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THE REVOLUTION 
 
 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 With a Brief History of 
 Her Ancestry. 
 
 ALSO A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE 
 FHiST SETTLEMENT OF JONES- 
 BOROUGH, MAOHIAS AND 
 OTHER NEIGHBORINO 
 TOWNS 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE W. DRISKO 
 
 " She looketh well to the ways of her household, and 
 eateth not the bread of idleness." — Proverbs xxxi, 27. 
 
 First Edition 1857—Se.co7id Edition 190S 
 
 MACHIAS, ME.: 
 
 Geo. a, Parlin, Publisher 
 1903 
 

 
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 Page 107). 
 Pa ire l:ll). 
 
 SainiU'l Watts, Mrs. \\\'si(iii's father. Com - 
 liiissiou. 
 
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 Mahu^ 
 
 .Uk'\ WliitiU'V, hrothri'-iii-iaw nt .Alfs. 
 \\'{.'sl(,i!i. r(.'ni<»\a! lo Joiu'slMtro. 
 
 First louii (»Mic<'i'> <»f Jnucshoio. 
 
 Iiieorjxtratioi! i)f Machias. 
 
 First town otliccrs df Machias. 
 
 First iitlicials of Washington Comil y. 
 
 Hannah Wcshin collecting aniinunition ; 
 iier powder i(»niaiey to .Maehias. 
 
 41ie ^^'^^sl()n lionse and chil*! hnrne<L 
 
 (iciieaiogv (H tile Watts family. 
 
 .Mrs, Weston in r<:tircment ; her death. 
 
 l*oem i>y \V\\\ i'^reemaji, sr., writteji |»re- 
 \ioiis to ^irs, WestoiTs deeease. 
 
 (omineneenu'iit Secoiid E<lition. 
 
 llev. 11. F. Ha ]•( ling's address at tlie un- 
 veiling of (lie Weston monument. 
 
 Poem hy F. .1. .\Joor(\ 
 
 Hannah arnl .Josiah Weston's genealogy. 
 
 Hannah Weston (Iraitter I). A. K*. — Names 
 of niemhers. 
 
Pagv 74. l-»Viui Alrd|>",iil iKini ITTo, iiistt'ud of IT^fU; 
 Sally, 177;J, instrad of 178^5; Tliomas, 
 177(Vinste;id of 178(;». 
 
 }\\gv TOO. For Elsie, read first word Kliza. 
 
 Page 107. F(.)r Aairiet, nad Harrn4. 
 
 Page 111. 'riiere wt'W nine (diildren of IJetsey aii<l 
 Stei'lien Fariiswuitli. Instead of K'liil- 
 dren of Betsey /fll died yotnig — rea<l 
 Everett, Colin, .Afaitlia, .Iosei>Uine <iied 
 young, 
 
 Pag'e 114. For C'a ry, read Mary. 
 
 Page 1*2 r). F(^r Melia, read Auieliu. tiftli line from 
 bottonh 
 
 T*age 1^J7. Foj- Kanna)i. read l]anna]i^-v{<l line from 
 bottom. 
 
PREFACE, 
 
 In preparing this volume, if no other merit can be 
 claimed by the author, he can truly say, that he has 
 spent labor and time enough to produce a very much 
 larger work, and perhaps a more entertaining one. 
 
 To be brief, concise and correct, as far as possible, 
 as to dates and facts, has been his chief aim. The 
 character of the Womax, as it appeared from time to 
 time, dui'ing the century in which she lived, whose 
 history forms the principal part of the book, is what 
 the author endeavored to present his readers. She 
 was a connecting link bet^veen the last and the present 
 century — Tliis may answer to cherish her remembrance 
 among her posterity, and when nothing else would, 
 awaken interest and inquiry, about the Women, as 
 well as the Men, of the Eevolutioii. 
 
 MacMas^ Jan. i, 190^ 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 WHILE most of the earlier settled portions of New 
 England can furnish recorded reminiscences 
 of the Revolution, our own region may unite in put- 
 ting forth a claim to meritorious achievement not en- 
 tirely uninteresting. Whatever was accomplished, 
 whether by man or woman, which of itself contributed 
 in any essential degree, directly or indirectly, towards 
 securing our National Freedom, is worthy of record 
 and remembrance by those, whose privilege of enjoy- 
 ment and prosperity is the fruit and substance of their 
 years of incessent toil and hardship. Here and there 
 one of that devoted Band of Patriots still lives to tell 
 of his hard trials during the early days of our Repub- 
 lic, and how differently men lived and did then from 
 Avhat their inheritors live and do at the present 
 day. Now, in our seasons of peace and plenty, it is 
 difficult for the mind to penetrate the stern realities of 
 the times, as experienced by the early settlers of the 
 Eastern section of Maine, seventy-five to a hundred 
 years ago. Such of the events as were known to the 
 historian, and ^vhich he deemed of sufficient interest 
 
4 LIFE OP HANNAH \VESTON\ 
 
 to record, we read, but reading is not the experience, 
 the realization cannot through imaginary effort com- 
 pass either its extent or its influence. We hear the 
 frequent tale repeated^ j^et after the season, the recol- 
 lections of the past go their way and the excited sym- 
 pathy follows. The engagements of the present, with 
 its bright encouraging promises of the future leave 
 neither time or inclination to go back and mingle in 
 the strifes and every-day scenes of our forefathers' 
 lives. Generation after generation press onward, cen- 
 turies succeed centuries, yet our successors will do us 
 less homage than our fathers receive from us, and less 
 than they will receive from them. 
 
 The patriotic deeds and bold daring of tlie hero in 
 all the enlightened ages of the world Iiave seldom 
 passed unobserved, v/hile worthy and quietly i)erformed 
 deeds of the heroine are allowed to remain in obscurity. 
 The former actuated Avith motives oftentimes covetous 
 of the applause and admiration of men, while the lat- 
 ter were governed by high incentives to devotion, as 
 well as to the yielding inclination to comply Avith the 
 requirements of duty. Hence the purity and patriot- 
 ism of the motive Avhich prompted the action should 
 be considered, in connection with the seemingly great- 
 er or less good attained through the performance of 
 the deed itself. 
 
 We liave neither hero or heroine in tlie common ac- 
 ceptation of the term about whom we propose to Avi'ite, 
 but a Avoman aa^Iiosc avIioIc character through life shows 
 her possessed of great fortitude and perseverance, in- 
 flexible in purpose and cherishing a strict desire on all 
 
LIFE OF II ANN All WKSTOX 
 
 occasions to do what tlie requirements of duty and nn- 
 portance of tlie occasion demanded. Her spirit was 
 evidently moulded to the exigencies of the times ni 
 which she lived ; as in seasons of calamity, of distress 
 and suffering, among her neighbors and friends, her 
 own strength of physical endurance was ever sure of 
 being thrown into the trial, regardless of what might 
 in consequence necessarily follow as the result of a 
 denial to her own comfort and personal enjoyment. In 
 fact, there was no enjoyment for her, when she knew 
 that any one, in whatever condition in life, stood ni 
 need of her services, or she felt as though a ray of hope 
 could ])e imparted and the waning hold on life revived 
 through her ministrati(^ns, at tlie bed side of the sick 
 and enfeebled, tlie unfortunate and the forsaken. She 
 was indeed a Mother of Israel, and her thousand evi- 
 dences of kindness had won for her a greater than this 
 nume among the children of men. In her endeavors 
 to do good, the applause and approbaticm of others ex- 
 ercised over her no controlling hifiuence : the naturally 
 suggestive questions of whom shall I please or dis- 
 please, caused no delay in her action, but when her ad- 
 vice and assistance were required, when eonvinced that 
 the counsel of her experience was needed and, that 
 o-<,(,d ^^•ould be the result of her labor, she performed 
 Tt willingly and without hope or expectation of pecun- 
 iary reward. 
 
 ilANNAii Wkstox, whose maiden name was \\ atts, 
 and of whose life it is our purpose to give ti brief 
 though not miimte history, was born in riaverhill, 
 Massachusetts, on the 22d day of November, 1758. Of 
 
6 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 the precise date of her birth, however, we have not 
 been able to find any record, though satisfied ourself 
 that the foregoing is the correct date, yet many of her 
 friends difi'er with us on this point, thinking, and per- 
 haps not without some reason tliat it occurred some 
 three years earlier. At about the period of her birth, 
 the old Indian war was raging in New England, with 
 its greatest terror, and owing to its ravages and devas- 
 tation the records of that time were poorly kept, and 
 in many instances entirely neglected or wholly de- 
 stroyed. Having only those imperfect records, and 
 often only those of alternate families, with traditionary 
 accounts which have been jjassed down for the last 
 hundred and fifty years, and for the most part so re- 
 mote, as to find no person living whose youth was 
 coeval with their transpiration, the task of collecting 
 reliable information becomes doubly laborious and te- 
 dious, and detracts very materially from the interest 
 which a well prepared biographical history with its 
 fully delineated events, and correct data would other- 
 wise possess. 
 
 According to the town records of Haverhill, Samuel 
 Watts, Hannah's father, was born in that town on the 
 16th day of August 1716, and v/as at the time of Han- 
 nah's birth a little more than 42 years of age. It also 
 appears that her grandfather's name, on her father's 
 side was Samuel, and that he was a member of the 
 Legislature or General Court of Massachusetts during 
 the sessions of 1704 and 1705. The time and place of 
 his birth and death we have not been able to ascertain, 
 though it is highly probable that both occurred in 
 
LIFE OF HANXAII WESTON i 
 
 Haverhill ; and it also appears that his father's name 
 was /Samuel, it having been retained in the family down 
 to the present and seventh generation. From the in- 
 formation obtained and the general belief attached to 
 traditionary, family sayings, there is but little if any 
 doubt, that Hannah's great grandfather on the paternal 
 side immigrated to New England sometime about 1640, 
 or perhaps 1635, as during the latter year "Some 300 
 new settlers were added to the Massachusetts Colony," 
 but it is not clearly traceable from what country they 
 emigrated, though from general history of the early 
 New England settlers there is little or no doubt, that 
 they were from Wales, England, and that Samuel 
 Watts Avas among them, and that he was among the 
 Urst settlers of Haverhill, and that his descendants re- 
 mained there for a period of more than a century, 
 though the name is unknown there, save by the records; 
 even the oldest person living having no recollection of 
 hearing it spoken wiien young, and none of the town 
 records since 1775 show any Estate holder or tax-payer 
 bearing the name. 
 
 It is singular tliat at the last named period not a 
 family, or even a person of the name should remain or 
 be knoAvn at Haverhill, when at the commencement of 
 eighteenth century there were several families, and 
 some continued to live there, as is undisputably authen- 
 ticated, until 1760 and probably some five or six years 
 later. It is probable that at the termination of the 
 French and Indian War in 1763, the inhabitants of 
 Haverhill, as was the case with other of the first settled 
 New England towns, inhabiting as they did a new and 
 
8 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 comparatively unexplored country, having the fear of 
 the savage tribes, and the invasions of the French from 
 the settlements of Canada, removed by the Treaty of 
 Peace, emigrated to other portions of the country, and 
 many of them to the province of Maine ; hence, the 
 early disappearance of the Watts' families from that 
 town and its vicinity. 
 
 In this connection it may be proper to state, that the 
 first settlements known to have been attempted by the 
 whites in Maine took place in 1626. They were, how- 
 ever, feeble and scattered along shore principally be- 
 tween Piscataqua and Penobscot. Great controversies 
 arose between these settlers in consequence of Grants 
 of land being made by the Plymouth Council to other 
 Companies, which prevented any extended settlement 
 till 1639, when Sir Ferdinand Gorges secured to him- 
 self a distinct Charter or grant to all the land lying be- 
 tween the Sagadahoc and Piscataqua rivers, wliich lie 
 called the Province of Maine, after a Territory in 
 France pronounced similarly and spelled Meyne. 
 Sometime about 1640 or 1641 he formed a system of 
 government for the province and incorporated a town 
 or city near Mount Agamenticus, in Avhat is now York 
 County, by the name of Georgeana ; " but neither the 
 city nor the province gave evidence of prosperity or 
 success." At the request of the people of Maine, the 
 province was taken under the jurisdiction of ]\hissa- 
 chusetts in 1652, and was made a county called York- 
 shire, Avith the privilege of sending deputies or Repre- 
 sentatives to the General Court at Boston. "Massa- 
 chusetts laid claim to the whole Province as coming 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 9 
 
 and lying within her charter of 1628, and after various 
 and prolonged controversies the territory was incor- 
 porated with her in 1692. In 1786, '87, 1802, and 1816 
 efforts were made by a portion of the people of Maine 
 to become separate from Massachusetts, but a majority 
 of the inhabitants being averse to the measure, it was 
 not effected till March 1820 when by an act of Con- 
 gress, the District became an independent state and 
 was admitted to the Union." 
 
 It is evident from the early records of Haverhill, as 
 from papers preserved and still to be seen, that the 
 Watts' were men of ability, and often occupied places 
 of trust among their townsmen, as well as in Legisla- 
 tive and military capacities. Hannah's father served 
 as a Captain during the French and Indian war, cover- 
 ing a space of seven years, and terminated as before 
 stated in 1763, during which time he was in many 
 close engagements and always maintained the greatest 
 endurance, coolness and bravery. His commission to 
 the Captaincy, which bears date of more than a hun- 
 dred years, he always preserved. It is now in posses- 
 sion of Capt. Samuel Watts, Jonesboro, as is also the 
 muster roll of the company which he commanded, and 
 both, having always been kept in the original tin box 
 or case, are in a tolerably good state of preservation 
 and can be read with but little difficulty. The im- 
 provement in the art of printing and manufacture of 
 paper, of the present day compared with what existed 
 upwards of a century ago, renders these papers inter- 
 esting relics of the past, and it is to be hoped that they 
 may continue to remain in careful hands and thus be 
 
10 LITE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 preserved to future generations. We deem the com- 
 mission of sufficient family interest, aside from the 
 general interest attached to it, to give it a place in this 
 work. The following is his first commission, being a 
 correct copy. 
 
 "Province of New Hampshire. Benning Went worth, 
 Esq.; Captain General & Governor in Chief, in and 
 over his Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New 
 England &c. 
 
 To Captain Samuel Watts, Gentlemen: Greeting. 
 By virtue of the Power of Authority, in and by his 
 Majesty's Royal Commission, to me granted, to be Cap- 
 tain — General, &c., over this his Majesty's Province of 
 New Hampshire, aforesaid ; I do (by these presents) 
 reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyal- 
 ty, Courage and good Conduct, constitute and appoint 
 you, the said Samuel Watts, to be Captain of a Com- 
 pany in a Regiment of foot, whereof Nath'l Meserve, 
 Esq., is Colonel, being the forces raised or to be raised 
 within this province for the defence and protection of 
 his Majesty's territories from any further encroach- 
 ment of the French at or near Crown Point and upon 
 Lake Irequois, commonly called by the French, Lake 
 Champlain, and for removing any encroachments al- 
 ready made there, of which forces John Winslow, Esq., 
 is commander-in-Chief. You are therefore carefully 
 and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Captain in 
 leading, and ordering and exercising said company in 
 arms, both inferior officers and soldiers, and to keep 
 them in good order and discipline ; hereby command- 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 11 
 
 ing tliem to obey you as a Captain, and yourself to ob- 
 serve and follow such orders and instructions, as you 
 sliail from time to time receive from me, or the com- 
 mander-in-Chief for the time being, or your other Su- 
 perior officers for his Majesty service, according to 
 rules and Discipline of War, pui'suant to the Trust re- 
 posed in You. 
 
 Given under my hmvd and Seal at arms at Ports- 
 inouth the first day of May^ in the twe7ity-nii\th 
 year of the reign of his Majesty^ King George tJie 
 second^ An?iog / Domini^ 1756. 
 
 B. Wentwokth. 
 By His Excelencie's Command. 
 
 Theodore W. Kinson, Sec'ty." 
 
 In the same tin box or case is another commission 
 to the Captaincy issued by Thomas Hutchinson, 
 "Lieutenant Governor and commander-in-Chief of his 
 Majesty's forces in the Massachusetts Bay," to serve in 
 the regiment of foot whereof John Whitcomb was 
 Colonel. This bears date, the 10th day of June, 1760, 
 and is signed in the hand writing of Gov. Hutchinson, 
 also by A. Oliver, Secretary of the Province. This 
 was issued under the Seal at arms at Boston. 
 
 How Capt. Watts came to be commissioned by the 
 authorities of the province of New Hampshire is not 
 now known. It is believed generally by his descend- 
 ants, and we have every reason to believe with correct- 
 ness, that he never resided in the Province, having 
 always lived at Haverhill until he removed with his 
 .family into the territory of Maine. In the year 1759 
 
12 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 he occompanied Gen. Wolfe on his expedition for the 
 reduction of Quebec, and commanded a company of 
 forty-one privates, four secretaries and four corporals, 
 in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment. Of his actual efficiency 
 in that expedition, or with what satisfaction to his su- 
 perior officers he performed his duties, we have no re- 
 liable means of stating. There is no doubt, however, 
 but in that, as in whatever else he attempted, he acted 
 well his part, and that his patriotism shranli from no 
 responsibility. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 HANISTAH WATTS, (subsequently Weston,) was 
 always remarkable for her courage and forti. 
 tude, which oftentimes excited astonishment as well as 
 admiration. Such was evidently her nature ; it was 
 not borrowed, or affected for any occasion, but ever 
 living, ever ready. When we consider from whom she 
 descended, and who were her New England ancestry, 
 there need arise no wonder or astonishment, unless to 
 kindle anew our pride and our regard, when reflecting 
 that she so truly retained the vigor and energy of her 
 fathers, and so well represented them through the 
 lapse of time and intervening space of generations. 
 
 The history of her family is identified with very 
 many important events of the early New England 
 times Many of those events are prominent before the 
 people of today, and are often the recitations of famil- 
 iarity, while many of those, who were foremost m word 
 and work in bringing them about, have passed away 
 in silence, their labor having become finished m 
 the attainment, and no desire ever manifested, if in- 
 deed such ever existed, to transmit any record to pos- 
 terity how far and to what extent, they were them- 
 selves influential in tlie accomplishment, and the tradi- 
 
14 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 tion of generations, changed as most likely it has been, 
 remains alone of which to learn and by which to esti- 
 mate their character and judge of their patriotism. 
 
 By a comparison of these traditionary sayings with 
 early family and town records, we have been able to 
 ascertain, beyond doubt, that Mrs. Weston was a direct 
 descendant of the famous Mrs. Dustan, who, it will be 
 recollected, was taken captive by the Indians, at Hav- 
 erhill, Mass., in the year 1697, and who, to effect her 
 escape, after a long and perilous journey through the 
 wilderness, murdered ten of the savages during the 
 dark hours of mid-night, and made her way back to 
 Haverhill, after a few months absence, to the surprise 
 of her friends, who had supposed her dead. 
 
 It appears that Thomas Dustan married Hannah 
 Emerson, December 22, 1677, and that they had thir- 
 teen children. The seventh child married John Watts, 
 a near family connection of Mrs. Weston's grand-fath- 
 er. The eighth cliild was murdered by the Indians, 
 while an infant ; and at the time of Mrs. Dustan's cap- 
 ture, while Abigail, the eighth child who lived to at- 
 tain maturity, married Samuel Watts, Mrs. Weston's 
 grandfather, on her father's side. Thus it will be seen 
 that the celebrated old Mrs. Dustan was the great- 
 grandmother of^Mrs. Weston, and that much of the 
 fortitude and heroism of the former was inherited by 
 the latter, as we shall elsewhere have occasion to re- 
 cord. The account of Mrs. Dustan's capture, treatment 
 while in, and means adopted to secure her release from 
 captivity, forming as it does an interesting portion of 
 the family history, we have thought best to insert 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 15 
 
 here. The following from Goodrich's United States 
 History, is to the point : 
 
 "In an attack, by a body of Indians, on Haverhill, 
 Mass., in the winter of 1697, the concluding year of the 
 war, a party of the assailants approached the house of 
 a Mr. Dustfin. Upon the first alarm he flew from a 
 neighboring field to his family. Seven of his children 
 he directed to flee, while he himself went to assist his 
 wife, who was confined to the bed with an infant a 
 week old. — But before she could leave her bed the sav- 
 ages arrived. 
 
 In despair of rendering her assistance, Mr. Dustan 
 flew to the door, mounted his horse, and determined, in 
 his own mind, to snatch up and save the child which 
 he loved best ; but, upon coming up to them, he found 
 it impossible to make a selection. He determined, 
 therefore, to meet his fate with them ; to defend and 
 save them from their pursuers or die by their side. 
 
 A body of Indians soon came up with him, and from 
 short distances fired upon him and his little company. 
 For more than a mile, he continued to retreat, placing 
 himself between his children and the fire of the sav- 
 ages, and returning their shots with great spirit and 
 success. As Mr. Dustan quitted his house a party of 
 Indians entered it. Mrs. Dustan was in bed, but they 
 ordered her to rise, and before she could completely 
 dress herself, obliged her and her nurse, a Mrs. Teft, to 
 quit the house, which they plundered and set on fire. 
 
 In these distressing circumstances, Mrs. Dustan be- 
 gan her march, with other captives, into the wilderness. 
 The air was Jieen, and their path led alternately 
 
16 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 through snow and deep mud, and her savage conduct- 
 tors delighted rather in the infliction of torment than 
 the alleviation of distress. The company had proceeded 
 but a short distance, when an Indian, thinking the in- 
 fant an incumbrance, took it from the nurse's arms, 
 and violently terminated its life. Such of the other 
 captives as began to be weary, and incapable of pro- 
 ceeding, the Indians killed with their tomahawks. 
 Feeble as Mrs. Dustan was, both she and her nurse 
 sustained with wonderful energy the fatigue and mis- 
 ery attending a journey of one hundred and fifty miles. 
 
 On their arrival at the place of their destination, 
 they found the wigwam of the savage who claimed 
 them as his personal property, to be inliabited by 
 twelve Indians. In the ensuing April, this family set 
 out, with their captives, for an Indian settlement still 
 more remote. The captives were informed that, on 
 their arrival at the settlement, they must submit to be 
 stripped, scourged, and run the gauntlet between two 
 files of Indians. This information carried distress to 
 the minds of the captive women, and led them prompt- 
 ly to devise some means of escape. 
 
 Early in the morning of the 10th of May, Mrs. Dus- 
 tan awakening her nurse and another fellow-prisoner, 
 they despatched ten of the twelve Indians, while asleep. 
 The other two escaped. — The women then pursued 
 their difficult and toilsome journey through the wilder- 
 ness, and at length arrived in safety at Haverhill. 
 Subsequently they visited Boston, and received at the 
 hand of the General Court, a handsome consideration 
 for their extraordinary sufferings and heroic conduct. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 17 
 
 The precise date of Samuel Watts and Abigail Dus- 
 tan's marriage, we have not been able to learn, though 
 it is probable that it occm-red in 1716. — The children 
 of this marriage were Samuel (Mrs. Weston's father) 
 born August 29th, 1716; Hannah, July 23d, 1718; 
 Thomas, May 17th, 1720 ; Joseph, November 4th, 1722; 
 Abigail, February 16th, 1725 ; Mary, March 5th, 1726. 
 Abigail, mother of this family, died May 5th, 1727, 
 when Samuel was but little more than ten years old. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 SAMUEL, the eldest child, married at Haverhill 
 sometime about 1740. Of this, however, Ave have 
 no reliable means of knowing further than that he 
 married ; neither have we been able to ascertain, after 
 a great deal of inquiry and research, to whom he mar- 
 ried. It is also generally accredited, that Capt. Watts 
 had no children by his first wife. His second wife was 
 Elsie Bean. His second marriage occurred at Haver- 
 hill, where the most, if not all of his children were 
 born. Of his second marriage we have no reliable 
 record as to date, but circumstances unite to prove con- 
 clusively that it took place in 1755 or 1756. We have 
 nothing at hand which will admit of speaking of Miss 
 Bean's family. No family record has been preserved, 
 if indeed one was kept, and nothing definite or in any 
 measure reliable can be traced down through so many 
 generations, especially where only the ordinary tran- 
 sactions of life are passed from one to another, unaided 
 save by memory. Enough to know that Miss Bean 
 was of respectable descent and was worthy of being 
 the wife of so good a man as Capt. Watts. Of Capt. 
 
LrP'E OP HAKICAH WESTON 19 
 
 AVatts' brothers and sisters, none ever came to Maine. 
 It is not known where they lived and died. Some of 
 the family of Mrs. Weston have a vague idea that they 
 went to England in company with their father, during 
 the French and Indian war. If so, in all probability 
 they remamed there, and Mrs. Weston's father was the 
 only one that continued to live in this country. This 
 seems probable, as no trace of the family, or the name, 
 has been known m Haverhill for the last seventy-five 
 years, as we elsewhere stated, on the authority of the 
 written liistory of that town. Another not very im- 
 probable conjecture is, that they emigrated to Caro- 
 lina or some of the Central or Western states, then 
 comparatively new and rapidly filling up with adven- 
 turers from Old as well as New England. Or, a part 
 of the family with the father, might have gone to Eng- 
 land, while the others not caring to live where sur- 
 roundings constantly reminded them of distant friends, 
 emigrated ; Samuel, only, coming East, and thus sep- 
 arated by distances, wars and misfortunes, all com- 
 munication and knowledge of one another were pre- 
 cluded. 
 
