41 
 
 2 contributed by Rev. S. Hopkins Emery, of Taunton, 
 to the History of Bristol County, Massachusetts : 
 'as a highly dignified and polished gentleman, of great 
 of character, and he was favored with a wife who 
 the society in which she moved. Long after they 
 ) be among the living of earth, their praise was in the 
 f those who remembered their wide and commanding- 
 
 e Padelford died January 7, 18 10, aged 58 years and 
 th. On the stone slab which covers his remains on 
 n,' is the following inscription : 
 
 he was wise to know and warm to praise and strenu- 
 anscribe in human life the mind almighty.' " 
 
 UNCLE AUGUSTUS. 
 
 all sends me the 'following brief record about my 
 Augustus Deane : 
 
 •H Augustus Deane (sixth from John and Alice Deane, 
 3ii,) was the second son of Joseph and Mary Gilmore 
 f Raynham, Mass., born June 25, 1802. After work- 
 the old homestead of his father and attending public 
 id a season at Bristol Academy, until 18 years of age, 
 to Ellsworth, Me., in 1820, and entered the office of 
 sr, Col. John G. Deane, as a student at law. In August, 
 left his studies and engaged as clerk in the store of 
 ti Black, in Ellsworth, and became a partner in the 
 at twenty-one, remaining a few years. In 1833 he 
 linted clerk of the court of Hancock County, and set- 
 "astine, then the shire town, remaining there until 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 JOHN G. DEANE, 
 
 Brief Mention of His Connection with the 
 
 Northeastern Boundary of Maine, 
 
 Copied by permission from the records of the 
 Maine State Historical Soeiety ; 
 
 Also, Family and Other Memoranda. 
 
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 Residents of the City of Ellsworth, 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 JOHN G. DEANE, 
 
 Brief Mention of his connection with the 
 Northeastern Boundary of Maine, 
 
 Copied by permission from the records of the Maine State Historical Society ; 
 ALSO, 
 
 Memoranda about Members of the Family, Old 
 
 Residents of the City of Ellsworth, 
 
 Maine, &c. 
 
 PREPARED BY, AND PRINTED FOR, HIS SON, 
 
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 for private use. 
 
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 1887 
 
I N D E X 
 
 Page 
 
 John G. Deane, Biographical sketch of; read before Maine Historical Society, 3 
 
 Col. John Black, Brief sketch of 9 
 
 Public services of John G. Deane 10 
 
 N. E. Boundary Question, John G. Deane's connection with the 14 
 
 Obituary notice of John G. Deane, with full mention of his doings in the 
 
 N. E. Boundary matter; by Hon. C. S. Davies 17 
 
 Family notes , 24 
 
 Mrs. Deane, Biographical sketch of; by Rev. Dr. J. E. Rankin 29 
 
 Ancestral memoranda 31 
 
 Joseph Deane and his Wife, Sketch of; by J. W. D. Hall 34 
 
 Joseph Deane, Sketch of; by Joseph A. Deane 36 
 
 Joseph Deane, Obituary notice of 38 
 
 Judge Padelford, Sketch of; by J. W. D. Hall 39 
 
 Joseph A. Deane, Sketch of ; by J. W. D. Hall 41 
 
 Mrs. Ann (Cook) Moulton, Note about ,. 42 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca (Cook) Conant, Note about 43 
 
 Cumberland Bar, Action of, on death of Henry P. Deane 43 
 
 Byron D. VerrilPs remarks on same occasion 44 
 
 Hon. C. W. Goddard's remarks on same occasion 46 
 
 Judge W. W. Virgin's remarks on same occasion 48 
 
 Extracts from letters of John G. Deane to his Wife (before marriage) 51 
 
 Mrs. C. J- Milliken, Letter from, about John G. Deane and Ellsworth 57 
 
 Hon. Israel Washburn's estimate of John G. Deane's public services 59 
 
 Gov. Lincoln, Letter from 60 
 
 Col. John Black, Note about 61 
 
 Secretary of Maine Historical Society, Letter from 62 
 
 Hon. Joseph Williamson, Letter from 62 
 
 Hon. C. W. Goddard, Letter from 62 
 
 G. E. 15. Jackson, Letter from 63 
 
 Hon. W. W. Rice, Letter from 63 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Clark, Letter from 64 
 
 Mrs. C. L. (Jellison) Trubshaw, Letter from 66 
 
 Mrs. Sabra (Deane) Otis, Letter from 67 
 
 Chief Justice Peters, Letter from 68 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN G. DEANE, 
 
 OF 
 
 PORTLAND, MAINE. 
 
 John Gilmore Deane was born in Raynham, Massachusetts, 
 March 27, 1785. His parents were *Joseph and Mary (Gil- 
 more) Deane, both of whom were born and lived and died, in 
 said Raynham. 
 
 He graduated at Brown University, in the class of 1806; 
 read law in Taunton, Massachusetts, with *Hon. Seth Padel- 
 ford, (Judge of Probate and LL. D. "Brown,") and settled in 
 Ellsworth, Maine, September 23, 1809. He married, Septem- 
 ber 13, 1 8 10, Rebecca, who was born in Taunton May 29, 1792,. 
 and was the youngest daughter of Judge Padelford, aforesaid, 
 and Rebecca (Dennis) his wife. 
 
 AS A LAWYER AND A MAN. 
 
 Mr. Deane was admitted as attorney in the Court of Com- 
 mon Pleas, Hancock County, in 18 10, and, according to the 
 rule in those days, four years later, as counsellor in the Su- 
 preme Court. (For many years Hancock County was very 
 large territorially. From 1810 to 1816 it included a portion 
 of Penobscot County, and from 18 10 to 1827 most of what is 
 now Waldo County, as well as a part of the present Knox 
 
 * See appendix. 
 
County. Castine was the shire town till February 17, 1836.) 
 He acquired a very extensive law practice, and was held in high 
 esteem by the Court and Bar. He enjoyed the warm personal 
 friendship of Simon Greenleaf, John Or, Jacob McGaw, Wil- 
 liam Abbott, Samuel Fessenden, William P. Preble, Thomas A. 
 Deblois, Joshua W. Hathaway, Prentiss Mellen, George Her- 
 bert, Charles S. Davies, and most of the judges and leading 
 lawyers of the State in those days. He was not only a good 
 student of the law, but he had a very fine literary taste, — his 
 style of composition was remarkably pure and graceful. He 
 gathered a very good miscellaneous library of the best works 
 in history, poetry, romance and essays; his law library was a 
 very large one for those days, comprising the standard text 
 books and the American and English Reports. He was a 
 subscriber to North American Review from the first issue. 
 
 He certainly held some town offices — but as the town rec- 
 ords were destroyed by fire some years ago, it is not possible 
 now to say what offices or when he was the incumbent. It 
 appears by records in the Massachusetts State House that in 
 1 813 he was one of the Selectmen who signed a petition to re- 
 imburse the town of Ellsworth for the expenses of the militia 
 ordered out to suppress the riot in Castine in July, 181 3. 
 
 He was connected with the militia organizations during his 
 earlier professional life, and was in brief service as an officer 
 during the war of 1812. He subsequently rose to the position 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel in the militia, and in his later years was 
 commonly known as "Colonel" Deane. 
 
 He had a great fondness for all kinds of manly sports ; loved 
 to have about him good horses and fine dogs, and was enthu- 
 siastic in hunting and fishing. His ardent pursuit of these 
 pastimes led him very often to make long excursions into the 
 then wild regions north and northeast of the town of Ells- 
 worth. He was famous in all the region round about as a 
 marksman. It was commonly reported that at Thanksgiving 
 shootings he was either ruled out or obliged to shoot double, 
 or treble, the distance of the ordinary range. 
 
PERSONALLY AND SOCIALLY. 
 
 While I have spoken of my father as a lawyer and a man, I 
 deem it only proper to say a few words about him personally 
 and socially, simply as my father — a purely private individual. 
 
 In stature he was about five feet ten inches tall, of fair size 
 in frame, spare in flesh, rather dark in complexion, hair brown, 
 eyes also brown. He never wore a beard. Though a good 
 conversationalist he w^as not talkative, but rather inclined to 
 taciturnity. In his family, however, and with his children he 
 was more the ".big brother " than the stern parent, and had a 
 pleasant and affectionate way of entering into the studies, 
 sports and engagements of our youth. I well remember when 
 in the winter of 1838-9, he was busy with the draughtsman in 
 the preparation of his map of Maine, and used the parlors of 
 our State street house in Portland as his office, how intensely 
 he was delighted at finding one day among his papers, my 
 childish attempt at a war romance. The marvel and fun of it 
 were on his tongue for many a day afterwards. Nor can I ever 
 forget the romps we younger children used to have with him 
 on the floor, sofas and about the room. When I was only ten 
 years of age, once on his return from a brief absence, he gave 
 me "Botta's American Revolution," saying that though writ- 
 ten by an Italian, it was the only good history of that war. 
 He was greatly concerned that his boys should be well versed 
 in history. He took a youthful pride in the account my 
 brothers Joseph and Henry gave of the debates before the 
 "Pnyxian" and " Philomathean" debating societies, which 
 about those times had quite a local reputation, particularly the 
 former. Always on his return from atrip to the "Westward," 
 that is, Massachusetts, he was sure to remember all his boys 
 with a present of a book. 
 
 LIFE IN ELLSWORTH. 
 
 My father was not a member of any church. In his earlier 
 life in Ellsworth, after the organization of the Congregational 
 
church in 1812, he, with my mother, worshiped there, and 
 the whole family attended that church till our removal to 
 Portland. The pastor from September 3, 181 2, to November 
 11, 1835, Rev. Peter Nourse, (brother to the late Dr. Amos 
 Nourse, of Bath, formerly U. S. Senator from Maine,) was a 
 famous man in those days; renowned for his zeal in the gospel 
 ministry and for the goodness of his heart. I know we little 
 folks, in the latter days of his pastorate, used to think his ser- 
 mons exceedingly long. I am sure that he sowed good seed 
 in that soil, and watered them faithfully with prayers and tears. 
 When I first read Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" it seemed 
 to me that his parish priest 
 
 " Passing rich with forty pounds a year," 
 
 was a veritable or counterpart Pastor Nourse. This godly 
 man was indeed rarely useful in his day and generation in edu- 
 cational as well as gospel matters, but, if my childhood's mem- 
 ory serves me well, his life was not a gay period of enjoyment, 
 or rich with present rewards for work well done. I hold his 
 memory in warm esteem because of the respect and affection 
 with which my parents regarded him. Our family were not 
 allowed to talk lightly or with disrespect of our religious 
 teacher. He was my mother's pastor and spiritual counsellor 
 in the many scenes of affliction she was called to pass through 
 in the sickness and death of those of her children who de- 
 ceased before we moved from Ellsworth, and in the death of 
 her mother, Mrs. Judge Padelford, who, having for some time 
 made her home with my parents, died there about 1822. The 
 funerals of all these were attended by Pastor Nourse. They 
 were all buried in the Congregational churchyard — a modest 
 stjne tells their resting places and names. 
 
 Nor was my father alone interested in the upbuilding of this 
 church — his catholic views in religious matters led him to 
 make a donation when the Baptist church was being built on 
 the west side of the river, not far from the present county 
 buildings. I suppose his gift amounted at least to the price of 
 a pew, for I know that not long before we moved from Ells- 
 
worth I attended services in that church one afternoon with 
 some older members of our family, and sat in what we called 
 " father's" pew. 
 
 I am greatly surprised as I write to note how vividly the 
 names of many of the active business men in Ellsworth, in 
 those days, come to my mind. I am sure I could have had 
 next to no personal acquaintance with any of them. There 
 was Andrew Peters, who lived in the fine, large house on the 
 Bangor road opposite the Congregational Church, and who 
 did business in a brick store on the northwest corner of this 
 road and the Bucksport road, close to the bridge. His son 
 John A., now Chief Justice, (who, also, was not long since, and 
 for several terms, a distinguished member of Congress,) was 
 one the famous boys of those early days. Of a summer's day in 
 passing Mr. Peters' residence on my way to school at the Town 
 House, I used to linger and gaze with longing eyes at the wonder- 
 ful bounty of apples on the trees in front of his house. I have 
 never seen any such apples since. And Dea. Samuel Dut- 
 ton, of blessed memory, who raised a large famliy of good 
 business men. Likewise Dr. Peck, with his wonderful saddle 
 bags filled with medicine of all sorts and marvelous to cure, 
 who was to my youthful mind a sort of superhuman being 
 in his wonderful possession of power to heal the sick and dis- 
 eased. But how shall I call the roll in which appears the 
 names of Jordan, Whitaker, McFarland, Jones, Herbert, Blood, 
 Tisdale, Tinker, Parcher, Hall, Buckmore, Joy, Whiting, Jar- 
 vis, Langdon, Macomber, Hale, Lowell, Hathaway, Grant, 
 Warren, Hopkins, Sawyer, Robinson, and many others? I 
 would not fail to remember with most sincere affection, Wil- 
 liam Jellison, — one of a large family, all good and true, both 
 men and women. He married my relative, Miss Julia Tisdale, 
 whose acquaintance he made while she was visiting my mother, 
 her kinswoman. They lived a short time after their marriage, 
 in Ellsworth village, or at the " Bridge," as we called it in 
 those clays. Then they moved to " No. 8," on the Bangor road, 
 about halfway between Bangor and Ellsworth, and settled on 
 a farm in what is now called North Ellsworth. Mr. Jellison 
 
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 raised a very large family. His son Charles, a promising- 
 young merchant in Portland, was suddenly cut off in his early 
 manhood. Also Edward, a young man of great talent, who 
 died while in Union College. George, a prosperous business 
 man in New York. Zachariah, who was some years a mer- 
 chant in Boston, later in Nebraska, and held till recently an im- 
 portant office in the New York Custom House. He now re- 
 sides in Brooklyn, N. Y. John, who after a good war record, 
 died with his armor on; and other sons and two daughters. 
 I often visited their farm home, once with my father and 
 mother in the early summer of 1839, and alone at later dates. 
 Mr. Jellison was possessed of intellectual power of more than 
 ordinary grasp, and I never met a man of nobler heart or 
 more genuine wit, the kind that runs over with humor and 
 delicious fun. 
 
 There comes up before me as I write, a curiously intangible 
 vision of an old gentleman carrying a cane and dressed in 
 short clothes, wearing a cue and a bountiful white shirt bosom. 
 I cannot certainly fix any name to him, and though the vision 
 is dim, I am sure that it has a foundation in some personage 
 of those early days. Yet I have a shadowy recollection of 
 such a name as Major Phillips. Also, it occurs to me that 
 there was a wonderful fiddler, one Black George, who was 
 always on hand when a dance took place. And, finally, Capt. 
 Jesse Dutton, the renowned authority in all martial matters, 
 and the hero of all the musters that I heard talked of in those 
 times, with their sham fights and what not. 
 
 While I recount these personal reminiscences I am induced 
 to repeat what my mother often told me, namely, that when 
 she first visited Ellsworth, which was, I think, in 181 2, she 
 came from Bucksport, on horseback by a path marked by 
 "blazed" trees. During her first summer in the village my 
 parents boarded, and the one constant dish on the table was 
 salmon. She always used to say in her latter years that she 
 ate in those days enough salmon to last her lifetime. My 
 parents' house, which during most of their residence in Ells- 
 worth was on the east side of what is now Water street, not 
 
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 far from the present Main street, was made the home of very 
 many of the young relatives on both sides. My parents were 
 the practical godfather and godmother of a large number of 
 *nieces and nephews, as well as more distant relatives, and 
 helped them all along in life with almost parental affection, 
 care and solicitude. 
 
