tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52832259708131596232024-03-11T21:50:16.241-07:00Old Blue GenesAdventures in Ancestral ResearchScott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.comBlogger143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-60092526314902377032022-03-19T11:54:00.005-07:002022-03-19T15:26:14.191-07:00Shaws & Plummers of Raymond Maine<p>I will try to assemble information about these interrelated old families in Raymond & Windham Maine.</p><p>Barbara Plummer (born 1923) was an 'adopted' daughter of Daniel Lamont Plummer (1864-1942) and Leona Proctor-Shaw-Plummer (1883-1965). Barbara was clearly much younger than her father (almost 60 year age difference), but was potentially the biological mother of Leona (but that would require Leona having a child with another man in 1923 while still married to Daniel. </p><p>For the 1910 Census, Daniel & Leona had been married about a year, and they had their first biological child, William in 1910. But living with them were three children: Milton, Fred, and Edna Shaw, at 9, 8, and 6 years of age, respectfully. These were likely her children from a prior marriage (to a Shaw?) </p><p>For the 1920 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them: Milton Shaw (19 years old, and matches the 1910 Census), Fred Plummer (at 18 years old, and has taken his stepfather's name), and young William (now 10 years old). Edna had moved out, and married Eldridge York.</p><p>For the 1930 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them: Fred Plummer (at 28 years old, again having taken the name of his stepfather), William (now 20 years old), Frank Plummer (9 years old - is this a bio child?), and Barbara Plummer (6 years old - we know she's adopted).</p><p>For the 1940 Census, Daniel & Leona had the following children living with them: Fred Plummer (now 38 years old), Frank Plummer (now 19 years old), and Barbara Plummer (now 16 years old).</p><p>Now, Leona's parents, according to various sources, were Fred Proctor and Rebecca Gerry. </p><p><b><u><i>So, who were the bio parents of Franklin & Barbara Plummer?</i></u></b></p><p>Franklin Plummer's birth record says that his parents were Daniel & Leona. Daniel would have been a 55 year old father, I guess that's possible.</p><p>Barbara Plummer does not have a birth record under that name. As stated above, if her birth parents were Daniel & Leona, Daniel would have been 60 years old at the time. It's been stated by the family that Barbara was definitely adopted. From other records, I've learned that she was born 10 Sep 1923. I cannot find a Maine Birth Record from that date that has the first name Barbara.</p><p>Barbara married Arnold Mayberry (1924-1994) of Windham. Arnold's parents were Leroy Mayberry and Marion E. <b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline;">SHAW</b> (1901-1982). No relation to Leona's husband Charles G. Shaw.</p><p>Daniel Plummer, Barbara's adoptive father, was brother to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-plummers-of-raymond.html">William Herbert Plummer of Raymond</a>. Barbara was a long time 'cousin' and friend to the family next to the Raymond farm, and ended up owning more of the Plummer land in the 70s. Barbara was known as the lady with the pet capuchin monkey that terrorized the family who came to visit.</p>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-35511660728274694542022-02-19T08:17:00.011-08:002022-02-21T11:31:56.299-08:00Emily Morrill of Portland<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCh4wpUDuBBVRJY5ShfKjAEJKzetzuDaa7jAw22i9HuH2CFKSVZq_OO-ooW2s2bk0PjYmCRf9WOAq_nEvHVtVHn8Tcehh-x8ZYc8kZZgYnYi0tkobxzDH9FwQMjyo3OkX1dzvCSY0Etgzd/s1600/Emily+Morrill+Morgan+Hall.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" m="m" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCh4wpUDuBBVRJY5ShfKjAEJKzetzuDaa7jAw22i9HuH2CFKSVZq_OO-ooW2s2bk0PjYmCRf9WOAq_nEvHVtVHn8Tcehh-x8ZYc8kZZgYnYi0tkobxzDH9FwQMjyo3OkX1dzvCSY0Etgzd/s640/Emily+Morrill+Morgan+Hall.JPG" true="true" width="560" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentcolor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div>EMILY N. MORRILL-MORGAN-HALL</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentcolor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div>(ca 1890)</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentcolor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Emily N. Morrill (1844 – 1900) was my 2nd great grandmother. She was born in Portland, the youngest of nine children born to <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Jonathan & Sally Morrill</a>, who were originally from Tuftonboro, NH, but had relocated to Portland to be closer to family (who were the namesake of <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/history-of-morrills-corner.html">Morrill's Corner</a>).</p><p>Emily grew up in the East Bayside District of Portland, living most of her youth at 62 Washington Street.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR5FSEed0yJ5EEADN3h4BJYRl2XjHJC8qrlwFowUCJPmxS-Pand7PcFVM-_0ctAdFHWyTFcqqrGdo6va-qu7vDRFr4Icx6fOJ3PbZZPssB6Bx7T6ImeogyDORHDkWU8CPsbG2RT94Dp2k_72K3cyXTHAXKEypXmb1X1JsSYFbGtMa-cr8x3sUxDrej=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="640" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR5FSEed0yJ5EEADN3h4BJYRl2XjHJC8qrlwFowUCJPmxS-Pand7PcFVM-_0ctAdFHWyTFcqqrGdo6va-qu7vDRFr4Icx6fOJ3PbZZPssB6Bx7T6ImeogyDORHDkWU8CPsbG2RT94Dp2k_72K3cyXTHAXKEypXmb1X1JsSYFbGtMa-cr8x3sUxDrej=w640-h464" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbDYKRNzVFrVDQYq59ybBQiLxJPM31hT1luczS_FWiftgWjB9BlgVHAJUiXXOABi6AlisGTmDAmFLBWoA92iJTA7BsxvYTvBqJuS4m9S9q0e5NySvUQhaYrpeZMmkIfdoHwxcLdW_WfpTo-qubm-d8i19cHZEPPvC1zROlTNc-NE7dggE7ix90e42P=s307" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="217" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbDYKRNzVFrVDQYq59ybBQiLxJPM31hT1luczS_FWiftgWjB9BlgVHAJUiXXOABi6AlisGTmDAmFLBWoA92iJTA7BsxvYTvBqJuS4m9S9q0e5NySvUQhaYrpeZMmkIfdoHwxcLdW_WfpTo-qubm-d8i19cHZEPPvC1zROlTNc-NE7dggE7ix90e42P=w130-h184" width="130" /></a></div>At age 21 in 1865, she married <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/william-sanford-morgan.html">William Sanford Morgan</a>, ("Sanford") a Civil War veteran from Winterport, Maine, who had just finished a storied turn of service in the Navy, working on the famed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(1861)">USS Kearsarge</a>. Just after the wedding, they moved to Peaks Island, and had their first of three daughters, my great grandmother, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/hats-off-to-hattie.html">Hattie Temm</a>, pictured left.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhs26s9ynjFnahVKF9Lvmfa3c1SnVDXikILM5IFX3gXPEYUCSiQ0SjwmcXy54sAbiiNCrOOLlGuFezC0gmjW-L89FDnLqbx_-kgRiF8s6fvA7B-pl-zQgSP8vSwOSA8TvrNXaX-_o3dAEtN60Msp0F-w403GoammjcsdHRmEqL5KAa2WcnxD_0RzDw1=s1081" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="726" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhs26s9ynjFnahVKF9Lvmfa3c1SnVDXikILM5IFX3gXPEYUCSiQ0SjwmcXy54sAbiiNCrOOLlGuFezC0gmjW-L89FDnLqbx_-kgRiF8s6fvA7B-pl-zQgSP8vSwOSA8TvrNXaX-_o3dAEtN60Msp0F-w403GoammjcsdHRmEqL5KAa2WcnxD_0RzDw1=w132-h197" width="132" /></a></div>In 1869, Emily & Sanford moved back to East Bayside, settling in next door to Emily's family on Washington Avenue. There they had their second daughter, Adelaide (pictured left, who married George Simpson and later Presbury Dennison, and had one daughter, Emily Simpson-Pease).<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgN9Fi6-7dHmqrrf0qKYa75m2SaRTv9vcYICDRgEi100uX2K_6wkSV3bCC2zh4Jjl3ILg9Pt3-bh2crpQrFysML826RvlsddP5IrdP6joGUzU-QbvMwrda4xMVh_bDuvWnqx4a6QNl6M8WMHqw5o_PC3do3wGkRYZYj7LRSh6Sw9-3hSbIl0vgdZsEo=s780" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="595" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgN9Fi6-7dHmqrrf0qKYa75m2SaRTv9vcYICDRgEi100uX2K_6wkSV3bCC2zh4Jjl3ILg9Pt3-bh2crpQrFysML826RvlsddP5IrdP6joGUzU-QbvMwrda4xMVh_bDuvWnqx4a6QNl6M8WMHqw5o_PC3do3wGkRYZYj7LRSh6Sw9-3hSbIl0vgdZsEo=w132-h174" width="132" /></a></div>From 1873-1877, they owned a house on 8 Madison Street, around the corner from the previous house. There they had their youngest daughter, Abigail, pictured left, who never married.<p></p><br /><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJIB-VIjGFhAtAcaZXzrp_M8BoQnNi47EMkZoKqDSVV2H0TUwvivoRO_114ylg9WU99OdOATTbQDuG4f4R34hS2SDNI1kZH8Luw4cYjzzVGcFkO8vG_nxB1RqSvQy0Hy1SWgUF1DfDD_sE7cKlO_SWjcvB-QaQkU5KfFHNEq9eVX8aHFMg-n5h1BxW=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="640" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJIB-VIjGFhAtAcaZXzrp_M8BoQnNi47EMkZoKqDSVV2H0TUwvivoRO_114ylg9WU99OdOATTbQDuG4f4R34hS2SDNI1kZH8Luw4cYjzzVGcFkO8vG_nxB1RqSvQy0Hy1SWgUF1DfDD_sE7cKlO_SWjcvB-QaQkU5KfFHNEq9eVX8aHFMg-n5h1BxW=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">6-8 Madison Street<br />Portland, ME<br />(1924)<br />(Property was razed for newer residential development)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>From 1877-1880, William owned property in Scarborough on West Beech Ridge Road. Their daughter <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/hats-off-to-hattie.html">Hattie</a> later moved to that area when she started her family with <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-henry-temm.html">John Henry Temm</a> of that area. I wonder if this three year period is when Hattie met John.</p><p>In 1880, they lived at 22 Greenleaf Street. The building is now a housing project (likely since Urban Renewal).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_qYqCgLdH2nqm-lHTfm_QHxAbDOJ-YyzEz6JZ47YkT4xPXFgvOWAtxMxFXV9ebhcMc1rYwL4_-R8E8gl5rcDEyIFXNAeLN-9eU50349swmK8OjyE6nJhm8X4G7c6ecP1XZzIpFWxsyGSGXqLuBaFJXZw27pMNBvg7fA8ShodijNxJPYuS2lEsaTvi=s4656" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="4656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_qYqCgLdH2nqm-lHTfm_QHxAbDOJ-YyzEz6JZ47YkT4xPXFgvOWAtxMxFXV9ebhcMc1rYwL4_-R8E8gl5rcDEyIFXNAeLN-9eU50349swmK8OjyE6nJhm8X4G7c6ecP1XZzIpFWxsyGSGXqLuBaFJXZw27pMNBvg7fA8ShodijNxJPYuS2lEsaTvi=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">22 GREENLEAF STREET (2022)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>In 1881, they didn't appear in Portland directories. It's possible they moved back to Scarborough for the year or two, since they sold the property in 1883. From 1883 to 1885, they lived at 26 Lowell Street and 49 Green Street in Portland.</p><p>By 1886, Emily and William appear to have separated. City Directories have her living at 46 Hanover Street, with William living at 69 Danforth Street.</p><p>In 1887, William & Emily divorced (due to his constant drinking) and Emily moved Addie & Abbie to 27 Everett Street. Hattie had already moved out a couple years prior, having married her first husband, James Downey, and they were living on 5 Vine Street at the time (now Pearl Street). Upon divorce, William moved in with Hattie & James for a while.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqTwNrJbo2na4yhpdg6LM1m61UzujnNmTyWQ-c3Q659cn7pGeFHiW_epkLSNaxkY_ba_KBxeV6D9IFLVfU7-0aCpRY_lCOZHAKuRTh4w8VI2n6dNQWuMx4VmYmuf-qwA0HVzDoVnmyn0dBVPW4JusmXxJ_5A8rLMD6ODUvCG2QkdNyUOZPmLiu8K68=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="640" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqTwNrJbo2na4yhpdg6LM1m61UzujnNmTyWQ-c3Q659cn7pGeFHiW_epkLSNaxkY_ba_KBxeV6D9IFLVfU7-0aCpRY_lCOZHAKuRTh4w8VI2n6dNQWuMx4VmYmuf-qwA0HVzDoVnmyn0dBVPW4JusmXxJ_5A8rLMD6ODUvCG2QkdNyUOZPmLiu8K68=w640-h432" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">27 Everett Street<br />(1924)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgptjsoT-OCAMaZRJ-hDZnW8zGZWWSx5zo_VcIV5OAdbHyg6AY-OIg5v_GKmsMYCXggVbQ8QVLY419mIt3E-0Ysi8tmKYxIpBga6cdx9Hu1aOAOrAjVS1OInps9qFmiU-pLFHogIR9PXwFkxkQ9ZKS6c37bwNZ0HY8NNB1SkvGNsCMW6DvOzsrKGR12=s4656" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="4656" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgptjsoT-OCAMaZRJ-hDZnW8zGZWWSx5zo_VcIV5OAdbHyg6AY-OIg5v_GKmsMYCXggVbQ8QVLY419mIt3E-0Ysi8tmKYxIpBga6cdx9Hu1aOAOrAjVS1OInps9qFmiU-pLFHogIR9PXwFkxkQ9ZKS6c37bwNZ0HY8NNB1SkvGNsCMW6DvOzsrKGR12=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">27 Everett Street<br />(2022)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Both William and she remarried at the end of the 19th Century. Emily's 2nd husband was neighbor and childhood friend Joseph G. Hall, a carriage painter (and brother to her niece Naomi's husband Edward Hall from the East Bayside neighborhood). They married in 1891, and moved on 123 Cumberland Avenue, right around the corner from where her mother (then widowed) was living on 21 Cleeve Street. </p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border: currentcolor;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC0w8YxZgOm3ulTj-TRoOLEgKI9Cb_d34jJ2gIMqHtZh2Levb0s9uukClJfcI_Gg51Sb8Bf4B93Ar_VSSzNVOzTnyi8dpTFOmLVXkQU-oGSkipcCSTZzRax7xq4wouyQALUXlwVIDwEYcuExcbTXTB0_b0ZceeMt-QTaXehWhVNFw98Fg8UcTL1dPo=s3013" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3013" data-original-width="2328" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC0w8YxZgOm3ulTj-TRoOLEgKI9Cb_d34jJ2gIMqHtZh2Levb0s9uukClJfcI_Gg51Sb8Bf4B93Ar_VSSzNVOzTnyi8dpTFOmLVXkQU-oGSkipcCSTZzRax7xq4wouyQALUXlwVIDwEYcuExcbTXTB0_b0ZceeMt-QTaXehWhVNFw98Fg8UcTL1dPo=w494-h640" width="494" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">123 Cumberland Avenue<br />(2022)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border: currentcolor;">Emily's husband Joseph died in 1895, and then Emily died in 1900 of hemiplegia. Her first husband William lived until 1920. Everyone is buried at Forest City Cemetery in South Portland.</div><div style="border: currentcolor;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRv3_WfmsjaMr6D6sSE30I8iOln8AU1v9IbO1KPqMPxIQ5lAK5_n5ypG7APnbvxp4LTw6YqEyDO9F_O3sDL68vVstLVmA_uN1fqUDOiGoRi0-dzslQd9OHPaMP0HopLE4hBXRrFobmkRl5ncXmHAdt_cbeLrFQmGyp4ibyshLYHHt8BEJeCmQOlXwN=s2848" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="2848" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRv3_WfmsjaMr6D6sSE30I8iOln8AU1v9IbO1KPqMPxIQ5lAK5_n5ypG7APnbvxp4LTw6YqEyDO9F_O3sDL68vVstLVmA_uN1fqUDOiGoRi0-dzslQd9OHPaMP0HopLE4hBXRrFobmkRl5ncXmHAdt_cbeLrFQmGyp4ibyshLYHHt8BEJeCmQOlXwN=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PEASE / HALL LOT<br />Forest City Cemetery<br />Left to Right:<br />Unknown Baby Grave<br />Abigail and Adelaide<br />Emily N. Morrill Hall<br />Joseph G. Hall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="border: currentcolor;">Below is a pedigree for Emily.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: currentcolor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIpGTRNeNYFd1vmvIVl3fAmq2xGgNAa0lrLZqG553pRy3o7TLA93b35BwvlxaKc1JbIHwPFOqtnFBrBfVHCOt1ENqkY5qWMq-2P7OPzLFur4w8DgJq1a-rZ9HDAvT_FkeK4gE1AOYY3c/s1600/Pedigree+-+Emily+Morrill-Morgan-Hall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgIpGTRNeNYFd1vmvIVl3fAmq2xGgNAa0lrLZqG553pRy3o7TLA93b35BwvlxaKc1JbIHwPFOqtnFBrBfVHCOt1ENqkY5qWMq-2P7OPzLFur4w8DgJq1a-rZ9HDAvT_FkeK4gE1AOYY3c/s1600/Pedigree+-+Emily+Morrill-Morgan-Hall.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />Unfortunately, due to New Hampshire's lack of records, I've yet to go back three generations for her. She appears to be fully English.</div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-67739305721057491882020-08-01T20:53:00.003-07:002020-11-15T15:51:01.870-08:00The Hewlets of New London ConnecticutThis post will cover collected research on the Hewlet family of Groton and Stonington, Connecticut. This family name has also been written as Hewlett and Hewitt.<br />
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NORTH STONINGTON, CT</td></tr>
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Nathaniel Hewitt (1721-1784) was born and raised in North Stonington Connecticut. He and his family were members of the North Stonington Congregational Church.<br />
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According to official Mayflower Society research volumes (the Silver Books), Nathaniel was a 4th generation descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower.<br />
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Nathaniel and his wife, Rebecca Grant, had two sons of note (there may have been as many as 8 children):<br />
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1. Josiah Grant Hewitt (1742-1824), married Mercy Williams in 1763, and had at least one son, Josiah, Jr..<br />
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2. Nathaniel Hewitt Jr. (1746-1823) fought as a Private in the Army during the Revolutionary War, while in his 50s. He was badly injured in the War, in his leg, thigh and breast, on Butt's Hill, during the <a href="http://www.tivertonhistorical.org/tiverton-stories/the-battle-of-rhode-island/">Battle of Rhode Island</a>, of 1788. He received pension and moved to Vermont for the rest of his years.<br />
<br />For a while, I was under the impression that the Josiah above (of Stonington) is the same as the Josiah (of Groton) that was father to my ancestor, Stephen Hewlett/Hewitt (1771-1812), who was a Corporal in the War of 1812. I learned from the Mayflower Society that they cannot be the same person, because they were having children at the same time in these two different towns. Perhaps they were cousins?<div><br /></div><div>Anyhow, according to the Providence Gazette, Josiah of Groton had 27 children by one wife. Not sure how accurate that is!</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDV7YH1lm6RfH8wAdhTohKmFEQ4SeJqM8ttW_bWkRF4olTVRIg_MVf04tx33elxZ4yVrnSCXA4NAdpiDJ1rw9AaaDddvDq8qMYJJNWC9J5pHkkcvPzFPSfDYqHKtI6TM8iHm-whoVG9x0/s1076/Death+Notice+-+Josiah+Hewlett+%252827+kids%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1076" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDV7YH1lm6RfH8wAdhTohKmFEQ4SeJqM8ttW_bWkRF4olTVRIg_MVf04tx33elxZ4yVrnSCXA4NAdpiDJ1rw9AaaDddvDq8qMYJJNWC9J5pHkkcvPzFPSfDYqHKtI6TM8iHm-whoVG9x0/w640-h466/Death+Notice+-+Josiah+Hewlett+%252827+kids%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Anyhow, Josiah's son, Stephen, my ancestor, was married to <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150241701">Mary Anna Daniels</a>, of Groton, CT.</div><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MARY ANNA DANIELS-HEWLETT-GOODALE<br />
(1775-1879)</td></tr>
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Stephen and Mary had five children:<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185591937/phebe-bunnell">Phebe</a> (1795-1875), married Henry Bunnell around 1835, and had at least two children, and lived in Groton. She may have married an Amos Benham earlier, in 1828.<br />
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2. Abby (1802-1876) married fisherman William Bogue, and had at least ten children, and also lived in Groton.<br />
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3. Comfort (1803-1873) married a woman named Abigail Andrews, and had one daughter, Myra. They settled in nearby New Britain, CT.<br />
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4. Sarah ("Sally") (1805-1895), potentially first married someone named William Mott, and may have had one daughter, Francina. She later married Harvey Hall of nearby Colchester, and settled in Lyme, CT. They had at least seven children, including my Great Great Grandmother, <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/09/john-nancy-tooker.html">Nancy Hall-Tooker</a>.<br />
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5. Edwin (1811-1890) married Francina Mott, who was 14 years his junior, and they had at least nine kids together. Francina was the daughter of William Mott and, potentially, Edwin's own sister Sally, based on comparing various records. But, Francina's death certificate does show William as her father, and the mother's maiden name is rather illegible (but doesn't appear to say Hewlett). What is also interesting is that in 1825, there is a Groton marriage record between William Mott and Sarah "Hulet". Francina was born in 1825. So, it's very possible that Edwin had nine children with his own niece. This kind of thing did happen occasionally back in the day.<br />
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Stephen died during the War of 1812, on board a man-of-war (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-of-war">type of battleship</a>). Mary remarried to Austin Goodale, and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150241701">lived to be 104</a>. Mary's obituary appears below:<br />
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SOURCES:<br />
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U.S. Federal Censuses<br />
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Barbour Collection, Connecticut<br />
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Find a Grave<br />
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According to various parish registers, Charles Leonard (born approximately 1765) appears to have been married three times, and had four children:<br />
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<li>With first wife Elizabeth, Charles had two boys Thomas (1788-) and Richard (1792-).</li>
<li>With second wife, Eleanor Tallon, Charles had Mathew (1795-) and Mary (1797-).</li>
<li>June 1800 marriage record shows Charles marrying an Anne West. No subsequent children.</li>
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See below 1804 map of the Burrow lots. The land that on the right side of Burrow Road is labeled Charles Leonard (that's the house lot), as well as across the street (that's the farm lot). These farmlots were called "Burrow Gardens". These were narrow stretches of gardens which locals leased and grew vegetables for their own use. It was probably because of this that there were few deaths if any during the Great Famine of the mid-19th Century. You can see that Charles Leonard possessed over 3 acres in the area.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1804 Map of the Burrow of Portrane<br />
(formerly known as the Warren)</td></tr>
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Charles' brother, Thomas (1773-1865) (my 5th Great Grandfather), was, according to oral tradition, has married to a woman by the last name of Byrne. Thomas had three children in the Burrow:<br />
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1. <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/10/patrick-leonard-of-burrow-1795-1865.html">Patrick Leonard</a>, my ancestor (1795-1865), who took over the house lot and farming from his uncle Charles.<br />
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2. Mary Leonard (1804-_____) married Thomas Finegan, and had six children in the Burrow.<br />
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3. Thomas Leonard, Jr., who drowned (according to Patrick's great grandson, Thomas).<br />
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Thomas died of dysentery, a widower, at age 92, at home in the Portrane Cottages.<br />
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Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers<br />
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Ireland, Civil Registrations (Deaths)</div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-32133942469081046702019-11-07T00:25:00.001-08:002020-12-26T11:30:25.347-08:00Patrick Mullarney of GlencullenPatrick Mullarney (1844-1906) was brother to my 3rd great grandmother, Sarah Mullarney-Howlett. He was born in Ballymanus, County Wicklow to <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/thomas-mullarney-of-wicklow.html">Thomas Mullarney</a> and Elizabeth Ellis, on land rented from Daniel Tighe, a prominent local landlord.<br />
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Patrick had ambitions to become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_school_(Ireland)">national schoolteacher</a>, and I believe that he idolized and was mentored by <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/thomas-howlett.html">Thomas Howlett</a>, who ended up marrying his sister Sarah.<br />
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In 1863, Patrick worked at Rathnew National School in Wicklow, not too far up the road from Ballymanus.<br />
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In 1867, Patrick started working in County Dublin (where the money and opportunity may have been better) at Lucan National School as well as Raheny School.<br />
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In 1873, he married dressmaker Ellen Flyght at St. Patrick's Parish in Wicklow, and they ended up having seven daughters together.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL<br />
WICKLOW, IRELAND</td></tr>
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By 1874, Patrick had officially left Wicklow, to begin work as a national schoolteacher in Glencullen, Dublin. By 1881, he ended up being promoted to schoolmaster, a position he kept until at least 1894.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GLENCULLEN NATIONAL SCHOOL<br />
COUNTY DUBLIN</td></tr>
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In 1882, Patrick was charged by the Rathdown Union with failure to vaccinate his children. It's unclear which vaccine was available at this time. There weren't many, only the ones for cholera and smallpox, to my understanding. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 1884, a dog bit one of his daughters, and Patrick pressed charges against Dr. Mackay for failing to treat her.<br />
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In 1892, a few months after his mother Elizabeth died, Patrick accused John Cullen of Glencullen of kicking his dog, causing a broken leg and shoulder, but the case was dismissed. In 1895, he was arrested for public drunkenness, and in 1897, he lost his two youngest daughters to diphtheria (they were only ten and twelve years old). To add insult to injury, his house was inspected by the local doctor (Mackay), and he was ordered to clean up and sanitize the room, to prevent the spread of the disease.<br />
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Late in 1905, Patrick contracted tuberculosis. He checked into the Rathdown Union Workhouse for treatment for his sore eye in December of that year, a complication of his TB. He was released a month later, in January of 1906. He was dead by March of 1906.<br />
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ELMWOOD AVENUE<br />
RANELAGH, RATHMINES<br />
COUNTY DUBLIN</td></tr>
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His wife Ellen remained at their house until her own death in 1932.<br />
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Of his seven daughters, only four appear to have lived to adulthood, but I don't believe any of them had any children of their own. His eldest daughter Elizabeth ended up in Mountjoy Prison for a week in the summer of 1915 for stealing a box of polish. She married a few years later, and I think she was the only child of Patrick's to do so.<br />
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SOURCES:<br />
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Dog License Registers (Dublin)<br />
Petty Court Sessions (Wicklow and Dublin)<br />
National School Teacher Salary Books (Dublin)<br />
Slater's Royal National Directory Of Ireland (Dublin)<br />
Catholic Parish Registers (Wicklow and Dublin)<br />
Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records (Wicklow and Dublin)</div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-63734942576905714792019-11-05T23:30:00.002-08:002019-11-07T00:47:30.315-08:00Thomas Howlett of DublinThis is a post about my third great grandfather, Thomas Howlett (1828-1878). Thomas was a National School Teacher in Wicklow and Dublin counties.<br />
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A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_school_(Ireland)">National School</a> was, and still is, a secular elementary school, or public primary school, fully financed by the government. It was set up in the 1830s to accommodate the need for a non-religious schooling, an alternative to parochial schools administered by the Roman Catholic Church or the protestant Church of Ireland.<br />
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Thomas appears in the salary books ("pay books"), which I was able to locate at the National Archives in Dublin, October of 2019. I learned that from 1860-1862, Thomas was employed at Glenealy National School in Wicklow.<br />
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<a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/patrick-mullarney-of-glencullen.html">Patrick Mullarney</a>, Thomas' brother-in-law, was also a National School Teacher in Wicklow and Dublin during the same time as Thomas. I suspect that this might be how Thomas met his wife Sarah, Patrick's older sister, in Wicklow.<br />
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From a variety of records, it's clear that his parents were Jacobi (aka James) and Elizabeth Howlett of Wexford. The one baptismal record that seems to match is from Ballyculane, Wexford, dated 1840, with parents Jacobi Howlett and Margarita Commins. However, his marriage and death records declare him to have been born in 1828.<br />
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Dublin City</td></tr>
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It's interesting that Thomas and Sarah were married in January 1863, at St. Mary's Pro in Dublin City, and that they baptized their daughter there in August of the same year. It's quite possible that this was a shotgun wedding, with Sarah being two months pregnant at her wedding, and also being 11 years younger than her groom. This might have invited a variety of scandals.<br />
