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Fish? I forgot to tell you about the fish we caught, I will save that for another time.
(Signed) H. M. S. (Helen M. Smith).
Kate, the one and only name given in this story, was Kate Dyer, the next door neighbor to Helen Smith. She was taken care of in her last days very lovingly by her foster daughter, Jane Pinco, who inherited the property. The house since has changed hands and been lived in by many people. Winslow and Josie Clark Smith lived there for about 10 years around 1900. He, with Herbert O. Johnson, had an Interior Decorating business, mostly paper hanging and painting. Mr. and Mrs. Jennison live there now. They purchased the property from Pearl D. Robertson. Mrs. Jennison's father, Col. Smith, wrote the article on Paul Dudley Sargent elsewhere in this book.
"Chief" Stanwood himself has had an interesting life. Born in Ellsworth, son of Capt. Roswell L. and Susan M. Stanwood, on July 14th 1879. After taking a high school course in photo- graphy, real-estate, brokerage and insurance, he started in rais- ing cattle, sheep and bees. He sold those and went to an in- surance office in Cape Breton. Returning from there he traveled in a tent with the Portland Photo Co. He toured fourteen weeks with Frank A. Robbins' circus, with photo concession and candy butcher, filling in for the evening show sometimes with the elephant act. He married Susie W. Smith, daughter of Charles P. and Mehitabel Smith on December 11, 1911. A year previous to his marriage he worked with Victor E. Holtz in the photography business, the next year buying out Holtz and mov- ing to the Dirigo Block, where Newberry's store is now. After three years there he built a photo car and with his wife, traveled eastern Maine, running a movie and vaudeville show on a circuit of towns. During first world war was located in Harrington, Maine, where he organized the Harrington Sportsman Club,
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which included President Harding. After purchasing the Fish- erman's Camp at Tunk Lake he built several cabins around the lake and improved the road. He organized the Scientific An- glers and Archers Club of Maine, The Tunk Lake Rod and Gun Club, which is an affiliation of the National Rifle Association. At one time he was a member of the Twenty Four Clubs. For many years he acted as master of ceremonies at sportman's field days, and gave exhibitions at sportsmen's shows and won the all-around State championship in fly and bait casting at one of these events, with 15,000 competing, against Maine, which he still holds with an average of 97/40/100. His out-of-door articles in sportsmen's magazines have been read for over 50 years. He has guided many prominent persons. Among them, Dr. Henry Van Duke, Theodore Marburg, Adm. Byrd, Henry Morganthaw, Henry Davis, Warren King Morehead, Mary Roberts Rine- hart, Arthur Scoville, Jr., John Alden Knight and many others in public life. Being called "Chief" himself, he entertains Chief Needahbeh each year, who is popular as Maine's master of ceremonies at the out of state sportsmen's show New York, Boston and elsewhere.
THE GAY NINETIES
The gay nineties were as gay in Sullivan and Sorrento as they were elsewhere. The whole country was singing "The Bowery," "Sweet Rosie O'Grady", "Sweet Adeline" and "A Bicycle Built For Two". They were colorful and happy, and as one remem- bers, perhaps the most prosperous. No wars or rumors of war, except the revolts in Cuba which led to the sinking of the battleship "Maine" in 1898. President Mckinley soon set about sending our navy there, to settle the differences, Admiral S. Dewey and Sampson emerged as heroes, the Spanish surrend- ered July 14th, the armistice signed Aug. 12, and the peace treaty Dec. 10. The national budgets were balanced without too many red marks.
It was a weekly ritual, housewives washed Monday, ironed Tuesday, mended Wednesday, churned Thursday, cleaned house Friday and cooked Saturday. And they did cook, pies, dough- nuts, cake, cookies, etc., enough for the whole week. Hospitality
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was the watchword. Unexpected company was so welcome, they were treated to the spic and span "spare room". The linen and china dug out from the extra closet, and the cakes frosted. Fresh clean aprons were adorned and the children were groomed for the occasion. The whole family went to church on Sunday. Every Sunday was like an Easter Parade. The Sunday clothes had been cleaned and pressed, and Sunday morning with hat, veil and gloves one walked proudly, sometimes for even a mile or two to church. The churches were always filled.