 COL. JOHN BLACK. 
 
 Some time prior to my father's settlement in Ellsworth, John 
 Black,* a young Englishman, settled there as the deputy agent 
 of the Bingham heirs, who owned very extensive tracts of 
 land in Hancock and Washington counties, called in common 
 phrase "The Bingham Purchase." The acquaintance between 
 these two young men ripened into a strong and enduring 
 friendship, which lasted uninterrupted till my father's death. 
 "Colonel" Black was the name by which he was familiarly 
 known, from the fact that, after he became an American citizen,, 
 he entered ardently into the militia service, and in due course 
 became Lieut. Colonel of the 2d Regiment, 2d Brigade, 10th 
 Division. He built, on the Bluehill road, about half a mile 
 from the "Bridge," a very large brick house, set at some 
 distance back from the road, which he occupied till his death, 
 and which is yet standing. I recall with pleasure many visits 
 in early youth, and later, at this delightful home. 
 
 He was not only one of the best business men ever known 
 in Maine, but he was finely educated and accomplished in the 
 elegant attainments peculiar to the higher classes in the land 
 of his birth. He was a good draughtsman, and an amateur 
 painter of no mean skill. Though not large in stature he was 
 very noticable in appearance, and in his personal address he 
 was graceful and polite and possessed of most courtly man- 
 ners. In all respects he was a noble man and a most excel- 
 lent gentleman. His management of the great trusts of the 
 Bingham estate was characterized by the strictest diligence 
 and fidelity, as well as the most scrupulous honesty. He was 
 
 * See appendix. 
 
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 quiet in his mode of life, simple in his tastes, and by tact and 
 careful management he accumulated a very large property. 
 He married a daughter of Gen. David Cobb, of Gouldsboro, 
 Maine, (who came from Taunton, Mass., to act as the agent of 
 the " Bingham Purchase,") and reared a numerous family, and 
 many of his descendants are now residents of Ellsworth. On 
 the death of Gen. Cobb in 1830, he became, as his successsor, 
 full agent of the " Bingham Purchase." He died in Ellsworth 
 October 25, 1856, at a ripe age, and profoundly regretted not 
 only by the citizens of that town, but by a very large circle of 
 friends and acquaintances among the best people in Maine 
 and Massachusetts. His remains were interred in the family 
 tomb on his estate. 
 
 Colonel Black was enabled to throw a good share of legal 
 business into Mr. Deane's hands, and in attending to it Mr. 
 Deane was called upon to make long expeditions here and 
 there through the wild, or very sparsely settled, portions in 
 Hancock and adjoining counties. 
 
 By means of his hunting tours and these extended excur- 
 sions Mr. Deane acquired a very thorough experience with 
 life in the woods, and became most peculiarly well fitted for 
 the performance of the public duties which devolved upon him 
 later, in connection with the Northeastern Boundary of Maine. 
 
 MR. DEANE S PUBLIC LIFE. 
 
 He was active as a Federalist in politics, and was a repre- 
 sentative from Ellsworth to the General Court of Massachu- 
 setts, in 1816, '17, '18, and '19, and representative from Ells- 
 worth to the Legislature of Maine in 1825, '26, '27, '28, and '31. 
 
 What he did, as well as the value of his services as a Legis- 
 lator in the estimate of his associates, may be generally under- 
 stood from the following memoranda of the reports he wrote 
 while a member of the Legislature of Maine, and the resolves 
 passed by that body, viz: 
 
 1827. Report on the Northeastern Boundary question. 
 
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 1828. Report upon the Northeastern Boundary question. 
 Svo., pp. 55. 
 
 1830. Resolve of the Legislature allowing him $170 for ne- 
 gotiating release of land claims with Penobscot Indians. 
 
 1 83 1. Report of committee on State lands, of which he was 
 chairman. 8vo., pp. 12. 
 
 1 83 1. Report as chairman of the Committee on the North- 
 eastern Boundary, pp. 4. 
 
 1 83 1. Report as chairman of the Committee on the North- 
 eastern Boundary, p. 13. 
 
 1 83 1. Resolve granting him half a township of land. 
 
 1 83 1. Letter to Governor Samuel E. Smith about the 
 Northeastern Boundary. 
 
 1839. Resolve paying him $465.03 for locating the North- 
 eastern Boundary line under resolve of March 23, 1838. 
 
 Most probably, however, this memoranda represents but a 
 very small part of the actual work he did while in the Maine 
 Legislature. This record indicates how busy he was and the 
 kind of work that engaged his attention. 
 
 It should be stated in this connection that the search for my 
 father's legislative history has been somewhat difficult because 
 the State documents were not printed till 1833, and some of 
 the archives were lost in the removal of the public records, 
 &c, from Portland to Augusta, when the latter city was made 
 the capital. 
 
 By degrees, and from his varied experience in the woods 
 and wild portions of the State, as well as from his education 
 in public affairs, he had become intensely interested in the 
 questions relating to the Northeastern Boundary. Among my 
 earliest recollections relating to him and our Ellsworth home, 
 are the constant talks between him and his visitors about the 
 " disputed territory," " Madawaska," and our public rights to 
 the fine lands in the northern part of our State, just above the 
 St. John river. From the glowing description of the wonder- 
 ful wheat soil up there, and the agricultural possibilities of that 
 region, in my childish imagination I used to think it was a very 
 "Beulah" land. In his frequent journeys in search of evi- 
 
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 dence, or otherwise, to the northern part of the State, officially 
 or privately, he accumulated an immense amount of affidavit, 
 or other testimony, on points relating to this boundary ques- 
 tion. He published articles in many of the newspapers of the 
 State embodying his information or views upon this important 
 theme. These contributions, over the signatures of "Cato," 
 " Ishmael," and "Peter Parley," attracted great attention and 
 had a deep influence in educating and directing the public 
 mind. I have an autograph letter from Gov. Enoch Lincoln 
 to my father, referring to these writings and thanking him for 
 what he had done in this way.* I have recently found a por- 
 tion of the original drafts of these papers. They are now be- 
 ing very carefully edited by a valued friend, f rarely capable in 
 such matters, and will in due time be deposited in the archives 
 of the Maine Historical Society. His unpublished manu- 
 scripts on the subject were very voluminous — at his death 
 there were enough to fill a large trunk — all written in his very 
 plain and rapid hand. I suppose the family thought that the 
 settlement of the national disputes had taken all value from 
 these papers, since by degrees, and chiefly by neglect, they 
 were lost. In one of his later journeys to the disputed terri- 
 tory he cut from a tree, which he said was on the exact north- 
 east corner of Maine, (according to his loyal idea,) a stick 
 which he had fashioned into a cane, in the ivory head of 
 which he had engraved the record whence he obtained it. 
 This cane he carried constantly, thereafter, till the day of his 
 fatal illness. 
 
 Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr., who was Governor of Maine 
 from 1861 to 1863, in his very able article on "The North- 
 eastern Boundary," read before the Maine Historical Society, 
 at Portland, May 15, 1879, makes frequent and most honor- 
 able mention of the public value of Mr. Deane's services in 
 connection with that great and important matter.* 
 
 In this same connection I recall with a son's pride the very 
 warm and generous remarks made to me in 1846, while I was 
 in college, by ex-Governor Robert P. Dunlap, who was then 
 
 * See appendix. f Hon. Joseph Williamson, of Belfast, Maine. 
 
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 living in Brunswick. Though he and my father were of oppo- 
 site politics, he entertained the most profound respect for the 
 ability and energy with which my father had done his work 
 for the State in this behalf. Governor Dunlap asked me once 
 when I was visiting at his house, if I had ever read my father's 
 reports on the subject, and on my answering "no," he took 
 them from his library shelves and handed them to me, remark- 
 ing that I ought to know all about these matters, thoroughly 
 and well, for if ever a son had cause for being proud of his 
 father's public services I had. 
 
 I also call to mind what Hon. Nathan Clifford, afterwards 
 Justice of the United States Supreme Court, remarked to me 
 on this subject in 185 1, soon after he moved to Portland. He 
 said that though not of the same political faith as my father, 
 he had, as a young member of the Legislature in 1831, cast no 
 vote which he remembered with more pleasure than that in 
 favor of granting a township of land to my father as a public 
 recognition of the value of his services in this great public 
 matter. 
 
 HIS LAND BUSINESS REMOVAL TO PORTLAND. 
 
 Late in life Mr. Deane accumulated quite a large property, 
 chiefly in timber lands. Nor was he so selfish in his knowl- 
 edge of good timber lands as not to advise his friends frankly 
 as to his opinion in these matters. His assistance in this be- 
 half was once so valuable to Hon. Elijah L. Hamlin, of Ban- 
 gor, and Mr. Ruggles, of Machias, that they jointly presented 
 him a very handsome and complete service of silver plate. I 
 well remember the marvel of its display, when in 1835, the 
 package was opened in our Ellsworth home, fresh from the 
 store of Jones, Low & Ball, of Boston. This service was more 
 than a nine days' wonder in the little village. 
 
 In the fall of 1835 he moved to Portland, and bought the 
 property on the south side of State street, between Gray and 
 Spring streets, which Mason Greenwood had finely improved. 
 This property continued to be the homestead of his family, or 
 descendants, till the spring of 1884. 
 
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 HIS DECEASE. 
 
 My father was at Cherryfield in the fall of 1839, attending 
 to business in connection with his large landed interests, and 
 becoming ill early in November, was treated with such suc- 
 cess that he was supposed to be recovering. By some acci- 
 dent the nurse gave him by mistake tartar emetic instead of 
 cream tartar. When the mistake was discovered, all possible 
 remedies were tried but to no purpose. He was sick at the 
 residence of J. Tilden Moulton, who married my cousin, Ann 
 P. Cook, (she had been raised in our family,) and died there 
 November 10, ^839. 
 
 THE VALUE OF HIS PUBLIC SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
 NORTHEASTERN BOUNDARY. 
 
 When we read, in these latter days, the history of the bound- 
 aries of Maine, there is much to marvel at and much to excite 
 our ire. In the conscious strength of our national power of 
 to-day, we are apt to forget that once the Nation was weak, 
 and, in comparison with Great Britain, quite insignificant — 
 having no rights that the said haughty nation was bound to 
 have any sort of respect for. 
 
 The boundaries of Maine contiguous to the British Prov- 
 inces seem to be so clearly stated in article second of the 
 Treaty of Peace concluded at Paris, between Great Britain and 
 the United States, in 1783, that it now appears very strange 
 that any dispute ever arose about them. The northerly line 
 is thus described: 
 
 " From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit : that 
 angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the 
 source of the St. Croix River to the highlands, along the said 
 highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves 
 into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic 
 Ocean, to the Northwesternmost head of Connecticut River." 
 
 The Eastern line is described thus: " East, by a line drawn 
 alone*; the middle of the river St. Croix from its mouth in the 
 
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 Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north 
 to the aforesaid highlands which divide the waters that fall into 
 the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. 
 Lawrence, comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of 
 any part of the United States, and lying between the lines to 
 be drawn due East from the points where the aforesaid bound- 
 aries between Nova Scotia, on the one part, and East Florida 
 on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and 
 the Atlantic Ocean, excepting such islands as now are, or here- 
 tofore have been, within the limit of the said Province of Nova 
 Scotia." 
 
 In regard to the Eastern line it seems to have been proven 
 beyond any reasonable doubt that there were three rivers which 
 had been in turns, or interchangeably, called the "St. Croix," 
 viz: the Magaquadavic, easterly; the Schoodic, (present St. 
 Croix,) middle ; and the Cobscook, westerly; and that the true 
 St. Croix of the treaty of 1783, was the Magaquadavic. But 
 the superior finesse of the British on the "St. Croix commis- 
 sion," in 1798, succeeded in causing the Schoodic to be per- 
 manently called the St. Croix, — and thus our State at that time, 
 by the decision of this commission, lost on the East a tract of 
 land nearly two hundred miles long by about thirty broad. 
 
 It was the evident determination of the English in some way 
 to get land enough from the Eastern and Northern sides of 
 Maine to afford ample room for all desired or necessary com- 
 munication between the Canadas and New Brunswick and Nova 
 Scotia. After they had sliced off so large a piece from the 
 Eastern part of the State, then their whole force was redoubled 
 to gain all that part of our State above a line drawn West from 
 Mars Hill ! If this had been accomplished the size of the 
 State would have been very seriously reduced. The outrage 
 of these claims will almost be obvious by a glance at any map 
 in view of the above extracts from the treaty. 
 
 I have endeavored to picture these facts of our great losses 
 of territory, North as well as East, in the accompanying map, 
 where are shown the treaty lines of 1783, in which the red 
 line indicates the original Eastern, North and Northwesterly 
 
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 boundaries; the yellow line across the State and down the 
 Eastern side represents the one claimed by the British, some 
 considerable time after the Treaty of 1783, as the Northern 
 line of the State, not always confidently, but with increasingly 
 loud protestations after the dispute over the boundary ques- 
 tion had waxed warm; the present Eastern and Northern 
 boundary lines are indicated in full bla^R lines and by the St. 
 John River. It will be seen at a glance how great and valu- 
 able is the territory which we lost in 1798 and 1842. 
 
 This present Northern boundary was the result of the Ash- 
 burton Treaty of 1842. The rule devised by the exalted 
 statesmanship of that treaty seems to have been to split the 
 differences between the claims of the two parties. But it is 
 not necessary here to go into any details, since, in the afore- 
 said monograph, by Hon. Israel Washburn, Jr., all these mat- 
 ters are set out with careful detail. It answers all my present 
 purposes to show what my father was contending for, viz: the 
 territory between the St. John River and the highlands of the 
 treaty of 1783, and the great public value of the interests con- 
 cerned. These mark his devotion to this cause as the charac- 
 teristic of a large minded and most public spirited man. The 
 people of the State of Maine do, I am sure, now fully approve 
 what is sometimes called Gov. John Fairfield's declaration of 
 war in 1838, when he ordered out the State militia to defend 
 our territory, as we then claimed it. It is not necessary now 
 to enlarge on all this. It is an historical fact which the peo- 
 ple of Maine take pride in. 
 
 But I should have dwelt more at length upon the character 
 and value of my father's public services in connection with 
 this Northeastern Boundary question, if the matter had not 
 many years ago been treated of very kindly, justly, fully, and 
 ably, as will appear from the following excellent and feeling 
 tribute to his memory which was written in 1839, by Hon. 
 Charles S. Davies, LL. D., of Portland, then one of the first 
 lawyers at the Cumberland bar, and in the full prime of a 
 splendid reputation both in his public and private capacities. 
 Mr. Davies had been repeatedly called upon to act a very dis- 
 
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 tinguished public part in connection with this very North- 
 eastern Boundary question, and was thoroughly acquainted 
 with all the men who had had any connection great or small 
 in this very important matter. He knew well to whom praise 
 belonged. He had been long intimately associated with Mr. 
 Deane in matters pertaining to the Northeastern Boundary 
 question ; had known him as a legislator, a lawyer, a man of 
 business and affairs. He wrote generously, and with a full ac- 
 quaintance of everything pertaining to the subject. 
 
