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 PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE TOWN, 
 
 THOMAS LAURENS SMITH. 
 
 PORTLAND : 
 
 HOYT & FOGG 
 1873 
 
STEPUEN BEREY, PRINTER, PORTLAND. 
 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Accuracy should be the paramount object of the historian. 
 However desirous he may be to attain this object, it is 
 seldom, if ever accomplished. He may relate with sufficient 
 accuracy, such transactions as occur within his knowledge ; 
 when he goes beyond this to relate transactions, especially 
 those of long standing, he must have recourse to written or 
 traditional history. These, it is well known, are not always 
 free from errors. Another obstacle he has to encounter, 
 arises from the diiferent manner in which different individ- 
 uals describe the same transaction. No two of Napoleon's 
 generals described his battles alike, and he different from all 
 Ills generals. 
 
 The tendency of these errors and discrepancies is to 
 embarrass and mislead the historian. If the information 
 derived from these sources is erroneous, he transfers them 
 to and they become a part of his work, and are thereby 
 transmitted to posterity. 
 
 In gathering up such historical matters as relate to the 
 town of Windham, the author has been anxious to give an 
 impartial and truthful relation. If any errors exist in the 
 work they are the result of mistake or misinformation, and 
 not of intention. 
 
H I S T O R Y. 
 
 In recurring to the local history of the town of Windham, 
 we find that on Nov. 20, 1734, Abraham Howard and 
 Joseph Blanc}", representatives of the town of Marblehead, 
 petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts, " shewing 
 that the said town is of very small extent, and the inhabitants 
 more numerous than in most towns in the Province, so that 
 they are much straightened in their accommodations, and 
 therefore praying for a tract of land fur a township for such 
 persons belonging to the said town of Marblehead as will 
 settle thereon." This petition was granted by the House 
 of Representatives, and consented to by the Governor and 
 Council, in December, 1735. John Wainwright, John 
 Hobson, and Daniel Epes, were appointed on the part of 
 the House, Wm. Dudley and Ebenezer Barrill, on the part of 
 the Council, a committee fully authorized to admit sixty 
 inhabitants belonging to the town of Marblehead, who most 
 need a grant, to become grantees, to lay out the township, 
 and also the first division of home lots. The conditions of 
 the grant were, that the home lots should be sixty-three in 
 number, be laid out in as defensible a manner as conveniently 
 may be, and all future divisions in equal proportions, three 
 of the lots or rights to be disposed of, one for the first settled 
 minister, one for the ministry, and one for the support of 
 schools, the grantees to build a dwelling house eighteen feet 
 square and seven feet posts, to have seven acres of land 
 brought to English Grass and fitted for mowing, to settle a 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 5 
 
 learned, orthodox minister, to build a convenient meeting 
 house for the public worship of God, within five 3'ears 
 from their admission, and that each grantee pay the com- 
 mittee five pounds upon their admission. Agreeably to the 
 power vested in the committee for the above purposes, they 
 repaired to jNlarblehead and admitted the sixty grantees 
 specified in the grant, January 17, 1735. 
 
 Several of the grantees had a meeting at Marblehead and 
 appointed Ebenezer Hawkes, Thomas Chute and William 
 Goodwin a committee on the part of the grantees to 
 accompany, assist and advise the committee appointed by 
 the General Court to locate the township and to lay out the 
 first division of home lots. The several committees accord- 
 ingly assembled at Marblehead with Rowland Houghton, 
 surveyor, April 19, 1735, and immediately came to this 
 town and commenced its location, and also ran out and 
 established the first division of home lots, being sixty-three 
 in number, containing ten acres each, and made a return of 
 their doings, with a plan of the same. May 7, 1735, which 
 was accepted by both branches of the General Court, June 
 7, 1735, the lands therein described confirmed to the grantees, 
 provided they comply with the conditions of the grant. 
 The town of Windham as originally laid out, embraces the 
 contents of six miles square, and twenty-five thousand six 
 hundred acres. June 27, 1735, the committee met at 
 Marblehead, when the sixty-three home lots or first division 
 were drawn and disposed of to the proprietors. These lots 
 were located on the main road from Westbrook, running 
 parallel with, and one-half mile distant from Presumpscot 
 River to Raymond, being the first road located in Windham. 
 They extended from the road back to the river, and began 
 opposite the dwelling house where John Webb, Esq., now 
 lives, and terminated a few rods below the dwelling house 
 where Paul Stone lived, extending on the road two miles. 
 These lots were ten rods wide on the road, and one-half 
 
6 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 mile long, and were, in a very peculiar manner, Indian lots, 
 having great length and little width. The design of laying 
 these lots out in this singular form should not be forgotten. 
 It was a condition of the grant to lay out the " home lots 
 in as defensible a manner as conveniently may be." The 
 General Court were induced to incorporate this condition in 
 all the grants made at that time, from their extreme anxiety 
 to protect the first settlers from being destroyed by the 
 Indians. From the first settlements in Maine, in 1630 to 
 1758, settlers in the new or frontier towns could not be 
 considered secure from the attacks of the Indians. 
 
 Numerous and bloody wars were waged between the 
 native Indians and thC- first settlers — and on the part of the 
 Indians, wars of extermination, sparing neither age, sex or 
 condition. The frequent occurrence and the facility with 
 which scattering settlements had been destroyed by the 
 Indians, and the fatal consequences attending them, induced 
 the General Court to adopt every measure to prevent their 
 recurrence. And from a belief that compact settlements 
 were more secure from their attacks than the sparse settle- 
 ments, this condition was inserted in the grant. 
 
 It is perhiips hardly necessary to observe that the residue 
 of all the land in the town was owned in common by the 
 owners of these sixty-three home lots. It is worthy of 
 notice that the town, as originally laid out, extended down 
 the Presumpscot River to Saccarappa Falls ; and the 
 })Oundary line between this town and Falmouth (now 
 Westbrook) was in dispute from the grant of the toAvnship 
 in 1734 until Nov. 27, 1761, a period of twenty-seven years, 
 when the line was finally established by an act of the 
 General Court. During the great length of time the line 
 between this town and Falmouth was in dispute, the 
 proprietors were subjected to great embarrassment and not 
 a little expense. This troublesome and exciting subject of 
 our southeastern boundary had scarcely been put to rest, 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 7 
 
 when a dispute respecting our northeastern boundary made 
 its appearance, and the boundary line between this town 
 and Gray (formerly New Boston) came in for its usual share 
 of notoriety. For a long time the settlement of this subject 
 appeared to be as difficult to adjust, as the boundary line 
 between the State of Maine and her "Majesty's Province of 
 New Brunswick," — and threatened to involve the two towns 
 in scenes of " blood and carnage." But as no troops were 
 marched by either j)arty upon the " disputed territory," 
 the difficulty was happily got under without any loss of lives 
 to either party, but not until it had made some very 
 unwelcome requisitions upon the " Treasury department." 
 
 And frequently, when this town has had to assist in 
 building a bridge across the Presumpscot, it has been 
 extremely difficult to find the boundary line between Wind- 
 ham and Gorham. Not that it is so very difficult to find 
 the "true Presumpscot" mentioned in the grant of the 
 township, as to find its channel. The difficulties respecting 
 boundary lines are no new thing to the inhaliitants of this 
 town, ancient or modern. They were " in the full tide of 
 successful operation " here, nearly half a century before the 
 treaty of 1783. They are co-existent with the town, 
 resemble the hydra in their nature, are interminal^le, and 
 like the grave, never satisfied. 
 
 July -1, 17o5, the grantees had a meeting at Marbleliead, 
 and voted "■ That each home lot have ten acres more of land 
 added to it on the other side of the main road at the front 
 of the said lots," which were subsequently laid out directly 
 opposite the home lots, and exactly corresponding with 
 them in quantity and form. From July 4, 1735, to June 9., 
 1737, the grantees had various meetings and raised and 
 expended several sums of money for building a bridge across 
 Presumpscot River immediately above Saccarappa Falls, and 
 also bridges over Inkhorn and Colley Wright's brooks, 
 
8 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 clearing roads and defraying other incidental expenses in 
 preparing the township for settlement. 
 
 June 9, 1737, the grantees voted to build a meeting house 
 for public worship, chose a committee to report at the 
 adjournment, the " dimensions and form." At the adjourn- 
 ment, June 23, '37, the committee reported "that it was 
 their opinion that a meeting house suitable for said township 
 at present, be about forty feet long and thirty feet wide, 
 and ten feet high," which report was accepted and a vote 
 passed that the "meeting house be built in dimensions 
 according to the report of the committee." It was also 
 " Voted, That the meeting house be built on the westernmost 
 corner of the ten acre lot to be laid out and belonging to 
 the ministerial lot (home lot, No. 33), and that <£120 be 
 assessed on the several rights to defray the expense of 
 building the house," but in consequence of the Indians 
 claiming the land, forbidding and menacing those employed 
 to build the house, it was not completed until 1740. This 
 was the first meeting house erected in this town, and stood 
 a few rods north of the dwelling house where Col. Edward 
 Anderson formerly lived. 
 
 The grantees gave this town the name of New Marble- 
 head, in honor of Marblehead in Mass., to which the grantees 
 belonged. It retained this name from the grant of the 
 township in 1734 until its incorporation in 1762. Such were 
 some of the early preparative steps taken towards the first 
 settlement of this town. 
 
 Capt. Thomas Chute commenced the first settlement in 
 this town July 30, 1737. He was born in England in 1690, 
 emigrated to Marblehead, Mass., from Marblehead he came 
 to Falmouth, now Portland, in the spring of 1737, and on 
 the 30th of July follow^ing, came to this town. He was one 
 of the grantees, and drew home lot or right No. 12, on 
 which he settled, about thirty rods from the bank of the 
 Presumpscot River. Here were the first trees felled, — here 
 
TOWX OF WINDHAM. . 9 
 
 was the first habitation, the first rude log tenement erected, 
 — here was the abode of the first civilized family in the 
 town, and here was the first land cleared by the hand of 
 civilized man. This settlement was on the farm formerly 
 the farm of John Chute, the grandson of ThOmas Chute. 
 
 William Mayberry was the second settler in this town : 
 he was from Marblehead and also one of the grantees. He 
 settled on home lot 27, on the farm now owned by Frederic 
 Smith, about thirty rods from the river. 
 
 John Farrar was the third settler : he came from Tiver- 
 ton, Rhode Island, and settled on home lot No. 31, a few 
 rods from the river, on the farm owned by Col. Edward 
 Anderson. 
 
 The fourth settler was Stephen Manchester : he came 
 from Tiverton, Rhode Island, and settled on home lot No. 
 82, near the river, on the farm owned by Col. E. Anderson. 
 The three last settlers, Mayberry, Farrar and Manchester, 
 settled within one year from the time the first settlement 
 was made by Chute. 
 
 The fifth settler was Abraham Anderson ; he came from 
 Groton, Mass., to Marblehead, and from Marblehead to this 
 town ; he settled on home lot No. 36, on the main road, in 
 the year 1738. He built the first house and was the first 
 family settled on the main road in Windham, where he 
 lived nearly two years before any other families came into 
 town, after which several other families moved in and 
 settled on the main road on the home lots, and there was a 
 gradual increase of settlers. 
 
 The early settlers of this town were chiefly from Marble- 
 head and Salem, towns whose inhabitants are distinguished 
 for correct moral character, for liberality, industry and 
 enterprise. Many a hard fought battle by sea and by land 
 during the war of the revolution bears honorable testimony 
 to their bravery, to their attachment to their country, its 
 rights and liberties. Such is the character of the people 
 
10 • HISTORY OF THE 
 
 from whom our ancestors, the first settlers of this town, 
 originated. 
 
 The first settlers, as has already been observed, erected 
 their habitations near the banks of the Presumpscot. Their 
 object in settling there was to have the benefit of a water 
 conveyance, having no other means of transportation. 
 Notwithstanding the proprietors had expended considerable 
 money in making roads from Saccarappa to the upper home 
 lots, it consisted merely in cutting down the trees and 
 " swamping out " the roads. They were in such an impass- 
 able condition as to be wholly useless to the first settlers. 
 The first settlers of this town commenced their settlement 
 under the most discouraging circumstances. They were 
 destitute of roads, carriages, mills, mechanics, physicians, 
 religious meetings, schools, and comfortable dwellings ; but 
 poorly supplied with comfortable food and clothing, sur- 
 rounded by difficulties and dangers, and no succor or 
 supplies could be obtained without traveling six or eight 
 miles through the trackless woods. Yet they persevered 
 with untiring zeal, displayed a fortitude that does honor to 
 human nature, rose superior to every obstacle, subdued the 
 face of nature, turned the barren wilderness into the fruit- 
 ful field, and ultimately taught the savage Indians, by whom 
 they were surrounded, to know by sad experience, that the 
 first settlers were a class of men who would not suffer them 
 to take life with impunity. 
 
 At a proprietors' meeting, January 19, 1738, a vote was 
 passed granting to Messrs. Ebenezer Hawkes, William 
 Goodwin, Isaac Turner and Ebenezer Stacy, all their right 
 to any one of the falls of water on the Presumpscot, with 
 ten acres of land adjoining the same, upon condition of their 
 erecting and putting in operation a sawmill, which was 
 accordingly built on the falls called Horse-beef, and accepted 
 by the proprietors Dec. 13, 1740. This was the first mill of 
 any kind erected within the limits of this town. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 11 
 
 The proprietors, at their meeting June 5, 1740, voted to 
 lay out sixty-three one hundred acre lots, adjoining and 
 contiguous to the home settlements, which were completed 
 Oct. 22, 1740, and accepted Dec. 4, 1740, as the second 
 division of the common lands in the township, and being the 
 first division. of hundred acre lots. And by a subsequent 
 vote, a third division of the common land, consisting of 126 
 one hundred acre lots was completed January 26, 1763, 
 commonly called the third division. And by a vote passed 
 February 24, 1801, a division of the remainder of the common 
 land into 63 lots of seventy-three acres each was made 
 Oct. 3, 1801, and accepted and confirmed February 16, 
 1804, called the fourth division. In these several divisions, 
 each one of the sixty-three original rights has drawn 393 
 acres of land. 
 
 At a meeting of the proprietors March 3, 1742, it was 
 voted to " settle an orthodox minister as soon as may be." 
 It was further voted " That the said settled minister shall 
 have paid to him the sum of forty-five pounds out of the 
 proprietors' treasury for his settlement." " That the sum of 
 thirty pounds per annum be allowed and paid out of the 
 proprietors' treasury for the support of the said minister 
 from the time of his settlement until the said township be 
 incorporated into a town." James Skinner, Nathan Bowen 
 and Jonathan Proctor were chosen a committee to contract 
 with Mr. John Wight according to the foregoing votes. 
 The committee accordingly addressed Mr. Wight upon the 
 subject, March 25, 1743, received his answer consenting to 
 the request of the committee, and on the following day a 
 contract was completed between the parties. At a subsequent 
 meeting, Sept. 1, 1743, seven pounds ten shillings were 
 voted to be expended in the ordination of Mr. Wight ; he 
 came immediately to this town and entered upon his clerical 
 duties. 
 
 From the first settlement in this town in 1737 to 1743, 
 
12 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the settlers had been exempted from any serious difficulties 
 with the Indians. But these amicable relations between 
 the native Indians and the first settlers, so essential and 
 important to the latter, and upon which their comfort and 
 the prosperity of their infant settlement mainly depended, 
 were soon to be interrupted. Scarcely had the hardy settlers 
 made a beginning and gained a lodgment in this world of 
 woods, ere the tocsin of war was rung in their ears. A war 
 between Great Britain and France was now anticipated, 
 which would inevitably bring the English settlements in 
 contact with the Indians, and draw down the vengeance of 
 the savages upon the new settled towns. Fully satisfied that 
 a rupture was about to take place, Massachusetts resolved 
 " to put her whole inland frontier, extensive as it was, into a 
 good posture of defense. As the eastern Provinces, Maine 
 and Sagadahock, were most exposed to incursions from the 
 savages, in case of a rupture, the Legislature made an 
 appropriation of about <£1280 to be disbursed from the 
 public treasury, and expended among the eastern settlements 
 for their defense." One hundred pounds of this appropri- 
 ation was assigned to New Marblehead, and expended in 
 building a fort. This fort Avas built on home lot No. 33, 
 in the centre of the " Ancient Dominion,'' or home lots, on 
 the most elevated and beautiful site in the " two mile 
 territor}^" a few rods south of the dwelling house of the 
 late Peter Thatcher Smith. It stood partly on the road and 
 partly on land occupied by Col. Anderson for a garden. 
 
 The fort was fifty feet square, two stories high, with walls 
 one foot thick, of hewn hemlock timber, the upper story 
 jutting one foot over the lower, with a tier of port holes. 
 There were two watch boxes placed at diagonal corners, 
 two stories high, twelve feet square, with walls one foot 
 thick, each watch box having a swivel gun, furnished by 
 the proprietors, and so placed as to defend two sides of the 
 fort. The fort w^as surrounded with a stockade about 25 or 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 13 
 
 30 feet from it, made by setting posts ten or twelve inches 
 in diameter, 12 feet long, perpendicularly in the ground, 
 and so near together that " the Indians " could not pass 
 between them. The fort was provided with an iron "nine 
 pounder gun " by the State, which was placed before the 
 fort for the purpose of firing alarms, and giving the neigh- 
 boring settlements notice of the approach of Indians. The 
 fort was built during the spring of 1744, and the only one 
 that was ever erected in this town. 
 
 At a proprietors' meeting at Marblehead, July 30, 1744, 
 seven years from the first settlement of the town, it was 
 " Voted, That the half barrel (or 50 lbs.) of powder purchased 
 by William Mayberry be paid for by the proprietors, being 
 £20 9s., old tenor, and the said powder to be for the use of 
 the inhabitants of said township, on any extraordinary occa- 
 sion, according to further direction." " Voted, That the said 
 powder be put into the hands of Mr. William Mayberry, he 
 supplying the inhabitants (who want it) to the value of half 
 a pound each man, and the remainder of said powder to be 
 kept in the block house (fort) for the use thereof, in time 
 of action, in case the same be attacked by the Indians or any 
 other enemies, and no otherwise whatsoever." 
 
 " Voted, That the present committee be and hereby are 
 directed, at the public charge of the proprietors, to purchase 
 two swivel guns and send them to said townsliip for the use 
 of the proprietors, to be placed in the block house for the 
 defense thereof." 
 
 The inhabitants of this town, encouraged by the assistance 
 thus given by the State and proprietors, though manifestly 
 inadequate to such a work, bestowed upon their fort a great 
 amount of labor and made it a place of considerable security. 
 
 The war that had* been anticipated between England and 
 France in 1743, was declared in March, 1744, and formally 
 communicated to the Governor of Massachusetts, the second 
 day of June following. Thus were the early settlers of this 
 
14 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 town met, at the commencement of tlieir settlement, with 
 all the privations, hardships and dangers of an Indian war, 
 their settlement retarded, their comfort, happiness and 
 prosperity blasted ! 
 
 The first attacks of the Indians upon the English settle- 
 ments in Maine, in this war, were made July 19, 1745, at 
 St. Georges and Damariscotta (Newcastle). From this 
 first attack of the Indians until 1751, the inhabitants were 
 shut up in the fort, a period of six years. This was a time 
 of danger and suffering. 
 
 A narrative of savage warfare on our frontier must be 
 principally a recital of the sufferings, exploits, escapes and 
 deliverences of parties, families or individuals ; a narrative 
 the historian would cheerfully save himself the labor and 
 pains of giving, did not fidelity and duty forbid. But the 
 reiterated distresses of the eastern inhaljitants, in connection 
 with their fortitude and other virtues, ought not to be 
 overlooked. In an Indian war they were necessarily watch- 
 ful, or on their guard, day and night, and when at labor 
 within the field they were often obliged on a sudden 
 emergency either to repel an attack or make a hazardous 
 retreat. Their crops were not unfrequently injured or 
 destroyed, either by their own cattle getting into their 
 enclosures where the Indians had broken the fences ; or 
 because the husbandman durst not venture out to collect 
 and secure the harvest. By reason of the danger to which 
 they were constantly exposed, they were unable to cultivate 
 their lands to any advantage ; though when they went to 
 public worship, or abroad, they were always armed ; and 
 usually when at work, they posted a sentry in some con- 
 spicuous place to keep watch. In short, the distressed 
 people were afraid even to milk their cows, though they 
 were kept in pastures as near as possible to the fortifications ; 
 and whole families were not unfrequently, in these Indian 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 15 
 
 wars, shut up for months together in a state of wretched 
 anxiety. 
 
 This painful state of things continued until the close of 
 the war in 1751, usually called the fifth Indian war. 
 
 The first outrage committed by the Indians on the inhab- 
 itants of this town, was April 14, 1747, when they took and 
 made prisoners of William and Josej^h Knights, two sons of 
 William Knights, who came from Manchester, Mass., to this 
 town. They were unarmed and taken by surprise at 
 Saccarappa, in Westbrook, were carried to the Indian settle- 
 ments, were well treated by the Indians and soon after 
 returned home. 
 
 Their next attack was made the same year, August 27, 
 when a body, supposed to be between twenty and thirty, 
 entered the town, probably, with the intention to take captive 
 every one of the inhabitants, and to furnish themselves with 
 plunder, while devising the ruin of some other place. They 
 made an attempt to take William, son of Thomas Bolton, 
 and William Maxfield, a young man living with William 
 Mayberry, prisoners. Bolton and Maxfield were both well 
 armed with muskets. They made a brave resistance. 
 Bolton discharged his musket at his assailants, but before 
 he could have time to reload, the Indians rushed upon, 
 overpowered, and made him prisoner. Maxfield retreated, 
 walking backward in the direction of the fort, and keeping 
 the Indians at a respectful distance, by occasionally pre- 
 senting his musket whenever they approached too near. 
 In this manner he made good his retreat, till a body of 
 armed men, who, hearing the firing of the guns, came from 
 the fort to his relief. In his retreat the Indians discharged 
 several shots at him, one of which inflicted a painful though 
 not dangerous wound, of which he soon after recovered. 
 This attack was made in the road, not more than one-fourth 
 of a mile from the fort. Bolton was carried captive by the 
 Indians to Canada, was purchased by a French naval officer 
 
16 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 carried on board a French frigate in the capacity of a ser- 
 vant ; shortly after the frigate put to sea she was captured 
 by an English frigate and carried into Boston, when Bolton 
 again changed masters and became the servant of Lieut. 
 Wallace, Second Lieutenant of the English frigate. His sit- 
 uation was soon known to the captain of a coasting vessel 
 belonging to Falmouth ; he applied to the Governor of 
 Massachusetts for release, which was promptly granted, and 
 he returned in his vessel with him to Falmouth, and from 
 Falmouth to this town, to the great joy of his parents. 
 
 August 22, 1750, they surprised and made prisoner of 
 Seth Webb, son of Samuel Webb, who moved from Fal- 
 mouth to this town, March 15, 1742, on home lot No. 23, 
 carried him to Canada, the headquarters of the Indians ; but 
 ultimately he returned to this town before the breaking out 
 of the next Indian war. 
 
 These constitute the sum of the conflicts with the Indians 
 during what is called the fifth Indian or five years war. It 
 is worthy of remark, that the five persons attacked by the 
 Indians during this war were all young men ; none were 
 killed, but one wounded; four were carried captive into 
 captivity, but ultimately all returned safe to their parents. 
 Notwithstanding this is usually called the five years war, it 
 commenced July 19, 1745, and did not terminate until Aug. 
 3, 1751. For so late as June 8, 1751, the Indians killed 
 Joe Burnal in the adjoining town of Falmouth, and a month 
 afterwards, carried away from New Meadows seven of the 
 inhabitants prisoners. August 3, 1751, a treaty with the 
 Indians was fully and formally confirmed. 
 