Sunday afternoons found the family together, riding perhaps in a surrey or cut-under drawn by a span of horses with well cleaned and shiny harnesses, or maybe an excursion to Bar Har- bor on the boat, with yachts and smaller craft thickly anchored in the harbor, or maybe sailing on their way. One could easily mistake the Pulitzer's big yacht for a war ship, and others might be as large if not larger than the steamboats.
A large part of the Atlantic Fleet was sure to visit in Bar Harbor once a year, for the coaling station was at Lamoine for several years. Buckboards were frequently hired from the livery stables for Sunday School picnics or just drives. Perhaps, hay- rack rides too would be fun, to some beach, Tunk Pond was a favorite, boats could always be hired for a ride around the pond, (but lake it is called now). Sled rides too, in the winter were popular. It might be a fishing trip or a dance or a play in some other town, but the sleds were ingenuously closed in, so with plenty of chorus singing, in the coldest of weather the trips were all too short.
Our summer people gave much dash and color to the scenery. We can remember Judge Fuller riding by in his victoria. Surreys, cut-unders, buckboards and even tallyhoes were plentiful on the highways, drawn by two, four and sometimes six horses. Gay hats with veils, and sometimes flowing ones, small parasols with fringes and lace trimming adorned the passengers.
Stylish maidens and madams were dressed in high stock collars, basques made with whalebones, that made for diminish- ing waistlines, leg o' mutton sleeves and long sweeping skirts,
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Top-WAUKEAG HOUSE, SULLIVAN HARBOR Center-"ELECTOR" AT WHARF, SORRENTO Bottom-HOTEL SORRENTO
supported underneath by a half dozen petticoats that rustled and rattled and the more rattle the better. If by chance they should be walking, the skirts might be held up to a very cautious angle for no part of a "shapely limb" could properly be shown above the high button boots.
Hats were a must, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar was the favorite milliner for miles around. Her son, Frank, certainly did well to choose Estelle Handy for his wife, and bring her home to live, for she was an artist at millinery. One could pull out ribbons, flowers, feathers and a five or ten year old hat, and take it to "Stell" and she would make a creation out of it that one would feel their style in.
With no electricity or modern conveniences, the morning chores were finished early in the morning. Afternoon calls were made from neighbor to neighbor. Quilting bees and husking bees were a lot of fun, usually winding up with a kitchen "hoe-down"
All the men had good cellars to store their sufficient, if not surplus, supply of fruits and vegetables in. They cut their wood in the winter, kept cows, pigs, hens and other livestock, that their families be well fed, and they were frugal that their families be well supported.
Peace and Good Will abounded, and they loved their neighbors.
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PART TWO FLANDERS
Our Flanders Bay, Flanders Stream and Flanders Pond have always been of the greatest interest and query as to where the name came from. The majority, however, have probably just felt that it was a hand-me-down name from the French who cruised the New England shores and left a few of their names as well as considerable money and material goods hidden and buried in spots and places in the different localities. For in- stance, pots of gold were plowed up in the fields, and cases of silks and dry goods also unearthed along the shores, hidden from the British. A story comes from the shores and first settlers of Canada that there were hundreds of French who were im- migrating to Canada as the English did to America. Fearing they would over-run the country a petition was sent to the King by their premier, for permission to expel them from their lands. After long waiting and confident of a favorable reply, the premier set about driving them out. They, not only set them going, but organized an army to put chase, to keep them going. This was no sooner well underway when the reply came that they were to accept the French and foster them for prospective citizens. Hence, the why of our wandering frenchmen.
Just a short while ago Mr. Glidden, a representative of Mrs. Marion Flanders Smith, of Proctorsville, Vermont, called at the Old Johnson Farm. Her family had recently traveled through Sullivan and had noticed the sign at the Flanders Bay Cabins. She and the Flanders Family had been searching for years for the real source of their earliest New England connection in their family.
A tradition has been handed down from their earliest settlers that their first ancestor, Steven Flanders, came from England in a vessel soon after the "Mayflower", that that vessel was wrecked off the coast of Maine and that, that ancestor survived and was the progenitor of all the Flanders Family. Most of the traditions seem to be good material for research work, as many of them turn out to be fairly accurate. He could have made port in this vicinity.