 Sometime about 1760 to 1762 Capt. Watts removed 
 from Haverhill to Falmouth, now Portsmouth, or Cape 
 Elizabeth, Maine. He resided there but a few years, 
 as in 1769 in company Avith a large numloer of families, 
 he again moved farther East, and settled on Chandler's 
 Kiver, now Jonesboro. Oi:dy two or three families 
 lived there at the time. A man by the name of Chan- 
 dler, the pioneer of the town, having located there 
 5ome half dozen years previous, and built a sav/ mill 
 
20 LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 and cleared away the woods to a limited extent. Capt 
 Watts built him a log house on what has ever since 
 been known as the Watts' lands, and like others set- 
 tlers of a new country devoted himself to clearing his 
 fields and farming in the simimer, and in the winter 
 to lumbering. The hardships attending the support 
 of a family were very severe, yet his great persever- 
 ance enabled him to realize a comfortable living. 
 
 We have already alluded to the settlement of Jones- 
 boro, and as this town ^^as the residing, as it is the 
 resting place, of the subject of our story, we shall be 
 pardoned if v/e give a few interesting items concerning 
 its earlier times. 
 
 Mr. Judah Chandler was the pioneer of the place 
 beyond a doubt. No evidence exists, that we are 
 aware of, to show that he was not the first white man 
 who attempted a settlement there, while on the con- 
 trary, enough is known to prove very satisfactorily, 
 that he built the first house in town. One or two 
 gentlemen by the name of Bucknam accompanied Mr. 
 Chandler, and aided him in building a saw mill. It is 
 not known how long the Messrs. Bucknam lived in 
 town, if indeed, they resided there at all. Mr. Chandler's 
 house was built of rough logs, and stood on the side of 
 the hill, between the house of Joshua Whitney and the 
 present mills. 
 
 Mr. Chandler built his house and mill sometime 
 about 1764. We have been particular in giving the 
 spot where the first house was built, as it may be use- 
 ful for future reference. The first saw mill was erect- 
 ed on tiie dam where the mills on the main river now 
 
LIFE OF HANJfAH WESTON 21 
 
 stand. The river in the vicinity of the mills, and par- 
 ticularly just below the dam, was much narrower than 
 it is now. We have heard the old people speak of a 
 "cornfield"" below the dam on the south side, that was 
 tilled for many years, where for a considerable period 
 back the tide has flown to a height of several feet. 
 
 Chandler's mill stood on the north side of the river. 
 This was the only mill in the place for some years. 
 Subsequently Captain Ephraim Whitney, a very active 
 business man, and who, at this writing. May 12, 1857, 
 is living at an advanced age, rebuilt Chandler's mill ; 
 also built another on a site in the central part of the 
 river, known as the "Kennebec" mill. The master 
 builder was a Kennebec man, hence the name of the 
 **01d Kennebec" which is a familiar phrase among the 
 the millmen in Jonesboro, to this day. — At a later 
 period the mill built by Captain Whitney, on the site 
 of the Chandler mill, was torn down, and the present 
 substantial mill put up in its place, by Porter Whitney, 
 youngest son of Captain Whitney. Besides the saw 
 mills, at various i>eriods a full quota of lath mills were 
 erected — also a grist mill, being the same standing 
 there now, and the only one ever built in the town. 
 In addition to the mills on the main river, there were 
 the "tide mills," on the east side of the river, some 
 three miles below ; a mill at Englishman's River and 
 one on "Beaver Brook," in the Farnsworth district. 
 
 Capt. Watts built his house sometime about 1769, 
 very near the spot where Reuben Whitney's house now 
 stands. His land comprised the lots now occupied by 
 Erancis Schoppe, the Simpson lieirs, Thomas Flahartj 
 
22 LIFE OF HANXAH WESTON 
 
 and heirs of O.. F. Whitney, Avside from the active 
 part he took relative to the invasion of Machias in 1775- 
 6-7, Captain Watts was not publicly known. Already 
 passed three score years and a half, he felt the infirm- 
 ities of ag-e., and enjoyed himself best at home in the 
 peaceable, unanibitioiis pursuits of life. — The exact 
 time of his death is not known, though there can be 
 but little doubt, that it occurred sometime in the year 
 
 1788, making his age abirnt seventy- two years, Ko 
 stone, or slab has been put up to mark the spot where 
 he liCvS. His grave is but few steps distant from where 
 his house was, being- in the Schoppe field, at the South 
 east of the house occupied by Francis Schoppe, She, 
 wlio was his companion through life, slumbers by his 
 sidCc Her death took place some years subsequent to 
 his. Other graves are there, part of which are known, 
 and possibly some one living may know their precise 
 resing place. Seventy-nine years have passed away 
 since his death, aud with that lapse of time, all of those 
 more directly connected with and interested in him. 
 
 Sometime about 1767 Joel Whitney moved to 
 "Chandler's River" this being the name of the place till 
 
 1789, when it was granted to John C. Jones, by Massa- 
 chusetts. Mr. Whitney came from Falmouth. Pre- 
 viously he mari'ied JMary AVeston, a sister of Josiah 
 Weston. He built a log house at the end of the mill 
 dam on the South side of the river, and near the "corn- 
 field" before alluded to. Hannah Whitney, daughter 
 of Joel, was the first female of English parentage, and 
 the first child, born in town. Captain Eplnaim Whit- 
 ney, brother of Hannah, some tAvo years younger, was 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 23 
 
 the first white male child l)orii in the town. These 
 two children were born in the house above mentioned, 
 which in Captain Whitney's words was very smal^ 
 "Being all in one room, with thi'ee small windows ; a 
 chimney in one end, and the door in one corner." 
 
 Joel Whitney was a prominent man in his time 
 His judgment was much relied on in business matters 
 and he acted as sort of counsellor in matters requiring 
 adjudication. He died quite young, however, much 
 lamented, leaving his estate, consisting, of lands, mill^ 
 <fec., to the care of his son Epliraim, who had not yet 
 attained his majority.. The latter proved himself an 
 enterprising young man. He possessed good natural 
 business abilities, which soon enabled him to add large- 
 ly to the proj)erty left by his father, and gave him good 
 ^standing at home and abroad. Subsequently, he pur- 
 chased the house, on "Jackson Hill,'' built, we believe, 
 by a Mr. Bucknam, which he enlarged and inaproved, 
 and ever afterwards occupied.— He married Sarah 
 Noyes, a good, kind heai'ted woman, by whom he had 
 a large family of children. Both are now living, at an 
 advanced age, though the long term of nearly seventy 
 years has passed away since their fortunes were united 
 at the hymenial altar. Ten of their children are yet 
 living. One died when quite young and two, after 
 having attained the meridian of life. 
 
 Captain Whitney was a meml:)er of the State Legis. 
 lature of Massachusetts, two years in succession. He 
 was a member of the Convention which formed the 
 Constitution of Maine in 1820 ; also, a member of the 
 first Legislature of Maine after it was admitted in to 
 
34 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 the Union as an independent State, and at a later per- 
 iod, represented his district in the State Legislature, at 
 Augusta. In these positions he discharged his duties 
 faithfully and to the acceptance of his constituency. 
 He made many valuable acquaintances among New 
 England men, the remembrance of which he cherished 
 with pleasure. Representing a new part of the State, 
 and being familiar with the needs of the people, his 
 advice was generally listeneded to with attention. 
 Being a practical man himself, he suggested no step, 
 which he did not deem of practical utility to the in- 
 habitants, whose representative he was. 
 
 During his early years he was repeatedly chosen 
 Assessor, Selectman, Treasurer, and Agent of the town. 
 Was Captain of a company of Militia, in those days, 
 when military positions were more highly honored and 
 esteemed, and justly too, than they are now. 
 
 We have thus alluded to Captain Whitney, as his 
 whole life was so closely connected Avith the town, as 
 one of its most efficient men, that it seemed proper to 
 do so. He was born November 7, 1770. 
 
 Chandler's river was one of the best timbered in the 
 State of Maine, in proportion to its size. A heavy 
 growth of old pine lined its banks on either side for 
 miles back. When first settled it was soon discovered 
 that near its source, the beavers, an animal common to 
 this section of the country in its early settlement, had 
 thrown high dams across the main river and of its two 
 principal branches, causing the water to flow over an 
 immense tract of flat country, thereby converting it 
 into meadow, or grass-producing land. This drew the 
 
LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 25 
 
 settlers thither to procure supplies of hay for their 
 cattle. Especially in winter, this proved a valuable 
 privilege, as their lumber operations were much facili- 
 tated by it A natural consequence was, that attempts 
 were made to clear these meadows by fire, which, while 
 it had the desired effect, vast breadths of excellent 
 timber were prostrated, really of more value to Maine 
 than California gold mines. Timber was then abund- 
 ant, hence the loss was not felt, though in later years 
 it has proved otherwise. In another view these 
 meadows have proved disadvantageous to the people. 
 Rolying on them for their necessary supply of hay, 
 they were wont to neglect their farms ; and even now, 
 this symptom is quite visible. A few have made pe- 
 cuniary gains by becoming owners of the meadows, 
 and demanding high rents of those, whose needs forced 
 them to become "Rights men." For years and years 
 back, these meadows have been staked off into lots or 
 rights, and appear to be regarded as a sort of hereditary 
 property. 
 
 The first scliool in tiie town was taught by a Miss 
 Cook, who claimed to be a near relative of the cele- 
 brated navigator, of that name. The school was kept 
 in a house a little to the northward of the house now 
 occupied by Joshua Whitney. It was built and owned 
 by a Mr. Thompson. 
 
 The first school house built in the town stood near 
 where Capt. E. Richardson's house now stands. For a 
 long time this was the only school house, and schools 
 not kept here, were kept in private houses. A whole 
 generation received their first education in that old 
 
26 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 school house. — Men of forty to fifty years, now living 
 will remember it distinctly well. Among others, we 
 think of Colonel Daniel Merritt, a man and politician 
 of considerable note, now a resident of Jay, Maine. 
 Abraham N. Noyes, Esq., merchant^ Belfast, Maine • 
 Nathaniel C. Farnsworth, Preceptor of an Academy, 
 at or near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, who received their 
 A, B, C lossons there. 
 
 Rev. James Lyon, of Machias, was the minister, who 
 preached the first sermon, and held the first religious 
 meeting in the place. This occurred at Captain Whit- 
 ney's house, and must have been prior to 1790, though 
 the exact time is not now known. The first meeting 
 house was built in 1841, and immediately following 
 the great religious revival of the previous year, under 
 the preaching of Rev. Mr. Carruthers, a Scotchman, 
 well known in that and all the adjoining towns. 
 
 The first Post Master in the town was William Tup- 
 per, father of the late Ansel Tupper. He received his 
 appointment when Benjamin Franklin was Post Master 
 General. He kept his office in his house, which stood 
 on the hill, very near where the meeting house now 
 stands. Ansel Tupper succeeded his father in that 
 office, which has subsequently been filled by Ephraim 
 Whitney, Francis Schoppe, Z. M. Hall, George W. 
 Taylor and F. B. Farnsworth. 
 
 For sometime after the senior Tupper was made 
 Post Master, the mail was carried on foot, by a Mr. 
 Moon, once a fortnight, from Sullivan's Ferry, via. 
 Gouldsboro, Narraguagus, Pleasant River and Machias, 
 to Passamaquoddy. It was not burdensome as the 
 
LIFE OF HANXAH WESTON 27 
 
 earlier sometimes enclosed it in his pocket-handker- 
 chief 1 Subsequently it was carried on horseback, then 
 in a single horse wagon, and finally, as roads were 
 opened and bridges thrown aeross the streams, in 
 coaches drawn by two or four horses. 
 
 Prior to 1809 newspapers were not easily obtained. 
 For some time the only one taken in town was by 
 Capt. Whitney, the "Columbian Centinel," printed at 
 Boston, Afterwards Capt. Hall and Mr, Weston took 
 one together. 
 
 The first siiil vessel whicli appeared in the river, 
 was a sloop, about the year 1785. A Mr. Locke visited 
 the place for the purpose of trade. He kept his goods 
 in his vessel, which he exchanged for lumber. When 
 the owners chose to send their lumber to Boston, Capt. 
 Locke would freight it for a share of one-fourth. 
 
 The first store built in town, was owned by a Mr, 
 Parsons. He built a small wharf near "Tupper's 
 Rocks" so called, and just above the wharf he erected 
 ^1 store. He traded there for some years with profit to 
 himself and advantage to tlie people. Vessels receiv- 
 and discharged their freights at Parjson's wharf. 
 
 Among the first mechanics who lived in the town 
 was a Mr. Webb. He kept his shop in a room of his 
 house, where he performed the duties of a blacksmith 
 very skillfully and with greiit convenience to his 
 neighbors. His house was near the "apple tree" on 
 Jackson Hill. Michael Whitney was another black- 
 smith who succeeded Mr. Webl). For many years the 
 only shoemaker in the place was a Mr. AVhitney. He 
 was considered a faithful workman as the soles of the 
 people often testified. 
 
28 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Jonesborough, as before stated, was granted by the 
 state, to John C. Jones and otliers, January 1st, 1789. 
 It then included the districts of "Buck's Harbor" and 
 "Little Kennebec," the former now belonging to Ma- 
 chiasport and the latter to Machias — Also, the whole, 
 of what now constitutes the town of Jonesport. It con- 
 tained 48,160 acres. It was incorporated, the 4th of 
 March, 1809, being the 176th town. By a general law 
 of Massachusetts each incorporated toAvn was entitled 
 to a Representative in the General Court, (Legislature) 
 at Boston. The next year, Cajjt. Whitney was elected 
 Representative. 
 
 It is sometimes said by the old people, that Massa- 
 chusetts granted Jones the towns of Jonesboro and 
 Cutler, as a renumeration for a sloop, owned by Jones, 
 which with other vessels, w^as sent in an expedition 
 against Castine, but was lost. Estimating the sloop at 
 a very high value, the land could have cost no more 
 than three cents an acre ! We do not vouch for the 
 fact, though it was generally accredited in those days. 
 
 The first "framed" house built in the town was the 
 one before alluded to, built by Mr. Bucknam, and subi 
 sequently purchased by Capt. Whitney. — The cost of 
 building such a house was very great. For instance 
 the nails used for boarding the walls cost seventy-five 
 cents per pound ; common door latches cost seventy- 
 five cents ; the same article can be had now for ten 
 cents. No lime could be had for plastering the rooms, 
 consequently boards were used for ceiling on the walls 
 and overhead. Of course no unnecessary expense was 
 made, while the strictest economy was practiced. Ne- 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 29 
 
 cessity is the mother of mvention — as the early settlers 
 practically shew. 
 
 At some periods during the Revolutionary war, the 
 scarcity of provision was very great. For weeks to- 
 gether not a kernel of corn or an ounce of flour could 
 be obtained. The clam beds kept the people alive ; 
 while they tilled the soil, cut their hay and gathered 
 their farm produce with nothing to live on except po- 
 tatoes, fish and deer meat, which served to give addi- 
 tional relish to tlieir clam soup, and make a change of 
 diet. At one time a barrel of flour was obtained for 
 which the proprietor paid eighteen dollars. At anoth- 
 er time a few bushels of corn were brought in by a 
 trader, which he exchanged for lumber, giving two 
 bushels for a thousand feet. This had to be carried by 
 water, to Machias, to get it ground into meal. The 
 plain loaves of bread, which that corn was converted 
 into, were consumed by a people more thankful than 
 any we in our day have ever witnessed. 
 
 The first town meeting, warned by Ephraim Whit- 
 ney, by virtue of a warrant from Stephen Jones, Jus- 
 tice of the Peace, was held on the 27th day of March 
 1809. At this meeting the people made unanhnous 
 choice of the following officers : 
 
80 LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Ephraim Whitney, Moderator^ 
 
 Adin Ayers, Town Clerk, 
 
 Adin AyeRvS, 
 
 Ephraim Whitney^ 
 
 Ansel Tupper, f- Selectmen. 
 
 John Sawyer, Jr., 
 
 Paul Thompson, Senr.,^ 
 
 JosiAH NoYEs, Constable. 
 
 Adin Ayers, ^ 
 
 Ephrajm Whitney, > Assessors. 
 An8el Tupper^ ) 
 
 Ephraim Whitney, Treasurer. 
 
 One incident, showing tlie difficulties of pioneer life, 
 we will here relate. As befoie stated, after the death 
 of Joel Whitney, his sons Ephraim and Reuben succeed- 
 ed him in his busmess, the former being principal. 
 One day while sawing in the mill, they had the mis- 
 fortune to break the crank. Lumber was bringing a 
 fair price, and having a contract to fill, tlie accident 
 was one of considerable seriousness, to say iiothmg of 
 the incidential loss. No Blacksmith was then in town, 
 and the crank was heavy, weighing just about two 
 hundred ]30unds. After a few moments reflection, it 
 was agreed to have it taken out, and that Reuben the 
 younger brotlier, should take it to Columbia on horse- 
 back to be repaired. There was nothing but a foot- 
 path, and poor at that, and no bridge across Indian 
 River. In due time the horse was made ready, the 
 crank put on his back and secured in the best possible 
 manner with straps and lines, and by a halter was led 
 by his attendant on his journey. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 31 
 
 No difficulty was experienced until coming to the 
 river before mentioned. Here the water was running 
 with considerable force and deep enough to cover the 
 horse's back. If an attempt to ford was made and the 
 crank was lost off, a long time must ensue before it 
 could be recovered, and the milling at Jonesboro would 
 be entirely suspended. The only thing practicable, 
 that could be done in any safety, was to remove the 
 crank from the horse's back and carry it across the 
 river on his (Reuben's) shoulders. This was a task, as 
 only a single pole spanned the river, but it teas per- 
 formed successfuUy. The horse was then got over, the 
 crank reloaded, and carried safely to Columbia ; and 
 uext day returned, the river crossing being effected in 
 precisely the same way as on the previous day ! Not 
 more than one man in a thousand could have done so 
 much. It showed the perseverance and energy of men 
 in times of trial and hardship. 
 
 The travelled path for many years, from Jonesboro 
 to Machias, led from the mill in the former place over 
 c'Machias hill," thence by a circuitous route to the lat- 
 ter town. No carriage of any kind, except a single 
 sleigh, the horse being driven by General Cobb, of 
 Oouldsboro, ever passed through on this route, and 
 that only once. The path was for the accommodation 
 of foot people and on horseback. Subsequently a road 
 was cut through near where the old county road now 
 is, and from time to time the people of the two places 
 built it to the dividing line, so that teams and car- 
 riages could travel over it very conveniently. Prior to 
 tliis a large amount of travel, and all the transporta- 
 
82 UFB OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 tion was effected by means of boats. — Two days were 
 required to perform the journey by water. In stormy 
 weather it was dangerous, and often excited the deep™ 
 est solicitude, 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 MACHIAS and Jonesboro were settled at about the 
 same time. We have hastily passed through 
 with a few points touching the early history of the lat- 
 ter, and as the two were very generally interested in 
 each other in earlier times, it is well, in this place, to 
 give a passing notice to the former. 
 
 Machias was incorporated June 22, 1784, being in 
 order the 7 2d town, and the first municipal corpora- 
 tion established between the St. Croix and Penobscot 
 rivers. This place was first visited by men from Scar- 
 boro, for the purpose of cutting hay on its extensive 
 marshes, in 1761-2. They examined the Falls, selected 
 mill sites, and made calculation for removal as soon as 
 they could effect a change in affairs at home. 
 
 In May 1763 they formed an association including 
 sixteen persons and moved their effects to Machias, 
 called "Mechisses" by the Indians. Their names were 
 S. and S. Scott ; T. D. and G. Libby ; D. Fogg ; J. and 
 W. B. Larrabee ; J. and S. Stone ; J. Foster ; Josiah 
 and D. Hill. Most of these settled at "West Falls." 
 The Messrs. Foster, Munson, Sevey and Scott settled 
 at "East Falls." In 1765 Morris O'Brien and his sons 
 settled at the former place, and built a double saw 
 mill on the South side of the Falls. The year previous 
 the "Associates" had erected a mill, laid out a seven 
 acre lot, one for each person, and built eleven log 
 
34 LIPE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 houses, in which they hved. A Mrs. Larrabee. wife 
 of one of the company, was tlie first English, or Amer- 
 can woman who had lived in the town. Accessions 
 were made each year to the settlement. In 1765 a 
 mill was built on East River, a few rods above the 
 tide, by Benjamin Foster, assisted by a Mr. Jones. 
 Before 1770 several mills were erected on both East 
 and West rivers, and one on Middle river. — This year 
 the inhabitants applied, in June, to the General Court, 
 in a petition bearing eighty names, for a grant of the 
 township. The Assembly acceded to the wish, and 
 confirmed it to the settlers, with the usual reservation 
 of lots for public uses. A proviso was inserted in the 
 confirmation, that the King's assent should be obtained 
 before three years, but before this was accomplished 
 the Revolutionary war commenced, and with its suc- 
 cess all royal claims were extinguished. 
 
 The first minister who resided at Machias, was Rev. 
 James Lyon. He Avas a native of Princeton, New 
 Jersey, was there educated, and first settled at Nova 
 Scotia. He came to Machias in 1771, organized a 
 church in 1781, made himself a very useful man among 
 the people, and died in October, 1794, much lamented. 
 He was very active during the two or three first years 
 of the war of the Revolution, as we may have occasion 
 elsewhere to show. 
 
 In 1784 the settlers built a church, the first put up 
 in the town. It stood near the lot now occupied by 
 the Libby Hall building. Nearly opposite this, and 
 near where the Smith house now is : the fort was built 
 in 1776. In the neighborhood of this fort, the famous 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 36 
 
 "Liberty Pole" was raised by the heroic O'Briens and 
 other people of Machias, just previous to the capture 
 of the "Margranetto," in June, 1775. 
 
 Wiliamson, in his history of Maine, says — "Mech- 
 isses," now Machias, "seemed to have attracted much 
 attention, ever since its situation first fell under the 
 eye of visitants, whether English or French. In 1693, 
 the Plymouth Colonists established a trading house 
 there ; the French attempted to settle it in 1644, and 
 in 1763 men from Scarborough, formed a permanent 
 plantation." 
 
 As before stated, the General Court granted these 
 settlers the township on the usual terms. — A little 
 prior to this, or about the same time, the Earl of Cath- 
 erlougli, Lord Viscount Falmouth, and a Mr. Vassal, 
 proposed, if assisted and supported by the General 
 Court of Massachusetts, to settle the lands twelve 
 miles in width on each side of Machias river, "back 
 fiftj^ miles from its moutli, with six hundred families, 
 containing at least 3000 souls. This was checked by 
 the grant to the Scarborough men before mentioned." 
 
 The people of Machias were brave and patriotic. 
 For their bold stand against the usurpation of their 
 rights and invasion of their privileges by their British 
 neighbors. The affair of 1775 gave them much credit, 
 on account of which, we copy from Williamson's 
 histor}^ : 
 
 "The place, though it had been settled only twelve 
 years, now contained about eighty families and one 
 hundred single men. Capt. Ichabod Jones of Boston, 
 whose Avife and daughter were with their kindred at 
 
86 LITE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Machias, obtained leave of Admiral Graves to freight 
 his vessel with provisions, and carry them to the set- 
 tlement ; upon condition of returning with a cargo of 
 wood and lumber for the British troops. Jones was 
 accompanied thither by the Margranetto, an English 
 schooner, armed with four or five four pounders in the 
 hold, several swivels mounted, and a sufficient number 
 of hand granades ; being commanded by midshipman 
 Moore, a relation of the Admiral. On their arrival in 
 the West branch, Jones had a meeting of the settlers 
 called, early in June, who took a view of their desti- 
 tute and remote situation, and passed votes permitting 
 his vessel to load. But Benjamin Foster and a party 
 from East River, conceived the bold design of making 
 the British officers their prisoners, while attending 
 public worship on the Sabbath ; and likewise the Mar- 
 granetto their prize, while lying below the point form- 
 ed by the confluence of West and Middle rivers. As 
 he, or some of his party, however, were passing over 
 armed to the Northerly side of West river ; the offi- 
 cers (who were in the meeting) discovered them, and 
 barely avoided seizure, by going instantly on board. — 
 As Foster was thus disappointed in his first object and 
 plan, he sent for O'Brien and his sons, with whom he 
 held a consultation in the woods, two miles below 
 O'Brien's house ; when it was concluded to make an 
 attack upon Moor's schooner in East River, and O'Brien 
 and his party took Jones' largest sloop in the West 
 River, and having prepared for action, both proceeded 
 down the rivers, on Monday, some armed Avith 
 muskets and some with pitchforks, and manoeuvered to 
 
LIFE OF IIANXAII WKSTOX 37 
 
 lay their vessels along side of the enemy and board 
 her. To prevent it several hand granades weva thrown 
 at O'Brien, Foster and their companions, also several 
 swivels and muskets were discharged at them, by 
 which two of O'Brien's men, McNeil and Colbeth were 
 killed, and two or three others were badly wounded. 
 But the British schooner received a deadly lire in i-e- 
 turn ; and Moore, who made a brave defence, presently 
 fell of a mortal wound. At the same time, one Avery, 
 master of a Connecticut coaster then in the harlx)r 
 happening to be on board was killed ; and several of 
 Moore's men were either slain or received fatal wounds. 
 The bloody skirmish so terrified the second officer in 
 command, a youn^ midshipman, that he fled panic- 
 struck to the cabin. She was then boarded and soon 
 brought up to the foot of the West Falls in triumph. 
 Moore, who was kindly carried ashore^ died the next 
 day." 
 
