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> Other early settlers on Breakneck Hill were the McNally family. Some > more recent McNally family members in the area were George McNally whom > Pliney Frost said was a police officer in Calais at one time. Jane > Dudley said he was a judge in Calais. He was born on Breakneck Hill. > Another McNally was May, wife of George Brown. Ralph Brown who worked > in the A&P store for years was her son. > > Pliney Frost suggested that they might find the McNally place on the > 1887 Atlas. > ______________________________ Alta - have been enjoying the transcriptions, especially the snip above. George Brown (b.1862, Calais) and his wife, Mary McNally (b.1871, Baring) were my great-grandparents. Their son Ralph (above) was the brother of my grandmother, Ethel (Brown) Hiltz (b.1899). Mary McNally's parents were Charles Washington McNally/McNelly (b. c1839, Baring) & Esther Phinney (b. c1850, Sackville NB), however I have been unable to trace the MacNallys further. The George McNally above is quite possibly the son of Charles & Esther, who was born at Baring in 1880. If anyone is familiar with the McNally family I'd love to hear from them. Or - if you have any advise on where I could find more info... Susan.

Sammy Saunders continued the story telling. "Well, I always tell this story I guess to introduce myself. I'm Sammy Saunders, you all know and postmaster in Calais. Now, I don't want that to confuse you any because I'm one of those fast vanishing breeds of postmasters that were called political appointees. I got the job more for who I knew than what I knew. I've gone along with that. But, I was born in Mud Lane, and of course Mud Lane is a little street that connects Irish Town and Indian Hill. And, my father and mother both come from Canada and they were hard- shell Baptist Republicans - and just a little spot of land he bought in Mud Lane - was right in the middle of Mud Lane and we were surrounded by Irish Catholic Democrats. I was born there, and the bad thing about it was, here I was a Baptist Republican born in a predominant Catholic Irish Democrat neighborhood and I was blessed with the features and the name of a Jew and so you see what a hard time I had coming up through Mud Lane. The Protestants wouldn't play with me because their parents wouldn't let them associate with the people from Irish Town. The Catholic children wouldn't play with me because I was a different faith and there was only one Jewish family in the neighborhood and that was big rugged Annie Siborskey and every time she got close enough to me she'd knock the hell out of me. So, you see what a hard time, but the thing that really changed in Mud Lane for us was - in those days they had the old two holers, you know, and every house had a two holer and it meant that you had to make a trip oh, several yards out in the field or out the back end of your barn or someplace. My father, on this land that he built - had been a brick yard and back from the road about a hundred feet it dropped off into a sharp decline so two thirds of the year this was covered with water so it made it hard for us to have a privy out back because we'd either have to swim or skate to it. So, my father, when he built the house, he put out a lot of stilts from the street, you see, and he built the house - put the sills on and he built the house up on stilts which meant the farther back we went the higher the house got. So then we had no way of going to the outdoor privy, so what he did then was he laid out a few more stilts and boarded that up and covered it over and built a little lean to on it and he put it up to the house and inside this - you went out the kitchen door and you went into the shed and in corner of the shed he fenced off a little piece and he put a nice door on it and we had a - he had it painted white and we had two little ventilating windows that went across there for the ventilation and we had the beveled seats and we had covers on these beveled seats and we had even a rack for the old Sears and Roebuck catalog. You know what the Sears and Roebuck catalog was to an outhouse in those days. And, we also had a zip for the Sunkist. Now maybe you've all heard about the Sears and Roebuck catalog but how many have heard about Sunkist and what Sunkist was in those days oranges came in crates and they would be in little wrappers which would be marked Sunkist and whenever the store got in some oranges I would make the rounds and pick up these little papers and we called them Sunkists. They were special for Sundays or company. And, every time that anybody would go to the - out to the indoor-outhouse that we had, my mother would say, "Now, don't use the Sunkist." And, I'd holler, "Don't use the page with the bicycles on it." It got to be quite a joke. Everybody from all around the neighborhood came to see our indoor-outhouse, and that's how we got acquainted in the neighborhood. Mud Lane became my home then and they finally converted me to a Democrat. I never changed my religion but I did become a Democrat and that's how I got my job in the Post Office by being a Democrat and being associated with Democrats." Kay Church's story was, "It's so early it starts before I was born. About two months before my birth was due, we lived twenty miles, just as we do now, from Calais, and my father, Bill Cushing, thought that it would be only wise for his wife to go - to move into town to await the birth. So, she stayed with my uncle, Lem Wallace, on Mait's Corner, and his wife. Well, the time of the birth came and my dad seemed to have a sort of mental telepathy about some things, a premonition and he snowshoed twenty miles that night and got there in time for me to be born. And, then we had to stay at Uncle Lem's and Aunt Blanch's until March. I was born in January - until March and there was still so much snow. It wasn't plowed then as it is now on Route 9, so he had to go out with horse and sleigh with plenty of hay and all the usual paraphernalia that would make up a very soft bed for them and bring my mother and me home to the camp on Crawford Lake. Frank Fenderson suggested that Kay Church could tell the story about her father being brought up by the Fenlasons, but she said he should tell it the way her father had told him. Frank said, "Well, he said something that he was more or less brought up by Sawyer and he wasn't a Fenlason. And that his father was a seaman. And his mother had died. Both had died and that - he said the Fenlasons were always famous for being very kind to the - any children that needed help and he said Lottie Fenlason was just like a mother to me and so was Sawyer Fenlason and he said to me they're my parents." Kay Church added "Yes, he did stress that. Of course he knew my fondness for Gram and Gramp Cushing. That was equally strong. Yes, his very fondest memories were of Lottie."

