The Maine Historical Magazine

262 Inscriptions from Gravestones in Burying Ground Ellsworth.

place called Sunkhaize. She b. Bucksport, Oct. 14, 1788 and d. He m. second widow Gove; he died; children, all by first wife: i. ANNA, b. May 17, 1810; m. Alfred O. Ingersoll, of Greenbush and Lincoln. Mr. Ingersoll was County Commissioner and held other important offices.

ii. POLLY, b. Mar. 31, 1812; d. April 5, 1828.

iii. AMOS, b. Jan. 31, 1814; lived in Milford and Brewer; removed to Bay City, Mich. He m. first Catherine, daughter of Capt. Samuel Bailey, his cousin, Oct. 8, 1835; she d. Oct. 14, 1851. He m. second, Mrs. Martha (Bailey) Cressey, daughter of Samuel Bailey, Jr, who d. Oct. 22, 1886. He d. in Bay City, Mich., June 30, 1886.

iv. JEREMIAH J., b. Aug. 20, 1817; lived in Milford and Bangor, where he died. He m. and had four children.

CAROLINE, b. July 9, 1819; m. Col. Jonathan Eddy, of Bradley and
Bangor, March 5, 1839. He moved to Bangor 1847, where he d.
Aug. 24, 1865, aged 54 years, 23 days. Madam Eddy resides in
Bangor. They had seven children.

vi. MARK TRAFTON, b. May 2, 1821; removed to Detroit, Mich; married and had a family.

vii. ELEANOR BIRD, b. Oct. 28, 1823; m. George W. H. Brown, of Lincoln. Family removed to Michigan.

viii. JOANNA BASS, b. Oct. 9, 1825; d. young.

ix. MARY HEALD, b. Mar. 31, 1828; m. Joseph Heald; three children.

SARAH ANN, b. Feb. 18, 1830; d. Port Huron, Mich.

xi. SAMUEL, b. Apr. 23, 1832; died in Michigan.

xii. ADALINE, b. Jan. 3, 1834; m. A. L. Stebbins, of Port Huron, Mich. INSCRIPTIONS FROM GRAVE STONES IN OLD BURYING GROUND* IN ELLSWORTH.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 38, VOL. 3.

John B. Sawyer died Oct. 21, 1833, aged 23.

Mrs. Abigail, wife of Porter Sawyer, died May 31, 1829, aged 60. Elizabeth A. Tyler, daughter of Moses and Elizabeth Tyler, died Aug. 7, 1807, aged 1 year, 6 months, 19 days.

Sarah Eliza, wife of Robert Long and daughter of John S. Little of Boston, died Sept. 11, 1832, aged 27.

Col Jesse Dutton, died June 9, 1842, aged 8o.

Wife Phebe Dutton, died July 27, 1837 aged 69.

Donald Ross died Nov. 23, 1804, aged 45.

Mercy, wife of Capt. Samuel Hovey, died Aug. 11, 1849, aged 90. Mrs. Alice, relict, of late Philip Leach of Vassalboro. She born in Exeter, N. H., and died at Ellsworth, May 29, 1840. aged 74.

Mrs. Mary L., wife of Moses Adams, Esquire, died May 12, 1815, aged 39.

Abigail R., wife of Capt. Elias Lord, died May 20, 1830, aged 36. Major John Jellison died Feb. 23, 1850, aged 89 years, I month and 10 days.

Wife Elizabeth Jellison, died Feb. 25, 1830, aged 69 years, 2 months, 15 days.

Mrs. Reliance Hodges died Oct. 30, 1842, aged 75 years and 7

months.

Jane, wife of James Turner, died June 5, 1842, aged 66 years.

* This ancient cemetery is fast going to decay. Many remains have been removed to the new cemetery. Some of the founders of the city lie there still.

SAMUEL TITCOMB'S RETURN OF THE SURVEY OF
THE MAIN NORTH BRANCH OF SCHOODIK WITH
EIGHT TOWNSHIPS ON THAT RIVER AND
LAKES. DEC., 1794.

"A return of the survey of the main north branch of the river Scoodic which empties into the Bay of Passamaquody, together with the survey of Eight Townships, bounding easterly by sd. River, southerly by the lakes, westerly by Messrs. Maynards, & Hollands survey, as follows, Viz:

Beginning at the place where I closed the survey, of said River in the year 1792, being at a point of land, near the outlet of Omquememkeeg Lake, thence continued the survey northerly through the North Bay, of said lake to the most northerly inlet thereof, being a river about ten rods wide at the communication with said lake: found the waters in some places twelve feet deep and continued the survey of this river to the North Lake. The river between Omquememkeeg Lake and North Lake is from ten to two rods wide; in some places twelve feet deep, in others so shallow as to render it very difficult passing in a birch canoe when the water is low. Thence, continued the survey northerly thro the North Lake to the most northerly extreme thereof; there being no stream running into said North Lake except small brooks. I therefore concluded that the brook running into the most northerly extreme thereof, must be considered as the source of the main northerly branch of the river Schoodic."

