
J. BAILEY MORSE'S only brother, Rufus H., died in 1849, aged 24.
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NORTON, SYLVESTER.
D. 1821, aged 85; m. Lydia Jones, d. 1816, aged 79. They came from Chilmark, Mass., in 1789, and settled on the farm not far from North Livermore, that four generations bearing this name, have successively occupied. At the storming of Quebec in the French and English War of 1759, he was one of Wolfe's body guard and helped to carry the wounded General from the field.
Children : (2d Gen.) ] Ransom, b. 1762. James, b. 1764. Zebulon, b. 1777. Mary, b. 1769; m. Jyra Hillman and lived and died in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Jane, b. 1771; m. Rev. Samuel Hillman. Dinah, b. 1780; d. 1861; m. Philip Pitts.
Of these: (2d Gen.)
NORTON, RANSOM. REV.
D. 1834, aged 72; m. Susanna Mayhew, d. 1830, aged 58. He settled on the farm now owned by I. T. Monroe at North Livermore, and preached in and around about Liver- more, but principally at the 2d Baptist Church in the south part of the town, of which he was spiritual and material father. He owned the lot on which the village of North Livermore is located and in 1848 deeded the land on which the old church that was burned in 1847, stood, to the town, as a common, "to be used for that purpose only, and never to be transferred or alienated."
Children : (3d Gen.) Hebron M., b. 1792. Susanna M., d. 1808, aged 14. Ransom Jones, b. 1796. Jethro, b. 1798. Charles, b. 1800. May, d. 1808, aged 5. Abigail, b. 1805; d. 1870. Deborah E., d. 1825, aged 17. Ann, d. 1856, aged 47; m. Pelatiah Gibbs. Emma, b. 1812; d. 1870; m. Elbridge Coffin.
Of these : (3d Gen.)
NORTON, HEBRON M.
D. 1851, aged 58; m. Nancy Haines, d. 1824, aged 30. 2d, Maria Philbrick, d. 1854, aged 52. He built the dam and
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mill that later on was called Alden's Mills. He died on the old Boardman place next west of I. T. Monroe's.
Children: (4th Gen.)
MARY RANSOM, m. Richard Gurney (Mass.).
HARRIETT, m. Cyrus Parker of Jay.
2d wife's children, of whom there were eight, all died young except
RANSOM, b. 1836; d. 1907; m. Emily Waters, d. 1879, aged 38. 2d, Rose E. Pollard, b. 1872, by whom he had one child, Evelyn. He was Clerk of Courts, Aroostook Co., for several years, and died at Houlton.
HEBRON, b. 1845; m. Nancy Lighty. He was a soldier in the Civil War and resides in Sioux City, Iowa.
NORTON, RANSOM JONES, b. 1796 ; d. 1870. (3d Gen.)
M. Achsah S. Haines, d. 1863. They had three children and after living in Livermore many years, moved to Charles- town (Mass.). Children : (4th Gen.) William C. Abby Vesta. Jolm Ransom.
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