Here is another transcription of a recording of a meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. Judging by the numbering of the tapes, this was probably recorded in 1981. People present at the meeting included Jane Dudley, Milly Winchler, Parks Carle, Frank Fenderson, Sammy Saunders, Kay Church, Rachel (Brown) Hamilton, Ethel (McArthur) Wallace, Mary (Belmore) Williams, Lloyd ?, and Margaret ?. John Dudley of Alexander, Maine filled in the names where there was only a first name mentioned on the tape. Names and other words that could not be transcribed exactly are in italics. Unknown voices are referred to as "man" or "woman." Comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses. There are several places where two or more people spoke at the same time and couldn't be transcribed. This condensation will be in two parts. Jane Dudley started the recording: "This evening we are having our first annual family picnic of the summer of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. This is Jane Dudley speaking. We have many guests here tonight and we're going around in a circle here and ask if several of them wouldn't like to give us a little historical story about this area." The first story teller was Millie (Stanhope) Winchler, who said: "Well, I was telling everybody that in 1923 I taught at the Four Corners School and I had 37 kids and all grades, all eight grades and one girl that was back for an extra grade because her family couldn't afford to send her to the high school, so I tried to give her something extra. What do you suppose I could give her with already eight grades and five hours in a day? But, it really was a very happy and satisfying year and I taught 19 years afterwards and I never had a more satisfying year." Next was Parks Carle who told the following story. "I can tell you a story that comes from my neighbor. Samuel Cottle (was) supposed to be the first settler of Alexander. He left Massachusetts and made plans with a man to work with him to come a few weeks later than he did and they arrived, Samuel and his wife arrived in Calais and he left her in Calais and he went in to Dwelley's Lake. The man came later, Lawrence Spearin, and those two men built their log cabin in three weeks. And, then they went back and got the wife in Calais and she snowshoed in to the cabin with them with baby on her back. And she stayed less than a month and she could stand it no longer so they took her back to Calais, left her in the same place she'd been before with friends there. And, the two men again go back to the cabin preparing to stay the winter alone, you know, the two. So the wife stayed three days in Calais and she could stand that no more, so she got her friend there to take her back to the cabin at the lake. She went back and stayed the rest of her life. It had to be around 1810." Milly Winchler asked what the name of the lake was then and said it is called Pleasant Lake now and was Stephenson's Lake when she taught at the Four Corners School. In between it was called Dwelley's Lake. Another woman said that in 1881 it was called Harwood Lake. The next speaker was Frank Fenderson. "Well, I can tell you a story about Kaye Church's father (Bill Cushing) coming into our office, I think, the summer of 1949, and he said, "Frank, tell me are you any relation to the Fendersons in Crawford?" And I said "How did you pronounce that name?" And, he said, "Fenderson." And, I said, well, they spell it F-e-n-l-a-s-o-n. He said, "Yes, I often wondered about that." He said, "But I was brought up by Sawyer Fenderson and Charlotte Ford, Lottie Ford," and he said, "they always pronounced it Fenderson. Now," he said, "I know the people up in Princeton, they call it Fenlason," so he said, "I wondered how the name was." So I told him the story of the Fenderson family. It started with a Wallace Finlayson, F-i-n- l-a-y-s-o-n who landed in Portsmouth, Maine, Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1712. And, the town records of Portsmouth, cross indexed the name under F-e-n-d-e-r-s-o-n, F-i-n-l-a-s-o-n, F-e- n-l-a-s-o-n, and four or five other ways of spelling the name. And I said he had five sons, he had one son, and that one son moved to Scarborough, Maine and all the records there cross indexed under various names, but he ended up adopting the spelling F-e-n-d-e-r-s-o-n. I've seen his burial stone and it's spelled Fenderson. He had five sons. Four of them went by the name of Fenderson and one Wallace Fenderson moved to Machias and he was in the battle of the Margaretta and he adopted the spelling the town clerk wrote down in the record of Machias, F-e-n-l-a-s-o-n. And, he had many children, one of which was Nathaniel Fenlason who was one of the early settlers of Crawford, and he came up as a representative of the Pope and Talbot Lumber Industry and handled the interests of Pope and Talbot for the entire township of Crawford which they owned. And, at one time they offered this Sawyer Fenlason the township for $9000 but he felt it was too much money, and decided he didn't want to buy it. So, that's my story about the Fendersons and the Fenlasons. [H]e said that definitely Sawyer pronounced it Fenderson just as prominent as can be, and, he said "I never could figure out why because there's no d in it."

