Moses Godfrey 1668-1743 Deborah Cooke 1679-1743

Moses Godfrey headstone

Moses Godfrey
Parents: George Godfrey and Hannah Hackett
Born 27 Jan 1667 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Deborah Cooke abt 1698 Massachusetts
Died 16 Apr 1743 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Buried Queen Anne Cemetery, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth: IGI Film 0905406 Batch C502461 dated 1649/1722
Marriage:  U.S. Marriages Prior to 1700
Blog about his life and more in Massachusetts: http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/01/moses-godfrey-1668-1743-eastham-to.html
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33393953/moses-godfrey

Deborah Cooke Godfrey headstone

Deborah Cooke
Parents: Josiah Cooke and Deborah Hopkins
Note:  descendant of Stephen Hopkins who was on the Mayflower
Born 15 Feb 1679 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died 23 Apr 1743 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Buried: Queen Anne Cemetery, Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33394073/deborah-godfrey

CHILDREN

Jonathan Godfrey
Born 1698 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Mercy Nickerson 2 Sep 1725 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Rebecca, Caleb, Jonathan

Died 18 Mar 1730 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
Mayflower Births and Death Vol 2 page 68
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Samuel Godfrey
Born 1701 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Thankful Knowles abt 1726

Children: Susanna, Josiah, Thankful, Mary, Phebe, Bethia, Prince, Alexander
Notes (found on findagrave) :  They went to Nova Scotia Canada with Chatham Migration of 1763 Grantee of 789 acres at Yarmouth Nova Scotia before 1767.
The Godfrey's settled in Liverpool,Queen,County,Nova Scotia Canada,which is on the south coast.and most Godfrey's work in connection with the sea.

Died: 7 July 1760 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 126 page 237
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Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15564110/samuel-prince-godfrey
Moses Godfrey
Born 1703 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Martha Collins abt 1726 Massachusetts

Children: Martha, Hannah, Eunice, Joseph, Deborah, Moses, Moses, John, Elisabeth
Died 1773 Massachusetts
Sources
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 126 page 237
Mayflower Births and Death Vol 2 page 68
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David Godfrey
Born 1705 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Priscilla Baker 14 Oct 1731 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children:  David, Elizabeth, John, Anna
Life notes: They moved from Cape Cod to New London County by 1748.  He was granted land in Horton, Nova Scotia in 1761
Died 1783 Nova Scotia, Canada

Note: His will was proven 14 Feb 1783.  It was his son David that died in New York
Sources
Online: http://fam.eastmill.com/ which contains parts of the work of Harold Beathem and his book History of Medway

Book:  History of Kings County by Dr. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton page 73
Note:  ebook available for free on google books 
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 126 page 237
U.S. and Canada Passenger Lists gathered from book: Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 by Leonard H. Smith Jr. and Norma H. Smith. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. page 546 
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George Godfrey headstone

*George Godfrey
Born 1707 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Mercy Knowles 1 Nov 1733 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children with Mercy: Richard, Knowles, Mercy, Benjamin, George, James, Sarah, Martha, Jonathan, Molly

2) Jane Collins 9 Nov 1758 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Died 4 Dec 1768 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources
Mayflower Births and Death Vol 2 page 68
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46517150/george-godfrey
Desire Godfrey
Born 15 March 1710 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Nathaniel Ryder 26 Sep 1728 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Nathaniel, William, Eunice, Esther, Josiah, Moses, John, Jonathan, Desire, Samuel, Zerviah
Died 6 Feb 1768
Sources
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 126 page 237
Genealogies of Mayflower families Volume 2 page 230-231
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Mary Godfrey Nickerson Smith headstone

Mary Godfrey
Born 4 September 1711 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married 1) Caleb Nickerson abt 1732 Massachusetts

Children: Joshua, Deborah, Caleb, Moses, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Deborah
2) Seth Smith 8 Nov 1756
Note:  she was buried under the surname Smith
Died 24 April 1872
Buried
Sources
Genealogies of Mayflower Families Volume 2 page 62
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43975951/mary-smith

Entry for Mary's life in the book: Genealogies of Mayflower Families page 62

Deborah Godfrey
Born 1713 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note have seen birth years as late as 1721

