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I have just joined the Maine Genealogy Network.  I am researching the Blabon Family.  Richard Blaban settled in Wells, York County, Maine.  I have located him as a Revolutionary War Soldier from Wells.  His son, Richard Jr. was born in 1766 in Wells.  I am working on  updating a Family History I wrote in 1983.  I have found so much more information to add to what I had and correcting mistakes that I had made.  I have already found a map of Franklin County on this site and located where two…

I am looking for info about Joseph Clifford who was the father of Jonathan T clifford.

Where did he originate from?

Found in Vol II History of Chelsea, maine

I research Vilbon Boisvert married to Lodia Cote On january 1920 . He lived in Waterville, Maine. He was known as "uncle Bill"He came from Canada and started an oil business known today as "Bill's oil". I would like to know where he and his wife were buried. I believe he died around 1975 and his wife Lodia Cote around 1988. I'm not sure if they were buried in Waterville, I also heard the names of Lewiston, Augusta and Bangor when I grew up in Canada.

I would like to thank anyone who…

Thank you for answering my Blog. George SWEET was born ABT 1796 in Ardoise, Nova Scotia . He married Mary Elizabeth Smith in Ardose, Nova Scotia;They had the following children:

1: Joshua Sweet 

2:Benjamin Sweet

3: Sarah Ann Sweet

4: George Henry Sweet

5: Unnamed Sweet 1830-1830\

6: John Albro Sweet 1832-1848

7 James Edward Sweet 1834-1859

8: Nelson Page Sweet 1835-1929   ( MY GR. Grandfather )_

9:Caroline S. Sweet…

Hello to all

I am researching the death date of Domithilde Mercier and her husband Joseph Cote. Domithilde Mercier was born on August 19 1866 in St Lazare, Bellechasse, Quebec. She married Joseph Cote on February 16 1885 in St Damien Bellechasse, Quebec. They moved to Waterville about 1905. She is buried in St Francis cemetery in Waterville. I don't know where her husband is buried, but I assume it would also be in St Francis Cemetery.

These people were my great…

Would like to know where George is buried: Born abt 1796 Ardoise, Nova Scotia; Died 7 May 1879, Lincoln, Maine. Lincoln says he is buried in Brewer, Maine. Their records are either water soaked or burned for that period. 

I am looking for any of the poetry or songs written by James Milee, also known as James Millea (great great grandfather of Edna St. Vincent Millay). James lived from 1755-1816. He came to Maine at the age of 14 and lived in Harpswell and later Bowdoinham. He was well-loved for his verses which took on political as well as personal subject matter, including the "Power of Tyranny" and the "Triumph of Liberty." His songs and jingles were apparently widely sung in Maine and people reportedly…

I read the book by: The Devil of Great Island, by Emerson W. Baker.  It was a very good account a case of "Witch Craft" or poltergeits activity in the town of Great Island in 1682 and the tavern of George and Alice Walton.  The event was witnessed  Richard Chamberlain, the secretary of the colony of New Hampshire,  was boarding at the Walton tavern.  He kept a journal account of the incedent which he published in 1698. In his account he names the event Lithobolia and calls it…

Here is a link for maps of Salem Village with property owners name. It is a very good resource. 

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html

This is a link to an online book of the first Massachusetts census taken 1765.  It does not give names of land owner, but it is a very good representation of just how many adult males there were living in Massachusetts.  …

I am very interested in the person known as Thomas Hardy form Piscataqua.  He was accused of being a witch in the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria in 1692.  Does any one have any information they would like to share about him or the Salem Which trials. Do you have any stories, links, or facts about the acused of acusers? 

The deposion of Joseph Ring at Salsbury aged:27: years being sworne sayth That about…

Alan, I have the Marriage Registration of Walter but not the birth registration of George, who was my grandfather.  Walter and Katherine Tobin (not Mary) and George moved to Cranston, RI around 1930ish.  George married a RI girl and moved to CT around 1940, which is where we are still.

Thank you very much Chris for shareing the link to the Bangor Metro article April 2013-Benjamin Wheeler first settler of Hampden 1768 http://www.bangormetro.com/item/620-riverside-beauty

Hi, Alan, thank you for your response.  I have poured through that excellent book.  It was actually one of the first books that I looked at when I started researching the family.  I thought I had struck gold.  Unfortunately, the author makes the distinction on page 22 that his line differs from the Wells, ME line fathered by Thomas Penny (1653).  My line runs up through George P. and Melinda Bickford.  I have seen references to baptism records in Wells, but haven't seen copies.  I am…

There is a nice article in the Bangor Metro April 2013 regarding Benjamin Wheeler its first settler 1768 and how Hampden was renamed from Siuadabscook Plantation, Wheeler's Mill, and Wheelersborough. By: Tom Avila

Any information on the Penney family would be greatly appreciated.  My great grandfather was Walter Joseph Penney, who was born in Maine and moved to Massachusetts and finally Rhode Island.  His son, George Joseph Sr., moved to Connecticut where the rest of my family ended up.  My father was George Joseph Jr.

From what I have gathered so far, Walter's parents were George Milton and Anna (Webster) Penney which seems to make the line relatively easy to trace back to Thomas…

Maine Genealogical Society members are now getting an extra special deal on top of already discounted items.  The popular Maine Families in 1790 Series Value Bundle includes 3 volumes from the 10 volume set at more than 50% off their retail price!  Volumes 5, 6 and 7 are included in this limited time deal and include more than 1,600 poages of family sketches. The Every Name Index for just these three volumes includes more than 40,000 names!

Retail these books sell for a…

Query from a new Maine Genealogical Society member, Jaci Hall:

Looking for the parents of Simeon Miller born in Hampden, ME 1825, married to Harriet Barrows 1849 and died in Bangor 1900. He is buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in West Hampden amid all the Millers and Barrows to whom I know he is related. Any help  greatly appreciated.

To help Jaci: bjng@fairpoint.net

Searching for years for the parents of Samuel Bagley who married Sarah Barnes (her mother was a Huntley form NS). According to the census he was born in 1795. Disappeared from the census in 1860 in Lubec, ME.