Families of Addison, Maine: It was incorporated as a town on February 14, 1797, and named in honor of the elegant English writer, Joseph Addison. >From his early teens, Addison distinguished himself as a writer, an author of poetry and chronicler of travels, as well as a government official. The Tatler, Spectator and Guardian, periodicals started by Steele, owned their celebrity in a great measure to the contributions of Addison. The harmony of his sentences and the easy flow of his polished language have made him a model to all who wish to acquire a correct and elegant style. Some lover of the works of his graceful English author must have been among the proprietors or early settlers of this small Maine town. The Bangor Historical Magazine gives the following inhabitants-men, women and children-on April 27, 1778, the entire number being 213: David, Wilmot and Wilmot Wass, Jr., (the senior Wilmot Wass is credited with being at the present Addison in 1763), Joseph and Joseph Tibbetts Jr., Joseph, Samuel, Margaret, Isaiah and Joseph Nash, Jr., Widow Knowles, William Ingersoll, Edmund Stevens, Seth Norton, John Hall, Daniel and George Tenney, Gowen and Joseph Wilson, John Bucknam (who is believed to have been here in 1763), Owen McKenzie, Moses Wooster, Nathan Whitney, William McCausland, Obadiah Allen, Noah and William Mitchell, Nathaniel Cox, Nehemiah Small, Richard Coffin, Joseph Drisko and Joseph Drisko, Jr., Moses Plummer, David Will and Daniel Look. The name of Parrit Leighton, son of Samuel who came from Falmouth in 1760 and settled at Indian River, Addison, is that of one of the earlier settlers from whom the Leightons of this vicinity are descended. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail