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ABRAHAM SOMES, ANDREW TARR, STEPHEN GOTT, BENJM. STANDWOOD, JAMES RICHARDSON, STEPHEN RICHARDSON, DANIEL GOTT, DANIEL GOTT, JR., THOMAS RICHARDSON, ELIJAH RICHARDSON.
Of these signers Abraham Somes,1 the pioneer
1 Abraham Somes was born at Gloucester, Mass., March 17, 1732; m. (1) Hannah, dau. of Samuel Herrick of Gloucester, Dec. 25, 1753. She was born at Gloucester, Oct. 6, 1735. She d. March 16, 1790. On April 2, 1794, he m. (2) Mrs. Joanna Beal, widow of Edward Beal of Union River. She d. Dec. 17, 1831. Abraham Somes d. Sept. 7, 1819.
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on the island, was the son of Abraham and Martha Emerson Somes who were married at
Children by first marriage:
I. Hannah, b. Sept. 16, 1754; m. Samuel Reed of Sedgwick; res. Somesville.
II. Patty, b. Dec. 24, 1756; m. James Fly; res. Surry, Brooklin, and Trenton, where he d. Dec. 1801. She d. April, 1846.
III. Lucy, b. May 4, 1759; m. Nicholas Thomas; res. Thomas District, Eden.
IV. Prudence, b. June 23, 1761; m. Abraham Reed; res. Sedgwick.
V. Abraham, b. 1763; m. Rachel Babson; res. on his fa- ther's place in Somesville. His sons Isaac and George B. settled in Somesville.
VI. Marcey, b. 1765; m. Amaziah Dodge; moved to Ohio; d. July 12, 1845.
VII. John, b. 1767; m. Judith Richardson; res. Somesville.
VIII. Daniel, b. 1770; m. Clarissa Beal; res. Somesville. Two of their children settled at Somesville.
IX. Louis, b. 1772; m. - Dodge of Sedgwick.
X. James, b. 1774 ; m. Betsy Gott ; res. Beach Hill and Solon, Me.
XI. Jacob, b. 1777; unmarried; lost at sea.
XII. Betty, b. 1779; m. William W. Thorn; res. Oak Hill.
XIII. Isaac, b. 1781; m. Sally Kittridge of Billerica.
VII. John Somes, son of Abraham and Hannah, m., Jan. 6, 1793, to Judith Richardson, by the Hon. Paul Dudley Sargent, Esq. He settled at Somesville on land now owned by his grand- son, John J. Somes. He was representative in the Massachusetts legislature 1815-1818.
Children :
1. John, Jr., b. 1794 ; m. Julia Kittridge; res. Somesville. He was the first postmaster on the island of Mount Desert.
2. Judith, b. 1796; m. Eben Babson; res. Somesville.
3. Jacob, b.1799; m. Rebecca Seavy; res. in Somesville on his father's place. Representative and senator to the Maine legislature.
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Gloucester in 1730, and was fourth in descent from Morris Somes (b. 1614), who, with his wife Margerie, was one of the first settlers of Glouces- ter and ancestor of all the New England fami- lies that bear the name. Abraham Somes married Hannah Herrick, daughter of Samuel Herrick of Gloucester. He settled on what is now known as the George Somes Point in 1762 and held there- after a foremost place on the island. He was one of the first Board of Selectmen of the town of Mount Desert, lieutenant of the militia company, and lived to be over eighty years of age. His numerous descendants have always been the leading family at Somesville and to the fourth generation retain their influence in town affairs. James Richardson,1 who came in the same year,
4. Abraham, b. 1801; m. Adline Freeman; res. Somesville.
5. Benjamin, b. 1804; d. unmarried.
6. Emily, b. 1806; m. John M. Noyes; res. Somesville and Massachusetts.
7. Julian, b. 1810; d. May 20, 1812.
1 James Richardson, son of Stephen and Jane (Montgomery) Richardson, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, to Gloucester, Mass., in 1738. James was b. about 1730. He was m., March 19, 1752, to Rachel Gott, by Rev. Benjamin Bradstreet. He d. Dec. 12, 1807. She d. March 22, 1814.