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Flanders Bay and Flanders Pond have both borne the name from the beginning of the town as our records will verify. Remains of an old mill has lain at the mouth of Flanders Stream since before the time when any traces could be found as to who might have been the operators, also an old cellar on the mill brow that is so aged that it is unaccounted for. The only inhabitants in these towns at that time were Indians. And by the excavations that have been made in recent years, there must have been large Indian tribes living in these sections. About 1920 a large scale excavation took place in West Goulds- boro where hundreds of valuable specimens were found to enrich the collection at the Dr. Robert Abbe Museum at Bar Harbor. Many specimens have been found in Sorrento and geologists say that there are still unexplored heaps of clam shells that might produce still more valuable specimens.
From the records sent by Mrs. Smith: "Steven Flanders, who departed from this life the 27th day of June 1684 at Salisbury, Mass., married, Jane Sandusky." In her letter she says, "The book doesn't know where Steven came from to Salisbury, but records show that he must have been for a time at York or Georgeanna, Maine". In reading the Flanders History, bor- rowed from the Bangor Library, Steven Flanders and Jane were found in York, Maine in 1649. She was taken to court at that time for abusive language and conduct to her family and neigh- bors. Quote, "If any one should think harshly of her conduct, she would do well to study the old court records, for contention among neighbors was a common offence and the majority of the women of that day were summoned to court to answer to this charge. Their lives of constant struggle against hardships and discomforts were provocative of abusive speech. In Jane's particular case the difference in religion, and the possible diff- erence of race and language,-factors never found to promote understanding,-would account for much of this discord with her neighbors. It is true that the early settlements were com- posed of men of varying culture, brought together in a status of fairly uniform equality; a state of things more conducive to cause disputes among neighbors than would have been the case
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Top-TUNK POND HOUSE Center-TUNK POND STATION Bottom-BOAT PIER TUNK POND
had all the same cultural background. Jane Flanders died at Salisbury, Mass., on November 19th, 1683."
By the records Steven Flanders seems to have been a very old man when he died. He made his marks of identification when he made his will. His hand writing was reproduced in the Flanders History, poorly written, but they thought it old age rather than lack of education.
Mrs. Smith writes that they have made extensive search for the source of the name "Sandusky", but they can find nothing of any value. Our only simularity here would be the name "Kenduskeag" which Mr. Ranlett, on inquiring at the Bangor Library says came from Indian Place names of The Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast by Fanny Eckstorm. In 1604 the name was Kadesquit,-meaning "eel-weir place," and has had many changes to it's present spelling through the years by pronunciation. When the first white settlers came to Bangor, the Indian Village was near the Present Penobscot Hotel, beneath which used to be a large spring; their planting grounds were on the hillside back toward Broadway and the eel-weirs were on the rapids from State to Franklin Streets". A supposition could be that the name "Kenduskeag" could easily be pronouned similar to Sandusky.
From the research made by Mrs. Edith F. Dunbar, in her book "The Flanders Family", her conclusion sums up to :- Steven Flanders was of Flemish origin; that he was a native of the old province of Flanders, and sailed from a Dutch Port or Flemish port to this country or sailed first to England and resided there a certain time before coming to the colonies, or that he was born in England of Flemish parents.
The Flanders family have reproduced and prospered and scattered over the whole area of the United States. But the only Flanders name that can be found in our town records is: John Flanders Scammons, who came from Franklin, dated 1827. No name of Flanders can be found in the Franklin records.
We can be alert and perhaps some time pick up the real clue to our Flanders name parent.
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THE SULLIVAN FAMILY
By John S. Emery, Esq. of Boston, Mass.
