HISTORY OF LIVERMORE, Maine page 15 - 42 Notes, Historical, Descriptive and Personal, of the Livermore, Androscoggin County (formerly of Oxford Co) Maine. CHAPTER III. EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE sketches of early settlers and their families, which can be given, must be brief, and limited, as a rule, to those who were in the town before the date of its incorporation. The first settler and principal proprietor of the town, and in whose honor it was named, was, as has been already stated, ELIJAH LIVERMORE,* who was born in Waltham, Mass., March 4, 1730-1. He was the son of Samuel Livermore, a prominent citizen of that town, and who bad for a long time (we are told in Bond's Genealo- gies) "the greatest share of the municipal business of the town." He was selectman from 1743 to 1764; representative from 1745 to 1763, and town clerk and treasurer twenty-six years. Elijah was an elder brother of the Hon. Samuel Livermore, who was born 1732, and graduated at Nassau Hall in 1752, settled in Holderness, N. H., about 1780, and of whom Bond gives the following record: "He studied law with Judge Trowbridge and was made King's attorney- general for New Hampshire by Governor Wentworth in 1769. Soon after the breaking out of the Revolution he was made the State attorney-general; was several times delegate to the Conti- nental Congress, and was made chief justice of the State 1782; was member of the convention for adopting the Federal constitution, upon the adoption of which he was elected representative to con- gress; at the end of two years he was elected United States sena- tor, which office he held nine years until he resigned in 1800." The Hon. Samuel Livermore was the father of Edward St. Loe and Arthur Livermore, both of whom were judges of the supreme court of New Hampshire, and members of congress. *John Livermore, probably the ancestor of all the Livermores in the United States, em- barked at Ipswich, England, for New England in April, 1634, then aged twenty-eight, in the Francis,John Cutting,master. He was admitted freeman May 6,1635, and was in Watertown as early as 1642. He was repeatedly a selectman and held other offices of trust. He was by trade a potter. His parentage has not been conclusively ascertained; but there is reason to suppose that he came from Little Thurloe, county of Suffolk.-Bond's Genealogies. 16 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. Elijab Livermore inherited his father's homestead; was a lieuten- ant in the militia of Massachusetts, and was chosen deacon of the Congregationalist Church in Waltham upon the death of his father. Ile removed to Livermore in 1779, where he died August 5, 1808. Good sense, integrity, kindness, and a genial humor were traits which most distinctly marked his character. When he died he was mourned as a good man and friend by the people of the town which he had planted with so much care and wisdom. The children of Deacon Livermore were as follows: Abigail, b. November 20, 1758, d. 1817. She married Rev. Elisba Williams, a graduate of Yale College. Mr. Williams moved to Livermore about 1790 and was the first school-master in the town. About 1798 be became pastor of the Baptist Church in Brunswick. He died in Cambridge in 1845. He had eleven children. A daughter, Sophia, married John Appleton, at one time a resident of Portland. William, b. Jan. 9, 1763, d. in Louisiana in 1832. He was bred a merchant in Boston; traded some time on Roccomeco Point in Jay (now Canton), and afterwards in Hallowell, and was a major of militia. Danforth P. Livermore and the wife of Col. Andrew Masters, of Hallowell, were his children. Hannah, b. Nov. 22, 1764, d. Jan., 1785. -Isaac, b. May 7,1768, d. Oct., 1820; was bred a merchant in Boston; was in trade a short time in Hallowell, Maine, and then settled in Liver- more as a farmer, and where he was a justice of the peace. His children were Hannah, b. 1796, d. 1836; Granville Putnam, b. 1798, now of St. Joseph, Missouri; Eliza, b. 1801; Elijah, b. 1804; Hora- tio Gates, b. 1807, a prominent citizen of San Francisco; Abigail Williams, Alma Louisa, and Julia Snow. Sarah, b. Dec. 7, 1770, married Robert Pierpont, of Roxbury, and d.Feb.19,1847. He lived on the old Livermore farm, and died Dec. 9, 1811, at the age of forty- two years. His children were Hannah, b. 1797, d. 1819; Robert, b. 1798, a resident of Livermore; George Washington, b. Jan. 17, 1800, a resident of Livermore Falls; Elijah, b. 1803, d. 1818; Charles Henry, b. 1801, d. very suddenly at Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 6, 1850; John Murdock, b. 1808, d. 1818. Anna, b. April 6, 1775, married Dec. 14, 1797, Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, to whom reference will be made hereafter. Samuel, the youngest child, was born April 6, 1778, married Lura Chase, daughter of Thomas Chase. He died Nov. 26, 1823. He was quite frequently a town officer, and at several times represented the town in the Massachusetts legislature. Bet- sey, his oldest child, was b. in 1803, d. 1822; Emery, his only son, HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 17 was born Feb. 18, 1809, and after residing in Bangor for several years moved to St. Joseph, Mo.; Lura, the youngest child, born Oct. 25,1815, married Levi B. Young, of Livermore. WIDOW - CARVER was the second settler. She had seven Children, William, Tames, Amos, and Nathan, and three daughters, one of whom married Cutting Clark, one John Winter, and one was unmarried. The family was originally from Duxbury, and William settled in 1780 on the lot now occupied as a farm by George Gibbs, son of John Gibbs. Mrs. Carver made the first clearing and lived for a short time on the farm where Col. Lewis Hunton now lives. JOSIAH WYER., the third settler and fifth with a family, was born in Watertown in 1749 and moved to Livermore, or Port Royal, as it was then called, in 1779. Ile married Rebecca Brackett, of Fal- month, Me., in 1782. Ile died July 7, 1827. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, an orderly sergeant, and was in the battle at Bunker Hill. Ile was buried with military bonors. Mr. Wyer re- sided on the road leading towards North Turner Bridge from. the old Methodist meeting-bouse, on the firm now occupied by Amos Beckler. His widow died June 18, 1836. Their children were Nancy, b. Oct. 1, 1786, Who married Nathaniel Soper, and d. Sept. 29,1871. She was the first female child born in the town. Her husband, who survives her, came from Pembroke, Mass., in 1806. Ile is now (1874) eighty-seven years old. Isaac, b. May 23, 1788, d. in the East Indies. William, b. Mar. 30, 1790, married Lucy Baker, and d. in Livermore Dec. 30, 1858. He was a volunteer in the war of 1812, and his son Otis was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion. -Betsey, b. April 30, 1791, married David Brickett. Sally, 1). Sept. 7, 1792, married Thomas Haskell, d. in Livermore. Nathaniel, b. April 19, 1794, d. in Livermore. -Rebekah, b. Sept. 30, 1795, married Job Haskell, d. in East Livermore. George, b. April 2, 1800, d. in Livermore. Charles, b. Oct. 26, 1804, married Sopbo- nia Sbaw. ELISHIA SMITH came from Martha's Vineyard about 1780, and pur- chased and lived on the lot afterwards owned by Rev. Thomas Wy- man. 18 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. I SAMUEL BENJAMIN* was born at Watertown, in the Province of' Massachusetts Bay, Feb. 5, 1753. At the breaking out of' the difficulties with the mother country, in the spring of 1775, be joined the, company of Captain Daniel Whiting, of which he was the first sergeant. He was at the combat of Lexington, on the ever-mem- orable morning of the 19th of April, 1775, where the first blood was shed in the great struggle for Independence. Ile was also at the battle of Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775, and at Monmouth, Yorktown, and many other battles of lesser note in the Revolution. His whole term of service was seven years, three months, and twenty-one days, and it is doubtfull if there was any man in the Revolution who was in more battles, or saw more or harder service. The following declaration of Lieutenant Benjamin, made