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I. JAMES, b. June 2, 1727.
2. ROBERT, b. July 12, 1732.
3 SAMUEL, b. Sept. 13, 1734.
4. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 12, 1736.
5. MARY, b. Dec. 5, 1740.
6. ABIGAIL, b. Sept. 12, 1744; d. young.
7. ABIGAIL, b. July 12, 1746.
8. MERCY, b. Feb. 4, 1748 ; d. young.
James Davis (1), eldest son of Dea. Gersham and Elizabeth Sturgis, b. June 2, 1727 ; m. Jean Bacon, Oct. 3, 1745, she b. Feb. 28, 1727. He d. May 9, 1796, aged 69 years. Jean d. Feb. 26, 1798, aged 70 years and 11 months. They were buried on the "hill," in the West grave-yard (North church) of Barnstable, and inscribed monuments mark their place of rest. Children's names as follows :
I. ELIZABETH, b. July 2, 1746.
2. ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 25, 1748.
3. JEAN, b. Apr. 24, 1750.
4. PATIENCE, b. June 13, 1752.
5 DESIRE, b. Oct. 22, 1754 ; d. Aug., 1759.
6. JOSEPH, b. Sept. 19, 1757.
7. ROBERT, b. June 30, 1760.
8. HANNAH, b. Dec. 12, 1762.
9. JAMES, b. Jan. 19, 1767.
10. DESIRE, bapt. Sept. 20, 1772.
Joseph Davis (6), son of James and Jean Bacon, b. Sept. 19, 1757 ; m. Mercy Cobb, who was bapt. Aug. 18, 1765. She is supposed to have been a dau. of Joseph and Desire Cobb. She was admitted to the church as " Mercy, wife of Joseph Davis, 3d," Nov. 2, 1788. Mr. Davis was a sea-faring man, and was not seen after leaving on a voyage about the year 1800. There was a tradition in the family that he was seen on board an English man-of-war in the West Indies afterwards. Children, far as known, as follows :
I. ROBERT, bapt. Nov. 30, 1788 ; settled in Bangor.
2. SAMUEL B., bapt. Nov. 30, 1788.
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3. WILLIAM, bapt. Nov. 30, 1788; sea-captain; lived at Deer Isle, Me., until his family was broken up by death. He d. in Baldwin at the home of Lot.
4. Lor, bapt. June 5, 1791.
5. ISAIAH, bapt. Dec. 15, 1793 ; d. Aug. 16, 1794.
6. SABRA, bapt. Nov. 30, 1788.
7. CYNTHIA, b. in 1782 ; d. Dec. 10, 1802.
8. HANNAH, bapt. Nov. 30, 1788.
Lot Davis, Esq., son of Joseph and Mercy Cobb, was born at Barnstable, Mass., between Nov. 3, 1788, and June 5, 1791, the date of his baptism. His father was lost at sea when he was only twelve years of age, and he went to live with his grandmother, who was Elizabeth Bacon. In consequence of a deformed hand, he was incapacitated for performing ordinary manual labor, and was educated for a mercantile life. He came to Maine at the age of twenty, probably with his kindred, the Sturgis and Bacon families, early set- tled in Gorham. During the war of 1812 he entered the privateering service, and being captured by the British was carried to England and confined in Dartmoor prison, where he suffered such deprivations and indignities that his constitution was undermined, and his intellect impaired to such an extent that he never fully recovered. Returning to his native land, he settled in the town of Baldwin, where he opened a country store and engaged quite ex- tensively in general merchandising. He manufactured potash, a considerable industry at the time, and dealt in cooperage, shingles, and other small wooden wares. He served as trial justice over thirty years, and during his residence in Baldwin filled many town offices with great acceptability. Being unsuc- cessful in his business, latterly, he closed his store and was employed many years as an accountant by the merchants on the Saco river -much of this time at Moderation village, where he made his residence- in the stores of George W. Lord and Oliver Dow. Mr. Davis, locally called "Squire Davis," was supposed to be possessed of some occult power by which he was enabled to add four columns of figures at once. At any rate he was a remarkable mathematician who obtained accurate results with wonderful facility. His penmanship was delicate and clear, and his book-keeping systematic and tidy. He had formed singular habits while in prison, which he was never able to overcome, and went on brushing his clothes vehemently as long as he lived. During his last years his mind gave way, he became hopelessly insane, and he died in the asylum at Augusta, Feb. 13, 1858. Lot Davis married, for his first wife, Susan Larrabee, of Baldwin, by whom he had eight children. She died at the age of 52, and he married, second, Aug. 10, 1847, Miriam Bacon, a relative. Issue :