 A brother of Mrs. Weston, Samuel Watts, a lad of 
 eighteen years, always claimed to have fired the fatal 
 shot by which Capt. Moore fell.^ — Circumstances indi- 
 cate the truthfulness of his claim. Capt. Moore was 
 the first naval officer who fell in the Revolution. It is 
 not known whether he was buried in Machias or not^ 
 though it is quite probable that he was. Mr. Watts, 
 by whose unerring aim he fell, was pensioned by gov- 
 ernment for his services in this engagement, and sub- 
 sequent service in aiding the people of Machias to re- 
 pulse the British at various times. 
 
 His grave may be found in a private burying ground 
 on the Hall farm, in Jonesboro. His memory deserves 
 
3S LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 a monument with a suitable inscription so that future 
 generations can find tho resting place of the citizen 
 soldier^ who killed the first Biitish, na\^l officer^ at the 
 commencement of tlie American Revolution. The 
 marks, and little mound, incident to tlie common grave 
 are not enoughs 
 
 It was to assist in the captui-e oi' the Margranetto^ 
 that MrSv Weston and her sister4n4aw, brought pow- 
 der through the wilderness fix^ni Jonesborou^h, an ac- 
 count of which \VQ shall give eLsewherCv Her husband 
 assisted in the capture of the vessel, and some of her 
 familx^ think that her fath«^.r was among the victors. 
 We are inclined to think otherwise, a-s he was about 
 seventy j^eai-s of age. His spirit and patriotism would 
 have urged him forward, but physical infirmities pre- 
 vented. 
 
 The determined spirit of resistance manifested by 
 the people of Machias, caused tiie British Admiralty 
 no little anxiety. In August 1777, four armed vessels 
 were sent against the town.— "They came to an anchor 
 at the foot of the Narrows, a mile or more below the 
 junction of East and West Machias Rivers. They first 
 burned a tide mill and took a coasting sloop, and the 
 next day proceeded with her and their brig up the 
 West River. It being foggy they landed at the "In- 
 dian Brim," two and half miles below West village. 
 Here they burned two houses, two barns and a build- 
 ing used for a guard house— all near the battery. The 
 barges then towed the brig and the sloop to the mouth 
 of Middle River (near where the ship yards on the 
 point are) in a dead calm, and anchored them half a 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 39 
 
 mile below the foot of West Falls, when it was high 
 water and near sunset. Being briskly attacked by 
 Major Stillman and his party on the Western side, and 
 on the other by Joseph Neptune, Chief of the Passa- 
 maquoddy tribe, the men were driven from their 
 barges on l)oai'd of the brig, and before she could be 
 worked down to Indian Brim, she run ashore, and the 
 men to save their lives went below deck. When she 
 floated, she received so brisk a fire from the Korth 
 shore, that her crew could not manage her and she 
 grounded again ; yet with a fair breeze, she at last ef . 
 fecied a retreat to the other vessels at anchor. Every 
 man in the place able to bear arms was upon the 
 shores ; in addition there were present between forty 
 and fifty Indian fighters, who raised and kept up a 
 hideous yell, which being echoed by the whites in sim- 
 ilar Indian tone, so reverberated through the forests 
 as to induce the supposition that they wei'e full of wild 
 savages. Discouraged by these appearances, and by 
 the vigor and spirit with which they were resisted, the 
 British squadron in a day or two left the place." They 
 afterwards (the British officers) caused extravagant ac- 
 counts of their expedition to be published ; stating, 
 that two magazines full of hides, rice and other stores 
 had been destroj^ed. These must have been a grist 
 mill and one of the houses burned, which was occu- 
 pied by a shoemaker, wliere they saw some tanned 
 hides I 
 
 Nothing saved Machias and all the settlements to the 
 Eastward of the Penobscot, but the friendliness of the 
 Indians. Had they been induced to joined the British 
 
40 LIFE OF UANNAH WESTOlJf 
 
 and aided in the plunder of the feeble towns, the whole 
 population must have been destroyed. It is to their 
 credit and ought not be forgotten by our people, that 
 they rigidly adhered to the American cause. Their 
 descendants among us are few and feeble, but they are 
 the lingering representatives of a tribe, who made 
 the cause of our fathers, their cause and whose claim 
 to the sympathies of the people of Eastern Maine 
 ought never die. 
 
 On account of this attack on Machias, several com- 
 panies of militia from Cumberland County, were or- 
 dered out, and all of them tarried until late in the fall. 
 No serious attempt was made on the town after- 
 wards. During the Revolution the settlers labored 
 under great embarrassment. Money and provisions 
 were scarce, and business pursued under very serious 
 disadvantages. 
 
LIFE OF HAN^^AH WKSTON 17 
 
 The precise date of Samuel Watts and Abigail Dus- 
 tan's marriage, we have not been able to learn, though 
 it is probable that it occurred in 1715. — The children 
 of this marriage were Samuel (Mrs. Weston's father) 
 born August 29th, 1716; Hannah, July 23d, 1718; 
 Thomas, May 17th, 1720; Joseph, November 4th, 1722; 
 Abigail, February 16th, 1725 ; Mary, March 5th, 1726. 
 Abigail, mother of this family, died May 5th, 1727, 
 when Samuel was but little more than ten years old. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 SAMUEL, the eldest child, married at Haverhill 
 sometime about 1740. Of this, however, we have 
 no reliable means of knowing further than that he 
 married ; neither have we been able to ascertain, after 
 a great deal of inquiry and research, to whom he mar- 
 ried. It is also generally accredited, that Capt. Watts 
 had no children by his fii^st wife. His second wife was 
 Elsie Bean. His second marriage occurred at Haver- 
 hill, where the most, if not all of his children were 
 born. Of his second marriage we have no reliable 
 record as to date, but circumstances unite to prove con- 
 clusively that it took place in 1756 or 1756. We have 
 nothing at hand which will admit of speaking of Miss 
 Bean's family. Xo family record has been preserved, 
 if indeed one was kept, and nothing definite or in any 
 measure reliable can be traced down through so. many 
 generations, especially where only the ordinary tran- 
 sactions of life are passed from one to another, unaided 
 save by memory. Enough to know that Miss Bean 
 was of respectable descent and was worthy of being 
 the wife of so good a man as Capt. Watts. Of Capt. 
 
LIFE OP nA:NlfAH WESTON 19 
 
 Watts* brothers and sisters, none ever came to Maine. 
 It is not known where they lived and died. Some of 
 the family of Mrs. Weston have a vague idea that they 
 went to England in company with their father, during 
 the French and Indian war. If so, in all probability 
 they remained there, and Mrs. Weston's father was the 
 only one that continued to live in tliis country. This 
 seems probable, as no trace of the family, or the name, 
 has been known in Haverhill for the last seventy-five 
 years, as we elsewhere stated, on the authority of the 
 written history of that town. Another not very im- 
 probable conjecture is, that they emigrated to Caro- 
 lina or some of the Central or Western states, then 
 comparatively new and rapidly filhng up with adven- 
 turers from Old as well as New England. Or, a part 
 of the family with the father, might have gone to Eng- 
 land, while tlie others not caring to live where sur- 
 roundings constantly reminded them of distant friends, 
 emigrated ; Samuel, only, coming East, and thus sep- 
 arated by distances, wars and misfortunes, all com- 
 munication and knowledge of one another were pre- 
 cluded. 
 
 Sometime about 1760 to 1762 Capt. Watts removed 
 from Haverhill to Falmouth, now Portsmoutli, or Cape 
 Elizabeth, Maine. He resided there but a few years, 
 as in 1769 in company mth a large number of families, 
 he again moved farther East, and settled on Chandler's 
 River, now Jonesboro. Only two or three families 
 lived there at the time. A man by the name of Chan- 
 dler, the pioneer of the town, having located there 
 some half dozen years previous, and built a saw mill 
 
20 OFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 and cleared away the woods to a limited extent. Capt 
 Watts built him a log house on what has ever since 
 been known as the Watts' lands, and like others set- 
 tlers of a new country devoted himself to clearing his 
 fields and farming in the summer, and in the winter 
 to lumbering. The hardships attending tlie support 
 of a family were very severe, yet his great persever- 
 ance enabled him to realize a comfortable living. 
 
 We have already alluded to the settlement of Jones- 
 boro, and as this town was the residing, as it is the 
 resting place, of the subject of our story, we shall be 
 pardoned if we give a few interesting it;ems concerning 
 its earlier times, 
 
 Mr. Judah Chandler was the pioneer of the place 
 beyond a doubt. No evidence exists, that we are 
 aware of, to show that he was not the first white man 
 who attempted a settlement there, while on the con- 
 trary, enough is known to prove very satisfactorily, 
 that he built the first house in town. One or two 
 gentlemen by the name of Bucknam accompanied Mr. 
 Chandler, and aided him in building a saw mill. It is 
 not known how long the Messrs. Bucknam lived in 
 town, if indeed, they resided there at all. Mr. Chandler's 
 house was built of rough logs, and stood on the side of 
 the hill, between tlie house of Joshua Whitney and the 
 present mills. 
 
 Mr. Chandler built his house and mill sometime 
 about 1764. We have been particular in giving the 
 spot where the first house was built, as it may be use- 
 ful for future reference. The first saw mill was erect- 
 ed on the dam where the mills on the main river now 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 45 
 
 In September of that year a Convention of the peo- 
 ple of the District of Maine was held at Portland to 
 consider the expediency of separating from Massachu- 
 setts, and petitioning for admission into the Union as 
 an independent state. The people of Machias were 
 prompt in their action on this question ; as in Novem- 
 ber following, after "mature deliberation," they re- 
 solved, that "It is not expedient to urge a separation 
 from the Mother State." A Committee was also raised 
 to prepare an address to the Portland Convention, set- 
 ting forth the reasons for non-compliance with the 
 wishes of the delegates thereof. 
 
 In the early part of the year 1786, by an act of the 
 General Court, all the Eastern settlements, in the Pro- 
 vince of Maine, were taxed. Machias' assessment was 
 iJ302. The following year the town chose a Commit- 
 tee, who drew up a long petition or prayer, asking the 
 Court, after setting forth the losses and disadvantages 
 under which the town labored, to grant relief by re- 
 mitting the state tax. Subsequently, in consideration 
 of their good services during the war, the General 
 Court abated a portion of the tax. In July, 1788, a 
 vote was passed in town meeting authorizing the Col- 
 lector of Taxes to receive "good merchantable boards, 
 at the rate of 18s per thousand, for cash tax." A year 
 or two later, the Collector was authorized to receive 
 the same kind of lumber for taxes, at the rate of 30s 
 per thousand. 
 
 The people of Machias were firmly attached to the 
 State and Federal Constitutions. Having occasion to 
 instruct James Avery, Esq., the Town Representative 
 
46 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 in 1790, they say — "We would recommend to you, that 
 in all questions that should arise, wherein either the 
 Federal or State government may be effected, that you 
 never give your voice or vote, in favour of any motion, 
 that shall have a tendency to impair the Constitution 
 of either. You are sensible that the Inhabitants of 
 this town were well pleased with the Constitution of 
 the Federal Government in its present form. You are 
 to use your best endeavors to support public credit, 
 and never to give your vote to defraud any person of 
 his honest due." 
 
 Among other embarrassments set forth in the pray- 
 er is, that a large debt accumulated against the town, 
 in favor of tlie minister. Rev. James Lyon, during the 
 war, amounting in all to some £900. The whole in- 
 debtedness of the town at this period was upwards of 
 £2000. On page 73 of town records made in 1788 it 
 is stated, that the previous year two double saw mills 
 and one grist mill, with a large quantity of boards 
 near them, were destroyed by fire. In the spring of 
 1789 "A high freshet carried away the boom across 
 the river, by which 3000 logs went over the dam." 
 Total loss of mills and logs estimated at £600. In 
 town meeting 21st of June, 1790, a vote was passed 
 giving permission to the C'ourt of Common Pleas to 
 hold its sessions in either of the Meeting houses built 
 by the town. 
 
 Grand Jurors were then elected by ballot. — The in-^ 
 habitants in a legal meeting for the purpose, elected 
 Ben J.Foster; Geo. Stillman; Joseph Sevey; Jere'h 
 O'Brien ; Stephen Parker and E. Waterhouse, to serve 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 47 
 
 as such. At same time ten others, "good and lawful" 
 men, were "drawn" to serve as petit jurors. These 
 men probably served on the Jury, at the first term of 
 the Court held in Washington County. 
 
 The town at various times voted sums to pay their 
 Representative in the General Court. — Twelve to 
 eighteen pounds were usually allowed. One year it 
 was resolved not to send any Representative on ac- 
 count of the hard times. 
 
 In 1791 the town strongly opposed a movement 
 made in the western part of the State or District, for 
 a separation from the Commonwealth. A long report 
 was made by a select Committee which is recorded. 
 The reasons of the opposition were cogently set forth. 
 
 September 24th, 1790, the inhabitants voted for a 
 candidate to represent the District of Maine, in the 
 "Honorable, the Congress of the United States." Wm. 
 Lithgow received ten votes ; Geo. Thatcher, 6. Our 
 impression, from examination of the records, is, that 
 this was the first vote cast for a member of Congress. 
 Why the vote was so small is not accounted for, when 
 it is knoAvn there must have been some seventy to 
 eighty voters in the town. 
 
 It seems to have been the case, whether originating 
 by an act of the General Court, or by custom among 
 the people, we do not know, that when a man moved 
 into the place with the intention of becoming a resi- 
 dent, in town meeting, a vote would be passed, that he 
 or they, be taken and "considered as inhabitants of 
 the town." 
 
 On the 4th of April, 1791, John Hancock received 
 
48 LIFE OF HAKNAH WESTON 
 
 137 votes for Governor. We mention this to show the 
 change in the vote cast at different periods. April 
 2nd, 1792, Governor Hancock received 104 votes. 
 May 7th, 1792, the question of separating from Massa- 
 chusetts was acted upon. The vote stood in favor of 
 separation, 2 ; opposed 113. 
 
 By the town record it appears that the inhabitants 
 of Machias took no part in the first election of Presi- 
 dent Washington. In 1792, November 2nd, three 
 electors for President and Vice-President were ballot- 
 ed for. Alexander Campbell had 65 votes ; Nathan 
 Jones, 56; Phineas Bruce, 64; Nathaniel Wells, 6; 
 Nathaniel Twing, 4. The three first were elected. 
 This was at Washington's re-election to the Presidency. 
 The reason why the town did not vote at his 
 first election, is not known. Their recent organiza- 
 tion and remoteness from Head Quarters, probably 
 operated to prevent. 
 
 Sometime in 1786, a vessel from an European Port, 
 with a large number of outlaws on board, landed at 
 what is now known as Little Machias Bay. The con- 
 victs were allowed to escape, many of whom found 
 their way to Machias, and subsequently caused the 
 town considerable expense, in providing for them the 
 means of subsistence. — Some of them became, eventu- 
 ally, good and useful citizens. One, a man of learning, 
 became a teacher, and was very useful in educating the 
 lising generation. Their descendants are quite num- 
 erous and are an industrious class of people. 
 
 Machias continued to increase in population and 
 wealth with a moderate but firm and permanent ratio. 
 
LIFE OF HANXAH WESTON 49 
 
 Its splendid water power, one of the most reliable in 
 all New England, attracted and invited capitalists 
 thither, where from time to time mills and various 
 kinds of machinery, for the manufacture of lumber, 
 have been erected at large cost Originally the salmon 
 and ale wive fishery was valuable, but for years back, 
 owing to the erection of mills and dams, and the neg- 
 lect to build suitable fishways, this source of wealth 
 has been entirely destroyed. 
 
 In 1826, East Machias and Machiasport were incor- 
 porated into separate towns. In 1845, Whitney ville 
 was incorporated, haviiig been started in 1835, by 
 Colonel Joseph Whitney, of Calais, a very enterprising 
 man, who built a large dam across the main river, and 
 erected saw mills. In 1849, Marshfield was incorpor- 
 ated. All of these belonged to the old town of Ma- 
 cliias, and served to contract its territorial limits, and 
 limit it to about the original size of "West Falls." 
 
 In 1836 the Centre street Church (Congregational) 
 was erected at an expense of $12,000. Subsequently 
 the Methodist Society i>uilt a small but neat and con- 
 venient House for public worship. The Congrega- 
 tionalists have the largest society, and one of the ear- 
 liest founded in the state. 
 
 In 1854, tlie present Court House was built by the 
 County. It cost, Avith yard and contingent expense, 
 some '$21,000, and is one of the best and most sub. 
 stantial buildings of the kind in Maine. Previous to 
 this, the Courts were held in a building, owned by 
 citizens of Machias, which thej^ leased to the County 
 at a stipulated price. 
 
60 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 In the support and maintainance of public schools, 
 Machias has been a model town. It has two large, 
 well constructed school houses, besides a number of 
 smaller ones, and the organization of the schools on 
 the grade system, has proved eminently successful. 
 The High School continued through the year, with 
 suitable vacations, enables the young man to acquire a 
 good business education, or if intending to go through 
 a Collegiate course of studies, the facilities for "fitting" 
 are very ample, and attained at trifling cost. 
 
 Of newspapers, Machias, perhaps, has produced her 
 full quota. In 1823, December 3d, the first number of 
 the Evening Star was published by Jeremiah O. Balch, 
 This ofiice was at "Eastern Falls." The Star was 
 about 14 inches by 22 inches in size, and was furnished 
 to subscribers for $2.50 a year, in advance, or $3.00 at 
 the expiration of the year. Mr. Balch continued to 
 publish his paper for some three years, when, for "want 
 of support" its publication was suspended. For some 
 thirty years no publisher chose to embark in the enter- 
 prise again. Finally, on the 25th of May, 1853, the 
 Machias Union was established by Yates & Fur bush, 
 and has continued up to the present time, with pros- 
 pects of becoming a permanent institution. On the 
 19th of June, 1856, the Machias Repuhlican Avas started. 
 This furnishes a fair share of newspaper reading and 
 enterprise for a small country town. 
 
 We did not design in the commencement to give 
 anything like a history of Machias. We have stated 
 but a few prominent facts. Its history when deline- 
 ated by the faithful pen, as we trust ere long it will 
 
LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON hi 
 
 be, is too important and of too much real interest, to 
 be passed upon by an unfaithful hand. The early set- 
 tlers were stix)ng in their attachments to freedom. 
 They disdained British rule and neglected no oppor- 
 tunity to manifest it by deed. They caught the spirit 
 that burned at Concord and Lexington, and while the 
 brave Warren and his comrades were pouring out 
 their life's blood on Bunker Hill, the people of Ma- 
 chias and other little, wilderness villag-es were fully 
 engaged in combat. 
 
 But for the course pursued by these people the 
 whole of what constitutes the free and prosperous por- 
 tion of Maine, to the eastward of the Penobscot, would 
 have been a Provincial Territory of Great Britain. 
 Their lives and bravery defended and preserved it. 
 They purchased it dearly. It cost tiiem toil, liardship, 
 privation and money. Many of them lived to see the 
 Independence of the Country established. This was 
 their only reward, and no treasure could have been 
 more highly prized. The inheritance now belongs to 
 their childi^n and childrens' children. They enjoy its 
 advantages and priceless blessings-, but do they appre- 
 ciate it? 
 
 Josiah Weston, subsequently th-e husband of Han- 
 nah, came to Chandler's River sometime about 1772, 
 Of Mr, Weston's family we have been able to learn 
 but little. He was born at Falmouth, of respectable 
 parentage, July 22d, 1750, One of his brothers, Ed- 
 mund, was killed by Indians while out in the pasture 
 after the cows. Another brother, Joseph, shared a 
 ^similar fate.— He was out fishing, went ashore to pro- 
 
52 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 cure wood for a flake to dry fish on, fell into the hands 
 of the savages, by whom he was made prisoner, and 
 subsequently murdered. Two sisters, Elizabeth and 
 Rebecca, came to Chandler's RiA^er with their brother, 
 Josiah. Elizabeth married a Mr. Smith of Steuben. 
 Her husband died and she married a Mr. Part- 
 ridge, of Orland, in Hancock county. - — Some of 
 her descendants are wealthy, and all are an industrious 
 and highly respectable class of people. We think 
 these two sisters were the only family comiections of 
 Mr. Weston, who ever came east. A brother practiced 
 law in Portland (Falmouth) with eminent success 
 When that town was burned in October, 1775, by 
 order of the ruthless Mo watt. Commander of the Brit- 
 ish fleet, this brother and father's family, in common 
 with the people of the town generally, suffered great 
 pecuniary loss. By this conflagration Falmouth lost 
 414 buildings, and not less than one thousand people 
 were "Instantly reduced to a state of unspeakable dis- 
 tress." 
 
 This "chastisement" was inflicted because the people 
 were patriotic and gave unmistakable signs of joining 
 in the Revolution, indications of which had more par- 
 ticularly manifested themselves gt Concord, Bunker 
 Hill and Machias. — Josiah Weston's father and broth- 
 ers were no Tories I They acted for Freedom. They 
 sympathised and talked boldly and openly with the 
 friends of "Liberty for America I" 
 
 At Chandler's River, Mr. Weston became acquaint- 
 ed with the Watts' family. In October, 1774, he mar- 
 ried Hannah, second child of Captain Watts. The 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 53 
 
 worth}^ pair went to Machias in a boat, where the 
 nuptial ceremonies were performed by the Rev. James 
 Lyon. Returning home, tliey commenced the duties 
 of house keeping, and lived very happily together. 
 Their house stood on the hill, near the shore and near- 
 ly in front of Joseph Weston's house, in Jonesboro. It 
 was built of logs, but kept in good order, neat and 
 comfoi'table. The farm was first settled and always 
 occupied by Mr. Weston until his death in 1827. Since 
 that time his son has owned and occupied it. 
 
 Mr. Weston was engaged, like most other settlers, in 
 farming and lumbering. He was a man of great in- 
 dustry, and was enabled thereby to procure a good 
 living, as the times afforded. — Subsequently he became 
 the father of a large family as we shall elsewhere re- 
 cord. 
 
 The Westons, who settled at Hampden, Bangor and 
 Orono on the Penobscot and at Augusta on the Ken- 
 nebec Avere relatives of Mr. Weston. With the excep- 
 tion of himself and two sisters, no other of the family 
 or name ever settled to the eastward of the Penobscot. 
 
 Nothing occurred worthy of note in Mr. Weston's 
 family till the announcement of the British schooner 
 Margaretta coming into Machias. This aroused the 
 Avhole population, but none were more active than Mrs. 
 Weston and her husband. As this was one of the most 
 important events in her life, and one in which, not 
 only her descendants, but the whole people are inter- 
 ested, we have been particular in giving it as fully 
 as possible- 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 OK a lowry morning, in the month of June, 1775, 
 a message to the people of Jonesboro, from their 
 neighbors, at Machias, was announced, setting forth 
 that a British man-of-war was coming in the next day 
 to capture the town. The word passed from mouth 
 to mouth and family to family wdth great rapidity. 
 But a few hours elapsed ere all knew the situation of 
 things at Machias, and but little time was required to 
 resolutely comply with the messenger's demand, which 
 was, that all the able bodied men should arm them- 
 selves with whatever means of defence they had at 
 command, and proceed to Machias and aid in defend- 
 ing the town. At an early hour in the day, all the 
 men in town, then at home, being some twenty in 
 number, who felt themselves young and smart enough 
 to face the enemy, assembled at Mrs. Weston's house. 
 Words of encouragement, and leave were here ex- 
 changed between husbands and wives, sons and moth- 
 ers, brothers and sisters. It was a solemn event in 
 that little wilderness village, for they all anticipated a 
 deadly conflict would ensue as soon as they reached 
 Machias, and not one could say "I will return." Many 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 55 
 
 a grief was silenced and many a high hope vanished in 
 a twinkling. 
 
 Among the men assembled were the husband, father 
 and two brothers of Mrs. Weston. Capt, Watts was 
 then near seventy years of age, yet the corn-age and 
 patriotism of youth moved hun and encouraged others. 
 He gave them such advice as his judgment and long 
 experience dictated, examined their guns, and bade 
 them be of good cheer. 'Our Liberties," said he, "must 
 be defended, and you my men must help do it. If 
 Machias falls, our settlements all along shore will be at 
 the mercies of the King's troops, and we shall be his 
 slaves," 
 
 This, however, was no time for talking, as not an 
 hour too much time remamed to reach Machias before 
 night. There was no road, nor even a sign to follow, 
 the whole distance being through an unbroken wilder., 
 ness. Captain Watts suggested that those who carried 
 axes better spot the trees as they passed along, think- 
 ing it would serve as a guide to those passing between 
 the towns. 
 
