Knox-Lincoln-Kennebec County ME Archives History - Letters .....Of A Place Called St Georges 1989 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Boggess william-boggess@webtv.net February 22, 2006, 6:25 am Book Title: (transcribed 10/14/04) Contributed by B Holt, descendent of Capt George Davis Author:Bradley Brackett, http://janus.state.me.us/house/history/121st/121hrec/20030128.doc (search Brackett) Publisher: Courier-Gazette, Inc, Rockland, ME SUBJECT: Virginia LaFayette (Davis) GRAY (1834ME-1886AR), w/o Colonel Oliver Crosby GRAY (1832ME-1905AR), parents of Carl Raymond GRAY 1867AR-1939BC)               <>-------<>-------<> Excerpt from 'Of a Place called St. Georges' by Bradley Beckett, 1989, printed by Courier-Gazette, Inc. in Rockland, Maine "Printed to celebrate the bicentennial of the Town of Cushing, Maine, this work is a collection of the area's folklore, legends, and oral history from the early days of the French and Indian War to the World War II." "From old papers in possession of Bertha Young, June, 1973: pgs 73 - 74 "When Captain Young of Pleasant Point died at age 39, he left a wife and three children. One child's name was Delia. It has been said a romance was begun by a neighbor, young Captain Cyrus W. Chadwick [1845-1912], while paying his respects to Delia [both buried Pleasent View Cemetery], who was a young girl at that time. For some reason this did not please the family, and so they planned for Delia [1844-1926] and her cousin, Virginia Davis of Davis Point, to take a trip abroad. "Delia and Virginia sailed to Germany on a ship captained by George Davis [(1798-1870), ], Virginia's father. It is said that they even saw the Crown Prince there. After the voyage and returning to Pleasant Point, Delia's family hastily arranged another voyage for her. This time she sailed to the states in the South, one of which may have been Texas. "Delia, for years afterward, always took great delight in showing pieces of dried sea wood that she fished up from the Gulf of Mexico as they sailed along. They became her choice possessions. "This was how Delia's family handled her romance with Cy Chadwick. It "was nipped in the bud and not let to blossom," as Cushing people used to say. Cy Chadwick married Miss Helen Trefethen, another young lady in his neighborhood. Captain Chadwick became prosperous as a ship master and soon built a large house on Stone's Point (today Dr. Lyman Hoyt's summer home)[north of Virginia's son, Carl Gray, "Gray Rocks"]. Later he became an even wealthier ship's chandler in New York City, where he established his residence. However, he still maintained his summer home in Cushing, where he occasionally visited in his leisure time. "As for Delia, she later married a neighbor on Davis Point more favorable to her family's tastes. There she lived many years with her husband and family working hard and maintaining their family farm." Additional Comments: [Captain Young, who died in 1853, was George C Young, brother of Catharine (Young) Davis who was the first wife of George Davis, Virginia's father. Elizabeth (Allen) Young, his widow, became George Davis's second wife in 1854, thereby making first cousins Virginia and Delia step-sisters. Delia (Fidelia B), born in 1844, married neighbor Charles Cazallis in1870. Since Virginia married Oliver Crosby Gray in 1858 and moved to MN, the above voyage(s) must have occurred between 1853 and 1858 – perhaps about 1856 or 57 when Delia was age 13-14.] NOTE: See Virginia's letter of June 23, 1857 from Hamburg, Germany to Raymond Davis, in Raymond C Davis file at Bentley Historical Library (University of Michigan). File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/me/knox/history/letters/ofaplace2ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mefiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb