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Robison, Thomas, was a younger brother of Samuel, and lived here with his brother before the revolution ; he did not move his family here until after the war; during that struggle he had a command on the Lakes. He was a respectable mer- chant and enterprising man. In 1785, he formed a connection in business with Edgar and Reed, and they carried on distill- ing and general merchandising at the west part of the town. They purchased a large tract of land extending from Main street to Fore river, on which they built two houses, a distill- house, wharf, and other buildings, and opened Ann, now Park street, through it. They built one house on the corner of Con- gress and Park streets, now owned and occupied by the Misses Jones, and another at the foot of the street, in which lived Mr. Robison and his son Thomas after him. He was selectman of the town in 1788 and 1789. He died in Canada in July, 1806, to which he had removed one or two years before his death ; his children were Mary, Samuel, Thomas, William, Jane, married first to Thomas Hodges in 1790, second, to Robert Ilsley; and Eliza, married to Lemuel Weeks ; Hannah married Stephen Codman in 1788; Thomas married Eliza Homer in November, 1802, and had a large family. None of the children of the first Thomas are living. While he remained in this town he lived in an expensive style, and kept a free and hospitable house.
Tate, George, the first of the name who migrated to Maine,
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was born in England, in November, 1700. The family was seated in Northamptonshire, and ranks among its members Sir William Tate, Lord Mayor of London in 1488, and Sir John Tate, who held the same office in 1496. George, our first comer, was at one time a seaman on board the first Russian frigate ever put to sea. He came to Maine as a mast agent for the government prior to 1756. His children were Samuel, born August 3, 1736, died in London, April 12, 1814 ; William, born November 14, 1740; George, the Russian Admiral, born in London, June 19, 1745 ; Robert, January 23, 1751 ; all born in England. The latter married Martha Slemmons, of West- brook, December 25, 1770, and died in 1804. The elder George, died in Falmouth, August 20, 1794, in the ninety- fourth year of his age. His eldest son, Samuel, was a sea captain, and was engaged for a time in the lumber and mast trade between this port and England. Mr. Smith, in his Jour- nal, May 16, 1760, says, "Captain Tate in a large mast-ship came in here in thirty days from London ;" again, July 3, 1770, he says, "Captain Tate in a large ship came in." His children were, Mary Ann, born October 12, 1761; Sarah Maria, July 21, 1763, both in England; Ann, born March 18, 1767, mar- ried Joseph H. Ingraham of this town in 1789, and having had a family of eleven children, died March 24, 1844. Several of the children are living in Portland in 1864. William Major, born June 19, 1769. Captain Samuel Tate is said to have been sailing-master of the ship of war which brought Lord Cornwallis to this country toward the close of the revolution. George, the Admiral, third son of George, born in London, 1745, entered the Russian naval service, and in 1770 was ap- pointed by Catherine II, a lieutenant. He was continually advanced for his good conduct, and was particularly distin- guished in the wars with the Turks and Swedes. At the siege of the strong Turkish fortress, Ismail, near the mouth of the Danube, in December, 1790, he was wounded in the attack, when the place was stormed and taken, with immense booty.
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He was promoted and afterward received a gold medal from the Empress with her effigy and suitable inscriptions. He was raised by Catherine to the rank of rear-admiral, and by Alex- ander I, to be first admiral and a member of the Russian senate. He received from the different sovereigns under whom he served, badges of the orders of St. Waldimer, of St. Alex- ander Newski, of St. Ann, and the military order of St. Jolin. He died in the service, unmarried, February 17, 1821, highly honored and respected. He frequently visited his friends in London, and was two or three times in Portland, the last visit was about two years before his death, and he kept up a corres- pondence with them. In one letter, June, 1793, he says, "I was advanced to the rank of rear-admiral in February last, and am now going to sea," and sends his regards to his friends, Deering, Kent, Cumming, and others ; in another he says, "I am surprised to hear that the amiable Miss Kent has not yet got a husband ; your single gentlemen have a deal of apathy to let so charming a girl remain single ; remember me to her father and mother, and particularly to Madame Ross and daughter, who I have known as long as I can remember." Miss Kent married George Bradbury ; Mrs. Ross's daughter was the wife of Col. William Tyng of Gorham. These remin- iscences show the interest which he continued to feel in Port- land. In another letter written from London, October 21, 1795, he says, "We are now sent again to this country, with twelve sail of the line and eight frigates to co-operate with the British."