 From this time until the breaking out of the French war, 
 and sixth war with the Indians, at the close of the year 
 1754, the inhabitants of this town were unmolested by the 
 lords of the " tomahawk and scalping knife." And being 
 no longer imprisoned within their dwellings, they applied 
 themselves to cultivating their lands and improving their 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 17 
 
 buildings. New dwellings were erected, several families 
 moved into town, and there was a progressive increase in 
 population and improvements. The people could now labor 
 on their lands and pursue their several occupations without 
 having any to molest or make them afraid, and the "Ancient 
 Dominion" began to assume a prosperous aspect. All the 
 non-intercourse laws which had been laid by the Indians, 
 for six years past, were now repealed, and although the 
 inhabitants of that day were not, like those of the present, 
 smothered with a thousand and one vehicles, yet they 
 had that ancient, healthy, and good old fashioned exercise 
 of riding on horse back. Many a gay young man was 
 now to be seen with a lovely maiden of "blooming sixteen," 
 well mounted on a pillion behind him, dashing away through 
 thick and thin, over rocks, stumps and logs, to the "merry 
 dance." But this pleasant state of things was of short 
 continuance ; the people had scarcely begun to live when 
 they were involved in another Indian war. 
 
 At the close of the year 1754, hostilities again commenced 
 between the English settlements on the one side, the French 
 settlements and the Indians on the other. In May, 1755, 
 the Indians commenced their attacks upon the settlements in 
 New Boston (Gray), North Yarmouth and New Gloucester. 
 This war, called the French war, continued with the Indians 
 until the fall of 1758, when it ceased on their part, and was 
 the last war between the Indians and the English settlements 
 in Maine. The war, however, continued between France 
 and England until February 10, 1763, when England, having 
 completed the entire conquest of all the northern dominions 
 of France in America, a treaty was concluded between the 
 two nations, wherein all the English conquests were con- 
 firmed. 
 
 The inhabitants of this town being in daily expectation 
 of an attack from the Indians, spared no pains to put their 
 settlement in a good state of defense. Three dwelling 
 2 
 
18 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 houses were converted into garrisons, by erecting and 
 attaching to them a sentry or watch box, two stories high, 
 the upper story projecting one foot over the lower, with a 
 tier of port holes, made of hewn timber, bullet proof. They 
 were also surrounded with a stockade in the same manner 
 as the fort. One of these garrisoned houses (Mayberry's) 
 stood on home lot No. 18 ; one (Bolton's) on home lot No. 
 52, and one (Graffam's) on home lot No. 61. 
 
 February, 1756, the Indians surprised and made prisoner 
 of Joseph Knights the second time, on (lot No. 2, 1st 
 division of 100 acre lots,) that part of the lot next Pre- 
 sumspcot River. Having been for some time a prisoner 
 among the Indians in the preceding war, he had partially 
 learned their language, and ascertaining that they intended 
 to attack all the frontier towns from Brunswick to Saco, he 
 determined on making his escape and alarming the settle- 
 ments, which he effected the seventh of the following May. 
 They had traveled to the Androscoggin River ; being fatigued 
 they halted, made a fire, and encamped around it for the 
 night. To prevent Knights from making his escape, he was 
 ordered to lie down on the ground, between two Indians, 
 for the night. Knights kept awake, — he could not sleep, 
 "it seemed so odd." The Indians soon fell into a sound 
 sleep, when Knights gently took leave of his bed-fellows, 
 gave "leg bail," came into North Yarmouth and gave notice 
 of the intended attack of the Indians.* From North Yar- 
 mouth he went to Falmouth, now Portland, where the 
 inhabitants generously contributed to his relief, after which 
 he soon returned to this town. 
 
 The next and last " tug of war " between the inhabitants 
 of this town and the Indians was May 14, 1756. 
 
 * " May 10. This morning we are alarmed with young Kniglits, who escaped 
 from tiie Indians three days ago, and got to Nortli Yarmouth this morning, 
 wlio brings news of 120 Indians coming upon tlie frontier, who are to spread 
 tljemselves in small scouts from Brunswick to Saco."— Smith's Journal , pat/e 64. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 19 
 
 On the morning of that day, Ezra Brown and Ephraim 
 Winship left the fort for the purpose of Laboring on Brown's 
 lot, which was about one mile to the rear or northeast of 
 the fort. They were accompanied by a guard consisting of 
 four men and four boys : the names of the men were 
 Stephen Manchester, Abraham Anderson, Joseph Sterling 
 and John Farrar ; the names of the boys were Timothy 
 Cloudman, Gersham Winship, Stephen Tripp and Thomas 
 Manchester. In going to Brown's lot they had to travel 
 through a piece of woods. Brown and Winship being about 
 sixty rods in advance, and in the thickest part of the woods, 
 were fired upon by a body of fifteen or twenty Indians who 
 lay in ambush. The Indians were of the Rockameecook 
 tribe (so called), commanded by Poland, their king. Brown 
 was shot dead upon the spot. Winship received two balls, 
 one in the eye and another in the arm, and fell to the 
 ground, when both were scalped by the Indians. Upon 
 hearing the report of the guns, part of the guard, viz., Joseph 
 Sterling, John Farrar, and two of the boj^s, Stephen Tripp 
 and Thomas Manchester, hastened back to the fort. The 
 residue, Abraham Anderson, Stephen Manchester and the 
 two lads, Timothy Cloudman and Gersham Winship, deter- 
 mined to pursue the Indians and avenge the blood of their 
 fallen companions, or perish in the attempt. Accordingly 
 this little band of heroes, cheered by the voice of Anderson 
 calling out, "follow on my lads," gallantly pressed onward to 
 the Ovttack. They turned to the right, took a circuitous route, 
 and came upon the enemy before they had left Brown and 
 Winship. The Indians immediately concealed themselves 
 behind the trees. But they were no longer to fire from covert 
 places upon men unconscious of their presence. They had 
 now to deal with the intrepid descendants of Englishmen, — 
 men whose presence of mind never forsook them, and whose 
 courage never faltered. Poland, the Indian chief, who was 
 concealed behind a tree, and who had previously shot Brown, 
 
 K 
 
20 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 was the first to begin the bloody combat. He discharged 
 his musket at Manchester, but without taking effect. In 
 his eagerness to reload his piece, the body of Poland became 
 uncovered and exposed to the yicAY of Manchester, who 
 was about thirty feet on Anderson's right, when Manchester 
 instantly leveled his musket, took deadly aim and fired ; 
 swift as lightning the fatal ball sped its way, and Poland, 
 the warrior king of the Rockameecooks, fell to rise no 
 more. The Indians instantly gathered around their fallen 
 chieftain and made the woods resound with their infernal 
 yells, to which our little band of Spartans replied by giving 
 them the contents of their muskets, when two more of the 
 Indians were killed or mortally wounded. The Indians 
 finding the place too hot for them, fled from the scene of 
 action, carrying with them their dead and wounded, and 
 leaving behind "five packs, a bow and a bunch of arrows, 
 and several other things."* 
 
 The alarm having been given at the fort, a small number 
 of armed men from the upper garrison house (Mayberry's), 
 together with Seth Webb, who had been taken prisoner by 
 the Indians in the previous war, went in pursuit. At a 
 place called " the Meadows," between Canada hill in this 
 town and Westbrook line, they discovered an Indian carrying 
 a quarter of beef upon his shoulder. Two of the party gave 
 him a very strong iiivitation to divide the spoils with them, 
 by discharging their muskets at him ; but the Indian, 
 considering a possessory title paramount to any other, 
 continued on his course, when Seth Webb, who was a 
 celebrated marksman, fired and brought him to the ground. 
 He however arose, relieved of his burden, and made his 
 escape, but died of his wounds during the following night, 
 making the whole loss of the Indians four, in killed and 
 
 * This engagement with the Indians, where Poland was slain, was on lot 
 No. 21, 1st division of hundred acrp lots. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 21 
 
 mortally wounded ; the mortally wounded died during the 
 succeeding night. 
 
 The bodies of Brown and Winship were carried back 
 to the fort, presenting to the inhabitants, particularly the 
 wife and children of Brown, and the children of Winship, a 
 scene beyond the power of language to describe. In less 
 than two hours from the time they had left the fort in the' 
 full vigor and strength of manhood, the lifeless remains of 
 one was brought in, and the body of the other so shockingly 
 wounded and mutilated that his life was despaired of. 
 
 The death of Poland put an end to all troubles with the 
 Indians in this quarter ; they were never known to attack 
 the settlements in this or the adjoining towns after his 
 death, although they continued the war in some parts of 
 this State until the fall of 1758. The inhabitants, however, 
 could not feel secure until the close of the war with France, 
 in 1763, making a second period of war with the Indians 
 and French of nine years. Thus it will be seen, that from 
 the first settlement of this town, in 1737, until 1763, a 
 period of twenty-six years, fifteen years were consumed in 
 war with the Indians and French. 
 
 From the close of this war until the war of the Revolution, 
 in 1775, the inhabitants of this town were exempted from 
 the calamities of war, — the weapons of death were laid 
 aside for the implements of husbandry. The people again 
 cheerfully applied themselves to cultivating their lands, to 
 recover their farms from the dilapidated condition into 
 which they had fallen in consequence of the neglect and 
 ravages occasioned by war. 
 
 April 26, 1759, there were twenty-nine of the home lots 
 settled, and some land had been cleared on all the others 
 except No. 4 ; after this several other families moved in 
 and commenced the first settlement on the hundred acre 
 lots, and such was the promising condition of the township 
 that it was incorporated by its present name of Windham, 
 
22 HISTORY OP THE 
 
 June 12, 1762. Windham was the sixteenth town incor- 
 porated, in this State. 
 
 The name of Windham given to this town, like the names 
 of most of the old towns, is of English origin. It was so 
 named for Windham, formerl}'^ Wymondham, a town in the 
 county of Norfolk, England, containing, in 1820, a popula- 
 tion of 4,023. There are also seven other towns and two 
 counties hy the name of Windham in the United States. 
 The aggregate population in towns and counties by the 
 name of Windham, in 1820, amounted to 70,000, and at the 
 present time it probably amounts to 100,000. 
 
 The first settlement in this town was in 1737, 245 years 
 from the first discovery of America by Columbus, 117 from 
 the first settlement in New England (Plymouth), and 107 
 from the first settlement in Maine (York). 
 
 The town, at the time of its incorporation, contained thirty- 
 nine families ; the precise number of inhabitants at that time 
 is not known ; however, in 1764, two years after, it was 
 estimated to contain 250 inhabitants. Until 1760 all the 
 settlements in this town had been confined to the " home 
 lots." 
 
 Immediately after the incorporation of the town, agree- 
 ably to encouragement from the proprietors and inhabitants 
 of the town, Peter Thatcher Smith was ordained Pastor 
 over the church and parish of this town, Sept. 22, 1762. 
 
 At a meeting of the proprietors, Aug. 23, 1764, " Voted, 
 That the sum of X19, 19s. 9^d. (being half the charge of 
 the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Smith), be paid out of the 
 proprietors' treasurj^, for that use, to such persons that 
 made the advancement of the whole sum." 
 
 The following account of the ordination is taken from the 
 Journal of the Rev. Thomas Smith, of Falmouth, (now 
 Portland). " Sept. 22d, an ordination at Windham, a pro- 
 digious concourse of people, a great and admired solemnity. 
 Mr. Morrill began with prayer, Mr. Langdon preached, I 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 20 
 
 gave the charge, Mr. Loring gave the right hand of fellow- 
 ship, Mr. Elvin preached. It was thought by all to be the 
 most finishing solemnity of the kind ever known." So it 
 seems our ancestors, among their numerous other virtues, 
 possessed the rare faculty of " doing up " ordinations in 
 good style. 
 
 From the close of the French war until the war of the 
 Revolution, a term of twelve years, but little occurred to 
 interrupt the prosperity of the inhabitants. Two events, 
 however, occurred, which it may not be improper to notice. 
 The first was a violent hurricane on the 31st of July, 1767. 
 It commenced near Sebago Pond, took an easterly direction, 
 passing through the northeast corner of Gorham, crossed 
 the Presumpscot at Loveitt's Falls, passed through the 
 middle of Windham, directly over the Duck Pond, through 
 the north part of Falmouth, and the south part of North 
 Yarmouth to the sea. It appears to have been most violent 
 in the town of Falmouth. It unroofed the house of Mr. 
 Purington, situated near the Duck pond, and prostrated 
 every tree in its way except a few sturdy oaks — but abated 
 in some measure after it entered North Yarmouth, so as not 
 to do much damage in that town. It extended in breadth 
 about three-fourths of a mile. The second was a destruct- 
 ive fire in 1775. It commenced at Gambo Falls on the 
 Presumpscot, and passed through the town in the same 
 direction, and following the course of the hurricane. This 
 fire did considerable damage. It consumed seven dwelling 
 houses and their contents, with other buildings. By this 
 calamity, seven families were burnt out, four near where 
 the fourth Congregational meeting house stood, and three 
 at Gambo Falls. 
 
 The first town meeting after the incorporation of the 
 town, was held by virtue of a warrant from the Hon. 
 Stephen Longfellow, at the old fort in Windham,. July 5, 
 1762. Abraham Anderson was chosen Moderator, Thomas 
 
24 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Chute, Town Clerk, Caleb Graffani, Thomas Maybeny and 
 John Farrar, Selectmen, and Abraham Anderson, Town 
 Treasurer. From this time until the war of the Revolution, 
 the pojiulation of the town was considerably augmented by 
 emigration. The town was now fast settling and in a flour- 
 ishing condition, and continued so until the war of 1775. 
 
 The war of the Revolution had its origin in a struggle 
 for the exercise of unconstitutional power on the part of 
 Great Britain, and a firm determination on the part of the 
 Colonies to resist the exercise of such illegal authority. 
 The Parliament of Great Britain contended that they had 
 the right to bind the Colonies in all cases whatever, without 
 their consent. In conformity with these pretensions, Par- 
 liament passed an act June 29, 1767, imposing a duty, to 
 be paid by the Colonies on all paper, glass, painter's colors, 
 and teas imported into the Colonies. The king of Great 
 Britain was also authorized to appoint revenue officers to 
 enforce and collect the dues. These measures the Colonies 
 pronounced oppressive and unconstitutional. They con- 
 tended that, having no representation in Parliament, Parlia- 
 ment had no right to tax them without their consent. That 
 taxation and representation were inseparable, and that this 
 principle was recognized by the fundmental laws of the 
 British Empire. Indeed, this was the main pivot on which 
 the whole controversy between the Colonies and the mother 
 country turned. 
 
 During that long and arduous struggle which ensued 
 between Great Britain and her American Colonies, and 
 which ultimately terminated in the independence of the 
 latter, the town of Windham entered warmly and zealously 
 into the contest. From the commencement to the termina- 
 tion of the war, this town contributed more than her full 
 quota of men and money. 
 
 Feb. 16, 1773, a town meeting was held at the meeting 
 house, " To choose a committee to act on any thing the 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 25 
 
 town may think proper, in answer to the letter of corre- 
 spondence sent by the town of Boston to this town, 
 concerning the infringements which are made upon the 
 rights and privileges that we ought to enjoy, and to do any 
 thing that the town may think proper in answer to said let- 
 ter." Capt. Caleb Graffam was chosen Moderator, Thomas 
 Mayberry, Richard Mayberry, Z. Hunnewell, Caleb Graffam, 
 Thomas Trott, William Knights and Hugh Crague were 
 chosen a committee to make answer to the letter of corre- 
 spondence from the town of Boston. The meeting was 
 then adjourned to the 25th day of the month, to hear the 
 report of the committee. At the adjourned meeting, the 
 committee reported the following pmit\mble and resolutions, 
 which were read, accepted, and ordered to be recorded in 
 the Town Clerk's book. 
 
 " To the ivorthy gentlemen ivho are the committee of correspond- 
 ence for the totvn of Boston : 
 
 " Gentlemen : We who are the committee for the town 
 of Windham, have considered of your pamphlet which you 
 sent to this town, and we report as follows : We understand 
 that many towns older and much more capable of judging 
 of affairs than we are, have fully investigated the subject ; 
 therefore we think it needless for us to be very particular in 
 the affair. But we fully agree with you, gentlemen, in 
 your sentiments concerning the liberties and privileges which 
 we ought to enjoy, and the infringements which are made 
 on the same. We, the people of Windham, have suffered 
 much by the Indians, and did, expect no other from them if 
 we fell into their hands. But little did we think that 
 unconstitutional and unbearable measures would be taken 
 by those whom we depended upon to protect and defend 
 our interests and privileges, both civil and sacred, even to 
 bring us and our posterity into the greatest bondage, slavery, 
 and misery that people can well be under, even equal to or 
 greater than the Egyptian bondage. Therefore- ■ 
 
26 HISTOKY OF THE 
 
 " Resolved, That we declare ourselves to be true and legal 
 subjects to our king, and are ready to do our utmost when- 
 ever we are called to defend his royal person and interest. 
 
 " Resolved, That we look upon it our duty as well as 
 interest, both for ourselves and posterity, to stand up in 
 the defense of those privileges and liberties that our goodly 
 forefathers purchased for us at so dear a rate as the expense 
 of their own blood, and that we used formerly and still 
 ought to enjoy. 
 
 '•'■Resolved, That the town of Windham returns humble 
 and hearty thanks to the town of Boston for the care and 
 regard that they discover for us and the whole province. 
 
 '•''Resolved, That tUe^regoing resolves and proceedings 
 be registered in the Town Clerk's office, that the rising 
 generation may see what care their forefathers have taken 
 to defend their liberties and privileges, that they may take 
 the like care if they are called to it as we are." 
 
 In January, 1774, a further communication was received 
 from the town of Boston relative to public affairs. A town 
 meeting was held Jan. 24, 1774, " to see what the town 
 think proper to do relating to the late papers from Boston." 
 At this meeting it was " Voted, That the committee of cor- 
 respondence for this town, send to the committee of corre- 
 spondence for the town of Boston, their sentiments relating 
 to our public affairs." Which the committee accordingly 
 did, expressing, in bold and energetic language, their deter- 
 mination to adhere to and support their brethren in every 
 measure touching the rights and liberties of the country. 
 And at a subsequent meeting, Feb. 14, 1774, the proceed- 
 ings of the committee were sanctioned and accepted by the 
 toAvn. 
 
 Aug. 30, 1774, a meeting of the inhabitants of the 
 town of Falmouth was held, at which Jedediah Preble, 
 Enoch Freeman, Stephen Longfellow, Enoch Ilsley and 
 Samuel Freeman were chosen a " committee to meet com- 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 2T 
 
 mittees from the several towns in tliis county, to consider 
 what measures it will be expedient to adopt for the general 
 interest of the county, in the present alarming situation of 
 our public affairs ; and that the said committee write to the 
 said towns, acquainting them with this vote, and appoint 
 the time and place of meeting." 
 
 Agreeably to this vote, a convention of delegates from 
 nine towns in this county, assembled at Falmouth, now 
 Portland, Sept. 21, 1774. The town of Windham was 
 represented in this convention by Zerubbabel Hunnewell, 
 Thomas Trott and David Barker. In this convention the 
 Cumberland County Resolves were passed, which are proba- 
 bly the ablest exposition of public affairs, at that time, now 
 extant. In point of clearness, ability, and sound reasoning, 
 they will not suffer in comparison with any of the productions 
 of that day. 
 
 " 9th. As the very extraordinary and alarming Act for 
 establishing the Roman Catholic religion and French laws 
 in Canada, may introduce the French and Indians into our 
 frontier towns, we recommend that every town and individual 
 in this county should be provided with a proper stock of 
 military stores, according to our province law, and that 
 some patriotic military officers be chosen in each town, to 
 exercise their several companies, and make them perfect in 
 the military art." 
 
 Agreeably to the recommendation of the county conven- 
 tion,' a town meeting was notified and held at the block 
 house (fort), Nov. 7, 177-1, " 'to choose three officers to 
 teach those Avho are so inclined, in the military art." At 
 this meeting, Richard Mayberry was chosen Captain, David 
 Barker Lieutenant and Edward Anderson, Ensign, and at the 
 annual town meeting in March, 1775, it was " Voted, That 
 William Knights be Captain for the militia for this town. 
 Voted, that David Barker be Lieutenant. Voted, That Richard 
 Dole be Ensign." 
 
28 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 At a town meeting, March 15, 1775, " Voted, twenty-seven 
 pounds to be raised as soon as possible, to provide a town 
 stock of ammunition." " Voted, To choose a man to fix up 
 the great gun and swivels." '■'Voted, That Capt. Caleb 
 Graffam be the man to fix up the great gun and swivels as 
 soon as possible." 
 
 Although the ordinance department of Windham was not 
 quite equal in magnitude, to that which accompanied the 
 army of Napoleon in his invasion of Russia, yet it was their 
 all, and they were. determined to bring all their artillery 
 into the field. 
 
 So far had the inhabitants of this town proceeded in 
 anticipation of a war with England. Although for several 
 years past, events had been ri^^ening which could not fail of 
 producing an explosion, the fatal blow had not yet been 
 struck. It was, however, near at hand. Events were now 
 rapidly approaching to a crisis. On the 19th of April, 1775, 
 the dark and portentous cloud of war, which had long been 
 gathering, burst upon the devoted colonies. On that day, 
 the British troops at Lexington, Mass., fired upon, killed 
 eight of the Americans, and wounded several others. This 
 was the first blood spilt during the Revolutionary war. 
 The soil of Lexington was moistened and consecrated by 
 the blood of the first martyrs of liberty. The ever memorable 
 battle of Lexington opened the long and bloody drama that 
 ensued between Great Britian and her American colonies, 
 and lighted up the flames of war, which continued for the 
 period of eight years, during which they consumed every 
 vestige of British authority, and were extinguished only by 
 Great Britain's acknowledging the thirteen United Colonies 
 to be free, sovereign and independent States. 
 
 Every mild and constitutional measure had been exhausted 
 in vain. Petitions, expressed in the ablest manner, and in 
 language the most respectful, were unheeded. The Throne 
 and Parliament were deaf to the voice of justice and reason ; 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 29 
 
 and no alternative was left but an unconditional surrender 
 of those rights which the colonies held dearer than life — or 
 an appeal to arms. Our fathers, appealing to heaven for 
 the sincerity of their intentions and the justness of their 
 cause, chose the latter alternative, regardless of the con- 
 sequences. 
 
 From this time to the close of the war, the calls upon 
 this town for men, money, clothing and provisions, were 
 incessant. Some idea may be formed of the number and 
 magnitude of the requisitions made by the State, and the 
 amount of money expended by this town, from the follow- 
 ing brief but imperfect summary of a part of the men, 
 money, provisions and clothing furnished by the town. 
 
 1775, 7 men in the State service at Cambridge, for 8 
 months ; 4 men in the State service at "Falmouth, for 8 
 months ; 6 men in the State service at Cambridge, for 2 
 months. 
 
 1776, 13 men in the State service at Peekskill, for 3 
 months ; 9 men in the State service at Dorchester, for 4 
 months ; 4 men'in the State service at Rhode Island, for 4 
 months ; 6 men in the State service, for 12 months. 
 
 1777, 3 men in the State service at Rutland, Vt. Feb. 
 21, State tax, <£97, 5, 4. 
 
 1778, April 14, " Voted X150, to provide shirts, stockings, 
 and shoes for the army." " Voted, That X20 be raised to 
 support the soldiers' wives. May 15th, 3 men drafted into 
 the State service at Peekskill. .£600 voted by the town 
 for the same. May 25th, 2 men drafted into the State 
 service. <£88 voted by the town for the same. 
 
 1779, Jan. 12, " Voted <£80 for the support of the women 
 whose husbands are in the army. May 24th, " Voted X300 
 for the support of the women whose husbands are in the 
 Continental service." June 21st, 13 shirts, 13 prs. shoes 
 and stockings for the army. July 9th, 16 men drafted into 
 the service at Penobscot, for tw^ months. <£960 voted for 
 
30 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 tlie same. Sept. 10th, 10 men drafted into the service at 
 Fahnoiith for 2 months. Sept. 20th, X300 voted for the 
 same by the town. 
 
 1780, 11 men in the service at Camden, for 8 months. 
 Sept. 25th, 2760 lbs. beef for the army. Dec. 4th, 5011 lbs. 
 beef for the army. State tax X6090. Nov. 29, 6 men 
 furnished the Continental for three years. 
 
 1781, Jan. 16, " Voted 2280 dollars, silver money, for 
 the soldiers who are to go into the army for 3 years." 
 State tax £394, 6s. June 22d, 9 shirts, 9 pr. shoes and » 
 stockings, and four blankets for the arm}'. July 14th, <£60 
 voted by the town to procure beef for the army. July, 4 
 men for the Continental army for 3 years. Nov. 8th, State 
 tax ,£555. 
 