for the purpose of obtaining a pension, contains a full statement of his ser- vice: "I, Samuel Benjamin, a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Livermore, in the County of Oxford, and State of' Massachusetts, on oath declare, that from the battle of Lex- ington, April 19, 1775, in which I was engaged, I was in the Conti- nentral service in the Revolutionary war, without ever leaving said service, even so much as one day, until the 6th day of August, A. D. 1782. I served the eight months' service in 1775 at Cambridge, in said State; in 1776, as soon as the British left Boston, we marched to Ticonderoga, where my year's service expired ; and, on the 1st of January, 1777, 1 received from John Hancock, President of the Con- tinental Congress, an ensign's commission, which is hereunto an- nexed, and continued to serve under said commission in Captain Ebenezer Cleaveland's company, Colonel Michael Jackson's regi- ment, in the Massachusetts line, in the army of the United Colonies, on the Continental establishments, until I received a commission of lieutenant, dated Oct. 7, 1777, under which commission I served in the same company abovesaid (which company was now, and had been some months previous, commanded by Captain Silas Pierce, in (Consequence of' the resigination of said Captain Cleaveland) until the *Mr. Benjamin was a descendant, in the fifth generation, of John Benjamin, who arrived in the ship Lion, Sept, 16, 1632, and was admitted freeman the subsequent November; was a pro- prietor of Cambridge and perhaps first settled there. If so, it was only for a short time, as his house, with goods to the amont of (lb) 100, was burnt in Watertown April 7, 1636. Gov. Win- throp designates him as "Mr. Benjamin," and in 1642 he had the largest homestall in Water- town. He died June 14, 1645.-Bond's Genealogies. HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 19 6th day of August, A. D. 1782, when I bad liberty to leave the ser- vice-a certificate of which, signed by Colonel Michael Jackson, is also hereunto annexed. My commission of lieutenant I sent to Washington last winter, and have it not in my power. I was in the battle at Lexington abovesaid before I engaged as a Continental soldier; and afterwards was in the battle of Monmouth, and at the taking of Cornwallis, and numerous other battles of less magnitude. I left, the service at West Point, as will appear from the annexed certificate. SAMUEL BENJAMIN." This is the certificate above referred to: "This may certify that Lieutenant Samuel Benjamin, of' the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, has retired from present service, in consequence of a resolve of congress, passed the 23d of April, 1782, and is thereby entitled to half pay during life, by a resolve of' eon- gress, passed the 3d and 21st of October, 1780. Given under my hand, in garrison, West Point, this 6th day of' SAMUEL BENJAMIN." August, 1782. M. JACKSON, Colonel Eighth Massachusetts _Regiment." Lieutenant Benjamin was married to Tabitlia Livermore, of Wal- tham, Mass., by the Rev. Jacob Cushing, pastor of the Church of' Christ, in Waltham, on the 16th day of January, 1782. She was the sister of the venerable Nathaniel Livermore, who is now living (1858) in Cambridge, Mass., at the advanced age of eighty-three years; and was a relative of Dea. Elijah Livermore, the common an- cestor being Samuel Livermore, of Watertown, who died Dec. 5, 1690. In the fall of 1782, Lieutenant Benjamin made a trip to the Dis- trict of Maine, for the purpose of selecting a location for his future home. On the 10th day of October, 1782, lie bought of Dea. Elijah Livermore, "of Liverton " * (now Livermore), "Cumberland County, Massachusetts," a tract of about one hundred and twenty acres of land, hounded as follows: "Southerly on land owned by Josiah Nor- cross, easterly by Long Pond (so called), northerly on the last divis- ion and another pond, westerly on said pond and lot No. 55." On the next day, Benjamin executed a mortgage to Livermore of the said tract, to secure the payment of the consideration, viz.: twenty-five bushels of corn, and twenty-five bushels. of rye, in twen- *This name, given to the township by Maj. Thomas Fish, did not permanently supplant that by which it had been generally known-Port Royal. 20 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. ty-six months, and the same amount of corn and rye in three years and two months. The consideration expressed in the deed was thirty pounds. In October, 1796, Benjamin bought of Otis Robinson the property at Gibbs' Mills, now so called. In December, 1797, be bought part of lot 11, on the east side of the Androscoggin River (now East Liv- ermore), of Nathaniel Dailey; and in 1799 he bought the other part of the said lot from Daniel Stevens. He lived on this place until the time of his death, on the 14th day of April, 1824. I-le was the fourth settler, with a family, in the town of Livermore. lie first oc- cupied a log cabin, built by Major Thomas Fish, a Revolutionary officer, at what has ever since been known as the "Fish Meadow." This was in March, 1783. The remains of Lieutenant Benjamin were buried in the quiet lit- tle country burying-ground, on the western bank of the Androscog- gin River, at wheat is known as the "Intervale." He was buried with military bonors, and a modest and appropriate monument marks his last testing place, upon which is the following inscription: This monument is erected to the memory of Lieutenant Samuel Benja, min, who died April 14, 1824, in the seventy-first year of his age; an officer of the American Revolution, who fought in the sacred cause of his country and the rights of mankind, from the ever-memorable morning of the 19th of April, 1775, to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown, on the 19th day of October, 1781, and from thence to the close of that sanguinary war, which es- tablished the freedom and independence of the United States, and gave to them a distinguished rank among the nations of the earth." The widow of Lieutenant Benjamin, born June 27, 1757, died June 20, 1837, at the residence of her son, Colonel Billy Benjamin, of Livermore. He left ten children, seven of whom are now (1858) living in Maine. The foregoing notice of Lieutenant Benjamin is copied from a pamphlet containing extracts from a journal which lie kept while in the war. Ile was frequently in town office; was one of the selectmen from 1801 to 1805, inclusive. His children were Billy, Samuel, Nathaniel, Betsey, Polly and Martha (twins), David, Charles, Elisha, Ruth. -Billy, b. March .13, 1785, d. March 31, 1849, was the second male child born in town. He married Phebe Wellington, whose family came from Lincoln, Mass. Ho was a man of military bearing and HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 21 Castes, and was a colonel in the State militia. His residence was on the Intervale. 8amuel, b. Sept. 7, 1786, d. April 27, 1871, learnt a cabinet maker's trade and established the business in Winthrop. Ile married Olivia Metcalf, by whom he had twelve children, of whom eight are now living. Nathaniel, b. May 16, 1788, d. Dec. 19, 1867, married Betsey Chase, by whom lie bad seven children, six of' whom are living. Betsey, b. Dec. 29, 1790, married Samuel Morrison, of Livermore. She died Dec. 9, 1860. They had five children. Polly, b. Oct. 2, 1792, married Samuel Ames, of Liver- more. They had six children, of whom three are living in 1874. Mr. Ames moved to Sebec, in the County of Penobscot, now in Piscataquis County, before 1827. He went in a few years to Her- mon near Bangor, and was for one year a representative of the class, in which Hermon was embraced, in the. State legislature. He died in Hermon April 7, 1862. He was born May 11, 1789. His widow Survived him till March 6, 1865, when she died at the age of seventy- three years. Martha (or Patty), twin of Polly, b. Oct. 4, 1792, mar- ried Israel Washburn, March 30, 1812, d. May 6, 1861. -David, b. ,June 3, 1794, married Catberine Stanwood, of Brunswick, and re- sides on the "old Benjamin farm," and where once was Benjamin's Ferry. They have bad five children, three of whom