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CHATEAU DE MONTBELIARD 
 
GENEALOGY 
 
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 THE CARNEY FAMILY 
 
 DESCENDANTS OF 
 
 MARK CARNEY AND SUZANNE GOUX 
 
 HIS WIFE 
 
 OF POWNALBORO, MAINE 
 
 1751 1903. 
 
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 IN MEMORY 
 
 OF 
 
 MARK AND SUZANNE GOUX-CARNEY 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 However inconspicuous the lives of our ancestors, the fact 
 should never be overlooked that what we are we owe to them. 
 They were the ones who severed the ties of home and kin- 
 dred in order to enjoy the liberty of thought and action denied 
 them in the land of their nativity. 
 
 It required no little courage to begin life anew in a wilderness 
 where their daily bread was to be literally wrung from the 
 soil, and physical and intellectual privations faced them. 
 
 Even though pestilence entered the doors of their log cabins 
 and death lurked behind the majestic pines of their adopted 
 land, they steadfastly offered their morning and evening hymns 
 of praise with a calm spirit of thankfulness for the few blessings 
 vouchsafed them. 
 
 In the varied richness of our environment we should always 
 remember their struggles to meet the exigencies of their day. 
 Hence it is fitting to perpetuate their names in a family history. 
 
 The statements herein contained have been collected with 
 great difficulty. If some descriptions appear meager, it is be- 
 cause no other information has been furnished. 
 
 Those who have endeavored to perpetuate the memory of 
 kinsmen, in book form, can appreciate the pleasure experienced 
 from hearty co-operation of kinsmen and friends. 
 
 The writer is especially indebted for individual research, al- 
 ways graciously given, to the late Miss Caroline G. Carney, 
 of Portland, Maine ; the late Mrs. Julia Carney Gorham of 
 Richmond, Maine ; Miss Lucia Carney of Portland, Maine ; 
 Miss M. Adeline Houdlette of Dresden Mills, Maine ; Charles 
 
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 E. Allen, Esq., of Cedar Grove, Maine ; Rev. Anson Titus of 
 Tufts College, Mass.; Edwin H. Carney, Esq., of Sheepscott, 
 Maine ; Hon. John V. Carney of Bennington, Vt.; Hon. Frank- 
 lin L. Carney of Sheepscott, Maine ; Rev. G. Zentz of Etobon, 
 and Professor Georges Lods of Montbeliard, France. 
 
 In submitting the result of ten years' research, the hope is 
 expressed that the kinsmen may have that satisfaction which 
 comes from reading the history of sincere, true, noble Christian 
 women and men who bravely met and conquered the vicissitudes 
 of life and have left unstaiued these memories of their devotion 
 to home and country. 
 
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CHAPTER I. 
 
 In 1752 the Plymouth Company voted to lay out their first 
 township " on the neck of land between Kennebeck and East- 
 ern Rivers opposite to Fort Richmond," this fort having been 
 constructed in 1719 as a trading-post. The Company gave the 
 name Frankfort to this new center of habitation, in honor of 
 Count Henri Ehrenfield Luther, aulic Councillor of State at 
 Frankfort-on-the-Main. Among the early settlers were one or 
 two Scotch-Irish and German families, but the majority were 
 French Lutherans and Calvinists ; the latter from Southwest- 
 ern France while the former were from the Eastern Provinces, 
 having a well-known College at Montbeliard. This was the 
 locality of Suzanne Goux's birth, and from thence, in 1751, 
 with her father, mother, sisters and brother she removed to 
 Rotterdam, Holland, and from there emigrated to America, in 
 the good ship " Priscilla," John Brown, master. Her mother 
 died on the long and tedious passage to America. The French 
 families were naturally clannish, and wished to be grouped 
 together at the new plantation as the following extract from a 
 letter to Peter Chardon of Boston proves. They requested that 
 "all the French be settled together, so that they might employ 
 a minister for Divine Service and a schoolmaster for the in- 
 struction of their children." In another letter an idea is 
 obtained of their temporal requisites : 
 
 " Frankfort, Nov. 2d, 1752. 
 "Sir : — We ask with great humility, pardon for our impor- 
 tunities and trouble we give vou, and we take again the free- 
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dom to write, praying Almighty God for the preservation of 
 your dear health and of all those that belongs to you. We had 
 great satisfaction in the grant of f ourty acres of land each in this 
 place, but at the same time the affliction to see the English quit 
 their first lots and settle upon the French line in such a manner 
 as to oblige some of us to take up with the other twenty acres 
 at a great distance from the first, although we had almost fin- 
 ished our settlements ; and further, we are very much troubled 
 to see said persons to our great inconvenience fixt their houses 
 in such forwardness as only to want coverings which would been 
 likewise done if they had the tools necessary for their work. 
 The most honorable gentlemen of the company promised to 
 settle all the French upon one line near one another, so as to 
 enable them hereafter to settle a minister for Divine Service 
 and a schoolmaster for the instruction of their children. 
 
 " We desire, dear sir, you would be so good as to communi- 
 cate to the honorable gentlemen of the company our former 
 requests for sundry articles, we are in very great want of, in 
 particular the provision our three men that went to Boston 
 lately desired, not have half enough to carry us through the 
 winter, and as for other necessaries every one asks for himself, 
 besides what each desired some time ago, namely, for George 
 Gout 2 hatts, 1 a half castor, the other a felt, 3 shaves to shave 
 wood, black pepper, smoak tobaca. For John Pochard, 2 hats, 
 1 shaver for wood, 1 hand saw, 2 gimlets 1 large 1 small : 
 smoak tobaca, black pepper, sewing thread for cloth, 2 chisels, 
 small hatchet. 
 
 " For John Bugnont — barrel vinegar, bushel of onions, black 
 pepper, felt hat, blanket or rugg, thread for clothes, smoak 
 tobaca, barrel of rum for him, George Gout & Peter 
 Gout. 
 
 "For Daniel Jalot, 5 yards middlin coarse cloth for clothes, 
 hats, axe, thread, black pepper. For Peter Gout, hats, sewing 
 thread, hand saw, chisel, shaver, bushel of onions. For Joseph 
 
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 Bas, shaver, hat, bushel of onions, black pepper, tobaca to 
 smoak, cive for flower. Signed by 
 
 " James Bugnont, 
 " Peter Gout, 
 " John Pochard & 
 " Denis Jacoe. 
 " I have received 3 barrels, 1 of flour, 1 of Indian corn, & 
 one of pork. I humbly intreat of you, dear sir, to ask the 
 favor of those gentlemen to have the goodness to send me 
 3 barrels more of flour, 3 of Indian corn, and 2 of pork, 1 of 
 rum, and 1 of molasses, these last two for Daniel Jacob and 
 Joseph Bas ; and for me, James Frederick Jaquin, the last 
 comer, a small quantity of the best flax for a piece or two of 
 linen, 10 lbs of tobaca, 1 lb black pepper, bushel of onions, 
 bushel of good peas. This signed only by James Frederick 
 Jaquin." 
 
 One hundred and sixty years have passed since Mark Carney 
 w T as born. The exact date of his birth, his nationality, and cause 
 of death remain unproven. Although little of his ancestry is 
 known, it may be inferred that it was of the best because of his 
 individual force in meeting the exigencies of his environment, 
 participating as he did in the civil, military and religious ac- 
 tivities of his time. Modest though the service was, it formed 
 a part of that wonderful Colonial mosaic on which rests our 
 present National Government. Singularly enough we find 
 him, first and last, serving in the Colonial and Revolutionary 
 Wars. 
 
 Whether of Irish or French extraction we cannot positively 
 decide. While it is true that allegations of fact based on tradi- 
 tions carry little weight, nevertheless traditions in a family 
 often lead to new sources of information, and for this reason 
 the following traditions are here incorporated : 
 
 James G. Carney, and others, often quoted the statement 
 
that Mark Carney said " he was tired of being called Garnet " 
 and so changed the spelling to Carney, as the pronunciation 
 of the former word. 
 
 Major Lapham of Gardiner, Maine, said that " Mark Carney 
 came straight from Boston Common on his arrival in this 
 country and took up his residence in Pownalboro.'' 
 
 James Carney, Sr.'s, daughter, Mrs. Octavia C. Wilson, dis- 
 tinctly remembers that Mark Carney was said to have been " a 
 Pontoise," that is from Pontoise, a little town some nineteen 
 miles from Paris, France. James Carney, Sr., during a period 
 of political excitement many years ago, offered " $1,000 to 
 any one who could prove that he James, Sr., had a drop of 
 Irish blood in his veins." 
 
 Be that as it may, the following letter from Daniel Carney, 
 (brother of James, Sr.,) to his son James G. Carney, indi- 
 cates that in his opinion, Mark was from Ireland : 
 
 " Newcastle 28th, Oct. 1829. 
 
 " Dear Son : 
 
 " Yours of the 29th ult. came to hand the day before yester- 
 day. This will be my excuse for not writing you before. I 
 am sorry to hear you were disappointed in getting your house 
 as you expected. It is truly unpleasant to be separated from 
 one's family, I have felt that from experience, and hope it will 
 not be long before you get one to suit, and presume I need 
 not recommend prudence and economy in rent as well as 
 living. I have been very busy since I arrived in repairing 
 house &c. At present we are comfortably situated. If I had 
 this place free and a little property, I could make myself con- 
 tented. In regard to our Ancestors, I know but little about 
 them being very young when my Father died. I have under- 
 stood that my Father Mark Carney, with David Clancy, 
 William O' Brian and Ki chard Whaling came to this part of 
 the Country very young (by the way of Newfoundland). That 
 
ray Mother, Suzanna Goude, with her Father, Brother George 
 and two Sisters came from Germany and were French. 
 
 " David Clancy and my Father married Sisters, Elizabeth and 
 Susannah Goude. 
 
 " My Grandmother (1745) died on her passage to this Country 
 and my Grandfather before my remembrance. He probably 
 came to this Country about 85 years since. I have no record 
 of either family of any kind. There are many of our name 
 in the County of Kilkenny, but whether my Father was an 
 orphan or had parents living when he left Ireland I do not 
 recollect to have heard him or my Mother say. There are 
 many very wealthy men in Ireland, and have no doubt many 
 as poor as I am, and I am willing to give you a quit claim to 
 all the Property that comes from that quarter for $100. 
 Your Aunt rec'd her letter and says when she can get time 
 she will write you. She was much pleased that you wrote so 
 well. I shall be glad to hear from you often and something of 
 your prospects. The times are hard and the current rapid but 
 I hope you will all be able to stem it. Hope you will do all 
 you can for William. Kemember me to Clarissa. We are in 
 good health. Your affectionate Father — Daniel Carney." 
 
 As Suzanne Goux was from Montbeliard, France, it is barely 
 possible that Mark Carney was from the same town or vicinity. 
 
 Colonial spelling of family names was often phonetical, and 
 thousands of names were thus altered from the original spell- 
 ing:, often bearing no resemblance to the original name. As 
 an illustration, the name Goux is found spelled Goud, Goude, 
 Gout, Gough and Gue, while in New York the name Guion 
 became changed to Gue. In the " History of Montbeliard in 
 the 18th. Century," by CI. Duvernoy, and published in 1891, 
 there is found the family name " Marconnet" which with 
 little, if any, stretch of English pronunciation may be trans- 
 formed into " Mark Carney." 
 
There was an Abraham Marconnet living in Montbeliard 
 in 1647. He was a doctor of law and preceptor of one of 
 the young dukes of Brunswick. Doctor Marconnet was a man 
 of wide learning as shown by his many publications, in Latin, 
 which include poems and articles on theology, history and 
 politics. 
 
 In Poitou there was an illustrious and numerous Marconnay 
 family, which embraced Protestantism during the second half 
 of the 16th century. One branch of this family offers one or 
 two suggestive features. 
 
 Lancelot, Lord de Marconnay, married Catherine de Chesneau. 
 Their second son, Charles, married in 1628 Elizabeth de La- 
 Vairie. Their son Louis de Marconnay, Lord of Chateauneuf, 
 had twenty-two children, two of whom, Samuel Philemon and 
 Marie, were expelled from France in 1688. They went to Hol- 
 land where Samuel Philemon became a lieutenant (later a 
 colonel) in a French regiment and followed William of Orange 
 to England. 
 
 He married in 1698 Anne Le Cerf and they had three daugh- 
 ters, Elizabeth, Henrietta and Suzanne. While there is no 
 proof, as yet, that Mark Carney was of the Marconnay, or 
 Marconnet, family, it remains as a fact that he suddenly appears 
 at a little French colony on the Kennebeck River, some twenty 
 miles inland, and fights shoulder to shoulder with Frenchmen 
 in the English monarch's service ; marries a young French girl 
 who bears him twelve children who bear names found in the 
 above-mentioned Goux and Marconnay families. 
 
 We do not find any "Michael," "Patrick" or "Bridget" 
 among the family names, as one would expect if he were of Irish 
 extraction, nor do we learn from any of the children or grand- 
 children that words or expressions peculiar to the " Emerald 
 Isle," were used or known to them. 
 
 We do notice the family of twelve children, followed by 
 Daniel's family of twenty-two and James' family of twelve, 
 
similar in number to that of the Marconnay family ; and also 
 the dark eyes and complexion, the prominent nose, small hands 
 and feet, by some considered as typically French. 
 
 If Mark were an Irishman, why identify himself with this 
 French Colony '( Would it not seem more natural for him to 
 gravitate to those of his own nationality ? 
 
 The facts and traditions are placed before the reader with 
 the hope that more definite information may yet be obtained. 
 
 In this same history appears the Jaquin family, which 
 later in Maine was spelled Jacquin, Jacqueen and Jakins: 
 and it may be noted that Mark's daughter Joanna married 
 James Jacquenot Jacquin. All of Mark's children were more 
 French than Irish in personal appearance, and this is sin- 
 gularly the case in all of the grandchildren and even the great- 
 great-grandchildren. 
 
 So that, given other Irish families in Pownalboro, together 
 with the desire on the part of the French families to keep by 
 themselves, it is odd, to say the least, that Mark Carney, if of 
 Irish extraction and the sole person of the name in that section, 
 should have married into a French family. 
 
 Suzanne's brother, George Goux, marched shoulder to 
 shoulder with Mark Carney and frequently does his name ap- 
 pear in the Massachusetts Archives as well as that of his father 
 Daniel Goud. 
 
 See Mass. Archives, vol. 94, folio 46. " Daniel Goud, quality 
 Centinel, in His Majesty's Service, Capt. Sam'l Goodwin 
 commanding, Scouting Eastward and guarding stores at Fort 
 Halifax, July 23d. 1755 to Dec. 23d. 1755." And also the 
 following : Vol. 95, folio 80. " Daniel Goud, quality Centinel, 
 31st March 1756 to 9th. Nov. 1756. " Vol. 96, folio 30. " Daniel 
 Goud, Scouting Eastward, under Captain Jonas Fitch, 4th. May 
 1757 to 31st Oct. 1757." Vol. 96, folio 239. " Daniel Goud, 
 quality Centinel, with a detachment under Lieut. Jonas Fitch, 
 at Frankfort, 14th. June 1758 to Oct. 31st. 1758, under Com- 
 
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 mand Capt. Joshua Freeman." Vol. 97, folio 252. " Daniel 
 Goud — quality private — Company of Scouts, 10th April 1759 
 to Sept. 1759." Vol. 97, folio 273. "Daniel Goud, Centinel, 
 scouting Eastward, Capt. Charles Leissner 11th Sept. 1759 to 
 Oct. 30th 1759." George Goud's name also appearing in the 
 above records. 
 
 Prior to these dates of military service we find on page 30 
 of the Kennebeck Purchase Kecords, dated July 16, 1753, 
 the following : " Daniel Gowe [Goud on the margin] has 
 granted to him and it is hereby Voted and Granted him in the 
 Plantation of Frankfort so called, on the East side of Kennebeck 
 River agreeable to a form of vote passed the 21th January, 1753, 
 and the 12th vote of said day and subscribed to limitations 
 therein expressed ; 100 acres of land in three lots, as in the 
 book of Events, No. 10, will more fully appear." On page 32 
 the name is again spelled " Daniel Gowe" with " Goud " written 
 on the margin. 
 
 On April 27, 1767, Daniel Goud conveyed to his son, 
 George Goud, for 40 shillings, 40 acres of land on the west 
 side of Eastern River, and 2 twenty-acre lots, Nos. 54 and 
 59, " conveyed to me by grant July 16, 1753, from Kenne- 
 bec Purchase Company." In the Lincoln County Registry of 
 Deeds, vol. 4, page 159, is an indenture between Daniel Goud, 
 Pownalborough, yeoman, and- estate of William Bowdoin, 
 Esq., of Roxbury, dated May 1, 1765 : " Whereas the said 
 Daniel Goud stands justly indebted unto the owners of the late 
 ship ' Priscilla ' John Brown, Master, in which said ship the 
 said Daniel came passenger from Rotterdam in the year 1751, 
 in the full and just sum of £25 and 6d., lawful money, for 
 which he has given his Bond to the said William — of the pen- 
 alty of £50 and 1 shilling lawful money, &c." This tract 
 of land, on the west side of Eastern River was bounded — 
 " S. E. by River— 
 N. E. by land of Michael Stillfin 
 
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 S. W. by land of Charles Etienne Houdelette 
 N. W. by middle Road, 
 40 Poles by 160 Poles." 
 
 Charles Etienne Houdelette came under the same conditions 
 as Daniel Goud, and probably many others. 
 
 The following is the last will and testament of Daniel Goud, 
 to be found in the Maine, Lincoln County, Wills, published 
 1894, vol. 1, page 49: 
 
 " In the name of God Amen— the 27th day of April A. D. 
 1767—1, Daniel Goud, of Pownalborough in the County of Lin- 
 coln, Yeoman, being of perfect mind and memory and knowing 
 that it is appointed to all men once to die and thinking it my 
 Duty to set my house in Order, before that awful last hour 
 overtakes me, do hereby make and ordain my last Will and 
 Testament ; that is to say principally and first of all I commend 
 my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, trusting in the 
 Merits of his Dear Son, my Lord and Saviour, for the pardon 
 of all my Sins and acceptance with Him : My Body I commit 
 to the Earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executor, 
 nothing doubting but that I shall receive the same by the 
 Mighty power of God, at the General Resurrection : and as to 
 my Worldy Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me 
 in this Life, I give, devise, and dispose of in Manner and form 
 following, that is to say : 
 
 " Imps. I give my daughter Elizabeth Clancey the sum of six 
 shillings to be paid her in one year after my Decease, which, 
 with what I gave her in my Lifetime is in full of her portion 
 of my Estate. 
 
 " I give my daughter Susannah Carney, the sum of six shill- 
 ings, which with what I gave her in my lifetime is in full of 
 her portion of my Estate. Lastly — all the Rest and Residue 
 of my Estate Real, personal or mixed, wheresoever the same 
 is, I give and devise to my Son George Goud, to hold to him, 
 and his heirs forever, he the said George paying to my two 
 
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 Daughters aforesaid the said sum of six shillings apiece ; 
 also he paying all my Just Debts and funeral Charges. And 
 I do hereby constitute and appoint my said son George Goud, 
 sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, Revoking & 
 Disannulling all other and former Testaments by me heretofore 
 made : declaring this and no other to be my last Will and 
 Testament : In witness whereof I the said Daniel Goud do 
 hereto set my hand and Seal the day and year afore written. 
 