 1782, March 1, 3 men for the Continental army for 3 
 years. May 31st, " Voted>X173 to pay the soldiers." 
 
 In addition to the above, there was a considerable number 
 of men belonging to this town who enlisted into the service, 
 several of whom served nearly the whole of the war ; to 
 which may b5 added those in this town belonging to Ciipt. 
 Mayberry's company. In November, 1776, Capt. Richard 
 Mayberry, of this town, enlisted a company of 64, including 
 officers and privates, into the Continental service for 3 years. 
 
 The captain of this company and eleven of the members 
 belonged to this town. This was the fifth company in the 
 eleventh regiment of the jMassachusetts Bay Forces. This 
 company was in the left wing of the army commanded by 
 General Gates, in the memorable campaign of 1777, and 
 shared, in common with their brethren in arms, in all the 
 hardships and dangers of that campaign, which terminated so 
 gloriously in the capture of Gen. Burgoyne and his army at 
 Saratoga, Oct. 17, 1777. They were in the battle of 
 Monmouth, June 28, 1778, in which they suffered severely, 
 and also in the engagement at Hubbardstown. We may judge 
 of the efforts put forth by the inhabitants of this town during 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 31 
 
 • 
 the revolutionary war, from the facts that there was but 
 one military company in town during the war ; that the 
 number of men enrolled at any time did not amount to fifty- 
 five, of whom 'more than thirty were known to be out in 
 the continental service and service of the State at one time, 
 and during the war seventy-one men performed service in 
 the continental army and drafted militia, being sixteen more 
 than the number enrolled at any time, forty of whom served 
 three years in the army ; that this town, small in numbers, 
 poor in point of pecuniary means, in one of the darkest 
 periods of the revolution, voted 2,280 dollars in silver 
 money, to support the war, are facts which will forever 
 stand forth as living mementoes of the devotion and attach- 
 ment of this town to the cause of civil liberty. 
 
 The sufferings of the armies and people of the United 
 States during the war of the revolution surpass description. 
 The armies suffered by the attacks of the enemy, by cold, 
 by heat, by hunger, by disease, and by all the privations and 
 hardships incident to war. At one time there were but two 
 pair of shoes in Capt. Mayberry's company, which belonged 
 to Josiah Chute, the grandson of Thomas Chute, the first 
 settler of this town. He was sergeant of the company, and 
 was wounded b}^ a musket shot in the battle of Hubbarcls- 
 town. Inded, it was not uncommon to track the march of 
 the American armies by the blood from their lacerated feet. 
 
 " At the battle of the Eutaw Springs, Gen. Green says, 
 that ' hundreds of my men were naked as they were born.' 
 Posterity will scarcely believe that the bare loins of many 
 brave men who carried death into the enemy's ranks at the 
 Eutaw, were galled by their cartridge boxes, while a folded 
 rag or a tuft of moss protected the shoulders from sustaining 
 the same injury from the musket. Men of other times will 
 inquire by what magic was the army kept together ? By 
 what supernatural power was it made to fight?" 
 
32 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 •* 
 Gen. Green, in his letters to the Secretary of War, says: 
 
 " We have three hundred men without arms, and more 
 
 than one thousand so naked that they can be put on duty 
 
 only in cases of a desperate nature." Again he says : 
 
 " Our difficulties are so numerous, and our wants so pressing, 
 
 that I have not a moment's relief from the most painful 
 
 anxieties. I have more embarrassments than it is proper to 
 
 disclose to the world. Let it suffice to say that this part of 
 
 the United States has had a narrow escape. I have been 
 
 seven months in the field without taking off my clothes." 
 
 Gen. Washington, in his letters to Congress, in 1777, 
 says : " Soap, vinegar and other articles allowed by Congress, 
 we see none of, nor have we seen them, I believe, since the 
 battle of Brandy wine. The first, indeed, we have little 
 occasion for, few men having more than one shirt ; many 
 only the moiety of one ; some none at all. In addition to 
 which, as a farther proof of the inability of an army under 
 the circumstances of this, to perform tlie common duties of 
 soldiers, we have by a field return this day made, besides a 
 number of men confined to hospitals for want of shoes, and 
 others in farmers' houses on the same account, no less than 
 two thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight men now in 
 camp, unfit for duty, because they are barefoot and otherwise 
 naked." 
 
 Nor were the calamities of the war confined to the armies. 
 The people of the United States were beset at all points 
 with enemies, external and internal. They had not only 
 to contend against the whole power of Great Britain and 
 her foreign mercenaries, against the savage hordes employed 
 by Great Britain, " whose known rule of warfare is an un- 
 distinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions," 
 but also against domestic enemies more treacherous than 
 the savage. Towns were wrapt in flames, hundreds of 
 families turned houseless into the streets, and reduced 
 from afiluent circumstances to abject poverty. In short, 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 33 
 
 the people of the United States passed through every calam- 
 ity and every species of suffering attendant upon vrar. 
 Well might they say these were times that " tried men's 
 souls." But amidst all their sufferings they never despaired 
 of success. Trusting in the justness of their cause, they 
 pressed forward with unabated ardor, until their efforts were 
 crowned with complete success. 
 
 In the second year of the war, July 4, 1776, the Colonial 
 Congress declared the thirteen united colonies to be free, 
 sovereign, and independent States, and pledged their lives, 
 fortunes, and sacred honor to support it. This declaration 
 they made good to the very letter in all its length and 
 breadth, and subsequently compelled the gigantic power of 
 Great Britain, by the treaty of 1788, to sanction and 
 acknowledge it. Thus terminated the long and arduous 
 struggle between Great Britain and her American Colonies. 
 
 It has been stated that Great Britain in this war lost of 
 her own subjects and mercenaries 100,000 lives, and added 
 to her national debt X 120,000,000 sterling, winning nothing 
 but an inglorious defeat. The United States established 
 their National Independence, at an immense sacrifice of 
 blood and treasure, losing, probably, more than 50,000 brave 
 men and expended 1135,193,703, besides individual expendi- 
 tures and damages to an untold amount. 
 
 " The loss of men to Massachusetts, in the field, in the 
 camp, and in prison ships, has been estimated at a number 
 between eight and nine thousand. Her own debt incurred 
 was about five millions of dollars in specie value, besides her 
 proportion of the national debt, which was estimated to be 
 as much more. The quota to Maine of these and all other 
 public burthens was one-tenth. The men belonging to 
 Maine, who fell during the war, must have exceeded; a 
 thousand." 
 
34 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 WAR WITH TRIPOLI. 
 
 This war commenced in 1801. Tripoli, one of the pirat- 
 ical powers of the north of Africa, with Morocco and 
 Algiers, commenced a system of robbery upon all vessels 
 trading up the Mediterranean Sea. They enforced these 
 demands by capturing the ships and imprisoning their crews 
 if they refused to comply. This was a naval war of short 
 duration. The government dispatched a squadron under 
 the command of Commodore Preble, who captured their 
 vessels, bombarded their town, and made them deliver up 
 all American prisoners, and compelled them to relinquish 
 demanding tribute from American or any other vessels. 
 Windham had no men engaged in this war. 
 
 March 10, 1805, Congress passed a vote of thanks to 
 Commodore Edward Preble, his officers and seamen for 
 their gallantry in the several attacks on Tripoli in 1804, and 
 requested the President " to cause a gold medal to be struck, 
 emblematical of the attacks on the town batteries and naval 
 forces of Tripoli, by the squadron under Commodore Preble's 
 command, in such manner as will in his opinion be most 
 honorable to him." 
 
 In pursuance of this resolve, President Jefferson caused 
 the medal to be prepared, and officially presented it to the 
 gallant Commodore. The medal was two and one-half 
 inches in diameter and one-eighth of an inch thick. On the 
 obverse side a fine and distinctly marked portrait of Com- 
 modore Preble in fall naval dress, surrounded by the 
 inscription " The American Congress to Edward Preble, the 
 vigorous Commodore." On the reverse side is a view of 
 the fortifications of Tripoli, with the American fleet before 
 them in full attack, surrounded by the inscription " The 
 avenger of American commerce." 
 
 WAR WITH ENGLAND. 
 
 This war was declared June 18, 1812, and terminated by 
 
TOWN OF WLNDHAM. 36 
 
 treaty at Ghent, December 24, 1814. The United States 
 set forth the following aggressions as the the cause of this 
 war. 
 
 " Firstly. For impressing American citizens while sailing 
 on the seas, the highway of nations. Dragging them on 
 board their ships of war and forcing them to serve against 
 nations in amity with the United States, and even to partici- 
 pate in aggressions on the rights of their fellow citizens 
 when not on the high seas. 
 
 " Secondly. Violating the rights and peace of our coasts 
 and harbors, harassing our departing commerce, and wan- 
 tonly spilling American blood within our territorial juris- 
 diction. 
 
 " Thirdly. Plundering our commerce on every sea under 
 pretended blockades, not of harbors, posts or places, invested 
 by adequate force. 
 
 " Fourthly. Committing numberless spoliations on our 
 ships and commerce, under her orders in council, of various 
 dates. 
 
 " Fifthly. Employing secret agents within the United 
 States, with a view to subvert our government and dismem- 
 ber our union. 
 
 " Sixthly. Encouraging the Indian tril)es to make war 
 on the people of the United States." 
 
 The contest on the land was continued with various 
 success on both sides, until the battle at New Orleans, 
 January 8, 1815. In this battle, Sir Edward Packenham, 
 Commander-in-Chief, was killed, and his army, composed of 
 the elite of Wellington's veteran army, was defeated with one 
 of the most disastrous defeats ever known in history, by 
 undisciplined militia, commanded by General Andrew 
 Jackson, Commander-in-Chief of the United States army. 
 British loss, two hundred and ninety-three killed, twelve 
 hundred and sixty-seven wounded, and eighty-four missing 
 
36 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 or prisoners. American loss, thirteen killed, thirty-nine 
 wounded, and nineteen missing. 
 
 In this war the little navy of the United States won a 
 series of victories on the ocean and the lakes that has con- 
 signed England's proud boast, " Britannia rules the waves," 
 to the receptacle of all things lost upon earth. 
 
 In this war Windham was not called upon to furnish any 
 men for the United States armies. The men for that were 
 raised by voluntary enlistment. Windham had but little to 
 do in this war. Several small detachments of militia were 
 made by order of the Governor of Massachusetts for short 
 terms, for the defense of Portland and vicinity. Near the 
 close of the war one company of militia was detached, 
 commanded by Capt. Nathan Goold ; mustered in at Port- 
 land, September 10, 1814 ; mustered out at Portland, 
 September 24, 1814, as per roll. As the detachments were 
 for very short terms, and never under fire, no casualties are 
 known to have occurred. 
 
 KOLL OF THE COMPANY OF DETACHED MILITIA UNDER 
 CAPTAIN NATHAN GOOLD. 
 
 Nathan Goold, Captain. 
 Noah J. Senter, Lieutenant. William Legrow, Ensign. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 Elias Baker, John Crague, Jr., 
 
 Nathaniel Knight. John Brown. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 Isaac Powers, Ezra Anderson, 
 
 Benjamin BaJier, Elijah Long. 
 
 Levi Morrill, Fifer. 
 
 RANK AND FILE. 
 
 Frances Jackson, Benjamin Morrill, Peter Knight, 
 
 Samuel Hamblen, Oliver Mabury, John Lunt, 
 
 Abraham Anderson, Jr., James Crague, Samuel Bolton, 
 
 Philip Cobb, Daniel Waterhouse, Daniel Bolton, 
 
 Francis Mi.bury, WilUam Ilearsey, Roger Jordan, Jr., 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 37 
 
 David Proctor, 
 Thomas Stevens, 
 Benjamin Davis, 
 Josiah Crague, 
 Timothy Haiues, 
 Daniel Knight, 
 Richard Lamb, 
 Josiuia Rogers, 
 James Lombard, 
 Jonali Austin, Jr., 
 Benjamin Jordan, 
 Caleb Graffam, 
 Jolin Bodge, 
 Joseph Crockett, 
 John French, 
 Jonathan Freeman, 
 John Loveitt, 
 
 John Goodale, Jr., 
 Stephen Manchester, 
 Ezra Mugford, 
 Mark Crockett, 
 John Anthoine, 
 Justus Law, 
 Antliony Brackett, 
 Joseph E. Dolly, 
 Abner Goold, 
 Thomas Leighton, 
 John Skillins, 
 Israel Hodsdon, Jr., 
 Robert Wier, 
 Thomas Mabury, 
 Nathaniel Hunnewell, 
 John Knight, Jr., 
 
 Joseph Brown, 
 William Austin, 
 Jonathan Goold, 
 William Young, 
 Aaron Hanscomb, 
 William Withington, 
 Ebenezer Smith, 
 James Brown, 
 Ephraim Brown, 
 John Brown, Jr., 
 Robert M. Mabury, 
 Jacob Pettengill, 
 Nathan Hanscomb, 
 Daniel Bailey, 
 William Cobbey, 
 Benjamin Wliitmore. 
 
 VOLUNTEERS. 
 Windham Mex who Enlisted for Five Years or during the Wak, 
 
 AND served in THE REGULAR ArMY. 
 
 Jordan, Jeremiah Mugford, George 
 
 Jordan, Thomas Peco, John 
 
 Knight, Merrill Pettengill, John 
 
 Knight, William Winship, Ephraim 
 
 Knight, Joseph Varney, Isaac 
 
 Libby, Samuel Knight, Daniel 
 
 Mabury, Joshua 
 
 Thomas Hardy and Isaac Varney died in the service ; Joseph Knight was 
 severely wounded ; Merrill Knight was killed in battle. 
 
 Chadbourne, Timothy 
 Freeman, Josiah 
 Freeman, Jonathan 
 Hardy, Thomas 
 Ingersol, William 
 Ingersol, Nathaniel 
 Jordan, James 
 
 WAR WITH MEXICO. 
 
 This war commenced April 26, 1846, and was terminated 
 by treaty, February 2, 1848. No fortifications or mountain 
 obstacles could withstand the valor and strategy of the 
 United States armies. In less than two years they took 
 all their strong holds of defense, the city of Vera Cruz and 
 their capital City of Mexico. The annexation of Texas 
 was the cause of this war. Joseph C. Chute, Augustus 
 
38 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Hall and Charles Rand, are all the Windham men known 
 to have been in this war. Charles Rand died in the service. 
 
 WAR OF THE REBELLION. 
 
 The following States seceded from the Union and formed 
 
 a confederate government styled the Confederate States of 
 
 America, over which Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was 
 
 chosen President, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, 
 
 Vice President. 
 
 South Carolina, Dec. 20, 1860. Texas, March 4, 1861. 
 
 Mississippi, Jan. 9, 1861. Virginia, April 24, 1861. 
 
 Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861. Arkansas, May 6, 1861. 
 
 Florida, Jan. 11, 1861. North Carolina, May 21, 1861. 
 
 Georgia, Jan. 19, 1861. Tennessee, June 9, 1861. 
 Louisiana, Jan. 26, 1861. 
 
 April 12, 1861, the batteries erected by the rebels fired 
 upon and compelled the surrender of the United States fort 
 Sumter, in Charleston harbor. South Carolina. These 
 overt acts of rebellion and treason inaugurated the war of 
 the rebellion, which continued until April 10, 1865, when 
 General Lee, commander of the rebel armies, surrendered 
 the fragment of his oft beaten and discouraged army, amount- 
 ing to twenty-seven thousand men, to Lieut. General Grant, 
 commander of the union armies. This surrender virtually 
 closed the war. 
 
 The cause of this war may be traced to the complex 
 structure of the government. The government of the United 
 States is a complex government. Congress makes a part of 
 the laws by which the people are governed, those for 
 national purposes. Each State has a Legislature that makes 
 another part of the laws by which the people are governed, 
 those for state purposes. These powers of government are 
 subdivided by the national and state governments, into four 
 branches, Legislative, Executive, Judicial and Elective. The 
 national government was created by and derived all its powers 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 89 
 
 from the state governments; and is a limited democracy 
 founded in jealousy. Democratic, like monarcliial govern- 
 ments, are of two kinds, absolute and limited. An absolute 
 democracy is that form of government where all the powers 
 of government are exercised by the people in their collective 
 capacity. A limited democracy is that form of government 
 where the powers of government are defined and limited by 
 law. The elective is the only branch in which the people 
 exercise sovereignty. The exercise of sovereignty in the 
 other branches is delegated to persons chosen or ap- 
 jDointed for that purpose. So intense were the fears and 
 jealousy of the States that the national government would 
 absorb the reserved rights of the States and become a 
 consolidated government, that no less than ten amendments 
 to the Constitution were proposed at the first session of the 
 first Congress, and subsequently adopted, to secure the 
 reserved rights of the States. The division of the powers 
 of government between the national and state governments, 
 laid the foundation for the conflict between democracy and 
 aristocracy. It required the people to serve two masters, 
 who are antagonistic to each other. A national government, 
 founded upon the democratic principle that all are entitled 
 to equal rights, and the rankest aristocratic state governments 
 that ever existed, founded upon the aristocratic principle 
 that all are not entitled to equal rights. The sun, the 
 grand luminary of Heaven, in all his brilliancy at noon day, 
 is not more apparent than the fact that " no man can serve 
 two masters" such as these. It also laid the foundation for 
 the conflict relative to the right of jurisdiction, and originated 
 a political doctrine called " State rights," which asserts that 
 the States have a legal right to secede from and dissolve the 
 Union, thereby making the Union a rope of sand, in other 
 words a solecism ; a government without power to govern. 
 This right the rebel States attempted to enforce by an appeal 
 to arms. The result has been a civil war, the worst of all 
 
40 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 wars. A war that is estimated to have cost the nation half 
 a million of lives, and from eight to nine billions of dollars 
 in expenditures and loss of property. 
 
 This was not a rebellion of individuals acting in their 
 individual capacity ; it was a rebellion of states acting by 
 State authority ; a war between distinct governments. 
 Every rebel State seceded and waged war against the 
 national government by State authority. This authority 
 clothed the rebellion with an immense power it could not 
 have possessed without it. 
 
 In this war, England was the covert ally of the rebels, 
 affording them all the aid she could without a declaration 
 of war. The United States, notwithstanding this alliance, 
 gave slavery its mortal wound, and came out of the war 
 triumphant over all their enemies. 
 
 WINDHAM MEN IN THE ARMY. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT, MAINE VOLUNTEERS — THREE MONTHS MEN. 
 
 Co. 
 
 Albert Lowell, C. Deceased. 
 
 Isaac K. Whitney, " 
 
 Benjamin F. Wliitney, " 
 
 William II. Brown, D. 
 
 Amos H. Hanson, I. 
 
 Mark S. Varney, " 
 
 THIRD REGIMENT. 
 
 John Pettengill, H. Leon Doplais, A. 
 
 James Murphy, A. Walter Wells, " 
 
 FOURTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Seth C. Ilunkins, Surgeon; prisoner at Bull Run ; exchanged. 
 
 George Johnson, H. 
 
 George F. Johnson, K. Deceased. 
 
 Antonio Lopes, H. 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT. 
 Daniel M. Wescott, Regt. Band. 
 
Francis A. Cloudman, 
 Joseph M. Doughty, 
 Luther W. Wiswell, 
 Osgood W. Rogers, 
 Clinton B. Hooper, 
 John Rogers, 
 Ahnon Shaw, 
 Charles H. Wheeler, 
 John G. Anthoine, 
 Ambrose Anthoine, 
 Benjamin C. Watson, 
 Elisha W. Wallace, 
 William K. Austin, 
 Samuel Y. Siiaw, 
 
 TOWN OF WINDHAM. 41 
 
 Regt. Band. 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Discharged for disability March 9, 1862. 
 
 Ex. B. R. pris. ; disc, for dis. July 3, 1862. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 H. Discharged for disability Dec. 17, 1861. 
 I. Deceased. 
 
 Eben M. Fields. 
 Joseph A. Graifam, 
 William P. Knight, 
 Albert L. Matthews, 
 Charles A. Dalton, 
 William P. Nason, 
 Robert H. Jackson, 
 
 SEVENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 G. Deceased. 
 
 " Discharged for disability March 8, 1862. 
 
 " Deceased. 
 
 Discharged June 28, 1862. 
 K. Mustered in Sept. 12, 1852. 
 F. Transferred from Co. G; disc.Jan. 10, 1863. 
 " " " Apr. 1-4, 1863. 
 
 Nelson Mabury, 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT. 
 Regt. Band. 
 
 Sargent S. Freeman, 
 Amos H. Hanson, 
 Robert Graffam, 
 Albert Graffam, 
 Warren Howe, 
 Stephen Libby, 
 Elbridge Libby, 
 Joseph K. Manchester, 
 Frank Morton, 
 Cliarles E. Morton, 
 Nathan A. Strout, 
 James L. Small, 
 Estes Strout, 
 Geo. H. Nason, 
 
 NINTH REGIMENT. 
 K. Deceased. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Recruit ; mustered in Sept. 4, 1862. 
 
42 
 
 Michael McGrath, 
 Lewis D. Knight, 
 Mark D. Swett, 
 Adrial Leighton, 
 Augustus Ardman, 
 Gustus Herrick, 
 George F. Hawkes, 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 B. 
 E. 
 G. 
 
 (< 
 
 I. 
 
 Benjamin F. Wliitney, 
 William R. Mabury, 
 Amos K. Hodsdon, 
 Moses Little, 
 Frank Paine, 
 Alonzo H. Quinby, 
 Jeremiah P. W. Roach, 
 William Bodge, 
 Solomon Mains, 
 Charles H. Wentworth, 
 Francis G. Boody, 
 Leonard G. Boody, 
 
 TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 C. First Lieutenant Co. B. 
 
 " Wounded at Cedar Mountain. 
 
 E. Discharged for disability Sept. 5, 1862. 
 
 I. 
 
 B. 
 G. 
 H. 
 C. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Taken prisoner ; in prison four months, and 
 Transferred to Co. D. [paroled. 
 
 James W. Little, 
 
 F. 
 
 Albert Maxfield, 
 
 H. 
 
 Jolm Jones, 
 
 B. 
 
 Michael Ryan, 
 
 " 
 
 John Brown, 
 
 I. 
 
 ELEVENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Sergeant ; wounded at Fair Oaks. 
 Promoted to Captain. 
 
 Hamilton S. Lowell, 
 John W. Lombard, 
 Charles M. Akers, 
 Edwin W. Thompson, 
 
 Moses Hunt, 
 
 TWELFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 E. Lieut. ; promoted to Capt. ; wound'd in action. 
 
 G. Sergeant. 
 
 E. 
 
 " Severely wounded in action, Sept. 19, 1864. 
 
 THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 F. 
 
 John C. Cobb, 
 Elvin J. Maxwell, 
 Jason Hanson, 
 
 FIFTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 D. Lieutenant; promoted to Colonel. 
 " Promoted to Captain 2d Engineers. 
 
Lyman W. Hanson, 
 Ephraim Legrow, 
 John Meara, 
 James L. Mabury, 
 Daniel Tyler, 
 Albert Authenrieth, 
 
 Oliver H. Lowell, 
 Isaac R. Whitney, 
 Lorenzo T). Libby, 
 Albert Powers, 
 Edward L. Varney, 
 
 TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 D. 
 
 E. 
 
 SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 43 
 
 Captain ; deceased. 
 Promoted First Lieutenant, 
 
 SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Stephen T. Morton, 
 
 B. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 George R. Cobb, 
 
 " 
 
 
 Joseph Wescott, 
 
 <« 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Daniel Cobb, 
 
 D. 
 
 
 Richard L. Libby, 
 
 F. 
 
 Wounded 
 
 Charles J. Bond, 
 
 H. 
 
 
 Thomas H. Jordan, 
 
 
 
 Uriah Cobb, 
 
 
 
 Joseph G. Elder, 
 
 
 
 Oliver R. Gallison, 
 
 
 
 William S. Hanscorab, 
 
 
 
 Meshac P. Lary, 
 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Elias H. Libby, 
 
 
 " 
 
 Paul E. Little, 
 
 
 tt 
 
 George W. Rackliff, 
 
 
 
 Royal Rand, 
 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 Emanuel Thomas, 
 
 
 
 Renselear Morton, 
 
 
 Wounded. 
 
