Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-12-13

-A~'S"hf usuButer Oi DAVID carter, OF
Long Island, Nov. 9, is2s; she was born
Jan. /, 1906 died Dec. 8, 1878; he died Jan. |
q, 1884, upwards of eighty years of age.
Capt. Dodge commanded vessels in the !
coasting trade, was a smart coasting
skipper, fond of joke, good story
teller, good mimic, fond of company and
a companiouable man. One OF the writ
er's first trips coasting was with him in
schooner he commanded named 'sPassa-
maquoddyh. He had seven children, as
follows;
l. Ezra N, born July 30, 1892; died
Sept. 20, 1897.
2. Nancy L., born April 9, 1884.
3. Caroline j. c., born Feb "a, 1887.
4. Sarah Ann, born Oct. 10, 1910.
s. Ezra NJ, born Dec. %, 1913; died July
IA, 1874.
8. Susan NJ, born Oct. 15, 1915; died
Oct. Is, 1859.
Z Edwin b., born June %, 1850.
He also had an adopted son, Otis Gay,
Legitimate son of Otis Gay, of Castine;
fine fellow, schoolmate of the writer,
| also his shipmste in schooner "Passama-
quoddy', in ship ''Java" from New York
to Charleston, s. c., and from that port to
Liverpool, and back to New Orleans in
| ship "Iowa" and at the latter port died of
| cholera in the spring of 1919, after an ILL.,
| ness OF less than two days. The writer
| communicated the intelligence of his
| death to Capt. Dodge, and mourned his
death as that of brother. The
| srISsoN OR GEORGE ROBERTSON PLACE
| lay quite distance back OF the place last
named. 1t is said that Mr.. Stinson, who
| came from Deer Isle, built the house; at
any rate he lived there in the childhood Of
| the writer, worked upon the farm OF the
writer's father sometimes, and gave the
nick name of ssTag and Yell'' to the writer
because he wanted to tag after the work
| men into the field, and cried II not per-
mitted to do so. What became OF Mr..
Stinson and family there is neither record
nor tradition known to the writer to de-
| termins.
| After Mr.. Stinson left the place, ii was
occupied by George Robertson, who mar
ried Sophia, daughter of Marble Parker,
Oct s, 1893. George Robertson was the
son of Robert Robertson; he was sailor
and farmer am had the following chill
dren:
| 1. Marble Parker, born March II, 1891;
| he was foremost hand with the writer in
brig Equator, Blue Hill to Boston and
to Valparaiso in 1859 1; then went to
California, where be died Nov. 30, 1853.
| 2. George Henry, born Dec. s, 1896; died
March II, 1858.
3. Geneva Sophia, born Jan. /, 1888.
| 4. William Harrison, born Feb. y, 1910.
| 5. John Alien, born August 4, 1912.
| 6. Charles Colburn, born Oct. 8, 1874.
| Z. Almira Lovejoy, born Nov. l, 1si7.
| S. Augustus, born Jan. 7, 1919; died
Jan. I, 1919.
| 8. Augustine, born Jan. Z, 1919; died
Jan. 0, isie.
10. Eiivira Parker, born Feb. "a, 1850;
died Oct. 2, 1851.
II. Elvirs Parker, born April Is, 1857.
| The Robertson family removed from this
place to the village, and whether the old
house is now standing the writer does not
| know, hut presumes il Is not. Mr.. Rob-
l FrtSpH was " UlriubtT hHd hGhNVti VI Nhc
| Blue Hill Baptist church at the time of his
| death. He lived to be over eighty, his
wife dying before he did.
THE ISRAEL WOOD PLACE
| is the next to be described, which was
| upon the main road, the house occupying
an acre on the west side and the rest of
| the farm lying upon the other and stretch
A t..rx . h. hos hat a nds nf a
Clough, ST., and of Samuel Wood.
| Israel Wood was son OF Israel and
grandson OF Joseph the first settler. He
| was born July 20, 1852; married Joanna
| Parker, daughter of Peter and Phebe
| (Marble) Parker, May 2, 1905, born May 8,
1874; died March 4, 1870. They had two
children, Edwin and Israel, before men,
toned.
| Mr. Wood married for second wife
| Betsey Briggs Hatch, OF marlborough,
Sept. 3, 1922, by whom he had children as
| follows:
/. Lois Parker, born June IL, 1924;
married Charles Trueworgy, and moved to
Ellsworth.
2. Joan Elizabeth, born Sept. IL, 1925.
Israel Wood died in 1881, and his widow
married for "a second husband Benjamin
Herrick.
After the death of Mr.. Wood and mar
riage OF his widow, the place was sold to
Isaac Parker, End, who married Abigail
Marshall Powers, sister to Mrs. Simeon p.
Wood, and of the wife of his BROTHER,
Augustus g. Parker, Feb. 10, 1875, and set
up housekeeping in the Israel Wood house,
built about 1900, and still standing at this
writing. Isaac Parker, End, was born July
30, 1905, and died June II, 1874. He had
eight children as follows;
/. Harriet Melinda, born Jan. 9, 1885;
married Joseph Allen.
2. William Jasper, born Sept. II, 1887;
died at Portland May Is, 1859.
8. Mary Augusta, born Nov. y, 1888.
4. Dorothy Abby, born Dec. 6, 1912.