Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-03-21

l. Moody, born Oct. A, 1888.
2. Abigail Wyrnan, born August Is.
1872.
3. Hannah, born August 1e, 1893.
4. Phebe, born July 16, 1896; died June
26, 1927.
| b, Benjamin, born June 20, 1877; mar
ried Amy Knowles.
6. Dorias, born July 5, 1900.
| I. Ezra, born August 5, 1903; died JAM
q, 1901
Benjamin, the fifth child of this family,
who owned the house and place above de-
scribed, married Amy Knowles, daughter
of Samuel and Jane Gray Knowles,
March 2, 1923. She was born June 2S,
1902; died April %, 1880. He died Sept
10, 1873. Their children were:-
| /. Samuel Knowles, born Oct 10, 1923;
| lost at sea.
2. Job Nelson, born Dec. Is, 1926; mar
ried Mahala II. Dodge, of sedgwIck.
| 3. Matthew Limeburner, born Feb. 25,
1928.
4. Lydia Jane, born Aug. 15, 1880; died
Oct. A, 1884.
5. Phebe Maria, born Nov. 2, 1882.
8. Jane Elizabeth, born August Is, 1885.
Z. Lyman Pearl Hall, born Jan. %, 1898;
married Adelne Grindle, of Penobscot.
s. Sarah, born Feb. IS, 1910.
8. Mary, born Dec. 20, 1912.
When and by whom the house in which
this family resided was built, the writer
does not know, nor does he know where
the father of Benjamin resided in the
town.
Beyond this house and the Douglass
lots, on the north side of the road, where
the outlet stream of the Fourth pond
crosses, once stood a saw mill, part of
the dam, decaying timbers Of the mill and
heap of saw dust were to be seen there
in the writer's boyhood, but he does not
know when or by whom the mill was
built, although the indications were that
it must have been about 1900.
From the last mentioned place the road
turns to the southwark and ascends long
hill about seven-eighths OF mile in length
to the Sedgwick line. Upon that stretch
of road were three or four houses upon
the right and one on the left in the writ
er's boyhood, and there is about the same
number at this writing. Those houses
were then occupied by families by the
name of Gray and Grindle, whose de-
scendants probably still reside in them.
This was the old road to Brooksville via
Hutchinson's Ferry across the Bagaduce
river, or via Walkers, around the head of
the river, before the bridge was built low
er down, and the road via 'sthe Kingdom"
was opened and came into use. Many
times the writer drove over it in former
time upon his way to and from Brooks
vile on visits to relatives and friends.
From the Sedgwick line on to the Ferry
and to Walkerville very little change or
improvement has taken place in the last
sixty years; if there has been any it has
been a retrograde one in the appearance Of
the buildings and farms, which have
fallen into decay. The land, stripped OF
its forest trees, presents to the passerby a
rocky, barren soil, discouraging in aspect
not only to the traveller but also to one
who is fated to till 1t and thereby gain his
livelihood and support of his family.
SETTLERS AND RESIDENTS UPON LONG
ISLAND, BLUE HILL BAY.
The first building erected upon Long
Island, SO far as my record shows, was a
saw-mill on the east side, opposite Deep
Cove, built by James Candage and Eben-
ezer Hinckley prior to 1776. Twenty years
later, about 1875, James and David Carter,
sons Of James Carter, ST., went from their
fathers home on Blue Hill Neck to the
island, and settled near what is now
known as the Sand, or Carter's Point,
where they and their families continued
to reside, and where James and David and
their wives died and were buried. They
each had large families, as was the rule in
those days.
James Carter, jr., was born at Damaris-
Gotta, Me-, Oct. 81, 1854, came to Blue Hill
with his fathers family in ITO at the age
of six years. He married, first, Hannah
Bartlett, March 8, 1892. She died leaving
one child, and he married, second, Mercy
Cain, of Sedgwick, born Nov. 10, 1878, by
whom there were twelve children. He
died Nov. A, 1884, aged seventy, and Mercy
his widow, a number of years later.
The children of this family by first wife
we're:
1. David, born May II, 1892; drowned
Oct. %. 1918.
By second wife:
2. James, born Dec. Z, 1874; drowned
Oct. %, 1913.
8. John, born Jan. II, 1876; died Sept.
%, 1876.
4. Charlotte, born July q, 1887; mar
ried William Roamer.
5. John Pearce, born April 26, 1893;
married, first, Joanna Colt, End
6. Judith, born March 16, 1901; married
John Trundy.
T. Charity, born March 16, 1903; mar
ried Israel Conary.
s. Amos, born June 8, 1905; married
Martha Choate.
8. PAMELA, born March 10, 1905; mar
ried Joshua Conary.