I. CYNTHIA, b. Nov. 4, 1817 ; d. Mar. 20. 1835.
2. SUSAN L., b. Jan. 30, 1819; m. Aug. 15, 1847, to Samuel White.
3. HANNAH W., b. Aug. 7, 1820; m. July 6, 1843, to Benjamin Sawyer, of Baldwin; d. Oct. 10, 1893.
4. MARY, b. in 1822 ; d. 1824.
5. MARY L., b. Jan. 29, 1825.
6. CHARLOTTE F., b. Feb. 15, 1827 ; m. Jan. 30, 1852, to John M. G. Emerson; d. Oct. 25, 1890.
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7. ELIZABETH, b. 1828 ; d. 1832.
8. NATHAN S., b. Dec. 12, 1830; m. Sept. 10, 1866, to Myra Saunders ; d. Feb. 4, 1875.
DENMARK BRANCH.
William Davis was born in Westmoreland, N. H., Aug. 29, 1782. His wife, Clarissa Carlton, was born Sept. 9, 1781, in Mt. Vernon, N. H. He came to Denmark about 1808, and cleared a farm a half mile east of the Cor- ner, where his grandson, SAMUEL G. DAVIS, now resides. He was a good townsman, who held many public offices; was lieutenant of the company sent from Denmark to Portland in Sept., 1814; a man of constancy in observing his religious duties ; deacon of the Congregational church for a long term of years; d. in 1851. Children :
I. CLARISSA W., b. Nov. 30, 1809 ; d. 1827.
2. WILLIAM F., b. Dec. 25, 1810; m. Pamelia Travers, who was b. Nov. 30, 1812, in Denmark, and is now living. Their children as follows:
I. CLARA W., b. Dec. 18, 1837.
II. WILLIAM C., b. Sept. 27, 1839; d. in the army July 27, 1863.
III. SAMUEL G., b. Jan. 28, 1841 ; d. July 27, 1842.
IV. SAMUEL G., b. July 30. 1842 ; is a lawyer by profession, who was clerk in the Pension department at Washington during Harrison's admin- istration, and now has a clerkship in the Treasury department. He owns the homestead.
3. EMMA C., b. Apr. 9, 1812.
4. JOHN P., b. July 5, 1813.
5. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 25, 1816.
6. JOSIAH W., b. July 27, 1818.
7. OLIVER C., b. Apr. 27, 1820; d. in 1839.
8. EZRA, b. Dec. 12, 1822 ; d. in the army in 1863.
Dearborn Family.
Jacob Dearborn d. in Saco, Apr. 11, 1773, aged 64. I suppose him to have been father of Jacob, who m., first, Keziah, who d. Oct. 8, 1773 ; whose second wife, Hannah, d. Jan. 15, 1785; whose wife Susanna d. Apr. 5, 1836. He d. Mar. 19, 1826, in Buxton, where the names of his children were re- corded, as will follow :
I. ANNA, b. Jan. 15, 1785.
2. LYDIA, b. Apr. 14, 1786.
3. RACHEL, b. Aug. 6, 1787.
4. BETSEY, b. July 7, 1790.
5. PHEBE, b. Nov. 16, 1794.
6. RUTH, b. Apr. 10, 1802.
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7. HANNAH, b. Oct. 28, 1803.
8. RACHEL, b. Jan. 19, 1812.
9. SALLY, b. July 18, 1817.
Joseph Dearborn, son of Jacob Dearborn and Betsey, of Buxton, had names of eleven children recorded there. He d. Apr., 1845; his wife, Aug., 1858.
