Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-11-29

iather Atef owned tine property.
Israel Wood was born in Beverly, Oct.
"a, iT44, and came with his fathers family
to the town in 1863. He married Phebe
Holt, daughter of Nicholas Holt, Sept. "a,
1853; she was born Feb. 8, 1852; died Feb.
IL, 1881; he died Nov. 10, 1900. Their chill
| dren were:
|. Phebe, born April q, I77o; married
Phineas Pillsbury, Oct. 81, 1888.
2. Anne, born April s, 1772; died Dec.
/ 10, 1T76.
3. Lois, born Feb. 8, f775; married Ezra
Parker Dee. q, 1871.
| 4. Anne, born Dec. "a, 17T8.
5. Ruth, born Nov. 8, IT'D; married
James Savage March Z, 1911.
| 8. Israel, born July 20, 1882; married LIST
Joanna Parker; End Betsey Briggs Hatch.
Z. Joseph, born April /, 17s5; married
LIST Hannah johnson; End Joanna
Hinekley.
! s. Hannah, born Jan. q, 1888; married
Capt. Isaac Perry, OF orland, Nov. IS, 1915
/ 8. Samuel Holt, born July 10, 1871; died
May 2, 1925.
When the old house opposite the school,
house was taken down, there is no evil
dence at hand to determine.
The Edward Sinclair place with the
house now standing thereon was next to
| the place just described. Edward Sinclair
was born June 20, 1850, supposed at
| Beverly, where he died while on visit
May 10, 1927, aged sixty-seven years. He
married Dec. II, 1859, Mary Carleton, from
| Andover, q sister OF David, Dudley,
! Edward and Moses Carleton. She was
born Sept. II, 1850, and died Jan. /, 1871,
aged so years and u months. The writer
remembers her well, and sat mp with her
body after her death, in company with
| John Chateau, us was the custom of those
| days.
The Sinclair farm ON the lower side of
the road lay between the Cove and that of
| Marble Parker, and was bounded on the
other side by land OF Samuel r. Candage,
| the curve of the road, and land of Capt.
Samuel Wood running over Oak hill to a
wood lot and sheep pasture containing a
hundred acres or more.
| The house, large square mansion of
two stories, painted yellow, and with q
| square roof, was fitted for two families
Mrs. Sinclair, Maria and Dudley, her chill
| dren, occupying one-half, aud Capt.
| Edward, another son, and his family, the
| opposite half, each having side and back
/ door, while in font was ne door leading
| into the front hall and from that through
doors either way to the separate apart
ments, with broad stairs to the upper
chambers. /. was the ideal house, in the
mind OF the writer in boyhood.
| The fam ~ OF Edward Sinclair, ST.,
| beside himself and wife already described,
consisted OF slse following children, viz:
! 7. Maria, born April "A, 1891; never
married, dlsd.
II. Edward, born Dec. ID, 1872; married
Elizabeth Haskell July ), 1873.
Ill. Nebby, born Oct. -, 1874; married
Asa Clough, ir., Aug. /, 1871; she died Dec.
3, 1927.
~. Dudley, born August II, 1876; never
narried; died at Rockland, Me.
| V. Ebenezer, born March I, 1913; never
/ married was a sailor, and died in Cuba OF
/ yellow fever.
| VI. william, born June is, 1901; ship
captain; married in New York city; had
children; died, no date.
| As the family record OF Edward Sinclair
is not found at Blue Hill, it would suggest
that his children were born elsewhere.
| ar. Sinclair's name is not found until
! 1Sl5,nlthough he may have been in town
before that date. The mansion house was
probably built few years prior to his
death in 1877.
Edward Sinclair, his second child, born
Dec. 1s, 1872, married July 5, 1925, Eliza
( beth Haskell, born in Beverly, Mass,
/ April 20, 1900. Edward Sinclair, jr., was
sea captain in his younger days, and later
removed to Aroostook county with his
family, where. he died.
/ In the youth of the writer he resided in
T half of his mothers house (his father
( being dcad) where his children were born.
, The other half WIS occupied by his
mother, mis- sister Maria and brother
+ Dudley, who carried ON the farm. In
T that half the carpenters and workmen
upon vessels built by the Sinclair's were
{ boarded and lodged.
" men the bark Virginia was being
built, "A Col. Haskell, from Gloucester,
Mass, was this blacksmith that fitted her
iroawork. He was a good workman,
bachelor, but fond OF glass of grog. The
vessel was launched on the Fourth of July,
SO the Colonel. being patriotic, celebrated
in the manner OF those days, and took as
much grog as he could carry to the house
conveniently, and seated himself at the
dinner table.
The grog he had taken began its work
and he innanincd he ,Xas yratchinn the