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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

CROSSMAN.

   Two brothers, David and Solomon Crossman, came to Royalsborough, tradition
says from Nova Scotia, before 1780. David lived on lot 44, where Frank Bowie now
resides. He once planted fourteen acres of corn on that sand-hill, but no sand
was then visible. The cutting of the primeval forest exposed the hilltop to the
winds with disastrous result. David married Sarah Bounds of Maryland. A part of
her dowry was three slaves, the only ones ever owned in Durham. The name of the
female slave was Jennie Deshelle who married, 1808, Tobias Hill of Brunswick.
Another slave was John Meshack, or Messick. The family of David Crossman is here
given:

   SARAH b. 19 Aug. 1775.

   MARY b. 2 May 1777; m. Isaac Clough.

   COMFORT b. 21 June 1779; d. 5 Sept. 1865.  Unm.

   KEZIA b. 1 July 1781; m. Walter Davis of Scituate, Mass.

   DAVID b. 28 May 1783; d. young.

   JESSE b. 10 April 1785.    See below.

   BOUNDS b. 7 Feb. 1787; m. 19 Feb. 1808 Judith Dinsmore; moved to China, Me.

   ESTHER b. 16 Mch. 1789; d. 20 June 1879.  Unm.

  CYNTHIA b. 16 Mch. 1789; d. _ April 1858.  Unm.

   ABIGAIL b. 28-Dec. 1790; m. Amos Goddard of Pownal.

   EUNICE b. 18 Jan. 1792; m. Thomas Dinsmore of China. 11 sons.

   DAVID b. 23 Jan. 1797; m. 16 Feb. 1826, Mary, dau. of Aaron True, of
Litchfield. Lived on the homestead.

   Lois b. 5 Dec. 1798; m. Samuel Beal.

   HANNAH b. 6 May 1804; m. Amos Goddard; d. 16 Jan. 1877.

   Jesse Crossman married Charity Goddard. He died 31 July 1867.  She died 5 May
1866.  9 ch.

   ALMIRA b. 25 June 1809; m. 5 June 1836 John P. Sutherland.

   JOSHUA b. 18 Sept. 1811; m. 25 Dec. 1838 Mary Porter and l. in Wiscasset.

   WILLIAM b. 15 July 1813; moved to China, Me.

   LYDIA b. 20 Aug. 1815; m. Benj. Harmon of Brunswick.

   NARCISSA b. 6 June 1818.  Unm.  Living.

   LUCY b. 5 July 1820.  Unm.  Deceased.

   CHARLES b. 13 May 1824; died in Lynn, Mass., 4 Jan. 1899.

   GEORGE b. 23 Sept. 1826; m. Mary Jones.  Res. Lisbon Falls.

   ISAIAH b. 13 Mch. 1829; m. Mary Spollett; d. in Lynn, Mass.

   Solomon Crossman, after living in several places in Durham, bought lot 24 of
Nicholas Pinkham in 1794. He married Mehitabel Goddard, b. in Falmouth 20 April
1763. He m. (2) 5 Nov. 1820, Lucy Pierce. 7 ch. recorded among the Society of
Friends.

   PRUDENCE b. 8 June 1788; m. John Baxter of Burnham.

   JOHN b. 2 Aug. 1790; m. Anna Field.

   NATHAN b. 6 Mch. 1793; m. and 1. in Portland.

   PHEBE b. 27 June 1795; m. Abram Winslow of Limington.

   JESSE b.  11  Oct. 1800; m. Judith Goddard.

   ASA b. 5 May 1803; m. widow Abigail (Smith) Davis.

   LEVI b. 27 Jan. 1807; m. and l. in Portland.


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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