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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

BOOKER.

   John Booker came from England to York, Me., about 1707. He married Hester
Adams of York, and had eight children, of whom James was born 18 Dec. 1723. He
married Mercy Young, dau. of Benaiah Young, 11 Nov. 1747, and settled in
Harpswell. They had eleven children, of whom Daniel was born 25 Feb. 1760. He
married 12 May 1782, Mary Douglas. Their oldest son James was born in Harpswell
15 Sept. 1783. He married (1) Patience Dinslow; (2) Lydia Getchell. Settled in
Durham as a farmer; where he died 2 April 1867. His first wife was born 6 April
1788 and died 30 Jan. 1826. His second wife, born 24 July 1795, died 24 Oct.
1870.  12 ch.

   ISAAC b. 3 May 1808; m. Hannah Harding: d. 27 May 1868.

   ISABEL b. 15 Nov.  1810; m. Elisha Beal; d. 23 June 1881.

   WILLIAM b. 21 Dec. 1812; m. (1) Hattie Dunning; (2) Martha Jones; d. 9 Mch.
1881.

   JANE b. 21 Mch. 1816; m. Luther Storer of Bath; d. 11 Feb. 1891.

   WASHINGTON b. 4 Oct. 181S; m. Sarah Owen; d. 8 Aug. 1890.

   RACHEL b. 6 April 1822; Unm.; d. 7 Mch. 1892.

   JAMES B. b. 23 Jan. 1826; m. (1) Abigail Coombs; (2) Widow Walker.

   ISAIAH b. 26 Mch. 1828; Unm.; d. in Iowa 5 Nov. 1891.

   ISRAEL b. 18 Jan. 1830; Unm.; d. 23 April 1855.

   ALBERT b. 6 Sept. 1832; m. Lydia E. Hayes. One son, Eugene L. Lives in Durham.

   MARCIA b. 2 Sept.  1837; d. 29 Jan. 1855.

   HARRIET b. 6 Jan.  1840; m. Oliver P. Snow; d. 4 Aug. 1876.

   The James and Mercy (Young) Booker mentioned above had a son James born in
Harpswell 25 Dec. 1748. He married 23 Aug. 1792 Catherine Adams and had seven
children, of whom the oldest was Daniel, born in Harpswell 21 March 1793. He
settled in Durham about 1815 and spent fifty years there as a farmer. He married
in 1816 Lorania Hacker of Brunswick. His second wife was Rhoda Graves, whom he
married about 1825. She died in 1840. His third wife was Mary Farr Alexander, m.
1841, d. Aug. 17, 1873. He died at Lisbon Falls, 3 May 1880. Three ch. by 1st
marriage.

   HARRIET b. 7 Oct. 1819; d. 15 Nov. 1819. OCTAVIA b. 11 Nov. 1820; d. 11 Nov.
1841.

   MERCY b. 4 Mch. 1823; m. Rev. George A. Crawford.

Five ch. by 2d marriage.

   ALFRED JAMES b. 14 Jan. 1826; m. Mary Ann Woodard.

   EMERY b. 1 July 1828; m. Elizabeth Woodard.

   LORANIA HACKER b. 20 Sept. 1830; m. James S. Campbell. Deceased.

   DANIEL ALVAH b. 8 Oct. 1832; m. (1) Nementhis Loring; (2) Emma Swift.

   JEREMIAH HACKER, b. 15 Aug. 1834.  Deceased.

   Five ch. by 3d marriage.

   MARY ELIZA b. 24 Oct. 1842; m. Wm. M. Hickok.

   AUSBON b. 8 Nov. 1846; m. Josephine S. Bessie.

   MELISSA ANN b. 11 Nov. 1848; m. Wm. L. Witham.

   ARTHUR WILDER b. 15 Feb. 1852; m. Mary Ella Libby. Deceased.

   CHESTER HERMAN b. 8 Jan. 1855; m. Rachel Murray.

   James, son of James and Catherine (Adams) Booker, before named, was born 8
Oct. 1798; m. 28 Nov. 1824, Emily, dau. of Thomas Pierce, Esq.; d. 25 June 1882.
They lived in Durham and Lisbon.

   IRA P. b. 28 Nov. 1832; m. 21 Nov. 1855 Clara W. Whittemore. Res. Brunswick.

   LAURA A. b. 31 June 1827; m. 4 Jan. 1851 Edmund Berry of Lisbon Falls.


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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