Wednesday, October 5, 2011

1845 document certifying Marcia Barton as qualified teacher, Brownville, Maine


1845 document certifying Marcia Barton as a qualified teacher, in the opinion of the Superintending School Committee members, William S. Sewall and Isaac E. Wilkins of Brownville, Maine.


From online research, hopefully correct: [please leave a comment if you have corrections]:

I believe Marcia Barton was Marcia Polina Barton (1820-1889), born in either Clinton, Maine or Bangor, Maine [I saw references for both].

Marcia Polina Barton's parents were Amos and Martha (Hinds) Barton of Clinton, Maine.  Amos died 7 February 1826, leaving his wife with six children, one of whom, Amos, died a year later at about age two.  Judging from the name she used on the Census forms, his widow Martha never remarried.  She died in 1881.

Intentions of marriage for Marcia P. Barton and Thomas Howard Coombs (1821-1891) filed at Bradford, Maine, were published in the 5 February 1848 issue of the Piscataquis Herald/Piscataquis Observer .  Maria gave her address as Sebasticook (now Pittsfield) and Thomas gave his as Bradford.   

They married on 16 February 1848 at Benton, Maine, downriver of Clinton on the Sebasticook River.  Thomas was the son of William Lincoln Coombs and wife Sophia (Howard) Coombs.

Marcia and Thomas raised six daughters on their Bradford farm, the last daughter that I found born in 1861.  Thomas served in the Civil War in Company F of the Maine 31st Infantry, from March 1864 to June 1965.   So far I haven't found them in the 1870 Census.

By 1880, according to the Census, they were living at Bangor, Maine; Thomas' occupation was listed as "dealing in fancy goods".   Both would die at Bangor, Maine, Marcia in 1889 and Thomas in 1891.  I found a pension record for him, dated 1889, submitted on the basis of his being an invalid.

As for the two members of the Superintending School Committee of Brownville, Maine, William S. Sewall and Isaac E. Wilkins:

Rev. William Stinson Sewall (1807-1884), son of Rev. Henry and Esther Minot (Moody) Sewall, was born 19 June 1807 at Bath, Maine.  He graduated from Bowdoin College and became minister at the Congregational Church in Brownville, Maine in September of 1839.   His father was a minister at Sangerville, Maine, also in Piscataquis County.

Sometime after the enumeration of the 1860 Census, Rev. William S. Sewall and family moved to St. Albans, Maine, where he took over a pastorate there.  He and his wife Miriam had several children.  He died in 1884 at St. Albans, Maine.

Rev. Isaac Edwards Wilkins (1798-1848) was also a minister at Brownville, Maine.  He was born 1 April 1798 at Billerica, Massacusetts, the son of Dr. Isaac E. Wilkins and wife Sally (Edwards) Wilkins, who moved their family to Brownville, Maine in 1808.   

After a successful practice as a physician, having studied with his father, Rev. Wilkins graduated from Bangor Theological Seminary and was minister for a time at Garland, Fairfield and Albion, Maine, in addition to Brownville. 

He married Mary Jane Brown at Newburyport, Massachusetts, daughter of Francis and Hannah Dustin (Chase) Brown.  Rev. Isaac Edwards Wilkins and family of ten children resided at Brownville, Maine.  One son was killed in 1863 at Rappahannock Station, Virginia.

Rev. Isaac Edwards Wilkins died at Brownville, Maine, on 14 November 1848, a few years after signing this document.

If you have any corrections and/or information to share on any of the people mentioned above, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

Monday, October 3, 2011

October 1901 entries in diary of farmer James Moore of the Lakewood District of Ellsworth, Maine








Diary of farmer James Moore of the Lakewood area of Ellsworth, Maine.  He kept his diary very intermittently until 1901 when he became more conscientious about keeping it up.  If you look closely at the above image of the front cover, you will see  his name, twice.


This post contains the entries James Moore made for September 1901.   

Other entries:



From online research, hopefully correct:

James Moore was born 30 May 1837 in Maine, the son of Gary Townsend Moore and wife Miriam (Garland) Moore. His paternal grandparents were John, Jr. and Polly (Townsend) Moore. His maternal grandparents were Josiah and Sarah "Sally" (Swett) Garland.

On 21 August 1858 he married Laura Ann Garland, who was born 5 February 1838, at Ellsworth, Maine, the daughter of Leonard Jarvis Garland and wife Azuba A. "Zuby" (Moore) Garland. Her paternal grandparents were Josiah and Sarah "Sally" (Swett) Garland. Her maternal grandparents were Edward and Elizabeth B. "Betsey" (Maddocks) Moore.

