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The family of Jeremiah Mitchell

The following information was generously provided by Joan Burgess Brown.  The first section entitled "Mitchell Family" provides the history of the Mitchell family from the first ancestor to arrive in the new world, Experience Mitchell, who arrived in 1623, through to Jeremiah Mitchell, who arrived in Monroe in the early 1800's.

The second section entitled "A Line of Descent from Jeremiah Mitchell" traces six generations of Mitchell's descended from Jeremiah.

If anyone has any questions and/or additions, please contact Joan Brown at mayflower@htwc.biz   

  

     

 

MITCHELL FAMILY

1.                  EXPERIENCE MITCHELL was born about 1609 in Leiden , Holland. He came on the ship Anne in 1623 when he was fourteen years of age. At the division of cattle in May 1627, the first lot fell to Francis Cooke and his company, one of whom was Experience Mitchell. Experience was included in the list of Freemen in 1633. He married at age nineteen and lived on Spring Hill in Plymouth. He sold his home there in 1631 and removed to the Blue Fish River in Duxbury. He was an original proprietor of Bridgewater but did not remove there until late in life, sometime after 1680.

From Mayflower Families, Vol. II – The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts:

Pg. 741.

COMMENT ON THE TWO WIVES OF

EXPERIENCE MITCHELL OF PLYMOUTH, MASS

By John B. Threlfal of Madison, Wisc.

Experience Mitchell came to Plymouth, Mass. In 1623 and is known to have had two wives. The first was Jane Cooke, daughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower and his wife Hester Mahieu. Experience Mitchell and Jane Cooke were married after 22 May 1627. She died at an unknown date but before 1666, and he married a second wife whose given name was Mary, her surname yet unknown. The late George E. Bowman and other genealogists of Plymouth families have rather thoroughly examined the existing records that throw light on these people. From this material it is known that Experience Mitchell had the following children:

  1. i.                     Elizabeth, b. prob. 1628; mar. 6 Dec 1645, John Washburn, Jr. She was living in Nov 1681, but he mar. (2) 1684-6, widow Elizabeth Packard. Her children, surname, Washburn, were: John, Thomas, Joseph, Samuel, Jonathan, Benjamin, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, James and Sarah.

  2. ii.                   Thomas. On 8 June 1666, John Cooke, ratified and confirmed to Richard Wright and Thomas Mitchell upland and meadow “given by my father ffrancis Cooke unto the aforesaid Richard Wright and Thomas Mitchell” lying at Jones River in Duxbury “to be equally divided betwixt” the two. On 1 Aug 1672 Thomas Mitchell sold his share to Wright and the deed states that it was given to him by his grandfather Francis Cooke of Plymouth (Col. Deeds, 3:234). He also had land at Dartmouth, given him by his father but returned it in 1669 to his father, who the same day conveyed it to son Jacob. Thomas acknowledged the deed 1 March 1674. He apparently went to Block Island, R.I. where a Thomas Mitchell in 1678 was convicted of selling liquor to the Indians. He d. bef. May of 1687, leaving sons Thomas, John and Joseph, and perhaps daughters, assuming this to be the same Thomas (see the American Genealogist, 12:193-9).

  3. iii.                  Mary, prob. b. 1630-34; mar. 24 Dec 1652 at Plymouth, James Shaw, son of John. Three known children, surname Shaw: James, John and Anne, and probably two other daughters.

  4. iv.                 Sarah, prob. b. 1641-45; mar. John Hayward, son of Thomas and Susannah; his estate settled 1710; she d. aft. 1731; res. Bridgewater. Ten children, b. 1663-87, surname Hayward: Sarah, John, Joseph, Mary, Thomas, Benjamin, Susanna, Elizabeth, Benoni and Mercy.

  5. v.                   JACOB2

  6. vi.                 Edward, prob. b. 1644-48; mar. Mary Hayward, dau. of Thomas and sister of John; he lived with her 40 years and had no children; she d. and he mar.(2) 26 Aug 1708 Alice Bradford, b. 28 Jan 1677, dau. of Major John and Mercy (Warren) Bradford and they had three children: Mary, Alice and Edward; he d. 15 Mar 1716/17 and, she mar. (2) Deacon Joshua Hersey of Hingham; she d. 14 Jul 1746 at Hingham; Edward res. Bridgewater and raised three orphaned children of his brother Jacob.

  7. vii.                John; mar. (1) 14 Dec 1675, Mary Bonney, dau. of Thomas; had one child, Experience; Mary d. 13 May 1677 and he mar. (2) 14 Jan 1679/80, Mary Lathrop who d. 13 Feb 1679/80. He mar. (3) 24 May 1682, Mary Prior; had eight children by her: Mary, Hannah, Joseph, Elizabeth, Elizabeth again, John, Sarah and Esther. He res. Duxbury, moved to Providence, R.I. where he d. 14 Oct 1719.

  8. viii.              Hannah, mar. ca 1682 Joseph Hayward, son of Thomas and brother of John, as his third wife; had seven children: Mary, Thomas, Edward, Hannah, Susanna, Peter and Abigail; he d. 20 Jun 1718.

Bowman and most other writers have casually attributed all of these children

to Experience Mitchell’s first wife, Jane Cooke. There seems to be no evidence to support such an assumption, except in the case of Thomas, and therefore Elizabeth, who must have been the eldest in order to have married in 1645. Thomas and Elizabeth were named, perhaps, for Experiences Mitchell’s family, his father perhaps being Thomas Mitchell of Cambridge, Eng. and Amsterdam, Holland (Lora A. W. Underhill, Edward Small and His Descendants, 1934, 1:510.)

Not one of the later children bore a Cooke name, i.e. Francis, Jane or Hester;

except perhaps Jacob, named for Jane’s brother. Furthermore, daughter Elizabeth was the only child of Experience known to name a child Jane; whereas Sarah, Edward, Jacob, Hannah and John (and also Elizabeth) all named a child Mary. None of Experiences’s children named a child Jane, Francis or Hester (Esther), except Elizabeth’s Jane and John’s Esther. It appears entirely possible that Jane (Cooke) Mitchell was the mother of only Elizabeth, Thomas and perhaps Mary; and that Experience’s second wife Mary, was the mother of the others.

All of the above is circumstantial evidence; hardly the kind a genealogist prefers. By the same token, there is not even this much to support Jane as the mother of all these children, as has been carelessly assumed. Although the Society of Mayflower Descendants accepts descendants through all of the children of Experience Mitchell for membership, such an assumption would seem to be suspect. There is, of course, always the possibility that second wife Mary was herself a Mayflower daughter. (This ends the article from Mayflower Families.)

REBUTTAL to theThrelfal article (Gary Boyd Roberts). The following was submitted to me by another Mitchell genealogist and I tend to agree with these arguments. Respecting the submitter’s anomyminity, I am not revealing the name of that person. In November 1985 among the usual Thanksgiving observances there was an announcement that President William Howard Taft had been removed from the Mayflower Society “due to new information” about his ancestress Jane (Cooke) Mitchell. However, after questioning it was learned that no new information had been discovered. Some strict historians had determined that without birth dates of the children and the date of death of Jane (Cooke) Mitchell, the line was unproven except for the first two children (Elizabeth and Thomas), and possibly the third (Mary); all the rest were probably by Experience’s second wife Mary. Since this cannot be proved we are at a “stand-off.”

There is, though, a stronger possibility that Jane was the mother of them all:

1. In John Putnam Demos’ A Little Commonwealth there are more than adequate statistics to the longevity of a woman’s childbearing years. Women of the 17th century bore children at regular intervals well into their 40’s.