are living. Charles, b. Au(n 2, 1795, married Lucy Chase, and was a cabinet maker on the Intervale, in Livermore. Ile died May 10, 1834. She survived him several years. They left Betsey, who married John M. Benjamin, Esq., of Winthrop. Elisha, b. Oct. 10, 1797, went South and died in New Orleans, December, 1852, at the age of' fifty- five years. Ruth married Jonathan Lovejoy. They had five chil- dren, one of whom-Samuel B. M. Lovejoy- was a lieutenant in the civil war. She was b. May 20, 1797, and d. Feb. 3, 1869. Two children survive her, Elisha B., whose home is in Livermore, and Charles B., a resident of Portland. REUBEN WING came from Harwich, Mass., and married a daughter of Elisha Smith. He died in 1861 on the farm on which he had lived for more than sixty-five years. Ile was a good man and much respected. CUTTING CLARKE was a brother of Hannah Clarke, Dea. Livermore's second wife. He lived on the northerly part of Fuller's Hill. He 22 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. came from Waltham soon after the settlement of Livermore. He was born Feb. 24, 1754, and lived to an advanced age. He was a man of fertile imagination, and a famous hunter in his day. His de- vice for preserving the life of au Indian boy, who was with him on a hunting expedition, from the severity of the cold, is among the traditions of the town, and was at once unique and effective. JABEZ DELANO, who married Grace, daughter of Daniel Dailey, took tip the Major Fish improvement at the Meadow, having pre- viously lived on the east side of the river, on the place now occupied by Col. Lewis Hunton, and also having tended for a time Dea. Liver- more's grist-mill at the Falls. Ile was a man of religious emotions, subject to backslidings and renewals in matters of faith. His broth- er, ZEBEDEE, planted himself on the farm afterwards owned and oc- cupied by Thomas Chase, and the same now owned by the town. He was a Baptist minister and moved to Lebanon, York County. Another brother, JAMES, settled on the farm now owned by David Rich. His sons, Calvin, Abel, and Leonard, settled in Livermore. With these was a fourth brother, EBENEZER, who lived in the west- erly part of the town, beyond the farm of Isaac Hamlin, and bad a large family of boys-James, Jesse, John, Pre8ton, William, Rufus, Lewis, and Levi; the daughters were Nancy, Hannah, and Huldah. The Delanos came from Winthrop. JOHN WALKER, Whose Wife Was a sister of Dea. Gibbs, was one of the first settlers, and lived Where Gilbert Hathaway (who came from Freetown, Mass.,) afterwards lived and died. Walker was one of Arnold's men in the expedition by the Kennebec River to Quebec in 1775. Ile was the father of' Colonel Dexter Walker, and of Elijah, Levi, and Rufus Walker. DANIEL DAILEY settled on the farm on the east side of the river, now owned by Col. Lewis Hunton. He was in town at a very early date. NATHANIEL DAILEY (son of Daniel) was among the first settlers in Livermore. He cleared the farm on the cast side of the river afterwards owned by Lieut. Benjamin, and on which David Benja- min now lives. HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 23 NEZER DAILEY (son of Daniel) settled on the west side of the river below the Falls. Ile owned, at one time, the mills built by Dea. Livernmore at Brettun's; sold them anti moved onto a farm. above North Turner Bridge. His son, Warren, lived in the same neighborhood, and had a stammering speech which, while it ob- structed. gave peculiar effect to his recitals of the successes and disasters associated with the "crow hunts" to which he gave much of his time. His father had a second wife who, for some reason, failcd to enjoy the devotional exercises of her husband, which were often tedious and always loud, but which she and her step-son, Warren, were enjoined to attend. As soon after Mr Dailey had commenced his morning prayer as was safe his wife I would quietly leave the room. When this practice was discovered, the husband, to prevent her going out, locked the door; but the pre- caution was unavailing, for the wife escaped through the window. When the husband perceived how completely the old lady had flanked him, his expressions of annoyance and vexation were scarce- ly in harmony with those which had so lately fallen from his lips, nor were they softened by the advice which his son took occasion to give him : "D-daddy," said Warren, "you should w-w-watch as well as Pray." PELATIAH GIBBS came from Milford, Worcester County, before 1789, and took tip the farm where Ebenezer Hinds afterwards lived; was often in town office, and was a deacon of the Baptist Church. He moved to Jay (now Canton). Capt. Jacob Gibbs, John Gibb8, and Frank Gibbs, of Livermore, intelligent men and excellent citi- zens, were his sons. Capt. Gibbs had a large family of daughters. These families are well and honorably represented in the town at the present time. ABIAL TURNER was born in Scituate, Mass., and came to Liver- more to reside with his son John. Ile was a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war. Abial, John, and Ephraim, his sons, were early set- tlers in Livermore. John bad a large family and died in Livermore. ELIJAH FISHER was born June 17, 1758, in Norton, Mass. He was in Livermore in 1789, and settled on a farm on the old highway adjoining and south of, the Strickland farm. Ile was a soldier of 24 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. excellent reputation in the war of tile Revolution and was a member of "Washillgton's Life Guard," under Capt. Caleb Gibbs. At the age of seventeen, on his birthday, be was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and remained in the service for nearly six years. He received a pension for many years before his death. which occurred in Liver- more in January, 1842. lie was a sincere and devoted Baptist. Dea. Fisher's wife was Jerusha Keene, of Taunton, Mass. She died in June, 1840. They had eight children, of whom Grinfill, b. 1795, Sally, b. 1798, Priscilla, b. 1801, and 8alome, b. 1866, are (1874) living. DAVID LEARNED came to Livermore about the year 1790. lie was from Oxford, Mass., and a son of Gen. Ebenezer Learned, an of- ficer in the Revolutionary war. Gen. Ebenezer Learned was one of the proprietors of this town, in which David and a brother, Haines, had lots. David's lot was that now occupied by Capt. Otis Pray and Israel Washburn. Haines' lot was on the east side of the river. Haines was in Shay's rebellion, and did not come to Maine until sev- eral years after David. David was the first trader in town. Rev. Paul Coffin, in his Missionary Journal for 1800, says that lie sold goods that summer "-to the amount of $500.00." It was not far from this time that lie built the saw-mill at the outlet of Bartlett's Pond. He was a brigadier-general in the Massachusetts Militia, and the first sheriff of Oxford County, as his nearest neighbors Dr. Ham- lin, was the first clerk of the courts for the county. At the election succeeding the incorporation of the town he was chosen one of tile selectmen, and was a representative in the legislature in 1800 and 1801. Ile sold tile southerly part of the farm upon which lie first settled to Col. Bartholomew Woodbury, of Sutton, Mass., and the northerly part to Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, and built on an adjoining lot a fine house, at the time remarkable as having tile largest paties of window glass of any house in the county. When Artenias Leonard bought Dr. Hamlin's place in 1805, he (Leonard) removed the store which had been built by Gen. Learned to the spot near the Hamlin house, on which it stood till after 1830, and occupied it till 1809 when he sold it to Israel Washburn. Gen. Learned died in 1811 aged forty-four years, on a voyage from New Orleans to Boston. He was an intelligent man and of easy manners. Mr. Coffin, in the journal of his tour in 1798, has this entry: "Visited David HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 25 Learned's family, and being unwell spent the day with this pleasant an(] serious couple; gave them instruction and Henimenway's ser- Mon." Gen. Learned gave the name Oxford to the county upon its