Hi, My dad and I havent received our LOON newspaper lately. We were wondering when the town is going to have the " historical day" again? We would like to attend, as we learned alot about our ancestors last time. Is it in July? Any help is appreciated. thanks, Sue Szewczyk

Hi Ruth, Vital Records from the Eastport Sentinel of Eastport, Maine, 1818-1900" Maine Genealogical Society, edited by Kenneth L. Willey. Picton Press. Vol 3 #45, 30 Jun1821 Deaths: In Northport, no date, Thomas DOYLE, 56 y. Vol 55 #50, 5 Nov 1873 Deaths: In St. John, 2 Nov 1873, a man by the name of John N. DOYLE shot himself and his wife. The woman was instantly killed and the murderer mortally wounded. They were registered at Barnes' Hotel as being from Boston. John was a native of River John, Nova Scotia, no reason is given for the deed. Vol 67 #17, 18 Mar 1885 Deaths: In Perry, 15 Mar 1885, Olive wife of Capt. Wm. H. DOYLE, 52y 10m. Vol 70 # 51, 28 Nov 1888 Deaths: In Calais, 18 Nov 1888, John Doyle, 72 y. Vol 79 # 8, 10 Feb 1897 Marriages: In Eastport, ME, 4 Feb 1897, Rev. Joseph J. AHERN, John P. DOYLE of Perry to Margaret F. DOHERTY of Eastport, ME. Vol 81 #38, 13 Sep 1899, Marriages: In St. Stephen, 6 Sep 1899, by Rev. J. DOYLE, Daniel V. LADRIGAN of Boston to M. Flora LAWLER of St. Stephen. Happy Hunting! Bev Bird Rmbport@aol.com wrote: > Hi Beverly > > Thank you for the lookups. I didn't recognize Hugh or Catherine but could be. > > >From the Eastport Sentinal the names John, Thomas and William are familiar > right off the top of my head. > > Thanks again > > Ruth

The first preacher's name was Fogg. He came in 1816. Candidates for baptism by emergence were Mr and Mrs. Samuel Brown, Jacob Stevens, and Miss Ann Lilly. The first marriage in town was between Thomas Bean and Mary Bailey, who later became Mrs. R. K. Thistlewood according to the newspaper clipping. There still is a small house that is referred to as the Thistlewood house. Pliney Frost said that he had pictures of three generations of the Thistlewood family. He also said, "By way of identification, Mary Bailey and Thomas Bean were the parents of Mary Ann Frost who was Steve Frost's wife, mother of Thomas B. and Augustus W.,Steven D., Horace E., Harry E." Augustus W. was Augustus Wellington Frost. Other early settlers on Breakneck Hill were the McNally family. Some more recent McNally family members in the area were George McNally whom Pliney Frost said was a police officer in Calais at one time. Jane Dudley said he was a judge in Calais. He was born on Breakneck Hill. Another McNally was May, wife of George Brown. Ralph Brown who worked in the A&P store for years was her son. Jane Dudley asked if he were the manager, and Pliney said, "No, he always worked behind the coffee counter. I don't know, they - when he first went to work for the A&P Company, they had four stores in Calais. . . . But, he worked in the one that was on Washington Street and he could have been the manager there, I don't know. Then when they combined them in a super market - why they took the employees they could use, or wanted to use, and took them down there. He, well as long as they ground their own coffee right there in the A&P, that's where he worked, behind the coffee counter." The discussion continued about the old cellar holes on Breakneck Hill and whether one was a school house. Pliney Frost said that Annaniah Bohanon had said the school house was on Burnt Barn Hill. "According to Harold Dwelley Burnt Barn Hill is that hill that you go up after you go by Elbridge's - you go up through and go up over the hill and then you dip down over and come to that bog that is on your left there, you know. If I understood Harold correctly to say that the foundation of where the school house was - was in on - in on the side of the road there where Everett (Dwelley) owns - on Everett's property." Pliney Frost suggested that they might find the McNally place on the 1887 Atlas. They all looked at the map and mentioned the various families who owned property on Breakneck Hill in 1887: J. Granger, Brown, Carter, Berry, and McLean. Jane Dudley said that the map in the Atlas matched the map she had made when they explored the old foundations on Breakneck Hill. What was later the Foley place was once part of the Granger Estate. The group looked at the 1895 Alexander Directory. Pliney Frost said, "Here's a list of the people that lived on Breakneck in 1895. Carlow, Aaron, Ellen, Mary, and Maud. The next one is Carter, James, Amie, William, Lawrence, and Sarah. Keene, Robert, Ella and Clara." An unknown woman said the Keenes would be related to Edith Hatfield, because she was a Keene before she was married. Pliney Frost then said that Edith Hatfield was related to him, and then continued listing people who lived on Breakneck Hill in 1895. "Vining, Frederick, Edith, Bertha, Flora. Now, Flora was Vernon Cousin's wife. You remember Vernon." The unknown woman said, "Flora Perkins and Edith were own cousins." Pliney Frost said, "Luke and Martha Stephenson lived where the house burnt." Where the Hatfield place used to be was originally Stephenson's according to Pliney Frost. One of the women said the property had also belonged to a Dwelley family, and that Luke Stephenson's place used to be where Doris Flood in now, but this is a new house because the old house burned. Pliney Frost said that Luke Stephenson was married June 29, 1850. The ceremony was performed by William Spring. This information came from Pliney Frost's collection of newspaper clippings. Jedediah Dwelly married a Stephenson. (This was Jedediah Dwelly, born in 1800 and son of another Jedediah Dwelly, and Caroline C. Stephenson, daughter of Jesse Stephenson and Elizabeth Lilley.) The Stephenson farm was settled in 1816. There was a grist mill in 1820. The mill burned about 1960. A woman said that it had been a saw mill first, and later a grist mill, and that at one time it had employed 16 people with a day crew and a night crew. The original saw mill was built in 1816, nine years before Alexander was incorporated. In 1900 Alexander had a population of about 500 people, a larger population than Baileyville. They discussed Spring Hill. Pliney Frost said, "I'm not absolutely certain of it, but I believe that William Spring lived about where Landry's house is now. There's an old cellar there. It might be when he built his new house he built right on the old cellar. I'm not sure, but I remember when I was quite young that there was an old house attached to George Berry's barn and I assume that was the old Spring house, but I'm not sure. I'm just assuming it." Pliney Frost had an old picture of the Alexander Methodist Episcopal Church which was built in 1866 and completed January 11, 1869. They raised money to pay for the church by selling pews. You could buy your own pew together with the ground on which it stood. Thomas Frost bought one of the pews. (They were looking at an original deed for one of the pews that Pliney Frost had. It was not clear but may have been for the pew bought by Thomas Frost.) One of Donald Frost's grandfathers was a minister of the church. Mr. Townsend donated the land for the church. The Townsend house is the two story house across from the Grange Hall. Ruth (Ferguson) Dwelley looked at the picture and said, "This is the way it looked when I came here. I taught Sunday School there in 1931. I taught Elbridge MacArthur. (This is likely to have been Elbridge M., brother of Ethel M. Wallace.) Someone asked Pliney Frost about attending Sunday School, and he replied, "I attended church, but I never went to Sunday School if I could get away with it. I hated school with a passion." Children who attended Sunday School in Alexander in the 1930s included Noland Perkins' sons, Francis and Maruice. Ellwood ?, who had been a member of the Sunday School visited one of the women at the meeting a short time before.

