"THE WILDERNESS SHALL BLOSSOM AS THE ROSE." Joshua Hathaway Esquire of Passadumkeag, on Saturday last presented us with a watermelon raised by him, two feet long and 10 inches (in diameter). The seed was planted June 8. -Bangor Register, Sept. 21, 1826. HAMPDEN FAMILIES. ABNER CROSBY, wife Dorcas i. SARAH, b. March, 1777. Children: ii. ABIGAIL, b. Jan. 28, 1779; pub., m. Joel Welch Feb. 27, iii. ELISHA, b. Jan. 1, 1781. 1802. iv. HEPSIBAH, b. Oct. 23, 1784; pub. Aaron Prouty Feb. 27, 1802. V. ABNER, b. Nov. 16, 1786. vi. BENJAMIN, b. Dec. 29, 1788. vii. WILLIAM, b. March 16, 1789. viii. DORCAS. b. April 2, 1792; pub. Robert Mann of Sunkhaize, Oct. 28, 1810, in Hampden. ix. LUCY. b. Jan. 14, 1794. EZEKIEL COBB, married Nancy Thompson, whose mother married James Brooks of Orrington. Children :-Elisha, Sally married-Jackson; William, Levi married-Higgins; Nancy married-Simpson; Ezekiel; Betsey married John Sullivan ; Sabina married Nathaniel Bartlett; Phebe married Christopher T. Atwood. Widow Nancy Cobb married second Shebna Swett of Orrington. JACOB CURTIS, born Nov. 15, 1775; married Caty Swan, Sunday June 16, 1799. She born April 15, 1780. Children: iii. JEREMIAH, b. Jan. 2, 1804, of "Curtis and Perkins." iv. THOMAS ROGERS, b. Aug. 29, 1806. HENRY DILLINGHAM, married Martha, daughter of Geo. Brooks of Orrington. (Widow married second Zebulon Young.) Children: AMOS DOANE, Hampden, 1784; married Mary Myrick; married Abigail Libby; he died 1842. i. ISAAC, m. Lettice Higgins and Caroline Snow; he d. Aug. 1, 1872. ii. DANIEL. iii. EDWARD. iv. AMOS. V. WILLIAM. vi. ELISHA, did he m. widow Rachel Brown; pub. Oct. 9, 1808. vii. LYDIA. ELIASHIB DELANO came and lived at the Corner. He was the first Town Clerk. He married Azubah Knowles (some say Dean,) published in Orrington, Aug. 8, 1793. i. H. KNOWLES, b. March 27, 1794. ii. PAUL DUDLEY, b. Dec. 26, 1795; m. Maria West. iii. SALLY PARKER, b. Feb. 4, 1798. iv. ELIASHIB Bonaparte, b. May 10, 1800. Children: V. JOHN, about the year 1825, while on a surveying expedition with Gen. Jedediah Herrick, he was lost in the woods. James Dudley, son of Samuel Dudley, seventh son, died in Hampden; married Children: i. Cheney. SYBIL, m. James Gorton. ii. ELIAS, of Hampden, m. Sarah, of Gen. John Crosby. Executive Councillor. Children: 1. Sarah, m. Barnabas Freeman of North Yarmouth. 2. Mary Godfrey, m. Samuel Child, shipmaster. iii. MARY, m. Charles Godfrey; removed to Taunton, Mass. iv. JAMES, shipmaster, died at sea, unmarried. v. PAMELIA, died young. vi. EDWARD, of Hampden, m. first Maria Crosby; second Catherine R. Dutton. vii. PAMELIA, died unmarried. viii. JOHN, of Hampden, m. Elizabeth L. Illsley of Falmouth. SIMEON GORTON, first settled in Orrington, then to Hampden; constable, deputy sheriff; a worthy man and Methodist. He died in Hampden Sept. or May 1828, aged 79. His will, Jan. 14, 1817, gave to his wife Catherine, daughter Priscilla Dennett, (?) James, Elizabeth Kendall, Wealthy Wheeler, Matilda Myrick, to son Simeon Rice good common learning, etc. Wife, Catharine; (she married second Deacon Jonathan Haskins, of Hampden, and died April 14, 1844, aged 79.) Children : |