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Sadly, though, in 1865, about a year and a half after the birth of their daughter Lizzie, young Sarah died of tuberculosis, back at her home in Ballymanus. Her death record states she had the disease for ten months before dying. That must mean that she contracted it when her daughter was exactly one year old. At the time of her death, she was under the care of her brother Patrick, who was the informant on her death record (and not Thomas). It isn't very clear to me that Thomas and Sarah had any kind of strong relationship. They likely met through the School connection, had an evening of intimacy and were forced to be married because of it, probably only knowing each other 2 or 3 years total. Given that Sarah was highly contagious, it's also quite possible that she left Dublin City to go back home to Ballymanus, leaving her daughter and husband behind, so she wouldn't infect them.<br />
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After Sarah's death, Thomas worked briefly at St. Peter's National School in Dublin in 1867, but soon afterward was working as a school teacher at Kinsealy School, and there he met a farmer's daughter by the name of Bridget Campbell. They were married at <a href="https://www.dublindiocese.ie/parish/baldoyle/">Baldoyle Chapel</a> in 1870.<br />
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NORTH COUNTY DUBLIN</td></tr>
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Thomas had been promoted to schoolmaster at Kinsealy by 1877. He died of accidental drowning in Artaine, North County Dublin, on 2 Jan 1878.<br />
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In 1889, his daughter Sarah had sailed to New England, and in the same year married my 2nd great grandfather, <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/mathew-john-leonard-1854-1939.html">Mathew John Leonard</a> of Portland Maine (originally of Dublin). I wonder if they knew each other in Ireland. Her father had spent many years working in Kinsealy, about five miles south of Portrane, where Mathew John grew up...<br />
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SOURCES:<br />
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National School Teacher Salary Books (1868-1890)<br />
Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records<br />
Catholic Parish Records (Marriage and Baptism)<br />
Maine Death Record of Elizabeth Howlett-LeonardScott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-78128398551978669602019-11-01T19:54:00.007-07:002020-12-26T12:43:31.112-08:00Thomas Mullarney of WicklowMy 4th great grandfather was Thomas Mullarney of Ballymanus Upper Townland, in the Glenealy Parish of County Wicklow. He was born around 1808 and died around 1877. <br />
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In 1835, in Old St. Michael's of Rathdrum (church is no longer there), he was married to Elizabeth Ellis, and they were both living in Garrymore, Ballinacor, Wicklow at the time. <br />
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It's unclear when they moved to Ballymanus, and became caretakers of one of Daniel Tighe's properties there, but it was certainly between 1835 and 1841.<br />
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I learned of this ancestor upon a trip to Ireland in October 2019, by procuring the death record of known ancestor Sarah Mullarney-<a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/thomas-howlett.html">Howlett</a>, who was mother to my 2nd great grandmother, Lizzie Howlett-Leonard. On Sarah's death certificate, it stated she died in Ballymanus Townland, and was wife of schoolteacher (Thomas Howlett). This was a revelation to me, as all my Irish ancestral research had, up to that point, been confined to North County Dublin.<br />
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Once I studied a bit more about Sarah, I learned that her parents were Thomas Mullarney and Elizabeth Ellis, also of Wicklow. The 1852 Griffith's Valuation matched up the name Thomas Mullarney, at House Lot 3 of Ballymanus Upper:<br />
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I paid a visit to the Valuation Office in Dublin, and managed to get a nice copy of the Valuation Map for Glenealy Parish, which was used for the above valuation document:<br />
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1852<br />
Thomas Mullarney Lot (See Arrow at the bottom)<br />
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I was also able to look through the old cancellation books, to run the full chain of title from 1842-1978. The landlord for the Mullarney House was <a href="http://www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/tighe.pdf">Daniel Tighe</a>, who was also a neighboring landowner/tenant (as you can see from the above roster). The Mullarney lot was measured at 9 acres, 3 roods, and 0 perches (about the size of ten football fields). The 9 acre land was long valued at 5 pounds sterling (inclusive of house). The house situated on it was always known as the "Woodranger's House" in these cancellation books. I would be very curious to learn which house this is, and if it's still there. As of 1978, the house lot had been subdivided onto a smaller land, and was then owned by a Bernard Kelly.</div><div><br /></div><div>In researching the other small number of Mullarneys living in Glenealy Parish during this time, I've come to believe that Thomas had brother named James (1823), and a daughter or niece named Eliza (1845). Eliza had her own child in the Rathdrum Workhouse, named William in 1868 - no father listed, and Mullarney was listed as Eliza's maiden name.<br />
<br />Thomas was listed as caretaker of this particular property of Tighe's, and he appears in many petty court sessions in Ballymanus/Glenealy, where he complained of trespassers and thieves:<br />
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<li>In March of 1841, Thomas witnessed Francis and Dennis Toole trespassing on his tenant property, breaking a fence, and apparently stealing holly crops.</li>
<li>Also in March of 1841, Thomas witnessed Phillip Doolin breaking a fence and stealing oak crops.</li>
<li>In January of 1842, Thomas witnessed Mary Toole and Elizabeth Dowdall breaking the fence and stealing oak plants.</li>
<li>In June of 1842, Thomas witnessed Luke Cullen stealing sod and a horse from his tenant property.</li>
<li>October 1842, Thomas witnessed John Fitzpatrick stealing oak trees from his tenant property.</li>
<li>In 1851, Thomas witnessed Keven Develin stealing heath from his tenant property.</li>
<li>March of 1854, John Beety stole oak trees</li>
<li>Sept 1857 and in June of 1862, Thomas was charged for allowing his mare to wander out into the street.</li>
<li>October 1857, Thomas was accused by a local tailor Richard Byrne of threatening his life.</li>
<li>April of 1860, Thomas witnessed the trespass of cattle onto his tenant lands, said cattle owned by James Bradshaw</li>
<li>In January of 1865, Thomas owed Joseph Cowley for goods.</li>
<li>June of 1866, Thomas stood up as witness for his son William Mullarney, who was accused of assaulting Mary Kerwin. William served a week of hard labor. William was also charged with assaulting George Booth in March of that year, and George Byrne in October of that year. This may be the same William who died in Rathdrum 1871.</li>
<li>August of 1867, Thomas was charged with public drunkenness, and had to pay a fine of one shilling.</li>
<li>July 1868, Thomas was charged with having an unlicensed dog. He licensed a male greyhound two days later</li>
<li>March 1869, licensed a slate mongrel.</li>
<li>July 1871, licensed a black sheepdog.</li>
<li>June 1873, public drunkenness again.</li>
<li>March 1874, licensed a brown mastiff.</li>
<li>March 1876, licensed a black sheepdog</li>
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Whom I believe to be Thomas' brother or father, James Mullarney of Ballymanus, had a few run-ins with the law:<br />
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<li>In May of 1842, James trespassed onto Daniel Tighe's woods property in Ballymanus, and was convicted. He had to stay in prison for a fortnight and pay a fine.</li>
<li>In July of 1864, he struck Martin Cullen on the public road in Glenealy, and had to stay in jail for a week and pay a fine.</li>
<li>In 1866, he landed in prison (unknown charge)</li>
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William Mullarney, mentioned above, who had spent a week in jail for assault, and who might be little brother or nephew to Thomas, also had a record:<br />
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<li>One Eliza Mullarney had a child named William in the Rathdrum Workhouse on 19 Feb 1868. No father listed. Was this a child of William's? Or was this Eliza the same who was wife to Thomas?</li>
<li>April and May of 1869, William was arrested twice for assaulting George Loftus Booth, although the cases were dismissed.</li>
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By 1877, Daniel Tighe's son, James, acquired title to the land, and most all other land in the Parish, and at that point, Thomas Mullarney drifts off of title. He had clearly lost the lease by then. What is not so clear is what happened to him after that, or when he died.<br />
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Thomas Mullarney and his wife Elizabeth had five known children:<br />
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<li>My ancestor Sarah Mullarney-<a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/thomas-howlett.html">Howlett</a> (1836-1865). Sarah died quite young, of tuberculosis, about two years after giving birth to my 2nd great grandmother, Lizzie Howlett-Leonard (pictured below).</li>
<li><a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/patrick-mullarney-of-glencullen.html">Patrick Mullarney</a> (1844-1906). Patrick was a national schoolteacher, just like Sarah's husband, Thomas Howlett. Patrick was also schoolmaster of Glencullen National School in South Dublin from 1881-1894.</li><li>William Mullarney (1850-1871). William was a troublemaker, and often accused of assaulting people. He died quite young at Rathdrum, after one year of decline, and the informant on the death record was his brother Patrick.</li>
<li>John Mullarney (1852-1901). John had a large family and lived in Georges Quay of Dublin City.</li>
<li>Thomas Mullarney (1854-1873). Died as a teenager.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LIZZIE HOWLETT<br />
(ABOUT 1883)<br />
GRANDDAUGHTER TO THOMAS MULLARNEY</td></tr>
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Given that his wife Elizabeth died in 1892, a widow, at aged 82, it seems reasonable to believe that Thomas Mullarney was born around 1808 (Wicklow parish baptismal records from that period are hard to find online), and could have died around 1877, some point after he lost the lease to the Tighe family.<br />
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Thomas was born about ten years after the execution of <a href="http://countywicklowheritage.org/page_id__151.aspx?path=0p4p27p">Billy Byrne of Ballymanus</a>, who put this townland into history. I wonder if his parents knew Billy (or were somehow related to him)?<br />
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<a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/11/patrick-mullarney-of-glencullen.html">Patrick</a> and his family lived in Glencullen, Rathdown, South County Dublin (just a bit north of Wicklow), so perhaps Thomas died in that area too.<br />
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SOURCES:<br />
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1901 and 1911 Irish Censuses<br />
Wicklow Cancellation/Revision Books<br />
Griffith's Valuation<br />
Catholic Parish Registers (Wicklow and Dublin)<br />
Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records<br />
Petty Court Sessions (Wicklow)<br />
Dog License Registers (Wicklow)<br />
National School Salary Books (Wicklow and Dublin)</div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-5416634976281819152019-10-20T11:17:00.007-07:002023-10-26T23:21:18.599-07:00Francis Leonard (1859-1945)Francis Leonard (1859-1945) was <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/61/mode/1up">baptized in April of 1859 at Donabate Parish</a>. He was son to Mathew Leonard and Anne Brien, of the Portrane Cottages, Burrow Road, Portrane, Donabate, Dublin.<br />
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Frank (known by his loved ones as <i>Fransheen</i>), was a great believer in Irish fairy culture, according to old Paddy Lynders who lived in the Burrow near Frank.<br />
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As mentioned in <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/mathew-leonard-from-burrow.html">his father's blog post</a>, the Leonards, although they didn't suffer as much as other families in Dublin during the Famine, they were certainly hit hard enough that many of the family sought employment overseas. Thomas D. Leonard was the first to leave the Burrow of Portrane, in 1850, and started a successful florist business in Portland Maine. After a couple decades there, Thomas had purchased an entire block of the West End of Portland (Briggs Street), built houses there, and summoned his family over. His nieces and nephews heeded the call, and Frank sailed to Maine with his brother <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/mathew-john-leonard-1854-1939.html">Mathew John</a> in 1881, along with other siblings. Frank lived in Portland for three years, having worked at JB Brown's sugar mill in Portland. But, he missed Portrane, and moved back in 1884, living at the old family homestead at House 15 in <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/leonards-from-dublin.html">the Burrow</a>, eventually taking over the lease upon the death of his father Mathew in 1904.<div><br /></div><div>According to Paedar Bates' <i>Donabate and Portrane, a History</i>, Frank was a member of the Gaelic Football Club of Donabate at some point.<br />
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Frank first married to a Catherine Kent of Rush, in 1898, and she died in Portrane of tuberculosis at age 27, in 1901. They had no children.<br />
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DONABATE, DUBLIN<br />
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On August 11, 1904, he married 17 year old Margaret Byrne (1887-1961), by pastor Anthony Murphy, at the newly erected St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Donabate (which had replaced the older and smaller one just across the street). Margaret was born in Dublin, daughter of Joseph Byrne and Margaret Reilly of Balcunnin.<br />
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Frank and Margaret had eight children:<br />
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1. Thomas Leonard (1905-1993) married Alice Cowley of Swords, and had three children, and at least 16 grandchildren.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">TOMMIE LEONARD<br />
(ABT 1980)</td></tr>
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2. Maria (1907-1909), died as a toddler.<br />
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3. Margaret Mary Leonard (1910-2001), who married Michael Hoey (1900-1986) from Meath. They had seven children. Margaret and her family moved into the Rose Cottage owned by the Leonards.<br />
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4. Elizabeth Agnes Leonard (1911-___), likely died young.<br />
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5. Ellen (Nelly) Leonard (1914-____), who married Edward Willett. Ellen is pictured above, second row, last girl on the right in this 1927 picture.<br />
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6. Catharine (Kathleen) Leonard (1914-_____), never married. She was a twin to Nelly. Kathleen is pictured above, front row, first girl on the left in this 1927 picture.<br />
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7. Agnes Leonard (1916-____), who married a Daniel O'Rourke, and had two sons<br />
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8. <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/02/alice-leonard-mcloughlin.html">Alice Rosaline Leonard</a> (1917-2004) (named after Frank's sister). She married William McLoughlin in 1939, and had a daughter Ann. She made a visit in 1964 to the Portland family, and she hosted her brother Mathew's and Elizabeth's children when they visited her in Donabate, Dublin.<br />
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On December 15, 1877, when he was 18, Frank filed a complaint against Charles Teeling, for failure to pay him his due wages (£13).<br />
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On March 1, 1913, the School Committee brought Frank to court because his son Tommy failed to attend school.<br />
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On June 19, 1915, Frank brought his sister-in-law (and neighbor) Mary into court because she hit him in the face with a shovel. But she also brought a counterclaim against him for grabbing her by the back of the neck and throwing her violently against the hedge. The case was adjourned until August, where neither of them appeared in court.<br />
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On November 4, 1916, neighbor Margaret Kelly assaulted Frank's wife Margaret, by pulling her by the hair across the floor. Mrs. Kelly failed to appear in court.<br />
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On June 15, 1918, Frank brought his neighbor, Joseph Fulham, into court for hitting his son Tommy (aged 12).<br />
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<b><u><i>Dog Licenses</i></u></b><br />
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Frank applied at least twice for dog licenses, in 1896 and 1898. He owned red terriers (his father Mathew owned terriers as well, so Frank had grown up with them).<br />
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Based on the fact that Frank had marked "X" as informant of his father's death certificate (1904), his marriage license (1904), and also on his son Thomas' birth certificate (1905), it stands to reason he wasn't able to write - either during that time period, or permanently.<br />
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Frank farmed the land for most of his adult life. At some point, the land was deemed unsuitable, though, and his son Thomas had to find other work.<br />
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In 1922, Frank and his family likely celebrated the liberation of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom. In the 1940s, about a year or two before he died, Frank acquired title to the Portrane Cottage that had been so long in the hands of the Estate of George Evans. Upon his death in 1945, the fee land passed to his son Tommie, and is still in the hands of this family today.<br />
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Frank and Margaret are both buried at <a href="http://www.interment.net/data/ireland/dublin/stpat/stpat.htm">Old Donabate Parish Cemetery</a>, next to an old limestone gravesite that may in fact be where his father Mathew is buried, and surrounded by grass (also potential other Leonard burial sites).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">GRAVE OF FRANK & MAGGIE LEONARD<br />
OLD DONABATE CEMETERY</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">MYSTERY GRAVE NEXT TO FRANK'S<br />
(POSSIBLY HIS FATHER MATHEW'S)</td></tr>
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SOURCES:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Donabate and Portrane, a History, by Peadar Bates</li>
<li>1901 Census of Ireland</li>
<li>1911 Census of Ireland</li>
<li>Baptisms, Parish Registers, Donabate</li>
<li>Civil Birth Records, Balrothery, Dublin</li>
<li>Civil Marriage Records, Balrothery, Dublin</li>
<li>Civil Death Records, Balrothery, Dublin</li>
<li>Memorials of the Dead, by Brian Cantwell</li>
<li>Petty Sessions Dog Licenses</li>
<li>Interment.net</li>
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<br /></div></div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-22098145654053016382019-10-17T07:56:00.001-07:002021-11-12T17:03:28.835-08:00Patrick Leonard of the Burrow (1795-1865)Patrick Leonard was born in 1795 at the <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/leonards-from-dublin.html">Portrane Cottages in Burrow Townland</a>, son to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2020/05/charles-thomas-leonard-18th-century.html">Thomas Leonard (who was the first Leonard to arrive in the Burrow, along with his brother Charles)</a>.<br />
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Patrick was a tenant farmer to Irish landowner Joshua Evans, and had at least seven children with his wife Elizabeth <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-horish-family-of-donabate.html">Horish</a>:<br />
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1. <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/06/mathew-leonard-from-burrow.html">Mathew Leonard</a> (1819-1904) (my 3rd great grandfather), who inherited the land from his father Patrick upon his death in 1865. Mathew married Anna O'Brien of Blanchardstown, and had eleven children, most of whom migrated to Portland Maine in the 1880s to be with their uncle Prod (see below). Two of these children (Frank and Patsy) came back home to Portrane to take over ownership of the houses upon Mathew's death. During the time of Mathew, according to the 1901 Census, the family house had only two rooms, and outside there was a cow house, a stable, a fowl house (referred to as out-offices by the Census). By the time of the 1911 Census, Mathew's son <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2019/10/francis-leonard-1859-1945.html">Frank</a> had the homestead, and had added a second cow house to the out-offices.<br />
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2. Elizabeth Leonard (1824-__), who married a John Harrison. I wonder if John was a relative of Eleanor Harrison, the wife of the landlord? There was a James Harrison in <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/47/mode/1up">Donabate Parish records</a> whose son Nicholas had Mathew Leonard as his godfather in 1850. Elizabeth had some issues with her elder brother, Mathew, according to court records. Apparently Mathew was often litigious against his sister, and others in the Burrow, for letting her chickens onto the crops on his property.<br />
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3. John Leonard (1826-after 1897) appears in a Donabate Parish <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/6/mode/1up">baptismal record</a> on April 16, 1826. He may be the same John Leonard of South Dublin who <a href="https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11497/8227117.pdf">married Lucy Dunne in 1867</a>, since on this marriage return, he named his father to be Patrick Leonard. He may also be the father to a John Leonard (1854-1906) who died at Portrane Mental Asylum (St. Ita's). John appears in at least five Burrow dog license registers:<br />
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<li>March 1878, black and tan terrier</li>
<li>March 1894, blue terrier</li>
<li>May 1895, red terrier</li>
<li>March 1896, grey and white terrier</li>
<li>March 1897, two red and white terriers (one male, one female)</li>
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4. <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/09/thomas-d-leonard.html">Thomas D. Leonard</a>, (1828-1912) nicknamed "Prod," a gardener who emigrated in 1850 to Portland Maine, and married Alice <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/02/wade-family-of-dublin-ireland.html">Wade</a>. Prod started the wave of Leonards in his family moving to Portland from Portrane.<br />
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5. Ellen Leonard (1829-___) (and her husband Thomas Keane) are offering their son <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/45/mode/1up">Patrick for baptism</a> September 10, 1848. Mathew Leonard is listed as godfather, so it's quite likely that Ellen is another daughter of Patrick.<br />
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6. Mary Leonard (1831-___) appears in a Donabate Parish <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/14/mode/1up">baptismal record</a> on April 9, 1831.<br />
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7. Charles Leonard (1834-____) appears in a Donabate Parish <a href="http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633387#page/20/mode/1up">baptismal record</a> on November 25, 1834.<br />
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Patrick (aka "Pat") appears on the Burrow tithe books in 1833 below:<br />
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A word about the tithe system from above:<br />
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From 1823 to 1838, there was a law called the Tithes Composition Act. This required all Irish citizens to pay a monetary compensation to benefit the Irish Anglican Church (instead of an amount representing a portion of fee land holdings), regardless of whether the citizens attended this church. I believe my ancestor Pat Leonard was a Catholic, so it's likely that he is listed above as having paid money to a church he didn't attend. There was a rebellion in the 1830s whereby the peasants refused to tithe the church. The rebellion was so popular that Great Britain couldn't enforce the Act. In 1838, the Act was repealed, and a new law was put in place, requiring all Landlords to do the titheing. Of course, Landlords simply raised the rent on their tenant farmers in response. But it calmed the masses, as they didn't feel robbed by the Crown.<br />
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See Patrick's listing below on line 22 and 34 of the Burrow section of the 1847 Griffiths Valuation, where it shows the Burrow's majority landlord to be Joshua Evans, Esq. (who was also then a Commissioner to the Court of Bankruptcy).<br />
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Also below are the <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/02/wade-family-of-dublin-ireland.html">Wade</a> and Smart families, also figuring into the Leonard family:<br />
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Patrick died in the Balrothery Workhouse in 1865 (just a few months after his father Thomas died at the Portrane Cottages). I have yet to review the Minute Books from this place, now available online, to try and learn more about Patrick's time there. While none of the Leonards died of starvation, it's clear that there were financial troubles stemming from the Famine, and the Workhouse was often a place for people to go when they needed care or a place to live. It's interesting to me that Patrick had still owned the houses in Portrane at the time, which passed to his son Mathew after his death. Was the house too crowded for Patrick? Was there a disagreement with his son? Did he need some kind of care that Mathew couldn't provide? I may never know.<br />
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NORTH COUNTY DUBLIN<br />
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Across the road from the Workhouse is a mass grave with a single tall Celtic cross, bearing no names, but erected in 1918 "to the memory of the many unfortunate people who lie buried in this sad place."<br />
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I wonder if Patrick is buried in this mass grave, or if he is buried alongside his other family at Old Donabate Cemetery?<br />
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<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-41586761406785964022017-01-07T13:04:00.001-08:002019-07-13T17:31:24.074-07:00Joseph Martin of East HaddamMy 3rd great grandfather was one Joseph Martin (1791-1872), who lived his entire life in East Haddam, Connecticut.<br />
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Joseph was born to Jonathan and Hannah Martin, who had emigrated from England (possibly Suffolk) at some point prior to 1777 (which was the date of his brother Jonathan's birth in East Haddam). There is some confusion online about Hannah's maiden name being either Huxford or Fuller.<br />
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When Joseph was 4 years old, his father died, leaving him (and five siblings) to be raised alone by Hannah. Joseph was of appropriate age to have fought in the War of 1812, much like other East Haddam residents. There wasn't a draft at that time, so it's clear that Joseph didn't feel incentivized to join.<br />
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Joseph married Livia Phelps, daughter of <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/06/samuel-phelps-revolutionary-war-patriot.html">Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Phelps</a>, on October 1, 1817 in East Haddam. They had a great deal of farmland up until around 1850 (lived in the Poor Farm), but recovered and secured land next door to Livia's cousin Hiram Phelps.<br />
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Joseph and Livia had seven children in East Haddam:<br />