Several descendants of the first George Tate are now residing in this vicinity.
Thurlo, John, a descendant of Richard Thurlo, who was one of the early settlers of Rowley, Mass., and moved to Newbury in 1651 ; his eldest son, Francis, was born in England in 1630, from whom our immigrant probably descended. John came here from Newbury, and was a shipmaster. In 1761 he married Rebecca, a daughter of the elder John Waite, and lived on
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Fore street, below India ; his house perished in the conflagra- tion of 1775. His children were, John, who died in France, unmarried ; Mary, married to Stephen Waite, February 22, 1791 ; they were the parents of Edward, Nancy, Stephen, who died in 1863, Matilda, and Mary Ann. Sally, born August 21, 1766, married Francis Waite, son of Col. John ; Betsey, born May 16, 1770, died unmarried; Hannah, is living, un- married ; Ann, married to Captain John Wildrage, and died leaving issue ; Fanny, married to Thomas Lewis ; George, lost at sea, unmarried. Captain Thurlo died in April, 1805, aged sixty-seven. His wife died June 13, 1798. The name exists here ; and the blood flows only in female descendants.
Titcomb, Benjamin, was a native of Newbury and came here in 1746 by the persuasion of Moses Pearson, after the capture of Louisburg, in which he was engaged, being then twenty years old. He was a blacksmith, and on his arrival was in doubt whether to establish himself on the Neck or at Cape Elizabeth, so nearly equal were the advantages offered by the two places. In 1753 he married Anne, a daughter of Moses Pearson, and the next year built the house which was occupied by his son Joseph in Plum street, which formerly stood on the corner where the brick stores have been built. His shop was on the breast-work from which Central wharf has been extended. In 1769 he was chosen deacon of the first parish ; he was three years one of the selectmen of the town, and in 1784, was chosen representative with Joseph Noyes to the General Court, and was a respectable, influential, and worthy man. He died Octo- ber 15, 1798, aged seventy-two ; his widow died July 8, 1800, aged seventy-two. Their children were Moses, Benjamin, Joseph, Ann, who married Woodbury Storer, Andrew P., Eunice, married to Ebenezer Storer, Elizabeth, married to John Harris in 1796, and Henry ; none of them survive. His son Joseph was ten years selectman and nine years representative of the town to the General Court. He was an active shipmaster and commanded a large privateer out of Portland during the
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revolution. In 1783 he married Eunice, a daughter of Ephraim Jones, by whom he had several children. The widow of the late Reuben Mitchell is his only surviving child. Moses and Henry died without issue. Andrew Phillips, born in 1754, married Mary Dole in 1782, and had a large family. See my note to Smith and Deane's Journals, p. 376. Mr. Titcomb descended from William Titcomb, the ancestor of all of the name in this section of the country, who came from Newbury, England, in 1635, and was one of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass. ; the family has branched very much, and is now numerous and scattered.