 " Daniel Goud (Seal) 
 " Signed, sealed & Delivered & 
 declared by the said Testator 
 to be his last Will & Testament 
 in presence of 
 
 Chas. Cushing. 
 
 Mary Nye. Probated 12. Apr. 1769 
 
 Jona. Bowman. Inventory by Saml. Emerson 
 
 Richard Kidder and George Lilly, all 
 of Pownalborough. 
 
 7th Apr. 1770 £31 : 16 : 4." 
 
 George Goud must have been about ten or fifteen years older 
 than Mark Carney. He was one of the last vestrymen of St. 
 John's church at Pownalboro and the date of his death is thus 
 recorded on his tombstone : 
 
 " Mr. George Goud died May 18, 1826. Aet. 91." 
 
 The following letter is from his cousin, David Goux, the orig- 
 inal being in the French language : 
 
 " Etobon, April 21, 1816. 
 " Dem' Cousin George Goud : — We received in due time the 
 letter which you sent to my Father in 1803, to which I take 
 pleasure in replying and in sending you the grains of Blessons 
 and Millet, as requested in your aforesaid. Political events 
 have caused great derangement in Maritime affairs and I am 
 uncertain of the fate of the reply sent to you by my Father. 
 
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 I do not know whether it has reached you or whether the ef- 
 fect of circumstances has unhappily interrupted it in its pas- 
 sage — Upon which I pray you to inform me as soon as possible, 
 imparting to me news of you which interests essentially our 
 family. All the Parents that you knew are dead — there re- 
 mained only my Father, your Cousin, at the time of the receipt 
 of your letter, (and since then he has died) — Therefore there 
 remain only the four children, David, Peter, Catherine and 
 Elizabeth — the three first being married and the other one is 
 sick. "With the hope of being honored by you with an agreeable 
 reply, I beg you to believe me Your devoted Cousin David 
 Goux. 
 
 " Address : Monsieur David Goud, a Etobon, Department, de 
 la Haute Saone Arondissement de Lure en France." 
 
 The address on the outside is " to John polernzky Esq. to be 
 delivered to Mr. George Goud, Kennebeck River, north amer- 
 ica Dresden." 
 
 It is well to notice in the above letter the different spelling 
 of the family name 6Wa?and Goud, as late as 1816. 
 
 From the Lincoln County Registry of Deeds is obtained this 
 item : 
 
 " Andrie Frederick, Count de Polereczky, of Strasbourg, 
 County of Alsace, brigadier-general in the service of His Maj- 
 esty the King of France to John de Polereczky of Pownal- 
 boro." 
 
 This John was a major in the Revolution and had a horse 
 shot from under him at the battle of White Plains. He was 
 naturalized in 1788 and joined the Methodist Church in 1818. 
 For twenty-five years he was town clerk of Dresden, Maine, 
 and had in his possession an elaborate parchment giving the 
 genealogy of the Goux family. The whereabouts of this 
 parchment remains unknown at this writing, 1903, although 
 diligent search has been made for it. 
 
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 Elizabeth Goux, sister of Suzanne Goux Carney, married 
 David Clancey or Clancy. Their children, all born in Pownal- 
 boro, Maine, were : 
 
 George, b. June 1, 1757. 
 
 Mary, b. May 1, 1760. 
 
 David, b. April 7, 1761. 
 
 Margaret, b. September 30, 1763. 
 
 Elizabeth, b. March 31, 1766. 
 
 Ann, b. January 25, 1768. 
 Through the courtesy of Professor George Lods, Secretaire 
 General de la Societe D'Emulation De Montebliard, some in- 
 formation has been obtained relative to the Goux family 
 which should be of great interest to each descendant of Mark 
 and Suzanne. M. Lods writes : 
 
 " Societe D'Emulation de Montbeliard, 
 
 " MONTBELIARD, 20tll August, 1903. 
 
 " Sir : — In the absence of our President, I am desirous of 
 writing you about the information which the Pastor of Eto- 
 bon has been pleased to furnish me, concerning the family of 
 Daniel Goux, in reply to your letter dated August 4. I hope 
 these data will prove satisfactory to you. 
 
 " Please accept, Sir, the expression of my most distinguished 
 consideration. 
 
 " Signed, The Secretary General of the Society of Emulation 
 of Montbeliard, 
 
 " George Lods, Professor." 
 
 The letter inclosed by M. Lods was from Rev. G. Zentz, 
 pastor of the church at Etobon, a translation of which is here 
 given : 
 
 " Etobon, 18th August, 1903. 
 Sir : — In searching the Parish Church Registers of Etobon 
 I found that at the commencement of the 18th Century, there 
 
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 were three individuals in the Community with the name Dan- 
 iel Goux. 
 
 " The first, a son of Adam Goux and Judith Plancon, born in 
 1694, married in 1724 to Catherine Bonhotal, of Chenebier. 
 
 " The second, brother of the preceding, married in 1727 
 Jeanne Bonhotal. 
 
 " The third, son of Peter Goux and Suzanne Iselin, of Claire- 
 goutte (a neighboring village of Etobon) married in 1729, Ma- 
 rie Coulomb or Coulon, of Etobon. 
 
 " Of these three Daniel Gouxs the first two still resided at 
 Etobon in the second half of the 18th Century. They died 
 and left descendants in Etobon. Their family genealogy has 
 been compiled by M. Beuclin, the old Pastor of Etobon, in a 
 written manuscript dated 1860 and called ' Genealogical List 
 of the Families of Etobon Parish.' It is from this manuscript 
 that I obtained the above information : 
 
 " M. Beuclin only speaks of two Daniel Gouxs — the first two 
 — the existence of the third is not mentioned in the registers 
 of the same period. The reason of the silence preserved by 
 M. Beuclin is due to the fact that there are no descendants at 
 Etobon of the Daniel Goux who married Marie Coulomb. 
 ' Only those families,' says M. Beuclin in the preface of his 
 work, ' or the branches of families still living are referred to ; 
 all those who have disappeared either by extinction or emigra- 
 tion are omitted.' 
 
 " On the other hand there is not the least question about the 
 Daniel Goux and his family in the Registers prior to the year 
 1750. I am forced to the conclusion that he it was who emi- 
 grated in 1751, and it is from him M. Carney is descended. 
 
 " Here is the entry of his marriage certificate : 
 
 " ' Daniel Goux, son of the late Honorable Pierre Goux, Elder 
 of Etobon Church, married Marie Coulomb, surnamed Martin, 
 the 3 May, 1729, signed (by the Pastor) Dieny.' 
 
 " I now pass to the children of this union. 
 
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 " M. Carney names three ; George, Elizabeth and Suzanne. I 
 find, in fact, in the Baptismal Register an Elizabeth and a Su- 
 zanne, but I find two Jean-Georges (oue evidently called Jean, 
 the other Georges), and a Marie. Here is the order of their 
 birth : 
 
 Jean Georges, born in 1730. 
 
 Elizabeth, born in 1731. 
 
 Jean Georges, born in 1739. 
 
 Marie, born in 1742. 
 
 Suzanne, born in 1745. 
 
 " I omit from this list the children dead in infancy. It may 
 be creditably inferred that Daniel Goux did not take all of his 
 family to America. Two children, Marie and doubtless the 
 first Jean-Georges, remained at Etobon. I believe it to be im- 
 possible to find any record of these two children. I do not 
 find their names in the Confirmation List. I am in ignorance 
 of what has become of them. Apropos of Suzanne, I would 
 say that M. Dubois is mistaken as to the birth-date, 6 January, 
 1743. There is a Suzanne Goux, of that date, but she was the 
 daughter of Abraham Goux, not of Daniel and, moreover, on 
 the margin of the Register is a cross, which signifies that she 
 died shortly after her birth. Here, now, are the Baptismal 
 Certificates of Elizabeth, Jean-Georges, 2d, and Suzanne : 
 
 1. 
 
 " ' Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Goux and of Marie Coulomb 
 of Etobon was presented for Holy Baptism by Solomon Goux 
 for his son Pierre Goux and by Jeanne Jaccot for her daughter 
 Elizabeth Mignerey, the 3d December, 1731. 
 
 (Signed) ' Die"ny ' 
 
 2. 
 " ' Jean Georges, son of Daniel, son of the late Pierre Goux, 
 husbandman of Etobon, and of Marie Coulom, his wife, was 
 baptized in the Church of said place the 2d July, 1739. His 
 
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 Godfather was Jean Georges Wuillamier represented by his 
 Father Jean Nicolas Wuillamier of Erevilliers by his minority, 
 and his Godmother Catherine Goux represented by her Mother 
 Judith Plancon, wife of Jean Georges son of the late Pierre 
 
 Goux. 
 
 (Signed) 'Dieny' 
 
 3. 
 " ' Suzanne, daughter of the Honorable Daniel, son of the late 
 Pierre Goux, Elder of the Church of Etobon and of Marie 
 Coulon his wife, was baptized in the Church of that place, 
 1st September 1745. Her Godfather was David Goux repre- 
 sented by his Father Georges Goux, by his minority and her 
 Godmother, Suzanne Robert wife of Pierre Mermet, Cart- 
 wright of Etobon. 
 
 (Signed) ' Dieny ' 
 
 " Here is some general information of the Goux family, as 
 given by M. Beuclin in the above mentioned manuscript. I 
 copy the substance of the Chapter given to this family by my 
 predecessor : 
 
 "'The Goux Family, so it would appear, was originally 
 from the Franche-Compte. In fact Goux is the name of 
 many persons in that ancient province. 
 
 " ' Rodolphe Goux, native of the Valley of Rougemont near 
 Massevaux (Department of Haut-Rhin) and Servois le Goux, 
 of Roche-sur-Linotte, near Montbozon (Department of Haute- 
 Saone), came to live, 1590, in the recently settled village of 
 Frederic-Fontaine, in order to secure, under the protection of 
 the Princes of Montbeliard, their religious liberty (of the 
 Evangelical Denomination) which was forbidden under the 
 most severe penalties where they had formerly resided. 
 
 " ' David Goux, who descended from one or the other of these 
 individuals and who had lived at Clairegoutte, after his birth 
 at Frederic-Fontaine, established his residence at Echavanne 
 
16 
 
 after his marriage with Suzanne Pochard of the latter place, 
 which was celebrated in 1647. He became an inhabitant, with 
 his family, of Etobon in 1655, and he is the Ancestor of all the 
 Gouxs in existence there to day. Two of his sons have pos- 
 terity there to day, namely, Adam Goux born about 1652 and 
 Pierre Goux born in 1656, the two branches of the family in 
 question.' 
 
 " M. Beuclin carried out this account from a detailed Genea- 
 logical table of the different branches of the Goux family 
 from the close of the 17th Century to our own time. It would 
 be too long to reproduce in its entirety in a letter, moreover, 
 M. Carney would not find much of interest in it. 
 
 " The Goux family multiplied during the two last Centuries, 
 with numerous representatives in Etobon, its environs and in 
 America. Here is a little outline which will permit M. Carney 
 to see the line of descent: 
 
17 
 
 David Goux+1698 
 
 Wife Suzanne Pochard 
 
 Adam Goux and Judith Dubois Pierre Goux 
 
 1652-1710 1656-1729 
 
 Elder of the Church 
 
 Married Suzanne Iselin. 
 
 Pierre Daniel J. Daniel 
 
 1691-1726. 1694-1772. 1698-1761. 
 
 Wife 
 
 Wife 
 
 Catherine Bonhotal. Jeanne Bonhotal 
 
 Solomon 
 
 Jean Georges 
 
 Daniel 
 1702 
 1698-1763 1632-1770 Went to America (1751) 
 
 David 
 
 1733-1804 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Georges 
 
 Suzanne 
 
 David 
 
 1768-1846 
 
18 
 
 "M. Carney says in his letter that in 1816 a certain David 
 Goux wrote to George Goux (Brother of Suzanne) that his 
 Father, cousin of Georges was dead. You can verify this 
 Ancestry herewith. David Goux was a cousin of Georges 
 by his Father, who was dead when his son wrote to Georges. 
 
 " M. Carney will not be surprised to learn that there re- 
 mains no Souvenir at Etobon of his Ancestor Daniel Goux. 
 
 " I talked with the Grand-daughter of David Goux, who is 
 still alive (more than 75 years old). She remembers her 
 Grand-father perfectly, but never remembers hearing him 
 speak of a Cousin of her Fathers who went to America. 
 
 " Trusting these enquiries will suffice for M. Carney, I beg 
 of you to accept, Monsieur, the expression of my sincere 
 good will. 
 
 (Signed) " G. Zentz, Pasteur d'Etobon." 
 
 The above letter is such a valuable contribution to our 
 family history that a vote of thanks would be in order were 
 our widely scattered kinsmen assembled together. The 
 prompt reply to the request for information, coupled with 
 the fact that the Rev. Mr. Zentz was so courteous as to 
 take the time and trouble to search the ancient registers for 
 the data obtained, prompts the writer of this volume to here 
 make due acknowledgment of his deep and lasting apprecia- 
 tion of the kindness of Rev. G. Zentz, of Etobon and Pro- 
 fessor George Lods of Montbeliard. 
 
 Shakespeare wrote of one of his characters 
 
 " The kindest man, 
 The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit 
 In doing courtesies " 
 and this expression may be applied to each of the above- 
 named gentlemen. 
 
 The day following the receipt of these letters, the writer 
 took them across the street to read them to the Misses Jacot, 
 
19 
 
 and, after reading them, one of the ladies said, " We have 
 some old family papers which we have not looked at in years. 
 Would you care to see them?" They were produced and, 
 to our mutual astonishment, a certificate was found among 
 them, showing the autograph of Daniel Goux, Suzanne's 
 father. 
 
 The Misses Jacot have very kindly permitted the docu- 
 ment to be reproduced by the artotype process and a trans- 
 lation of the certificate is inserted. It was a very singular 
 coincidence that within twenty -four hours of learning for 
 the first time of Daniel Goux's father, Pierre Goux, the 
 names of both Daniel and Pierre Goux should be found at 
 the residence of a friend who, until that day, had never 
 heard of the Goux family as allied by marriage with the 
 Carney family. 
 
20 
 
 Translated copy of a certificate given Mrs. Catherine 
 Valiton Jaccot, widow of David Jaccot, and bearing the 
 autograph of Daniel Goux, father of Suzanne Goux Carne} r . 
 
 We the undersigned Mayor, Elders, Sheriffs and Magistrates 
 of the Community of Etobon, County of Montbeliard, certify 
 on word of truth that the named Catherine Valiton, widow of 
 the late David Jaccot living at Locle, County of Valangin,and 
 Jonas, David, Jacob and Daniel Jaccot, all legitimate children 
 of David Jaccot and Catherine Valiton — who Father and 
 Mother and children above named have all been and are people 
 of wealth and honor— who have never done anything worthy 
 of reprehension — at least which has come to our knowledge — 
 But on the contrary have frequented diligently the Holy Meet- 
 ings — an d i n a ll their conduct have been a good example to 
 all men and as testimony of truth ought not to be refused to 
 him who demands it — at the request of the said Valiton and 
 her sons, We are well willing to draw up for them this present 
 to serve them in time and places. We pray then all those to 
 whom the above named address themselves — to give them all 
 necessary assistance — We offering to reciprocate the case 
 equally — 
 
 In faith of which we have provided this present with our 
 accustomed signatures. 
 
 Given at Etobon this 26th July 1 745 
 
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 The only known souvenir of Suzanne Goux Carney is her 
 father's French Hymnal, on the last page of which may be 
 faintly discerned " D. Goud." The reproduction from it is the 
 " Twenty-Third Psalm," which will give an idea of the musical 
 arrangement and, that the Psalm may be more easily read, 
 it is separately printed, together with the " Prayer for the 
 Morning," which also is found in the Hymnal. The title page 
 of the Hymnal reads : 
 
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 From Hymnal of Suzanne Goux. 
 
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 C'est mon Berger, qui me garde, & qui m' aime 
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 Et sous 1' abri de son nom adorable, 
 Ma route est sure, & mon repos durable. 
 
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 Que de la mort je devienne la proye, 
 Quand je serois dans la valee obscure ; 
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 Et de senteurs tu parfumes ma tete. 
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CHAPTER II. 
 
 The fast express which left Paris early in the morning of 
 June 23, 1896, had among its passengers the first Carney de- 
 scendant of Mark and Suzanne en route to Montbeliard. The 
 train sped across the fertile soil of France, then in its glory of 
 waving grain, dyed almost continuously with masses of blood- 
 red poppies and vivid blue corn-flowers. 
 
 As the afternoon waned, Belfort was reached with its im- 
 posing citadel on the summit of a rocky eminence two hundred 
 and twenty feet high, in front of which, in bold relief, is the 
 colossal " Lion of Belfort," fifty-two feet high and seventy- 
 eight feet long, carved out of the rock by Bartholdi in com- 
 memoration of the heroic defense lasting from November 3, 
 1870, to February 16, 1871. 
 
 Here a change was made to a local train ; the concluding 
 eleven miles were soon covered and then the quaint, narrow, 
 winding streets of Montbeliard came in view, in the peaceful, 
 rich twilight of a perfect summer day. 
 
 Montbeliard is situated at the confluence of the Allaine and 
 Lisaine rivers. From 1395 to 1793 it was a part of the Grand- 
 Duchy of Wurtemburg. In 1419 Sybilla, heiress of the Mont- 
 foucon (French) family, was married to a Count of Wurtem- 
 burg. 
 
 Louis XIV held it for a time but finally surrendered it, at 
 the treaty of Ryswick, to the younger branch of Sybilla's heirs, 
 who were then also Dukes of Wurtemburg, in Germany. 
 
 The Prince who, as Duke of Wurtemburg, was also Vice- 
 Regent of Montbeliard, married an own cousin of Frederick 
 the Great. 
 
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24 
 
 Their eldest daughter was married to the son of Catherine 
 the Great, of Russia, the Czarowitz Paul, and became later 
 Empress of Russia. Their second daughter became Empress of 
 Austria, while the third daughter became Princess of Holsteio. 
 
 Montbeliard was, with its own little court, a favorite place 
 for poets, painters, musicians and scientific men of the 18th 
 century to visit, and the description of the lavish hospitality- 
 dispensed at this court, as told by M. Duvernoy, is most in- 
 teresting. Although Cuvier, the great naturalist, is the most 
 widely known of Montbeliard's sons, there have been others 
 who have gone to Paris and reached a wider recognition than 
 they would, had they remained at home in this picturesque 
 town, where its old records were kept, one year in German and 
 the next in French, according as the town clerk elected, was 
 of one or the other nationality — for, being almost on the 
 German frontier, both languages were constantly employed. 
 The pictures give in faint measure the actual charm of the 
 place, where to this day, representatives of the Goux and 
 Pochard families live, a mile or two away from the town 
 proper, at Etobon, which was included in the Principality of 
 Montbeliard, where the family originated. The Reverend L. 
 Dubois, in 1892, sent a baptismal record of "Suzanne Goux, 
 baptised Jan. 6th, 1743 by the Pastor Die*ny," to the writer. 
 This date was, however, incorrect, as shown by later re- 
 search. There was no possible opportunity to search the old 
 records in the brief stay of twenty -four hours, and the only 
 souvenirs obtained were the pictures and history of Montbeliard, 
 which latter the writer has since translated and thus came upon 
 the family " Marco?inet." 
 