Married Thomas Bassett about 1740
Children: Deborah, Mary, Barbara, Desire, Martha, Azuba, Benjamin

Entry for Mary's life in the book: Genealogies of Mayflower Families page 63

Died
Sources
Genealogies of Mayflower Families Vol 2 page 63
Marriage:  U.S. and International Marriage records
Note:  in the record in claims her birth year is 1721 and his is 1715
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 126 page 238
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Elizabeth Godfrey Bearse

Elizabeth Godfrey
Born 15 March 1717 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Benjamin Cobb Bearse 31 May 1733 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Jonathan, Moses, Elizabeth, George, Benjamin
Died 1 Dec 1742 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Buried:  Old Chatham Burial Ground
Note:  surname on stone is Bers - there are many variations of her married surname
Sources
Mayflower Births and Death Vol 2 page 68
Family Search
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43997585/elizabeth-bers
Benjamin Godfrey
Born 1719 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Elizabeth Hopkins 23 Aug 1738 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Benjamin and Elizabeth's marriage record

Children: Benjamin, Gideon
Died
Buried
Sources
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 127 page 43
Marriage record: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
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Joshua Godfrey
Born 30 April 1723 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Phebe Gould 27 Apr 1743 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Joshua and Phebe's marriage record

Children: Nathaniel, Solomon, Phebe, Joshua, David, Levi
Died
Buried
Sources
Genealogies of Mayflower Families Vol 2 page 63
North American Family Histories (Gould) page 18 which was gathered from:  The ancestry and posterity of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield. By Benjamin A. Gould. Slem, 1872. (109p.):18
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Richard Godfrey
Born about 1725 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Married Azubah Collins 10 January 1751 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note:   - their intentions were announced 13 October 1750 

Marriage record for Richard and Azubah - note the date.  The calendar began in March back then, so this is 1751

Children: Enoch, Warren
Sources
Genealogies of Mayflower Families Vol 2 page 63
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Richard Godfrey 1735-1825 Lydia Doane 1741

Richard Godfrey
Parents: George Godfrey and Mercy Knowles
Born 1735 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Occupation: Mariner

Married Lydia Doane 23 Dec 1756 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: Marriage intention (engagement) announced 4 Dec 1756 Chatham Barnstable, Massachusetts

Marriage record for Richard Godfrey and Lydia Doane
Transcription: December 23, 1756 the marriage covenant was solemnized between Richard Godfrey jr (not sure why it claims Jr., as his father's name is George)  and Lydia Doane, both of Chatham, before the Reverend Mr. Stephen Emery, the Minister of the Gospel at Chatham, as appears under his hand so to me James Covel, Town Clerk

Died  after 1800 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Buried
Sources
North America, Family Histories

Marriage: Massachusetts Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 and 2

Mayflower Families Through Five Generations; Volume 6 (Stephen Hopkins), John D. Austin, General Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth, Massachusetts; 1992, Page number: entry 425, page 454, child i (meaning first child)
1800 US Census Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
New England Historical and Genealogical Register page 46 Vol 127

Occupation: his son-in-law's estate papers

AGBI

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Lydia Doane
Parents: Colonel Joseph Doane and Dorcas Eldredge

Born 25 May 1741 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Died

Buried
Sources
Marriage: Massachusetts Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records

North America, Family Histories

New England Historical and Genealogical Register page 46 Vol 127

Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 and 2

AGBI

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CHILDREN

Richard and Lydia's family according to book,
Chatham statistics and Town Meetings

Doane Godfrey
Born 11 Dec 1759 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Military: Private, Revolutionary War, Massachusetts 16th Regiment, Enlisted 8 Sep 1777. He was still there in December.
Married ?
Died
Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2
Military: U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls
AGBI
Family Search
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Joseph Godfrey
Born 11 Jan 1763 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married?
Died Perhaps died young?
Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2
New England Historical and Genealogical Register
AGBI
Family Search
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Molly Godfrey
Born: 26 May 1766 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married: Captain Levi Young 25 Mar 1788 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Joseph, Phoebe, Lydia, Eliza, Polly, Levi, Joshua, Richard, Mercy, Asenath

Levi Young and Molly's marriage record
Note: Their marriage intention was published 15 Mar 1788

Note:  Levi, a mariner, died before 14 January 1810, as proven in probate/estate papers.

