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HISTORY OF JAY 
 
 FRANKLIN COUNTY, MAINE 
 
 BY 
 
 Rev. Benjamin F. Lawrence, A.M. 
 
 When Time, who steals our years away, 
 Shall steal our pleasures too, 
 
 The memory of the past will stay, 
 And half our joys renew. 
 
 1912 
 
 Griffith-Stillings Press 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 In attempting to write the early history of Jay, my native 
 town, I have been influenced by three considerations: first, 
 that no authentic history of the town has been written up to 
 this date; second, that the opportunity for gathering the 
 fragments of the early records of the town and gleaning from 
 the fading memories of aged citizens the unwritten history 
 of many important events connected with the lives of the 
 early settlers will soon be lost forever; and third, that I have 
 been induced by several of the contemporaries of my boyhood 
 to take up the work because of the exceptional opportunities 
 I have enjoyed for gathering up the materials for such a work. 
 There are few persons who do not have a natural pride and 
 interest in the place of their nativity and a desire to perpetuate 
 the memories of their ancestors. But aside from these family 
 considerations, it is an important duty of a town, and one 
 which it owes to itself and the generations following, to have 
 an authentic record of its early days placed in its archives 
 for future reference. A thousand little incidents gathered 
 from the lives of individuals or from private papers may cast 
 light upon important questions that may arise in the future. 
 A warrant for a town meeting or some other nunicipal regu- 
 lation, apparently insignificant in itself, may fix a date or 
 determine the motive of a transaction or exhibit the spirit 
 of the age in which it occurred. 
 
 In this history I have endeavored to give a true account 
 of the early settlement and genealogy of the early settlers 
 and their descendants for the first and second generations, 
 together with the manners and customs of those days. I do 
 
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 not claim that the work will be without errors, as family tradi- 
 tions are not always to be relied on. I have endeavored to 
 go over the whole field, and if there are some omissions or mis- 
 statements I have only to say that I have written according 
 to my best information. In gathering up the materials for the 
 work I have been indebted somewhat to the Jay Register 
 published by the G. H. Mitchell Company of Brunswick, 1905, 
 also to the assistance of Miss Winifred Ladd of Jefferson, Maine. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 I. Topography — Indians — Early History of 
 
 THE Township i 
 
 II. Early Settlements 8 
 
 III. Official History lo 
 
 IV. Military History 14 
 
 V. Industries of Jay 17 
 
 VI. The Churches and the Ministry 22 
 
 VII. The Schools 27 
 
 VIII. Reminiscences of the Early Settlements . 30 
 
 IX. Sketches and Anecdotes of Noted Men . . 40 
 
 Genealogy 63 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Rev. Benjamin F. Lawrence 
 
 Jay Bridge 
 
 North Jay Quarries 
 
 Old Baptist Church, Jay Hill .... 
 
 New Baptist Church, Jay Bridge . . 
 
 Universalist Church, North Jay 
 
 Samuel Crafts 
 
 Colonel Daniel Merritt 
 
 Major Stillman Noyes 
 
 Hon. Increase E. Noyes 
 
 Major Moses Stone's Homestead 
 
 Isabel Lawrence 
 
 Hon. Dearborn G. Bean 
 
 Elisha Kyes 
 
 Captain Edward Richardson's Homestead. 
 A. Smith Thompson's Old Homestead 
 A. Smith Thompson's New Homestead 
 
 Hon. a. Smith Thompson 
 
 Home of Niles Brothers 
 
 Veranus Niles 
 
 Seaborn J. Hyde 
 
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HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 Topography 
 
 The town of Jay is situated in the southern part of Franklin 
 County, Maine, on both sides of the Androscoggin River. Its 
 surface is broken into hills and valleys, with two small eleva- 
 tions called Spruce and Canton Mountains. Several small 
 streams wind their way between the hills from the north, flowing 
 into the Androscoggin River. 
 
 The largest of these streams is the Seven Mile Brook, on 
 whose banks are extensive intervales and meadows, which 
 being enriched by the annual freshets make valuable additions 
 to the adjacent hillside farms. The town is noted for the 
 fertility of its soil, which consists of a heavy loam. On the 
 river there are three valuable water-powers formerly known 
 as Peterson's Rips (now called Riley), Jay Bridge, and Otis 
 Falls (now known as Chisholm), all of which are operated by 
 the International Paper Company. 
 
 THE ROCKOMEKA INDIANS 
 
 The native inhabitants of the valley of the Androscoggin 
 formed one of the four tribes of the Abenaquis Indians. This 
 tribe was called Anasagunticooks and was one of the most 
 numerous and powerful in Maine. A branch of this tribe, the 
 Rockomekas, lived at Canton Point, where they had a large 
 village. At first these Indians were very friendly toward the 
 
^ HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 little colony of whites farther down the Androscoggin at what 
 is now known as Topsham and Brunswick. They frequently 
 descended the river in their canoes to barter their furs and 
 Indian maize for tobacco and fire-water. But after a while they 
 began to be suspicious of the rapidly increasing number of pale- 
 faces and to fear that their hunting grounds would be en- 
 croached upon. One early spring, when the waters of the 
 Androscoggin were swollen by the melting snows, they planned 
 an expedition to go down the river and in the darkness of the 
 night surprise and massacre the colony. With the cunning 
 of the wily savage they laid their plans. Several canoe loads of 
 braves dressed in their war-paint were to make up the expe- 
 dition. Two of their trusty warriors were sent down in the 
 early morning, ostensibly to make purchases at the village 
 store, and at night to build a fire above the falls at Lewiston 
 as a signal that their approach was not known. The spies 
 came as planned, but their actions aroused the suspicions of 
 the whites, who treated them freely with liquor, and be- 
 coming intoxicated, they lost their caution and revealed the 
 plot. The whites immediately prepared to receive their foes. 
 When night approached they built the signal fire below the 
 falls instead of above, and the Indians being thus deceived 
 were swept over the falls, their canoes overturned and those 
 who escaped drowning were easily despatched. 
 
 THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIP 
 
 The town of Jay was originally known as "Phipps' Canada." 
 It was granted by the General Court of Massachusetts to 
 David Phipps and seventy-one others for services in the French 
 War of 1755. It was incorporated in 1795 and named Jay for 
 Hon. John Jay, the eminent jurist and statesman, who ren- 
 dered distinguished diplomatic service to the American colonies 
 as an ambassador to Spain and France at the close of the 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 6 
 
 Revolution. It was a large township, six and three-fourths 
 miles square, including thirty thousand acres more or less, 
 about one-third of which was afterward set off and incorporated 
 as the town of Canton in 1821. 
 
 The conditions of the original grant were that it was to be 
 divided into rights of four hundred acres each. Four of these 
 rights were to be devoted to church and school purposes, one 
 to be reserved for Harvard College, one for the first settled 
 minister, one for the use of the ministry and one for the use 
 of schools. It was also stipulated that grantees "within seven 
 years, settle eighty families in said township. Build a House 
 for Public worship and settle a learned Protestant minister." 
 It was further required that a plan of the township taken by a 
 surveyor and chainman, under oath, should be returned to the 
 court within twenty months. 
 
 This resolution passed the House the same day and was signed 
 by T. Hutchinson, Lieutenant-Governor. A survey of the 
 township was made in accordance with the conditions of the 
 grant, and April 22, 1772, a plan was submitted to the General 
 Court, giving the following boundaries: 
 
 "Beginning at a pine tree on the westwardly side of Andros- 
 coggin River on the head line of a township granted to Samuel 
 Livermore and others due East Two hundred and thirty-two 
 chains, twenty-five links, to a stake and stones, thence north 
 on Province Land 380 chains to a heap of stones, thence south 
 forty degrees west, 532 chains on Province Land to a pine tree, 
 thence nine degrees east on Province Land, 240 chains to a stake 
 and stones; thence on Province Land in part and part on the 
 township aforementioned to the Pine Tree first mentioned." 
 This pine tree stood on the northern line of Livermore on the 
 bank of the Androscoggin River. 
 
 This plan was accepted by the General Court April 22, 1772. 
 Nearly all the proprietors of this township resided in towns 
 
<4 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 near Boston, including Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, 
 Waltham, Weston and Newton. The first important meeting 
 of proprietors was held in Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1772. After 
 organizing, it was voted to adjourn to the sixth day of April, 
 1723, to meet at the house of Nathaniel Coolidge, Waltham. 
 At this meeting it was voted to choose a committee to lot out 
 and survey said township. This committee consisted of Capt. 
 Abijah Brown, Elisha Harrington and Israel Whittemore. 
 Subsequent proprietors' meetings were held at the houses or 
 inns of Capt. Jonathan Brewer and Capt. Isaac Gleason of 
 Waltham. Alexander Shepherd was proprietors' clerk for 
 many years, until July 25, 1787, and for his faithful and effi- 
 cient services received a grant of two hundred acres of land in 
 the township. 
 
 The first division of lots was made on June 30, 1773. Eighty- 
 four lots were then divided among the original proprietors by 
 lot. Isaac Gleason and Isaac Stearns were chosen to draw the 
 lots in the presence of the proprietors. At the same meeting a 
 committee was chosen to clear a way to the township. 
 
 At a proprietors' meeting held April 12, 1774, it was voted 
 to give four pounds to each of the first settlers who should 
 clear ten acres of land in the township, seed it to grass or grain, 
 build a house sixteen feet square and settle within one and a 
 half years. 
 
 A second division of lots was made June 29, 1774, but on 
 account of the troubled condition of the country at the breaking 
 out of the war of the Revolution the proprietors were unable to 
 fulfil the conditions of the settlement within the seven years, 
 and they were granted another seven years for that purpose, 
 to encourage settlement in the township. On March 27, 1787, 
 a committee was chosen to select the best position for a saw and 
 grist mill. On April 6, 1791, the committee, which consisted 
 of Capt. Richard Peabody, Col. Josiah Fuller and Capt. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 6 
 
 Moses Stone, reported that they approved of a site on Lot No. 6, 
 Range 5, east side of the Androscoggin River, on a brook called 
 Mosquito Brook, as the most suitable place in said township. 
 Deacon Elijah Livermore was empowered to build a saw and 
 grist mill and an order for fifty pounds voted for the same pur- 
 pose. On April 2, 1789, a road was laid out and cleared from 
 Sandy River through the township until it met the road 
 formerly cleared across the Seven Mile Brook at about the 
 distance of two miles. 
 
 Very few of the proprietors themselves came to settle in the 
 township, but many of their descendants and friends took up the 
 lots. As soon as the settlement started it grew rapidly. On 
 April 6, 1791, the proprietors met and voted to assess a tax for 
 the purpose of building a meeting-house. This work was 
 commenced but not completed until the association of pro- 
 prietors was dissolved. Later on, at a meeting held Jan. 2, 
 1797, it was voted to give the inhabitants of Jay the house 
 erected and the lot of land which formed the site, including 
 about two acres. The last meeting of the proprietors was 
 held in Watertown, Sept. 3, 1798. At this meeting it was 
 voted to pay to the treasurer of Jay all surplus moneys of the 
 proprietary treasurer, to be used in finishing the construction 
 of the meeting-house. 
 
 The organization of proprietors which had been formed 
 twenty-seven years before then came to an end, and the town 
 of Jay commenced its independent existence as a town in the 
 Province of Maine. The town had already been incorporated 
 in 1795 by the General Court of Massachusetts in accordance 
 with its petition. 
 
 The first town meeting was held on the first Monday of 
 April, 1795, the warrant having been issued to William Liver- 
 more by Edward Richardson, who had been given authority 
 by the act of incorporation. The oflttcers chosen at this first 
 
6 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 town meeting were as follows: Moses Crafts, moderator; 
 William Livermore, town clerk; Peter Austin, Samuel W. 
 Eustis and William Coding, selectmen. William Livermore 
 was chosen treasurer; William Livermore, Samuel Coding and 
 Samuel W. Eustis, assessors; William Peabody and Oliver Fuller, 
 constables. The town thus incorporated continued undivided 
 until 1 82 1, when the western portion was set off to form the 
 town of Canton. 
 
 SEPARATION OF THE TOWN OF CANTON 
 
 The following is copied from the Jay Register published 
 by T. H. Mitchell Company, 1905: 
 
 "On February 5, 1821, an act to divide the town of Jay 
 and to incorporate the westerly part into a township by the 
 name of Canton, for Canton, in Massachusetts, was passed 
 by the Maine legislature and signed by the first governor of 
 the state. The dividing line between Jay and Canton estab- 
 lished at this time was as follows: 'Beginning at the south- 
 east corner of breakage lot No. 8 in the sixth range on the 
 north line of the town of Livermore; thence north on the 
 east line of said number, or tier of lots, to the north-east corner 
 of lot No. 8 in the second range on the westerly side of 
 Androscoggin River; otherwise said lot to extend so far north 
 that a west course across said river will strike the north line 
 of lot No. 6, in the tenth range on the easterly side of said 
 river; thence west in said north line to the south-east corner 
 of lot No. 7 in the eleventh range; thence north on the east 
 line of said range to the south-east corner of lot No. 14 in 
 said eleventh range; thence west in the north line of said 
 number or tier of lots to the south line of the town of Dixfield, 
 etc. — Provided, however, that Israel Bean, Joseph Lawrence, 
 Joseph Strout and John Drought, with their families and 
 estates, and also lot No. 8, in the eleventh range, shall remain 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 7 
 
 a part of and belong to the town of Jay.' Additions have 
 since been made to the town of Canton by annexing lots from 
 the town of Hartford on the south. 
 
 "The town of Canton, although having more than one- 
 third of the territory of the old town, received that propor- 
 tion of all public property and of the ministerial and school 
 funds, also to hold all public lands that fell within her bor- 
 ders; likewise, she assumed one-third of the liabilities of the 
 town of Jay at the time of separation. James Starr, Esq., 
 of Jay Hill, issued the first warrant for a town meeting in 
 the new town; this he directed to Joseph Holland, the meet- 
 ing to be held in the schoolhouse near Mr. Holland's, at Canton 
 Point, March 28, 1821. At this meeting John Hersey presided 
 as moderator; Dr. Cornelius Holland was chosen town clerk, 
 which office he filled for ten years; Joel Howard became 
 treasurer, and Joseph Holland, Abiathar Austen and Joseph 
 Coolidge, Jr., were elected selectmen of the new town." 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 Early Settlements 
 
 Actual settlements of the town were not made till after the 
 close of the war of the Revolution. Prominent among those 
 to take up their residences in the township we find the names 
 of Simon Coolidge, Oliver Fuller, Samuel W. Eustis, Joseph 
 Hyde, Scarborough Parker, Nathaniel Jackson, Samuel Jack- 
 son, Joseph Macomber, Samuel Whiting, Moses Crafts and 
 Moses Stone. 
 
 James Starr, Jr., settled on Jay Hill probably in 1802. About 
 the same date we find the names of Nathan Crafts, Ezekiel 
 Richardson and others of the above-mentioned families as 
 residents on the hill or near-by farms. The village soon became 
 the business center of the town. Here were built the first 
 meeting-house and the first tavern, a noted hostelry for many 
 years and largely patronized in the days of the old tally-ho 
 stage-coach. Here were the village blacksmith shop, the 
 cabinet shop, the cooper's and shoemaker's shops. Here were 
 the first village stores, the lawyer's oflace and court-room. 
 Here resided the first doctor and minister who settled in town. 
 Here for many years was the only post-office in town, and here 
 was transacted all the public business of the town. Since the 
 building of the mills and bridges at Jay Bridge, the opening of 
 the extensive granite quarries at North Jay and the passing 
 through the town of the Farmington Railroad, the business 
 of the town has been transferred to these neighboring villages 
 and the hill remains as a pleasant residential village. 
 
 Among the early settlers in other parts of the town we find 
 the names of Nathaniel Jackson, Oliver Fuller, Thomas Fuller, 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 9 
 
 Elisha Kyes, Samuel W. Eustis, Daniel Rowell, who took up 
 farms in the vicinity of the granite quarries of North Jay. 
 Moses Stone, Joseph Hyde, Scarborough Parker, Ebenezer 
 Whittemore, Isaac Parkhurst and Jedediah White settled on 
 farms near Stone's Corner. As early as 1798, Israel Bean, 
 Joseph Coolidge, William Coding, William Peabody and 
 William Chenery became residents of that part of the town 
 comprising district No. 4, now known as Bean's Corner. In 
 the southwestern part of the town, which was afterward set 
 off as the town of Canton, William Livermore, Henry Coding, 
 Peter Austen, Abraham Peterson and Joseph Coolidge had 
 taken farms about the time of the settlement on Jay Hill. In 
 addition to these we find prominent among the early inhab- 
 itants the names of Eliphalet Cray, Daniel Child, Joseph 
 Macomber, Thomas Paine, John Richardson, John Axtell, Peter 
 Bartlett, Calen Thompson, Samuel Cole and Benjamin Bean. 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 Official History 
 
 In this chapter we give the names of those who have filled 
 the principal offices of the town. At the head of the list we 
 place the selectmen of the town. In early times before the 
 duties of town officials were fully defined the selectmen exercised 
 a great variety of powers, and anything and everything not 
 expressly provided for fell, by custom at least, under their 
 jurisdiction. Whenever any perplexing question arose in town 
 affairs or came up in a town meeting, it was handed over to 
 the selectmen as if they were the fountain of power if not of 
 wisdom. Hence to be one of "the fathers of the town" has 
 ever been regarded as a special honor. The importance which 
 our fathers attached to this office may be seen by the number 
 of years in which prominent citizens were continued in service. 
 
 The first town meeting in Jay after its incorporation was 
 held on the first Monday of April, 1795, in the Baptist meeting- 
 house on Jay Hill. Moses Crafts was chosen moderator; 
 Peter Austen, William Coding and Samuel W. Eustis, select- 
 men. The same men were also chosen assessors; William 
 Livermore, town clerk and treasurer; William Peabody and 
 Oliver Fuller, constables. 
 
 From the town records we find the following names of those 
 who served as selectmen: 
 
 1776. Peter Austen, William Coding, Samuel W. Eustis. 
 
 1778. Samuel W. Eustis, William Coding, Daniel Rowell. 
 
 1779. Edward Richardson, Daniel Rowell, Moses Crafts. 
 
 1800. Samuel W. Eustis, Daniel Rowell, Moses Crafts. 
 
 1 801 . William Livermore, Moses Crafts, Scarborough Parker. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 11 
 
 1802. Moses Crafts, Scarborough Parker, Joseph Parker. 
 
 1803. Capt. Daniel Rowell, Nathan Crafts, Joseph Lathrop. 
 
 1804. Nathan Crafts, Samuel Chenery, Moses Crafts. 
 
 1805. William Chenery, Scarborough Parker, Samuel 
 Crafts. 
 
 1806. Same board. 
 
 1807. Same board. 
 
 1808. Jeremiah Stearns, Oliver Fuller, Ithimar Phinney. 
 
 1809. Oliver Fuller, Nathan Crafts, James Starr. 
 
 1810. William Chenery, Moses Crafts, Joel Howard. 
 
 181 1. William Chenery, James Starr, Daniel Rowell. 
 
 In the years following we find the names of Moses Stone, 
 Abiathar Austen, Elijah Stone, bringing the record up to 1822. 
 
 In 1822 Newton Linscott, Cyrus Parker, Daniel Butterfield. 
 
 In following years the names of Aruna Holmes, Francis 
 Lawrence, Jonathan Ridley, Enoch Parker, Edward Fuller, 
 Joshua Ludden, Melvin Leach. 
 
 TOWN CLERKS 
 
 As a rule, the town clerks each served for a number of years. 
 
 William Livermore, the first town clerk, served from 1795 till 
 1804. 
 
 Moses Crafts was chosen in 1804 and served one year. 
 Following him came Dr. Samuel Small for five years, James 
 Starr, seven years, and Ezekiel Richardson, six years. Silas 
 Jones, Jr., was then elected, and served until his death, from 
 1830 to 1868. Other clerks were Otis Johnson, 1867-69; John 
 
 H. Merritt, 1868 ; E. S. Kyes, 1894-1901; Rufus Stone, 
 
 1902-05; M. A. Macomber, 1905-09. The present clerk is 
 O. S. Waite. 
 
 TREASURERS 
 
 Among the names of those who first served the town as 
 treasurer were William Livermore, James Starr and Nathan 
 
12 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Crafts. Silas Jones, Jr., filled this office from 1850 to 1863. 
 The present treasurer is C. L. Macomber. 
 