 " Montbeliard, November 2, 1903. 
 "Sir: 
 
 " You must be surprised at not receiving my reply to 
 your letter of September 5th last. The delay was en- 
 
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 tirely involuntary on ray part. On September 14 I 
 sent your recent letter to Rev. Mr. Zentz. At the close 
 of October I had not received his reply. Mr. Zentz 
 was away for a month. On his return he undertook 
 to find the necessary information. He has recently 
 sent it to me and I am eager to forward the same 
 to you. 
 
 " I cannot, no more than Mr. Zentz, tell you the 
 meaning of the letters ' V. D. M.,' placed after the 
 name Dieny. They probably were used as an abbre- 
 viation of the Clergyman's rank. 
 
 " The definition of the word ' Echevin ' is as fol- 
 lows : ' The sheriffs, whose establishment is traced to 
 the middle of the 16th Century, were elected an- 
 nually by the inhabitants of the rural communes and 
 confirmed by the Regent's Council (of Montbeliard). 
 They collected the Parish revenues and settled their 
 accounts annually, which were verified with the mem- 
 bers of the Commune by the Attorney General and 
 the Bailiff. This last wrote on the margin the ap- 
 proval of each clause.' 
 
 " M. Clement Duvernoy, author of ' Montbeliard in 
 the 18th Century,' is still living. You may make the 
 quotation you desire from his work. 
 
 " Concerning the name Marconnet I cannot tell you 
 exactly whether there was a family thus named at 
 Etobon or Montbeliard, in 1750. It is however al- 
 most certain. There were Marconnets in Montbeliard 
 in the 16th Century inscribed in the book of citizen- 
 ship. It is a well known name to-day in our Country. 
 
 "I have received the Genealogical lists and the 
 pamphlet you so kindly sent us. I thank you sin- 
 cerely for them. 
 
 " In return, and to satisfy your interest on the sub- 
 
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 ject of the Societe d'Emulation de Montbeliard, I am 
 authorized to send you as a gift a volume we pub- 
 lished in 1901, which no doubt will interest you. 
 With it another volume in which you will find a brief 
 study of Etobon, written by the Rev. Mr. Vienot, 
 our late President, now Professor in the Protestant 
 Faculty of Theology in Paris. 
 
 " Our Society publishes each year a volume of Mem- 
 oirs of greater or less size. All the members of the 
 Society paying an annual contribution of 9 francs re- 
 ceive this volume. It is necessary, to be admitted, to 
 be presented by two members and accepted by the 
 Bureau. Very happy in having been able to assist 
 you, I beg you to accept, Sir, ray sincere compli- 
 ments. 
 
 (Signed) " Georges Lods, Professor, 
 
 " Secretary General of the Society of Emulation 
 of Montbeliard." 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM THE LETTER OF REV. G. ZENTZ. 
 
 " The two signs, TT> m the document cited by M. Car- 
 ney following the name Pierre Goux, indicate that the last 
 named was in fact dead. 
 
 " Daniel Goux, son of Pierre Goux, was born February 22, 
 1702. 
 
 " Pierre Goux, b. 1656, d. 1723. 
 
 " Suzanne Iselin, b. 1662, d. 1729. 
 
 "David Goux, born about 1627, died 1698, married No- 
 vember 14, 1647. Suzanne Pochard, born in Echavannes 
 about 1627, died in 1700. I cannot find their certificate of 
 marriage. 
 
 " In M. Beuclin's Memoirs it is impossible to determine 
 whether David Goux descended from Rodolphe Goux or 
 Servois Goux. 
 
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 " Here is the genealogical list of the Goux family as it 
 has been traced by M. Beuclin. 
 
 " Elder Branch, or from Adam Goux. This line divides 
 into three branches arising from Pierre Goux, Daniel Goux 
 and Jean Daniel Goux, all sons of Adam. 
 
 " I. Pierre Goux, surnamed Fridot, b. 1806, m. March 11, 
 1828, Catherine Mignerey, b. 1805 ; son of 
 
 (a) Jean Nicolas Goux, b. 1764, d. 1832 ; m. September 12, 
 1800, Catherine Iselin, b. 1775, d. 1824 ; son of 
 
 (5) Jean Frederic Goux, b. 1740, d. 1800 ; m. June 21, 
 1763, Anne Judith Plancon, b. 1738, d. 1803 ; son of 
 
 (c) Jean Christopher Goux, b. 1716, d. 1741, m. June 9, 
 
 1739, Catherine Elizabeth Zigler, b. 1709, d. 1781 ; 
 son of 
 
 (d) Pierre Goux, b. 1691, d. 1726, m. February 3, 1713, 
 Elizabeth , b. 1694, d. 177S ; son of 
 
 0) Adam Goux, b. 1652, d. 1710, m. October 16, 1682, 
 Judith Dubois, b. 1661, cl. 1726 ; son of 
 
 if) David Goux, born at Frederic-Fontaine about 1627, 
 died 1698, married on November 14, 1647, Suzanne 
 Pochard, born at Echavannes about 1627, died about 
 1700. 
 
 " II. Jacques Goux, b. 1820 and Jean Goux, b. 1830, both 
 sons of 
 
 (a) Pierre Goux, the Mayor, b. 1798, m. October 2, 1819, 
 Catherine Bugnon, b. 1798 ; son of 
 
 (b) Pierre Goux, b. 1777, d. 1839, m. November 8, 1797, 
 Elizabeth Nubert, b. 1774, d. 1848 ; son of 
 
 (c) Pierre Goux, Elder of the Church, b. 1741, d. 1804, 
 m. February 13, 1770, Jeanne Mignerey, b. 1741, 
 d. 1818 ; son of 
 
 (d) Daniel Goux, Elder of the Church, b. 1694, died 1772, 
 
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 m. December 5, 1724, Catherine Bonhotal of Chene 
 bier, b. 1097, d. 1770 ; son of 
 (e) Adam Goux and Judith Dubois, as above. 
 
 " III. (I) Pierre Jacques Goux, b. 1822, m. September 6, 
 1850, Suzanne Catherine Perret, b. 1720 ; son of 
 
 (a) Pierre Goux, b. 1790, m. January 20, 1819, Suzanne 
 Goux, b. 1797 ; son of 
 
 ■(b) Jean Jacques Goux, b. 1705, d. 1859, m. October 4, 
 1791, Marie Elizabeth Goux, b. 1704, d. 1832 ; son of 
 
 (c) Jean Jacques Goux, b. 1727, d. 1803, m. June 14, 
 1703, Catherine Elizabeth Petit Lory,b. 1735, d. 1812 ; 
 son of 
 
 (d) Jean Daniel Goux, b. 1098, d. 1701, m. February 11, 
 1727, Jeanne Bonhotal, b. 1705, d. 1775 ; son of 
 
 (e) Adam Goux and Judith Dubois, as above. 
 
 " (II) Georges Eugene Goux, b. 1845, and Jules Louis 
 Goux, b. 1854, both sons of 
 
 (a) Jean Jacques Goux, b. 1823, d. 1857, m. May 15, 1845, 
 Catherine Bouteiller, b. 1828 ; son of 
 
 (b) Daniel Goux, b. 1798, m. November 5, 1822, Suzanne 
 Plancon, b. 1802, d. 1800 ; son of 
 
 (c) Jean Jacques Goux and Marie Elizabeth Goux, afore- 
 said. 
 
 " (III). Jacques Goux, b. 1810, (went to America in 1801,) 
 m. January 29,1835, Marie Elizabeth Perret, b. 1813 ; 
 son of 
 
 (a) Pierre Goux, b. 1773, d. 1843, m. December 9, 1801, 
 Catherine Elizabeth Plancon, b. 1775, d. 1831 ; son of 
 
 (b) Jean Jacques Goux and Catherine Elizabeth Petit 
 Lory, aforesaid. 
 
 " Junior Branch of Pierre Goux. This line divides into 
 
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 two branches, Solomon Goux and Jean Georges Goux, sons 
 of Pierre Goux aforesaid. 
 
 "I. (a) Solomon Goux; Jacques Goux, b. 1S36, m. Feb- 
 ruary 13, 1858, Marie Elizabeth Ferret, b. 1831 ; son of 
 
 (5) Pierre Goux, b. 1797, m. March 9, 1821, Marie Eliza- 
 beth Mignerey, b. 1802 ; son of 
 
 (c) Pierre Frederic Goux, b. 1773, d. 1816, m. Jan- 
 uary, 1795, Marie Goux, b. 1772, d. 1848 ; son of 
 
 (d) Jean Pierre Goux, b. 1721, d. 1785, m. July 23, 1748, 
 Catherine Boillon, b. 1728, d. 1804 ; son of 
 
 (e) Solomon Goux, b. 1688, d. 1763, m. April 18, 1719, 
 Elizabeth Plancon, b. 1695, d. 1732 ; son of 
 
 (/) Pierre Goux, Elder of the Church, b. 1656, d. 1729, 
 m. January 25, 1697, Suzanne Iselin, born at Claire- 
 goutte 1662, d. 1729 ; son of 
 
 (</) David Goux and Suzanne Pochard, aforesaid. 
 
 " II. (a) Pierre Goux, b. 1832, m. November 5, 1859, Cath- 
 erine Perret, b. 1834 ; son of 
 
 (b) Jean Georges Goux, b. 1803, m. November 17, 1831, 
 Suzanne Perret, b. 1802 ; son of 
 
 (c) Jean Georges Goux, b. 1768, d. 1843, m. November 13, 
 1797, Marie Elizabeth Pounhot, b. 1771, d.1834 ; son of 
 
 (d) Jean Georges Goux, b. 1733, d. 1795, m. August 16, 
 1757, Catherine Blanc, b. 1734, d. 1793 ; son of 
 
 (e) Jean Georges Goux, b. 1692, d. 1770, m. August 29, 
 1724, Judith Plancon, b. 1699, d. 1770 ; son of 
 
 (f) Pierre Goux and Suzanne Iselin, aforesaid. 
 
 " Georges Goux, b. 1829, m. May 9, 1857, Catherine Eliza- 
 bette Faivre, b. 1830 ; son of Jean Georges Goux, b. 1798, 
 and Catherine Elizabeth Pernon, b. 1793 ; son of Daniel 
 Goux, b. 1768, d. 1846, m. February 13, 1798, Catherine 
 Elizabeth Plancon, b. 1769, d. 1842 ; son of Daniel Goux, b. 
 1733, d. 1804, m. May 18, 17<-2, Suzanne Bugnon, b. 1742, d. 
 
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 1777 ; son of Jean Georges Goux and Judith Plancon, afore- 
 said." 
 
 " The ' Elders ' were laymen who assisted the Pastor in 
 administering Parish affairs. They caused to appear before 
 them (the Pastor presiding) generally at the close of the 
 service, the scandalous sinners, drunkards, etc., and repri- 
 manded them, and, if necessary, imposed fines upon them 
 for the benefit of the treasury of the Parish Poor Fund. 
 
 " G. Zentz, 
 " Pastor at Etobon." 
 
 Mrs. Emeline Carney Eastman, a granddaughter of Mark 
 and Suzanne, writes me : " I have been told by my father 
 (Daniel Sr.) and Aunt Betsy (Elizabeth Carney, his Sister) that 
 she (Suzanne) was a French woman and had very rich dresses 
 and brocades and also that Grandfather Carney brought to this 
 country a Coat-of-Arms that father (Daniel Sr.) always prized 
 highly." These rich brocades and dresses, probably belonged 
 to Suzanne's mother, Marie Coulomb Goux, who died on the 
 passage over, as Suzanne was but a little girl of about six years 
 of age, when they crossed the ocean in 1751. 
 
 There can be little doubt as to the dresses being of rich 
 material for this statement has come clown in several branches 
 of the family. — Suzanne's French Hymnal is in the possession 
 of the Misses Conery, of Boston, Mass. — the grand-daughters 
 of James Carney, Sr. The coat-of-arms is of so little authen- 
 ticity that it may suffice to say that the crest represents a 
 pelican, with the motto " She feedeth her young." 
 
 The writer does not attempt to trace the family record on 
 either side to the so called " Nobility." The hardihood to leave 
 the comforts of the Old "World ; to face and meet aggressively 
 the toil and struggle of the New World ; with the hope of ob- 
 taining personal liberty and peace, these when done in sincerity 
 
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 and truth, are titles to a Nobility of Character, which in our 
 present whirl of existence seem almost mythological. 
 
 In the Mass. Archives, vol. 97, folios 252 and 273, there 
 appears the first record of Mark Carney. He had participated 
 in a scouting trip to the eastward, under the command of 
 Capt. Charles Leisner, in the quality of a private, dates of serv- 
 ice being from April 10, 1759, to September 10, 1759, and 
 from September 11, 1759, to October 30, 1759. 
 
 In vol. 98, folio 173, " A muster Roll of the Company in his 
 Majesty's service, under command of Charles Leissner, Captain, 
 Mark Carney quality Centinel, Apr. 10. 1700, whole time of 
 service 22 weeks, Mandamuck, Dec. 9. 1760, errors excepted. 
 Chas. Leissner ; received 14 pounds-12 sh!llings-8 pence — " 
 
 On November 24, 1759, Mark Carney's name appears among 
 those who petitioned the " Society for the Propagating the 
 Gospel in Foreign Parts," to send a missionary " to this truly 
 necessitous place, without the assistance of whose compassion, 
 we and our posterity are in danger of losing all sense of relig- 
 ion." 
 
 The Rev. Mr. McClennachen had ministered to this " neces- 
 sitous "flock from May, 1756, to December, 1758. On July 
 1, 1760, the " Frontier Missionary," the Rev. Jacob Bailey, 
 arrived, becoming the leader of the one hundred and fifteen 
 families then comprising the town which now, with the villages 
 on the west bank of .Sheepscot River, assumed the name 
 "Pownalboro" in honor of Gov. Thomas Pownall, and it be- 
 came the Shire-town. 
 
 In February, 1760, among the petitioners for the new county, 
 which was named Lincoln, in honor of Gov. Pownall, who was 
 born in Lincoln Co., England, appear the names of Mark Carney, 
 Daniel Goud, David Clancy, and others, " having long experi- 
 enced the great charge, inconvenience and hardships of attend- 
 ing upon Court at a distance." Mark was about twenty-one 
 years of age at this time and Suzanne about sixteen. During 
 
 
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 the winter of 1760-1761, Mark and Suzanne were married and 
 on May 8, 1761, Mark purchased 100 acres of land, for 10 
 pounds from John Andrews and his wife Hannah, bounded 
 on 
 
 " North by highway, 
 South by lot 23, 
 West bv Eastern River, 
 
 East by highway, and a small strip of 7 acres on 
 the River." 
 
 On May 29, 1761, Mark mortgaged this piece of land to 
 one of the prominent residents of Pownalborough, James Pat- 
 terson, Esq., for 30 pounds, which mortgage was discharged 
 June 9, 1763, and a new mortgage for 20 pounds was taken 
 the same day. 
 
 March 27, 1764, Mark Carney sold to Samuel Emerson of 
 Pownalborough, 40 acres of land, for 40 pounds, this being a 
 portion of his 100 acres, and on April 9, 1764, he satisfied 
 the mortgage of James Patterson, Esq. Other mortgages were 
 taken and satisfied, the last one, of 40 pounds, being paid by 
 his son, Daniel Carney, October 6, 1790. 
 
 When Mark and Suzanne began housekeeping, the land had 
 to be cleared of primeval timber, with which was constructed 
 their simple log-house of two stories. Their son Daniel often 
 told his children of this log-cabin, and of the ladder up which 
 they all went at night, drawing it up after them, for safety 
 from the Indians and wild beasts, which they could hear growl- 
 ing and fighting during the night. 
 
 " When Mark and Suzanne were away the cabin-door was 
 barred, so Aunt Betsy told me (Franklin L.), and once, in the 
 blackberry season, she went out with two of the children to get 
 some ; as they approached the bushes, she saw some bears 
 pulling down the branches and eating the berries ; she took a 
 child under each arm and ran for the cabin, pursued by the 
 bears ; reached it and barred the door before they caught them, 
 
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 and ever after did not disobey her Father's orders of " barred- 
 doors. No ' open doors ' then ! " 
 
 The following bill is interesting : 
 
 " Nov. 30th 1761, Mark Carna's rafting Boards from mills — 
 two days and one Dight — 10 shillings to two days, and ditto, 
 Daniel Clancy, and provisions for both, 16 shillings — " This 
 Daniel may have been the father of the David who married 
 Suzanne's sister, Elizabeth Goux. 
 
 Under date of June 19, 1766, this first Carney home in 
 America is described in an official " return of Inhabitants west 
 side of Pownalboro, taken in accordance with a vote of the 
 General Court, made return Oct. 15. 1766." At this time there 
 were three hundred and eighty inhabitants on the West Side, 
 and Mark's home consisted of 
 
 " 1 family ; 
 1 log house inhabited ; 
 1 one storv house 
 1 room and fire-place ; 
 1 brick chimney ; 
 
 1 cellar stoned ; 
 
 4 Square sash-glass in house ; 
 4 persons under 16 years old ; 
 
 2 persons above 16 years old ; 
 6 inhabitants, 
 
 2 males, 
 4 females." 
 
 Truly an unique description of his worldly possessions ! 
 
 On January 20, 1767, Mark was chosen one of the wardens of 
 St. John's Episcopal Church at Pownal borough, and two years 
 later the following petition was sent " To the Honorable James 
 Bowdoin and James Pitt. Esqrs : Benjamin Hollowwell, Sil- 
 vester Gardiner and John Hancock, Esqrs, of the Committee of 
 the Kennebec Property — 
 3 
 
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 " Gentlemen : 
 
 " Whereas Mr. Bailey and others have petitioned 
 for a Grant of a lot of land to the Society for the use of an 
 Episcopal Minister in Povvnal borough ; whereby the greatest 
 part of the inhabitants upon the West Side of the Town will be 
 excluded from all advantages of a Parsonage Lot, should the 
 same be granted in such manner as has been proposed — We 
 therefore the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the said West Side of 
 the Town of Pownalborough, and not of the Persuasion of the 
 Church of England, beg you would make us a Grant of a num- 
 ber of three acre lots (such and as many as you shall think 
 proper) for such a Parsonage Lot for the use of such a Minis- 
 ter as the Majority of us shall choose, and for his successors 
 forever ; or that you would grant us some other Lot of Land, 
 for the use and in manner aforesaid, as you shall judge con- 
 venient : Which will agreeably tend to promote the Interests 
 of Religion amongst us, as well as the Temporal Interests, 
 both of the Town and Proprietors. Pownalborough Jan. 9th 
 1769." 
 
 This petition had fifty-two signatures, among others being 
 Charles Estienne Houdlette, Christopher Jakin, Mark Carney, 
 George Goud, John Andrews and David Clancy. 
 
 Apparently there was no personal objection to the Rev. 
 Jacob Bailey, for we read in his diary of little " Molly Car- 
 ney " and " Joey Carney," her sister, and also " Ruthy Car- 
 ney " being at school, no doubt learning the rule of three ; and, 
 four months after the above petition was signed, the Rev. 
 Jacob Bailey baptized Jane Carney on April 17, 1769. He 
 likewise baptized Joanna Carney on April 26, 1772 — while on 
 the following October 12, he alludes to " Four of Mr. Carney's 
 Children at School." James Carney was baptized by Mr. Bailey, 
 Sunday, July 24, 1774, and William Carney was baptized 
 March 28, 1778. 
 
 The Goud, Pochard and other French families are also men- 
 
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 tioned in his diary. It is unfortunate that the information at 
 hand is meagre. As it is, one must read between the lines. 
 
