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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

BLETHEN.

   Tradition says that John Blethen was born at Small Point, Phippsburg, and was
in the garrison house at the age of four years when the Indians attacked it in
1722. A brother James m. 1757 Miriam Day of Georgetown and settled in Cape
Elizabeth. Another brother Increase is said to have settled in Phillips, but
this may have been a son.

   John Blethen is accredited with three wives, and twenty-seven children by
first two marriages. His first wife's name is unknown. He m. (2) 1763, Dorcas
Getchell of Brunswick; (3) 27 Aug. 1789, Hannah Hibbard of Durham. He bought lot
12 in 1770, afterward moved to Lisbon and died there at the house of his
daughter HANNAH, who m. 1790, William Green. He also had children, REUBEN m. 28
Nov. 1799 Ruth Curtis of Little River; JOB of Lisbon; JONATHAN; INCREASE; JOHN
m. 5 Sept. 1794 Sally Pomroy and lived in Lisbon; JAMES; SIMEON; and DAVID, d.
young. The following were probably his daughters, MIRIAM m. 6 Dec. 1781
Nathaniel Getchell; WEALTHY, m. Josiah Day; JOANNA, m. 9 April 1808 James Estes;
DORCAS m. Edsel Webber; PHEBE m. 1770, Charles Gerrish; POLLY m. 1795 Josiah
True; AXIL, m. _____ Rideout; and RHODA m. 26 Dec. 1785 Simeon Kimball.

   James, son of John  Blethen, married ____ Longley and lived in Durham as a
farmer on lot 62.

   JOHN b. 6 Sept. 1789; m. (1) Rebecca Blethen who died 7 Jan. 1832, aged 36
yrs. (2) 30 Mch. 1834 Mary, dau. of John and Mercy (Dain) Blake, who was born 17
Dec. 1787. He died 3 April 1870.

   JAMES b. 14 April 1791; m. ____ Hacker. They had one son.

   SARAH b. 2 Feb. 1793; m. 17 Nov. 1812 Thomas Cotton of Lisbon.

   ANDREW b. 2 Jan. 1795; m. (Int. Rec. 12 Jan. 1820) Arzilla Gerrish. He was a
Free Baptist minister. Lived in Foxcroft.

   REUBEN b. 14 Sept. 1797; m. 6 April 1820 Thankful Day.

   ABIGAIL b. 14 July 1799; m. Benj. Peterson of Lisbon.

   ISAAC b. 30 June 1801; settled in Dover, Me. Seven sons and two daus.

   GEORGE b. 28 July 1804; m. 13 April 1826 Ruth Booker of Durham.

   MARY m. (1) 17 April 1831 John Stoddard of Lisbon (2) Joshua Robinson (3) Wm.
Young.

   Simeon Blethen, son of John, married 25 Dec. 1805, Dolly Strout. Lived in So.
Danville, where Dea. Wm. Dingley lately lived. He died 25 Oct. 1846, aged 65
yrs. His wife died 27 May, 1849, aged 65.

   ASENATH b. 8 Sept. 1805; m. Bradbury Merrill, moved to Dover, Me.

   JOSHUA b. 5 Aug. 1807; drowned in Florida 9 Jan. 1846.

   JOHN b. 4 Mch. 1810; m. 30 Mch. 1834 Mary D. Blake of Durham.

   BETSEY b. 13 July 1812; m. 4 Dec. 1834 James Dingley.

   MARIA b. 9 July 1814; m. 16 Mch. 1837 Wm. Dingley; d. June 1898.

   DOLLY b. 14 Nov. 1816; m. 30 Mch. 1837 Jason Pettengill; d. 4 Mch. 1897.

   ABIGAIL b. 8 April 1821; m. Increase N. Kimball.

   JULIA ANN b. 17 Sept. 1823; m. Capt. Christopher Kilby; d. 2 May 1852.

   SIMEON JR. b. 27 May 1826; lived in Danville; d. 12 June 1862.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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