Their children were:
I. Rachel, b. 1752 ; m. Davis Wasgatt; res. Beech Hill.
II. James, b. 1754; m. (1) Hannah Sargent, (2) Mrs. Hannah Gilpatrick of Trenton; res. Northeast Harbor. III. Daniel, b. 1756; m. Sarah Cousins; res. Hadley's Point.
IV. Jane, b. 1758; m. Nicholas Thomas (second wife); res. Thomas District, Eden.
V. Mary, b. 1761; m. Ezra H. Dodge.
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was also from Gloucester. He was of sturdy Scotch Irish descent. He built a mill at the head of the sound and engaged in lumbering in winter and farming in summer. He was a man of some education and was the first clerk of the planta- tion and also town clerk for many years. The prolific and serviceable family stock continues to flourish in many branches.
Andrew Tarr also came from Gloucester. He seems to have settled first near his old neighbors at the head of the sound, but soon moved to the smooth slopes of Fernald's Point where the Jesuits had set up their cross just one hundred and fifty years before. In the list of the early settlers on the Bernard grant his lot is designated as northerly of Norwood's Cove. Later Tobias Fernald, a seafaring young man from Kittery, married Andrew Tarr's daughter Comfort, and they inherited the estate and built a good house on the point. Their son Ebenezer married So- phronia Wasgatt and lived and died on his beau-
VI. George, b. Aug. 16, 1763, the first white child born on Mount Desert; m. (1) Lucy Pindexter, (2) Mrs. Betsy Simmons; res. at the head of the sound on land now owned by his great-grandson, Bloomfield Richardson.
VII. David, b. 1765; m. Molly Steel; res. Somesville. He was justice of the peace.
VIII. Judith, b. 1767; m. John Somes; res. Somesville.
IX. Isaac, b. 1770; d. in Boston, Aug. 12, 1796.
X. Tamson, b. 1772; m. George Freeman; res. Pretty Marsh.
XI. Rhoda, b. 1774; m. Reuben Freeman; res. Pretty Marsh.
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tiful place, leaving it to his two sons, Rev. Oliver H. Fernald and Professor Charles H. Fernald of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Stephen Richardson was a brother of James Richardson. He settled on what is now Crock- ett's Point on the west side of Bass Harbor. It was at his house that the first meeting of the plantation was held March 30, 1776, and at that meeting he was elected a member of the Commit- tee of Correspondence, Safety, and Inspection. The subsequent meetings of the plantation were likewise held at Stephen Richardson's. "The house," wrote Mr. Dodge in 1871, "went out of existence some time ago, but the débris of the cellar still remains." Stephen Richardson was the representative of the plantation in the General Court and a member of the first Board of Select- men of Mount Desert.
Daniel Gott was a brother of Mrs. Stephen Richardson and settled near his sister on the west side of Bass Harbor. On March 25, 1789, “ in consideration of eighteen pounds legal money," he obtained a deed from the counties of York, Cumberland, and Lincoln to the two islands lying off Bass Harbor Head. He moved on to the larger island, thereafter known as Gott's Island, and occupied it until his death, June 7, 1814. His descendants still live there. Thomas Richardson settled on the east side of Bass Harbor. He was a member of the first Committee of Correspond-
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ence of the plantation, and we have already met his name as a member of the committee to run the boundary between the Bernard and De Gre- goire grants. Benjamin Stanwood was probably at the time living on Little Cranberry, though he afterwards returned to Gloucester.