I. POLLY, b. Sept. 11, 1793.
2. JOSEPH, b. Sept. 25, 1795.
3. KEZIAH, b. July 6, 1797 ; d. May 30, 1820.
4. WILLIAM, b. Nov. 2, 1800; d. April, 1848.
5. JACOB, b. Sept. 28, 1802.
6. SUSANNA, b. Sept. 9, 1804; d. June 21, 1840.
7. EDMUND, b. May 12, 1807.
8. CYRENA, b. Mar. 24, 1809.
9. ELIZA, b. May 8. 1811.
IO. SALLY, b. July 12, 1814; d. May 12, 1837.
Joseph Dearborn, of Biddeford, and wife Tamar had names of children recorded there as follows :
I. ABRAM, b. Mar. 14, 1813.
2. STEPHEN, b. Jan. 8, 1815.
3. HENRY A., b. Oct. 28, 1816.
4. SETH S., b. Feb. 22, 1819.
5 GEORGE G., b. July 22, 1823.
6. OLIVE, b. Mar. 14, 1826.
7. MARY J., b. Mar. 10, 1829.
8. JOSEPH, b. Dec. 18, 1832.
9. ELIZA E., b. July 20, 1836.
Decher Family.
Here we have a genuine German surname. Decher, as the name is fre- quently spelled, represents, in German, the number ten, and was applied to the tenth child. Some assume, however,-and the theory is plausible-that the family name was derived from the occupation of a decker; one who builds the decks of vessels. At any rate the name is a very common one, both in Germany and in the western states. One branch of the family had titles bestowed upon them in some part of Europe, but I have failed to find their history. THOMAS DECKER (sometimes spelled Dekker) was well known as an author of both prose and verse in the reign of James I. He was said to have "exhibited a very curious, minute, and interesting picture of the manners and
NOTE .- I suppose the Dearborns at "Dearborn hill," in Buxton, and those in Limington were of these families, but I have no proof.
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habits of the middle class of society." Sir Walter Scott in his description of life in London has drawn largely from the writings of Decker. His poetic diction was choice and elegant as proved by numerous selections in my pos- session. He must have been born as early as 1575, and much of his life was spent in irregularity and poverty. He died about 1641. A very learned Ger- man lawyer, by name JOHN DECKER, published a sacred work about 1678. Sir MATTHEW DECKER, in 1743, published a pamphlet entitled : "Serious Con- siderations on Present High Duties." He was a political economist, born at Amsterdam, about 1690. He came to London in 1702; was made an English subject the following year, and having embarked in commerce, attained remark- able success. He received a baronetcy in 1716, and three years later took his seat in parliament as member for Bishop's Castle. He sat but four years. He died March 18, 1749, and the baronetcy became extinct. His daughters inherited his estates. This gentleman represented, in 1716, that his father, DIRCK DECKER, of the city of Amsterdam, who was a son of CHRISTOPHER DECKER, of Harlem in the Province of Holland, and other his ancestors who were natives of Flanders (having retired from thence into Holland on account of their religion during the persecution of the Duke of Alva, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, in time of Queen Elizabeth), having borne and used the arms and crest as here depicted, viz: "Scilt Argent a Demi-Buck Gules between foreleggs an arrow Erected Pale Or. and for Crest on a wreath of his colors a like Demi-Buck and arrow"; and, whereas he had brought these arms into England, he desired that they might be conformed to him and his de- scendants.
The earliest person of this name mentioned in New England was JOHN DECKER, of Exeter, 1672.
