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WARD, O. U. G., farmer, Main Vass. R'd, R. D. 48, No. Vass., b 1863; wife, Hattie A! Fairfield, b 1865. Children: Mabel D., b 1888; Edna, b 1890, d 1890; Wm. E., pupil, b 1896. - WARREN, GEO. A., lumberman, Weeks Mills, b 1850; 1st wife, Mary L. Spaulding, b 1852, d 1901. Children : Lora E., b 1871, d 1871; Roland A., farmer, Waterville, b 1872; Colby F., lumberman, b 1878; George C., hostler, b 1881.
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Second wife, Lydia A. Dyer (Brown), (Maguire), b 1851. Step child : Lelia Beryl Maguire, b 1892.
WASHBURN, WILLIS W., postmaster and town clerk, b 1846; wife, Edith E. (maiden name, Crosby), b 1855. Children : Wendell C., machinist, b 1880; Thos. W., clerk, b 1881; Willis F., teacher, b 1885; Edward E., student, Higgins Classical Institute, b 1888; Edith C., student, High School, b 1891; Mary A., student, High School, b 1893.
WASHBURN, T. W., clerk, b 1881; wife, Estelle M. (maiden name, Doe), b 1886.
WEBBER, CONY N., farmer, South, b 1884; wife, Pearl A. Starrett, b 1885. 0
WEBBER, MELINDA (Chadwick), widow .of John, b 1831. Children: Sarepta S., m Mills, b 1863; Charles E., nurse Mt. Vernon, b 1865; Florence E., m Warren, Vassalboro, b 1868; Edward C., farmer, b 1874.
WEBBER, GUSTAVUS V., retired veteran, Pond R'd, R. D. 52, Weeks Mills, b 1832; 1st wife, Mary F. Richardson, b 1841, d 1870. Children : Ida A., b 1861, d 1863; Burleigh, b 1862, d 1862; Alice H., m Jude, b 1865; Oliver A., b 1867; Lura M., b 1869, d 1870. Second wife, Elizabeth M. Jones, b . 1848, d 1901. Children : Mary F., b 1871, d 1882; Delbert W., b 1873, d 1891; Lindley H., b 1875, d 1875; Ellen C., m Wood, b 1876; Bertha L., teacher, b 1879; Eliza E., m Scott, Vassalboro, b 1888.
WEBBER, ANDREW, farmer, Weeks Mills, R. D. 51, b 1841; 1st wife, Helen M. Haskell, b 1839. Children: Arthur W .; Ella; Eva M .; Adella, m Lamson, Vassalboro; Daniel W., b 1875; Laura Belle, m Pray, Providence, R. I., b 1880. Second wife, Alice Philbrook, b 1866.
WEBBER, OLIVER A., ice dealer, general mechanic, b 1867;
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wife, Annie L. Hall, b 1874. Children : Harry E., b 1891; Bernice A., b 1893; Carl G., b 1895; Charlie L., b 1903.
WEBBER, MARTIN, farmer, South, b 1843; 1st wife, Frances A. Worth, b 1844, d 1875. Child : Gertrude A., m Dudley, b 1871. Second wife, Mary A. Farrington, b 1852. Chil- dren : Ernest M., clerk, Manchester, N. H., b 1878; Cony N., farmer, b 1884. Third wife, Nancy A. Freeman, b 1853.
WEBBER, WM. R., farmer, Weeks Mills, R. D. 51, b 1850; 1st wife, Frances C. Smith, b 1850, d 1888. Children: Van- delia M., b 1879, d 1904; Mary C., nurse, Augusta, b 1881. Second wife, Dora M. Runnells, b 1865, d 1898. Children : Avery R., b 1891, d 1907; Mervyn I., b 1894; Christine, b 1897. Third wife, Ella E. Place, b 1870. Child: Wyman 1 W., b 1905.
WEEKS, GEO. F., Ry. R'd master, Weeks Mills, b 1870; wife, Georgia E. Halloway, b 1869.