The petition of the settlers was evidently re- ferred by Governor Bernard, then in the thick of his troubles with the Massachusetts patriots, to his friend and business associate, Colonel Thomas Goldthwait, commander of the post, Fort Pownall, at the mouth of the Penobscot. He evidently turned it over to Colonel Nathan Jones of Goulds- boro', for the following letter 1 is preserved in the Bernard papers in the Harvard College library :
FRENCHMEN'S BAY, 16 May 1768. May it please your Excellency
I Received the favor that came by Col. Gold- thwait and shall act in Consequence thereof. I have sent to many of the People that used to Cut the Grass on Mt. Desert and they have been with me. I let them know that for the future they must not cut any more without first agreeing and paying a valuable consideration for it. All the People that I have talked with are willing to pay sum Acknowledgement for it. The method I have taken was to offer it to the Persons that used to improve it and that gives the Greatest Satisfac- tion.
1 Sparks MSS. vol. xi, p. 275.
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As to the price I should be glad to know what your Excellency would accept of, One Shilling Sterling p Ton would come to a Great Sum if all the Hay was paid for, that is cut and that price might easily be obtained I think. Col. Gold- thwait wrote me that he should be at Mount Desert and at this place before this Time. I have waited for his arrival to advise with him on all the affairs Relative to the Island or I should have gone to Mount Desert before this time to have Lotted out the Meadows to the Several Persons that want them and to have taken security of them for the Sums that they agree to give. I am in- formed that Mr. Somes Cultivates that Bad Spiritt that prevails too much everywhere at this Time he tells the People that they have the best Right to the hay on the Island and that the Government is not likely to get a Grant of the Island. There has been great Havock made of your Timber, but I shall prevent it for the future on this side of the Island as to building the Mill that was purposed. When Col. Goldthwait comes down if he will at- tend I will go to the Island and view the place once more and give a full answer.
I am Sir with due Respect
Your Excellency's Most Obedient and Very Humble Servant,
NATHAN JONES.1
1 Nathan Jones was born at Weston, Mass., September 9, 1724, the son of Elisha and Mary Allen Jones. On October 17,
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In the next fifteen years the nine households represented by the signers of the petition to Gov- ernor Bernard were joined by others, and little communities grew up at the head of the sound, at Southwest and Bass Harbors, and at Seal Cove. Young Davis Wasgatt married James Richard- son's daughter, Rachel,1 and later, with hardy labor, cleared a farm on Beech Hill. Wasgatt was later a justice of the peace, a man of vigor-
1756, he married Sarah Severns. He accompanied Governor Bernard to Mount Desert as a surveyor in October, 1762, and not long after that settled on the eastern shore of Frenchman's Bay near West Gouldsboro', where he reared a family of twelve chil- dren. In the Revolution he was suspected of Toryism and was under the surveillance of his neighbors for some time. He was early appointed a justice of the peace, and appears in 1790 as one of the commissioners to divide the island of Mount Desert and in the succeeding year as administrator of the estate of James Cockle of Mount Desert. He is often mentioned in the diary of General David Cobb who lived on Gouldsboro' Point for thirty years as the agent of the Bingham estate. He died in 1806.
1 The twelve children of this marriage were :
I. Davis, b. 1775, at No. 1; m. Sally Hadlock, res. Northeast Harbor.
II. Rachel, b. 1776, at No. 1; m. Simeon Milliken, res. on Hardwood Island, then in Trenton.
III. Cornelius, b. at Brimfield, Mass., 1778.
IV. Tamson, b. 1780, at Monson, Mass.
V. Rufus, b. 1781, at Monson, Mass .; d. 1783.
VI. Sarah H., b. 1784, at Monson, Mass.
VII. Rufus, b. 1786, at Trenton; m. Suky Gott.
VIII. Hannah R., b. 1788, at Trenton.
IX. David, b. 1790, at Mount Desert; res. Beech Hill.
X. Asa, b. 1793, at Mount Desert; m. -.
XI. Margaret T., b. 1796, at Mount Desert; m. -.
XII. Jason, b. 1798, at Mount Desert; m. Abigail Rodick; res. Cromwell's Harbor.
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ous mind and independent judgment. His twelve children are represented by many descendants in Hancock County.