2. The Honorable Nathum Mitchell in his History of Bridgewater (called an unreliable source by the Mayflower Society), refers to Experience’s “wife of his old age, Mary.” Experience was probably 30 years old in 1635 and in no way could be considered old. On the other hand if he married Mary around 1666, by which time Jane was definitely dead, he was then about 62 and would have been considered old in those days.

3. The most important clue to when Jane died is found in the division of Francis Cooke’s “Rockynook” property on June 8, 1666. This was made three years after Francis Cook’s death and was divided five ways “according to our fathers reall Intent and purpose.” If Jane had been dead nearly 30 years, would his “will and intent” have been to divide his property five ways? Most probably Jane was still alive in 1663 but dead by June 8, 1666.

4. An earlier argument was that the Mitchell children did not have Cooke or Mitchell family names. The ancestry of Francis Cooke is totally unknown and it is only probable that Thomas Mitchell was the father of Experience, therefore, family names are unknown. “Experience” reflects the names being given in that age. Old family names were no longer the mode and names such as “Wrestling with the Devil” and “Love of God” were being given.

Three of the known children of Experience bore the names of Jane’s siblings. The unknown children who died in infancy may have had Cooke-Mitchell names.

All in all there is no way to be positive of the Cooke-Mitchell relationships. To change history, we must be sure of our facts and not move on personal interpretations.

2. JACOB2 Mitchell (Experience1) b. 1640-46 at Duxbury; d. Jun 1675 at Fairhaven: m. 7 Nov 1666 Susannah Pope, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Jenney) Pope, b. ca 1649; d. Jun 1675 at Fairhaven.

Jacob was a carpenter. Before he married, he built a home for Susannah on Sandwich Street in Plymouth. It is still standing. Jacob sold his house to Jabez Howland before 1673 and the Howland family lived there until 1680. It is now called the Howland House; it has been fully restored and is maintained by the Pilgrim John Howland Society.

Jacob was given a gift of land from his father and settled at Dartmouth, now Fairhaven, MA in 1669. Jacob was an Ensign and in 1675 at the commencement of King Philip’s War, he and Susannah were attacked by Indians as they were going to the garrison house early in the morning. They lived to reach the garrison but later died of their wounds. They had sent their children to the safety of the garrison the afternoon before; after the death of their parents, the children were brought up by their uncle Edward Mitchell.

Children of Jacob and Susannah were:

          i.    Thomas b. abt. 1667/8; m. 1 Jan 1695/6 Elizabeth Kingman,  dau. of John Kingman                                                                                                                                            

          ii.   3.  JACOB3

            iii.    Mary b. abt. 1674/5; m. 1 Jan 1695/6 Samuel Kingman, son of John Kingman.

3. JACOB3 Mitchell (Jacob2, Experience1) b. 1672 Bridgewater, MA; d. 21 Dec 1744 No. Yarmouth, ME; m. (1st) 1 Jan 1695/6 Deliverance Kingman, dau. of John Kingman; she was b. at Weymouth, MA 12 Mar 1676 and d. at Bridgewater, MA 10 Jan 1696/7. Jacob, his brother Thomas and sister Mary married three children of John and Elizabeth Kingman in a triple wedding ceremony. Their marriage intentions listed Jacob as a “blacksmith,” Thomas as a “weaver” and Mary as a “spinster.” Deliverance died soon after the delivery of their first child. Jacob m. (2nd) 18 Nov 1701 Rebecca Cushman, dau. of Rev. Isaac and Rebecca (Harlow) Cushman, b. 30 Nov 1678; she d. 8 Jul 1756 in No. Yarmouth, ME. Some believed that Jacob’s wife Rebecca was the daughter of Isaac Cushman and Rebecca Ricard. It has more recently come to light that Isaac’s wife was more than likely Rebecca Harlow, daughter of Sgt. William and Rebecca (Bartlett) Harlow. Jacob and his second wife Rebecca lived in Plymouth where Jacob was a blacksmith and served in many town offices; he was instrumental in promoting the first school there.

Plans were made in Boston for the resettlement of the town of North Yarmouth, (now Maine), which had been destroyed during the Indian Wars. Jacob was appointed to a subcommittee to manage the prudentials of this town. He sold his property in Plymouth and removed to Maine. The new settlers drew lots for homesteads on 16 May 1727. Jacob and Rebecca came to North Yarmouth sometime after 1727. Their son, Seth, came first, followed by his parents and later by his half-brother, Jacob, son of Deliverance.

Jacob was one of the founders of the First Church* of North Yarmouth and became a deacon; other Mitchells of this line were deacons of the same church for several generations. He was elected a Selectman for the first town meeting in 1733 and held that position until his death. Jacob and his sons were extensive land owners.

* When my husband and I lived in western Maine and in New Hampshire, we passed this lovely, little white church many times on our way to visit an aunt who lived in North Yarmouth and I always thought of my Mitchell ancestors who had worshipped there. jbb

Child of Jacob and his first wife Deliverance:

  1. i.                     Jacob, b. 10 Jan 1697 at Fairhaven, MA; d. at No. Yarmouth, ME 1 Dec 1784; m. (1st) 18 Jan 1721 Mary Howland, dau. of Abraham and Anne (Rouse) Howland, b. 6 Aug 1706 at Pembroke, MA. He m. (2nd) 27 Jul 1727 Rachel (Lewis) Cushing, dau. of John and Hannah (Lincoln) Lewis and widow of David Cushing. She was b. 11 Jun 1694 at Hingham, MA and d. 15 Mar 1768 at No. Yarmouth, ME.

Children of Jacob and second wife Rebecca:

  1. ii.                   Susannah, b. at Plymouth 15 Jan 1702/3; m. Samuel Baker (Samuel)

  2. iii.                  Rebecca, b. 19 Oct 1704; m. 28 Oct 1727 Elnathan Pope (Isaac) of Dartmouth

  3. iv.                 Seth, b. 16 Mar 1705/6; m. Deborah Andrews (Stephen)

  4. v.                   Mary, b. 7 Mar 1707; m. Joseph Fellows of North Yarmouth

  5. vi.                 Lydia, b. 20 Jun 1710; m. 1 Apr 1727 Isaac Pope (Isaac) of Dartmouth

  6. vii.                NOAH4

  7. viii.              Isaac, b. 20 Jan 1714/15; d. 24 Aug 1738, North Yarmouth

  8. ix.                 Sarah, b. 29 Apr 1717; m. 30 Oct 1741 Andrew Tuck of North  Yarmouth

  9. x.                   Elizabeth, b. 27 Apr 1722; m. 26 Oct 1743 Joseph Howland of North Yarmouth

4. NOAH Mitchell (Jacob3,, Jacob2, Experience1), b. at Plymouth, MA 16 Sep (or 20 Jun 1712); d. 1784+; lived at Kingston, MA before moving with his parents to North Yarmouth, ME in 1735. Noah was 16 when he came to North Yarmouth with his parents; five years later, he returned to Kingston and married his cousin Hannah Mitchell, dau. of Joseph and Bathsheba (Lombard) Mitchell, b. 4 May 1687 at Barnstable, MA. After the birth of their first child Noah and Hannah returned to North Yarmouth. Following the sickness, disease, fires and scarcity of food caused by the terrible droughts west of the Kennebec River in 1761 and 1762, Noah moved his family to coastal Washington county where timber and salt marshes could provide for their needs. They arrived at Pleasant River about 1766 and settled at Columbia Falls. Noah was still there in 1784. (The BangorHistorical Magazine of 27 Apr 1779) lists Noah as a resident of Addison.) It appears that he left the area by 1788. Noah had deeded his No. Yarmouth homestead to his son, John, in 1760 and the deed was signed without the signature of his wife, Hannah, so it is presumed that she had died by that time. He married (2nd) Hannah Low b. at Marshfield, MA 23 May 1717; d. at Columbia July 1782; she was the daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Crooker) Low. There were no children from this marriage.