WEEKS, THANKFUL T., Weeks Mills, b 1834.
WEEKS, EDW. T., farmer, Weeks Mills, b 1878; wife, Sadie Brown Kenney, b 1885.
WEEKS, HARVEY J., section man, Weeks Mills, b 1874; wife, Evelyn Lee, b 1881. Child: Elwin F., b 1902.
WEEKS, GEO. W., farmer, Weeks Mills, b 1830; wife, Eleanor E. Bagley, b -- , d 1864; 2d wife, Annie Tyler, b 1847. Children : Myrtie L., b 1868, d- 1876; George F., R'y R'd master, b 1870; Harvey J., R'y Emp., b 1874; Edward T., farmer, b 1878.
WELLS, ERNEST T., mason, Village, b 1861; wife, Iola Farn- ham, b 1853.
WENSLEY, ELIZA, South, b 1852.
WENTWORTH, DANIEL W., retired farmer, Main Vass. R'd, b 1839; wife, Eliza F. Mitchell, b 1845. Children: Elmer
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E., farmer, b 1868; Juliette E., m Patterson, Winslow; Geo. W., farmer, b 1873; Bateman C., b 1877.
WENTWORTH, ELMER E., farmer, Main Vass. R'd, R. D. 48, No. Vass., b 1868; wife, Lizzie M. Wiggin, b 1874. Chil- dren: Alfred D., pupil, b 1892; Maud H., pupil, b 1899; Clara M., pupil, b 1901; Cecil A., b 1906.
WENTWORTH, GEO. W., farmer, Neck R'd, R. D. 48, No. Vass., b 1873; wife, Fannie I. Smith, b 1879. Children : D. Webster, pupil, b 1896; Inez E., pupil, b 1898; Chas. W., pupil, b 1900; Effie M., pupil, b 1902; Iva E., b 1904.
WENTWORTH, BATEMAN C., farmer, Main Vass. R'd, b 1877; wife, Vena A. Parmenter, b 1881. Child : Milton B., b 1906.
WETZLER, SAMUEL, farmer, Palermo R'd, R. D. 52, Weeks Mills, b 1861; wife, Alice A. Coffin, b 1874.
WETZLER, HENRY S., farmer, Palermo R'd, R. D. 52, Weeks Mills, b 1874; wife, Lillian Nugent, b 1883. Children : Ida E., b 1902; Mabel, b 1904, d 1904; Henry J., b 1905.
WHITE, DANIEL Y., farmer, Weeks Mills, b 1836; 1st wife, Sarah Woodbury, b 1838, d 1898. Children : Emma B., b 1859, d 1861; Fannie E., m Pierce, Windsor, b 1862; Hub- bard, J., carpenter, Augusta, b 1866; Nellie E., m Shue- man, Palermo, b 1874. Second wife, Carlie A. Blatchley, b 1847.
WHITE, MARY A. (Murray), Albion, R. D. 47, b 1865.
WHITEHOUSE, HERBERT F., millman, South, b 1858; wife, Mary S. Roberts, b 1864.
WHITEHOUSE, H., millman, South, b 1855; 1st wife, Myrtis B. Coombs, b 1856. Children: Florence E., m Sanborn, Denmark, b 1878; Bernice E., teacher, Manchester, N. H., b 1884. Second wife, Emma F. Stimpson (Plaisted), b
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1855. Step children : Herbert B. Plaisted, b 1885, d 1902; Fred M., farmer, b 1888.
WHITEHOUSE, D. W., farmer, Weeks Mills, R. D. 51, b 1845; wife, Carrie E. Wood, b 1867. Child : Ina Kathleen, b 1901. WIGGIN, AUGUSTUS D., farmer, b 1840; wife, Mary A. Hall, b 1846. Children: Alice B., m Wales, b 1867; Lizzie M., m Wentworth, b 1873; Hannah E., m Libby, Albion, b 1877; Florence M., m Farris, b 18815 Sadie Fletcher 195 WIGGIN, ALVECIA M. (maiden name, Parmenter), widow of Isaiah, Weeks Mills, b 1842. Children: Hattie W., m Clark, b 1863; Ella E., m Jones, b 1867; Edward E., b 1875, d 1897; Mabel M., m Bailey, b 1878, d 1900.