incor- poration, in honor of the town of his birth. His widow, Mary (Hurd) Learned, died in Livermore, Jan. 14, 1863, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years and four, months. She retained her facul- ties to the time of her death, and to tile very last took a deep interest in the fortunes of'tie Union cause. Her ardent wish that she might live to see its triumph was not granted. Their children were Maria, Samuel, Charles D., and Eliza. Maria married Publius R. R. Pray, who had removed to Liver- more with his brothers, Ephraim and Otis, about 1810. Ile after- wards studied law in the State of New York with Hon. Samuel Nel- son, late Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, and settled in Pearlington, Miss., where lie became. an eminent jurist. He was one of the Judges of tile High Court of Errors and Appeals, and publised tile Revised Statutes of the State in 1836. He died Jan. 11, 1840. Samuel went South nearly half a century ago, and of his history little is known. Charles D. is a lawyer in Mississippi. Eliza died in Livermore, June 17, 1870. Mrs. Learned had a brotber (William Hurd) who made a farm and built a house at the head of Bartlett's Pond, but who remained in town only a few years. THOMAS CHASE moved to Livermore September, 1790. He was born in Tisbury (Martha's Vineyard) Sept. 30, 1755, died in Liver- more, April, 1844. He married Desire Luce, March 8, 1781. She died in 1851. In early life he was a sailor and was with John Paul Jones. He was an intelligent man and of the strictest integrity. A correspondent of the Bangor Whig visited Mr. Chase when the lat- ter was eighty-eight years of age. From his letter the following extract, is made: "He delights to tell the history of his early life, to relate tile story of his numerous adventures and suffering. But it is when he comes to speak of Paul Jones and his daring exploits; when he is describing, it may be, the engagement between the Rich- ard and tile Serapis, that his eye kindles and sparkles, and his voice, broken and almost inaudible before, becomes strong and clear, and be is ready to shoulder his crutch and show how ships were taken seventy years ago. 26 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. The outlines of his story, as near as I can recollect, are as follows: A privateer came to the Vineyard in the early days of the Revolu- tion for the purpose of engaging a number of men to go out cruising on the coast. Chase and about a dozen other young men joined the ship. After they had sailed they were, for the first time, informed that their destination was the coast of En-land. At 'his intelligence they were "a -good deal struck up," though there were a few who were not displeased with the idea of going abroad, and among this number was Chase, who had a love of adventure and a strong desire, to see foreign countries. They bad not been long on the English coast before they discov- ered a British man-of-war much too strong and powerful for them. As they were not discovered for some time they hoped to escape, but this hope was not fulfilled, and they were finally captured. In a few days the prisoners were put into another ship, and were in three different ships in the course of four months, in one of' which their sufferings were very great, it having on board over fourteen hundred souls-men, women, and children French and Americans. The ship was foul, the prisoners were dirty, many were sick, and large num- hers died. At last the American prisoners were landed at Plymouth, England, and carried before two justices and a clerk and arraigned for treason. Witnesses were examined and they were told that ,they would be committed to "Mill Prison on suspicion of treason against his most Gracious Majesty, George the Third, and would there await their trial or his Majesty's most gracious pardon." They were committed to this famous (or infamous) prison and kept there twenty-three months, during which time they underwent almost in- credible privations and sufferings. At the end of twenty-tbree months (two years and a quarter after they were made prisoners) they were exchanged for British prisoners and sent to France, and were landed at a small town about ten miles below Nantes. Here they found a recruiting ship and were persuaded to enlist for the purpose of filling the crews required for the squadron then fitting Out at L'Orient for John Paul Jones. While on board ship at the latter place Mr. Chase saw John Adams. Mr. Adams was on the quarter deck in his morning gown, and was accompanied by his son, John Quincy Adams, then a boy ten or twelve years old. Chase was of the crew of the Alliance, Captain Landais. His ac- HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 27 count of the engagement between the Bon Homme Richard, etc., and the Serapis and Countess of Scarborough agrees in the main with that given by Mr. Cooper, but differs in some respects. He will not allow that the Alliance deserved all the left-handed compli- ments paid to her by Cooper. According to Chase's account it was the Alliance and not the Pallas that disabled the Countess of Scar- borough; that it was in consequence of the broadsides from the Al- liance that she struck; that the Pallas, coming up, rendered valuable assistance and was left in charge of the prize while the Alliance went to the aid of Jones; and here, Mr. Chase says, she rendered good service, not to the enemy, as Mr. Cooper would have it, but to Jon(%. When Jones sailed alongside of the Serapis her commander haile him, inquiring, "Who are you ? " Jones made no answer and the question was repeated, accompanied by the threat, "Tell me or I will fire into you." "I will tell you when I get a little nearer" roared Jones, in a voice that almost drowned the thunder of a dis- charge of broadsides which took place at that moment. Chase was afterwards under Jones several months and became quite well acquainted with him. He was a man of mechanical inge- nuity and an excellent worker in wood, and while at Mill Prison had beguiled many a weary hour in Whittling out some very curious wooden ladles, one of which Jones happened to see after he came to command the Alliance, and it pleased him so much that be gave Chase half a guinea for it for a punch ladle. He then employed him as cabin joiner. While Chase was in this service he saw a great deal of Jones and had the vanity to believe that lie was quite a favorite. Mr. Chase represents that Jones was liked by his own crew, but not so much by that of the Alliance. The crew of the Alliance were greatly attached to one of their lieutenants, a Mr. Barclay, of Boston, with whom Jones had a falling out. Jones, says Mr. Chase, was a stern man, brave and impetuous; a good man when the crew did well, the devil when they did not. He wanted things in their proper time and way and place, and would have them so. Ile had a voice like a cannon, but which in ordinary conversa- tion was "rather thick and grum." He was of light complexion and something below the medium stature." Mr. Chase's children were as follows: Thomas Chase, Jr., b. Feb. 22,1782, who was a colonel of militia, delegate to the constitutional convention in 1819, and representative from Livermore in the legis- 28 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. lature from 1820 to 1827. Thomas Chase, 3d, formerly a lawyer in Farmington, now a resident of Washington, D. C., father of Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy), is his son. Lura, b. March 11, 1784, married Samuel Livermore. Lathrop, b. March 22, 1787, was a physician and settled in Vassalboro. James, b. Nov. 16, 1789, married Anna Pitts, both of whom are now living in this town. -Rebecca, who married Tristram Tilton, was 1). Sept. 20, 1792. Olive and Lydia (twins), b. Nov. 8, 1795. Olive was unmarried, and Lydia married Asa Barton. Lucy, who married Charles Benjamin, was b. Sept. 14, 1801, and d. November, 1844. CAPT. TRISTRAM CHASE, a brother of Thomas, was a ship master. He settled on the westerly side of Long Pond, not far from his brother Sarson. He was lost at sea about the beginning of the cen- tury. His widow married Col. Jesse Stone. Ile left several cbil- dren, of