The first white woman who came into Alexander was Mrs. Samuel Cottle in the year 1813, the same year four families came from Machias and settled on Breakneck Hill." "The first schools were taught in 1822. One in a log house built for the purpose near Mr. Scribner's. Mr. Barstow being teacher. The other in a log house on Burnt Barn Hill." There is a road going up to Burnt Barn Hill near where L. B. Carter lived at the time of this tape. The woman continued reading, "The first child born was Freeman T. Fenlason. And, the first death was Mrs. Mary Young in 1814." Another woman said, "Freeman Putnam Fenlason born on June 14, 1814. That's copied from Mrs. Fenlason's records." Pliney Frost said that Annaniah Bohanon was buried on his land which later became the McPheters place. Then he read from one of the clippings "The foregoing was communicated to the writer by Mr. Annaniah Bohanon now about 85 years old who commenced on the farm where he now lives in 1811." Jane Dudley said that the first settlers of Alexander settled up around the Four Corner area. Pliney Frost continued reading the newspaper clipping and said that the town was then called Township Number 16 and was settled in the summer of 1810 by William Conney and Solomon Perkins on the farm now occupied by John Gooch. Pliney Frost read a paragraph from "History of Early Baileyville," by Bailey. "In Calais after he came from St. Andrews, New Brunswick in 1786, Nathaniel Bailey apparently lived as a squatter about one mile south of town center in Calais. Nearby were the farms of Daniel Bohanon, William Hill, and the Nobles. Daniel Hill, a former member of Rogers Rangers, was the first white settler in Calais in 1779. He had come from Machias where he was among the first group of 15 settlers to arrive in Captain Buck's boat in 1763. John Bohanon, a brother of Daniel Bohanon, had settled in the center of Calais and he later was to become the first settler in nearby Alexander." Pliney thought that John Bohanon was Annaniah's father. Jane Dudley commented that perhaps Harold Bohanon was the last male with that name who lived in Alexander. Pliney Frost said that he had a brother, Asher Bohanon, who lived in woodland. There was another brother who was killed in Belgium during World War Two.