John F. Pratt.

WILL OF DOCTOR WILLIAM CRAWFORD OF
FORT POWNAL, PENOBSCOT BAY, 1775.

William D. Patterson, Esquire of Wiscasset, has kindly sent a copy of this will. Dr. Crawford* was appointed Surgeon at Fort Pownal which was, at what is now Fort Point in the town of Stockton, he was also appointed Chaplain and officiated there for years in the brick chapel attached to the Fort. He was also a magistrate and as such married many people. He was born in Worcester, Mass. August, 1730. He married Mary Brewer of Weston, Mass. 1763. She was born Nov. 17, 1736, and was

sister of Col. Josiah Brewer and Col. John Brewer of Orrington, for the last of which the town of Brewer was named. After the death of her husband she moved to what is now Castine, where she died Feb. 21, 1836, aged nearly one hundred years an as others say by different dates at the age of 100 years and five months.

Dr. Crawford died at Fort Pownal, June 15, 1776. He was a notable character and said to have been a most worthy man. "In the Name of God I William Crawford of Fort Pownal being of sound mind and memory for which it is resonable that every one should be thankful do this eight day of March one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-five make and publish this my last Will and Testament in the manner following (viz) First I pray God that I may always be a fit subject for happiness in the world to Come.

I bequeath to my loving Wife Mary Crawford one Third part of my Estate during her life time.

Item that my Son James Crawford and Josiah Brewer Crawford have two shares or parts of my said Estate each and my Daughters Mary and Margaret have each one share or part upon an equal division with this reserve that if I should have other sons or Daughters that they come in the same manner and proportion as the others.

Debts, I owe none and funeral charges to be no more than decent. I order that a Small Tomb of Stone or brick may be erected in which I may be deposited, in such place as may then be Judged most Convenient. This I expect performed.

I appoint my Wife Mary Crawford Executrix and my Brother Josiah Brewer Execuctor of this my last Will and Testament.

This done in presence of us,

JOSEPH CHADWICK,

BENJ. SHUTE,

FRA'S ARCHIBald, Jr.

W. CRAWFORD, (Seal.)

Proved at Pownalborough, before Jonathan Bowman, Judge of Probate Court, 29, September, 1777.

Lincoln Probate Records, II, 53.”

* Ante volume page 144. See further of Dr. Crawford and his family.

ESTATES OF SOME EARLY SETTLERS OF BANGOR;

SMART, NEVERS, HATHORN, POTTER.

CAPT. THOMAS SMART,* came here in 1771,† and was one of the first permanent settlers. He was a man of great enterprise and his death in 1776 was a great loss to the settlement. I give a copy of his inventory, it being the first on record of any early inhabitant. The good sloop Abigail, was she the first vessel owned in the little settlement? The clothing of Capt. Smart was the clothing of a gentleman.

COL. PHINEAS NEVERS, Surgeon and officer in the Revolutionary War, came here after the war about 1782. He was really the first settled physician here. His daughter Hannah married Timothy Crosby, senior, and they were the parents of the late James Crosby, merchant of this city.

SILAS HATHORN§ original settler came here 1770-1. He and his brother Solomon built the first saw-mill here, on the Penjejawock. It has always been written that Major Robert Treat owned a part of this mill, but in the approval, Hathorn is called the sole owner. Possibly thie mill enumerated was not the original mill, but one built further up the stream near Hathorn's meadow, where there was a saw-mill within the recollection of the writer. In those days they built a saw-mill at little expense, three or four hundred dollars; they were built mostly of wood with but very little iron in them except the saw and the dogs.

JOSEPH POTTER, came here from Union River, and appears to have been a man of substance, perhaps the most so of any man in the town. His clothing was quite remarkable. His " part of a double saw-mill on the Condeskeag Stream." This in 1788, ante dates all other printed accounts of mills on the Kenduskeag. Was this mill where Morse's mills now are or at the Falls above, "opposite Lover's Leap where Judge Godfrey locates a mill later?

I am indebted to the continued kindness of William D. Patterson, Esquire of Wiscasset in copying and sending me these ancient records,

+ Ante volume 1 page 3.

Ante volume 2 page 161.

§ Ante volume 1 page 119, and volume 3 page 116.

THE INVENTORY OF CAPT. THOMAS SMART ESTATE, DECEAsed.

15th June, 1776. Elizabeth Smart, of Penobscot, widow, appointed administratrix of estate of Thomas Smart, late of Penobscot, yeoman.

To one Quarter pt. of a Sloop Called Abigail,

3-16ths of a Gundalo, 60 s.