Children by Hannah Mitchell:

  1. i.                     Ezra, b. Kingston, MA 17 Jun 1734 (bapt.) at No. Yarmouth, ME 14 Aug 1737 (see Isaac below.)

  2. ii.                   Elsie, b. at No. Yarmouth 15 Dec 1735; d. there 24 Oct 1736

  3. iii.                  Noah, Jr. b. 13 Jan 1736/7 (bapt. No. Yarmouth 14 Aug 1737); d. at

No. Yarmouth 3 Aug 1752

  1. iv.                 JOHN5

  2. v.                   Isaac, b. 29 Mar 1740 (bapt. No. Yarmouth 18 May (?) 1740; d. poss. 24 Aug 1758, ae “24th yr” [g.s.Yarmouth] or (should this refer to Ezra above?)

  3. vi.                 Susanna, b. 20 Apr 1741 (bapt. No. Yarmouth 7 Jun 1741); M. 21 Sep 1765 Benjamin Curtis of No. Yarmouth.

  4. vii.                Hannah, b. 19 Apr 1743 (bapt. No. Yarmouth 24 Apr 1743); d. 1799; m. 1763 Nathaniel Cox

  5. viii.              Mary, b. 19 Aug 1745; d. 1778+; m. 1760s Peter McGee

  6. ix.                 Lydia, b. 6 Dec 1746; (bapt. No. Yarmouth 7 Dec 1746)

  7. x.                   William, b. 19 Feb 1747/48 (bapt. No. Yarmouth 28 Feb 1748); d. at Campobello, NB Sep 1820, ae “74” [Eastport Sentinel of 9 Sep 1820]; lived at Columbia Falls, removed to Lubec, to Grand Manan, NB and finally to Campobello, NB

  8. xi.                 Joseph, b. No. Yarmouth 16 Feb 1749/50; d. 1778+; served in Revolutionary War; lived at Columbia 1769-78. No further information.

(Information on Noah Mitchell and his family was found in Early Pleasant River Famlies by Leonard Tibbetts and Darryl Lamson, also from North Yarmouth, Maine records, as well as information supplied by Marjorie Wardwell Otten.)

5. JOHN5 Mitchell (Noah4, Jacob3, Jacob2, Experience1) b, 20 Jun 1738 at North Yarmouth, ME (bapt. 27 Jul 1738); d. at Unity, ME 10 Mar 1830 in “93rd year” [g.s. Pond Cemetery] Unity; m. (int. 23 Oct 1761 at Falmouth, ME Mary (Vickery) Weston, widow of Edmund Weston, daughter of David and Hannah (Parker) Vickery, b. c1738; d. 15 Feb 1822 at Unity, ae 83 [g.s. Pond Cem.].

John and his family removed to Machias in 1765, were in Colubmia in 1769. John took part in the battle of the Margaretta and the Unity. John Mitchell was a Private, Capt. Stephen Smith’s Company; he enlisted 23 Sep 1775 and was discharged 31 Dec 1775; stationed at Machias, Lincoln Co. for defense of the seacoast. The names of those who participated in the capture of the British ships were kept quiet in fear of retaliation by the English. Had any of the Machias men been captured, they could have suffered the death penalty without trial, not even Court Martial. Many of the participants left the area for interior Maine. Presumably, John and his family left Machias sometime after 1766 or 1777.

By 1782, he and his family were living at 25 Mile Pond Town (later Unity), possibly the second settler in that town. He built the first mill in Unity in 1782. The Rev. Paul Coffin says in his Missionary Tour in Maine, 1797, Vol. 4, p. 351 “visited John Mitchell, a steady man………..He has one hundred acres of land cleared and raised one hundred and twenty bushels of corn……..He is now worried about a title to his land; as it was claimed by the Plymouth Company.”

Children of John and Mary:

  1. i.                     David Vickery, b. 31 Jul 1762 (VR) North Yarmouth; moved to Maryland

  2. ii.                   Noah, b. 7 Mar 1764 (VR) North Yarmouth; d. 1 Mar 1844 (g.s. Searsport); m. 2 Aug 1788 Mary Foss of Machias (Maine Historical Magazine 9:37.) Mary was the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Mitchell) Foss. Benjamin Foss was also one of those who seized the “Margaretta.”

  3. iii.                  Mary b. c1766; m. ___________ Green; moved to New Brunswick

  4. iv.                 Isaac b. c.1768; d. 4 Jan 1835 (VR) Unity; m. int. Winslow, ME 23 Jun 1793 Hannah Vickery who d. Aug 1833 (Republican Journal, Aug 29 1833)

  5. v.                   William b. c 1770; d. Feb or Mar 1821 (Kennebec County Probate); m. 5 Nov 1796 Jane Snow (VR)

  6. vi.                 John, b. c1772; d. bef. 1810 census; m. int. Winslow, ME 24 Oct 1790 Lydia Vickery

  7. vii.                Joseph b. 12 Nov 1774; d. 15 Jun 1855 Unity (g.s.); m. 20 Oct 1798 Priscilla Simmons of Burnham, dau. of Libbeus Simmons (NEHGR 111:116, “Vital Records of Clinton”)

  8. viii.              Elizabeth, b. 28 Jan 1777; d. 25 Oct 1859; m. 16 Sep 1797 Isaac Myrick (Isaac Myrick Family Bible, Unity Historical Society). He d. Unity 15 Feb 1857 (g.s. Pond Cem.)

ix. JEREMIAH6

  1. ix.                 Alexander b. c1781; m. 2 Sep 1802 Mary Pierce (Clinton VR)

  1. JEREMIAH6 Mitchell (John5, Noah4, jacob3, Jacob2, Experience1) b. 22 Jun

1779. His birthplace is uncertain. Columbia Falls has no records prior to 1892 and there is no record of Jeremiah’s birth in Unity. Perhaps John Mitchell did not go directly to Unity from Columbia Falls. Tibbetts and Lamson in Early Pleasant River Families state that “he was at Columbia in 1769 and sometime after 1772 settled at Unity.” As it has been suggested that John arrived in Unity about 1782, there are several years when his whereabouts are uncertain. Jeremiah’s date of death is uncertain.

He m. 16 Sep 1802 Mary “Polly” Simmons, dau. of Libbeus and Mary (Dougle/Douglass) Simmons of Troy, b. 23 Jul 1784. Ralph Hillman who does lookups for the MaineGenWeb in the town of Troy has found mention of Libbeus in Troy records but is able to find very little information on the family. Early researchers cite a broken, illegible grave stone at the Mt. Rest Cemetery in Monroe. Both his stone and Polly’s have disappeared over the years, although my mother, deceased, who would be 98 years old and her sister who is now 96 years old both remembered seeing the stones in Mt. Rest Cemetery in years past.

In 1804 Jeremiah was one of the signers of a petition from the inhabitants of Twenty Five Mile Pond Plantation to incorporate a town to be called New Columbis. On the 22nd of June 1804 the town incorporated with the name of Unity. In 1817, Jeremiah signed a petition for incorporation of a town to be named for President Monroe.