 While the men were waiting at the house, Mrs. 
 Weston conversed cheerfully with them ; inquired 
 earnestly all about ammunition and means of defense, 
 and made herself familiar with what quantity each de- 
 pended on and Avhat had been left behind. Though 
 her father, owing to his advanced years, was persuaded 
 to remain, her husband and brothers were among the 
 volunteers. To many women this would have been 
 overwhelming, but her firmness and fortitude were 
 equal to tlie trial. She manifested no fear and none 
 
66 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 could have known by her action, but that the men she 
 was conversing with were a hunting party instead of a 
 party for war. They started. Prayers to high Hea- 
 ven, for their preservation, were breatlied silently as 
 never before. The sounds of their voices died away 
 and the last was looked upon with many a tearful eye 
 as he passed from view onward in his wilderness 
 journey. 
 
 Unfortunately the names of them all are not now 
 known. Such as we have been able to learn are here 
 given : Josiah Westcn, Samuel Watts, Judah Chand- 
 ler, Thomas Watts and John Drisko, who was captain 
 of the company. There were quite a number of others, 
 but their names are not now remembered. 
 
 Some of Capt. Watts' grand-children think he was 
 one of the company, others think he was not. This 
 last seems ybtj probable, as at the time he was very 
 near to seventy years of age. 
 
 Immediately after they left Mrs. Weston called 
 around on the several families, and gathered all the 
 powder, lead, pewter spoons, etc., that could be found. 
 Every neighbor felt the importance of the occasion 
 and none withheld. Some thirty to forty pounds were 
 thus collected and securely packed for ti ansportation 
 to Machias. She superintended all with her own 
 hands, and placed the pillow case full of ammunition 
 in a safe closet near her bedroom, ready for the short- 
 est warning. Night came and with it, to her, more 
 than usual cause for reflection. Sleep was out of the 
 question. We have heard her declare, that that was 
 the longest night, though really one of the shortest in 
 
LIFE OF HAXXAII WESTON 57 
 
 the year, that she ever experienced. And the day- 
 light in the morning "came so slow !" "I know they 
 will want this powder," she said, "and who will carry 
 it?" "No man in town to do it, and the piirty from 
 Pleasant River will be likely to pass by above and we 
 shall not see them." 
 
 Quite early next morning, however, she heard that 
 a man, who was gone from home the day before, had 
 returned. The question to her mind was quickly 
 solved, for she thought lie could go. She repaired im- 
 mediately to his house, but judge her mortification at 
 learning that he had just gone off into the woods to 
 keep away from the "Britishers." She returned home 
 more fully convinced than before that the powder 
 ought to go to Machias that day. A short conversa- 
 tion ensued between her and Miss Weston, a young 
 woman, and sister of Mrs. Weston's husband, when the 
 two resolved to carry the powder through to Machias 
 themselves. A neighbor on learning their intention 
 tried to dissuade them from so perilous attempt. The 
 rumor soon spread and in an hour, almost as many 
 women and children assembled to see the two unpro- 
 tected females start on their uncertain jom-ney, as wit- 
 nessed the departure of the men the day previous. 
 
 They attired themselves as best they could, and se- 
 lected what they deemed a suitable quantity of bread 
 and meat to stand them two days, if their needs should 
 require it. It was assigned to Miss Weston to carry 
 the provision, and small hatchet, while Mrs. Weston 
 carried the ammunition. 
 
 Alone and unprotected they entered on their lonely 
 
68 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 journey. The distance to Machias, as then traveled 
 was some sixteen miles. The route was northwardly 
 from the dwelling house, so long occupied by Capt. 
 Ephraim Whitney, on Jackson Hill, in Jonesboro, over 
 "Machias Hill" to Machias River, near where the town 
 of Whitneyville now stands ; thence down the south- 
 erly shore to Machias. The marks in the moss and 
 leaves, with an occasional "spot" on a tree made by the 
 men on the previous day, Avere the only guides to help 
 the women along. 
 
 For the first five miles they experienced no difficulty 
 except the weariness of carrying so much weight over 
 the rugged path they traveled. — Just previous to 
 reaching the river they missed their way. In vain, 
 they labored to regain it. — Miss Weston, naturally of 
 weak con-stitution and unused to hardships of this 
 kind, became wearied and shew signs of exhaustion. 
 They had wandered, they knew not how far from the 
 most direct course, and were completely at loss to 
 know which way to go. Very prudently, however, 
 Mrs. Weston suggested that they better rest awhile, 
 and have something to eat. She felt some alarmed at 
 their situation, but did not manifest it in the slightest 
 degree to her companion. To give up would in all 
 probability prove disastrous, while perseverance might 
 crown their efforts with success. 
 
 After resting a suitable time, they felt greatly re- 
 freshed, and Mrs. Weston proposed to "Try again, 
 which was readily acceded to. Fortunately, in the 
 course of an hour, they reached the river. They judg- 
 ed the time at two to three o'clock in the afternoon. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 59 
 
 ^'Knowing," said Mrs. Weston, "that we were above Ma- 
 chias, I decided to follow the current of the river 
 downward, hoping to i:each the settlement before dark." 
 
 Their prospects on reaching the river were much 
 more encouraging, and their spirits revived in propor- 
 tion as their perils seemed to grow less. They knew 
 the Indians were in tlie habit of traveling the river, 
 and frequenting its banks for game, so they deter- 
 mined to keep at proper distance to escape observation. 
 
 They found it very laborious to proceed owing to 
 the thick swamps they had to get through, and brooks 
 and valleys to cross. Feeling sure that they were on 
 the right path they pressed forward with all their en- 
 ergy, expecting at each point they gained to look out 
 upon the town. Mrs. Weston carried the ammunition 
 and provision, thus adding to her own burden and 
 lightening her companion's- 
 
 After the lapse of two oi" thiee houi'.s, they gained 
 the foot of a high hilL, and not knowing where they 
 were, or how far distiint they were from any habita- 
 tion, they thiew down their baggage, and seated 
 themselves on a fallen tree, to rest. 
 
 It was a lonesome hour ; llmt hom\ they spent in 
 contemplation there. The sun was lowering in the 
 western horizon, and ah^eady the trees shut out his 
 rays. The owl had already filled the (^uiet of the 
 wilderness with his slirill, bass note, while not afar off 
 the dismal howl of the wolf mingled with the sighings 
 of the trees, so peculiar to nightfall. That day, they 
 knew not what had been done. They left at Jones- 
 boro their home and friends ; at Machiiis they had 
 
60 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 brothers, and one a husband. Some, or perhaps all of 
 the latter, had fallen in battle, or were prisoners in the 
 hands of the enemy. These and similar reflections 
 weighed heavily upon them. 
 
 As a last effort, Mrs. Weston proposed to ascend 
 the hill, hoping from the highest point, that she might 
 be enabled to see the houses at Machias. She request- 
 ed Rebecca to be of good cheer and remain precisely 
 where she was until sne returned. Taking a stick to 
 support her as a cane, and one bundle which formed a 
 portion of the burden they had borne along, she com- 
 menced the toilsome ascent, and was not long in gain- 
 ing the summit, whence she saw, to her unbounded 
 joy, a house in Machias, not a long distance off. An 
 hour longer and night would be upon them. No time 
 was to be lost. Leaving a sign on a bush pointing 
 in the dkection of the house she espied, Mrs. 
 Weston retraced her steps to the spot where her 
 companion had lain down and fallen asleep. The 
 discovery of the house being communicated, with 
 sundry shakes of the shoulders, sufficed to arouse 
 the tired girl, and she was immediately on her 
 feet. They hurried up the hill, not estimating the 
 weight of the anmiunition in pounds or their own 
 weariness by their present feelings. — On reaching the 
 sign in the bush both saw the house, and both breath- 
 ed silent thanks for their deliverance from passing a 
 night, sick and alone in the woods. They started di- 
 rectly for the house, which they reached in the dusk 
 of the evening, and were kindly received by the in. 
 mates whose surprise was only equalled in extent by 
 
LIFE OF HAXNAII WESTON 61 
 
 their own joy and gratification. Rebecca was already 
 **beat out" and sick, while Mrs. Weston had exerted 
 herself so much during the day that now her strength 
 was gone, and she, too, sank beneath the hardship. 
 Friends to the unknown women gathered around, 
 while one recital of their day's work was enough to 
 call forth sympathy and enlist aid to any extent re- 
 quired. Neighbors flocked in, each carrying soinething 
 to administer to their wants, while an unusual number 
 tarried about the house all night. In the moining the 
 health of our heroines had much improved. Mrs. 
 Weston was able to relate the story of her preceding 
 day's adventure, and stood amid an admiring crowd to 
 receive the thanks and congratulations of Captain 
 O'Brien, Colonel Foster and other noted men of Ma- 
 chias, who freely expressed their admiration of her 
 bravery and perseverance. 
 
 After resting one day at Machias, they returned to 
 Jonesboro by water, in company w^ith their bi'others 
 and other friends, who had assisted in the capture of 
 the Margaretta. 
 
 For this noble act, Mrs. Weston received only a very 
 small compensation. Messrs. Smith and Stillman, trad- 
 ers at Machias, presented her and her sister-in-law% 
 Rebecca Weston, tAvelve yards of "Camlet," which was 
 charged in their account against the Commonwealth, 
 and subsequently allowed by tlie latter. It wiis worth 
 4s per yard, making an iiggregate of £2 8s. The wo- 
 men made it into a dress for eacli, having six yards 
 eachj which would be an extremely small pattern 
 
62 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 now-a-days, though, at that time, considered enough 
 in quantity, and in quality vastly superior to the or- 
 dinary dresses worn by the middling classes, and equal 
 to the best. Half a century afterwards fragments of 
 the "Camlet dress" were in existence. Mrs. Weston 
 was proud of it, memento as it was, of a worthy and 
 patriotic achievement. 
 
 Before reaching the house in Machias, already al- 
 luded to, they met a person, who informed them that 
 the Margaretta had been captured. — The ammunition 
 they brought then, did not contribute to the first naval 
 victory, acquired by the Americans over the British, 
 in the Revolution, though subsequently, it was used in 
 repulsing the latter in their attacks on Machias. 
 
 The house Mrs. Weston first reached, was Captain 
 Gideon O'Brien's, and is now standing on the same 
 spot. Latterly, it has been better known as the "Old 
 Maids' House," on account of the maiden daughters of 
 Captain O'Brien, having resided there for many years. 
 It is situated on the South side of the river, and on the 
 north side of the old county road leading to Jones- 
 borough. It must have been one of the first framed 
 houses built in Machias, though we believe, the first 
 framed house was built by a Mr. Hill, and stood on the 
 corner, where the street now is between Mr. Tribou's 
 house and Obadiah Hill's, and was taken down some 
 thirty odd years ago by the latter gentleman. 
 
 Rebecca, who accompanied, Mrs. Weston, in her 
 "powder journey," subsequently married Josiah Libbey, 
 a native of Falmouth, who emigrated to Chandler's 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 63 
 
 River at about the same time, the Weston family did. 
 She lived and died in Jonesborough. She had nine 
 children, four sons and four daughters. One son and 
 two daughters are now living at an advanced age, be- 
 sides a large number of grand-children residing in va- 
 rious sections of the country. She died when some 
 past sixty years of age. Her husband lived to attain 
 the age of seventy-six. Their graves are on the "Lib- 
 bey Farm" in Jonesborough, still occupied and owned 
 by the descendants, but there is no grave stone to tell 
 the stranger about them, or where they lie. 
 
 Rebecca and Josiah's children were Reuben, Josiah, 
 Joseph, Nathan, Mary, Hannah, Eunice, Rebecca. Mary 
 married Joseph Whitney, Rebecca became J. W.'s 2d 
 wife. Eunice married William Kilton ; Hannah mar- 
 ried Samuel Maddocks. Josiah married Jane Libbey 
 of Harrington. Reuben married . 
 
 Except Rebecca all reared large families and their 
 descendants became numerous. 
 
 W^illiamson, in his history of Maine, writes "Mar- 
 granetto," as the name of the vessel captured by the 
 people of Machias, in 1775. We think this a mistake. 
 The name was "Margaritta," or as now spoken and 
 written, Margaretta. 
 
 We are not aware how many of the citizens of 
 Jonesboro subsequently received a pension from their 
 government on account of services rendered at Ma- 
 chias in 1775 and '77. Besides assisting in the cap- 
 ture of the Margaretta, several of them were stationed 
 at the garrison in Machias, in service of the Massa- 
 
64 LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 chusetts province, some three months in the fall of 
 '76. In August of that year^ by act of Congress, the 
 troops were organized into a Continental army and 
 received into the pay of the whole United Colonies. 
 Thence they were styled "Continentalers." Samuel 
 Watts and Josiah Weston were of the number — tlie 
 former received a pension. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 THE house Mr. Weston first built was destroyed by 
 fire in December, 1778. No person was in the 
 house, except Hannah, the second child, then about 
 ten months old, who perished in the flames. Mr. 
 Weston had been to the meadow after a load of hay 
 with his team, and Mrs. Weston, who had just fin- 
 ished milking the cows, when he returned, went to the 
 barn, taking the eldest child with her, to aid her hus- 
 band in unloading the hay. The fire broke out in the 
 upper part of the house, but was not discovered by the 
 unfortunate people until it completely enveloped their 
 humble abode, and defied all attempts to save or ex- 
 tinguish. — The father rushed to the door, hoping to be 
 able to eft'ect an entrance, and remove his child from 
 the danger. But he had not been into the house since 
 his return from the meadow, and he did not know 
 where the cradle was, in which the infant lay. The 
 heat was so excessive he dare not go in, though amid 
 the roar of the fire and the crackling timbers, a few 
 cries of the little sutlerer were somewhat indistinctly 
 heard, yet it was beyond human power to save. Be- 
 sides the loss of their child and house, not an article 
 
66 LIFE OF HAKNAtt WESTOK 
 
 of furniture^ or a scrap of provision of any kind, was 
 saved. — They had, indeed, their health, the eldest 
 child, the clothes they had on : but without a house^ 
 without provisions, without neighbors able to afford 
 the required assistance, and in the cold month of De- 
 cember, the beginning of a dreary winter, destitute in 
 the extreme. Mr. Samuel Drisko, a neighbor, who 
 lived on the hill to the westward of Captain Whit* 
 ney's, kindly took them in. The neighbors afforded 
 every assistance possible. — Some gave articles of 
 clothing, some small quantities of provisions and veg- 
 etables, but in the scarcity of the times^ and with all 
 the generosity exercised so proverbial among the peo- 
 ple then, the comforts they were wont to enjoy under 
 their own roof were far from being attained. Mrs. 
 Weston often declared, that her suffering, that winter 
 and the following season, until the farm produce af- 
 forded them relief, equalled all the rest of her life. 
 
 In the spring of 1780 Mr. Weston built another 
 house on the same spot where the first was burned. 
 
 This was built of logs, like the other, and made com- 
 fortablcv They collected what furniture they could 
 and moved in, as it were, commencing new again* 
 The loss of their child bore heavily upon them, as did 
 the privations and hardships incident to their recent 
 calamity. They viewed it a "chastisement of Divine 
 Providence" and yielded in a spirit of obedience^ 
 rather than a spirit of fault-finding and discontent. 
 Persevering in patient toil and industry, in a few 
 years, they regained their property and enjoyed their 
 substance, attained in accordance with the divine in- 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 67 
 
 junction^ "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn 
 thy bread." 
 
 They lived in this house till the autumn of 1787 
 when they moved into a new house, built on the 
 northern side of the County road, and but a few feet 
 from the front of the house now occupied by Joseph 
 Weston. This was quite a large, framed house, hav- 
 ing several rooms and generally in the style of houses 
 built in those days. It was torn down in 1838 after 
 having stood for more than half a century. 
 
 It was while residing in the log house, that Mrs. 
 Weston, one evening, in the absence of her husband, 
 took an infant child, we don't know which one, and 
 went in search of the cows. The cattle usually ran at 
 large, "down river," or in the vicinity of the Moun- 
 tains, as the hills are termed, some hundreds of rods 
 distant, in an easterly direction, from Mr. Ichabod 
 Farns worth's house. Not finding the cows so soon as 
 «he anticipated, and not thinking of the approaching 
 night, she was overtaken by the darkness and compell- 
 ed to stay in the woods ! Becoming fatigued and be- 
 wildered, she gave up trying to find her way back, 
 took the shawl or blanket from her shoulders, wrapped 
 it closely around her child, broke some boughs, which 
 were duly arranged for a bed and lay down, "not to 
 sleep but to rest." About midnight th€ monotony of 
 the wilderness was broken by peal« of thunder, pre- 
 ceded by — 
 
 "The vivid lightning's flash," 
 
 the effect of which, can be better imagined than de- 
 scribed ! In addition to the mighty noise of tlie ele- 
 
68 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 ments, it rained in torrents, for the space of an hour 
 or more. The mother shielded the child all she could, 
 without thought for herself, though said she "I 
 thought it would drown in my arms." Next morning, 
 she found her way back, as soon as it was light enough 
 to see, no one knowing, until she told it, of her night's 
 vicissitude in the wilderness. 
 
 After the Revolution, the condition of the people 
 began to improve for the better very fast. — During 
 the seven years' struggle, when so much uncertainty 
 existed in the public mind, as to the final termination, 
 the citizens of Jonesboro, in common with their neigh- 
 bors thoroughout the Province of Maine, were not 
 over-zealous in developing the resources at their com- 
 mand, or in acquiring property, or in reality of doing 
 more than just enough to meet their existing demands 
 and needs. They were, indeed, patriotic, they loved 
 their country, they hoped to gain their National Inde- 
 pendence,but the odds were greatly against them. Their 
 cause was just. They prayed the Supreme Ruler of 
 the Universe to protect their beloved Washington and 
 crown his efforts, in behalf of human rights, with suc- 
 cess. — The Colonies were feeble and the Mother country 
 strong. The contest involved the interests of the 
 civilized world. Its end, whichsoever way it should 
 terminate, would effect the principles of Constitutional 
 government for ages to come. — Providence, however, 
 prospered the American cause. The British tyrant's 
 will was defeated, and the Independence of the Col- 
 onies fully recognized and established. The fear of 
 subjugation was removed from the minds of the peo- 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 69 
 
 pie, and they turned their attention to the improve- 
 ment of their houses and lands, building mills and 
 vessels, opening roads and devising means of com- 
 munication and transportation, things that were neg- 
 lected during the war, for the reason that they did 
 not know whether they were laboring to promote their 
 own welfare, or to increase the wealth of a foreign 
 King, whose very name they hated. 
 
 After their participation in the affair in repulsing 
 the British from Machias, in the summer of 1777, Mr 
 Weston and his neighbors in Jonesboro, took no active 
 part in any of the engagements of the Revolution., 
 Situated a long distance from the seat of the Colonial 
 Government, being but few in luimbers, and compara- 
 tively poor in purse ; taxed withal to the utmost of 
 their endurance to procure an actual subsistance for 
 their families, they were not called into active service, 
 nor, after the attack on Machias, above mentioned, 
 did the enemy appear in their teri-itory to give them 
 opportunity to test their courage and love of freedom 
 in defense of their own homes. 
 
 From time to time, the news of the victories and 
 defeats of their brethren in arms, from the South, 
 would give rise to exultation or fearful anxiety and 
 distress. Nothing encouraging or promising reached 
 the Eastern settlers till the surrender of Burgoyne, 
 which, though, occurring on the 17th of October, 1777, 
 did not reach Jonesboro till the first of December fol- 
 lowing. The people were overjoyed at this "grateful 
 intelligence." It formed the principal topic of conver- 
 sation, some deeming it an event likely to bring hos- 
 
70 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 tilities to a close. A short time afterwards it was an- 
 nounced that France had acknowledged the Independ- 
 ence of America, which greatly increased the probabil- 
 ity that the American arms would triumph. Not- 
 withstanding, the misfortunes of the British, they de- 
 cided to prosecute the war with renewed vigor. Noth- 
 ing of a serious nature occurred to the Eastern people, 
 till 1779, when the great depreciation in the value of 
 paper money, took place. This money was in bills is- 
 sued by Congress, the first in 1775, amounting to two 
 millions, which increased till in 1779 it reached the 
 enormous sum of two hundred millions of dollars [ 
 And so depreciated that one dollar in gold would buy 
 fifty or sixty dollars in bills. It is known now, as 
 "Old Continental money," and some families have bills 
 to large amounts which have been preserved. Several 
 causes combined to sink this paper currency ; but the 
 principal reasons were the extensive counterfeit of it 
 by the enemy, and the general want of confidence that 
 it would ever be redeemed. — A good deal of this mon- 
 ey, in fact it constituted the circulating currency in 
 the Province of Maine, had found its way to the east- 
 ward, in payment for furs, lumber and fish, and its de« 
 preciation at this time was a severe loss to the people. 
 The embargo, laid on by the enemy, prevented inter- 
 course between the towns, and the terrible drought, 
 which lasted through May and June of this year in- 
 creased the "dearth of provisions and general distress." 
 Fortunately, after this period, by a wise decision of 
 Congress, no place to the Eastward of Penobscot River 
 was called upon for taxes or contributions, during the 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 71 
 
 continuance of the war. Provisions were sent to the 
 eastern towns at the public charge. The people of 
 Machias were among those who received aid, and from 
 them Mr. Weston and his neighbors obtained limited 
 supplies. 
 
 In some towns, in the Province of Maine, in the 
 summer of 1779 "corn sold for 185 a bushel ; molasses 
 for $16 a gallon ; and one man was so wicked as to ask 
 $75 for a bushel of wheat meal, and another, in Au- 
 gust, the same summer, paid $19 for a pound of tea ! 
 This was in paper money, and such was its value at 
 this time. 
 
 Nothing of importance occurred after this period of 
 unusual distress, until the "Dark Day" which was May 
 19th, 1780. It was so dark in Jonesboro, that lighted 
 candles were used at noon in the houses. The dark- 
 ness of the night was equally extreme and fearful. 
 Timid people were greatly frightened, believing it a 
 precursor to some great national calamity. The next 
 day, nothing unusual was noticed in the atmosphere, 
 and subsequently it was ascertained that the darkness 
 prevailed through New England and a few miles out 
 to sea. The conjecture since has been, that it occurred 
 from the smoke of extensive tires in the woods, in 
 Maine and New Hampshire, a peculiar state of the at- 
 mosphere. 
 
 The news of the surrender of Cornwallis, reached 
 Jonesboro, a little more than a month after he capitu- 
 lated. The treachery of Arnold had formed an ample 
 theme for discussion among the neighbors, but the 
 fearful apprehensions which it liacl induced, were now 
 
72 LIFE OF HAXNAH WESTON 
 
 all forgotten. The tidings of the glorious victory of 
 Washington over Cornwallis came from Machias one 
 afternoon and especial pains were taken to let "all the 
 people in the place know it." Early in the evening 
 nearly all of the men and a greater part of the women 
 and larger children had collected at Captain Watts' 
 house. They had no powder to spare to fire a gun, 
 they had no provision wherewith to spread a large 
 table for company, but they had patriotic hearts and 
 they could talk, they could exult in cheers and hur- 
 rahs, and thank God with sincere and grateful spirits, 
 for they believed that their hour of deliverance from 
 the British yoke had now come. 
 
 Said Capt. Watts — "The British rule is over in 
 America — this victory of Washington's is our coun- 
 try's redeeming triumph : the back bone of the British 
 Lion is broken, and the haughty King is henceforth 
 disgraced in the eyes of the world." The joy of these 
 people could not be exceeded, at this victory of Amer- 
 ican arms, as in their judgment, it substantially closed 
 the war, and subsequent events shew, that they were 
 not wTong. This meeting of the people at Capt. 
 Watts' took place the latter part of November, or first 
 of December. The suiTender of Cornwallis was on 
 the 18th of October, preceding. It will be recollected, 
 that Capt. Watts was an old soldier, and it seemed 
 appropriate on this occasion for the neighbors to gath- 
 er around him. Mr. Weston, Samuel Watts, Jr., and 
 some of his brothers, who had recently been released 
 from the garrison at Machias, were present and re- 
 joiced with the rejoicing. "There were no tories in 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 73 
 
 Jonesboro" — there niiglit have been tiinifl ones, but all 
 were united and strong now. 
 
 After the surrender of CornwalUs the people did not 
 attach much consequence to the war. .Savannah and 
 Charleston were the most important posts held by the 
 British, and it was evident that the British rule in the 
 United Colonies was waning fast. 
 