WILKINS, NANCY (Gove), widow of Aretas, b 1833. Chil- dren : Lizzie, b 1846, d 1866; Sarah M., m Banks, b 1848, d .
WILLIAMS, JNO., laborer, b -; 1st wife, Elizabeth 2d wife, Mary A. Rogers, b 1845. Children: Luke, fish- erman, b -; Arthur, laborer, b 1880; Benj., laborer, b 1886.
WING, JNO. E., farmer, Weeks Mills, R. D. 53, b 1832; wife, Clara Thayer, b 1862, d 1896. Children: Alice E .; m Bal- lard, Manchester, b 1885; Leroy T., farmer, Manchester, b 1887. Second wife, Ann Agnes Bleoo (Dunbar), b 1865. Step-children : Irene Dunbar, m Schock, Brooklyn, N. Y., b 1883; Dillon F. Dunbar, U. S. A., Pindelrio, Cuba, b 1889; Edward F. Dunbar, traveling with B. & B. circus, b 1890; Adelaide Dunbar, b 1893.
WIXON, MELVIN, farmer, Weeks Mills, R. D. 51, b 1881.
WOOD, FRANK E., farmer, Pond R'd, R. D. 52, Weeks Mills, b 1877; wife, Ellen C. Webber, b 1876. Children : Blanche L., b 1903; Edna G., b 1906.
WOOD, WILLIAM W., farmer; Ist wife, Rachel Scribner, b
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1853, d 1879; 2d wife, Frankie Nicholas, b 1857, d 1903. Children : Harry W., b 1876; Lottie M., b 1885. Third wife, Ida M. Williams, b 1868.
WOODMAN, JONATHAN, retired, b 1818.
WOODSUM, JOHN A., hay dealer, b 1849; wife, Annie M. Estes, b 1847. Children: Geo. A., hay dealed, Chelsea, Mass., b 1871; Willard F., hay dealer, Chelsea, Mass., b 1873; Carl, b 1874, d 1874; Beulah M., m Farnsworth, b 1875; Florence A., m Hatch, East Saugus, Mass., b 1877.
WORTH, ORA E. (Fitzgerald), widow of Charles W., Vassal- boro, R. D. 50, b 1865. Child : Iva M., b 1892. -
WORTHING, CLARA E. (Haskell), (m Ward), widow of Pem- broke S., b 1865. Child : Albert E. Ward, farmer, b 1885; living with family, Louisa Haskell, b 1899.
WORTHING, ELI L., blacksmith, Palermo, b 1836; wife, Etta T. Jones, b 1845. Children : Nellie E., m Bridgham, Worster, Mass., b 1864; Sadie M., m Robinson, Worcester, Mass., b 1878.
WORTHING, EDSON L., selectman and Gen. store, Palermo, b 1868; wife, Martha E. Parmenter, b 1870. Children: Gladys M., teacher, b 1892; Jasper M., b 1898; Roydon O., b 1906.
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YORK, GEO. A., farmer, Albion, b 1878; wife, Evelyn M. Avery, b 1880.
YORK, CHAS. E., farmer, Albion, b 1883; wife, Annie Coch- rane, b 1884.
YORK, SAM'L B., farmer, Albion. b 1825; wife, Salina D. York. Children: Wellington, farmer, Fairfield, b 1850; Alonzo A., b 1852; Albion, b 1860; Henry K., b 1862; Vantile, Cal., b 1864; Lucinda, m Farris, Fairfield, b 1866; Ansel, b 1868, d 1874.
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YORK, FRANK, farmer, Albion, b 1866; 1st wife, Mary Cooley ; 2d wife, Kate Mosher. Child : Lottie.
