Historical Researches of Gouldsboro, Maine.
Copyright, 1904 by the Daughters of Liberty, West Gouldsboro, Maine
Press of W.H. Sherman, Printer and Stationer
Bar Harbor, Maine.  pg.69-70

Thomas Gubtail	

Thomas Gubtail (as recorded in the town records Vol. 1) was an active 
townsman.  Many times his house was opened for town meeting prior to 
the erection of the first new town house.  He came from Berwick in the 
earliest days of the township and married Sarah Wilson in 1768.

Gen. Cobb was a frequent caller at the Gubtail farm.  The children were:  
Thomas, Marshall, Lucy, Amos, George, Millard, Curtis, Wilson, Nelson, 
and Mary Ann.  The farm is now occupied by William, Everett and Emerson.  
The latter's house is over Thomas Gubtail's cellar.

John Gubtail was born in Berwick, 1730, and married Abigail Goodwin in 
1752.  Their issue was:  

Abijah, married Mary Urann;

William, married Jane Downs;

Susan married William Whitaker, in 1770.  (The great grandfather of the 
present townsman bearing his name.)

John, married Mary Woodman

Thomas, married Sarah Wilson, 1790, otherwise mentioned;

Amos married Abigail Urann;

Nahum, married Sarah Rolfe in 1796; (grand and great grandparents of the 
Winter Harbor Guptills)

Mary married Jesse Perry in 1798; (great grandparents of many Stevens 
descendants, Steuben.  Jesse fought at Bunker Hill.)

Fannie, married Benjamin Spurling, 1799, (great grandparents of may 
Spurlings, some moved to Cranberry Isle.)

When the Civil feud broke forth, the town of Gouldsboro called a 
meeting and elected William Guptill lieutenant.  He had charge of 
the town's affairs in this department and conducted the 26th 
regiment to Bangor.  In the Spring of 1889 the authorities of 
some Southern states made requests of the North for the 
battle flags captured during the war.  This suggested to 
ieutenant Guptill the following:

TAKE BACK THE FLAGS

Take them, ye Southerns, those symbols of treason,
We know that you worship and love them to-day.
The black clouds that darken the bright sun of reason,
The school and the engine will soon clear away.

Take them the emblems of bondage and darkness, 
We've no place to hide them from "Liberty's" sight.
When the "torchlight of Liberty" illumes the Southland,
You'll spurn them and burn them as brush in the night.

Take, those symbols of perfidy, take them,
We execrate, hate them, and you will some day. 
Their cost! Oh, 'twas fearful and boys in blue paid it,
And wish you the blessings of Freedom for aye.

Yes, Freedom, the patron of light and learning,
We've sworn to protect 'neath the bright starry flag.
Then huzzah for the flag of the free and fearless,
And annihilation to slavery's rag.

Take them, cremate them, in hottest fire burn them,
And bury their dust in Oblivion's tomb;
Then the high tide of progress will come to the Southland
And the blest, "Tree of Liberty" shower its bloom.

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