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-Mariette Clark (1819-??) One girl appears on the 1820 Census, so it's clear she lived that long, but since no girls appear on the 1930 Census, I'm inclined to believe that she had died by then.<br />
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-<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58484244">Niles Martin</a> (1820–1893) Niles moved 200 miles away from home, to start a farm in Bucks County, PA. He enlisted in the Civil War in 1863 (same time as two of his brothers). On this record, his occupation was listed as a "Drover" (one who moves animals long distances, like a cattle driver). He and his wife Elizabeth had a son named Joseph, after his father, and a daughter Sarah. For the 1860 Census, he was listed as (either a "Tinkerman" or a "Gentleman"), and for the 1870 Census, a "Lumber Merchant".<br />
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-<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=152357325">Ephraim Martin</a> (1824-1915) Ephraim married Elizabeth Harris and moved to nearby Hartford, where he also ran his own farm. They had at least one child, Anna. Ephraim enlisted in the Civil War in the summer of 1863, with two of his brothers.<br />
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-<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90847833">Esther Phelps Martin</a> (1826–1901) Esther married carpenter <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/09/leonard-sherman-clark-1821-1899.html">Leonard Sherman Clark</a>, and they were my 2nd great grandparents. No girls appeared living with Joseph for the 1830 Census, when she would have been four years old, so I wonder where she may have been at that time. Legend has it that Esther was the "ugliest woman in East Haddam", and that Joseph was so grateful to get her married in 1843, he gave Leonard a lot of farmland as dowry. Interestingly, however, Joseph and the rest of his family were the keepers of the East Haddam Poor House as of the 1850 Census. Esther bore Leonard 12 children. Several hundred of her descendants still live in East Haddam and surroundings to this day.<br />
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-<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20797640">Edgar Mandlebert Martin</a> (1830–1894) Edgar married Azubah Wright. Not long after Livia died in 1860, Edgar took over the family farm, keeping his father Joseph living with him. Unlike his three brothers, he did not enlist in the Civil War.<br />
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-Catherine Isabella Martin (1834–??) Isabella appears to have married a Charles Clark in 1857 (in Belfast, Northern Ireland - wonder what the story was there). Can't find any additional records on her, though. However, this record may instead match to a different couple (one lawyer named Charles A. Clark and his wife Isabella, both born in Ireland, and living in NYC in 1880).<br />
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-<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15307897">Datus W. Martin</a> (1836–1874) Datus enlisted in the Civil War in 1863, fighting in the CT __. When he returned from the War, he married his wife Adelaide, and started a farm in East Haddam. They had three children together. He died at the very young age of 37. I believe Adelaide may have remarried afterwards, since I cannot find her in any subsequent records. The 1880 Census has Datus' son Frederick managing his father's farm as a single farmer, at age 16.<br />
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Parker Cemetery<br />
East Haddam, CT</td></tr>
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Connecticut Town Records (Barbour Collection)Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-21862949104615879842016-05-12T15:34:00.000-07:002020-05-06T23:32:18.242-07:00Martha Fuller ShefferMy 2nd Great Grandfather, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/04/charles-lydia-fuller.html">Charles Samuel Fuller</a>, was the eldest of seven. His eldest sibling was his sister, Martha Ann Fuller-Sheffer (1838-1918), who lived in Maine, Iowa and Missouri, but who had a connection to Australia that I would like to write about.<br />
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First, here is a picture of the eldest four of Charles' siblings, The photo appears to be dated just before 1900, a time after their brother Charles and their parents (<a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/samuel-sarah-fuller.html">Samuel and Ann</a>) had died, after which they moved from Ottumwa, Iowa to Chicago. Martha soon thereafter moved to Blue Mound Missouri with her husband George Sheffer, to retire and operate a hotel business.<br />
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Martha was born in 1838 in Maine to Samuel Bean Fuller, a railroad worker with <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/mayflower-ancestors-fuller.html">Mayflower roots</a> living in Waterville. This is the house Samuel's kids grew up in on Front Street, just down the road from <a href="http://www.sjmaronite.org/">St. Joseph's Church</a>. Their house which was razed at some point before the 1970s, to build the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/United+States+Postal+Service/@44.5592798,-69.6628952,14z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sunited+states+postal+service+waterville+address!3m4!1s0x4cb1e47ed23ee689:0x697679788fb71efb!8m2!3d44.5559064!4d-69.6292804">post office</a>:<br />
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Martha married George Henry Sheffer in January of 1859 in Waterville, Maine (where Martha and family were living at the time). George, originally from Nova Scotia, had come from a lumber family, and it is believed that he may have met Martha when he moved to Maine to work.<br />
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In 1863, George and Martha moved to Ottumwa, Iowa to start up a dry goods mercantile business. Martha's parents and siblings followed them in the following years. Her father, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/samuel-sarah-fuller.html">Samuel Bean Fuller</a>, worked in the dry goods business as well, but after ten years his business was destroyed by a Town fire.<br />
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George and Martha had four of their own children, and adopted Martha's niece (also named Martha), when her sister Eva died in childbirth, and raised young Martha as her own:<br />
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1. George Henry Sheffer, Jr. (1863-1908) - George was born in Ottumwa, and worked as a store clerk as a young adult (most likely his father and grandfather's dry goods store). He moved to Missouri with his parents around 1900. In 1906, after his father died, he took a trip to Australia (sailing from San Francisco and back) to visit his brother Samuel. George caught a tropical fever while there (potentially on the ship back to SF). He suffered with this for two years after he came back from the trip, and died in St. Joseph, MO, at the age of 44, leaving behind a wife (a typist named Dora) and a seven year old daughter. Dora remarried 16 years later.<br />
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2. Etta W. Sheffer (1869- died between 1870 and 1880) - Young Etta was named after her aunt Julietta Fuller, and died as a child. She is buried with the family at Ottumwa Cemetery, but the cemetery has no birth or death date information available.<br />
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3. Samuel Fuller Sheffer (1875-1929) - Named after his grandfather, Samuel Bean Fuller, young Samuel Fuller Sheffer was born in Ottumwa, and married his wife Alice there in 1895. In December of 1899, they had their first of two children (Mary), and very soon thereafter, in 1900, when his parents moved to Missouri, he made the bold move to Melbourne Australia for a new life in merchant business at Chamberlin Medicine Company. In Australia, Samuel and Alice had their second and last child, Howard Melbourne Sheffer (nicknamed "Mel"). Samuel declared his residency to be San Francisco (according to a passport application from 1917), while residing primarily in Sydney (where he named his home "Wapello", the County in Iowa he was born in). Mel carried forward his father's entrepreneurial spirit and worked as Managing Director of Sheldon Drug Company in Sydney. See advertisement and photo below from 1937:<br />
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Sheldon Drug Company was where the "Rexona" brand of soaps and antiperspirants were developed, and, in particular, Samuel's wife <a href="https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rexona-11102017.pdf">Alice gets the credit for the invention</a>!<br />
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Rexona enjoys a long business history worldwide, and is now owned by Unilever. More on the history of this brand, and the Sheffer's early business, can be read <a href="https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rexona-11102017.pdf">here</a>. Samuel's son Mel had six children, and many grandchildren, all of whom are happily residing in the Sydney area.<br />
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4. Frank Merriwell Sheffer (1882-1949) - Frank worked in several odd jobs and also pursued his photography passions. After the death of his father, he and his brother and mother sailed to Australia to visit his brother Samuel. Not long after his return, his brother George died, and Frank was later drafted into both WWI and WWII. On his draft card it stated he had blue eyes and brown hair. At the end of Frank's life he worked as a studio portrait photographer. He died in Humansville, Missouri in 1949 of myocarditis, leaving behind his wife, Agnes May Fisher. I don't believe they had any children.<br />
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As mentioned above, in addition to having her four children, Martha raised her niece Martha Ann Foland (1889-1961) as her own. Young Martha was born to Martha's youngest sister, Evalyn Edith Fuller-Foland (1856-1889) who died giving birth to her.<br />
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Below is the last known picture of Martha, and I believe this was taken during her visit to Australia in 1915, after the deaths of her husband George, and her eldest son George, Jr., and it was a couple of years before her own passing.<br />
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ca. 1915 (Blue Mound, Missouri)<br />
Back Row: Mary Alice Sheffer (Samuel's Daughter, later Mary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._V._Evatt">Evatt</a>), Alice Maude Holt-Sheffer (Samuel's wife), Samuel Fuller Sheffer, and Frank Merriwell Sheffer and his wife Agnes Fisher-Sheffer<br />
Front Row: Howard Melbourne "Mel" Sheffer, Martha Fuller-Sheffer, young Agnes (daughter to Frank & Agnes)</td></tr>
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Here are gravestone pictures from the Sheffer lot at Ottumwa Cemetery:<br />
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Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-29453422301043628502015-12-31T21:24:00.003-08:002022-07-22T10:06:48.770-07:00Maud Maple Miles, Renaissance Woman<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Maud Miles (1871-1944) was a very active and dynamic personality, and a hero to us <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/mayflower-ancestors-fuller.html">Fuller genealogists</a>. It's thanks to her painstaking work that we have many documents, diaries, and family trees passed down to us, so I felt it prudent to do a biography on her.<br />
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Maud D. Maple was born on February 11, 1871, the eldest child to attorney (and Civil War vet) <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92594817/william-henry-maple">William Henry Maple III</a> and my 2nd great grand aunt Julietta "Etta" Fuller, in the town of Chariton, Iowa. William was also a religious philosopher, and in 1899 he wrote a short book called "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Classic-Reprint-William-Maple/dp/1332412130">No Beginning</a>", which promoted academic reason as a means for allaying antiquated fear and superstition among the deeply religious.<br />
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During the time of Maud's birth, Etta and William were moving around Iowa a bit, and lived for a time in Iowa City and also Ottumwa (where Etta and her <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/samuel-sarah-fuller.html">parents and siblings</a> had moved to from Maine in 1863).<br />
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Around 1881, when Maud was ten, the Maple family moved to Chicago (perhaps this was a better fit for William's law practice). Her brother William Jr. was already seven, and her sister Nina Grace Maple would be born in Chicago in 1883.<br />
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Maud's talent for art was obvious to her parents, and she was enrolled in Chicago Art Institute, where she was taught by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wesley_Dow">Arthur Wesley Dow</a>.<br />
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In 1893, she participated in the <a href="https://archive.org/stream/worldscolumbiane14worl#page/n9/mode/2up">World's Columbian Exposition</a>.<br />
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In 1895, Maud married David Anderson Miles, a civil engineer from Indiana and Kansas. Perhaps they met at the Institute.<br />
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Immediately after the wedding David and Maud moved to Kansas City, Missouri. <br />
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CAMPBELL STREET<br />
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Their first child, William Maple Miles, died in childbirth in November of the year they moved.<br />
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Their second child, Mildred Irene Miles, was born in Kansas City in 1898. <br />
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In 1904, Maud's work was featured at the <a href="http://www.mohistory.org/exhibits/Fair/WF/HTML/Overview/">Louisiana Purchase Expo</a> of the St. Louis World's Fair. Later that year, her husband David died on Christmas Eve at age 36, leaving his 33 year old wife and 7 year old daughter behind.<br />
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Maud soldiered on, continuing in her job as a Kansas City public school art teacher at Manual Training High School. On that salary, she managed to support young Mildred. She got lucky and was hired to engrave bronze trail markers along the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/safe/planyourvisit/places-to-go-in-missouri.htm">Santa Fe Trail in Missouri</a>, including <a href="http://kcparks.org/attraction/santa-fe-trail-marker-7/">the one below</a>:<br />
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In 1907, Maud's work was featured at the Art Institute of Chicago's "Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists".<br />
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At some point just before 1920, Maud and Mildred moved north to Lombard, Illinois, where Maud's parents were living at the time. Maud's father William died in 1920, and her mother Etta died in 1922, both in Lombard. Maud's daughter Mildred got married in 1921, moved to Chicago, and ultimately traveled the world and later remarried.<br />
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Maud continued her work as an artist and art teacher in the Chicago area at this time. She also painted many large pictures of California missions for the Santa Fe stations across the country. On one visit to her cousins' home in Elmhurst, the family went to Addison, where she painted a picture of the old windmill standing in solitude in the midst of acres and acres of farmland. The mill later became the focal point around which Mt. Emblem cemetery was planned.<br />
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SITE OF MAUD MILES PAINTING</td></tr>
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According to a few websites, Maud was also known for being a writer, color theorist, painter of Western scenes, and bas relief sculptor. Her work was also featured at one point in the Smithsonian Collection in Washington DC.<br />
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One of her lecture series was published in the form of "<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Short-talks-students-artists-standpoint/dp/B0008COATW">Short Talks to Art Students on color from an Artist's Standpoint: Also Dealing with the Relation of Color to the Musical Scale</a></i>" c. 1914, Kansas City.<br />
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The University of Chicago's weekly <i>Music Magazine</i> in 1920 featured a writeup on her color music theory:<br />
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From that, she is frequently credited as the inventor of the term "color music" as a new art form. In the book <i>Brian Eno: Visual Music</i>, Maud is mentioned:<br />
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Here again in the 2005 publication <i>Color Music: Synaesthesia and Nineteenth-Century Sources for Abstract Art</i>, by Judity Zilczer.<br />
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Now, as shown in the first writeup, Maud always gave credit to elder researchers in color theory, and to be fair, the concept <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta19.htm">originated with Pythagoras</a> and was carried forward by <a href="http://theappendix.net/blog/2013/8/music-and-color-the-french-connection">French theorists in the late 16th Century</a>. Maud merely advanced the theory for the 20th century in America.<br />
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Maud died in Wilmette, Illinois in 1944 at age 73, in the care of her daughter Mildred (and Mildred's children Winifred and David). <br />
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RIDGE AVENUE<br />
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Maud and her husband David are buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City. This blogpage is a tribute to her as an artist, a family member, and a diligent genealogist, as passed down by her granddaughter <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=marks&GSiman=1&GScid=7965&GRid=132281232&">Winifred Marks</a>, who also worked in the education system and was a published author of her own right.<br />
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<u><i>SOURCES</i></u>:<br />
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Diary of Charlotte Huntington Wood (cousin to Maud Maple Miles)<br />
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U.S. Census Records<br />
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<i>Color Music: Synaesthesia and Nineteenth-Century Sources for Abstract Art</i>, by Judity Zilczer, c 2005<br />
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<i>Brian Eno: Visual Music</i>, c 2013 Christopher Scoates<br />
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<i>Musical Courier</i>, August 26, 1920, University of Chicago<br />
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<a href="http://iwa.bradley.edu/artists/MaudMiles">Illinois Women Artists Project</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53933936">Find a Grave</a><br />
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<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-70426078362585110532015-12-26T19:20:00.000-08:002018-06-03T21:44:04.667-07:00William Lee Clarke (Town Clerk of Westbrook Maine)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WILLIAM LEE CLARKE<br />
COURTESY OF WESTBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY</td></tr>
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William Lee "Bill" Clarke (1919-1996) was Town Clerk of Westbrook for a record 38 years. I recall when growing up there that he often ran unopposed, and I myself voted for him when I came of age to do so. I had often wondered if he might bear any relation to my extensive <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/clarks-of-connecticut.html">Clarke family</a> of Maine, and Connecticut before that, which had originated in America at the Jamestowne Settlement in the early 1600s with the arrival of <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-clarke-of-jamestowne.html">John Clarke</a>. I was surprised and delighted to discover in 2015, upon researching the matter, that an ancestor of Bill's had come from Connecticut, so there may be a distant connection (more on this below), but nothing definitive can be found as yet.<br />
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Bill Clarke was born in 1919 in Westbrook, and for the first few months of his life the family lived on 111 Mechanic Street, corner of West Valentine, just eight years after the migration of his father, Lee Elbert Clarke, from New Canaan, Canada in 1911. Lee lived on Manners Avenue in Portland upon his naturalization in 1914. He married Casco-born Millie Dawn Scribner in July of 1916, and bought the house on Mechanic Street shortly thereafter. Lee worked as a bookkeeper at Parker & Thomas Company in Portland, and had lost his arm, and was thus exempt from the draft during WWI in 1917. I learned from a grandson of Lee's that this was due to a hunting accident in Canada in 1909 when Lee was 20 years old. It isn't known if the gun fell over or what happened, but his injury was sustained to the left arm, back of the wrist, and therefore his arm was amputated just below the elbow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BIRTH HOME OF WILLIAM LEE CLARKE<br />
111 MECHANIC STREET<br />
WESTBROOK, MAINE</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WILLIAM LEE CLARKE FARM HOUSE<br />
333 SPRING STREET<br />
WESTBROOK, ME</td></tr>
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The Clarke farm house on Spring Street was originally built in 1910 for William B. Bragdon, who later became mayor of Westbrook. Bragdon lived there for about a decade, and was known for having given a public speech from the front porch around 1919, the year he was elected Mayor (one year term). Not long after the election, in April 1920, Bragdon sold the house to Lee Clarke and William Scribner (Lee's father-in-law), when Bill Clarke was about 7 months old. Lee maintained his bookkeeping practice, while his son Bill eventually ran a dairy farm there called Blue Spruce, and he used to deliver the milk door to door. Blue Spruce continued in the family until the late 1980s, and Bill would also eventually sell his milk to Oakhurst Dairy in Portland.<br />
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From 1943 to 1949, Bill worked on Westbrook City Council, and at the end of this run he married Jackie Rochelau, whose father was a WWI veteran, and business owner, born to French Canadian immigrants.<br />
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In 1956, Bill Clarke ran for Town Clerk, a post he succeeded to and kept for 38 years, elected for 19 consecutive two year terms, until 1994. In addition to working tirelessly to help many people obtain their fishing and hunting licenses, he was the officiator of many thousands of marriages of Westbrook's citizens, including my own mother's second marriage in 1980. Clarke made a comment to mom about their shared name, and they joked together about the possibility of a relation.<br />
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Bill officially gained ownership of the house and farm in August 1977, when his elderly mother and two siblings deeded the land to him and Jackie.<br />
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Bill Clarke passed in 1996, and is <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119988278">buried in Woodlawn Cemetery</a> in the family plot with his parents and siblings. He is fondly remembered by many in Westbrook for his kind nature and encyclopedic mind. A couple years before his passing, Wayside Drive in Westbrook was renamed "William L Clarke Drive".<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WILLIAM L. CLARKE DRIVE<br />
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<u><i><b>Paternal Ancestry of Bill Clarke</b></i></u><br />
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Bill was born to bookkeeper Lee Clarke, an immigrant to Maine originally from New Canaan, New Brunswick, Canada. Lee's father, Gesner Abner Clark, grandfather Charles Clark, and great grandfather Nehemiah Clark, were all born in New Brunswick as well. <br />
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Bill's father Lee is shown in this family photo, he's second from the right, amongst his brothers. In the second row is seated Gesner and his wife Melissa. <i>(Courtesy of Haddon Clarke family)</i><br />
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Nehemiah's father, Elias Clark, was from Hartford Connecticut, and appears to have migrated to New Brunswick, Canada in 1779, just after the Revolution. This could one day bring me to a Connecticut connection between my family and his. One thing I've learned, is that Elias' father was named Joseph Clark, but he is not to be confused with a Joseph Clark III of Middletown. This Joseph was indeed an indirect ancestor of mine, and records and DNA testing have proven to me that Elias is not the son of this Joseph. However, it's possible that this Joseph of Hartford (born abt 1730) may also be a relation, yet likely more distant.<br />
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<b><u><i>The Future of the Clarke Farmhouse</i></u></b><br />
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Mr. Clarke's farm and house lot was sold to Risbara Construction in January of 2014. There are currently discussions of converting the property into a mixed use development (and there are mixed reactions to this among the City's residents).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DRAWING OF PROPOSED FUTURE DEVELOPMENT</td></tr>
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<b><u><i>SOURCES:</i></u></b><br />
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Westbrook Historical Society<br />
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U.S. Federal Census Records<br />
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Census of Canada<br />
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Maine Birth Records<br />
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Maine Death Records<br />
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Ancestry Family Trees<br />
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U.S. Social Security Death Index<br />
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U.S. Naturalization Records<br />
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Cumberland County Registry of Deeds<br />
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Portland Press Herald<br />
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American Journal<br />
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Google Earth<br />
<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-67626651142944339302015-07-31T20:33:00.000-07:002015-12-29T23:42:09.614-08:00The Stevens Family of Portland MaineThe Stevens Family were among the original settlors of Deering, back when it was part of Falmouth.<br />
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In fact, part of the Deering area was named "Stevens Plains," for the painted tinware business that was headed up by Zachariah Brackett Stevens (1778-1856), who is widely believed to be the namesake of Stevens Avenue and Stevens Plains, which intersected with <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/history-of-morrills-corner.html">Morrill's Corner</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ZACHARIAH BRACKETT STEVENS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EXAMPLE OF TINWARE FROM STEVENS SHOP</td></tr>
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Zachariah was the son of
Isaac Sawyer Stevens and Sarah (Brackett) Stevens. He was trained as a blacksmith by
his father, and later branched out into tinsmithing. He built his shop at
Stevens Plains in the early 1800s and sent out peddlers with his tinware and
other necessities for the public and also built a general store at the Plains
which carried bartered goods for the tinware. Much of his tinware was
decorated by Sally Brisco (wife of one of his tin sellers), Sally's nieces (the
Francis sisters) and some of his own children and relatives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Zachariah's sons
Alfred and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94477749">Samuel Butler Stevens</a>, were also tinsmiths who worked in the factory. Samuel took over after his father's death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Zachariah's brother, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70602277">Nathaniel</a> (1780-1853) moved into Stroudwater Village, purchasing the Daniel Herrick House at 1 Cobb Avenue. He and his very tall sons established a smithy in the Village in the early 1800s around the same time his brother was starting his tinsmith shop at Stevens Plains. Nathaniel's shop only lasted until around 1822. In the winter of 1861, Nathaniel's nine year old grandson Charlie drowned in Stroudwater River (as so many others did) while walking on thin ice.<br />
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Zachariah and Nathaniel's father