Tucker, Josiah, and Thrasher, Jonathan. The first Tucker of the name in the re-settlement of the town was born in 1726 ; he came here from Kittery about 1746, and worked at his trade of sail-maker with Jonathan Thrasher. In 1752 he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thrasher, by his wife Hannah Dow. The Thrashers were Quakers, the first who settled here, and came from Hampton, N. H. Finding none of their communion in this town, and feeling the need of religious association, they joined Mr. Smith's church and received the rite of baptism. Mary, their daughter, was born in Hampton, 1737. They had other children, viz., Lydia, married to Thomas Newman, November 20, 1760 ; Hannah, who married John Dole in 1779 ; Abigail, who married a Jordan ; and sons Jonathan, David, and Jeremiah. . Mr. Thrasher was found dead in his sail-loft, October 25, 1765. He lived on India street, his widow died February 23, 1774, aged fifty-nine. Josiah Tucker, by his wife, Mary Thrasher, had nine children, viz., William, born 1753, lost in the Dilworth privateer during the revolution ; Jeremiah, 1755, died December, 1774; Mr. Smith says in his Journal, December 25, 1774, "I almost killed myself praying at the funeral of Jeremiah Tucker ; more than two hundred people there." Daniel, March 14, 1760; Josiah, 1762, married Sally Cushing, 1785, and died 1787 ; Jonathan, 1770, a well known shipmaster and merchant, who recently
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died ; he married Susan, daughter of Peter Warren, in 1794, who died without issue in 1849 ; Dorcas, 1756, married first Daniel Bagley, second, Abijah Poole ; Mary, 1764, married Jeremiah Kimball, 1789, and had children ; Esther, married to James Corey, 1789 ; Eunice, married to Josiah Thrasher. She died in 1771, aged thirty-four years ; and in October, 1774, he married the widow Berry, whose maiden name was Burdick, by whom he had four children, viz., Jeremiah, Samuel, David, and Jane, and died in 1782, aged fifty-six. The most distin- guished of his children was Captain Daniel, who at the age of eleven years, was put an apprentice to Paul Little, a silver- smith, where he was first employed in making brass sleeve and knee buckles. He continued in this employment until the general conflagration of the town in 1775, destroyed the shop, broke up the business, and drove the occupants out of town. After working one year on a farm, he joined many other of our Portland boys in privateering voyages, in which he suffered many hardships, had some hard sea-fights, and many hair breadth escapes, but gained by experience the knowledge and qualities which prepared him for a successful career of busi- ness. He commanded merchant vessels after the war, and gradually became the owner of large ships, and left the sea in 1791 to conduct at home his extensive commercial operations. He formed a connection in business with his brother-in-law, Lemuel Weeks, and the firm of Weeks & Tucker was known almost as well in Liverpool as in, Portland ; they were large importers. But in 1807, a disastrous revulsion in commerce took place, in consequence of the embargo and other commer- cial restrictions, which entirely prostrated the largest portion of our business community, and neither Captain Tucker nor his partner ever recovered from it.
Captain 'Tucker's energy was not confined to his business operations, but was successfully employed in municipal and civil business. He was one of the selectmen from 1791 to 1800, and again chairman of the board and principal executive
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officer of the town from 1813 to 1816, inclusive, and four years a representative to the General Court, the first time in 1796, the last in 1810 ; he was an ardent politician of the federal school. In a memorandum drawn up by himself, he says, after speaking of the above offices, that he was one of the school committee, overseer of the poor, justice of the peace, trustee and treasurer of the Portland Academy, and after his failure, an acting justice of the peace, notary public, committee on public buildings, and Swedish Consul. August 15, 1816, he was struck with palsy from which he never recovered, and died in 1823, at the age of sixty-three. In February, 1782, he married Dorcas Barton ; she died in childbed January 18, 1785, aged twenty-two ; and July 20, 1786, he married Lydia Crabtree, a sister of Captain William Crabtree ; he says in his diary that "Parson Smith performed the ceremony," he was then eighty-five years old, and "his wife over seventy years old danced with Stephen Codman." He went to housekeeping in Plum street. In 1796 he built the large three-story wooden house on the west side of India street, near the corner of Sum- ner street, which still remains, and in which he says, "I lived twenty years in affluence." His children by his first wife were Polly, born September 28, 1783, married to John P. Thurston in 1802, who died leaving a family, afterward set- tled in New York. William, January, 1785, died an infant. By his second wife, he had Dorcas, February 6, 1787, married to James D. Hopkins, December, 1804; Jane, March 8, 1788, married to Mr. Bull of Boston ; Lydia, May 20, 1790, married to Jacob Cram of Portland, now of New York ; George, May 10, 1792; Daniel, February 7, 1794 ; Lemuel, September 17, 1795 ; John, April 2, 1797; Eleazer, July 22, 1798; and Eleanor, June 5, 1801, married to Mr. Brewster of New York. The sons are all dead, and all the daughters but Lydia and Eleanor ; all the daughters having children. Mr. Cram built and lived in the house corner of India and Congress streets, now owned and occupied by Elias Thomas.