Ezra H. Dodge married another of James Rich- ardson's daughters and established his homestead on the southern side of Seal Cove, still known as Dodge's Point. By the year 1784 William Gil- ley, Tyler Reed, and George Norman had settled, near Norwood's Cove. Ebenezer Eaton, the first minister, Andrew Tucker, Samuel Bowden, Ben- jamin Ward, Joshua Mayo, William Grew, Nich- olas Tucker, John Rute, Joseph Legro, and Peter Dolliver are recorded as living at Southwest Harbor. Joshua Norwood, Abraham Richard- son, and Peter Gott were on the east side of Bass Harbor. Benjamin Benson had joined Stephen Richardson and Daniel Gott on the west side of Bass Harbor. William Nutter and Enoch Wentworth were near Goose Cove. Wil- liam Heath had a mill on the water power at Seal Cove, and James Reed and George But- ler were with him. Ephraim Pray and Reuben and George Freeman and their families were at Pretty Marsh. With one or two exceptions all these families are still well represented in the population of the island.
The first settler on the eastern half of the island was probably John Hamor,1 who came 1 John Hamor was the son of John Hamor and his wife Sarah -
SEAL COVE
MILL AT SEAL COVE
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from Arundel, now Kennebunkport, in 1768. He brought his wife, Mary Rodick, and settled
(Huff) Hamor, who lived at, or near, Cleaves Cove, in the town of Arundel, now Kennebunkport, as early as 1747. Their chil- dren were Joanna, Sarah, Molly, Bathsheba, Betty, John, and two other sons, probably all born in Arundel. John married Mary Rodick and settled in Arundel. In 1768 they removed to Hull's Cove.
Their children, perhaps not in the right order, were :
I. David Hamor, b. 1757; m. Experience Thompson; res. Hull's Cove.
II. Mary, b. 1761; m. Edward Hodgkins; res. Trenton, now Lamoine.
III. Sally, b. -; m. Ezra Leland; res. Leland's Cove, Eden.
IV. John, b. -; m. Sarah Hodgkins; res. near Hull's Cove, Eden.
V. Daniel, b. -; m. Polly Hodgkins; res. Hamor's Sand Point, Eden.
I. David Hamor, son of John and Mary (Rodick) Hamor, b. at Arundel, March 11, 1757 ; came to Hull's Cove with his parents in 1768; m. Experience Thompson, dau. of William and Mary Thompson, May 12, 1790. She was b. at Harpswell, April 18, 1771. They settled at Hull's Cove, where he d. Oct. 25, 1836, and she d. Oct. 26, 1856. He was a farmer, well off for the times. He was at one time lieutenant of militia, and held im- portant offices in the plantation and town of Mount Desert, and was treasurer and selectman of Eden for a number of years. Mrs. Hamor was a prominent and active member of the Eden Baptist Church.
Their children were:
1. William, b. 1791; m. Experience Mayo; res. at Town Hill.
2. Betsy, b. 1792; m. Joseph Higgins; res. at Town Hill.
3. James, b. 1794; m. Clarissa Rodick; res. Bar Harbor.
4. Jonathan, b. 1796; m. Hannah Brewer; res. Hull's Cove.
5. Ezra, b. 1798; m. Eliza Higgins; res. Hull's Cove.
6. Mary, b. 1800; m. Edward Brewer; res. Hull's Cove.
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at Hull's Cove, which soon became and remained for many years the chief centre of settlement on the eastern shore. It combined the three advan- tages which the earliest settlers sought, a harbor giving shelter for small vessels, a fresh water stream, and a bit of grass or marsh land where the stock could be pastured and hay cut. Hamor built his cabin where the M. L. Hamor house now stands. The next summer he started in his little vessel for his old home at Kennebunkport, and was never heard of again. His widow brought up the five children, and lived until May 31, 1814, when she was killed by an accident. The Hamors have, from the first, been one of the most respected and useful families on the island. For four generations they have been influential leaders in town affairs.