Children of Jeremiah and Polly were:

  1. i.                     Seth S. b. 3 Feb 1802; m. Dorcas __________. Dorcas d. 22 Feb 1887

  2. ii.                   Robert b. Oct 1804; d. 22 Nov 1881

  3. iii.                  Eliza b. 18 Oct 1806; d. 1874 (g.s. Westkeag Vlg., So. Thomaston, ME); m. 18 Jul 1839 as 2nd wife Daniel Putnam b. 29 Apr 1789 Monroe, ME. He d. 1868 (g.s. Westkeag Vlg., So. Thomaston, ME)

  4. iv.                 Alexander b. 16 Nov 1808; pub 20 Oct 1837 to Jerusha Webber (John)

  5. v.                   James b. 30 Dec 1810; he died 22 Oct 1875 in Patten, ME; James m. (pub. 5 May 1838) Mary Ann Royal, dau. of Mitchell and Betsey Royal, b. 12 Dec 1820. She d. 12 Mar 1892 Patten. Both are buried in Patten Cem.

  6. vi.                 Lovica b. 7 Apr 1713; d. 26 Feb 1848 Monroe, ME; m. 6 Nov 1832 Elbridge Webber, son of John and Mercy (Harlow) Webber, b. 1810 Lee Plantation; d. 20 Sep 1877 Monroe, ME. Both are buried in Mt. Rest Cem., Monroe

  7. vii.                Jesse b. 11 Apr 1815

  8. viii.              Elijah S. b. 16 Apr 1819; d. Jackson, ME 29 Sep 1851; bur. Mt. Rest Cem., Monroe, ME; m. 1 Oct 1849 Mary E. Cilley.

  9. ix.                 Joseph R. b. 17 Mar 1821; d. 22 Dec 1887; m. 3 Sep 1848 Mary Elizabeth Webber, dau. of John and Mercy (Harlow) Webber b. 16 Aug 1826; d. 1904. Both are buried at Mt. Rest Cem.

  10. x.                   Benjamin b. 28 Apr 1823

  11. xi.                 Pheba(e) b. 26 Jul 1825

  12. xii.                Frederick b. 26 Jan 1826

(1850 Census shows a Judith M. age 16 in this household)

(The foundation of the history of Jeremiah Mitchell and his family was given to me by my aunt, Verna Boyd Knowlton. Other information for this family was found in Monroe, ME Vital Records and in the Priscilla Jones Collection at Philips Library, Searsport Marine Museum, Searsport, ME.)

REF: Clinton, Maine Vital Records

Monroe, Maine Vital Records

North Yarmouth, Maine Vital Records

Ancestry of the Searsport and Monroe Putnams and Related Families, found at the Philips Library, Searsport Marine Museeum, Searsport, ME

Catalog of Members, First Congregational Church, North Yarmouth, Maine

Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, Frank R. Holmes

Early Pleasant River Families, Leonard Tibbetts and Darryl Lamson

Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, James Savage

Harlow Family, Descendants of Sgt. William Harlow, sponsored by the Harlow Family Association

History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, Mass., Nahum Mitchell

History of the Town of Monroe, compiled by the class of 1955-Monroe High School

History of Unity, Maine, James B. Vickery

Johnson-Mitchell Ancestry with Allied Families, Jeanette Johnson-Sherman

Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 1, pg 206, Maine Genealogical Society

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, Vol. X

Mayflower Families, Vol. II Gary Boyd Roberts

Mayflower Planters, Leon Clark Hills

Missionary Tour in Maine, 1797, Vol. 4, pg. 351, Rev. Paul Coffin, (found at Maine Historical Society Library, Portland, Maine

Narrative of the Town of Machias, George W. Drisko

New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Clarence Almon Torrey

Old Times in North Yarmouth, Augustus W. Corliss

Plymouth Colony, Eugene Aubrey Stratton

Priscilla Jones Collection, Philips Library, Searsport Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine

Revolutionary Pensioners Living in Maine, Charles Alcott Flagg

Soldiers, Sailors and Patriots of the Revolutionary War, Maine, Carleton E. Fisher and Sue G. Fisher

Cooke Descendants

http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/cooke/

Vickery Descendants

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/v/i/c/Tina-S-Vickery/

http://babbage.clarku.edu/`djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_437.html

Additional assistance was given to me by Ralph Hillman of Troy Perley Leighton and Marcia Skeate of Columbia Falls, Maine and Marjorie Wardwell Otten of Del Mar, CA.

Compiled by Joan Burgess Brown

Revised 5/14/99

A Line of Descent from Jeremiah Mitchell

Jeremiah Mitchell born 22 Jun 17791 was the son of John Mitchell and Mary (Vickery) Weston2.  His place of birth will probably always remain a mystery.

Jeremiah’s father, John Mitchell, played an active roll in the capture of the British ships, the Unity and the Margaretta, at a time when the country was still under the rule of England. Those who took part in the battle were subject to be hanged without trial if caught; consequently, many of the participants disappeared from the Marchias area, where the battle took place, into the wilderness of interior Maine. The participants of the battle would not reveal the names of their comrades in battle. One of the leaders of the rebellion was Jeremiah O’Brien and it is entirely possible that our Jeremiah was named in his honor.

The battle took place in June of 1775 and John next appears as the second settler of Twenty-Five-Mile-Pond town (now Unity) in 1782. This leads us to believe that Jeremiah was born some where between the Columbia Falls/Machias area and Unity, possibly in Lee Plantation, now Monroe, Maine. Jeremiah was a signer of an early petition to change the name of Lee Plantation to New Columbia, but Monroe was chosen instead.

Jeremiah married 16 Sep 18023 “Polly” Mary Simmons, daughter of Lebbeus and Mary (Douglas) Simmons, born 23 Jul 17844. Jeremiah ‘s date of death is uncertain: Polly died 15 Mar 18685 in Monroe. They are buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery in Monroe.

The children of Jeremiah and “Polly” Mitchell as found on pages 39, 45 and 102 of Vital Records of Monroe, Maine were:

  1.   Seth S. born 3 Feb 1803. He married Dorcas. She died 22 Feb 18876,

Their children were:

Caroline born 13 Feb 18266; marriage intentions 31 Mar 18457 to Thomas Philbrook of Hampden.

Mary Jane born 31 Jan 18288; married 18 Nov 18519 Zenus Downs of Swanville, ME.

Elizabeth Ann born 4 Aug 18318;; published 9 Mar 185010 to Perley York of Monroe.

Sally born 1 Mar 18348..

Priscilla born 22 Oct 18368; married 20 Apr 185911 E.H. Ellingwood of Frankfort.

James A. born (MVR shows two different dates) 19 Dec 18376 and 11 Dec 18398; intentions 13 Dec 186112 to marry Samantha Weston of Winterport. Maine Old Cemetery Association microfilm for Dixmont Corner Cemetery lists James M. Mitchell 1840-1915; Annie A, wife 1853-1923 and Samantha, wife, 1845-1875. Samuel Harrison Mitchell, son of James and Samantha born 10 Nov 1879 (Dixmont VR); died Feb 1947; married 11 Sep 1904 Agnes (Sarah A.)37 Leavitt of Newburg. She was born 14 Dec 1872 and died Oct 1948. Thanks to Richard Spinney for this information.

ii. Robert born 18 Oct 1804; died 22 Nov 188113; published 1 Apr

183314 to Eliza Hall of Brooks, ME.