The Sullivans had descended from a family that had for centuries made themselves conspicuous in Ireland by their hostility to English rule. John Sullivan was one of the company who, in 1723, settled the town of Belfast, in Maine. At this place he hired a saw mill and went to work. Two or three years afterwards another vessel of Irish emigrants landed at Belfast. On board was a blooming young damsel, who, after the custom of those days, had agreed with the ship-master to be found at service in the colonies in payment of her passage across the Atlantic. She was bright and witty, with a mind of a rough but noble cast. During the voyage over a passenger laughingly asked her what she expected to do when she arrived in the colonies. "Do?" answered she, with true Celtic wit, "why, raise governors for thim". Sullivan saw the girl as she landed, and struck with her beauty, made a bargain with the captain, paying her passage in shingles. He wooed and won her, and the Irish girl entered upon the initiatory steps to make good her declara- tion.
John and Margaret or Margery (Brown) Sullivan were the founders of the celebrated family of that name in this country. John Sullivan was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1690. He came to America in 1723, and landed first at Belfast and soon went to York, Maine. He settled in Berwick afterwards, remaining there until his death, June 20, 1795. Margery Brown, his wife, born in Ireland in 1714, married John Sullivan about 1735 and died in Berwick, Maine in 1801.
Six children were born to them: Benjamin, an officer in the British Navy, who was lost before the Revolutionary war; Daniel; John, who was a Major General in the Continental Army, and afterwards Governor of New Hampshire; James Governor of Massachusetts; Eben, an officer in the Revolution and a lawyer; and Mary, who married Theophilus Hardy. Daniel Sullivan, for whom the town was named, was born in Berwick, Maine, about 1738. Married March 24, 1758 to Anne
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Paul at York, Me., by whom he had one daughter, Anne Paul Sullivan, born Dec. 10, 1760. Mother and child died soon after. Between this and 1762 Daniel removed to New Bristol, now Sullivan. He was married (2) at Fort Pownall, now the town of Prospect, to Abigail, daughter of John and Hannah Bean, June 14, 1765 by James Crawford, Esq. At that time there were no roads or conveyance by land, so he and Miss Bean went from Sullivan to Port Pownall in a log canoe, the nearest place where a magistrate could be obtained to perform the ceremony. Abigail Bean was born in 1747, and died in April, aged 81 years, daughter of John and Hannah Bean.
Daniel Bean of York, with others of his associates, obtained a grant, of what is now Sullivan, and a part of Hancock, a tract about six miles square, from the provincial government, and here, with some of his neighbors in York, by the names Preble, Gordon, Blaisdell, Johnson and Hammond, he had established himself about the time Daniel Sullivan was married. Extending southerly from the main part of Sullivan is a neck of land stretching into the Bay called "Waukeag Point", from the name attached by the Indians to the neighborhood.
On the southerly end of this point, about four miles from the harbor, Daniel erected his dwelling, built several saw mills, en- gaged in navigation, and here were born to him five children, one son and four daughters. For the ten years following his marriage he was eminently prosperous, but when hostilities com- menced with the mother country, finding his residence exposed to predatory attacks from the British cruisers, he removed his saws and discontinued his works. Throughout the war he was energetic and devoted, raising and commanding a force of min- ute men, and by his activity and fearlessness did good service in the cause. In 1779, he was with his company at the siege of Cas- tine, and after returning home kept them in readiness for action, inflicting many heavy blows upon the enemy. The English and Tories made several attempts to capture him, which, from the constant vigilance of the patriots, were ineffectual. But one stormy night in February, 1781 a British war vessel, the "Allegi- ance," commanded by Mowatt, who burnt Falmouth, now Port- land, anchored below the town and landed a large force of
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sailors and marines. The house was silently invested and Capt. Sullivan aroused from his slumbers to find his bed surrounded by armed men. He was hurried to the boat and his dwelling fired so suddenly that the children were with difficulty rescued by their mother and a hired man who lived in the family. Taken to Castine, his liberty and further protection from harm was tendered him on condition he took the oath of allegiance to the King. Rejecting these proposals he was carried prisoner to Halifax, and thence sent to New York, where he was put on board that vessel of infamous memory, the "Jersey Hulk," where he remained six months. Exchanged, he took passage for home, but died on the Long Island Sound, not without sus- picion of having been poisoned, though probably, like many others, he was the victim of the barbarities of the British Pro- vost, who, either of his own accord, or by instruction, subjected his prisoners to unparalled privations.