 Mr. Weston subsequently became a milbowner and 
 did considerable lumbering at Chandler's River. He 
 was a very active, industrious man. In hunting ex- 
 cursions after moose and deer he generally excelled, as 
 his bodily strength enabled him to endure great fatigue. 
 One time, during the deep snows of a winter, in com- 
 pany with some of his neighl »ors, he followed the trail 
 of a moose an unusually long distance, and finally suc- 
 ceeded in capturing him on a very high bill to the 
 North West and near the liead of Chandler's River. 
 The day was extremely cold, and as bad luck would 
 have it, Mr. Weston lost his mittens near where the 
 moose was slain. People now-a-days know this hill 
 as "Mitten Mountain" the incident having given it its 
 name. It is located in the town of Centreville, and is 
 the highest land in all that region. 
 
 In Religious faith Mr. Weston was Baptist, having 
 united himself with the church in Columbia, as early 
 as 1807. He was baptized at Epping. From that time 
 afterwards he continued a member of the Society in 
 good standing. His daughter Susan joined the same 
 church and at the same time. For quite a number of 
 years he was the only person at Chandler's River, who 
 made a public profession of religion. 
 
74 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Mr. Weston died in August, 1827, being a little 
 more than seventy-one years of age. His grave is on 
 the farm he occupied in Jonesboro. — Since his death, 
 his youngest child and only son, has owned the home- 
 stead. 
 
 For convenience we give the following record of 
 Captain Samuel Watts' family : 
 
 S<imuel Watts married Elsie Bean — I'heir children : 
 
 Samuel, born February, 1756 ; Died March, 1849. 
 Hannah, " November, 1758 ; Died December, 1855. 
 
 Date of death unknown 
 
 Died in 1852. 
 Died in 1838. 
 Date of death unknown 
 
 Samuel Watts^ 2nd^ tnarried Polly Noi/es — Their 
 ekild/reu : 
 
 Lucy, Betsey, David, Sabrina, Samuel. 
 •David, Josiah, Stephen, Delia. 
 
 David marned, Abigail Noyes^ Feb. IJ^ 1796. — Their 
 children : 
 
 Samuel, Ruth, Mary, Thomas. 
 
 Jofleph, Abagail, Joan. 
 
 David, 
 
 (( 
 
 1761 
 
 Betsey, 
 
 41 
 
 1764 
 
 Kl0ie» 
 
 4( 
 
 1767 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 (,1 
 
 1780 
 
 Bally, 
 
 U 
 
 1788 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 ii. 
 
 1786 
 
 •DrewBed when «€V«u |«»i« old. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 75 
 
 Betsey married Lem Bowker^ Oct. ^-5, 1789 — Their 
 children : 
 
 Watts, Levi, Hannah, Deborah, Mary. 
 
 Lydia, Betsey. Sally, Frederic. 
 
 JElsie married Ralph Haycock — Their children : 
 ^Clark, Mary, Warren, 
 
 Hannah, Jones, Samuel. 
 
 Abagail fnarried David Merritt — Their children. : 
 Parker, Stillman, Rebecca, Weston, Wetlierbee. 
 Dustan, Hannah, Lydia, Pliebe. 
 
 Thomas married Siisau JVot/es — Their children : 
 Sarah, Eunice Thomas 
 
 Mrs. Haycock lived in Calais. Mr. Bowker, at Ma- 
 chias. The rest of the family lived most of the time 
 at Jonesboro. Their children and grandchildren are 
 scattered throughout the American Union, numbering 
 in all several hundreds. To record their names, date 
 of births, marriages, etc., would make of itself a 
 volume. 
 
 Mrs. Weston's children married as follows : — 
 
 Eliza married Benjamin Uornian^ iVby. 9th^ 1793. 
 Married by Bev. Mr. Lyon., at Machias — Their children: 
 Mary, Israel, Hannah, Colon, Lydia. 
 
 Josiah, Nathaniel, Loraine, Betsey. 
 
 Hannah, Mrs. Weston's second child, died aged ten 
 months. The third child was named Hannah. 
 
 *Died in infancy. 
 
76 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Hannah married Moses Plimwier — Their children : 
 
 Barnabas, Abagail, Robert, Mary, 
 
 Josiah, Aphia, Ebeii. 
 
 Susan married Nathan Hanscom — Their children : 
 Ruth, Phebe, Nathan, Josiah, Samuel, Hannah, 
 
 Betsey married Asa Warnsu^orth — Their childroi : 
 Sybil, Stephen, Nathaniel, Joseph, 
 
 Keziah, Peter, Harriet, George, 
 
 Sophia, Priscilla, Caroline. 
 
 iLlsie ynarried John Schoppe — Their children : 
 Phebe, Frances, Hannah, George, 
 
 Antonio, William, Eliza. 
 
 Aphia married Jlilliam Schoppe. 
 
 They had one child, Francis, he died April, 1841. 
 
 Sophia married Amasa Farnstoorth— Their cJuldren: 
 Hilliard, Leonard, Eri, *^Phebe, Albert, 
 
 Leoniece, Charles, Warren, ^Amelia. 
 
 Fra/nces married Francis Schoppe. 
 They had no children. 
 Phebe died when young, 
 
 Sally married Richard E. Gilnian — Their children: 
 Joseph, Harrison, *Levi, Sophia, Levi, 
 
 ♦Twins. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 77 
 
 Amelia married Daniel Coi^u — Their children : 
 *Eri Sophronia, Francis, Savilla, Hilliard 
 *Lydia, *Horace, Augustus, Lucius, 
 
 Joseph married Sophia Jones — 77ieir children : 
 *Jones, ^Francis, Harriet, ^Joseph, Joseph 
 Horace, *Hannah, *Jones, Eliza. 
 
 Mrs. Dorman, after she married, lived in Harring- 
 ton ; Mrs. Pkunmer in Addison ; 3Irs. Hansconi in 
 Crawford ; Mrs. Betsey Farnsworth in Jonesboro ; 
 Mrs. Elsie Schoppe in Beddington ; Mrs. Aphia and 
 Frances in Jonesboro; Mrs. Sophia Farnsworth in 
 Beddington; Mrs. Oilman in Jonesboro; Mrs. Coffin 
 in Addison, Centreville and Beddington, and Joseph, 
 the youngest child and only son, in Jonesboro. Bet- 
 sey and Sophia married brothers, as did Elsie, Frances 
 and Aphia. What is quite remarkable in so large a 
 family, we believe none of them ever married the 
 second time. Susan is about seventy-four years old 
 and is the eldest child now living. Eight of the 
 daughters are yet living, and seven with their hrst 
 husbands, the youngest being about fifty-five years 
 old! Nine of Mrs. Weston's children were liviiig 
 when she died ; sixty-eight grandchildren : one hun- 
 dred and fifty-three great-grandchildren, and t^^ enty- 
 five great-great-grandchildren: making the whole 
 number of her descendants, then living, over two hun- 
 
 *Died in infaucy. 
 
78 LIFE OF HA^JTAW WESTOX 
 
 dred and fifty. At present, August, 1857, her de- 
 scendants living, number two hundred and sixety-four. 
 
 One thing will be noticed. A large number of 
 grandchildren were named Josiah and Hannah. — This 
 of itself shows the respect which the children enter- 
 tained for their parents, and speaks well for their 
 parental attachment. When Mr. Weston died his 
 youngest child was about twenty-one years old. Mrs. 
 Weston lived twenty-eight years after her husliand's 
 death. Naturally the children loved their niotlier, 
 and spared as she was, monument of maternal care 
 and training in their early life, the remembrances of 
 which were often revived by their own troubles and 
 trials^ they watched over her declining years with 
 tender solicitude. 
 
 Mrs. Weston was of medium height, slender form, 
 yet possessed of great physical energy. Up to within 
 a few years of her death her health was remarkably 
 good. After she had lived four score years she at- 
 tracted much attention ; many strangers, who desired 
 the recital of events which transpired in the Revolu- 
 tion, visited her, and always found her communicative 
 and a source of much interest, not only as a relic of 
 the past, but for the exactness of her memory, and the 
 very clear accounts she loved to give of early occur- 
 ences within her own observation. Her maxims of 
 economy, prudence and propi'iety deduced from her 
 long observation, had weight and influence with her 
 neighbors. As she lived with mental powers not per- 
 ceptibly dimmed by years of service, so she continued 
 to hold the respect of her acquaintances, and the 
 
LIFE OF HANXAII WESTON 79 
 
 memoij^ of her virtues and of her wisdom, will, for a 
 long time, exert useful influence in the circle where 
 she was so well known. 
 
 Her father was a young man when Was^hington 
 was born. Her life and his daughter's emhracing a 
 period of one hundred and forty years, included the 
 most impoi'tant part of American history, after the 
 first discoveries, by Columbus and Hudson. Capt. 
 Watts was a soldier and an officer in the army where 
 Washington ^vas the leading spirit. The illustrious 
 events of that gi'eat man's life, were to him, as the re- 
 cital of the occurrences in our school boy days. His 
 familiarity Avith the distressful scenes of the old 
 French and Indian war, of the trials of the American 
 officers and soldiers in the Revolution, were communi- 
 cated to his children, and became deeply impressed in 
 their minds. Mrs. Weston's excellent memory en- 
 abled her to retain much of the history of men and 
 things, obtained from her father, down to the latest 
 period of life. Strangers had strong inducements 
 then, to avail themselves of the privilege of hearing 
 her repeat those stories of the times in which their 
 ancestors were more or less active, and which all lov- 
 ers of their country desire to cherish in remcmbiance. 
 
 "The young may die and the old nuist die." — We 
 have written of Mrs. Weston's life, it comes next to 
 record her death. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 AFTER the death of her husband, Mrs. Weston, 
 lived with her son and daughters in Jonesboro, 
 mostly with the former. She enjoyed a good degree 
 of health, was able to do the ordinary household labor 
 for many years, and visited her relatives and acquaint- 
 ances, among whom she was ever welcome. At the 
 bedside of the sick, her words of cheer and efforts to 
 alleviate the pains of disease are among acts more 
 deeply impressed in the minds of many than anything 
 else. Her cheerfulness had propped the invalid in his 
 weary hours ; her tender ministrations renovated his 
 overtasked powers ; her counsels and her love had in- 
 duced the erring to return, and saved the tempted in 
 the trying hour. 
 
 Her mental powers were wonderfully preserved. 
 Her judgment at ninety-five seemed unshaken, while 
 without the use of glasses she could see to do any 
 work desirable. Her hearing became impaired during 
 the last two or three years of her life, though most of 
 the time one could make himself intelligible in the or- 
 dinary tone of conversation. She could converse 
 readily up to within a short time of her death. 
 
LIPK OF HANNAH WESTON 81 
 
 It may not be amiss here to state, that during the 
 summer of the World's Fair, or Crystal Palace Exhi- 
 bition, at New York, she carded the wool, spun the 
 yarn, and knit it into a pair of stockings, with the in- 
 tention of sending them thither for Exhibition. They 
 were pronounced a superior article by good judges, and 
 truly so, when considered that they were manufactur- 
 ed by a woman ninety-five years old, and without the 
 aid of glasses. 
 
 In religious views Mrs. Weston was no bigot. Her 
 faith was of a liberal order. We are not aware that 
 she ever made a public profession of religion, or united 
 herself with any society, but at one time in the later 
 part of her life, she intimated some desire to become a 
 member of the Congregationalist Church in Jones- 
 boro. We know of no reason why she did not, except 
 the very advanced period in her life, when the step 
 suggested itself to her mind. 
 
 On the 12th of December, 1855, when she had ad- 
 vanced twenty days beyond her ninety-seventh year, 
 the angel of death came quietly, and bore her spirit 
 from earth to the heavenly world. No regrets at part- 
 ing with her children, or the world in which she had 
 lived so long, no murmuring, no fear of death, no hope, 
 save that of Heaven did she utter. None who lived at 
 her birth could witness her death, She had outlived 
 them all. Generations had been ushered into being, 
 acted their part, and with few exceptions gone. Those 
 who stood by her performing the last duties, were as 
 the children of her old age. They looked on the life 
 •of a century mark fading away in the hand of death. 
 
S2 LIFE OF HAJfNAH WESTON 
 
 But few of her children saw their iiiotlier die. But 
 few of her descendants, comparatively, could be gath- 
 ered, to follow the remains of a venerable parent to 
 the grave. They were scattered in different parts of 
 the United States, many of whom had never seen her 
 while living, and knew nothing of her death. This is 
 not strange, when we reflect that quite a number of 
 the fifth generation, were already active on the stage 
 of being. 
 
 What a change in the affairs of the American conti- 
 nent she lived to witness. What a history is includ- 
 ed in her time ! And how trivial must have appeared 
 to her the changes, the revolutions, the strifes which 
 her country went through with.— -Born when these 
 powerful states were feeble Colonies, and when the 
 rival nations of the Old World were fiercely engaged 
 in determining the relative power, and ownership of 
 their discoveries and possessions on the western con- 
 tinent, and when no state or colony, or city dared lay 
 claim to independence, and when the strongest was 
 too weak to cherish such a sentiment ; when to sus- 
 tain life, and not its liberty, taxed the mental and in- 
 dustrial capacities of the people to the utmost ; when 
 the pride of America had not yet awakened but slum- 
 bered ; when the forest covered the soil in all its prim- 
 itive beauty, and the red man was monarch of much 
 the largest proportion of the vast breadths of terri- 
 tory ; when the houses were roughly built and people 
 lived plain, and living through an unrivalled prosper- 
 ity among the states and in the nation, what a history 
 had she witnessed and what a succession of triumphs 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 88 
 
 in the revelation of human liberty, art and science. — 
 Ages may succeed ages and the world will not permit 
 human eyes to see so much again. Old age may be 
 attained, but the sphere may never come to man, 
 where, in a time so short, such a wonderful work will 
 be accomplished. 
 
 On the day of her birth the population of all the 
 American Colonies was about one million, five hundred 
 thousand, or but little more than the present popula- 
 tion of Indiana, which then did not contain a white in- 
 habitant I The population of the Province of Maine, 
 was 18,000, or about the same as the city of Bangor 
 now. She lived to see it number 600,000. Bangor 
 however, was a wilderness until Mrs. Weston was 
 eleven years old. Stephen Russell was the first white 
 settler, whose residence commenced in the fall of 1769. 
 New York city was, at her birth, about the size of 
 Bath. She lived until it became a city of the first 
 magnitude, containing 700,000 people and a wealth as- 
 sessed in hundreds of millions. In 1826, the Island of 
 Monhattan, estimated to contain 24,000 acres, being 
 the land on which the great Metropolis now stands 
 was bought of the Indians for $24,00 ! Figures can 
 hardly tell Avhat the Island is worth now. The first 
 census of New York was taken in 1656, when it con- 
 tained 1000 inhabitants. 
 
 In 1758, the Province of Maine contained thirteen 
 incorporated towns, all being within the limits of the 
 present counties of York and Cumberland. In the 
 whole Province of Missachu setts the number of in- 
 habitants did not exceed 17,000. When Mrs. Weston 
 
84 LIFE OP HAXXAH "VTESTOJ?^ 
 
 died the same territory numbered 1,800,000. On its 
 soil are large towns and cities, whose commencement 
 did not date back half her life. Her native town, 
 Haverhill, was, one of the earliest settled in New Eng- 
 land. It did not increase so fast in population and 
 wealth as many of its neighbors. During the Indian 
 wars from 1675 to 1763, a period of nearly a century, 
 it suffered a great deal. In 1697 the inhabitants near- 
 ly abandoned the place through fear of the savages. 
 In 1758 the inhabitants by estimate numbered 700. 
 In 1800, about 3000. In 1856, near 9000. 
 
 She lived to see her country increase from a few 
 feeble Colonies, dependent on a foreign power, to 
 Thirteen Republics, each organized under a Constitu- 
 tion guarding its own internal and individual rights ; 
 and the whole, under a Constitution, Free and Inde- 
 pendent, and strong in their Union, their whole ma- 
 chinery of government simple, yet wise, original yet 
 popular and practicable, and such as the world had 
 never before seen. — She lived when Washington, after 
 he had fulfilled the great duty assigned him, resigned 
 his place as the head of the American army, and when 
 after a few years retirement, at Mt. Yernon, he was 
 called to be the head and Chief Ruler of the newborn 
 Republic. She was yet young, when the mournful 
 news went over the land, that Washington was dead. 
 She remembered the grief of the people, and how the 
 nation mourned the death of that good man. 
 
 She remembered the accession of Adams, the senior, 
 Jefferson, Madison and Munroe to the Presidency, as 
 well as people do now-a-days, that of Jackson and 
 
LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 85 
 
 Taylor. She witnessed the acquisition of Territory 
 from the purchase of Lousiana, by Jefferson, down to 
 the annexation of Texas, and purchase of California, 
 and the increase of Territory originally confined to the 
 Atlantic, but before her death bounded by the Paciii(- 
 and Gulf of Mexico, and constituting thirty-one states, 
 many of them larger than some of the nations of Eu- 
 rope. 
 
 She lived before steamboats and raiboads had scarce- 
 ly been thought of, and wlien years were required to 
 get a message around the world ; and she lived, too, 
 when words and messages, through the agency of tht; 
 Magnetic Telegraph, could run the ch'cuit of the globe, 
 as speedily as a mile, and quick as the lightning's 
 flash. The genius and industry of man, contributed 
 to annihilate space, break over the barriers of barbar- 
 ism, and let in the glowing light of civilization, bind- 
 ing the nations of the earth together with cords of 
 love and good w411, while she was yet active on the 
 stage of being. 
 
 At last, she yielded her life to the unweary hand of 
 death. Her long day of existence became darkened. 
 All she had witnessed, all she had experienced, all she 
 had done would rest on earth bequeathed to new gen- 
 erations. Her long life had been well spent; her 
 morning, noon and evening down to the night. The 
 morning was her industry, the noon her practical use- 
 fulness, and the evening her counsel. Of them all, 
 she might well feel proud and her descendants for her 
 
 She died easy. Like the falling leaf, quietly the 
 spirit stepped out of the earthly tenement, to enter 
 
86 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 upon tlie way of the eternal world ; the body left, a 
 representative of the trials and changes of a hundred 
 years on earth, the soul, beginning where neither cen- 
 turies nor time itself have any reckoning. 
 
 Her remains slumber beside the dust of him, who 
 was the companion and solace of her youth. Not a 
 mark identifies her grave, beyond that of a common 
 resting place. Will it thus be left ? Will the grave of 
 one of the earliest daughters of American Freedom re- 
 main neglected and unmarked till obliterated? She 
 performed her part. If small, it was only because it 
 was not larger, that she did not do more. However 
 large the task, or whatever the consequences, if duty 
 led the way, she would have followed. If the nation 
 and state fail to erect a suitable monument, bearing a 
 faithful inscription, let her friends form an association, 
 subscribe the necessary fund, cause it to be made and 
 elected over her grave. No patriotic citizen of Wash- 
 ington County, would withhold his contribution. We 
 have but few battle-fields to plant memorials on : we 
 have but few graves, that we feel ourselves called on 
 to give a national mark, but this is one ! The com- 
 mencement of the work would insure its completion, 
 and its completion would remind the visitor of a 
 worthy Woman, whose dust it memorialized, and of a 
 patriotic public whose generosity it would represent. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WKSITJN 87 
 
 The t'ollowing verses wei^ written, about foiii' years 
 since, by the venerable Williani Freeman, Esq., of 
 Cherrytield. They were published at the time in sev- 
 eral newspapers, but deeming them worthy of pi^ser- 
 vation, with his consent, we insert them here : 
 
 We love the woman who has strength of will 
 The high resolves of duty to fulfill ; 
 Who takes an interest in the public weal ; 
 And for that good will act as well as feel ; 
 Who makes it both her pleasure and her pride-, 
 To do, what patriotic virtue should decide, 
 Such noble women, we rejoice to own, 
 Were in our country's revolution known, 
 And in its annals they should be enrolled, 
 And prized more highly than the wealth of gold. 
 Within a neighboring town there lived, or late 
 Lived one. whose patriotic worth we should narrate: 
 If dead no just memorial has been given 
 To mark the time, she went from earth to Heaven. 
 Or to recount the story of a deed, 
 By which she helped her country in its need. 
 Perhaps she lived, 'till age had lost the praise 
 That shed its luster on her youthful days, 
 And then a faith which oft befalls the old. 
 Her virtues and her death were left untold 
 
 It is the purpose of our humble verse 
 This long neglected story to rehearse. 
 And thus, however poor may be the lay, 
 A grateful portion of its debt to pay. 
 When Freedom's struggle first awoke alarm, 
 And ere its friends could all find time to arm. 
 In the Machias waters there appeared 
 A hostile sail, whose threat 'ning force was feared ; 
 The people unprepared to meet the foe, 
 Sought to employ some one for help to go : 
 
S8 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 A messenger, in whom they might confide, 
 
 The means for their protection to provide, 
 
 While me?i refused or lingered in their zeal, 
 
 She heard, and promptly answered the appeal, 
 
 And with a spirit true as well as brave, 
 
 She undertook the task, required to save, 
 
 From home and ease o'er wilds and distance far — 
 
 To hear their wants, and spread the news of war ; 
 
 The tidings told and all these wants supplied, 
 
 Back to her anxious friends again she hied ; 
 
 Through thirty miles of forest she conveyed 
 
 Supplies of ammunition to their aid ; 
 
 No guide but spotted trees to lead her feet, 
 
 Or voice but that of the bird or beast to greet, 
 
 The dark and dreary way along she trod. 
 
 And bore, with eager haste, the heavy load. 
 
 By which they were enabled to employ 
 
 The arms that might be needed to destroy. 
 
 Regardless both of labor and of toil. 
 
 Her purpose was to guard her native soil. 
 
 The deed was noble and the end was gained, 
 
 The town was thus defended and maintained ; 
 
 A feat of female courage, which but few. 
 
 Except of Roman nerve would dare to do ; 
 
 For which, if proper efforts had been made, 
 
 A pension, just due, might have been paid. 
 
 For less deserts the public wealth has flowed. 
 
 And honors high and rich have been bestowed. 
 
 If but the shadoio of a service done. 
 
 Affords the proof by which these grants are won, 
 
 A true exploit, achieved by woman's hand, 
 
 Some small reward of merit should command. 
 
 Perhaps this woman may have lived obscure. 
 
 And died, if she is dead, unmourn'd and poor ; 
 
 When for her country she performed a deed 
 
 That should have saved her from neglect and need ; 
 
 If not too late, let justice now be done, 
 
LIFE UF HAXiSAU V»ESTUN H^ 
 
 And seme return for this neglect atone ; 
 
 The stone, at least, with grateful words should rise, 
 
 To tell, that "here a female patriot lies, 
 
 Who lov'd her native land — not only so. 
 
 She helped to vanish and expel its foe ;" 
 
 And if her head now rest beneath the sod. 
 
 And she can gain no bounty, but from God. 
 
 Why should not they who live to bear her name. 
 
 Receive, as others do, her well earn'd claim ? 
 
 Let those, whose hearts by noble deeds are warm'd, 
 
 And kno/c the gaiiant service she perform d 
 
 Present the proof, and urge the righteous plea. 
 
 And trust the grateful judgment of the Free.. 
 
 In this behalf who would not raise a voice, 
 
 And, if it should prevail would not rejoice? 
 
 If any such, he has no soul to prize 
 
 The worth which in heroic virtue lies ; 
 
 And in the joys, it labored to achieve. 
 
 Deserves no portion, and should none receive. 
 
 If still among the living she beholds 
 
 The glory which her country now unfolds, 
 
 And in whose trials endur'd her part. 
 
 And for its triumph gave her hand and heart, 
 
 This tardy act of justice will illume 
 
 The shades, which may be gath'ring o'er her tomb ; 
 
 And, like the sun, in its declining rays. 
 
 Her last, the few, may be her brightest dajs. 
 
More than forty-live years have passed since the 
 first edition of " Life op IIaxxah Westoj^ " was 
 published. 
 
 For twenty years the edition has been out of print. 
 Hence a demand arose for a second edition, and the 
 following prepared by the same author as the first, is 
 respectfully submitted and dedicated to the memory 
 of the Heroine and her descendants. 
 
 In collecting and arranging the following genealogy, 
 undoubtedly some errors have occurred. "J'he Uisk of 
 colketiiig the numerous families has been slow and 
 laborious. If any are omitted it is because they could 
 not be reached or made no reply to letters. The 
 author thanks those who so cheerfully and ably ren- 
 dered help. 
 
 Machias, Jcmuar//, J 90S. 
 
XN 1859, two years after Life of Hanxaii Westox 
 -L was published her descendants erected over her 
 grave a headstone bearing the following inscription : 
 
 In Memoi-y of 
 HANNAH WATTS, 
 
 wife of 
 
 Jomah Weston 
 
 Born at Hcwe^'hiU, Mass., 
 
 Nov. 22, 1758, 
 
 Died. Dec. 12, 1855; 
 
 She will long live in the memory of 
 her Posterity. 
 
 She was a icoman of great courage 
 and bravery. She manifested it du- 
 ring the Battle at Machias, June 
 12th, 1775, hy carrying ammunition 
 through the wilderness to aid the citi- 
 zens in defense of the town. 
 
THE Monument erected over the Hannali Weston 
 Grave at Jonesboro, was mainly paid for by con- 
 tributions of descendants. 
 