 Randall B. Morton, 
 Andrew D. Mabury, 
 Eben F. Manchester, 
 James R. Cash, 
 George T. Bacon, 
 Harrison Brazier, 
 John A. Knight, 
 Nathan Mason, 
 George Brickett. 
 
 TWENTIETH REGIMENT. 
 D. Deceased. 
 
 Deceased. 
 A. Wounded ; leg amputated. 
 " Deceased. 
 
44 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 TVVENTY-FIFTn REGIMENT NINE MONTHS MEN. 
 
 Samuel T. Johnson, 
 Charles Jones, 
 J. Douglity, 
 Webb Hall, 
 Charles B. Hooper, 
 Peter Stuart, 
 Sumner C. Bolton, 
 Charles L. Cobb, 
 Franklin Hanson, 
 Charles E. Emery, 
 Allen, Henry W. 
 Allen, Alvin 
 Anderson, George W. 
 Anderson, Tliomas 
 Andrews, George C. 
 Anthoine, James W. 
 Anthoine, Joseph H. 
 Bradbury, Cotton M. 
 Cobb, Isaac 
 Cobb, Charles A. 
 Dial, Charles H. 
 Dole, Daniel H. 
 Dolly, Nathaniel D. 
 Elder, Stephen W. 
 Estes, Robert 
 Fairbanks, Willard A. 
 Felker, Ezra D. 
 Field, William A. 
 GrafFam, John N. 
 Hanson, Jason 
 Hanson, Warren 
 
 First Lieutenant. 
 Second " 
 Band. 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Wagoner. 
 
 Haskell, Samuel V. 
 Hatch, David A. 
 Hawkes, William H. 
 Hill, Joseph 
 Irish, William H. 
 Libby, Bela P. 
 Libby, Joseph 
 Lombard, Charles - 
 Mabury, Samuel 
 Nash, Nathan G. 
 Nash, Charles 
 Pride, Jason N. 
 Smith, Alonzo, deceased, 
 Smith, Josiali W. 
 Stevens, David 
 Sylvester, Richard 
 Tukey, Daniel R. 
 Walker, Edwin H. 
 Watson, David H. 
 Wheeler, George N. 
 
 H. 
 K. 
 F. 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Greenleaf H. Manchester, 
 Isaac Cobb, 
 Daniel Libby, 
 William Bodge, 
 Jesse Bishop, 
 Orchard N. Crummett, 
 Charles L. Adams, 
 Francis E. Butters, 
 
 c. 
 
 Samuel Hasselton, Q 
 
 E. 
 
 Henry Hill, 
 
 « 
 
 Gorham M. McAllister, ' 
 
 F. . 
 
 Warren M. McAllister. ' 
 
 C. 
 
 Benjamin H. McAllister, ' 
 
 « 
 
 Sewell W. Mason, ' 
 
 G. 
 
 Myrick F. Palmer, ' 
 
 " 
 
 Andrew Hill. ' 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 45 
 
 James Lary, 
 Josiali B. Ward, 
 John G. Shaw, 
 William S. Bessey, 
 Edwin Legrow, 
 George D. Hodsdon, 
 Asa C. Cross, 
 Robert A. Littlefield, 
 Charles H. Dial, 
 Samuel F. Simpson, 
 Eoswell P. Greely, 
 Joseph P. Tripp, 
 James F. Tenney, 
 John T. Brackett, 
 Luther Wiswell, Jr., 
 Emery 0. Walker, 
 
 Howard F. Robinson, 
 Reuben Robinson, 
 George W. Cobb, 
 Joseph A. Graffam, 
 
 THIRTIETH REGIMENT. 
 C. Deceased. 
 
 I. 
 
 K. 
 F. 
 
 THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT, 
 C. Deceased. 
 
 James M. Cook, 
 
 " Deceased. 
 
 FIRST 
 
 REGIMENT VETER 
 
 William A. Boyd, 
 Ambrose Anthoine, 
 William P. Nason, 
 William P. Knight, 
 
 A. 
 
 B. Deceased. 
 F. 
 " Deceased. 
 
 FIRST REGIMENT MAINE CAVALRY, 
 
 Joseph Small, B. Deceased. 
 
 Wendell T. Smith, F. 
 
 Albert Lowell, A. " 
 
 Solomon H. C. Bailey, 
 Levi Bragdon, 
 Christopher C. Hunt, 
 William R. Mabury, 
 John C. Stevens, 
 Daniel M. Wescott, 
 
 SECOND REGIMENT MAINE CAVALRY, 
 I. Samuel K. Doe, 
 
 William F. Hoyt, 
 George C. Hoyt, 
 0. F. Jenkins, 
 Jerome S. DeWitt. 
 
46 
 
 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 FIEST REGIMENT D. C. CAVALRY. 
 Nathan D. Dolly, Deceased. 
 
 FIRST BATTERY MOUNTED ARTILLERY. 
 Edward Manchester, George C. Andrews. 
 
 SECOND BATTERY MOUNTED ARTILLERY. 
 Cyrus T. Parker. 
 
 FOURTH BATTERY MOUNTED ARTILLERY. 
 David Martin, John M. Ilawkes. 
 
 SEVENTH BATTERY MOUNTED ARTILLERY. 
 
 Benjamin R. Legrow, Ashley C. Rice. 
 
 Joseph H. Anthoine, 
 
 Who Enlisted in 
 Army, 
 
 Oliver H. Lowell, 
 Solomon Mains, 
 Joseph Small, 
 Luther Wiswell, Jr., 
 Francis G. Boody, 
 Wendell T. Smith, 
 William Bodge, 
 Isaac Cobb, 
 Daniel Libby, 
 Almon L. Varney, 
 Edward L. Varney, 
 George T. Bacon, 
 Randall B. Morton, 
 John T. Brackett, 
 Charles H. Dial, 
 Arthur Libby, 
 Isaac W. Parker, 
 John Larry, 
 Josiah F. Little, 
 Charles GrafFam, 
 Edward H. Trickey, 
 Enoch Gratfam, 
 
 NAMES OF WINDHAM MEN 
 
 THE Organizations of other States, the Regular 
 THE Navt, and Quotas of other Towns. 
 
 Co. Eeg't. 
 
 Gorham quota. 
 
 F. 
 G. 
 
 K. 
 C. 
 F. 
 A. 
 E. 
 
 (t 
 
 D. 
 F. 
 A. 
 D. 
 I. 
 C. 
 B. 
 
 C. 
 B. 
 
 16, 
 10, 
 
 1, 
 30, 
 10, 
 
 1, 
 20, 
 29, 
 
 13, 
 IG, 
 20, 
 20, 
 30, 
 
 3, 
 
 Regiment Cavalry, Gorham quota. 
 
 Gorham quota. 
 
 Portland " 
 
 Cavalry, Portland quota. 
 
 Brunswick ^* 
 
 Westbrook " 
 
 Standish " 
 
 Scarboro " 
 
 Raymond " 
 
 Vermont Regiment. 
 U. S. Engineers. 
 Massachusetts Regiment. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 47 
 
 U. S. Army. 
 
 it it 
 
 U. S. Navy. 
 
 Josephus Hudson, 
 Samuel Dolly, 
 Charles Anderson, 
 Ephraim Legrow, 
 William N. Little, 
 George W. Read, 
 Elias Elliott, 
 Alphonso Merrill, 
 
 EECRUITS FOR WINDHAM, NOT NATIVE CITIZENS. 
 
 Henry Johnson, U. S. Navy. 
 
 John Robinson, " " 
 
 John Boyd, " " 
 
 Michael W. Lenehan, " " 
 
 Barnard Mooney, " " 
 
 Edward Pryor, ' " 
 
 Andrew Shannon, ' ' 
 
 THE CONSCRIPTION, JULY 17, 1863, WINDHAM. 
 
 Charles L. Varney, 
 John R. Briggs, 
 Edwin S. Elder, 
 Thomas J. Ward, 
 Walter D. Tenney, 
 Elijah K. Varney, 
 John C. Cobb, 
 Silas E. Sylvester, 
 Edward Dolley, 
 Noah Webb, 
 Sylvanus B. Lamb, 
 Cephas W. Skillins, 
 Isaac Libby, 
 Albert W. Manchester, 
 Johnson Varney, 
 Jeremiah Field, 
 Albert S. Bodge, 
 William H. Babbidge, 
 Cyrus K. Allen, 
 George H. Dennett, 
 Andrew J. Morrill, 
 William H. White, 
 William Whitney, 
 
 Abner L. Hawkes, 
 Daniel M. Wescott, 
 William A. Lamb, 
 Edward Crockett, 
 Joseph L. Tukey, 
 Albion T. Nason, 
 Robert Knight, 
 Hamilton S. Hawkes, 
 Stephen Mabury, 
 Oliver Hanson, 
 Rhea H. Elder, 
 Kingman Perham, 
 James W. Anthoine. 
 Newall P. Hanson, 
 Edward Allen, 
 Stephen D. Page, 
 John A. Cobb, 
 Daniel Jones, 
 Oliver Dole, 
 Alamanzer Kollock, 
 Enoch Shaw, Jr., 
 Samuel R. Kemp, 
 Samuel Hawkes, 
 
 George II. Harding, 
 John B. Tibbets, 
 James L. Fogg, 
 Jason Miller, 
 Wendell T. Smith, 
 Benjamin H. Smith, 
 Alfred Winslow, 
 George G. Young, 
 Benaiah H. Hall, 
 Thaddeus H. Chase, 
 Jason G. Shaw, 
 Mark W. Dennett, 
 Calvin Morrill, 
 John Irish, 
 William H. Varney, 
 Eli Stone, 
 George L. Kilgore, 
 Lorenzo Knight, 
 William H. Allen, 
 Albion Senter, 
 Elias Irish, 
 Moses M. Hawkes, 
 Reuben Robinson. 
 
48 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 EECRUITS MUSTERED INTO THE SERVICE FOR 
 WINDHAM QUOTAS. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Co. 
 
 Regt. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Jesse Bishop, 
 
 c, 
 
 29, 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Orcli.ard N. Crummett, 
 
 c. 
 
 29, 
 
 Somerville. 
 
 Charles L. Adams, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 Stoneham. 
 
 Francis E. Butters, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 Waterford. 
 
 Samuel Hazel ton, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 Sweden. 
 
 Andrew Hill, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 Stoneham. 
 
 Henry Hill, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 " 
 
 Gershom McAllister, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 " 
 
 Warren McAllister, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 " 
 
 Benjamin H. McAllister, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 a 
 
 Sewell W. Mason, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 Lovell. 
 
 My rick F. Palmer, 
 
 G, 
 
 29, 
 
 " 
 
 Josiah B. Ward, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Windham. 
 
 George D. Hodsdon, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 " 
 
 Samuel F. Simpson, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Gray. 
 
 William S. Bessey, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Albion. 
 
 Asa C. Cross, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Somerville. 
 
 Roswell P. Greely, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Gray. 
 
 Robert A. Littlefield, 
 
 c. 
 
 30, 
 
 Guilford. 
 
 Edwin Legrow, 
 
 c, 
 
 30, 
 
 Gray. 
 
 James Lary, 
 
 c. 
 
 30, 
 
 Windham. 
 
 John Y. Shaw, 
 
 c. 
 
 30, 
 
 " 
 
 Joseph P. Tripp, 
 
 c. 
 
 30, 
 
 Poland. 
 
 James F. Tenney, 
 
 c. 
 
 30, 
 
 Raymond. 
 
 Emery 0. Walker, 
 
 r, 
 
 80, 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Samuel K. Doe, 
 
 B, 
 
 2d Cavalry, 
 
 Vassalborough. 
 
 Edwin F. Hoyt, 
 
 B, 
 
 " 
 
 Boston. 
 
 George C. Hoyt, 
 
 B, 
 
 (( 
 
 " 
 
 0. F. Jenkins, 
 
 B, 
 
 " 
 
 Gardiner. 
 
 Solomon H. C. Bailey, 
 
 L, 
 
 « 
 
 Windham. 
 
 Jerome S. Dewitt, 
 
 
 
 " 
 
 SIXTY-FIRST SUB-DISTRICT, WINDHAM. 
 Drafted, reported and actually entered service, none. 
 
 DRAFTED, REPORTED AND FURNISHED SUBSTITUTES. 
 
 Name of Principal. Name of Substitute. Residence of Siibstitut*. 
 
 Bodge, Albert S. Blake, William Portland. 
 
 Briggs, John R. Higgins, Cliarles S. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 49 
 
 Colli), Jolin A. 
 Elder. Ivlwin S. 
 IlMwkes. Sainuol 
 Ilawkos, Ilaiiiilton S. 
 Irisli, I'llias 
 Irisli, John 
 Kiiiij;lit, Ivohert II. 
 Kollouk. Alaniatizer 
 Knight, Lorenzo I>. 
 Malxiry, Stejjhen 
 Alorrill, Amlrew J. 
 Morrill, Talvln 
 Nason, Albion T. 
 Lanil). Sylvanus B. 
 Perhani, Kiiiijnian D. 
 Pasxe, SU'plicn D. 
 Shaw, flason G. 
 Stone. Kli 
 Tukey, .Josepli L. 
 Wel.U, Noah 
 White, \Vi:iiam II. 
 Varney. William II. 
 DrafleJ, reported, anil 
 
 Perry, Clinrles 0. 
 Nolan, John 
 Dunlap, Henry J. 
 IJnssell, Joseph II. 
 Dunlap, Samuel 
 Howard, James 
 Ilutcliins, Jonathan Jr. 
 Murpliy, James 
 Johnston, Koscoe 
 Johnson, William 
 McCabe, James 
 Cooley, Daniel 
 Duplace. Leon 
 Williams, Tlioinas 
 llarrohl, William 
 AVliite, Geor<;e 
 Gray, Joseph 
 Lnnfjilon, James 
 AVells, Walter 
 Clark, George 
 Cook, Ciiarles 
 Sasso, Antonio 
 paid conunutation, none. 
 
 Brewer. 
 
 Canada. 
 
 Philadelphia, Penn. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Minot. 
 
 Springfield, N. Y. 
 
 Cape Elizabeth. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 East Cambridge, Mas3. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Bath. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 New York. 
 
 Portland. 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Elmira. N. Y. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Unknown. 
 
 RECAPITULATION". 
 
 Who'e nimdier drafted, 
 
 Enteied service, 
 
 Furnished substitutes. 
 
 Paid eommutation, 
 
 E.xempted for physical disability, 
 
 Exempted under Sec. 2, enrolment act, 
 
 In service Marcli 3, 18(33, 
 
 Exempted for non-residence, 
 
 Fulleil to report Jan. 1, 186i, 
 
 69 
 
 
 24 
 
 
 28 
 9 
 3 
 2 
 3 
 
 SUBSTITUTES. 
 
 Nims of Principal. 
 Allen, Thomas L. 
 Allen, William IL 
 Bodge, Albert S. 
 Briggs, John 11. 
 
 4 
 
 Name of Substitute. 
 
 Augustus Ardman. 
 Joseph Kemp. 
 William Blake, 
 diaries S. Uiggins. 
 
^ 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Bilker, Seward M. 
 Bailey, Levi Jr., 
 Cobb, Hugh C. 
 Cobb, Jolin A. 
 Elder, Edwin S. 
 Hiiwkes, George 
 Hooper, William B. 
 Ilawkes, George E. 
 Ilawkes, Samuel 
 Hanson, Warren 
 Ilawkes, Hamilton S. 
 Iliiiinewell, Charles 
 Irish, Ellas 
 Irish, John 
 Knight, Robert H. 
 Knight, Lorenzo D. 
 KoUock, Almanzer 
 Libby, William H. 
 Leavitt, William R. 
 Lamb, Sylvanus B. 
 Morrill, John M. 
 Morrill, Calvin 
 Morrill, Jacob B. 
 Morrill, Andrew J. 
 Mabury, Stephen 
 Mabury, William F. 
 Mabury, Edward D. 
 Mabury, Joshua S. 
 Nason, Albion T. 
 Perham, Kingman G. 
 Page, Stephen D. 
 Purington, Abijah H. 
 
 Rogers, Charles 
 
 Shasv, Jason G. 
 
 Shaw, Nathaniel L. 
 
 Varney, William H. 
 
 White, William H. 
 
 Webb, Noah 
 
 White, John M. 
 
 AValker, Charles B. 
 
 Webb, M. H. 
 
 Webb, John M. 
 
 Adrial Leigliton, 
 Francis Stevens. 
 Michael W. Lenahan. 
 Charles 0. Perry. 
 John Nolan. 
 Albert Authenrieth. 
 John Brown. 
 John Boyd. 
 Henry J. Dunlap 
 George F. Ilawkes. 
 Joseph II. Russell. 
 Barney Woods. 
 Samuel Dunlap. 
 James Howard. 
 Jonathan Hutchins, Jr. 
 Roscoe Johnson. 
 James Murphy. 
 George Nelson. 
 Andrew Shannon. 
 Thomas Williams, 
 George Brennan. 
 Daniel Cooley. 
 Gustus Ilerrick. 
 James McCabe. 
 William Johnson, 
 Michael McGrath. 
 Michael Ryan, 
 John Strahan. 
 Leon Duplace. 
 William Ilarrold. 
 George White. 
 Lewis D. Wright. 
 . Barnard Mooney. 
 Joseph Gray. 
 George Bosworth. 
 Antonio Lopes. 
 Charles Cook. 
 George Clark. 
 William H. Johnson. 
 Edward Morgan. 
 John Rickaby. 
 John Robinson. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 51 
 
 RECRUITS MUSTERED IN BY PROVOST MARSHAL. 
 
 Akers, Charles M. 
 Antlioine, Joseph H. 
 Andrews, George C. 
 Bragdon, Levi 
 Brazier, Harrison 
 Brickett, George 
 Bangs, Charles E. 
 Cash, James 11, 
 Clement, William F. 
 Davis, George C. 
 Gallison, Oliver R. 
 Hanson, Jason 
 Hunt, Christopher C. 
 Hanson, Oliver 
 Hodgdon, Amos II. 
 Hawkes, Moses M. 
 Knight, John A. 
 Knight, Sargent 
 Lakin, John 
 Lamb, Sylvanus B. 
 Manchester, Edward 
 Mason, Nathan 
 Mabury, William R. 
 Nason, James 
 Parker, Winfield S. 
 Rice, Ashley C. 
 Stevens, John C. 
 Wescott, Daniel M, 
 
 Date of Muster. 
 
 August 6, 1864, 
 September 30, 1864, 
 October 4, 1864, 
 September 30, 1864, 
 February 10, 1865, 
 March 28, 1865, 
 April 11, 1865, 
 February 15, 1865, 
 April 11, 1865, 
 April 6, 1865, 
 April 11, 1865, 
 May 11, 1864, 
 October 17, 1864, 
 March 2, 1865, 
 December 29, 1863, 
 April 11, 1865, 
 February 10, 1865, 
 March 7, 1865, 
 February 10, 1865, 
 March 31, 1865, 
 April 7, 1864, 
 February 10, 1865, 
 Septsfniber 30, 1864, 
 Mareh 28, 1865, 
 April 11, 1865, 
 September 30, 1854, 
 
 Regimsnt. 
 
 12th Infantry. 
 7th Battery. 
 • 17th Infantry. 
 2d Cavalry. 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 80th Infantry. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 17th Infantry. 
 
 2d Cavalry. 
 
 15th Infantry, 
 
 1st Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 1st Battery. 
 
 20tli Infantry. 
 
 21 Cavalry. 
 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 29th Unassigned Infantry. 
 
 7th Battery. 
 
 2d Cavalry. 
 
 2J Cavalry. 
 
 Boyd, John 
 Johnson, Henry 
 Lenahan, Michael W 
 Mooney, Barnard 
 Pryor, Edward 
 Robinson, John 
 Shannon, Andrew 
 
 ENLISTMENTS IN THE NAVY. 
 
 Term three years. 
 
 September 23, 1864, 
 October 11, 1864, 
 February 9, 1865, 
 October 11, 1864, 
 September 23, 1864, 
 October 13, 1864, 
 
62 HISTOKT OF THE 
 
 WINDHAM MEN KILLED IN ACTION, DIED OF WOUNDS AND 
 DISEASE CONTKACTED IN THE SERVICE. 
 
 Solomon JMuines, son of David aiul Anna Maines, member 
 of Co. G, 10th Maine Regiment. Mortally ^vountled in the 
 battle of Antietam, Sept. 17 ; died Sept. 18, 1862, aged 44 
 years. 
 
 Amos II. Hanson, son of William P. and Fidelia Hanson, 
 member of Co. K, Sth Regiment; was killed by the ex- 
 plosion of a shell on Morris Island, South Carolina, July 17, 
 186:3, aged 27 years. 
 
 Paul E. Little, son of Moses and Eliza Little, and great- 
 grandson of Paul Little, Esq., ancestors of the Littles of 
 Windham, member of Co. H, 17th Maine Regiment; died 
 of wounds received in the battle of Chancellorsville, in the 
 hospital at Alexandria, Va., July 24, 1863, aged 33 years. 
 His remains were brought to Windham and interred in 
 cemetery in School District No. 2, August 5, 1863. 
 
 Royal Rand, son of Samuel and Hannah Rand, and 
 grandson of John Rand, ancestors of the Rands in Wind- 
 ham, member of Co. H, 17th Maine Regiment; killed in 
 the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, aged 38 years. 
 
 Stephen T. j\Iorton, son of William and Adeline Morton, 
 member of Co. R, 17th Maine Regiment; wounded at Fred- 
 ericksburg, Dec. 17, 1862 ; died in Falmouth, Va., Jan. 5, 
 1863, aged 19 years. His remains were brought to Wind- 
 ham and interred in the cemetery on the farm of William 
 Goold, Esq., Feb. 22, 1863. 
 
 Frank JNIorton, brother of the jn-eceding, member of Co. 
 K, 9th Maine Regiment ; died in Hampton Hospital, Va., of 
 wounds received in battle, Aug. 9, 186 J, aged 20 years. 
 His remains were brought to Windham and interred by the 
 side of his brother, Oct. 23, 1864. Here, side by side, lie 
 the remains of these young brothers who have died in the 
 service of their country. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 53 
 
 Alonzo Smith, son of Henry and Jane E. Smith, and 
 grandson of Gen. John K. Smith, an officer of the Revolu- 
 tionary army, member of Co. F., 25th Maine Regiment ; 
 died in hospital at Arlington Heights, Va., Dec. 9, 1862, 
 aged 19 years. His remains were interred in the cemetery 
 at Windham Hill, Dec. 22, 1862. 
 
 Albert Lowell, son of Stephen and Abby Lowell, member 
 of Co. A, 1st M.iine Ragiment Cavalry ; discharged for 
 disability; died of disease contracted in the service, Oct. 23, 
 1863, aged 27 years. His remaihs are interred in cemetery 
 in School District No. 11. 
 
 Andrew D. jNLibury, son of Andrew D. and iMargaret 
 Mabury and lineal descendant in the fourth degree of 
 William jNLibury, ancestor of the M.iburys in Windham, 
 and second settler in the town ; member of Co. D, 20th 
 Maine Regiment ; mortally wounded in the battle of Gettys- 
 burg, July 2; died in hospital July 5, 1883, aged 38 years. 
 
 Joseph K. Manchester, son of Nahum and Lydia D. 
 IManchester, and great-grandson of Stephen jNIanchester, 
 ancestor of the Manchesters in Windham, member of Co. 
 K, 9th M.iine Regiment ; tnortally wounded in the assault 
 upon Fort Wagner, on Morris Island, S. C. ; died in hospital 
 in Beaufort, S. C, Aug. 3, 1863, aged 21 years. 
 
 Elias H. Libby, son of James Jr. and Polly Libby, 
 member of Co. H, 17th Maine Regiment; died in hospital, 
 Falmouth, Va., of sickness contracted in the service, Feb. 
 17, 1863, aged 22 years. 
 
 Stephen Libby, son of Lewis and Eliza Libby„ member 
 of Co. K, 9th Maine Regiment ; killed at Fort Wagner, 
 Morris Island, S. C, July 11, 1863, aged 21 years. 
 
 Arthur Libby, brother of the preceding, member of Co. 
 B, 3d Vermont Regiment; died in Windham, Feb. 28, 1865, 
 of disease contracted in the service, aged 25 years. His 
 remains are interred in the cemetery at Windham Upper 
 Corner. 
 
