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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

DRINKWATER.

   Thomas Drinkwater of Taunton married Elizabeth Haskell before 1700. His
family had then been in New England many years. Their eighth child was Joseph,
born about 1710. He moved to No. Yarmouth in 1730 and married May 18, 1732, Jane
Latham. The ninth child of Joseph and Jane Drinkwater was Daniel, who married
Rebecca Fisher, and these were the parents of Retiar Drinkwater, born in
Cumberland 9 Nov. 1789. He married Feb. 16, 1815 Mary Whitney, who died 2 May
1823; (2) Dec. 16, 1824, Elsa D. Jones of Pownal. By the first marriage were
three children, Mary and Retiar, both of whom died young, and Roxana who married
Charles Hicks of Falmouth. By second marriage were eight children.

   MARY W. b. Sept. 27, 1S28; d. 29 Sept. 1828.

   RETIAR b. 29 May 1827; m. 10 Feb. 1853 Sarah E. Noyes, who died 5 Dec. 1868;
m (2) Betsey Jane Dunn of Cumberland.

   HIRAM J. b. 22 Nov. 1828; m. 29 April 1861 Clarissa D. Sylvester; d. 3 April
1892. A daughter Marion died in infancy.

   FRANCES E. b. 22 March 1830; d. 8 May 1874; m. Benj. F. Nason.

   Lois U. b. 4 June 1832; m. 28 Sept. 1854, Allen Weeks.

   MARY W. b. 22 July 1834; m. 20 Sept. 1859 Nath'l B. Welch of Portland; m. (2)
4 July 1871 Charles Whitman of Detroit, Mich.

   HENRY C. b. 10 May 1839; d. 8 Sept. 1841.

   CAROLINE S. b. July 13, 1842; m. Everett B. Osgood. 3 ch. m. (2) Adelbert J.
Benton.

   Retiar Drinkwater had six children by first marriage. He died 29 Oct. 1892;
his wife died 15 Dec. 1868.

   CHARLES d. 3 Oct. 1856.

    EDITH E. b. 9 Nov. 1858; d. 16 Oct. 1863.

   WINNIFRED ADELAIDE b. 23 Oct. 1860.

   HATTIE N. b. 28 Feb. 1862; d. 29 Oct. 1892; m. 11 Oct. 1882 Jarvis Lamson of
Boston.  4 ch.

   FRANK M. b. 19 Nov. i860; m. 24 Nov. 1887 Maria L. dau. of Wm. Stackpole.
Lives in Somerville, Mass. 2 ch. Harlan Retiar b. 19 Dec. 1890; d. 6 Nov. 1894;
and Ethel Stackpole b. 28 Jan. 1889.

   SARAH E. b. 24 Nov. 1868.


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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