Molly on 14 January 1810 gave permission for her father, Richard Godfrey, to become administrator of her late-husband's estate. 

Her brothers (James and Benjamin) were also signers on the estate papers. Between them and their father, they had to pay the Judge $4,000 and had to make a full inventory list by 30 April 1810.

The children (Joseph, Phebe, and Lydia, who was not listed among their children prior to this) signed a letter stating they wished their mother to be their legal guardian on 1 May 1810. The letter was also signed by Richard Godfrey, their grandfather.

The problem is that Levi left behind an enormous debt of $1109.55 (the equivalent of $21,615.45 in 2020).  Molly had no means of income that I've found.

26 June 1810, Richard had posted the auction in The Eagle (newspaper) printed in Castine, Maine and given the court a copy. He made sure he had it posted in public for three weeks prior to the auction.

The required court-ordered public post of the auction of Levi's and Molly's belongings

Partial Transcription (couldn't read all of it):
Notice: to be sold at public auction by order of cort at the dwelling house of Molly Young the 25th day of July next at two of the ...in the after noone the estate of Levi Young late of Orrington, deceased, consisting 31 acres of land, half of a good dweling house - wood house with a good well of water under the same and half of a good barne said estate...the county made and is within half  a mile of ... John Brewer

Also at the same time and place will be sold by order of Hon. Jbe Nelson, Esqr, Judge of .... the reversion of widowes dower consisting of half a good house and ...acres land conditions made known at the time and ....of sale

Orrington, April 15, 1814 (signature of Richard Godfrey, Molly's father)
Adjoined to August the seventh at the same place when with her sold to the administrator without ...... (followed by another signature of Richard's)

27 June 1810, Richard petitioned the Judge and claimed the estate was insolvent.

6 February 1812 Richard again petitioned the court stating that after the "widow's third" had been given to the widow (Molly) and everything else sold (land, etc.) there wasn't enough money to pay the claims against the estate. After selling all they could, they only came up with $544.55. 

On 24 March 1812, the petition was granted.

  

Died after April 15, 1814 - since Richard presumably dated the last part of the auction post that way 

Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2
North America, Family Histories

New England Historical and Genealogical Register
AGBI
Maine Wills and Probate Records, Hancock estate files 1790-1915, Images 1827-1848

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Captain Richard Godfrey 
Born 20 Aug 1769 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Occupation: Mariner?
Married Mercy Young 15 Feb 1790 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children:  Doane, Elisha, Richard, Mercy, Lydia, Alva, Phebe, David 

Richard Godfrey and Mercy Young's family

Died 5 October 1827 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine
Buried
Sources
Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

Marriage: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

1810 US Census Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

1820 US Census Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

AGBI Vol 64 page 58

New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Death: US newspaper extractions from the Northeast and listed as posted in the Columbian Centinel newspaper, 14 Nov 1827 issue

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George Godfrey
Born 23 May 1771 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married?
Died May have died young
Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

New England Historical and Genealogical Register page 47 Vol 127

AGBI Vol 64 p 35

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Polly Godfrey
Born 12 Jun 1773 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note:  also seen her name as Paula
Married?
Died
Buried
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

AGBI page 47 Vol 127

Family Search
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Lydia's headstone

 *Lydia Godfrey

-H-
4th Ggrandmother

 Born 9 May 1775 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
 Married 1) Isaiah Nickerson 12 Oct 1793 Chatham, Barnstable,   Massachusetts
  Children: George, Ruth, Isaiah, Polly, Lydia         
 2) William Parsons 13 Dec 1807 Massachusetts

 Died 14 Sep 1836 Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine

 Buried: Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine

 Sources                                             

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

AGBI page 47 Vol 127

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Dorcas Godfrey Knowles headstone

Dorcas Godfrey
Born 31 Jul 1777 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Dr. Abner Knowles 9 Jul 1795 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Chloe, Hannah, Narcissa, Dorcas, Mary, Abner, Ruth, Lydia, Jerusha, Eliza, Hezekiah
Died 1846 Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
Buried Elmwood Cemetery, Dexter, Penobscot, Maine
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