Isaac (1748-1820) was a Revolutionary War veteran, born to Isaac Sr. (1719-1804) of Andover Massachusetts,
an original settlor of old Falmouth. Before that the Stevens family had been Andover natives going back to Colonial times, with their immigrant ancestor being John Stevens (1605-1662) of Caversham, England, who had arrived in Massachusetts around 1635.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HOME OF ISAAC STEVENS, SR.<br />
built 1767</td></tr>
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A grandson to Zachariah, <a href="http://www.raynorshyn.com/megenweb/cumberland/biographies/stevens3.txt">Augustus Ervin Stevens</a> (1825-1882), was Mayor of Portland from 1866-1867, and during the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/7/4/1106166/-Remembering-the-Great-Fire-of-Portland-Maine-July-4-1866">Great Fire</a>. His mother was Sally Briscoe-Stevens, a grand niece of Paul Revere. Augustus got his start working in the family grocery business, later branching out into partnership at the grocery called Lynch & Stevens, and from there invested in many other business ventures. He was reputed to have been a very successful businessperson with much integrity. He died of heart failure in his easy chair in his home at the <a href="http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/me/portland_hauntings.htm">former Asa Clapp house</a> on Spring Street. The Stevens family held the Clapp House from 1863-1914.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HOME OF CHARLES QUINCY CLAPP (AND HIS FATHER ASA)<br />
OWNED BY THE STEVENS FAMILY FOR 50 YEARS<br />
95 SPRING STREET</td></tr>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin_Stevens">John Calvin Stevens</a>, famous Portland architect, was born in Boston to Mainer parents whose immigrant ancestor was a William Stevens (1616-1653), also of Caversham, England, possibly a brother to John, the immigrant ancestor of Zachariah et al..<br />
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The Stevens Family are buried at all the City cemeteries of Portland.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GRAVE OF ISAAC STEVENS, JR.<br />
BAILEY CEMETERY</td></tr>
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PINE GROVE CEMETERY</td></tr>
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EVERGREEN CEMETERY</td></tr>
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Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-72159554882187310342015-07-11T00:15:00.008-07:002022-07-28T12:09:35.946-07:00History of Morrill's Corner<div style="text-align: center;">
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Little has been written online about Portland's "Morrill's Corner", at the intersection of Forest Avenue, Allen Avenue, Stevens Avenue, and the Portland & Rochester Railroad.<br />
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Stevens Avenue was constructed from the separate Horse Railroad, upon which many of the Stevens family had lived, but for whom is Morrill's Corner named? Well, the short answer to that would be "Brothers Rufus and Levi Morrill, who dominated the business landscape of this corner beginning in the early 19th Century."<br />
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But for the long answer, I believe it's important to get the history of the Corner and the ancestry of these brothers in order.<br />
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First of all, it's important to note that all Morrills of New England descend from two unrelated colonial era English immigrants: John Morrell (early settler of York County, Maine) and Abraham Morrill (early settler of Salisbury Massachusetts).</div>
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Stephen Morrill (1737-1816) of North Berwick (great grandson of John Morrell) was the very first of the Morrills to arrive in this part of Falmouth, long before it was given the name Deering, and he was the first <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-morrills-of-portland-maine.html">of many Morrills to arrive in the area during that period</a>. Nathaniel Deering came from neighboring Kittery, and he was the same age as Stephen. It seems likely that these two early Falmouth businessmen from York County had known each other and possibly inspired each other to move to Falmouth in the 1760's.<br />
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The earliest and largest business of The Corner was the Morrill Tannery run by Levi and Rufus Morrill (mentioned in more detail below), who were two of Stephen's sons. Levi tanned cowhides, and Rufus tanned sheepskins.<br />
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Tannery operations were quite simple. The process involved dipping sheep or cowhides in a vat of lime, followed by dipping them in a vat of hemlock juice (which hardened the hides into leather). Finally, the hides would be soaked in hen manure and water.<div><br /></div><div>As for how Morrill's Corner got its name, the below article regarding road and railroad surveying and construction from Westbrook to Gorham, from 1849, is the oldest mention I have found to date of naming this area in this manner:</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6K-MLVQKYmeHTmbH2XzIFURkIzDzwRm4y01BdrDIDFpT5ZlLPBHaoH703k6Sn5qTNHidQ5C1QrojqwTy8a-VhEIW_GOIAgT9jo8FJW53ndRZTUTrJtL_8a5ZKk6ox3sDV-MLAb_2hjbQ/s3369/Oldest+Morrill%2527s+Corner+Mention_Portland_Weekly_Advertiser_1849-11-06_%255B1%255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3369" data-original-width="933" height="1375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6K-MLVQKYmeHTmbH2XzIFURkIzDzwRm4y01BdrDIDFpT5ZlLPBHaoH703k6Sn5qTNHidQ5C1QrojqwTy8a-VhEIW_GOIAgT9jo8FJW53ndRZTUTrJtL_8a5ZKk6ox3sDV-MLAb_2hjbQ/w380-h1375/Oldest+Morrill%2527s+Corner+Mention_Portland_Weekly_Advertiser_1849-11-06_%255B1%255D.png" width="380" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portland Weekly Advertiser<br />November 6, 1849</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Another advertisement from 1862 is of interest to me, given that I'm researching both Morrill and McClellan families:</div><div><br /></div><div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">1871 MAP OF MORRILL'S CORNER</td></tr>
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<br />The above map from 1871 shows Morrill's Corner, and this was also the year that Deering was formed from Saccarappa, with the remainder of Saccarappa to the north being named Westbrook. This map appears to have been created for the genesis of the Town of Deering. Morrill Avenue abuts Forest Avenue just south of Morrill's Corner.<br />
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"R. Morrill"'s home (Rufus) can be found pinpointed here on Forest Avenue, just north of Morrill Avenue (now Morrill Street). On the Horse Railroad to the west (later Stevens Avenue), one can see what appears to be "A.E. Morrill" as well (not sure who that is). Further south on Forest Avenue, and just north of Grove Street, one can see "C.E. Morrill Tannery", which is most definitely Charles E. Morrill's (son of Levi).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">SERVICE STATION IN 1924<br />
(MORRILL HOUSE NEXT DOOR)<br />
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(PHOTO COURTESY MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">"MORRILL HOUSE" (POSSIBLY LEVI MORRILL'S)<br />
BEHIND AMOCO STATION<br />
MORRILL'S CORNER<br />
1229 FOREST AVENUE / 6 ALLEN AVENUE<br />
(CIRCA 1933)<br />
(Became a lodging house up until 1932)<br />
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(PHOTO COURTESY MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MORRILL'S CORNER 2014<br />
THE OLD AMOCO STATION IS NOW SUBWAY SANDWICH SHOP<br />
BRICK LEVI MORRILL HOUSE BEHIND IT<br />
REPLACED BY WHITE WOODEN HOUSE FROM THE 1940s</td></tr>
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The large colonial brick house above was also known as the "Morrill House". In its later years it was a rooming house run by George and Loretta Beach. It was closed for business in 1932, and it was razed sometime shortly thereafter. As I mentioned above, I believe it may have been the Levi Morrill House (brother to Rufus).<br />
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Stephen and his two wives had thirteen children all told, but two (Rufus and Levi) were most instrumental in the development of Morrill's Corner, and one grandson (Charles Sumner Morrill) fathered the Burnham & Morrill empire:<br />
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-Rufus Morrill, Sr. (1796-1860), a sheepskin tanner, married both Webb sisters (Mary and Sally, at different times of course), and had nine children of their own at the Corner, most likely in the house above, which was situated next to a toothpick factory for quite some time. Rufus Jr. (1834-1911), a nurse, who was second to youngest, had three children in Westbrook. Rufus Jr. also worked as a railroad engineer, and he kept the house until his death, where lived with his sister Susan and his daughter Sarah (both spinsters). Sarah owned it for many years after Rufus' death (Rufus' Sr. son Edmund had moved to Ellsworth, NH, and his eldest daughter Mary had died in China in 1900 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Needham_Morrill">Edmund later became the Governor of Kansas</a>). Sarah rented the 2nd apartment to a variety of tenants (George A. Thombs, James Sneddon, Albert T. Stults, Truman E. Estabrook) during Sarah's final years there. Around 1938, Sarah ended up at an elderly care private hospital on 554 Stevens Avenue (owned by Mae Ward) and Sarah's tenant, Truman Estabrook, stayed with the house until it was razed in 1941, in favor of an automotive shop. The hospital Sarah stayed at also served as the quarters for the sexton of Evergreen Cemetery next door to it. Sarah died there in the 1940s.<br />
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Below is an 1895 article concerning Governor Edmund Morrill of Kansas and his visit home to Portland, and this article provides quite a bit of information about the Morrill's Corner of the turn of the century.<br />
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KANSAS CITY JOURNAL<br />
AUGUST 29, 1895</td></tr>
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-Levi Morrill (1802-1868) was a manufacturer, and cowhide tanner. He and his wife Harriet Quimby had two children. According to the above, he built the red brick mansion which was then occupied by Keeley Cure hospital (which might be 1229 Forest Avenue-where the Amoco station was-see photo above). Levi's son, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96230107">Charles Edwin Morrill</a> (1841-1891), fought in the Civil War. But by 1871, was put in charge of the family tannery (located a half mile south of Rufus' house), which was then called the "C.E. Morrill Tannery", located on Forest Avenue - just north of Grove Street. According to <a href="http://www.morrillonline.com/html/MorrillCharlesE-1841-x.html">Morrill Online</a>, in 1871 and 1874 he patented methods of manufacturing shoe bindings (patent no. 121,400 and 134,763), and with Charles Hardy, he patented a method of evening leather in 1874 (patent no. 147,770). This tannery could well have been previously run by his father Levi, uncle Rufus, and grandfather Stephen, prior to that. <br />
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While it appears that the Morrill Tannery must have closed down by the time of Charles' death (1891), Charles' son, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=96230406&ref=acom">Levi Morrill</a> (1872-1904), carried on the family business to some extent. He moved to Boston and worked as a leather merchant. Levi married Anna Hill Lee of DC in April of 1904. On their honeymoon in Atlantic City, Levi suffered from morphine poisoning and died in their room at the St. Charles Hotel.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">CORNER OF FOREST AVENUE<br />
AND GROVE STREET<br />
(2009)<br />
FORMER SITE OF MORRILL TANNERY</td></tr>
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-A third child of Stephen's, one Asa Morrill, was father to Charles S. Morrill (1811-1849). Charles was a lumber dealer who lived on 37 Sumner Street. He was in Portland as early as 1833 (according to his marriage record). He and his wife Charlotte Vose had six children: Mary, Charles (more on him below), Charlotte M., George A., Walter H., and Hattie Morrill-Stewart (who was born just seven months after Charles' death). Charlotte and her family relocated to Boston in 1873, but Charles Jr. (1933-1901) stayed behind in Portland, becoming a famous merchant, and carrying on his father's business affairs. He lived at 307 Brackett Street in the West End with his wife Calista.<br />
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Charles's son, Charles Sumner Morrill, was a founding member of Burnham & Morrill Company, which owned, among other things, the famous B&M Baked Beans plant in Portland. The Company was started by George Burnham, Jr., in 1867, and later joined in ownership by his brother John E. Burnham, and Charles Sumner Morrill. Their first location was 61 1/2 Commercial Street, on Burnham Wharf, one of many new businesses launched in the aftermath of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1866_Great_fire_of_Portland,_Maine">Great Fire of 1866</a>.<br />
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George Burnham brought his meat and fish packing experience from his days with Rumery & Burnham (a packing company he helped establish earlier), and Morrill brought his corn canning experience from his work at Richardson & Robbins in the mid-1850's. Morrill had been one of Burnham's foremen at Rumery and Burnham in the late 1850's, and that's where the relationship began.<br />
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The above history was mostly provided by the B&M business website. However, the 1847 City directory shows Charles S. Morrill living at 37 Sumner Street (does the "S" stand for Sumner?), with occupation as a lumber dealer at Burnham & Morrill on Burnham Wharf, so the connection likely goes back a bit further than the 1850s...<br />
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Charles's son, George Burnham Morrill (1836-1934) was named after Charles' business partner (and had inherited his father's interest upon his death in 1901), bought out the remainder of the business in 1910, when he then moved the business from 13 Franklin Street to its current site on Casco Bay (pictured above). George lived briefly at 47 Chadwick Street and 22 Carleton Street, but upon his inheritance, moved to the palatial eight bedroom mansion at 150 Vaughan Street in the West End with his wife Margaret P. Elwell (1873-1939), children Catherine, Charles Sumner II (named after his grandfather) and George, Jr., and many servants and in-laws. Margaret was a published author. In 1930 she wrote a book entitled "The Love That Abideth", which was a tribute to her children, and especially her daughter Catherine, who had died at age 21 of a heart condition.<br />
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More about the B&M history can be read <a href="http://www.bmbeans.com/bm_history.asp">here</a>.<br />
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I created the above to give you an idea of the Morrill migration from North Berwick to the Morrill's Corner area, and it omits many people. This is subject to further update, of course, should I discover the need for it. But as for this writing (July 2015), it gives a relatively accurate picture of the history of this family, for which Morrill's Corner is named. Thanks to Morrill descendants out there who have helped me fill in some of the missing research.</div>
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In 1900, another business started up on The Corner. It was called "Morrill's Coal & Grain Company" on 35 Allen Avenue. The business ran until at least 1940. I'm not certain which Morrill family member owned this business.<br />
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1940 CITY DIRECTORY</td></tr>
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Today, everyone knows of Morrill's Corner as a busy, if drab looking, commercial and industrial intersection of Deering just north of Woodfords, and the location of established restaurants Wok Inn and McDonald's, which have been there since I was a youngster in the 70s, as well as the popular Morrill's Corner Pub just south of Wok Inn. A proposed development name Morrill's Crossing purported itself to be an attempt at revitalization of the area, and was slated to begin construction in 2010, but it appears to have stalled as of this update (2019). While I'm certain that the developer believes this will be a 'revitalization' of the area, it appears to have been a pretty drastic change - something I'm certain that Mainers didn't take too kindly to.<br />
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A new development push as of 2018, the <a href="file:///C:/Users/Scott/Downloads/PoSoPoSmartCorridorPlan_FinalReport_Oct15-18DRAFTLoRes.pdf">Smart Corridor</a>, re-imagines the Corner as a part of a 7-mile stretch of Portland and South Portland in need of improvement as to safety, traffic congestion, and overall development design. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. </div>
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In my research into a variety of family groups who resided in Tuftonboro, NH (in Strafford County, which is now Carroll County) in the 19th Century, a common thread has emerged. Many of these family groups have ancestors who moved in the early part of 19th Century to Tuftonboro from Berwick, Eliot and Kittery Maine, a horse and buggy journey of about 30-40 miles northwest.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138755557">Samuel Morrill</a> family, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/samuel-morrill-cemetery-in-tuftonboro.html">which moved from Eliot Maine to Tuftonboro NH around 1810</a>, and are cousins to my <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/10/morrills-of-new-hampshire.html">Morrill family of Tuftonboro</a>, who later <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">moved to Portland Maine</a>.</li>
<li>Hanson Libbey family, which moved from Berwick, Maine around 1800.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140430600">Ichabod Libby</a> family, which also moved from Berwick to Tuftonboro around 1800.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=139522038">William Copp</a> family, which moved from Lebanon, Maine around 1795 (even though his father was born in nearby Dover, NH).</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140751812">Edward Grant</a> family, which also moved from Lebanon Maine sometime between 1808 and 1840.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=140755609">Robert Haley</a> family, which moved from Saco Maine around 1805. Robert was killed on the railroad. Perhaps the railroad was what brought people from York County Maine to Carroll County NH?</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=149017392">Daniel Fernald</a> family, which moved from Berwick Maine to Tuftonboro in 1815.</li>
<li>Eleazer Fernald and his son Tobias (and his family) moved from Kittery Maine to Ossipee around 1820.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=151283202">Robert Swett</a> and his brother <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=116443618">Samuel Sweat</a> migrated to Tuftonboro from Sanford Maine by 1812.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=151275064">Captain Elisha Smith</a> of the Revolutionary War migrated from Hollis Maine to Tuftonboro by 1812.</li>
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I would love to find some kind of rationale, or common thread, if any exists, for these various Maine families to have moved west. Strafford County (later known as Carroll County) wasn't known for much outside of sheep and cattle farming and a couple old grist mills. Maine was where all the industrial shipping work was to be found. The Embargo Act of 1807, however, effectively bankrupted many families in Maine, and was the death knell for much of Maine's timber industry. Perhaps the move to rural NH was a reaction to the Act? Perhaps cheap farm land was the way to go? Perhaps these were all Revolutionary War (or War of 1812) veterans, and they received land patents for their military service?Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-13558773834154044082014-12-02T19:11:00.002-08:002020-05-07T09:40:05.576-07:00The Beans of Carroll County NH<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My 6th great grandparents, David Bean (1717-1770) and his wife Mary Judkins (1715-1774) (who were 2nd cousins), came from the very large <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/03/beans-of-new-hampshire.html">Bean family of Rockingham County, New Hampshire</a>, which established a strong military history, descending from John MacBean, Scottish prisoner of the English Civil War who was sold into slavery upon arrival in the New World.<br />
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David was born in raised in Brentwood, son to John Bean of Exeter, and great grandson to the aforementioned John MacBean. He and Mary had twelve kids in Brentwood, and moved during the 1760s to Sandwich, in Carroll County (then part of Strafford County). I wonder what precipitated the move to Sandwich (which was 75 miles north an over 12 hour horse and buggy ride).<br />
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When David died in 1770, his children were ranging in ages of 11 to 30. All seven of his sons fought in the Revolutionary War (James, Samuel, David Jr., Moody, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsr=41&GScid=102782&GRid=22223371&">John</a>, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99676193">Josiah</a> and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bean&GSiman=1&GScnty=1898&GRid=139482045&">Benjamin</a>).<br />
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After the War, only a few of David's children stayed in Sandwich, and the rest moved to neighboring Moultonboro. His youngest son David was an early founder of Tuftonboro. In fact, several Bean Cemeteries are located in these towns, and they are the final resting places to David's many descendants, although I'm not sure where David and his wife Mary are buried at present - likely somewhere in Sandwich.<br />
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Below are handy FindAGrave links to the various cemeteries named for the Bean family:<br />
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=102782&CRid=102782&pt=Bean%20Cemetery&">Bean Cemetery, Bean Road, Moultonboro</a> (David's son John and family)<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=2561542&CRid=2561542&pt=Bean%20Burial%20Ground&">Bean Burial Ground, Sodom Road, Tuftonboro</a> (David's son Josiah's son Andrew and family)<br />
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=139482045&CRid=2561556&">Bean Graveyard, Tibbetts Road, Tuftonboro</a> (David's youngest son Benjamin and family)<br />
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Their son, David, Jr. (1743-1817), was my 5th great grandfather. He stayed in Sandwich, where his wife Abigail Moody and he had eleven children, including my 4th great grandmother, Sally Bean-Fuller (1781-1840), who moved south to Lowell Massachusetts with her husband <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/06/fullers-of-lowell-massachusetts.html">John Fuller</a>, descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, and also including Nicholas Bean, whose wife Lydia Brown may have been related to my <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-parentage-of-catherine-brown.html">Brown family of Moultonboro</a>, and whose daughter Rebecca most likely married into my <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/elliots-of-sandwich-new-hampshire.html">Elliott family of Sandwich</a>.<br />
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Below is a pedigree chart I created, showing descent from <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/03/beans-of-new-hampshire.html">John MacBean</a> of these various Bean families of New Hampshire (some people have been omitted for ease of visual):<br />
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<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-87849537044323369552014-12-01T13:48:00.001-08:002016-10-23T12:46:45.610-07:00Was Sally Elliot-Morrill an Ossipee Indian?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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SANDWICH, NEW HAMPSHIRE</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">18TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION OF ALGONQUIAN PEOPLE</td></tr>
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<b><u><i>Short Answer, as of 2016: No, this family link does not have Indian roots, after running DNA tests. My family story of being linked to Indians is nothing more than fiction, and <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-indian-ancestors-fact-or.html">a very common story among most White American families</a>.</i></u></b><br />
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Long Answer below, with all research...<br />
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This blogpost is a place for my research on the rumored Indian ancestry in my family, coming through my maternal grandmother, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/06/frank-emily-clarke.html">Emily Temm-Clarke</a>, and my theory at one time that it might lie with my grandma Emily's maternal great grandmother, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Sally Elliot-Morrill</a>, born to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/elliots-of-sandwich-new-hampshire.html">Benjamin Elliot and Susannah Drew</a> of Sandwich, New Hampshire in 1805, wife of <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/10/morrills-of-new-hampshire.html">Jonathan Smythe Morrill of Tuftonboro, and later of Portland Maine</a>. <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Jonathan and Sally are the forefathers of a large number of Greater Portland Morrills</a>.<br />
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As mentioned <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-indian-ancestors-fact-or.html">in an earlier post</a>, if you ask any White American about his ancestry, they will most definitely tell you that they are "part Native American". I've had fun with these people, trying to get proof for their claims, but the best that most can offer is that Grandma told them there was a "Cherokee Indian Princess" in there somewhere. Occasionally someone offers up some DNA proof, and I've even helped some people find verifiable links to Indian census rolls . It can happen, of course, but not nearly as much as we might wish.<br />
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The story I always heard in my family while growing up was that
somewhere on Grandma Emily's side of the family, we are from the
"Blackfoot Tribe". As a child, it sounded interesting enough to me. As a moody teenager searching for validation, I
began to adopt the idea as fact, and believed myself to
be special in some way, given that I already had been told that my dad's
side of the family had <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/mayflower-ancestors-fuller.html">Mayflower</a>
roots (a rumor I was able to prove true - many times over - with a lot of help from
cousins, and digging through many old records). As a teenager, though, I found it
fascinating to imagine myself as descending both from native people and from those who colonized.<br />
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At some point after I began
college in NYC, I was at the public library, where I was approached by a
very obvious looking American Indian, who told me that I appeared to
have some measure of Indian features, and that I should join the <a href="https://thunderbirdamericanindiandancers.wordpress.com/about/">YMCA Thunderbirds</a>, who could supposedly help me determine the truth of it
all...with the ultimate goal of my being able to apply for government
scholarships for college, since American Indians can apply for grants
for that purpose, of course depending on how much native blood you can
prove to posess.<br />
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I never took the kind man up on his
offer, and my own independent research later led me to learn that
Blackfoot Nation is located in Montana. Was some ancestor of mine from
Montana? Did they later 'drift' to New England?? Was there even a
connection? Or, more likely, was this all an exotic story that had been passed down
many generations? I didn't know or care enough at the time to pursue it
further. However, while still in college, in one last ditch effort to
try and secure government cash for my schooling, I went to my 86 year old <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/06/frank-emily-clarke.html">Grandma Emily</a>, and asked her, "Hey Gram, what tribe of Indian are we anyway?"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">EMILY TEMM-CLARKE<br />
HOLDING BABY ME (1970)</td></tr>
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<i>"INDIAN?? I ain't no GAWWWD damned Indian!!"</i> was her reply...and that was that!</div>
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Now, this
is quite contrary to what she had supposedly told my mother growing up.