YORK, ALONZO A., farmer, Albion, b 1852; 1st wife, Betsey Pullen, b 1852. Child : George A., b 1878. Second wife, Lydia Coffin, b 1867. Children : Cynthia A., b 1892; Betsey A., b 1895; Vantile, b 1900; Blanche, b 1901; Ethel M., b 1904; Bert A., b 1908.
YOUNG, FRANK A., farmer, Albion, b 1875; wife, Alice L. Putnam, b 1878. Child : Doris L., b 1901.
DELAYED DATA.
DINSMORE, THOMAS, fire insurance broker, conveyancer and librarian, Palermo, b 1824; wife, Delphina Greely, b 1828, d 1882. Child : James R. B., grain and feed dealer, b 1858.
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PART III
History of Sidney
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The pioneers reached Sidney in 1760, first settler unknown.
One of the first settlers was John Marsh, 1763. Block House built on his farm, the old Hastings place.
Esquire Abial Lovejoy settled next south of Hastings place. Two miles south Levi Powers settled, sold in 1783 to Jethro Gardner and he sold to Anthony Faught in 1791.
LIST OF EARLY SETTLERS.
Reuel and Samuel Howard, Reuben Pinkham and son, Deason Edmond Hayward, Barnabus Thayer, Col. Wm. Bailey, Jeremiah Thayer, Benj. Branch, John Sawtelle, Dan'l Thayer, Stephen and Wm. Lovejoy, Moses Hastings, Thadeus Snell, Jesse Scudder, Daniel Smiley, James Hutchinson, Matthew Lincoln, Levi Moore, John and Eben Blaisdell, Theodore Mer- rill, John Bragg, Major Brackett, Flint Barton, Peleg Delano, Peres Hamlen, Frederick and Jacob Faught, David, Elisha and Luther Reynolds, Benj. Dyer and son, Deacon Paul Bailey, Timothy Thayer, Eli French, Sam'l and Jas. Hutchinson, Edwin Arnold, Dr. Ambrose Howard, Dodivah Townsend,
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Joseph Clark, David Doe, David Townsend, Joseph Cobb, Bethuel Perry, Thos. Avery, Chas. F. Davies, Nathaniel Merrill, Samuel Springer, Paul T. Stevens, Capt. Dean Bangs.
Joseph Clark was the first white child born in Sidney, born in 1767.
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INCORPORATION AND TOWN STATISTICS.
Town incorporated January 30, 1792, seventy-sixth town, Named for Sir Phillip Sidney, noted English gentleman and scholar; formerly part of Vassalboro.
Population-1850, 1955; 1860, 1784 ; 1870, 1471; 1880, 1396; 1890, 1334; 1900, 1068.
Valuation-1860, $508,912; 1870, $649,582; 1880, $579,764; 1890, $592,123 ; 1900, $457,549 ; 1907, $389,382.
Town house erected in 1825, cost $500. Area of town, 20,000 acres.
Post Offices established
Sidney, March 24, 1813, Stephen Springer, postmaster.
North Sidney, January 7, 1854, John Merrill, postmaster.
Center Sidney, Dec. 6, 1827, Rufus Davenport, postmaster.
Eureka post office, Sept. 3, 1879, Nathan W. Taylor, post- master.
Lakeshore, April 10, 1891, Martha L. Bacon, postmaster.
West Sidney, Dec. 16, 1831, Anson Tilson, postmaster.
Present postal facilities : R. F. D. from Waterville, Augusta and Oakland. No post office within the town limits.
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FACTS OF INTEREST.
1760 Sidney settled.
1761-The Winslow survey covered three ranges of lots along the river and between each lot were "range ways" reserved for public roads though scarcely used for that purpose. Each lot was one mile long.
1763-A saw mill and a grist mill built on east side of the river road by John Marsh on Bog Brook, both carried away in the spring of 1774. Thomas Clark had two bags of meal in the mill and scorning all advice he brought one bag to a place of sefety and rushed back into the mill for the other just in time to be carried away to death, but after the mill was destroyed, on Thayer Brook were two mills, one owned and operated by John and Milton Sawtelle, the other by Willard Bailey and John Sawtelle. The latter did the only ship building ever done in Sidney, he making schooners of 100 tons and under.
