Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-11-08

From the window of the room
in which the writer first gave his cry of
life, one looked out upon the field once
owned by Nicholas Holt, beyond which
was the mill pond, the tide mills and the
island on which his great grandfather,
John Roundy, and Joseph Wood landed
April 7, 1862, built their two log houses
and began the settlement OF the town.
From that window one could see the
the waters of the bay, Long Island, New
bury Neck, the hills OF Mt. Desert and of
Schoodic, and the white sails OF vessels
passing and repassing on the bosom OF the
bay-a sight once seen ever after to be
remembered. Around this place and
about it cluster the earlier historical
events connected with the town. The
first town meeting, the gathering of the
first church, the building of the first
houses, the first mills, the opening OF the
first store and the first tavern or public
house, the first marriage, and probably
the first birth of a white child, and the
first death and funeral in the settlement.
In this same house lived Nathan Ellis,
brother OF Jonathan, and in it was born
his son Vaspasian, Jan. II, 1902, whose
mother was Mary Bass, who died April
10, 1904. Jonathan Ellis was born in
Bellingham June, 1774, married Susannah
Parker, Sept. IL, 1875, daughter of Peter
Parker, ST.; she was born June q, 1772;
died August II, 1903; her husband died
Dec. %, 1906. Children were:
1. Jonathan, born Dec IS, 1896; died
August n, 1915.
2. Charles, born Nov. 10, 1897; died in
Cambridge, Mass, March 9, 1873.
3. Almira, born April B, 1901; died in
Searsport, Me-, April IL, 1884.
Amos Hill, born July IL. 1903; died in
Searsport, Me.
The family OF Nathan Ellis, their his
tory, etc, belong to the village section OF
the town, to which they removed probably
before 1872. The lot OF land owned
originally by the Ellis family, and which
belonged with the house was very small.
Whether any one occupied the house be-
tween the Ellis family and the father of the
writer, there is no record to show.
James Roundy Candage was the occu-
pant from 1916 to his death in 1852. He
was the son of James, jr.. and Hannah
(Roundy) Candage, born Jan. Is, 1881;
married Feb. %, 1916, Phebe Ware Par
Brooksville, lost at sea, whose mother was
Emma (Roundy) Walker, daughter of
John Roundy, sr.
MIR. Candage and wife took up their
abode in the Ellis house upon their mar
riage; in 1t their children were born, and
in it she died on Oct. 3, 1850, at the age of
81, and he Dec. %, 1852, aged nearly
~ years. She had three children by Capt.
Walker, viz:
1. Phebe W., born June 10, 1905; died
Dec. 1s, 1915.
2. William, born De-. 16, 1909; died JAM
"a, 1s49, at Matanzas, Cuba.
3. Mary Jane, born August IT, 1911;
died August 80, 1926.
and twelve by Mr.. Candage as follows:
/. Simeon Parker, born Nov. q, 1916;
lost at sea Dec. 81, 1912.
2. John Walker, born March Is, 1918;
died Sept. 20, 1922.
3. James Roundy, born April s, 1873;
died Dec. IA, 1856, at Fortune Isld.
4. Samuel Barker Brooks, born Jan. %,
1921; died Sept, 1, 1926.
5. Robert Parker, born Oct. 26, 1922;
died Jan. 81, 1878, at Blue Hill.
6. Dorothy Perkins, born Feb. 6, 1925;
died August IS, 1926.
7. Rufus George Frederick, born July
2s, 1925, of Brookline, Mass.
s. Samuel Franklin, born Jan. 2, 1928;
died at Honolulu, May I, 1868.
9. John Brooks, born June "a, 1879;
died in Australia, July %, 1870.
TO- Hannah Roundy (twin), born Aug
ust II, 1881; died Sept. 4, 1881.
IL. Mary Perkins (twin), born August
II, 1881; died Sept. 4, 1881.
II. Charles Edward, born April 30, 1893;
died at Honolulu, April IA, 1862.
All the sons of this family that grew to
manhood were sailors, and as seen above,
all but one are dead, having passed away
in foreign lands or at sea, where they
found graves. Perhaps no other family of
the town shows such remarkable record
in that way.
Their father, until he was married, was
sailor on coasting, West Indian and
European voyages, but upon becoming
engaged to be married, his prospective
wife exacted from him the promise that
when married he would give up his sea
rovings.
She is said to have explained that one
husband had been lost at sea, leaving her
with three young children to care for, and
she did not feel like taking chances that
might again leave her widow. He
entered into that agreement with her and
kept it, but all the boys were born with
an inherited tendency fol. a sea life, and
against the wish and advice of both par.
ents, adopted it.
Their father bought the house already
mentioned, the Holt field, part of the
Wood farm, in all something over a hun
dred acres, meadow and wood lot of
another hundred acres, and half of the
two tide mills, and between farming and