whom Charles T, now living, has been for many years a successful trader in Dixfield. A daughter, Betsey, married Nathaniel Benjamin. Abby, another daughter, married Charles Barrell. SYLVESTER NORTON, who moved from Edgarton, Maytha's Viue- yard, in 1789, with his Bons, -Ransom, James, and Zebulon, was a shoemaker, and will be referred to hereafter. Ile died Aug. 8, 1841, in the eighty-fifth year of his life. RANSOM NORTON lived near the corner, and was first a deacon in the Baptist Church and afterwards a clergyman. He died Oct. 25, 1834, aged seventy-two. Susannah, his wife, died March 2, 1830. His sons, Jones, Jethro, and Charles, settled in the northerly part of the town. Jones and Jethro afterwards went to Massachusetts and died there. A son of the latter, Eugene L., has been Mayor of Charlestown and a member of the Senate of Massachusetts. He is a successful business man. John, another son, was a colonel in the civil war. JAMES NORTON settled in the westerly part of the town, where lie resided till his death in 1841. His sons were Moses, Ira, Tristram, and James; the daughters were Prudence, Peaty, Lydia, Lucy, and Olive. He was one of the "four partners," so called. HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 29 ZEBULON NORTON, the youngest son of Sylvester, took up the farm, situated on the road from North Livermore to the Falls, about three-quarters of a mile from tile former place, upon which lie re- sided till his death in October, 1865, at the age of eighty-eight years. He married, first, Hannah, daughter of Dea. Pelatiah Gibbs, and afterwards Mary Merritt. He had twelve children, of whom nine are now (1874) living, viz.: Sylvester, b. June 12, 1804; Mary, b. April 5, 1810, now living at Dexter, Me., the widow of George, so,, of the late Capt. Alpheus Kendall; David, b. Aug. 25, 1812, a prominent citizen of Oldtown; Herman, b. Feb. 18,1814, who resides in Quincy, Illinois; Sewall, b. Sept. 19, 1817, and lives on the "old farm;" Jane, 1). July 14, 1822, the wife of E. C. Brett, Esq., of Bangor, Clerk of' the Judicial Courts for Penobscot County; Lydia, b. Aug. 10, 1824, who marrried Henry Bond Bradford, of Livermore Ellen C, b. Aug. 27 1828, who married John R. Brett, and lives in San Francisco; Hannah E, b. Dec. 1, 1837, wife ofJohn Hathaway, who lives ill Quincy, Cal. Mr. Norton was a selectman for many years, and was a man of strict integrity and great firmness of' character; a man who could not only say "no" when duty or principle required, but who was not easily moved from his opinions. Once at a school meeting when his brother Ransom pleaded earnestly for the use of the school-house for the purpose of holding a religious meeting, and besought the voters to be accommodating and not stubborn and set up their own wills against their neighbors, "Uncle Zeb," as he was familiarly called, replied, "I had rather have my own will than anybody else's will, and so had you, brother Ransom." The point against " brother Ransom," who was not unlike "Uncle Zeb" in the firmness with which he held his opinions, was thought to be peculiarly well taken. SAMUEL HILLMAN moved to Livermore in 1788, at the age of nineteen. Ile was one of the "four partners." so called Sylvanus Boardman, Ransom and James Not-ton being the others. Ile mar- rried Jane Norton, sister of Rallsom. and James, and became a Meth- odist preacher. Ile died in Monmouth, Kennebec County, at the age of eighty years. Ile had seven children, of whom the Rev. A. P. Hillman of Cape Elizabeth, is one. A younger brother, Moses, settled in Livermore, on the Intervale, in 1817, where lie died Dec. 17, 1823. Tristram Hillman Esq., for whom Hillman's Ferry is 30 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. named, and who has held many municipal offices in town, is son of the last named. SAMUEL SAWIN was born in Watertown May 8, 1762, was a sol- dier in the Revolution, married April 18, 1792, Martha Mason. Ile settled in Livermore about 1788. He lived near Mr. Thomas Cool- edge, senior, and like him was a grower of fine fruit. He frequented the Portland market for many years. He married for a second wife Sarah Webb, of Portland. His younger brother, ABIJAH, born Jan. 15, 1764, married Prudence Adams Feb. 25, 1788, and settled in Livermore, not far from Samuel. Besides Samuel Sawin, Jr., who resides at the Corner, none of the children of Samuel or Abijah are now in Livermore. ISAAC LOVEWELL removed from Weston, Mass., and was in Liver- more before 1790. He purchased of Samuel Whiting the large farm on the northerly side of the bill known as Lovewell's (or Waters') hill on the old highway, and had one of the largest Orchards, and with it one of the best cider mills, in town. He amassed a very considerable property for a new settlement, by farming, loaning money, and "putting out" neat stock and sheep to "double in four years!' He was a member of the Baptist Church and one of its most liberal benefactors, contributing generously to its support while living, and leaving it a handsome bequest at his death. He became quite deaf while comparatively a young man. He considered the State law in respect to the collection of debts as unreasonably prej- udicial to the creditor, and greatly inferior to the "old Monartch laws," as be called the laws of the province. Though regarded by many as hard in his dealings, be did, under the constraint, it may be, of the good counsellor who drew his will, an act of justice such as men of kindlier fame have in similar cases omitted to do, in making adequate provision for the support, through life, of an old servant who, though of feeble intellect and ungraceful person, had been faithful and devoted to him and his family. HENRY BOND, of Watertown, was born Jan. 14, 1762. He was a son of Col. William Bond, who was a lieutenant colonel and acted as colonel in the battle of Bunker Hill, and was colonel of the twen- ty-fifth regiment in the Continental army. He went with it in 1776 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 31 to New York, and thence to Canada. lie died Aug. 31, 1776, la- mented as an able officer and true patriot. His son Henry, the sub- ject of' this notice, then fourteen years old, accompanied him to New York and Canada, and was with him. at his decease. In June, 1790, the son moved to Livermore, where he had previously purchased land and half of the first grist and saw-mills erected in the town. He was a deacon of the flrst church, and the second schoolmaster in the town. The first schoolhouse in Livermore was built a short distance north of his mills (before mentioned as having been erected by Dea. Livermore). He married Hannah Stearns May 21, 1789, and died March 27, 1796, leaving two children, a son and a daugh- fcr Henry, the son, was born in Watertown, March 21, 1790, grad- nated at Dartmouth College in 1813, in which lie was afterwards a tutor for nearly two years. He was educated as a physician, and re- ceived the degree of M.D. in 1817. He settled first at Concord, N. H. and then moved to Philadelphia, where he resided, devoted to his profession-in which lie became distinguisled-fill his death in May 1859. He was never married. He was author of "Geneal- ogies of the Families and Descendants of the early settlers of Watertown, Mass., including Waltham and Weston, to which is ap- pended the early history of the town," published in 1855, a volume of near 1100 pages, the copyright of which he gave to the N. E. Gcnealogical and Historical Society. Hannah, the daughter, born in Livermore April 15, 1794, married William Dewey, of Augusta, ME. and died Nov. 24, 1827. The widow of Mr. Bond married, for a second husband, Zebedee Rose, of Livermore. "IHOMAS COOLIDGE moved from Cambridge, Mass., to Livermore in June, 1790, and had a large farm and excellent orchard of grafted fruit in the westerly part of the town. He died in 1834 at the age of eighty. His widow, Lucy (Wyeth) Coolidge, (lied Oct. 16, 1850, at the great age of ninety-six years and eight months. He had nine children. Jonas, the eldest, lived in Boston; his daughter Eliza- beth married Hon. Peter Harvey. Daniel was one of the most wealthy and successful farmers in the town; was a captain of caval- ________________________________________________________ *The ancestor of the Coolidges of Watertown was John Coolidge, who was admitted a free- man May 25, 1636, and was a selectman many times between 1636 and 1677; was a representa- tive in 1658, and was often employed in witnessing wills, taking inventories, and settling estates. Mr. Somerby says "the Coolidge family seem to have been settled in Cambridge, England, from a very remote period."