The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1890-09-25

lhnk * the first written "a stimouY. |
jump over the stump and say wherever
lDhn appears in this .fafy, read Asa.
Peter Haywood had q brother John and
this boy John may have been nephew.
1t seems that Peter Haywood gave
whst's now .he Leighton farm to Isaac
Smith who married his daughter Hannah,
in consideration of support for himself
and wife during their lives. A larger
part of his land fell to his son Peter, who
gave it to Abraham Wyman, Who married
his daughter Betsey, In consideration Of
support for himself and wife. This would
seem to be an unequal division, but per.
haps 1t was In accordance with the old
law of custom which gave the oldest son
a double share. What was Sarah's por-
ton | cannot tell. That part Of the Leigh
ton farm that lies across the road came
into the possession OF man By the name
Of Piper before Esq. Ieywood's death.
His youngest sister Lucy married Jona-
than Piper In 1875 Edward Piper w.s
| Deputy Sheriff and a few years later John
Piper appears. My father bought the
tract, about Is IA acres and it continued
IN the family more than 20 years after his
death, and was always called the Piper
| place. There was cellar and traces of
house and barn, also a well where We
got water when we were there cutting
| hay, wonder II the well Is there yet.
In referring to the Inventory of my ia.
TIERS estate. find 1.-THE Piper place and
| buildings valued at S20e, the highest
price of any of his several tracts, except
the home farm. The buildings must have
| been sold and moved off after this.
| Peter Haywood died April 3. 1903 and
was buried in the old grave yard; the lot
which he conveyed to the town nearly
twenty years before.
Isaac Smith being one of the first party
that came to Canaan mnst have the next
notice. He grew up to be hardy, rather
rough, bold hunter, and faithful work
er for Esq. Haywood who initiated the
old farmer in the Song of the Farmers
Boy that | used to hear Dir. S. A. Pat
tens sister sing so often, "lIe gave the
lad the farm he had and his daughter for
a BRIDE The story was told that the
wedding WAS In this wise. 1t was in
winter and Isaac was hauling wood with
an OK team. He came to the house with
a load and was called in to be married
he stood up holding his goad stick by the
little end in his left hand, the butt resting
on the tloor and when the ceremony was
over he started for the woods for smother
load.
They had a numerous family, and
will give the marriages here that 1t may
be seen how wide aud lntermiugled the
relationships are
Abrsham, married Mehitabel Pollard |
Rhoda, Kendall Pollard; Asa, Jane Cow
en-; Isaac, Mary Hight; Elijah, Abigail
Lambert; Polly, Daniel Lambert; John, |
Mary Mitchell Sarah, Samuel Lang; vii |
liam, Mary Hilton.
Three children died young, unmarried |
Five or six years after Esq. Heywoot's |
death Smith sold the farm to Nath. Shaw
and moved to Palmyra. His wife died |
May II, 1911. He had second wife
Whitman, and had a son Everett who liv-
ed in Portland. and n daughter who died |
in Skowhegan. lie died in llartland |
March y, 1880; was bern in Sudbury |
near Concord, one record says June l7j2, |
another says l75G. His father, William
Smith was killed at Ticonderoga in the
old French war.
His mother remarked and moved to |
Boston with her daughter, but Isaac pre-
ferred y life in the wild woods. OF |
course the widow Haywood went to
Palmyra with her sou-u Law, Hanson says
She recovered her youthful sight after
sf,e-' was ninety, dni' tAhst she sssY9S'. -
nearly one hundred. | have communicate |
ed with three of her great grandchildren, .
one of them Joseph Suith. the Greenback |
candidate for Governor some years ago
and neither from them nor from her sons |
family record can learn the time of her
Jecease.
Oliver Wilson-He married Sarah Hey |
wood. When he or his wife died | have
been unable to hud ont, or how msny
children they had. One, | believe. Has
odst minister of Bingham. Hannah
Adams, sister of Ben Adams, who was
the first Sheriff Of Somerset after Maine .
became a State kept our district school,
about 1909 or 10, and it was understood .
that ss soon as the term closed she was
to marry son of Oliver Wilson, and |
start for Ohio. | knew one of their
daughters in Illinois 20 years ago. Her
father had removed to Michigan. | was
not interested in family histories then,
and now she has gone to California.
Oliver Wilson married Sarah Haywood .
Nov. II, l713, only one year after Esq. .
Haywood came to Canaan. 1t is probable
he was an old Concord acquaintance and
came to Canaan with the family. In the
summer and fall of l77i, jos. Weston had
an account against him, for tailoring,
store goods, work Of Joseph ono day, OF
Samuel four days and John three days dig
ging potatoes, also for use Of CNtn. Al
ter this time he moved to Starks. II any
one can tell anything more of this family
please report
EnEN Wr~IoT.