1773-Flint Barton came to town and afterwards built a saw mill on Barton Stream. He was a blacksmith and had in his shop a trip hammer run by water power. He later operated and abandoned an ashery.
1791-Calvinist Baptists organized first church in town.
1792-First town meeting at the dwelling house of David Smiley.
1794-Methodism first preached here by Jesse Lee.
1806-Second Baptist Church organized February 7.
1815-Meeting House at Bacon's Corner built by Methodists.
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1825-Town House built.
1827-Rural Lodge, No. 53, F. & A. M. instituted April 25; charter surrendered later and restored May 7, 1863.
1828-Another Church built for Methodists by Japheth Beale and Stephen Jewett.
1839-Freewill Baptist Church organized near Charles Davis farm.
1840-First Universalist Society of Sidney organized.
1844-Freewill Baptists reorganized.
1845-Universalists built their church in the central part of the town.
1856-Sidney Mutual Fire Insurance Co. organized, charter surrendered in 1873.
1874-Methodist Society connected with Oakland and recorded as North Sidney.
1875-Sidney Grange, No. 194, P. of H., organized; Charles Hamlin, first master.
1884-Pleasant Hill Lodge, No. 266, I. O. G. T., organized December 16. Joseph W. Lincoln Post, No. 131, organ- ized May 24; Relief Corps organized July 29, 1890.
1885- Sidney Agricultural Fair organized.
1887-Masonic Hall built in Center Sidney.
CHURCHES.
Calvinist Baptist, formed, 1791; name, South Vassalboro; first pastor, 1796, Asa Wilbur, served 33 years. New organ- ization in 1843. Organizers: Joseph and Enos Cummings, Asa,
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Wm. and David T. Ward, Paul Harmon and their wives, Abi- gail Bean and others; ministers; Elders, Case Powers, Walter Foss, William Ward, William Tilley, S. G. Sargent and Enos Cummings. Church edifice built, 1840.
Second Baptist Church-Organized Feb. 7, 1806, at River Road. Organizers : Nathaniel Reynolds jr., Edmond Haywood, Asa Williams, Benj. Dyer, John Sawtelle, Chas. Webber jr., Henry Babcock, Mary Matthews, Mary Reynolds, Jemima Dyer, Thankful Faught, Eliza Andrews, Eunice Williams, Abi- gail Tuttle, Sarah Ingraham and Susanna Haywood. Pastors: Rev. Joseph Palmer, 1809-12; Ezra Going, 1826-31; Lemuel Porter, 1831. Church dissolved; new church organized with thirty-eight members at the house of John Sawtelle; meeting house erected, 1821, by John Sawtelle, Dr. Ambrose Howard, Paul Bailey, Jas. Shaw and Jonathan Matthews. Second meet- ing house erected in 1844 on the corner of Sawtelle Cross Roads. Recent pastors: Rev. Alexander Kenney, E. E. Longley and J. T. Clark.
Methodist Episcopal Church-Rev. Jesse Lee founded Methodism in 1794. Meeting house built at Bacon's Corner, 1815; another and larger in 1828. In 1874 the Methodist Society became officially known as North Sidney and has been connected with the Oakland pastorate. In 1882, a meeting house was built on Tiffany Hill. Some of the preachers in charge of the Methodist Church in this town have been; E. Robinson, 1829; C. Mugford, 1831; S. P. Blake, 1832; M. Ward, 1833; M. Wight, 1835; A. Heath, 1836; Z. Manter, 1844; John Young, 1845; Joseph Gerry. 1846; D. Hutchinson, 1847; John Allen, 1848; T. Hill 1850; W. M. Wyman, 1853; T. J. True,
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1855; M. Wight, 1858; T. Whittier, 1859; A. C. Trafton, 1861; J. W. Hathaway, 1862-63; Nathan Andrews, 1857 and 65; Jos. P. Weeks, 1866-67; John M. Howes, 1868; F. E. Emerick, 1869; A. W. Waterhouse, 1870-73; N. C. Clifford, 1874-77; F. W. Smith, 1878; J. E. Clark, 1880; M. E. King, 1882; C. E. Springer, 1884; C. Munger, 1885; W. Carham, 1886; H. Chase, 1887; A. Hamilton, 1888-92; C. A. Laughton, 1893-95; Frank Welch, 1895-96; Cyrus Purington, 1896-99; J. B. Lapham, 1899- 1906; William Bragg, 1906-07.