The family character of the migration we are tracing is emphasized by the next settlers on the northeastern shore, who were both brothers-in-law
7. Edward, b. 1803; m. Elmena Thomas; res. Hull's Cove.
8. Hannah D., b. 1804; m. Eben L. Higgins; res. Leland's Cove.
9. Cornelius T., b. 1806; m. Sally D. Hopkins; res. Hull's Cove.
10. Prudence T., b. 1808; m. Eben S. Young; res. Salsbury's Cove.
11. Peleg, b. 1810; d. unmarried in 1839.
12. Richard, b. 1812; m. Mary Ann Hamor; res. Hull's Cove.
13. Alden, b. 1815; m. Triphena Higgins; res. Hull's Cove ; now living.
Five of these sons were sea-captains, and three of the daugh- ters married sea-captains.
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of John Hamor. Daniel Rodick 1 had married Betty Hamor at Harpswell in 1764 and five years later they came to Frenchman's Bay and were the ancestors of the strong and influential Rodick
1 Daniel Rodick m. Betty Hamor, dau. of John and Sarah (Huff) Hamor, and sister of John Hamor the first settler at Hull's Cove. They were published at Harpswell, Jan. 28, 1764. Their children were:
I. Daniel, d. at sea; unmarried.
II. James, m. -; res. Harpswell.
III. David, m. Sally Stanwood.
IV. John, m. Thankful Higgins; res. Bar Harbor.
V. Abigail, m. Thomas Douglass.
VI. Betsey, m. - Springer.
VII. Polly, m. Dean Higgins; res. Cromwell's Harbor.
VIII. Dorcas, m. John Suminsbuy; res. Hull's Cove.
IX. Hannah, m. Andrew Monarch; res. Hull's Cove.
X. Sally, m. Oliver Thomas; res. Hull's Cove.
XI. Patience, m. Josiah Smalledge.
III. David Rodick m. Sally Stanwood, dau. of Job and Martha (Bradstreet) Stanwood, June 2, 1797; res. on Bar Island, Eden. She d. Feb. 18, 1853, and he d. Jan. 21, 1856.
Their children were:
1. Daniel, b. 1798; m. Deborah Stanwood; res. Cromwell's Harbor.
2. Abigail, b. 1800; m. Jason Wasgatt; res. Cromwell's Harbor.
3. Clarissa, b. 1802 ; m. James Hamor; res. Bar Harbor.
4. Benjamin, b. 1805; res. New York.
5. Emily, b. 1807; m. (1) Serenus Higgins; res. Bar Harbor; m. (2) Thomas Dollard; res. West Ellsworth.
6. Pamelia, b. 1810; m. Josiah B. Richards; res. Cromwell's Harbor.
7. Betsy, b. 1812; m. Jonathan Manchester of Mount Desert. She is now living at Bar Harbor.
8. David, b. 1815, m. (1) Mariam Higgins, (2) Betsy Brewer{ res. on Bar Island, Eden.
9. Martha, b. 1819; m. Rev. James Small of Exeter, Me.
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family at Bar Harbor. They settled near the shore on the lot part of which is now owned and occupied by his grandson, John A. Rodick. At a plantation meeting, March 25, 1777, he was chosen a member of the Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety "for ye present year." June 10 of the same year he was chosen on a committee " to take care of the marshes." Elisha Cousins 1 had married Bathsheba Hamor at Harps- well in 1758, and they came to Hull's Cove in 1769 and built a homestead on what is now the Walter M. Hamor place. Mr. Cousins took an active part in public affairs, held important offices
1 Elisha Cousins, b. at Wells, District of Maine, Nov. 20, 1735; d. at Hull's Cove, Eden, Jan. 18, 1816. He m. Bathsheba, dau. of John and Sarah (Huff) Hamor, Dec. 3, 1758. She was b. at Sheepscot, May 11, 1742, and d. March 23, 1830, at Hull's Cove. They moved from Harpswell to Hull's Cove about 1769.
