wife Catherine; second wife Widow Catherine Gorton of Simeon. She died April 14, 1844, aged 79. iii. Jonathan, b. Chatham, Mass., Aug. 26, 1787; of Hampden; m. Margaret Crosby, May 23, 1816; moved to Bangor; merchant. He d. Jan. 28, 1840, aged 52. iv. ABIGAIL ATWATER, b. do. Nov. 13, 1789. V. AMELIA, b. do. Feb. 11, 1792. vi. RORERT RICE, b. do. March 18, 1794; d. in Bangor, Feb. 11, 1854; merchant. vii. BELINDA, b. do. March 22, 1796. viii. BUCHAN, b. do. Dec. 29, 1797; d. Bangor 1856? Merchant. ix. ADRESSY, b. Hampden, Oct. 18. 1799. Col. Adressy Hopkins died August 8, 1839, aged 39.-Bangor Records. x. ROMULUS, b. do. Sept. 29, 1801; d. Bangor, Oct. 8, 1862; merchant. ISAAC HOPKINS, brother to Nathan; from Brewster. First wife, Sarah; second wife, Rhoda. Children : ii. JOSIAH, b. Oct. 2, 1774. iii. ISAAC, b. Oct. 25, 1776. iv. SARAH, b. May 10, 1778. v. JOHN, b. May 10, 1781; Orrington and Bucksport. viii. CYNTHIA, b. March 8, 1788. ix. OLLA, b. May 4, 1790. x. (By second wife, Rhoda.) JOSIAH, b. Feb. 19, 1792. xi. RHODA, b. Oct. 17, 1794. xii. SOLOMON, b. July 14, 1796. xiii.JAMES, b. July 17, 1797. xiv. WASHINGTON, b. Dec. 20, 1799. xv. OLLA, b. Oct. 25, 1801. NATHAN HOPKINS, first constable and collector in Hampden. Wife, Desire. Children: i. SAMUEL, b. Aug. 27, 1785. iii. EBEN, b. May 8, 1789. [To be Continued in next number.] ERRORS AND ADDITIONS. Vol. IV, page 169.-Catherine Treat of Joshua, born March 4, 1758, not 1757. Vol. V, page 178.-For "Shelbune" read "Sherburne." Vol. VI, 66 66 66 6. 66 66 66 52.-Jonathan Buck, Jr., married Hannah Gale. "132.-Line 9 from bottom, "Bradley" not Brewer. "138.-The original Emery ancestors were Anthony of "141.-Capt. Noah Emery was a man of great executive “145.—Line 5, "Edward Bennett" not "Burnett.” 66 "145.-Line 10, Sylvanus Hanscomb. "148.-Line 2, Daniel Somes bought land. "156.-"Eunice" instead of "Emma" Hathorn. . 160.-Amos "Rider" not "Ridler." "163.-The members from Maine "are" not "am." PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH W. PORTER, Member of the Maine Historical Society, and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. IV. Settlers on the Waldo Patent in Frankfort, Islesborough and Lincolnville ..243 V. Hampden Families...... 245 Marriages and Publishments in Gouldsborough.. 248 The Bangor Historical Magazine, Established to gather Historical matter relating to Eastern Maine. To be issued monthly, at $2.00 per annum. Each number to contain 20 or more pages. JOSEPH W. PORTER, Bangor, Maine, Editor. Subscriptions and advertisements may be sent to B. A. BURR & Co., Printers Bangor, Me. [Entered at the Post Office at Bangor, Me., as second-class mail matter.] BANGOR HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. VOL. VI. A MONTHLY. BANGOR, ME., APRIL, 1891. No. 10. 'age. .185 .240 242 243 245 d GENEALOGY OF THE ORIGINAL SIMPSON FAMILY OF By John S. Emery of Boston, Mass. FIRST GENERATION. The first representative of this family in America was Henry 248 Simpson, who came from England sometime during the period between the years 1630 and 1640. He settled in what is now the town of York, Maine, then a portion of the Colony of Massachusetts. From the fact of the name of Simpson not appearing among the signers of the submission to Massachusetts, which was signed in 1652 by all the residents of that district, we conclude he must have died previous to that year, and that he had no children sufficiently old to sign it. We have no record of his children with the exception of one whose name was also Henry, and who we think was born about the year 1647, and died sometime during the year 1695. H SECOND GENERATION. HENRY SIMPSON, son of Henry (1st), born about the year 1647, and died in 1695. Children were: See additions to this article by the the Editor of this Magazine. |