54 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Almon Shaw, son of Edmund and Betliiah Shaw, member 
 of Co. A, 5th Maine Regiment; died of disease contracted 
 in the service, April 2, 1863, aged 19 years. Remains 
 interred in cemetery at Windliam Upper Corner. 
 
 Sargent S. Freeman, son of Samuel and Sarah Freeman, 
 Corporal of Co. K, 9th Maine Regiment ; died at Fortress 
 Monroe, Nov. 1, 1861, aged 23 years. 
 
 George H. Nason, son of Ephraim and Martha A. Nason, 
 member of Co. K, 9th ]\Laine Regiment ; died of disease 
 contracted in the service, in hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., 
 Dec. 5, 1863, aged 19 years. 
 
 Samuel Y. Shaw, son of Thomas and Phebe Shaw, 
 member of Co. I, 5th Maine Regiment; mustered into service 
 Aug. 22, 1862 ; killed in battle near Fredericksburg, May, 
 1863, aged 44 years. 
 
 Charles II. Bodge, son of Andrew and Sally Bodge, 
 Corporal of Co. E, i>th Maine Regiment ; died of disease 
 contracted in the service Nov. 29, 1863, aged 25 years. His 
 remains are interred in the new cemetery, in District No. 9. 
 Great-great-grandson of John Bodge, ancestor of the Bodges 
 in Windham. 
 
 Oliver H. Lowell, son of Daniel and Betsey Lowell, and 
 grandson of Joshua Lowell, ancestor of the LoAvells in 
 Windliam, Captain of Co. F, 16th Maine Regiment ; killed 
 at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, aged 33 years. 
 " Capt. Lowell, at the time of his enlistment, was Professor 
 of Greek and Latin languages in Gorham Seminary, and 
 had been a very popular and successful teacher." " The 
 funeral services in honor of Capt. O. H. Lowell were held 
 at the Congregational church in Gorham, Oct. 31, 1863." 
 
 Hamilton S. Lowell, brother of the preceding, Captain of 
 Co. E, 12th Maine Regiment ; died in Gorham, of disease 
 contracted in the service, Jan. 17, 1866, aged 24 years. His 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 55 
 
 remains are interred in the cemetery, in School District No. 
 6, in Windham. 
 
 Howard F. Robinson, son of Elijah and Ermina M. 
 Robinson, member of Co. E, 32d Maine Regiment ; killed 
 at the battle of Spottsylvania, Va., May 13, 1864, aged 17 
 years. 
 
 Meshack P. Larry, son of Joseph and Mary Larry, mem- 
 ber of Co. H, 17th Maine Regiment ; was killed in the battle 
 of the Wilderness, May, 1864, aged 31 years. 
 
 James Larry, brother of the preceding, member of Co. C, 
 30th Maine Regiment ; died in hospital at New Orleans, July 
 6, 1864, aged 38 years. 
 
 Wendell T. Smith, son of Thomas L. and Eliza Smith, 
 and great-grandson of Peter T. Smith, ancestor of the 
 Smiths in Windham, member of Co. F, 1st Maine Cavalry ; 
 died of disease contracted in the service, in hospital on 
 David's Island, New York, July 21, 1864, aged 2.) years. 
 His remains are interred in the Smith Cemetery, in School 
 District No 1. 
 
 Joseph Wescott, son of John and Martha Wescott, mem- 
 of Co. B, 17th Maine Ragiment ; died in Windham, of disease 
 contracted in the service, Dec. 11, 1864, aged 44 years. 
 His remains are interred in the new cemetery near Wind- 
 ham Center. 
 
 James R. Cash, son of James P. and Martha A. Cash, 
 died in U. S. service of disease, March 27, 1865, aged 18 
 years ; member of Co. D, 20th Maine Regiment. His remains 
 are interred in the Smith Cemeter'y, in School District No. 1. 
 
 James M. Cook, son of Elijah and Martha Cook, member 
 of Co. H, 32d Maine Ragiment ; died in Windham of disease 
 contracted in tlie service, Feb. 24, 1866, aged 21 years. 
 His remains are interred in tlie Friend's new Cemetery. 
 
 Nathan D. Dolley, son of Joseph and Esther Dolley, 
 
56 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 member of Bakei's D. C. Cavalry; killed in battle near 
 Richmond, Va., April 6, 1863, aged 23 years. 
 
 Charles II. Wentworth, son of Ephraini and Phebe Went- 
 worth, member of Co. II, 10th ]Maine Regiment ; killed in 
 the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, aged 26 years. 
 
 William P. Knight, son of Eliakira and Mary Knight, 
 member of Co. G, 7th Maine Regiment ; killed in battle of 
 Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, aged 19 years. 
 
 Harrison Brazier, son of John and Anna Brazier, member 
 of Co. A, 20th Maine Regiment ; killed in the battle of Five 
 Forks, March 31, 1865, aged 44 years. 
 
 Greenleaf H. ^Manchester, son 'of Stephen and ]\Iartha ]\[. 
 Manchester, member of Co. C, 29th ]Maine Regiment; died 
 in New Orleans hospital, Aug. 10, 1864, aged 35 years. 
 
 Ambrose Anthoine, son of John and Mary Anthoine, and 
 grandson of Nicholas Anthoine, ancestor of the Aiithoines 
 in Windham, Sergeant of Co. G, 5th Maine Regiment ; died 
 of wounds received in the battle of the Wilderness, May 10, 
 
 1864, aged 22 years. 
 
 Josiah B. Ward, son of Jacob and Susan Ward, member 
 of Co. C, 30th Regiment ; died in General Hospital, Va., 
 March 25, 1865, aged 25 years. 
 
 Eben M. Fields, son of James and Hannah Fields, member 
 of Co. G, 7th Maine Regiment ; wounded and taken prisoner 
 at the battle of the Wilderness, and supposed died jNIay 6, 
 
 1865, aged 27 years. 
 
 Jolm Y. Shaw, son of Ebenezer and Rebecca Shaw, 
 member of Co. C, 30th Maine Regiment ; taken prisoner 
 April 8, 1864, at the battle of Pleasant Plill, La., and died 
 of wounds in rebel prison four weeks after capture, aged 
 34 years. 
 
 George D. Ilodsdon, son of John B. and Nancy Ilodsdon, 
 member of Co. C, 30th Maine Regiment ; died on board 
 transport, near Cape Hatteras, July 15, 1864, aged 19 years. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 57 
 
 Geor::^e F. Jolmson, son of Samuel T. and Olive Johnson, 
 member of Co. K, 4th Maine Regiment, wounded in battle 
 of Gettysburg; leg amputated, and died immediately after, 
 aged 20 years. 
 
 Elisha W. Wallace, member of Co. G, 5th Maine 
 Regiment; killed in action May 12, 1868; aged 22 years. 
 
 Charles Nash, son of B irzillai and Lavinia Nash, member of 
 Co. D, 5th New Hampshire Regiment ; wounded in battle 
 of Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864 ; died iu hospital at Richmond, 
 Va., Aug. 10, 1864, aged 26 years. 
 
 Randall B. Morton, m;!mber of C ). D, 20th jMaine Regi- 
 ment ; wounded Sept. 30, 1862 ; died Oct. 15, 1862, aged 21 
 years. 
 
 William S. Bessey, member of Co. C, 30th IMalne Regi- 
 ment ; died of disease contracted in the service, March 6, 
 1865, aged 42 years-. 
 
 Edwin Legrow, soti of William and Mary Jane Legrow, 
 and great-grandson of Elias Legrow, ancestor of the Legrows 
 in Winl'iam, member of Co. C, 30th Maine Regiment; 
 died of disease contracted in the service. May 17, 1865, aged 
 22 years. 
 
 Edward L. Varney, son of Joel and Jane L. Varney ; 
 taken prisoner in tire battle of Gettysburg ; died in rebel 
 hospital, Jan. 10, 1831, aged 21 j^ears ; member of Co. F, 
 16th Regiment Infantry. He was the great-grandson of 
 Timothy Varney, ancestor of the Varneys in Windham. 
 
 Extract from the report of Gen. Grant acting Secretary 
 of War, Nov. 23, 1867 : 
 
 "About 300 cemeteries have been opened, of which 80 
 are known as national. The number of soldiers buried in 
 these amount to nearly 330,093, of which more than 250,000 
 are interred iu the national. There are still remaining 
 uninterred 76,000, making a total of 320,000." 
 
 This estimate does not include the vast number buried in 
 
58 HISTORY or THE 
 
 their native towns, and a large number of the dead reported 
 as missing in battle, which will probably swell the aggregate 
 to 500,000. 
 
 From the prison records now in the hands of Federal 
 authorities, it appears that the greatest number of prisoners 
 confitied at Andersonville (prison) at any one time was in 
 Aug. 9, 1864, being 33,006. The total number of deaths 
 per hospital record, 12,922 ; the total number of graves by 
 actual count, 12,940. Tlie greatest number of deaths in 
 any one month, was in August, 1864, being 2,992 ; the 
 greatest number in any one da3=', was on August 23d, being 
 127. 
 
 Whole number of men called into the national 
 
 service during the war, 2,688,523 
 
 Whole number furnished by the State of INIaine, 66,669 
 Number furnished by the town of Wiuc\ham, as 
 
 per report of the Secretary of War, 302 
 Number mustered into service, per report of Adj. 
 
 • General, 374 
 
 Bounties paid to soldiers, $")0,125 
 
 State aid to soldiers' families, $'7,596 
 
 Number of families aided, 169 
 
 Number of persons in families, 453 
 
 Contributions for soldiers' relief, $2,450 
 
 It is a matter of profound regret that wars should 
 constitute so large a part of the history of nations and towns. 
 They are the dark side of sacred and profane history. All 
 wars, justifiable or unjnstifiable, glorious or inglorious, have 
 an appalling counterpart. Tiiis besom of destruction has 
 been in the full tide of successful operation for more than 
 three thousand years, and been sanctioned by the highest 
 Divine and civil authority. All wars are waged against 
 humanity, philanthropy, peace on earth and good will to 
 men. • 
 
TOWN or WINDHAM. 59 
 
 RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. 
 
 The Congregational is the oldest religious society. It 
 was estal)lislied by conditions in the grant of the township 
 before there was an inhabitant in the town, and was for 
 many years the only religious society in the town. There 
 have been greater changes in religious opinions and condi- 
 tions of societies than in any other matter. History 
 discloses the instability of religious societies. They are 
 zealous at times, build meeting houses, have constant 
 preacliing and large congregations ; ultimately the meetings 
 dwindle away, public worship is suspended and the meet- 
 ing houses, after remaining unoccupied for many years, ara 
 taken down. This has been tiie result with the Congrega- 
 tional, Methodist, Baptist and Universalist societies, with the 
 exception that the Universalist meeting house has not been 
 taken down. The Congregationalist built the first meeting 
 house in the town, in 1740. In 1743 a church of seven per 
 sons was formed and a pastor settled. 
 
 John Wight was the first settled minister. He gradu- 
 ated at Harvard College in 1721 ; came from Dedham, Mass., 
 to this town ; ordained Dec. 14, 1743, and preached here 
 until his death. He died May 8, 1753, aged 55 years. 
 
 Peter Thacher Smith was the second pastor. He was 
 the son of Rev. Thomas Smith, of Falmouth, now Portland. 
 Born in Falmouth, June 14,1731; graduated at Harvard 
 College 1753 ; ordained Sept. 22, 1762 ; dismissed Nov. 26, 
 1790 ; died October 26, 1826, in the 9oth year of his age, 
 having preached 23 years and 2 months. 
 
 Nathaniel Stone was the thirl minister. He graduated 
 at Harvard College in 1795; came from Provincetown, 
 Mass., to this town ; ordained Oct. 1, 1793 ; dismissed Feb. 
 8, 1805. 
 
 Asa Lyman was the fourth minister. He was born in 
 Lebanon, Conn., about 1777 ; graduated at Yale College, 
 
 V 
 
60 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 1802 or 3 ; installed Nov. 80, 1809 ; dismissed June 1, 1810 ; 
 died in the State of New York 1836, aged 59 years. 
 
 Gai'dner Kellogg- was the fifth minister. He was installed 
 April 2-3, 1811, and continued pastor until his death, lie 
 died Nov. 29, 182G, aged 61 years. 
 
 William Gragg was the sixth minister. Ordained Oct. 15, 
 1828; dismissed Aug 31, 1831. 
 
 Jonathan Lee II.de was the seventh minister. Ordained 
 Sept. 12, 1832, and continued pastor until his death. He 
 died Jan. 15, 1835, aged 45 years. 
 
 Jolm W. Shepard was the eighth minister. He was 
 ordained Aug. 3, 1836 ; dismissed July 10, 1839. 
 
 Williani Warren was the ninth pastor. He was ordained 
 Feb. 1840 ; dismissed Nov. 1849. 
 
 John Perham was the tenth pastor. Ordained Jan. 21, 
 1851 ; dismissed Sept. 19, 1854. 
 
 Ljither Wiswall is the eleventh and present pastor. 
 Installed Sept. 20, 1854. 
 
 Between 1740 and 1795, two meeting house frames were 
 erected in the south part of the town, neither of which 
 were finished, and su])sequently both were taken down. 
 The fourth Congregational meeting house was erected in 
 1795, opposite Thomas L. Smitli's dwelling house, and taken 
 down in 1801. With it disap[)eared tliat relic of anti(p\ity, 
 the sounding board, Avliieh was suspended over the preacher's 
 desk. The author, when a small boy, attended the meetings, 
 and was afraid the sounding board would fall and kill the 
 minister. This sounding board was a matchless piece of 
 mechanism, and the ©nly one in the town. 
 
 The fifth Congregational meeting house at Windham 
 Hill was erected in 1834, and is the one now occupied by 
 this society. It Avas erected twenty-seven years before the 
 fourth was taken down. It is a convenient, well finished 
 church, with steeple and bell, being the first bell on any 
 church in Windham. They have a ministerial fund of the 
 
TOWN OF WIXDTIAM. 61 
 
 annual income of $225, l)eing the proceeds of the ministerial 
 right in the grant of the townsliip for the support of tlie min- 
 istry. The society has a Sabbath Scliool varying from 75 to 
 125 scholars. 
 
 QUAKER, OK FKIENDS' SOCIETY. 
 
 The Friends' Society is tlie next oldest society in town. 
 There were persons of this denomination in town prior to 
 1774. At a town meeting Oct. 13, 1774, it voted to excuse 
 eight persons of this society from paying ministerial taxes. 
 They liave a meeting for public worship established in 1779, 
 a jn-eparative meeting in 1793, a quarterly meeting in 1801, 
 a monthly meeting in 1802. They have a large and con- 
 venient meeting house near the center of the town, erected 
 in 1841). They are the only society that has sustained a 
 meeting from their first organization to tlie piesenttime 
 without a suspension of public woi-ship. Their constant 
 attendance upon public worsliip and the care they take of 
 those belonging to their society who need assistance, so 
 tliat none become chai'geable, is worthy of commendation. 
 In the "olden times" they had an academy for the instruc- 
 tion of youth. This was the first and only one erected in 
 the town. The precise time when it was raised up, how long 
 occupied, and when razed down, is not known. This society 
 has one peculiar tenet that puts love under guardianship. 
 It prohibits their members from marrying with those who 
 are not members of their society. If they violate this 
 prohibition they are expelled from the society. This prohi- 
 bition has not stood the test. This society has a Sabbath 
 School of forty-five scholars. 
 
 METHODISTS. 
 
 The ^Methodists had a small meeting house at "Windham 
 Center, erected in 1792. This meeting house was aban- 
 doned and taken down several years ago. Subsequently they 
 
62 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 had one in the south part of the town. This was moved 
 and used for a school house. At the present time they have 
 no house for public worship. A part of this society have 
 meetings in the free meeting house at Windham Upper 
 Corner. This society labors under serious disadvantages. 
 They are scattered over the distant parts of the town in 
 such a manner that it is extremely difficult, if not impracti- 
 cable, for all to assemble at one place for public worshi]3. 
 
 P.:VPTISTS. 
 
 The Baptists have been known by several different names. 
 They have been called by the names of several of their 
 prominent ministers. At the present time they are called 
 General and Star Baptists. They are all Free Will Bap- 
 tists. This society had a rapid increase in numbers a few 
 years anterior to 1822, mainly under the ministry of Elder 
 Clement Phinney, an able, influential and popular preacher. 
 A large society was gathered, and a meeting house erected 
 on the Little farm, near Mallison Falls, in 1822. This house 
 was filled to its utmost capacity for several years, with a 
 large and enthusiastic congregation. Ultimately the meet- 
 ings dwindled away, public worship was suspended, and the 
 meeting house, after remaining unoccupied for several years, 
 was taken down. A free meeting house was erected in the 
 south part of the town, in 1870, dedicated June, 1870. It 
 is occupied by the General Baptists and Second Adventists. 
 They have a Sabbath School of thirty scholars and as many 
 books. It is not known that there has ever been any 
 Calvinist Baptists in the town. 
 
 UNIVEESALISTS. 
 
 Fifty years ago there was scarcely a Universalist in the 
 town. At the present time they are more numerous than 
 any other society. This society was first organized June 8, 
 1840. ■ At a meeting June 15, 1840, it was voted to build a 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 63 
 
 meeting house 48 feet long, 38 feet wide, with posts 17 feet 
 high, with a sn'itable belfry, steeple, dome, and spire, which 
 was erected Sept. 1, 1840 ; dedicated May 12, 1841. Rev. 
 George Bates preached the dedication sermon. The history 
 of this society is very much like the preceding societies. 
 For several years after the church was erected, they had a 
 large congregation and constant meetings. In process of 
 time their meetings were suspended, and their church 
 unoccupied for several years. In 1871, the society was 
 reanimated under the ministry of the Rev. S. S. Fletcher, 
 and have had meetings every alternate Sabbath for the last 
 two years, and a large congregation. . They have a Sabbath 
 School of 169 scholars, and a library of 244 vols. Rev. 
 Leander Hussey was the first pastor. 
 
 In addition to the meeting houses before mentioned, 
 there is a free meeting house at Windham Centre, erected 
 in 1846. 
 
 TOWN CLERKS. 
 
 1762-1765, inclusive, Thomas Chute, four years. 
 1766-1769, Abraham Anderson, four years. 
 1770, Richard Mabury, one year. 
 1771-1773, Micah Walker, three years. 
 1774-J.776, Richard Dole, three years. 
 1777-1782, Edward Anderson, six years. 
 1783-1788, Richard Dole, six years. 
 1789-1791, Abraham Osgood, three years. 
 1792, Caleb Rhea, one year. 
 1793-1803, Richard Dole, eleven years. 
 1804, Josiah Chute, one year. 
 1805-1820, John Gallison, sixteen years. 
 
 1821, John Collins, one year. 
 
 1822, William Brown, one year. 
 1823-1841, John Eveleth, nineteen years. 
 
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64 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 1842, William Silla, one year. 
 1843-1844, John Eveleth, two years. 
 1845, Samuel Freeman, one year. 
 1846-1848, John Eveletli, three years. 
 1849, Samuel Freeman, one year. 
 1850-1854, John Eveletli, five years. 
 1855-1862, Howard C. Freeman, eight years. 
 1868-1864, Peter R. Hall, two years. 
 1865-1867, George E. Hawkes, three years. 
 1868-1870, John C. Cohl), three years. 
 1871, Alpheus A. Goold, one year. 
 1872-1873, Fred S. llawkes, two years. 
 
 EEPEESEXTATIVES IN THE GENERAL COURT OF MASSA- 
 CHUSETTS, FROM 1762 TO THE SEPARATION OF MAINE 
 FROM MASSACHUSETTS IN 1820. 
 
 1767, Ahraham Anderson. 1812, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1768, Ahraham Anderson. 1813, Stephen Hall. 
 1797, Ezra Brown. Isl4, Stephen Hall. 
 1803, Peter T. Smith. 1815, Stephen Hall. 
 1805, Josiah Chute. 1816, Nathan Goold. 
 1807, Josiah Chute. 1817, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1809, Josiah Chute. 1818, Josiah Cdiute. 
 
 1810, Josiali Chute. 1819, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1811, Josiali Chute. -1820, Josiah Chute. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLATURE OF MAINE, 
 FROxAI 1820 TO 1850. 
 
 1821, Daniel Hall. 1825, John Eveleth. 
 
 1822, Rloses Little. 1826, John Eveleth. 
 
 1823, John Eveleth. 1827, Stephen Webb. 
 
 1824, John Eveleth. 1828, Stephen Webb. 
 
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 1829, Moses Little. 1840, 
 
 1830, John Waterman. 1841, 
 
 1831, Daniel Hall. 1842, 
 
 1832, Elias Baker. 1843, 
 
 1833, None. 1844, 
 
 1834, John Webb. 1845, 
 
 1835, John Webb. 1846, 
 
 1836, Enoch White. 1847, 
 
 1837, Elias Baker. 1848, 
 
 1838, Allen Hamblen. 1849, 
 
 1839, Sargeant Shaw. 1850, 
 
 Sargeant Shaw. 
 Thomas Hawkes. 
 Ezra Brown, Jr. 
 Ezra Brown, Jr. 
 Edward Anderson. 
 None. 
 
 Stephen Webb. 
 Daniel Rogers. 
 Asa Legrow. 
 Daniel Rogers. 
 Daniel Rogers. 
 
 EEPKESENTATIVES FOR THE DECADE FROM 1850 TO 1860, 
 DURING WHICH WINDHAM WAS CLASSED WITH SEBAGO. 
 
 1851, Samuel Hunt, W. 
 
 1852, Samuel Hunt, W. 
 
 1853, David P. Baker, W. 
 
 1854, Ephraim Legrow, W. 
 
 1855, Oliver D. Dike, S. 
 
 1856, Ezra Brown, W. 
 
 1857, Jacob Marston, W. 
 
 1858, Stephen R. Porter, S. 
 
 1859, Seward M. Baker, W. 
 
 1860, William Haley, S. 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE DECADE FROM 1860 TO 1870. 
 
 IN THIS DECADE WINDHAM WAS CLASSED WITH 
 
 SCARBOROUGH. 
 
 1861, Seth C. Hunkins, W. 1868, George Goold, W. 
 
 1862, Thomas L. Smith, W. 
 
 1863, James Gunnison, S. 
 
 1864, Jason Webb, W. 
 
 1865, Benjamin M. Baker. 
 
 1866, Horatio Hight, S. 
 
 1867, William Goold, W. 
 
 1869, Seward B. Gunnison, S. 
 
 1870, Ebenezer H. Mayo, W. 
 
 1871, John C. Cobb. 
 
 1872, Benjamin M. Baker. 
 
 1873, Richard Mabury. 
 
 SELECTMEN. 
 
 1762, Caleb Graffam, Thomas Mabury, John Farrar. 
 
 1763, John Bodge, Thomas Mabury, Abraham Anderson. 
 
 1764, William Knight, Caleb Graffam, Richard Maybury. 
 
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66 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 1765, James Bailey, Thomas. Clmte, Isaac Elder. 
 
 1766, James Bailey, Thomas Chute, Isaac Elder. 
 
 1767, Curtis Chute, William Knight, Thomas Mabury. 
 
 1768, Caleb Graffam, Thomas Mabury, Abraham Anderson. 
 
 1769, Caleb Graifam, Thomas Mabury, Abraham Anderson. 
 
 1770, Caleb Graffam, Hugh Crague, William Knight. 
 
 1771, William Copprian, William Knight, William Elder. 
 
 1772, William Knight, William Copprian, Zcbulon Hunne- 
 
 well. 
 
 1773, Caleb Graffam, Thomas Mabury, Richard Mabury. 
 
 1774, Ichabod Hanson, Hugh Crague, Thomas Trott. 
 
 1775, Thomas Trott, Ichabod Hanson, David Barker. 
 
 1776, Thomas Trott, Ichabod Hanson, David Barker. 
 
 1777, William Knight, Abraham Osgood, Daniel Pettengill. 
 
 1778, Abraham Osgood, Timothj^ Pike, Thomas Trott. 
 
 1779, Timothy Pike, Paul Little, Caleb Graffam. 
 
 1780, Caleb Graffam, Jonathan Loveitt, Thomas Trott. 
 
 1781, Paul Little, Jonathan Loveitt, Edward Anderson. 
 
 1782, Daniel Pettengill, William Knight, Abraham Osgood. 
 
 1783, Gershom Rogers, Ezra Brown, Daniel Pettengill. 
 