 Among the more important honors which the suffrages of the 
 town have bestowed on its most distinguished citizens has been 
 that of representing the town in the General Court of Massa- 
 chusetts and after Maine became a state of the Union, in the 
 state legislature. James Starr, Jr., seems to have been the 
 first representing to the Massachusetts legislature after Jay 
 became an incorporated town. He was followed by Samuel 
 Small, M.D. Major Moses Stone represented the town in 
 1811-12. 
 
 The following persons have represented the town in the 
 state legislature: Aruna Holmes, Daniel Merritt, Francis 
 Lawrence, Stillman Noyes, Moses Stone, John Hanson, 
 Ebenezer Kyes. 
 
 Franklin County was represented in the state senate by 
 Col. Daniel Merritt in 1842-43; Cornelius Stone, 1864-65; 
 Ebenezer Kyes, 1875-76. 
 
 Daniel Merritt was high sheriff of Franklin County from 1846 
 to 1850. 
 
 Francis Lawrence was county commissioner from 1858 till 
 his death. 
 
 In 1 91 2 the town had a population of about 2,000 and its 
 valuation was $1,791,897. The number of scholars of school 
 age was 1,911. 
 
 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING 
 
 The March town meeting was the great day for the coming 
 together of all the male population of the town. It was held in 
 the Baptist church on Jay Hill. On these days the two stores 
 and the old tavern back of the big elm kept open bar, dis- 
 pensing new rum and toddy from early morn till late into the 
 night. Inside the church the older and substantial men lis- 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 13 
 
 tened to the reading of the town warrant. I shall never forget 
 the resonant voice of Silas Jones, the town clerk, as he read the 
 town warrant and then announced that they were ready to 
 choose a moderator and elect the officers for the ensuing year. 
 It often happened that the contests for these offices were 
 very spirited, especially for the coveted position of selectman; 
 and the yearly appropriations for town expenses often elicited 
 warm discussion. Newly fledged orators from remote districts 
 of the town frequently made the matter both interesting and 
 amusing. In the meantime the younger people and the sporting 
 element, if the weather was not too inclement, assembled 
 on the common, where there would be a wrestling match 
 between rival champions from different parts of the town; 
 and the enthusiasm enkindled among the friends of the con- 
 tending combatants at some skilful pass or advantage by the 
 favorite wrestler was no less pronounced or boisterous than is 
 witnessed at a modern baseball or football game in our times. 
 
 And these days were made festive by the numerous hawkers 
 vending their luscious apples, maple sugar candy, honey and 
 cakes of molasses gingerbread. There are doubtless sons of 
 Jay still living who remember how appetizing the delicious 
 cakes of gingerbread tasted as brought from the cart of the old 
 baker from Hallowell as it drove on to the common filled with 
 its confections. 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 Military History 
 
 Among those who first came to Jay were several soldiers who 
 had served in the war of the Revolution. These came from 
 towns near Boston. They were among the first to enlist in the 
 cause of American independence against the oppressions of the 
 mother country. 
 
 In the list of these heroes are the names of Capt. Edward 
 Richardson, Capt. Daniel Rowell, James Starr, Isaac West, 
 Nathaniel and Samuel Jackson, Samuel W. Eustis, Oliver Fuller, 
 Thomas Fuller, Jonathan Parker and Moses Crafts. Moses 
 Stone was a soldier in the War of 1812, attaining the rank of 
 major. Jonathan Parker and James Starr were of the party 
 of disguised Indians who one dark night boarded the British 
 tea vessel in Boston harbor and threw overboard the three 
 hundred and forty-two chests of tea as a protest against unjust 
 taxation. 
 
 We copy the Civil War record from the Jay register of 1905. 
 
 CIVIL WAR 
 
 But the one war that did stir the entire nation, and which 
 received the most loyal and effective service of every northern 
 state, was that which was fought in the cause of freedom 
 and for the maintenance of the American Union. If one thing 
 more than another is to be revered and commemorated, im- 
 pressed upon the minds of the rising generation, that thing 
 is the record of names and deeds of men who faced the dangers 
 of the battle-field during this trying period. As time rolls on 
 we are apt to forget the value of the service rendered by the 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 15 
 
 soldiers in war. Each succeeding generation is more forgetful of 
 these things than its predecessor, unless it is taught to revere 
 and love the deeds of the soldier. It should be in the mind of 
 each father and each mother to instill into the mind of the youth 
 the significance of the inscriptions, 'Killed at Gettysburg,' 
 'Wounded at Vicksburg,' or 'Died at Libby Prison.' 
 
 It is with pleasure that we are able to give a list of the men 
 who served in the Union ranks from the town of Jay. These 
 names, and the part taken by each soldier, are recorded in 
 the reports of the State Adjutant General. 
 
 SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION 
 
 "The following list will not be found to be entirely com- 
 plete: Jefferson J. Adams, Isaac M. Adams, Jos. L. Allen, 
 Thos. J. Allen, Harrison Allen, John Alden, John Adams, 
 Henry D. Brown, Geo. O. Brown, John M. Bean, Alvin C. 
 Bean, Benj. F. Bean, Amzi F. Blaisdell, Consider F. Blaisdell, 
 Americus Clark, Chas. S. Coolidge, Geo. O. Coolidge, Geo. C. 
 Chute, Wm. S. Clark, Wm. B. Cox, Jas. C. Collins, Thos. 
 Crosby, Saml. H. Crafts, Albert Dawley, John Dupee, John 
 G. Dixon, Franklin L. Dixon, John Dixon, Chas. Davenport, 
 Levi C. Davenport, Geo. L. Daisey, Silas C. Foster, John N. 
 Foster, Ezra P. Foster, Chas. B. Fuller, Henry R. Fuller, 
 Elias W. Gould, Jere P. Coding, Wm. Gould, Jr., Wm. S. 
 Horn, Chas. E. Humphrey, Albert Harvey, John H. Haskell, 
 John Heath, Chas. A. Horn, Chas. H. Jones, Chas. E. James, 
 Benj. W. Johnson, Ebenezer S. Kyes, Michael Kennedy, Robt. 
 Kennedy, Chas. H. Knox, Rutillus W. Kyes, John H. Kim- 
 ball, Horatio A. B. Keyes, Albert F. Keyes, Alonzo B. Mor- 
 ton, Josiah Mitchell, Jos. Mitchell, John Mitchell, David 
 Macomber, Columbus Maycomber, Edw. F. Morrill, Walter 
 F. Noyes, John E. Nash, Alonzo Nu'tt, Vitore Porre, Chas. A, 
 Partridge, Willard F. Packard, Chas. F. Parker, Chas. F. 
 
16 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Pomroy, Wm. H. Purrington, Isaac Purrington, Foster J. 
 Pickard, Winslow E. Packard, Gustavus Pease, Major Phin- 
 ney, Horace Richardson, John W. Reed, Jerry W. Riggs, 
 Billings H. Ridley, Osman Richardson, Wm. H. Rollins, 
 Edelbert Roundy, Wm. Smith, Bradford B. Smith, Timothy 
 Stone, Wm. H. Small, Jefferson L. Smith, Onslow V. Severy, 
 Jas. C. Smith, Lemuel H. Smith, Augustine R. Taylor, Benj. 
 F. Thompson, Roscoe B. Townsend, Nathan M. Townsend, 
 David W. Trask, Chas. A. Trask, John G. Tibbetts, Gilbert 
 
 B. Townsend, Andrew Winslow, Sumner W. Whitney, Thos. 
 
 C. Wright, Chas. S. White, M. W. White, Matthew Woodcock. 
 
 Foreign Enlistment: William H. Hanson, B. F. Lawrence, 
 Thomas Emery Lawrence. 
 
 Nor was this town without good representation in the late 
 Spanish-American War, fought in the interests of civilization 
 and humanity. We find the names of Wm. M. Dutton, G. W. 
 Pease, William Ryan and Herbert L. Wills on the roll of the 
 First Regiment of Maine Volunteers." 
 
CHAPTER V 
 Industries of Jay 
 
 In 1839 Francis Lawrence and Thomas Winslow built the 
 first sawmill at Jay Bridge. The following year the bridges 
 were built by a syndicate called the Jay Bridge Corporation. 
 
 During the freshet of 1843 the sawmill was carried away 
 by the flood, but was rebuilt the year following by Noyes & 
 Lawrence. The same parties also built the grist mill, which did 
 a thriving business for a number of years. 
 
 The mills were afterwards burned and the water power 
 passed into the hands of Alvin Record, who built a large pulp 
 mill and operated it in connection with his pulp mills in Liver- 
 more Falls, until he sold his interests to the Falmouth Paper 
 Company. This company built a paper mill in 1892, and oper- 
 ated both the paper and pulp mills until they came into the 
 hands of the present owners, the International Paper Company. 
 These mills have now been torn down and a large power-house 
 is being constructed which will furnish electricity to the other 
 mills of the company on the river. 
 
 A long lumber steam-mill for sawing and grinding was 
 erected by Hutchinson & Lane in 1872 or 1873. This was 
 purchased by R. H. Thompson about 1880 and operated by 
 him for four years. This was a large mill situated just above 
 the village and had a large novelty mill connected with it, 
 which gave employment to a number of the village folks. 
 This mill was burned in January, 1884. The Jay Wood Turn- 
 ing Company at Jay Bridge was established in 1907 and is a 
 corporation for the production of all kinds of wood turning. 
 The factory is located on the west side of the Androscoggin, 
 
18 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 just below the bridge. While in operation it employed one 
 hundred and twenty-five hands in winter and seventy-five in 
 summer. At the present time it is closed, but we understand 
 that under a new firm it is to be reopened. 
 
 The corn factory at the bridge, now operated by Tomlinson 
 of Portland, S. B. Farnum, superintendent, does a large busi- 
 ness each year in canning corn, apples and squashes raised by 
 the surrounding farmers. 
 
 PULP AND PAPER MANUFACTURE 
 
 The chief manufacturing industries in Jay at the present 
 time are the manufacture of pulp, begun in 1888, the manu- 
 facture of paper, begun in 1890, and the operation of her 
 granite quarries at North Jay, which began to be extensively 
 worked at about the same time. The pulp manufactory at 
 Jay Bridge began in 1888 and was operated by Alvin Record 
 in connection with his mill at Livermore Falls, as previously 
 mentioned. 
 
 The pulp and paper mills at Chisholm, costing about 
 $4,000,000, are among the larger paper industries of the state. 
 These mills include a wood grinder mill, a large sulphite mill 
 and a large paper mill. The paper mill has nine machines for 
 news paper and one for wrapping paper. Seventeen tons of 
 wrapping paper are made daily from waste. The pulp mills 
 grind daily sixty cords of wood. The sulphite mill converts 
 a hundred cords of wood daily into paper. The capacity of 
 the plant is 240 tons, or 12 car loads, a day. It has now in 
 its employ 550 men. The water power is 7,500 horse-power. 
 
 Chisholm is comparatively a new settlement, having sprung 
 up in connection with its large paper industry, around what 
 was formerly known as Otis Falls, and near the flourishing 
 village of Livermore Falls, of which it has become practically a 
 part, having the same railroad station and post-office. In 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 19 
 
 1883 it had only three houses; now it has about one thousand 
 inhabitants. This place takes its name from the late Hugh J. 
 Chisholm, the man who did so much to develop the paper in- 
 dustry at Rumford Falls and other places in New England. 
 
 Farther up the Androscoggin River, near the Canton line, 
 at the falls formerly known as Peterson's Rips, there is a large 
 pulp mill, established in 1897, which has a daily capacity of 
 100 tons, giving employment to loo men. 
 
 The water power at Riley is 940 horse-power. This place is 
 called Riley from Edwin Riley, whose home is in Livermore 
 Falls. His superintendent is T. J. Foley. Several houses have 
 been built on the west side of the river for the use of the em- 
 ployees of the mill and a school established for their benefit. 
 These pulp and paper mills, together with the three water- 
 powers of Riley, Jay Bridge and Chisholm, are now owned 
 and operated by the International Paper Company, which 
 also owns or controls both banks of the Androscoggin from 
 the Canton line to Livermore. 
 
 A branch line of the Rumford Falls Railroad runs from Canton 
 on the south side of the river, with stations at Canton, Riley 
 and Jay Bridge, crossing the river near Chisholm and con- 
 necting with the Maine Central Railroad at Livermore Falls. 
 
 GRANITE QUARRIES 
 
 The working of the granite quarries at North Jay is now 
 one of the important industries of the town. The quarries 
 have been operated from the beginning of the nineteenth 
 century, but only on a small scale for local purposes till the 
 valuable properties of the granite began to be known by archi- 
 tects. Its whiteness and uniform color are now recognized 
 by the leading architects and the building trade. It is un- 
 doubtedly the whitest granite produced in this country. It is 
 remarkable for its hardness and its durability owing to the 
 
20 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 absence of all mineral and foreign substances which would 
 incline to disintegration under the action of the weather. 
 These two superlative qualities make it especially desirable in 
 all building and monumental work where light-colored granite 
 is required. 
 
 The facilities for turning out building material are unsur- 
 passed by those of any granite company in America. The 
 granite is all handled by gravity between the quarries and the 
 cutting sheds, and between cutting sheds yards and loading 
 platforms by portable holsters. The loading platforms are 
 located directly on the lines of the Maine Central Railroad. 
 In the year 1884 a corporation was formed, known as the 
 North Jay Granite Company. This company operated but a 
 short time, principally in the line of manufacturing paving, 
 curbing and the cruder class of work. In 1887 a new organiza- 
 tion took possession of the quarries and employed J. P. Murphy 
 of Lewiston as general superintendent. Mr. Murphy had a 
 practical knowledge of all branches of the business; and as 
 the new company had secured some very desirable contracts, 
 among them being the R. H. Dunn Building, Lower Broadway, 
 New York, Memorial in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, and 
 several others, the plant was quickly enlarged. 
 
 The Maine & New Hampshire Granite Corporation now con- 
 trol entirely the quarries at North Jay. They employ at the 
 present time 318 men, with a weekly pay-roll of ^9,000. They 
 make a million paving stones a year and are turning out 250 
 tons of crushed rock per day. They have on hand now several 
 large building contracts, including the German Bank Building, 
 Wheeling, W.Va., the Carnegie Technology School Building, 
 Pittsburgh, Pa., and the Albany High School, Albany, N.Y. 
 The officials of the company are Frank A. Emory, president; 
 George E. Munroe, vice-president and general manager; 
 James R. Raymond, treasurer. Around these quarries has 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 21 
 
 grown up the large and flourishing village of North Jay, with 
 its department stores, fraternal organizations, churches and 
 schools. Beginning with a few scattered houses in 1820, there 
 are at the present time fine residential houses, several public 
 buildings, department stores, and a population of about a 
 thousand people. 
 
 The North Jay Grange, No. 10, Patrons of Husbandry, 
 one of the flourishing fraternal societies of the town, has had 
 an interesting history. It was organized March 27, 1874, with 
 nineteen charter members. J. O. Keyes was chosen first 
 master. In 1889 a stock company was formed and a good 
 Grange hall was erected at a cost of ^2,600. This hall was 
 destroyed by fire in February, 1895. The loss was heavy, as there 
 was no insurance on the building. Nevertheless the follow- 
 ing summer the enterprising members erected the present 
 fine structure on the old site at a cost of ^3,000. It was dedi- 
 cated in July, 1895. This building has since been remodeled 
 to accommodate the Grange store. This store has been suc- 
 cessfully operated for about thirty years and has proved a 
 financial success to its patrons. The Grange now has a mem- 
 bership of 312. The officers for 1912 are: W. M., Ernest 
 C. Morse; W. O., Chester R. Miller; W. L., Minnie H. Allen; 
 W. S., Robert Stevenson; W. A. S., Love A. Hyer; W. Chap., 
 Simon M. Coolidge; W. P., Harry L. Macomber; W. Sec, 
 S. Master Foster; W. G. R., Lester H. Willis; W. C, Genet 
 Morse; W. P., Belle Stinchfield; W. H., Nellie P. Hyer; 
 W. P. A. P., Elizabeth Woodman. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 
 The Churches and the Ministry 
 
 In the early records of the township we find little mention 
 of religious services, though ample provisions were made in 
 the grant of the General Court to the proprietors for religious 
 and educational purposes. In 1791, by direction of the pro- 
 prietors, a meeting-house was erected, which was still un- 
 finished as late as 1798, though it was used as a house of worship 
 till the erection of the new house on Jay Hill in 1807 or 1808, 
 near or on the site of the old meeting-house. This new meeting- 
 house, which is still standing and used for a town house, was 
 regarded as a very spacious building for those days; it was built 
 in the old English style, following the custom of church building 
 in the early times. In its original form it had a large vestibule 
 surmounted by a bell-deck and steeple. There were broad 
 galleries on three sides, with the elevated pulpit and winding 
 stairway leading to it. Beneath the pulpit was the deacon's 
 seat facing the singers' gallery. In the audience room were 
 the box pews with their hinged doors and seats. For many 
 years there was no arrangement for heating the building 
 except the foot-stoves which the worshipers brought with 
 them from Sunday to Sunday. Stoves in those days were 
 very costly and one large enough to heat so large an audience- 
 room was a very expensive affair. Once or twice efi"orts were 
 made to raise the necessary purchase money for a stove by 
 subscription. At the first failure to obtain the required amount 
 a shrewd old farmer was heard to say, "I am glad I put down 
 three dollars on the paper, for now I have saved my money 
 and credit too." Some older persons will remember the hinged 
 
OLD BAPTIST CHURCH, JAY HILL, BLULT IX if-Oy. 
 
 NEW BAPTIST CHURCH, JAY BRIDGE. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 23 
 
 leats in the pews and the clatter they made as the audience 
 •ose and sat down again at prayer time, as was the custom in 
 re olden time. And in the attics of some of the older houses 
 nay now be found the identical foot-stoves that our grand- 
 nothers carried with them on the cold Sunday mornings in 
 ;he winter months. Some anonymous versifer has embodied 
 he same in rhyme. 
 
 "The seats were hinged. In prayer we rose 
 
 And turned them up; and then 
 Were ready at the prayer's close 
 
 To slam a loud Amen. 
 We had no stoves; our mates, poor souls, 
 
 Indulged their vain desires 
 With small tin boxes filled with coals 
 
 Brought from a neighbor's fires. 
 Our parson made it hot enough, 
 
 No need for fires to yearn, 
 With good old doctrine dry and tough 
 
 Made all our hearts to burn." 
 
 ORGANIZATION OF BAPTIST CHURCH 
 
 Delegates from the Baptist churches of Fayette and Liver- 
 nore convened in the meeting-house on Jay Hill, July ii, 1799, 
 ;o form a Baptist church. The names of the persons who 
 ippeared to unite together to be embodied in church order 
 vere William and Hannah Coding, Joseph and Betsey Winter, 
 rhomas and Martha Fuller, Henry and Susannah Coding, 
 Dliver Peabody and Hannah Eddy, William Bachelder and 
 ifVilliam Eustis, and Oliver and Polly Fuller. William Coding 
 vas chosen clerk of church. On there appearing to be a 
 lappy union the council declared them as a church, and they 
 ivere pronounced by Brother Williams to be a church of Christ, 
 laying, "We wish you Cod's blessing." Samuel Eustis, clerk of 
 :ouncil. 
 
 On the next day, July 12, Rev. Eliphalet Smith of Fayette 
 preached to the general acceptance of all. 
 
24 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 We find from the early records of the church that the brethren 
 of the church, in the absence of an ordained minister, took 
 turns in leading the Sunday services. On Jan. ii, 1800, at 
 a meeting of the church, William Coding was given a license 
 to preach. 
 
 On Oct. 14, 1 801, at a regular meeting of the church, it 
 was voted to receive Brother Joseph Adams into Christian 
 fellowship, he having been previously immersed. Brother 
 Adams came from Billerica, Mass., and previous to his coming 
 to Jay had been a member of a Methodist church. He became 
 the first settled pastor in 1804. He continued in the faithful 
 discharge of his duties for fourteen years and then resigned, 
 but continued to supply occasionally, alternating with Elder 
 Joseph Macomber and Joseph Alden. In 1821 Rev. Elias 
 Nelson was called to the pastorate, remaining till 1825. He 
 was a man of more than ordinary gifts and much beloved. 
 Again Rev. Joseph Adams assumed the pastorate for five 
 years, thus serving the church for more than twenty years. 
 In the years succeeding we find the names of Walter Foss, 
 Daniel Hutchinson, Lucius Bradford, James Follett and Hugh 
 Dempsey, bringing the record of pastors down to 1857. In 
 1847 the old meeting-house was repaired, the vestibule taken 
 down, the upper story fitted up for the use of the church 
 and the lower floor left in its original condition for a town hall, 
 for which purpose it is still used. In 1873 the services of the 
 church were held in a hall at Jay Bridge until the building of 
 the new church at the Bridge, which was dedicated Nov. 2, 
 1893. A memorial window to the memory of Rev. Hugh 
 Dempsey was placed in the new church by his children. The 
 same year the Baptist parsonage was moved from the hill 
 to Jay Bridge. The present pastor of the Baptist Church at 
 Jay Bridge is Rev. George Cook. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 25 
 
 CHURCHES AT NORTH JAY 
 
 A union meeting-house was built at North Jay about 1845. 
 There was no settled minister, but it was occupied alternately 
 by the Universalist and Methodist societies. This church 
 was removed from its former site and is now used for secular 
 purposes, and a new Universalist church was built in its place 
 in 1893. The edifice was erected by subscription, the larger 
 donators being the Niles brothers of Boston and Payson 
 Tucker of the Maine Central Railroad. The pastors of this 
 church have been Rev. Blanche A. Wright, Rev. Hannah J. 
 Powell, Rev. H. S. Fiske and the present pastor, Rev. S. M. 
 Nieveen. 
 
