Aaron BANKS of Penobscot
Date:	98-03-30 01:59:57 EST
Courtesy of the Hancock Co, Maine USGenWeb Project
From George A. Wheeler’s History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville,
Maine. Privately printed in Cornwall, NY, 1923.

Pages 167-8:
	
BANKS, AARON.
	The subject of this sketch was born in York, Maine, June 1, 1738. He
married Mary Perkins, of York, who was a sister of John and Daniel
Perkins, of Bagaduce. His death occurred on the ninth of August, 1823,
at Penobscot.
	At the age of twenty-one years, Mr. Banks enlisted in the provincial
army, for the defense of the colonies against the French and Indians. He
was first stationed at Fort Pownal, and assisted in building that fort,
early in the summer of 1759. In July of that year, he was transferred to
General Amherst’s command, and was with that command at the capture of
Ticonderoga. He was also with General Amherst, at the capture of
Montreal, September 7, 1760. A treaty of peace was made at Paris,
between England and France, February 10, 1763. In consequence of this,
Mr. Banks was honorably discharged, early in the winter of 1764. He and
twelve others, were obliged to walk through the wilderness from Montreal
to York, in the depth of winter, with no covering for their couch at
night but the “starry decked heavens,” and depending for their food upon
the game shot upon the way.
	In the spring of 1765, Mr. Banks brought his wife and infant daughter
to Bagaduce. He is said to have bought the farm first settled by Reuben
Gray, on the Neck - being that now principally owned by Charles J.
Abbott, Esq. - and to have built his house near the deep gully, not far
from Mr. Webb’s house.
	At the time of the skirmish at the half-moon battery, during the siege
of 1779, Mr. Bank’s house was burned by the Americans. He and his family
were detained, for upwards of three weeks, as prisoners on board the
British sloop North. After peace was declared, he moved to that part of
Bagaduce which is now Penobscot, where he remained until his death. No
descendants bearing his name exist at this day. His daughter Elizabeth,
however, who was married to Colonel Jeremiah Wardwell, became the mother
of a family of seven sons and four daughters. She died in Penobscot,
November 26, 1853, aged 89 years, 5 months, and 21 days.

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