 The article appeared in the Portland Advertiser Tuesday 
 evening, November 19, 1839, and is as follows: 
 
 "OBITUARY NOTICE OF JOHN G. DEANE. 
 
 "On Saturday afternoon were committed to the grave the 
 remains of John G. Deane. They had been removed from 
 Narraguagus, (Cherryfield,) where he expired on Sunday, the 
 1 Oth inst, and were conveyed from his late residence in State 
 street to the South Burying Ground* in this city, attended by 
 his family and friends. The deep domestic sorrow was ac- 
 companied by a most sincere attestation of sympathy and re- 
 spect. 
 
 "The decease of Mr. Deane, indeed, thus suddenly occur- 
 ring in the prime of life, upon an occasional absence from 
 home, is not only a severe private loss, but it is also a great 
 public one. To estimate it properly, it is necessary to refer to 
 the memorial of the past, which he has raised for himself by 
 his talents and services, inscribed as well upon the tablet of 
 his social and professional relations, as upon the large, labori- 
 ous and faithful record of the duties which he has performed 
 to the public. 
 
 " If there was any among us who had a right to stand up and 
 say, ' I have done the State some service, and they know it,' 
 this was a persuasion of which Mr. Deane may have been 
 justly and honestly conscious; and so marked and prominent 
 an object of consideration and esteem has he been, now for a 
 
 *0n Bramhall's Hill. 
 
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 long space of time, in the view of the people of Maine, that it 
 needs only to pronounce his name, at this moment of unex- 
 pected and melancholy bereavement to those who cherish his 
 memory, to present at once a living and expressive image of 
 his person, character and virtues. Who in this land did not 
 know John G. Deane, and who, knowing him, would be likely 
 soon to forget him, or be willing to suffer his honest fame to 
 pass into silent oblivion ? A few faint traces from recollection 
 and from the slight materials at hand, are all that is proposed 
 in this scanty and hasty notice to furnish. 
 
 " John G. Deane was a native of the Bay State of Massachu- 
 setts, and was a descendant, it is stated, of John Dean, who 
 early came to that old colony from England, and settled at 
 Taunton, the stock, it is supposed, of those that bear that nu- 
 merous name in New England and who have reflected no dis- 
 honor on the fair inheritance of their Pilgrim ancestors. He 
 was himself born in Raynham, and was a graduate of Brown 
 University, in Rhode Island, about the year 1806, and studied 
 law, it is understood, with the late Judge Seth Padelford, one 
 of whose daughters he afterwards married. He commenced 
 the practice of law at Ellsworth, in this State, which he pur- 
 sued with credit and success, and where he established not 
 only the solid reputation of a learned, sound, and discriminat- 
 ing lawyer, but enjoyed, also, in an eminent degree, the gen- 
 eral confidence of his clients and fellow citizens. This latter 
 portion of public favor he shared with his friend George Her- 
 bert, a most amiable and worthy brother of the profession, 
 whose fine taste, elegant accomplishments and exquisite sensi- 
 bility, will long be preserved in remembrance by those who 
 had the pleasure and privilege of his personal acquaintance. 
 Ellsworth being entitled to but one representative in the Leg- 
 islature of Massachusetts, Mr. Deane was chosen alternately 
 with Mr. Herbert for several years, and was a member of that 
 body, it is believed, as early as 181 3. He was marked as a 
 man of talent, spirit and application. 
 
 "Mr. Deane's location in the Eastern part of the State, and 
 the course of his professional business led him to an increas- 
 
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 ing acquaintance with the proprietary lands in this State, large 
 tracts of which were lying in grants from the Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts, the principal of which were the Bingham 
 Purchases. It was this that probably first turned his attention 
 toward that subject, which afterwards engaged so large a por- 
 tion of it, in one very important direction. After the separa- 
 tion of Maine, Mr. Deane became again a member of the Leg- 
 islature while it sat in Portland, where he began to be widely 
 known and his value equally understood. He did not make 
 that his place of residence, however, till 1835. 
 
 "It was here, during the sessions of 1827 and 1828, at the 
 period when such a vigorous impulse was given to the vital in- 
 terests of this State by the measures adopted by Governor 
 Lincoln in relation to our territorial rights, that Mr. Deane 
 distinguished himself by the active and leading part he took, 
 and the persevering study and unwearied diligence he be- 
 stowed in regard to the perplexed and protracted question of 
 our Northeastern Boundary. 
 
 " It was the intrinsic justice as well as the strict and perfect 
 legal character of this right on our behalf that first recom- 
 mended itself to the native integrity, while it presented itself 
 also in the clearest light to the discriminating sagacity of his 
 mind, and inspired that honest zeal which gave such a con- 
 centrated energy to all his powers and faculties in this single 
 cause. It was this that urged him to spare no pains, to relax 
 no effort, to lose no opportunity, of promoting that great end 
 in which he then and thenceforward entirely and almost exclu- 
 sively devoted himself. He shunned no labor, and thought 
 no day long in which he could do anything to advance it. Of 
 this all-absorbing and to him engrossing subject, it may be 
 truly said, that he summered and wintered it. He ate, drank, 
 and slept it. It was his thought by day and his dream by 
 night, and the first idea to which he awakened again in the 
 morning. On this point he was instant in season and out of 
 season. He was ever ready and alert on every occasion which 
 presented, and prompt for every service which the interest of 
 the State demanded. At every turn and crisis of the question, 
 
 
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 when it was first put in the shape of a Convention and about 
 to be submitted to an Arbiter, or swamped by his preposter- 
 ous award — when our citizens were, one after another, seized 
 and consigned to foreign prisons, and the ensigns of an alien 
 and intrusive jurisdiction were planted on our independent 
 soil — and the soverign power of self-protection, which this 
 political community was bound to exercise for those who put 
 their trust in it, insultingly set at defiance — then it was that 
 his spirit rose with every emergency; it quailed at no peril or 
 trial to the virtue of the question, and sunk only with any 
 declension of its interest, of which there were spells and symp- 
 toms in the public mind. It was only, at those intervals of 
 repose to this exciting question during which it has been so 
 strangely and inexplicably adjourned, that the ordinary inter- 
 ests and occupations of life resumed with him any actual 
 measure of their importance and influence. Never, it may be 
 nearly said, did they regain their real ascendancy. Still the 
 invincible energy of his spirit on that predominating subject 
 was not to be subdued or broken down. No clanger appalled, 
 nor difficulty disheartened him. With an industry that noth- 
 ing could either tire or escape; with a memory faithful to 
 every circumstance that it ever seized, with an instinct sure as 
 the magnet, and a soul as true as steel to the cause in which 
 he was embarked, this was the master subject of his mind. 
 
 It was his ruling passion. When he once got upon this 
 theme " his foot was on his native heath and his name was 
 McGregor! " It is no injustice to say that he probably mas- 
 tered more of its details, historical, statistical and geographical, 
 connected together, than any other individual, and that he had 
 written, spoken, and printed, it might almost be said not only 
 more than any other person — but more than all others put 
 together. No one engaged in the various calls of this ques- 
 tion had looked into it more thoroughly, or was more inti- 
 mately and profoundly acquainted with all its bearings. If 
 there is any over allowance of the measure of merit and praise 
 that may possibly be accorded to him on this head, it can be 
 hardly more than is due his unbounded and indefatigable de- 
 
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 votions to this supreme object which ended only with his 
 breath. 
 
 Mr. Deane's first reports on this subject, which brought the 
 matter most distinctly into public view were made, as already 
 adverted to, in 1827 and 1828. In 1830 he made a tour of 
 observation over the ground of controversy by order of the 
 Government, in immediate connection with Judge Preble. In 
 1 83 1 and 1832 he again became conspicuous for the part he 
 took in incorporating the precinct of Madawaska, and resist- 
 ing the no doubt well intended but idle and absurd* arbitra- 
 ment of the King of the Netherlands. It was on this account 
 and at this period that the legislature made Mr. Deane a grant 
 of a half township of land on the upper waters of the St. 
 John, as a testimonial (it is believed unanimous,) of the grate- 
 ful sense entertained of his services. This grant has probably, 
 however, been unproductive, to say the least, owing to the 
 distance of the spot, and the unsettled state of the question. 
 Perhaps it was the design that Mr. Deane, who had been its 
 champion, should be set there as a pioneer. At all events, 
 the grant and the post should be made good. In 1838, when 
 the Resolves of the Legislature for an ascertainment and sur- 
 vey of the northeastern boundary of the State were required 
 to be carried into execution by Governor Edward Kent, Mr. 
 Deane was the person at once designated by him, as most 
 peculiarly fitted for the performance of that important duty. 
 How zealously and faithfully he entered upon the service as- 
 signed to him, striking out and pursuing his own route, under 
 the general directions he had received, leaving nothing unex- 
 plored which lay within his reach, and not quitting the ground 
 until it was covered with snow too deep to proceed in the 
 search, and the face of the earth was obscured from further 
 investigation, his recent report on the subject fully demon- 
 strates. In this expedition he was seconded by two worthy 
 and useful associates whose assistance was valuable and who 
 justly share in the credit of the undertaking. The new map 
 of the territory which he prepared from this survey and the 
 
 * This line was, however, the one adopted a few years later. 
 
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 former materials at his command, was a work upon which he 
 bestowed great pains and expense ; and it may be feared that 
 the author of it died with a feeling, that his task in this report 
 had not been duly appreciated and the service properly con- 
 sidered. It is still to be hoped that this important labor will 
 not fail to be suitably estimated. 
 
 No man, it may be said, was ever more inflexibly tenacious 
 of his own just purposes, and at the same time more truly re- 
 gardful of the invariable principles of right, and of whatever 
 was due to the proper claims of others, whether few or many. 
 He was simple in his tastes, undisguised in his intentions, plain 
 and transparent in all his aims, unostentatious, and even neg- 
 ligent in regard to some of the forms and observances of soci- 
 ety. Like Governor Enoch Lincoln, he loved to feel himself 
 in the sublime, ennobling presence of nature, and to pierce 
 the vast, profound, unpeopled solitudes of the forest. He 
 liked also to meet the remnant of the ancient race of proprie- 
 tors in their native woods, or on the streams which they navi- 
 gated in their bark canoes — and to associate and hold converse 
 with the hardy cultivators of the soil — although these genuine 
 sympathies did not estrange him from the more busy social 
 haunts of men. 
 
 The cast of his countenance was remarkably intellectual and 
 indicative of acuteness, foresight and sagacity. It had also 
 something of a more grave, reflective and resolved character. 
 The upper part of his face, particularly the intersection of the 
 principal features bore a striking resemblance to the bust of 
 Alexander Hamilton, while the perpetual activity of its fibres 
 in their animated expression, might remind one who had seen 
 the original of the incessant motion of Lord Brougham's. He 
 had also something in him of antiquity, something of the Cod- 
 rus and the Curtius — some strain of that Roman spirit of self- 
 sacrificing patriotism which tells in the stories of Horatius 
 Codes and Mucius Scsevola — some vein too of the Russells 
 and Sidneys of the seventeenth century — spirits prepared for 
 all the emergencies of moral, political and physical martyr- 
 dom — for the ordeals of a virtue that had not ceased to be 
 
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 more than an empty sound — and aspiring to an elevation supe- 
 rior to the sordid subterfuges of shuffling selfishness and com- 
 promising expediency. This was an aspiration worthy of the 
 object of this obituary; and there was that within him which 
 did not derogate from this lofty calling. That he did not live 
 to see the end of all his travail is most certain. 
 
 But he lived long enough to see the cause for which he had 
 labored adopted by the unanimous voice of the Congress of 
 the United States, and its justice and purity acknowledged by 
 the world. And it is no less certain that if he does not de- 
 serve a marble monument from the people of Maine, he de- 
 serves a monument as durable as marble in their undying re- 
 membrance, affection and respect. 
 
 In the multitude of emotions that throng and mingle in the 
 mind which this sudden stroke of providence is calculated to 
 call forth — amid these last dying traces of autumnal change, 
 when the splendid month of November is speaking the great 
 moral lesson of the year — if there was nothing else in this 
 world — if there was not something infinitely superior to all the 
 visible manifestations of the material universe and above all 
 that this glorious organic structure is capable to afford — we 
 might well mourn over these melancholy vestiges of mortality 
 and decay. If it were not otherwise, were it not for higher 
 hopes and the interior supports of a sublimer faith, by which 
 the spirit is sustained in its far upward flight, through its sink- 
 ing moments of occasional despondency, it would be sad in- 
 deed to linger upon the last lineaments of the departed object 
 of our affection and esteem, the features so lately beaming with 
 animation and intelligence, the head so lately full of important 
 knowledge, and fervid with the glowing operations of genius 
 and intellect ; the heart just beating with the most ardent pul- 
 sations of parental love and patriotic zeal, now silent and in- 
 sensible, about to be reduced to the cold clods of the valley. 
 Yet there is still something in the circumstances of this mourn- 
 ful public and domestic deprivation to produce a deep, a last- 
 ing and wholesome impression. 
 
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 " The memory 
 Of our dying friends comes o'er us like a cloud, 
 
 To damp our brainless ardor, and abate 
 That glare of life that often blinds the wise." 
 
 HIS FAMILY. 
 
 *Mrs. Deane survived her husband and resided at the home- 
 stead on State street, Portland, (with the exception of about a 
 year, 1869-70, spent with her sons Llewellyn and William, in 
 Washington, D. C.,) till the day of her death, May 12, 1872. 
 Her remains were interred by the side of her husband, in the 
 Cemetery on Bramhall's Hill in Portland. They were the parents 
 of eleven children — two died in infancy, two daughters when 
 comparatively young; John was lost at sea in 1836 while on a 
 voyage, as supercargo of his brig, to South America. Six 
 sons survived him, all of whom grew up to men's estate. 
 
 Joseph became a lawyer, lived awhile in Cherryfield, look- 
 ing after the landed interests of his father's estate ; then prac- 
 ticed law in Taunton, and later in Quincy, 111., where he died 
 in July, 1869. 
 
 Melvin was a civil engineer. In his youth he accompanied 
 his father, in 1838, on his last excursion to the Northeastern 
 part of the State. He was engaged in the construction of 
 several railroads, the At. & St. L., the And. & Ken. and others. 
 He was City Engineer of Portland in 1853-4, an d died there 
 in March, 1854. 
 
 Henry graduated at " Bowdoin," in 1844, and became a law- 
 yer, represented Portland in the Legislature of 1850-2, was 
 county attorney for Cumberland County, 1852-2, and later was 
 solicitor for the city of Portland, and afterwards surveyor, 
 1868-70, in the Custom House. He died in Boston, March, 
 1873, on his way home from Florida. f 
 
 Frederick graduated at "Bowdoin," in 1846, and became a 
 lawyer, but never entered on the practice, as the gold excite- 
 ment of those days bore him away to California, where he 
 lived, with the interval of a short visit home, till 1861, when 
 
 * See appendix. f See in appendix. Resolutions, &c, by Cumberland Bar. 
 
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 he entered the volunteer service and was an officer of the first 
 California Volunteers. At a later period he was in the 30th 
 Maine Regiment; after some service he was duly commis- 
 sioned an officer, but the war closed before he was mustered 
 in. He died at sea in March, 1867, while returning to Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 Llewellyn graduated at "Bowdoin," in 1849, became a law- 
 yer and practiced, in partnership with Henry, in Portland from 
 1852 to 1 86 1. In 1858 he represented Portland to the Legis- 
 lature. In 1 861 he moved to Washington, where he subse- 
 quently held an important position in the Patent Office. In 
 1873 he resigned his official position and has since practiced 
 law in that city. 
 