In the early part of the Revolutionary War, Daniel Sullivan raised a company of militia men and had them stationed at Waukeag Point, where he lived, for the defence of the place, and in 1799 he was in command of his company at the siege of Bagaduce (now Castine) and after the defeat of our naval and military forces there, under the command of Lowell and Salton- stall, he returned home with his company, and remained there, acting under Capt. John Allen of Machias, until he was taken by the British Feb. 24, 1777, with some drafted militia for service there, and also of his coming again Nov. 13, 1777.
After being taken on the night of Feb. 24, 1781 as prisoner by the British, he was taken to Castine and later to New York and put on board the "Jersey Prison Ship", where he remained until 1782-3. His exchange was effected through the influence of his brother, John Sullivan, who was at that time a member of Congress from New Hampshire, having resigned his position in the Army.
Children of Daniel and Abigail (Bean) Sullivan
1. Rachel, 2. James, 3. Hannah, 4. Lydia. b. March 1775; d. Dec. 2, 1851. unmarried. 1. Rachel Sullivan b. Dec. 10, 1766; d. Aug. 10, 1806; m. Capt. John Simpson, who was b. Dec. 7, 1763; d. Nov. 20, 1798. He was lost on Cape Cod, master of
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the schooner "Rachel", with his entire crew. Resided in Sullivan, Me. They had six children: 1. Prudence, b. Feb. 4, 1790; d. Jan. 18, 1812; unmarried. 2. Abigail, b. July 18, 1791; d. March 17, 1809; unmarried. Rachel, b. April 22, 1793; d. Sept. 2, 1844; 4. Mary A., b. Nov. 22, 1794; d. March 16, 1797. 5. Joanna, b July 7, 1796; d. May 4, 1851. 6. Mary A., b. March 6, 1798; d. April 18, 1858.
2. James Sullivan b. 1768; d. Aug. 28, 1830; m. Nov. 16, 1819; Hannah Preble of York, Me. who d. April 17, 1856; aged 81 years. Resided at Sullivan. No children.
3. Hannah Sullivan, b. March 4, 1770; d. July 24, 1849; m. Paul Simpson, resided at Sullivan, two children: 1. Susan b. Dec. 24, 1806; d. Aug. 28, 1870. 2. Paul, b. Aug. 16, 1809; d. Aug. 8, 1849.
4. Mary Sullivan, b. 1773; d. April 28, 1857; m. Josiah Simp- son Jr., in 1792, who was b. about 1773; and d. April 1, 1833; resided at Sullivan and Belfast, Maine. He died at Petit-Manan, where he was light-keeper. They had 13 children: 1. Esther, b. Feb. 20, 1793; d. March 1862; unmarried. 2. Hannah, b. Feb. 21, 1795; d. May 21, 1868. 3. John, b. Sept. 13, 1796; d. April 12, 1860. 4. Joshua, b. May 1, 1898; d. Sept. 23, 1863. 5. Daniel S., b. May 7, 1800; d. Nov. 21, 1826. 6. Mary S., b. Aug. 3, 1802; d. May 29, 1883. 7. James, b. Feb. 29, 1804; d. Nov. 1858. 8. Joanna, b. May 14, 1806; d. in Wisconsin, date unknown. 9. Franklin B., b. April 22, 1808; died at sea with his brother James. 10. Hiram E., b. Aug. 22, 1810; d. May 3, 1816. 11. Elisha M., b. Nov. 15, 1811; d. May 17, 1813. 12. Eben B., b. April 5, 1813; d. May 1, 1841. 13. Greenleaf P., b. Oct. 16, 1813; d. Feb. 4, 1823.
Lydia, dau. of Daniel and Abigail (Bean) Sullivan, b. March 1775; d. Dec. 2, 1851; unmarried.
Third Generation
Rachel, dau. of John and Rachel (Sullivan) Simpson, b. at Sullivan, Me April 22, 1793; d. Sept. 2, 1844; m. Hiram Emery, Nov. 13, 1815; resided at Sullivan, Me. Children: 1. John S., b. Sept. 13, 1816. 2. Philomelia W., b. April 12, 1818, d. Aug. 15, 1866. 3. Abigail S., b. Oct. 8, 1820; d. April 4, 1883. 4.