So, blame it on a bit of senility, or exaggerated family folklore, but I
was still left to sit on that for several years, until it became a pet
project of mine as a family researcher.<br />
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Many have
looked at the picture above and have said "How can she deny being part
Indian?" Those tough features, high cheekbones and all...but the woman
above was born to parents who were deemed "WHITE" on all available
records. Her father, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-henry-temm.html">John Henry Temm</a>, was half German, half Scottish, and I have records backing that up.<br />
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Her mother, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/hats-off-to-hattie.html">Hattie Morgan Temm</a>,
was, as far as I could tell from my research, purely of English/Welsh
stock. However, she does appear quite dark in the below <i>sepia-tone</i> photo, but that could be easily blamed on photography:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HATTIE MORGAN-TEMM</td></tr>
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Hattie's father, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/william-sanford-morgan.html">William Sanford Morgan</a>, looks
white (and is clearly the source of my gramma's high cheekbones). He is proven to be of English and Welsh blood by many dozens of
available records:<br />
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Hattie's mother (and William's spouse), <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Emily Morrill</a>, daughter to Sally Elliot, looks white too...but perhaps there's a small amount of something else there?<br />
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Hattie's
sister, Adelaide Morgan-Simpson, also looks white, but carries that
same 'big rough face and high cheekbones' as the other ladies:<br />
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Adelaide's
only child, Emily Simpson-Pease, actually looks kind of dark (but
perhaps it's also the tone of the photo?), when HER father was white and of
direct British descent:<br />
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I
had my mother do a maternal DNA (mtDNA) test. This would serve to show
a link to ancient racial migration patterns, but only to her direct
maternal line...which would include all the ladies pictured above.<br />
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Her group came up as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_X">Haplogroup X2b4</a>".
Now, A, B, C, D, and some of X are all associated with migratory Siberian Asian
people that settled in the Americas as the first, "Native
Americans"...for lack of a better term. But some women in Haplogroup X are also linked to European people, so much research had to be done to create the above group X2b4, to narrow this down (this occurred in 2015).<br />
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Now, the Ossipee Nation (one of the 12 tribes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples">Algonquian</a>/Eastern Abenaki Indians) was located on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Winnipesaukee">Lake Winnepesaukee</a> tributary known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_River">Melvin River</a>. My thought was that Sally may have been associated with this tribe, given the proximity. A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier describes the famous <a href="http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/855/the-grave-by-the-lake.html">Indian Grave by the Lake</a> where they found the bones of a seven foot Indian and placed a memorial stone.<br />
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I've been satisfied, though, with the DNA research above, completed in 2015, that there is most definitely no Native American blood in my family. Looks like my Grandma Emily was correct after all. She wasn't no "GAWWWD Damned Indian". Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-34615130753142214122014-11-22T14:35:00.003-08:002022-09-01T17:00:54.949-07:00The Parentage of Catherine Brown-Morrill of MoultonboroMy 4th great grandmother, Catherine Brown, was born in 1769 or 1770 in Moultonboro, New Hampshire, but I've yet to locate a birth record for her (a trip to Moultonboro is imminent).<br />
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Census records began in 1790 in Strafford County (which area containing Moultonboro would 50 years later be annexed into a new Carroll County). Heads of household were the only people named on all census records prior to 1850, and the surname Brown is of course ubiquitous in 18th century New England.<br />
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But as always with these blog posts, I will lay forth what I understand about her, and who the potential relatives might be, based on available records and online trees and sources.<br />
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Catherine first appears in recorded data as bride to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-mysterious-jotham-morrill.html">Jotham Morrill</a> of Moultonboro in February 1799:<br />
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She and Jotham appear on the 1850 Census, living as paupers under the care of the Kimball family of Tuftonboro, and Catherine is listed as being unable to read or write, at the age of 80:<br />
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She appears listed as mother "Katie Brown" to Statira Morrill in a Moultonboro 1890 death record, and from here we learn that Statira was born in Tuftonboro (where Catherine and Jotham had moved soon after the wedding);<br />
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According to an email I received from Tuftonboro Town Hall, Catherine, listed as "Mrs. Jonathan Morrill" died in November of 1851.<br />
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There are many census records for her husband Jotham, where she appears as the elder female in the household.<br />
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Now, it's a worthy attempt to comb through the Brown families of Moultonboro during that period to attempt to learn possible relations for the unfortunately illiterate Katie, so here goes:<br />
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1790 Moultonboro Census: The only census taken prior to Catherine's marriage, is a good starting point for looking at Brown heads of household, and if any of these men were age 35-40 by the time of this census, they would be more the likely:<br />
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<li>Benjamin Brown (1 male under 16, 2 males over 16, 4 females). Benjamin appears in many other subsequent censuses, and appears to have lost 2 net females for the 1800 census. He seems to no longer be accounted for after the 1820 Census, and there appears to be a <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=brown&GSiman=1&GScid=102946&GRid=22418427&">Benjamin Brown buried in Moultonboro in 1828</a>, who was born in Ipswich, Mass in 1755, and was of appropriate age.</li>
<li>Blanchard Brown (1 male under 16, 1 male over 16, 4 females) - Blanchard appears in no other records, but one census backup record appears to indicate that he was born in 1750 for this census.</li>
<li>Daniel Brown (3 males under 16, 1 males over 16, 3 females). Daniel stayed in Moultonborough, and the 1800 census also includes three females (but as of Sept 2022, I've discovered that Daniel had a wife Betty, and two daughters, Betsey and Nabby, living with him at the time). In 1820, he was housing a non-naturalized foreigner, and doesn't appear in any subsequent censuses. Based on census calculations, he appears to have been born between 1756 and 1765, so he would potentially qualify for parentage, if not for the lack of a 4th female listed in 1790</li>
<li>John Brown (1 male under 16, 1 male over 16, 4 females). John appears to have been born in 1750, and has census records continuing through 1820. There appears to be a John Brown the 2nd born in 1792, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2476369&GRid=101980344&">according to burial records</a>. This could have been John's son, I suppose. Now, in the next census, 1800, Catherine is living with her new husband
Jotham Morrill (next door to his possible brother William Morrill), and
John Brown appears to be living very close by, so perhaps this gives
John a bit more potential as her father? Who knows, really. </li>
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In neighboring Tuftonboro, there appear to have been Browns as well: heads of household with biblical names like Moses and Obediah. Also, there appear to be Brown Family Cemeteries in neighboring Wolfeboro and Moultonboro.<br />
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So, the six men above appear to be possible fathers to Catherine, with Benjamin, and John being the most likely candidates.<br />
<br />It's interesting to me to note that a Lydia Brown (1779-1840) of Sandwich married Nicholas Bean of my <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-beans-of-carroll-county-nh.html">Sandwich Beans</a>, and had a daughter Rebecca Bean who married John Elliott, of my <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/elliots-of-sandwich-new-hampshire.html">Sandwich Elliotts</a>. I wonder if this Lydia may have been related to Catherine? They were of even age to have been sisters or cousins.<br />
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Further, there appear to have been a great number of Brown families in Berwick, Maine, the likely birthplace of Catherine's husband Jotham. It is entirely possible they were both from Berwick originally.<br />
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Catherine and Jotham's son, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Jonathan Smythe Morrill</a> (my 3rd great grandfather), married <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/12/was-sally-elliot-morrill-ossipee-indian.html">Sally Elliot of neighboring Sandwich</a>, and moved to Portland Maine, where my family is from, as are a large number of <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-morrills-of-portland-maine.html">Portland, Maine Morrills</a>.Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-52578147730112139612014-11-18T23:47:00.001-08:002014-11-19T00:01:12.175-08:00John Sibley and Jane PochardJohn Sibley (1755-1835) and Jane Pochard (1760-1860) were my 5th great grandparents, and one of very few sets of my ancestors who migrated to the US after the Colonial period.<br />
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They had eleven children, and have many hundreds of descendants living today, and their arrival in Maine was more by chance than many other New England families.<br />
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John Sibley was born in Nova Scotia to Englishman and soap magnate Henry Sibley and Halifax native Sarah Haislup. When John was only eight years old, his father Henry sailed home to England to settle his father's estate and died at sea. This left John and his five siblings orphaned in Halifax, which Sarah couldn't handle, so she left her children to be raised by others and moved to England. While his siblings appear to have stayed in Halifax, John joined the Revolution.<br />
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In particular, John became involved with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Eddy">Jonathan Eddy's</a> movement to make Nova Scotia the 14th American Colony, to break ties with England during the American Revolution. Jonathan Eddy made a failed attempt to siege <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Cumberland">Fort Cumberland</a> in central Nova Scotia, in the fall of 1776, and John Sibley somehow ended up in Maine (then part of Massachusetts) following Eddy's retreat back to his native Massachusetts.<br />
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John later fought in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth">Battle of Monmouth</a> in New Jersey, and also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratoga_campaign">Saratoga</a> with the Continental Army as a private in Captain Smart's company, Colonel Calvin Smith's regiment. John was also at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge">Valley Forge</a> in 1778 and reported on command at Boston Neck in March and April 1779. He was reported deserted July 12, 1780, which many believe was the reason his pension application was later turned down.<br />
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John married Jane Pochard December 8, 1782 at Pownalborough, Maine. Jane was born in Frankfort, Maine to Abraham Pochard, whose father was a French Huguenot who had arrived in Maine 1751 with his wife and four sons from Chenerbie, Haute-Soane in eastern France near the Swiss border. They arrived in Boston on the ship Pricilla, which sailed from Rotterdam, Netherlands, and then proceeded directly to Frankfort Plantation (Dresden) in Maine where they settled. Some of the family moved to Fairfield in 1775 and then to the Pittsfield area around 1814. The inability of the English speaking settlers to spell the Pochard family name correctly resulted in a variety of phonetic variations e.g. Pushard, Pushaw, Pushor, and Pushan. <br />
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They lived in Fairfield, Canaan, Warsaw (Pittsfield), and Passadumkeag, Maine.<br />
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John applied for a Revolutionary War pension on March 12, 1834, which reveals that he was born in 1755 in Halifax, N.S. The pension application was denied due to his apparent desertion near the end of the War.<br />
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Passadumkeag, Maine incorporated as a town in 1835. When they did their first Town census after incorporation, Jane was listed as widow Jane Sibley. So we know that John died about 1835.<br />
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John and Jane had twelve children, four girls and eight boys, including my 4th great grandmother <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/07/burrill-family.html">Margaret Sibley-Burrill</a>, who married Benjamin Burrill of Fairfield, who was 4th great grandson to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/mayflower-ancestors-fuller.html">John Alden of the Mayflower</a>. Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-15279871481050287322014-11-18T01:35:00.008-08:002022-02-19T19:19:37.104-08:00Jonathan and Sally Morrill of Portland MaineMy third great grandfather was Jonathan Smythe Morrill (1802-1881), a carpenter, ship builder, stevedore, and laborer born in Tuftonboro, NH to <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-mysterious-jotham-morrill.html">Jotham Morrill</a> and <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-parentage-of-catherine-brown.html">Catherine Brown</a>, both of Moultonboro, NH.<br />
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MORRILL FAMILY PLOT</div>
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FOREST CITY CEMETERY</div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jonathan married Sarah "Sally" D. <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/elliots-of-sandwich-new-hampshire.html">Elliot</a>
(falsely rumored in my family to be <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/12/was-sally-elliot-morrill-ossipee-indian.html"> of Native American descent</a>, and from Sandwich, NH) on 14
Dec 1826, in Moultonborough, NH by Isaiah Greene Orne, Esq. (Source: Early Marriages of Strafford
County - thanks to Google Books free previews!). However, the Mormon
FHL has a record of their marrying in nearby Moultonboro, which record
states that they were both from Moultonboro. It's possible that some
more research there would be beneficial, to find if perhaps this record
is more accurate (there are no Eliots in either the 1810 or 1820
Moultonboro census).</div></div>
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After marriage, they immediately
moved to Maine, first living in Westbrook (then part of Deering) (1830 Census). Next door to
them was Benjamin Elliot's family. See census below (not a great copy,
by the way), where I've yellow highlighted the Elliot and Morrill heads
of household:<br />
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By
the 1840 Census, the Morrills had taken up a rental residence in the
rear apartment at 62 Washington Avenue in Portland, where Jonathan
worked as a pile driver and a bridge builder. His family was one of the
first Morrill families to arrive in Portland.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD3YNrS8qxnohe6zbyOrz2PJ3ZGUQnoYqcS8wRqAx3istshezTM1RtuP9-MBA7jCvA1iMTeppfavjkK5TTF-aSOqQ_uhGi6P364CCnL4ulYu7vQpykSdg9jiOzvqZwS0bovtXVl41Bq0ghWj2EyGZszf96xxyliovOv0f7na4pOaENP3HKkWtwoD_e=s640" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="640" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD3YNrS8qxnohe6zbyOrz2PJ3ZGUQnoYqcS8wRqAx3istshezTM1RtuP9-MBA7jCvA1iMTeppfavjkK5TTF-aSOqQ_uhGi6P364CCnL4ulYu7vQpykSdg9jiOzvqZwS0bovtXVl41Bq0ghWj2EyGZszf96xxyliovOv0f7na4pOaENP3HKkWtwoD_e=w640-h464" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br />
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& Sally lived in the East Bayside district of Portland the
remainder of their lives, which was quickly becoming a diverse
neighborhood, filled with African Americans and Irish, and was then the
locale for the Cumberland County Jail on Monroe Street. In 1854, their
son, John HB Morrill, had purchased 62 Washington from Peter Andrews,
but in 1861 he deeded the property to his mother Sally (not sure why it
didn't go to his father!). In 1878, they moved around the corner to a
rear apartment on 15 Winthrop Street for the remaining few years of
Jonathan's life, a place they rented from Irish immigrant family, the
Maddens. The Morrills were not counted here on the 1880 Census, for
some reason. Maybe the census taker failed to look at the rear
apartment. In any case, 1881, just after Jonathan passed away, Sally
sold the Washington Street building saw the sale of the building for only $125.00, which would be over $4K today! I wonder why Sally was taken to the cleaners like that?</span></div>
<br />In 1859, Jonathan's name appeared in the paper as Defendant of a criminal State lawsuit dated the prior year, for the amount of $3.67 ($111 in 2020 dollars).<br /><div><br /></div><div>
For
the 1866 City Directory, it appears that 62 Washington (rear) had
another interesting dweller, one Smith Morrill, a dock builder living
right in the same apartment as Jonathan. Not a clue who that could be - the only male Morrill in the family besides Jonathan was his own son the hairdresser, living up the hill at 13 Melbourne. <br />
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In March of 1868, during the <a href="https://digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1054&context=pdp_1868">high turnout election for Mayor</a>, Jonathan was accused of voter fraud ("fraudulently voting in the name of another"), but was later cleared of the charge when it was determined that his name had simply been incorrectly transcribed by an election official. Given the rampant voting fraud that year, tensions were high among the pollsters, and Jonathan was given undue extra scrutiny, it seems.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ironically, the name he was accidentally given on the voter roll (and was then accused of using this as a fake name) was Jotham G. Morrill (which was his father's name!):<br />
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Jonathan
& Sally had nine children in Portland. Jonathan died in Portland in 1881.<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFP3xuWaE2iUqgE5B_B5TEHaNzMtvZ2D_EIMD9hrjaEmbGaYA0BuP8unQlUaSzDevQEsUC3poz4a1xU_y3FCSIikdfRe9hXUD5zp1FjXfnzq_bKOeHtEsoYBMklu9uouIQ_fz8OWK3mk/s758/JS+Morrill+Death+Notice_Portland_Daily_Press_1881-07-18_%255B2%255D.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="758" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDFP3xuWaE2iUqgE5B_B5TEHaNzMtvZ2D_EIMD9hrjaEmbGaYA0BuP8unQlUaSzDevQEsUC3poz4a1xU_y3FCSIikdfRe9hXUD5zp1FjXfnzq_bKOeHtEsoYBMklu9uouIQ_fz8OWK3mk/w640-h266/JS+Morrill+Death+Notice_Portland_Daily_Press_1881-07-18_%255B2%255D.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portland Daily Press<br />July 18, 1881</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /><div>I believe at least three of Jonathan & Sally's kids died young. Here is a best copy image of the birth roster from
Portland archives, courtesy of the Mormon Library:</div><div>
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Sarah Jane Morrill (1828 – ) was a dressmaker. She married at age 17
to a 52 year old Portugese sailor named Peter Andros (who Anglicized his
name to Andrews, and his descendants were born with that name). They
had four children, and then divorced around 1862. Sarah Jane remarried
to Woodbury Morse in 1864, then had another four children. She and
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4.
