The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-23

ulstrlct, and pay no taxes for the same, |
winch SAID MIR. Browne utterly refuses
to DO, because he is settled minister in
falmouth. We, your Petitioners, Hum
bly, pay your Exeelleney's and Honor's
Directions whether sd. Mr.. Browne shall
be Taxed for said Farm or not. And
Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall
ever pray. DAVID STROUT,
THOMAS SIMONTON,
BENJAMIN JORDAN,
Cape Elizabeth, Sep. %, 1771.
The page referred to shows that he was
taxed for two horses, four oxen, eighteen
COWS. seventy sheep and goats, two hun
bred acres of pasturage, four acres of
tillage, one hundred acres of English
and upland moving. forty acres of fresh
meadow, producing ffty-two tons of
English and twenty-eight tons of meadow
hay. 1.-THE annual worth of the farm after
deducting necessary repairs is eS5. 3d."
And this alluded to what is now the
State Reform School farm, then contain
ing 400 acres of land.
May %, 1888, there was gathering of
the ministers in the vicinity at the resi-
dence Of Rev. Mr.. Browne, an organiza-
tion formed which has been continued
In an unbroken manner ever since, and
now known by the name of Cum berland
Association of Congregational Minis
tiers.
There were present Ephraim Clark of
Cape Elizabeth, aged Go; Thomas
Browne, IS; Samuel Dean, SIS; Ebenezer
Williams, So; Tristram Gilman, So; Ben
jamin Chadwick, 40; Thomas Lancaster,
A.; and Caleb Jewett, 35. All were grad
yates Of Harvard except Clark. At the
third meeting of that year it was voted
to petition the General Court for the es-
Establishment and endowment of college
In Cumberland county and although
Bowdoin College was not incorporated
until six years later, inasmuch as the
first meeting for the organization of the
Cum berland Association was held at the
residence of Rev. Mr.. Browne and he be-
came the first vice president of the Col
lege Association. he was the originator
OF the movement that produced both.
Rev. Mr.. Browne was the father of five
children, but / am unable to arrange
them in order as to age. Abigail married
Maj. Hugh Mcclellan, March 23, 1888, and
had nine children. He built the fine old
house standing northeasterly, corner of
Spring and High streets. Chas. Fox
married the eldest daughter March "a,
1905, and Horatio Southgate, ESQ.,, the
second Nov.1, 1906. Elizabeth married
Archibald Lewis, ESQ.,, Sep. IS, 1871.
Thy resided at sitroudwater in the house
where the postoffice is now kept. Lewis
had three wives, and she was the second.
Thomas was born March g. 1862, and
resided first in the large old house, now
closed, corner of Park and Congress
street.
William was born March 1, 1779, mar
ried Moves, 1905 Octavia Southgate.
sister to Horatio. They resided first on
the site of the State street Catholic
church. A son of his was a graduate of
Bowdoin, and Bishop Southgate married
daughter. Rebecca, the youngest child
married Capt. John L.Lewis Dec, 10,
1904; she died two years later, leaving
son. They lived on Congress street,
northerly side, just above Park, in a
house now standing Thomas and Will
liam died in the old house standing on the
southerly side of Middle street near the
foot, that stands end to the street, and
is still owned by descendants OF the
name. They fill unmarked graves.
A photograph copy of William, OBJ
tanned in the State of Virginia, is in my
possession, as well as that of his son.
who graduated from Bowdoin very
young, which | obtained in the State
of Texas. where he died.
When the war of the Rebellion broke
out William had another son assisting in
editing daily in the State of Ken
tucky, and a grandson who left West
Point, where he was student and was
killed while leading charge of Com
federate regiment. Another grandson is
now Catholic priest in the State of
Maryland. L.B.C.