 The Town of Machias in Annual meeting Marcli 
 1902, unanimously voted twenty-five dollars in aid of 
 the work. The following are, so far as I know, names 
 of contributing descendants. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. W. Longfellow, Marinette. Wis. ; Mrs-. 
 Oeorge B, Lawton and .son, Somerville, Mass. ; W. A. 
 Coffin, JSouth Beddington ; Horace R. Weston, Winter 
 Harbor ; Robert E. Burnett, Boston ; Mrs, Clara Farus^ 
 worth and Herbert Farnsworth, Genoa. Ill; Miss 
 Fanny Farnsworth, Red AVing, Minn.; Mrs. Hattic 
 Bridgham, Mrs. Ruth ]k)wker, Mr. T, R. Weston of 
 Seattle, Mrs, W. P. 81iaw, Roger Shaw, Miss Farns- 
 worth, Rev, Mr. Farnsworth, Beddington ; Mrs. P. S, 
 Campbell, Three Lakes, W^is. ; Mrs, Mary V. Coffin, 
 White Rock, Me. ; Mr. W, H. Bowker and sons. Brook- 
 line, Mass, ; George E. Farnsworth, Caribou; Arthur 
 Bridgham, Mrs. Raymond C. Drisko, Alfred, Me.; Anuu 
 A. Chandler, Leoniece Whittemore, Mrs, Charlotte 
 Holmes, Josiah W, Watts, Geo. W. H. Watts, Sarah 
 W^atts Stearne, Daniel J, Watts, Mrs. Hannah Watts 
 Tupper, Morey S. Watts, Chartes C. Watts, Mvs, H. K 
 
5k6 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Harding, Mrs. Laura E. Beane, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph 
 Farns worth, Mrs. E. B. Look, Mrs. Rufus D. Tabbut, 
 Mrs. Jerusha D. Bridgham, Mrs. Martha Watts 
 Schoppe, Geo. W. Schoppe, William W^atts, James 
 Watts, B. K. Watts. 
 
 Thi8 stone was erected June 12^ 
 1902^ tinder the direction of the Han- 
 nah ^\est07i Chapter^ Daughters 
 American Mevolution^ Machlas, Me. 
 
 In memory of 
 HANN^ AH {WATTS) WESTON 
 
 wife of 
 
 Josiah Weston 
 
 Born in Haverhill^ Mass.^ 
 
 JSTov. 22, 1758 
 
 Hied in Jonesboro, 
 
 Dec. 12, 1855. 
 
 She icas A Woma7i of great cour- 
 age and b^'averg. She manifested it 
 dwring tlve battle at Machias on June 
 12, 1775, by collecting ammunition 
 and carrying it throtigh the wilder- 
 ness to aid the citizens in defense of 
 the town. 
 
 SIZE OF MONUMENT. 
 
 Base — 49 inches wide, 19 inches high, 26 inches 
 thick. Plinth — 39 1-2 inches high, 38 inches wide, 
 13 1-2 inches thick. Bronze Marker — 24 1-2 inches 
 wide, 25 3-4 inches thick. 
 
LIFE OF HAXXAir WESTON 97 
 
 The Hannah Weston Chapter, Daughters of American 
 Revolution, Miss Lucy Talbot Ames, Regent, located 
 at Machias, are entitled to credit for the effective in- 
 terest manifested in securing a fitting Memorial over 
 the ashes of Plannah Weston. 
 
 At the dedication of the monument tliere were ap- 
 propriate exercises and the following address was 
 given by Rev H, F. Ihirding : 
 
 In the mouth of one his famous characters, the great 
 Poet puts these words. 
 
 "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our star. 
 But in ourselves that we are underlings." 
 
 The man who said that was not wrong, neither was 
 he right. 
 
 For the inspiration, the opportunity, tlie call to such 
 noble deeds — as shall lift one above common liu- 
 manity, and immortalize a name, comes from above, — 
 is divine ; is providential ; but there must be also the 
 personality — the capacity, the will, the energy, in u 
 word, the man or woman for the hour and the work — 
 where danger and sacrifice are demanded in a good 
 cause, and earns thereby the praise and honor of man- 
 kind. 
 
 It is not given to all men to be gicat. To the must 
 of us either the gifts or opportunity, or both are lack- 
 ing ; but all men instinctively "lionor the brave." All 
 noble souls honor and love the hero — especially the 
 heroine ; and for every unselfish act or service done 
 for love of God or man, at the cost of danger and sac- 
 rifice, hold in grateful remembrance the deed and the 
 name of the actor ; and moreover take care to provide^. 
 
98 UFE OF flA?Jl^*Afet V^feSTON 
 
 by festal days, memorial stones, and votive tablets, 
 that the memory of any noble deed shall never perish 
 from the minds of men. 
 
 Today we gather here, from near and far— ^a great 
 company — men, women and children, to dedicate with 
 appropriate ceremonies, this monument, placed over 
 the grave of a noble woman, who now sleeps l)eneatli 
 for more than a century. 
 
 The story of Hannah Watts Weston, handed down 
 from the far oft' past, is too familiar and Avide spread* 
 to need repetition on this occasion . The mention (^f 
 a few of the prominent facts will suffice for our own 
 purpose* 
 
 The news of Lexington and Bunker Hill b;iving 
 reached this remote frontier, and roused the patriotism 
 of the hardy pioneers, settled along the coast — an<l 
 from the scattered settlements, on bay and river, the 
 men had gathered at Machias to resist the oppress 
 sive power of Great Britain, and captiue the Marga- 
 retta, sent to awe them into submission— under whose 
 very guns they had erected their Liberty Pole. In the 
 crises of the battle their scanty supply of annnunition 
 gave out — and none to be had anywheie. What gave 
 victory to the British arms at the tinal assault un 
 Bunker Hill, threatened to defeat the bold attempt of 
 their compatriots at Machias. So their hard extreme 
 ity became Hannah Weston's great opportunity. Willi 
 a forethought and promptness that seems nothing- 
 short of an inspiration, and so much beyond her years 
 — she went about to collect all the pewter and powder 
 in Jonesboro— some 40 or 50 pounds ; but who shovdil 
 
1,1 FK <»F HANNAH AVKSION 09 
 
 tiunspoi't, to miles through the dense un travelled 
 wilderness, where the wild beasts prou le<i, and sw\;»k>' 
 liKlians roamed at large and lurked in secret jilaees — 
 and a river between, was the question. All night sin* 
 lay awake brooding i>ver the dithculty and danger, — 
 and eame to her deeision— There was nobody hut her- 
 self to do it: so equipping herself to the jonriu'y, tak- 
 ing two days' provision, and a younger comiJanion 
 with her to assist, early in the inoining she started 
 on her uncertain and perilous adventure — this gii'l of 
 10 summers and bride of five mojiths fared forth, 
 on their strange and untraveled mission — with only 
 uceasional blazed trees to mark here(»nrse. No wond- 
 er they got lost in the woods, and warxlered aixtut loi- 
 hours befoi-e they reached the shining river, tlu-ir tiist 
 objective point near whei'e Whitneyville now stands. 
 There the younger girl, ])ecoming exliausted, gave out, 
 lUid there they sat down to rest and eat their dinner. 
 Leaving her companion behind, Flaiinah, *^faint, yet 
 pursuing,'' went on, following the coui-se of ihe liver, 
 till she came in sight of the village ; and going buck 
 for her companion and her precious burden, retracing 
 her steps, as the sun wax siidviug in the West, and 
 
 "The shadows fell on the forest paths,"' 
 
 they emerged from the woixls and enUMv-d the town, 
 bearing the much aee<led su])ply of ammunition, to the 
 great amazement and the gre^der joy nf the gazing 
 
 people. 
 
 This is the story of Hannah Weston's fam(»ns ex- 
 ploit that has kept alive the U'Mi\e and fame of Uie 
 
100 LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 actor for more than a century — to commemorate and 
 perpetuate the memory which, we have placed this 
 monument over her grave. 
 
 It is worthy the fame handed down and the honor 
 we pay to it today. Ah I the wonder and regret is 
 that she has waited so long for this memorial stone 
 and its votive tablet. 
 
 In vain will you search history for the record of a 
 single act of heroism, combining in itself, more fully, 
 the noble characteristics of calm forethought, decision, 
 courage, energy and success in so great a cause, — so 
 young in years, too, so simple and sincere, and thought- 
 less of praise or fame, — where romance and reality so 
 blend and harmonize. 
 
 Do we ask how it happens that Hannah Weston, 
 so young in years and strong in character should be- 
 come possessed of, more than others, the boldness and 
 energy for such a deed? The question is largely 
 answered in the remarkable fact, that the blood of 
 Hannah Dustan, of ancient renown, flowed in her 
 veins. 
 
 I wonder sometimes if the young womanhood of 
 today, with their refined culture, and high intellectual 
 ambitions, and heroic lofty, romantic ideals — would 
 bear the test of reality^ at the time for action — in the 
 day of trial ? 
 
 That we are here today, all so happy and earnest on 
 this occasion — that or our hearts and hands are fully 
 in it, shows a kinship with the spirit and character 
 we honor today — and so I trust when the call shall 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 101 
 
 arise, if it ever shall, as it may, the lieroines would 
 not be lacking. 
 
 When the hand of the little Hannah shall have un- 
 veiled this monument to your view, 1 must call to 
 your special notice its perfect fitness to the purpose, 
 and use for wliich it was designed — is plain and sim- 
 ple in form, in material so substantial and enduring ; 
 r(^)Ugh and unpolished on the exterior, as nature madt; 
 it, touched by the hand of art only to outline its shape 
 and symmetry, how admirably tittc^l it is to represent 
 and express the native simplicity, a atrength char- 
 acteristic of the times and people it eonnneinorates. 
 
 Tlie opening spring around us teaches the lesson 
 that the memory of the good and true shall flourish 
 ever fresh and green ; — even the little sliower that 
 sprinkled us in the opening of the service, seemed a 
 baptism from above, and the splendor of the sunshine 
 breaking in like the smile of heaven, makes our ser- 
 vice a holy commemoration, 
 
 I must not close without a word of appreciation of 
 the anxious labor and care bestowed u]k)]i this work, 
 by the Daughters of K<?volution, whit-li lias been 
 crowned with such complete succes^s, and a faint ex- 
 pression of the gratitude we feel to tlicm for this hap- 
 py memorial occasion, not soon to be forgotten. And 
 so we finish our service of today with the pi'ayer of 
 dedication, olfered by the minister, and tlie unveiling 
 of the monument by the hand of the little four-year- 
 old maiden — lineal descendant in the fourth gener- 
 ation, and the patriotic songs of the band of children, 
 and the sti]-ring strains of nnisic ; — and depart — leav- 
 
102 
 
 LIFK OV HAN X AH WKSTON 
 
 ing behind us this niemoriiil stone and votive tablet. 
 to stand on this conspicuous elevation, silently speak- 
 ing to the generations as they pass by, a constant ex- 
 ample and inspiration to noble deeds, for all those 
 who shall come after us — w lasting honor to the town 
 of Jonesboro, and a worthy tribute to the deed a.ii<l 
 character of the woman whose name it holds in ever- 
 lasting remembrance. 
 
 At the dedication '•'The vStar Spangled Bainier, whick 
 followed the bugle call, was a fitting opening, rendere<l 
 by school children, accompanied by a brass quartette^ 
 first cornet, F. T. Crane; second cornet, Charles Ilef- 
 fron; first alto, Albert Allan; trombone, Cv M. Hatch- 
 inson. 
 
 Three girls of four to five years, of the fifth gener- 
 ation from Hannah Weston, ini veiled the stone. 
 Prayer followed by Rev. Lynn V . Farnsworth, also 
 the fifth in line of descent. 
 
 Services closed by singing " America." 
 
 A large collection of people witnessed the cere- 
 monies. 
 
IJ F K O K HANNAH W KSTUN H)^) 
 
 The tollowiag poem wms coiilrilMUfd by F. J. Moore 
 Df >laeliias, ItKUi. 
 
 J/AXXAJf WKSTOX. 
 
 In trackless wilds, mid Arctic snows 
 On fields with fires of battle lit, 
 Our common Yankee blood still shows 
 The ancient, steadfast Saxon grit ! 
 
 Not to man's strength and skill alone, 
 
 Comes guerdon of achievement high ! 
 For woman's brow a wreath has won. 
 Unfading as the noonday sky. 
 
 Go read the name on Honor's page. 
 
 Who for their country do and dare, 
 
 (A nation's glorious heritage,) 
 
 And woman's name is written there. 
 
 And she who sleeps beneath the stone, 
 
 Which reverent hands in memory raise. 
 Whose fame on all the winds has flown. 
 And won its meed of generous praise ; 
 
 Content the common ways of life 
 
 Mad walked, its cares and pleasures knew; 
 The sound that told of patriot strife, 
 Her soul to higher duties drew. 
 
 She saw the path along which lay 
 Her duty in that hour of need : 
 Her feet undaunted trod the way, 
 Unconscious of heroic deed. 
 
 Not Saragossa's warrior maid. 
 
 Or France s Joan for her King. 
 A nobler courage e'er displayed. 
 Than she whose humble praise I smg. 
 
104 LIFE OP HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Akin she was to her who kept* 
 
 Mid savage foes her courage high, 
 And won, while captors round her slept, 
 Her dauntless way to liberty. 
 
 Above life's common fears they stood, 
 
 Nor shrank when sterner trials came ; 
 Allied alike in name and blood, 
 And consanguinity of fame. 
 
 The tale is one of distant years ! 
 
 Where forests wide their shadows cast. 
 And roamed the savage, now appears 
 Broad, cultured lands and cities vast. 
 
 Then was a nation born, which stands 
 
 In conscious grandeur, strong and free ! 
 And who can say what humble hands 
 Have helped to shape its destiny ? 
 
 To those great names our hearts have thrilled 
 Who nations formed, or died to save, 
 But they have also helped to build. 
 Whose hands the humblest service gave. 
 
 The statesman's, warrior's shaft we raise. 
 And consecrate each honored spot. 
 This humble stone records her praise. 
 Whose name should never be forgot ! 
 
 Oh, snow of winter ! softly fold 
 
 Thy whitest mantle o'er her breast ; 
 And summer wind thy requiem hold. 
 Around her lowly place of rest. 
 
 For she is now one of the band, 
 
 Whose names are of the storied brave ! 
 And pilgrim feet will come to stand. 
 In reverence by her honorgd grave, 
 
 ♦Hannah Dustan. 
 
DESCENDANTS OF HANNAH AND 
 JOSIAH WESTONT. 
 
 rjlIIE following genealogy has been compiled by aid 
 -*- of members of different families of the fifth 
 generation of Hannah Weston. 
 
 In each generation and in almost every family down 
 to the fifth generation the same names occur. An- 
 uther difficulty arises in tliis Wdx : A boy's name is 
 William Harrison; hi some branches of the family he 
 will be called William and in anotlier brancli he will 
 be called Harrison. Tliis renders tnicing descent of 
 families very ])er})lcxiug. 
 
 In the main the folio whig tabulatiun w ill, 1 ihink^ 
 be found quite reliable. 
 
 Josiah and Hainiah ^Vestol^s children : 
 Eliza, born October, 177.3 
 
 f 
 
 Hannah, 
 
 Hannah, 
 Susan, 
 
 Betsey, 
 
 Elsie, 
 
 Aphia, 
 
 Sopliia, 
 
 Frances, 
 
 Phebe, 
 
 Sally, 
 
 Amelia, 
 
 .1 ( (sex'h, 
 
 February, 1778 
 
 February, 1780 
 Sei»tember, 1783 
 November, 178o 
 April, 17vS.s 
 
 Februarv, 1790 
 3ray, ' 1792 
 Decern I )er, 1794 
 August, 1797- 
 November, 1799 
 October, 1892 
 April, 1806 
 
 Burned in house 
 ( when one year okL 
 
 -Died hi 18 IL 
 
KMl J.IFI') OF HAS N All WES ION' 
 
 Elsie married lieiijainin Dunmui, Nov. \l 171J4; 
 by Rev. James Lyon at Maeliias — their children : 
 
 Mary Israel llanimh Cblou Lydia 
 
 Josiah Xathanif'I Loraine lietsey 
 
 Mary married John Lawreiuu* of i-herryiield, 
 Mary died in 1877 in Minneapolis, Minn. 
 Josiah, eldest son of Kenj, boi'n in Jtuiesboro, Jan. G, 
 1799, died June 7, 1.S88, at Kingston, Minn; married 
 Sophia, daugliter of Asa Farnsworth, Sei)t. 1, is2r», 
 Sheborn Jan, 19, ISOcS; died Feb, 14, 1S<S4, Freneli 
 Lake, Minn.; Cliikbvn ; 
 
 Stephen H, Benjanun *Martlia Eliza 
 
 Emily Keziali Mary 
 
 Stephen niarried Abagail linzzell — Children; 
 Arthur AMlber *Fred 
 
 *'J'liaddeus Calista Iloxa 
 
 Arthur married Mary Girard-^Xo ehiklren ; 
 
 Wilber niarried Ann Ilodolph — Childien ; 
 C'larissa Leroy Lulu Calista 
 
 Calista married Kersey Hod()li)li — C-hildren : 
 Ellery Floyd. 
 
 Roxa married Sheridan MeQiuUen — Children : 
 
 Alda Delia Editli 
 
 Josiah Dorman and children live in Minnesota, 
 
 *l)ied wlien young. 
 
LIFE OV HANNAH WESTON lOT 
 
 ItjU'ii'el Dui'niaii of Jit'iij. married Juaiiiia Kingsley of 
 8teubeii — Cliildren : 
 
 Elizabeth I.ouisa Eiueliue Laura Lewis 
 
 (jeorge Aubiiie IVIargaret Fraiiees Sarali 
 
 Elizabeth iiuirried Asa Gould^ — ('hildreii : 
 
 Josephine Ililiuan Helen 
 
 Lcjuise married 1 5en jam in C. ('. Leighton ; he went 
 to Cape Town, South Afriea ; died there. Tliey liad 
 one child, Aarriet, 
 
 Enieline married Xathuiiiel (L Leighton; both de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Liiura mai'ried AV'm. 11. I.aiMenee. 
 
 Lewis married Lueretia Leighton, 
 
 George, unmarried, died Fel). 2U, I^'^IMJ, nl IJertlia, 
 Minn. 
 
 Aubine married James S. Lane ; native of St. 
 Stephen, N. B,; both living in 3Iinneapolis. 
 
 jMargaret died at age of seventeen, 
 
 Frances married Robert Wood, native of Illinois ; 
 she died, 181)}); he died, 1S64 at Fort Abercrombia, 
 ]\[inn. 
 
 Sarah married Alvarado Kiehardson ; she living ; 
 lie died in 189(), Minneapolis. 
 
 Nathaniel Dorman, od son of Benjamin nrarried 
 Phebe Spears Schoppe ; one child, John, who married 
 Melisa Leighton of Cherryfield — Children ; 
 
 Herbert Phebe Alonzo Minnie 
 
 Phebe married Mason Griffin — Children : 
 Alonzo Minnie 
 
108 lifeJ of hanxaii westox 
 
 Nathaniel iiiairifd M Susainiii l^iitnam — Children 
 by this marriage : 
 
 Phebe -.\mbrose Augustus Harri.suJi 
 
 Samuel Ellen Leonard 
 
 Phebe married Curtis Davis, Clierrytield — Children: 
 Jeanette Aul)ine Charlotte Ethel 
 
 Jeanette married John Case ; one chihL 
 
 Aubine married Frank Evans ; no children. 
 
 Charlotte married Amos Britten; three children^ 
 names not reported. 
 
 Ethel married ; no children. 
 
 Ellen, daughter of X. and Susanna l^oi'man, nrarried 
 
 Charles Sliea — Children : 
 
 Mary *Charles Albert Annie Amanda Belle 
 Harry Charles Epliraim Aubine Geoi-gie 
 
 Mary married Walter Saulsbury — Children: 
 i^hirgaret Maurice 
 
 Albert married Laura Caylor — Children : 
 
 Hardy Percie Ec^ho 
 
 Annie married Jeremiah Goble — Four children, 
 names not reported. 
 
 Amanda married John Wesburg — Xo children. 
 
 Belle married .Vlexandci- Crider — Childi'en : 
 Kate Herbert Syljil. llus family Vive in Minn. 
 
 Harrison Y., son of Xath'l Dorman^ bori] in Har- 
 rington, l<S-iO, now livings married Sarah Townsend. 
 Fair Haven, Minn.— -Cliildren : 
 
 Elma Etta Colin Koy 
 
 Harrv Mvrtle (Tarland 
 
 -^Died when vounc-, 
 
LFFK OF HANNAH WKSTOX KM) 
 
 Colin Dorman, fourth and youngest s(jii of l>enja- 
 mill married Priscilla, daughter of Asa Fariisworth ; 
 first years of married life they lived in AVHiitneyville, 
 later in Milbridge a short time and in I8i35 moved to 
 Sheboygan Falls, Wis.: Chi Idi-en— Harriet, Ivory R. 
 
 Harriet married Alfred Wright, a native of Aylmar, 
 Canada ; reside in San Fraiiciseo. No children. 
 
 Ivory resides at Sheboygan Falls; unmarried. 
 
 Colin JDorman died at Sheboygan Falls, Dec. .3, 18U3, 
 aged about 80 years : his wife died Aug. 17, 1892, 
 aged 72. Their children were natives of Whitney- 
 ville. 
 
 Benjamin F., son of J osiah Dorman, married Florilla 
 Parritt of Steuben : 2d Sarah Strout of Milbridge : M 
 Mai'tha I). Wilson; one child of Benj. and Martha. 
 Eliza, who married Lewis H. Libby, son of Nathan of 
 Jonesboro. Children — Lyman, Willard, Laura. 
 
 Lyman married Myrtle Vincent; two (children — 
 Claude, Huth. 
 
 Willard married Sarah Floyd. Cliildren— Ellery, 
 Ivy. Ira, Henrietta. 
 
 Laura married \Vm. Parker; no chikhen. 
 
 Mrs. Lewis Li!,l)y and descendants are living in the 
 state of Wjjshingtoiu exce])t Lyman, who lives in 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Martha of Josiah Dorman died in childhood. 
 
 Emily, sister of Martha, died at Kingston, April 
 17, 187U. 
 
 Keziah, of Josiah, died at the age of three. 
 
110 LIFE OF HAXXAIl WESTON 
 
 Mary, of .losiah, married .luseph W'eyiner, a native 
 of New York state ; lie died at Kingston, Oct., 189(). 
 
 Benjamin and Sarah's children— 
 
 Cora Charles =*^Mary Lilly Hamlet 
 
 Cora married Hutledg-e Moss. CluldreJi — 
 
 Guy William Florence Cecil Clifford John 
 
 Charles married Cora Wilson. Cliildren^ — 
 Walter Maude Eugene 
 
 Lilly married George Roberts : no children. 
 
 Hamlet married Annie Petty. (J)ne child — Harold, 
 
 Benj. and descendants live in state of Washington, 
 except Mrs. Moss and family live in Minnesota. 
 
 Hannah Dorman, second daughter of Benjamin, 
 married Wm. 8. Marston of Jonesboro. Children : 
 Gilbert Josiah Daniel Eliza Lucy Elvira 
 Sarah Cynthia Aubine Ruth AVilliam 
 
 All born in Jonesboro, except lAicy, wlio was borji 
 in Boston, her parents having resided there a few 
 years. 
 
 Gilbert married Martha, daughter of John Shorey — 
 he died on the island of Hayti, W. L, while at sea; 
 two children, Charles and Gilbert. 
 
 Gilbert was killed by accident on a cattle ranche in 
 the West ; he left two children ; one was named 
 Martha, for her grandmother. 
 
 Charles married Gilbert's widow ; both are now 
 living. 
 
 *Died when young. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WES J ON 111 
 
 Daniel married Sylvester, eldest daughter of Horace 
 and Sabrina Hall, of Jonesboro. Children ; 
 
 Horace Maude Madge 
 
 Daniel married second, Miriam, daughter of John 
 and Saiah (Whitney) Lord, Jonesboro. Children : 
 Until l^^.rley 
 
 Eliza married 11. A. Johnson ; no children, 
 Lucy married Lenmn Hilton, of California; no 
 further record of them. 
 
 Elvira married Wm. Burnett. Children: 
 
 AVilliam Robert 
 
 Sarah died Chelsea, Mass. 
 