 FREE BAPTIST CHURCH AT BEAN's CORNER 
 
 This church was organized at an early date with a member- 
 bership of live. For several years services were held in the 
 schoolhouse, district No. 4, but in 1865 the present church 
 building was erected. The earlier pastors were Rev. John 
 Foster, John Cheney, Hubbard Chandler, William Badger, 
 S. P. Morrell, Roger Ela, Henry Preble, J. S. Swift, and others. 
 
 METHODIST CHURCH AT NORTH JAY 
 
 This society, as we learn from the Jay Register, was first 
 started by Charles Williams, a stone-cutter, who commenced 
 holding meetings in the Grange hall. Soon after a branch so- 
 ciety to the Methodist church of Wilton was organized, and 
 the pastors of that church have held regular services here. 
 Rev. Alexander Hamilton was pastor from 1893 to 1895; 
 Rev. B. F. Fickett, 1895 to 1898; Hosea Jewett, 1898 to 1900; 
 A. T. Craig, 1900 to 1905. The church edifice was erected 
 during Rev. Mr. Fickett's pastorate, being completed in 
 1897 at a cost of $3,500. Regular services are maintained and 
 a Sunday school and Epworth League well supported. 
 
26 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 ST. ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH, CHISHOLM 
 
 This society was formed in 1893 and the church erected 
 near the Livermore line in 1894. The parochial school building 
 was erected on the same lot the following year and the pastor's 
 house in 1896. The present pastor is Rev. John Le Guenice. 
 There is a large attendance at the church and parochial school. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 
 The Schools 
 
 The district schools from an eariy date have been of high 
 grade for a rural community; and it may be truly said that 
 they have been fountains of knowledge and inspiration. The 
 town at one time contained nineteen school districts and twenty- 
 two schools. Private high schools were held at Jay Hill and 
 Jay Bridge in many past years. At the present time there are 
 a high school at Jay Bridge, V. Merle Jones, principal, and 
 nineteen schools of lower grade in different sections of the 
 town. The following is from the report of the superintendent, 
 Rev. S. M. Nieveen, for the year 191 2: 
 
 "It gives me pleasure to state that the introduction of a 
 uniform course of study and the use of a uniform series of 
 text-books are producing good results, even during the short 
 period of service they have thus had. I have graded all the 
 schools, so there are at present no ungraded schools in town. 
 The one-room mixed has been changed to a one-room graded 
 school having the same courses and books as the school in the 
 village." 
 
 The town may well be proud of the men and women who 
 in these schools in their youthful days laid the foundation 
 and received their equipment for life's duties. As clergymen, 
 lawyers, physicians, teachers and business men they have 
 attained prominent positions in public life. 
 
 There are some doubtless who remember the school-books 
 of the former days. First of all was Webster's spelling-book 
 with its rude cuts and the story of the bad boy up in the apple 
 tree and the old farmer pelting him first with grass and then 
 
28 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 with stones; and the Young Reader with its story of the foolish 
 boy who was eaten up by the wolf as a punishment for crying 
 "Wolf, wolf!" when there was none; and the fate of the young 
 lamb that strayed away from the flock and the sheepfold. 
 Some will recall the old English Reader with its classic orations, 
 Smith's Arithmetic, Greenleaf's Grammar and Peter Parley's 
 Geography. And those that attended school in those early 
 days will not forget the parsing class where the sublime verses of 
 Young's "Night Thoughts" were studied, analyzed and parsed. 
 In those times writing was one of the three R's taught in 
 the district school. Every scholar furnished his own pen, 
 writing-book and ink. The writing-book was home-made and 
 usually consisted of twelve sheets of common writing-paper 
 with a cover of stiff brown wrapping-paper stitched together. 
 The leaves were carefully ruled with a plummet, sometimes 
 in the form of a hatchet, made from common sheet lead, for 
 lead pencils were not in common use at that time, if invented. 
 The pen was the goose quill, skilfully prepared and kept 
 in order by the teacher with his sharp penknife, which with 
 his ferule or ruler, as it was called, was an essential part of 
 his equipment. The steel and gold pens had not then come 
 into common use; and the skill in making a good pen was 
 an essential condition of a teacher's fitness for his position. 
 It had to be a goose quill of good quality to make a good pen. 
 I remember when one day on my way to school having picked 
 up a turkey quill by the roadside I carried it to school and to 
 the teacher to be made into a pen. The laughter of the school 
 at my ignorance of the unfitness of the turkey quill was very 
 mortifying. The teacher must also write a good hand, that 
 he might set the copy at the top of the leaf. It quite often 
 happened that the scholar, as he wrote line after line down 
 the page, copied the mistakes of one line into the next, so that 
 the last line at the bottom of the page had little resemblance 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 29 
 
 to the copy set by the teacher, a practice too often followed 
 in the lives of youth in their failures to profit by the good 
 examples set before them. 
 
 Before the days of commercial colleges the teaching of pen- 
 manship and bookkeeping occupied a prominent place in the 
 education of the more ambitious young people. Private writing- 
 schools or classes were formed in almost every school district. 
 The writing master was wont to advertise his class by a large 
 poster ornamented by a pen-painted swan or the American 
 eagle, skilfully surrounded by scroll work. These posters were 
 often of a very high order of artistic ability. 
 
 United with teaching of penmanship was often that of book- 
 keeping. Many of the prominent business men that went 
 forth from our town to the cities and centers of trade obtained 
 in these writing-schools the instruction in commercial affairs 
 that has made them successful. 
 
CHAPTER VIII 
 Reminiscences of the Early Settlements 
 
 In every prosperous home of the early settlers there was 
 all the machinery for manufacturing the cloth from which 
 they made the garments with which they were clothed. The 
 cards to prepare the fleecy rolls for spinning, the spinning- 
 wheel, the spool wheel and the loom by which the wool grown 
 on their own sheep was transformed into articles of dress, 
 were essential parts of the necessary equipments of every 
 household. From the flax raised upon the farm, after it had 
 been sufficiently rotted by lying on the ground and hatcheled 
 to remove from it its woody fiber, our grandmothers spun the 
 linen thread which they wove into the fine linen sheets for 
 bedding and underwear. It was in later years that the card 
 mill aided the home workers by preparing the fleecy rolls for 
 the spinning-wheel, and the fulling mills dressed the home- 
 made flannels into the heavy cloth from which the coats and 
 trousers worn by our grandfathers were manufactured by their 
 prudent housewives or the itinerant seamstress. 
 
 The shoemaker in those days often went from house to 
 house, carrying his kit of tools with him, making and repairing 
 for the family the necessary foot-gear for the winter's supply. 
 In summer they had no need of his services, as they went 
 barefoot. The leather from which these shoes were made 
 usually came from the hides of animals of their own raising, 
 tanned by some near-by tanner. Occasionally some well-to-do 
 farmer or ambitious young man would have a calfskin especially 
 prepared and made by some expert workman into a Sunday or 
 dress-up boot. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 31 
 
 Not only articles of dress but also almost all other articles 
 needed in the house and upon the farm were home-made. 
 Wooden vessels of all kinds were in common use. The milk 
 pan was a wooden bowl, the water-pail was a wooden bucket, 
 and the water was drawn from the well by the well-sweep 
 in the "old oaken bucket." Even the dipper from which 
 our forefathers drank the cooling draft was of wood, with a 
 long handle ingeniously wrought by leaving a branch of the 
 tree on one of the staves that formed the dipper. Instead of 
 stone or earthen jugs for all kinds of liquids, such as molasses, 
 vinegar, etc., wooden kegs in the form of small barrels were 
 in use. These were often made by the farmer in his leisure 
 hours in the winter months. It is related of a witty old farmer 
 that having carried his three-gallon keg to the village store to 
 have it filled with molasses, the merchant charged him for four 
 gallons. In demurring about paying the bill he remarked that 
 he didn't mind so much about paying for the extra gallon but 
 it was the strain on the keg that worried him. 
 
 In the days following the clearing of the forests and raising 
 the first crops the people became better off and homes and 
 houses were of a better class. But the large open fireplaces 
 with the crane and pot-hooks for suspending kettles over the 
 fire were still in use. In addition to these methods of cooking, 
 the brick oven was introduced by the forehanded farmers for 
 baking the brown bread, Indian puddings and pies. The small 
 boy of the family was expected every Saturday morning to 
 cut up and bring in a good supply of fine dry wood for his 
 mother's oven before going to play or attending to other duties. 
 The Thanksgiving turkey was suspended by a string from the 
 mantel-piece before the fire, with a dripping-pan on the hearth 
 underneath. Later on came the tin-baker and tin-kitchen, 
 which greatly facilitated the means of cooking and aided the 
 housewife in household duties. And at a still later day earthen- 
 
32 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 ware and crockery-ware displaced the wooden vessels, the 
 wooden bowls and spoons of the early settlers and even the 
 pewter platters, spoons and mugs of the better class were put 
 aside as relics by the use of more modern dishes. 
 
 Few young people of today realize the changes that have 
 taken place in the matter of foods and especially in the manner 
 of preparing and cooking the daily meals during the last century. 
 Instead of the baked beans on which the people of New Eng- 
 land breakfast on Sunday mornings in these later days, in 
 the early days they had their stewed beans and johnny-cake 
 and bean porridge. The old Revolutionary soldier, James 
 Starr, the father of Judge Starr, was wont to complain that 
 "Jim's folks were too aristocratic to live on plain foods, and 
 that if bean porridge cost a guinea a gallon and came from 
 the West Indies, they would live on it." 
 
 In the early history of the town few potatoes were raised 
 or eaten. I have heard Dr. Small say that at one time in his 
 boyhood a neighbor was regretting that he had raised no 
 potatoes that year, when his father replied, "I can let you 
 have all you want, for I have raised three bushels this year." 
 Salt pork and johnny-cake, with potatoes and other vegetables 
 in their season, were the staples of living. There were no 
 butcher carts going from house to house, no meat markets in 
 the larger towns and villages. Fresh meats were to be had 
 only at the time of hog-killing in the late autumn or when 
 the beef creature was slaughtered for the packing of the salt 
 junk for the year's consumption. It is related of Scarborough 
 Parker, when he moved his family and household goods from 
 Roxbury, Mass., in 1804, to the town of Jay, coming from 
 Boston on a vessel to Hallowell, that he took with him a 
 barrel of salt pork and a barrel of salt beef, but having turned 
 off the brine to reduce its weight, the beef was tainted be- 
 fore reaching its destination. Sometimes in the early spring 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 33 
 
 the fatted calf was killed, and by a friendly exchange with 
 neighbors at different times of killing the season of fresh meat 
 was lengthened out. 
 
 MODES OF TRAVEL 
 
 The only means of travel in the pioneer days was on foot 
 or horseback. It was not an uncommon sight to see a man in 
 the saddle with his wife sitting behind him on the pommel 
 of the saddle, with a child in her arms, on their way to meeting 
 on a Sunday morning. I remember when a small boy listening 
 to an aged minister who had called to visit my grandfather 
 and grandmother, reminding them of an incident in their 
 early life of which he was a witness. He had seen them on 
 their way to meeting at Livermore Corner, father, mother and 
 youngest child all on the old family horse. When they came 
 to a small brook too deep to ford, the horse was made to walk 
 over the stream on a single log, carrying his riders safely on 
 his back. House utensils and farm implements were scarce 
 and of the rudest kind, which necessitated much borrowing 
 and exchange with neighbors. Joseph Lawrence built the 
 first two-wheeled vehicle in the town of Jay (excepting perhaps 
 the white oak ox cart brought to Jay by Scarborough Parker 
 from Cambridge). It was a two-wheeled horse cart, and the 
 neighbors from far and near came to hire or borrow it to trans- 
 port their produce to Hallowell, thirty miles distant, and bring 
 groceries and other necessities for their family use. It was 
 several years after that the first four-wheeled wagon came 
 to Jay Hill one day, exciting a good deal of curiosity. The 
 body of the wagon rested on the axletrees without thorough- 
 braces or springs. It was thought too frail for the roads of 
 those days. A few years later some of the gentry and well- 
 to-do farmers became the envied possessors of the "one-horse 
 shay." 
 
34 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 PRIVATIONS OF EARLY SETTLERS 
 
 Few of US in these times of comfortable homes and easily cul- 
 tivated farms are able to realize the utter poverty and priva- 
 tions of those sturdy men and women who first came to these 
 primeval forests to make a home for themselves and their 
 families. Grown men and women, scantily clad in homespun 
 garments, barefooted in summer months, sheltered in their 
 rude log cabins, laboriously worked to clear the hitherto un- 
 cultivated soil that it might produce for them the bare necessi- 
 ties of life. Families were often reduced to actual want, and 
 many times there was anxious though patient waiting and 
 longing for the ripening grain that would keep the wolf from the 
 door. The sound of the flail threshing out the first-fruits of 
 the harvest was often heard in the early autumn, which gave 
 rise to the saying, "The life and death flail has commenced." 
 
 The following incident is related in a Maine history of Joseph 
 Coolidge, one of the first to make a home in Jay, probably on 
 the west side of the Androscoggin near the Canton line. In 
 one July his family was on the point of starvation, and there 
 was nothing to be had nearer than Hallowell, some thirty 
 miles distant. Early in the morning he started and footed it 
 to the home of his brother-in-law, Deacon Livermore of Liver- 
 more, where he procured a horse. From there he rode to Hallo- 
 well to get some corn. He came back as far as Wayne, where 
 he had it ground, and started for home. It was near midnight 
 when he reached the ferry, afterward known as Hillman's 
 Ferry, but the boat was on the other side and no one to bring 
 it over nearer than Deacon Livermore's, a mile distant. He 
 swam the river and brought over the boat, took over his horse, 
 returned the borrowed horse, and then with his bag of meal 
 on his back made his way to his home, which he reached about 
 daylight. His wife got up and made a johnny-cake, of which 
 they all partook, and which he declared was the sweetest 
 
SAMUEL CRAFTS. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 35 
 
 morsel he ever tasted. His father was killed at Watertown 
 by the British soldiers on their retreat from the battle of 
 Lexington. 
 
 We read of the barefoot boy, but few grown-up men and 
 women of those days wore shoes in the summer months. An 
 old resident of the intervale told me years ago that when a 
 big snow-storm came on one November day a neighbor living 
 more than two miles away came through the snow barefoot and 
 got him to go several miles farther on to a shoemaker and get 
 a pair of shoes for him. Leg-boots had not come into use 
 among the poor people in those days. 
 
 PREPARING FOR THE LONG WINTER 
 
 The necessary preparations for the long winters made a very 
 busy season in autumn for our grandfathers and grandmothers, 
 even in the matter of foods. In harvest time there was the 
 reaping and threshing of the grain; then the cutting and 
 husking of the corn, and then were the potatoes to be dug and 
 placed in "the potato hole," a cave in the ground near the 
 cabin, for few hastily built cabins had cellars. In later years, 
 after orchards had been set out, there was the apple picking, 
 and in the long evenings the paring, cutting into quarters and 
 stringing on long strings to be hung on poles or sides of the 
 building to dry in the sun. And when the new cider had been 
 brought from the cider-mill, a day was spent in boiling it down 
 to be used in mince pies and to make the winter supply of 
 apple butter or apple sauce as it was called. The making of 
 the apple sauce made a busy day for the whole household. 
 The evening before was spent in preparing the apples, and on 
 the next morning the large brass kettle was brought out and 
 thoroughly cleansed. In the bottom of the kettle were placed 
 the sweet apples, less liable to burn, then followed the sour 
 apples and the boiled cider. Then the kettle was placed over 
 
36 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 the kitchen fire and had to be carefully watched for several 
 hours lest the contents be spoiled in the cooking. Who as 
 a boy reared in the old-time home does not remember the 
 delicious smell and taste of the sauce that was brought on cold 
 winter mornings from the well-filled firkin in the pantry, 
 placed by the fire to thaw, and then served with johnny-cake, 
 fried eggs and bacon, at the breakfast table? 
 
 And then after the beef creature had been killed came the 
 trying out of the tallow for the winter's supply of candles. 
 It would be a curiosity to most young people of today to witness 
 the process of making the candle-dip that furnished the light 
 for the homes of our ancestors. First a bundle of sticks about 
 a foot long and one-third of an inch in diameter were whittled 
 out by the man or boy of the house. On these were fastened the 
 wicks, taken from a ball of cotton wicking and made the desired 
 length of the candle. Usually six of these wicks were placed 
 on each stick, with a little space between to keep the candles 
 separate. Two poles extended across the room on chairs or 
 boxes just far enough apart for the ends of the sticks to rest 
 upon them. When all was in readiness the pot of melted 
 tallow was placed beside the row of candle wicks, and the 
 good housewife, seated in a split-bottomed chair, would patiently 
 dip the long row of wicks in the melted tallow, repeating the 
 process until the candles grew to the required size, the kettle 
 of tallow in the meantime being kept warm and full by the 
 frequent pouring in of boiling water, which, also, the tallow 
 rising to the surface, enabled the dipper to use the whole of the 
 melted tallow if desired. It was from this process that the 
 candle came to be called a "dip." And it was the forehanded 
 housekeeper that had a large box of these dips for ready use. 
 In later years tin candle-molds holding from three to a dozen 
 each made a more convenient method of manufacturing the 
 candles. 
 
COLONEL DANIEL MERRITT. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 37 
 
 EARLY AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS 
 
 The young people in the earlier times did not lack for the social 
 life and entertainments. Even the rural districts had their 
 social gatherings when dancing and innocent amusements 
 were enjoyed. Among the more refined and sedate afternoon 
 parties of young ladies gathered at times in the neighboring 
 homes, to be joined by the young men in the evening for a 
 social hour. It was on these occasions that many a fine piece 
 of needlework was wrought out which has been handed down 
 as an heirloom. Among the first work, after common sewing, 
 that a young girl was expected to do was a sampler. I well 
 remember my mother's which she had made when only ten 
 years of age, and which she religiously kept among the keep- 
 sakes of her youthful days. It was worked with silk thread in 
 fancy colors, on a piece of brown linen some six inches wide 
 by ten in length. It was bordered by a cross-stitch of fancy 
 pattern. On it were worked the letters of the alphabet in 
 capitals. Then followed the name of the town (Livermore) 
 and state, closing with her own name, Susan Norton Winslow, 
 with date of birth. Older girls often made more elaborate 
 samplers which contained the Lord's Prayer or some quotation 
 from some distinguished author. These samplers were usually 
 hung on the walls of the best room beside the family portraits. 
 
 Nor should we fail to notice the old-time spelling-schools 
 and lyceums and singing-schools which filled up the winter 
 evenings of the rural districts. 
 
 The spelling-school, which was usually held once or twice 
 during the winter term of the district school, was often a place 
 of heated rivalry and did much to perfect the art of good spelling. 
 Not only the scholars of the same school competed with each 
 other, but adjoining districts frequently held spelling matches 
 with all the enthusiasm of the baseball and football games of 
 today for the championship of their own schools. I was recently 
 
38 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 told by a schoolmate that my older sister, Deborah Lawrence, 
 in one of these spelling matches not only spelled down every 
 other contestant but every word found in the old spelling-book. 
 The singing-schools of those days were especial sources of 
 entertainment and enjoyment to old as well as young. They 
 were usually held in the village schoolhouse, closing in the 
 near-by meeting-house with a concert. The teacher as a rule 
 was some renowned musician from abroad, who raised the 
 tunes with a tuning-fork. On rare occasions the violin or 
 bass viol accompanied the singing, but for many years there 
 was a prejudice against the use of musical instruments for 
 sacred music. Nevertheless there was often grand harmony 
 in the singing. Never was the inspiration of song more keenly 
 felt or more warmly appreciated than when fifty or a hundred 
 voices rendered some of those grand old tunes in which the 
 parts came in with ringing melody that stirred every heart in 
 the audience. Who that in boyhood listened spellbound to the 
 music of the old-time singers will ever forget, no matter where 
 he has wandered or how much his ears have become cultivated 
 under the influence of the modern concert or opera, how his 
 heart was thrilled by the music of the old-time singing-school? 
 
