The Somerset reporter., 1893-06-22
For the Reporter.
Early Settlers in Canaan.
No 30.


whether they ever lived together IT. a
family Is not known by me. 1ld eldest. is
| suppose, was susanna. who married .Jo-
scph .Jcwett and died Feb. &, ISL. aye
thirty-eight. Judging from theage of her
oldest child, | suppose she was married
about l795, or IA year or two later. All
i,eedful to be said about her is related in
the sketch of the .Jewett family. The
same applies to II sister. name not re
coliected) who married Joshua Jcwett.
Hannah Adams taught our school one
summer when | WAS eight or nine years
old. 1t was kept in the old Meeting
house, it being more central a> there
were no scholars in the southern part OF
the district. Many Il time She handed
me her pen knife and sent me out to cut
switches from the old willow trees of
which there was 4 line along the fence.
do not think she ever used them: if she
had should have remembered it,
Among the items in my fathers lnvento-
nv is Il note against Hannah Adams for
goods sold to her on credit. Within
few weeks after the school closed She
married II son of Oliver Wilson, and
went to Ohio, but afterward moved to
Michigan. His mother was Sarah
daughter of Peter Haywood Esq She
went west with them and died there.
Joseph C. Adams perhaps was older
than his sister. Susanna. His oldest
child was three or four years younger
than her oldest. The first knew of
him. he and his brother Isaac had sad
die and harness shop in the building
now occupied rs Lumdscn's grocery
store. He afterwards removed to Ban
La, ~ chntl fllnp,4 fbr fnt
In 1872 he obtained Il Captains commits
sion in the army, and took his family
back to Canaan where they lived in my
mothers old house during the whole
period of the war. BY the regulations
II Captain was allowed to have IA servant
and he enlisted his son about ten years
old for that position, and drew wages
for him though the boy remaiucd ut
home the whole time. He must have
had some influential friends, (among
Them Ada of the Eastern Argus, Il
distant relative) as through IL secret inilu-
ence he was never ordered to the Canada
lines. but was stationed ut Portl land for
IL time. While there he was arrested on
some charges, but by influence he got
clear of them. His last location was on
our eastern frontier ut Calais. | believe.
1t was said that while stationed there
for about year he never gave an order
to his company except to call on some
of the subalterns to take the command.
The Orderly Sergeant WAS JOHN White
Moore, man well known to elderly
people around Skowhcgan. Capt Ad-
ans accounts with the government were
never settled. After the close of the
war he lived for while on farm near
PishoD's Ferry. and then resumed his
former occupation in Bloomfield. Some
of his sons having settled in Missouri,
he removed there with his family. For
some reason unknown to me he left
them after few years and returned to
Bloomfield. He quartcred himself on
his niece Mrs. Hannah Steward, doing
some work as long rs he was able, and
remained there till his death. think
he must lavc been over so years old.
Mrs. Steward made claim on his sons
for expenses in his last sickness and
burial, and got Il promise of rcmuner;I-
ton, and that was all she ever did yet.
Mrs. Adams was from Boston. maid
en- name Priscilla Whipple. She was
as precise and formal in her speech as
would-be witty scribblers represent the
Boston girls of to-day to be. She would
send her son into my mothers with II
message dictated by herself, "Ma wishes
to know if Mrs. Weston purposes to do
this or that. 1t was always s'purposcS
and not ''intcnds" or "proposcs" and
it was always something she had right
to inquire about rs she had too good
manners to NEEDLE with what did not
concern her. She had to work hard.
her lot in life was not an easy one, but
her manners were always ladylikc.
The children. Eunicc, born in 1900.
was idiolic; she could speak quite plain,
and behave deccntly at tahle or else
where, but her thoughts were not co
hcrent, and she WAS too imbccile to be
sent to school. Size lived to be towards
twenty years old.
John, born in lsO2, was II moderately
good scholar, attended the Academy
long enough to get Il little Latin, was
clerk in store in Norridgcwock for
some time, next in n drug store in Water
willie. and then in the post office in
llallowell, giving all his spare time to
the study of medicine. lie graduated
from the medical school in Brunswick,
in 1926, and the same year married Mary
j. daughter of Dr. Amos Townsend,
of Norridgewock. They soon removed
to Missouri, and after IA few years sh"
left him and went with her only child
to Cincinnati it was said. know moth
ing further of either of them. 1t was
through his influence that the family
We're induced to follow him to the west.
Increase vas one of the firm of Adams
and HUMPHREYS, who had II store nearly
opposite Jas. B. Dascomb's.
WAYNE SETTLED in Illinois MI the OF hers
went to Missouri. bu, Increase remained
in his store two or three years after
the others left. William WAS Il house
carpenter Priscilla was the only
daughter.
Benjamin Adams. | don't know that
he ever lived in Canaan. He married Il
daughterof Richard Gilman of Norridge-
wock, who with his son Richard. run Il
coach from that town to lIalloWcll. and
carried the mail. nder Madison'S admin
istration none but a true blue democrat
could expect any laVors. In lSO9 Benz.
Adams got the contract for carrying
the mail over that route and aS far up
rs Arson believe. used To-
see him going by in his little one horse.
one seated gig or Sulky, with all the
mail in one bag. My uncle Eli was
post master fwhcrc Willis Curler now
lives holding on to the Office Il short
time while they could agree on his sue
cessor. 1t was Gen. Joseph Locke, who
held the Office many years, fifty perhaps.
Adams soon got tired of his position.
and nobody else wanting it, it was reStm-
ed by the Gilmans. When the wal
came on he got Il Captains commission,
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