Their children were:
I. A daughter, b. 1759; d. in infancy.
II. Ruth, b. 1761; m. Joseph Bunker; res. on Cranberry Isle. III. John, b. 1764; m. (1) Hannah Dyer, (2) Mary Higgins, (3) Eliza Manchester; res. Hull's Cove and Trenton.
IV. Ephraim, b. 1766; d. in infancy.
V. Bathsheba, b. 1768; m. Robert Young; res. Duck Brook.
VI. Sarah, b. 1770; m. Daniel Richardson ; res. Hadley's Sand Point.
VII. Elisha, b. 1773; m. Thankful Wasgatt ; res. at the Nar- rows.
VIII. Ephraim, b. 1775; m. Louis Salsbury ; res. Bar Harbor. IX. A son, b. 1778; d. in infancy.
X. Joseph, b. 1779; m. Mary Cousins ; res. Northwest Cove.
XI. Joanna, b. 1783; m. Moses Wasgatt; res. Hull's Cove.
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in plantation and town, and was moderator, clerk, and selectman of Eden many times.
Next came several families from Cape Cod. Levi Higgins1 and his wife, Bathsheba Young, with two boys, Nehemiah and Elkanah, moved from Eastham in 1770 and built a log house on the point north of Hull's Cove now known as Cape Levi. Later he built the frame house in which the First Baptist Church was organized. He was the first chairman of the Selectmen of the town of Mount Desert, a member of the first
1 Levi Higgins m. (1) Bathsheba Young at Eastham, Cape Cod, Feb. 19, 1767. He m. (2) Mrs. Mary Hopkins, widow of Joseph Hopkins. He d. June 22, 1825. The Eden Baptist Church was organized at his house, July 5, 1799.
Children by his first marriage were:
I. Nehemiah, b. 1767, at Eastham; m. Ursula Leland, res. Leland's Cove.
II. Elkanah, b. 1769, at Eastham; m. Azubah =; res. Fairfield, Me.
III. Eunice, b. 1771, at Hull's Cove.
IV. Chloe, b. 1774, at Hull's Cove.
V. Mercy, b. 1775, at Hull's Cove.
VI. Hannah, b. 1777, at Hull's Cove; m. (1) Amariah Leland; res. Emery's Cove; (2) Humphrey Stanwood; res. Bar Harbor.
VII. Theophilus, b. 1779, at Hull's Cove; res. Trenton now Lamoine.
VIII. Richard, b. 1782, at Hull's Cove; m. (1) Rebecca Higgins, (2) Margaret Campbell; res. Hull's Cove.
IX. Josiah, b. 1784, at Hull's Cove; m. Mary Cousins; res. Trenton.
X. Deborah, b. 1786, at Hull's Cove.
XI. Mary, b. 1788, at Hull's Cove.
XII. Levi, b. 1793, at Hull's Cove; m. Jerusha Cousins; res. Trenton.
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Board of Selectmen of the town of Eden, and lieutenant in the militia company. The next year after Levi Higgins, Israel Higgins 1 and his wife Mary Snow, came from Cape Cod and set- tled on the shore near Eddy's Brook. They " took up " some two hundred acres of land ever since known as the Israel Higgins lot. There Solomon Higgins, probably his brother-in-law, for his wife's name was Bethiah Snow, soon joined him.