Their children were:

Mary Ann born 11 Jan 183515

Lovina Abba born 11 Nov 183815

Levi M. born 26 Mar 184115; died at Fredericksburg, VA 13 Dec 186215

Sarah born 11 Jun 184315

Jane born 1 Apr 184615

Manly C. Robinson (adopted son) born 19 Aug 185415

2. Eliza

iv. Alexander born 16 Nov 1808; he married 2 Nov 183716 Jerusha Webber, daughter of John and Mercy Jane (Harlow) Webber born in Bowdoinham, ME 8 Feb 181717.. In the fall of 1854, Alexander and Jerusha went to Illinois. They then moved to Monticello, Minnesota. Their children born in Monroe were:

Francis M. born 9 Jun 183918

Lovica Ann born 7 Aug 184118

Henry Allen born 9 Dec 184318

Unnamed child born 1 Jul 184618

Hiram A. (listed in 1850 Census, age 1 year)

An excerpt from the History of Wright County Minnesota by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge [H.C. Cooper, JR & Co., Chicago, 1915] Vol. 2?, pg. 495, courtesy of Carol Page Tilson follows: “Alexander Mitchell, pioneer, Monticello township, was born in Maine, Nov 16 1808. In the fall of 1854, he went to Illinois, where he remained until the spring of 1855, when he came to Monticello township and located on section 16, where he spent the remainder of his days. He was married November 2, 1856 (year is not correct, jbb) to Jerusha Webber and they had nine children: Frank, Henry A. and Anna (prob. Lovica Ann, jbb), who are dead; Albert N. of Monticello; Augustus, who is dead; Laura, wife of F.J. Wakefield, of Washington; Dora, who is dead; Edwin, of Monticello and Charles Fremont, of Monticello”

3. James S.

4. Lovica

5. Jesse

v.. Elijah S. born 16 Apr 18194; died 29 Sep 185119. He married 1 Oct 184920 Mary E. Cilley. Both are buried at Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

vii. Joseph R. born 17 Mar 18214; died 22 Dec 188719. He married 3 Sep 184821 Mary E. Webber, born 4 Jul 1826 (figured from age at date of death). She died 19 Oct 190419, ae 78y 6m 12d. Both are buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery.

viii. Benjamin born 28 Apr 182322

  1. ix.                 Pheba(e) born 26 Jul 182422

  2. x.                   Frederick born 26 Jan 182622

2ND GENERATION

All information on the Putnam descendants of Jeremiah and Polly Mitchell was provided by Malcolm “Mack” Jackson, the great, great-grandson of Eliza and Daniel.

2. Eliza was born 18 Oct 18064; died 12 Feb 187423 at So. Thomaston, ME. She married 18 Jul 183924 Daniel Putnam, son of John and Joanna (Eames) Putnam, born 5 Mar 1868 in Frankfort (that part now Monroe); he died 5 Mar 186823 in So. Thomaston. Both are buried in the Village Cemetery at So. Thomaston, ME..

Daniel was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was at Hampden, ME when the British came up the river after the battle at Castine and burned some of the town of Hampden. In their old age, Eliza and Daniel went to live with George in So. Thomaston in the house where Mack Jackson now lives.

Children of Eliza and Daniel were:

  1. 5.                  Nancy

  2. 6.                  George Lewellyn

iii. Silas F. was born Sep 1844 and died 27 Nov 1862. He died in the service during the Civil War. He is buried in Monroe. (poss. Mt. Rest Cemetery.)

iv. Jeremiah M. born 26 Jun 1846 and died 20 Jul 1865 at Georgetown, S.C. He died in the Civil War. They are buried in that same small cemetery in Monroe as Silas.

  1. v.                   Eliza Jennie born Feb 1851 and died 10 Mar 1871. She married 23

Oct 1866 at Rockand, ME Caleb H. Knowlton. They had no children. She is buried in Monroe, same cemetery as Silas.

All information on James S. Mitchell and his descendants was provided by Eileen Decoteau, great, great-granddaughter of James. Thanks Eileen for all your help.

3. James S. was born 30 Dec 18104. He died 22 Oct 1875 in Patten, ME. James married (pub. 5 May 183825) Mary Ann Royal, daughter of Mitchell and Betsey Royal, born 12 Dec 182026. She died 12 Mar 1892 in Patten, ME. Both are buried in the Patten Cemetery.

James S. Mitchell was one of the original Board of Trustees of Patten Academy

And served as President from 1855 – 1857. He also served as the Academy’s

Treasurer in 1847.

Children of James and Mary Ann were:

i. Horace W. born abt 1842

7. Roscoe G.

iii. Leroy F. born about 1849 in Patten, ME

4. Lovica was born 7 Apr 18134 and died 28 Feb 184827 in Monroe. She married 6 Nov 1832 Elbridge Webber. He was born 1810 (listed as 40 years old in 1850 Census) in (poss.) Lee Plantation (Monroe), ME and died 22 Sep 187719. Both are buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME. My mother, Lovica’s great-grandaughter, told me that Lovica’s name was pronounced Lovice-sa and she was called “Vicey.”

The information that Elbridge Webber was born in Lee Plantation was given to my by one of my distant cousins, Ola-Mae Wheaton. She found it in the book Genealogical Sketch of the Descendants of the Webber Family by A. Button, printed E. Saginaw, MI 1878.

Children of Lovica and Elbridge were:

8. Gilman Elbridge

9. James Horace

ii.. Sarah Helen born 30 Mar 183927 in Monroe.

iii. William Albert born 1 Nov 184527

iv.              Lovica J. born 184719 in Monroe; died 1 Apr 184919 in Monroe.

Elbridge Webber married (2nd) 17 Dec 184828 Mary E. Webber born 17 Mar 181428 and died 6 Jul 188429, ae 70 y 3 m 20 d.

5. Jesse Mitchell was born 11 Apr 1815 in Monroe, ME and died aft 1880. He married Mary Ann Mitchell, daughter of Joseph and Priscilla (Simmons) Mitchell. Mary Ann was born abt 1821 in ME and died aft 1880.

Jesse and Mary Ann had:

  1. i.                     Greenville born abt 1841 in (prob) Waldo Co., ME. He married Lizzie F. Phinney 19 Jun 1866 in Winterport, ME.

  2. ii.                   Mary E. born abt 1842 in (prob) Waldo Co., ME

  3. iii.                  Eugene W. born abt 1846 in (prob) Waldo Co., ME

  1. 11.              William Hannibal

v. Endemilo/Endia born abt 1853 in (prob) Unity,

Waldo, ME

vi. Martha A. born abt 1855 in (prob) Unity,Waldo, ME

vii. James W. born abt 1858 in (prob) Unity, Waldo, ME

  1. viii.              Charles M. born abt 1864 in (prob) Unity, Waldo, ME

2nd GENERATION

6. Nancy Putnam was born 7 Sep 1840 at Monroe, ME; died 18 Nov 1928 at So. Thomaston, ME. She married 15 May 185830 at Monroe Silas C. Hall, son of Ambrose and Caroline (Clark) Hall, born 6 Dec 1827 in Spruce Head, St. George, ME. They resided in St. George and are buried in the Forrest Hill Cemetery there.

The stone in the cemetery gives his birth date as 6 Dec 1828.

Nancy and Silas had one child:

12. Alice W.

7. George Lewellyn Putnam was born 13 Nov 1841 in Frankfort, ME and died 7

Mar 1922 in So. Thomaston, ME. He married 26 Jan 1870 at Rockland, ME. Mary Dunning Rowell, daughter of Rice and Sally (Dunning) Rowell, born 14 Jul 1839 at So. Thomaston, ME. She died 27 Dec 1925. Both are buried in the Village Cemetery. George and his two brothers were veterans of the Civil War.