 What were the childish sports? Were they frolicsome, 
 laughter-loving, or demure little Puritan maids, " the sw r eetest 
 things that ever grew beside a human door ? " 
 
 They are framed in a picture of stately pine trees, for the 
 back ground, the bit of cleared land with its waving grain and 
 ripening corn adding a bit of color, while visitations at most 
 unceremonious hours from Indians and bears give us, of a later 
 generation, thrills of excitement. 
 
 Mark was a man of rugged character and, appreciating the 
 value of a good education, gave his children all of the advan- 
 tages, at his command. He does not appear to have been able 
 to write and Suzanne always had her children write for her, as 
 she had great difficulty in learning English. Hence it must be 
 inferred that in the family, certainly the Goux family, French 
 was spoken. The following prayer as translated by Mark from 
 the French, was always used by him and tradition has it that 
 it had been in his, or his wife's family, for nearly two hundred 
 years. 
 
 " Prayer for the morning. 
 
 " My Brothers, let each one of us cast himself very humbly 
 before the Sovereign Majesty of our God, and of our Father. 
 — Remembering and knowing what poor, and miserable sinners 
 we are, and let us from our hearts say, our hope is in Thee, Oh, 
 God, for w r e have cried to Thee. — Teach us to do Thy 
 Will, for Thou art our God. — Let Thy Spirit lead us in the 
 right way. Amen." 
 
 This translation was learned by some of Mark's grand- 
 children. The prayer, taken from Suzanne's Hymnal, follows 
 in the original French. 
 
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 On page 133, of Suzanne's Hymnal is the following : 
 
 " L'Exercise du Pere de famille & de tous ses domestiques, 
 pour le Matin. 
 
 Exhortation. 
 
 Mes freres, que chacun de nous se prosterne bien humble- 
 ment devant la souveraine Majeste de notre Dieu, & de 
 notre Pere, nous reconnoissant tels que nous sommes, savoir, 
 de pauvres & de miserables pecheurs, & disons du coeur. 
 
 Fai-nous ouir des le Matin ta misericorde, Seigneur, car 
 nous avous espere en Toi. Fai-nous counoitre le chemin ou 
 nous devons marcher, puis que nous avons eleve notre coeur 
 a toi. 
 
 Delivre-nous de nos ennemis, Seigneur, car nous avons 
 crie a toi. 
 
 Enseigne-nous a faire ta volonte, car tu es notre Dieu ; 
 que ton Esprit nous conduise au droit chemin." 
 
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 In Suzanne Goux, Mark found an ever faithful, tender and 
 loving wife. 
 
 About 1780 they removed to Boston, Mass. What service, 
 if any, Mark engaged in during the early portion of the Revo- 
 lution is not known. He did, however, go on a privateersman 
 and the vessel was captured by the British. He died a pris- 
 oner of war, either on a prison ship at Halifax, or at Dart- 
 moor Prison, October 17, 1782. The story brought home by 
 his comrades was " that he died from grief of heart think- 
 ing of his family." Although the British Admiralty has been 
 requested to furnish any information about him contained in 
 their records, none has been received. His son, James Carney, 
 Sr., had his father's name and date of death carved on the 
 monument, in the family burying ground, at Richmond, Me. 
 Beneath is this sentence : — 
 
 " Taken prisoner while defending his Country for Liberty." 
 
 After his death Suzanne remained in Boston, opening a store 
 in Marshall's Lane, according to the Boston Directory of 1789, 
 and also took French people as boarders. She died in Boston, 
 March 3, 1799. The estate was settled by her son, Daniel Car- 
 ney, Sr., as appears from the following papers : 
 
 Suffolk Ss. March 12th 1799, Administration on the Es- 
 tate of Mark Carney late of Boston, in said County, Yeoman 
 deceased Intestate, was granted to Daniel Carney of said Bos- 
 ton, Trader — Jonathan Trask, Innholder and James Kirkwood, 
 Tallow-Chandler, both of Boston, became bound with the said 
 Daniel for the due discharge of said trust. 
 
 Attest — ¥m. Cooper, Reg. 
 
 ( fifty cent ) Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of 
 stamp. \ jyj ar k c arneV) i a t e f Boston, Yeoman, Intes- 
 tate, taken and appraised by us the subscribers, under oath, by 
 Virtue of the Warrant hereunto annexed. 
 
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 5 Feather beds at $10.00 
 1 Desk .... 
 
 1 Round tea table 
 
 2 light stands . 
 
 2 Kitchen stands . 
 
 11 Chairs 
 
 Andirons — 2 prs., Shovel and 
 
 Iron bake pan, 2 iron pots. 
 2 iron dish kettles, spider and 
 fender .... 
 Gridiron, Iron basin, loger- 
 head, 4 ladles and 1 flesh- 
 fork .... 
 2 Iron dogs & 1 Chafing- 
 dish 
 
 2 Copper boilers, 2 copper tea 
 
 $50.00 
 2.50 
 3.00 
 3.00 
 1.50 
 2.50 
 
 tongs 
 
 4.00 
 
 1 pr. princes Metal And- 
 
 
 irons and hooks 
 
 5.00 
 
 3 brass Candle-sticks . 
 
 .75 
 
 1 large looking glass 
 
 6.00 
 
 1 small do. 
 
 .50 
 
 1 Dutch Liquor case 
 
 4.00 
 
 Crane and hooks 
 
 1.50 
 
 12 pictures .... 
 
 2.00 
 
 bellows and warming-pan . 
 
 1.00 
 
 1 Tin Kitchen & Scuers . 
 
 3.00 
 
 Lot of tin ware . 
 
 2.50 
 
 Block tin tea-pot 
 
 .50 
 
 foot stove .... 
 
 .15 
 
 lot of pewter ware 
 
 2.50 
 
 Coifee mill .... 
 
 .25 
 
 1 large brass kettle . 
 
 3.00 
 
 1 frying pan 
 
 .15 
 
 3.00 
 
 1.50 
 
 .75 
 
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 Amount brought forward . $104.55 
 
 kettles, Sauce pan, bell metal 
 skillet, Strainer & small 
 
 copper kettle &c 9.00 
 
 Small brass kettle, skimmer, 
 
 little kettle &c 3.00 
 
 Crockery, glass & china-ware . 5.00 
 
 Silver watch .... 5.00 
 
 7 silver tea-spoons .... 
 
 2 large do. Sugar tongs 
 
 and cream-pot .... 10.00 
 
 Knife case, knives and forks . . .75 
 
 lot of trumpery .... .50 
 
 2 large chairs 4.00 
 
 5 bedsteads .... 15.00 
 
 barrels, boxes, bottles, 
 crockery and sundry trum- 
 pery in shop .... 10.00 
 House and sixty acres of land 
 lying in Dresden, in the County 
 of Lincoln, best information . 400.00 
 
 $566.80 
 Boston, March Jona. Trask, 
 
 18th, 1799. James Kirkwood, I Apprs. 
 
 Perkins Nichols, 
 
 Suffolk, Ss. 
 
 At a Probate Court held at Boston, on Tuesday, March 19th, 
 1799, Daniel Carney, Adm'r, presented the foregoing Inven- 
 tory and made oath that it contained all the Estate of said 
 dec'd which hath come to his knowledge and possession and 
 if any more should hereafter appear he will add and account 
 
 for it when required. 
 
 Geo. Ed. Minot, J. Pro. 
 Examined, 
 
 Wm. Cooper, Keg. 
 
1786 
 June 20 
 
 1793 
 Apr. 5 
 
 40 
 
 Dr. The Estate of Mark Carney in A/c with Daniel 
 Carney, 
 
 To four years back rates at Kennebeck . . 12.00 
 To 35 days at Kennebeck, for clearing the 
 
 Estate of incumbrances & expenses . . 36.33 
 
 To cash pd. French & Everett, their bill . 2.66 
 
 To do. John McNeil, attending at house . 3.00 
 
 To do. Andrew Lapus, his bill . . . 8.70 
 
 12 To do. pd Mr. Blaney, Sexton . . . 14.50 
 
 To letters, Amin & advertising . . 3.50 
 
 19 To Cash, Mr. Nichols as appraisor . . 4.00 
 
 To do. Inventory and stamp . . . 1.50 
 
 To Doctrs bill attending .... 27.50 
 
 22 To Mr. John Mays bill, rent . . . 16.66 
 
 To Josiah Wheeler, his bill . . . 10.50 
 
 29 To do. Squire Gookin, his Do. . . 6.20 
 
 To do. Elijah White, Do. Do. . . . 1.79 
 
 April 2d To do. James Kirkwood, Do. Do. . . 1.25 
 
 To James .Foster, Do. Do 25 
 
 150.34 
 
 To allowance made the Adm'or in full of his Services. 10.00 
 
 Probate fees for this A'mt and Order of Distribution. 2.00 
 
 Ds. 162.34 
 
 1799 
 March 5. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 By cash on Hand D. 
 
 By do, rec'd of James McNeil 
 25th By do, from Sales of furniture . 
 June 15, By do. received of Judah Hunt 
 July 18. By do. rec'd of George Gambal 
 
 Boston. Nov'r 26. 1799 
 
 Errors excepted. 
 
 Ds. 
 
 26.30 
 6.00 
 
 201.93 
 3.00 
 6.00 
 
 243.23 
 
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 Suffolk Ss., Daniel Carney, Adra'or — 
 
 At a Probate Court held at Boston, Tuesday Nov'r 26th 
 1799, Daniel Carney, Adm'or presented this account — Pro- 
 duced vouchers and was sworn, Examined and allowed. 
 
 Geo. K. Minot, J. Pro — 
 
 Examined — Perkins Nichols. Reg. 
 
 Commonwealth 
 
 of Suffolk County 
 
 Massachusetts 
 
 L. S. By the Honorable, Geo. Rd. Minot 
 
 Judge of Probate &c — 
 
 It appears to be by the account of Daniel Carney, Ad- 
 ministrator of the Estate of Mark Carney, late of Boston, 
 in said County, deceased, intestate, that after subduction of 
 necessary charges and Disbursements, there remains in the 
 hands of the Administrator a Balance of Eighty Dollars and 
 eighty nine cents, which by Law belongs and is to be dis- 
 tributed as follows — ■ 
 
 To Susannah Carney, widow of said deceased, twenty-six 
 Dollars and 95 cents. 
 
 To Catherine Carney, Elizabeth Carney, Peggy Marson, 
 wife of Abner Marson, Daniel Carney, Suzannah Howard, 
 Widow, Nancy Peters, James Carney, William Carney, Abi- 
 gail Carney and Joanna Jackins, wife of James Jackins, all 
 children of said deceased, or to their legal representatives 
 five dollars and thirty-nine cents, which makes the above 
 balance of D. 80.89. I do hereby order the said Adminis- 
 trator to make Distribution accordingly, each Distributee 
 giving surety that in case debts hereafter appear due from 
 said Estate, to refund and pay back to the Administrator 
 their proportional part thereof and his charges. 
 
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 Given under my band and Seal of Office, this 26th Day 
 of Nov. A. D. 1799. George K. Minot, Judge of Probate. 
 Examined 
 
 Perkins Nichols, Reg'r. 
 
 So far as can be learned the estate was amicably settled 
 and as one has said, " with five dollars and thirty-nine cents, 
 for an inheritance, plus a happy and united family, and 
 with the memory of a Mother who, for forty years had been 
 the bearer of children and for nearly half that time their 
 head and supporter, the children might well account them- 
 selves rich." 
 
 How priceless now, would be the andirons, warming-pan, 
 bell-metal skillet, the logerhead, as well as the old copper, 
 tin and silver ware ! One piece of the silver, the sugar- 
 tongs, with the hall-mark of Paul Revere, is in the posses- 
 sion of Mr. Fessenden V. Carney of Portland, Maine, and 
 formerly belonged to Suzanne Carney, then to her grand- 
 daughter Susan, born 1796, who gave it to her niece Miss 
 Carrie Carne}^, who in turn gave it to her brother, Mr. Fes- 
 senden Y. Carney. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 Mark Carney. Suzanne Goux. 
 
 b. about 1740. bt. 1st. September, 1745. 
 
 d. October 17, 1782. d. March 3, 1799. 
 
 Issue : 
 CATHERINE, 
 b. December 13, 1761. 
 MARY. 
 
 b. February 17, 1763. 
 ELIZABETH, 
 b. August 15, 1764. 
 DANIEL. 
 
 b. November 25, 1765. 
 MARGARET, 
 b. December 2, 1766. 
 SUSANNAH, 
 b. January 8, 1768. 
 JANE. 
 
 b. April 17, 1769. 
 JOANNA, 
 b. April 26, 1772. 
 JAMES Sr. 
 b. June 5, 1774. 
 NANCY, 
 b. June 10, 1776. 
 WILLIAM H. 
 b. January 28, 1778. 
 ABIGAIL, 
 b. May 5, 1780. 
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 Catherine Carney. 
 
 Catherine, the oldest child of Mark and Suzanne Goux 
 Carney, was born, December 13, 1761, and was married to 
 Mr. Edward Kelley of New Castle, Maine, by Rev. Dr. Sam- 
 uel Parker, of Trinity Church, Boston, Mass., on January 
 18, 1780. 
 
 Daniel Carney always called his sisters, " Caty," " Molly," 
 " Betsey," " Peggy," " Paty," " Sukey," " Nabby "—never 
 using their full names. 
 
 There is little of record of these sisters ; " Aunt Kelley's 
 Bible," formerly in the possession of the Carney family in 
 Portland, Maine, was destroyed in the " great Portland 
 fire." There was considerable data in it, of which the mem- 
 ory alone remains. 
 
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 Mary Carney. 
 
 Mary, the second child of Mark and Suzanne Goux Car- 
 ney, was born February 16, 1763. She received her educa- 
 tion under the Eev. Jacob Bailey, who probably baptized 
 her ; there is no record in his diary, as published in " The 
 Frontier Missionary," prior to 1767, when she was four years 
 old. 
 
 She was married by the Rev. Samuel Parker, of Trinity 
 Church, Boston, Mass., on May 19, 1783, to Mr. Jonathan 
 Trask, of Alna, Maine. She died April 8, 1785. 
 
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 Elizabeth Carney. 
 
 Elizabeth, the third child of Mark and Suzanne Goux Car- 
 ney, was born in Pownalboro, Maine, August 15, 1764, and 
 died unmarried at Sheepscot Bridge, January 1, 1859. 
 
 She lived during the early part of her life in Maine, and 
 assisted her brother Daniel in keeping house. She was his 
 favorite sister. One day while holding some small wood 
 for her brother to chop, he accidentally cut off a part of 
 her right hand, to his great grief. For a time she lived in 
 the South with French friends, Maj. and Mme. Berrian, but 
 returned to Daniel's home in Maine and assisted in taking 
 care of his little ones by the second marriage. They re- 
 member her fancy turbans which she brought from the South, 
 but, as age crept on she put them aside and wore little white 
 caps. She was a member of the Methodist Church ; a gen- 
 tle, loving woman, whom the children were expected to 
 obey as their mother, whom she relieved by doing all the 
 cooking, until the little girls began to be able to do this ; 
 and even then it was hard for her to yield her dominion to 
 the younger generation. 
 
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 DANIEL CARNEY 
 
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 Daniel Carney. 
 
 Daniel, the eldest son of Mark and Suzanne Goux Carney, 
 was born in Pownalboro, November 25, 1765. Here he passed 
 his childhood and youth. He was a man of fine form, 
 medium height, broad shoulders, fair skin, with blue eyes 
 and light brown hair which he wore in a queue tied with 
 brown ribbon ; he carried himself in a very erect manner 
 even to his 85th year, and died on March 11, 1852, in his 
 87th year. His children remember the tales of his hunting 
 experiences in the wild forests of Maine. 
 
 Daniel was early initiated into the mysteries of the woods, 
 for it was the custom to take the little children, when an 
 area of land was to be cleared or planted, and suspend them 
 in blankets from some small tree in close proximity to 
 where the father was at work, thus keeping them out of 
 danger, as they were too small to be left alone at the home. 
 As Daniel grew older he and his cousin, David Clancey (a 
 son of Suzanne's sister Elizabeth), became great chums and 
 had many thrilling encounters with bears, in one of which 
 David was " hugged " by a bear while at the same time the 
 animal used his hind paws so successfully that the scars 
 down the entire front of his body were carried to the end 
 of his life. 
 
 Mrs. Emeline C. Eastman gives the following description 
 of another encounter : " At one time the corn was getting 
 ripe and the bears were helping themselves, so he and his 
 Cousin David Clancey determined to lay in wait one night. 
 Father had a gun loaded with slugs and powder and David 
 had an axe. As Father owned the gun he was to have 
 the first shot. So they hid behind burnt stumps and pres- 
 ently a bear began to eat the corn, but, perhaps scenting an 
 enemy, raised his head ; the Moon shining in the bear's eyes 
 
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 gave Father a good chance, and he fired and then both young 
 men ran. ' Oh ' said David, ' you did not hit him ! ' but, 
 after reloading the gun they retraced their steps and found 
 poor Bruin so badly wounded that they soon dispatched him 
 and, cutting a small tree and making somes withes to bind 
 his legs, they shouldered their game and gave a great shout 
 on nearing home, which brought out all the family. As 
 father owned the gun he had the hide : the meat was equally 
 divided and the head was put on a pole in the field. They 
 cooked some of the meat by hanging it before the fire and 
 spinning it around, and their appetites being good they did 
 not crave any condiments." 
 
 Daniel was ten years old when the War of the Revolution 
 began. He once said that while clearing land in Pownal- 
 boro with his yoke of oxen, a log broke the leg of one of 
 them and as he could not obtain a mate he decided to go to 
 Boston. This was probably in 1780-1781. Some of the 
 family were there in 1781, as is proven by the following let- 
 ter, written by one of the children for Suzanne, to her sis- 
 ter Elizabeth, and sent to her brother " Mr. George Goud 
 in Pownalborough per favor Cornal talor." 
 
 " Boston May the 12 1781 
 " dear Sister I mbrace this opertunity to in form you that 
 we are all well at present hopeing you are the same & all 
 our aquantence we heard all the folks was marid of & 
 amonges the rest brother gorge was a going to be marid it 
 mak often lafe to think of it douteing it very much but mr 
 talor says we may depend on it & I hope he will git a good 
 wifs & tell him he must not be marid til we go down & then 
 he must make a grand weding for that will be all the fon on 
 it give our love to bety & tel her to keep a light hart seven 
 years won't last always I must aquante you with the fine 
 luck Daniel & his father had thay sent a hard dollar and a 
 
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 barrel of — to the west inges & they had seven & twenty 
 wate of coten com as good as ever was Moly says if peggy 
 don't com up she will be a fronted caty sends her love to all 
 folks there and says they must not fale of sending some let- 
 ters for we never here from them no more than if they was 
 all ded & send word how (who?) is agoing to be marid 
 Daniel talkes of going to the westinges but I am not willin 
 for him to go but he says he will we donte now how it will com 
 out yet moly has been sick with the fever but she has got 
 well agane & gone to mr Parker agane Mother be agoing to 
 send you 2 pound of cotton for your own youce by mr ta- 
 lor & she would be glad to send you more if she could but 
 you must take the will for the dead the times is hard we all 
 long to heare from gorge it gives us a gradeal of uneaseness 
 but I hope we shall soon hear from him you never send no 
 letter to let us now any of your afars no more than if we 
 had never come from there but I hope it won't be always 
 so if it is we shall forgit that we hav got any relations 
 there you tell bill & amos that isack mury has got home 1 
 of the prizes & they expect daniel every day & they have 
 made out very well so no more at present but I remane 
 yor Loving Sister Suzannah Carney excuse Molys Write- 
 ing." 
 