This is another transcription of a tape recording of a meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. This was the December 16, 1980 Christmas Coffee. Members present whom have been identified were Jane Dudley, Jack Dudley, Pliney Frost, Ruth (Ferguson) Dwelley, Hazel ?, Cleta ?, Ellen ?, and Ellie ?. Ellen and Ellie may have been the same woman. Jane Dudley said in the introduction to the tape that the society was concluding its charter membership December 31, 1980. They taped this meeting differently than the others I have transcribed. With the previous tapes, people spoke directly into the recorder and the words were clear and reasonably easy to understand. For this meeting, they set the recorder somewhere in the room. Everyone sat around and talked - sometimes two or three at once, and frequently so far away from the recorder that the person can't be understood. This is the longest tape so far - both sides of the tape were filled. There is a lot of information about the early days of the Alexander - Crawford area. As with the other condensations, names and other words that could not be transcribed exactly are in italics. Comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses. Due to the nature of this meeting and there apparently being no planned agenda, the information is in a confusing order. I've copied and pasted to put like things together as much as possible. If anyone has questions or would like the complete transcription to read, please e-mail me privately and I will send a transcription and do my best to answer questions. I'm breaking this condensation into three parts. Pliney Frost had brought a scrapbook or collection of newspaper clippings and photographs to the meeting. He said that the collecting had begun with his great-grandmother in the 1870s and that his grandmother, mother, and now he continued the collection. Most of the discussions of the evening began with something in this collection. Pliney Frost said during the evening that he and a relative, Pliney Gray, had been named for the Latin poet. This led to a discussion of names such as Alegra Longfellow Brown who was named after the "Alegra with the laughing face" that was in "The Children's Hour," and her middle name for the poet, and not a family name. (The poem actually calls her "laughing Alegra.") The first picture discussed was one of Frank Frost taken about the time he graduated from high school. Frank was born in Alexander but moved into Calais when he started high school and never did move back to Alexander. His father, Stephen Wilson Frost, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was called Wilsey or Wilksey. (This name is hard to understand.) Wilsey Frost's mother died when he was very young and "his father and the children came back to Alexander and stayed out there where John Weeks is living now with Harry Frost. Frankie's grandfather and Harry were brothers, you know." The first member of the Frost family born in Alexander was born on the same land where John Weeks lived, but in a log house "almost to the back end of the lot." There is a cellar hole there now but it's about the same distance back from that cellar hole to where the log cabin was as it is from the cellar hole to where the house is now. Pliney said he thought the original plans were for the road to go by the log cabin because the old Strout house is "way back, too," but for some unknown reason when the road was built, it went further north. The discussion continued with questions about why people settled on Breakneck Hill. Pliney Frost said that Annaniah Bohanon settled up there. One clipping from the Calais Advertiser without a date, but probably the 1930s, was an obituary for Abbie Ella Bohanon. She was Annaniah Bohanon's granddaughter. (I think the same woman is called Addie Bohannon in another part of the tape.) There was a clipping from a 1935 Calais Advertiser that was a reprint of an article from 1870. Ellen ? read, "The first trees felled and the first clearing made in Township Number 16, now Alexander, was in the summer of 1810 by William Connie and Solomon Perkins on the farm now occupied by John Gooch. During the year 1811 Annaniah Bohanon, William D. Crockett, Eliab, Eee-lee-ab, Spring - is that the way you pronounce that, or E-lye-ab?" (The name really was Elias. There was a misprint in the newspaper article.) "And others settled in different parts of the township. That's where we get Spring Hill from."

Alta, I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy the transcriptions of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society that you send us. Thank you so much for taking the time to type these up. They're fascinating! Does anyone in the Machias or Machiasport areas (Val, Frank, etc) know if there are tapes or minutes from meetings or get-togethers in these places that could be posted to the list, as well? I'd love to read them, too. Thanx, again, Alta! Laura Meeks Quartz Hill, CA lmmeeks1@earthlink.net

Hi. I am researching the Jonathan Delesdernier Weston family. He married Jane Nelson and they had three children: Lucy Parker Shaw, William Nelson Weston, and Jane Dawson. Lucy Parker Weston married Joshua Clark Shaw and they had five children, three survived. They moved to Galveston, Texas in 1838. I have information about them until 1850 -- but then she dies, he remarried and I lose the family. William Nelson Weston went to Florida "for his health" and died in Tampa Bay in 1838. Jane Weston married S. K. Dawson (in the Army) and they lived in Boston (?) and Eastport with her widowed mother. Jonathan D. Weston died in 1834 in Eastport. His widow, Jane, died in 1864. She was deaf. Jane had a sister, Anna O. Nelson Buck, who was married to Jonathan Buck, who died in 1840? I am looking for ANY papers, letters, family information, descendents, photographs, paintings, etc. on this family. Thank you!! Shelly Kelly Galveston TX

Hi Ruth, "Marriage Retruns of Washington County, Maine, prior to 1892", Maine Genealogical Society. Edited by Alice MacDonald Long. Picton Press. pg 15 - Hugh DOYAL (?) of Lubec & Louis CALKINS of same m. 10 Feb 1836 by Rev. Moses P. WEBSTER pg 67 - William LANLER of Machias & Catherine DOYLE of same m. 2 Jan 1851 by Rev. Amos Brown "Vital Records from the Eastport Sentinel of Eastport, Maine, 1818-1900" Maine Genealogical Society, edited by Kenneth L. Willey. Picton Press. None from Jonesport. Given names listed are: Andrew; Rev. E.; Rev. Edward; Emma Geneva; Hugh; Irene; Rev. J.; Jacomb; John; John N.; John P.; Lawrence; Margaret F.; Olive; Peter; Pricilla; Sophia; Stella A.; Thomas; Wm H. Hope this helps some, Bev Bird Rmbport@aol.com wrote: > Hi > > I wonder if you have any information on DOYLE family from Jonesport. > > Thank you for your time and trouble > > Ruth Port > Butler, PA > rmbport@aol.com