 Ruth of Wm. S., married Geo. Lawton of Chelsea, 
 Cynthia married John Sweetzer. Children : 
 Edward Lottie Olive 
 
 William was lost in the Behring Sea; Josiah is living 
 in Boston ; Daniel hi Jonesboro ; Eliza died at Roque 
 Bluft's ; Lucy in San Jose, Call.; Elvira, Sarah and 
 Cynthia live in Chelsea ; Ruth in Cambridge, Mass.; 
 Aubine in Machiasport, 
 
 Betsey, daughter of Benj. Dorman, miirried Stephen 
 H. Farnsworth, of Jonesboro; lived in Beddington, 
 later moved to China, Me., where both died. Children: 
 George E. Nathaniel JMartha Eliza 
 Everett Colin Josephine xVlvni 
 
 Cliildren of ]^>etsey all died young. 
 Alvin died in the army during the C:ivil War. 
 George E. married Emeline Libby. Children : 
 Wilber Simon 1-izzie 
 
 Wilbei- died at the age of 28, 
 
112 I, IKE OF HANNAH WE8T0X 
 
 Lizzie married Frank Norton, live in C'aril)ou, Me. 
 Children : 
 
 Velma N'erna Fred Halpli 
 
 Nathaniel, son oi Steplien, lived on his father'8 
 homestead, China ; married .\l)bie liarrv. Children : 
 Everett Mansell (n*orgie 
 
 Nathaniel and wile l)oth dead. 
 Leonard, son of Xathaiiiel Dormaii, married Harriet 
 
 Childs. Children : 
 
 Bert Lee Mande Lillian Eai'l <ilady.s 
 
 Leonard and t'amil_y live in Oklahoma, 
 
 Harrison Y., .son of Nathaniel, married Sarah Towns- 
 end of Fair Haven, Minn.; she a native of Ohio, born 
 in 1845 : Children : 
 Elma Etta C'olin Hoy Harry Myrtle Garland 
 
 Elma married .Inlian Belden. Childien : 
 Archie Byrel 
 
 Etta married Geo, Waller ; one child, Myrtle. 
 
 Colin married Helen ; two children: 
 
 Myrtle Joy 
 
 Roy married ; one child, Aubine. 
 
 Harry married Mattie Miller ; no children. 
 
 Myrtle married Alfred J^ynch ; one child, Theron. 
 
 Garland Dor man married Sarali Ely ; no children 
 
 ^Vmbrose T., son of Nathaniel, 1S(>0, married Sarah 
 J. Goble. Children : 
 William A. Edith V. Sylvia .1 . Martha A. John P, 
 
 Loraine JJ)orman, of Benjamin, married David Pat- 
 ten of Cherryfield in 1828 ; She born Dee. 27, 1808 ; 
 he born Sept- 2, 1805 ; she died in 1851 in Cherrytield; 
 he July 12, 1869, in Talmadge, Me, 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WKSTON llf) 
 
 Lydia, youngest (laughter of !3eiijaniin and Eliza, 
 married Wni. Davis of Harrington ; slie born in IL, 
 Nov. 27, 1817. 
 
 Samuel J^ornian, of Nathaniel, married Martha 
 Goble, native of Kentucky. Children : 
 
 Jessie Harriet Ella Ada Ellen 
 
 Elmer Myrtle Franklin Gracie 
 Ambrose, brother of .Samuel, married Sarah Goble. 
 Children : 
 
 William Edith Sylvia Maitha John P. 
 
 Harriet, of Samuel, married Magnes Johnson. 
 Children : Lilly, Victoria. 
 
 Phebe Dorman mariied Curtis Davis. Children : 
 
 Jeannette Aubine Charlotte Ethel 
 Jeannette married John Case ; one child. 
 Aubine married Frank Evans ; no children. 
 Charlotte married Amos Bretton ; three children. 
 
 Ethel married ; no children. 
 
 Emily Dorman, daughter of Josiah, unmiirried. 
 Mary married Joseph Weymar. Children : 
 
 Ada Alvah Mildred Ida 
 
 Last two died young. 
 
 Ida Weymer married Jerome H., son of Peter Farns- 
 worth of Columbia Falls. Children : 
 
 Lester Eftie Ira 
 
 Alvah Weymer married Annie Peters ; children : 
 
 Bertha Clifford AValter 
 
 Mrs. Weymer and family live in Minnesota, except 
 Alvah and family who live in South Dakota. 
 
 Ambrose Dorman married Sarah Goble ; children : 
 William Edith Svlvia Martha John 
 
114 LIFE OF HASXAH WESTON 
 
 William iiiamed Etlie Lucy ; children ; 
 
 Sylvia Pearl Goldie William 
 
 Edith married Raymond Gates ; no children^ 
 
 Sylvia married Benjamin Tuey ; cliildren not re* 
 Ijorted. 
 
 Ambrose Dorman and descendants all live in Min- 
 nesota. 
 
 Ellen Dorman, daughter of Nathaniel, married 
 Charles Shea : children : 
 
 Gary *Gharles Albert Annie Amanda Belle 
 *Harry Gharles Ephraim Aubine Georgia 
 Mary married Walter Saulsbury t children : 
 
 Margaret Maurice 
 
 Albert mai'ried Laura Caylor ; children ■ 
 
 Hardy Percie Echo 
 
 .\nnie married Jeremiah Goble t four children* 
 names not known, 
 
 Amanda married John Westburg; no children. 
 Belle married Alexander Grider ; children : 
 Kate Herbert Sybil 
 
 Above family live in Minnesota. 
 
 Tlie hrst Dorman of which we find record was 
 Thomas at Ipswich, Mass., in 1684. Thomas had three 
 sons. Eldest son died without issue. His second son^ 
 Thomas, had a family of seventeen children. His 
 tirst child, Timothy, was an early settler of Boxford^ 
 Mass. Thomas' twelfth child — -Jabez — was an early 
 settler of Arundel, now Kennebunkport, Me. Tim- 
 othy's son, Jabez, jr., settled sometime about 1769 
 at Mill River, Harrington, Me. 
 
 *Died when young. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 115 
 
 Hannah, Mrs. Weston's second child, died at the age 
 of one year ; burned to death when their house was 
 burned. The third child was named Hannah and she 
 married Moses Plummer, jr., (his second wife) of 
 Pleasant River, now Addison. Their children : 
 
 Barnabas Abagail Robert Ma,r.y 
 
 Josiah W. Aphia Eben 
 
 Barnabas married Asenath Wass ; he born Dec. 7, 
 1806; she April 21, 1808; married May 14, 1829; 
 children ; Miranda Jerome 
 
 Miranda married Calvin Small of Cherryfield, Nov. 
 28, 1847; children: Frank E. Ella 
 
 Frank married Augusta H. Ray, Dec. 28, 1876 ; 
 children: Ella Allana Mary 
 
 Ella married James F. Hooper of Castine, June 27, 
 1900. 
 
 Barney Plummer died Nov. 20, 1856; Asenath Aug. 
 
 13, 1852; Jerome died young; Calvin Small died Feb. 
 
 15, 1890 ; Ella Small, May 1, 1859 ; Miranda Small, 
 
 Nov. 22, 1891 ; Augusta Small, July 24, 1888. 
 
 Josiah W. never married. 
 
 Abagail married Asa Webb of Harrington ; children: 
 
 Arthur Alonzo, lost at sea John Julia 
 
 Anna Albion 
 
 One of Abagail's girls, Aphia, married John Webb ; 
 children : 
 
 Augustus Charles * William Hannah 
 
 Caroline George Ed. ^Sarah 
 
 Augustus and Charles died without issue. 
 Hannah married F. E. Downes of Portland ; one 
 child, Chester. 
 
 *Died in infancy. 
 
116 
 
 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Caroline not married. 
 
 George Ed, married Charlotte Woodbury ; one child, 
 Apliia. 
 
 Mary married StiUman Dyer of Addison ; two chil- 
 dren : Orva Eliza 
 
 Orva died young. 
 
 Eliza married George E. Ihise of Bath, Me.; two 
 children : Florence Helen 
 
 Eben married Betsey Snrail ; one child, a son, who 
 died when young. 
 
 Robert Plummer married Susan Small ; no children. 
 
 Arthur Webb married Emeline Dinsmore ; children: 
 Everett ^Nellie P^rank 
 
 Everett married Dora Leigh ton ; two children : 
 Hersey Georgia 
 
 Frank, son of Arthur, married Hannah McCaslin ; 
 two children : Nellie Ida 
 
 Albion Webb married Martha A. Davis, Cherrylield ; 
 children : 
 
 Stillman Alvin Howard Berniece 
 Blanche Edward Grace Clifford 
 
 Mr. Webb and family live in West Sullivan, Me. 
 
 Stillman Webb married Lucv Kincaid, Columbia. 
 
 Alvin married Edith Fickett, Franklin. 
 
 Grace Webb died May 26: 1900. 
 
 Julia Webb married -- — Cushnran ; children, names 
 not known. 
 
 John, son of Abagail, married — ; one child? 
 
 Ernest, live Lynn, Mass. 
 
 ^Died when young. 
 
I A F E < > I ■ HANNAH W i:si«> N 117 
 
 Moses ['liiniiuer, Jr., went to CiLlifoi-iiia in tlu' scli. 
 Helgrade from Chen-ytiekl in 1849. In a short time 
 after iurival he died in [)assing- from tlie vessel to tlie 
 shore in San Francisco. 
 
 Snsan Weston married Nathan Hanscom ; children: 
 Ruth Phebe Nathan .losiah 
 
 Samne] ITamiah 
 
 Ruth married Aaron Avciillof ("i-a\vford ; cliildren : 
 Tloratio A. Warren S. Rosv.ell H. Frank S. 
 Abbie A. Charles W. Josiah W. Ennna Mary 
 
 Horatio married 3laria Hanscom; no children. 
 
 AVarren married Belle lUake of Wesley ; their chil- 
 di'cn : Lillie Frederic 
 
 Lillie married - — — Clark. 
 
 Roswell died young. 
 
 Frank married 31aria Wormwood, daughter of Dan- 
 iel F. Wormwood of Crawford ; cliildren :•, 
 
 Roswell Albert Clara 
 
 Abbie married George Blake; she died and he mar- 
 ried Abbie's sister, Emma. 
 
 Charles never married. 
 
 Josiah AV. married .Minnie McLaughlin of Baring, 
 Me.; childi-en : Roy Ruth N*ellie 
 
 Mary married Sanuiel A\'(»rnr\vo(>d of Crawfoi'd : no 
 children. 
 
 Phebe married Charles Cottle of Alexander. Ale.. 
 children: Angeline nam|)den Emma Cliarles 
 
 Sanuiel married Mar\- 'J'riffet ; children : 
 Roswell * Ella 
 
 Hannah married George Averill of Cooper ; children: 
 Susan Lovina (Jeorge W. Jesse 
 Sophia \'iola Angeline 
 
Josiali VV., soli of Susan and Nathan Hansconi, mar^ 
 ried Amanda Tyler, a sister of the late B. W. Tyler of 
 Alexander. They Were married at ^Stockton, C'al., in 
 1850 ; ehildren : George, born in 1852 ; Nathan, born 
 in 1855. 
 
 Nathan married and has a family living at ^m An^ 
 dreas, CaL 
 
 Bion B., born lbi.'>7^ was living, \y\wu last heard froni 
 at Ceres^ Stanislaus county-. C'al. 
 
 Josiah born in 1851^ ninnarried^ lived al iVlodesta, 
 Cal. — at last accoiuits was publisliing a newspaper. 
 
 Edward born in J 8t)o^ died in 1891; left a widow j 
 nothing further known. 
 
 Elma born in 18t)7^ married, but no further reijort, 
 Robert borti in 18*70, liVed \\ith his nephew Bion. 
 when last heard from. 
 
 Amanda Hanseom died at Ceres, Cal.-, 188i>. 
 
 Josiah VV. Hanseom lived with his son, Bion, after 
 his wife's death : this date^ Dee. '02^ do not know 
 whether Josiah is living or not. 
 
 Nathan^ of Josiah's family-, is a lawyer having a iaV\ 
 office in San Andreas^ He has one son, Ralph, tlie 
 son was born at Seattle, Wash., 1884. 
 
 Bion lives on a "rental farin'* in (^eres : he has two 
 girls born 1881 and 1883. 
 
 Josiah W. went to Califoinia iii 1849^ or '50 ; his 
 wife, Miss Tyler^ followed soon* hence their marriage 
 in Stockton. We have hot been able to learn the 
 maiden names of Josiah's son's wives or date of miirriag"e. 
 
Ll*E O'l-' HANNAH \VElStON' 119 
 
 Betsey Weston married Asa. Farnsvvorth •; r^hildreii : 
 
 Sybil Stephen Natlianiel Joseph 
 
 Keziah Peter llaniet 'George 
 
 Sophia Priscilla Caroline 
 
 •Sybil married Nathan Libby ; children : 
 
 George M. Betsey Emeline Lewif^ 
 
 Kllery, who died in the Union army. 
 Oeorge married Eliza tie th Noyes ; children : 
 
 Mary l.uella Bessie 
 
 Mary married Bela A. Garnett ; chihlren : 
 A'erna Mand Willi^^ Clarence Carl Beilha 
 None married, 
 
 Luella nuirried Liucohi Reynolds ; children : 
 Viola Minnie Arthnr Herbert Ralph Daniel 
 None married 
 
 Bessie married Ernest Smith ; children ■: 
 Harold Oscar Ernest 
 
 Sybil married, second, Samuel Trickey ; one child, 
 
 Asa \\'. 
 
 Asa married Laura, daughter of he wis 'i'upper; 
 'children : Lizzie Sybil Both died young. 
 
 Keziah, of Asa, married Hiram Libby; one child, Asa. 
 
 Asa lUai'ried Nancy, daughter of Capt. Samuel 
 Watts of Jonesboro; children: 
 
 Ella Hiram Alice Omar 
 
 Alice married Elba Mayo; children: 
 Ethel Harland 
 
 married Melvina Young, one child, Everett. 
 
 Sophia married Josiah W. Oorman :— See Benjamin 
 |j)orman*s faniily-. 
 
 Stephen married Betsey Dormali ; — See DoVinan. 
 
120 
 
 j;iFK OF UAN.NAll WK8TON 
 
 Peter married Abagail Pineo, daughter of Timothy 
 *^f Jonesboro ; he borji in Joiiesboro, May 11, 1815 ; 
 she in same town Jan. 6, 1818 ; married Oct. 10, 1845; 
 cuildren : Jerome H., born ^Vug. :i]0, 1848 ; married 
 Ida J. Weymer, Dec. 20, 1876, she died May 20, 1899 ; 
 their chikh'en, Lester W., born Oct, 12, 1879, now at 
 the Philippine islands ; Ethe, born Aug. lo, 1881 ; Ira, 
 born Dec. 0: 1884, live in Kingston, Mimi. 
 
 Susan, born May 19, 1850, lives in Otisheld, Me.; 
 married James C. Moss, ^larch 4, 187(5 ; one child, 
 Vinia, born Sept. 20, 1870 ; married Chester Jordan, 
 Xov. 20, 1900 ; live in Worcester, Mass.; one cliild, 
 Grace. 
 
 Abbie S., of Jerome, born March 5, 1801 ; married 
 Benj. F. Allen, March 17, 188o ; their children : Susie, 
 born April 27, 1880; Carolyn, born July 4, 1898; live 
 at Columbia Falls. 
 
 Priscilla, of Asa, married Cblin Dorman. — See Doi*- 
 man, 
 
 Nathaniel C, of Asa, married Clara, daughter of 
 Capt, Samuel AVatts of Jonesboro ; children : 
 
 Maria Herbert Fannie 
 
 Maria married E, D, Churchill of Illinois ; children: 
 
 Frank Clarence Edward 
 
 Herbert married Olive Trowbridge ; one child, Na- 
 thaniel. 
 
 Fannie, unmarried : resides at Sheboygan Falls, 
 Wis. 
 
 Harriet, of Asa, married Simon Berry of Machias ; 
 no children. 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 121 
 
 Caroline, of Asa, married Win. Longfellow, resided 
 at Sheboygan Falls ; one child, Gilbert ; he married 
 Alice Goodell ; children : Winfield, Elmer, Wads- 
 worth. 
 
 AVm. Longfellow married, second, Amelia Farns- 
 worth, daughter of Amasa ; no children. 
 
 Joseph W., of Asa, born March 27, 1827 ; married 
 Eliza, daughter of Gamaliel Pineo of Columbia, resi- 
 dence Columbia Falls ; children : 
 
 Charlotte, born April 9, 1853 
 Gilbert, " June 4, 1854 
 Priscilla, " May 5, 1858 
 Mary, " Dec. 26, 1868 
 
 Gilbert died {was drowned) Aug. 6, 1871. 
 
 Charlotte married Eugene Look, of Addison, June 
 2, 1877; now living in Columbia Falls; children : 
 
 M. Editha, born March 20, 1878; married Nov. 7, 
 1899: Geo. Tabbut; reside there. 
 
 Fred, born Jan. 16, 1880 ; lives in E. Cambridge, 
 
 Mass. 
 
 Lester, born April 12, 1883 
 Seth, born April 2, 1888 
 Priscilla, of Joseph, married July 6, 1883, Seth C- 
 Bryant of Stoneham ; reside there ; no children. 
 
 Mary, of Joseph, married Rufus Tabbutt of Colum- 
 bia Falls, Oct. 24, 1893 : reside there ; no children. 
 
 George Franklin, of Asa, married Sophronia, daugh- 
 ter of Moses Smith of Jonesboro ; children : 
 Ada Herbert Carrie Laura Harriet Amasa 
 Herbert died , 1900. 
 
 Ada married D. O. D. Hanscom, Marshtield; children: 
 Herbert Frank AYilliam 
 
12*> 
 
 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 C!arri«^ Hiarried Win. Thompson, Roque Bliifts ; 
 children : George, Harriet ; residence, Machias. 
 
 Laura, Harriet, Herbert and AniavSa, of G. Franklin, 
 nnniarried. 
 
 Elsie Weston married John Schoppe ; children : 
 Phebe Anthony Fannie William 
 
 Hannah Eliza George 
 
 Phebe married ]*^athaniel Dorman ; one child, Free^ 
 man ; he married Melissa Leighton ; (children : 
 Herbert Phebe Alonzo 
 
 Anthony married Sophronia Gottin. — See Daniel 
 Coffin. 
 
 Frances or Fannice, of Elsie and John, married 
 Adrian Abbott, of New Hampshire ; children : 
 
 Elsie Viola Sevella Orson Valentine 
 
 Philander William P^rank Anthony 
 
 Elsie married John Fowler : no children. 
 
 Viola married Rufns Doe ; children : Henry and two 
 others, names not known. 
 
 Sevella died young, 
 
 Orson married Susan Doe ; children : 
 
 William Perley Xettie Fred 
 
 Perley married Venia White, one child, Lillian. 
 
 Nettie married Lincoln Haycock, one child, Ralph. 
 
 Valentine married Julia Stevens ; children : 
 Ellis George 
 
 Philander married Rose Worcester ; children : 
 Endora Fannie Grace 
 
 Adrian Abbott died in 1881 ; his wife died Oct. 28, 
 1902, aged 88. After the death of her husband she 
 made her home with her son, Anthony, at Pittsburg, 
 
LIFE OF HAN:N^AH WESTON 123 
 
 N. H. When first luaiTied for several years tliey 
 lived in Jonesboro, at the head of the "Gieat Cove," 
 later nioved to Beddington, where now their ashes 
 repose. 
 
 William, of .John and Elsie, married, first, Margaret 
 Schoppe ; children : 
 
 Harvey VVintield Gleason 
 
 George Joseph Martha 
 
 Harvey married Mary Cushman ; one child, William. 
 Wintield married Olive Longfellow ; children : 
 
 Arthur Ray 
 
 Gleason married Ida Hanson ; children ; 
 
 Florence Martha 
 
 George married Nellie Higgins : children : 
 
 Herman Leslie 
 
 Joseph married Mina Worcester ; no children. 
 Martha married Andrew Currier ; children ; 
 
 Harold Ella 
 
 Martha married, secimd, Patrick Grey ; children : 
 
 Merrill Arthur Lois 
 
 William Schoppe married, second. Lois Cushman ; 
 children : 
 
 Everett Maggie Ella Albert 
 
 Everett married Hattie Guptill ; children : 
 
 Lena Harry 
 
 Maggie married Llerbert Libby ; children : 
 
 Fannie Mary Alice Samuel William 
 Ella unmarried. 
 
 Albert married Josephine Flummer. 
 Hannah married Wilmot Bridgham ; children : 
 Leverett Clara Margaret Fannie 
 Louise Joseph Ozias Leander 
 
1-24 
 
 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Leverett married Harriet, daughter of Joseph Wes^ 
 ton ; children : 
 
 Mary Lois Helen Arthur 
 
 Eliza Sarah Xellie Grace 
 
 Mary married Harry Church ; children : 
 Cyrus Helen Hannah Harriet 
 
 Lois married A. A. Small ; one child^ Allena. 
 
 Helen married Alden Parker ; one child, Fannie » 
 
 Arthur married Edna Freeston ; children : 
 Leverett William 
 
 Eliza married Milford Small ; no children. 
 
 Clara married George E. Noyes ; children : 
 Leander Angle Annie 
 
 Margaret married Adams Far ns worth ; children t 
 Wilmot Ernest Charlotte 
 
 Algie Eldridge Carroll 
 
 Fannie married Ellis Smitli ; children : 
 
 Hattie Eva Zella Mabel 
 
 Clara Charles Herbert Ozias 
 
 Hattie married Charles Crocker ; children. 
 
 Louise married C. E. Smith ; no children. 
 
 Joseph and Leander died when young. 
 
 Ozias married Bertha Farnsworth ; children : 
 Earl Waldo Alfred 
 
 Eliza, of Elsie and John, married Ephraim Watts : 
 children : 
 
 George Albion Laura Samuel 
 
 George married Minnie Allen ; children : 
 
 Adella Herbert Eliza 
 
 Adella married Amasa Farnsworth ; children : 
 
 Neal Ina Florice Paul 
 
 Herbert unmarried* 
 
I.IFK OF HANJsAil WESTON 1 'JT) 
 
 liiliza uiarried Arthur Tucker; one c^liild. 
 Albion married Lucretia Foster ; one eliild. 
 Bernice married Charles Knight; no chikhen. 
 Laura married George Johnson ; one child. 
 
 Ephraim married Florence ■■; three children. 
 
 Laura married, second^ Aljner Bean ; no children. 
 Samuel married Elsie Hilyard ; children : 
 
 Frank May Doris Marion 
 
 Ueorge, of Elsie and John, married Adelaide Wake- 
 tield ; children : 
 
 Lizzie Frank 
 
 Frank married Laura Bovvker ; no children. 
 
 Aphia Weston married Wm. Schoppe ; one child, 
 Francis, died April, 184L 
 
 Fannie Weston itiarried Francis Schoppe ; no 
 I'hildren. 
 
 Sophia Watts Weston married Amasa Farnsworth. 
 She born in Jonesboro^ May 81, 1*798 : he born in same 
 town Feb. 24, 1792; married at Jonesboro in 1815. 
 Children : 
 
 John Hillard, born Aug. I, 1816; died April 8, 1888 
 Leoniece " Feb. 4, 1819 
 
 Leonard " March 14, 1821 ; 
 
 Charles " Sept. 20, 1828 ; died Oct. 29, 1891 
 
 Eri C. " Jan. 28, 1826 : died April 7, 1895 
 
 Jos. Warren -' Sept. 20, 1829 
 
 Phebe, | ^^^^.j^^ i^^j.j^ j.j^u 5 i^i^^ 
 
 Melia ) ' 
 
 Albert, born Xov. 9, 1886 
 
 John H., born in Jonesboro, moved with his father's 
 
 family to Beddington. He married Lucy C. Hatch of 
 
 Dexter, Oct. 22, 1851 ; always lived at Beddington ; 
 
120 
 
 LIFE OF HAXXAH WESTON 
 
 children: Walter, born June 1, 1854; Andrew S.., 
 July 10, 1856; Mary M., May 17, 1861 ; Milton E., 
 July 6, 1868; Evie E., July 25, 1870. 
 
 Walter C. married Sybil Wilson of Cherrytield, 
 Aug. 18, 1882 ; children : Harold, born Aug. 1, 1884 ; 
 Hillard, Aug.^1, 1884 (supposed to be twins); now live 
 at Oherrytield- 
 
 Andrew married Laura (Jakes of Beddington, Dee. 
 Dec. 25, 1879 ; children : Sherman, born July 21, 
 1880 ; Blanche, May 19, 1888 ; John, Feb. 8, 1885; 
 Ray, Nov. 28, 1891 ; Maurice, Aug. 28, 1901 : residence 
 Beddington. 
 
 Mary married Benjamin F. Oakes, Sept. 10, 1880 ; 
 children: Harry, born in P^eddington, May 6, 1883; 
 Ruth, born May 4, 1893 ; Lena, born May l:S, 1895 ; 
 residence, Cherrytield. 
 
 Milton E., unmarried, living at Haverhill, Mass. 
 
 Evie E. married Selden Oakes, Sept. o, 1888 ; 
 children. Ralph, born Aug. 10, 1889; Clifford, born 
 April 6, 1891 ; Eli, March 15, 1892; Mildred, June 23, 
 1895; Milo, April 15, 1897; Lee, Oct. 30, 1899; Eben, 
 May 4, 1902 ; residence, Beddington. 
 
 Leoniece married John Q. Wliittemore, Aug. 22, 
 1839 ; residence. Dexter, Me.; children : Amasa, born 
 Dec. 25 1840, at Beddington; died Oct. 5, 1860, at 
 Dexter. 
 
 Albert, born Nov. 20, 1845, at Ripley, Me.; died 
 July 26, 1848 ; Anna A., born Aug. 25, 1850, at Ripley] 
 she married Thomas A. Chandler, Oct. 5, 1876 ; no 
 children. 
 