 The childish handwriting and spelling, in the only four 
 letters in existence, which Suzanne sent to her brother 
 George, is unique ; this letter throws light on the fact that 
 Daniel (and his father probably) was then on a privateers- 
 man. It should not be forgotten that in those days the pri- 
 vateers constituted the first navy of the United States, and 
 supplied hundreds of thousands of dollars, besides food, cloth- 
 ing and ammunition, to Washington's army, as well as pre- 
 venting marauding expeditions from annoying the coast 
 
 towns, and so permitted the local train-bands to concentrate 
 4 
 
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 for land manoeuvres without need of their assistance as 
 coast guards. 
 
 Two of the children, at least, were in Pownalboro at this 
 time, presumably Elizabeth and Margaret. 
 
 Eventually Daniel Carney became interested in West In- 
 dia goods with Mr. Isaac Tower. This partnership was dis- 
 solved in 1795 — as is here shown : 
 
 " This Indenture made this Third day of December in 
 the vear of our Lord Seventeen hundred and ninty-five be- 
 tween Daniel Carney and Isaac Tower both of Boston in 
 the County of Suffolk And Commonwealth of Massachu- 
 setts, Witnesseth, whereas the said Daniel Carney and Isaac 
 Tower have for some time past been Copartners together in 
 the Trade of Merchandizing, and by reason of the said Joint 
 Trade and dealings, divers debts are become due and owing 
 unto them, and allso they are indebted and stand ingaged 
 in divers sums of money to others, — and whereas the sd. Danl. 
 Carney and Isaac Tower for Good Causes them there to 
 moving have Concluded, and Agreed that for the Considera- 
 tion, hereafter Expressed — all the debts and sums of Money, 
 which are due and owing unto them, the sd. Daniel Carney 
 and Isaac Tower Jointly, shall be assigned unto the said 
 Daniel Carney Together with all the stock in Trade with all 
 Utensals and all moneys on Hand — and that the sd. Daniel 
 Carney, doth by the presence, Covenant, promise and agree 
 To and with the sd. Isaac Tower Their Heirs Executors and 
 Administrators and Assigns, that the said the Danl. Carney, 
 will pay or Cause to be paid all in Good Time, all the debts 
 that the Late Company of Carney and Tower Justly Owes and 
 that he promises that the sd. Isaac shall not be Hurt by the 
 sd. Debts and that he shall not pay any of them — and it is 
 further Agreed, that the sd. Isaac Tower, shall give up all 
 Rights and Title to any Property or Debts that the said Late 
 Company Owned — and that in Consideration of that The 
 
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 said Isaac Tower having given up his Rights and Title to the 
 sd. Business as (Above) The Daniel Carney do promise to 
 pay the said Isaac Tower — 80 — dollars on or before the sign- 
 ing and sealing of these presence, which it is agreed shall 
 be in full of all demands the sd. Tower has against the sd. 
 Stock. — 
 
 In Witness whereof we have hereunto sett Our Hands and 
 seals the day and year before Written — , 
 
 Isaac Tower. 
 
 Boston 3d Dec. 1795. Daniel Carney. 
 
 Signed sealed and Consented to in presence of Us — 
 
 Moses W. Dana. 
 
 Joseph Ellis. 
 
 In 1796, in the Boston Directory, you may read : 
 " Carney, Daniel & Co. Grocers, Orange St. 
 Carney, Daniel, House, Orange St. 
 Carney, Susanna, widow r , Hanover St." 
 
 It is supposed that at this period his mother was the 
 " Company." 
 
 In 1798 his name appears, 
 " Carney, Daniel & Co. W. I. Goods, Orange St." 
 
 The store can still be seen on Washington Street with the 
 old archway through which hogsheads of genuine West In- 
 dian molasses, and other commodities were carried. 
 
 At this time there were in Boston, " Upward of 50 Hack- 
 ney Coaches — they are very neat and genteel, handsomely 
 painted and all are numbered. They are employed either 
 to attend funerals or conveying of passengers"! Possibly 
 some of the family had employed them to witness the launch- 
 ing of the frigate Constitution, on October 21, 1797 — a chair 
 from whose timbers is owned by the writer. 
 
 An old bill dated 1798 contains the following items, show- 
 ing the expense of Suzanne's trip from Boston to Maine: 
 
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 Mr. Daniel Carney To Jno. EoAve Dr. 
 
 1798, May 27, To his Mother's passage up $4.00 
 July 26 do. his passage down 5.00 
 
 $9.00 
 Freight of 1 hhd. Molasses, 1 bbl gin, 
 1 bbl sugar, 1 bbl sundries, 
 
 1 box chocolate, 1 box Candles, 
 
 2 doz shovels, 1 cag tea, 
 
 1 crate Ware, 1 bbl tumblers, 
 
 2 boxes lemons $3.34 
 
 $12.34 
 
 Wicasset, Aug. 9, 1798, 
 
 Rec'd payt. 
 Jno. Rowe. 
 
 In 1803 the " Company " has disappeared and his name 
 alone appears " Carney, Daniel, "W. I. Goods, No. 9 Or- 
 ange St." 
 
 Under date " Boston Feb'y 2d. 1804 " he writes to his 
 brother James Carney at Wiscasset. 
 
 " Dear Brother: 
 
 " I have received your letter of the 27th Jan'y 
 which I am at a loss how to answer. The store in which 
 I now keep is not fit for a retail store and I do not see 
 how I can build one at present, but shall try and do 
 my best to accomplish it. You say you have a good 
 house. I am glad to hear it and wish you had ten, 
 but if you are not able to work at your trade that 
 will not maintain you and I do not think you can do 
 anything with your trade there. I think if we could 
 get a store properly under way we might both get a 
 living and you much easier than you do now. I am 
 far from wishing you to leave your place if you can get 
 
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 a comfortable living. As it is a thing that cannot be 
 done and undone it ought to be well Considered and 
 think after you have consulted your friends there and 
 can obtain your full value of your place you can make 
 up your mind whether to come or not. Should you 
 come you may depend on my assistance as far as I am 
 able. — You observe if Mr. Averell should give your 
 price you should like to come up in 4 months. I think 
 it would be best for you to come up yourself as soon 
 as you have determined and arranged matters and pro- 
 cure a house for your family. 
 
 " It is likely, if I should make out to put up a store it 
 will be late in Summer before finished. I will say no 
 more at present but wish you to write when you have 
 come to a conclusion — We are all in good health — 
 Sally and Betsey (his wife and sister) send their love 
 to you and your wife and all friends. 
 
 " I remain your Brother 
 
 " Daniel Carney. 
 
 " I do not think it would be prudent to purchase a 
 place, at first; think it would be best to hire a cheap 
 place until you were better able and good opportunity 
 offered. " D. C." 
 
 In 1805, we find in the Boston Directory 
 
 " Carney, Daniel, house No. 9 Orange St." 
 
 " Carney, Daniel & James W. I. Goods, No. 9 Orange 
 
 St." 
 " Carney, James, house No. 116, Orange St." 
 
 showing that for a few months at least his brother James 
 
 was in business with him — although this same year James 
 
 moved back to Maine. 
 
 The Directory for 1810, simply states 
 
 " Carney, Daniel, Merchant, 9 Orange St." 
 
 while the Directory for 1818, 1820, 1822 and 1823 shows that 
 
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 he had taken his son, Benjamin Bell, into the business — viz. 
 " Carney, Daniel and Son, (Benjamin B.) W. I. Goods, 
 9 Orange St. — house 10 Orange St." 
 In 1826 Orange Street became changed to Washington 
 Street, and we find 
 
 " Carney, Daniel, TV. I Goods 679, house 677 Washing- 
 ton St." 
 In 1827 appears the same, while in 1828 is added 
 " Carney, William, W. I. Goods, 5 Chatham St." 
 indicating that his brother William Avas also interested at 
 that time in the same business and probably with him. 
 
 On March 11, 1792, in Boston, Daniel married his first 
 wife " the amiable Miss Sarah Bell," daughter of Captain 
 Benjamin and Abigail Messervey-Bell of Salem, Mass., by 
 the Rev. Dr. Stillman. 
 
 [The Bell family was of English origin while the Messervey 
 family came from the Island of Jersey, both families being 
 identified with the early New England settlers and marry- 
 ing into the Osgood, Kirkwood, Buxton and Glover families 
 of Boston and Salem.] 
 
 Miss Sarah Bell was born in Salem, Mass., January 27, 
 1768, and was baptized in the Episcopal Church four days 
 later. 
 
 By this first marriage there were nine children. 
 
 Mary Trask, b. December 24, 1792, d. September 17, 
 
 1838. 
 Benjamin Bell, b. September 22, 1794, d. April 10, 1872. 
 Susannah, b. December 5, 1796, d. March 12, 1885. 
 Daniel, Jr., b. January 17, 1799, d. September 14, 1838. 
 William, b. May 24, 1801, d. June 17, 1887. 
 James G., b. February 14, 1804, d. February 10, 1869. 
 Nathaniel Brown, b. July 6, 1805, d. December 16, 1887. 
 Sarah Bell, b. June 21, 1807, d. August 20, 1868. 
 Osgood, b. December 28, 1809, d. August, 1834. 
 
We 0L'J*r/fr»* ^ f^^^f^ J 
 
 Wardens of Trinity Church in Bolton, in Confideration ofthefum of Jnffy / &"-*^ J 
 paid to us by //f'tyavtiL £-/*/■/<£ y^ — • — - 
 
 — for the Ufe of faid Church, the Receipt whereof we acknowledge, 
 
 DO hereby grant and affign to the faid ^^atu^C- - — ~ - ~/~~~~ . -, 
 
 a Pew in faid Church in the t/,//e /?i/Lc. _ — - numbered, ?,n /iut'J>c*Y 071&- 
 
 \nd in behalf of faid Church, We do covenant and 'agree with the faid *-£) a-n <•! L~ 
 
 __ __ _- _ . and his Heirs, that he and they (hall 
 
 Have, hold and enjov the fame, on the following Conditions, that is to to fay, 
 that he and they frail punctually difcharge all fuch Taxes and Affcflments, as (hall 
 from time to time be impofed upon faid Pew by a majority of the Proprietors pre- 
 fent at any legal Meeting. And in cafe of a default of payment of fuch Taxes for more 
 than the fpace of one year from the day of afTeffing the fame, the faid Pew (hall revert 
 to faid Church. And the faid Wardens for the time being (hall again fell the fame, 
 and firfl deducting the taxes that (hall or may be due upon faid Pew, together with all 
 ontingent Charges, faid Wardens (hall pay over the Surplufage to the faid *-2?arzte £ 
 _^_ __ •«. > — -> or his legal Reprefentativcs. 
 
 And in cafe the faid *~j)a rut I - ~ — — and his heirs 
 
 (hall leave the faid Church, he or they (hall furrender up faid Pew numbered { Q ( 
 to the Wardens for the time being, within fix Months after their leaving faid Church, 
 upon the faid Wardens paying him or them the Sum exprefTcd above, and in default 
 thereof faid Pew is and (liall be forfeited to the faid Chu rch. And incafe of fuch War- 
 dens refilling to take faid Pew at the Price aforefaid, then the faid <- J ar?iec — 
 
 — — or his heirs (hall have the right of difpofing of the faid Pew 
 
 to any Perfon who will fubmit to the above Conditions and the Rules of the Church. 
 
 Witness our hands and feals at Boston, this * //t£/7l . -~ Day of 14/ik' 
 in the Year of our Lord {fC/ — ' 
 
 
 Wardens. 
 
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 The wardens of Trinity Church, in Boston, Richard 
 Green and George Debloise, granted and assigned to Daniel 
 Carney, on April 16, 1801, the pew numbered 101, in the 
 side aisle, in consideration of the sura of fifty dollars. 
 
 Here the family worshipped for over a quarter of a cen- 
 tury. 
 
 On the 11th of November, 1812, the husband and children 
 lost by death their gentle, loving and noble Christian wife 
 and mother. It was at this time that the family vault under 
 Trinity Church was secured. A copy of the original papers 
 is here inserted : 
 
 " Know all men by these presents that I, James Dumaresq 
 of Dresden in the County of Lincoln and Commonwealth of 
 Massachusetts, Gentleman, Now know ye that I the said 
 James Dumaresq have made, constituted and appointed, and 
 by these presents do make, constitute and appoint John Syl- 
 vester John Gardiner, Rector of Trinity Church in the County 
 of Suffolk and Commonwealth aforesaid, my true and lawful 
 attorney, for me and in my name, to sell or demise all the 
 real estate that he may find belonging to me in the Town of 
 Boston in the County of Suffolk and Commonwealth afore- 
 said, to such person or persons as he shall think fit ; or other- 
 wise to sell and dispose thereof either for life or lives, or sell, 
 grant and convey the same absolutely, in fee simple, for such 
 price or sum of money, and to such person or persons as he 
 shall think fit and convenient. And also for me, and in my 
 name, to seal, execute, and deliver such deeds, conveyances, 
 bargains and sales, for the absolute sale and disposal thereof 
 or any part thereof, with such clauses, covenants and agree- 
 ments to be therein contained, as my said Attorney shall think 
 fit and expedient. Hereby ratifying, confirming and allow- 
 ing all such lease or leases, deeds, conveyances, bargains or 
 sales which shall at any time hereafter be sealed and executed 
 by my said attorney, touching or concerning the premises. 
 
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 " In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
 seal this twelfth day of September, Anno Domini, 1812. 
 
 " James Dumakesq. \ seal. I 
 " Signed and sealed — , — 
 
 in presence of 
 " Elias Kobbins. 
 "James H. Patterson. 
 
 " Lincoln, Ss. September 12th, 1812. 
 
 "Then personally appeared the above James Dumaresq 
 and acknowledged the above instrument by him subscribed 
 to be his free act and deed. 
 
 " Before me, 
 
 " James H. Patterson, 
 " Just, of Peace." 
 
 " To all whom it may concern, be it known that I, John S. 
 J. Gardiner, in consideration of one hundred and thirty dollars 
 paid to me in hand by Daniel Carney of Boston, have bar- 
 gained and sold to the said Carney his Heirs and assigns for- 
 ever a Certain Tomb under Trinit}^ Church so called, situ- 
 ated in the westerly range of Tombs, is number twenty-three 
 formerly the property of Susannah Dumaresq and Matthew 
 Saumarez bounded South on Jabez Hatch, and North on 
 William Coffin, and I do by virtue of the within power of 
 Attorney from the only surviving Heir, guarantee the above 
 premises to the said Carney, his Heirs and assigns forever, 
 and that I will warrant and defend the same against the law- 
 ful claims of all persons, in testimony whereof I have sett 
 my hand and seal the twelfth day of November in the year 
 of our Lord, Eighteen hundred and twelve. 
 
 " John S. J. Gardiner. 
 
 " Witness 
 
 " Mary Gardiner." 
 
 < seal. V 
 
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 According to the Record book of Civil appointments in 
 the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts, Daniel Carney was appointed a coroner for Suffolk 
 County on August 31, 1810, while the Records of the Exe- 
 cutive Council give the date as September 1, 1810. 
 
 The appointment was made by Governor Elbridge Gerry, 
 who had been sworn into office but two months previously, 
 June 2, 1810. Associated with Daniel Carney, as coroners, 
 were Paul Revere, Jr., John Fessenden, Thomas Badger, 
 Joseph Stevens and Thos. Stephenson. 
 
 Daniel Carney continued to hold this appointment for 
 sixteen years, or until 1827. The last time his name is 
 mentioned in the " Massachusetts Register " as coroner is 
 in 1826. 
 
 The following letter to his brother James Carney of Dres- 
 den, Me., gives a glimpse of the sympathetic nature of the 
 man: 
 
 " Boston, July 7, 1813. 
 "Dear Brother : — I have sent by Mr. Robert Good win 
 1 Buckett flour, 2 bundles and 1 keg vinegar — the flour 
 is for you the other articles for Sister Caty and Susan. 
 "We are all in good health but for myself not in very 
 good spirits — I find it impossible to forget my Dear 
 Wife ; but every returning home seems to make me 
 more sensible of the irreparable loss. When I return 
 to my family from the daily Business I find no soothing 
 friend and companion to comfort me or bear a part of 
 my burden. I must close, Mr. Goodwin is waiting. 
 I remain your Brother 
 
 " Daniel Carney. 
 " Mr. James Carney 
 
 " P. S. Please give my love to your wife and all 
 my sisters, I wish much to see you all. 
 
 " D. C." 
 
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 Truly it was a problem facing the cares of his active life 
 in business and attending to the nine young people at home, 
 the youngest of whom was but four years of age. Hence 
 it is not surprising to find that, on July 21, 1814, he married 
 as his second wife Miss Mary Wheeler, who was born Octo- 
 ber 2, 1781, and died March 13, 1877. She was the daughter 
 of Captain Josiah and Khoda Bowker-Wheeler. Her son, 
 Hon. Franklin L. Carney, says : 
 
 " If 1 should begin to write of my Mother I should 
 put you out of patience. She was, after her marriage, 
 eminently a domestic woman, made so by the little 
 children of the former Wife, and early advent of her 
 own little ones. The education so different in her 
 early days leaves but little to say about modern style 
 of education ; it was in the Boston, and private, 
 Schools : with Needle-work, Dancing, Deportment, 
 &c. by private teachers. W T e all remember well the 
 high heeled satin slippers she wore while some of her 
 samplers still remain, with bead-work, spangled-silk &c. 
 The Wheelers were identified with the best political 
 and Social Society of that day : 
 
 "Mary Wheeler was a member of the Handel and 
 Hayden Musical Society, having a remarkably beau- 
 tiful voice. The Poet, Charles Sprague, lived in one- 
 half of the house in her girl-hood days and was her 
 constant companion and admirer. She gave up her 
 portion of her Father's Estate to pay Father's liabil- 
 ities in 1829 (amongst which I have often heard him 
 say was eight hundred dollars in silver) and followed 
 him with their little ones to Maine. Loving, devoted, 
 self-denying, no words could express her faithful life. 
 
 " We laid her body in her cedar-lined grave, with 
 the bright March Sun shining upon her form which 
 
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 held the peaceful smile which had so many years been 
 
 our comfort and joy, and placed on the marble : 
 " ' Precious is the memory of our Mother.' 
 
 " Her Father ' Capt. Josiah Wheeler ' was a house wright 
 who lived in half a double house on Orange, now Washing- 
 ton Street, west side, between Pleasant and Warren Streets, 
 the other half was occupied by Sprague also of the tea party. 
 
 " On the afternoon of December 16, 1773, Mrs. Wheeler 
 became aware that there was something unusual on her 
 husband's mind. It was late when he returned home that 
 evening, but she sat up for him. As he pulled off his long 
 boots, a quantity of tea fell on the floor revealing the cause of 
 his absence. Seeing the tea a female neighbor who had sat 
 up with Mrs. Wheeler to keep her company in her husband's 
 absence exclaimed ' Save it ! it will make a nice mess.' 
 Taking her broom this patriotic woman swept it all into the 
 fire-place saying ' Do not touch the cursed stuff.' 
 
 " When the English troops entered Boston, he was living 
 on Pleasant Street, and promptly took his family and walked 
 to Milton, leaving a hog just killed hanging by the heels. 
 No one ever knew who eat it ! 
 