George and Mary had three children:

  1. i.                     George Clifford (known as Cliff) was born in So. Thomaston

19 Oct 1874 and died 16 Nov 1947. He was a farmer living on the home place and never married.

11. Israel Judson

iii. Jennie Alice was born 23 Jul 1877 in So. Thomaston, ME and died there 19 Mar 1947. Jennie was single and resided on the home place with her brother George Clifford.

8. Roscoe G. Mitchell was born in May 1844; he died in April 1919 in Pattern, ME.

He married (1st) Jennie M. Woodward on 26 Sep 1866. She died on 12 Mar 1872. They had one child:

i. Eva A. born ca 1869.

Roscoe G. married (2nd) 24 Apr 1874 Susan E. Campbell, daughter of Norman and Eliza Campbell, born 24 Nov 1855 in Fort Kent, ME. Susan died 4 Jun 1911. She is buried in the Pattern cemetery, as is Roscoe, per cemetery record.

The children of Roscoe and Susan were:

13. James S.

ii. Vinnia or Vinna B. born ca 1878. She died 14 Nov 1881

iii. Roscoe S. born ca 1879

  1. iv.                 Luella D. born ca 1883

  2. v.                   Lyman V. born Apr 1884; married 1 Jun 1904 Maria E. McGowan who was born in Ashland

vi. Lucinda N. born Jan 1886

vii. Leroy F. born 22 Jul 1887 and died 30 Jan 1906 in Crystal, ME.

9. Gilman Elbridge Webber born in Monroe 30 Oct 183318; he died 8 Sep 188631

Monroe, ME. Gilman Elbridge married 5 Nov 185732, Rachel Jane Blethen, daughter of John and Rachel Hunter McClure Blethen. She was born in Swanville, ME 19 Feb 183633. She died 26 Jan 190933 in El Monte, CA and is buried in Savanna Cemetery in El Monte. She moved to California two years after Gilman’s death. Rachel married (2nd) in 189433 Austin Ruggles of El Monte, CA. Gilman was a sea captain. I (jbb) have a picture of him taken in Accra, West Africa in 1869 and also an elaborately carved, wooden spoon with an inscription on the back. The inscription is about the presentation of the spoon and the date of presentation. There is also a picture of Rachel Jane, called Jennie, wearing the hoop skirted dress of the times and a lovely beaded “snood” or kerchief. The beads are beautiful black jet.

Children of Gilman and Rachel were:

13. George born

14. Lillian

10. James Horace Webber born 15 Dec 183518 in Monroe; died 22 May 190034 in

Monroe. He married 27 Apr 186535 Eliza Arvesta (Newcomb) Whiting, daughter of John S. and Nancy (Caswell) Newcomb, born 8 May 184236 Appleton, ME. Eliza married (1st) 2 Feb 1861Barzilla Fred Whiting born 15 Dec 1839 in Dixmont, ME; he died 5 May1864 in Spotsylvania, VA.(probably the battle of the Wilderness, jbb.) They had one child, Frank Orrin. Eliza died 24 Dec 192519 in Monroe. Both Eliza and James are buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery in Monroe. James was a seaman, possibly sailing with his brother, Capt. Gilman Webber. My mother told me that he wore a gold earring in one ear. Before they were married, he brought Eliza a pair of long, dangle earrings from Africa made of African gold. They are now in my possession (jbb.) As well as being a sailor, James was a farmer and Tax Collector of the town of Monroe for many years.

Children of James and Eliza:

15. Edith Arvesta

16. Lula Ethel

iii. Guy Albert born in Monroe 27 Feb 187419; died there 18 Apr 189219.

iv. Flora Maud born 29 Mar 187619 in Monroe; died there 19 Apr 189219.

17. Helen “Nellie” Florence

18. Wilfred Everett

vii.. Warren A. born 13 Apr 188319 in Monroe; died there 3 Jul 188319.

19. Chester James

ix. Roy born 1886 in Monroe; died there 188619.

x.. Ray born 1886 in Monroe; died there 188619.

xi. May (no dates known)

Guy A., Flora M. Wilfred E. Warren A., Roy, Ray and May are all buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

11. William Hannibal Mitchell

4th GENERATION

12. Alice W. Hall was born 30 Jul 1860 at Spruce Head, ME; she died 17 Dec 1934 at Spruce Head (in the in house which Mack Jackson now lives.) Alice married (intentions filed 20 Dec 1880 in So. Thomaston) Charles Oscar Elion Grant, son of Emery and Mary A. (Crocker) Grant, born 27 Nov 1850 Prospect, ME. He died 10 Feb 1913 ae 64 y 2 m 14 d. (His age at death and birth date do not match; these dates are from So. Thomaston death records and his stone at the cemetery.)

They lived in Spruce Head and are buried there in the Forrest Hill Cemetery.

Alice and Charles had four children:

i. Winifred May born 20 Jul, 1883 at Tennant’s Harbor, St. George,

ME.; died 18 Mar 1927 Spruce Head, ME. She married 18 Mar 1911. They were divorced and had no children.

ii. Silas Edwin was born 1880 and died 1890.

iii. Walter E. was born 11 Sep 1885 at Spruce Head and died 16 Dec 1892.

iv. Nanny Kate was born 1887 and died 26 Mar 1891.

All are buried in Forrest Hill Cemetery.

13. Israel Judson Putnam (known as Jud) was born 3 May 1876 in So. Thomaston and died 12 Jan 1948. He married 5 Nov 190537 Mabel Stinson Barbour, daughter of Sterling K. and Annie Lillian (Stinson) Barbour, born 3 Nov 1887 in Stonington, ME. She died at So. Thomston in 1954. Israel and his siblings died in order within six months.

Jud and Mabel had two children:

i. George Sterling (known as Sterling) born 15 Aug 1907 in So. Thomaston, ME and died 24 Mar 1990 at Rockport, ME. He married 31 Dec 192837 Linnie B. Eaton at Rockland, ME. Linnie, daughter of Athur and Asneth Eaton, was born 18 Feb1910 at Deer Isle, ME; she died 22 Dec 1999 at Rockport, ME. They had no children but adopted Paul Putnam, the son of Mary Lillian Putnam and her husband Samuel T. Jackson, after Lillian died.

20. Mary Lillian

14. James S. Mitchell was born 23 May 1876 in Pattern, ME and died 21 Dec 1946.

He married 12 Oct 189837 Nettie Olive Woodbury.

James S. Mitchell was a lumberman, trucker, farmer and freight clerk . He was a member of Katahdin Lodge #98 F&AM in Patten and served as a volunteer for the Army Air Force’s Aircraft Warning Service in May 1944 in Patten.

The children of James and Nettie were:

.i. infant daughter, died 31 Aug 1901, shortly after birth

21. Leon James

ii. Philena Susan born 11 Apr 1908 in Patten, ME; she died 14 Aug 1868 in Brunswick, ME. She married Harold L. Green of Fall River, MA.

iii Luella Lillian born 20 May 1908, Ft. Fairfield, ME; she died 15 Feb 1995 in Machias, ME. Luella married 27 Jul 193537 Bradford Snow of Orrington, ME.

iv. Effie Woodbury born 6 Jun 1914, Patten, ME; she died 1 Mar 1995 in Machias, ME. Effie married 18 Oct 193337 Robert A. White of Red Bank, New Brunswick, CA.

