Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-09-13

barn, outbuildings, orchard and Guilt
vated field stretching from the road down
nearly to the shore Of Blue Hill bay.
II was occupied by Simeon Carter and fam
| lily and said to have been built by man
named Friend, probably Daniel, after the
death of John Roundyis widow in 1920.
Simeon Carter was the son OF Henry and
Lydia (Candage) Carter, born December
u, $500; married Joan Carter, of Sedg-
wick. Their children were:
1. Tryphena, born May q, 1927.
O. Rosetta, born February 10, 1929.
g. Edward, born March 8, 1881.
| 4. Joan, born January 8, 1885.
| Simeon Carter aud his wife Joan, both
| died as per record in 1858, and his farm
was sold to William Candage and by him
to Samuel Stillman Candage, his brother,
who built new house few rods south OF
the old one which was then taken down.
Mr.. Candage died in February, 1905, and
the estate is still held by his heirs.
The history of John Roundy, ST., his
connection with the settlement and affairs
of the town from 1852 to 1893, the date of
his death, have so often been narrated
that further mention of him here would
seem to be superfiuous
Jonathan Day in 1869 was sin Quiet and
Peaceable Possession and Enjoyment of
Lot two" adjoining that of John Roundy,
sr. He was born in 1744; came from Bev-
erly, Mass. to Blue Hill in 1855; he died
May 20, 1907, aged GO years. He and his
wife Elizabeth were original members of
the first church gathered at Blue Hill in
1772. Their children were:
1. Ebenezer, born May 10, 1776; died
December IS, 1875.
2. Jonathan, born July 5, ITS; died
Nov. II, 1881.
g. Sally, born Dec. 81, 1881; died Au-
gust 9, 1908.
4. Diadomia, born April IA, 1884; died.
s. Betsey, born April IA, 1887; died Sept.
%, 1888.
Sally, in attempting to cross above the
"Fore Falls" in a boat she was managing
| alone, was swept out over the Falls, and
drowned August 9, 1908. Betsey, was
| member OF the writer's fathers family
and children's nurse at the time of her
DEATH Hers was the first corpse the writer
ever saw, and his childish grief and sor-
| row can we'll be imagined as he looked
| upon the oead face of his loved Betty,
| as she was called, and saw her body taken
| from the house and conveyed away to the
| burying ground upon the Neck, where it
| has quietly reposed for seventy-twc years
| since that event.
Widow Elizabeth Day, married for
| secon nd husband, Jonathan Crabb; he died
July q, 1921, aged 50 years; there is no
other record OF him found at this writing.
His widow, Elizabeth, died March %,
1923, aged SO years, the record states, but
| judging from the birth of her children
she must have been Older.
| Upon the Jonathan Day lot, stood in the
boyhood of the writer, and still stands,
the house built by Benjamin Friend,
in the early part of 1900. MIR. Friends
wife was Martha BARTLETT; they were
| handsome couple, fresh compilations with
rosy cheeks, and quiet in demeanor. He
! was the son OF Benjamin Friend, ST., born
| August 81, 1855, and died October 3, 1862,
aged n years. He had no children and at
| the death of himself and wife the place
was sold to Joseph Carter, from him to
| his son Joseph, and at this date, 1905, is
| owned by Arthur Johnson. The house is
old and going to decay, but is we'll
known landmark on the Neck.
| Next south of this lot are lots No. 304
| allotted to James Candage, ST., in 1863. On
No. 8 stood until about 60 years ago a
| house said to have been once owned by
Ebenezer Day, but owned and occupied in
its later years by Mr.. Isaac Carter. That
house was on the east side of the road,
while on the west side stood a small house
in which lived Betty Gooding, whose
mother was Charity (Roundy) Gooding,
| who married John Candage for a second
| husband, whose children, Phoebe and
Ruth, were Betty's half sisters.
The next house on the south was that of
Joseph Candage, sr., which at his death
| became the property OF his son Sands, then
went to Frank, son of Sands, who tore
down the old house and built the one now
standing there which he occupies at this
| date.
| Upon the east side of the road was to
be seen the cellar to the house built by
James Candage, sr. on lot No. 4, in which
he lived at the time of his death in 17SS,
and where his son James lived until his
removal to the Falls or Tide-Mill district
some years later. At this time it is diff
| cult to follow the boundaries of these
| lots, as they have been sold and subdi
! vided among other owners.
The old line ON the north, however,
which divided the Jonathan Day and Can
dage lot, remains pretty nearly, if not
exactly, as originally laid out.
| Many years ago Mr.. Isaac Carter and
| Mr.. Benjamin Friend had dispute about
that line, and each had built line fence
where he thought the line was, leaving
| neither would own.