The Freewill Baptists had a society for several years pre- vious to 1844 and in that year reorganized, with about fifty members. Church built in 1852; early preacher, Thomas Taylor. A Freewill Baptist society was organized at Charles Davis' farm with eleven members in 1839, first called the Second Sidney Freewill Baptist Church. The first pastor was Daniel B. Lewis. Society later became identified with Oak- land.
Universalist Society began in 1840, June 21, with follow- ing members : D. Townsend, N. Sawtelle, jr., Sumner Smiley, Albert Mitchell, Samuel Robinson, Silas Kinsley, Sumner Dyer, Newton Reynolds, Asa Heath, Asa Townsend, D. D. Dailey, Silas L. Wait, Orren Tallman, Mulford Baker, Beriah Ward, Jonathan Davenport, Abial' Abbott, A. B. Pishon and A. H. Bartlett. One of their most prominent pastors was W. A. P. Dillingham. Services maintained only part of the time.
The Spiritualists never had any regular organization in town but have held services from time to time chiefly through the efforts of M. L. Reynolds,
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TOWN OFFICERS.
TOWN CLERKS.
1792, Ichabod Thomas; 1794, Thomas Smiley; 1796, Eben- ezer Bacon jr .; 1798, Ichabod Thomas; 1812, William Goodhue; 1813, Ichabod Thomas; 1816, Daniel Tiffany, 1817, John Wood- cock; 1822, Ambrose Howard; 1824, Samuel Butterfield; 1831, Abial Abbott; 1832, Samuel Butterfield; 1837, Nathaniel Sher- man; 1839, John B. Clifford; 1841, Daniel S. Purinton; 1846, Asa S. Townsend; 1853, A. S. Hayward; 1857, E. F. Clark; 1859, E. P. Shaw; 1864, Reuel Field; 1865, J. C. Grant; 1866, J. S. Grant; 1872, T. J. Grant; 1873, J. H. Field; 1880, J. S. Grant; 1885, Fred E. Blake; 1896, S. N. Waite; 1899, G. R. Campbell; 1900, S. N. Waite.
SELECTMEN.
1792-Flint Barton 4, Moses Hastings 2, Moses Sawtelle.
1793-Samuel Tiffany 2, Levi Moore, Benjamin Dyer 5.
1795-Ichabod Thomas 5, Nathan Sawtelle, William Smiley.
1896- John Woodcock 11, Samuel Dinsmore 4, Timothy Rey- nolds.
1798-Obadiah Longley 11, David Reynolds.
1799-Daniel Tiffany 7, Silas Hoxie 10.
1802-David Smiley.
1803-Jonas Sawtelle 2.
1805-Ambrose Howard 11, Isaac Hoxie 2.
1809-Edmond Barton 2.
1810-Elisha Barrows,
1811-Eliphalet Britt.
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1812-Peres Hamlin, Thomas S. Farrington.
1813-Seneca Stanley.
1814-Asa Abbott 2.
1816-Paul Bailey 2.
1818-Stephen Springer 2.
1821-Nathaniel Dyer.
1822-James Smiley 4, Nathaniel Merrill 3.
1825-Bethuel Perry 7.
1826-Samuel Butterfield 8.
1829-James Shaw 6.
1831-Abial Abbott.
1832-Paul Hammond, Daniel Tiffany Jr., 5.
1833-Asa Smiley 18, William Prescott 3.