James and Laura A. (Garland) Moore had four children that I could find, perhaps more. They and their children were:
  • John R. Moore, born 29 May 1959; m. Lois Anna Boynton; children: Lettie B. Moore; Howard G. Moore; Cecil E. Moore; Wesley Moore; Philip Moore
  • Winfield Scott Moore, born 12 May 1862; m. Vesta Estella Garland; children: Nora Nettie Moore; Gary Townsend Moore
  • Ellen Elvira Moore, born 11 March 1866; m. Francis Jeremiah Boynton; children: Leon; Lillian; Minnie; Laura; Rosamund
  • Lorenda Ann Moore, born 23 September 1872; m. George Whitmore "Whit" Garland; children: Ambrose Winfield Garland; Viola May Garland; Mansell Rowe Garland; Delmar Alton Garland; Fannie Irene Garland; Mercy Beryl Garland; David Philander Garland; Betsey Garland
James Moore died 27 March 1903, an event that a reader of the diary knows, sadly, is coming. His wife Laura Ann (Garland) Moore died 22 May 1921.
The diary described above was found with four other diaries that were kept by James' daughter-in-law Vesta Estella (Garland) Moore.
For more information on the Moore and Garland families, see the page for James and Laura A. (Garland) Moore at the Maine and Maritime Canada Genealogy network.
If you have any corrections, additions or insights regarding the information provided here, please leave a comment or contact me directly. Thanks!

Ellsworth Oct. 10, 1901.  Finished digging potatoes today.  We had 140 bushels.  We planted 4 bushels.

Oct. 11.  Pulled our carrots.  We had 12 bushels.

Oct. 17.  The boat house to Maddocks Beach was burned tonight and Mrs. Hagerty steamer and the coal shed belong to the government.  They saved some coal.

Oct. 19.  Whitmore Garland bought a top buggy of Elmer Rowe today and is to give him 35 dollars.

Ellsworth Oct. 22. Scott Moore carried James Garland’s horse home.  He has had him one month and gave him two dollars.  And he got Wincy Moore’s horse of Aby Garland for half a month.  And he went up to George Gilberts Warren and got his buck.

A map of the Lakewood District of Ellsworth, Maine:


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1861 map of the Village of Pembroke, Maine with Names Added


This 1861 H. F. Walling map was included with the journals of Sydney Wilder and Gerald Wilder on their research of the genealogy of the Pembroke, Maine, area, and may be their work.  


Transcription of names:


1.        J. Farnsworth
2.        B. C. Wilder
3.        A. Leighton
4.        Capt. W. Hatch
5.        Reynolds & Welch (B.S.S.)
6.        Carriage Shop
7.        Store
8.        Store
9.        Steam Mill
10.      J. Sears
11.      Store
12.      H. S. Bridges
13.      P. G. Farnsworth
14.      Motz Hotel
15.      P. G. Farnsworth (store)
16.      W. J. Crosby
17.      Store
18.      Carpenter Shop
19.      Baptist Church
20.      E. E. Emerson
21.      N. Page
22.      P. McMahan
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.      J. Lamon
   a.  A. M. Brown
   b.  B. Wilder
   c.   B. Wilder
28.      
29.      G. W. Leavitt
30.      
31.      Store (G. W. Leavitt)
32.      A. Cameron
33.      Tailor's Shop
34.      S. W. Stoddard (Pembroke House)
35.      Store
36.      T. J. Sherman
37.      Post Office
38.      S. Sampson, Jr.
39.      
40.
41.      D. Dunn (Tailor)
42.
43.      Mrs. Reynolds
44.      C. H. Hayden
45.
46.
47.
48.      S. S. Walker
49.      Store
50.      Tin Shop
51.      Wadsworth Store




For more information on some of the names listed above, see the Maine and Maritime Canada Genealogy network.  You may find images of photographs, documents and family trees there.




Map of Pembroke, Maine:



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1861 Walling map of Pembroke, Maine, with residents' names added



1861 map produced by H. F. Walling of the Pembroke, Maine area, with a numbering system indicating names of residents.   The numbering system was probably the work of Sydney Wilder and Gerald Wilder, as it was found with their journals of the genealogy of the area.