Joseph Decker was in Kittery in 1759, and witnessed the will of Sir William Pepperill there at that date. I suppose he was the son of John Decker and wife, Sarah, who had the following children born in that town :
I. JOHN, b. Mar. 29, 1707.
2. SARAH, b. May 10, 1709.
3. MARY, b. Mar. 1, 1711.
Joshua Decker, said to have been born in the town of York, married Susanna Boston of that locality, and settled in Gorham, Me., where he was taxed for a horse one year. He soon after moved into Narragansett, No. 1, now the town of Buxton, in the "spruce swamp" neighborhood, and cleared a large farm there. The name has clung to " Decker's bridge" for consider- ably more than a hundred years, and is still well known in the locality. Mr. Decker sold out at the time when so many Saco valley families removed to the Kennebec, and spent his last days with his son Stephen in the town of Clinton. He was a large man, who in old age became very corpulent, weigh- ing more than 250 pounds. His wife lived to a great age, but I have not learned the date of the decease of either. These had eleven children:
I. JOSEPH, b. in Gorham, Me., as early as 1776; m. Dec. 5, 1799, Anne, daughter of Daniel and Rachel (Ridlon) Field, of Phillipsburgh, now Hollis. He built a house on the road leading from Moderation mills to Bonnie Eagle, a little way above the creek, and back of the well- known hackmatack tree. This was on the Field farm. He afterward lived in the old Field house, on the knoll near the brick house owned
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by "Uncle David Martin." He had a family consisting of two sons and three daughters. Mr. Decker was an industrious farmer and pro- vided well for his family till the notorious Jacob Cochran came to the Saco valley to promulgate his delusive doctrines and introduce his ques- tionable practices. Among the many who listened, believed, and were swept into partial insanity under the influence of the impostor was the subject of this notice. He became a diligent student of the sacred volume and was so much absorbed in religious meditation and exercises that he lost all interest in secular affairs. His family and farm were neglected, and the time that should have been devoted to a livelihood was devoted to reading and the promulgation of the theories he had embraced. He was undoubtedly sincere in believing-as many are today-that Christ would soon return to earth for the upbuilding of David's throne and the establishment of his kingdom among men. His daily life and habits were conformed as nearly as possible to apostolic customs ; would receive no money save to meet pressing necessities ; would have but one coat ; wore his hair and enormous beard untrimmed ; carried everywhere a long staff, and asked for the benediction of peace upon every house he entered. He became a pilgrim preacher. Being possessed of a retentive memory, fluency of communication, a clear, ringing voice, and argumentative ability, he proved an attractive public speaker. Believing that Jerusalem was to become the headquarters of the coming king, he advocated the rebuilding of the temple and the restoration of the Holy City to a degree of magnificence as nearly commensurate as possible with the dignity and divinity of his antici- pated Lord. Upon these themes he dwelt in public and private, by day and at night. until his weary brain gave way and his mind became unbalanced; then he determined to forsake all that had been dear- wife, children, relatives, home-and journey to Palestine to be one who, with his own hands, should prepare an earthly habitation for the looked-for Christ.
Previous to his final departure from home, he spent several months in traveling through the eastern section of Maine to visit his aged par- ents and brothers, then living there, and employed all his arguments to induce them to embrace his religious views. He bade each and ali an affectionate farewell "till the day dawn and the shadows flee away." and returned to spend a few days with his own family. Having made known his determination to leave for the Holy Land, his relatives ex- hausted every influence to persuade him to change his plans, but all in vain. On the morning of his final departure he rose before daybreak, went to the house where his sister lived, entered the room where she and her husband were reposing, knelt by their bedside, and offered a most tender and solemn prayer. He then commended them to the care of God, gave them the parting hand in tears, and went his way. After a few days spent with families in Buxton "of like precious faith," he moved forward and left the community. There were few mediums for conveying intelligence at that time, and no information respecting his fate reached his family for many long years. His wife endured her trial patiently, and without a murmur tried to keep her small children together until his expected return. But at length, after many years, a
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newspaper came from Boston to his sister in which was a copied account of his wanderings and vicissitudes, death and burial. He had become well known as the "Massachusetts prophet" long before leaving his native land, and under this designation he was described. Going on shipboard without money, when making his mission known he was allowed to proceed from one country to another, and as a preacher of the gospel-a class then held in reverence-he found comfortable en- tertainment as his needs required. Continuing to address the crowds that were attracted by the novelty of his appearance and detained by his eloquence on street corners and public squares, in cities and towns visited by him while on his way toward the Orient, he was several times imprisoned for a short space by the authorities. He was always non- resistant, allowing those who laid hands on him to do as they pleased ; but his appeal to American consuls soon restored him to liberty, when he would proceed Zionward. While tarrying at a small town some- where in Spain he was seized with small-pox and shortly died; thus ending, among strangers upon a foreign shore, a singularly eccentric and eventful career. His weary feet were not destined to tread the narrow streets of the earthly Jerusalem, nor his willing hands to rebuild her walls, yet his pilgrimage ended not till, freed from the limitations of the mortal, his triumphant spirit had reached that city "whose builder and maker is God."
