CHigg31401@aol.com wrote: > > Searching for any information on the :Irish Colony" supposedly set up be > Robert at Bath Me. > ChiggHere's what I have - I hope you can use some of it: Individual Summary - 1 Feb 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Captain Robert TEMPLE Sex: Male Father: Thomas TEMPLE (-1694) Mother: Agnes WHITE (-) Individual Facts Birth 1691 in Ireland Moved Boston, Suffolk, MA (1717) (age 26) Death 23 Dec 1775 in Woburn, Middlesex, MA (age 84) Marriages/Children 1. Mehitable NELSON Marriage 11 Aug 1721 in Boston, Suffolk, MA (age 30) Children Thomas TEMPLE (-bef 1775) Margaret TEMPLE (-) Mary TEMPLE (-) Robert TEMPLE (abt 1726-1781) Elizabeth TEMPLE (Feb 1727-) Rebecca TEMPLE (-) Mehitable TEMPLE (-31 Mar 1766) Sir John TEMPLE (1731-17 Nov 1798) William TEMPLE (abt 1732-4 Jun 1785) Agnes TEMPLE (-1753) Notes Birth: Date of 1691 based on age at time of death. Other sources give 1694. Death: Prominent Americans gives 14 Apr 1754. General: Formerly a Captain in the Irish Army, came to America with Capt James Luzmore of Topsham, England. Robert purchased land on the Kennebec River and Merry Meeting Bay in Maine and during 1718- 1719, he brought over several hundred Scotch-Irish settlers aboard five ships in an attempt to found a colony called Temple Bar (now Bath, Maine). Dummer's Indian War broke up this colony. Captain Penhallow, writing to the Governor of Massachusetts on 15 Jun 1722 mentioned the fight which broke up the colony. The larger part of them went to Pennsylvania. Robert (and possibly his father) returned to East Boston, where in time he built himself a fine mansion. He has a pew in the old North Church in Boston to this day. Later, in 1750, he purchased the estate called Ten Hills, on the Mystic River. Temple was of a distinguished family in Ireland, and the ancestor of the numerous and respected family of the late Lt. Governor Thomas L. Winthrop of Boston, who married his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bowdoin. His will gave the Ten Hills farm to his wife, farm at Chelsea, and Negroes "Bandon," "Kerry," and "Mallow." John received the Mount farm at Worcester, the farm at Eastward, and Negroes "Dutchess," "Sambo," and "Limerick." William received farms at Kennebec and Woburn, and Negro "Jack." -- L. Parker Temple Researching the branches of the TEMPLE family See my home page at http://www.erols.com/lptemple/house.htm