The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-02-08


letter, at his office, "a Temple Place, Boston,
and every communication is absolutely conti,l
ter and his family consisted Of his wife, tN 0
sons and a daughter They were Friends
/ One son and the daughter ASA aud LYDIA
have lived many years in Pennsylvania.
James succeeded his father on the farm,
where he died few years age James
and his wife (@ho survives him) Were
prominent Friends.
| Tie well known Watson place, situated
directly opposite the last mentioned place,
wild state about a hundred years ago He
/ built the present substantial house Mr..
/ and Mrs Watson We're strict economists.
| For several years they kept q small gener-
al store in one apartment of the house,
and like other places of business in those
times liquor constituted legitimate part
of the stock i'll trade. Their family con-
sisted of four sons and one daughter. Mr.
and Mrs. Watson gave their children a
fair start in the way of education, consid-
ering the advantages of the times which,
through better facilities and their own
exertions, later enabled them to enter bus
mess and professional life. One of the
fast early in the forties, became i'll and
came home. On his arrival his parents
We're shocked when informed that it was
case of small pox. There Was the least
I possible delay in starting the patient on
the return nip 10 Belfast by he same con-
Veyance Inch had brought him, Then a
man who was supposed TO be proof
against the infection was employed to dis
infect the room in which the son had
made his bret visit
/ Charles was engaged in trade Inany
years in Troy, where be died Albert was
well known lawyer, pIacticing in Unity
many Years, and whore he died a few wears
ago. James was physician, and accord
ing to the latest reports was living at an
advanced age in a western State Emily,
the sister, was engaged many years in bus
mess in distant part Of tile State, where
she died some years ago. Granville, the
youngest OF the family, is better known to
present residents, having lived until re-
cent years at the old homestead.
! The farm now owned by H. NJ. Small
was first settled on by Elisha Morton in
one of the early years. Mr. Morton, it
seems, made an improvement on his neigh
bors' log houses by building squared tim
Der house. great part of his life he was
afflicted with blindness. MIR. and Mrs.
bers of the Free Baptist church The for
mer was deacon in that church. They
had a large family of children. MANY
| years later, Issachar Small, father of the
present owner, bought the place and
erected the present house. He also had
large family. Mr.. Small was deacon in
the Congregational church
The first clearing made on the vel known
D. B. Flint farm was done by Ezra Hanson
a hundred years or more ago He was
one of the first Friends to come to the
wilderness. He huilt a log house, the
site of which may be seen from the road,
at the remote part of the farm surrounded
by an old orchard
| Later Ephraim Jones bought the place
and built the present house. MI Jones
and family We're prominent and active
members of the Congregational church.
Mr.. Jones was succeeded on the farm bv
John Small, who married one of the
daughters Robert Hanson, who is one
Friends, owns the farm-now vacated-on
which Samuel Whitney began to clear the
forest about a hundred years ago. After
| remaining for several years, and clearing
the land, he sold it to Abram Hall, entered
the ministry and became preacher in the
Free Baptist church. Mr.. Hall had a
| large family. In the thirties Mark, one
of the sons, came into possession of the
property and built the present two stored
house. In 1887 he was elected captain of
the Independent Light Infantry Company,
/ organized in the town at that time, (my
| informant was member of that COM
pany.) Captain Hall was soon after elected
major in the regular militia, and subse-
| quently promoted to colonel. He is des-
cribed as man of military bearing, and
popular officer. In the forties Wat.
Jones bought the place, remaining few
years, when the present owner came into
possession.