 William Wallace became a lawyer and settled in Saccarappa. 
 In 1 86 1 he joined the 12th Maine Infantry and afterwards 
 became Adjutant of the Regiment. In 1863 he was appointed 
 Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, with rank of Cap- 
 tain, and at the close of the war was breveted Lieutenant Col- 
 onel in that branch of the service. In 1 867 he was appointed 
 Lieutenant in the regular army. He died in July, 1870, in 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Melvin's son John, while a mere lad, enlisted in the 6th 
 Maine Battery, and later became Lieutenant thereof. He was 
 in active service from the date of his enlistment, in 1862, to 
 the close of the war, and was never hurt in battle, though in 
 every fight where his Battery was engaged, and was never in 
 hospital during his entire service. He engaged in the paper 
 manufacturing business after the war, and died in the fall of 
 1873. No doubt the toil, duties and excitement of his war life 
 hastened his end. 
 
 Washington, D. C, October 13, 1884. 
 
 The foregoing was prepared for the Maine State Historical Society, and was 
 read at the meeting of said Society January 8, 18S5, by Gen. John Marshall Brown. 
 
 It is now copied from the records of said Society, and, with their permission, a 
 few changes and additions have been made. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
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 This touching and beautiful tribute to the memory of my 
 mother was written just after her death by Rev. J. E. Rankin, 
 D. D., now of Orange Valley, N. J., but who, during her resi- 
 dence in Washington, D. C, was pastor of the First Congre- 
 gational Church in that city, and greatly beloved by her, not 
 only as her minister, but because of his unfailing and most 
 affectionate attentions to her. It was printed in the Conqrega- 
 tionalist May 30, 1872. 
 
 A BEAUTIFUL OLD LADY. 
 
 There are two classes toward whom my heart is irresistibly 
 drawn : little children and old people. Their common frailty, 
 their simplicity, their appreciation of little attentions, the rela- 
 tions of confidence which they are so ready to form, their 
 fidelity of affection, all combine to make one love them with a 
 kind of abandon in other cases impossible. And so when I 
 found among my people here, an old lady with gray curls and 
 blooming cheeks, the bloom of maturity, of a green old age, 
 cared for so tenderly by a son who was with her like a shadow ; 
 when she remained after each service to give me her benedic- 
 tion, and to show how she rolled the truth as a sweet morsel 
 in her mouth, of course I could not help loving her, and being 
 thankful that God was giving me the privilege of ministering 
 to her in her last days. For she seemed like one who would 
 
 " Ne'er be fu' content, till her een did see, 
 
 The golden gates 'o heaven, and her ain countree." 
 
 She was with us one year, delighting us all, loved by us all, 
 and then she returned to Portland, Me., where, for so many 
 years she had been so useful and so honored, in connection 
 with the High Street Church. There, as a widow, having also 
 buried five children, she had brought up the remaining six; 
 
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 she had been the foster-mother to nephews and nieces ; she 
 had been at the head of benevolent societies, her home the 
 hospitable center for ministers and missionaries; her heart and 
 her purse always open ; her hand ready for every good work. 
 And there, in Portland, in the household of her eldest surviv- 
 ing son, she fell asleep in Jesus, May 12th, 1872. 
 
 This beautiful old lady was Mrs. Rebecca D. Deane, the 
 youngest daughter of Hon. Seth Padelford, LL. D., of Taun- 
 ton, Mass., and was born there, May 27, 1792. She married 
 John G. Deane, Esq., of Ellsworth, Me., in 1810, and lived 
 in that place until 1835, when she removed to Portland. 
 Two years later she joined the High Street Church. Her 
 husband was a Unitarian, but she threw her decided influence 
 in favor of the doctrines of evangelical religion, of which, 
 some of her children, also, have proved themselves self-deny- 
 ing and enthusastic advocates. She felt very much the failing 
 of her natural powers, and the change in her social position 
 which was the result of her advancing years. Slowly faded 
 from her memory recollections of the past, even of husband 
 and children, but her last thoughts and expressions were of 
 Jesus and Heaven, and, at length, released from the burdens 
 and frailties of the flesh, she went to see 
 
 "The King in his beauty in her ain countree." 
 
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 MEMORANDA FROM FAMILY BIBLES AND 
 OTHER SOURCES. 
 
 THE DEANE SIDE. 
 
 Family of Joseph Deane, of Raynham, Massachusetts, fifth 
 in descent from John Deane, who came from England, and, 
 with his brother Walter, was one of the pioneer settlers of 
 Taunton, Massachusetts. 
 
 Joseph Deane was born in Raynham, November 20, 
 1753, and died February 16, 1837. 
 He married January 10, 1783, Mary, daughter of Capt. John 
 Gilmore, born May 18, 1760, and died May 10, 1837, a few 
 months after her husband's death. 
 
 Their children, all born in Raynham, Mass., were — 
 
 John Gilmore, born March 27, 1785 ; died in Cherry- 
 field, Maine, November 10, 1839. 
 Mary, born September 25, 1790; died August 10, 
 1 820; married Abiezer Dean, of Taunton, Mass., 
 leaving two children, Joseph Albert and Elizabeth 
 Hall. 
 Joseph Augustus, born June 25, 1802; died in Ells- 
 worth, Maine, May 4, 1873; married Eliza, daugh- 
 ter of Colonel Nathaniel Fales, of Taunton, August 
 17, 1830; they had three children. Mary Agnes, 
 died October 6, 1862 ; Sabra W., (now Mrs. Amory 
 Otis,) and John G., died June 17, 1 841. 
 
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 THE PADELFORD SIDE. 
 
 Children of Seth Padelford and Rebecca, his wife, all 
 born in Taunton, Mass. 
 
 Seth Padelford, of Taunton, Mass., born December 7, 
 1751; died January 3, 1810; married June 1, 1777, to 
 Rebecca Dennis, who was born December 8, 1756, and 
 died March 16, 1822. 
 Their children were — 
 
 Polly Dennis, born April 13, 1778; married Mason 
 
 Shaw, of Bangor, Maine; died May 19, 1805. 
 Ezekiel D.,born September 23, 1779; died October 27, 
 
 1779. 
 Sally Kirby, born October 27, 1780; married Na- 
 thaniel Fales, of Taunton, Mass.; died at Quincy, 
 Ills., November 26, 1858. 
 Melinda, born February 14, 1782 ; married Enoch 
 Brown, of Hampden, Mass.; died January 23, 1836. 
 John, born May 1, 1783; died June 29, 1801. 
 Charles, born January 12, 1785; died February 21, 
 
 1785. 
 Nancy, born March 14, 1786; married Samuel E. 
 
 Cooke, of Tiverton, R. I.; died October 21, 1817. 
 Harry, born September 29, 1787; married Susan 
 Crosman, of Taunton, Mass. ; died in New York 
 about 1850. 
 Rebecca, born 1789; died 1791. 
 Rebecca Dennis who married John G. Deane, and 
 
 is fully spoken of elsewhere in this sketch. 
 Caroline, born 1794; died 1796. 
 Francis, born 1796; died 1798. 
 
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 OUR OWN FAMILY. 
 
 Children of John G. Deane and Rebecca, his wife, all born 
 in Ellsworth, Maine : 
 
 Seth Padelford, born August 3, 1814; died August 21 
 1814. 
 
 John, born November 14, 181 5 ; lost at sea November, 
 1836. 
 
 Joseph P., born September 29, 181 7; died at Quincy Ills., 
 August 19, 1869 ; married Eleanor S. Reed, of Taunton, 
 Mass., January 27, 1842. 
 
 Mary, born October 8, 1818; died at Portland, May 14, 
 1839. 
 
 Rebecca Padelford, born March 31, 1820; died at Ells- 
 worth, August 7, 1833. 
 
 Melvin Gilmore, born November 16, 1821 ; died at Port- 
 land, March 21, 1854; married Sarah E. Shepherd, of 
 Bristol, R. I., August 9, 1843, who died May 18, 1847 ; 
 and Harriet A. Thurston, of Winthrop, Maine, October 
 12, 1848. 
 
 Henry Padelford, born October 9, 1823; died at the 
 Revere House, Boston, en route from Florida to Portland, 
 March 25, 1873 ; married Annie E. Morse, of Brunswick, 
 Maine, March 23, 1848. 
 
 Frederick Augustus, born September 17, 1825; died at 
 sea, on ship "Majestic," en route to California, March 16, 
 1867. 
 Llewellyn, born September 17, 1827, died March, 1828. 
 Llewellyn, born April 23, 1829 ; married Mrs. L. E. Ricks, 
 
 of Washington, D. C, August 29, 1871. 
 William Wallace, born August 2, 1832; died at Wash- 
 ington, D. C, July 21, 1870;. married Abbie Edwards, 
 of Saccarappa, Maine, May 14, 1868. 
 
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 MY GRANDFATHER AND GRANDMOTHER 
 DEANE. 
 
 I am greatly indebted to my venerable friend, J. W. D. Hall, 
 of Taunton, Mass., for the following sketch of my paternal 
 grandfather : 
 
 Lieut. Joseph Deane acquired his title by honorable service 
 in the Revolutionary war. He left his farm work and re- 
 sponded to the " alarm call" preceding the battle of Bunker's 
 Hill, a young man of twenty-three, as member of the company 
 which marched all night from Taunton to Boston, but arrived 
 too late to join in that engagement. Lieut. Deane was also a 
 member of one of the two Raynham companies, the only ones 
 that promptly responded in 1786 to the call caused by the 
 rumor that Shay's Volunteers were coming to Taunton to 
 frighten * Gen. (then Judge) Cobb, and seize the court papers. 
 He was familiarly known in the Raynham days of my boy- 
 hood as " Uncle Joseph." He was a cousin of my grandfather, 
 Nathaniel Deane, and resided only a fourth of a mile distant 
 from him. Hundreds of times have I been over the grounds 
 of that old mansion of Uncle Jo's. There stood the large, old- 
 fashioned gambrel roofed house, having two front doors, one 
 " for company," and facing the south. The garden on the 
 west, or sunny side, was one of the handsomest, laid out on a 
 side hill, in terraces, and descending twenty feet from the upper 
 level to the lower tier, where an immense grape vine spread 
 its branches almost entirely over two large apple trees. A few 
 rods below was a meadow with a running brook; this afforded a 
 convenient watering place on the road nearby, and which sepa- 
 rated the town of Raynham from Taunton. It was one of 
 the most attractive garden spots in North Raynham ; choice 
 roses and an abundance of flowers were cultivated there by 
 Mrs. Deane. A spacious grass plat, with walks, lay in front 
 
 *The same Gen. David Cobb who afterwards settled at Gouldsborough, Maine.— See page 61 . 
 
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 of the house, and on the east was a large wood house, and 
 near the old cider mill, where neighbors resorted with their 
 cart loads of apples to convert into cider, at free cost, and be- 
 yond this the mill, the corn crib, and two large barns for the 
 stock. The old orchard in rear of the cider mill bore the best 
 of apples, and we boys were always welcomed by " Uncle 
 Joseph" to help ourselves. In fact, he was pleased to have us 
 eat the fine fruit that covered the ground beneath those large 
 trees. 
 
 But as I pass that way in recent years, I can hardly repress 
 tears of sadness, as I witness the utter desolation that marks 
 the spot so pleasing to my eyes seventy years ago. Scarcely 
 a landmark remains. The house and a portion of the build- 
 ings were destroyed by fire forty years ago ; the remaining 
 out-buildings were soon after removed, and that elegant ter- 
 raced garden has given place to a waste of weeds and grass, 
 the splendid rose bushes having " run wild to decay." 
 
 Had your father remained at that nice old home, we should 
 not have read any of his enterprising feats in the " District of 
 Maine," which he helped to make a State in 1820, and his able 
 reports on " the Northeastern Boundary." Still, he might have 
 emigrated to Taunton, and achieved fame by a seat on the 
 bench, which his judicial ability would have enabled him to 
 fill with honor. 
 
 Aside from the fact that " Uncle Joseph" served his country 
 faithfully in the Revolutionary struggle " for liberty and union," 
 and was a careful, painstaking farmer, and was loved and re- 
 spected by all his neighbors and townsmen, I know but little 
 to write. A farmer's life is rather monotonous and common- 
 place. His wife, "Aunt Polly," as we called her, was a very 
 intelligent woman, who possessed fine conversational powers, 
 and, like her husband, was much beloved. Their only daughter, 
 Mary, who married my uncle, Abiezer Deane, and resided in 
 Taunton until her death, August 10, 1820, was very like her 
 mother in her amiable and beautiful character and life. 
 
 Uncle Joseph's brother Clifford was also a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war, and was killed in the prime of life at the 
 
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 taking of New York by the British in 1776. He had also a 
 brother David, a farmer, who resided in Taunton, a third of a 
 mile distant, a very worthy, quiet man. He also had five sis- 
 ters ; one married a Williams, one a Carver, another a Jones, 
 and another Major John Gilmore, one of the most prominent 
 men in Raynham, for whom your father was named ; and still 
 another single sister, Charity. 
 
 Your grandparents were a most worthy old couple, and now, 
 though approaching my four-score milestone, my boyhood 
 memories of them and theirs are fresh and vivid as ever. My 
 grandfather's homestead, where I resided after the death of 
 my father, from the age of four to fifteen, joined the former, 
 and, as I muse upon the early impressions of those days, the 
 familiar scenes come thronging into my mind as cheering rem- 
 iniscences ; and while there is a sadness that those who min- 
 gled in them have all passed away, we may cheerish the hope 
 of meetino- them again. 
 
 The following, also, relating to my grandparents, I copy 
 from full and most valuable family data left by my uncle Jos- 
 eph A. Deane, of Ellsworth, Maine, and kindly sent me by his 
 daughter, Mrs. Sabra W. D. Otis. 
 
 My parents resided in North Raynham, about three rods 
 from the Taunton line. My father owned three farms, which 
 are now crossed by the old Colony Railroad ; it crosses his 
 homestead about 100 rods east of where his house, which was 
 built in 1840, formerly stood. My father was an honest and 
 upright farmer. I do not believe that he ever defrauded man, 
 woman or child, of the value of a farthing in his long life. It 
 was a saying in the neighborhood, "as honest as Uncle Jo." 
 He was not rich, but what farmers call " well off;" he had 
 plenty of land, plenty of cattle, and all that he desired, and 
 several thousand of dollars at interest ; he allowed all the 
 poor men in the country round to get in debt to him, some of 
 them to the extent of fifties, and some of them as much as 
 
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 hundreds, without pay. He never drummed hard, and never 
 forced anyone to pay. He never held or sought office; but, 
 on the other hand, refused to accept office when solicited. He 
 was repeatedly chosen a selectman of the town, and once rep- 
 resentative to the legislature, but could not be persuaded by 
 his many friends to accept either office. 
 
 He entered the revolutionary army immediately after the 
 fight at Concord and Lexington, first under Capt. Noah Hall, 
 of Raynham, afterwards of Gouldsborough, Maine. His first 
 service was two months at Dorchester Heights, afterwards, as 
 a regular, several years in the Continental army. When a 
 pension was granted by Congress to the poor soldiers my father 
 did not apply for one. After 1832, when poverty was not re- 
 quisite to entitle a soldier to a pension, his name was placed 
 upon the pension rolls, and so continued until his death. He 
 was killed by a fall on the ice February 16th, 1837. He had 
 been in feeble health during the winter, and in fact several 
 years. On that day, in the afternoon, he fell, was carried to 
 the house and placed upon his bed. He soon fell asleep, and 
 died without a struggle or any distress, and in his eighty-third 
 year. 
 
