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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

PROCTOR.

   In 1635 Jonn Proctor and wife Martha came from London, Eng., to Ipswich,
Mass., in the ship "Susan and Ellen," and a few years later settled in Salem,
Mass. Their son John, born in Eng., married (2) Elizabeth Bassett, and both were
condemned for witchcraft in the famous craze of 1692. He was executed 19 Aug.
1692. She was released a little later. Samuel, their son, born in Danvers in
1680, came to Falmouth, Me., 1717-19, and married Sarah Brackett. He died 16
March 1765. His son Samuel 2d was born in Falmouth (Portland) 24 Nov. 1719 and
married Eliza Johnson in 1745. Their son Samuel 3d was baptized in 1749 and
married, 6 May 1784, Joanna Berry. He is mentioned in John Cushing's Diary as
killed by the falling of a tree 29 Nov. 1795. The accident occurred in Lewiston
on the site of the Continental Mill, and he was buried near by. He was a
Revolutionary soldier. His widow married William Thompson, another Revolutionary
soldier from Falmouth, and was living in Wayne in 1833.

   Thomas Proctor, brother of Samuel 3d, was born in Falmouth 21 June 1766 and
was baptized at the First Parish Church 14 Sept. of the same year. He married
(Portland Records say 13 Nov. 1792) Deborah Jordan, who was born 13 Sept. 1761.
They settled on the River Road in So. Auburn on the farm now owned by Augustus
Parker. The following children are recorded in Durham:

   ELIJAH b. 6 Sept. 1793; TABITHA b. 24 Aug. 1795; ABIGAIL b. 13 June 1797;
WILLIAM b. 1 Jan. 1799; m. 1 Jan. 1844 Abigail Fickett of Durham; their only
child, Abbie, m. Augustus Parker; JOSEPH b. 30 Sept. 1801; THOMAS JR. b. 1 July
1804.

   George Proctor, said to have been a brother to Samuel 3d and Thomas, Senior,
was born in 1778. He married, 27 Nov. 1806, in Westbrook, Dorcas Sawyer of New
Gloucester and died in Lisbon 8 Dec. 1868. His wife died 26 Sept. 1849, aged 59
yrs. 6 mos. They had ten children, of whom Henry lived on the homestead in
Lisbon and was well known in Durham. George Proctor is found among the soldiers
accredited to Durham in 1814.


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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