 THE VILLAGE LYCEUM 
 
 Another source of entertainment was the village lyceum, 
 which in many of the villages, even of the smaller towns, was 
 an established institution for the winter months. It was here 
 in these small debating societies that many an amateur orator, 
 who afterwards became famous in public life, got his training 
 in public speaking and the art of oratory. The most profound 
 questions were frequently discussed by these youthful debaters, 
 such as "Which is the mightier, the sword or the pen.'*" or 
 "Which is the greater evil, pride or the love of money.'"' At 
 these lyceums there was usually a village paper edited by some 
 
MAJOR STILLMAN NOYES. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 39 
 
 bright young lady, to which both sexes contributed their first 
 literary effusions. Here the newly fledged poet found his oppor- 
 tunity to climb the heights of Parnassus, and the Artemus Wards 
 found expression for their witticisms. And here the speeches 
 of Patrick Henry and Daniel Webster were declaimed with a 
 force and zeal which did honor to those renowned statesmen. 
 
 The young people of our day with all their social privileges, 
 their picnics, their musicales, their Hterary clubs, their tea 
 parties and other social entertainments, may look upon these 
 former times with a feeling of pity for the hard lot of their 
 grandfathers and grandmothers in the absence of all the pleasant 
 things that make up the life of modern society. But it is doubt- 
 ful if the average young person of today is having any more 
 real enjoyment than did his or her ancestors in the simple life of 
 former times. The large families of former years made up a 
 home Hfe of substantial pleasures that is seldom found in these 
 days of strenuous duries when the members of a family seldom 
 see much of each other except at the morning or evening meal. 
 And it often happened that in even the small but scattered 
 neighborhoods there was a social circle that furnished enter- 
 tainments and social enjoyments that have never been sur- 
 passed in later years with all the privileges and refinements of 
 modern life. 
 
 "Our ancestors lived on bread and broth 
 And wooed their healthy wives in homespun cloth. 
 Our grandmas, nurtured to the nodding reel, 
 Gave our good mothers lessons on the wheel. 
 Though spinning did not much reduce the waist, 
 It made the food much sweeter to the taste. 
 They never once complained, as some do now, 
 'Our Irish girl can't cook, or milk the cow.' 
 Each mother taught her red-cheeked daughter, 
 To bake and milk and draw a pail of water. 
 No damsel shunned the wash-tub, broom or pail 
 To keep unharmed a long-grown finger nail. 
 They sought no gaudy dress, no hooped-out form. 
 But ate to live and worked to keep them warm." 
 
CHAPTER IX 
 
 Sketches and Anecdotes of Noted Men 
 
 Dr. Samuel Small came to Jay from New York state 
 about the beginning of the century and settled on Jay Hill, 
 where he commenced the practice of medicine and where he 
 resided until his death. He married Elisabeth Barnard of 
 Dixfield, who died at the home of her son, Dr. Samuel, Jr., of 
 Temple, aged one hundred years. Dr. Small was a man of 
 scholarly tastes, witty and fond of telling stones. His home, 
 presided over by his intelligent helpmeet, was a common resort 
 for the better class of the town and county. His witty sayings 
 were much enjoyed. He never lost the opportunity of cracking 
 a joke, even if it was at his own expense. At the time of the 
 War of 1 812 he was the medical examiner for drafted soldiers 
 of Oxford County. One Gilbert Winslow of LIvermore was 
 drafted, and having some physical disability came to see the 
 doctor for a certificate of exemption. It was the day of the 
 March town meeting. The doctor was on the common, watch- 
 ing a wrestling match, in which William Grose was the cham- 
 pion. Winslow making known his errand, the doctor turned 
 to him and said, "Gilbert, put Bill Grose on his back and you 
 shall have the exemption papers." Bill was soon put on his 
 back, amid the cheers of the crowd, and Winslow returned 
 home exempt from military duty. 
 
 The doctor was quite an oracle at the village store where 
 the neighbors gathered to talk up the news of the day. On 
 one occasion when the subject under discussion was What will 
 be the condition of the country a century hence?" the doctor, 
 springing quickly to his feet, as was his habit when he had 
 
HON. INCREASE E. NOYES. 
 
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HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 41 
 
 something of importance to deliver to which he wished to 
 call especial attention, remarked, "I should like to live till I 
 am ninety-five years old, then be headed up in a cask of wine, 
 remain ten thousand years and then wake up and see what in 
 
 ^ ^he world is doing." He was rather proud of calling 
 
 himself the laziest man in town. One time of general health 
 he chanced to meet the neighboring physicians of Livermore 
 and Canton, Doctors Bradford and Holland. They talked of 
 the few calls they had in their profession, and it was agreed 
 that the first time either of them was seen hurrying to a sick 
 patient he should stand treat the next time they met. Not 
 long after the doctor had an urgent call to Dixfield and was 
 seen passing Dr. Holland's, his horse on the gallop. At the 
 next monthly meeting the doctor was called to account. He 
 said he "had no practice for a long time and the old horse had 
 
 grown frisky and he was too d d lazy to hold him in and 
 
 so he let him go." In the last days of his life, after sons and 
 daughters had grown up and left home, though having hundreds 
 of dollars of uncollected bills, he was at times in straitened 
 circumstances. The old Vermonter, his faithful horse, had 
 died and the old cow had followed suit. His son, a practising 
 physician in Livermore, sent a boy with a cow, bidding him 
 leave it in the lot behind the old homestead, unknown to his 
 father. A few days later William went up to see how the old 
 folks were getting on. He found the doctor much excited 
 over a streak of luck that had come to him. He had found 
 a fine cow out in the back pasture. He thought it probable 
 it had strayed from a passing drove. He was about to 
 advertise it, but he thought it doubtful if the owner ever 
 called for it. After enjoying his father's elation for a while 
 William said, "Why, father, I sent up the cow." Quick as 
 a flash the doctor replied, "The Lord sent it if the devil 
 brought it." 
 
42 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Judge James Starr, Jr., who settled on Jay Hill in 1802, 
 was a prominent man in town for many years. He was town 
 clerk for twenty consecutive years, a justice of the peace, 
 and was the municipal judge of Oxford County till Jay became 
 a part of Franklin County. He was the first representative 
 to the General Court of Massachusetts from the town before 
 Maine became a state. He was a small man, and in early 
 life usually wore a pair of large round glass spectacles. On 
 his first appearance in the Massachusetts legislature, a certain 
 humorist of the press wrote, "A new star has arisen in the 
 East, but it can only be seen through a telescope of double 
 
 lenses." 
 
 James Starr, the father of the judge, who came to live with 
 his son in his old age, was a soldier in the Revolution. He 
 was one of the minutemen near Boston at the time of the 
 battle of Lexington, being enrolled April 19, 1775- He was 
 said to have been one of the party disguised as Indians who 
 threw the cargo of tea from the British merchant vessel into 
 Boston Harbor. He probably continued in the service of the 
 army or navy till the close of the war. He was fond of telling 
 the story of his home journey. After his discharge, not being 
 paid off, except perhaps in Continental scrip, he was com- 
 pelled to beg his meals and lodgings at the farmhouses on 
 the way. One day he stopped at the house of a good deacon 
 who was entertaining his minister and family at dinner. The 
 minister and the soldier were seated on opposite sides of the table, 
 on which was placed a large platter of beans, liberally buttered 
 on the minister's side but without butter on his. The clergyman 
 after grace began to question the soldier about his adventures. 
 "I suppose," said the divine, "out in the West Indies where 
 you say you have been, they think nothing of killing a 
 man." "They would," said Starr, "think no more of killing 
 a man than I do of turning round this platter," suiting the 
 
MAJOR MOSES STONE S HOMESTEAD. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 43 
 
 action to the words and bringing the buttered side toward 
 himself. 
 
 Col. Daniel Merritt came to Jay from Jonesboro, Maine, 
 and lived first on a farm on the south side of the Androscoggin 
 River, near Peterson's Rips. Afterwards he moved to Jay 
 Hill, where he resided till the close of his life. He was a farmer 
 and a large dealer in cattle, driving large droves to Brighton 
 market for many years. He was a prominent man in town 
 affairs, a shrewd politician and always a pronounced Demo- 
 crat; very bitter toward the abolitionists of his day, who 
 he declared were violators of the Constitution and disturbers 
 of the peace. Besides holding several town offices, he repre- 
 sented Franklin County in the state senate in 1842 and was 
 High Sheriff of the county from 1846 to 1850. He was also 
 inspector of beef cattle in Portland, Maine, where he 
 resided for a few years toward the close of his life. Notwith- 
 standing his rough exterior, he was a man of the kindest feelings, 
 a ready sympathizer with any in trouble, and of sterling integ- 
 rity. He was a member of the Baptist church, which he honored 
 and to which he gave his constant support. His death occurred 
 at the age of 69 years, in 1863. 
 
 The Noyes family dates back to 1086. Baron William 
 Des Noyes was a follower of William the Conqueror and 
 settled in the county of Norfolk, England, where some of his 
 descendants remain to this day. Nicholas Noyes, born in 
 England, came to this country with his brother James in 
 1633. Settled in Newbury, Mass. 
 
 Enoch Noyes, one of his descendants, was born in Rowley 
 in 1768. In the year 1790 he came to Jay. He married Betsey 
 E. Dascomb in 1793, and Hannah Eustis in 18 15. (See Gene- 
 alogy.) 
 
 Major Stillman Noyes, son of Enoch, was one of Jay's 
 most distinguished citizens. He was a large farmer, lumber 
 
44 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 dealer and dealer in cattle. For several years he took large 
 droves to Brighton market. He built and operated in company 
 with Francis Lawrence the saw and grist mills at Jay Bridge. 
 He represented the town in the Maine legislature in 1850-51. 
 He was a member of the Star Lodge of Masons and a faithful 
 member of the Baptist church, giving the parsonage on Jay 
 Hill, which has since been removed to Jay Bridge. 
 
 Henry C. Noyes, son of Stillman, married Mary R. Coding 
 in 1845. He was town treasurer and collector of Jay for several 
 years. He afterwards moved to Portland, Maine, where he 
 was engaged in the carpet and furniture business. From 
 thence he took up his residence in Revere, Mass., and was 
 employed in the Hyde & Wheeler Company of North Market 
 Street, Boston. His death occurred in 1896. 
 
 Stillman Noyes, Jr., son of Stillman, born in 1824, married 
 Hester A. Hyde in 1845. For several years he was in trade in 
 Boston. He afterwards returned to Jay, where he kept a general 
 store in partnership with Seaborn Hyde. 
 
 Lewis B. Noyes, oldest son of Stillman, Jr., is now president 
 of the T. H. Wheeler Company, Clinton Street, Boston. (See 
 Genealogy.) 
 
 Walter Noyes, son of Stillman, ist, was a lieutenant in a 
 Maine regiment of volunteers in the Civil War and was killed 
 in 1864 in battle before Richmond. 
 
 Increase E. Noyes, son of Enoch, was for twenty years 
 president of the Metropolitan Bank, State Street, Boston. 
 Mr. Noyes has made a record of which the family are justly 
 proud. A country boy brought up on a farm, with very 
 limited opportunities for an education, by strict attention to 
 business and sterling integrity he has accumulated a com- 
 petence which places him high in the social scale. He has 
 occupied several official positions in Boston, having been a 
 member of the Common Council and a representative to the 
 
ISABEL LAWRENCE. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 45 
 
 General Court of Massachusetts. He is an honored member 
 of the Congregational church and a helper in every good and 
 philanthropic cause. Of the two children born to Mr. Noyes 
 one died young. The other son graduated from Harvard in 
 1895, and after graduation spent two years abroad, one year 
 studying in Germany and one year in France. He was one 
 year instructor in Harvard College. He is now devoting him- 
 self to literature. 
 
 In the early records of the Roxbury church are the names 
 of Nicholas Parker with his wife, Ann, and his two children, 
 Mary and Nicholas, who came to this country in 1633. The 
 record does not state whence he came nor where he settled. 
 It is probable, though we are not able to trace the descent, 
 that Jonathan was one of his descendants. When the Revolu- 
 tion broke out he owned a farm in Roxbury. He was an 
 ardent Whig and was not afraid to manifest his indignation 
 at the oppressive measures of the British ParHament against 
 the American colonies. An incident or two in his life will 
 best illustrate his political sentiments. He had occasion one 
 day to go into Boston after a load of manure to put upon his 
 farm. Adjoining the stable from which he took the dressing 
 was a British gun-house in which were four cannon belonging 
 to Paddock's company of artillery. He secreted two of these 
 cannon in his load of manure and carried them to Muddy 
 Pond Woods, near Dedham. The other two were similarly 
 disposed of by a Dorchester farmer, Minot by name. The 
 next day a battalion of redcoats searched the towns round 
 about Boston for the missing guns, but were not able to find 
 them. Two of them were recaptured by the British at the 
 battle of Bunker Hill, but the others may now be seen in the 
 chamber at the top of Bunker Hill Monument. Jonathan 
 Parker was also one of the disguised Indians who threw the 
 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. After the death of his 
 
46 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 wife, in 1808, he came to Jay to live with his son Scarborough, 
 where he died. He came all the way from Cambridge to 
 Jay on horseback, his horse being the second horse owned 
 in town. 
 
 Scarborough Parker, one of the early settlers of Jay, was 
 born in Roxbury, Mass. We gather the following from the 
 Parker history by Millard A. Parker, A.M. 
 
 He was the son of Jonathan Parker, and spent his boyhood 
 days amid the thrilling scenes of the early period of the Revolu- 
 tion, scenes that were calculated to develop the strong elements 
 of character which he in after life so largely possessed. When 
 he began life for himself and had married Hannah Coding, 
 he moved from Roxbury to Cambridge, where he kept a public 
 inn for a few years. In 1798 he left his home in Cambridge 
 to take up his residence in the township of Jay. Embarking 
 on one of the vessels that plied between Boston and Hallo- 
 well, with his family, household goods and live stock, after 
 nearly a week's tossing about on the ocean and up the Kenne- 
 bec they reached Hallowell. There disembarking, he yoked 
 his oxen to his strong white oak cart and loading on his goods 
 and family, they slowly made their way over the thirty-mile 
 journey to Jay and took up their abode with the Stone family, 
 who had preceded them the previous year. He soon purchased 
 a farm lying north from Stone's Corner, which has ever since 
 been the homestead of the Parker family. 
 
 Of the numerous descendants of Scarborough Parker it is 
 sufficient to say that they have shown themselves worthy 
 to a great degree to be called by the name of their distinguished 
 ancestor. They have ever been the patrons of education. 
 More than a dozen have been graduates of colleges. Among 
 them several have been physicians and clergymen. 
 
 Major Moses Stone, the founder of the Stone family in Jay, 
 was born in Watertown, Mass., in 1777. He married Elisabeth 
 
HON-. DEARBORN G. BEAN. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 47 
 
 Brown, whose grandfather, Joseph Coolidge, was brought 
 home a corpse after the battle of Lexington. In 1802 he, with 
 his newly married wife, embarked on a sailing vessel from 
 Boston for their new home in the wilderness of Maine. They 
 were nearly a week on the voyage to Hallowell. When they 
 arrived, as there was no means of conveyance, he left his wife 
 in Hallowell and walked to Jay, a distance of thirty miles, over 
 the hilly road of that day. Returning the next day with a 
 horse, they both rode horseback to the farm, which he had 
 previously purchased, the same now known as the Major 
 Stone homestead. Stone's Corner. He was always an active 
 man in town affairs. He represented the town in the General 
 Court of Massachusetts in 1811-12, when Maine was a province 
 of Massachusetts, and was a member of the Maine legislature 
 after Maine became a state. He was also a local Methodist 
 preacher and pastor of the Methodist church until its absorp- 
 tion by the Methodist church in Livermore Falls. Two of 
 his descendants have been prominent clergymen in the Metho- 
 dist church. 
 
 Rev. Cornelius Stone, son of Major Moses Stone, died in 
 1866. For several years he filled important positions in the 
 Maine Methodist Conference, but the last year of his life set- 
 tled on the old Stone homestead at Stone's Corner. In 1864-65 
 he represented Franklin County in the Maine senate, and held 
 other offices in town. He married Frances C. Sylvester. They 
 had two children, Mary E. and Rufus C, who now lives in the 
 old Stone home. 
 
 Rev. Cyrus Stone, the son of Moses^, obtained his education 
 at Kents Hill Seminary and Bowdoin College. He held the 
 position as tutor in the college in 1858. He afterwards entered 
 the East Maine Methodist Conference and was appointed 
 to pastorates in Foxcroft, Dexter, Princeton and other promi- 
 nent places in the state. He was a ripe scholar an able 
 
48 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 preacher and a man of the purest and noblest Christian 
 character. 
 
 Rev. Otis H. Johnson was born in Minot, Maine. He came 
 to Jay as an apprentice to Aruna Holmes in his cabinet shop. 
 He married Eliza Small, daughter of Dr. Samuel Small. Soon 
 after his marriage he felt the Lord was calling him into his 
 special service, and he began to exercise his gifts in preaching 
 and was ordained as a Universalist minister in New Portland, 
 Maine. He held pastorates in Calais, Oldtown and Readfield, 
 and supplied as preacher in several towns in the state. He had 
 a very pleasing gift and manner, was of a kindly, sympathizing 
 disposition, and was much sought for to attend funerals. In 
 the last of his life he came back to the old homestead of Dr. 
 Small, on Jay Hill. There were four children: Abbie, Lizzie, 
 Marshall and Harrison O. 
 
 Rev. Americus Fuller, D.D., was born in Jay in 1834. Fitted 
 for college at Farmington Academy, graduated at Bowdoin 
 College in 1859 and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1862. 
 He married Amelia Davis Gould of Wilton, in 1862, and was 
 called the same year to the pastorate of the Old South Congre- 
 gational Church of Hallowell, where he remained for four years. 
 His next pastorate was in Rochester, Minn., where he remained 
 eight years. In 1874 he was appointed a missionary, and 
 under the direction of the American Board of Foreign Missions 
 was located at Anitab, in Asiatic Turkey, remaining eight years. 
 On account of Mrs. Fuller's health they returned to this coun- 
 try, remaining two years, when they again went to Turkey, 
 giving two years' service at Constantinople as city missionary. 
 Dr. Fuller was then recalled to his first field at Anitab, and 
 assigned to educational work with the Central Turkey College, 
 of which he was chosen president at the death of Dr. Trow- 
 bridge in 1880. In this position he remained until constrained 
 by increasing infirmities of age of his wife and himself he 
 
r*&; 
 
 ELISHA KYES, ESQ. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 49 
 
 retired from the mission field in 1910. The degree of Doctor 
 of Divinity was conferred on him by his Alma Mater in 1889. 
 He was thirty-one years in the mission field. Dr. Fuller is a 
 ripe scholar, an eloquent preacher, and with his devoted com- 
 panion will long be remembered for their consecrated and 
 efficient services in the mission field. His present home is in 
 Los Gatos, California. 
 
 Joseph Lawrence, born in Sandwich, Mass., in 1769, died in 
 Sumner, Maine, in 1862. He lived for a time on a farm in 
 Wayne, but early in the century moved to Jay, near the Canton 
 line. He was married three times. His first wife was Joanna 
 Floyd, by whom he had eight children. He inherited much of 
 his father's love of books, of whom it is said "he was a noted 
 scholar for his day and a born orator." Joseph's opportunities 
 for an education were very limited. Late in life he gave him- 
 self to study, employing a lady teacher for several weeks. He 
 procured a small printing press and published the genealogy 
 of the Lawrence family back to the time of their coming to 
 this country from England. He also published some religious 
 pamphlets. He also studied medicine, and his medicines 
 and advice were much in demand, though he never sought a 
 doctor's title. 
 
 Rev. Manasseh Lawrence, son of Joseph, born in Winthrop, 
 Maine, 1 801, was a man of more than ordinary gifts, a great 
 student of the Bible and a most interesting preacher. He was 
 the beloved pastor of the Baptist church in Sumner for more 
 than twenty-five years and was regarded as one of the noted 
 ministers in Oxford County. 
 