 My mother, Mary Gilmore, was an active and energetic 
 woman, her life was prolonged for many years by her energy 
 and activity; she was as honest and just as my father; she 
 was generous, yet without her my father would have been 
 possessed of less property than he acquired. They commenced 
 housekeeping at the close of the Revolution, when everybody 
 had learned to economize. Nothing was wasted in her house, 
 but all were fed, and well fed. The table was ever free to all. 
 They always agreed perfectly ; I never heard an angry word 
 pass between them ; they were ever of one mind and in accord 
 in all things. My mother was not robust, the dread disease, 
 consumption, was long lingering in her system, even before 
 my birth. Almost every year she had such attacks that our 
 neighbors would despair of her recovery, but soon as she 
 gained strength she was up, and her energy made her appear 
 as if well, and so she lived along until my father was gone, 
 
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 and about eleven weeks after his death, on the very eve of her 
 decease, she drove her carriage alone seven miles after sunset, 
 and died in less than three hours after she entered the house. 
 Had she yielded to her disease and given up, as many do, she 
 would have been in her grave many years earlier. She was 
 strictly and conscientiously honest and just, resolute and per- 
 severing, and a very strong-minded woman. 
 
 Neither of my parents ever made a profession of religion or 
 joined the church, but they both were constant in their attend- 
 ance at meetings, and I feel that I had rather take their chance 
 for happiness hereafter than that of thousands upon thousands 
 of professed Christians. 
 
 The following obituary notice of my grandfather appeared, 
 I think, in a Taunton paper : 
 
 " DIED. 
 
 " In Raynham, on the 16th inst., Mr. Joseph Deane, in the 
 83d year of his age. Few men have lived so long a life so 
 well. He was an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile. 
 Though from anxious solicitude to do right he postponed, till 
 late in life, a public profession of his faith in Christ ; yet from 
 the early dawn of his reason he lived the life of a Christian. 
 So pacific, correct and uniform were his spirit and manners 
 that no one could or did say aught against him. The nearest 
 inmate of his house could say that even there he was never seen 
 to be fretful or angry. Fair in all his contracts, and punctual 
 in his promises, he ever sustained the honor of an honest man. 
 He cheerfully gave a portion of his income for the support of 
 the ministry; and the house of God, when his health permitted, 
 was his natural home on the Sabbath. Long was he tried 
 with a most painful disorder, but pain it seemed, could not 
 disturb the serenity of his mind. As he lived so he died, in 
 perfect resignation and calmness. ' Blessed are the dead who 
 die in the Lord.' " 
 
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 The following about my father appears in my Uncle's 
 notes : 
 
 John G. Deane, Esq., was an eminent lawyer at Ellsworth, 
 Maine, for many years. He subsequently entered into land 
 speculations and became very rich, on paper ; he was a promi- 
 nent agitator of the North Eastern Boundary question, and 
 wrote many articles on the subject. He died suddenly at 
 Cherryfield, November 10, A. D. 1839, in the 55th year of his 
 age ; his death was caused by an over dose of tartar-emetic, 
 taken by mistake for cream of tartar with which it was mixed. 
 He resided in Portland, on State street, several years before 
 his death. His remains were carried to Portland, and deposited 
 in the South Cemetery, where the remains of his daughter 
 Mary were deposited the year previous. 
 
 He possessed a strong mind, a great memory and sound 
 judgment. His effects, after his decease, were appraised at 
 $200,000, besides a large quantity of worthless paper; but the 
 appraisal was far above the amount realized by his heirs. At 
 the time of his decease he had corrected and was about to 
 publish a new map of Maine ; the map was published after his 
 decease. He was Chairman of the Selectmen of Ellsworth for 
 nearly twenty years ; he was Commandant of the Cobb Light 
 Infantry in the war of 181 2, afterwards commanded the Regi- 
 ment. He also held many other offices of trust ; he was very 
 modest and unassuming ; had he asked for them, he might 
 have had any offices in the gift of the people. 
 
 GRANDFATHER PADELFORD. 
 
 The following beautiful sketch of my grandfather, Seth 
 Padelford, of Taunton, Mass., was written by my friend J. W. 
 D. Hall, of Taunton, Mass., in the spring of 1885, in his 78th 
 year. 
 
 " Hon. Seth Padelford, was born in Taunton, in Decern- 
 
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 ber, 1750, fifth in descent from Jonathan, the emigrant of 
 1628-30, and son of John and Jemima Padelford. He was grad- 
 uated at Yale College in 1770. After completing his studies 
 he entered the profession of law and became a prominent 
 counsellor. He married Rebecca, (daughter of Abraham 
 Dennis,) born 1756, died 1822, and they had eleven children, 
 the ninth being Rebecca Dennis, who married Col. John Gil- 
 more Deane. In 1798, the degree of LL. D. was conferred 
 upon him by Brown University. Judge Padelford was an able 
 and sound legal counsellor, and many years stood the acknow- 
 ledged head of the Bristol bar. He was county Treasurer in 
 1783, and for twenty years, from 1790, to January 7th, 18 10, 
 the day of his death, was Judge of Probate of the county 
 of Bristol, to the universal satisfaction of the people. He was 
 a Free Mason, and the first Master of King David Lodge, of 
 Taunton. He was esteemed as the conscientious lawyer, the 
 humane and unexceptionably upright judge, to whom all cases 
 within his jurisdiction were referred with implicit confidence in 
 his decisions as the " protector of the widows and orphans," and 
 just to all. He died in the vigor of manhood, beloved and 
 honored by the whole community. He resided from 1777 to 
 1810, in the fine old mansion on the Northwest corner of the 
 " green," or " ancient training field," adjoining the old Court 
 House and county offices. This mansion was built in 1757, 
 by Ratcliffe Hellon, a merchant, who occupied it a few years. 
 After him it was owned by several persons, till 1770, when it 
 came into the possession of the brilliant Daniel Leonard, 
 author of the celebrated pamphlet " Massachusettensis," who 
 became a loyalist (or tory) in the days of 1776, and fled from 
 Taunton and joined the British at Boston. After he left Judge 
 Padelford purchased the house. It has, since his decease, 
 been nicely kept up, and though removed in 1817 a short dis- 
 tance and divested of shrubbery in front, yet wears the same 
 general aspect that it did in my boyhood days after Judge 
 Padelford's decease." 
 
 In the same connection the following extract is made from 
 
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 an article contributed by Rev. S. Hopkins Emery, of Taunton, 
 in 1883, to the History of Bristol County, Massachusetts : 
 
 " He was a highly dignified and polished gentleman, of great 
 integrity of character, and he was favored with a wife who 
 adorned the society in which she moved. Long after they 
 ceased to be among the living of earth, their praise was in the 
 mouth of those who remembered their wide and commanding 
 influence. 
 
 "Judge Padelford died January 7, 1810, aged 58 years and 
 one month. On the stone slab which covers his remains on 
 the ' Plain; is the following inscription : 
 
 " ' For he was wise to know and warm to praise and strenu- 
 ous to transcribe in human life the mind almighty.' " 
 
 UNCLE AUGUSTUS. 
 
 Mr. Hall sends me the 'following brief record about my 
 uncle, J. Augustus Deane : 
 
 "Joseph Augustus Deane (sixth from John and Alice Deane, 
 of Taunton,) was the second son of Joseph and Mary Gilmore 
 Deane, of Raynham, Mass., born June 25, 1802. After work- 
 ing upon the old homestead of his father and attending public 
 school and a season at Bristol Academy, until 18 years of age, 
 he went to Ellsworth, Me., in 1820, and entered the office of 
 his brother, Col. John G. Deane, as a student at law. In August, 
 1 82 1, he left his studies and engaged as clerk in the store of 
 Col. John Black, in Ellsworth, and became a partner in the 
 business at twenty-one, remaining a few years. In 1833 he 
 was appointed clerk of the court of Hancock County, and set- 
 tled at Castine, then the shire town, remaining there until 
 superseded in 1838. He was reappointed in 1839, with the 
 office at Ellsworth, and again superseded in 1841. During a 
 portion of the intervening years, Mr. Deane was engaged in 
 land surveying, of which few men in the State had more scien- 
 tific and accurate knowledge, as he had made it a study in his 
 
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 younger days, theoretically and practically, and afterwards 
 under the skillful instructions of his brother. In consequence 
 of his business and official occupations he had not received 
 an admission to the bar until 1844, after which he continued 
 in practice at Ellsworth many years, except at intervals when 
 holding the deputy collectorship at Gouldsboro', under Demo- 
 cratic rule. In politics he was a Democrat, from convic- 
 tion and on principle, and though earnest in his convictions 
 was always an honest politician. After his clerkship ended 
 he never again sought office. He possessed a remarkably 
 retentive memory of political and historical data and events, 
 was an extensive reader, fond of books, and collected a large 
 library. His general historical information of the world was 
 excelled by very few men. His knowledge of the topography 
 of the State and his immediate county was remarkable in ac- 
 curacy. Possessing rare conversational and persuasive pow- 
 ers, he was very entertaining and genial in interviews with his 
 friends. He was kind hearted, sympathetic and liberal to a 
 fault. In person he was about six feet two inches tall ; com- 
 plexion, light ; robust, but not stout. In early years his hair 
 was of a brownish tint. When I saw him last, in 1873, his full 
 white beard gave him quite a patriarchal appearance, but he 
 was in the entire possession of all his mental faculties, and as 
 interesting as ever in conversation. 
 
 "August 17, 1830, Col. J. A. Deane married Eliza, daughter 
 of Col. Nathaniel Fales, of Taunton, Mass. ; they had three chil- 
 dren, viz., Mary A., born July n, 1831, died October 6, 1862; 
 Sabra W., born October 31, 1832; John Gilmore, born July 
 27, 1839, died June 17, 1841. Mrs. Deane died October 16, 
 1869. Sabra married Amory Otis, of Ellsworth. Mr. Otis 
 died August 25th, 1872, in his 58th year. Mrs. Otis is now a 
 resident of Ellsworth." 
 
 On page 9 I have mentioned the fact that my parents cared 
 for their orphaned neices and nephews : 
 
 Among these were Ann P. Cook, daughter of my aunt 
 Nancy (daughter of Judge Padelford) and Samuel E. Cook. 
 
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 She was long an inmate of our family in Ellsworth, and came 
 with us to Portland. About 1836 she married J. Tilden Moul- 
 ton, son of Dr. Moulton, of Bucksport, and graduate of Bow- 
 doin College, in the class of 1830. They first resided at 
 Columbia, but in a short time moved to Cherryfield. (On 
 page 14 it is said that my father died at their residence. Since 
 that form was struck off I learn that this sad event took place 
 at Miss Nash's boarding house, where Mr. and Mrs. Moulton 
 were in constant attendance upon my father.) My uncle 
 Augustus, in his memoranda, from which I have elsewhere 
 quoted, says: " Her native talents were very superior, and had 
 they been properly cultivated she would have been a very 
 brilliant woman." I remember well a local reputation she had 
 as a poetess. They had one son and several daughters. She 
 died about 1845. 
 
 Another daughter, Rebecca P., was, for many years after 
 her parents' death, with my grandparents Deane, and after 
 their decease was as much a member of our family, and re- 
 garded by us all as our own sister. About 1858 she married 
 Alvah Conant, Esq., of Portland, with whom she lived very 
 happily till her death, about 1864. 
 
 The following is copied from the " Daily Press" of Portland, 
 April 9, 1873 : 
 
 " Henry P. Deane. — Action of the Cumberland Bar. 
 
 "At the close of the calling of the docket of the Supreme 
 Court yesterday, Hon. Nathan Webb, Vice-President of the 
 Cumberland Bar Association, presented the following resolu- 
 tions in reference to the late Henry P. Deane, Esq., with ap- 
 propriate remarks : 
 
 " The Committee appointed by the Cumberland Bar Associa- 
 tion, at its last meeting, March 26th, to prepare resolutions 
 relative to the death of the late Henry P. Deane, Esq., to pre- 
 
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 sent to the Supreme Judicial Court at the approaching term, 
 having attended to that duty, beg leave to report the following : 
 
 " Whereas, it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from 
 earthly associations our friend and brother, Henry P. Deane: 
 
 " Resolved, That we deeply lament his death, and shall sor- 
 rowfully miss his pleasant face and cordial greeting. 
 
 " Resolved, That our departed associate, by his energy, zeal 
 and talent, as well as by his fidelity to the duties of a coun- 
 sellor, and by his courtesy to his professional associates, de- 
 servedly gained an honorable standing at this Bar. 
 
 " Resolved, That by his decease this community has lost a 
 valuable citizen, this Bar an esteemed comrade, his friends a 
 generous friend, who, in the various and responsible duties he 
 has been called to discharge, has never failed to secure respect 
 and approval. 
 
 "Resolved, That we sympathize with his afflicted family, and 
 that a copy of these resolutions authenticated by the officers 
 of our Association be communicated to them. 
 
 " The resolutions were seconded by Byron D. Verrill, Esq., 
 who spoke as follows : 
 
 " May it please your Honor : — In accordance with a request 
 of the committee and a vote of the Association, I beg leave to 
 second these resolutions. They fittingly express the senti- 
 ments I am sure we all entertain. 
 
 " So frequently are we called to mourn the loss of some 
 esteemed brother — often, as in this instance, in the very prime 
 of his manhood — that we can but realize the shadowy uncer- 
 tainty of mortal life. In such a case as this it is sad indeed to 
 think of severing strong earthly ties ; but it is pleasant to re- 
 flect that our departed brother was worthy of all the praise we 
 may bestow. I measure my words. I speak of Henry P. 
 Deane as I have known him in the intimate business and social 
 relations of the last six years. To know him intimately was 
 to esteem him highly, and I have been impressed with a deep 
 sense of his manly worth. 
 
 " His standard of moral duty was high, and by that standard 
 

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 he was governed — I may say rigidly governed — in his daily 
 business transactions. Scrupulously and minutely exact in his 
 dealings with all men, he was equally honest in all things large 
 and small. Tenacious of his own rights, he was also consid- 
 erate of the rights of others. 
 
 "Always faithful to the interests of his clients, I believe he 
 never forgot the duties and obligations of his profession. His 
 investigation of legal questions was habitually thorough, careful 
 and painstaking to the last degree, so that as a prudent and 
 safe counsellor he had few equals. His caution was very 
 marked, but his zeal was unbounded ; and into every under- 
 taking which met the sanction of his judgment and the approval 
 of his conscience, he threw his whole soul, sparing no labor, 
 neglecting no effort, yielding to no obstacle that was in any 
 way superable. 
 
 " His tastes were decidedly literary and social. In addition 
 to the studies and labors of his profession and other affairs in 
 which he engaged, he gave no little attention to general litera- 
 ture, and especially to historical and political learning. 
 
 " Enthusiasm was a marked characteristic of our lamented 
 brother. I have never known another who enjoyed all the 
 amenities and luxuries, and even the common-places of life 
 with so keen a relish. Nature freely yielded to his senses her 
 inexhaustible charms, and his geniality was overflowing. And 
 yet, notwithstanding the fervent order of his temperament, he 
 was conspicuously tempered in all things. 
 