AGBI page 47 Vol 127

Family Search
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100495530/dorcas-knowles
James Godfrey
Born 15 Aug 1779 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Mehitable Swett 2 Dec 1802 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

Children: Lavina, Mehitable, Elmira, Alfred, George, Patty, Betsey, Alfred, Sarah

Died 15 Mar 1844 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

Buried: Dean Hill Cemetery, Orrington, Penobscot, Maine
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

AGBI page 38 Vol 64

North America, Family Histories

Family Search
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Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84364345/james-godfrey
Benjamin Godfrey
Born 9 May 1782 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Married Polly Gould 30 Dec 1812 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine
Children: Dorcas, Sarah, Benjamin, Louisa, Anna, James, Cinderilla, Mary

Benjamin and Patty's family

Died

Buried
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

New England Historical and Genealogical Register page 46 Vol 127

Book: Mayflower Births and Deaths Vol 1 & 2

AGBI page 26 Vol 64

North America, Family Histories

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Nathaniel Lowell 1761 Lois Colson 1763

-H-
5th great grandparents

Nathaniel Lowell
Parents: Abner Lowell and Polly Ayer

Born 28 May 1761
Married Lois Colson about 1786 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
2) Sarah Kimball about 1811 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Sources
Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85692392/nathaniel-lowell

Shared headstone for Nathaniel, Lois, 
his second wife, Sarah Kimball,
and his son, Nathaniel

Lois Colson
Parents: Josiah Colson and Elizabeth Downs

Born 30 Sep 1766 Stockton, Waldo, Maine
Died 1 August 1810 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Buried Lowell Cemetery Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Sources
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85692873/lois-lowell

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CHILDREN

Note: The first three children are reported to be born on the same day. The only one I found among the Maine births and christenings is Josiah. On the other hand, the historic genealogy book did not list Josiah at all, but did list the other two. 

Amos Lowell

Born 12 Jul 1787 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Died young
Sources

Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669
John Lowell
Born 12 Jul 1787 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Died
Sources
Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669
Josiah Lowell
Born 12 Jul 1787 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Josiah's birth record. Note: His mother's name is spelled Louies in the record

Married ?

Children

Died

Buried
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10578 Batch C50641-1 Image 14

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Nathaniel Lowell headstone
Buried with his parents

Nathaniel Lowell

Born about 1789 Bucksport, Hanock, Maine

Married

Died 1810 (age 21)

COD: Drowned

Buried

Sources

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James's headstone

James Chase Lowell

Born 26 Sep 1789 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Occupation: Shoemaker

Married Joanna (Joan) Nickerson 21 Jan 1816 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

Children: Elvira, Reuben, Lois, Nathaniel, Zeruiah, Marie, Hannah, Marie, Ellen, Jeremiah

Died 1 April 1879

Buried April 1879 Dean Hill Cemetery, Orrington, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
Marriage: Maine Marriages 1771-1907 Batch 11724 Batch I00651-0
Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99319066/james-lowell

Daniel Lowell

Born abt 1790 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Unmarried
Sources
Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669

Lois Lowell

Born abt 1796
Married ?

Children

Died

Buried
Sources

Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 670

-H-
4th g grandfather

*Anson Lowell

Born 30 Nov 1798 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Engaged to Mary Baker 5 Nov 1815 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

Engagement to Mary and the note at the bottom stating they were 
granted a certificate on 17 Dec 1815

Married 11 Feb 1816 Orrington, Penobscot, Maine

Anson and Mary's marriage record - note that a clerk has written 15 over the 16 
that was there. It was the same on several names on this page.

Children: Sarah, Martha, Nathaniel, Moses, Isaiah

Died 30 Jan 1844 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Note: on findagrave someone has mistakenly recorded that he was born in 1800. This cannot be true since on his grave it claims he was 45 years and 2 months old at the time of death.