 Major Francis Lawrence, son of Joseph Lawrence, was born 
 in Wayne, December 29, 1799, died in Jay, April 18, 1858. 
 He was a natural mechanic. In early life he settled on Jay 
 Hill, where he carried on the business of edge-tool making. 
 His axes and draw-shaves were much used in the lumber 
 
50 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 camps of Franklin County in the early thirties, and were always 
 in demand. Later in life he became interested in the develop- 
 ment of the water power at Jay Bridge in partnership with 
 Winslow & Noyes. He was a justice of the peace, selectman 
 at different times in the town, and represented the town in 
 the Maine legislature in 1843. He became prominent in the 
 Republican party, being one of the delegates that organized 
 the party at its first convention in Franklin County. He 
 was a captain of the town's company of light infantry, from 
 which he was promoted to major in the county regiment. 
 He was a member and deacon of the Baptist church, and held 
 the position of county commissioner in Franklin County at 
 the time of his death. 
 
 Rev. Benjamin F. Lawrence, A.M., son of Francis Lawrence, 
 was born in Jay in 1835; fitted for college at the Farmington 
 Academy; graduated at Waterville College, now Colby, in 1858. 
 Taught school for a number of years; was principal of Litch- 
 field Liberal Institute in 1857-58; was a student in Newton 
 Theological Seminary in the class of 1863, leaving the Institu- 
 tion to enlist in the Rhode Island 2nd Regiment. He was 
 married in 1862 to Belle Stewart Church, and was ordained 
 as a Baptist minister at Cape Neddick, Maine, the same year, 
 remaining there three years. He afterwards held pastorates in 
 Corinth, Dexter, Brunswick, Buckfield and Jefferson in Maine; 
 Groton, Mass., Meriden, N.H., and Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 Mary F. Lawrence, daughter of Francis Lawrence, born 
 in Jay, was a teacher of languages in Portland High School 
 for fourteen years. She married Rev. Alvah K. Gurney, a 
 missionary to Sibsagar, Assam, India. They have two 
 children, Lawrence E., Ph.D., a graduate of Colby and Chi- 
 cago Universities, now a professor of physics in Idaho Uni- 
 versity, and Bessie Keeler, who has taken up the study of 
 art. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 51 
 
 Thomas Emery Lawrence, son of Francis, was a corporal 
 in the 5th Maine Regiment of the Civil War, and was killed 
 in the battle of the Wilderness. 
 
 Isabel Lawrence, daughter of Francis, was born in Jay in 
 1853; graduated from Portland High School, 1865; was a grad- 
 uate from the Oswego Training School. She has been teacher 
 of principles in St. Cloud Normal School, Minnesota, since 
 1878. President Thomas J. Gray of the St. Cloud Normal 
 School says: "Miss Isabel Lawrence as a teacher of Methods 
 and Educational Psychology has no rival in the West. 
 She is strong in all her work. All mark her mind as of no 
 ordinary mold. The family may well be gratified in her." 
 Lawrence Hall, a girls' dormitory, erected by the state at a 
 cost of ^60,000, takes it name from Miss Lawrence. 
 
 Dr. Daniel Childs was born in Woodstock, Conn. He 
 received his medical education in Paris, France, 1716, and was 
 one of the first settlers in Jay township, residing probably in that 
 part of the town which later became Canton. We have not 
 been able to get much information concerning his history, 
 but one little incident told to me when a small boy shows 
 him to have been something of a philosopher. In that early 
 time, as a doctor's income was very small, doubtless the doctor's 
 family were often in reduced circumstances. One cold day in 
 autumn, the oldest boy came to his father, saying: "There is 
 only one stick of wood remaining in the wood pile." "Well," 
 said the doctor, "that's enough to keep you warm. Go and 
 put it on your shoulder and bring it to me." The son did 
 as bid. "Now," said the father, "follow me," and he led the 
 way upstairs to the chamber, and opening the window, bade 
 him throw it out and go and get it again, repeating the pro- 
 cess. Then he said to the boy: "That will keep you warm." 
 
 Howland Childs, son of Dr. Daniel, was a cooper by trade, 
 and lived on the intervale on a small farm. He had a genial, 
 
52 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 sunny temperament and was everybody's friend. He was 
 renowned for his witty sayings. When some one in his presence 
 called a certain neighbor a Har, he remarked that "Mr. E. was 
 the most unfortunate man he ever knew, for his stories never 
 turned out as he told them." One day in the village store, 
 Judge Starr, who had met with some temporary loss, said to 
 him: "Don't you pity me, Mr. Childs.?" "O yes, I will pity 
 you when it comes your turn, but I've got a great many others 
 to pity first." Passing some men who were working on the 
 bridge that was being built, he asked one of the workmen: 
 "Can you use the adze one hand foremost as well as the other.^" 
 "No," said the man, "can you.?" "Yes," said Rowland, "and 
 I think a little better." He was very fond of a harmless joke. 
 Coming to Dr. Small's one day on an errand, he brought with 
 him a very pretty spaniel dog. The doctor's boys were greatly 
 delighted with the dog and eagerly inquired its name. "Guess," 
 said Uncle Howland. They guessed all sorts of names, and 
 becoming discouraged, they appealed to him again to tell 
 them its name. "Why," said he with a chuckle, "I have already 
 told you his name is Guess." 
 
 Dr. Albion K. P. Childs was the youngest son of Howland. 
 After completing his studies in a private high school on Jay 
 Hill, taught by Rev. Lucius Bradford, he studied medicine, 
 graduating from Bowdoin Medical School. He then spent 
 one year as assistant in a Massachusetts hospital. He then 
 settled at Jay Bridge, and for many years he was the only 
 practising physician in town. 
 
 Among the sons of Jay who have made an honorable record 
 for business ability, John Lewis Childs occupies a prominent 
 place. Mr. Childs is the son of the late Stephen Childs and 
 a lineal descendant of Dr. Samuel Childs, from Woodstock, 
 Conn., and a practising physician in its early settlement. 
 John Lewis in very early life developed a passion for flowers. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 53 
 
 and when but a small lad began a study of their names and 
 natures. Year by year his flower beds increased in size, variety 
 and beauty. He soon conceived the idea of cultivating flowers 
 for their seed and selling them, but with true business sagacity 
 he realized that to succeed with the enterprise he must locate 
 near some large place. In the year 1874, when but seventeen 
 years of age, he went to Long Island, N.Y., and commenced 
 the cultivation of flowers and the sale of seeds. From that 
 time on till the present, under his wise management, the 
 business has constantly increased, and now Floral Park has 
 a national reputation. 
 
 Dearborn Gorham Bean was born near Bean's Corner in 
 1824, and was married to Rose Ann Winslow of North Jay. 
 He was a successful school teacher in Jay, Wilton and Dix- 
 field. The larger part of his life was spent in East Wilton in 
 connection with the scythe factory of that place. He held many 
 important offices in the town and state; was an inspector of 
 prisons and justice of the peace. (See Bean memorials.) 
 
 Isaac West was a soldier of the Revolution. About the year 
 1800 he came to Jay and settled on a lot of land on the road 
 leading from Jay Hill to North Jay. He built for himself a 
 brick house in front of which was a willow tree which many now 
 living will remember. This place is now the town farm. This 
 willow tree had a unique history. West was coming from the 
 Kennebec one day on horseback. Passing some willows by the 
 roadside, he dismounted, broke off a Hmb and used it for a riding 
 whip. On arriving home he got off his horse at the lane lead- 
 ing to his house, and stuck the willow limb into the ground 
 near the roadside. The small branch lived and in time grew 
 into a beautiful spreading willow — a fitting monument of this 
 thrifty farmer. West was fond of telling how he revenged 
 himself on Baron William von Stuben, the German general 
 inspector of the Continental Army under General Washington. 
 
64 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Stuben was a stern disciplinarian, and was wont to reprimand 
 severely any soldier who did not keep his equipment in good 
 condition. The guns then in use were the old flintlocks. 
 The baron as he examined each gun would try the flint to see 
 if it was securely fastened. Finding West's flint loose he 
 severely reprimanded him. Before the next inspection, West, 
 with another soldier, sat up half one night grinding down 
 his flint to a sharp edge, and when the baron attempted 
 to move it his thumb was badly lacerated. In a rage as 
 
 he detected the trick he exclaimed: "You d d rascal," 
 
 but recovering himself, with a smile he added: "you good 
 soldier." 
 
 A noted character in Jay was Moses Loaker, the second son 
 of Moses, who came to Jay from Groton, Mass., at the begin- 
 ning of the century and took up his abode on a small lot of 
 land just south of the Baptist church on Jay Hill. Moses, 
 Jr., was never married and had very limited opportunities 
 for an education, but by a wise improvement of his time and 
 his natural ability and taste for learning he became an accom- 
 plished scholar, being a successful teacher in the common 
 schools for many years. He was an omnivorous reader, literally 
 devouring every book that came within his reach. In this 
 way he not only possessed himself of a knowledge of a variety 
 of subjects but he attained a command of language and a 
 fluency of speech that were remarkable for his position in life. 
 Though like many others of his day addicted to the drink 
 habit, he was a most genial companion, kindhearted and ready 
 at all times to do a favor. He could "draw the long bow" 
 at pleasure, and his marvelous stories of the big fish he had 
 caught and the amount of honey he had taken from some 
 lone tree of the forest, to which he had traced the wild bees, 
 were great sources of entertainment as well as amusement to 
 those gathered at the village store. Loaker's "meat-tub" and 
 
A. SMITH Thompson's homestead, built 191 i. 
 
 FRONT VIEW OF NEW HOME WITH OXEN. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 55 
 
 Leaker's Island, near the boys' swimming-hole, were noted 
 places in the boys' vocabulary. 
 
 Galen Thompson was born in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1782 
 and fitted for college in the Hartford Seminary, one of the 
 leading educational schools in New England, and delivered 
 the valedictory address at his graduation. He was a natural 
 orator and was often heard on public occasions. He settled 
 on a farm in the bend of the river near the Livermore line. 
 He married Susan Porter. Two of his enterprising sons, 
 Rudolphus and Loammi, carried on a large dairy business on 
 the old homestead for a number of years, keeping from forty 
 to fifty cows and enlarging the original estate by buying up 
 several of the adjoining farms. 
 
 Luther Reynolds was born in 1804. On attaining his majority 
 he married Charlotte Jackson. They settled on Macomber 
 Hill. They had eight children, all of whom grew to manhood 
 and womanhood. Austin, his oldest son, was a medical cadet 
 at Washington, D.C., in 1863. He commenced the practice 
 of medicine in Randolph, Mass., afterwards removing to East 
 Wilton, but for the larger part of his life has lived in Farm- 
 ington, Maine, where he had a large practice. He has a son, a 
 Congregational minister, who has held pastorates in Gorham 
 and other towns in New England. 
 
 Henry, son of Luther, graduated from Harvard Medical 
 School and was settled at East Wilton for five years and in 
 Auburn for eight years. For five years he was agricultural 
 editor of the Lewiston Journal. He came to Livermore Falls 
 in 1882, where he has since practised medicine. 
 
 Lauriston, youngest son of Luther, has been a Congrega- 
 tional clergyman, graduating from Bangor Theological Semi- 
 nary in 1875. He had a pastorate in Auburn, Maine, ten years; 
 in Yarmouth, Maine, ten years; Redfield, S.D., ten years; 
 and in Wessing Springs and North Belle Fourche, S.D. 
 
56 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 The Reynolds family have done honor to their native town. 
 
 Thomas Winslow, son of Benjamin Winslow, of Livermore, 
 was the popular landlord of the old hotel on Jay Hill for many 
 years, succeeding Moses Crafts, its original proprietor. He 
 married Harriet Starr, the daughter of Judge Starr, and in 
 company with his father-in-law kept the village store in con- 
 nection with the tavern. He in company with Francis Law- 
 rence built the first sawmill at Jay Bridge, and for many years 
 owned the water power at Otis Falls, now operated by the 
 International Paper Company of Chisholm. In the year 
 1839-40 he moved to Hallowell, where he was the landlord of 
 the Eagle Hotel for many years. He subsequently purchased 
 a farm in East Livermore on which he lived till his death. 
 
 The numerous Kyes family of North Jay are descendants 
 of Ebenezer Kyes, who came at the close of the nineteenth 
 century to Jay from Massachusetts and settled near the granite 
 quarries, a large part of which was included in his original 
 purchase. He was an enterprising farmer and accumulated 
 considerable property for a farmer of his day. He was noted 
 for his epigrammatic speech and quick repartee. Being in 
 the village store one day, in making change he dropped a small 
 coin on the floor. As he stooped to pick it up the trader 
 remarked, "Mr. Kyes, if I were worth as much as you are 
 I wouldn't stoop to pick up a sixpence." "Just the reason 
 you ain't," was his quick reply. Going to the store one time 
 just before Thanksgiving with a small basket in his hand, he 
 inquired the price of eggs. "Six cents," he was told. "Isn't 
 that rather low.?" he asked. "We will sell all we have for that 
 price," was the answer, and much to the trader's chagrin 
 Mr. Kyes replied, "I will take them." 
 
 The sons of Ebenezer Kyes, Elisha, Solomon and Lorenzo, 
 all settled at North Jay and with their numerous descendants 
 have contributed largely to the upbuilding of that part of 
 
HON. A. SMITH •I'llOMPSON. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 57 
 
 the town. They were large and enterprising farmers and were 
 prominent in all town affairs. Gustavus, son of Elisha, married 
 Anna Merritt, and was the first to open a general store at North 
 Jay, which he conducted for several years. 
 
 Major Ebenezer Kyes, son of Elisha, was born in 1842. 
 He fitted for college in Wilton Academy, and entered Bowdoin 
 College, where he graduated in the class of 18 — . At the 
 breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in the 20th Regi- 
 ment Maine Volunteers, being promoted to rank in the 31st 
 and 3 2d Regiments as Brevet Major. After the close of the 
 war he studied law and for some years practised in Lewiston, 
 holding at times several official positions. He then returned 
 to Jay. In 1875 he was chosen to the state senate from Franklin 
 County. He was a member of the school board and held other 
 important offices. He was married to Catharine Coolidge. 
 
 Capt. Edward Richardson, from Massachusetts, came to 
 Jay in 1794. He was one of the minutemen who fought the 
 British at Concord, and afterwards served in the Continental 
 Army through the Revolutionary War. He settled on what 
 has been called the John Richardson place, in the bend of the 
 river. He was one of the foremost citizens of the town, a justice 
 of the peace, and was frequently called upon to write legal 
 documents and perform marriage ceremonies. At the laying 
 of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument he and his 
 brother Moses were among the honored soldiers who rode in 
 state in the triumphal parade. His wife was Lucinda Coding. 
 They had four sons. John, the eldest, remained on the old 
 homestead, living in the large, roomy house which is still in 
 the family name. He was a forehanded farmer and made 
 the cultivating of apples and other fruits a specialty. Edward, 
 the second son of Captain Edward, built a home for himself 
 on a part of his father's estate. Two of his sons became promi- 
 nent merchants in Boston. Ezekiel, the third son of Captain 
 
58 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Edward, built himself a house and store on Jay Hill, as already 
 noted. 
 
 The Aaron Thompson family have had a somewhat remark- 
 able history for business enterprise. Aaron was the son of 
 Alexander Thompson, who settled in East Jay in the early 
 history of the town. He was born in 1789 and on reaching 
 his majority married Avis Fuller, who was born in 1809. They 
 very soon after marriage made their way through the unbroken 
 forest afoot, by spotted trees, some miles distance from her home, 
 to what is now the Thompson homestead, carrying with them 
 a Dutch oven and frying-pan and leading a cow. They built 
 a cabin, and after clearing a portion of the land they planted 
 a nursery and commenced setting out an orchard. Many of 
 the trees are still alive and productive. The log cabin soon 
 gave place to a substantial frame building, in which the 
 Thompson brothers were reared. In 1891 this building was 
 burned. A modern house was built in 1892. This house was 
 burned in 191 1, and has now been replaced by one of the finest 
 residences in the county. Ten children were born to the 
 couple. 
 
 Oliver P., the eldest son, remained at home till he was twenty 
 years old. He then packed all his worldly goods in a bandanna 
 handkerchief and with a cousin of his walked to Livermore 
 Corner, where he took stage to Portland and embarked on a 
 boat for Boston. From there he walked to Sherborn, twenty 
 miles distant. There he hired out to a farmer for six months 
 at eight dollars a month. His employer was an Englishman 
 who was familiar with the straw industry in the old country. 
 He very soon commenced the straw business in Sherborn, 
 later transferring the business to South Framingham ana 
 employing Oliver as assistant or clerk. It was thus that Oliver 
 was started in this industry which he carried on so successfully 
 in South Framingham and Holliston. He afterwards went 
 
HOMESTEAD OF NILES BROTHERS. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 59 
 
 to Iowa, where he acquired a large fortune in the banking 
 business. 
 
 The Thompson brothers have all been successful in their 
 varied enterprises. Samuel went early to Manchester, N.H., 
 where he was employed as civil engineer and overseer in one 
 of the large mills. From there he went to San Francisco, 
 where he distinguished himself by building a large gas plant 
 and in other municipal enterprises. 
 
 Kelsey Thompson, born in 1841, has been in California 
 since he left the home. For many years he was in the employ 
 of the government as forester. In later years he has cultivated 
 an orange orchard. 
 
 Gilbert has been engaged in the straw business. 
 
 Wallace first settled in Minneapolis, but after a two years' 
 residence went to Florida, where he has a large orange orchard. 
 
 A. Smith Thompson has always kept his residence on the 
 old homestead, though he is often abroad attending to business 
 enterprises. He is deeply interested in all town affairs and is 
 a prominent man in town. He enjoys his splendid home, 
 which is an honor to the town and a fitting memorial of the 
 Thompson family. 
 
 Rev. Charles A. Hayden was born in Boston, Mass. Soon 
 after his birth his parents came to Jay, where his early life 
 was passed. Very early in life he developed a taste for learning 
 and a fluency of speech. When but a few years old he was 
 known to commit to memory long poems and deliver them at 
 the village school with fervid eloquence. As he grew older he 
 availed himself of every opportunity to acquire an education. 
 For several years after arriving at manhood he was a very 
 acceptable and pleasing public speaker. Feeling it his duty to 
 enter the gospel ministry, he became a student in the Boston 
 School for the Ministry, a school that afterwards united with 
 the Harvard Theological Seminary. He has been a prominent 
 
go HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Universalist clergyman in Maine and Massachusetts for many- 
 years, holding pastorates in Lawrence, Mass., five years; 
 Gardiner, Maine, two years; Auburn, nine years; Augusta, 
 fourteen years. He is now in Oakland, Maine, where he has 
 been for four years. In his early life he married Miss Ormsbury. 
 They have two sons and one daughter. Dr. L. B. Hayden is a 
 practising physician in Livermore Falls, and Prof. Philip M. 
 Hayden, teacher of modern languages in Tufts College. 
 
 The Niles family was early on record in this country, the 
 name being first spelled Kniles. John Niles, the founder of the 
 family, came from Wales about 1634 and located in Bay Colony 
 on or near the Neponset River, now known as Dorchester. 
 He afterward moved to Randolph, where Veranus was born. 
 His father having died, the widow Niles moved to Jay, where 
 she afterward married Nathaniel Jackson, one of the early 
 settlers, who had taken up a farm near the quarries at North 
 Jay. In due time Veranus married Mehitable Harris, and 
 here were born their nine children, one dying in infancy. 
 Veranus, the father of the Niles brothers, was a large farmer, 
 an extensive dealer in cattle and real estate, and an honored 
 citizen of the town. Sullivan, the eldest son, remained on the 
 home farm till of age, when he went to Boston and worked in 
 Faneuil Hall Market. He afterward engaged in the packing 
 business, taking into company with him his brothers J. Harris 
 and Louville. In July 1896, this firm was merged into the 
 Boston Packing and Provision Company, Sullivan being made 
 vice-president. He was a member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce. He was thrice married. He died in 1910, leaving a 
 
 widow. 
 
 J. Harris and Louville Niles, following in the footsteps of 
 their older brother, have been prominent merchants in Boston 
 and have greatly prospered in their business affairs. They are 
 now with their sons engaged in the brokerage business at No. 
 
> 
 
 'I . r^i 
 
 V^ERANUS NILES. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 61 
 
 60 State Street, Boston. Eugene, the younger son, is a stirring 
 business man in New Faneuil Hall Market, where he is showing 
 the same enterprise and push as his older brothers. 
 
 Silas H. and his sister. Miss Eliza have remained on the 
 old homestead in Jay. Mr. Niles has kept a large general store 
 for many years, is an extensive real estate dealer, and is the 
 president of the Livermore Falls Trust and Banking Company. 
 He has represented the town in the state legislature and is a 
 prominent man in all town affairs. 
 