1836-Joseph Hitchins 2.
1837-Gideon Wing 13.
1839-Barnabas D. Howard 2.
1842-George Longley, John Merrill 14.
1845-Elijah Sawtelle.
1850-Charles W. Longley 2.
1853-Greenlief Low.
1854-Bradford Sawtelle 3.
1855-Hosea Blaisdell, Paul Wing 6.
1856-Stephen Ward. '
1857-James Sherman, 4; Jonas Butterfield 10. 1858-T. D. Merrill 2.
1859-Charles W. Coffin 5. 1860-Silas L. Waite. 1861-Benj. F. Fogler 3.
1862-Elbridge G. Morrison.
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1864-William A. Shaw 12 .. 1867-Loren B. Ward 5.
1868-Alonzo Davies 2. 1870-Charles C. Hamlen 6. 1871-Lawriston Guild 3, Greenleaf Barton 2; Chas. H. Love- joy 12.
1873-William A. Tanner 2.
1876-Henry A. Baker, Jonas M. Hammond 4.
1880-George T. Bowman 2.
1882-D. R. Townsend 2.
1883-Martin L. Reynolds 5, A. T. Clark 8 .- 1887-D. H. Goodhue 2.
1889-Gorham K. Hastings.
1890-Fred E. Blake 3.
1891-Charles H. Kelley 2.
1893-94-G. F. Bowman, J. M. Hammond, S. C. Hastings. 1895-D. H Goodhue, A. M. Jones, F. O. Hamlen.
1896-G. F. Bowman, J. M. Hammond, S. C. Hastings.
1897-G. F. Bowman, S. C. Hastings, J. E. Nash. 1898-1902-A. T. Clark, C. H. Lovejoy, F. E. Blake. 1903-A. T. Clark, J. E. Nash, J. H. Swift.
1904-G. F. Bowman, J. E. Nash, H. A. Faught.
1905-G. F. Bowman, H. A. Faught, F. A. Barnard.
1906-H. A. Faught, S. C. Hastings, William B. Manter. 1907-S. C. Hastings, William B. Manter, C. S. Taylor.
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CIVIL WAR ENLISTMENTS.
Charles H. Arnold, Perry Arnold, Calvin Bacon, William E. Brown, Joseph A. Clark, Francis O'Dealing, Allen H. Drum- mond, William Ellis, Charles T. Ellis, George A. Ellis, Ausburn Hutchins, H. Field, Jas. H. Mathews, Geo. W. Nason, Hiram G. Robinson, Greenleaf W. Robinson, Joel F. Richardson, Charles H. Robinson, John E. Shaw, Augustus M. Sawtelle, Augustine P. Smiley, Henry W. Sawtelle, John R. Sawtelle, Charles W. Smiley, Charles Snell, Allen Smith, James A. Thomas, George F. Wixen, William H. Young, Henry A. Annis, William A. Arnold, Charles E. Avery, Artemus R. Bacon, Charles H. Bart- lett, William H. Bean, William Bennett, Thomas S. Benson, Hartson M. Bragg, Austin Bragg, George B. Brown, William M. Burgess, Charles Butler, Edward Butler, Frank Butler, Alfred L. Burgess, Ephraim L. Chamberlain, Enoch S. Chase, Lieut. Martin V. B. Chase, Lorenzo D. Clark, George A. Clark, Franklin L. Connor, Amasa L. Cook, Benjamin T. Curtis, Jedediah Cronkhite, Thomas J. Cunningham, Henry C. Daven- port, Roscoe G. Davenport, Charles H. Davis, Andrew Denifer, John Dexteeter, Benjamin F. Dow, Henry J. Dyer, Sullivan. Ellis, William Ellis, Patrick Falney, Eben M. Field, Albus T. Field, Timothy R. French, Joseph F. Field, Mark Frost, Joseph A. Gray, Horace Hall, Henry A. Hallett, Q. M. John Ham, Enoch B. Hamlin, Albert H. Hallett, Simon C. Hastings, H. W. D. Hayward, William W. Hersom, Melville Irish, John Kelley, Harvey M. Leighton, Granville B. Libby, Joseph M. Lincoln, .
