Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-11-16
Another Revolutionary Veteran Go

Spirit, thy labor i, o'cr,
Thy term Of mortality run,
Thy steps are now bound for the untrodden
shore,
And the race Of immostals begun.
Ma. sA~usls. Il DDocEsl d this j,ovn
depstted thu life Nov. 5th, 1855, 1t the
residence Of his son, Oliver Maddocks,
ESQ. Mr.. Maddocks was born in Ken.
nebu nk Of this State, December ll,h,
l762. from which place he came 10 the
town Of 1nnklin, Hancock county. then
hog Bay when. he wss nine years old.
He subsequently, sessrnsd 70 Keaaebunk
aud at the age Of sixteen he enlisted in
the Massachusetts, Line Of Volsnteers for
three months. served his time and enlisted
Tor another term and was again honorably
discharged. At the age Of eighteen we
find him enlisted in tive Continental army
for the war. IN which he served until
peace was declared in 1888 when he was
discharged st Yves, Point, receiving for
his pay Continental money Of which
hundreds Of doaass' would not bay sup
per.
M Maddocks sprung from long lived
ancestry, endowed by nature with an in
domiiab!e courage and will. The heigh,
Of bis ambition was 10 overcome his en-.
envy. whether Of body or hind, especial.
y when he felt that he was right; conse.
quen,ly he could min2le in the carnage
Of the battle field. in which he took an
active part. being in three pitched battle.
and very ssany shirmishes during the
Revolutionary struggle for freedom
A: the close of the war he returned to
Kennebunk where he married. in lisa
Miss Polly Day. with whom he emigra,et
10 this town, then Union River, where
his father had moved some two years be-
lore. Union River then being wilder
nes1 possessed BY Indians, Bears. Dee
and Moose. Mr. Maddoexs had by hi,
6rsi wife nine children, when she diet
in 1915. In 1916 he married his secont
wife, Mss Rebecca Clements Of Bucks
port, BY whom he had three chilcren.-
lie lived to bury six Of his former an.
one Of his latter child,en. together will
his wife, and also 10 see his fifth genera
tien.
Mr.. Maddocks took grea, in,eres, i,
the politics IF the country. always ,
strong Democrat Of the jef5ersonia,
school. .preiadiced strongly in favor o
m'li,sry men; consequently be was a.
ardent supporter Of Washington. Jackso,
and Taylor. Taylor receiving the las, vo,.
which he ever cast. Mr.. Madiocks, i
he did not live . devous Christian, was
nevertheless. kind and indulgen, ca.her
ye. 6sm. and good neishbor. He died a.
he lived without connection with any Wis
able church. looking forward with prayer
full solicitude 20 the time when he shout.
shuttle of this mortal form and he reju
! venated in an eternal perennial life. 1
was his delight to recount the scenes o
| the Revolution, aud, when his head hat
blossomed with eighty winters be s.oot
straight and erect while he went through
the manual exercise Of his youthful days
HIS last days were affective, in tina, h
lost his sight some six yeas before h
died; ds'ubs'ess oecasioned BY reading,
in which he spent most a bis time .fie,
he was seventy yeats cd. Ye, he bore
up under this affection with los.i,ude and
patience whxh ,semsd 70 sequne TIE ex.
periencs Of . devou, christian life. He
had often prayed that he might soon b
freed from this cumbersome body. HI,
las, days wen, out quietly. He died
wi.hou, struggle or q sroan, retaining
his senses TO the latest moment. On
Monday, November 9th, 1856, aged 81