15. George G. Webber was born 10 Jun 186548 in Cherryfield, ME; he died 25 Jul 189731 at age 32 years. George married and had one daughter who died shortly after birth. Wife’s name is unknown. He is buried in the Savanna Cemetery in El Monte beside his mother.

16. Lillian Blanch Webber was born 5 Feb 186831 in Cherryfield, ME; she died 20 Jan 193631 in El Monte, CA. Lillian married Joseph Darling in 189738 in California.

Lillian and Joseph had one child:

22. Della M.

17. Edith Arvesta Webber was born 9 May 186839 in Monroe, ME; she died 12 Dec

1945 in Appleton, ME and is buried in White’s Corner Cemetery in Montville, ME. Edith married 6 Jun 189437 Colby R. Bartlett born 24 Mar 1858 in Appleton, ME; he died 18 Nov 1917 in Appleton. He is buried in White’s Corner Cemetery Montville, ME.

Edith and Colby had one child:

22. Ray Wentworth

18. Lula Ethel Webber was born 19 Dec 187139 in Monroe, ME and died 1897 in

Monroe, ME . She married 14 Mar 189437 in Monroe Fred A. Tasker, son of John F. and Lovina M. (Cilley) Tasker, who was born 27 Sep 186840 in Monroe. He died 1952.

Lula and Fred had one child:

24. Bernice L.

19. Helen “Nellie” Florence Webber was born 5 Jul 187841 Monroe, ME and died 3 Mar 194242 in Belfast, ME. She married 29 Nov 189943 Wilbur L. Boyd, son of Charles H. and Lizzie Ellen (Damon) Boyd of Monroe, born 30 Mar 187741 in Fall River, MA. He died 18 Oct 195042 in Belfast, ME. Wilbur Boyd married (2nd) Stella L. (Bean) Twombly on 15 Aug 194237 in Belfast. Wilbur and Nellie are buried in Grove Cemetery, Belfast, ME.

Children of Helen and Wilbur were:

25. Inza Evelyn

26. Verna Lornys

20. Wilfred Everett Webber was born 13 Apr 188319 in Monroe, ME; he died 21 Jun 195619 in Belfast. Will married 8 Aug 190937 Delphine Vassar Staples, born Belfast, ME 26 Jan 188619. She died 4 Jan 195619 in Belfast, ME. Uncle Will lived on the original Webber homestead in Monroe and was a farmer. The house has since burned but was situated a short distance up the road from the Mt. Rest Cemetery where so many of the Mitchells and Webbers are buried.

Children of Will and Della were:

27. Guy Ames

28 , James Elbridge

29. Richard Stanley

21. Chester James Webber was born 11 Jun 188439 in Monroe and died 1 Aug 196045 in Swanville, ME. He married 22 Jan 192137 Maude E. Ricker 11 born Dec 1882 in Monroe, Me. She died 13 Jan 196045 in Swanville, ME. They are buried in the Village Cemetery, Monroe. According to A Genealogy of the Ricker Family by Percy Leroy Ricker and Elwin R. Holland, published by Heritage Books in 1996, Maude was a school teacher. This book also confirms her date of birth.

Uncle Chet had a farm a few miles below the farm of Uncle Will. He and Aunt Maude loved children and I loved to spend summers with them on the farm. Uncle Chet delighted in teasing and played many pranks on me. Aunt Maude taught me to swim in Marsh Stream which ran behind their farm. jbb

Child of Chester and Maude was:

i, Mary Alice born Mar 1925; died Mar 1925

5th GENERATION

22. Mary Lillian Putnam was born 5 Jun 1906 in So. Thomaston, ME and died 17 Feb 1933 at Rockland, ME. (She was always known as Lillian.) Lillian married at Rockland 3 Nov 192337 Samuel Theodore Jackson , son of William Henry and Hattie Alice (Tripp) Jackson. Samuel was born 4 Jul 190344 at So. Thomaston. He died there 5 Feb 198145.

Mary Lillian and Samuel had five children:

30. Estelle Barbara Jackson

ii. Nathalie Virginia Jackson (living)

iii. Malcolm Putnam Jackson (living)

iv.. Paul Barbour Jackson (living)

v.. Neil William (living)

23. Leon James Mitchell was born 7 Apr 190444 in Patten, ME.; he died 9 Jun 198544,45 in Calais, ME and is buried next to his parents. Leon J. married 24 Jun 192637 in Island Falls Thelma E. Burrill, daughter of Leroy E. and Ethel Rose (Copeland) Burrill. She was born 27 Oct 1905 in Millinockett, ME.

Children of Leon and Thelma were:

i. Galen Leroy (living)

ii. Shirley Anne (living)

iii. Roger James (living)

v. Eileen Mary (living)

24. Della (Darling) Golden was born 7 Aug 190744 in Wilmington, CA. She died

27 Feb 199344 in Wilmington. CA.

Della had one son:

i. Donald Ralph Getty born 4 Jun 192744; he died 9 Dec 196644 in Los Angeles, CA.

25. Ray W. Bartlett was born 25 Jun 189544 in West Appleton, ME; he died 19 Dec 199145 in West Appleton. Ray married 22 Jun 192137 Mary C. Wentworth who was born 16 Dec 189744 in Montville, ME. Mary died 22 Jun 199145 in Camden, ME.

Ray and Mary lived on a farm with large acreage in West Appleton, ME. The view of the distant Camden Hills from their home is spectacular. It was a family tradition that my Mom, Dad and I, along with my Knowlton aunt, uncle and cousins spent the 4th of July on the farm in West Appleton with our Bartlett cousins. Aunt Edith and Mary made homemade ice cream and Ray provided home grown peas. My Mom and Dad brought fresh salmon. Ray, Dad and Uncle Dean had built shoots for the sky rockets and all the children had lots of sparklers. Ray’s parents had had the local post office in their home and Ray continued the tradition. Aunt Edith was also the local telephone operator from a switch board in their living room. When I was a child and we journeyed to West Appleton in the spring over the muddy, unpaved roads, we always got stuck and had to have Ray come with his team of horses to pull our car out of the mud. Sadly, Mary had to go into a nursing home in Camden in later years. We were all gathered in West Appleton to celebrate the 70th wedding anniversary of Mary and Ray when we learned that Mary had died in the early hours of that day, their anniversary. Ray was the holder of the Boston Post Cane, as the oldest resident of Appleton, when he died. He was also the town historian.

The children of Ray and Mary were:

i. Colby R. (living)

ii. Donald Isaac (living)

iii. Paul Wesley (living)

  1. ii.                   Harold Frank (living)

26. Bernice L. Tasker was born 19 Mar 189544 in Monroe, ME. She died 19 May 198645 in Belfast, ME. Bernice married 16 Jun 192037 John Monroe born 15 Apr 189144 in Charlestown, MA. He died 17 Jul 197745 in Belfast, ME.

Child of Bernice and John was:

31. Elva Louise.

27. Inza Evelyn Boyd was born 29 Nov 190041 in Jackson, ME and died 31 Mar 199242 in Dade City, FL. She married 15 Oct 192347 in Belfast, ME. Harold Joseph Burgess, son of Joseph S. Burgess, Jr. and Mattie Luella (Maxwell), born 25 Nov 190041. He died 15 Mar 198442 in So. Hiram, ME. Both are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Searsmont, ME.

