Monday, February 15, 2016

58 Documents Relating to the Parlin Family of the Bingham, Maine area - mostly 1840s


Collection of 58 documents that relate to the Parlin family of the Bingham, Maine, area.  Many documents share a time frame, which seems to indicate that a member of the family traveled to Boston occasionally to arrange a resupply of goods.

The family members include:
  • Stephen Parlin - possibly Stephen Parlin (1789-1879), but there was at least one other Stephen Parlin in the area during that era
  • Wellington Parlin, possibly Stephen Wellington Parlin, son of Stephen Parlin (1789-1879)
  • Ephraim Wood Parlin, son of Stephen Parlin (1789-1879)
  • Levi Fletcher Parlin, son of Stephen Parlin (1789-1879)
  • Amos Fletcher Parlin, son of Stephen Parlin
  • Parlin & Heald
The document above covers the years 1842-1845 and details the business transactions between Wellington Parlin, who operated a store at Bingham, Maine, and Wetherell & Whitney, a dry goods business at 59 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  The document was signed by John W. Wetherell.  Most of the documents pertain to Wellington Parlin.

Below, a July 5, 1857 document written at Concord, Maine, now Concord Township, that lists three of the brothers, Wellington Parlin, Ephraim Wood Parlin and Amos Fletcher Parlin:


The document below, dated April 30, 1845, is a receipt whereby the Robinson & Wilder Company of Boston, Massachusetts, received $50 from Parlin & Heald.


From brief online research, hopefully correct:  [corrections and additions requested]

Stephen Parlin was born in 1789 at Norridgewock, Maine, son of Silas Parlin and Lydia (Wood) Parlin.  Stephen married Elizabeth Fletcher of Norridgewock in 1810.  Their children:
  1. Amos Fletcher Parlin (1811-1899)
  2. Ephraim Wood Parlin (1813-1881)
  3. Stephen Wellington Parlin (1818-?)  Some records show that he died in Missouri in 1848, which calls into question the document dated 1857, shown above.  Perhaps the Wellington in the 1857 document refers to Stephen Wellington Parlin's son Charles Wellington Parlin, who, with his sister Henrietta Fletcher Parlin, lived in Iowa.
  4. Levi Fletcher Parlin (1823-1902)
If you have corrections, additions and/or clarifications to the information above, please leave a comment of contact me directly.

Names found in the documents:  many multiple times, especially Wellington Parlin

A
  • Ammidown & Bowman, dry goods dealer of Boston, Massachusetts
B
  • Chandler Baker of the Bingham, Maine area
  • Moody & Berry of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Ammidown & Bowman, dry goods dealer of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Mr. Buckman, name on a receipt written at Moose River, Maine, on December 21, 1846, signed by Wellington Parlin
C
  • Wetherell, Cragin & Company of Boston, Massachusetts, dry goods
D
  • T. E. D, presumably a clerk at Ammidown & Bowman of Boston, Massachusetts; surname might be Dix or Derry or Dorr or ?
  • E. Dix, presumably a clerk at a firm in Boston, Massachusetts
F
  • Whitney & Fenno of Boston, Massachusetts; dealer in dry goods
G
  • T. W. Gore or T. A. Gore or Gove, presumably a clerk for Taylor & Waldron of Boston,  Massachusetts
H
  • E. Harding, presumably a clerk at Robinson & Wilder
  • Parlin & Heald
  • H. A. Hill, presumably a clerk for Wetherell & Whitney of Boston, Massachusetts; and later for Whitney & Fenno of Boston
L
  • Lane & Read, firearms manufacturer of Boston, Massachusetts
M
  • Moody & Berry of Boston, Massachusetts
N
  • C. H. Neally for F. Copeland, presumably of Robinson & Wilder
  • Montgomery Newell, hardware store at Boston, Massachusetts
P
  • A. P. ?, presumably a clerk for Robinson & Wilder of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Amos Fletcher Parlin;in 1847 he moved to Machias, Maine, where he had a business and served as postmaster and director of probate; in 1857, he was appointed by President James Buchanan as Collector of Customs at Machias. 
  • Ephraim Wood Parlin
  • Levi Fletcher Parlin
  • Stephen Parlin
  • Wellington Parlin
  • Parlin & Heald
  • James Patten
  • G. W. Patten, signed for James Patten of Boston, Massachusetts
  • E. D. Pierce; not sure of middle initial or spelling of surname
R
  • William Ray, presumably a clerk for James Patten
  • Lane & Read, firearms manufacturer of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Robinson & Wilder of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Mr. Rowell, presumably an agent for Wellington Parlin; possibly Benjamin F. Rowell
  • Benjamin F. Rowell, presumably of Bingham, Maine area; possibly the Mr. Rowell who apparently traveled to Boston, Massachusetts for Wellington Parlin
T
  • Taylor & Waldron of Boston, Massachusetts; crockery and glassware dealer
  • G. Tucker, not sure of either name; presumably a clerk for Montgomery Newell of Boston, Massachusetts
W
  • Taylor & Waldron of Boston, Massachusetts; crockery and glassware dealer
  • Wilder P. Walker of Boston, Massachusetts; signed by E. D. Pierce
  • Wetherell & Whitney of 59 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  • J. W. W.; John W. Wetherell
  • Wetherell, Cragin & Company of Boston, Massachusetts, dry goods
  • Wetherell & Whitney of 59 Kilby Street, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Whitney & Fenno of Boston, Massachusetts; dealer in dry goods
  • J. H. Wilbur, presumably a clerk at Wetherell & Whitney and at Wetherell, Cragin & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Robinson & Wilder of Boston, Massachusetts
  • Otis Williams of the Bingham,  Maine area
I tried to put Concord Township on the map below, but somehow it ended up on the wrong side of the Kennebec River.

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