Samuel S. Longley, Sewall Lovejoy, David Low, David A. Low, John Mahon, Fred H. Mann, James S. Marble, Darius Meader,
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Daniel Mclaughlin, John McRay, Winslow H. McIntire, Charles H. Nason, Hiram B. Nichols, Thomas M. Packard, David O. Parks, Henry R. Perkins, Mulford B. Reynolds, Wil- liam H. Reynolds, George M. Reynolds, Asa Robbins, Hiram Robinson, George W. Rillins, Joseph Royal, Edward B. Sander- son, Charles W. Sanderson, Charles E. Sawtelle, Justin A. Saw- telle, Samuel W. Scofield, Charles Sherman, A. B. Sibley, Augustine Smiley, Eben Springer, George E. Staples, Jeremiah C. Stephens, Daniel Sughire, Jethro H. Sweat, William H. Stewart, Leavitt Thayer, James W. Vanwart, Silas N. Wait, Geo. Whitney, Alexander Wilson, Richard W. Withee, Alonzo Wixon, Edward Wixon, Vernal A. Woodcock, Adj. Joseph T. Woodward.
History of Vassalboro
EARLY SETTLERS.
Settlements began in the town as early at 1760, but for the next eight years only ten families settled and some of these were included among the Sidney early settlers since both these towns were formerly one. In April, 1771, Vassalboro was recognized as a corporate body. In January, 1792, Sidney, including that portion of town west of the Kennebec River, was incorporated as a separate town. In 1761, the three ranges of lots between the river and what was commonly called the gore were surveyed and numbered by John Jones and were designated as the fourth and fifth ranges. Early settlers were: Ebenezer Hall, No. 73, first range; Barnabas Hedge; Nathaniel Lovejoy; Isaiah Crowell; Aaron Gaslin; Edward Hoyt; Thomas Carlton; Mr. Blanchard; Remington Hobby ; Jacob Taber ; John Getchell who settled at Vassalboro or Getchell's Corner; Jonas . Priest, on Priest Hill, 1775; James Johnson, Priest Hill; Enoch Palmer; Joseph Brann; William Brann ; Mr. Lord; Paul Taber, near North Vassalboro; Moses Sleeper; Wm. Weeks; Peltiah Varney; Gideon Hobby; Ebenezer Pope; John Cook; John Cartland; Mr. Goddard. Nearly all of these first settlers came from Cape Cod, Mass., but after about 1825 a number of Nan- tucket whale captains with their families settled in the eastern
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part of the town. Among the number were: Reuben Weeks, David Wyer, Shubael Cottle, John G. Fitch, Shubael Hussey, Henry Cottle, Joseph Barney, James Alley, Seth Coffin, Daniel Coffin and Albert Clark. Between North Vassalboro and Priest Hill, Col. John Dearborn and Peter Pray settled. Abner Taylor settled near them. Of all these early settlers, whose hardihood and prowess we recognize today, and honor as well, John Getchell was prominent and adventuresome.
Daring, capable, energetic, enterprising, his presence in the newly founded community was an inspiration to others and a source of encouragement to those families who braved the rigors of the cold climate and the dangers of a back-woods region. So long as Vassalboro is remembered so long should the name of John Getchell be treasurer as one of her most noble pioneers.
FACTS OF INTEREST.
1771-Vassalboro incorporated April 26 and included Sidney within its bounds. May 22 first town meeting held at the house of James Bacon, inn holder. Dennis Getchell, Matthew Hastings and Levi Powers chosen selectmen; John Rogers, town clerk.
1766-Early settlers petition proprietors to build a grist mill on Seven Mile Brook.
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1780-Meeting of the Friends at Vassalboro.
1788-First Baptist Church in Vassalboro organized June 3.
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1790-Town divided into nine school districts; seven years later number reduced to seven.
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