 John Q. Wliittemore, died at Dexter, June 5^ 1888. 
 
MKE OF HANNAH WESTOX 127 
 
 Leonard J. married Nancy Wilson of Cherrytleld ; 
 residence, Beddington ; she died May 19, 1888; children: 
 >^ophia, born Sept. 20, 1844 ; died Jan. 15, 1901 ; 
 Morea J., born July 10, 1846 ; Alfred C, born Dec. 17, 
 1848 ; Lovicey E., born May 24, 18ol ; Guilford M., 
 born Nov. o, 1853 ; Susan, born Aug. 7, 1756; Charles 
 B., born Oct. 28, 1858: Frank G., born March 18, 1801. 
 
 Sophia married John Small, Oct. 10, 1870; children: 
 Florence, born Sept. 27, 1971 ; George, born Jan. 12, 
 1878 ; Guilford and Milford (twins), born May 29, 
 1874; Jenni<3, born Oct, 20, 1875; Lyndon, born May 
 28, 1877; Irving, born April 2, 1879; Simon, born 
 March 15, 1881 ; Alice, born Aug. 8, 1880; died Nov. 
 15, 1898 ; Ralph; born Aug, 25, 1888. 
 
 Milford married Lila Bridgham, Oct. 1>3, 1901 ; re- 
 side at Beddington. 
 
 Alfred, son of Leonaid, married Lydia \V. Evans, 
 8ept., 1871; reside at Cherryfield; children; Abbie, 
 born June 6, 1872; Amelia, born April 28, 1874; 
 Aurilla, born March 0, 1870; Guy, born Dec. 17, 1878; 
 Leonard, born Oct. 1880. 
 
 Alfred's wife died May 27, 1895. 
 
 Morea married Parker Willey in 18.s7 : reside in 
 
 •Oherrvfield ; no children. 
 
 Parker Willey died May, 1898. 
 
 Lovicey married Oscar Ingersoil, July 80, 1870: he 
 filed at Beddington, July 12,' 1898; children: Eugene, 
 born Sept. 21, 1871 ; Albert, born Nov. 15, 1878; Ad- 
 die, born March 7, 1870 ; Hermon, born Dec. 23, 1878 : 
 Emma, born June 21, 1881 ; Bcrnice, born Ai)ril 28, 
 1884; Charles and Nancy (twins) born April 20, 1-92; 
 •died March 80, 1898. 
 
128 LIFE OF UANJSAll WKSTOJf 
 
 Addie married Edgiir Turrey- Sept. 5, 1894 ; children! 
 Hiram died in infancy \ Maurice and Clarence (twins), 
 born March 20, 18H7 ; Hazel Kutli, born Feb. 14, 190(1; 
 Knuth Edgar and Thella Luella (twinn), born Sept. 27, 
 1901. 
 
 Reside at Terre Haute, Ind. 
 
 Emma married Charles G. Sproul, Sept, 24, 1898, of 
 Beddington ; children : Sadie Lovicey, now live at 
 AVaketield, Mass. 
 
 Susan married Horace Leigiiton, March <>, 1^80 : 
 live at Cherryfield ; one child, Lucretia, born A{)ril 23. 
 1881. 
 
 Guilford M. married Belinda McNaniaia, April 10» 
 1881 ; reside at Sullivan, Me.; children : Alice, born 
 March 15, 1882; Adali Libby, born May 22, 1880 
 
 Charles B. married Lucretia Tabbutt, Oct. 27, 188() ; 
 reside at Cherryfield ; children : Roy, born Oct. 28^ 
 1887 ; Carl^ born Oct 12^ 1890 ; Ora^born Nov. 5, 1894. 
 
 Frank married Angie Leigh ton, ()ct. 28, 1888. No 
 children ; reside at Beddington. 
 
 Charles H., of Amasa, married Abigail Gould, (Jet: 
 29, 1 849 ; residence^ Beddington : one child, Sarah^ 
 born March 25, 1850; died March 10, 1877. She mar- 
 ried Robert Sproul of Cherryfield ; children : Charles^ 
 born May Vd, 1874; Howard, born March 28, 1876. 
 
 Charles married Emma Ingersoll, Sept. 24, 1898 5 
 one child^ Sadie^ born Aug. 6, 1901, live in Wakefield^ 
 Mass. 
 
 Abigail^ wife of Chas. H., died March I8;i 1895. 
 
 Cliarles H* married, second, Louisa Ingersoll of Co^ 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WKSIOX 1 -'■> 
 
 lunibia ill Sept., 188(> ; she died at lieddiiigton, Dec. 
 15, 1899. 
 
 Eri married, Elizabeth Pettengill of Hancock, Me., 
 Aug. 18, 1853: lived at Beddingtoii ; she died Jan. :il, 
 1860; children: William, born May 22, 1854; died 
 Dec. 80, 187o : Alvah, born June 15, 185(); Horace, 
 born July 15, 1859. 
 
 Eri married, second, Hannah H. Small, Oct. 21, 1860; 
 she died in July, 1861. 
 
 Eri married, third, Aurilla Wilson, July ;J, 1862- 
 They resided at Beddington ; she now lives at Cher- 
 ry field ; cliildren : Arthur, born May 8, 1868 ; Eri, 
 born March 81, 1869; died Sept. 10, 1885 ; AYiUiam PI., 
 born Jan. 18, 1874. 
 
 Arthur now is in the V. S. service at the l^iillipine 
 islands ; unmarried. 
 
 Alvah, of Eri's first marriage, married Celia Small 
 in 1882 ; residence, Oherryfield ; she died in 1896 : 
 children: Fred, born 1888: Eli, born 1887; Dora, 
 born 1889; Everett, born 1894; Sept. 80, 1893 married 
 Sarah G. Heath of New Brunswick. 
 
 William, of Eri's third wife's ehildrcn married 
 Maggie Kelly, Dec, 7, 1897; hve in Beddington; 
 children: Tenia, l)orn June 15, 189.^; Flora, July 
 12, 1902. 
 
 Joseph W. married Annie C, Schoppe, Sept. 28, 1856; 
 children : Kate, l)orn July 9, 1857 ; died Oct. 14, 
 1872; Jason, born March 29, 1859; Amasa, born 
 Dec. 6, 1865 ; Lyman, born Nov. 27, 1867 ; Edith, born 
 Nov. 18, 1869; Bertha, l)orn Dec. 8, 1871. 
 
130 
 
 LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON 
 
 Jason married Grace Jenkins, March 10, 1883; resi- 
 dence, Portland ; children : Harold, Ijorn Juh^ 29, 
 1884 ; Joseph, born Aug. 14, 1891 ; Elmer, born Nov. 
 28, 1893; Elsie, born April 1, 1896. 
 
 Amasa C, married Delle Watts, June 1, 1893 ; resi- 
 dence, Cherryfield ; children : Neal, born April 1, 
 1894; Ina, born April 21, 189(3; Nora, born Nov. 12, 
 1898 ; Paul, born Aug. 5, 1901. Rev. Lynn V. Farns- 
 worth, now at Steuben. 
 
 Edith married William P. Shaw, xVug. 10,1898; 
 residence. East Eddington, one child; Roger F., June 
 1, 1899. 
 
 Bertha, uimuirried. 
 
 Phebe married Joseph Campbell, Dec. 24, 1852 ; she 
 now resides at Three Lakes, Wis.; he died at Omro, 
 Wis., Sept. 15, 1883; children : Louis, born in Cher- 
 rylield, Dec. 24, 1852; Talbut, born in Cherryfield, 
 April 2, 1854 ; Charles, born in AVisconsin, April 27, 
 18(50 ; Amasa, born in Wisconsin, Nov. 15, 1861 ; Kate 
 born in Wisconsin, Feb. 22, 1863 ; Fred, born in Wis- 
 consin, Sept. 9, 1865. 
 
 jjouis umnarried : resides at West Superior, Wis. 
 
 Talbut married Hattie L. Walter, Dec. 24, 1877, res- 
 idence, West Superior ; children; Arthur, born Jan. 
 12, 1881 ; Hattie, born Sept. 12, 1887 ; Dora, born 
 April 21, 1890. 
 
 Charles married Myrtie Thompson in Wisconsin, 
 
 June 27, 1893. In July, 1893, they Avent to Zitacuaro, 
 
 Mexico, as missionaries. He died at Guadalazara, 
 Jalpa, Mexico, Sept. 17, 1899. Mrs. Thompson is still 
 engaged in missionary work at Sombrererete, Zacete- 
 
LIFE OF HANNAH WESTON IHl 
 
 <?a,s, Mexico ; cliildien : Doiuikl, born Dec. i^i, 1895; 
 Dorothy, l)orn March 19, 1898. 
 
 Amasa married Carrie B. Brush in May, 1888, live 
 iit Antigo, Wis.; children : Hugh, born May 9, 1889; 
 Shirley, l)orn Jane 30, 1892 ; Mary, born Nov. 11, 1898. 
 
 Kate married Geo. A. Robbins, Sept. 15, 1887, reside 
 at Sheboygan Falls ; one child, Fred, born Sept. 28, 
 1892. 
 
 Fred S. married Stella M. Kent, June 25, 1890, at 
 Three Lakes, Wis.; children : George A., born Sept. 
 21, 1893 ; Frank R., born Nov. 13, 1895. 
 
 Amelia married, second, Wm. Longfellow, former 
 residence, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; now Marinette, Wis.; 
 
 no children. 
 
 Albert G. married Mary Thompson, Nov. 7, 1858; 
 lived in Beddington; she died Feb. 22, 1862; one 
 child, Florence, born Sept. 29, 1860; she married John 
 R. DuBourdieu, Aug. 1, 1889 ; children : Edna, born 
 Mav 7, 1890 ; Maria, born Aug. 19, 1895 ; Jennie, born 
 Feb. 18, 1898; died Jan. 31, 1899 ; Albert Ross, born 
 
 June 27, 1900. 
 
 Albert G. married, second, Asenath Thompson, Sept. 
 20, 1864; she died Oct. 16, 1879; one child, Mary, 
 born Aug. 1, 1867: died Sept. 20, 1874. 
 
 Albert G. married, third, Medora T. Kelly, April o, 
 1888 ; one child, Earle, born April 26, 1889. 
 
 Daniel Coffin, son of Matthew Coffin, jr., born, 
 township 23 (now Centreville), March 30, 1803: died 
 
 Nov. 8, 1889, Beddington. 
 
 Amelia Weston, born in Jonesboro, Oct. 10, 1802 ; 
 died May 6, 1884 ; Daniel and Amelia married Aug. 
 
1*^2 I.IFK OF HANNAH WESTOX 
 
 31, 1822 ; children : Eri, bom Jan. 22,1824; died 
 Jan. 16, 1827; Lydia, born Aug. 16, 1826; died July 
 19, 1833 ; Sophi'onia, bom June 27, 1828 ; died July 5, 
 1900; Horace, ))orn July 19, 1880 ; died Oct. 16, 1844; 
 Francis, born Sept, 11, 1880; died March 21, 1881; 
 Wm. Augustus, bom July 18, 1835; Sevelar, born 
 Oct. 30, 1837 ; Lu(3ius, born March 11, 1840 ; Hillard 
 born March 27, 1843 ; died Sept. 17, 1862. 
 
 Sophronia married ^Vnthony Schoppe, June 4, 1846, 
 at Centre ville and came to Beddington, where she 
 lived until her death ; children : Sylvia, born Feb. 11, 
 1848; John, born Dec. 21, 1849 : died March 28, 1855; 
 Charles, born April 80, 1852: D. Campbell, born 
 March 2, 1854 ; John, born Feb. 7, 1857 ; Seth, born 
 June 13, 1859; Emily, born Dec, 6, 1861; died April 
 30,1872; Frank, born Oct. 22, 1864; Hillard, boin 
 March 11, 1867 ; Maud, born April 19, 1870. 
 
 Sylvia married Benj, ChaiKllei', Fel). 10, 1882, reside 
 at Dexter, Me.; no children, 
 
 Charles married Anna Fickett, Jan. 8, 1888; live in 
 Cherrylield ; children : 
 
 Anthony Harley Earl Preston 
 
 D. Campbell married Fannie Small, Sept. 27, 1881 ; 
 live in Cherryheld ; childi-en : 
 
 Emily Jessie llirani Helen 
 
 Jessie died in infancy, 
 
 John married Edna Simmons, Foxboro, Mass., Oct, 
 11, 1888 : live at E. Eddington, Me.; no children. 
 
 Seth married Emma Swett of Xorthlield, Me.; live 
 at Cherrylield ; one^child, Delia, died in infancy. 
 
 Frank Schoppe married Ada Garland, April 4, 1894; 
 
LIFE OF HANMAII WESTON l;);; 
 
 1-eside in Clierrytield ; one chikl, Hazel. 
 
 Maud married George 8tillman, May li), 1895 ; live 
 in Beverly, Mass.; no children. 
 
 Francis married Emily Smith, Machias, great grand 
 daughter of Rev. James Lyon; lived in Machias; 
 children: Fannie, born Sept. 20, 1864; Herbert, born 
 Oct. 14,1871. Fannie married George Hall; live in 
 HaA^erhill, Mass.; one child, Robert Ames. Herbert is 
 a practising physician in Haverhill. 
 
 \A'm. Augustus married Ruth Schoppe of Jonesboro, 
 March 19, 1863 ; live at Beddington ; children : Mary, 
 born Aug. 27, 1867 ; Alice, born Dec. 19, 1875. 
 
 Alice married J. Carlton Bicknell, Aug. 16, 1899; 
 live in Portland, Me. 
 
 Sevela married Sylvester McLellan of Trescott, 
 April -28, 1857 ; he died in the Civil War, Dec. 22, 1865, 
 she married Xoah Rice of China, Me.; after his death 
 she married Wm. Putnam, now living in Lewiston : 
 ^children: Valorous McLellan, born June 27, ]858; 
 Amelia McLellan, born Feb. 25, 1860; Xellie Mc- 
 Lellan married June 3, 1862 ; died in infancy ; Xoah 
 Rice, born Oct. 15, 1866; Vestia Rice, born Xov. 27, 
 1871. 
 
 Amelia married Augustus Barker, April, 1 878 ; live 
 in Worcester, Mass.; children : Xellie, born Feb. 25, 
 1880 ; Edith, born July, 1882. 
 
 Noah Rice married Minnie Sturdevant, July, 1889; 
 live in Auburn, Me.; cliildren : Dora, died in infancy, 
 Shirley. 
 
 Yestia Rice married A. Fred Evans, Feb. 28, 1890 ; 
 live at Lewiston ; cliildren : Leroy, died young, 
 Elmer, Marion. 
 
Luciu.H Coftiii unnianiect lives in Xevada : engaged 
 in mining. He served in the Army of the Potoma( 
 during the Civil Wart as lieutenant of his Compan\ ; 
 going west at the (?lose of the war; where he remained; 
 
 Hillard, of Daniel, was instantly killed, during the 
 battle of An tie tarn, Sept. IT, 18i>2. 
 
 Sally married Richard E. Oilman ; children : Joseph 
 W., Harrison;* Levi^ died in infancy^ Sopliia^ Levi. 
 
 Joseph and Sophia nevt^r married. 
 
 V\"m, Harrison, when a <'hild, was ildopted by his 
 unclej Francis Bchoppe. Willitim H. married Antoi- 
 nette Farnswortli ; ehildreri • Jjinies^ Albei't^ Frank 
 H., Famiie. 
 
 Albert niarried Kena Fariis\\ ortli ] ehildreii ; Har- 
 rison, David, died when young. 
 
 Levi B. married Sarah C, daughter of Fhilliji 
 Hatch i Willie, KiiSvsell, Leroy, Aiigelia. 
 
 Russell married Madge ]>. ^h\ist^))>; eliildreu: Mil- 
 ton, Karl, Allen, Liba, 
 
 Angelia married Thomas M. Morris \ children : 
 Willie^ Val'nie= 
 
 Joseph Weston iniirried Sopiiia Jones of Steuben ; 
 children ; *Jones, Horace \i.] *Frau(fis; *Kannah^ 
 Harriet, '* Jones* *Joseph, EliziU Joseph. 
 
 *Died in infancy or in early youth, 
 
 Konlc.e married Nancy F; Tupper of Jonesboro : 
 children : Harriet, born xVpril IG;, 1802 t Frank, born 
 Novi 24* 1867 ; Horace^ born Sept. 25;. 1869: Grace, 
 bdrn April 2^ 1871: Laura, born April 24, 1874^, 
 James, born May 30, 1881 : died Oct. 17, 1890. 
 
 Harriet, of Joseph, married Leverett C. Bridgham 
 of Beddington : (children: Mary, born Sept. 18, 1869 i 
 
Lois, born March -28, 1871 : II(>l(.ii, boiii Doc. 28. ixT;!: 
 Arthur, born Mai eh '29, 1875: Eliza, born \ov. 20, 
 t877: Sarah, born Xov. 18, 1880: Xcllie, born Ajnil 
 % 1888 : G]>aoe. lx)ri» Maj'ch 2(), 1 880. 
 
 Mr. f.. C. Brklghani was niembor of the Ist Mahi*- 
 fleavv Artillery, Co. fl, in the Civil W ar : a regiment 
 that sutfered the greatest loss of any hi tlw Union 
 ^rrriy. He was wounded at Petersinirg-, .Imie .18, 1864: 
 
 Moraee R-., who is now living at Winter Harboi-, 
 Me., vserved in the Tnion army during tbe war : en- 
 b'sting Oct. 17s 1801, as a private in Co. I, 18th Kegi- 
 inent: Maine \'ohinteers> serving iji this command 
 three years, when tl>e Regiment's tin\e expired : 
 ^passed throLigii the grades of promotion to '^Orderly 
 Sargeant'' of his company. On Ixdng nnostered out of 
 that eonnnand he enlisted as Orderly Sai-gent, Co. H, 
 "First Bataliion, Oaine Infantrys" served one and a 
 Ira If year to close of tlie war. 
 
 Harriets of Horace-, married -Kdwin Pineo; chi]*!!-*.'));: 
 Riilpli Albert NW 'Mf>rac<^ M. 
 
 Harriet married-, seconds Oliver tlatborn ; ciuldr*-!) : 
 'Elizabeth, died in infancy, Marjoiy. 
 
 Frank* of Hra-ace, niarried ;\nnal>el .Myri«;k : one 
 child. Haze] W. 
 
 Horace tn married Ida Bickfoi'd: one child, Mar<-ia \ 
 
 (irace G. married Andrew ('hadboin-nc : no rhildrcn. 
 
 Laura B. married Alexander J.Grant of Edinburgh. 
 Seotkuxi; children : Alexander S., died in infancy or 
 in early youth : Dorothy W .: .lames S., he (lied in his 
 ninth year. 
 
 Mr. Grant at one tini*' did editorial work nn iIk- 
 'Bar Hnrh«>r R»N-ord. 
 
136 
 
 LIFE OF HA]»fNAH WESTOX 
 
 It comes to me, the following hymn, as the favorite 
 of Mrs. Weston ; some one^ as is told, found it in a 
 book subsequent to her death, both book and hymn 
 bore marks of much handling ;— the latter is easily 
 taken, an agreeable expression of duty and kindness i 
 her own life mirror. 
 
 mMETHtNG ^ACM DAY. 
 
 "Something each day — a smile, 
 
 It is not much to give, 
 And the little gifts of life 
 
 Make sweet the days we live. 
 The world has weary hearts 
 
 That we can bless and cheer, 
 And a smile for every day 
 
 Makes sunshine all the year. 
 
 Something each day — a word, 
 
 We cannot know its power ; 
 It grows in fruitfulness 
 
 As grows the gentle flower, 
 What comfort it may bring. 
 
 Where all is dark and drear. 
 For a kind word every day 
 
 Makes pleasant all the year. 
 
 "Something each day — a thought* 
 
 Unselfish, good and true, 
 That aids another's need, 
 
 While we our way pursue ; 
 That seeks to lighten hearts . 
 
 That leads to pathways clear \ 
 For a helpful thought each day 
 
 Makes happy all the year. 
 
KJVE (^V HANNAH WESTON I '^ ' 
 
 Something each day— a deed 
 
 Of kindness and of good. 
 To link in closer bonds 
 
 All hun:ian brotherhood 
 And. thus the Heavenly wilL 
 
 We all may do while here ; 
 For a good deed every day 
 
 Makes blessed all the year." 
 
 Flowers spring to bloom where she walks 
 
 The careful ways of duty ; 
 Our hard, stiff lines of life with her 
 
 Are flowing curves of beauty. 
 
 Our homes are cheerier for her sake. 
 
 Our dooryards brighter blooming. 
 And all about the social air 
 
 is sweeter for her coming. 
 
 Her presence lends its warmth and health. 
 
 To all who cume before it 
 If woman lost us Eden, such ^ 
 
 As she alone restore it. — UA'^i^^^a 
 
 A lady who was present sent tlie following note on 
 Ihe services at the unveiling of the monument. 
 
 The unveiling or removal of the flag from the mon- 
 ument was done hy Miss Grace Bridgham, sixteen 
 vears old ; Miss Hannah Weston Church, four years 
 old; Miss Fay Smith, five years old; all claiming to 
 V,e descendants, the older in the fifth generation and 
 .he two younger in the sixth, from Kannah WestuK 
 
 The services were very impressive. Nearly thiee 
 hundred people were present. Rev. Mr. Harding s 
 
us 
 
 lAVK OF IiAN>.'AH \\i:s)«»\ 
 
 addrej>.K was au eloquent tribute to the heroine, v\hos(^ 
 memory tills day's doing perpetuate. The speaker 
 alluded to the slight .shower that oeeurred as a Ija})-^ 
 tismal (.)tt'ering from Heaven ; thus elearing the air 1<» 
 give renewed .strength and force to eaeh soul licre 
 present. 
 
 The eft'eet of the prayei*, the nmsie an<l the ins})ir' 
 ing- words of the address, all |)eeuliarly soleuni, in the 
 midst of the natural beauty of the surrounding field, 
 river and young forests near by ; recalling vividly the 
 past, and the life work of Mj-s. Weston: on the spot of 
 her first and last place of abode— the childhood days 
 and the days of mature years—wheii she last looked 
 on family and friends— with dinnned eye and de[)art- 
 ing life ; as the leaf falleth silently to earth. 
 
 The Hannah Weston Chapter^ I). A, K. are about 
 (February, 1908) to place an order for a substantial 
 iron fence to enclose the ^^'eston l)urial lot. 
 
]AXNA!I VVKSTOX CUAITKR, 1). A. U. 
 MAC II IAS, i\IAIXE. 
 
 3Jrs. Eli/abelli L. ("licUidlcr, Mar/iiu^^ 
 
 Mrs. Lucy i\Iei'(;y Curtis i^ailey, 
 
 JNIiss Grace DoiiW(>rth, " 
 
 Mrs. Marv O'Brien fJroNMi, " 
 
 Mrs. P^ffie Ward l^albot. 
 
 Miss Lucy Talbot Ames, '^ 
 
 3Irs. Lee W. Longfellow, •' 
 
 31rs. Grace 8ai"gent Wakelield, " 
 
 Mrs. Fainiie 0. Gate.s, *' 
 
 Mrs. Cora Kane, " 
 
 3Irs. LoUie K. CaiupbeU Sanborn, " 
 
 Miss Mina Ray Getchell, " 
 
 Miss Mary Bowker M(!lvellar, " 
 
 Mrs. Olive Pemiinran A^ose, " 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Crane, " 
 
 Miss Emily Hansconu " 
 
 Mrs. Louise F. Crane, 
 
 Mrs. Hattie F. P. Allen, 
 
 Mrs. Helen Sargent, 
 
 Miss Edith Taylor, 
 
 3Irs. Ainiie Walling, " 
 
 Mrs. Amanda Crane, " 
 
 Mrs. Emilv F. Crocker, 
 
 Mrs. Nellie Hill Ames, " 
 
 (.(, 
 
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140 LIFE OF HANNAH WKSPoN 
 
 Mrs, Wiiifred Xoae, CalaU 
 
 Mrs. Frances Agnes Wilder, ]*embroke 
 
 Mrs. Cliira Edna Wri-.ht, Somerville^ M.ie.'<, 
 Mrs. Susan Sanborne Gardner. AV/.s*/ Machla« 
 Mrs. Josephine ('ampbell, Chtn-yf.eld 
 
 Mrs. Claire Archibald, Moncton., X, B. 
 
 Mt-h. Mattie Robl>, SWaffn Citi/, CaL 
 
 Mrs. Sabrina Hall, (real daughter) Jotiedforo 
 Airs. Ada Sargent Gardner, Dtntufsvilh 
 
 Mrs. Emily G. Wiswell, lutst Mrchuys 
 
 Mrs. l^ura K. Beam, W^rtnoHt 
 
 Miss Emma F. McDonald, Worcester, Mass, 
 Miss Elizabeth L. Penniman, Ocfmbridf/e, Miiss. 
 Mrs. Amy Odell McAllister, raJa;<< 
 
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