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Cyrus b. Oct. 2, 1822; 5. William D., b. Oct. 7, 1824; 6. Ra- chel P., b. April 9, 1830; d. May 21, 1850. 7. Daniel S., b. Dec. 29, 1833; twin to 8. Ann S., b. Dec. 29, 1833. 8. Erastus O., b. April 5, 1836, d. Nov. 15, 1882.
Joanna, dau. of John and Rachel (Sullivan) Simpson, b. July 7, 1796; d. May 4, 1852; m. Barney S. Bean; resided at Sullivan. Children: 1. Francis P., b. Feb. 2, 1818; d. June 21, 1875; un- married. 2. William, b. April 2, 1820. 3. James, b. Aug. 11, 1821; d. Sept. 4, 1852; unmarried. 4. Smith, b. March 3, 1824. 5. Lucy, b. April 23, 1829; d. Jan. 29, 1856; unmarried. 6. Henry, b. May 10, 1833; d. Nov. 5, 1840. 7. John S., b. Oct. 2, 1835; d. Jan. 17, 1864; unmarried. 8. Rachel E., b. July 2, 1837; d. Jan. 2, 27, 1865; unmarried. 9. Sophia H., b. August 28, 1839. 10. Sarah A., b. Nov. 29, 1846; d. Jan. 17, 1864; unmarried.
Mary A., dau. of John and Rachel (Sullivan) Simpson, b. March 6, 1798; d. April 18, 1868; m. Jason Lord, 1823; resided at Sullivan, Me. Children were: 1. Mary J., b. June 25, 1824; d. Dec. 27, 1851; unmarried. 2. Delphina A., b. Sept 5, 1827. 3. Jason S., b. May 1, 1830; d. May 25, 1841. 4. James S., b. Nov. 3, 1832. 5. William J., b. June 24, 1835. 6. John E., b. April 17, 1838; d. June 18, 1841. 7. Francis H., b. Nov. 25, 1841; d. Sept. 8, 1863; unmarried. 8. Howard J., twin to Francis, b. Nov. 25, 1841; d. Oct. 30, 1863; unmarried.
Susan, dau. of Paul and Hannah (Sullivan) Simpson, b. Dec. 24, 1806; d. Aug. 28, 1870; m. Naham Berry, Feb. 27, 1842; resided at Lamoine, Me. Children were: 1. Hannah A., b. April 30, 1844. 2. James E., b. May 19, 1845. 3. Alden S., b. Sept. 2, 1848; d. Nov. 1893.
Paul Simpson, Jr., son of Paul and Hannah (Sullivan) Simp- son, b. Aug. 16, 1809; m. Hannah T. Dyer, June 2, 1839; re- sided at Sullivan, Me. Children were: 1. Lizzie H., b. June 2, 1840. 2. Georgie E., b. April 16, 1842. 3. Helen M., b. May 2, 1844. 4. Susan F., b. April 18, 1846. 5. Charles P., b. Sept. 19, 1848.
Hannah, dau. of Josiah and Mary (Sullivan) Simpson, b. Feb. 21, 1795; d. May 21, 1868; m. Robert Berry, Jan. 19, 1813; resided at Lamoine, Me. Children were: 1. Emma J.,
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b. June 5, 1814. 2. Albert G., b. Jan. 2, 1816; d. May, 1887. 3. Mary L., b. Jan. 31, 1823.
John, son of Josiah and Mary (Sullivan) Simpson, b. Sept. 13, 1796; d. March 1860; m. Jane McKeen; d. in Castine, Me. Children were: 1. Sarah J., b. Feb. 2, 1823. 2. Greenleaf P., b. Sept. 14, 1824. 3. Daniel S., b. March 9, 1827. 4. James S., b. Nov. 15, 1828; d. Oct. 19, 1855. 5. Josiah R., b. May 9, 1830; d. April 11, 1876. 6. Harriet A., b. Jan. 23, 1833; (twin to) 7. Helen A., b. Jan. 23, 1833; d. Feb. 20, 1833. 8. John A., b. Feb. 26, 1838; d. July 22, 1858; unmarried.
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