 Miss Eliza is a leading member in the Universalist church 
 at North Jay and with her brothers has done very much in 
 promoting its interest and welfare. 
 
 The Niles family have a most honorable record for business 
 ability and integrity in their commercial dealings. 
 
 The Hyde family are descendants of Jonathan Hyde, who 
 came from England to Massachusetts in the early history of 
 the colonies. One of his descendants was Joseph Hyde, a 
 Revolutionary soldier, who came from Watertown, Mass., 
 and settled in Jay on a lot of land near Stone's Corner about 
 the year 1800. His son Sebes remained on this farm until his 
 death, which occurred in 1848, at the age of seventy. He married 
 Rebecca Ball. They had twelve children. The two sons, Seaborn, 
 who was named after an ancestor born on the sea voyage to 
 America, and Joseph, became successful business men in Boston. 
 
 Seaborn in early life commenced trade on Jay Hill in a 
 country store. He very soon after began to send apples and 
 other produce to Boston markets. In a few years he removed 
 to Boston, where he commenced a commission business at 
 22 Market Street, taking into partnership his brother Joseph, 
 under the name of S. J. & J. S. Hyde. This partnership was 
 afterward dissolved and his son-in-law, Thomas Heber Wheeler, 
 and his son, S. Everett Hyde, became his partners under the 
 name of Hyde, Wheeler Company. 
 
52 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 In his latter years, Seaborn Hyde withdrew from the business, 
 but the firm continued under the same name, and the branch 
 house, known as T. H. Wheeler Company, 98-101 Clinton 
 Street, was established, the two companies conducting a very 
 large business. On his retirement. Seaborn came back to Jay 
 and engaged in trade with Stillman Noyes, Jr. He afterward 
 returned to Boston. His death occurred at Revere, Mass., in 
 
 1886. 
 
 In concluding the sketches of the lives and anecdotes of those 
 who lived in Jay in its early history, I wish to add that there 
 are others who are equally worthy of mention but of whom I 
 have been unable to gain the proper information that would 
 justify me in placing their names in the history. And of those 
 of whom I have written I may add that in some cases failing 
 to obtain the facts concerning their lives and occupations I 
 may have failed to do them justice. But for several months I 
 have sought all possible means of informing myself, aided by 
 my own personal recollections, and I feel justified in saying 
 that I have written what I supposed to be facts unbiased by 
 personal prejudices. 
 
SEABORN J. HYDE. 
 
GENEALOGY 
 
 ADAMS FAMILY 
 
 Adams, Rev. Joseph, b. 1766, d. 1844. Married Mercy Coding. 
 Children: 
 
 Amos, b. 1789. William G., b. 1802. 
 
 Harriet, b. 1790. Joseph, Jr., b, 1803. 
 
 Sally, b. 1792. Sally, b. 1804. 
 
 Abraham B., b. 1794, Mercy, b. 1807. 
 
 Eliza, b. 1795. Amos, b. 1809. 
 
 Joseph, b. 1797. Ellis F., b. 181 1. 
 
 Sibyl S., b. 1799. Levina, b. 1813. 
 
 John, b. 1801. Alvarus F., b. 1814. 
 
 Adams, Joseph, Jr.'. Married Arete Barrett. 
 Children: 
 
 John. 
 
 Charles B. 
 
 Helen (married John Merritt). 
 
 Henry. 
 
 Mercy. 
 Married, second, Cynthia Barrett. 
 Children: 
 
 Willis. 
 
 Mercy (married H. O. Johnson). 
 
 Adams, Alvarus, b. 1814, d. 1881. Married Harriet B. Ross. 
 Children: 
 A. Payson Adams, b. 1844; married Hester A. Noyes. Children: Urban 
 
 P. and Grace A. 
 Levina, b. 1846, d. 1894. 
 
 Charles, b. 1851; married twice. Children: E. Fred, b. 1884; Arbo M., 
 b. 1887. 
 
 Alden, Rev. Joseph, a licensed minister, b. 1768, d. 185 i. Married Joan , 
 
 who died in 1851. 
 Children: 
 Mary (married Daniel Fuller). 
 Lucy (married Elijah Dacey). 
 George. 
 
64 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Allen, Joshua, b. 1812, d. 1875. Married . 
 
 Children: 
 
 Edwin. Ida. 
 
 Joseph. Adelia. 
 
 Sophia. 
 Mr. Allen was for many years the landlord of a noted tavern at Bean's 
 
 Corner. 
 
 Allen, Stephen, b. , d. 1895. Married Sabia Ann Richardson. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Adelia, b. , d. 1870. 
 
 Howard, b. , d. . 
 
 Willard. 
 
 Allen, Aaron, b. , d. 1894. 
 
 Allen, Nathaniel, b. 1805, d. 1897. Married Patience , b. 1774, d. 1850. 
 
 Axtell, John, b. 1778, d. 1858. Married Rebecca Rowell, d. 1844. 
 Children: 
 
 Emery. Rebecca, b. 1820. 
 
 BEAN FAMILY 
 
 Bean, Reuben, b. in Gilmanton, N.H., 1774, d. 1861. Married Bathsheba 
 Taylor of Chatham, Mass., b. 1780, d. 1838 ; married, second, Phebe 
 Kenedy. 
 Children: 
 
 Sally Taylor, b. 1806; married Levi Eldridge. 
 
 Samuel, b. 1809; married Mrs. Sally Bean. 
 
 Joshua, b. 1812; married Lucinda Fuller; married, second, Rhoda 
 
 Chandler; married, third, Adeline Chandler. 
 Elias, b. 1813; married Loisa Taylor; married, second, Sarah Smith. 
 
 Sophia, b, , d. 1842. 
 
 Leonard, b. 1820; married Hattie Hardy. 
 
 Bean, James, b. in Gilmanton, N.H., 1780, d. 1862. Married Eunice Taylor, 
 d. 1874. 
 Child: 
 
 Dearborn, b. 1803, d. 1880; married Lovina Butterfield. Children: 
 Isaac B., D. Gorham, Lucinda, Marsilla. 
 
 Bean, Warren', son of James, d. 1804. Married Julia Wheeler; married, 
 second, Mrs. Lovina B., widow of Dearborn Bean. 
 Children: 
 
 Sumner, b. 1806, d. 1843; married Sally Knox. Four children. 
 James Warren, b. 1827, d. 1901. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 65 
 
 Bean, Lewis, third son of James, b. 1808, d. 1882. Married Elsie Wheeler- 
 married, second, Sophia Dakin; married, third, Sally T. Blaisdell; married' 
 fourth, Mrs. Lydia Jordan; married, fifth, Emily Parlen. 
 Children: 
 Jerusha, b. 183 1, d. 1870; married Denis Grover. 
 Thomas, b. 1833; married Ellen Crockett. 
 Clarence, b. 1855, d. 1876. 
 
 Bean, Eunice (Taylor), b. 1810, d. 1881. Married Rodney HarviU; married 
 second, Calvin Pease. ' 
 
 Children: 
 Joshua B. John E. 
 
 Oliver S. George Farr. 
 
 Mary Jane, 
 
 Bean, Melinda, b. 1815, d. 1845. Married John Kenedy. 
 Children: 
 Mary Jane. Ann Lobeide. 
 
 Elisabeth. Robert. 
 
 Bean, Susan, b. 18 17, d. 1900, Married Asa Pease. 
 
 Bean, James Moody, b. 1819, d. 1893. Married Ruth Harris Nash; married; 
 second, Anna Hanson. Six children. 
 
 Bean, Calista, b. 1822, d. 1875. Married Edwin M. Ward of Ohio. Six 
 children. 
 
 Bean, Melvina, b. 1824, d. 1881. Married Phineas Whitney; married, 
 second, Jefferson Adams. Six children. 
 
 Bean, Savilla, Child, Dorcas, b. 1830; married Albion P. Fuller. He was 
 a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 Bean, Jeremy, b. in Gilmanton, N.H., 1792, d. in Jay, 1835. Married Miriam 
 Currier of Deerfield, N.H. 
 Children, b. in Jay: 
 John Currier, b. 1804, d. 1850. 
 Betsey, b. 1806, d. 1837. 
 Salome, b. 1808, d. 1887. 
 Mary, b. 1810, d. 1894. 
 George W., b. 1813, d. 1886. 
 Lyman, b. 1817, d. 1862. 
 Jeremy Plummer, b. 1820, d. 1822. 
 Lucinda, b. 1824, d. 1829. 
 Harriet C, b. 1828. 
 
65 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Bean, Dearborn Gorham, b. 1834, d. 18—. Married Rose Ann Winslow. 
 
 Bean, James Warren, b. 1827, d. 1901. Married Emma Proctor. 
 
 Bean, Israel. Married Betsey Paine. 
 Children: 
 
 Israel. Dudley. 
 
 Emerson Chesman. Mrs. Sylvester Hutchmson. 
 
 Benjamin. 
 
 Brown, George Edward. Lived in East Jay. 
 
 Brown, George Edward\ Married . 
 
 Children: 
 
 Helen A. (married F. W. Hanscomb). 
 John A., b. 1853. 
 Catharine. 
 Henry O. 
 
 Bartlett, Ichabod. Married Margaret Look. 
 
 Bartlett, Jonathan, b. 1805, d. 1849. Married Fostina Look, b. 1808, d. 
 1852. 
 
 Bartlett, Josiah, d. 1854, aged 55. 
 
 Bartlett, Henry, b. 1837, d. 1874. 
 Children: 
 
 Hester. Ellen. 
 
 Bartlett, David, d. 1871, aged 71. Married Huldah Paine, d. 1885, aged 85. 
 Children: 
 
 Elizabeth. Henry. 
 
 Artwell. Eunice. 
 
 Barbour, John. His parents were born in England and came to Boston in 
 1802. He came to Jay when about three years old; d. 1877, aged 77. 
 Married Abigail Haines. 
 Children: 
 
 Rosita, b. 1826, d. 1880. 
 Angeleta, b. 1829, d. 1840. 
 John, b. 1833. 
 
 Blaisdell, Daniel, b. 1784, d. . 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 67 
 
 Blaisdell, Luther, b. in 1801 at Shapleigh, Me, 
 
 These brothers came to Jay in 1804 and lived on land in East Jay, now 
 owned by Milton Davis. They both married, and divided the land into separate 
 farms and built homes. 
 
 Briggs, Daniel, b. 1837, d. 1900. Married Lydia S 
 Children: 
 
 Frank. Ada. 
 
 Isadore. 
 
 -, b. 1817, d. 1879. 
 
 Bryant, Timothy, d. 1863, aged 76. 
 
 Married Betsi 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 Frances. 
 
 Matilda. 
 
 William. 
 
 Sarah. 
 
 Timothy. 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 Bryant, William. 
 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 Eliza Ann. 
 
 Charles. 
 
 Henry. 
 
 Stephen. 
 
 Emerson. 
 
 Rutilus. 
 
 Milard. 
 
 William. 
 
 George. 
 
 Nellie. 
 
 Bryant, Frances. 
 
 
 Children: Two boys. 
 
 
 Bryant, Matilda. 
 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 Sarah. 
 
 Timothy. 
 
 Melinda. 
 
 Leroy. 
 
 Bryant, Sarah. 
 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 Matilda Augusta. 
 
 Delmer. 
 
 Emma. 
 
 Ina. 
 
 Timothy. 
 
 
 Bryant, Euzabeth. 
 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 Angie. 
 
 Ena. 
 
 Childs, Daniel, M.D., b. 1716, in Woodstock, Conn., and settled near Canton 
 Point about 1800. 
 Child: 
 
 Rowland; married Lizzie Chandler. Children: Mrs. John Hodson, 
 Lyman, Dr. Albion K. P. (married Lucy Kyes), Anna H. (married 
 Nathan Gray), d. 1896. 
 
68 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Childs, Stephen. 
 Children: 
 
 Jane; (married Daniel Briggs). 
 
 Lysander D. 
 
 Andrew. 
 
 Lucy (married ). 
 
 Lydia (married Fuller). 
 
 Converse D. T. (married Florence Spaulding). 
 John Lewis. 
 W. Pike. 
 
 Crafts, Lieut. Moses, b. in Newton, Mass., 1754, d. in Jay, 1812. Married 
 Hadassah Mills. 
 Children: 
 John. Elisha. 
 
 Hadassah. Mary. 
 
 Crafts, Nathan, son of Samuel, b. in Newton, 1770, d. in Jay, 1848. Married 
 Anna, daughter of William Hyde of Newton, Mass. 
 Children: 
 
 Sarah Ann. Eliza, 
 
 jeffers. Nathan. 
 
 Catharine. Samuel. 
 
 Rebecca. Two died in infancy. 
 
 Crafts, John, son of Moses, d. in Jay, 1858. Married Sally Waite. 
 Children: 
 
 Sarah (Kimball), b. 1807. 
 
 JohnW., b. 1811. 
 
 Mary Augusta (Phinney), b. 1814. 
 
 Julia Ann, b. 1821. 
 
 George W., b. 1825. 
 
 Crafts, Samuel', b. 1807, d. 1899. Married Susan , d. 1865, aged 61. 
 
 Married, second, Adeline , d. 1883. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Helen. Charles. 
 
 Crafts, Helen, d. 1907. Married R. H. Thompson. 
 Children: 
 
 Carl C. Percival. 
 
 Otho. 
 
 Crafts, Charles, b. 1844, d. 1898. Married Adeline B. Jones, d. 1902. 
 Children: 
 
 Susie A. Leroy M. 
 
 Mary B. lola M. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 69 
 
 CooLiDGE, Moses, b. 1775, d. 1885. Married Lydia , b. 1800, d. 1883 
 
 Children: 
 
 Simon, d. 1846, aged 52. 
 John S., b. 1800, d. 1865. 
 
 CooLiDGE, John, d. 1905, aged 82. Married Mary , d, 1869, aged 79. 
 
 CooLiDGE, Elisha, b. 1810, d. 1896. Married Celia Bradford, b, 1812, d. 1891. 
 Children: 
 
 Martha Eustis (married Joseph M. Meserve). 
 
 Charles S. 
 
 Elizabeth; died young. 
 
 Caroline M. (married Ebenezer Kyes). 
 
 Hiram B. (married Emma Leland). 
 
 Dana O. (married Ada Wesson). 
 
 CooLiDGE, Frank W. Married Antoinette Graves. 
 
 Cole, Otis, b. 1809, d. 1886. 
 Child: 
 
 Samuel, d. 1858, aged 80; married Anna , d. 1840, aged 62. Children: 
 
 Horace, d. 1869, aged 27; Henry, d. i860, aged 26. 
 
 Dascomb, Samuel, b. 1778, d. 1857, Married Anna Whitney. 
 Child: 
 
 Moody, settled in Wilton. 
 
 Dacey, Elijah. Married Mary Alden. 
 Children: 
 
 George. Erastus. 
 
 Day, Jonathan. Lived near Park's Pond. 
 
 Dascomb, Elbridge, d. 1852, aged 42, Married Betsey Holmes, d. 1872, 
 aged 73. 
 Child: 
 George H.; married Ellen Rich. Children: Florence M., Elizabeth and 
 Wallace. 
 
 Davenport, Elijah, b. 1773, d. in Jay, 1845. Married Mary Town, b. 1774, 
 d. in Jay, 1866. 
 Children: 
 
 Rufus, b. 1796, d. 1871; married Anna Stevens, b. 1779, d. 1869. 
 Samuel W., b. 1798, d. 1879; married Lovina Cole, b. 1804, d. 1870. 
 Jonathan B., b. 1800, d. 1872; married Lucy Stevens; married, second, 
 Mrs. Nancy Hood. 
 
70 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Jotham S., b. 1803, d. 1862; married Mary H. Sinclair. 
 Charlotte, b. 1806, d. 1865; married Rufus Lawrence. 
 Janet, b. 1808, d.1836; married Oliver A. Lawrence. 
 George T., b. 1810, d. 1899; married Melinda Y. Paine. 
 Anna M., b. 1815, d. ; married Henry C. Gray. 
 
 Davenport, Samuel W., b. 1798, d. 1879. Married Lovina Cde, b. 1804, 
 d. 1870. 
 Children: 
 
 Olive, b. 1826, d. 1864; married Libeus Leach. 
 Elijah B., b. 1828, d. 1864; married Ester Allen. 
 Levi C, b. 183 1, d. 1881; married Melinda G. Morse. 
 Janet, b. 1833, d. 1867. 
 Mary, b. 1835. 
 Henry B., b. 1837. 
 Mercy, b. 1840. 
 Charles, b. 1843. 
 
 Davenport, George T., b. 1810, d. 1899. Married Melinda Paine, b. 1814, 
 
 d. 1884. 
 Child: 
 
 Ella M., b. 1845. 
 
 EusTis, Samuel, b. 1775, d. 1851. Married Ester , d. 1842. 
 
 He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Newton, Maw. 
 Children: 
 
 Gilbert, d. 1836. 
 
 Ester E., b. 1807, d. 1858; married Dr. Hale of Livermore. 
 
 Harriet, d. 1877; married Lewis Stacey. 
 
 John, d. in the West. 
 
 EusTis, William, b. 1768, d. in Jay, 1847. Married Anna , b. 1778, d. 
 
 1856. 
 
 EusTis, Thomas, b. 1807, d. 1891, Married Eliza A. Noyes.b. 1809, d. 1889. 
 EusTis, Daniel, d. 1842. 
 
 Eaton, John, b. 1819, d. 1884. Married Harriet M. Noyes, b. i8to. 
 Child: 
 
 John C, b. 1843, d. 1901. 
 
 Fuller, Deacon Oliver, d. 1844, aged 83. Married Polly Euatis, d. 1838, 
 aged 71. 
 Child: 
 
 Oliver^, b. 1793, d. 1849; married Lydia O. Boston. Children: Marshall, 
 Emerson, Caroline, Rawson, William F., Hannah, Winslow, Alden. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 71 
 
 Fuller, Jackson, d. 1873, aged 78. Married Mary Phinney, d. 1859. 
 Children: 
 Americus, b. 1834. 
 Augustus A. 
 Ferdinand. 
 Lois A. (married Fred Wright). 
 
 Fuller, Edward, d. 1848, aged 46. Married Harriet Townsend, d. 1839. 
 aged 61. 
 Children: 
 
 Lucy; married Elisha Kyes; had 11 children. 
 Hannah; married Alden; had one child. 
 
 Fuller, Thomas, a private in the Revolutionary War. Married Eliza Paine. 
 Children: 
 Washington (married Martha R. Noyes), b. 1816; still living. 
 John. 
 Daniel. 
 
 Fuller, John, Jr., b. 1819, d. 1896. Married Lucinda Richardson. 
 Children: 
 
 Mary. Edgar. 
 
 Eliza. Fostina. 
 
 Henry. Ora. 
 
 Russell. 
 
 Fuller, Daniel, d. 1892. Married Mary Alden, daughter of Joseph Alden. 
 Children: 
 
 Lucy. Emily, 
 
 Oilman. John. 
 
 Marshall. Roscoe. 
 
 Fuller, Isaac, d. 1880, aged 87. Married Mary J. , d. 1908, aged 79. 
 
 Gray, Uriah H., b. 1784, d. 1843. Married Anna Davenport, b. 1787, d. 1866. 
 Children: 
 
 Elijah, b. 1808, d. 183 1. 
 
 Henry C, b. 1810, d. 1857; married Anna M. Davenport. Children: 
 
 George H., b. 1839, d. 1841. Elnora, b. 1841, d. 1862. Esther, b. 1867; 
 
 married F. Briggs. Osmand, b. 185 1, d. 1862. 
 Elias, b. 181S, d. 1852; married Ann C. Richardson. Children: Emma- 
 
 retta, Marshall L. 
 Nathan, b. 1838, d. 1872; married Anna H. Childs. Children: Leonard, 
 
 Emeline F., Caroline R. and Clinton F. 
 Daniel, b. 1820; married Flora Ludden. 
 
72 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 AnnD.,b. 1823, d. 1871; married Samuel W.Walker. Children: Charlee 
 
 and Clara. 
 Charles, b. 1826; married Mary Davenport. Five children. 
 Mary M., b. 1828; married John Phillips. Six children. 
 
 Gray, Vesta, b. 183 1. Married Stephen Walker. 
 Children: 
 
 Ida N. Nellie M. 
 
 Anna E. Wallace. 
 
 GooDNOUGH, Jacob, d. 1870, aged 76. Married Hannah , d. 1885, aged 
 
 67. 
 Child: 
 
 Olive, d. 1861, aged 37. 
 
 Grose, John, d. 1824, aged 82. Married Abbie Waterhouse, d. , aged 59. 
 
 Children: 
 
 David. Abigail. 
 
 Wesley. Mary Ann. 
 