 " His nature was also sensitive and sympathetic, and a dis- 
 criminating, unostentatious charity was one of his great vir- 
 tues. His affections were strong and deep, and his friendships 
 whole-souled. In whom he confided, his confidence was im- 
 plicit ; in whom he trusted, his faith was supreme. Such also 
 was his faith and such his trust in God — firm and unshaken. 
 No fear of death, no doubts of the future seemed ever to disturb 
 his mind. Nevertheless, such and so strong were his affec- 
 tions, so congenial the associations of life, society, literature 
 and business, and so inexpressibly tender the endearments of 
 a beautiful, happy home and its loved ones, that he clung 
 
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 firmly to life and struggled long and manfully against the en- 
 croachments of disease ; preparing and arranging his business 
 months ago for the worst, he still remained hopeful and cheer- 
 ful to the last. Alas, how often is this sad story repeated ! 
 One after another of our brotherhood Death taps upon the 
 shoulder ; we vanish, and the places which have known us 
 know us no more forever. Only the memory of the departed 
 is left us — a sweet and hallowed memory to be sacredly cher- 
 ished until we, too, shall answer the sure and final summons, 
 and go to join the brotherhood beyond the dark river. 
 
 "Judge Goddard spoke as follows: 
 
 " May it please the Court: — I am unwilling to allow this occa- 
 sion to pass without offering a brief tribute to the memory of 
 my departed schoolmate and friend who was for more than a 
 quarter of a century my associate at this bar. 
 
 " Mr. Deane died in Boston on Tuesday, the 25th of last 
 month, in the fiftieth year of his age, while on his homeward 
 journey from Florida, whither he had gone a few weeks before 
 in the hope of restoring his failing health. 
 
 " He was a son of the late John G. Deane, Esq., and a native 
 of Ellsworth, but he came with his parents to this city while 
 yet a boy, and pursued his academical studies here, entering 
 Bowdoin College in 1840, and graduating with high honors in 
 1844. In the office of Willis & Fessenden he prepared him- 
 self for the bar, and was admitted in 1847. Two years after, 
 at the age of 26, he was chosen a representative from this city, 
 and, having been re-elected, served at the sessions of the 30th 
 and 31st Legislature. 
 
 " In 1852, at the expiration of his legislative term, he was 
 chosen Attorney for this county, performing the responsible 
 duties of that office for three years. In 1862 he was elected 
 City Solicitor, serving two years. In 1867 he was appointed 
 by President Johnson Surveyor of this Port, an office which 
 he filled for three years. 
 
 "For several years before his death he had been a director of 
 the P. & R. R. Co., and the legal adviser of that corporation. 
 
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 " During this whole period he continued the practice of his 
 profession in the State and Federal courts. 
 
 "Our friend's life exemplified these marked characteristics : 
 enthusiasm for his profession, strict, inflexible integrity, chival- 
 rous honor and courage. Among all my acquaintances I 
 never knew one whose love for the law seemed to equal his; 
 it was the dream of his boyhood and the passion of his col- 
 legiate days. Longing for the hour when he might enter the 
 forensic arena and do battle for the right, he chose for the 
 oration which rewarded his distinguished scholarship, ' The 
 Legal Profession.' This early fondness for his chosen pursuit 
 was an earnest of the industry and fidelity in its study which 
 gained him the speedy and brilliant success to which reference 
 has been made. Mr. Deane was a man of irreproachable 
 morals and of stainless integrity. His conversation, like his 
 life from earliest youth, bore witness to the purity of his heart. 
 I venture to say that the man does not live who ever heard an 
 unworthy suggestion, a demoralizing sentiment, a questionable 
 expression fall from his lips. He was a gentleman of honor 
 and delicacy, ambitious without envy, incapable of jealousy or 
 suspicion. He never uttered even in private what he did not 
 believe to be the exact truth, nor what he was not willing and 
 anxious to say publicly. He never spoke of another in secret 
 what he was not ready to make good to his face. His chivalrous 
 nature gave him a strong inclination for military life, for which 
 I suspect he would, at the breaking out of the rebellion, have 
 abandoned even the law but for the infirmity of his vision. 
 
 " Mr. Deane was a public man, and as such is known to our 
 whole community as a prudent legislator, a faithful and incor- 
 ruptible prosecutor, a wise municipal counsellor, and an enter- 
 prising and public spirited man of business. He is known to 
 us as a zealous but fair-minded advocate, a genial friend, an 
 agreeable associate, a high-toned, pure-minded gentleman, and 
 a sincere consistent Christian. 
 
 " To your Honor, as well as to myself, Henry P. Deane was 
 endeared by the ineffaceable memories of college life, and I 
 am sure that down the three decades which have passed come 
 only pleasant reminiscences of our deceased classmate. 
 
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 "Judge Virgin responded substantially as follows: 
 "As already intimated, it is but a few months less than thirty 
 years since forty-five young men, standing under their class- 
 tree, gave each other the parting grasp, bade adieu to their 
 'Alma Mater,' and hopefully, and ' with a will for any fate/ 
 turned their faces world-ward. To-day, with melancholy satis- 
 faction, one of the thirty survivors of that class, as the organ 
 of this court, most sincerely concurs in the justice of the de- 
 serving tribute which your resolutions — ' words like apples of 
 gold in pictures of silver' — and the feeling and appropriate 
 accompanying remarks, pay to another of that original num- 
 ber, Henry P. Deane, late of this city, and member of this Bar, 
 and to order the same to be spread upon the record of this 
 court as a memorial of the court in which all feel a common 
 affliction. 
 
 " When such an one dies, between whom and us such strong 
 friendship and intimate relations necessarily subsist, the inevi- 
 tableness of what we call death is brought home to us with 
 more than usual force, for it is next to losing one from our 
 own individual household ; and the common-place, ' we must 
 all die,' suddenly transforms itself into the acute consciousness 
 ' I must die and soon,' and we almost seem to stand upon the 
 dark river brink listening for the 'plash of the on-coming oar,' 
 and expecting the summons from what the superstitious of the 
 past called the ' King of Terrors,' whose realm is the grave, 
 but whose arm is palsied by the sword of the spirit, and whose 
 crown of terrors melts away before the eye of Christian faith. 
 For within the field of Faith's vision — 
 
 " 'There is no Death! What seems so is transition, 
 This life of mortal breath 
 Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, 
 Whose portal we call Death. 
 
 " Still none of us has such dulled sensibilities as not to be 
 moved by sorrow and sadness at the final departure of such 
 a friend, however strongly our faith may assure us that it is 
 He ' who does all things well,' who ' made and loveth all,' 
 
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 has called him to Himself. I knew our late deceased brother 
 more thoroughly while he was laying deep the foundations of 
 his manhood's usefulness than latterly. I was a daily witness 
 of how rapidly assiduous and methodical labor, undisturbed 
 by any bad habits, could develop his intellectual faculties, and 
 as frequently was I an admirer of the purity and high purpose 
 of those youthful years, for although he possessed a sanguine 
 temperament, was active, and, at times, apparently somewhat 
 impulsive, still his instincts being right, however far he went 
 they took away from him the power to go in the wrong direc- 
 tion. And notwithstanding he was somewhat impulsive, he 
 was never reckless nor even rash, but opened as many of 
 'Argus's hundred eyes,' before using any of'Briaren's hun- 
 dred hands,' as any young man of his warm blood well could. 
 Although I have known our friend less intimately latterly, 
 until quite recently, still I have seen him frequently enough 
 in the social walks of life, and while he was in the discharge of 
 public and professional duties, to learn what your resolutions 
 and remarks so abundantly confirm me in believing, that those 
 lessons of wisdom so early practiced and acted upon while 
 preparing for the more stern and rugged duties of life had be- 
 come his 'heart's lore,' and the foundation stones of that 
 character which the winds and floods of the world, beat they 
 ever so violently, could in no degree wash away. 
 
 " ' His conscience never flirted with beautiful ideals of good- 
 ness,' for his moral character was not based upon arguments 
 and opinions even, but upon convictions ; and no one who 
 ever heard him speak concerning them ever doubted on which 
 side of the questions of real reform his influence was enlisted, 
 for his acts and his lips, though speaking a different dialect, 
 expressed the same sentiments, and his moral digestion was 
 never impaired by his eating his own words. 
 
 " To the outside world it may sometimes seem that members 
 of our profession, when paying their respects to the memory 
 of their deceased brethren, do more than act upon the char- 
 itable maxim ' nil de rnortius nisi bonum,' and eulogize them 
 too highly. But human nature generally is better than it 
 
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 seems, and in relation to the really good man 'tis nearness and 
 not distance lends enchantment. In the felicitious language 
 of another, ' a sense of brotherhood may grow up between 
 members of our profession stronger and more enduring than 
 between members of any other profession. We get to know 
 each other by heart. In the steady contemplation and ripening 
 knowledge of the law, of its principles and relations, there is a 
 mystic power which takes common possession of the inner life 
 of the initiated, which blends, assimilates and harmonizes minds 
 otherwise alien and irreconcilable. Hence it is that those who 
 might seem to have but little in common with this our departed 
 brother, were in sympathy, confidence and regard very near to 
 him, as he was very near to us. We witnessed his professional 
 growth with pride, shared his achievements, and by relation 
 appropriated his honors. 
 
 "This, then, is the true record which our brother has left be- 
 hind him. If he performed no brilliant achievement which 
 the obstreperous world looking through the enchanting 
 medium of distance has chronicled as great, neither has he 
 done anything to tarnish the record of a good life, or sully his 
 memory ; but he performed all his duties as a public and pri- 
 vate citizen with fidelity. I have heard with great satisfaction 
 the expression of high appreciation which this Bar continues 
 t<> entertain of the inflexible integrity of its members ; and I 
 am glad to know, as well from your words, that during these 
 latter days of embezzlements, defalcations and other numerous 
 evidences of corruption, this Bar has not lowered its standard 
 of honest worth, but holds it in as high estimate now as when 
 its great representative shed the lustre of his high character 
 in the counsels and departments of the nation. And if I might 
 presume to add a closing injunction to so old and honored an 
 association, I would say, especially to the younger members, 
 stand fast to your integrity, for it would seem as if the Bar, as 
 a whole, is among the last anchors that now holds the institu- 
 tions of the country to their old moorings. 
 
 "The Judge then ordered the proceedings to be entered on 
 the records, and adjourned the Court until this morning." 
 
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 Extracts from My Father's Letters to Miss Rebecca D. 
 Padelford (Afterwards his Wife). 
 
 The postage on the single letters was twenty cents. 
 
 He sailed from Boston Thursday. September 21, 1809, for 
 Ellsworth, and reached the mouth of Union River the Satur- 
 dav following. He writes Monday. September 25, 1S09, from 
 Ellsworth : 
 
 " When we arrived at the head of the bay the tide did not 
 suit for passing the bar, therefore I requested the Captain to 
 set me ashore. I was landed in the town of Surry, two miles 
 from Ellsworth. After traveling nearly a mile on an uncon- 
 scionable road, I was surprised at finding one nearly as good 
 as roads in general in and about Taunton. The people bear 
 no sort of resemblance to the natural appearance of the coun- 
 try. They have treated me. so far, with great attention. I 
 took coffee last evening with Mr. Herbert, and found him an 
 intelligent, learned and social man ; and was much pleased 
 with Mrs. Herbert, she is a very chatty lad}-. * * * I at- 
 tended meeting yesterday, and was very agreeably entertained 
 by their minister, Mr. Brewer, who was sent to this place by a 
 missionary society ; from his sermons I should judge him to 
 be a man of more than ordinary promise. I have found a 
 room for an office, and a place to lay my head. The board- 
 ing house is the best in this part of the country ; it is kept by 
 Mr. Sawyer. Mr. Brewer boards here, and a doctor and 
 schoolmaster. I calculate on having a very social time. Mr. 
 Black was here to-day. To-morrow I shall visit the Penob- 
 country. and shall undoubtedly call on Mr. Brown. It is ne- 
 cessary for me to go to Castine to procure some blanks before 
 I can commence business in this place. The \\ est- 
 
 ern mail arrives hereon Tuesday evening, and goes out on 
 Monday evening or Tuesday morning. If you put your let- 
 
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 ters in Taunton post office on Monday, I shall receive them 
 the Sunday following." 
 
 "Ellsworth, Oct. 3, 1809. — * * * I concluded to take a 
 tour to see of what material the country was made, as well as 
 to see if I could not find a more eligible situation. The first 
 six miles were tolerable ; the next seven lay through a wilder- 
 ness, and I saw not a human being in that distance. Then I 
 came to Bluehill, a large and pleasant town for this country. 
 The road was good through that town. The next two miles 
 were bad, beyond all description ; then the road grew more 
 and more pleasant, until I arrived at Buckstown, a very pleas- 
 ant village." From thence he proceeded to Hampden, to visit 
 Mr. and Mrs. Brown (Melinda Padelford). 
 
 " The second day after my arrival, by the aid of Mr. B., I 
 became acquainted with General Ulmer. The General rec- 
 ommended Lincolnville to me, and made some very fair offers 
 if I should see cause to settle there. His offer was to take 
 me into his family to board, and would give me business 
 enough to pay my board. But previous to any positive de- 
 termination on my part, the General very politely invited me 
 to visit him at his house in Lincolnville. I consented. Lin- 
 colnville is on the west side of Penobscot bay, thirty-five miles 
 below Hampden. Friday last I started from Hampden for 
 Castine; three miles from Castine I found Major Langdon, of 
 Ellsworth, and sent my horse home ; traveled on foot to Cas- 
 tine ; found Gen; U. there ; spent the evening with him and sev- 
 eral gentlemen. Early Saturday morning went in quest of a 
 boat to set me across the bay, but found none that would sail 
 till evening. Some time in the forenoon I went into Judge 
 Nelson's office, procured all necessary blanks, and dined with 
 his honor, and passed four or five hours very sociably ; at sun- 
 set the boat set sail across the bay, which is about fourteen or 
 fifteen miles wide. Was landed at Northport at little past nine 
 o'clock ; it was very rainy, and exceedingly dark ; the roads 
 were rough and muddy, but, notwithstanding all these diffi- 
 culties, I traveled two or three miles till my guide found me 
 a place to lodge. In the morning I set out for Gen. Ulmer's > 
 
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 who lived five miles distant. I spent Sunday with the General, 
 conversed with the people relative to my settling there, but 
 the prospect was not flattering. * * * Monday morning 
 the General furnished me a horse, to travel to Belfast, but the 
 packet in which 1 took passage was under way, and I was 
 obliged to leave the horse one and a half miles from Belfast, 
 near to the shore, and hail the packet. I was fortunate in 
 obtaining my passage. My next object was to gain the post 
 road from Ellsworth to Buckstown before the post should pass, 
 but, alas, the attempt was fruitless ; I was on foot and had fif- 
 teen miles to travel over such road as your eye never beheld. 
 * * * About 4 o'clock, P. M., to-day, I arrived in Ells- 
 worth. The distance from Castine is about thirty miles ; the 
 most of it I traveled on foot. * * * To set out well with 
 the people is an object of the first magnitude. Herbert is ex- 
 tremely popular ; he is established, and I cannot succeed if 
 my efforts are not unremitting." * * * 
 
 " Oct. 6, 1809. — I have progressed very slowly in preparing 
 my office. I have set up my books, procured one chair, one 
 bench and a table ; now am quite ready to begin. My pros- 
 pects are not flattering. The society of the place is very good, 
 considering all circumstances. I have met none so good in 
 this country, and I believe in but few places in the vicinity of 
 Taunton." 1 
 
 "Oct. 16, 1809. — To-day I came near failing to send you a 
 letter. The reason was this : a new carrier brought the mail, 
 who traveled with more expedition than the old one, and I, 
 unapprised of the alteration, had made my calculation of de- 
 positing my letter at the usual hour. But, when I found I 
 was too late, I set out and ran half a mile and put the letter 
 into the post's hands; he promised to place it in the mail at 
 Bluehill. * * * I hope to visit Taunton before January. 
 I must go by water ; traveling by land is terrible, I have tried 
 it to my satisfaction." 
 