Inza attended Farmington Normal School and was a school teacher until her marriage. Harold was in the automobile business in several capacities. He had his own garage in Belfast until the depression. Then he became a car salesman. He worked as a timekeeper in the Bath Iron Works in Bath, ME during WWII. After the war he became service manager of a truck garage in Portland, ME and went on to become service manager of a Chrysler dealership in Kezar Falls, ME where he worked for about 30 years before he retired.

Child of Harold and Inza was:

i. Joan (lving)

28. Verna Lornys Boyd was born 2 Jun 190241 in Jackson, ME and died 4 Jun 200042

in Port Orange, FL. Verna married 22 Aug 192337 in Belfast, ME Dean Wentworth Knowlton, son of Warren and Grace (Hammons) Knowlton, born 22 Aug 189944 Belfast, ME. He died 21 Sep 198744 in Daytona Beach, FL.

Children of Verna and Dean were:

i. Dean Wentworth, Jr., born 22 Apr 192544 in Camden, ME. He died 19 Sep 199945 in Portland, ME and is buried in Grove Cemetery Belfast, ME. He married Virginia Morton (living). Dean served on a PT boat in the South Pacific during WWII.

ii. Marilyn Ann (living)

iii. Patricia (living)

29. Guy Ames Webber born 16 Jun 191044 in Monroe, ME; he died 30 Jan 198845 in

Belfast, ME. Guy married 23 Jul 193837 in Monroe, ME Ida (Ellis) Littlefield, daughter of Fernando Ginn and Helen (Bowden) Ellis, born 26 Nov 190844. Ida died 12 Apr 197545 in Belfast. Both are buried in Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME.

Children of Guy and Ida were:

i. Doreen Louise (living) a twin

ii. Noreen Helen, died at birth, a twin

iii. Roger Blaine (living)

30. James Elbridge Webber born 9 Dec 1915 in Monroe, ME. He married 22 Aug 194037 in Belfast, ME Sybil Higgins, daughter of Arthur and Eunice (Woods) Higgins. Sybil was born 1 Feb 191844 in Poor’s Mills, ME and died 21 Apr 200344 46, in Belfast, ME.

Child of James (called Elbridge) and Sybil was:

i. Arthur Higgins (living)

31. Richard Stanley Webber was born 11 Feb 192244 in Monroe, ME and died 15 May 199044,45 in Belfast45. He married 3 Aug 194737 Elva (Monroe) Marden, daughter of John and Bernice (Tasker) Monroe and widow of Henry Marden, born 11 Nov 1921 in Isleboro, ME; she died 4 Jan 2005 in Belfast, ME.

They are buried in Harmony Place Cemetery, Monroe, ME.

Richard and Elva had:

i. Ann Louise (living)

ii. Gail Belinda (living)

The cousins Ray Bartlett, Bernice Tasker, Inza and Verna Boyd, Guy, Elbridge and Richard Webber always remained close. They had grown up in an era when family was important. They and their children held Webber reunions in Belfast and Swanville, ME for several years. They ceased having reunions when most of the older members had died and many of the younger ones had moved to distant areas.

6th GENERATION

32. Estelle Barbour Jackson was on 7 Jun 1924 in So. Thomaston, ME and died 7 May 199345 in Thomaston, ME. She married (1st) 15 May 194337 Kenneth Wilson Dow at Belfast, ME. She married (2nd) 26 Nov 194537 Albert Barlow.

Estelle and Albert had three children:

  1. i.                     Nathalie Virginia (living)

  2. ii.                   Linda J. (living)

  3. iii.                  Albert, Jr. (living)

33. Elva Louise Monroe was born 11 Nov 1921 in Isleboro, ME; she died 4 Jan 2005 in Belfast, ME. Alva married (1st) 21 Mar 1943 Henry S. Marden. They had 1 child, Mary Beth (living) Elva married (2nd) 3 Aug 1947 Richard S. Webber, son of Wilfred and Delphine (Staples) Webber. They had two daughters: Ann Louise (living) and Gail Belinda (living)

SOURCES:

  1. Vital Records of Monroe, Maine Prior to 1850, Transcribed by Elizabeth M. Mosher, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, pp 39, 102, hereinafter MVR; Maine Families in 1790, Picton Press, Camden, Maine, Special Publication of the Maine Genealogical Society, Vol. 1, pg 207

  2. Marriage intentions recorded 24 Oct 1761, No. Yarmouth, Maine; Vital Records of North Yarmouth, Maine, Edited by Ruth Wilder Sherman, Picton Press, pg 179.

  3. Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 1, pg 297; also found in Families of Clinton, Maine. Compiled by Ruth Gray on the New England Historic Genealogical Society web site. These births, deaths and marriages were copied from the first record book of Clinton.

  4. MVR pp 39, 102

  5. Dates from Richard Spinney who credits microfilm of the MOCA, Maine Old Cemeteries Association. James Vickery in Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 1, pg 207 mentions illegible, broken grave stones. My mother Inza Boyd Burgess who would at this date, Jan 2005, have been 104 years old and her sister Verna Boyd Knowlton who would have been 102 at this time, both have told me that they remembered seeing Jeremiah and Polly’s grave stones, although they no longer exist. I have a copy of an 1880 rendition of Mt. Rest Cemetery showing the names of those who purchased lots in the cemetery. Lot #34 is shown as belonging to Jeremiah Mitchell. (jbb)

  6. MVR, pg 110

  7. MVR 202

  8. MVR, pp 110, 136

  9. MVR, pg 256

  10. MVR, pg 206

  11. MVR, pg 254

  12. MVR, pg 230

  13. obituary from the Republican Journal (Belfast, ME) found in the Priscilla Jones Collection, Phillips Library, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME

  14. MVR, pg 82

  15. MVR, pg 150

  16. MVR, pg 70

  17. MVR, pg 124

  18. MVR, pg 151

  19. gravestone Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

  20. MVR, pg 218

  21. MVR, pg 217

  22. MVR, pg 45

  23. gravestone Westkeag Village Cemetery, So. Thomaston, ME; I personally visited this cemetery with Malcom Jackson, great, great-grandson of Eliza and Daniel.

  24. MVR, pg 71

  25. MVR, pg 194

  26. MVR, pg 97

  27. MVR, pg 151; gravestone at Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

  28. MVR, pg 217

  29. birth date figured from age at date of death; gravestone Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

  30. MVR, pg 253

  31. family Bible

  32. MVR, pg 251

  33. obituary, El Monte Gazette, El Monte, CA, issue of 12 Feb 1909; family Bible

  34. obituary, Republican Journal (Belfast, ME) issue of May 31, 1900; gravestone Mt. Rest Cemetery, Monroe, ME

  35. MVR, pg 262

  36. Andrew Newcomb 1618 – 1836 And His Descendants, compiled by Bethuel Merritt Newcomb, Published Privately for the Author by the Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, New Haven, CT 1923, pg 549

  37. Maine Marriages – Maine State Archives on line http://thor.dafs.state.me.us/pls/archives/archdev.marriage_archive.search_form

  38. date written on back of old wedding picture which is now in my possession jbb

  39. MVR, pg 165

  40. MVR, pg 157

  41. birth certificate

  42. death certificate

  43. corrected marriage record from Monroe Town Clerk, orginal record showed wrong name for bride, see Maine Marriages on line

  44. Social Security Death Index http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

  45. Maine Deaths – Maine State Archives on line http://thor.dafs.state.me.us/pls/archives/archdev.death_archive.search_form

  46. obituary found on line at: http://waldo.villagesoup.com/ (Waldo County-Village Soup)

  47. marriage certificate

  48. www.pilgreen.com/Blethen/pafg17.htm

 

 

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