Penobscot County ME Archives Biographies.....Mayhew, Elizabeth  unknown - 1918
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Author: Sprague's Journal of Maine History

Elizabeth Mayhew of Bangor, Maine

Sprague's Journal of Maine History No.  II Vol.  VII
AUG. SEPT. OCT 1919 pages 111

Miss Elizabeth Mayhew, says the Commercial, who died
in Bangor, November 29th, 1918, was a descendant of
Mary Howard the first white child born there.

It is "an unusual fact" says this writer, that
although Bangor has not been settled quite 150 years,
there are few descendants of the earliest settlers
here.  Many of the so-called older families of Bangor
date back only 100 years, and representatives of the
earliest families, before the Revolution for instance,
are rare in this vicinity.

Miss Mayhew, however, claimed descent from one of the
very first settlers. Her great grandmother, Mary
Howard, the first white child born in Bangor, then
Kadesquit, first saw the light of day here on June 30,
1772.  That was three years after Jacob Buswell,
Bangor's first permanent white inhabitant, built his
log cabin near the junction of York and Newbury
streets.  Mary Howard's father, Thomas Howard, was one
of a party that came to Bangor in 1771, numbering
Jacob Dennett, Simon Crosby, Thomas, John and Hugh
Smart, Andrew Webster, Joseph Rose, David Rowell,
Solomon and Silas Harthorn, and Joseph Mansell.

Thomas Howard, Miss Mayhew's great-great-grandfather,
built one of the first frame houses in Bangor.  It is
now standing the oldest house in the city.  A. H.
Thaxter, the Exchange street grain merchant, who now
owns it, has improved it to such an extent that the
old lines are hardly recognizable, but the nucleus of
the original house is still there.

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