 " Nov., 1 809. — Gen. Ulmer has called on me and again urged 
 me to settle in Lincolnville. As an inducement, he has offered 
 to board me, and do something more for me in the business 
 
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 he will put into my hands. From the first the General has 
 treated me with the greatest politeness, and I feel much in- 
 debted to him." 
 
 " Nov. 2, 1809, Thursday. — I never witnessed a more pleas- 
 ant autumn, so far as relates to the weather, since I have been 
 here ; we have had but two or three small rains, and those in 
 the night; to-day it is raining — you can hardly conceive how ' 
 muddy the roads are; the soil is clayey, and in wet weather a 
 person's feet stick fast." 
 
 " Sunday evening, 5th Nov. — I have not seen your letter as 
 I anticipated ; I suppose it has arrived, but the post office is 
 on one side of the river and I am on the other. The bridge 
 has been broken down, but people can pass over its ruins on 
 foot in daylight. The post does not arrive till 7 or 8 o'clock 
 at night, and it would have been very dangerous to attempt 
 crossing the bridge at night." 
 
 "Dec. 12, 1809. — By last mail no letter from you. I con- 
 sole myself that it was not your fault, but more from the fol- 
 lowing cause : The last mail was soaked through, the contents 
 very wet and much worn ; no mail went East of this place ; 
 the carrier said he would not have left Bluehill had he known 
 how bad the traveling was. * * * I spent the whole of 
 yesterday afternoon in pursuit of the apples, and obtained a 
 barrel, on which we all feasted last evening. The vessel 
 brought seventy barrels, and we are to have six. As a reward 
 for my diligence and success my landlady is busy making pies, 
 on which we shall feast this evening. We have had some 
 apples before, occasionally, but they were such as would not 
 be eaten at the Westward. These are really large and excel- 
 lent. The condition of the poor of this place will not be so 
 wretched this winter, as I apprehended some time ago. Pro- 
 visions have arrived, and if they will work they can obtain a 
 supply." 
 
 "Dec. 17. — Yesterday I was again employed in a voyage 
 
 down the river, to aid Mr. Sawyer in boating up winter stores." 
 
 " Dec. 18. — I received, not one, but three letters in the last 
 
 mail. There was company at our house, so I read only one 
 
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 before going to bed ; when the house was still I built a fire 
 and read the others." 
 
 " June 27, 1 8 10. — I had an invitation to ride to-day, but de- 
 clined. The party consisted of six, all mounted on horseback ; 
 they made a. very good appearance, but could you see the road 
 you would doubt if they could have a pleasant ride. I have 
 * done scarcely anything for past few days, beyond attending to 
 a little military business and some Fourth of July matters." 
 
 "June 30. — Strawberries are very thick, and just ripe; straw- 
 berries and gooseberries are almost the only fruit this country 
 produces, and they are very nice. Our company have agreed 
 on their uniform, which is a red coat trimmed up with black, 
 white waistcoat and pantaloons trimmed with red cord, black- 
 gaiters, and caps like the Raynham company, or hats in form 
 of officers' hats, with feathers." 
 
 " Sunday. — We trained last night till dark, and I was tired 
 enough to go home and go to bed. I have not one spark of 
 military enthusiasm — not enough to make this business the 
 slightest amusement." 
 
 " Thursday, July 5, 1810— Last Monday night I went to 
 Frenchman's Bay, and was all night on the water in an open 
 boat; returned Thursday, had a fair wind; sailed the boat by 
 the assistance of slabs. We appeared more like Indians than 
 civilized beings. The voyage, on the whole, was not unpleas- 
 ant, though I was goaded by flies and mosquitoes and exposed 
 to the scorching rays of the sun. You may wish to know 
 what induced me to take this voyage of seventeen or eighteen 
 miles ; it was only to procure a field piece for the Fourth of 
 July. Yesterday we had as pleasant a time as could be ex- 
 pected in this place ; indeed, it far exceeded my expectations ; 
 nearly sixty dined at one table. Our amusements were train- 
 ing, discharging our muskets, bowling, drinking, &c, &c, and 
 conversation. There was a ball in the evening ; I went to it, 
 but only stayed a short time. To-day four of us went into 
 the field and picked nearly a peck of strawberries ; in places 
 the surface of the ground was almost red with them." 
 
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 I have above quoted as much as seems to be well from 
 these, to me, most interesting and vivid letters. In places in 
 them my father describes his first boarding house. It was 
 kept by Mr. Sawyer, " a clever and industrious man ; he likes 
 good living and good cheer ; he came from Reading, Mass." 
 But it is evident that, so far as the management of household 
 affairs, Mrs. Sawyer was the chief personage. She is described 
 as an " intelligent and, considering her opportunities, a superi- 
 or woman." There were also at the same house " Mrs. Capt. 
 Peters ; her husband resided in Boston." Mrs. Peters " has a 
 fine little boy, named Alexander Hamilton Peters, with whom 
 I frequently amuse myself. A missionary preacher, John 
 Brewer by name, boards here ; he is an intelligent, social and 
 well informed young man. He has been a great traveler, and 
 frequently amuses us by narrations of his adventures. He has 
 traveled by land and by water, horseback and on foot ; he has 
 been everywhere, and seen everything; as a preacher, he holds 
 high rank, and is veiy popular with the people of this place. 
 He will continue here but three weeks more ; I am sure I shall 
 miss him, and regret his absence. The physician of the place 
 boards here ; he is a clever young man ; but the place is very 
 healthy, therefore the people can dispense with a physician of 
 the first rank. The schoolmaster is likewise a boarder." 
 
 Mention is also made of occasional calls on Squire Herbert, 
 who was at one time very sick ; also of visits to Col. Jordan's; 
 also of Mr. Jones and his family, the female members of which 
 are spoken of as very well educated ; also of his acquaintance 
 with Capt. Black. I suppose this to be John Black, and that 
 his title of Captain was derived from his position in the Cobb 
 Light Infantry, the military company, probably, referred to in 
 the foregoing extracts, and, I think, named after Gen. Cobb, 
 who had large landed possessions in the vicinity of Ellsworth. 
 He came from Massachusetts, and Capt. Black married his 
 daughter. 
 
57 
 Letter from Mrs. Milliken. 
 
 I wrote Mrs. C. J. Milliken, of Boston, Mass., for the tem- 
 porary loan of a manuscript history of Ellsworth, written by 
 her kinswoman, Miss Martha Jellison. Mrs. Milliken very 
 kindly sent me the following copy of the mention made therein 
 by the author : 
 
 "In 1 8 1 1 John G. Deane, from Ray n ham, Mass., established 
 himself in Ellsworth as attorney at law. He married Rebecca, 
 daughter of Judge Padelford, of Taunton, Mass. Mr. Deane 
 followed the legal profession until he was the father of a large 
 family. He then made some profitable investments which en- 
 abled him to move to Portland. 
 
 " Mr. Deane was respected by all classes of society as a 
 man who conscientiously discharged the business entrusted to 
 him. He was a kind husband, an affectionate father, and -a 
 good neighbor." 
 
 And then Mrs. Milliken adds the following notes by herself, 
 which contain so many interesting and valuable facts that I 
 take the liberty to print them here : 
 
 "Boston, May 31, 1885. 
 
 "My Dear Mr. Deane: 
 
 ***** 
 
 " Ellsworth must have been a very crude little town in 181 1, 
 although it was settled as early as 1773. Its only means of 
 communication with the world was by water, the voyage to 
 Boston often taking several weeks. There was a road to Cas- 
 tine at an early date after the settlement, but the road to Bangor 
 was not built until 181 5, that to Bucksport in 1812, and there 
 was no better way through the Eastern wilderness than a 
 hunter's and lumberer's path until much later. For years 
 there was one mail West each week, carried on horseback 
 through Surrey and Bluehill to Bucksport, the postboy ford- 
 ing the creeks. 
 
 " The wealth was for years exclusively in lumber, the inhab- 
 
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 itants finding it more profitable to send their lumber West in 
 exchange for supplies. 
 
 " My great grandfather, who was the original settler and 
 owner of a large part of the town, and who, being a loyalist, 
 went off with the English troops from Castine, built the first 
 mills and vessels, and brought with him a superior class of 
 men from Scarboro' and Spurwink. Early in 1800 (I think) 
 Col. Black came with a Mr. Williams as agent for the great 
 Bingham purchase, which comprised many townships. About 
 the same time the Jarvis family came to improve their tract 
 of lumber, called the ' Jarvis Gore,' and settled in Surry, 
 where they built a fine house. You may remember that 
 Leonard Jarvis represented the district in Congress. 
 
 " The Otises came from Boston as agents for the property 
 that afterward bore their name. I think they were not owners. 
 Gen. Cobb's grant of land for military service was in Sullivan, 
 and when he came to live on it the Sargents, of Boston, came 
 as neighbors. Mary Cobb became Mrs. Black, and Katharine 
 Sargent Mrs. Jones, or Madame Jones, as I knew her. 
 
 " These families, though they lived at some distance, con- 
 stituted a more cultivated society than many of the pioneer 
 towns could boast, and the more cultured of the earlier set- 
 tlers gathered about them. As late as I can remember there 
 was a superior tone to the society. 
 
 "The only religious worship before 181 2 was irregular, 
 there being no church organization and no clergyman of re- 
 pute. In 181 1 Mr. Nourse, of Bolton, Mass., was settled as 
 pastor and schoolmaster, the two offices having always been 
 united. In 181 2 the first church was organized, and the sys- 
 tem of education, which made a complete revolution in the 
 whole district. No more enthusiastic or self-denying teacher 
 ever lived than Parson Nourse, and the town owed more to 
 him than to any other of its citizens. 
 
 "As lumbering was the principal business, all other was sub- 
 sidiary to it. There had been several ' traders' before Edward 
 D. Peters and Major Pond, who afterward moved to Boston. 
 I think that Andrew Peters came from Bluehill about the time 
 
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 that your father came, and Jesse Dutton (father of the Dea- 
 con), who succeeded him in business. They had the usual 
 variety stores that we all associate with country places. The 
 Blacks only supplied the families of their own lumbermen and 
 the men who took up farms on the Bingham lands. 
 
 " I think there was but one lawyer in town before your 
 father — George Herbert. Judge Hathaway followed soon 
 after. For a longtime the only physician was Dr. Peck, whose 
 lumbering figure and generous powders you may remember. 
 The old revolutionary pensioner in breeches and cue, of whom 
 you speak in your article, I remember ; I think he had no 
 friends in town, and I cannot remember his name. 
 
 " There were more than the usual number of ' characters' in 
 Ellsworth, and it has always seemed a pity that some one at 
 that early time should not have ' made a note' of them. Your 
 mother, with her wonderful facility of language, could have 
 done it admirably. 
 
 " I remember the great respect in which your father was 
 held, both in Ellsworth and Cherryfield. He was a great loss 
 to the town, which needed just such wise and liberal men to 
 offset the smaller race of traders that were coming up. I copy 
 on the opposite page the short notice of him found in the 
 manuscript, and am sorry that I can do you no better service. 
 " Very sincerely, 
 
 " C. J. MlLLIKEN." 
 
 On page 4 of his monograph " Northeastern Boundary," 
 Gov. Washburn" says : 
 
 " Nor should I pass from this grateful duty without some 
 reference to two gentlemen, upon whose patriotic and ardent 
 interest in, and thorough and perfect knowledge of, the ques- 
 tions involved, in all their aspects and relations, these func- 
 tionaries (Governors Lincoln, Kent and Fairfield,) always and 
 safely relied. I refer to Col. John Deane, of Ellsworth, who, 
 
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 in his later years, was a resident of Portland, and to the Hon. 
 Charles S. Davies, also of this city." 
 
 On page 32 as follows, about my father's report to the Leg- 
 islature of 1827 : 
 
 " So much of this message (Gov. Lincoln's) as related to 
 the boundary was referred to a joint select committee, which 
 made a brief report through the Hon. John G. Deane, a gen- 
 tleman who, with the possible exceptions of Gov. Lincoln and 
 Mr. Davies, understood this question better than any man 
 living." 
 
 On page 45, respecting my father's report to the Legislature 
 of 1828, he remarks: 
 
 " Hon. John G. Deane, on behalf of a joint select commit- 
 tee, made a report so full, so accurate, so absolutely conclusive 
 of every question, as to leave nothing more to be said for the 
 vindication of our claims and of our interpretation of the 
 treaty of 1783." 
 
 On page 48, touching the report of 1831 : 
 "A joint select committee made a vigorous report, in which 
 were no sounds of uncertainty or fear, through Col. Deane." 
 
 On page 72, respecting the report made to the Governor of 
 the doings of the commission appointed to run the boundary 
 line of the State : 
 
 " In communicating this report to the Legislature of 1839, 
 Gov. Kent gives the substantial facts that appear in it. He 
 says : 
 
 "Their report, which I have the pleasure to transmit to 
 you, will be read with interest and satisfaction.' " * * * 
 
 Copy of letter from Gov. Lincoln. 
 
 " Portland, May 22d, 1827. 
 " Dear Sir : 
 
 "As it was not consistent with rules to take the map men- 
 tioned in your letter from the Secretary's office, I could not 
 comply with your request earlier. I have now a copy of my 
 
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 own, which I send for your use. It gives me much pleasure 
 to observe that your historical sketches as to our N. E. Boun- 
 dary have attracted very generous attention. I think you can- 
 not be too minutely particular, and I am rejoiced that the sub- 
 ject has fallen into your hands. 
 " I am, very cordially, 
 
 " Yours, 
 
 " Enoch Lincoln. 
 " John G. Deane, Esq." 
 
 In regard to Col. John Black, the following information was 
 communicated to me by a valued and entirely credible corre- 
 spondent : 
 
 John Black came from England in the employ of Charles 
 Richardson, the English agent of the Bingham purchase. He 
 became an inmate of Gen. David Cobb's family at Gouldsboro, 
 Maine. Gen. Cobb, originally a physician, acquired his mili- 
 tary title after honorable service in the war of the Revolution, 
 and is commonly reported to have been a member of Gen. 
 Washington's staff. He moved to Gouldsboro, from Taunton, 
 Mass., and after Mr. Richardson's return to England became 
 the American agent of the said Bingham purchase. Col. 
 Black married Polly Cobb, Gen. Cobb's youngest daughter. 
 In progress of time he succeeded to the agency of said pur- 
 chase, and removed to Ellsworth. 
 
 The following pleasant letters contain many interesting items 
 of information : 
 
 Portland, Me., 20 January, 1885. 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 I have received your valued favor. I have received also 
 the copy of your memoir with map of Maine, to which you 
 
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 refer, from Mr. Williamson, and will retain this for the ar- 
 chives. 
 