 " Capt. Wheeler commanded a company of Minute Men at 
 the commencement of the Revolution, most of whom were 
 skilled Carpenters and Joiners, and by Washington's orders 
 he superintended the erection of the forts on Dorchester 
 Heights. 
 
 " He also built the State House and Hollis St. Church at 
 Boston, Charles Bullfinch being the Architect. 
 
 " He died in Boston in August, 1817, aged 74. 
 
 " Capt. Wheeler was also one of the Volunteer Guards on 
 board the ' Dartmouth.' " 
 
 (The above quoted notice of Capt. Wheeler is from Crane's 
 " Tea Leaves " owned by the Boston Historical Society. 
 General Washington subsequently presented a sword to 
 
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 Captain Wheeler, which has become a cherished heirloom in 
 the family. Ed.) 
 
 To understand the civil environment in which Daniel par- 
 ticipated eighty years ago, it is well to recall that Boston's 
 first city charter was granted February 23, 1822. 
 
 The new charter stated that the administration of all fis- 
 cal, prudential and municipal concerns of the city, with the 
 conduct and government thereof, should be vested in one 
 principal officer, styled " the Mayor " ; one select council of 
 eight persons to be denominated " the Board of Aldermen " ; 
 and the more numerous " Common Council " of forty-eight 
 individuals. 
 
 The mayor and aldermen composed one board, with the 
 mayor as presiding officer. 
 
 The police administration was also vested in the mayor 
 and aldermen, besides other powers which need not here be 
 enumerated. 
 
 The health of the first mayor, Hon. John Philipse, failing, 
 Josiah Quincy, Esq., was elected mayor of Boston, in 1823. 
 
 It has been written, " his administration, covering a period 
 of six years, has formed a standard to which the efforts of 
 his successors are continually referred." 
 
 It is gratifying to know that Daniel Carney for two terms 
 of Mayor Quincy's official life — 1825 and 1826 — was one of 
 " the select Council of eight persons to be denominated ' the 
 Board of Aldermen.' " 
 
 Daniel Carney was then sixty years old, being about seven 
 years the senior of Mayor Quincy. 
 
 The seven other gentlemen serving as aldermen were 
 John Bellows, Josiah Marshall, Thomas Welsh, Jr., Henry 
 J. Oliver, John F. Loring, Francis Jackson and Edward H. 
 Robbins, names well recognized then, and even at this day. 
 
 Mr. Quincy is described as a man of "large experience, 
 kindly disposition and most decided will. To his adminis- 
 
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 tration the city of Boston owed its improved sanitary con- 
 dition ; the system of cleaning the streets and removal of 
 impurities; the New Market, of granite, two stories high, 
 five hundred and thirty feet long and fifty wide at a cost of 
 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; six neAV streets 
 which were opened, while a seventh was widened and en- 
 larged ; flats, docks and wharf rights were obtained to the 
 extent of one hundred and forty thousand square feet and 
 all brought to a successful conclusion, in the very midst of a 
 populous, growing city, without any tax, debt or burden 
 upon its pecuniary resources ; — on the contrary it added to 
 its real and productive property." 
 
 In 1825 the legislature authorized the mayor and alder- 
 men to appoint all the engineers, fire-wardens, and fire- 
 men, and thereupon the entire fire department of the city 
 was reorganized. The house of correction, with the idea 
 of separating the young criminals from the adults, was also 
 established, and the mayor was most insistent that the laws 
 dealing with gambling, liquor and kindred evils should be 
 rigidly enforced. 
 
 The mayor and aldermen were deeply interested in educa- 
 tional matters, the mayor being chairman of the public 
 schools. Daniel Carney was on the school committee and 
 with Francis Jackson on the " Committee on Neck Lands." 
 
 One of the large functions in which Daniel Carney partic- 
 ipated was the laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill 
 Monument, on June 17, 1825. You will recall that General 
 Lafayette was escorted to the city limits, having spent the 
 previous night at Governor Eustis' residence in Roxbury. 
 The city officials met and escorted him to the State House, 
 passing along Washington Street, over which had been 
 erected, at the site of the old fortifications, a beautiful arch, 
 whereon were the following lines composed by the poet 
 Charles Sprague : 
 
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 " Welcome, Lafayette ! 
 The Fathers in glory shall sleep, 
 That gathered with thee to the fight, 
 But the Sons will eternally keep 
 The tablet of gratitude bright. 
 We bow not the neck, and we bend not the knee, 
 But our hearts, Lafayette, we surrender to thee." 
 
 The laying of the corner-stone, with the oration by Dan- 
 iel Webster was followed by a banquet at which four thou- 
 sand were seated. 
 
 How easy it is to picture the dignified son of Mark and 
 Suzanne participating in that patriotic event, and probably 
 knowing some among the ninety survivors of the battle of 
 Bunker Hill who were present on that unique occasion ! 
 
 On February 22, 1826, Governor Levi Lincoln, of Massa- 
 chusetts, signed the following commission : 
 
 " The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 " To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : 
 " Know ye, That we, confiding in the ability, discretion 
 and integrity of 
 
 Daniel Carney 
 
 of Boston, Esquire, by and with the advice and consent 
 of the Council, have assigned, constituted and appointed, 
 and by these Presents do assign, constitute and appoint 
 him, the said Daniel Carney, Esquire, to be one of our 
 
 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, 
 
 within and for the County of Suffolk for and dur- 
 ing the term of seven years from the date of 
 Levi Lin- these Presents, if he shall so long behave himself 
 coln. well in the said office. 
 
 AND WE DO HEREBY AUTHORIZE AND ENJOIN him, the Said 
 
 Daniel Carney Esquire, to keep, and cause to be kept, the 
 Laws and Ordinances made for the good of the peace, and 
 
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 for the conservation of the same, and for the quiet, rule and 
 government of our Citizens and subjects in the said County ; 
 and to execute and perform all the powers and duties, 
 which by our laws appertains to the said office, so long as 
 he the said Daniel Carney Esquire, shall hold the same 
 by virtue of these Presents. 
 
 " Witness, His Excellency Levi Lincoln, our Governer, and 
 our seal hereunto affixed, at Boston, the twenty second day 
 of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
 hundred and twenty-six and in the fiftieth year of the 
 Independence of the United States of America. 
 
 " By his Excellency the Governor, with the advice and 
 consent of the Council. 
 
 " Edward D. Bangs, Secretary of the Commonwealth." 
 
 Of the thirteen children born of this second marriage eight 
 survive in 1903. 
 
 Josiah Wheeler, b. July 23, 1815. 
 
 Emeline, b. January 25, 1817. 
 
 Ann, b. May 17, 1818. 
 
 Joseph, b. October 16, 1819, d. January 23, 1895. 
 
 Samuel P., b. November 1821, d. Septembr 29, 1859. 
 
 Henry, b. January 12, 1823, d. January 5, 1900. 
 
 Franklin L., b. August 19, 1824. 
 
 Eliza W., b. December 27, 1826, d. January 28, 1861. 
 
 Henrietta, b. June 7, 1828. 
 
 Adaline, b. January 24, 1830, d. in infancy. 
 
 Addison, b. December 24, 1830. 
 
 Edwin H., b. March 12, 1833. 
 
 John V., b. November 6, 1835. 
 
 Many of the Carney family have been interested in sea- 
 faring life, either as owners, captains, or builders of vessels. 
 Daniel Carney purchased from his son-in-law, Andrew 
 Peters, a vessel in 1816. 
 
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 " Know all Men by these Presents, that I Andrew Peters 
 of Alna, in the County of Lincoln, Merchant, for and in 
 consideration of the sum of two thousand dollars to 
 me paid by Daniel Carney of Boston in the County 
 of Suffolk Merchant, the receipt whereof I do hereby 
 acknowledge, do hereby sell, convey and transfer to said 
 Carney a certain vessel designed for a schooner which 
 will be of the burthen of one hundred and ten tons, now 
 standing on the stocks in the Ship Yard on the point of 
 falls on Sheepscot Kiver together with all the timber planks 
 treenails and every other material provided for the comple- 
 tion of said vessel — And I the said Peters covenant and 
 agree with said Carney to superintend the completing fin- 
 ishing and launching of said Vessel and to use my best 
 endeavors to finish and launch said vessel with all possible 
 expedition. 
 
 " To have and to hold the said Hull of said Vessel with all 
 said timber planks treenails materials and all appurtenances 
 to him the said Carney his heirs executors Administrators 
 and assigns. 
 
 " Witness my hand and seal at Alna this tenth day of May, 
 Anno Domini, 1816. 
 
 " Andrew Peters 
 
 ■j SEAL. > 
 
 " Signed, sealed and delivered 
 in presence of 
 
 " Jno. Merrill Jr." 
 
 About the year 1828, Daniel Carney failed in business as 
 a result of the failure of the United States Bank. He was 
 on many papers, including iron foundries and ships. Feeling 
 too old to begin business anew, he retired on his wife's dower 
 to Sheepscot, Maine, where among other things he lengthened 
 the old bridge, built a wharf and the vessel " Sabbatis." 
 
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 He was also postmaster from 1830 to 1849. He died 
 
 March 11, 1852. His remains were taken to Boston, Mass., 
 
 and deposited in the family tomb under Trinity Church, 
 
 where he had been one of the wardens, when residing in 
 
 Boston. The children of Daniel and Sarah Bell Carney 
 
 follow in order of seniority : 
 5 
 
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 Mary Trask Carney. 
 
 Mary Trask Carney, was born December 24, 1792, and died 
 September 17, 1838. She was the eldest child of Daniel and 
 Sarah Bell Carney, and married her cousin, Captain William 
 Whiting Howard. No issue. (See Wm. W. Howard.) 
 
 In 1798, when Mary Trask Carney was but six years of 
 age, she was presented with a copy of " Paul and Virginia, 
 an Indian story, translated from the French of J. H. B. De 
 Saint Pierre, author of the Studies of Nature by H. Hunter, 
 D. D., embellished with engravings, Boston, 1796." 
 
 On the first leaf, written with many flourishes, one reads : 
 
 "Mary Trask Carney 
 Her Book Given 
 Her by her Father 
 Boston. 16th January 
 1798 " 
 
 The book was bound in leather and had two engravings, 
 one showing " The infancy of Paul and Virginia " and the 
 other the " Shipwreck and death of Virginia." The book 
 is two and one half inches wide by four and one fourth inches 
 in length. 
 
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 Benjamin Bell Carney. 
 
 Benjamin Bell Carney, eldest son of Daniel and Sarah 
 Bell Carney, born September 22, 1794, died April 10, 1872. 
 
 He married Miss Lydia Lilly of Pownalboro, Maine. 
 
 A man of deep religious feeling, of a serene and cheerful 
 temperament and ever patient under affliction. 
 
 From 1818 to 1823 his name appears in the Boston Di- 
 rectory as associated with his father in the West India trade. 
 
 He was appointed postmaster at Sheepscot Bridge, Me., 
 
 December 29, 1820, and was succeeded December 17, 1823, 
 
 by his brother William. 
 
 About this time there was the first family reunion in 
 
 Boston, at the residence of Daniel Carney, 679 Washington 
 
 Street. Many gathered there on that occasion, Benjamin 
 
 and his wife driving in a sleigh all the way from Maine to 
 
 participate in the festivity. 
 
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 Susannah Cakney. 
 
 Susannah Carney, third child of Daniel and Sarah Bell 
 Carney, born December 5, 1796, died March 12, 1885, in Port- 
 land, Maine, unmarried. The following letter written by 
 her to the writer's mother, in a neat, microscopic hand, bears 
 on family matters : 
 
 Lawkence (Mass.), Sept. 21. 
 
 " Dear Hortense : — I fear it will not be in my power 
 to give much, if any, information that will be of use 
 to Sydney, but will do all I can to assist him. I never 
 heard much of my Father's (Daniel, Sr.) parents only 
 that both were worthy, industrious people and not 
 much blessed Avith earthly riches ; do not know what 
 Grandfather's Christian name was ; do not know when 
 he came to this Country or if he was born in America, 
 should not be surprised if he was as neither Father, 
 Uncle Carney (James, Sr.) or any of their Sisters, 
 eight of them ever used any words peculiar to the 
 Irish or their manner of speaking, which seems rea- 
 sonable they would if their Father had ever used 
 them, neither Father, nor Uncle Carney, ever men- 
 tioned having any relatives on their Father's side ; all 
 I recollect of ever hearing of him is that during the 
 Revolution he was in a Privateer, the vessel was taken 
 by the English and he was carried a prisoner to Hali- 
 fax and died there in prison from same causes so many 
 died in Southern prisons during the war here. 
 
 " Your Uncle Nathaniel (Nathaniel Brown Carney), 
 when in Sheepscot some years before Father died, 
 took the Coat of Arms back with him when he re- 
 turned to New York (this was in the 40's, when Coats 
 
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 of Arms were not in as great demand as in recent 
 years ! Ed.) intending to get Mr. Morris who was 
 then living (Father of K B. C's Wife) to see if he 
 could get any information with regard to it as he was 
 then expecting to go to England in a few months, but 
 did not go. Think he was prevented by sickness from 
 going ; if not lost he still has it, and Sydney would 
 find something that would be of use to him at the 
 present time from seeing it. 
 
 "Grandmother's ancestors came originally from 
 France. They were obliged to flee from there at the 
 time the Protestants, then called Huguenots, were 
 massacred, and went to Germany. I have no history 
 to refer to, to see how many years since that took place, 
 and do not know how many years passed from that 
 time before her parents came to this Country. Some 
 one of her children has told me she was born while on 
 their passage here. Uncle Carney's oldest sons, Capt. 
 James Carney living in Richmond, Maine, and Capt. 
 William Carney — are the only persons now living 
 that I know of, that could give you any information 
 of Grandfather other than what I have written, and 
 they would be interested and pleased to write S} r dney 
 all they may have heard their Father say of him. 
 Should he write and direct to Captain James Carney, 
 Richmond, Maine, he will I think be sure to hear from 
 him, and he may know when his brother William may 
 be in N. Y., as he often comes in there on returning 
 from foreign voyages and would probably learn more 
 in conversing with him could he see him, than in any 
 amount of writing. 
 
 " They could also tell him who our Grandparents' 
 relatives were, as I believe they lived in Dresden some 
 time before they went to Boston to live, but am not 
 
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 certain. I do not know of any now living in New 
 Castle that I think has ever heard of those he feels 
 interested in hearing of ; it was some miles from where 
 Uncle lived so he seldom went there, and all those aged 
 people died some years before he did, that he was ac- 
 quainted with. 
 
 " Salem was my Mother's native place and all her 
 relatives, as far as we knew, lived there ; her Mother's 
 name was Meservy, before she was married, am not 
 certain I have spelled the name right as it is many 
 years since I have heard it spoken. She married a 
 Captain Benjamin Bell. He belonged in England and 
 died young leaving Grandmother (Bell) with two little 
 girls. Mother did not remember much about him as 
 she was a child when he died ; all I can recollect of 
 his Coat of Arms is, there were three bells on it. 
 Aunt Kirkwood's (Mother's Sister) children wished to 
 keep it, we were willing they should and they carried 
 it to Arkansas when they went there. 
 
 " We have no near relatives living in Salem now 
 but Cousin Hannah (Osgood) and Mother's Father died 
 many years before she was born. 
 
 " Grandma Carney's Christian name was Susannah, 
 I was named for her and have no middle name. — 
 Your Aunt Sarah's name was Sarah Bell, our Mother's 
 name before she was married. 
 
 " 23d. — I should like to have closed and sent this last 
 week but can't write much at one time without bring- 
 ing on palpitation of the heart. 
 
 " Hope what I have written will be of some use to 
 Sydney." 
 
 " Aunt Susan " was a familiar guest in the homes of the 
 various kinsmen. Her gentle, if over-precise manner, was the 
 
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 occasion for much subduing of the lively youngsters who could 
 hardly restrain their pranks, (and sometimes did not,) when 
 under the watchful eyes of one whose sense of decorum and 
 deep religious feeling could not countenance what appeared to 
 her as frivolous. 
 
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 Daniel W. Carney. 
 
 Daniel W. Carney, fourth child of Daniel and Sarah Bell- 
 Carney, was born January 17, 1799. He was educated in 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 From April 4, 1837, to March 26, 1838, he was United 
 States Consul at Sante Domingo, Hayti, W. I., where he 
 died and was buried September 14, 1838. He was un- 
 married. 
 
 The following letter was written to his father : 
 
 " Via St. Thomas. Citv St. Domingo. 
 
 " Sunday morn'g, January 1st, 1837. 
 
 " Dear Father : — I wish you all a very happy New 
 Year and many happy returns of this anniversary. 
 We have here celebrated its return with some con- 
 siderable parade of military, an oration from the Gen- 
 eral commanding this Arrondissement and some 
 ceremonies at the Cathedral. It is quite a lively day 
 this, in this Island as it is also the Anniversary of its 
 independence being now the 34th year thereof. I 
 wrote you by the " Albert " at New York 27th ulto. 
 My health is still continuing about the same as usual. 
 I am however still very apt to take cold notwith- 
 standing all my care. I am looking with some anxiety 
 now to get letters from home, our letters are getting 
 quite old. 
 
 " With love to all, 
 
 " Your affectionate Son, 
 
 " Daniel. 
 
 "Jan'y 2d. 
 " I should not mention the subject of which I am going to 
 
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 say a few words unless I was fearful that some exaggerated 
 accounts might be reported in America when you would of 
 course feel anxiety where none was necessary. 
 
 " For some 10 or 12 days past there has been a rumor in 
 the City that the Columbians were meditating an attack 
 upon this place and at length the Ev'g of the 31st. Dec. was 
 fixed upon as the time when it was to be executed. The 
 proper Authorities took the necessary measures to defeat any 
 attempt of the kind should it be made and on that Ev'g parti- 
 cularly strong patrols were out and during the whole night. 
 Some feared that the attack would be made last night, when 
 the Citizens would be more off their guard it was thought, 
 after the festivities of the day and, consequently, the pre- 
 cautions adopted on the preceding ev'g of keeping the doors 
 fastened and weapons ready inside were again in requisition 
 last night. 
 
 "Nothing in the way of ' Demonstration'* however has 
 been made by the ' Enemy ' if we have one and some are 
 persuading themselves that it is all a xxxxx. I have no 
 means of knowing. 
 
 " Even should anything of the kind take place, which is I 
 think quite unlikely, there would not probably be much 
 bloodshed — the matter would soon be settled by the Military. 
 
 " The foreigners and others than the Military would not 
 probably be molested. I do not think that you need feel any 
 alarm or anxiety on my account. I have certainly slept 
 very soundly myself upon it. I would wish that if no report 
 of this matter reaches the States and appears in the papers 
 that you will mention it to no person except perhaps to 
 James for fear he might hear of it and not tell you when 
 therefore it will perhaps be well enough to send him this 
 letter." 
 
 On the outside of the folded letter is : 
 
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 " Mess. Eldridge Ramsay & Co. will please forward this 
 by first vessel for the States & oblige their fr'd & S't 
 
 " D. W. C. 
 " Daniel Carney, Esq. P. M. (postmaster). 
 
 " Sheepscott Bridge, Maine. 
 " Via St. Thomas." 
 
 The word " Ship " is stamped in red on the outside. 
 The letter was forwarded to James G. Carney of Lowell, 
 Mass., with this addition on outside : 
 " Your affec't Father. 
 
 A very severe snowstorm is now raging." 
 
WILLIAM CARNEY 
 
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 William Carney. 
 
 "William, the fifth child, of Daniel and Sarah Bell Carney, 
 was born May 24, 1801, in Boston, Mass., where he received 
 his education. He had a most sunny and pleasant temper- 
 ament. For a time, at least, he was interested with his 
 father in the West India trade, residing at No. 5 Chatham 
 Street in Boston, in 1828, although from December 17, 1823, 
 to March 20, 1826, he held the position of postmaster, at 
 Sheepscot, Maine, having succeeded his brother Benjamin 
 in that office. 
 
 He settled in Portland, Maine, about 1830. He was a 
 member of St. Stephens Episcopal Church. 
 
 As a boy he took many prizes for his beautiful penman- 
 ship. He also went abroad in a sailing vessel, visiting France. 
 The trip across consumed one hundred days. He married 
 on February 13, 1833, his cousin, Miss Lucia C. Benson, born 
 May 27, 1809, died September 28, 1871, daughter of Nathaniel 
 and Abigail Carney-Benson. They had five children, four 
 sons and one daughter, as follows : 
 
 William Benson Carney. 
 
 1. William Benson, first child of William and Lucia Benson- 
 Carney, was born August 12, 1834, died in Portland, Maine, 
 January 2, 1897. 
 
 He married, July 15, 1856, Miss Elizabeth Y.Cobb. Their 
 children were 
 
 (a) Josephine -E., b. March 19, 1860, married A. L. East- 
 man, and had one son, Benjamin. 
 (h) Mary C, b. November 7 1865, died 1868. 
 
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 Caroline Goodwin Carney. 
 
 Caroline Goodwin, second child of "William and Lucia Ben- 
 son-Carney, was born in Portland, Maine, July 5, 1836, and 
 died there, unmarried, on October 12, 1901. Her life was 
 devoted to the care of her brother William who was a great 
 invalid. 
 
 The remarks of the Rev. J. B. Shepherd, at her funeral, 
 are printed as an affectionate memorial of her saintly life, 
 together with the resolutions adopted by the " Elizabeth 
 Wardsworth Chapter " of the Daughters of the American 
 Revolution. 
 
 Remarks by Rev. J. B. Shepherd at the funeral of Miss 
 Caroline Goodwin Carney : 
 
 " This memorial service which you have listened to, and 
 taken part in, with so much reverence and respect for the 
 departed, and with so much sympathy for this afflicted circle 
 of relatives and friends, began with those striking and com- 
 forting: words of Christ ' I am the resurrection and the life : 
 he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he 
 live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never 
 die.' 
 
 " I say these words are striking and comforting. Death is 
 recognized as a stern fact in this world by all men, through 
 all ages. Many attempts have been made to explain the 
 mystery of death. Statesmen, philosophers, poets, and kings 
 have tried to raise the curtain that divides the unknown 
 world from the known, but they have all failed. Men have 
 dreamed and speculated, and theorized, and doubted, and 
 scoffed about death, but its mystery is still impenetrable 
 from any human standpoint. 
 
 " But place beside these theories and speculations of men, 
 these words of Christ, and we must acknowledge that they 
 
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 appear in striking contrast to them. There is a certainty 
 and definiteness about them that quickly arrests attention. 
 Here is a person who boldly claims to have solved the mystery 
 of death. We say, who is he? Can he substantiate his 
 claim ? These are the questions we may properly ask even 
 while Christ's words are ringing in our ears. 
 
 " These words of Christ will appear all the more striking 
 when we know that Christ stood in the presence of death 
 when he uttered them. He was at the sepulchre of Lazarus. 
 Beside him were the sorrowing and weeping sisters. If 
 there is ever a time when a man is sincere and honest, it is 
 when he stands at the grave of his dearest and best friend. 
 What mockery, what hypocrisy, what cold blooded cruelty, 
 for Christ to say what he did at the grave of his friend, if 
 he did not speak the words of truth and soberness. If the 
 records be true, later on our Lord gave proof of the truth- 
 fulness of his assertions by bringing back to life Lazarus. So 
 it was literally true that Christ was just what he said he was, 
 the resurrection and the life. 
 
 " But these words of Christ may be of comfort to these, 
 stricken hearts. 
 
 " Your sister is dead. Her earthly pilgrimage is over. 
 Her work is accomplished. But because Christ is the resur- 
 rection and the life, she shall live again. Nay, more, she is 
 living now in a fairer and better clime, in the very presence of 
 God. She has entered upon a new life that shall never end. 
 Her companions are the good and the true of all the ages. 
 Her departure is a great loss to this household, and to the 
 church she loved and served so well. It is right that we 
 recognize our loss and sorrow over it. But we do not sorrow 
 as those without hope. We shall see her again. She waits 
 with those we have loved and cherished so dearly on earth, in 
 the Paradise of God. 
 
 " If it be not so, then it had been better if we had not 
 
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 been born. This life is a cruel cheat. The Bible is a lie and 
 Christianity is a delusion and a sham. Our sister was a 
 believer in Christ. Hers was a faith of a lifetime. Her 
 very existence was bound up in the church of God. Her 
 time, her labor, and her love, was given to St. Paul's 
 Church. From the time of its organization after the 
 great fire of Portland until her death, she was always loyal 
 to the church of her first love. Others grew weary and dis- 
 couraged, but she never tired. Even after she was confined 
 to the house and knew that her days were numbered, her in- 
 terest never flagged. Nothing pleased her so much as to 
 hear something about St. Paul's. 
 
 " In the days of her strength she spared neither time, or 
 labor, or money, to advance its interests. In the Sunday 
 school, in the Ladies Guild, in visiting the sick and needy, 
 she was ever ready to help. The rectors of St. Paul's will 
 always recall her steadfast labors with pleasure and appreci- 
 ation. 
 
 " Miss Carney was not a woman of elegant leisure. For 
 years she had the care of an invalid brother. He was in her 
 thoughts night and day, but with all her love and care for 
 him, she found time to labor for her Church. 
 
 " It is not necessary to recount the particulars of this good 
 woman's life : it is known and read of all men. 
 
 " Could she but speak to-day, I am sure that she would 
 desire I say little about herself, and speak of the Christ she 
 loved and served so faithfully and well. When I say that 
 this woman lived and died a Christian, it is the only com- 
 ment that needs to be made about her. ' She hath done 
 what she could, and her works do follow her.' 
 
 " ' Within the home she ruled with quiet might, 
 By virtue of her perfect womanhood ; 
 A child in years, but with all grace and good 
 Enshrined in her truth flashing orbs of light. 
 
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 A woman strong and firm to do the right, 
 
 Who with the old time martyrs might have stood, 
 
 Yet full of sympathy with every mood, 
 
 In times of trouble cheery still and bright ; 
 
 O Queen of maidens it must surely be, 
 
 If ought that to perfection cometh near 
 
 Can e'er be found in tbis imperfect life, 
 
 You, perfect daughter, will but disappear 
 
 To sbine as perfect woman.' 
 
 " That womanhood that blessed her home, her Church, and 
 the world has been transplanted to the Paradise of God, to 
 bloom in all its perfection and beauty in the presence of 
 Christ. From any human standpoint the Church can ill 
 afford to spare such women. But God knows best. He 
 hath need of her, else He would not have taken her to Him- 
 self. 
 
 " Let us strive to emulate her virtues, and enshrine her 
 memory in our hearts as those who knew her and loved her 
 best. 
 
 " One thing I am sure of. "When the roll of those saintly 
 women, who have labored for the welfare of St. Paul's 
 Church is called, the name of Carrie Carney will shine 
 bright and clear among the foremost. In behalf of the par- 
 ish she loved so dearly, I esteem it a privilege to place upon 
 the mound that shall mark the spot where she rests, the un- 
 dying wreath of our affection and esteem." 
 
 The following preamble and resolutions were adopted by 
 the Daughters of the American Revolution in Portland, 
 Maine : 
 
 "Miss Caroline Goodwin Carney died October 12, 
 1901, after a long and distressing illness which she bore 
 with her characteristic patience and fortitude. 
 
 "Resolved : That in her death the Elizabeth Wards- 
 worth Chapter loses one of its most zealous and de- 
 
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 voted members. Her love for the Society was second 
 only to the Church in which she was raised. She was 
 a Charter member, of St. Paul's Church of this City 
 and as long as her health permitted was active in all 
 its good works. 
 
 " Eesolved : That we tender to her surviving 
 brothers and their families our sincere sympathy in 
 their loss, which to her was gain, and that these 
 resolutions be sent to the family and spread upon our 
 records. 
 
 " Mrs. M. A. Kobinson. "j 
 
 " Mrs. S. B. Bedlow. I Committee." 
 
 " Mrs. A. L. McDonald. J 
 
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 Warren Osgood Carney. 
 
 Warren O. Carney, third child of William and Lucia C. Ben- 
 son-Carney, was born in Alna, Maine, on October 28, 1838. 
 
 He is engaged in the business of ship-joiner and cabinet 
 and pattern maker. 
 
 Mr. Carney has been prominent in Masonic circles in 
 Portland, Maine, and for thirty-five years a continous and 
 faithful worker in the Grand Lodge, having been Grand- 
 Sentinel of the Grand Chapter, and Grand Captain of the 
 Guards in the Grand Commandery. He has also served 
 continuously in the capacity of Secretary and Treasurer of 
 the Board of Relief of Ancient Land-Mark Lodge, and is 
 also a 32d degree Mason, having taken the Scottish Rites. 
 He is Past Master of Ancient Land-Mark Lodge, and a 
 member of Greenleaf Chapter Portland Council ; Past Com- 
 mander of Blanquefort Commandery, a member of the 
 Maine Consistory, and the Mystic Shrine. 
 
 On October 1, 1863, he enlisted as a private in the Seventh 
 Maine Light Battery Volunteers and participated in all the 
 battles in which this battery was engaged, being promoted 
 to artillery officer and mustered out at Augusta, Maine, 
 June 21, 1865. 
 
 He is a member of the Chestnut Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. He married on November 9, 1873, Miss Harriet 
 E. Griffen, the daughter of Horatio and Martha Edwards- 
 Griff en. 
 
 They have had three children : 
 
 (a) Lucia M., b. June 10, 1878. 
 
 (b) Bessie W., b. March 8, 1886, d. April 30, 1886. 
 
 (c) Harold E., b. February 7, 1888. 
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 Willard Charles George Carney. 
 
 4. Willard C. G. Carney, twin brother of Warren Osgood Car- 
 ney, fourth child of William and Lucia C. Benson-Carney, 
 was born in Alna, Maine, October 28, 1838, where he attended 
 school and later, in 1856, removed to Portland, Maine, also 
 attending school in that city. He became a druggist and 
 was engaged in that business with the firm of H. J. Perkins 
 for fourteen years. During the years 1879-80, he was a 
 member of the Portland city council and for several years 
 assistant assessor. In May, 1893, he was elected health in- 
 spector of Portland, which office he continues to hold. Mr. 
 Carney has been prominently identified with the Masonic 
 Fraternity, being a 32d degree Mason ; Past Commander of 
 Blankfort Commandery, K. T., Grand Sentinel of the Grand 
 Council of P. and S. M. of Maine, as well as of the Council of 
 Knights of Eed Cross of Constantine; Assistant Grand Ty- 
 ler of the Grand Lodge, and other offices in Masonic and 
 Odd Fellows chapters. 
 
 He, with his family, is a member of the Second Parish 
 Congregational Church, and a member of its parish com- 
 mittee. 
 
 On July 3, 1864, he married Miss Harriet Abby Stevens, 
 daughter of Daniel and Sarah Kimball Stevens, of Portland, 
 Maine. 
 
 They have had four children, as follows: 
 
 (a) Alice White Carney, b. November 29, 1866, d. April 
 16, 1869. 
 
 (b) Arthur P. Carney, b. January 10, 1869, d. Novem- 
 ber 16, 1876. 
 
 (c) Herbert Curtis Carney, b. March 31, 1874. 
 
 (d) Artena Maud Carney, b. November 8, 1877. 
 
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 Fessenden Vinton Carney. 
 
 Fessenden Vinton Carney, fifth child of William and Lucia 
 Benson-Carney, was born in Alna, Maine, December 27, 
 1843. He was educated in the Alna and Portland schools 
 and has become a prosperous merchant in Portland, Maine. 
 He married on September 27, 1871, Miss Margaret R. Smith, 
 born April 27,1848, daughter of Robert A. Smith, Jr., and his 
 wife Lucy Roberts-Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Carney are members 
 of St. Stephen's (Episcopal) Church in which Mr. Carney is a 
 vestryman. 
 
 Their children are : 
 
 (a) Robert F., b. April 19, 1874, d. May 14, 1874. 
 
 (b) Edwin S., b. August 15, 1875. 
 
 (c) Ethel B., b. December 4, 1877. 
 
 (d) Philip Wildes, b. June 9, 1880. 
 
 Edwin S. Carney resides in Europe ; Philip Wildes 
 Carney is a graduate of Princeton University ; Miss 
 Ethel B. Carney was married on June 16, 1903, to 
 Lieutenant Lucian Scott Breckenridge, U. S. A. 
 
CHAPTEK IV. 
 James G. Carney. 
 
 James G. Carney, sixth child of Daniel and Sarah Bell- 
 Carney was born in Boston, Mass., February 14, 1 804. He re- 
 sided there until he removed to Lowell, Mass., inlS28, where 
 he became one of its leading citizens. His education was 
 obtained in the public schools of Boston. For a time it 
 seemed as though he might become interested in mercantile 
 life, being supercargo on one of William Gray's vessels, and 
 later his confidential representative in Savannah, Georgia. 
 
 In 1825 he was bookkeeper in the recently organized 
 " American Bank," located at No. 7 Congress Street. This 
 bank had a capital of $250,000, and the following officers : 
 George Odiorne, president; Jno. S.Wright, cashier; Aslmr 
 Adams, teller ; James Carney, bookkeeper ; Thomas J. 
 Bailey, messenger and porter, and a board of ten trustees. 
 
 As there were several Carneys in the city of Boston at that 
 time named " James," he added the letter " G " to his name. 
 He apparently remained with the American Bank until 1828, 
 as his name appears among its officers that year, a year 
 marking his life momentously, in that he married, and also 
 located in Lowell, Mass., which city was incorporated two 
 years previously. 
 
 In those days the canal packet to Chelmsford left 
 Charlestown on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, re- 
 turning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, " passen- 
 gers and light freight being forwarded from 'Rileys,' 9 
 Elm Street, at half-past seven A. M." 
 
 Whether James G. Carney went up by canal packet, 
 chaise, or on horseback is of little moment, but staying at 
 
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 JAMES G. CARNEY 
 
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 the " Old Stone Tavern " on Pawtucket Street he was so 
 charmed by the picturesque view from his window, the 
 morning after his arrival, that he then decided to dwell by 
 the shores of the Merrimack River. 
 
 Here in 1653 dwelt the powerful and chivalric Pawtucket 
 tribe of Indians. Here came the famous Apostle Eliot and 
 in the wigwam of Wanalancet, the Chief, near Pawtucket 
 Falls, he preached the Gospel to them on the beautiful 5th of 
 May, 1674, from St. Matthew, chapter 22, 6th to 14th verses. 
 
 This particular tract of land was called Wamesit, and in 
 1726 it was annexed to Chelmsford, the Indians gradually 
 moving farther north, leaving their winding river, filled in 
 season with salmon and shad, to the " pale-faces," who have 
 since built one of the greatest manufacturing cities in New 
 England. 
 
 Mr. Carney became identified with the South Congrega- 
 tional Church (Unitarian) and from 1829 to 1840 was chair- 
 man of its standing committee. On September 7, 1851, he 
 and his wife united with this church, of which the Kev. Wil- 
 liam Barry was pastor. Later he and others built, and at- 
 tended, Lee Street Church and finally Kirk Street Con- 
 gregational Church, of which the Rev. Amos Blanchard, 
 D. D., was pastor, partaking of communion there, although 
 not severing his affiliation with the Unitarian Societv. 
 
 It has been said that no one who ever saw him during the 
 devotional part of the service could forget his devout and 
 reverent attitude. He was interested in all its public serv- 
 ices, and his constancy in attending both the morning and 
 afternoon services was remarkable. Once he was spoken to 
 on the subject and he replied, " When I am able to go to 
 business on week days, I feel I am able to go to church on 
 Sundays and hope that my example may exert an influence 
 on even one person." 
 
 In the year following his settling in Lowell, 1828, where 
 
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 by the way, he lived at No. 12 Merrimack Street for a 
 dozen years or more, nearly opposite Kirk Street, " the 
 Lowell Institution for Savings " was chartered, having its 
 office in the Lowell Bank. 
 
 In 1833 the following were its officers : Elisha Glidden, 
 Esq., president; Dr. John Orne Green and Elisha Bartlett, 
 Esq., vice presidents ; James G. Carney, Esq., treasurer. 
 Trustees : Rev. Theodore Edson, D.D., rector of St. Anne's 
 Church for nearly sixty years, and for several years pre- 
 sident of the bank, Joel Lewis, Esq., Warren Colburn, Esq., 
 Cyril French, Esq, George Brownell, Esq., James Russell, 
 Esq., and Abiel Abbott, Esq. 
 
 An announcement of one of its first meetings reads as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 " Notice. — A meeting of the Savings Institution will be 
 holden at the Compting Room of the Hamilton Company, 
 on Friday evening next, at 1 /2 past 7 o'clock. 
 
 " Lowell, March 18, 1829 James G. Cakney." 
 
 Of the success of this institution let others speak. 
 
 "To the prudent and wise business forethought and sagac- 
 ity of the late James G. Carney, the original promoter and 
 first Secretary and Treasurer of the Institution, is due a large 
 share of the prosperity which has ever attended the invest- 
 ments made in the half century just elapsed. 
 
 " Taking charge of the business at first as a simple matter 
 of aiding those who were struggling to aid themselves, as the 
 years rolled on, it became certain that some one must be 
 placed in charge as executive officer for the trust, with en- 
 larged power of action, and no one so well as the late Treas- 
 urer could assume the burden which he faithfully and hon- 
 estly bore until the year 1869, when death came to set him 
 free." 
 
 The Lowell Bank was started in 1828. Nathaniel Wright 
 
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 was its president and James G. Carney its cashier. Its 
 capital was $250,000. James G. Carney was one of its 
 directors and during seventeen years be was its treasurer 
 and one year its president. 
 
 In June, 1836, the " Ministry-at-Large," was started in 
 Lowell for the purpose of providing free religious and secular 
 instruction and to dispense charity among the unfortunate 
 and poor. 
 
 Keverend Horatio Wood refers in glowing terms of grati- 
 tude to Mr. Clark, James G. Carney and Dr. John C. Dalton 
 and others, who rendered him much valuable aid in his work. 
 "May the benevolent of the present and future genera- 
 tions imitate their noble examples and perpetuate this valu- 
 able Institution." Indeed it was due to the report of James 
 G. Carney, secretary of the South Congregational Society 
 (subsequently printed) that the Ministry-at-Large came into 
 being, as his suggestion that money sent to foreign parts 
 could be better employed among the poor and needy at home, 
 met with heartiest approbation, and this new organization 
 was started. 
 
 In 1841 James G. Carney and John Avery were the au- 
 ditors of the " Howard Benevolent Society," formed in 1840 ; 
 John Aiken, president, D. G. Lang, secretary, and Charles 
 Hovey, treasurer. 
 