Statira G. Morrill (1831 – 1862) was named after her aunt Statira
Graves of NH. She lived in Portland for her entire, very short, life.
She worked as a seamstress, and at 17 she married a Samuel Tucker. A
few years later she married a Canadian named Joshua Carey. They had one
child, Naomi Carey, in 1858. Naomi was only 4 when her mother died,
and was therefore raised by her grandparents. Joshua soon remarried a
woman named Amelia, and had six more children. I'm not sure why Joshua
couldn't raise Naomi. Naomi married Edward Hall, a carriage painter,
and son to the British Halls of that neighborhood. Edward Hall's
brother Joseph was later a 2nd husband to Naomi's aunt Emily Morrill.
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John Henry Brown Morrill (1834 – 1894) fought in the Civil War, and
worked as a hair dresser in Portland. He married Maria Beal from
Freeport in 1863, and they had three children of their own: Frederick,
John & Nettie Morrill. Maria also had three kids from a prior
marriage, Ira, Phebe, and Bertha Chase. Bertha was adopted by John, so
she became Bertha Morrill. This particular family has many
descendants. John was a very popular barber, and he is well mentioned
in his former boss, John Todd's 1906 Book, "<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/asketchlifejohn00toddgoog">A sketch of the life of John M. Todd : sixty-two years in a barber shop, and reminiscences of his customers</a>". One particularly amusing anecdote from that book follows: <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">John H.B. Morrill worked for me sixteen years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a character, a man of impulse, not always governed by the highest principles, and also a genius.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the great fire he moved over to the Cape, now South Portland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He bought a cow and calf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took the cow over the ferry at noon, but the calf he sold to a butcher, who was to take it home at evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the great fire in 1866, I bought a photograph saloon and hauled it upon the sidewalk in front of the post office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The custom house at that time was in the post office building in the room now occupied by the United States Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Morrill hitched the calf to the wheel of the saloon until the butcher called for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, as soon as the mother was taken away, the calf commenced its
music, and such bleating and blarting was never heard in front of the
post office before nor since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of the inspectors of customs came in a great rage and said: “Todd, I
want that calf moved at once.” “That is not my property, Mr. Blank,” I
replied. “Whose calf is it?” “Mr. Morrill did own it, but has sold it to
a butcher.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mr. Morrill, you remove that nuisance at once.” “You don’t like that music, I reckon,” Mr. Morrill replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mr. Blank, you will blart worse than that when the Federal tit is taken from you.” </span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">He kept the cow all summer, sold her, I think, to Captain Mareen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I see she has but one horn, Mr. Morrill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is not breachy, and broke her horn by hooking fences, I hope.” “She never troubled me any that way.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a few weeks the captain called on Mr. Morrill. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Happy to see you, Captain.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
don’t know whether you will be happy or not to see me, I have come on
business.” Morrill told me afterwards he knew what the business was he
came to adjust.” You told me, Mr. Morrill, that cow was not breachy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t keep her anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She will toss over her head every fence she comes to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She would break up a camp meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
what did you mean by telling me that she was not breachy?” “I never
told you so.” “You certainly did, for I asked in particular if she was
not and spoke of her horn being broken off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t you remember that?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Yes,
I remember your speaking about that, and I told you in plain words,
Captain, that she had never troubled me any on that account.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
would come home every night full of herd grass and clover she had got
by breaking into the neighbor’s field, but it never troubled me any.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
it did trouble Neighbor Dyer, I have no doubt, some; but it never did
me.” The captain burst out laughing, bade him goodby and went home.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In 1858 there was a closely contested election for mayor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time there were no secret ballots and the voting was not as closely watched as now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everybody was supposed to be honest then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morrill was a great hustler.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He boasted that he could get more floaters to the polls to vote than any man in the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He belonged to fire engine number eight, and the company had as lively a set of boys at that time as any company in the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the boys hailed Morrill and said “We must get every voter out today that is on the voting list, or we shall get left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just looked over the list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is Patrick Ward’s name there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died about two years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can get someone to vote in his name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
is a dollar to pay the fellow that you get.” John plants himself upon
the sidewalk to look over the longshoremen as they go to dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Blank was warden at that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a great politician.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Morrill did not have long to wait before an Irishman, a coal heaver, on his way to dinner, appeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
stepped up to him in a most familiar manner, reached out his hand with a
“How are you, Mr. Ward?” “And who are ye talking to, young man? My name
is not Ward at all, but Mike Flannagan.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Never mind that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a dollar for you.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What for?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want you to vote for me.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Faith, I can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not naturalized.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“That makes no difference today.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Is that so, and how is that?” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Why, there is a name on the voting list; I want you to vote in that name, and the dollar is yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will
you do as I want you to, for obedience is better than sacrifice in this
case? Now listen; I want you to walk up to the desk over there, hold up
your head, as though you owned the whole shooting match, and say, ‘Pat
Ward, sir. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speak up loud,’ and he will say, ‘What ward?’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell him * Ward one.’ “He marched up as big as Billybeblessed.”Mr. Ward, sir.’ He forgot to put in Pat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Blank said, “What Ward?” “Ward one, sir.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vote Mr. Ward.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
of the Republican checkers said, “He did not understand you, Mr. Blank,
when you asked for his given name.” “Well, I did,” said the warden,
amid a roar of laughter.</span></span></i><br />
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6. Isaac Morrill (1837 – ) doesn't appear in the 1840 or 1850 Census. He must have died as a child.</div>
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7. Catharine Morrill (1838 – ) doesn't appear in the 1840 or 1850 Census. She must have died as a child.</div>
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Martha W. Morrill (1840 – 1917) married James Hiram Curtis, and had at
least 6 children: Charles F., James E., Annie J., Ida E., Florence
Louise, and William E. Martha was widowed by 1910.</div>
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9. <a href="https://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2022/02/emily-morrill-of-portland.html">Emily N. Morrill</a> (1844 – 1900) was my 2nd great grandmother. She married <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/william-sanford-morgan.html">William Sanford Morgan</a>,
a Civil War veteran, on 28 Oct 1865, and had three daughters: (1)
Abbie (who never married), (2) Adelaide (who married George Simpson and
later Presbury Dennison, and had one daughter, Emily Simpson-Pease), and
(3) my great grandmother, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/04/hats-off-to-hattie.html">Hattie Temm</a>. In 1887, William & Emily divorced (due to his constant drinking) and Emily moved to 27 Everett Street. She remarried to neighbor and childhood friend Joseph G. Hall, a carriage painter (and
brother to her niece Naomi's husband Edward Hall from the East Bayside neighborhood).
They married in 1891, and moved on 123 Cumberland Avenue, right around
the corner from where her mother (then widowed) was living on 21 Cleeve
Street. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border: currentcolor;">Emily's husband Joseph died in 1895, and then Emily died in 1900 of
hemiplegia. Her first husband William lived until 1920. Everyone is buried at Forest City Cemetery in South
Portland.</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Many of the descendants of Jonathan & Sally can be found living in the Portland area today.</div></div></div></div></div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-864907069190767292014-11-17T22:27:00.002-08:002019-03-04T22:51:16.742-08:00The Mysterious Jotham Morrill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, he's a mystery to me at least. I don't know that an overworked farmer in post Revolution New Hampshire could have anything other than a straightforward life. I'm grateful to have found several records for this 4th great grandfather of mine, but there are many unanswered questions.<br />
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<b><i><u>Here's what I know about Jotham</u></i></b>:<br />
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<li>Married Catherine Brown (<a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-parentage-of-catherine-brown.html">of unknown parentage</a>) in Moultonboro, New Hampshire, Feb. 23, 1799, meaning he was likely born before 1783.</li>
<li>Fathered a daughter, Statira Morrill-Graves in March of 1800.</li>
<li>Fathered a son, <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2014/11/jonathan-and-sally-morrill-of-portland.html">Jonathan Smythe Morrill</a> in 1804.</li>
<li>Owned livestock in neighboring Tuftonboro, NH 1804 and 1806, according to the Town Clerk there.</li>
<li>August 1800 Census - Moultonboro, lived next door to a <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/10/morrills-of-new-hampshire.html">William Morrill</a> (who had migrated there from Berwick around 1783). Household included: </li>
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<li>one male aged 16-25 (who?)</li>
<li>one male 26-44 (Jotham), this means he was born between September 1755 and September 1773.</li>
<li>two females under 10 years old (one was Statira, but who was the other girl?)</li>
<li>one female 26-44 (Catherine), this means she was born between September 1755 and September 1773</li>
<li>one female 45 and over (who?)</li>
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<li>August 1810 Census - Tuftonboro, listed here as Jonathan Morrill. Household included: </li>
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<li>one male under 10 (my ancestor, Jonathan)</li>
<li>one male 26-44 (Jotham), calculating this with the above, he was born between September 1766 and September 1773.</li>
<li>one female under 10 (Statira)</li>
<li>one female 26-44 (Catherine), calculating this with the above, she was born between September 1766 and September 1773. </li>
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<li>1820 Census - Tuftonboro, destroyed.</li>
<li>June 1830 Census - Tuftonboro. Household included:</li>
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<li>one male age 50-59 (Jotham), calculating this with the above, he was born between July 1771 and September 1773. </li>
<li>one female age 50-59 (Catherine), calculating this with the above, she was born between July 1771 and September 1773</li>
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<li>1840 Census - Jotham doesn't appear. He doesn't appear on either of his children's censuses either.</li>
<li>June 1850 Census - Jotham and Catherine are living with the Joseph Kimball household, no apparent relation, given that Joseph's wife's maiden name was Hannah Ellsworth. </li>
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<li>Jotham is listed as a pauper farmer, at 78 years old. This would mean he was born between July 1771 and July 1772.</li>
<li>Catherine is listed as 80 years old. This would mean she was born between July 1769 and July 1770, which is in conflict with the prior census records.</li>
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In the April 1813 entries of <i>U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914</i>, a Jotham Morrill appears, to be rather close in age, and enlisted in NH. This Jotham is listed as having black eyes, black hair, and dark complexion, and enlisted at 45 years of age, fighting in the War of 1812. <br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">According
to the Remarks section of this entry, he was present for roll call in Feb 16
& 28, 1815. He was sick in quarters on April 30, 1815. Presented
sick in Regimental Hospital. William S. Foster's, Co. 5 " U.S.
Infantry. Sacred Heart? June 30 1815. Book F Discharged June 14 or 15
1815 at Buffa</span></span><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">lo,
on surgeon's certificate of disability, old age. Book 600 Appears to
have served in Lieutenant Hoits, detachment 1st New Hampshire Volunteers
prior to enlistment in the regular Army. 4" made 5". </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">Given that the name "Jotham Morrill" was so unique, I
am quite certain that this is his record, and that '4 made 5' means that
he was given credit for his full five years of service, even though he
was discharged for being sick.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">As for his age, if he truly was 45 at the date of this record, it means that he was born between April 25, 1767 and April 24, 1768, which runs as a conflict against the 1830 and 1850 Census, as shown above, but only a discrepancy of about 3 or 4 years.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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As for this Jotham's birthplace, the Town of Berwick Maine is a big clue that he was descended from the John Morrell of Kittery line, as was <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22223844">William Morrill of Moultonboro</a> (who was of close enough age to be a sibling, and the two men were living next door to each other on the 1800 Census!).<br />
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My current theory (2014) is that William and Jotham were brothers from Berwick.<br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"><span data-reactid=".1z.1:3:1:$comment576451422456750_576453732456519:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0">I've written a study of the Tuftonboro Morrills, which can be read <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2010/10/morrills-of-new-hampshire.html">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></span>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-78519883770410433932014-11-14T23:39:00.000-08:002018-04-24T15:53:32.285-07:00Samuel Morrill Cemetery in Tuftonboro New HampshireSamuel Morrill (1779-1849) was born in Eliot Maine to Joel Morrill and Hannah Wilson of Eliot.<br />
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At around age 30, in 1810, he met Mary "Polly" Hodgdon of Strafford County New Hampshire, and married her in Tuftonboro, and they remained there for the rest of their lives. In 1840, the portion of Strafford containing Tuftonboro and surrounding towns was incorporated into new Carroll County.<br />
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1810-1849 (OR LATER)<br />
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TUFTONBORO, NH</td></tr>
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This family directly descends from John Morrell of Kittery (one of the two English founders of Morrill families in New England), and is one of many Morrill families to have moved to Strafford County, New Hampshire.<br />
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In fact, other families made the move from York County Maine to Strafford County as well, and they are discussed in more detail <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/york-county-exodus.html">here</a>.<br />
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The old red house sits on a 23 acre lot, but just south of the house, on a separate 2 acre lot (containing no house) sits a modest little graveyard surrounded by a stone wall and many maple trees, and contains 11 gravesites with very well kept head and footstones. As is often the case with old New England towns, there were no public cemeteries until mid 19th century in Tuftonboro, and no churches, so people resorted to backyard burials. There are 47 such family graveyards in the Town, according to <i>Tuftonboro New Hampshire: Cemeteries, Graveyard and Burial Sites 1800-1995</i>, copyright 1997 by The Tuftonboro Association.<br />
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I've profiled everyone resting in Samuel's backyard on <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=138757828&CRid=2559967&">Find A Grave</a>, but here is a summary of its inhabitants:<br />
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Samuel died in 1849 at home, and Polly died in 1876 in neighboring Rochester (perhaps the house was already sold by then?).<br />
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As for their eight children, one (or possibly two) died as babies, and the other six lived to adulthood:<br />
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-Sally Morrill-Foss (1810-1854) was Samuel's eldest. She married John Foss (1797-1859) and they ran a small farm in neighboring Moultonboro with their five children, most of whom appear to be buried at <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Foss&GSiman=1&GScid=102946&">Lee Cemetery in Moultonboro</a>.<br />
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-Hannah W. Morrill (1812-1873) married William Copp Jr., had five sons and moved to Hennepin County, Minnesota. When William passed away in 1857, she married a D.Y. Jones. She passed away in Minneapolis.<br />
-Joel Morrill (1815-1867) was clearly named after Samuel's father. He married Almira Piper and ran a large farm in Newport, Maine with their three children. None of this family is buried here.<br />
-Almira Morrill appears in no records after her birth, so it's possible she may have been stillborn or might be buried in an unmarked grave here in the backyard.<br />
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-William Morrill (1819-1819) lived only six months, and he has his own gravesite next to his father. This is what leads me to believe the two older girls were stillborn.<br />
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-Mary Jane Morrill-Mallard (1822-1861) married an attorney named John D. Mallard and moved to Brookline, Massachusetts with their young daughter, Carrie (who died at age 8). When Mary Jane's sister, Sally Foss, and her husband both died, their young daughter Sally moved in with them until she married and moved up to Epsom, NH. John may have remarried after Mary Jane died, since I cannot seem to locate his burial place.<br />
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-Elizabeth Morrill-Smith (1828-1866) married a John G. Smith, whom I cannot locate a single record for (perhaps the commonality of the name is to blame). <br />
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-Julia Morrill-Leavitt (1830-1853) was the youngest of Samuel's children. She married Woodbury Leavitt (1827-1863), son to Samuel Leavitt and Jemima Piper, and grandson to adjutant John Leavitt, and they had one child, Samuel C. Leavitt (1849-1870) also buried here. After Julia died, Woodbury worked as a farm laborer and then died during the Civil War from chronic diarrhea.<br />
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Also buried in the backyard is a Willie Hodgdon Smith (1861-1866), son to Elizabeth Morrill.<br />
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I believe that once Samuel died in 1849, his house and land must have been sold immediately, since everyone scattered to other places afterwards. At least the new owner was kind enough to allow the subsequent burials to take place here. I'd like to find out when the land was sold. I believe the house is kept up nicely and is used as some kind of museum or meeting house, judging from my visit there in November 2011 (when I took these photographs). It would be nice if a member of this family living today would stumble upon this post, and maybe have more info to share to help fill in the blanks.<br />
<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-74621781981552772732014-11-11T13:54:00.000-08:002014-11-18T23:50:31.144-08:00Thomas Rogers of the MayflowerMayflower passengers <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rogers_(Mayflower_passenger)">Thomas Rogers</a> (1571-1621) and his son Joseph Rogers (1603-1677) are my 11th and 10th great grandfathers, respectively.<br />
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Thomas and his family were Leiden separatists originally from Watford England, who had moved to Holland in protest of the Anglican Church.<br />
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While Thomas died that first winter in Plymouth (as did over half the passengers), his son Joseph lived on and was a founding member of Eastham and Barnstable, Massachusetts.<br />
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The <i>Mayflower Families Through Five Generations</i> volumes show that a Patience Phinney, fifth generation descendant of Thomas Rogers, married an Ebenezer Holmes. This Ebenezer Holmes is accepted by the Mayflower Society to be the same that lived in Plymouth and who fathered Jeremiah Holmes (1729-1790). Jeremiah's son, Jeremiah Holmes, Jr., moved north to Winterport Maine (then part of Frankfort) with wife Nancy Robinson, and were early settlers of Hancock County Maine. Their granddaughter, Harriet Holmes-Morgan, was my 3rd great grandmother and her family can be read about in more detail <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2011/11/holmes-family-of-winterport-maine.html">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5283225970813159623.post-55555602214645958282014-05-31T16:23:00.010-07:002023-09-11T22:06:40.652-07:00History of Stroudwater Burying Ground<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My favorite cemetery sits at the corner of Congress and Westbrook Streets in Portland, just over the Westbrook line (where Westbrook Street then becomes Stroudwater Street), and near to where I was raised. While I enjoy all old cemeteries, in all their spooky yet tranquil glory, this one has a beautiful amount of tree cover, yet is very friendly and walkable to the public; and, located along the Stroudwater River, and the land's nearly 500 grave sites are still relatively unscarred by vandals. The 1998 Ice Storm and the "Patriot's Day wind storm" in 2007 apparently damaged quite a few of the stones.<br />
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I would like to use this post as a way to collect some research, share family and local histories, and create a place online where other researchers and historians can comment and contribute, since I see no evidence of it yet on the Net.<br />
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First, a bit of historical timeline about placenames in this vexingly labeled area of Southern Maine, with a bit of additional history regarding how this area grew:<br />
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-1658 - The Town of Falmouth is formed, named for Falmouth England. The neighborhood containing this cemetery (later known as Stroudwater Village), located at the spot where the Stroudwater River empties into the larger Fore River, is a part of Falmouth at this point. The first claimant of land arrives from England, named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Small">Francis Small</a>, who reportedly purchased land rights from Scitterygusset, a prominent local Sagamore Indian. Small paid the Indian with "one trading coat a year for Capisic, and one gallon of liquor a year for Ammoncongan," (<i>This is Stroudwater</i> p.85). The amount of land is up for debate. <i>Wikipedia</i> claims it was only 200 acres, but <i>This Was Stroudwater</i> claims it was "about two miles" (1280 acres). Small sold his land to George Munjoy a few years later.<br />
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-1676 - The area was destroyed by Wampanoag Indians during King Philip's War. At some point around this time, Stroudwater's first settlers, the Ingersoll Family, begin living in the area. They had purchased the land from George Munjoy. According to <i>History of Portland</i>, though, the Ingersolls were living here in 1661. Not sure how they were able to live here while the Indians were destroying the area.<br />
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-1690 - French-backed Abenaki tribes swept through Falmouth Neck (later known as intown Portland), and killed all settlers, reducing the area to ash. The Ingersolls of Stroudwater take the hint and move south to Massachusetts proper before the Indians arrive there.<br />
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-1718 - Falmouth is incorporated as a town.<br />
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-1719 - <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2517980&GRid=119501960&">Colonel Thomas Westbrook</a>, because of his great skill as a frontiersman elsewhere in Massachusetts Colony, was dispatched to "Casko Bay" just before Christmas to attempt to establish peace with the Indians, in order to begin mast production in the area filled with great pines, as such had been success in other areas in New England. It was around this time that King George I enacted a law which forbade anyone from felling any white pine trees without express permit. Such trees were branded with Royal Navy symbols for later felling. This of course didn't always prevent locals from felling trees for their own use.<br />
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SYMBOL USED BY BRITISH ROYAL NAVY<br />
TO MARK TREES FOR USE BY THE CROWN</td></tr>
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-1727 - Stroudwater Village is formed as a hamlet located within Falmouth, and its name is christened by Colonel Westbrook. It is believed by most historians that the name of the Village (and the river flowing through it) stems from the town of Stroud of Gloucestershire, England. Myrtle Lovejoy, author of <i>This is Stroudwater</i>, believes that Stroud comes directly from the Oxford dictionary definition of "marshy land covered with brushwood". Burials began on this hill, yet no reliable burial records were kept until 1739. The Village gradually becomes an important producer of timber for the production of masts for the ships of the English Royal Navy. Colonel Westbrook and his friend and business associate, Samuel Waldo, are important figures in organizing the Village around this new industry, and the Ingersoll heirs sold them much land for their new lots adjoining the falls, and two active sawmills. The former Ingersoll land (near the future George Tate house) began to be used for the mast business. Westbrook himself purchased the large 1 acre plot of land for the graveyard. Parson Thomas Smith of the First Parish Church assisted Colonel Westbrook in attracting other settlers to the area.<br />
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-1734 - The James Forder House is built at what is now 1235 Westbrook Street, and the Isaac Fly house next door to it at 1227 Westbrook Street, which I believe we can today call Portland's oldest standing houses. Both Forder and Fly were important businessmen of Stroudwater who left the area before their death, and are not buried at the Cemetery, but later owners of these homes are (more on them below).<br />
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-1743 - Joseph Small of Kittery, grandson to early Stroudwater pioneer Francis Small, arrives in Stroudwater to settle in on or near the land once owned by his grandfather. He got to work quickly, appraising the vast and complicated estate of Colonel Westbrook, who was already dying, with Samuel Waldo ready to move in on his holdings. Waldo sold Small his first lot in Stroudwater on mortgage, which was paid by 10,000 feet of lumber. Small's home was very close to the graveyard, and was later sold to Jesse Partridge (more on him below).<br />
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-1744 - Colonel Westbrook died penniless, and most all of his holdings (including the burial ground) were deeded to Samuel Waldo, his former partner, and ultimate enemy at the end. Waldo had successfully sued Westbrook, and had begun stripping him of all his land and money before he died. Westbrook was hoping to be buried on his own land, but was instead buried in <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2517980&GRid=119501960&">Scarborough in secret on the Knight Farm</a> (owned by his sister Mary and her husband Nathan Knight), out of concern that Waldo might hold Westbrook's body hostage in order to pay the remainder of the debts to him, which was custom at the time. It's possible that this might be the reason why Westbrook wasn't buried at Stroudwater Burying Ground as well. A colleague of his, named Zebulon Trickey (wealthy local who was highway surveyor and large owner of land near what is now Maine Mall), also passed that same year, and also in his case many people from the Village swarmed in to collect on debts of the deceased. Colonel Westbrook's debts, according to <i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, were incurred as a result of his investment and passion for developing the mast trade in Falmouth, and to eventually be competitive with Portsmouth's lucrative trade along the Piscataqua River. His vision was realized after his death, and Falmouth's mast trade was booming for another 60 years, until the Embargo Act took hold.<br />
