(continuing page 941) (V) Captain Samuel, son of Lieutenant Abial (3) ATWOOD, was born at Berkley, Massachusetts, July 6, 1768. Like his brother Nathan, who was a year older, he appears on the revolutionary records at a very youthful age. He enlisted in 1779 and was delivered to Ensign T. CLARKE, giving his age as seventeen, though he was but twelve. His height is given as five feet six inches. He appears to have been a boy on some vessel in 1780 and 1781, and was reported captured May 5, 1781. He was on the ship "Protector," Captain John F. WILLIAMS, October 23, 1780. He settled in Livermore, Main, in 1795, and became a prominent citizen of that town. He was selectman in 1814 and held other offices from time to time. His farm at Livermore was cleared originally by Major Joseph MILLS. He married Hannah BOYDEN. Children: 1. Nathan, born 1800, mention below. 2. Hezekiah, prominent citizen of Livermore. (VI) Nathan, son of Captain Samuel ATWOOD, was born in Livermore, Androscoggin county, Maine, May, 1800. He settled in Buckfield, in the southeastern corner of the adjoining county of Oxford, Maine. He began life as a clerk in the general store of Deacon BARRELL, in Livermore, attending the public schools of his native town. He removed to Buckfield when he was of age and worked for a time as clerk in the general store of Mr. PHELPS. He entered partnership with Zadock LONG, and they conducted a general store in Buckfield. He bought out the interests of his partner and continued the store alone. He sold out to devote his energies to the cutting and sale of wood, but returned to mercantile business and continued his store until death. He died in Buckfield at the age of forty. Though his career was cut short in early manhood, he had attained a high position in the esteem of his townsmen, an enviable reputation as a business man of excellent judgment, great industry and enterprise. He was upright and earnest in character. He was a Democrat in politics, a Universalist in religion. He married Ruth H. ROGERS, born in Berwick, Maine, May 17, 1797, died at the age of eighty-seven years. Children: 1. Charles B., mentioned below. 2. Ellen (Helen) M., was the mother of George M. ATWOOD, one of the proprietors of the Oxford Democrat. Three children died young.