-Bond's Genealogies. 32 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. ry. Major Elisha Coolidge, of Jay, is his son. Cornelius settled in Dexter, ME, where he bad a fine farm. Thomas was a farmer who grew much choice fruit. He died in Livermore June 25, 1846. Elisha went to Solon, Somerset County, when a young man, and became a trader, amassing a large fortune. Hepzibah, the only sur- vivor (1874) of this family, married Alden Chandler, and lives in Oxford, Me. Betsey married Artemas Learned, a trader in Liver- more, who moved to Hallowell and became a merchant and after- wards a banker. JOSEPH COOLIDGE and family migrated from Waltham in June, 1790, in company with his relative, Thomas Coolidge. He took up a farm near the line of Livermore in the part of Jay that is now Canton, but his associations were largely in Livermore, where, several of his children settled. His further was killed, as Bond says, in the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 (but it was probably dur- ing the retreat from Concord), and he was himself a soldier in the war of the Revolution, having been a member (1780) of the four- teenth regiment of the Continental army. The privations which were frequently the lot of the early settlers of this neighborbood were illustrated in the experience of Mr. Coolidge. He relates that the year he moved into Jay there was a scarcity of provisions and, in consequence, much suffering. His family was at one time desti- tute of food, and he went (believing it to be the only place where be could find any) to Dea. Livermore's. The deacon told him that he bad no corn, and that the best be could do for him was to furnish him with a horse to ride to the Kennebec, where it was understood corn might be purchased, and with money to pay for it. Thus armed, Mr. Coolidge set out for the down-east Egypt. Returning, with his corn on the horse's back, lie reached the Androscoggin River late at night, but the boat was on the west side, and the ferry- man lived (at Dea. Livermore's) so far away that he could not raise him. At this moment a heavy shower came up, and Mr. Coolidge, tying his horse and removing the corn from his back, peeled a hem- lock tree, placed the bark over the corn, plunged into' the river, swam it, found the boat, crossed with it, took his horse and corn aboard, recrossed the river, and proceeded on to his home, which he reached at two o'clock in the morning. Arrived at home wet and bungry-for he had eaten little since the previous morning-lie HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 33 aroused his wife, and she made him a "Johnny cake," which he said was the sweetest food he ever ate. WILLIAM COOLIDGE, son of William, of Waltham, born in that town Jan. 28, 1777, married in 1799 Mary, daughter of Major Jona- than Hale, of Sutton, settled in Livermore, was the first captain of the first company of militia therein, was a schoolmaster and farmer, and lived on the farm afterwards owned and occupied by Amos Edes. He moved away about 1808. He was a relative of Thomas and Joseph. JONATHAN GODING, born in Waltham Feb. 25, 1762, married Ruth Sargent, and moved to Livermore in 1790, and had a farm north of the Corner, where lie planted a nursery and introduced many choice varieties of apples and pears. His children were Peter, who lived in Jay, Jonas and Spencer. who became farmers in Livermore, Han- nah and Benjamin Myrick. ABIJAH, JOHN, and ABET, MONROE, brothers, moved from Lincoln, Mass., about 1790, and settled in Livermore. ABIJAH MONROE was the first innkeeper in town, and his house was near what was known as Sanders' Corner. He died in 1823. He kept an excellent tavern, which travelers (of whom there were many in those days upon what was the great highway leading from Portland to Farmington), feeling sure of good fare, would lay their plans to reach whenever they could do so without too great an ef- fort. For years it was quite an exchange for the townspeople. The first four lawyers who successively practiced in the town lived with Mr. Monroe and bad their office in his house. The neighbors and townsfolk would repair there to see one another, learn the news, relate what had happened, renew the past, revive the scenes and re- call the events and sayings of the war in which many of them had been actors- While jokes much stronger than their flip went round, though the flip was by no means intended for weak heads. Owing to failure in health Mr. Monroe lost the power of easy locomotion, and so was accustomed to sit in his large arm-chair in the public room from morning till night, reading when there was no company 34 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. some book, generally the Bible, with which be became so familiar as to be able to quote from any part of it with an accuracy that was scarcely less than marvellous. Ile delisted in theological discus- sion and allowed no opportunity for it to escape unimproved. Ile had a tilt with the Rev. Jabez Woodman, A. M., a Baptist clergy man of New Gloucester, which lasted from dinner to the small hours of the next day, and ended in the conversion of Mr. Wood- man to Mr. Monroe's way of thinking. He had not equal success with the Rev. Dr. Payson, by whom a discussion, which had sprung up between them, was rather abruptly terminated, leaving the good, doctor minus a dinner, and the publican's money-till unreplenished by the coin of the great preacber. Rev. Paul Coffin, in the record of a "missionary tour " in 1798, makes this entry: "Aug.30th. . . Invited by the wife of Abijah Monroe to put tip with them for the night. He bad just sprung his net on six dozen pigeons and took them all. To take a whole flock is a common thing with him. Aug. 31st. . . Returned to Mon- roes and put up for the night. He and his wife are sensible and agreeable." Mr. Coffin was in Livermore again in 1800 and put up with Mon- roe, with whom he seems to have had quite an entertaining religious colloquy at the expense of the Baptists, who were multiplying in the town. JOHN MONROE was a farmer and died in Livermore April 2, 1856, at the age of ninety-two years. Mary, his widow, died Nov. 1, 1861, at the age of ninety-four. His son John, a successful teacher in early life, and member of tbe legislature in 1861, was a resident of the town until his death in 1873. Allen, his second son, lives in Milo, Piscataquis County, and the youngest son, Abijah, is a resi- dent of Richmond. Va. His daughter, Luda, married Rev. Caleb Fuller, a Methodist clergyman. Site died many years ago. A daughter of Mrs. Fuller married ROD. E. K. Boyle, a prominent lawyer of Belfast. ABEL MONROE, born May 14, 1769, died June 24, 1861. He mar- ried Martha Bixby, of Keene, N. H., and for a second wife Salome Hinds, of Livermore. The Hon. Joseph S. Monroe (recently de- ceased), Senator and Judge of Probate for Piscataquis County, was HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 35 his son. His oldest daughter, Patty, married Maj. Isaac Strickland, of Livermore, and died in 1873. Julia, the second daughter, mar- ried Elias T. Aldrich. She has been dead many years. Mary, the third daughter, lives in Keene, N. H., and Lucy, the youngest daughter, in Boston. Nathan, the oldest son, was drowned in Bart- lett's Pond about 1820; the second son, Nathan, has been dead more than forty years. SYLVANUS BOARDMAN, who was a native of Martha's Vineyard, came to Livermore with Mr. Hillman and the Nortons. He was an able minister of the Baptist denomination, of whom more will be said hereafter. EPHRAIM CHILD was born in Waltham July 26, 1760. Ile came to Livermore about 1794, and settled on the farm where his son Abijah lives. His first wife was Lydia