Hi Pat, "Marriage Returns of Washington County Maine, prior to 1892", Maine Genealogical Society, edited by Alice MacDonald Long. Picton Press pg 6 - William FOSTER of E. Machias & Lavina HOYT of same m. 8 May 1832 by Rev. Calvin WHITE pg 21 - Nelson Hoyt of E. Machias & Elizabeth Armstrong of same m. 27 Oct 1836 by Rev. Thomas T. STONE pg 61 - William B. WHEELER of E. Machias & Hannah HOYT of same m. 25 Aug 1857 by J. C. TALBOT, JP pg 61 - Charles WHEELER of E. Machias & Mary HOYT of same m. 7 Nov 1857 by J. C. TALBOT, JP pg 62 - Urban Hoyt of E. Machias & Julia DAMONS of Whiting m. 22 Nov 1858 by J.C. TALBOT, JP "Vital Records from the Eastport Sentinel of Eastport, Maine, 1818-1900" Maine Genealogical Society, edited by Kenneth L. Willey. Picton Press. HOYT given names listed:Abigail E.; Albert N.; Betsy T.; Cora Alice; Elexia; Esther Ann; Hannah: Henry T.; John P.; John T.; Jonathan; Laura K.; Leo; Linnie S.; Lydia; Mary R.; Miss; Otis. If you would like me to look any of the above names up, just let me know. Sorry, I couldn't find a death record for your Urban Hoyt. Bev Bird Pat Rice wrote: > Would you look for Urban Hoyt in your vital records book for me? He lived > most (probably all) of his life in Washington County, but I can't find any > death record. Thanks for being kind to others. > pat, Washington state > ----- Original Message ----- > From: beverly l bird <jbbird@uswest.net> > To: <MEWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 4:35 PM > Subject: [MEWASHIN-L] Will do look ups > > > Hi, > > Recently purchased 2 books about Washington, County. > > (Only have had them 4 days!! - so I'm pretty excited.) > > Will do lookups - please note the dates in these titles. > > > > "Marriage Returns of Washington County, Maine, Prior to > > 1892" > > and > > "Vital Records from the Eastport Sentinel of Eastport, > > Maine - 1818-1900". > > > > Bev Bird > >

Hello, Listers-- I've been wondering if my Machias ancestors (FLANNERY/CROWLEY family) might have emigrated from Ireland (Galway) to Canada before finally settling in Machias. I cannot find any US port passenger lists recording Edward Flannery's passage. We only know he was in Machias by 1848. It has been suggested that he might have come into a Canadian port and found his way down to Maine. Has anyone found a pattern of Irish emigrants who came to a Canadian port (which one(s)?) first and then settled in Machias? I know of the St. Albans Records, but they start much later in the 1800s than I need. I also wonder if anyone doing Machias-related Irish genealogy has family lines that also came from Galway. I understand most emigrants moved to places where there were either friends or family already there before them. Perhaps some other Irish emigrants who settled in Machias came from the same town in Galway as my Edward did. That is my main goal at the present--to find that Galway town. Any help would be much appreciated. Judy W.

To: Alta Flynt Thanks SO MUCH for posting Ellen Fenlason's account of the early settlement in Alexander-Crawford, Maine. My family connects with the Mark Fenlason who married the Getchell girl [Orinda Getchell of Wesley, Maine]. I also have corresponded with Alice Fenlason. Until now, I had been unable to determine the parents of Mark Fenlason. There were Fenlason families in and around Wesley, Maine - but I could only guess if it was the same family as Mark Fenlason. This just makes my day! Thanks again. Orinda Getchell is a sister of my Great-grandmother Mary Elizabeth Getchell who married John Nelson Perry. Kal Perry Roseville, Minnesota -----Original Message----- From: Alta Flynt [mailto:altaf@world-net.net] Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:22 AM To: MEWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MEWASHIN-L] Fenlason Family of Alexander, Maine

I am interested in knowing about the Mabee/Mahby/Mahy name too. I have a marriage between Peter T. Mahby of Boston and Sarah Ann Nevins July 19, 1856 in Calais. Seems that Sarah wasn't divorced from Peter before she married my relative, Alfred Howard Hatch November 3, 1860 in Calais. I guess Alfred found out about Peter. Sarah charged Alfred with bigamy in February 1868 in St. Stephen. Canada refused to deal with the situation, but they did find Sarah the more guilty of the two. Canada said that Maine would have to deal with the situation. I would like information about Peter and a child named Lavina - is she Peter's or Alfred's. Thanks, Colleen ----- Original Message ----- From: <Arhoo@aol.com> To: <MEWASHIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 11:51 AM Subject: [MEWASHIN-L] Bell-Maybee/Mabee > Hi Listers, > On the I.G.I. there's a Jane Mabee Bell who married John Greene Stearns. > Jane was born abt 1822 in Calais. Do any of you know who her parents were? Is > she related to the Mabee family? I'm researching a John Bell who was born in > Calais. His birth information comes from his daughter's death certificate. > She was born in the 1820's in Saint John, NB. I don't have any birth year for > John Bell Do any of you Mabee researchers have Bells in your family tree? > > Thanks, > Linda > >

Hi Listers, On the I.G.I. there's a Jane Mabee Bell who married John Greene Stearns. Jane was born abt 1822 in Calais. Do any of you know who her parents were? Is she related to the Mabee family? I'm researching a John Bell who was born in Calais. His birth information comes from his daughter's death certificate. She was born in the 1820's in Saint John, NB. I don't have any birth year for John Bell Do any of you Mabee researchers have Bells in your family tree? Thanks, Linda