 Henry B. 
 
 Grose, Reuben. Married Betsey Bartlett. 
 Children: 
 Washington. Katharine. 
 
 Samuel. Roxy. 
 
 Lorenzo. Sarah. 
 
 Rose. 
 
 Grose, Washington, b. 1820, d. 1894. Married Elizabeth Bartlett, b. 1830, 
 d. 1906. 
 
 Grose, Samuel, b. 1821, d. 1910. Married Rebecca . 
 
 Grose, Henry B. 
 Child: 
 Eunice (married Stinchfield). 
 
 Grose, Daniel, d. 1866. Married Abigail Parker, b. in Cambridge, Masi., 
 1804. 
 
 Grose, William, d. 1727. Married Susannah Parker. Married, second, 
 Harriet S., widow of Rev. Hugh Dempsey. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 73 
 
 Gould, George H., b. 1836, d. 1905. Soldier of 29th Regiment Maine Volun- 
 
 teers. 
 
 Hanson, John, d. 1901, aged 82. Married Lydia , d. 1850, aged 33. 
 
 Married, second, Betsey Fuller, d. 1858, aged 34. 
 Children: 
 
 William. Sophrona. 
 
 Betsey. Esther. 
 
 Lydia. 
 
 HxJMPHREY, Ebenezer. Married twice. 
 Children: 
 Joseph. Orville. 
 
 Henry. Emeline (married Joel Paine). 
 
 Holmes, Aruna, b. in Minot, d. in 1876, aged 79. Married Louisa S. Starr, 
 d. 1863, aged 66. 
 Children: 
 Albion, d. in youth. 
 Henry, d. 1912, aged 87. 
 
 Aruna Augustus, b. 183 1, d. in Winchester, Mass., 1908; married Eliza- 
 beth Richardson. One daughter. 
 Albion,^ still living. 
 
 Hyde, Joseph, b. in Watertown, Mass., 1749. Came to Jay among early 
 settlers. 
 
 Hyde, Deacon Sebes, son of Joseph, b. 1778, d. 1848. Married Rebecca 
 Ball, b. 1780, d. 1858. 
 Children: 
 
 Rebecca Morris, b. 1805. 
 Esther, b. 1807. 
 Caroline A., b. 1808. 
 Elinor Marion, b. i8io. 
 Marrilla, b. 1812. 
 Seaborn Jackson, b. 18 14. 
 Mary Brown, b. 1816. 
 Abigail Learned, b. 18 16. 
 Hester Amelia, b. 1821. 
 Joseph Sawyer, b. 1825. 
 Martha Lawrence, b. 1826. 
 Elisabeth Diana, b. 1830. 
 
74 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Hyde, Seaborn J., b. 1814, d. 1886. Married Esther Ann Noyes. 
 Children: 
 
 Ellen Elisabeth; married Thomas Heber Wheeler. 
 S. Everett; married Estella M. Weston. 
 Edward V.; married Julia Somes. 
 
 Jones, Silas, d. 1857, aged 89. Married Anna , d. 1872, aged 78. 
 
 Children: 
 
 William, b. 1799. 
 Silas, Jr., b. about 1800. 
 Ann, b. 1802. 
 Samuel, b. 1804. 
 Lorenzo, b. 1806. 
 Dorothy, b. 1809. 
 Caleb, b. 1812. 
 Mary, b. 1815. 
 
 Jones, Silas, Jr., b. about 1800, d. 1863. Married Jemima Kyes. 
 Children: 
 
 Naomi and Jemima, twins. Naomi married Rev. George Robinson, 
 Jemima married Emory Bradford. 
 Married, second, Rebecca Townsend. 
 Children: 
 
 Silas Emory. Rosalvin. 
 
 Married, third, Philema Bradford. 
 Child: 
 Adeline B. (married Charles Crafts). 
 
 Jones, Lorenzo, b. 1806, d. 1861. Married Arabella , b. 1819, d. 1889. 
 
 Jones, Caleb, b. 1812, d. 1868. Married Butterfield, b. 1816, d. 1890. 
 
 Jones, Silas Emory, b. 1835, d. 1898, in Livermore. Married Verlinda Brad- 
 ford, d. 1888. 
 
 Jones, Hiram, d. 1871, aged 71. Married Betsey Tuck, d. 1880, aged Si. 
 Children: 
 
 Mary Ann, b. 1826. 
 
 Albion K. P., b. 1829; married Emily Bigelow, d. 1895; married, second, 
 
 Mary Potter, d. 1901. 
 Harriet M. (married Otis Richardson). 
 
 Albert F. (married Jane Coding). 1 
 
 William B. y 
 
 Charles H. 
 Ann Elizabeth. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 75 
 
 Jackson, Nathaniel, b. in Newton, Mass. Revolutionary War veteran, 
 private in Capt. Amaria Fuller's company. Went to Cambridge, 1775, 
 discharged 1780, and came to Jay. Purchased the farm now known as the 
 Niles homestead, where he died. He married Mrs. Roanna Niles. 
 
 Jackson, Samuel, b. in Newton, Mass., son of Samuel and Lois Woodward 
 Jackson, was born 1764 and died 1834. He was a Revolutionary soldier 
 in Capt. Edward Fuller's company of Newton. Enlisted in 1776. Came 
 to Jay at close of the war and settled on Macomber Hill. Married Comfort 
 Houghton. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Benjamin, b. 1784. 
 
 Henry, b. 1789. 
 
 Nancy, b. 1791 (married — 
 
 Elijah, b. 1795. 
 
 Samuel, b. 1797. 
 
 Abigail, b. 1799 (married — 
 
 Polly, b. 1801 (married 
 
 Charlotte, b. 1804 (married 
 Sarah, b. 1806. 
 
 Eliza, b. 1809 (married 
 
 Ephraim, b. 1812. 
 
 Dyke). 
 
 - Robie). 
 Tufts). 
 Reynolds). 
 
 Jones). 
 
 Jackson, Elijah, b. 1795, d. 1857. Married Betsey R. Macomber. 
 Children: 
 
 Eleanor (married Micah Ross). 
 Augustine (married Abbie Lamkin). 
 Manuel (married Sylvia R. Gleason). 
 Mary E. (married Nathan Clough). 
 
 Sarah (married E. F. Bumpus). Children: Frank L., Henry C, Alice M., 
 Howard P., Sarah N. 
 
 Johnson, Rev. Otis, b. in Minot, d. 1885, aged 71. Married Eliza Barnard 
 Small, d. 1893. 
 Children: 
 
 Abbie. Marshall, d. 1812. 
 
 Lizzie. Harrison (married Mercy Adams). 
 
 Kyes, Ebenezer, d. 1838, aged 79. Married Gemma Jackson, d. 1842, aged 
 
 n- 
 
 Children: 
 
 Elisha. Lorenzo. 
 
 Solomon. Ebenezer^. 
 
76 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Kyes, Elisha, b. 1799, d. 1872. Married Catherine Fuller, d. 1875. 
 Children: 
 
 Abel Jackson (married Mercy Ross). 
 
 Columbus, d. 1849. 
 
 Elisha^ (married Rachel Herron). 
 
 Lucy (married George Dickson). 
 
 Gustavus, b. 1827, d. 1849; married Anna Merritt. 
 
 Catharine (married Sulviro Merritt). 
 
 Oliver Granville (married Harriet Niles). 
 
 Salma (unmarried). 
 
 Edward (married Lucy Kyes). 
 
 Ebenezer^ b. 1842, d. 1888; married Caroline M. Coolidge. 
 
 Kyes, Solomon, d. 1871, aged 71. Married Rhoda Eldridge, d. 1876. 
 Children: 
 Jonathan O. (married Arilla Rowell; married, second, Julia Haskell). 
 Rhoda (married Dr. John Powers). 
 Niles. 
 Frank. 
 Horatio. 
 
 Rutillus (married Helen Lake). 
 Lieut. Albert F., d. at Fortress Monroe. 
 Three children died young. 
 
 Kyes, Lorenzo, d. 1880, aged 72. Married Lucy Powers. 
 Children: 
 
 Emily (married Henry Rowell.) 
 
 Adeline, d. 1880 (married A. L. Richardson, d. 1850, aged 24). 
 
 Moors, d. 1857, aged 23. 
 
 Julia R., d. 1865, aged 26. 
 
 Lucy S. (married Edward Kyes). 
 
 Mary Florence, b. 1843, d. 1879; married Lewis Packard; married, second, 
 
 George Smith. 
 Martha P. (married H. R. Dascomb). 
 Naomi, b. 1852, d. 1905. 
 George Smith, d. 1842, aged 45. 
 George E. 
 Henry P. 
 
 Kyes, Ebenezer^. Married Rebecca Aitel. 
 Children: 
 
 Lucy Ann (married Dr. A. K. P. Childs). 
 Naomi (married Robert Smith). 
 Warren (married Mary Fenderson). 
 
 K.TES, Geuma. Married Silas Jones, Jr. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 77 
 
 Kennedy, John, b. 1805, d. 1875. Married Melinda Bean, b 181 c d iSac 
 Children: i. • 45- 
 
 Mary Jane, b. 1835, d. 1851. 
 
 Robert (a soldier in Company K, 28th Maine Volunteers; died in service). 
 
 Lobeide Malinda, b. 1843. 
 
 Elizabeth Ann (married William Farrington York). 
 
 Keep, Francis, d. 1875. Married Catherine , d. 1882 
 
 Child: 
 
 S. Moody, b. 1837, d. 1905. Married Maria L. , b. 1825, d. 1897. 
 
 Children: Martha R., Charles Rowell, Fred Cliford, Esther May] 
 Ezra Francis. 
 
 Lealand, Ira, d. 1871, aged 74. Married Hannah , d, 1884. aged 86 
 
 Child: 
 
 Mary, d. 1858. 
 
 Lealand, Warren, b. 1819, d. 1893. Married Martha , b. 1769, d. 1854. 
 
 Lake, John, b. 1767, d. 1834. Married Betsey , b. 1784, d. 1849. 
 
 Children: 
 Dr. Lake. 
 Martha, b. i860, d. 1897. 
 
 Lamkin, Deacon Simon, b. 1808, d. 1864. Married Hannah B. , d. 1851, 
 
 aged 50. 
 Children: 
 Rial. 
 Eliza (married Jonas Phinney). 
 
 Lawrence, Joseph, b. in Sandwich, Mass., 1769, d. in Sumner, 1852. Married 
 Joanna Floyd. 
 Children: 
 Noah, d. in Lexington, Me., 1852. 
 
 Abigail, d. . 
 
 Sally Francis, d. 1857. 
 
 Manasseh, d. i860. 
 
 Phoebe. 
 
 Rufus. 
 
 James. 
 
 Lawrence, Major Francis, b. 1799, d. 1857. Married Susan N. Winslow. 
 Children: 
 
 Susan T., b. 1827, d. 1850. Clara T., b. 1842, d. 1900. 
 
 Deborah N., b. 1829, d. 1850. Sarah B., b. 1843, b. 1867. 
 
 Melinda B., b. 1834, d. 1858. Mary F., b. 1849. 
 
 Benjamin F., b. 1835. Isabel, b. 1853. 
 
78 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Lawrence, Peter, b. in Sandwich, Mass., 1782, d. 1871. Married Meltiah 
 Davenport; married, second, Eunice Felch; married, third, Sarah C. 
 Weld. 
 Children: 
 
 Seth, b. 1808, d. in Weld, 1882. 
 
 Mary, b. 1811, d. 1838. 
 
 Peter, Jr., b. 1813, d. 1836. 
 
 Hannah, b. 1815, d. 1861; married Oliver Wright. 
 
 Leach, Libeus, b. 1796, d. 1819. 
 
 Leach, Linnett, d. 1886, aged 72. 
 
 Leach, Melvin, b. 1803, d. 1903. 
 
 Leach, John, d. 1864. Married Stone. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Harvey. Aseph. 
 
 Loaker, Moses. 
 Children: 
 
 Moses, Jr. Sarah (married Basford). 
 
 William. Hannah. 
 
 Lothrop, Alanson. Married Orissa . 
 
 Children: 
 
 Edwin. George. 
 
 Emery. Francis. 
 
 Fred. William. 
 
 Sarah. Lewis. 
 
 Look, Jonathan, b. 1798, d- 1835. Married Betsey Macomber, b. 1781, 
 d. 1858. 
 
 LiNScoTT, Andrew, b. in Chesterville, 18 16, d. in Jay. Selectman several 
 terms; county commissioner; representative to state legislature. 
 
 Linscott, Andrew, b. 1845. Farmer and large apple dealer. 
 
 Macomber, Rev. Joseph. Came from Bridgewater, Mass., about the year 
 1795. Married Olive Reynolds. 
 Children: 
 
 Ichabod. Sarah. 
 
 Winchester. Betsey. 
 
 Asel. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 79 
 
 Macomber, Ichabod. Married Rebecca Hayden, d. 1892. 
 Children: 
 
 Charles L., b. 1841; married Helen M. Hanson. 
 
 Helen M. 
 
 Ann L. 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 Rebecca. 
 
 Louisa. 
 
 Manford A. 
 
 Macomber, Winchester, d. 1850. Married Polly , d. 1859, aged 54. 
 
 Children: 
 
 George R., d. 1912, aged 84. 
 
 Tilson, d. 1885, aged 79; married Mary S. , d. 1887, aged 67. 
 
 Edward, d. 1885. 
 
 Sophrona, d. 1842. 
 
 Albert. 
 
 Mary. 
 
 Augustus. 
 
 Macomber, Asel 
 
 ,b. 
 
 1809, 
 
 d. 1891. 
 
 Married Sophia 
 
 I Reynolds, 
 
 b. 
 
 1812, 
 
 d. 
 
 1897, 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oliver. 
 
 
 
 
 Martha. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Justus. 
 
 
 
 
 Olive. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Asel B. 
 
 
 
 
 Melissa. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 
 
 
 Mahala. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Columbus. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Manwell, John, 
 
 d. 
 
 1883. 
 
 Married 
 
 Mary , d. 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Child: 
 
 Rev, Benjamin, b. 1835. A Congregational minister, graduate of Bowdoin 
 College, pastor Second Congregational Church, Bridgton, Me. 
 
 Merritt, Daniel, b. in Jonesport, d. 1863. Married Angelina Coding, d. i860. 
 Children: 
 
 Edward, d. 1875. 
 
 Sulviro, d. 1893; married Catherine Kyes, d. 1899. 
 
 Anna, d. ; married Gustavus Kyes. 
 
 John, d. 1907; married Helen M. Adams. Children: Helen M., Dr. Frank 
 W., Mariana (Bunker), Charles E., Dr. Frank, physician and sur- 
 geon at Jay Bridge; Leon, Maine Central ticket office; Leona 
 (Clurg), Edna (Eaton), Elmer, Alice M. (Yeaton), Richard B., 
 John F. 
 
 Rufus, d. in California; married Wheeler. 
 
 Warren, b. 1837. 
 
 George. 
 
 Mary A. 
 
80 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Moore, Peter, d. 1894. Married Nancy , d. 1859. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Octavia, d. 1847. 
 
 Benjamin. 
 
 Eliza W., d. 185-. 
 
 Thomas D., d. 1867. 
 
 Mary (married Augustus M. Richardson). 
 
 Morse, John, d. 1872. Married Sally , d. 1899. 
 
 Morse, Stephen, d. 1842. Married Amanda , d. 1902. 
 
 Morse, Rev. William, d. 1887. A Baptist clergyman. Married Loisa , 
 
 d. 1882. 
 
 Morse, John, d. 1878. Married Julia , d. 1879. 
 
 Morse, S. R. 
 Children: 
 
 Mabel E. (married Clark). 
 
 Arthur B. (married Grace Adams). 
 
 Nash, Solomon. Lived in East Jay. An extensive farmer and famous for 
 raising large cattle. 
 Child: 
 Joseph, son of Solomon. Child: John, son of Joseph. 
 
 Nelson, Rev. Elias, b. in Middleton, Mass., 1771, d. 1848. Married Deborah 
 
 , d. 1863. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Lot P. (married Caroline Starr, d. i860). 
 Manning Nelson (Hved in Bridgton). 
 Mary (married Lyman Radcliffe). 
 
 Nelson, Lot P. Married Caroline Starr. 
 Children: 
 
 Lois. Charles. 
 
 Chesman. Mary. 
 
 Emma. 
 
 Nelson, Abner. Married Joanna , d. 1834. 
 
 Niles, Veranu, b. 1812, d. 1893. Came to Jay from Randolph, Mass. Mar- 
 ried Mehitable Harris, b. 1805, d. 1893. 
 Nine children. Eight grew to maturity. 
 Eunice, b. 1830, d. 1895. 
 
 Sullivan, b. 183 1, d. 1910; married Abbie Stone. 
 Eliza, b. 1836. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 81 
 
 Harriet, b. 1837. 
 
 Louville v., b. 1839. 
 
 J. Harris, b. 1836. 
 
 Silas H., b. 1845. Representative to state legislature 1894-95. 
 
 R. N. Jackson, d. 1846. 
 
 Eugene M., b. 1847. 
 
 NoYES, Enoch, b. in Rowley, Mass., 1768; came to Jay in 1790; d. 1856. 
 Married Betsey E. Dascomb in 1793. Married, second, Hannah Eustis in 
 1815. 
 Thirteen children, born in Jay: 
 
 Polly, b. 1792; married George H. Strout; married, second, Oscar B. 
 
 Brann; Polly, d. 1866. 
 Enoch^, b. 1793 (married Betsey Eldridge), d. 1887. 
 Stillman, b. 1794 (married Eliza Crafts), d. 1871. 
 Cynthia, b. 1796 (married Samuel Bean), d. 1868. 
 Sally B., b. 1800 (married Arthur Pratt), d. 1889. 
 Lucinda, b. 1802 (married Joseph Parker), d. 1855. 
 Nathaniel, b. 1804, d. 1878; married Elizabeth Alden; married, second, 
 
 Caroline Milliken. 
 Eliza, b. 1809 (married Thomas Eustis), d. 1889. 
 George N., b. 1812, d. 1883; married Sarah Foster, 1839; married, 
 
 second, Mary Pruden, 1848; married, third, Abbie S. Taylor, 1849. 
 Martha R., b. 1816 (married Washington Fuller), still living. 
 Jane T, b. 1818 (married John H. Richardson), 1842. 
 Harriet N., b. 1820 (married John Eaton), still living. 
 Frances O., b. 1822 (married William W. Nichols), 1852. 
 
 NoYES, Enoch, Jr., b. 1793, d. 1856. Married Hannah Eldridge, d. 1857. 
 Children: 
 
 William. E. Lincoln. 
 
 John (drowned in 1850). Martha. 
 
 Delia. Angeline. 
 
 Eliza. Emerson. 
 
 Increase. George. 
 
 NoYES, Major Stillman, son of Enoch and Betsey E. Dascomb Noyes, b. 
 1794, d. 1871. Married Eliza Crafts, 1819. 
 Children: 
 
 Henry C, b. 1820, d. 1896; married Mercy Coding. 
 
 Esther A., b. 1822, d. 1895; married Seaborn J. Hyde. 
 
 Stillman, b. 1824, d. 1897; married Hester Amelia Hyde. 
 
 Gibbs E., b. 1827, d. 1894; married Esther M. Warner. 
 
 Ellen E., b. 1833, d. 1849. 
 
 Walter F., b. 1840, d. 1865. Killed in battle before Richmond, aged 25. 
 
82 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Notes, Stillman, Jr., b. 1824, d. 1897. Married Hester A. Hyde. 
 Eight children. Two died in infancy. 
 
 Lewis B. (married Marthaett Dadmon; living in Boston. One daughter). 
 
 Hester A., b. 1850; married Alvarus P. Adams. Two children: one son, one 
 daughter, Arbo, Grace. 
 
 Stillman L., b. 1852; married Maria Stanners, 1875; living in Boston. 
 One daughter. 
 
 Alfred H., b. 1858; married Nellie Harper; living in Chicago. Four 
 daughters, one son. 
 
 Eliza R., b. 1862; married Franklin Noyes, 1883; living in Massa- 
 chusetts. One son, one daughter. 
 
 W. H., b. i860; married Jennie S. Perley. One son. 
 
 Osgood, Stephen, b. 1814, d. 1835. Married Joan , b. 1814, d. 1899. 
 
 PuRRiNGTON, IsAAC. Married Rebecca Chesley. 
 
 PuRRiNGTON, H. B. Married Margaret L. Bartlett. 
 Children: 
 Arthur H. Floyd E. 
 
 Bessie M. Fostina. 
 
 Paine, Thatcher. Came to Jay about 1802, from Cape Cod, d. 1828. Married 
 
 Huldah , d. 1839. 
 