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Tukey, John, was the first of the name who settled in Fal- mouth ; he came from Malden about 1744. He was a ship- wright, and worked on Coulson's ship; in 1749, he married Abigail Sweetsir, by whom he had fourteen children, all born in Portland, viz., Benjamin, born in 1749, married Hannah Stanford, and was killed accidentally in 1777, in celebrating the victory over Burgoyne, leaving two sons, William and Benjamin ; Nancy, married Matthew Pennell, September 10, 1778, her descendants are living here; John, born November 12, 1751, married Bangs, and left several children ; Houchin, born in 1754, married Rhoda Blaisdell, and died in 1787; Stephen, married Hannah Cushing, he died in 1826, leaving several children, and she in 1837, aged eighty. Their son Benjamin was the father of Francis Tukey, the late city mar- shal in Boston, now a lawyer in California, and of Benjamin Tukey, hair dresser in this city; Elizabetlı, born April 26, 1760, married William Titcomb, of Falmouth ; Mary, born February 26, 1762, married Elijah Littlefield, November 4, 1781 ; Sarah, born April 6, 1763, married William Ingraham, November 3, 1785 ; William, born December 2, 1765, married Sarah Williams of Gloucester, Mass. ; Lemuel, born August 6, 1766, married first, Sarah Snow, second, her sister, Eunice Snow, he died July 22, 1835 ; George, born March 14, 1769, married Betsey Snow, September 12, 1790 .; Lucy, born Decem- ber 24, 1771, married Capt. Fraser Gordon ; and Dorcas, born October 15, 1775, married Philip Fowler ; one died an infant ; all this large family are dead, leaving children. The father died in December, 1803, aged eighty-one; his descendants were thirteen children, seventy-one grand-children, and eleven great-grand-children. His widow died in 1823, aged ninety- five. William Tukey, the last surviving child, died March 19, 1858, in his ninety-third year, having had a family of eleven children, most of whom died before him. He was for many years a revolutionary pensioner, and was by trade a mason, having been one of the builders of the first light-house built in Maine, on Portland Head, at the mouth of our harbor.
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Vaughan, William, was among the early immigrants to our town after the peace of 1783. Under April 10, 1784, Mr. Smith says, "This place fills up fast, there lately came here, Mr. Hopkins, Robinson, Vaughan, Clark, and Codman." Mr. Vaughan was son of Elliot Vaughan and Anne Gerrish, of Portsmouth, N. H., and grandson of Lieutenant Governor Vaughan of some notoriety in New Hampshire before the revo- lution. He was born March 13, 1745, in Portsmouth, and died in Portland, June 19, 1826. Elliot had two sons, William and George, the latter went to Boston and died there. William studied law with Judge William Parker, in Portsmouth, James Sullivan being a fellow-student. When he came east he en- gaged in merchandise, but afterward turned his attention to land purchases. He had a large farm in Scarborough, now belonging to Seth Storer, on which he lived and from which he moved to Portland. He sold the farm to Cornelius Durant. He soon commenced purchasing land in Portland, first in 1787, on the corner of Middle and Center streets, and the same year he bought sixty acres on Bramhall's hill of Thomas, son of An- thony Brackett, part of the old Michael Mitton estate, conveyed to him by our first settler Cleeves, for two hundred and seven- teen pounds ; this was fifty-nine rods on Fore river, and extend- ing back one hundred and