Probate: 15 January 1845 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Note: brother Jeremiah was his executor

Buried: Riverview Cemetery Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Sources
1820 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

1830 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

1840 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 669
Marriage: Maine Marriages 1771-1907 Film 11724 Batch I00651-0

Maine U.S. Wills and Probate Records pages 67-68

Dorcas' headstone

Dorcas Lowell
Born 13 Feb 1801 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Married (intentions published) Reuben Rider 11 Mar 1823 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Hannah, Joshua, Sarah

Died 13 June 1872 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Buried Heweytown Cemetery, Bucksport, Hancock, Maine
Sources
1850 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine (age 48)  Film 443491 Image #72 Line 6 Family #497

1860 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine (age 59)

Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 670

Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70460737/dorcas-rider

Jeremiah and Clarissa's headstone

Jeremiah C Lowell
Born 1803 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Note: I have also seen 1792 for his birth year

Occupation: Stone Cutter (1860) Shoe Maker (1870)

Married: Clarissa Harper Harriman 9 July 1831 Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

Children: Mary, Amanda, John

Died 1879

Note: was the executor of his brother Anson's estate in probate court in 1845

Buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Prospect, Waldo, Maine

Sources
1820 US Census Bucksport, Hancock, Maine

1850 US Census Prospect, Waldo, Maine (age 46)

1860 US Non-population schedules (no age given, just stats on his farm)

1870 US Census for Maine he was listed as 68y old
Book: The historic genealogy of the Lowells of America from... by Delmar R Lowell p 670

Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203814067/jeremiah-c-lowell

Seth Orcutt 1782-1864 Anna Fletcher 1789-1871

H - 4th G Grandfather

Seth Orcutt
Parents: Emerson Orcutt and Ann Mansell
Born 17 Oct 1790 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Anna Fletcher About 1803
Died 18 Apr 1864 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Buried: Day Road Cemetery (now North Brewer Cemetery), Penobscot, Maine
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
1830 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
1840 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
1860 US Census Eddington, Penobscot, Maine (age 77, living with daughter Lucinda and son-in-law Russel B Thompson family)
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J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection 
Memorial (no stone): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198770528/seth-orcutt

Death record from the J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection for both Seth and Anna

H - 4th G Grandmother

Anna Fletcher
Parents William Carr Fletcher and Lydia Jane Hardison
Born 4 Apr 1789 Mariaville, Hancock, Maine
Died 4 Jan 1871 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
COD: Paralysis
Burial: Day Road Cemetery (now North Brewer Cemetery), Penobscot, Maine
Sources
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
1860 US Census Eddington, Penobscot, Maine (age 72, with granddaughter and husband)
Death and Cause of Death: US Federal Census Mortality Schedules
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Memorial (no stone): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198770607/anna-orcutt

CHILDREN

Elizabeth Orcutt Did not find this child
Born 4 Jun 1804 Maine
Died 23 Apr 1807
Sources
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Eliza Orcutt
Born 4 Jun 1805 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Samuel Debeck 23 Oct 1822  Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Children: Leonard, Milton
Died 23 Apr 1827 Clifton, Penobscot, Maine
Buried Maple Grove Cemetery, Clifton, Penobscot, Maine
Sources
Birth and death dates: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
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Adaline Orcutt
Born 12 Jun 1807 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Thomas Call Hanscom 25 May 1835 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note:  his surname is spelled Hanscomb in record
Children: Rebecca, Seth, unknown boy baby, Thomas
Died after 1850 (she was in census)
Buried
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 42)
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Seth and Lucy and children,
Ambrose and Lucy headstone.
Seth and Lucy had "Father" and "Mother"
stones as well.  

Seth Orcutt (Jr)
Born 14 Mar 1809 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Occupation:  Farmer
Married Lucy W Kenny 31 Mar 1832 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note: The bride has no middle initial in the record
Children:  Albert, Albion, Anna, Ambrose, Eudorus, Lucy, John, Reuben, Oris
Died 1888
Sources
Birth:  Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
1850 US Census (age 41)
1880 US Census page 501C (age 71)
Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
Online Book: The Town of Old Town (an account book) 1870-71 pages 4 & 7 tells how Seth was paid for work done on the road ($2.25) and as a sexton for "poor" expenditures ($4.00)
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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80253973/seth-orcutt

