Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1874-09-29
The .Segar Family.

On the Zftn oil July, 1000, TUG Boou oHiP
"SpeedweIl" arrived in Boston, having
on board number of immigrants who
had come from the mother country to
make for themselves homes in the Prov
incc OF Massachusetts, Bay. Among the
number was youth only eight years oil
age. called in the list Of passengers
Henry SEEKER" No records that have
been able TO find give any account OF his
birth or pat entage. aud the reason why a
mere child should come TO America at
that early day, unaccompanied by his
parents, is one of the secrets which after
the lapse of two hundred years cannot
well be unrnvelcd. lie went to Newtun
Mass, and when next we hear OF him
when he had grown up To manhood. as
was often the case in colonial days, his
name had undergone a slight change, the
having teen soilened TO 9.
Henry Segar was married in April l61
to Sarah Bishop, of Newton, aud their
children were ~ follows:
job, born Feb. /, 1914. died young
Sarah, March >, 1876; Margaret, Aug
%. 1917; Ebenezer, May ?, 1879; Eliza
beth. Jan IS. 1862; Henry. Sept. %.
1886 Mary Jan. 81, 1859; JoB.-- 1921
Mercy, - -; Thankful, April 2i,
1865. Margaret married an Elliott
Mercy married Robinson; Ebcnezer
was killed by the Indians ut Grolon IN
1906; Henry married in 1902 and lived
in Newton, where nc reared family
Jon, the youngest son of Henry Senior,
was married in April 1909 to Mary -,
and the following are their children;
EDcnozcr, born Feb. 81. ITO; Sarah,
Aug. %, III; JOSIAH, july 90, l7l3i
rabitha. Dec. IL. 17l6; Elizabeth. 17l9.
OF this family Ebenezer married Ruth
Burrage. aud reared large family. -
Henry also married aud raised up r fan-
ily in Newton; Elizabeth married Thos.
Truesdae. and Tabitha married John
Child. The father died April %, 1899,
aged 65. Ills widow died six years after
JOSIAH Seger, glazier, married Thank
ful Allen in Aug. 1893. Children:
Tabitha. born Dec. Is. l73S Elizabeth
Dec. 20, l740; job. Feb. %. l743; 10
siah. Oct. IL, l745; NATHANIEL. Jan. 2S
1850; Lucy, Dec. IL, 1852; Edmund,
June IL, 1853. OF this family, Tabitha
married Zebediah Pratt OF Needham Ed
mund was soldier in the war of the
evolution, and died at Albany, n. Y, il
l777.
Nathaniel came 10 Sudbury Canada,
(BelheD Maine. in the Spring of IVA,
and worked here through the Summer
and returned to Newton in the Autumn
lie intended to come again the following
Spring and make him home in this will
derness. but the war Of the Revolution
came on and he enlisted. In 1873. having
been discharged Tor disability. he accom-
plished his long delayed purpose an,
came to Bethel accompanied by others
and commenced clearing for home
The story OF his capture and captivity
among the Indians, OF his Imprisonment
in Canada. and Of his subsequent lii,
struggles after he returned to Bethel
have been handed down to US in narra
tive written and published by himself
half century ago. We are not prepare,
to say whether or not he was the frs
settler in Bethel. bat hr was certainly on,
of the fist. lie married Mary. daughter
Of Benz. Russell, Esq, OF Bethel, an'
reared large family. though but few %
his postcrity now remain in Maine. The
following list Of his children we believe t'
be correct, so iar rs i. goes. but somcwha
imperfect:
Allen married Lucy Howard; Edmund
Betsey Powers; Nathan and Russell weu
10 Ohio; John married II Graham anC
lives in Rumford; Nathaniel went West
PAMELA married Samuel Lulkin oil Rum
lord; Polly married Daniel Estes of Beth
el; Lucy, Ichabod Norton OF Norridse
wock Submit died young. Apphia mar
ried james Goodwin OF ELnlord, anC
Abigail or "Nab5y," mar:ied Cap. vii
liam Barker of llanovec.
The name is still spelled Segcr by mos
of the descenda ITS, though in the narrtiv'
above reieIred to, it is spelled Segar.
The old Segar farm in Hanover, is now
occupied by Capt. William Barker. whit
also married one of Nathaniel Segar':
daughters. MIR. Barker is nearly 81
years of age. and is tho son ot the frs
settler of Newry. INDEX.
Augusta, Sept. 90, 1914.
The Death of Young Needhd,n.