Livermore, a sister of Lieut. Samuel Benjamin's wife. His second wife was - Herrick. Mr. Child died in 1825. BENJAMIN PARK lived near Abijah Monroe's and was the father- in-law of Mr. Monroe. He died in 1825, at the age of ninety-two years. LIEUT. SAMUEL FOSTER was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and (lied in 1825. He lived on the east side of the river. SAMUEL ATWOOD, the first captain of the company of cavity or- ganized in Livermore in 1809, was born in Dighton, Mass., and set- tled first at Brettun's Mills about 1795, and then in the westerly part of the town. He was an active, intelligent man, and was often employed as a town officer. Among his children were, Captain Hezekiah Atwood, a prosperous farmer of Livermore, now recently deceased; Ephraim Atwood and Lorenzo Atwood, wbo removed to Buckfield, where they were engaged in trade for many years. Sam- uel, another son, moved to Lexington, Somerset County. A daugh- ter, Hepzibah, married Artemas Cole, of Buckfield. RICHARD MERRITT was a native of London and an employee in a large mercantile firm engaged in the American trade. He had seen 36 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. Boston merchants in London and became interested in their coun- try, and when he decided to emigrate to America brought from the London house a letter of commendation saying that he could be trusted with "untold gold." He married, in 1795, Mercy Coolidge, sister of Joseph Coolidge, who settled in Jay in 1790, and followed Mr. C. to that town, in a few years; but lie soon removed to Liver- more, where he lived until his death in 1826. His widow died in 1840, aged eighty-six. Ile was in person a small man and of quaint manners. He bad known in England, he said, men "who heard in their ears, understood in their elbows, and carried their brains in their shoes." HENRY GREVY, a Hessian, after the close of the Revolutionary war, in which he bad been a soldier in the British army, came to Livermore and settled on a farm east of Lieut. Benjamin's, about a mile from the river, and where be lived until his decease. He had two daughters who are now livinng in Bangor. Ile was a prudent, saving man and instructed his family to "eat their bread and smell of their cheese." EBENEZER PITTS, born in Taunton, Mass., in 1757, moved. to Liv- ermore from Ward, Mass., in 1791, and entered upon and occupied till his death in April, 1831, a farm near the Corner, the same now occupied by his grandson, Ebenezer Pitts. His wife. was Mary Ellis, of Raynham. He was a good citizen. His son, Philip, and his daughters, Anna, who married James Chase, and Prudence, who married David Reed, settled in Livermore. Philip married Dinah, daughter of Sylvester Norton. Ile died in 1828. MAJOR JOSEPH MILLS was a balf brotber of Lieut. Samuel Benja- min and followed him, to Livermore in a few years after the latter came here,. Ile took up the farm afterwards owned by Capt. Samu- el Atwood. When lie sold this farm to Capt. Atwood he bought and moved onto the farm on Butter Hill, DOW owned by Hiram Briggs. He sold this lace more than half a century ago and went to Pennsylvania. He had several children, and was a prosperous farmer. LIEUT. ELIJAH WELLINGTON, from Lincoln, Mass., settled at a HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 37 "very early date on the east side of the river in Livermore. _Elijah, who is now living. Nathan, who had the old farm, and Elbridge, a Universalist clergyman of Alton, Me. (recently deceased), and Phebe, who married Col. Billy Benjamin, were his children. Amos LIVERM0RE, who, married, first, Hannah Sanderson, and afterwards Ennice Dice, and after her death her sister, Phebe Luce, and was a brother of the wives of Samuel Benjamin and Ephraim Child, was born in Waltham, June 3, 1765, and died Sept. 15, 1826. He came to Livermore in 1795, and first lived on the farm afterwards owned by Spencer Godding. He had several children, of' whom one only, Eunice, the widow of Richard Merrill, is now living in this town. Her home is on the Intervale. DANIEL HOLMAN emigrated from Worcester County before 1793, and made a farm about a mile southwesterly from the Corner, which his son, Abner, afterwards owned and occupied. He was one of the seventeen original members of the first Baptist church in Livermore. HASTINGS STRICKLAND, born in Nottingham, N. H., Au-. 17, 1768, moved to Livermore in 1795. He was the son of the Rev. John Strickland, of Turner, a graduate of Yale College, and his wife was Sally Perley, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Perley, of Gray. She was born June 14, 1774. He had a large farm, with an exten- sive orchard and a cider mill, on the main road, about half a mile south of Monroe's tavern. Paul Coffin visited him in 1797. He says: "Rev. Strickland kept Sabbath with us; baptized Isaac, child of Hastings Strickland, and Sally." Mr. Strickland died March 9, 1829,and his widow Aug. 11, 1842. His children were John, Isaae, Samuel P., Hastings, and Lee. John, b. Sept. 10, 1794, d. in Liver- more Jan. 22, 1867. He was a successful farmer and frequently a town officer. Lysander Strickland, of Bangor, and Lyman Strick- land, of Houlton, are his sells. Isaac, b. Dec. 17, 1796, resides at Livermore village and is a wealthy and prominent man in the town; was majorr of a battalion of cavalry, and for two years a State sena- tor. Samuel P., b. June 25, 1801, has been a major-general in the State militia, a member of the executive council, and of both branches of the legislature. He resides in Bangor. -Hastings was b. May 16, 1803. He was a major of cavalry, sheriff of Penobscot 38 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE County, and member of the executive council of the State and of the legislature from Bangor, in which city lie resides. Lee, b. July 14, 1806, was a colonel in the Maine militia, State senator, and county commissioner for Androscoggin County. Ile was colonel of the Eighth Regiment Maine Volunteers in the late civil war. Colonel Strickland was a resident of Livermore and one of the directors of the Androscoggin Valley Railroad Company. He died in the autumn of 1873, leaving three sons, Drs. Isaac Strickland, of Ban- gor, and Charles L. Strickland, of Charlottetown, P. E. Island; and Augustus Strickland, of Livermore. NATHANIEL PERLEY, Esq., was a native of Gray, and a son of the Rev. Samnel Perley. He settled in the last century in the south part of the town, near the Turner line. He was a justice of the peace for many years. He died in 1844. Three of his children are living, Nathaniel, in Illinois, Ulmer, in Livermore, and Maria, who married Samuel Fernald, also in Livermore. Simeon HOWARD moved from Sutton, Mass. He had a farm near the old Methodist meetinghouse. It is now owned by Mrs. J. W. Bigelow. He was a thrifty man, and built a large house and exten- sive out-buildings. He died in 1840. ABRAM, JOHN, and ISAAC FULLER came from Harwich, Mass., to Winthrop, and in 1795 moved to Livermore. ABRAM Settled near the Ferry, on the cast side of the river, where lie lived many years, but about 1833 went to Lagrange, Penebscot County, where several of his sons had already gone. John owned the mills-north of the Intervale, called Fuller's Mills. Ile died in Livermore, 1829, at the age of eighty-five. ISAAC kept the Ferry at the Intervale for many ycars. He died March 28, 1851, eigbty-two years old. He was a Revolutionary soldier. CAPT. PETER HAINES was born in Gilmanton, N. H., in 1766, and moved from Readfield in I796 and settled on the east side of the Androscoggin River, where be had a large and good farm. He was a selectman of the town for several years and held many other of fices. He died November, 1843. He raised a family of fourteen HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. 39 children, ten of whom are now living. His sister, Joanna, married -Daniel Evans, father of the late Hon. George Evans, LL. D. The history of the family of Capt. Haines is more immediately connected with that of East Livermore, where his sons, Francis F. Sullivan, and Columbus, now reside; a daughter was tile first wife of the Rev. George Bates. ASA BARTLETT, a native of Holden, Mass., came from that town to Livermore before 1800. He lived on the farm on the northerly shore of Bartlett's Pond, now owned by Charles Fuller. He moved to Harmony, Piscataquis County,(Somerset Co?) and died there in 1839. His wid- ow, Hannah (Fuller) Bartlett, died in 1861. 