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


enty-five years and eight months. There
no record of the death of Abigail Cain,
his wife, at hand. The children by their
marriage were
1. Joanna or Jenny, born Dec. 16, 1871 /;
married David Gott, of Mt. Desert.
2. Hannah, born Sept. 26, 1884; married
Joseph Colt; he was lost at sea.
8. Mary, born Nov. %, 1896; married
Ebenezer Day.
A. Samuel, born June 81, 1900; married
Sally Curtis.
5. Robert, born Jan. 9, 1903; married
Melinda Candage.
6. Abigail, born Jan. /, 1906; married
Merrill Dodge.
Z. David, born August %, 1910; died
Sept. %, 1910.
James and David Carter raised their own
corn and grain, cattle, sheep and swine
for use of their families, spun, wove and
knit their clothing from the wool ofstheir
sheep, and lived within their own re-
sources. They were industrious and
worthy people and members of the Bap-
fist church organized upon the Neck and
The writer well remembers them as COM
ing to the tide-mill, owned by his father,
with grists of corn, barley, rye and wheat,
to be ground. Their farms being on new
ly-cultivated ground, yielded them good
crops of hay, cereals and vegetables, and
the neighboring waters of the bay fur
nished an abundant supply of edible fish
for food.
JOHN PEARCE CARTER
son of James, jr., cleared farm upon
which he built his house, barn and out
building, half or three quarters of a
mile north of his fathers house, where
his children were born and where
he resided until his removal to SedgwIck.
He was an industrious and thrifty man,
who at one time owned the greater part
OF Long Island. He, like others of the
Carter family, was of robust frame and
constitution and possessed a remarkable
retentive memory for historical data. He
was born upon Long Island, April rs, $780,
married, first, Joanna Colt, March IL, 1920.
She died, and he married again. He died
at Sedgwick, in 1889, aged ninety years.
His children were:
1. John Pearce, jr., changed to Byron
Pearce, born March II, 1921, married Han
nah A. Carter, Feb. 1916; died Feb. Is,
1852.
2. Isabel H., born March 10, 1923; mar
ried Henry Durham.
8. Serena g., born June 10, 1925.
4. julia Ann, born July 7, 1927.
5. Charity, born June 8, 1929; married
Capt. Sleeper, of Rockland, Me.
6. David G., born July 81, 1892.
Z. Abram B., born March Z, 1885.
The house and buildings once situated
upon the John Pearce Carter lot no longer
are standing.
JAMES DAY, JR.
At Deep Cove lived James Day, jr., who
went thither from the Neck many years
ago. He married Nancy Yates, as else
where related, and had seven children,
viz: james, Eliza, Melvina, Moses,
William, Luther Roundy and Nancy
Yates. The head of this family was
drowned by the upsetting of his boat
near the shore of Newbury Neck in Nov.
1850, in his seventy-fifth year, and his
widow died July 10, 1854, aged about
eightysix years.
Favorite places for fishing for cod, hake
and paddock, in Blue Hill Bay, sixty and
seventy years ago, were at the Land Point
ON the Neck and at Deep Cove nearly OPP
posite on the shore of Long Island. The
writer with others in boyhood often fished
at Deep Cove, landed at Mr.. Days shore,
gathered berries upon his and on adjcin-
ing land, and retains clear and pleasant
recollections of those occasions and of
the families then residing in that vicinity.
None of the houses and people of that
period on the upper half OF the island
remain, and the mention OF them even
may be strange and new to the people of
the present generation.
MOSES FRIEND.
Upon the crown of the island, between
Deep Cove and the ola mill site on the east
side, was the farm and building of the
late Moses Friend, to be seen clearly from
the main land. Mr.. Friend came to that
place from Sedgwick, where he was born.
He was descendant of Benjamin Friend,
ST., the first of the name to settle upon
the Neck.
Just how many years Mr.. Friend resided
on Long Island there is no data to de-
termine, but it was for a number of years.
The buildings he occupied have long
since gone and the fields he moved and
cultivated have gone back to state of
nature, leaving little or nothing to remind
one of their former existence.
ITO be continued.