Jesse WRIGHT 1730- 1784 wife Abbey COOK 1739-1784 from Mass to MAINE which says nothing since MASS covered Maine until it was established.
Jesse and Abbey Cook Wright had Hannah Wright b 11 Mar 1781 Lewiston, Androscoggin Co. Maine
d 25 Dec 1863 Guilford, Piscataquis Co. Maine USA
Hannah WRIGHT m Abraham D. YOUNG SR.
Looking for more information on this family. His parents, her parents. burial, will, church etc.?
SusiCP@aol.com
Added by Susan C Jones Pentico on August 21, 2009 at 4:25pm —
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Would like to know parents of my 2 times great-grandfather John M Campbell, born in Livermore Maine March or May of 1819, LDS says James Campbell and a Miss. Mcconike born in NH; Leeds town book says James Campbell and a Malinda George married 1824. John married a Lucy "Walton" of Wayne Maine in 1846, they lived their married life and died in Fayette and both are buried there. This is truly a stone wall...
Added by Eileen Gloria "Campbell" Pelleti on August 7, 2009 at 5:01pm —
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((Originally posted at
"West in New England" on 25Jan 2009))
Negative Searches: Back in November of 2007 I posted "The Search Goes On"
and told about how those of us researching John Cutter West have so far had
no luck in finding any record of his birth in either Plymouth County or the
town of Plymouth, Ma. So far that still remains the case. Randy Seaver kindly
tried his hand at it and…
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Added by Bill West on August 5, 2009 at 2:33am —
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((Originally published at
"West in New England" 22Jan 2009))
Miriam over at
Ancestories has proposed that those of us with
brickwall ancestors write a detailed post on them with what
we know, what we want to know, results of what we have searched
and where we think we should research next. So here's my first,
John Cutter West. I've used the format Miriam suggested but…
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Added by Bill West on August 5, 2009 at 2:00am —
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The
Lewiston Evening Journal obituary of Adelbert Hersey Alley, who died 4 Mar. 1934 in Hartford, Maine:
EAST SUMNER, March 15—Following an illness of three months, Adelbert Hersey Alley, a life long resident of Hartford, died Wednesday at the home of his daughter-in-law Mrs. Bernice Alley. He was born in Hartford, July 16, 1850, the son of Moses and Phebe Dunham Alley. He leaves two brothers, Arthur of Utah; and Everett of Brockton, Mass.; one sister, Mrs.…
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Added by Chris Dunham on August 5, 2009 at 1:50am —
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The
Lewiston Evening Journal obituary of Lucius Melvin Alley, who died 8 Nov. 1923 in Winthrop, Maine:
WINTHROP, Nov. 9 (Special) Lucius Melvin Alley died at 9:30 Thursday evening at his home here. Mr. Alley was born in Hartford, Me., Oct. 30, 1853, son of Lucas and Lydia (Bartley) Alley. He was for many years a resident of Winthrop, tho in recent years he had made his home in Caribou, returning to Winthrop about 6 months ago.
He was twice married,…
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Added by Chris Dunham on August 5, 2009 at 1:43am —
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The obituary—perhaps from the
Oxford Democrat—of Lemuel Dunham, who died 4 Oct. 1915 in Greenwood, Maine:
Lemuel Dunham passed away at his home in Greenwood, Oct. 4th, after a long sickness. He was born in Hartford, Me., Aug. 26, 1830, the son of Lemuel and Mary (Bisbee) Dunham. In 1880 [sic] he married Lydia Cummings Clifford by whom he had four children, two of whom survive him, Carrie E. Dunham Swan, and Elton L., with whom he lived. About 1865 he moved…
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Added by Chris Dunham on August 5, 2009 at 1:30am —
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The
Lewiston Evening Journal obituary of Charles America Dunham, who died 7 Apr. 1964 in West Paris, Maine:
BRYANT POND—Charles A. Dunham, 84, died early Tuesday morning at Chapel Valley Nursing Home, West Paris, where he had been a patient for eight days.
Born at Lawrence, Mass., May 15, 1879, he was the son of Charles and Mary Mills Dunham. He moved to Bethel as a young boy and to Bryant Pond in 1918 where he operated a blacksmith shop for many…
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The
Lewiston Evening Journal obituary of Carrie Estella (Dunham) Swan, who died 24 July 1943 in Norway, Maine:
NORWAY—Mrs. Carrie E. Swan died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Leslie Whitman on Hobbs Pond.
She was born in Hartford, Feb. 25, 1862, the daughter of Lemuel and Lydia Cummings Dunham. Mrs. Swan was a domestic nurse.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Nettie Cole, Lockes Mills; Mrs. Lydia Whitman, Hobbs Pond; Miss…
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Added by Chris Dunham on August 5, 2009 at 1:30am —
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(originally posted on
"West in New England" 3Nov, 2007)
One of the few complaints I have about the Revolutionary War
Pension Files that I’ve downloaded from Footnotes.com is that
while each image is numbered, they aren’t sorted in chronological
order. Such is the case with Asa Barrow’s file. Rather than to
continue to post them numerically, I'll post them chronologically
and give the…
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Added by Bill West on August 4, 2009 at 2:00am —
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(originally published on
"West in New England" 2Nov 2007)
Image 1 is of the first page of the file, with the following
written and evenly spaced across the page on one line:
Service Mass. Barrows, Asa Number S. 16038
Image 2 is a preprinted form with handwritten information
added. I’ve bold faced the preprinted words:
Maine…
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Added by Bill West on August 4, 2009 at 1:30am —
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(originally published at "West in New England" 9May 2008)
In my last post about my 4x great grandfather, Jonathan
Barker, I mentioned that after seeing his Revolutionary War
Pension file there were some things that puzzled me. How
had he gone from being a a cofounder and landholder of
Newry, Maine with a wife and family to being penniless and
alone at the time of his pension petition?
I downloaded his file from Footnotes.com in…
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Added by Bill West on August 3, 2009 at 3:53pm —
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(originally posted at "West in New England" on 1May 2008)
The preprinted parts of the following documents are boldfaced.)
For some reason, even though Jonathan Barker's Pension
application had been approved and submitted by Judge
Albion K. Parris, he didn't receive his pension right away.
In fact he appeared before Judge Parris again nearly a year
later:
"UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
DISTRICT COURT OF MAINE,… Continue
Added by Bill West on August 3, 2009 at 3:45pm —
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(originally posted on "West in New England" 30Apr 2008)
The preprinted parts of the following documents are in boldface.
Benjamin Barker's testimony confirmed that of his brother
and Joseph Jackson:
"I Benjamin Barker of lawful age do testify and say that I am
personally acquainted with Jonathan Barker and knowing to
his serving as a private Soldier in the Revolution was against
the common enemy in the continental establishment…
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Added by Bill West on August 3, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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(Originally published at "West in New England" 25Apr 2008)
As I've said previously, the Barker family history is an
interesting one, but at the moment I will concern myself with
the three Barker brothers who filed for their pensions. For a
short overview of the rest of it, I recommend Mitch Barker's
page here on his Newry, Maine Website.
In the following transcriptions, preprinted sections of
forms are boldfaced…
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Added by Bill West on August 3, 2009 at 2:53pm —
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(originally published on my"West in New England" blog 20Apr 2008)
One of the warnings I've seen given several times to
beginning genealogists is this: if you have heard stories
about how your ancestor and his siblings were the first
settlers and founders of some town, it's probably not
entirely true.
What then am I to make of the Barker brothers? There is
the "Petition for Grant of Land Later Newry" that can be
viewed…
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Added by Bill West on August 3, 2009 at 2:42pm —
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