H - 3rd G grandmother

*Mary Ann Orcutt
Born 4 Jul 1811 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
There are TWO Mary Ann's that married Isaiah Nickerson and they are double cousin's (their fathers were brothers, their mothers were sisters)
To add to the confusion, not only do they share a name, but their birth year. This has caused a lot of confusion for family history researchers. 
THIS Mary Ann married her dead cousin's widowed husband, a couple of months after the other Mary Ann's death. 
Married widower Isaiah Nickerson (Jr) 3 Jul 1843 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine and raised 5 of his 6 sons (one died)
Children: Henrietta, Miranda, Horace
Died Apr 1879 Eddington, Penobscot, Maine
Buried: Harts Corner Cemetery
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
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Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94058147/mary-ann-nickerson

Elijah Orcutt
Born 16 Jul 1814 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Lydia Pierce Dole 28 Feb 1835 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine

Marriage intentions are at the first (like an engagement announcement)
 10 Jan 1835 , then it says the certificate was
granted on 28 Feb 1835 - presumably the day they got married

Children: Francis, Charles, Maria, Susan, Frederick, Albert
Died 29 Apr 1898 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Buried Silver Lake Cemetery, Athol, Worcester, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
Marriage Intention/date: Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921
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William Orcutt
Born 7 Mar 1816 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Sarah Pierce Day 27 Dec 1848 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note: The brides name has no middle initial on the record
Children: Adeline, Matilda, Rosaline
Died 1889 Mariaville, Hancock, Maine
Buried Frost Cemetery, Mariaville, Hancock, Maine
Sources
Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
1850 US Census Brewer, Penobscot, Maine (age 34)
1860 US Census Amherst, Hancock, Maine (age 45)
1870 US Census Mariaville, Hancock, Maine (age 54)
1880 US Census Mariaville, Hancock, Maine (age 69)
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William Orcutt's headstone:  note the incorrect birth year. 
The same thing happened to Sarah's (seen below)

Sarah's headstone

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131372453/william-orcutt
His wife's headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136136090/sarah-pierce-orcutt (Note:  his wife was burned to death when her clothing caught on fire from "hoop sharings" used to kindle fire in sitting room stove.) 

(John) Greene Orcutt
Born 21 Mar 1818 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note:  The birth record does not have the name John on it
Married Mary G Price 4 Sep 1845 Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
Children: 
Died
Buried
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Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
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Lucinda A. Orcutt 
Born 4 Jan 1822 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married: Russell B Thompson 20 Apr 1842 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine

Lucinda and Russell Thompson intention to marry (engagement) record 1 March 1842
 and the day they got the certificate 20 April 1842

Children: Maria, Adelbert, Annie, Hattie, Edner, Sarah, George
Died 4 October 1888 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Buried Hart Cemetery, Holden, Penobscot, Maine
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Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
Marriage: IGI Film 0010580 Batch M521561 dated 1768-1885
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(Wilson) Nelson Orcutt
Born 17 Oct 1824 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note:  Birth record did not have the name Wilson on it
Died
Buried
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Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
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Eliza Orcutt
Born 30 Mar 1826 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note:  Yes, there are TWO Eliza's.  I do not know why they called her Eliza unless they already knew that her older sister was dying (she passed away less than a year later) and they wanted to honor her
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Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
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Hosea and Harriet Orcutt's headstone

Hosea Rich Orcutt
Born 1 Apr 1829 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Married Harriet Ellis Houston 22 Dec 1853 Brewer, Penobscot, Maine
Note: Brides Surname spelled Heusten in record. There was also an IGI record incorrectly transcribed with a marriage date of 26 Oct 1833 (he would have been 5 years old)
Died 18 Oct 1903 Holden, Penobscot, Maine
Buried Tomb Cemetery, Holden, Penobscot, Maine
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Birth: Maine Birth and Christenings 1739-1900 Film 10580 Batch C52156-1
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23023545/hosea-r-orcutt
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Thomas Nickerson 1696 Lydia Covell 1701-1750

Thomas Nickerson
Parents Lieutenant Thomas Nickerson and Mary Bangs

Born 24 Dec 1696 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Married 1) Lydia Covell 16 May 1716 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: there is a marriage record with the name Thomas Nickerson and Lydia, but the year is wrong - 1705, which would make her 4 years old and him about 9, so though I think it is them, because of the date, I believe it was a clerical mistake...and the clerk that made the mistake was none other than a Thomas Nickerson.
2) (Widow) Sarah Crowell 5 Jul 1751 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: marriage intention published 5 July 1750