In the absence of any allusion, in the paper forwarded to his rela- tives, to the initial letters of his name that had been imprinted upon his fore-arm, the members of his family were slow to believe the report of his death; but the nature of the disease with which he died would hasten his burial, without the exposure to view of such characters. Be- sides, the description of a man under a name bv which he was well known in his native state, left no room for doubt in the minds of the more disinterested that it was the identical "Massachusetts prophet," the real Joseph Decker of the district of Maine. There was something exceedingly pathetic and impressive in the tender solicitude, the un- changing love and conjugal faithfulness of "Aunt Anne," his deserted wife, during the long, weary years that intervened between his going away and the harvesting of her spirit at the ripe age of ninety-three. She nursed her grief within the silent chambers of her own breast, and seldom, if ever, mentioned her husband's name; but those who knew her best were aware of the burden that lay on her heart, while her habitual sadness and oft-repeated sigh indicated that a deep shadow had fallen over her life. From day to day, year after year, so long as she was able to move about, she would stand in the open door of her son's house, and with hand-shaded eyes look eagerly down the hill, watching and waiting for the return of him she loved. Alas! he did not come and her hope of a reunion was not realized till these twain joined hands on the celestial shore and together became resident inhabitants of the New Jerusalem. Children :
I. DANIEL, b. Oct. 10, 1801; m. Deborah Hanson, widow of Isaac Red- lon, of Buxton ; no issue. These lived together during a long tenure of life, in a small house built from materials taken from the old "Field house," on "Decker's lane," and a part of the farm inherited by
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" Aunt Anne" from her father. After the death of "Aunt Debby," her husband married a widow Dunn, widow of Charles Dunn, who still survives. Mr. Decker was widely known, having been many years a river-driver, but the name of "Uncle Daniel," and his keen humor and side-splitting witticisms, will not soon be forgotten by those who lived contemporary with him in the Saco valley. Some of his quaint sayings were of a character to prohibit their description on the printed page; many, however, will be given as nearly in his own language as possible by the long range of memory.
"Aunt Debby." his wife, was nearly ten years his senior, and was always called by him " My Old Hemlock." She was a woman of arbitrary temperament and radical habits of speech : a robust, tough- fibred person, whose self-reliance was never questioned. With nerves of steel, if any nerves she had, there was little room for sympathy in her composition, for the infirm and sickly of her neighborhood ; still she was a good neighbor - when muscle and pluck were needed. No heat of summer nor cold of winter could change her plans; she "went abroad" in all weather and challenged all the elements. Her courage was invincible, and woe to him or her who intruded upon her domain in opposition to her will .* Her voice had compass suited to all occasions and when she stood in the back door of her little porch and shouted, "Come to din-n-e-r-r-r," a hungry man anywhere within a mile gave attention to the welcome summons.
"Uncle Daniel" had a nature exactly antipodal to that of his wife and was well adapted to lighten her heavy temper with the soda of his spontaneous cheerfulness. But what pranks he played with her ; what jokes he passed upon her !
II. RACHEL, b. Mar. 16, 1806; m. Oliver Miles, of Limerick, and is now (1893) living with her dau. in Newfield, active and entertaining.
III. JOSEPH, b. June 23, 1807 ; m. Judith, daughter of Thomas and Polly (Decker) Ridlon, his cousin, of Hollis. He built a house on the hill, near the homestead of his father-in-law,- the land being a part of the old Field farm,- and lived there many years in the most comfortable and independent circumstances. His farm was small but productive ; his buildings snug and cozy; his wife prudent, and peace and plenty seemed to smile npon them. "Uncle Joe," like his brother before- mentioned, was of cheerful, jovial inclination, robust and hearty. His wife - one of the excellent of the earth - was naturally quiet and serious. The two went along the highway of life without dis- cord. He was so strong that he often took the end of the tongue of his wheel cart upon his shoulder when loaded with potatoes, and carried it steadily down the hill across the field to his house. He had the constitutional humor characteristic of the whole Decker race, and many were the laughable things said by him. Having become a Christian, his humorous nature was under prudent restraint, but it would gush out at times to the great amusement of all present. He
* The author will not forget the precipitate and ungraceful haste with which he once went through her cellar window when she came down the stairs and found him looking into her pickle firkin. She seized the long stick out of the barrel of soft-soap and put on hard while he was crawling through the small opening. But the way the soap Hew! And the pantaloons! So much for pickles.
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was once at work, assisting a neighbor in his wood-shed, where they were not seen from the outside, when a young woman, one at the "next house," came running by. Her clothes were somewhat dis- ordered, and as she discovered the men and remembered her unpre- sentable appearance, she showed great embarrassment; at that moment Uncle Joe put his head out at the door and shouted : "Who said your dress was all torn off from you?" Poor girl ! with a crim- son cheek and downcast eyes she made a desperate rush for the house and was not seen again.
It was winter ; a stranger passing saw Unele Joe's small dog at his feet and asked its name. "Name? his name is ' Spry,'" (and instantly seizing the cur sent him spinning down the hill upon the glassy crust) ; "don't you think he's spry ?"
He married for his second wife Nancy, dau. of "Squire Quint," of Brownfield, and widow of Charles Lewis, of Waterborough, a woman of many virtues, who has been some years at rest. Having no chil- dren and becoming nearly blind, he sold his homestead and purchased a house at the village, called West Buxton, in Hollis, where he lived, under the faithful care of his step-son and wife, until his death, in 1893. For many long years " Uncle Joe" had been a man of prayer who always addressed his Maker as an " Indulgent Father." He had long served in the office of deacon in the Free Baptist church and held the loving respect of the community at large.
IV. ANNA, b. May 6, 1810; m. Capt. John Frye, of Portland, by whom she had one child. After the death of her husband she kept for many years a boarding-house ; deceased.
V. SUSANNA, b. Mar. 3, 1813 ; d. in infancy.
2. THOMAS, b. about 1778; m. first, Dec. 13, 1798, Sally Cole, of Buxton, ceremony by the Rev. Paul Coffin. She d. Apr. 11, 1799, and he went down east. From an old document found among my grandmother's papers it appears that he m. for his second wife, Apr. 16, 1804, Nancy Sweetser, and resided in Prospect, Clinton, and Boothbay, Me., where the following children were born :
I. SALLY C., b. May 6, 1802, in Prospect, Me.
II. NANCY, b. Jan. 15, 1805, in Prospect, Me.
III. MARY, b. Sept. 16, 1806, in Dixmont, Me.
IV. ISAAC, b. May 8, 1808, in Clinton, Me.
V. JOHN, b. July 10, 1810, in Clinton, Me.
VI. RACHEL, b. July 5, 1812, in Boothbay, Me.
VII. LYDIA, b. July 16, 1816, in Boothbay, Me.
VIII. SUSAN, b. July 15, 1819, in Boothbay, Me.
3. ISAAC, b. Jan. 16, 1780, in Buxton, Me .; m. Lucy Robinson, who was b. Mar. 21, 1778, in Jebogue, Nova Scotia, and resided many years in Gardiner, where he kept a "victualing cellar." He studied navigation in early life and followed the sea ; served in the navy as mate of a ship
NOTE .- My grandmother was Molly (called Polly), dan. of Joshua Decker, of Buxton. I often heard her speak of her brother "Thomas, of Boothbay." I think she also mentioned ' Uncle Thomas Decker, of Boothbay." This may account for the two of the name.
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during the war of 1812. His wife d. in Yarmouth, Oct. 14, 1862, aged 85. He d. in the same town, Mar. 4, 1863, aged 83 years. Children :
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