 1784, Gershom Rogers, Ezra Brown, Joseph Hooper. 
 
 1785, Ezra Brown, David Purington, Gershom Rogers. 
 
 1786, Edward Anderson, Ezra Brown, David Purington. 
 
 1787, Edward Anderson, Ezra Brown, David Purington. 
 
 1788, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown, David Purington. 
 
 1789, David Purington, Paul Little, Josej)h Hooper. 
 
 1790, Ezra Brown, Paul Little, David Purington. 
 
 1791, Winslow Hall, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown. 
 
 1792, David Purington, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown. 
 
 1793, David Purington, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown. 
 
 1794, David Purington, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown. 
 
 1795, Ezra Brawn, Josiah Chute, Abraham Anderson. 
 
 1796, Ezra Brown, Josiah Chute, Abraham Anderson. 
 
 1797, David Purington, Ezra Brown, Thomas Crague. 
 
 1798, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown, David Purington. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 67 
 
 1799, William Hall, Thomas Crague, Edward Anderson. 
 
 1800, Ezra Brown, Josiah Chute, Thomas Crague. 
 
 1801, Ezra Brown, David Purington, Elijah Kennard. 
 
 1802, David Purington, Paul Little, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1803, David Purington, Paul Little, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1804, David Purington, Paul Little, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1805, David Purington, Josiah Webb, John Swett. 
 
 1806, David Purington, Josiah Webb, John Chute. 
 
 1807, Josiah Chute, Ezra Brown, William Hall. 
 
 1808, Josiah Chute, William Hall, Noah Read. 
 
 1809, Josiah Chute, Josiah Webb, William Hall. 
 
 1810, Josiah Chute, Josiah Webb, William Hall. 
 
 1811, Josiah Chute, Josiah Webb, William Hall. 
 
 1812, Nathan Goold, Josiah Webb, William Hall. 
 
 1813, Nathan Goold, Josiah Webb, William Hall. 
 
 1814, Nathan Goold, Stephen Hall, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1815, Nathan Goold, Stephen Hall, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1816, Nathan Goold, William Brown, Josiah Chute. 
 
 1817, Nathan Goold, William Brown, Timothy Hanson. 
 
 1818, Nathan Goold, William Brown, Josiah Webb. 
 
 1819, William Brown, Josiah Webb, Stephen Hall. 
 
 1820, William Brown, Joseph Staples, Stephen Hall. 
 
 1821, Nathan Goold, Thomas Little, Josiah Webb. 
 
 1822, William Brown, Ebenezer Hawkes, John Gallison. 
 
 1823, John Eveleth, William Brown, Ebenezer Hawkes, od. 
 
 1824, William Brown, Ebenezer Hawkes, 3d, Stephen Webb. 
 
 1825, Stephen Webb, Daniel Hall, Joseph Staples. 
 
 1826, William Brown, Joseph Staples, Edmund Boody. 
 
 1827, William Brown, Ebenezer Hawkes, 3d, Timothy Han- 
 
 son. 
 
 1828, William Brown, Elias Baker, Solomon Hawkes. 
 
 1829, Elias Baker, Stephen Webb, Edward Anderson. 
 
 1830, William Brown, Thomas Mabury, Jr., John Read. 
 
 1831, Thomas Mabury, Jr., John Read, John Waterman. 
 
 1832, Thomas Mabury, Jr., John Read, John Waterman. 
 
68 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 1833, Thomas Mabury, Jr., Elias Baker, John Webb. 
 
 1834, Thomas Mabury, Jr., Edward Anderson, James MTn- 
 
 tosh. 
 
 1835, Thomas Mabury, Jr., Edward Anderson, Thomas 
 
 Varney. 
 
 1836, Stephen Webb, Allen Hamblen, Asa Legrow. 
 
 1837, William Brown, Thomas Hawkes, Asa Legrow. 
 
 1838, Levi Tobie, Asa Legrow, Lewis Hardy. 
 1830, Thomas Hawkes, Levi Tobie, Lucius Whipple. 
 
 1840, Thomas Hawkes, Lucius Whipple, William E. Brown. 
 
 1841, Thomas Hawkes, Lucius Whipple, William E. Brown. 
 
 1842, William Silla, Edward Anderson, Josiah Fogg. 
 
 1843, Lucius Whipple, Thomas Hawkes, Thomas L. Smith. 
 
 1844, Lucius Whipple, Enoch Mabury, Thomas L. Smith. 
 
 1845, Lucius Whipple, Enoch Mabury, Ezra Brown, Jr. 
 
 1846, Enoch Mabury, Ezra Brown, Jr., Edward Anderson. 
 
 1847, Edward Anderson, Mark Knight, Thomas Hawkes. 
 
 1848, Edward Anderson, Mark Knight, Thomas Hawkes, 
 
 1849, Ezra Brown, Jr., Samuel Freeman, David P. Baker. 
 
 1850, Ezra Brown, Jr., Samuel Freeman, David P. Baker. 
 
 1851, Thomas Mabury, Ephraim Legrow, Thomas Hawkes. 
 
 1852, Thomas Mabury, Ephraim Legrow, Thomas Hawkes. 
 
 1853, Thomas Mabury, Ephraim Legrow, Thomas Hawkes. 
 
 1854, Thomas Hawkes, Ephraim Legrow, Edward Anderson. 
 
 1855, William Silla, Elisha Jones, Jason Hanson. 
 
 1856, William Silla, Elisha Janes, Jason Hanson. 
 
 1857, Thomas Mabury, Thomas L. Smith, Jason Hanson. 
 
 1858, Thomas Mabury, Charles Jones, Charles Rogers. 
 
 1859, Oliver Pope, Jason Hanson, William S. Cobb. 
 
 1860, Oliver Pope, Jason Hanson, William S. Cobb. 
 
 1861, Samuel Freeman, William Silla, Abijah H. Purington. 
 
 1862, Samuel Freeman, Abijah H. Purington, Charles Hun- 
 
 newell. 
 
 1863, Abijah H. Purington, Charles Hunnewell, Isaiah Elder. 
 
 1864, Abijah H. Purington, Charles Hunnewell, Isaiah Elder. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 69 
 
 1865, William Silla, Charles Jones, Charles Rogers. 
 
 1866, Thomas L. Smith, William H. Smith, Andrew J. Mor- 
 
 rill. 
 
 1867, Charles Jones, Charles Rogers, William M. Smith. 
 
 1868, Charles Jones, Charles Rogers, WilUam M. Smith. 
 
 1869, Charles Jones, Charles Rogers, William M. Smith. 
 
 1870, William H. Varney, Joshua Tukey, William S. Cobb. 
 
 1871, William H. Varney, Joshua Tukey, William S. Cobb. 
 
 1872, William H. Varney, Charles Jones, William M. Smith. 
 
 1873, William H. Varney, Charles Jones, William M. Smith. 
 Selectmen were first elected by written votes in 1812. 
 
 All prior to that time were chosen by hand vote. 
 
 TOWN PROPERTY. 
 
 The property belonging to the town consists, chiefly, of 
 a poorhouse, farm, and a brick Town House. The farm is 
 one of the best in the town. The buildings for the accom- 
 modation of the poor are large and convenient, and reflect 
 credit upon the town. The Town House was erected in 
 1833, is fifty feet long, forty feet wide and thirteen feet 
 walls. It has a safe for the deposit of the town records, 
 of the safest and best construction. The old sixteenth town 
 in the State has a safe place for her records and a conven- 
 ient office for the transaction of town business. At a town 
 meeting March 10, 1821, it was 
 
 Voted, That whereas Nathan Goold was appointed at our 
 last annual meeting a committee to procure the records of 
 the proprietors of the town of Windham, and he having 
 procured the same, 
 
 Voted, That said proprietors' records be deposited in the 
 Clerk's office of the town of Windham, with the records of 
 said town, and be a part of the records of said town of 
 Windham. 
 
70 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 SEPAEATION OF MAINE FROM MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 At a town meeting, July 26, 1819, to give in their votes 
 for or against the separation of the District of Maine from 
 Massachusetts, the votes were 52 for, and 86 against separ- 
 ation. At a town meeting Sept. 20, 1819, Noah Read and 
 Josiah Chute were chosen delegates to the convention to be 
 holden at Portland, October, 1819, to form the Constitution 
 of Maine. At a town meeting Dec. 6, 1819, to vote upon 
 the acceptance of the Constitution, the votes were 61 for, 
 and none against the acceptance of the Constitution. 
 
 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT 
 OF WINDHAM, JULY 4, 1839. 
 
 The celebration commenced as usual with an artillery 
 salute at sunrise. At 6 o'clock a procession was formed at 
 the public house of James Greenough, under the direction 
 of Gen. Elias Baker, Chief Marshal, and Daniel W. Dole 
 and Ezra Brown, Esqrs., Assistant Marshals, which for 
 numbers is seldom equaled in any j^lace. It was composed 
 of the citizens of Windham and adjoining towns. A large 
 number of the old citizens of Windham came from a 
 distance to pay tribute to the memory of their fathers. Not 
 the least imposing part of' the procession was about fifty 
 young ladies from the choir of the parish church, and some 
 others selected for the occasion, dressed in white, and the 
 chorister at their head, who joined the procession at the 
 church, the whole escorted by Capt. Albert Leonard's 
 company of light infantry, Windham, Capt. Samuel Water- 
 house's company of riflemen, Windham and Gorham, and 
 Capt. Ames Bettis' company of infantry in uniform. North 
 Gorham. Proceeded through the village to a grove of oaks 
 in the rear of the church, which was prepared for the 
 occasion. After an impressive prayer by Rev. Mr. Shepherd, 
 and an anthem and hymn Avere sung, the historical address 
 was delivered by Thomas L. Smith, Esq., and "was an able 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 71 
 
 and finished performance." After the address, an original 
 ode was snng by Dr. C. G. Parsons, leader of the choir. 
 After the benediction the procession reformed and proceeded 
 to the town hall, which was decorated with flags, evergreens 
 and flowers. Here the company sat down to an elegant 
 dinner, prepared by Mr. Greenough. The tables were loaded 
 with everything that could be wished for. 
 
 Hon. John Anderson, President of the day, and a native 
 citizen of the town, presided at the tables, assisted by 
 Moses Little and Lucius Whipple, Esqs., Vice Presidents. 
 After the tables were cleared, numerous regular and volun- 
 teer toasts were drank. Calls were made on several gentlemen 
 from other towns, which were promptly responded to by 
 pertinent remarks and artillery salutes. 
 
 After a complimentary toast, the President of the day 
 made some excellent remarks, in which he said, " no matter 
 where he might be placed by Providence, it was and would 
 be his wish to end his days and lay his remains in his native 
 town." After passing several hours at the tables very 
 pleasantly the company separated. 
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 AT THE 
 
 Centennial Celebration of the First Settlement of Windham, 
 July 4, 1839. 
 
 1. Anthem — Tlie earth is the Lord's. 
 
 2. Prayer — by Rev. J. W. Shepherd, 
 
 3. Music — Tune and Hymn America. 
 
 4. Historical Address — by Thomas L. Smith, Esq. 
 
 5. Poem — by Dr. Charles G. Parsons. 
 
 MUSIC — national air. 
 
 1. One hundred years ago, 
 Our fathers faced the foe, 
 
 And claimed our soil. 
 The foreign foe has fled. 
 The native foe is dead. 
 And o'er his grave we tread 
 To share the spoil. 
 
72 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 2. When Boston called for aid, 
 Hearty response was made, 
 
 And Windham's sons 
 To Bunker Hill then rushed. 
 To see the tyrants crushed, 
 And Britain's threats they hushed 
 
 Witli Yankee guns. 
 
 3. When Brown, by Poland slam, 
 Winship twice scalped was lain, 
 
 The Indian yell 
 Triumphant pierced tlie air; 
 But Manchester was tliere 
 Undaunted by a fear. 
 
 And Poland fell * 
 
 4. The name of Manchester, 
 His numerous children iiear 
 
 Among tiie brave; 
 And Chute and Brown, and those 
 Wlio fell to conquer foes, 
 Witli heroes now repose 
 
 In Freedom's grave. 
 
 5. The Pilgrim's valor spoke, 
 Oppression's rod was broke, 
 
 And Freedom rose. 
 Eeligion gave command, 
 Tliat all in every land 
 Who raised oppression's hand 
 
 Are Heaven's foes. 
 
 6. Science the theme inspired — 
 Justice the bosom fired — 
 
 The flame truth fanned. 
 Philanthropy loud sung — 
 Freedom sliall dwell among 
 Each nation — people — tongue — • 
 
 In every land. 
 
 7. Our fatliers toiled and bled 
 And died — on us to shed 
 
 Sweet Liberty. 
 Hence let us grateful prove. 
 
 * Indian chief killed at "Windham by Manchester. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 73 
 
 Their deeds and memory love, 
 And liand tliem down to move 
 Posterity. 
 
 8. See hills and dales around, 
 To cultivated ground 
 
 From wild-woods spring. 
 The garden, grove and field, 
 Their fruit and shade now yield. 
 No weapons now we wield, 
 
 No war-song sing. 
 
 9. The day we celebrate 
 Is not one day too late 
 
 For us to tell 
 The deeds our sires have done. 
 Let ever}"^ grateful son. 
 For cent'ries yet to come 
 
 The Anthem swell. 
 
 The following are tlie toasts drank at the preceding cele- 
 bration. 
 
 REGULAR TOASTS. 
 
 1. The events we commemorate. The settlement of our 
 town and the birthday of our freedom ; while the former has 
 redeemed the soil from the dominion of the forest, the 
 latter has liberated the people from the thraldom of tyranny. 
 
 2. The Pilgrim Fathers of Hew England. Learning and 
 religion, school houses and churches, were the first objects 
 of their regard. By the institutions which they founded, 
 they transmitted to their posterity richer privileges than 
 any people enjoy on the face of the globe. 
 
 3. The first settlers of Windham. Men of hard hands, 
 determined minds, and honest hearts. They were the 
 strong oaks and tall pines of the primitive forests. Verily . 
 "there were giants in those days." 
 
 4. The private soldier of the Revolution. He acted as 
 well his part in the sphere where Providence had placed 
 him, as did the master spirits who directed the storm. 
 
 5. The soldier in arms. While his deeds are remembered, 
 
74 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the sufferings and privations of his family at home should 
 not be forgotten. 
 
 6. The times that tried men's souls. A poll tax of eight 
 dollars and a family suffering at home. 
 
 7. Our schools and seminaries of learning. " Education," 
 says an eminent British statesman, " is the cheapest defense 
 of nations." 
 
 8. Our children and the rising getieration. If rightly 
 trained, the citizens of our country may exclaim with the 
 Roman Matron, " these are my jewels." 
 
 9. " Southern Rights " and " Northern Rights.''^ May 
 they never be " right opposite." 
 
 10. Our rulers and statesmen. Render to all their dues, 
 tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, 
 honor to whom honor. 
 
 11. The next century. Daring the 100 j^ears to come, 
 may the citizens of this town improve as much in mental 
 and moral culture as the face of the earth has been improved 
 in the last 100 years by agriculture. 
 
 12. The Constitutions of the States^ and the Union of the 
 States. Let them be inviolate. 
 
 VOLUNTEER TOASTS. 
 
 By Hon. John Anderson, President of the day : — While 
 we celebrate the hardy enterprise and well tried courage of 
 our ancestors, so well narrated this day, let us not be 
 unmindful of what our descendants will have a rio-ht to 
 expect from ourselves. 
 
 By Lucius Whipple, first Vice President : — The memora- 
 ble fourth. The day on which the tree of liberty was planted 
 by the patriots of '76. May it continue to flourish until 
 branches extend to the remotest parts of the earth. 
 
 By Gen. Elias Baker, Chief Marshal: — The militia of 
 Maine. They greeted the reception of the General Order 
 in February last with one united huzza for their right, and 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 75 
 
 tliey united in maintaining tliem, and may the next Legis- 
 lature remember that they are the safeguards of our rights, 
 and reward accordingly. 
 
 By Col. Edward Anderson : — Freedom of speech, the rights 
 of conscience, and universal education. The main pillars 
 which sustain the fabric of liberty. 
 
 By Thomas Hawkes, Esq. : — The inhabitants of Windham. 
 Like their forefathers, united they stand, divided they fall. 
 
 By Thomas L. Smith, Orator of the day: — The State of 
 3Iaine. May she ever prove herself worthy of leading the 
 North wing of the Union, and may Windham, her sixteenth 
 daughter, be ever ready to send forth her Millions, as in the 
 Revolutionary war, to fight the battles of liberty.* 
 
 By Dr. Charles G. Parson, the President of the day : — • 
 Our distinguished former citizen, Hon. John Anderson. A 
 legitimate son of Windham. May the mother continue to 
 nourish the child, and the child never desire to be weaned. 
 
 By Caleb Hodsdon, Esq., former citizen of Windham : — 
 Our Fathers. Their untiring zeal, fortitude and industry 
 are held this day by their sons in grateful remembrance. 
 Let us follow their example and imitate their virtues, until 
 we all meet again at the second Centennial Anniversary. 
 
 By Gen. Daniel Hall, former citizen of Windham : — 
 Party Spirit. May its jealousies die, and union and charity 
 fill the void. 
 
 By Nathan Hanson, Esq., of New Portland, a native 
 citizen of Windham : — The Liberties of our Country. May 
 they never be obliterated by office seekers or aspiring 
 demagogues. 
 
 By Col. William Silla:— TAe Orator of the Bay. Full of 
 patriotism, diligently searching for the truth ; as his mind is 
 
 * Wimlliam, 16th town incorporated in the State. Robert Millions, a soldier 
 in the Revolutionary war. 
 
76 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 well stored with useful knowledge, may his researches 
 spread for the benefit of the workL 
 
 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF TPIE ORGANIZATION OF THE 
 TOWN OF WINDHAM, JULY 4, 1862. 
 
 The Fourth of July will be memorable in the annals of 
 Windham as an occasion of much interest. The resident 
 sons and daughters of the town, and hundreds from abroad, 
 gathered at Windham Hill to participate in the exercises 
 arranged for the celebration. The meeting was called to 
 order at ten o'clock, and the following gentlemen were 
 selected as officers : Dr. Charles G. Parsons, President, 
 Col. Edward Anderson and John Webb, Esq.^ Vice Presi- 
 dents, Peter R. Hall and William Goold, Esqrs., Secretaries. 
 Dr. Parsons mjide some remarks appropriate to the day and 
 occasion. He bade all the returned sons and daughters of 
 Windham welcome, and at once proceeded to the exercises 
 proper. A portion of scripture was read by Rev. Mr. 
 Wiswell, of Windham, and prayer by Rev. Mr. Whitcher, 
 of Falmouth. Thomas L. Smith, the historian of the 
 occasion, gave a synopsis of the principal historical events 
 of the town, at the close of which he said the relation he 
 had given of the historical events of the town was brief, 
 and the transitions abrupt. He could not be more elaborate 
 or minute without consuming time intended for others. 
 You will be addressed on the present occasion by his 
 Excellency John A. Andrew, Governor of the State of 
 Massachusetts — the State whose eulogy is written on the 
 battlefields of the Revolution and of the present gigantic 
 Rebellion, the State on whose Bunker Hill Prescott fought 
 and Warren fell. 
 
 Windham will ever rejoice that one of her sons has been 
 found worthy and able to fill, with honor to himself and 
 honor to the State, the office filled by those distinguished 
 patriots, Hancock and Adams. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 77 
 
 The Declaration of Independence was read by J. W. 
 Webb, of Gorham. A brief address was then delivered by 
 Judge Davis, of Portland. John A. Andrew, Governor of 
 Massachusetts, was then introduced. He addressed the 
 assembly in a speech of marked ability and great interest, 
 in which he said " I am here simply as a Windham bo3^" 
 That he could not, were he to try, by any form of labored 
 or artistic speech, express the emotions of gratitude with 
 which he embraced this opportunity to make one of the 
 family of the town at this celebration. He expressed his 
 veneration for and attachment to his native town in as 
 impressive language as the first settlers of the colonies did 
 when they revisited England : " England, with all thy 
 faults I love thee still." This address closed the exercises, 
 and was the last intei'view between Gov. Andrew and the 
 citizens of his native town. 
 
 ERUPTION OF PONDS. 
 
 Little Sebago, in the north part of the town, is a pond of 
 considerable magnitude, divided into three parts, in close 
 proximity to each other. The first, or main pond, is partly 
 in Windham and partly in Gray. It was separated from 
 the second pond by a narrow elevation of land called the 
 ridge. Tradition says a man by the name of John Handy 
 cut a passage through the ridge sufficient to float a boat, 
 thereby connecting the waters of the ponds. The second 
 Avas nearly separated from the third at a place called the 
 Narrows. The length and width of these ponds cannot be 
 correctly given, not having been obtained by admeasurement. 
 The second pond is about one-half mile in length and one- 
 fourth mile in width. The third pond about one mile in 
 length and one-half mile in width. The second and third 
 ponds were wholly in Windham. Col. Edward Anderson 
 caused an artificial outlet to be made from the south end of 
 
78 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the third pond into Smith's brook, which empties into 
 Pleasant River, for the purpose of supplying the mills on 
 that river with an additional quantity of water. This 
 outlet increased in size, until two sawmills were erected 
 upon it. June 4, 1814, the* water undermined the mill dam, 
 swept it and the mills from their foundations, disruptured 
 the bed of the stream, rent with irresistible force the barriers 
 of nature, and forced its way into Pleasant River, a tributary 
 of the Presumpscot. In a few hours the outlet was increased 
 60 feet in depth and 200 feet in width. This great body of 
 water, which had been confined within its embankments 
 from time immemorial, rapidly disappeared and was soon 
 swallowed up in the waters of the Atlantic. 
 
 The sudden eruption of this great body of water carried 
 away one saw mill, one grist mill, and four bridges on Pleasant 
 River, and Gambo and Mallison Falls bridges on the Pre- 
 sumpscot, overfl[owed the intervale and low lands, caused 
 the water to run up Pleasant River and the tributaries of 
 the Presumpscot ; and caused many who saw the- laws of 
 nature thus reversed, and unacquainted with the cause, 
 to believe the world was coming to an end instanter. 
 
 Subsequently a dam was erected at the Narrows, the 
 lower end of the second pond, and mills built. May 7, 
 1861, the dam was swept away, carrying with it the bridge 
 and one saw mill. It forced its way, massive as a mountain, 
 and wildly rushing as a cataract, into Pleasant River, 
 submerged with sand and debris the bridge at Morrill's 
 Corner, swept away the bridge at George Anderson's, the 
 bridge, grist mill, dye house, fulling mill and saw mill, 
 including a large amount of machinery for the manufacture 
 of lumber, at Pope's Falls, and doing considerable damage 
 to the mills ; swept away the saw mill at Allen's Falls, and 
 the bridges at Thomas Mabury's and Hiram C. Loveitt's. 
 After its entrance into thei Presumpscot, it carried away 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 79 
 
 the bridge^ at Gambo Falls and damaged the powder mills,; 
 carried away the bridge at Little and Mallison's Falls. It 
 then j)assed down the remainder of the river to its terminus 
 at the ocean, where it took its final leave of Windham. The 
 damage done to property in the town of Windham by the 
 breaking out of the last mentioned pond was appraised 
 at $35,000. 
 
 PONDS. 
 
 Nature has dealt liberally with Windham in the matter 
 of ponds. The Duck Pond, on the east side of the town, is 
 about two and one-half miles long and one mile wide ; is 
 partly in Windham, and partly in Falmouth and Westbrook. 
 Little Duck Pond, in the southeast part of the town, is one- 
 half mile louQ- and one-fourth mile wide. Goose Pond, in 
 the northeast corner of the town, one and one-fourth miles 
 long, and one-half mile wide, is two-thirds in Windham. 
 The northeast corner of the town is in this pond. Little 
 Sebago, or the first pond of the three by that name in the 
 north part of the town, is a pond of considerable magnitude, 
 about one-third in Windham, the residue in Gray. Lake 
 Sebago and Basin Pond are on the northwest side of the 
 town. Lake Sebago is estimated to be fourteen miles long 
 and eight wide, and Basin Pond two miles long and one-half 
 mile wide. Turtle Pond, in the north part of the town, is 
 about one-half mile long and sixty rods wide. Little Duck 
 Pond and Turtle Pond are wholly in Windham. The 
 second and third Little Sebago Ponds were before their 
 disruption. 
 