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-1755 - The Tate House is built, and today enjoys the distinction of now being one of Portland's oldest standing houses (although the Forder and Fly homes around the corner from it are 20 years older). Its owner, English born George Tate, was a former Royal Navy captain sent to live in the area in order to oversee the burgeoning industry of ship mast building in Stroudwater Village. <br />
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-1765 - Since the First Parish of Falmouth was overstretched in covering so much of the large settlement, including Stroudwater, the Fourth Parish of Falmouth ("Stroudwater Parish") was erected at what is now 37 Capisic Street (corner of Frost Street), and Thomas Browne, (a rebellious man whose life is discussed below) was ordained as the first Reverend. The building wasn't large enough to accommodate the growing flock, so it was razed and rebuilt on the same site in 1784. I'm curious if it's the same building that is now the Francis Warde Convent's chapel house:<br />
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37 CAPISIC STREET<br />
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-1775 - With the Revolution in full swing, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Falmouth">English Royal Navy bombed Falmouth Neck</a> (now Portland), causing many survivors to flee to other areas of Greater Falmouth, including Stroudwater.<br />
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-1786 - Mrs. Sarah Waldo, heir to Samuel Waldo, deeds the burial ground to Stroudwater Parish.<br />
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-1790 - The first national census occurs, and the Village is featured:<br />
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-1794 - Many of the chief townspeople gathered at Jesse Partridge's house to subscribe money for the construction of the first public school in Stroudwater. Such land was donated by Andrew Pepperrell Frost near the northeast side of Fore River, and James Means did the construction. I wonder if the building still stands?<br />
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-1795 - Harrow House, the home of the late Colonel Thomas Westbrook, is razed, after many decades of disrepair. After the death of Westbrook, the home was owned and lived in by <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101641682">Enoch Ilsley</a>, and at the end, by Jonathan Fickett, whose son Samuel demolished the house to build his own new house. Harrow House was one of the very first houses built in Stroudwater, and was located near the corner of what is now Garrison and Westbrook Streets.<br />
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-1807 - Upon the heels of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_Act_of_1807">Embargo Act</a>, the timber production of Stroudwater came to a standstill, and many in the Village lost their livelihoods and homes. William Tate and James Webb, among them.<br />
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-14 Feb 1814 - this area was annexed from the greater settlement of Falmouth, and was named the City of Stroudwater, which at that time also included the boundaries of (a) the towns of Saccarappa and Congin (later modern Westbrook) and (b) the Deering section of current Portland.<br />
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-April 1814 - The City of Stroudwater was renamed Westbrook, in honor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Westbrook">Colonel Thomas Westbrook</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>-1820 - Maine is annexed from Massachusetts and becomes its own state, as a result of the Missouri Compromise.<br />
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-1871 - Westbrook was split into two towns, Westbrook and Deering. Stroudwater Burying Ground was located in Town of Deering, but just under a quarter mile away from the Westbrook border.<br />
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-1898 - The Town of Deering (which contains the cemetery) was annexed into today's Portland.<br />
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-1931 - The first flight took place at Stroudwater Field (now Portland International Jetport), a half mile from the cemetery. The installation and expansion of the Airport resulted in the destruction of many dozens of historical homes.<br />
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-1973 - The Stroudwater District was added to the Register of Historic Places.<br />
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STROUDWATER BURYING GROUND AND ENVIRONS</td></tr>
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While some of the old Stroudwater families are buried in their homes' backyards (as was the custom of the time) many of the families listed above are buried at <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSsr=81&GScid=2163884&CRid=2163884&pt=Stroudwater%20Burying%20Ground&">Stroudwater Burying Ground</a>, and the below is a modest history of a few of them (some photo credit goes to IHRP & Family, aka Stone Finders):<br />
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<b><u>Captain Jesse Partridge (1742-1795)</u></b><br />
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Jesse Partridge was born in Holliston, Massachusetts to Preserved Partridge and Katherine Strong of Holliston. His 2nd great grandfather John Partridge was an early settler of Jamestowne Colony.<br />
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At some point in the early 1750's young Jesse (along with his parents and his ten siblings) moved to the Gorham area (then part of Falmouth).<br />
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By 1765, they were living in Capisic, but Preserved was evicted for being a squatter.<br />
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In 1767, Jesse Partridge, now holding land in Stroudwater, held offices of lumber surveyor, fire ward, and hog reeve.<br />
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In 1778, Captain Partridge led a voluntary militia comprised of fifty Falmouth men. Together they marched the 250 miles to join Colonel John Greaton's 3rd Massachusetts Regiment stationed on the Hudson River.<br />
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In 1786, after having returned from fighting in the Revolutionary War, Jesse built his home next to his existing home (Joseph Small House). The remainder of his siblings still remained in Gorham. According to the 1790 Census, he appears to have had one son and two daughters, but I'm unable at this point to find out more about them.<br />
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Jesse worked in timber, particularly for the masts built for Royal Navy ships, and was a contemporary of English born George Tate, also spending time working as a shopkeeper in Tate's store, which he managed at the end of his years. He bought land from Joseph Small (who relocated to Gray afterwards), and built his house which is adjacent to the cemetery, and the house is still standing today and in great condition, and cared for by <a href="http://www.treetoriver.com/2013/11/a-little-bit-scary.html">folks who enjoy the history of this house and the cemetery next door.</a> The house itself has four bedrooms, two full baths and one half bath, an
unusually large living room, dining room, office and a sitting room. Historic features include Indian
shutters, wide pine floors, original pine molding, six fireplaces (and a
bread oven) off one center chimney, and two fireplaces off the ell
chimney. Tradition has it that 26,000 bricks were used for the grand chimney: <br />
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Jesse was ill for a few years before passing on in 1795. He and his family are buried at Stroudwater. When Jesse died, his wife Rebecca married recently widowed (with a windfall from the Dole estate from across the road) Andrew Titcomb, and Andrew then moved <a href="http://genforum.genealogy.com/titcomb/messages/86.html">into the Partridge House</a>). When Andrew's father passed a couple years later, he inherited his father's estate. Then, when Rebecca passed in 1808, Andrew inherited the Partridge House, making Andrew Titcomb one of the town elites.<br />
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Moses Quinby moved into the Partridge home around 1810 and married Andrew's daughter Anne Titcomb. Moses' daughter Almira Quinby (1828-1909) and Anne's niece Louisa Titcomb (1823-1905) inhabited the house during the Civil War, during which they worked as nurses. The Titcombs held the house until 1930. The Jesse Partridge House was the home of many prominent and pioneering Stroudwater residents for over 150 years.<br />
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WIFE TO JESSE PARTRIDGE AND ALSO ANDREW TITCOMB</td></tr>
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SISTER-IN-LAW OF JESSE PARTRIDGE<br />
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<b><u>Rhoda Partridge (1755-1834)</u></b><br />
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Jesse's sister Rhoda was the only child of Preserved Partridge to die unmarried. She was once betrothed to Daniel Dole, Jr., but Daniel married Rhoda's niece Katherine instead, which caused quite a stir in the community. Rhoda persevered through the family drama, and became the first female schoolteacher in the area, buying up the lot previously owned by William Maxfield, Jr., and building her own house in 1805 by the bridge over Stroudwater River (near where the current house at 1789 Congress Street is located). After she died, the house was moved in 1839 to its current location at <a href="http://media.usm.maine.edu/~pwht/places/stroudwater-district/sd01-home-of-rhoda-partridge.html">1747 Congress Street</a>, right around the corner from the graveyard. The act of moving this house took many days, involved oxen and rolling on logs, and, it's believed, a fair share of rum consumed along the way.<br />
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1747 CONGRESS STREET<br />
BUILT 1805</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">SISTER OF JESSE PARTRIDGE</span><br />
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<u><b>Daniel Dole (1716-1803)</b></u><br />
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1365 WESTBROOK STREET<br />
BUILT AROUND 1765</td></tr>
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Capt. Daniel Dole, originally from Newbury, Mass, was born to <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6879023">William Dole Jr.</a> and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133366529">Rebecca Pearson</a> of Newbury. William's grandfather <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6879055">Richard Dole</a> was one of the first settlers of Newbury.<br />
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Dole purchased around 1770 an aggregated 218 acres of Stroudwater Village (the largest landowner at one point) from Joseph Small and from Francis and Samuel Waldo, Jr., son to the ruthless <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Waldo">Samuel Waldo</a>. Dole started a family farm there on Westbrook Street, across the street from the Jesse Partridge House and the Joseph Small House, <a href="https://portlandhousestories.com/2016/07/02/1365-westbrook-street-the-francis-waldo-daniel-dole-house/">and based on comments on a history of this house</a>, it is believed that the house was already built when Dole acquired the land. He left after five years, to fight in the Revolution, and upon his return he became an important figure in Stroudwater, being elected Selectman for eight years, and also Treasurer of Stroudwater Parish.<br />
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In 1784, upon the death of Daniel's wife Sarah, the house went to wealthy Andrew Titcomb, who had married their daughter Mary. When Mary died in 1796, Andrew immediately married neighbor Rebecca Bailey-Partridge (whose husband, Captain Jesse, had died the prior year), and he moved across the street to live in the Partridge house, making Andrew one of the wealthiest property owners in Stroudwater. Old Daniel was alive through all this, and finally passed in the Spring of 1803, leaving the house to Daniel Jr., who left it to Daniel III, who sold the house away from the family in the 1890s. <br />
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Many of the Doles passed on from consumption, but Daniel's son Moses, a young silversmith, died of hypothermia from swimming in the river when it was too cold.<br />
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Dole's house was, at its construction, the largest in Falmouth Neck, and is still standing today as one of Portland's oldest buildings. Daniel was town Selectman for three years. He and his wife Sarah, along with their many descendants, are also buried here. There are 14 members of the Dole family buried here at Stroudwater Burying Ground.<br />
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SOURCE: <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nr4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=daniel+dole+house&source=bl&ots=WmYTUDCmQH&sig=hTdDgu3OoHuj5e-KcUtbkd8DK0w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=at-BVafCMYq5oQSl166wDg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=daniel%20dole%20house&f=false">New England Family History</a>, Henry Cole Quinby 1894<br />
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NIECE OF JESSE and RHODA PARTRIDGE</div>
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The Doles owned a slave (then known as a bondman) named London, who died in 1812, and no record of his burial is kept here, but he is likely buried here too.<br />
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Daniel's son, Daniel Dole, Jr. and his young wife Katherine Partridge are also buried in the Dole lot. As mentioned above, Katherine's aunt, schoolteacher Rhoda Partridge (Jesse's sister), was previously engaged to Daniel Jr., at one time, but was a bit older than him. Apparently there was some drama surrounding Daniel's change of mind in choice of bride, according to Tate House Museum. Daniel Jr. died ten years into his marriage of an accident, leaving Katherine a young widow.<br />
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<u><b>Captain George Tate (1700-1794)</b></u><br />
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George Tate was born in England, and senior mast agent for King George III as to the province of Maine, and his home below is a national landmark, and one of the oldest houses in Portland. <br />
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George was forever an Anglican, and didn't attend services at the Stroudwater Congregational Church.<br />
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Upon the death of Colonel Thomas Westbrook in 1744, and the subsequent loss of organization of the mast trade in Stroudwater for the King, Samuel Waldo (who had absorbed most of Westbrook's estate) was too busy with other matters while living in Boston to hire a new mast agent. Many living in Stroudwater took it upon themselves to continue mast trade through Waldo without any oversight, which fell under London's radar. This was the reason for Tate having been dispatched to Stroudwater by 1750, a full six years after Westbrook's death. <br />
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Soon after arriving in Stroudwater, Tate's wealth grew, and in 1755 he built his own home in Georgian style with prime view of the marshland and the mastyard from the front, and the river from the back. His house is still standing, is registered in the <a href="http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NHLS/Text/70000072.pdf">National Registry of Historic Places</a>, and has been used for <a href="http://www.tatehouse.org/">museum and historical purposes</a> since 1931.<br />
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He soon opened up a storehouse on the riverfront, not far from where the Stroudwater Baptist Church sits today. Tate and his family ran the store until 1785, when neighbors James Means and John Kilby purchased it, and continued the business.<br />
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"THE TATE HOUSE"<br />
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In late September 1770, George's wife Mary was killed by a shotgun booby trap in their storehouse, which had been set up by her son William in order to catch thieves. William was convicted of her murder but was later pardoned by King George III. William absconded to England to avoid creditors after his father died. He is buried in England, and his brother George is buried in Russia, after serving in the Russian Royal Navy for many years, and who was a point of pride to the family. Samuel's first wife Elizabeth is also buried at Stroudwater. <br />
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George's son, Captain Robert Tate (1751-1804), his wife Martha (1751-1822), and daughter Catherine are buried at Stroudwater. Robert died in Berbice, Guyana. It's quite possible that his stone is only an "in memoriam" stone (cenotaph), since Tate House Museum states that Robert was buried in Guyana.<br />
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WIFE MARTHA AND DAUGHTER CATHERINE</td></tr>
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There are an additional 11 known Tate gravesites, but it's not clear to me yet what their relation is to Captain George, including one Eleanor Tate (1710-1770). The rest are of younger generations.<br />
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<b><u>Capt. John Quinby (1758-1806)</u></b><br />
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John Quinby was a young soldier in the Revolution and later a church treasurer. He practiced Puritanism (although his son Moses was more liberal). He grew up in Portland near the waterfront, having been well educated in private schooling. His family was forced to move to Gorham after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Falmouth">Mowatt bombing of 1775</a>. In 1782, he married Eunice Freeman, a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster, and had six children. In 1783, he purchased the land adjacent to, and to the south of, Capt. George Tate, and such land was purchased from the Estate of Francis Waldo (now a Tory deserter after the Revolution). He went in on the land buy with Archelaus Lewis, and together they subdivided, with Quinby taking the lot just south of the Tate House, and Lewis taking the lot just south of Quinby's lot. Also involved in the land buy and subdivision were Benjamin Gayley, Reverend Thomas Browne and Jabez Jones, and each of these three sold to speculation and didn't build upon them. John's parents, Joseph and Mary Quinby, joined John in Stroudwater.<br />
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Quinby and Lewis built houses nearly identical to each other (<i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, p. 132). While Lewis' house remains, Quinby's house was eventually moved to the corner of State Street and Pine Street in the West End, and was later razed and replaced. See before and after of Pine/State Streets, showing the Quinby house in the before:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HOME OF JOHN QUINBY<br />
CIRCA 1900<br />
ORIGINALLY NEXT TO THE TATE HOUSE<br />
MOVED HERE TO STATE AND PINE STREETS IN 1826<br />
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">COURTESY OF THIS WAS STROUDWATER</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">QUINBY HOUSE REMOVED<br />
REPLACED WITH OFFICE BUILDING IN 1920<br />
NOW 188 STATE STREET</td></tr>
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In addition to running a sawmill in his backyard, Quinby also built and owned many tradeships, and was one of many such privateers who used their ships to trade with (among others) the English and the French, two of which were taken by the French during their own revolution (<i>This Was Stroudwater</i> p. 138), and one of them manned by his own nephew, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98120289">Thomas Seal</a>.<br />
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From 1785 until 1804, Quinby was Treasurer at 4th Parish of Falmouth (Stroudwater).<br />
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In 1790, Capt. Quinby suffered a great loss. His wife died in early September (possibly during childbirth), his young son George drowned in late September, and his infant son died in December. He never remarried, and it's presumed that his four surviving children were raised by housekeepers.<br />
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In 1802, Quinby was one of the incorporators of the Fore River Bridge just down the street. During that same year, he suffered additional tragedies: his son Thomas died of sickness on a ship commandeered by Robert Tate (son to Capt. George) in Haiti, Captain Robert died 18 months later of a tropical disease in Guyana. John himself contracted consumption (like so many others). Captain John died four years later, at age 48.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">CAPTAIN JOHN QUINBY<br />
(STONE WORK BY BARTLETT ADAMS)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">EUNICE FREEMAN-QUINBY<br />
(1761-1790)<br />
(STONE CARVED BY JOHN HOMER'S SHOP OF BOSTON)<br />
NOTE: THE WINGED SKULL DESIGN HAD FALLEN OUT OF FAVOR BY MID 1700s<br />
SO THIS STONE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PREMADE WITH BLANK AREA FOR LATER INSCRIPTION</td></tr>
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Thanks to John's son, Moses (1786-1857), many of the Captain's records are intact, and thus gave early historians the ability to retain much of Stroudwater's history.<br />
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The son of Moses (and his wife, Anna Titcomb - daughter to Andrew Titcomb) was Thomas Quinby, a Portland attorney and civil engineer. While Thomas and his wife (Jane Brewer - daughter to Captain Dexter Brewer) relocated to Saco, they are both also buried here at Stroudwater:<br />
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<b><u>Captain James Means (1753-1832)</u></b><br />
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<b><u><br /></u></b>James Means was Captain in Washington's army, serving at Valley Forge and Bunker Hill. Upon moving to Stroudwater after the War, he worked as a shopkeeper in George Tate's store, taking over from Jesse Partridge around 1786, just after marrying Mary Cox. James and Mary lived above the store for a time, and James bought Tate's business in 1785, running the store, while living upstairs until he had the 'means' to build his own home across the street from Tate.<br />
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The Means House was built in 1797 (just a few years after George Tate died) on the triangle of land that was the former site of Colonel Westbrook's mast yard. According to Tate House Museum, the Tate and Quinby families were not happy about this new house being built, because it ruined their view of the river and bridge in front of their houses. They had wanted to keep this land going as a village green. When James died (a year after his wife Mary), the house went to James' daughter, also named Mary. When Mary passed, the house went to Mary's sister Sophie Means-Mason. Sophie's son Frank sold the house out of the family in the 1900s.<br />
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It still stands today and is the home of the offices of the Tate House Museum. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">PAINTING OF BACK OF MEANS HOUSE<br />
FRONT OF TATE HOUSE VISIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND</td></tr>
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1267 WESTBROOK STREET<br />
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<b><br /></b><u><b>Andrew Hawes (1836-1928)</b></u><br />
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As mentioned above, Captain John Quinby, early shipbuilder and settler of Stroudwater, kept many records of his business dealings, and thanks to his son Moses, such records were kept intact and used as early source material for later research. Such research and commentary was spearheaded by Moses' grandson, Andrew Hawes, who is also buried at Stroudwater. We have Hawes to thank for much of what is available to us researchers.<br />
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Upon death of Martin Hawes, Mary Ann and her son Andrew moved into the Jesse Partridge House profiled earlier.<br />
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Slemons (born to farmer George and Lydia Slemons, of Spring Street Westbrook - who are also buried at Stroudwater) was a carpenter in Stroudwater. While he lived on County Road in Westbrook/Scarborough at the end of his life, he lived in Stroudwater during his prime.<br />
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His grandfather, named William Slemons, Jr. (1753-1834), was business manager for the Means and other families, and charged $1 per day. He also sold hay and land to various members of Stroudwater. According to the <a href="http://www.hillfamilyweb.com/Content/means_maine.pdf">Means of Maine</a>, he handled the real property transfers of the Means house and possibly others, William lived on what is now known as 17 Garrison Street in Stroudwater.<br />
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<u><b>Dr. Jeremiah Barker (1752-1835)</b></u><br />
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Dr. Barker, of Barnstable Massachusetts, was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland. He fought in the Revolution, where he served as a surgeon. Afterwards, he relocated to Gorham by 1780 (becoming the Town's second Town Doctor), but relocated to Stroudwater Village by 1790, and returned to Gorham by the 1830s, having sold his business to competitor Jacob Hunt. (p. 96, <i>A History of Gorham</i>, published 1862, Foster & Cushing).<br />
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He was a noted research physician and authored the book "Account of Febrile Diseases, as they have appeared in County of Cumberland, District of Maine," published in 1802, and other medical publications (according to p. 93 of <i>Bibliography of the State of Maine, from the Earliest Period to 1891, </i>Volume 1 published 1896, The Thurston Print).<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/dr-jeremiah-barker-maine-medical-172662808">Worth Point</a>:<br />
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Dr. Barker and his three wives are buried at Stroudwater Cemetery. According to Tate House Museum, he unsuccessfully tried to save each of them by using 'lime water' as a curative. Dr. Barker resided near the corner of what is now Westbrook Street and Garrison Street, near Harrow House (the home of Colonel Westbrook). His house dates to 1800 and is called a 'fine hip roof structure'. Not sure if it's still there.<br />
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<b><u>Reverend Thomas Browne (1733-1797)</u></b><br />
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Reverend Browne's life was colored by rebellion and scandal. Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts (the son of Reverend John Brown and Joanna Cotton), he attended Harvard, where he was routinely in trouble for skipping church on the Sabbath, stealing bottles of wine and for singing along to lewd lyrics over hymns in church, along with his buddy Langdon (a man after my own heart). His actions didn't cause his expulsion (to the dismay of some in the church), but he did lose his scholarship, and it took him some time to regain his reputation. Once he turned 26, he was forming the First Church of Marshfield, Mass., which was a hotbed for Loyalists at the time. It's unclear if he was considered to be one of them, but the Tate House Museum states that his thesis for his Master's degree at Harvard argued that frequent war did more to promote public safety than frequent peace. During his work at the Church, he succeeded in relaxing a law requiring church membership candidates declare a public reason for their conversion (perhaps due to his own wild youth). A few years later, in 1763, he again was under public scrutiny when the Church investigated his morals (it's not stated what he supposedly did). Browne was so disgusted by the inquiries he left the Church, and in that same year married Lydia Howard of Duxbury.<br />
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In 1764, he was invited to preach at Falmouth. Apparently he was ill received by his fellow clergymen Smith and Deane from the 1st Parish in Falmouth (now Gorham) as he was "first refused shelter on a bitter winter night and given inadequate supper and breakfast of pea porridge and johnnycake without butter".<br />
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In 1765, Browne was officially called to the new 4th Parish of Falmouth (located on Capisic Street), which was founded as a house of worship for 13 ousted members of the 1st Parish (likely all rebels in one way or other, just like Browne). His installation to this new church was seen unfavorably by Smith and Deane, and their flock, and none of them showed for Browne's installation.<br />
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Even after his installation to the 4th Parish, ill will followed Browne. He leased the Samuel Waldo home in Cape Elizabeth and commuted to work, and refused to pay taxes in Cape Elizabeth, which caused the Town of Cape Elizabeth to petition the Mass General Court in 1771 for his taxability. This caused some kind of consternation amongst the people, but apparently that all died down, since he served as head clergy at the Stroudwater Parish for 32 years until his death at age 64, and his clergy meetings were usually held at his second home in Woodfords. Browne was succeeded by Dr. Caleb Bradley.<br />
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During his tenure at Stroudwater, Browne always told new ordained ministers that the church had no control over them.<br />
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The original 4th Parish building from 1764 was a simple one story church, 40'x30', with no pews, only simple benches. They expanded in 1784 to accommodate a growing flock. It contained two stories and two rows of windows, and a high vestibule. Perhaps the chapel building below is the old Parish?<br />
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Thomas and Lydia Browne had eight children, who each 'married well'. Their eldest daughter, Abigail (nicknamed "Nabby"), married the wealthy <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101663625">Hugh McLellan</a>, shipping magnate and first owner of the historically preserved McLellan Sweat House on High Street in Portland, now home to Portland Museum of Art.<br />
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Their 2nd daughter Elizabeth Lewis is their only child buried at Stroudwater.<br />
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Archelaus Lewis of Berwick, said to have been a large framed man of over six feet in height, settled in Saccarappa in 1774 and opened a tailor shop in Stroudwater. In 1776 he entered Continental Army and served five years. He fought with Washington's Army at Valley Forge and earned rank of Lieutenant.</div>
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His uncle, Francis Lewis, was a signer of Declaration of
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The following is from the Daughters of the American
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"Archelaus Lewis, (1753-1834), enlisted 1775 under
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ensign 1776 in Capt. Wentworth Stewart's company and was at Ticonderoga. In
1777 was lieutenant under Capt. George W. Smith, Col. Joseph Vose's regiment.