I received a message wondering what the value would be if those items listed as Sally Fenlason's 1844 inheritance were inherited today as antiques. This got my curiousity aroused so I did a bit of research on the subject. I don't know enough about antiques to comment on the value of the items in the inventory as antiques. By just converting the 1844 dollars into 1999 dollars, she still wouldn't have been very well off. First, though, please remember that I only transcribed the tape as I heard it. There may be mistakes simply because I mis-heard a word. Also, using my computer I added up the value of the items in 1844, and the person doing the arithmetic in 1844 didn't add as well as my computer does. My computer said that the total in 1844 was 36 dollars and 79 and one half cents instead of 45 dollars and nine and a half cents. I used the Inflation Calculator at <http://www.westegg.com/inflation/> and converted $36.795 for a total value in 1999 dollars of $639.24. Even converting $45.095, it's only $783.43. Still not a lot of money to take care of several kids. One thing I noticed in doing this figuring - the only tools listed are a loom and small wheel (I assume a small spinning wheel). There's no live stock, no farm tools (plow, etc.) no carpenter's or other craftsman's tools. From what I've read, spinning and weaving were usually part of the housewife's job of caring for the family. Other inventories I've seen from back then usually list a pig or a cow and farm or tradesman tools. Anybody got any ideas about this? Alta

This is a continuation of the transcription of the recording of the October 21, 1980 meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. The speakers during this part of the meeting were Ellen Fenlason, and Jack Dudley. The microfilm of the Alexander Town Records can be rented at the Family History Center - Film #0010465. I have used this film and it is a wonderful record of marriages, births and some deaths. Ellen Fenlason continued and said that it says in the town records that Ruben Tuttle Fenlason "died in an attempt to rescue Joel Gooch from a well." After a little more discussion, the tape stopped and then started again with the following. "This is Jack Dudley talking. At the meetings of the Alexander Historical Society the question of the story of the drowning that took place in a well on Breakneck back 150 years or so ago was discussed a number of times. Various people gave different accounts as they had been handed down over the many years. Harold and Ellen Fenlason of Danforth, Maine did some research on this matter. The following account which I am about to read was found by Mr. and Mrs. Fenlason. This article comes from the Calais Advertiser. The date is August 12, 1852. I will now read the article. ‘Fatal occurrence from inhaling noxious vapor in a well. On Tuesday last an inquest was held by coroner, D. K. Chase upon view of the bodies of John S. Philips, Joel Gooch, and R. T. Fenlason of Alexander which were taken lifeless from the bottom of the well near the dwelling of Mr. Philips. We are indebted to the coroner for the following statement which is the substance of the testimony taken at the inquest. On Monday the 9th, instant, Mr. Philips had the water all bailed out of his well which was about 30 feet deep and had not been used for a year or more, and he went down into the well and cleaned it and put fire to a handful of straw and threw it down to burn up, as he said, the unpleasant smell. On Tuesday morning he went down into the well to get a few pieces of boards which were left in the day before. When he had descended nearly to the bottom, his feet slipped from the rocks and he pitched forward and sunk down into a kind of sitting posture, his head and shoulders resting against the wall. His son, a lad about 12 years old who had watched his father, ran to the house and told his mother that there was trouble with his father in the well. Mrs. P., knowing that Mr. P. had formerly been troubled with fits supposed he was then in one. She went in one direction and sent the boy in another for help. Mr. Joel Gooch, the nearest neighbor, arrived at the well first and went down to assist Mr. Philips. He reached the bottom, took hold of Mr. P., raised him up a little and spoke to him. He then looked up and hallooed to those looking down. Can you hear me? And, repeated the same three times, then uttered a faint groan and sank down powerless. Mr. John Gooch, brother of Joel, arrived next and immediately descended to help his brother. He took hold of him and spoke to him, but found he was just breathing his last, and feeling himself much exhausted, he made haste to get out, and his strength barely supported him until he reached the surface where he fell prostrate on the ground, and was for a time completely exhausted. Mr. Ruben T. Fenlason, nephew of Gooch, came to the spot soon after John had got out and though warned of the danger, he insisted on going down and taking the end of a long rope he went rapidly down stepping on the rocks on each side of the well, made the rope secure around his uncle's body and then began to falter, but was aroused by those at the mouth of the well, and he made an effort to ascend, but his strength failing him when about two thirds of the way up, he pitched forward and fell head downward to the bottom. No hope was now left of getting either of them out alive and no other attempt was made to go down into the well. The body of Gooch was drawn out by the rope which Fenlason had put around him and a grapple was made of an old pitch fork with which the bodies were laid out. A lighted candle was lowered down the well and would burn dimly seven feet down but would go out at nine feet. The jury was composed of John Springer, James S. Bush, Luke Stephenson, J. Stephenson, John Perkins, Robert L. Tyler, and their verdict was that the deceased came to their deaths by inhaling the gas or noxious vapor which had accumulated in the well. Each of the deceased had left a wife and children and many friends to mourn their loss.' The following week this appeared in the Advertiser, Calais Advertiser. ‘In the account we gave of the fatal occurrence in Alexander last week, it was stated that the water in the well had not been used for over a year which was not the fact, as it had been constantly used up to the time they undertook to clean it, and over 20 pailfuls of water had been taken out of it a few minutes before Mr. Philips went down into it.'" (Does anyone know who the J. Stephenson was who served on the jury? There were three J. Stephensons in Alexander at the time, Jesse Stephenson, Sr. and his sons, Jesse, Jr., born in 1821 and James, born in 1828. Luke Stephenson was born in 1825, so any of the three J's might have served.)