ninety-two rods ; the next year he bought fifteen acres adjoining, of Joshua Brackett, thirty-two rods on the river ; in 1790, he bought of Samuel Freeman eighty acres, part of the old Bramhall farm, for two hundred and thirty pounds ; in 1795 he bought fifty-three acres more, from near where Vaughan street joins Congress street, eighty- six rods on Congress street, for two hundred and ten pounds ; in 1797 he added to this ten acres, and the same year he and Cornelius Durant purchased a portion of the reversion of the Brackett dower, which embraced forty-four acres; in 1801 and 1806 he added to this splendid estate about twenty-five acres more under the hill ; for the last twelve acres in 1806 he paid two thousand dollars. This rounded off this large tract
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of near four hundred acres covering all Bramhall's hill, and for which it was said he was offered two hundred thousand dollars and declined it. He had conceived magnificent ideas of the growth of Portland, and believed that a city would extend to that part of the town. To aid this he procured a charter for the bridge over Fore river which bears his name, by which he diverted the western travel to pass over his land, through which he caused Danforth and Vaughan streets to be opened, and streets on paper to be laid out at right angles over the swamp. His conceptions were right, as our present experience proves, but his visions were premature, he was two-thirds of a century in advance of his time; and the commercial embar- rassments and war from 1807 to 1815, which entirely prostrated and paralyzed our fair and flourishing town, dashed the brilliant prospects which he had anticipated for his family in this ex- tensive domain. Mr. Vaughan suffered with the rest of the community during that depressed period of our history, and his estate was seized by his creditors and portioned out to satisfy their claims. He built two houses on his purchase, one at each end of Vaughan street : that on the southern side, corner of Danforth street, which he occupied himself, is still standing ; the other in which his eldest son, George Elliot, lived, was burnt.
Mr. Vaughan was twice married, first to Abigail, a daughter of Rishworth Jordan of Saco, a descendant of the Rev. Robert Jordan of Spurwink, November 3, 1768. She died August 6, 1771, leaving one daughter, Abigail, who married, first, Captain Hartley, second, Captain Donnell, both of Biddeford, and had issue by each. Mr. Vaughan's second wife was Elizabeth, a daughter of Tristram Jordan of Saco, and cousin of his first wife, who died April 5, 1811. By her he had children as follows: George Elliott, March 21, 1773, who was twice mar- ried and died without issue ; Elizabeth, September 10, 1774, died unmarried ; Hannah Goodwin, July 14, 1776, married Benjamin Nason, and had two children, Benjamin and Eliza-
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beth, who married Theodore W. Riley ; Ann Gerrish, February 18, 1779, married Eleazer Greely in 1805, and had three chil- dren, William, Ann T., and Charles; William T., June 5, 1781, twice married and left issue ; Richard Cutts, May 16, 1783 ; Olive Plaisted, February 22, 1785, unmarried ; Sarah Elliot, March 16, 1787, unmarried ; Charles Henry, June 9, 1789, married and had issue ; Olivia Storer, June 3, 1791, unmarried ; Mary Belcher, January 3, 1794, married Nathan Winslow, who is dead, no issue. The only surviving children in 1864 are Charles Henry, living in Ohio, Olivia Storer, and Mary. The last two are living in Portland.