His pension in 1832 was allowed for two years actual service as lieutenant,
Massachusetts militia. He was born in Berwick; died in Westbrook, Maine. Also
Nos. 3085, 7821, 14053, 34174, 35673." <o:p></o:p></div>
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All three of Lewis' wives are buried at Stroudwater alongside him and two of his young boys.<br />
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In addition to land and mill property bought in Ammoncongan (later known as Cumberland Mills, and now part of Westbrook), Lewis partnered with John Quinby for the land to the south of George Tate, and then subdivided, Lewis' home being to the south east of Tate's.</div>
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<b><u>Polly Porterfield (1780-1854)</u></b><br />
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Polly was an old spinster who lived on the corner of Westbrook Street and Congress Street. She and her sister Peggy ran a gift shop called "West India Company". According to Tate House Museum, Polly would offer neighborhood boys some peppermint sticks if they would pick up twigs in her yard and bring them to her. She was locally famous, according to This is Stroudwater. She was the daughter of William Porterfield, Jr., who himself was an early Stroudwater resident and son to William Porterfield and Mary Jamieson, early Scotch-Irish immigrants to Casco Bay<span face=""roboto" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.79px;">. </span></span><br />
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1296 WESTBROOK STREET</td></tr>
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<b><u>Isaac Lobdell (1714-1802)</u></b><br />
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The very large Lobdell family came from Plymouth in 1795 and bought the James Forder House (built 1734) at what is now 1235 Westbrook Street. Given the Isaac Fly house next door built at the same time, these are Portland's oldest standing houses. Captain Isaac Lobdell Jr. (son to the Isaac Sr whose memorial is pictured above) bought the house from the Billings family. At that time the house was known as the Billings Inn, where rum was sold. While the Lobdells briefly occupied the house to the left of Archelaus Lewis (which had been built by shipmaster Jonah Dyer, but was rarely lived in by him), they eventually settled and prospered quite well in the Forder House, beginning in May of 1795, making it the first house in Stroudwater to be carpeted and wallpapered. His family was reputed to have been comprised of very polite and upstanding people, and had brought with them by boat from Plymouth, a large supply of household goods. They inhabited the house until 1825, at which point they sold it to <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=tate&GSiman=1&GScid=2163884&GRid=115847108&">George Tate</a>, son to William, grandson to colonial Captain George Tate. George's son, Augustus, eventually owned the property until 1921, when it was then sold to Arthur Maxfield, taking it out of historical Stroudwater family ownership.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JAMES FORDER HOUSE<br />
1235 WESTBROOK STREET<br />
AKA THE BILLINGS INN AND THE ISAAC LOBDELL HOUSE</td></tr>
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<u><b>Caleb Bartlett (1757-1820)</b></u><br />
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Next door to the Forder House can be found the Isaac Fly house, also built 1734, which was sold in 1830 to Charles Bartlett, son to Caleb:<br />
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1227 WESTBROOK STREET</td></tr>
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Caleb Bartlett was born in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, one of eleven children born to Robert & Rebecca Bartlett. At age 22, Caleb enlisted in Capt. Thomas Mayhew's Plymouth company for the Rev. War, 1775, for a period of 3 mos. and 8 days. At some point between 1776 and 1790, he and his wife, Elizabeth Holmes, moved to Stroudwater Village and had at least seven children. They lived near the cemetery as well, and I'm not sure if Caleb also worked in timber. A few of Caleb's siblings moved to the Norway, Maine area, but it appears the bulk of this family stayed behind in Plymouth. Caleb's dad remarried twice after the death of his first wife, and ultimately settled in Maine himself. Caleb, his wife, and several of their children and grandchildren are buried together at Stroudwater; at least 24 members of this family can be found here.<br />
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CALEB'S WIFE<br />
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<u><b>Thaddeus Broad (1745-1824)</b></u></div>
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Thaddeus Broad was from Natick, Massachusetts, one of 16 children born to Thadeus Broad, Sr., and just prior to the Revolution, like many others, he migrated north to Stroudwater Village. He and his wife Lucy (whom he met through his boss at Samuel Skillings' gristmill) had at least eleven kids (Thaddeus Jr., Silas, Lucy, Thomas, William, Ephraim, Eunice, Joseph, Daniel and Amos), eight of whom are buried at Stroudwater with he and his wife. A total of 18 Broad family members are buried together here.<br />
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Thaddeus was known for building the Broad Tavern in 1780 in Stroudwater Village (on what is now known as 1 Cobb Avenue), a popular hostelry located on a former 100 acre parcel that was adjacent to what is now the Portland Jetport. The Tavern was a popular gathering spot for the locals for over 120 years, and was the focal point for muster gatherings. When a military gathering occurred at the Tavern, it was reportedly a formalized affair, beginning in front of the George Tate House, whereupon they would commence drill exercises, and march two abreast all the way down Congress Street to the Tavern, with a tag along of village boys to the rear (although the boys were never admitted into the bars). Prior to entering, the men would stack their arms, and upon leaving the Tavern they would reassemble in the same manner and then march to the Frost-Brewer Tavern.<br />
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Thaddeus' granddaughter, Almira Anne (1820-1903) was the last to live at Broad Tavern (<i>This Was Stroudwater </i>p. 128), which <a href="https://portlandhousestories.com/2021/11/21/1-cobb-avenue/">closed in 1840, under the ownership of Thaddeus' son Silas.</a> Almira and Leonard Bond Chapman temporarily opened up the building a museum to raise money for the Christian Temperance Union.<br />
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Artist Herbert Milton Sylvester painted "Painting of Broad Tavern, Stroudwater, 1892"<br />
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<b><u><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115659681">Peleg Mitchell (1775-1859)</a></u></b><br />
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Peleg Mitchell from Watertown Mass. formed a real estate partnership with fellow Watertown locals Jonas Hamilton and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=97245850">Joseph Chenery</a>, in order to buy land of <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115847069">Jeremiah Riggs, Jr</a>. of Stroudwater (land across from what is currently known as Westgate Shopping Center), who had died in 1800. Chenery and Mitchell relocated to the area. Mitchell fought briefly in the War of 1812 in Hobbs Regiment, alongside other Stroudwater neighbors. Chenery, a tanner, drowned himself while coming home to Stroudwater drunk. His son Edward married Peleg's daughter Barbara. His son Joseph Jr. married Mary Dole (daughter to Captain Daniel profiled above).<br />
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Peleg, in addition to the Riggs house, held a large amount of property on Capisic Street, and then also in Deering, near what would be come to known as <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/history-of-morrills-corner.html">Morrill's Corner</a>. He<br />
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Peleg was a charitable soul, according to <i>This Was Stroudwater</i>: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">"Besides being able to play the fiddle, making life a bit more lively, Peleg had an unusual kindness. A few Negro families lived on the road west of the village, descendants, doubtless, of the early servants. It is said that at Christmastime, Peleg gathered up a pung load of these young Negro children, not only for a ride, but for a supper as well. For outer garments, some only had meal bags with holes cut for the head and limbs. According to the custom of the times, the pung would have been layered heavily with hay to keep them warm."</blockquote>
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<b><u>Lillian Ames-Stevens (1844-1914)</u></b><br />
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OVERLOOKING THE RIVER<br />
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Lillian Stevens is probably the most noteworthy of Stroudwater's inhabitants, due to her role in Maine Prohibition. Upon her death, flags across Maine were lowered, the first such State tribute to a woman.<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91303402">her memorial on FindaGrave</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>She entered the profession of teaching, following her father’s footsteps, at about the age of 16. Within a few years she abandoned her career to marry Michael Stevens, a Portland businessman. Later, with school-age daughter in tow, she eagerly traveled to Old Orchard Beach when she learned that Frances Willard would speak at a temperance rally. In 1875 she helped organize the Maine Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and would later assume its presidency for 36 years. She was a member of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union for nearly four decades, proudly wearing its white ribbon badge, and becoming its president in 1898. She collaborated with Portland’s Neal Dow in the successful drive to add a prohibition amendment to the Maine Constitution. She was a tireless worker for social reform, helping to advance the Maine Industrial School for Girls, Portland’s temporary home for women and children, and to obtain a matron for Portland’s women prisoners. She was selected to represent Maine in the World’s Congress of Representative Women, held at the 1893 Columbia Exposition at Chicago.</i></blockquote>
Lillian's home still stands today, to the right of the George Tate House, but I wonder who owned the house originally, since it appears to be of similar age to many of those in the Village:<br />
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The home was originally built by brothers Tristram and Samuel Stevens, sons to Tristram Stevens, Sr. Samuel died during War of 1812. These Stevens were cousins to the Haverhill <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-stevens-family-of-portland-maine.html">Stevens family who settled Stevens Plains</a> and had Stevens Avenue named for them in Portland.</div>
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Lillian's housekeeper, Nora Durgin (originally from Rockingham County, NH), is also buried near the Stevens plot. Lillian named Nora in her will and gave her a small portion of the land to the west of the Stevens' house, upon which sat her servant's quarters, at 1288 Westbrook Street. To add to Nora's fortune at the time, Lillian's husband, Michael Titcomb Stevens (1833-1915) he had additional land he had inherited from his father, Tristram Jr., which he also deeded to Nora, on the other side of Congress Street. </div>
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Lillian's husband Michael survived her by and was bequeathed the house and land, and willed it to his daughter Gertrude and her husband William Leavitt. Interestingly enough, Michael had deeded his half of the estate to Lillian in 1900, additional land and house which he had purchased in a bankruptcy sale from the Estate of real estate baron John Stidworthy in 1877. It's clear that Lillian was an interesting character, and a strong woman of her time, or any time. It appears that Michael was very supportive of her until the end.<br />
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<u><b>Shadrach Chapman (1764-1812)</b></u><br />
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Shadrach Chapman was a Revolutionary War Patriot from Newmarket, NH. <a href="http://www.messar.org/patriots.html">He was, according to some sources, with General Washington at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778</a> but that would have meant he was 13 years old at the time (so perhaps the birthdate is off). After the War he married Lydia Starbird and moved to Stroudwater Village, where had one daughter, Nancy. This family, along with Nancy's husband and their three children (Michael is buried with his wife Lillian, as noted above) are buried together at Stroudwater Burying Ground. Upon Shadrach's passing, Lydia's application for Widow's Pension was rejected because he hadn't served the minimum six months.<br />
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<b><u>William Maxfield, Sr. (1724-???)</u></b><br />
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William Maxfield wasn't known for his own direct accomplishments, but moreso for his children's.<br />
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His eldest son, William Maxfield, Jr. (1760-1840), was known as "Wild Bill Max", and was reputed to have been quite the character. He worked as a "river pilot" who guided vessels through the winding channel of the Fore and Stroudwater Rivers. Once the Vaughn Bridge opened to traffic in 1800, Wild Bill's work got more difficult. Given the draw was narrow, and also given variations in tide, often times a ship was too wide for the available space, and Wild Bill would get ornery and curse the ship captain. He lived in a log cabin on the lot later purchased by Rhoda Partridge, who built her own home there in 1805. More on her above.<br />
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William Sr.'s son Daniel was just a touch more of the calmer sort. He bought a portion of Jesse Partridge's land that had been purchased from Joseph Small, and settled in at the Small house, but didn't like the location of the house, so he had a team of oxen pull the house across the street for a better view of the marshland. Daniel's seven children are purportedly the ancestors to all Maxfields living in Stroudwater (<i>This is Stroudwater p.89).</i> Daniel was a farmer, but also worked as a mariner aboard the <i>Rainbow</i> schooner in 1793. One voyage left him captured by the French, and while in captivity, he became gravely ill, and died very soon upon returning home to Stroudwater. His home does not still stand today, from what I believe. The only old house in that particular area of Westbrook Street is the Daniel Dole house. Daniel's son Charles, of Stevens Plains, was a bricklayer, and in the aftermath of Portland's Great Fire of 1866, he kept busy with work in the massive rebuild of what is now known as the Old Port. Daniel's other son Josiah married into the <a href="http://oldbluegenes.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-stevens-family-of-portland-maine.html">Stevens family</a>. He moved his father Daniel's house even further down Westbrook Street in 1842. Many of Josiah's debts were paid by tinware, likely from his Stevens' in-laws and their own business over in Deering.<br />
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Josiah Maxfield married Nancy Partridge, niece to Jesse. They are buried at the Maxfield Cemetery in Casco.<br />
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<u><b>Asa Fickett (1769-1835)</b></u><br />
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Asa Fickett was born in Cape Elizabeth to Jonathan and Bette Fickett. Jonathan was an early Stroudwater settler, and the final owner of Colonel Westbrook's Harrow House, which was razed in 1795 by Asa's brother Samuel. Asa married Dorcas Plummer in 1792 and moved to Stroudwater Village. When Dorcas passed, he married Eliza Edwards. The three are buried together at the Burying Ground.<br />
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Asa's son Francis was a shipbuilder, and his ship, the Savannah, was the first vessel to cross the Atlantic using both sail and steam (<i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, p. 163).<br />
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Asa's son Nahum was a ship carpenter, and later a milk farmer, born in Stroudwater Village, He's buried near to Asa and other Ficketts. He and his wife Elizabeth had at least five children, but only one, Franklin, appears to be buried here.<br />
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Son to Martin and Sarah Fickett of Cape Elizabeth, Charles was likely a grandnephew or grandson of Asa. He and his wife, Mary Libby, lived at 126 Westbrook Street, Stroudwater Village.<br />
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Several other Ficketts are buried here, but I'm having trouble linking them. According to <i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, there was a "Fickett Exodus" to New York, and some additional Ficketts relocated to Gorham.<br />
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<b><u>William McMahon (1737-1803)</u></b><br />
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William McMahon was a teacher in Stroudwater, and among his pupils were the Tate children. He started in 1767 or earlier, and according to <i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, p. 108, he was believed to be one of the first schoolteachers in the Village.<br />
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Many children were born to the Cummings family, and apparently they all died very young. Such was the case with many families at the time. Eight infants and one teenager are buried here, three born in the 1810s (possibly due to meningitis), and six born in the 1830s (potentially from the cholera epidemic), with a stone commemorating five of them. I believe these were children of Methodist minister <a href="http://treetreetree.org.uk/CyrusCummingsjournal.htm">Reverend Cyrus Cummings</a> (who was also Westbrook town Selectman), originally of Grafton, NH, who had many other children who survived to adulthood. Cyrus, who died of typhoid, is buried with his wife Elizabeth and some of his other children at Western Cemetery in Portland. I cannot verify this connection yet, because all online trees appear to omit these babies, yet the birth/death dates of the babies fit well into his list of children, and his published list of children includes Andrew Jackson Cummings, born a few years after the baby memorialized in the above photo had died. Cyrus did have one famous son, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cummings">Joseph Cummings, who was president of Wesleyan and Northwestern Universities</a>.<br />
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<u><b>Samuel Dalton (1777-1827)</b></u><br />
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Samuel Dalton and his two wives, Mary and Hulda, are buried here. This may be the same Dalton family that lived in Parsonsfield Maine, and for which Dalton's Corner there is named.<br />
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<u><b>Captain Dexter Brewer (1795-1850)</b></u><br />
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Dexter Brewer was originally from Framingham, Massachusetts. He and his wife Jane Frost moved from Dover, NH to Stroudwater Village (where Jane was originally from) just before 1821. They ran the Frost-Brewer Inn at Stroudwater, originally in the home of Jane's grandparents, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115846897">Charles</a> and <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115846901">Joanna Frost</a>, and such building was located near Harrow House (Colonel Westbrook's home), and was formerly owned by Thomas Haskell. Charles Frost was an important figure in Stroudwater who died intestate in 1756, causing his widow to lose much of the family fortune to legal fees and petitions. Joanna had turned their vast home into an Inn in order to raise funds to pay for it all. She ran the Inn until her death in 1796, at which point various heirs continued to run it, until Dexter Brewer took over in the 1820s.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CHARLES FROST HOUSE<br />
LATER KNOWN AS FROST INN<br />
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In 1833, Jane Frost-Brewer died, and the saddened Captain Brewer remarried to a Mary Ann Cloyes, also from Framingham, who was not a popular replacement mother for the seven children of Dexter and Jane. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GRAVE OF JANE FROST-BREWER</td></tr>
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From the Portland City Directory of 1846, his home lot (next to the Inn he was now running solo):<br />
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February 11: The dwelling house of Dexter Brewer, near Stroudwater Village, took fire this evening, and was with difficulty extinguished.</blockquote>
Dexter died in 1850, and is buried next to his first wife Jane. His second wife returned to Framingham. His children are buried in other cemeteries in Portland and Wiscasset. In 1882 the old Inn burned as well.<br />
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<b><u>Jonathan Sparrow, Jr. (1768-1843)</u></b><br />
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Sparrow founded the Sparrow Inn, which was located to the left of Archelaus Lewis house, and built in 1785 by Captain Jonah Dyer. <br />
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According to Sparrow's children quoted in <i>This Was Stroudwater</i>;<br />
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<i>He was indeed a man of few words, always looked down when walking the streets and never noticed anyone; yet a man at that time full of business. In addition to being an innkeeper he was a shopkeeper, built vessels, freighted them, and owned Capisic Mill. Of the block of stores built Portland in 1894 where the Evening Express is printed [Monument Square] he owned one. And when the town of Stroudwater was created in 1814 he was created Town Clerk, and his Inn, by a vote of the town, the office of selectmen.</i></blockquote>
He moved to Portland in his final years and turned the house over to his son-in-law Charles Bartlett. The house burned in 1871.<br />
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Jonathan, his two wives and six of his nine children are buried at Stroudwater.<br />
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<u><b>Isaac Libby (1818-1885)</b></u><br />
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Carriage maker Isaac Libby of the Scarborough Libbys (son to Lemuel) fought in the Civil War, and later lived in Stroudwater during the time when it was renamed as part of Deering. He and his wife Mahala are buried at Stroudwater Cemetery<br />
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<b><u>Almon Libby (1816-1895)</u></b><br />
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Reverend Almon Libby, originally from Minot, and ordained in Poland, Maine, was a very distant cousin of Isaac's, and is also buried here with his wife and their sons Charles and Almon Jr. and daughter Annie (who married Stroudwater historian Andrew Hawes). Almon never lived in Stroudwater, however.<br />
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10 other Libbys, all younger than the two patriarchs above, are also buried at Stroudwater, including another of their distant cousins, Charles Libby (1804-1944) and his wife Ella Slemons.<br />
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All these Libbys are descended from initial Libby immigrant John Libby (1602-1682), and are well traced in the <a href="https://archive.org/details/libbyfamilyiname00libb">Libby Family in America</a> family genealogy book.<br />
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<b><u>Drunken Drownings</u></b><br />
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Apparently the Stroudwater Bridge was a vortex for death by intoxication by some villagers.<br />
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Farmer Jonas Bond, son to Elijah Bond (who bought the Robert Slemons house) died of exposure after falling off the bridge just before Christmas 1857, leaving his wife Sarah widowed until her death 24 years later. His son Elijah was also reputed to have been a drunk, according to the home court records of Moses Quinby, Esq.:<br />
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<i>March 23, 1825: State of Maine against Elijah Bond, yeoman, on complaint of William Slemons, Jr., brought by David Wescott, for being a drunken, disorderly person, committed to the House of Correction, Portland, for six days, M.Q.</i></blockquote>
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Tanner <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=97245850">Joseph Chenery</a> also died of drowning in the River, whilst coming home to Stroudwater after an evening of drinking in 1817. He left Rebecca widowed for 46 years until her death. Joseph is buried at Pine Grove.<br />
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As a reward for those readers having made it to the end of this writing, here is a Stroudwater Tax Map annotated with the names of some of the historical residents as to each of their lots (click to enlarge):<br />
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<u>SOURCES</u>:<br />
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<i>History of Portland (1632 to 1864)</i>, by William Willis, <b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.39px;">© </b>1865 Bailey & Noyes.<br />
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<i>New England Family History Quarterly</i>, by Henry Cole Quinby, <b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.39px;">© </b>1907-1908 5 Nassau Street, NYC.<br />
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<i>This Was Stroudwater</i>, by Myrtle Kittridge Lovejoy, <b style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.39px;">© </b>1985 National Society of Colonial Dames of America.<br />
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The Tate House Museum<br />
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Maine Historical Society<br />
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Find A Grave<br />
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Portland City Directories<br />
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Portland Assessor<br />
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Portland Registry of Deeds<br />
<br />Portland House Stories<br /><br />
Other sources are hyperlinked within this article.<br />
<br /></div>Scott Leonardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113825693501491926noreply@blogger.com11