This is a condensation of a tape recording of the October 21, 1980 meeting of the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society. Alexander and Crawford are neighboring towns in Washington County, Maine - very close to the New Brunswick border. People who took part in this meeting are Jane Dudley, president of the society, and Ellen Fenlason. As in previous submissions, any names or other words that I couldn't understand well enough to be sure of my transcription are in italics. Comments, explanations, and additional names are in parentheses. Direct quotes from the tape are in quotation marks. I am going to break this tape into two parts because of it's length. Jane Dudley opened the meeting. "This is October 21, 1980 at Pocomoonshine Lake. We are in the Dudley's cabin and this is Jane Dudley speaking. We are gathered here at the Alexander-Crawford Historical Society board members, and also regular members and we have with us Ellen Fenlason of Danforth, wife of Harold Fenlason. Harold's family goes back very far in our Alexander-Crawford community." Ellen Fenlason gave the following account of the early settlement of the area. There were 16 original settlers of Machias. One family was Samuel Scott and Susan Perry and their children: Nathaniel, Sarah, Rosemond, Samuel, Wallace, Jesse, William, Mark, John, Pamela, and Perry. (There is a problem here about whether Ellen Fenlason gave the wrong name, "Samuel Scott," or if she meant that the husband's full name was "Samuel Scott Fenlason," because she names his grandson as Mark Fenlason.) These children were born in Machias. Wallace was in the battle of the Margaretta. (For an account of the battle see the last paragraph at <http://www.surfpac.navy.mil/shipsnav/Obrien/obhist.htm>.) One of Wallace's sons, Mark Fenlason, married Sally Elsmore, daughter of Moses Elsmore and Lydia Andrews, daughter of Ephraim and Anna Andrews. Their marriage intentions were probably published October 20, 1812. Ellen Fenlason continued by saying, "But, there seems to be some confusion between the date that they were married and their intentions, and I have found quite a few mistakes in that so don't start counting because I'm not sure exactly when Sally and Mark were married but they were married." Mark Fenlason and Sally Elsmore's first child was Sally who was born in Machias and married Rowland Cushing Dudley who came from Winslow, Maine. They had nine children. The microfilm of the Alexander town records starts with the first child born in Alexander, Freeman Putnam Fenlason, son of Mark and Sally, born June 14, or 15, 1814. Other children of Mark and Sally Fenlason were Mary Ann, Daniel Alan, Lydia, Nancy, Mark Harris, Ruth Ellen, Hannah, and Moses Cilla Fenlason. Mark Harris Fenlason was born in 1825 and "he married a Getchell girl and they moved out to Minnesota, and I have all of their history from a lady out there, Alice Fenlason who is related to Freeman's brother." Sally Fenlason was evidently already married when her father, Mark Fenlason, died in May 1838, because the family is listed on page 66 of the microfilmed Alexander town records but Sally was not included. Sally (Elsmore) Fenlason was left with the rest of the children, the youngest being Moses who was six. "Sally must have been very poor because she didn't put Mark's will into probate until 1844, and I have - I got down to the courthouse the records of this probate. I don't have the will, but I have the people that were appointed to take an inventory of the goods that were left, and I have the actual inventory. This would give you an idea of this poor little family. They had three hardwood bedsteads worth three dollars; a writing desk worth a dollar; a timepiece, three dollars; a half dozen chairs, fifty cents; a dining room table, a dollar fifty; a light stand, looks like 37 and ½ cents; a cupboard, a dollar fifty; two wooden chests, fifty cents; a small looking glass, seventeen cents; two feather beds, eight dollars; two quilts, two dollars, two comforters, fifty cents; quantity of cooking ware, a dollar; a big kettle, fifty cents; and this is one tea something and that was fifty cents. Then we had six pair of sheets for a dollar; a loom, eight dollars; a small wheel, two dollars; a brass kettle, one dollar; a pair of shovels and tongs, seventy five cents. And, the grand total of Sally's worldly goods according to the inventory was $45.09 and a half cents." Freeman Putnam Fenlason was married to Harriet Newell Dunne November 2, 1837 by the Reverend George Childs, in Alexander. Their children included Myra Adelaide, born November 4, 1839 and called Maria in the 1850 census; Elvira Evelyn, "but on the 1850 census that was listed as Alvin E., so I don't know whether it was male or female. I didn't check the ‘m' or the ‘f'"; Charles Weston, some of whose relatives moved to the Boston area; Harris Freeman who moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1852. Alice Fenlason of Minneapolis, told Ellen Fenlason that "for years and years her family thought that Mark must have had a quarrel with his family because they had never heard anything about his relatives."