 PEESUMPSCOT mVER. 
 
 The superiority of this noble river over all others, for 
 mills and factories, has been but little known. Its constant 
 and ample supply of water at all seasons of the year, its 
 exemption from freshets, drouths and damage by ice, make 
 it one, if not the best, river in the State for mills. On many 
 
80 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 other rivers vast amounts of property are frequently destroj-ed 
 by freshets, and mills in times of drouths have to susi)end 
 operations. 
 
 No mill has ever been carried away or seriously damaged 
 by freshets on the Presumpscot River. This river is about 
 25 miles in length from its source to its terminus at the ocean. 
 It makes a part of the boundary line between Windham 
 and Standish ; the entire boundary line between Windham 
 and Gorham. This river has 18 falls suitable for mills, viz : 
 Wescott's, Eelwier, Hubble, Steep, Harding's, Great Falls, 
 Whitney's, Island, Dundy, Loveitt's, Gambo, Little Falls, 
 Mallison Falls, two at Saccarappa, one at Congin, two at 
 Presumpscot Falls. The inexhaustible fountains that sup- 
 ply this river with a constant sugply of water at all seasons 
 of the year are Long Pond, Brandy Pond, Lake Sebago, 
 and Basin Pond. Long Pond, eleven mUes long and two 
 miles wide, discharges its waters into Brandy Pond. Brandy 
 Pond, four miles long and two wide, discharges into Lake 
 Sebago. Lake Sebago, fourteen miles long and eight wide, 
 discharges into Basin Pond. Basin Pond, two miles long 
 and one-half mile wide, discharges into Presumpscot River. 
 A factory, for the manufacture of- repellant cloths, was 
 erected in 1866, which is doing a profital)le business at 
 Mallison Falls. The Oriental Powxler Company is doing a 
 large business in the manufacture of jDowder at Gambo 
 Falls. The mills at Great Falls have been destroyed by fire. 
 
 PLEASANT EIVER. 
 
 This river runs through the town from Gray to its inter- 
 section with the Presumpscot River below Loveitt's Falls. 
 It has four falls suitable for mills, Huston's, Anderson's, 
 Pope's and Allen's. At Huston's Falls are mills for making 
 shook and sawing various kinds of timber. At Pope's Falls 
 are mills for manufacturing cloths and carding wool, mill 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 81 
 
 for grinding corn, and saw mills for manufacturing all kinds 
 of lumber. On Ditch Stream Elijah Varney has a mill for 
 threshing grain and sawing shook. At Elder's Falls are 
 mills for sawing and manufacturing all kinds of lumber. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 The inhabitants of Windham have ever manifested great 
 interest in the prosperity of their schools. At a town meet- 
 ing October ye 7th, 1765, it was voted, " that a school be 
 kept in the town of Windham till the next annual 
 meeting." March 26, 1766, also voted, that twenty-six 
 pounds be allowed to pa^^ a schoolmaster till March meet- 
 ing next. Samuel Webb taught the first school in the town 
 in 1743. Benjamin Moody taught school in this town in 
 1772, and John Patterson' in 1773. These were the venera- 
 ble schoolmasters of the " olden times." 
 
 The town has voted the following sums for the support 
 of schools. In 1770, £30 ; in 1780, X400 ; in 1790, £40 ;. 
 in 1800, £100 ; in 1810, ^700 ; in 1820, $946 ; in 1830,. 
 11,046 ; in 1840, $1,000 ; in 1850, $1,200 ; in 1860, $1,450 ;. 
 in 1870, $2,634. New school houses have recently been 
 built in Districts No. 1, 2, 9, 15,16, 17 and 19, which refleot 
 great credit upon the districts to which they belong. 
 
 NUMBER OF SCHOOL DISTKICTS AND SCHOLARS IN 1840 AND 1872=. 
 
 No. 1840. 1872. 
 
 1 Anderson's, 40 40 
 
 2 Linle Falls, 52 60 
 
 3 Gambo, 56 59 
 
 4 Mabury's, 27 23; 
 
 6 Windham Hill, 40 34 
 
 6 District adjoining the Duck Pond, . . . .63 66 
 
 7 Kenard's, 54 6 
 
 8 District adjoining Gray, 68 30- 
 
 9 Dole's, 78 36. 
 
 10 Ireland 65 27 
 
 11 Scotland, 37 3» 
 
 12 Canada Hill, 15 1& 
 
 6 
 
82 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 13 Plains, 62 54 
 
 14 Windham Upper Corner, . . . . , 65 79 
 
 15 Windham Centre, 64 56 
 
 16 Pope's 57 66 
 
 17 GreatFalls, 34 28 
 
 18 District adjoining Raymond, 7 31 
 
 19 Antlioine's, 28 
 
 884 776 
 
 POPULATION. 
 
 Windham is one of the oldest towns in the State. It is 
 the sixteenth town incorporated in the State. Windham is 
 ahnost exclusively an agricnltural town. There has never 
 been any rapid increase or diminution of population. The 
 population at different periods, was in 1759, 29 families ; in 
 1762, 39 families ; in 1764, 250 inhabitants ; in 1790, 938 ; in 
 1800, 1,329 ; in 1810, 1,630 ; in 1820, 1,793 ; in 1830, 2,186 ; in 
 1840,2,274; in 1850,2,380 ; in 1,860, 2,635; in 1870, 2,426. 
 It will be seen by the census returns that there was a grad- 
 ual increase in every decade prior to 1860. In the decade 
 from 1860 to 1870 there was a decrease in population of 
 209 ; 17 of the 24 towns in the County of Cumberland have 
 (decreased in the aggregate 2,304. The increase of popula- 
 tion in the city of Portland and other towns has been from 
 other than farming employments. 
 
 DIVISION AND QUANTITY OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 1st Division, 63 Ten Acre Lots, 630 
 
 2d " 63 Ten Acre Lots, 630 
 
 3d " 63 One hundred acre lots, 6,300 
 
 4th " 126 One hmidred acre lots 12,600 
 
 .5th " 63 8eventy-tliree acre lots, 4,599 
 
 24,759 
 24,759 -^ 63 = 393, each proprietor's share. 
 For some unexplained reason, the proprietors, in number- 
 ing the divisions of land, call the second division of ten acre 
 .lots the first division, thereby leaving out the first division 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. * 83 
 
 of ten acre lots. This method of computation does not give 
 the quantity of land in the township by 630 acres. 
 
 ROADS. 
 
 Main, or river road, runs through the town on a parallel 
 line with, and one-half mile distant from Presumpscot River 
 to Basin Pond, then on the eastern side of Basin Pond and 
 Lake Sebago to Raymond line. Distance from Westbrook 
 line to Duck Pond road, adjoining John F. Anderson's farm, 
 one mile, sixty rods ; from Duck Pond road to Gambo road, 
 two miles, 317 rods ; from Gambo road to Great Falls road, 
 three miles, 125 rods ; from Great Falls road to Windham 
 Upper Corner, two miles, 168 rods ; from Windham Upper 
 Corner to Raymond line, three miles, 175 rods. Total length 
 thirteen miles, 202 r(»ds ; this was the first road located in 
 the town. 
 
 ROAD FROM WIXDHAM UPPER CORXER TO ANTHOIXE ROAD. 
 
 Length, from Windham Upper Corner to Morrill's Corner, 
 two miles, 245 rods ; from Morrill's Corner to Anthoine 
 road, two miles, 113 rods. Total length five miles, thirty-eight 
 rods. 
 
 COUXTY ROAD FROM GORHAM TO WESTBROOK. 
 
 This road runs through the center of the town, and 
 divides the town into two, nearly if not quite, equal parts. 
 Distance from Great Falls to Windham Hill, one mile, 106 
 rods ; from Windham Hill to Windham Center, one mile, 10 
 rods ; from Windham Center to Anthoine road, one mile, 203 
 rods ; from Anthoine road to Westbrook line, one mile, 278 
 rods. Total length five miles, 277 rods. 
 
 ROAD FROil GORHAM TO GRAY. 
 
 This road runs through the town from Gorham to Gray, a 
 northeasterly course. Distance from Little Falls to Cyrus 
 H. Allen's, one mile, fifteen rods ; from Allen's to Henry 
 
84 * HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Robinson's, 229 rods ; from Robinson's to Jolm Hamilton's, 
 214 rods ; from Hamilton's to Windham Center, one mile, 
 seven rods ; from Windham Center to Morrill's Corner, 318 
 rods ; from Morrill's to Baker's Corner, one mile, 226 rods ; 
 from Baker's Corner to Gray line, one mile, 286 rods. Total 
 distance eight miles, 160 rods ; greatest length of the town 
 thirteen miles, 240 rods ; greatest width five miles, 267 rods. 
 
 PORTLAND AND OGDENSBUEG RAILROAD. 
 
 Five miles of this road are in Windham. It enters the 
 south end of the town, runs on a parallel line with the 
 Presumpscot River to Gambo Falls. It then diverges to a 
 westerly course and crosses the Presumpscot River into the 
 town of Gorham. The first train of cars passed over this 
 road from Portland to Lake Sebago, Sept. 12, 1870. 
 
 This is the first railroad in Windham. A considerable 
 business is done at their depot in South Windham. From 
 Sept. 28, 1872, to April 1, 1873, eight hundred tons of 
 pressed hay have been transported by rail from South 
 Windham depot to Boston. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE ANCIENT TOWN RECORDS. 
 
 1765. Voted, That Peter Cobb, Z. Hunewell, and Curtis 
 
 Chute be Way Wardens. 
 " Voted, To allow men thirty shillings, old tenor, per 
 
 day, for laboring on the highways. 
 
 1766. Voted, To allow Thomas Mayberry fifteen pounds, 
 
 Abraham Anderson, eighteen pounds, and 
 John Farrar, eighteen pounds, old tenor, for 
 expenses of Mr. Peter T. Smith's ordination. 
 
 1767. Voted, That Peter Cobb be Selectman in the room 
 
 of Curtis Chute, who was killed at Falmouth 
 (Portland), by lightning, June 4, 1767. 
 1771. Voted, That John Stevens and Nathaniel Evans be 
 informers of deer and moose the present year. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 85 
 
 1771. William Elder, Amos Brown and Richard 
 
 Dole took the money oath. 
 1774. Voted, That Richard Mayberry be Captain, David 
 
 Barker, Lieutenant, and Joseph Swett, Ensign 
 
 the present year. 
 " Voted, That Hateevil Hall be hog reeve the present 
 
 year. 
 " Voted, To accept the report of the committee to the 
 
 town of Boston, in answer to their letters to 
 
 this town relating to Bohe tea. 
 
 1776. Voted, To choose one Captain and two Lieutenants 
 
 for the first company of the Fourth Regiment, 
 w^hereof Timothy Pike, Esq., is Colonel. 
 
 1777. Cumberland, ss. Windham, January 22, 1777. This 
 
 may certify that I, Margaret Mayberry, admin- 
 istratrix, hath received twenty pounds of my 
 negro man named Lonuon, it being the sum 
 of his appraisal of Mr. Thomas Mayberry's 
 estate, and I hereby certify that the above 
 named Lonnon is free and his own man. 
 
 Witness, Richard Dole, Margaeet Mayberry. 
 
 Joseph Weeks. 
 
 1777. Drawed Jonathan Hanson out of the inferior 
 
 box. 
 
 1781. Voted, To give fifty dollars a day for a man, and 
 
 fifty dollars a day for a yoke of oxen, to work 
 on the highways this year. 
 
 1782. Voted, Eighteen thousand pounds (160,000) to clear 
 
 and repair highways. 
 " Voted, Forty shillings silver money per head, to any 
 
 person for killing wolves. 
 
 1783. Voted, To allow two pounds for a wolve's head. 
 1795. Voted, To see if the town will take some method to 
 
 get rid of Hannah Starbird. 
 
86 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 1795. Voted, To set Hannah Starbird up at vendue. 
 
 Exit Hannah Starbird. 
 
 LAWYERS. 
 
 Joseph Pope opened an office in this town, for the practice 
 of law, in 1803, since which Barker Curtis, Asa Mitchell, 
 Hezeldah Frost, Thomas Amory Deblois, John Eveleth, 
 David P. Baker, Peter R. Hall, Thaddeus S. Chase, Freeland 
 A. Staples, T. S. Brigham, John C. Cobb, John O. Winship 
 have practiced law in Windham. 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 Doctor Caleb Rhea Avas the first physician in this town. 
 He came from Danvers, Mass., to Windham, in 1785-6, and 
 practiced in his profession until his death. Died Dec. 29, 
 
 1796, aged 39 3'^ears. Doctor James Paine was the second 
 physician. He came from Limerick, York County, to this 
 tOAvn, in 1797, and practiced in his profession until 1818, 
 when his health failed. He gave up his profession, removed 
 to Portland, and resided there until his death, which occured 
 Feb. 22, 1822, aged 63 years. 
 
 Doctors Folsora, Calvin How, Jacob Hunt, James Merrill, 
 John Waterman, S. W. Baker, Charles G. Parsons, Joseph 
 Addison Parsons, Seth C. Hunkins, Lewis W. Houghton, 
 T. S. Weston, James P. Webb, George L. Kilgore, Bertram 
 F. Dunn, Eli Edgcomb, Isaiah Hedge, Silas E. Sylvester, 
 Roscoe G. Millikin, Frank Carter, F. A. Harris, John Swan 
 and James M. Buzzell, have practiced medicine in Windham. 
 
 INSURANCE COMPANY. 
 
 The Windham Mutual Fire Insurance Company was in- 
 corporated Feb. 15, 1859. This company has been very 
 fortunate, not having any losses by fires for several years, 
 and is in a prosperous condition. 
 
town of windham. 87 
 
 freemasons' lodge. 
 
 This lodge was organized Nov., 1864 ; John R. Rollins was 
 the first Master ; has 85 members. Their hall at Windham 
 Hill was erected in 1866. The author is unable to do justice 
 to this Masonic order, never having been a spectator at one 
 of their meetings. 
 
 post offices. 
 
 The first post office in Windham was established in 1798, 
 at Windham Hill. Colonel Edward Anderson was the first 
 postmaster, since which one was established at Little Falls, 
 South Windham, in 1828, of which Jonathan Andrew was 
 the first postmaster ; one at Windham Upper Corner (North 
 Windham), of which Daniel S. Littlefield was first post- 
 master; one at Windham Center in 1872, Fred S. Hawkes 
 first postmaster. 
 
 names of aged persons who died in WINDHAM. 
 
 Eleanor Cobbey, 101. Robert Martin, 100. Nathaniel 
 Evans, 99. Mrs. Sarah Rogers (1827), 98. Jonathan 
 Wilson, (1823), 86,— his wife Mary (1838), 97. David 
 Purrington (1816), 84— his wife Sarah (1830), 96. Thomas 
 Trott (1821), 91,— his wife Sarah (1837), 97. Matthew 
 Tobey (1810), 96— his wife Elizabeth (1816), 83. Amos 
 Hawkes (1826), 94,— his wife Deborah (1818), 83. Peter 
 T. Smith (1826), 96. Zaccheus Allen (1829), 93. Mrs. 
 Eunice Stevens (1800), 96. Mrs. Sarah Swett (1819), 92. 
 Stephen Manchester (1813), 92,— his wife Mary, 81. Mrs. 
 Rachel Buffom, 90. Thomas Bolton, 90. Mrs. Martha 
 Mayberry, 90. Mrs. Anna Hawkes (1797), 92. James 
 Hawkes (1828), 93. Andrew Dennis, 90 — his wife Eliz- 
 abeth, 84. Mrs. Mary Cook, 91. Israel Hodsdon (1832), 91, 
 —his wife Mary (1827), 81. George Crockett (1834), 90. 
 ZerubbabelHunnewell (1803), 89,— his wife Hannah (1791), 
 80. John A. Knight (1834), 81. Mrs. Sarah Lowell 
 
88 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 • 
 
 (1833), 84. Mrs. Sarali Knapp, 87. Jonah Austin (1834), 
 80,— his wife Sarah (1837), 80. Nathaniel Jordon (1829), 
 84. Margaret Mug-ford (1833), 81. John Stevens, 85,— 
 his wife Elizabeth, 84. John Brown (1836), 80. Thomas 
 Chute (1770), 80. William Mayberry [C. B.] (1829), 84. 
 Mrs. Ann Anderson (1801), 85. Samuel Webb, 80. Mrs. 
 Lois Graffam (1804), 83. Mrs. Rebecca Hunnewell (1830), 
 83. Bathsheba Mayberry, 85. Mrs. Mary Elkins, 84. Jacob 
 Elliott (1819), 84. Mrs. Lydia Lowell, 84. Jonathan Stevens 
 (1821), 80. Jonathan Hanson (1818), 80. Isaac Hardy 
 (1821), 85,— his wife Susannah (1822), 8(3. John Webb 
 (1835), 85. Thomas Barker (1806), 80,— his wife Eunice 
 (1809), 80. Elijah Pope (1828), 85. Mrs'. Elizabeth South- 
 wick (1818), 80. Abraham Osgood (1816), 87. Paul Stone 
 (1831), 86. Richard Dole (1825), 89. John Mayberry, [B] 
 88. Mrs. Rachel Bolton (1813), 84. Mrs. Hannah Hanson 
 (1827), 84. John Bodge (1798), 84. Samuel Elkins, 84. 
 John Morrell (1817), 85. Mrs. Elizabeth Crague (1810), 
 
 83. Mrs. Jane Mcintosh (1826), 81. Joseph Riggs (1806), 
 86,— his wife Anna (1812), 86.. Thomas Kenard (1818), 
 
 84. Elisha Handy, 80. Mrs. Mary Bolton, 88. Samuel 
 Kenard (1817), 85,— his Avife Elizabeth (1815), 83. Wm. 
 Proctor (1H06), 84. Stephen Hutchinson, 85, — his son 
 Stephen (1826), 85,— his wife Elizabeth (1827), 85. Lieut. 
 Wallace, 80. Joseph Griffin, 85. Mrs. Anna Johnson 
 (1838), 87. Mrs. Abigail. Hooper (1798), 80. Mrs. Ellen 
 Holmes (1833), 81. Robert Mugford (1781), 81,— his wife 
 Mary (1796), 80. Robert Mugford (1836), 80. John 
 Ingersol (1811), 81,— his wife Lydia (1825), 85. John 
 Chase (1829), 81. Abraham Anderson (1844), 86. Mrs. 
 Sarah Smith (1854), 88. Noah Read (1844), 88. Mrs. 
 Mary Chute (1843), 80. Lemuel Jones (1845), 87. Mrs. 
 Mary Chase (1845), 90. Mrs.' Mary Anderson (1846), 96. 
 John Rogers (1847), 83. Joshua Berry (1847), 80. Ezekiel 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 89 
 
 Hanson (1848), 80. Paul Little, (1849), 82. Josiah Webb, 
 (1849), 84. Paul Stone (1849), 81,— his wife Ann (1855), 
 
 87. Mrs. Sarah Cobb (1849), 94. Nathan Pope (1859), 84. 
 Abijah Purington (1850), 84. Ebenezer Allen (1851), 84. 
 Timothy Robinson (1851), 84,— his wife Siloam (1853), 89. 
 Lemuel Horton (1851), 90. Amos Hawkes (1852), 92. 
 Ichabod Hanson (1853), 89,— his wife Anna (1858), 92. 
 Mrs. Sarah Sweat, (1819), 92. Gershom Manchester (1853), 
 93. Mrs. Abigail Elder, (1853), 88. Meshach Purington 
 (1853), 82. Timothy Hanson, (1855), 79,— his wife Rebeccah 
 (1858), 84. Mrs. Betsey Bodge (1860), 84. Mrs. Anna 
 Fields (1857), 92. Mrs. Olive Freeman (1857), 84. John 
 Chute, grandson of Thomas Chute, died in Naples (1857), 
 90. John Lowell (1859), 84. Benjamin Hawkes (1859), ' 
 
 88. Mrs. Mary Goodale (1861), 80. Robert Millions 
 (1816), 84,— his wife Molly (1820), 87,— their daughter 
 Anna, aged 92, — their son Thomas (1847), 83, — their daugh- 
 ter Martha (1849), 88,— their son Robert (1856), 87,— their 
 daughter Mary, (1861), 88. Mrs. Mary Sweat (1863), 83. 
 Mrs. Huldah White (1865), 89. Mrs. Mary Haskell, (1863) 
 93. Charles Johnson (1865), 88. John Gallison, (1864), 
 84. Daniel B. Ingersol, (1864), 88. Timothy Robinson 
 (1865), 80. Francis Small (1865), 80. Mrs. Mary Bar- 
 bour (1866), 82. Mrs. Nash (1866), 89. Joseph Hanson 
 (1866), 86. Moses Little (1866), 84. Mrs. Betsey Goold 
 (1866), 85. James Lovett (1867), 84. Asa Center, (1868) 
 84. Isaac Stevens (1869), 82. William Cobb (1869), 84. 
 Andrew D. Maybury (1869), 91. jMrs. Sally Mabury (1 869), 
 86. Miss Sally Chase, aged 85. Mrs. Sarah Rogers (1827), 
 97. Abraham Anderson, Jr., (1859), 80. Mrs. Jackson 
 (1860), 81. John Hunnewell (1861), 91. Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Webb Mabury (1866), 98. Mrs. Mary Hanson (1868), 91. 
 Mrs. Eunice Mcintosh (1870), 83. Mrs. Lydia Boody 
 (1872), 84. Mrs. Rebecca Eveleth (1872), 81. Stephen 
 
90 
 
 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Hanson (1872), 82. Mrs. Anna Manchester (1849), 82. 
 Mrs. Mary Manchester (1821), 90. Jacob Pettmgill (1871), 
 86, — his wife Rebecca (1873), 83. Mrs. Betsey Somes 
 (1872), 88. Mrs. Rachel McDonald (1861). William 
 Motley (1845,) 80. Abraham Nason (1846), 86. Josiah 
 Clark, (1855), 85. John Rogers (1847), 81. Mrs. Bethiah 
 Hathaway (1865), 80. Elijah Kennard (1843), 88. 
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 NO. OF CEMETERIES AND THE DISTRICTS IN WHICH THEY ARE LOCATED. 
 
 No. 
 
 District 2 
 
 " 2 
 
 3 
 
 " 1 
 
 " 1 
 
 2 
 
 4 
 
 " 3 
 
 No. 10 
 
 " 11 
 
 " 12 
 
 " 13 
 
 " 15 
 
 " 16 
 
 " 17 
 
 District 5 
 " 2 
 " 1 
 " 3 
 " 1 
 3 
 " 1 
 •' 1 
 
 Eight of these are town cemeteries. 
 
 These cemeteries do not include all that are interred in 
 the town. The first persons buried in Windham are on 
 home lot No. 32, about twenty rods from Presumpscot 
 River. They are the first wife of Stephen Manchester, a 
 brother of hers (Farrar) and a child. Since which, Doctor 
 Caleb Rhea was buried on the Rhea farm, Levi Cram on 
 the Cram farm, and Mrs. Knights, wife of Nathaniel Knights, 
 and her child, on the farm now owned by John J. Bodge, 
 and some others in other localities. 
 
 The Smith Cemetery, in District, No. 1, contains the 
 remains of nearly all the first settlers in the town for many 
 years from the first settlement. Rev. John Wight, the 
 first congregational minister, was the first person interred in 
 this cemetery. There are three tombs in this cemetery ; 
 the first is Rev. Peter T. Smith's family tomb, the first in 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 91 
 
 the town ; the second is Hon. John Anderson's family tomb, 
 erected in 1854 by his family, They also purchased and 
 donated to the town a large and valuable addition of land 
 to this cemetery. The third is a receiving tomb, erected in 
 1872, by the Union circle, and is the first receiving tomb in 
 the town. 
 
 Thomas Manchester, son of Stephen Manchester, was the 
 first child born in Windham ; he was born in 1739. Nancy 
 Mabury, daughter of William Mabury, the second settler in 
 the toNvn, was the second child, and first female birth in 
 Windham ; born May 28, 1710 ; died Feb. 12, 1808. Her 
 remains are interred in the cemetery in District No. 2, on 
 the farm formerly owned by Paul Little, Esq. The author 
 was present at her burial. 
 