Note: on family search, for place of marriage it claims London Grove Township, Pennsylvania, but the extracted work claims it was Chatham, Massachusetts. An extraction error?
3) Bethia Harding 26 Dec 1763 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Thomas and Bethia's marriage record. The 6 on the 26th is very hard to see unless you really enlarge it. Note: marriage intention (engagement): 3 Dec 1763 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Died after 1763 (when he married Bethia)

Buried
Sources
Birth: AGBI and IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
Marriage to Lydia: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Marriage to Sarah: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

Marriage to Bethia: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

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Lydia Covell
Parents Joseph Covell and Lydia Stuart

Born 12 Jul 1701 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Died 18 Oct 1750 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note:  Big fat question mark: Thomas was engaged to marry his second wife by July of 1750, so...he was engaged before Lydia died?  Were he and Lydia divorced? or are there two Thomas Nickerson's with wife's named Lydia?
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Parents and birth date: Book: History and Genealogy of the Mayflower Planters and first comers to ye olde colonie Vol 2 (the Sandys and Brewsters of Scrooby Manor) by Leon Clark Hills, 1936, page 94 

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CHILDREN

Desire Nickerson
Born 5 Feb 1718 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Desire Nickerson birth record. 
Note:  the year has been wrongfully thought to be 1715

Married Elisha (Eliaphas) Nickerson 1735
Children: Elisha, John
Died 28 August 1786 Argyle, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada

Buried Canada
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Birth: IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
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*Thomas Nickerson
Born 28 Feb 1720 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Thomas birth record

Married Dorcas Sparrow 6 May 1741 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Sparrow, Thomas, Phebe, Hugh, Dorcas, Rachel, Sarah, Sabra

Died

Buried
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Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733
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Lydia Nickerson
Born 30 Mar 1722 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note: Given name spelled Ledea in record

Lydia's birth and death record

Died 15 Aug 1722 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Sources

Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Death: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records

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Lydia Nickerson
Born 16 Feb 1724 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Note: name is spelled Ledea in record

Lydia's birth record

Married Thomas Snow 5 Sep 1773 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Children: none

Died after 1790

Buried
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Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

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Ansel Nickerson
Born 2 May 1727 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Ansel's birth record

Married: Bathsheba Small 21 May 1748 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Children: Levi (later renamed Ansel after his father died)

Died 1 Nov 1750 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Ansel's death record

Life Note: Ansel Jr. was acquitted of murder. See the story below

AT THE ATWOOD HOUSE A Chatham Murder Mystery by Spencer Grey

On Nov. 15, 1772, when Captain Joseph Doane of Chatham was on board his schooner in Cape Cod Bay, he saw a vessel flying a distress signal. Coming alongside, he discovered it was the Schooner Abigail, Thomas Nickerson of Chatham, master, en route from Boston

to Chatham. When he boarded the Abigail, he confronted a horrifyingly gruesome scene. Her deck was covered with blood, and the captain, his cousin, Sparrow Nickerson, and his brother-in-law, Elisha Newcomb, all lay there, clearly having been murdered. Chests had been smashed open and rifled; a rum barrel with its head stove in was almost empty, and only one member of the crew, Ansel Nickerson of Chatham, also a cousin of the captain, remained alive. Although highly agitated and distressed, Nickerson was able to present his version of what had occurred.

The previous evening, he asserted, they had been hailed and stopped by a topsail schooner, and as four boatloads of men rowed toward the Abigail, Nickerson lowered himself with a rope over the stern of the ship to escape what he believed either were pirates or English sailors planning to impress them into the British Navy. While he remained out of sight, the intruders killed everyone on deck, except a 13-year-old boy named William Kent, whom they took with them after they had raided the contents of the chests and drunk most of the rum in the barrel. Nickerson heard them discussing whether or not to burn the Abigail, but fortunately for him they decided against it and returned to their schooner.