Waite, John, the head of the family which came here, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, February 6, 1702, son of Jonadab Waite, and was captain of a packet which sailed be- tween this place and Boston as early as 1737. He married Sarah Kent, daughter of John Kent, Jr., of Newbury, in 1724. She was born March 7, 1704, and died November 3, 1769. By her he had ten children as follows, viz., Benjamin, born Octo- ber 15, 1725, married Abigail, daughter of Isaac Ilsley, and had several children ; Hannah, February 22, 1727, married, first, Joseph Gooding, second, Moses Shattuck ; Sarah, August 9, 1730, married, first, Joshua Bangs, died 1755, second, Ger- shom Rogers in 1756; John, July, 1732; Stephen, November 7, 1734, married Abigail, daughter of Jonathan and Abigail Wheeler, and died July, 1783, aged forty-eight, leaving children. The above five children were born in Newbury. Abigail, born in Falmouth, 1739, married Thomas Minot, November 5, 1765 ; Dr. Deane noticing this event in his Diary, adds, "A splendid wedding." Mary, unmarried, died 1755 ; Isaac, married Em- ma Kingsbury, April, 1763 ; Rebecca, married to John Thurlo, 1761, and had issue ; Emma, 1746. married, first, Lewis, second, Thomas Motley, and died in 1830, leaving several children. He lived on the road fronting the beach below India street for many years, but in the latter part of his life he took up his residence on Peaks' Island, of part of which he had become the
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proprietor. He was four years selectman of the town, was a man of singular and eccentric habits, and enjoyed the solitude of his island more than the hum of the village; it is said that he had two fire-places in one room in his house on the island, one for himself and wife, the other for their servant. He died November 3, 1769, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. His son John was a sea-captain, and was engaged before the revolu- tion in coastwise and foreign voyages ; in 1759 lie commanded one of the transports in the expedition under General Wolfe to Quebec, and sailed from Louisburg, June 4, in company with eight sail of the line, several frigates, and about one hundred transports for the St Lawrence. He remained near Quebec until the city 'fell, and returned to Falmouth in November of the same year. After this he continued his sea voyages, ming- ling when at home, and taking a prominent part, in the affairs of the town. 'In the ante-revolutionary troubles, he actively engaged in the measures of resistance to the encroachments of government; was one of a committee of which Enoch Freeman was chairman, to prepare instructions to William Tyng, in 1772, as a representative to the General Court. In 1774 he was chosen a member of a convention "to consider what meas- ures it will be expedient to adopt for the general interest of the country." The convention met and took a general super- vision of affairs and the opinions of the people. A committee of inspection was also chosen, of which he was one, and The- ophilus Parsons, the late chief justice, was a member and clerk. In 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress, and was chosen town treasurer, to which office he was annually elected to 1785 ; the same year, 1776, he was appointed sheriff of the county, and colonel of the first regiment. In 1777 he was ap- pointed by Congress, agent for the estates of absentees for the county. He was active through the revolutionary struggle in all the affairs of the town and county, and engaged earnestly in supporting the people in the great controversy with the mother country. And at its close continuing to hold the office
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of sheriff, which he faithfully discharged for near thirty-four years, he employed himself in works of public improvement, and the management of his large private affairs. He resigned the sheriff's office in July, 1809, at the age of 77. In January, 1759, he married Hannah, the second daughter of Phineas Jones, by whom he had thirteen children born as follows, viz., Mary, born September 22, 1760, died, November, 1760 ; Henry, born February, 1762, died 1784; William, October, 1763, died unmarried ; Francis, born April, 1765, married Sarah Thurlo in 1794, and died at sea, without issue ; Thomas, born July 31, 1767 ; Ann, May, 1769, died June, 1770 ; Ann, April, 1771, died unmarried September 16, 1790; George, born February, 1773, married Eleanor Wildrage, February 17, 1802, and died June 5, 1805, leaving one daughter, Nancy, married to N. F. Deering, September 15, 1824, and with her husband and children, is living in Portland ; Jolin Fox, born September 23, 1775 ; Charles and Robert, twins, July, 1777 ; Robert died the same year, Charles was drowned in Philadelphia, in command of a ship, unmarried ; Robert born August, 1781 ; Lucy, born July 13, 1783, married Capt. Samuel Mclellan, son of Capt. Arthur McLellan ; he died in 1824, leaving children. His widow is the only survivor of the thirteen children, Col Waite died in 1820, at the age of eighty-eight. In the early part of his mar- ried life, Col. Waite lived in a house on the west side of Ex- change street, set off to his wife in the division of her father's estate. It was a gambrel-roofed house and was moved about 1800 to York street, opposite to where Brown's sugar-house stands, and a third story added. It was sold to Mr. Brown, by his heirs, in 1863, and removed by him further up and to the opposite side of York street, where it now stands, somewhat renovated.
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