 Windham is an agricultural town. Agriculture is the 
 principal employment. The soil is excellent for farming 
 purposes. There are some plains land in the north part of 
 the town, and several high elevations of land. The princi- 
 pal is CS,nada Hill, in the south part of the town ; Windham 
 and Jones' Hills near the center of the town ; Kenard's and 
 Manchester's Hills in the north part of the town. Libby's 
 Hill, at the north end of the Duck Pond, is a high elevation, 
 and affords an extensive view of the adjacent localities. 
 There are inexhaustible quantities of granite ledge in some 
 parts of the town. The most noted is the Chesley ledge, in 
 the south part of the town. Nearly all the stone used in 
 the construction of buildings and bridges in the town of 
 Gorham came from this ledge. Stone from this ledge has 
 been transported to Scarborough and Portland. A part of 
 the stone in the First Parish Church in Portland, and a 
 part of the stone in the Custom House prior to the present 
 one, came from this ledge. Nathaniel and Isaac Cobb got the 
 stone for the vault of the Passamaquoddy Bank from this 
 ledge. There are seven grocery stores, two hotels, five 
 
92 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 blacksmiths, four~carriage makers, one tannery, several man- 
 ufacturers of boots and shoes, joiners and other mechanics, 
 and as many good instructors of schools as any other town. 
 
 EXTRANEOUS MATTER. 
 
 The period of time from 1861 to 1873, will ever be 
 memorable in American history for a combination of events of 
 unparalleled magnitude, such as has never occurred before, 
 and may never occur again, during the life of any now living. 
 During tliat period there has been a civil war in the United 
 States, of four years' duration ; a war that called into 
 military service more than 3,000,000 men, a greater num- 
 ber of men than any war that has occurred in any nation, 
 in any age of the world ; a war that is estimated to have 
 cost the nation 500,000 lives, and from eight to nine billions 
 of dollars. In magnitude, in expense, and in the lives it 
 cost, it surpasses all preceding wars combined, and furnished 
 the world with one of the most awful examples of the folly 
 and wickedness of war. • 
 
 The fire which occurred in Portland, July 4, 1866, swept 
 over an area of nearly one hundred and fifty acres, pouring 
 a river of fire through the most compact part of the city, 
 three-quarters of a mile in length, with an average width of 
 nearly half a mile. More than one-third part of Portland 
 was laid in ashes. Most of the public buildings were 
 destroyed. Fifteen hundred buildings were laid in ashes, 
 and over ten thousand of the population were turned into 
 the streets, houseless. The probable loss was six million 
 dollars. 
 
 The fire in Boston, Nov. 9 and 10, 1872, burnt over sixty- 
 five acres of the most compact part of the city. The 
 estimated loss by the fire is eighty-two million dollars, 
 being sixteen times greater than the loss in Portland. 
 
 The fire in Chicago, Oct. 8, 9 and 10, 1871, destroyed 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 93 
 
 property to the amount of 1105,000,000, being 123,000,000 
 greater than the loss in Boston. 
 
 In January, 1873, four hundred persons were frozen to 
 death in Minnesota and that region, by the unprecedented 
 depth of snow and intense cold weather. 
 
 April, 1873, the steamship Atlantic struck on a reef of 
 rocks near Halifax. She had on board 976 persons, 546 of 
 whom were lost ; the greatest loss by any one vessel on 
 the continent of America. 
 
 In addition to the preceding calamities, the fire at Great 
 Falls, Windham, July 4, 1873, destroyed the saw mill, corn 
 and flour mills, and a large amount of machinery for various 
 purposes, belonging to the estate of Enoch White. Also the 
 chair factory, dwelling house, a large amount of various 
 kinds of machinery and other property, belonging to Charles 
 L. Wright. The loss by this fire was nearly if not quite 
 equal to the combined loss of all buildings by fire in the town 
 of Windham prior to 1872. 
 
 THE DYING SOLDIER TO HIS MOTHER. 
 I'm dying, Mother, dying; 
 Life's blood is ebbing fost. 
 The comrades round me lying. 
 Have already gone to rest. 
 I soon sliall join the number 
 Of patriots true and brave, 
 Who now so calmly slumber 
 Within a soldier's grave. 
 
 But grieve not, darling Mother, 
 
 ' Tis not so hard to die, 
 
 And though you're alone now, Mother, 
 
 Tliere's yet a God on higli, 
 
 Who guards eacli little sparrow. 
 
 And siiields each helpless worm. 
 
 Will surely heal your sorrow, 
 
 And keep you from all harm. 
 
94 HISTOEY OF THE 
 
 Forgive each harsh word spoken ; 
 Forgive each unkind thought. 
 The worldly spell is broken, 
 A lieavenly change is wrought. 
 I'll be in sj)irit near thee — 
 Will whisper«words of love 
 Until the angels bear thee 
 To the bright realms above. 
 
 There we shall see each other, 
 
 Again to part no more. 
 
 In Heaven I'll meet thee, Mother, 
 
 To love thee evermore. 
 
 My eyes grow dim and closing ; 
 
 Death's messenger they hail, 
 
 I go — in death reposing — 
 
 Say, Mother dear, " farewell." 
 
 T ime, like a shadow fled, 
 H as numbered with the dead 
 
 ur brief span of life — 
 M uch joy, sorrow, strife. 
 A s bubbles rise and fall, 
 
 S o will the future be to all ; 
 
 L et all the glories of the past 
 
 S hine in the future to the last. 
 
 M ay truth and justice rule the day 
 
 1 n future as the ages pass away, 
 
 T ill all mankind enjoy a glorious rest — 
 H ave all forever blessing, and forever blest. 
 
 DEATHS BY LIGHTNING. 
 
 Curtis Chute, son of Thomas Chute, the first settler in 
 the town, was killed by lightning at Falmouth (now Port- 
 land), June 5, 1767. Mr. Read was killed in a dwelling 
 house near Gambo Falls, in 1785. Mrs. Tamsin Varney, wife 
 of Samuel Varney, August 8, 1836. June 27, 1866, three 
 females were seated in a room at Baker's Corner, Windham, 
 when the lightning struck the building and the fluid 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 95 
 
 descended to the room, slightly injuring an aged lady, Mrs. 
 Mary Alien, instantly killing her daughter. Miss Jane Allen, 
 aged thirty-five years, and severely injuring her grand- 
 daughter, Caroline Hancock. At precisely the same time the 
 dwelling house and barn of Asa Legrow, standing twenty 
 rods distant, were struck by the lightning. A great number 
 of buildings have been struck by lightning, only tAvo of 
 which were burnt ; one, a barn owned by Abraham Ander- 
 son, in District No. 1, and a barn owned b}^ Samuel Freeman, 
 in District No. 15. 
 
 DEATHS BY DROWNING. 
 
 The following persons have been drowned in the Presump- 
 scot River : Sarah Chute, daughter of Thomas Chute, the 
 first settler in town, and the wife of John Bodge. Joseph 
 Knights, who had been taken prisoner twice by the Indians 
 during the Indian wars. John Gammon and Miss Skillins, 
 at Mallison Falls. Mrs. Knights, wife of Nathaniel Knights, 
 and her child, Joseph Knights, son of the preceding Joseph 
 Knights, a son of Edmund Flood and a son of Joseph Babl), 
 were drowned at Little Falls. Mrs. Betsey Swett, at Gambo 
 Falls. Amos Mason, John Harding and Mrs. Kingman, 
 wife of William Kingman, and a son of Abraham Leonard, 
 at Great Falls. Matthew Mitchell, at Harding's Falls, 
 Edmund Mussey and Charles Gray above Steep Falls. 
 William Purington, son of Meshach and Sarah Piirington, 
 was drowned in Pleasant River, and a man, name not known, 
 was drowned in Little Duck Pond. 
 
 The Author, in his narration of the Windham men and 
 those not native citizens of Windham who served in the quotas 
 for Windham, has given the regiment, company or corps to 
 which they belonged, as designated by the Adjutant General 
 
96 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 of the State in liis report. The author, believing the citizens 
 of the town feel interested in knowing all the men who were 
 native citizens of the town who served in the war of the 
 rebellion, has included several native citizens who were 
 residents in other towns and served in their quotas. When- 
 ever this has occurred he has endeavored to credit them t0 
 the town or corps to which they belonged. 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 NAMES OF THE GRANTEES OF NEW MARBLEHEAD, NOW 
 WINDHAM. 
 
 Jeremiah Allen, Micah Bowden, Robert Bull, Nathaniel 
 Bartlette, John Bailey, Thomas Bartlette, Nathan Bowen, 
 Francis Bowden, Jedediah Blaney, Samuel Brimblecom, 
 Joseph Blaney, Thomas Chute, Peter Coleman, Moses Calle}^ 
 Nathaniel Cogswell, Richard Dana, Benjamin Dodge, Hum- 
 phrey Deverux, Nicholas Edgscome, Nathaniel Evans, John 
 Gelton, Thomas Frothingham, Joseph Gallison, Joseph Grif- 
 fin, William Goodwin, Robert Hooper, Ebenezer Hawkes, 
 Jr., Abraham Howard, Benjamin Hendley, Edward Holyoke, 
 Joseph Howard, John Homan, Ebenezer Hawkes, Benjamin 
 James, William Ingalls, Giles Iremy, Samuel Lee, Joseph 
 Majory, Isaac Maxfield, William Mayberry, John Oulton, 
 Robert Paramore, George Pigot, John Palmer, Jonathan 
 Proctor, James Perrimon, James Pierson, John Reed, Richard 
 Reed, Samuel Stacy, 8d, James Sharrar, John Stacy, Eben- 
 ezer Stacy, James Skinner, Joseph Swett, Joseph Smithurst, 
 Andrew Tucker, Isaac Turner, Calley Wright, Thomas 
 Wood. 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 97 
 
 No. 2. 
 
 The original boundaries of New Marblehead, as laid out 
 May 15, 1735, were as follows, to wit : 
 
 " We began at a place called Saccarappa Falls, in Pre- 
 sumpscot River, and so as the river runs to a great pond 
 called Great Sebago Pond, thence north 45° east, four miles 
 and 120 rods, thence south 45° east to North Yarmouth 
 back line, thence three miles south, 45° west, to the corner 
 of North Yarmouth and Falmouth bounds, thence south 24° 
 20 minutes west, eight miles and 60 rods, to Saccarappa 
 Falls." 
 
 No. 3. 
 
 Boundary lines between Windham and Falmouth, as 
 established by an act of the General Court, Nov. 27, 1761. 
 
 " Viz : Beginning at a white rock by the water side in 
 Casco Bay and running northwest ninety-five rods to the 
 stump of a red oak tree, which was formerly marked F, and 
 from thence northwest on the line between the towns of 
 Falmouth, and North Yarmouth, eight miles to a pine marked 
 F, for the northwest corner of the said town of Falmouth, 
 and from thence and the lines between said town of Falmouth 
 and the said New Marblehead. To run on a straight line 
 to come fifteen rods to the eastward of a brook called Inkhorn 
 Brook, below the mouth of said brook, whence it enters into 
 the river called Presumpscot River. To run again from the 
 said pine tree back on the line of Falmouth, ninety-five rods, 
 to the southeast corner of North Yarmouth, being a stake, 
 and from thence northeast three miles on the bounds between 
 North Yarmouth and New Marblehead to the lines of New 
 Boston." (Gray.) 
 
 No. 4. • 
 
 Josiah Chute was the son of Curtis Chute, and grandson 
 of Thomas Chute, the first settler in Windham. Thomas 
 Chute, the first settler, died in this town, in 1770, aged 80 
 7 
 
98 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 years. He had one son and two daughters. His son Curtis 
 was killed by lightning, at Portland, June 5, 1767. His 
 daughter Sarah, married to John Bodge, was drowned at 
 Horse-beef Falls, in 1776 ; his other daughter, Abigail, 
 married with Mr. Cobham. Curtis Chute left a wife and 
 five children — four sons, Josiah, Thomas, John and James, 
 and one daughter. Three of his sons, Josiah, Thomas and 
 James were in the service in the course of the revolutionary 
 war. Josiah was born in Windham, June 4, 1759, and died 
 here Oct. 2, 1834, aged 75 years. His brother. Col. Thomas 
 Chute, died here several years since. James died at sea. 
 John died in Naples July 25, 1857, aged 90 years. Josiah 
 Chute served five years in the army of the revolution. He 
 frequently represented this town in the Legislature of Massa- 
 chusetts, was one of the delegates in the State Convention 
 that formed the Constitution of Maine, and for twenty 
 years one of the Selectmen of the town. He left a wife 
 and seven children. 
 
 No. 5. 
 
 Ezra Brown, who was killed by Poland, left a wife and 
 four children — three sons, William, Ezra and Amos, and one 
 daughter, Lydia, whose descendants are numerous. One of 
 his sons, Ezra, died in this town March 31, 1826, aged 76 
 years. He was a man of superior abilities, was representative 
 of the town in the Legislature of Massachusetts, in 1797, 
 and eighteen years one of the Selectmen of the town. He 
 was one of the Selectmen from 1782 to 1802, excepting 1789 
 and 1799 ; also, one of the Selectmen in 1807. 
 
 Ephraim Winship, anterior to his being wounded by the 
 Indians, had been married, but at the time he was wounded 
 he had no wife, she having deceased before, leaving six 
 children. Winship recovered of his wounds, notwithstanding 
 the Indians had taken two scalps from his head and gave 
 him a blow with a hatchet, leaving him for dead. The 
 
TOWN OP WINDHAM. 99 
 
 Indians took two scalps from Winship in consequence of liis 
 having two crowns on his head. They left a narrow strip 
 of skin extending from the forehead directly over the top to 
 the back part of the head, between the two scalps which 
 they had taken off. In consequence of this " searching 
 Operation " of the Indians upon the head of Winship, it ever 
 after presented a \ery singular appearance. Some time 
 after this, Winship was married to his second wife, by 
 whom he had five more children, thereby strictly fulfilling 
 the commands given to Noah and his sons, "Be fruitfvd and 
 multiply and replenish the earth." He was a native of 
 Lexington, Mass., and died in Windham, June 4, 1766, 
 aged 55 years. His perseverance and industry are certainly 
 worthy of all commendation. 
 
 No. 6. 
 
 Towns and Counties by the name of Windham, where 
 situated, and the population they contained in 1820 : 
 
 Towns. Counties. States. Pop. Towns. Coimties. States. Pop. 
 
 Windliam, Cumberland, Me. 1793 I Windliam, Windliam, Ct. 2489 
 
 Windham, Windham, Vt. 931 | Windham, Greene, N. Y. 2533 
 
 Windliam, Rockingham, N. H. 889 I Windham, Bradford, Penn. 350 
 
 Windham, Luzerne, Penn. 889 | Windham, Portage, Ohio. 472 
 
 Population of the County of Windham, in Vermont, 28,457 
 " " " " in Connecticut, 31,684 
 
 " Windham or Wymondham, town in the county of Norfolk, Eng., market 
 on Friday, nine miles W. S. W. Norwich, 103 N. London, population 4,023. 
 The chief trade of the place is making wooden ware." 
 
 No. 7. 
 
 In the summer of 1776, the great gun and one swivel 
 were carried to Falmouth and put on board the privateer 
 Reprieve, commanded by Capt. Joshua Stone. The other 
 swivel was destroyed, a few years ago, at Windham Upper 
 Corner, so that none of these relics of antiquity are now 
 to be found. 
 
 No. 8. 
 During the winter session (1776) the General Court 
 
100 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 arranged the militia anew, and formed Massachusetts proper 
 into three divisions and Maine into one. All able-bodied 
 males between sixteen and sixty years were enrolled and 
 compelled to do military duty, except Quakers, settled min- 
 isters of the gospel, the officers of Harvard College, colored 
 men and Indians. 
 
 No. 9. 
 
 List of men belonging to Windham, who performed ser- 
 vice in the Continental army and drafted militia during the 
 revolutionary war. 
 
 THOSE WHO SERVED THREE YEARS. 
 
 Elias Legrow, Joseph Legrow, Caleb Young, Richard 
 Thurrill, Amos Brown, Jr., Stephen Tripp, Samuel Knights, 
 James Jordan, Job Hall, Richard Mabury, Josiah Chute, 
 William Mabury, John Swett, Samuel Tobin, John Mugford, 
 Hezekiah Hall, Nathaniel Gammon, Stephen Lowell, Wil- 
 liam Cammett, Enoch Hall, Jeremiah Small, Richard Dole, 
 Edward Webb, Samuel Chandler, Eli Webb, Samuel Lord, 
 Amos Brown, Richard Presson, Stephen Hutchinson, Wil- 
 liam Hardy, John Knight, Nicholas Hughes, Robert Millions, 
 Ebenezer Barton, Enoch Graffam, Stephen Manchester. 
 Colored men, Flanders, Romeo, Lonnon, Peter Smith. 
 
 Amos Brown was killed in the battle of Hubbardstown. 
 
 THOSE WHO SERVED LESS THAN THREE YEARS AT ONE TIME. 
 
 James Chute, Ichabod Hanson, George Knights, John 
 Winship, Nathaniel Chase, Joseph Hutchinson, Samuel 
 Hutchinson, George Crockett, Stej)hen Harris, Thomas 
 Chute, Thomas Crague, Jeremiah Jordon, Daniel Crockett, 
 John Young, Edward Anderson, Abraham Anderson, John 
 Anderson, Thomas Trott, Benjamin Trott, James Mabury, 
 John Mabury, William Mabury, Jr., Thomas Mabury, 
 David Mabury, Thomas Bolton, John Elder, William Elder, 
 Joseph Elder, Richard Hunnewell, Benjamin Bodge, Thomas 
 Bodge. 
 
TOWN OP WINDHAM. 
 
 101 
 
 No. 11. 
 
 Muster roll of Capt. Richard Mabiiry's company in 
 battalion of Massachusetts Bay forces, in the service of the 
 United States, commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper, 
 Eleventh Regiment, Fifth Company. Taken for Dec. 1778. 
 
 CAPTAIN. 
 Richard Mabury, W. 
 
 LIEUTEXANT. 
 Silas Chadbourne. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Joab Libby, 
 Josiah Chute, W., 
 Amos Allen. 
 
 DRUMMER. 
 
 Josiah Wallace. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Francis Libby, 
 William Mabury, W., 
 Robert Millions, W., 
 George Robinson, 
 John Swett, W., 
 Walter Simonton, 
 Ephraim Sawyer, 
 Peter Smith, W., 
 Joseph Stone, 
 Daniel Small, 
 Elisha Small, 
 Joseph Thompson, 
 William Thompson, 
 Jesse Whitney, 
 Joseph Webber, 
 Jonathan Webster, 
 Jonathan Bean, 
 Thomas Chute, W., 
 
 Joab Black, 
 Sylvanus Bramhall, 
 Charles Branscum, 
 George Berry, 
 Benjamin Cressey, 
 Ephraim Dyer, 
 William Davis, 
 John Green, 
 David Guston, 
 William Hunt, 
 Nicholas Huges, 
 Hezekiah Jordon, 
 Henry Jackson, 
 James Jordon, W., 
 Robert Jackson, 
 Jedediah Lombard, 
 Butler Lombard, 
 Caleb Lombard, 
 
 " West Point, January 1, 1779. Mustered then Capt. Richard Mabury's 
 company, as specified in the above roll." 
 
 ENSIGN. 
 Jonathan Libby. 
 
 CORPORALS. 
 
 Nathaniel Lombard, 
 Chandler Rackley, 
 Ebenezer Barton, W. 
 
 FIFER. 
 Christopher Dunn. 
 
 Peter Crockett, 
 Thomas Guston, 
 Jeremiah Hodgdon, 
 Richard HoUis, 
 Samuel Jordan, 
 David Mabury, W., 
 John Oriqn, 
 Joseph Pliinney, 
 Peter Sandborn, 
 Jonathan Swett, 
 Samuel Small, 
 Ebenezer Sawyer, 
 Benjamin Trott, W., 
 David Truill, 
 Daniel Whitmore, 
 Robert M'Farling, 
 George Leach. 
 
 Note. Those marked W, were Windham men. 
 
102 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 No. 12. 
 NUMBER OF TROOPS EMPLOYED DURING THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 Continental, 231,971; Militia, 56,163. Total, 288,131. 
 Expenses of the war of the revolution, $135,193,703. 
 
 No. 13. 
 
 A PRO RATA DISTRIBUTION OF CHILDREN. 
 
 John Cobb resided several years in Windham, during 
 which time he had two children born in Windham. He 
 removed to Danville, and had two children born there ; 
 then to Gray and had two children born there ; then to 
 Bowdoinham and had two children born there ; then to 
 Bath, and had two children born there ; two children in 
 each of the five towns ; ten in all, who lived to be men 
 and women. One of his sons now resides in Windham and 
 is a worthy citizen. 
 
 No. 14. 
 
 The author has been informed that it has been asserted 
 that Abraham Anderson was not in the fight with the 
 Indians, when Poland the Indian chief was killed, as related 
 in his Centennial Address. The author was not present at 
 that fight, and could not give any description of it from his 
 own knowledge. He had to do as all have to under similar 
 circumstances : have recourse to written or traditional his- 
 tory. Rev. Thomas Smith says in his cotemporaneous 
 history that Anderson was present with Manchester and 
 took part in the fight, and said " follow on my lads " when 
 in the advance. Williamson, in his history of Maine, says 
 Anderson was with Manchester when Manchester shot 
 Poland. If there are any errors in the author's statement 
 that Anderson was in the fight, they are the errors of his- 
 torical authorities, and not of the author. 
 
 No. 15. 
 One of the antiquities of the town is a musical instrument, 
 
TOWN OF WINDHAM. 103 
 
 a spinet, made in London by Thomas Hitchcock, in 1390. 
 It was formerly owned by Rev. Peter T. Smith, and is now 
 owned by the family of the late Dr. John Waterman. 
 Antiquarians say this is the oldest musical instrument in 
 the United States. 
 
 No. 16. 
 
 Valuation of the Town in 1872, 8832,158.00. Number of 
 taxable polls, 505 ; number of voters, 556. 
 
 No. 17. 
 
 " The persons drowned in the Presumpscot River were 
 not all residents of Windham. Mrs. Sarah Bodge, Joseph 
 Knights, Senior, Mrs. Nancy Knights and her child, Edmund 
 Flood's son, Joseph Babb's son, Mrs. Betsey Swett, Mrs. 
 Kingman, and Abraham Leonard's son, were residents of 
 Windham ; all others were residents of other towns." 
 
 Mrs. Mary Swett, wife of the late John Swett, died May 
 5, 1863, aged 83 years. She was the last of the revolution- 
 ary pensioners in Windham. 
 
 Abraham Anderson, son of Abraham Anderson, the fifth 
 settler in Windham, was the only person born in the old 
 fort (block house). He died Sept. 3, 1844, aged 86 years. 
 
 CONTINENTAL, MONEY. 
 
 " The whole amount of Continental Money used from 
 June 22, 1775, to Nov. 1779, was 241,552,780 dollars. The 
 depreciation was rapid. By an act of the General Court, 
 the rate of depreciation on all contracts was as follows : for 
 every |100 in gold or silver, in January, 1777, $105 in 
 paper of the United States, was to be received ; in July, 
 $125; October, 1500 ; 1779, January, $745 ; April, $1,104 ; 
 July, $1,477 ; October, $2,030 ; 1780, January, $2,934 ; 
 April, $4,000 ; from April 1st to 20th, $1,780 ; one Spanish 
 
104 HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WINDHAM. 
 
 dollar was equal to $40 in paper of the old emission ; May 
 25 it was equal to |60. The paper depreciated gradually 
 until Feb. 27, 1781, when one Spanish dollar was worth $75 
 in paper. At that time a new emission was made of paper, 
 which was a little short of $2 for $1 of silver. This, 
 however, continually depreciated, until Oct. 1, 1781, it 
 stood at $4 to $1." [ Willis's History of Portland. 
 
 The large amount voted by the town in 1781, for the 
 repair of highways, consisted of this depreciated Continental 
 Currency. 
 
 The Free Meeting House at Windham Upper Corner was 
 erected in 1781. 
 
 COERECTIONS. 
 
 On page 58, the number mustered into service should 
 read 311 instead of " 374." 
 
 On j)age 92, second line from bottom, read thirteen 
 instead of " sixteen." On page 93, eleventh line, read 1872, 
 instead of " 1873." 
 
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