Transcriptions of the names:



Number Index to Walling's of 1861

1. Thomas Leighton
2.
3.
4. Mrs. Rebecca Leighton
5. William Sprague
6.
7. Isaac Clark
8.  Mrs. Sarah Leighton
School
9. Harding Clark
10. Joseph Clark
11.
12. Manning Clark
13.   S. Smith
14. W. Smith
15. M. W. Smith
16. D. Lawton
17. H. Blackwood
17a. William C. Sprague
18. J. S. Phinney
19. J. H. Smith
20. H. W. Bryant
21. W. H. Bryant
22. Daniel Ramsdell
23. Charles Ramsdell
24. William Wilbur (2)
25. Andrew Small
26.-27. Andrew Small
28. Joseph Wilder
29. Chase Bryant
30.
31. C. C. Bridges
32. Josiah E. Wilbur
33a Daniel W. Wilder
33. School
34. Albert G. Gardner
35. Samuel Constantine
36. Moses Gardner
37.
38. Stephen Gardner
39. George W. Sprague
39a Brick Yard
40. Andrew Sprague
41.
42. Nelson Morang
42a A. Hersey
43.
43 1/2   Mrs. Susan Wilder
44. Isaiah Leighton
45. John McVicar
46. Mrs. Owen
47. Ebed Wilder
48. Edward B. Owen
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58. John Smith
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64. S. Mahar
64a Q. Huckings
65. Edmund Leighton
66. E. Mahar
67. Joseph Mahar, 2nd
68. Peter Mahar
69. Joseph Mahar
70. School
71. George Mahar
72. W. Wilbur
73a Aaron Wilbur
73. Heman N. Wilbur
74. Benjamin Wilbur, Jr.
75. Douglas Black or Douglas Blackwood
76. Sewell Blackwood
77. Webster Blackwood
78. Ira Mitchell
79. John A. Blackwood
80. Otis Dudley
81+ H. Dudley
82. William H. Carter
84a J. Jarvis Carter
84. Mrs. N. Carter
85. S. Carter
86. E. A. Carter
87. E. Carter
88. Charles A. Brown
89.
90.
91. S. C. Carter
92. School
93a A. J. Curtis
93. J. Haynes
94. Mrs. S. Holland
95.
96a J. Carter (2)
96. W. H. Carter
97. Levi G. Brown
98. C. A. Brown
99. George C. Dunn
100. James Dunn
101 J J. Dudley
102.
103. E. Moore
104.
105. J. B. Antone
106.
107.
108. School
109.
110.
111.
112.
113.
114.
115.
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.
121.
122.
123.
124.
125.
126.
127. Joseph Garnett
128.
129. J. Coggins
130. Samuel Hersey
131. Hatevil Leighton
132. A. Newell Leighton
133. Isaiah Hersey
134. Benjamin B. Hersey
135. Isaiah Hersey, Jr.
136. William B. Hersey
137. C. Washington Hersey
138. School
139. C. Hersey
140.
141. Charles Clark
142. N. S. Huckins
143.
144. David Hersey
145. Martin Hersey
146. John H. Hersey
147. Leonard S. Lurchin
148. Zadoc L. Hersey
149. George Small
150. I. Hersey
151. J. Hersey
152. J. Putnam Hersey
153.
154. C. Campbell
155. J. Grafton
156. Samuel Osborn
157.
158.
159. J. Spear
160. J. McKay
161.
162.
163. N. Spear
164.
165.
166. Moses L. Wilder
167.
168. I. McLaughlin
168a   Mrs. McLaughlin
169.
170.
171.
172. T. McFaul
173. J. McFaul
174. G. Gillis
175. Isaac Mincher
176. James Mincher
177. J. J. Varney
178. John Mincher
179. William Dean
180.
181. John W. Porter
182. J. Leavitt
183. E. Babcock
183a   D. McDougal; S. Turner
184.
185.
186. Nathaniel Reynolds
187. S. H. Reynolds
188. L. Trescott Reynolds [named after Lemuel Trescott?]
189.
190.
191. School
191a   L. Wadsworth
192.
193.
194.
195.
196. J. Porter
197. Hugh Porter
198. J. Ells
199. Isaac C. Morgan
200. E. Stanchfield
201. C. Garnett
202.
203.
204.J Josiah Bridges
205.
206. T. B. Clark
206a   Hugh F. Porter
207. J. Page
207a   S. Leighton
208.
209.
210. William Low
210a   C. Garnett
211. B. Dudley
212. Daniel Watson
213.
214.
215. J. Haynes
216. W. R. Pattingall
217. C. W. Hutchinson



Some of the names above have been researched on the Maine and Maritime Canada Genealogy Network.  You may find images of documents, photographs or family trees there.

A map of Pembroke, Maine:


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