Levi Higgins's wife was Bathsheba Young and as they all came from the same town on Cape Cod, it is reasonable to suppose that Ezra Young 2
1 Israel Higgins and his wife Mary Snow came from South Truro, Cape Cod, before 1776.
Their children were:
I. Henry, b. 1769; at Eastham; d. 1794.
II. Stephen, b. 1771; m. Deborah -; res. Bar Harbor.
III. Israel, b. 1773; d. 1776.
IV. Oliver, b. 1776; m. Rhoda Leland; res. Bar Harbor.
V. Jonathan, b. 1780; d. 1796.
VI. Zacheus, b. 1782; m. Sarah Leland; res. Bar Harbor.
VII. Seth, b. 1785; m. Sally Hadlock of Cranberry Isles.
VIII. Mercy, b. 1787; m. Nathan Clark of Southwest Harbor. IX. Mary, b. 1791; m. Christopher Havens; res. Bar Harbor.
X. Israel, b. 1798; m. Polly Hull; res. Bar Harbor.
2 There is no record of Captain Young's family in the Eden records, but in the records of Mount Desert is the following: -
" A Record of Births and Deaths of Capt. Ezra Young and his wife Constant, and family."
" their son Ezra Young was born at Mount Desert June the 20 1774."
" their first Daughter Rosanna Born November ye 28, 1782." Dec. 9, 1804, Rosanna Young was married by her father, Ezra Young, Esq., to Isaac Mayo of Southwest Harbor.
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and Elkanah Young 1 were her relations. Ezra Young settled at Duck Brook before 1774. He was the most prominent and influential man on the island from the time he came until after Eden was incorporated. At the first plantation meeting held at Somesville, March 30, 1776, he was chosen on the Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Inspection, and also on a committee "to bring in the order of the day." On June 10, 1776, he was elected " Captain of the Militia
Capt. Ezra Young d. June 12, 1812. His wife Constant d. April 8, 1816.
Ezra Young, Jr., m. Sara Hoges. They had four children. Res. at Bar Harbor, then moved South.
1 Elkanah Young and his (1) wife Rebeckah were m. at Eastham by the Rev. Joseph Crocker, March 16, 1769. She d. April 6, 1774, and he was m. (2) by Rev. Jonathan Bascom, at Eastham, Oct. 5, 1775, to Mary Lewis. They lived some years on the hill east of Salsbury's Cove, and then removed to Trenton.
Child by first marriage:
I. Mary, b. May 17, 1772, at Salsbury's Cove; m. William Mason; res. Eden. He was killed by the English at Bar Harbor in the war of 1812-15.
Children by second marriage:
II. Elkanah, b. Eastham.
III. Barnabus, b. 1777, at Salsbury's Cove; m. Abigail Sals- bury; res. Ironbound Island.
IV. Abner, b. 1779; m. (1) -, (2) Lucy Hamor, (3) Mrs. Mary -; res. Salsbury's Cove.
V. Nathan, b. 1781.
VI. Thomas, b. 1783.
VII. Solomon, b. 1785; res. Trenton, now Lamoine.
VIII. Seth, b. 1788; res. Lamoine.
IX. Lewis, b. 1793; res. Lamoine.
X. William, b. 1794; res. Lamoine.
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of this District." At a plantation meeting, March 24, 1779, he was elected major.
At the organization of the town of Mount De- sert he signed the oath of allegiance, was chosen moderator of the meeting and one of the first Board of Selectmen of Mount Desert. He held many responsible offices in Mount Desert, until Eden was incorporated, and at the first town meeting of Eden, held at the dwellinghouse of Captain Samuel Hull at Hull's Cove, April 4, 1796, he was chosen chairman of the first Board of Selectmen of Eden.
Ebenezer Salsbury 1 and his wife, Mehitable, were probably the first settlers on the point now occupied by the town of Bar Harbor. They came before 1776 and built a log house about where the Newport Hotel now stands. Soon they moved to the slope of the hill north of Eddy's Brook and later established a permanent home at the head of Salsbury's Cove, where both died
1 The children of Ebenezer and Mehitable Salsbury were:
I. Molly, m. James Leland; moved " down east."
II. Stephen, m. Anna Snow Young; moved to Canaan, Me.
III. Ebenezer, m. Abigail Knowles; res. Salsbury's Cove.
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