 In regard to corrections and additions to be made in your 
 pamphlet, I would say by all means make it as complete and 
 perfect as possible. 
 
 You can say on the title page : " Presented and read at a 
 meeting of the Maine Historical Society, held in Portland, 
 8 January, 1885." 
 
 Yours, respectfully, 
 
 H. W. Bryant, 
 
 Librarian and Secretary, M. H. S. 
 L. Deane, Esq., 
 
 Washington, D. 0. 
 
 Belfast, Me., January 19, 1885. 
 My Dear Deane : 
 
 The Historical Society will be very glad to have your 
 paper printed in pamphlet form, with such additions as you 
 choose to make. The reprint of so valuable a contribution as 
 was yours adds to our character. 
 
 We shall be honored in electing you a corresponding mem- 
 ber at our next annual meeting. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 Joseph Williamson. 
 
 Portland, Maine, January 9, 1885. 
 My Dear Deane : 
 
 I cannot resist the temptation to express my delight at 
 that admirable tribute of filial piety before the Maine Histori- 
 cal Society yesterday. 
 
 I was not fourteen when your distinguished father died, but I 
 distinctly remember him and the reading of his obituary by 
 my father in the family, and several passages were recalled after 
 a lapse of forty-five years. 
 
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 Not long before your father's death, I think as late as the 
 summer of 1838, and perhaps 1839, I remember standing at 
 our end door holding the string of my kite, which, on the 
 south-westerly trade wind of the afternoon soared high over 
 the U. S. Hotel, or Cumberland House, as it was called then. 
 
 Your father came along down Centre street, and in his kindly 
 way, of which you speak, stopped, looked at my kite, tried 
 the string in regular boy fashion, and talked with me some 
 time about kites, to my great satisfaction and pride. I doubt 
 if I have thought of the incident for forty years, but your 
 sketch recalled it with the vividness of last season. 
 Your old friend, 
 
 C. W. Goddard. 
 
 Portland, Maine, January 12, 1885. 
 My Dear Deane : 
 
 I listened with a great deal of interest to your paper in 
 memory of your father, read at the late meeting of the Maine 
 Historical Society, and I congratulate you upon the success- 
 ful grouping together therein of your recollections of the 
 Ellsworth of your boyhood and of your father's services to 
 the State. 
 
 Mr. Daveis' article was well worth republishing, as a speci- 
 men of choice English and an appreciative eulogy upon your 
 father, who certainly deserved well of the State, if any man 
 ever did. 
 
 Yours, truly, 
 
 Geo. E. B. Jackson. 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 
 Washington, D. C, January 14, 1885. 
 My Dear Mr. Deane : 
 
 I have just read with much interest your sketch of your 
 father's life and public service. 
 
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 I have Gov. Washburn's history of the N. E. Boundary dis- 
 pute, into which I shall interleave the pages upon which is 
 written this memorial. 
 
 I well remember Black's forest, and the long night rides 
 through it in the stage, with the startling information of loaded 
 rifles under the driver's feet for defence against the wolves ; 
 the Peters family and the noted name of Jellison ; also the 
 large white State street house where you used to live in Port- 
 land. How well I remember Henry and " Fred," so young 
 to leave these country scenes. I never had the lovely array 
 of brothers and sisters to love and lose. I thank you very 
 much for allowing me to share in your memories and associ- 
 ations. 
 
 Very truly, yours, 
 
 W. W. Rice. 
 
 Ellsworth, Maine, Jan. 13, 1885. 
 Mr. Llewellyn Deane. 
 
 Dear Sir : — The sketch of the life of your father, Mr. 
 John G. Deane, which was published in the last issue of the 
 Ellsworth American, is to me of much interest. There is, in 
 my mind, a chord which always vibrates at the mention of the 
 early days of Ellsworth, and I feel as though your family were 
 a part of the town. Although I am a stranger to you, I hold 
 some advantage, for the " Deane family" are as " household 
 words" to me in familiarity. I was but an infant of a few 
 weeks, or months at most, when you moved from here, but 
 you must have known my father, Mr. Joshua R. Jordan, who 
 came here from Bangor a young man and engaged in the bus- 
 of shoe making ; and my mother, who was the oldest daughter 
 of Dea. Elishua Austin, whose home was on the Surry road, 
 next below that of Col. John Black's. They were married in 
 1832, and in 1835, the year of my birth and your removal 
 from town, he entered into mercantile pursuits, in which he 
 continued for many years, retiring some years before his death, 
 
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 which occurred six years ago. I have heard him say, with 
 much pride, that he made Miss Jesse Dutton's white satin 
 wedding slippers. 
 
 The " old Deane house" is now in our possession, my hus- 
 band and his partner in trade having bought it of Geo. N. 
 Black some fifteen years since. The house they moved to the 
 back end of the garden ; and I have always been told that in 
 your mother's time it was always a very beautiful garden. 
 Roses seemed to predominate. On the spot where the house 
 stood they built a large brick store. The one large chimney 
 of the house was taken down and two smaller ones substituted, 
 thus changing the interior considerably ; but you can still see 
 the corner posts in the rooms, and the many different sized 
 windows throughout the house. The exterior remains un- 
 changed. We occupied the house ourselves for five years. 
 
 Parson Nourse I have no clear recollection of, but I have 
 faint visions of his teaching school in the hall of " Defiance 
 Square," of Lowell memory, while we occupied the dwelling 
 part of the western wing. The house occupied by him is still 
 standing, though in a dilapidated condition. I had the honor 
 of being presented with his study chair by Mrs. Chas. Lowell, 
 when she left here for Castine, a short time before her death. 
 Dr. Tenney, Parson Nourse's successor, who came here in the 
 autumn of 1835, still lives among us. 
 
 Dr. Parcher, whose name you remember, has just passed 
 away with the old year, leaving many behind him who do truly 
 sorrow for him. Few, indeed, are the names that remain who 
 were the active spirits of the time when you were an inhabi- 
 tant of Ellsworth. And as the people have changed so has 
 the town. Our residence is in what was then known as "Jones' 
 pasture," direct east from the Peters house on State street, or 
 Bangor road, as it was then called, and north of the Beal 
 place on High street, or Mt. Desert road. I mention these 
 places, thinking they may be within your recollection. Sen- 
 ator Hale's is next east of ours, and farther up in the pasture. 
 As we have had a railroad but a year, it is hardly safe, I think, 
 to boast of that. 
 
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 Perhaps I have already infringed on your time and patience ; 
 and if I have made a mistake in thinking you might be glad 
 to hear from your old home, even through a stranger, then 
 please pardon 
 
 Mrs. Augustus W. Clark. 
 
 225 Penn St., Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 19, 1885. 
 Dear Cousin Lewell: 
 
 I received an Advertiser last week, in which were your rec- 
 ollections of your father and your Ellsworth home. In these 
 I was very much interested, for they brought to mind many 
 people I had quite forgotten. 
 
 But I must thank you first for your kind mention of father. 
 He was, indeed, one of Nature's noblemen, and as the years 
 roll on I realize more and more how good and true he was. 
 
 That " intangible vision of an old gentleman" you speak 
 of must have been Major Phillips. It is his long white 
 stockings that I remember most distinctly. The white shirt 
 front and long walking stick I associate with Maj. Langdon. 
 Major Pond died years after we moved to North Ellsworth. 
 
 But never shall I forget good Parson Nourse, for I went to 
 his school. I must have been a wee-bit of a thing, for he 
 would often take me in his arms while hearing a class recite, 
 and many a nap have I had there. Sometimes he would let 
 me take his watch, to keep me awake, most likely. I have the 
 impression that he was not very " sound in doctrine," but 
 preached the love of God rather than the terrors of the law. 
 He was the friend and, I think, the classmate of Channing. 
 Dr. Channing gave the pulpit Bible for the first meeting house, 
 so one of my aunts has told me. My father's five sisters were 
 all his pupils, and all of them went as school ma'ms in that 
 region. I laugh, even now, when I think of some of Aunt 
 Tinker's " experiences," as she used to call therh, in " school 
 ma'ming ;" but she would make the most common-place 
 things seem utterly ridiculous. 
 
 Affectionately, C. L. T. 
 
 (Mrs. Trubshaw.) 
 
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 Ellsworth, Maine, May 30, 1885. 
 My Cousin : 
 
 I yesterday received a note from you. My parents were 
 married August i/tli, 1830; my sister, Mary Agnes Deane, 
 was born July 1 ith, 183 1 ; she died October 6th, 1862. I was 
 born October 22d, 1832 ; my brother was born July 2d, 1839, 
 and died July 15th, 1 841. He was your father's namesake, 
 John Gilmore Deane. My mother, Eliza Fales, was born 
 October 23d, 1808, died October 7, 1869. My father died at 
 2.30 on the morning of May 5th, 1873. There were never 
 but we three children. I think I have answered all you have 
 asked. 
 
 My sister was named Mary for our grandmother Deane, 
 Agnes for the wife of James (?) Gilmore, our first ancestress 
 who came to America, of the Gilmore branch. 
 
 My father left Massachussetts when hardly seventeen, and, 
 with the exception of less than two years at the period of the 
 births of my sister and myself, was never there again but 
 for brief visits. I cannot remember his having been to 
 Taunton but once. He was last there in the winter, about 
 1 87 1. Was Mr. Hall sure in calling it 1873 ? Had he lived 
 he would have gone for a final visit to the. graves of his 
 kindred, and for that purpose I was to accompany him. Will 
 you excuse me if I say I wonder how Mr. Hall can know 
 much of my father beyond his boyhood? 
 
 My father took great pleasure in writing a genealogy of his 
 family ; he thought it would give pleasure ; he wrote it for 
 me, but since I have been left all alone, I have not the courage 
 to follow with eyes my father's silent pen. Still if you, the 
 only other living representative of our generation, have the 
 desire, I think you have the right to see what my father has 
 written. I never have read the one he was writing when he 
 died. All my father's papers are in the hands of the adminis- 
 trator, for the administration is still open. 
 
 I am very glad that the biography of your father will be 
 written, and shall gladly receive a copy if you are willing to 
 give it to me. Your father's memory is no unfamiliar one to 
 
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 me, for we were taught to reverence his and our grandparents' 
 memory. 
 
 Since I knew you were living I have desired to know your ad- 
 dress. Grandfather Deane gave my sister at his death the ante- 
 Revolutionary tea-pot, which was Katherine Willis Deane's, 
 and to my father he gave an old pair of " bull's eye" spectacles, 
 supposed to have been those of Lieut. John Deane, afterward 
 Capt. of Dragoons for Colony of Massachusetts, under King 
 George. My father gave me an old rat-eaten commission of 
 his. Whether the spectacles are genuine or no, the commission 
 surely is. There is enough of it for restoration, but I have 
 not had the means. I want to keep these things during my 
 life, but have wished for your address to leave the things to 
 you at my death. I prize the relics of my ancestors. I had 
 other things which were lost at the time I had to give up my 
 home so soon after my father's death, which so rapidly followed 
 my husband's death. 
 
 I have other things, such as articles woven previous to my 
 father's birth, a monstrous cherry wood chest for bed linen, 
 &c, a fiat brass candlestick. The tea-pot and commission I 
 thought you would like," for all other things equally balanced, 
 it is a good thing to have had a grandfather." My father 
 framed an old deed from "John Deane, cordwainer, to Joseph 
 Deane, husbandman," dated 1741, signed by John Deane and 
 Phebe Deane, witnessed by Abiel Deane, David Deane, Han- 
 nah Deane, Mercy Deane. I imagine it to be my grand- 
 father's homestead. My father made futile attemps to trace 
 his nephew, Albert Deane's family in Connecticut. 
 
 With respect, 
 
 Sabra W. Deane-Otis. 
 
 Bangor, Maine, 26 Oct., 1885. 
 Bro. Deane: 
 
 Yours came to me whilst I was down in Old Alfred, at 
 court, and I reserved an answer till I came home. I received 
 
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 the paper some time ago which contained a sketch of your 
 father, and I enjoyed it much. He is of my earliest memory. 
 I used to be at your house a good deal when a small boy. 
 Yours was one of the houses boys could possess to them- 
 selves. I was attracted there because your brother Henry and 
 I were of the same age. I have an impression we were born 
 on the same day, October 9, 1822. 
 
 I distinctly remember that your father used to notice boys 
 a good deal, and many a time gave me a cent, which in those 
 days would buy all a boy needed or wanted. Your father was 
 very fond of fishing. In those days Union river was well 
 stocked with fish, trout and perch being in abundance. I very 
 well remember when your father used to go and come on his 
 Madawaska circuits. I presume you may not remember the 
 location of his offices. There was a wooden one once near 
 your old house, which was afterwards used as a school house. 
 It was finished in board sheathing inside, immensely great 
 and long clean boards, and not a knot on them. I went to 
 school there once to one of the Chamberlain girls. 
 
 Afterwards he had a one-story, and, I think, a brick office, 
 about where the Black store is, next to my father's, with a 
 room on each side of an entry in the middle of it. One room 
 was the every-day office, and the other was used on occasions. 
 I can now see, in my mind's eye, John Dougherty sawing 
 wood in front of the office, about the first Irishman in Ells- 
 worth, and he lived at your father's many years. Your brother 
 John and Charles Jordan were cronies, and so were your 
 brother Joseph and William Jordan. 
 
 Your father was fond of a nice garden, having one in which 
 everything grew. He was very fond of cards. I have heard 
 my mother say that at parties in the earlier days Mr. Deane 
 usually wanted a game of cards. He and my father were 
 friends — were of the same politics. 
 
 Your father was quite a military man. He was a lieutenant 
 in the Cobb Light Infantry on its march to Mt. Desert in the 
 war of 18 1 2, and was at a time captain of the same company, 
 and was also afterwards a staff officer. He was a friend and 
 
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 counsellor of my mother's father, Colonel Melatiah Jordan, 
 who was collector of Frenchman's Bay from 1789 until 1818, 
 when he died. Your father was an appraiser on his estate ; 
 Colonel Black was the administrator. 
 
 Your father was a good man, of fine talents, great, good 
 judgment, no man more honest, and possessed of those qual- 
 ities which made him distinguished as a lawyer, though he was 
 in quite early life attracted out of the profession. And that 
 numerous family of children, a pew full at church, a school 
 house and the road to school made lively by them, and now 
 most all gone ! I love to think of them — to call them before 
 my mind in review — but not too long, for alas, it becomes a 
 picture of sadness. Your good mother, too — how well I re- 
 member her as she was more than fifty years ago. 
 
 These things have, without method or reflection flowed 
 through my mind, as I took up my pen to thank you for the 
 kind expressions of your letter. And I am, 
 
 Very sincerely, yours, 
 
 John A. Peters. 
 
 Bangor, Maine, 20 June, 1886. 
 Bro. Deane: 
 
 I send you some letters of your father, whose memory is 
 dear to me, and how much more so to you ! He was my 
 father's compeer and friend. My father never himself wanted 
 official position, but he loved td support his friends for places. 
 Your father was in the Legislature a good deal' till 1832, when 
 the Jackson forces undermined the old ruling regime of Han- 
 cock county. 
 
 In the letter of 1829 the matter alluded to was the setting 
 off a part of town of Surry on to Ellsworth, and the act pre- 
 vailed. Col. Black was interested. Before then Surry ran 
 up to the Union River bridge. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 J. A. Peters. 
 
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