Although Captain Doane found Nickerson’s account plausible, he nevertheless reported the incident to the county judge, Edward Bacon, Esq., of Barnstable, who was less convinced of the young man’s veracity. After other vessels had scoured the area for evidence of any pirate foreign vessels and found none, Bacon sent a copy of the report to the governor and had Ansel Nickerson locked up in the Barnstable jail for further questioning. In the meantime, news of the bizarre and bloody incident reached as far as Boston, where a young attorney

named John Adams read it and recorded in his journal that he considered it a “mysterious,

inexplicable affair.”

Even though Captain Doane could not corroborate all of the evidence provided by Nickerson, it seemed unlikely that he could have overpowered and murdered three

members of the crew, and moreover there was no clear motive for his doing so. 

Nevertheless, Bacon was sufficiently suspicious to have him sent to Boston to be tried for murder on the high seas by a special Court of the Vice-Admiralty. The trial was scheduled for July of 1773, and John Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr. were appointed counsel for the defense. The defense maintained that Nickerson was a lucky survivor of a pirate attack and was in no way responsible for the murder of the three men and the pillage of the cargo.

At the end of a five-day trial the jury returned a tie vote, resulting in Ansel Nickerson’s acquittal. Yet John Adams was not totally convinced of Nickerson’s innocence, as he wrote in his diary after the trial, “I know not to this day what judgment to form of his guilt or innocence.”

Because the facts of the case remained murky and Nickerson remained under a cloud of suspicion, he apparently left Chatham and settled on the island of Eleuthra in the Bahamas. Even though there were uncorroborated reports that he confessed to the crime on his deathbed, the whole episode remains a mystery to this day

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Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

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Prince Nickerson
Birth 10 Aug 1729 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Prince's birth record

Occupation: Mariner

Married: 1) Lydia Cahoon 7 Oct 1750 Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Note: Her surname in the record is spelled Chohoon and his given name is spelled Prins
Children: Tabitha, Lydia
2) (Widow) Ruth Covell Atkins 22 Aug 1759 Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: their engagement was published 2 July 1759. She had 3 boys and a girl before she married Prince. 

Children: twins, which survived her

3) Mary Crowell 12 Mar 1761 Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Children: Ansel, Esther, Susanna, Eldad, Sparrow, Anna, Elizabeth, Thomas 
Died 1 Jan 1812 Westport Clyde, Nova Scotia, Canada

Buried

Life Sketch: "An early settler Prince Nickerson who settled shortly after Elkanah Smith,  was living in Barrington in 1763. His property was bound on the South by Clam Creek. He had 3 sons; Eldad, Sparrow, and Thomas. 

Eldad was famous for ship building, setting the pace for Coffin's and Sutherlands, who milled their ship timber on the river and rafted it to the harbour"..."The oldest son Ansel went to Maria Joseph, the other sons settled at Port Clyde." The Barrington 1769 Census shows a wife, 2 sons, 3 daughters, cattle, sheep, swine, fish boat and dried fish. Prince was on the Committee for laying out Proprietors Land 1768-9. He sold his lot at Barrington Head to William Donaldson and his interest on Cape Island to Stephen Nickerson. He was living at Cape Negro in 1783.

His will gave Mary his real and personal estate until her death, and then, to be divided between sons Eldad, Thomas, and Sparrow. It included the house and barn on three acres, fish house, stock, other land and meadows. Son Ansel received 10 Shillings and the daughters "all my household furniture to be divided equally" Eldad as executor of the estate after Mary died in 1830, wrote to Probate Court 21 June 1832, "...there is some land so dispersed belonging to the estate that it will be extremely difficult for the appraiser to view it will you please advise me whether it cannot be sold without a valuation" "Aug. 1, 1832 Probate judge gives land (agreeable to all) to son Eldad as it cannot be divided without great difficulty and expense".
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Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records AND IGI Film 0001251 V4 Batch C510401 dated 1696-1733

Marriage to Lydia: IGI Film 0905406 Batch M502466 dated 1654-1761
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Story: The Nickerson Family, Descendants of William Nickerson, Part II, 1980, pg 160.

I can't find the following 2 people in any official record's

Seth Nickerson
Born abt 1731 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Married Mary 1756
Children: Ebenezer

Died

Buried
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Edward Nickerson
Born abt 1733 Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America

Married

Children

Died

Buried
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