 Children: 
 Thomas. Eliza. 
 
 Sylvanus. Betsey. 
 
 Thatcher. Mary (unmarried; d. 1851). 
 
 Solomon. 
 
 Paine, Thomas, the plowmaker, d. 1852. Married Mehitable Bartlett, d. 1821. 
 Children: 
 
 Daniel. Mehitable. 
 
 Bethuel. Eunice. 
 
 Benjamin. Sallie. 
 Huldah. 
 
 Paine, Sylvanus, d. 1858. Married Lura Leach, d. 1835. Married, second, 
 Polly Wing. 
 Children: 
 Oliver L. Solomon. 
 
 Joel. 
 
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HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 83 
 
 Paine, Thatcher^ d. 1855. Married Rebecca Harding, d. 1845. 
 Children: 
 
 Thomas H. Louisa. 
 
 Oliver. Rebecca. 
 
 Ephraim. Lucinda. 
 
 Thankful. Malinda. 
 
 Sallie. Lura. 
 
 Paine, Solomon, d. 1858. Married Sallie Dascomb. 
 Children: 
 
 George. Sarah Ann. 
 
 Ira. Charles. 
 
 Paine, Eliza. Married Thomas Fuller. 
 Children: 
 Washington. 
 John. 
 
 Daniel, 
 
 Paine, Betsey. 
 Children : 
 Isaiah. 
 Dudley. 
 Israel. 
 Lydia. 
 
 Married Israel Bean. 
 
 Emerson. 
 Benjamin. 
 Chesman. 
 
 Thomas Paine's Children and Grandchildren 
 
 Paine, Daniel. 
 Children: 
 Amanda. 
 Martin. 
 
 Adaline. 
 
 Bethuel (married and went west). 
 
 Paine, Huldah. 
 
 Children: 
 Elizabeth. 
 Artwell. 
 
 Married David Bartlett. 
 
 Henry. 
 Eunice. 
 
 Paine, Sallie. 
 Children: 
 Moses. 
 Ingalls. 
 Mehitable. 
 Peter. 
 Lucy. 
 
 Married Moses Lombard. 
 
 Betsey. 
 
 Clarissy. 
 
 Joseph. 
 
 Two children died in infancy. 
 
84 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Sylvanus Paine's Children 
 
 Paine, Oliver L. Married Sallie Humphrey. 
 Children: 
 
 Mandiville. Edwin. 
 
 Harriett. Martha. 
 
 John. Algernon. 
 Clarinda. 
 
 Paine, Joel. Married Evaline Humphrey. 
 Children: 
 Louisa. Eben. 
 
 Oscar. Melissa. 
 
 Angeline. 
 
 Paine, Solomon. Married Clarissa Quimby. 
 
 Thatcher Paine's Children 
 
 Paine, Thomas H., d. 1859. Married Irene Conant, d. 1885. 
 Children: 
 
 Olive. Abigail. 
 
 Roxalana. Louisa. 
 
 Albert. Charles 
 
 Martin. Clara. 
 
 Paine, Oliver^. Married Eliza Harding of Unity. 
 Children: 
 
 Willard. Ambrose. 
 
 Orlando. Celestia. 
 
 Paine, Ephraim, d. 1861. Married Temperance Ludden, d. 187*. 
 Children: 
 
 Viola. Madison. 
 
 Columba. Andrew. 
 
 Eugene. 
 
 Paine, Thankful. Married Mr. Cram. Five children. 
 
 Paine, Louisa. Married Sylvanus Treat. Two children. 
 
 Paine, Rebecca. Married Mr. Hogins. 
 
 Paine, Lucinda. Married Mr. Bacon. Two boys. 
 
 Paine, Malinda. Married George T. Davenport. 
 
 Paine, Lura. Unmarried. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 85 
 
 Solomon Paine's Children and Grandchildren 
 
 Paine, George. Married Fannie Strout. 
 Children: 
 Ada. Flavilla. 
 
 Paine, Ira. Married Aura Daley. Four children. 
 
 Paine, Sarah. Married . 
 
 Paine, Charles. Drowned in Androscoggin River when a young man. 
 
 Children and Grandchildren of Oliver^ 
 
 Paine, Willard. Married Harriet . 
 
 Children: 
 
 Warren. Wellington. 
 
 Angelina. 
 
 Paine, Orlando. Unmarried. 
 
 Paine, Ambrose. Married Louisa McLaughlin. No children. 
 
 Paine, Celestia. 
 
 Married Sidney Blaisdell. 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 
 
 Eva. 
 
 
 
 Rossie. 
 
 Charles. 
 
 
 
 
 Paine, John, 
 
 son 
 
 of Oliver L. 
 
 
 Children: 
 
 
 
 
 Alton. 
 
 
 
 Frank. 
 
 Arthur. 
 
 
 
 Clemont. 
 
 Eva. 
 
 
 
 Minnie. 
 
 Parker, Scarborough, b. 1767, d. 1814. Married Hannah Coding. 
 Children: 
 
 Hannah B., b. 1796; married William Sylvester. 
 
 Susannah, b. 1797; married William Grose. 
 
 Joel, b. 1799; married Lucinda Noyes. 
 
 Henry, b. 1801; married Nancy Tuck. 
 
 Jonathan, b. 1802. 
 
 Abigail, b. 1804; married Daniel Grose. 
 
 Cyrus, b. 1805; married Harriet Norton. 
 
 Rhoda, b. 1808; married Jonathan Pike. 
 
 Harriet, b. 18 10; married Moses Stone. 
 
 Amos, b. 181 1 ; married Sarah Rich. 
 
 For further genealogy see Parker Memorial by Millard A. Parker. 
 
86 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 Phinney, Peltiah, d. 1840. Married Hannah, , d. 1821. 
 
 Phinney, Ithamar, d. 1840, aged 75. Married Anne , d. 1832, aged 31. 
 
 Married, second, Anne , d. 1840, aged 69. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Lois, d. 1821, aged 23. Levi, d. 1831, aged 28. 
 
 Phinney, Jonas, d. 1863, aged 50. Married Eliza Lamkin, d. 1845, aged 32. 
 Married, second, Mary Crafts. 
 Children: 
 
 Major, d. 1859, aged 27. Ezra. 
 Carrie, d. 1863, aged 45. Anna. 
 
 Phinney, Enos, d. 1885. Married Sarah H. Fuller. 
 Child: 
 
 Nahum (married Olive Richardson). 
 
 Pierce, Nathaniel. Came from Cape Cod; d. 1878, aged 86. Married Lenora 
 , d. 1897, aged 79. 
 
 Pike, Nelson, b. 1829, d. 1888. Married Harriet , b. 1826, d. 1896. 
 
 Povi^ERS, Moses, d. 1862, aged 95. Married Mary , d. 1872, aged 86. 
 
 Powers, John, b. 1821, d. 1881. 
 
 Powers, Moses, b. 1858, d. 1892. 
 
 Powers, Henry F., d. 1847. Married Martha Warner, d. 1891. 
 
 Reynolds, Luther, b. 1804, d . Married Charlotte R. Jackson, b. 1807. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Austen, physician, b. 1830. 
 
 George A. and William F., b. 183 1. 
 
 BaHsta, b. 1833. 
 
 Eliza, b. 1835. 
 
 Orrin A., b. 1838. 
 
 Rhoda, b. 1840. 
 
 Henry, physician, b. 1843. 
 
 Rev. Lauriston, b. 1846. 
 
 Rich, Isaiah, d. 1832. Married , d. 1839. 
 
 Rich, Edward, d. 1852, aged 75. Married Sarah Bartlett, d. 1857, aged 76. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 87 
 
 Rich, David D., d. 1877, aged 78. Married Sallie Brown, d. 1852, aged 50. 
 
 Rich, Jonathan, d. 1870, aged 40. Married Adella Buck, b. 1820, d. 1908. 
 Children: 
 
 Charles. Frank. 
 
 RiGGS, Alfred J., d. i860. Married Sarah , d. i860. 
 
 RiGGS, Lawson, d. 1709. Married Dorcas B. . 
 
 Richardson, Captain Edward, Esq., d. 1834, aged 75. Married Annie , 
 
 d. 1826, aged 76. 
 Children: 
 John, d. 1872, aged 96. Samuel. 
 
 Edward. Ezra. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 Richardson, John, d. 1872, aged 96. Married Eunice , d. 1856, aged 68. 
 
 Children: 
 
 Ruth, d. 1847, aged 37. 
 
 John H., d. 1884, aged 70; married Jane , d. 1883. 
 
 Martha, d. 1823, aged 28. 
 Mary W., d. 1843, aged 21. 
 
 Wesley, d. 1888, aged 60; married Annis Buck, d. 1895, aged 68. Children: 
 Hattle, Scott. 
 
 Richardson, Jonathan, son of John, d. 1870, aged 40. Married Adeline Buck, 
 b. 1820, d. 1908. 
 Children: 
 
 Charles. Frank. 
 
 Richardson, Edward^, d. 1852, aged 75. Married Sarah B. , d. 1852, aged 
 
 76. 
 Children: 
 
 David, d. 1879. George. 
 
 Sally B. Josiah. 
 
 Jesse. 
 
 Richardson, Ezekiel, d. 1850. Married Elizabeth Winter Leach. 
 Children: 
 
 Victor Monroe, d. 1889; married Mary Jones, d. 1889. Children: Anna; 
 
 married Marshal Gray. Clarence. 
 Abble (married Lawyer Evans). 
 
 Elizabeth (married Augustus Aruna Holmes). One daughter. Lived in 
 Winchester. 
 
88 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Richardson, Deacon Willis, d. 1882. Married Jeanette B. . 
 
 Children: 
 
 jjenry. Olive (married Nahum Phinaey). 
 
 Richardson, Henry. Married Nettie Noble. Married, second, Vesta L. 
 Record. 
 Children: 
 Olive. Amanda (married T. Bryant). 
 
 Richardson, Alvin, brother of Deacon Willis, b. 1811, d. 1895. Married 
 Eliza Kyes, d. 1875. 
 Children: 
 Aurilla. 
 
 Osmon. Sergeant Company E, 32d Regiment, Maine Volunteers. Died of 
 wounds in the battle of Cold Harbor. 
 
 Richardson, John, d. 1830, aged 81. Married Marilla , d. 1857, aged 40. 
 
 Child: 
 Ellen. 
 
 Ridley, Jonathan, b. 1800, d. 1886. Married Louisa Marston, b. 1806, 
 d. 1882. 
 Children: 
 
 Benjamin, b. 1837, d. 1868. 
 Billings. 
 
 Ross, MiCAH, d. 1875. Married Elizabeth , d. 1845. 
 
 Child: 
 
 Harriet B. (married Alvarus Adams). 
 
 Rollins, Stephen, d. 1851, aged 76. Married Sarah , d. 1832, aged 56. 
 
 Rowell, Captain Daniel, d. 1834. Married Patty Walton, d. 1863. 
 Children: 
 
 Patty (married Ebenezer Eaton). 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 John (married Emeline Axtell; married, second, Mary Fellows). 
 
 Hannah (married Ira Leland). 
 
 Salisbury (married Elinor Butterfield). 
 
 Rose A. (married Franklin Winslow). 
 
 RowELL, Daniel-, d. 1871, aged 68. Married Mary French, d. 1864, aged 63. 
 Child: 
 Martha. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 89 
 
 RowELL, JoHN^. Married Emeline Axtell; married, second, Mary Fellows. 
 Children: 
 Ann. 
 
 Ansill (married J. O. Kyes). 
 John Axtell. 
 Henry (married Emily Kyes). 
 
 RowELL, Patty. Married Ebenezer Eaton. Children: John, David P. 
 
 RowELL, Hannah. Married Ira Leland. 
 Children: 
 Sullivan. Augustus. 
 
 Warren. Cyrus. 
 
 Emerson. Mary. 
 
 Charles. Rose Ann^ b. 1836. 
 
 Small, Dr. Samuel, d. 1869, aged 84. Married Elisabeth Barnard of Dix- 
 field, d. in Temple, aged 100 years. 
 Children: 
 Dr. William, a physician in Livermore. 
 Dr. Harrison, physician in East Pittston, d. in Gardiner, Me. 
 Mary Ann; married William Morse; died in Taunton, Mass. 
 Eliza B. (married Rev. Otis Johnson). 
 
 Small, Edward. 
 Children: 
 William. Frank. 
 
 Lucy. 
 
 Starr, James, Revolutionary soldier, b. 1740, d. 1830. 
 
 Starr, James, Jr., Esq., b. 1777, d. 1865, aged 88. Married Louisa Leach; 
 
 married, second, Bradford. 
 
 Children: 
 Louisa (married Aruna Holmes). 
 Harriet (married Thomas Winslow). 
 Caroline (married Lot P. Nelson). 
 
 Stubbs, William, d. 1813, aged 37. 
 
 Stubbs, Abner, d. 1841, aged 31. 
 
 Stone, Major Moses, b. in Watertown, Mass., 1777. Married Elisabeth 
 Brown. 
 Children: 
 
 Moses, Jr., b. 1808, d. 1891; married Harriet Parker. Children: Cyrus, 
 Moses', Laurette, Emerson, Asaph, George W., Abbie, Frank P. 
 
90 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 Stone, Aaron. Married Matilda Bryant. 
 Children: 
 Timothy. Melenda. 
 
 Leroy. Sarah. 
 
 Stone, Rev. Cornelius, b. 1817, d. 1866. Married Frances Sylvester. 
 ChUd: 
 Rufus (married Elisabeth Pettingill). 
 
 Stone, Rev. Cyrus, son of Moses^ b. 1837, d. in Hallowell in 1889. Graduated 
 from Bowdoin College 1857. Made D.D. by Wesleyan University in 1874. 
 Settlements in Foxcroft, Dexter, Bucksport, Bangor, First Church, and 
 Grace, Farmington, Hallowell. President of East Maine Methodist 
 Conference, 1889. 
 
 Strout, Joshua, b. 1788, d. 1874. Married Helen Crafts, b. 1793, d. 1871. 
 Children: 
 John Franklin, b. 1822, d. 1908. Child: Howard E., b. 18— d. 1905. 
 Sarah Ann. 
 
 Strout, George H., brother of Joshua, d. 1856. Married Polly Noyes, d. 1856. 
 Children: 
 Lyman. Mary, d. 1851. 
 
 Strout, Eldridge, d. 1856. 
 
 Taylor, Samuel, early settler at Bean's Corner, b. 1815 (son of Rufus), d. 1842. 
 Married Rhoda Chandler. 
 
 Taylor, Deacon Rufus, a deacon of First Baptist church since 1856. Married 
 Abigail Dakin. 
 
 Townsend, Reuben, d. 1865. Married Hester Wright, b. 1810, d. 1894. 
 
 Thompson, Galen, b. in Bridgeport, Conn., 1782, d. 1871. Married Susan 
 
 Porter, d. 1808; married, second, Fanny Marble, d. 1864. 
 Child, first wife: 
 
 Susan Porter, b. 1807; married Solomon Beals. 
 Children, second wife: 
 
 Fanny M., b. 1810, d. 1847. 
 
 Galen M., b. 1812; married Myrtella Harlow. 
 
 Alonzo B. (married Mary P. Dolly). 
 
 Cephas, b. 1816, d. 1838. 
 
 Loammi, b. 1817; married Laura J. Dolly. 
 
 Rudolphus R., b. 1825; married Abbie Wadsworth. 
 
 Don Carlos d'Vaudville, b. 1888; married Elmira Atwood. 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 91 
 
 Thompson, Aaron, son of Alexander Thompson, b. 1789. Married Avis 
 Fuller, b. 1809. 
 Children: 
 
 Oliver P., b. 1823; married Joanna C. Peirce. 
 
 Alexander, b. 1825, d. 191 1; married Sylvia Russell; married, second, 
 
 Isabella Bacon. 
 Urana, b. 1827; married William Wetherbee. 
 Elias, b. 1829; married Mary A. Moulton. 
 Rosilla, b. 1832; married Samuel Gowel. Child: Frank A. 
 Samuel M., b. 1833; married Abbie Moulton; married, second, Vesta 
 
 M. Tuck. 
 Gilbert L., b. 1835; married Emma Loaker. Children: Maggie, Louise. 
 Aaron S., b. 1839; married Alvista Hardy. 
 Willard Kelsey, b. 1841, 
 
 Wallace, b. 1846; married Augusta A. Conant. Children: Lillie, Eva, 
 Charles W. 
 
 Thompson, Alexander. Married Elisabeth Ham. 
 Children: 
 
 Captain James (married Ingram). 
 
 Aaron. 
 
 Alexander. 
 
 Lee. 
 
 Aretus. 
 
 Ira^ 
 
 Thompson, Alexander^. Married Mary Wadsworth. 
 Children: 
 
 C. Jonas. Abiguil. 
 
 David. Mary Ann. 
 
 Lee. Esther. 
 
 Mark L. Salinda. 
 
 William. Katharine. 
 
 Augustus. Elisabeth. 
 Adaline. 
 
 Thompson, Ira, d. 1862, aged 65. Married Edna Morse, d. 1821, aged 74. 
 Children: 
 Rufus W. Manuel T. 
 
 Charles M. 
 
 Warner, Nathan E., b. 181 1, d. 1888. 
 
 Warner, John W., d. 1873. Married Martha , d. 1858. 
 
92 HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 
 
 West, Ebenezer, d. 183 1, aged 91. Married Jane , d. 1861, aged 75. 
 
 West, Isaac, Revolutionary soldier, d. 1839, aged 81. 
 
 West, Timothy. 
 Children: 
 William. Hannah. 
 
 Edson. Esther. 
 
 West, Henry, d. 1837, aged 25. Married Mary M , d. 1844, aged 34. 
 
 Webber, John, d, 1880, aged 89. Married Hannah West, d. 1854, aged 70. 
 
 Came from Shapleigh. Married, second. Experience , d. 1880, aged 81. 
 
 Children: 
 John. Dorcas. 
 
 Bradley. Eliza. 
 
 Webber, John, Jr.^, d. 1872, aged 54. Married . 
 
 Children: 
 Hannah, d, 1856, aged 20. Edmond L. 
 
 Charles H. Lizzie. 
 
 Lily. Carrie. 
 
 John E.' 
 
 Webber, Fred A. Married Maud A. Verrill. 
 Children: 
 Marjorie. Clyde M. 
 
 Frederick A. 
 
 White, Joel, b. 1793, d. 1866. 
 
 Whitney, Mary, d. 1886, aged 84. 
 
 WiNSLOW, Thomas, b. in Freetown, Mass. Married Harriet Starr. Kept a 
 hotel on Jay Hill, afterwards in Hallowell; d. at East Livermore, 1862. 
 Children: 
 Mandeville. Mary. 
 
 Harriet. Gibbs. 
 
 WiNSLow, Franklin, d. 1842. Married Rose Ann Rowell. 
 Children: 
 Elizabeth (married Johnson); Rose Ann (married D. Gorham Bean);, 
 
HISTORY OF JAY, MAINE 93 
 
 Wright, Oliver, d. 1851, aged 81. Married Sarah , d. 1862. aged So 
 
 Child: ' e y 
 
 Oliver, Jr., d. 1845, aged 45. Married Hannah Lawrence, d. 1861, aged 46. 
 Child: Reuben, d. 1885, aged 84; married Sarah Putnam, d. 1892, aged 86. 
 
 Children: Frederick W., b. 1830, d. 1903; married Lois A. Fuller. 
 
 Arvilla, b. 1832; married Noiel Hoyt. Melvina, b. 1834; married 
 
 William Butterfield. Augusta, b. 1839, d. 1865; married SuUivan Niles. 
 
 James S., b. 1844; married Hannah Woodbury. Emery V., b. 1846, d. 
 
 1906. Silas L., b. 1848; married Longena Harlow. Reuben^ b. 185 1; 
 
 married Lucinda Greenleaf. 
 
 Wright, Jonathan, b. , d. . Married Rhoda Searles. 
 
 Children: 
 Roswell. Louisa. 
 
 Elnathan. Mary. 
 
 George E. Sarah. 
 
 Wright, Thomas^, d. 1871. Married Susan , d. 1880. 
 
 Children: 
 Chamberlin. Lizzie. 
 
 Susan. 
 
 Wright, THOMAS^ b. 1738, d. 1808. Married Betsey , b. 1779, d. 1822. 
 
 Children: 
 Sally (married Jacob Townsend). 
 Olivia (married Reuben Townsend). 
 
 Young, E. Craig, b. 1802. Married Charlotte , d. 187-, aged 68. 
 
 Yetton, , b. 1828, d. 1880. 
 
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