0f his children Ozias, Nathan, Cyrus', and Cyrena are living. Ozias and Cyrus in Harmo- ny, Nathan in Livermore., and Cyrenu in Sidney, Kennebec County. The saw-mill built by Gen. Learned at tile outlet of Bartlett's Pond was managed by Mr. Bartlett for many years. About the beginning of the century Col. Bartholomew Woodbury came from Sutton, and purchase(] tile farm on which Capt. Otis Pray now lives. With him, or soon afterwards, came Thomas and David Rich. Col. Woodbury returned to Massacbusetts after a resi- deuce of a few years in Livermore, but the Riches remained perma- nently and were excellent citizens. JACOB BEMIS moved to Livermore from Sutton, Mass., very early in the present century. His wife, a sister of the late Simeon How- ard, is now living (on the farm where her husband settled severely years ago), at the great age of ninety-two years, in the enjoyment of good Health. She reads the public journals and takes a lively in- terest in what is going on in the world around her. Mr. Bemis died July 20, 1858. JESSE KIDDER, from Oxford, Mass., was in Livermore as early as 1802. lie owned the farm now the property of John White, Esq., with whom his, widow, in the one hundred and third year of her age, has her home. John BIGELOW moved from Worcester in the same year. His sons, Andrew, John Warren, Howard, and Leander, were all good farmers and settled in the town. John Warren, born July 15, 1807, 40 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. married Osca, second daughter of Dr. Benjamin Bradford, and died Feb. 26,1856. He was an intelligent, enterprising man and a good citizen. He left several children. George CHANDLER was born in Duxbury, Mass., Sept. 6, 1782, and died in Livermore, nfter a residence in it of nearly seventy years, Aug. 20, 1871. He was a quiet man, well informed, and of the stanchest integrity. He lived for many years on the farm now owned by James M. Philoon, son of JAMES PHILOOM, a native of the county of Armah, Ireland, who came to Livermore in 1817 from Abington, Mass. The latter died in 1845. His widow, Christiania (Burrell), died in 1859. His third son, Gridley Thaxter, is a pros- perous farmer in Livermore. John, the second son, lives in Massa- chusetts. IRA Thompson was born at Middleboro, Mass., Aug. 3, 1780, and his wife, Sophia Drew, was born at Kingston, Mass., Oct. 15, 1782. He settled in Livermore in March, 1803, on one of the best farms in town, on which he resided until his death, Feb. 13, 1857. It was near the Corner, or North Livermore. His wife died June 29, 1856. They had eleven children, all of whom are liviing, viz.: Ira D., a, farmer in Livermore; Susan P., who married Rev. Charles Miller; Elbridge G., now of Foxcroft; Clarinda M., wife of John Monroe ; Arad, a prominent citizen of Bangor; -Boadicea L.,* who married, first, Abner S. Aldrich, and afterwards George W. Pierpont; Eras- tus, a shoe manufacturer in Hopkinton, Mass.; Abby S., who married the HOD. Joseph S. Monroe; Job D., who lives on the old farm ; Charles O., a merchant of Chicago, and Mary, wife of William Wyman, of Livermore. Mr. Thompson was captain of the north militia company in 1816, and a representative in legislature in 1820. For more than thirty years he was a deacon of the First Baptist Church. NAPHTALI COFFIN was born in Wiscasset, April 16, 1776, and came to Livermore in the summer of 1799. He owned the farm near the Fish Meadow where Capt. Hezekiah Atwood lived for many years. His children were William, Nancy, Stephen, Warren, Sally, Elbridge G., -Louisa, -Lorenzo B., Calvin, Angela, Charles *Boadicea died in the fall of 1873. H1STORY OF LIVERMORE. 41 R., Abby Vesta, twelve in all. Ile died at Livermore Falls Oct. 4, 1870, one of the numerous company of Livermore men and women who have passed the boundary of four score years and ten. DEA. BENJAMiN TRUE was a farmer and much respected. COL. JOSIAH HOBBS resided near the Turner line on a good farm. It was in the immediate neighborhood of Elder Norton's meeting- house. He was a well informed man, much respected, and not un- frequently in town office. DANIEL BRIGGS had a productive farm on Buffer Hill, the same once owned by CAPT. SAMUEL PUMPELLY. Pumpelly, or Pilley as he was familiarly called, was a man of strong mind and great mother wit; but he suffered from a feeling, whicb prevailed to some extent among his acquaintances, that his principles were upon a lower plane than his natural gifts. When a boy, living in Turner (from which town he moved to Livermore and to which he afterwards returned) Dr. Dix and party, proprietors of the present town of Dixfield, ar- rived at Major Leavitt's inn en route to their township. They had traveled so far in carriages, but from the condition of the roads were here obliged to take saddles, and several *ere wanted. Pumpelly, a lad of a dozen years, passed the entire night in hunting for saddles and bringing them to the tavern, and his services were recognized by the doctor, as he was about to depart in the morning, by his placing in the boy's hand a silver coin known in those days a fourpence ha'penny, worth six and a quarter cents. Pilley eyed it sharply as the doctor moved away, when he called to him in a loud voice to "come back and get his change." For many years after the organization of the new county the ses- sions of the courts at Paris were largely attended, the custom bein- for everybody who could spare the time and afford the, expense, to visit Paris court week. Pilley, who was a sort of' pettifogger, was always in attendance. The throng of people was so great that the boarding houses were crowded with guests who, as a rule, were lodged two in a bed. But Pilley, who was of most exaggerated obesity, ob- structed this practice, so far as he was concerned himself, by sleeping without his shirt. Three hundred pounds avoirdupois, in this form, was not apt to attract a bed-fellow. Hiram Briggs, who married Bethia, daughter of Capt. Otis Pray, a good farmer, owns this farm. 42 HISTORY OF LIVERMORE. BENJAMIN WINSLOW, front Freetown, Bristol County, was bere very early in this century. He had a large farm between the Corner and the Jay line. PEREZ ELLIS, from Raynham, in the same county, first settled on the farm near the Corner afterward owned and occupied so long by Dea. Ira Thompson. Besides these there were in town James Timberlake, from Rayn- ham, farmer and teamster on the south road; Capt. John Leavitt, from Rochester, Mass., farmer and drover and a prominent citizen ; Solomon -Edes and Capt. Charles J. Baker, whose farms were near that of Mr. Bigelow; Isaac Fuller, whose farm was on the souther- ly slope of Fuller's Hill and next adjoining that now owned by John Sanders; Ichabod Boothby, for many years a stage-driver between Portland and Boston, whose house was in the Pei-ley neighborhood; Thomas and Hezekiah Bryant, whose farms were in the same neighborhood; Isaac Hamlin, half brother of Dr. Cyrus, who lived under the shadow of Hamlin's Hill, or Mount Sier, as it was chris- tened by Thomas Coolridge, jr.; Samuel Beals and David S. Whit- man, on the west road ; _Elisha Chenery, whose house was above the Corner; Deacon John Elliot and William Thompson, who lived in the north part of the town ; Rufus Hewett, from Raynham, whose farm was on the South road; James Walker, a good farmer, on the road from the Corner to Hillman's Ferry, and others, to refer to whom would occupy more space than the limits set to these notes will admit, who moved to this town and became residents therein in the earlier days of its history. Notices of other early settlers (and, in a few instances, fuller sketches of persons mentioned in this place) will be found in subse- quent chapters. Undoubtedly, many persons and families, of whom some record ought to be preserved, have been overlooked in the preparation of these notes. 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