 Mr. Carney was also the founder of the beautiful ceme- 
 tery in Lowell. Mr. Charles Hovey said in an address : " It 
 was he who penned the paragraph on the first written page 
 of its record and who brought it to the prospective clerk of 
 his selection, to be transcribed. He laid out the financial 
 plan that enabled the corporation to buy the land, procure 
 surveys and prepare it for use." The first meeting was held 
 in the common council rooms, March 8, 1841. The offi- 
 cers were, Oliver M. Whipple, president, James G. Carney, 
 treasurer, Charles Hovey, clerk, and twelve trustees. 
 
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 The Lowell Dispensary was inaugurated in 1836, and 
 James G. Carney was chairman of its first board of managers. 
 
 Associated with him were John Clark, John Aiken, Sidney 
 Spaulding, James Cook, Thomas Hopkinson, Jesse Fox, Jo- 
 seph Tapley, Richard L. Hastings, Hananiah Whitney, John 
 Mead and Asa Hall. 
 
 Mr. Carney and a few others established the Bank of 
 Mutual Redemption in Boston, which was chartered in 1855 
 and commenced business in 1858, and became its first presi- 
 dent. 
 
 " At this time the Suffolk Bank had constituted itself the 
 redemption agent of the New England banks, and redeemed 
 at par and put again into circulation the notes of all banks 
 which kept a specified balance on its books, while it bought 
 up, at current rates, the issues of banks which would not 
 submit to this arrangement and compelled them to redeem 
 the notes with specie. 
 
 " By the use of the moneys thus deposited with it by the 
 banks of the first class and by the profits derived from the 
 dragooning process applied to the recalcitrant banks of the 
 second class, the Suffolk Bank grew rich. The country 
 banks finally concluded that they might as well have a share 
 in these profits and a number of them united together in 
 forming the Bank of Mutual Redemption in Boston, mak- 
 ing it their redemption agent upon a similar plan." 
 
 At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Massachusetts 
 legislature had adjourned and no moneys in the treasury 
 could be used for moving the militia from the State until 
 an appropriation could be made by the legislature. 
 
 General Benj. F. Butler describes in his Memoirs, pages 
 170 to 173, his ride to Boston with James G. Carney, on 
 April 16, 1861. 
 
 Mr i . Carney was going to the Bank of Mutual Redemption, 
 and there wrote the following letter: 
 
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 " Bank of Mutual Redemption 
 
 " Boston, Mass., April 16, 1861. 
 "His Excellency, John A. Andrew, 
 " Governor : 
 "Sir: — Supposing it to be not impossible that the 
 sudden exigencies of the case may call for the use of 
 more money than may be at the immediate command 
 of the Treasurer of the Commonwealth in the Treas- 
 ury, I write to offer to place to the credit of the 
 State, the extreme amount the law now allows us to 
 loan it, and remain, Very respectfully 
 
 "Your ob. St. 
 
 " James G. Carney, 
 
 " President." 
 
 The sum thus offered was $50,000 and beside doing this he 
 personally went to the other banks and as a result of his 
 solicitations there was nearly $4,000,000 to the credit of the 
 commonwealth before nightfall. He also recommended 
 General Butler's detail as brigadier-general, which recom- 
 mendation was approved by Governor Andrew. 
 
 Thus in the hour of the country's need, James G. Carney 
 had the privilege of being the first to pledge the financial 
 assistance which sent the gallant Sixth Massachusetts to 
 the front to protect the national seat of government at 
 Washington. 
 
 In any emergency he could be relied on to do all in his 
 power to mitigate the wants or sorrows of others and in sev- 
 eral instances, he was the friend and protector of individ- 
 uals of the negro race during the exciting anti-slavery years. 
 
 On August 24, 1858, he gave to the city of Lowell a sura 
 of money, the interest of which should be used for silver 
 medals, to be given to young ladies and young gentlemen 
 of the graduating class of the Lowell High School. 
 
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 The following letter explains how the " Carney Medals "" 
 originated : 
 
 " Lowell, Aug. 24, 1858. 
 " Hon. Elisha Huntington, 
 
 " Mayor of the City of Lowell : 
 
 " Dear Sir : — I am desirous of contributing some- 
 what to the benefit of the public schools of Lowell, 
 where my children have received their school educa- 
 tion. I therefore send the enclosed check, that the 
 annual interest thereof may be appropriated to the 
 purchase of six silver medals, to be annually distributed 
 to the six best scholars in the high school, forever, — 
 three to the girl's department, and three to the boy's 
 department. 
 
 " As cities are usually borrowers of money, I suppose 
 this sum can be made a perpetual item of this city's 
 public debt ; the annual income then will always be as 
 certain as the continued existence of the city itself. 
 
 " Should the city accept this trust, I have only one 
 suggestion to offer as to the distribution of the 
 medals ; which I will make in the expression of the 
 hope that in their distribution, a preference shall be 
 given to excellence in a good English education, and 
 that whatever may be the talents or acquirements of 
 the competitors for these medals, no one shall ever 
 receive a medal whose character and conduct do not 
 entitle the recipient to a place in the front rank in de- 
 portment ; so that these medals shall be held and 
 prized not only as evidence of excellence in scholar- 
 ship, but also of excellence in character. 
 
 " Thus as each primary school scholar is looking 
 forward to the attainment of qualifications which will 
 give admission to the grammar school, and thence by 
 further progress, to the high school's advantages and 
 
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 privileges, it may be an additional incentive to a 
 healthy emulation in each to know that there is still an 
 honorable distinction to look forward to there, open to 
 all, and for the possession of which each may feel 
 assured that it is measurably in the power of each com- 
 petitor to command the one preliminary necessary 
 element of success — excellence of character. 
 " I remain, 
 
 " Eespectfully and truly, 
 
 " Your friend and servant, 
 
 " James G. Carney." 
 
 This gift, first of one hundred dollars, and the next year, 
 July 16, 1859, an equal amount, was accepted by the city of 
 Lowell, and the medals were first awarded in 1859. 
 
 They were won by Master Frederick T. Greenhalge, later 
 to become Governor of Massachusetts ; Master Thomas B. 
 Shaw, and Misses Augusta Vickser, Susan C. Crosby, Eliza- 
 beth G. Hanks and Jane E. Hosmer, and have been dis- 
 tributed each year since then. 
 
 The following is from the " Rules of the School Commit- 
 tee " 
 
 " Sec. 17. The ' Carney Medals ' shall be bestowed by the 
 Board at the close of each school year, upon the three male 
 members and the three female members of the graduating 
 class who have most fully complied with the requirements 
 of the donor, in accordance with the following rules : 
 
 " 1. There shall be neither more nor less than six medals an- 
 nually conferred. 
 
 " 2. They shall be restricted to members of the graduating 
 class, in either the three, four or five years' course ; but the 
 awards shall be based on general excellence throughout the 
 course, and no medal shall be given to any student who has 
 not been a member of the school at least three years. 
 
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 " 3. Three shall be bestowed on that number of young 
 ladies who excel in all that constitutes a good scholar, and 
 three on young gentlemen, similarly. 
 
 " 4. The elements of good scholarship to enter into the ac- 
 count shall include deportment and rank in daily recitations. 
 
 " The account shall be made up as follows : 
 
 "«. Rank in scholarship shall be the average of all the 
 studies in the course. 
 
 " b. Rank in deportment shall be one hundred per cent., less 
 three per cent, for each reduction made on a monthly report. 
 
 " c. No reduction shall be made for necessary absence, but 
 truancy shall disqualify any student. 
 
 " d. The final rank shall be the average of the ranks in 
 scholarship and deportment as found by a. and b. 
 
 " <?. The headmaster shall annually report to the Secretary 
 of the school committee, the names of the graduates who are 
 entitled to the medals according to the provisions of these 
 rules." 
 
 On Thursday, October 9, 1828, Mr. Carney was married by 
 the Rev. John Pierpoint, D.D., pastor of llollis Street Church, 
 Boston, Mass., to Miss Clarissa Willett. She was the daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Willett, Esq., a merchant of Boston, and Je- 
 mima Bullard-Willett, his wife, and was born February 3, 
 1806, and died May 3, 1856. 
 
 Her queenly presence, lovely Christian character, and de- 
 votion to her husband and children are sacred and hallowed 
 memories to those who knew her and were honored with her 
 friendship. A friend writing from Edinburgh at the time 
 of her death sent this message : 
 
 " To Mary in particular say, that the most happiness she 
 can wish for in this world is that she may live and die to be 
 beloved and lamented like her blessed Mother." 
 
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 Hartshorn-Willett of Walpole, Mass. 
 
 Andrew Willett marched to Lexington on the alarm of 
 April 19, 1775, and was a private in Capt. Seth Bullard's 
 company from May 22, 1775, to August 1, 1775. The next 
 year he was a lieutenant in Capt. Joshua Clapps' company, 
 in Col. Ephraim Wheelock's regiment and saw service until 
 June 9, 1779, when he resigned from the army. 
 
 His wife's ancestry was that of the Hartshorn family 
 traced to the Thomas Hartshorn, who was an original settler 
 of Reading, Mass., and whose son Joseph participated in King 
 Philip's War. 
 
 Jemima Bullard, was born February 9, 1776, and died 
 October 22, 1856. Her parents were Seth Bullard and Jo- 
 hanna Lewis-Bullard, his wife. Of Seth Bullard, the Rev. 
 Abner Morse wrote : 
 
 " The Hon. Seth Bullard was a gentleman of sound judg- 
 ment and sterling integrity ; he early entered the Army of 
 the Revolution, rose to the rank of Major and was esteemed 
 a valuable officer. He was subsequently much engaged in 
 transacting the public business of Walpole, Mass., and repre- 
 sented her twenty years, and Norfolk County, Mass., eight 
 years in the General Court."] 
 
 In 1844 Mr. Carney removed to his new home at No. 25 
 Pawtucket Street, the spacious grounds sloping almost to 
 the shores of the Merrimack River, and his long cherished 
 hope of having a residence in the immediate vicinity of the 
 spot which first charmed his vision was consummated. As 
 he walked there with his little five year old daughter Mar}'- 
 holding on to his forefinger, she said, " Father, is this mov- 
 ing?" Here they dw T elt for a quarter of a century, his 
 daughter Mary inheriting the house and grounds at his de- 
 cease. 
 
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 From the time of moving to the new house on Pawtucket 
 Street until his last illness in 1869, he always walked to and 
 from the bank four times daily, on the south side of Merri- 
 mack Street, while on three evenings of each week he was to 
 be found at the bank from six until nine o'clock. 
 
 The distance from his home to the bank was almost one 
 mile, and he took this exercise to overcome in some degree 
 the effects of his sedentary life. 
 
 James G. Carney never accepted any political office al- 
 though he had received the intimation that he would be of- 
 fered the position of Secretary of the Treasury, in President 
 Lincoln's second term. He was one of those rare men, 
 " without fear and without reproach ; " his integrity was 
 above question. On his deathbed he said to his son, " You 
 will find my accounts will balance to the cent," and not only 
 was that so, but during all these years his books had been so 
 perfectly, and accurately kept, that there was not even an 
 erasure ! 
 
 " The first obituary notice made in the Eecord Books of 
 the Institution was that commemorative of Mr. Carney's de- 
 cease, and the purest testimonial which can be recorded of any 
 man by his fellow men was made therein, shortly after his de- 
 mise, and consists of these words, " Not a figure to be 
 changed nor a word to be erased," and another quotation, 
 "In these times of what are called 'financial irregulari- 
 ties,' the Record of forty years of service of one of them, 
 James G. Carney, at the head of our oldest Savings Institu- 
 tions, will show not a single dollar lost of the millions which 
 have passed through his hands and not a figure reguiring to 
 he changed in nineteen ledgers of nearly one thousand pages 
 each." 
 
 The following obituary appeared in the " Lowell Courier," 
 Wednesday, February 10, 1869 : 
 
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 ' Death of James G. Carney. 
 
 " We are pained to announce the death of Mr. James G. 
 Carney Esq., who died at his residence on Pawtucket Street 
 at ten minutes past eight o'clock this morning of pneumonia. 
 He was taken ill last Thursday evening while on the street 
 with a member of his family, and was obliged to return 
 home, being completely prostrated in two hours afterwards. 
 He was in possession of his reason till the time of his death, 
 and suffered no pain, except from the difficulty in breathing. 
 
 In the death of Mr. Carney we have occasion to record 
 the fact that another of our oldest residents has passed away. 
 He was born in Boston in 1804, and would have been 65 
 years of age next Sunday. He came to Lowell in 1828, and 
 had therefore lived here 41 years. His purpose in coming to 
 Lowell was to assume the Cashiership of the Low T ell Bank, 
 the first banking institution organized in the City, and of 
 which he was the first Cashier. He had previously held a 
 position in a bank in Boston, and prior to that time acted as 
 an agent for the well known merchant of Boston, William 
 Gray, residing in Savannah, Georgia. He never engaged 
 in politics, and devoted nearly his whole time to transaction 
 of the business positions which he was chosen to fill. He 
 was one of the originators of the Lowell Institution for 
 Savings, and had been its Treasurer ever since its organi- 
 zation. He succeeded the late Nathaniel Wright as President 
 •of the Lowell Bank. He was one of the originators of the 
 Lowell Cemetery Association and of the Lowell Dispensary. 
 He was one of the leaders of the opposition to the Suffolk 
 Bank in the controversy which led to the organization of the 
 Bank of Mutual Kedemption, and "was President of the last 
 named institution for several years. A great degree of 
 interest was manifested by him in the Institution for the 
 Detection of Counterfeiting. 
 
 " Mr. Carney was methodical and precise in all his business 
 
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 transactions, and was possessed of a most un variable temper- 
 ament. He was most abstemious in his mode of living and 
 general habits, being seldom out of doors in the evening 
 except on urgent business engagements. He was very fond 
 of reading and never seemed to have a season of greater 
 enjoyment than when by his fireside, perusing the w r orks of 
 favorite authors. He leaves three children, two sons and 
 one daughter, and by his death our community has lost one 
 of its best citizens." 
 
 The children of James G. and Clarissa Willett-Carney 
 were: 
 
 (a) Clara, b. July 13, 1829, d. November 6, 1831. 
 
 (5) Horace Howe, b. November 2, 1830, d. December 10, 
 1832. 
 
 (c) Charles Tebbetts, b. February 17, 1832, d. September 
 
 23, 1862. 
 
 (d) Alice, b. November 5, 1833, d. November 5, 1833. 
 (<?) George James, b. June 13, 1835. 
 
 (/) Sydney Howard, b. August 24, 1837. 
 
 (g) Mary Howard, b. September 10, 1839. 
 Careful search of the Trinity Church records of bap- 
 tisms gives the following : " James, son of Daniel Carney, 
 by Sarah Bell, his wife, March 23, 1801. Sponsor, Mr. 
 Carney." 
 
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 CHARLES T. CARNEY 
 
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 Charles Tebbets Carney. 
 
 Charles Tebbets Carney, second son and third child of 
 James G. and Clarissa Willett Carney, was born in Lowell, 
 Mass., February 17, 1832, and Avas baptized by the Kev. Wm. 
 Barry, April 15, 1832. 
 
 He attended the primary, grammar, and high schools 
 of that city. Following his graduation at the high school, 
 he became a clerk in the firm of Carleton and Hovey, Apoth- 
 ecaries, remaining there from 1819 to 1852. Following this 
 practical work, he went to Amherst College, where he de- 
 voted his attention to the study of chemistry, and had the 
 honor of being the first graduate from the Scientific Depart- 
 ment of Amherst College in 1854. In 1855 he opened the 
 apothecary store on the corner of Kirk and Merrimack 
 Streets. He removed to Boston in 1856. He published in 
 1855, " Beports on Examination and Testing of Bank Note 
 Paper." In 1856, " Report on Seropyan Patent Ink for Pre- 
 vention of Counterfeiting." In 1857, another report, and in 
 1858, " Report on Green Tint for Bank Notes." 
 
 In 1862 he became identified with the drug business both 
 in Lowell and Boston, but eventually opened a laboratory 
 for experimental and analytical research. He died suddenly 
 at Pine Bend, Minn., September 23, 1862. 
 
 In the " Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical As- 
 sociation " appears the following : 
 
 " Our friend became a member of this Association in 1853, 
 the first year of our meeting in Boston, and soon became 
 active in its affairs. Several of his original papers appear in 
 our published volumes of ' Proceedings,' of which none have 
 attracted more attention than his report on ' Home Adul- 
 terations,' read in 1859 and 1860. As Chairman of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee in 1859, he superintended the voluminous 
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 publication of that year. Not by his zeal and ability as a 
 chemist and pharmacist merely, but by his excellence as an 
 associate and friend are we lead to mourn the death of 
 Charles T. Carney, one of the youngest, most gifted and best 
 beloved of our members. 
 
 " We are informed that he was usefully and honorably 
 connected with the investigation of the qualities of the green 
 oxide of chrome, as a tint for bank-note engraving, and by 
 an original investigation, proved that this dye was not, as 
 had been asserted, a complete safeguard against counterfeit- 
 ing. 
 
 " This discovery was made at the instance of the Associa- 
 tion of Banks of Boston for the suppression of counterfeit- 
 ing, by whom Mr. Carney was employed as Chemical Ex- 
 pert. 
 
 " An interesting letter exists from the Eussian Consul 
 General of that period, acknowledging Mr. Carney's services 
 in demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Russian Govern- 
 ment that the ' Green Tint ' was not what it w r as claimed 
 to be and alluding to a check of good size sent to Mr. Car- 
 ney for these same services." 
 
 Among other of his contributions may be mentioned : 
 
 " Paraffin, Its Substitution for Wax in Cerates ; " " Citric 
 Acid, Its Valuable Water of Crystallization and Contami- 
 nation ; ' " Report on Specimens of Exibition ; " " Remarks 
 on the Sale of Poisons ; " " New England Isinglass ; " and 
 " Oil of Hemlock." 
 
 The article in the New England Druggist, vol. IX, No. 8, 
 Boston, August, 1897, concludes : " Here was an able chemist, 
 a conscientious druggist, and a Christian gentleman, whose 
 memory deserves an important place among memories of the 
 pharmacists of New England, who have departed this life." 
 
 He discovered in 1858 "that the ignited sesqui-oxide of 
 chromium was susceptible of decomposition." 
 
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 He was a member of the Examination Committee at Har- 
 vard College and wrote the report in 1861. 
 
 He married April 30, 1857, Ellen, daughter of Benjamin, 
 and Alice Lofthouse-Dean, who still survives him, residing 
 in Lowell, Mass., where she has been actively engaged in 
 the art schools of that city, as well as in the Middlesex 
 Woman's Club. 
 
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 George James Carney. 
 
 George James Carney, fifth child of James G. and Clar- 
 issa Willett-Carney, was born in Lowell, Mass., June 13, 
 1835, and was baptized by Kev. William Barry July 12, 1835. 
 He received his education in the primary, grammar and 
 high schools of Lowell, Mass. 
 
 During a part of the Civil War he was major on General 
 B. F. Butlers staff and later, when General Butler became 
 governor, he was appointed lieutenant colonel on his staff. 
 
 He married, at Scotch Plains, N. J., on October 9, 1866, 
 Miss Lizzie McClean, daughter of Andrew B. and Ann 
 Eliza Sellers-McClean. 
 
 Mr. Andrew B. McClean was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 February 11, 1797. His wife was born at Alexandria, Va., 
 October 1, 1804. They were married April 22, 1822, at 
 Alexandria, Va. They had several children. Their daugh- 
 ter Lizzie was born at their extensive plantation, Bryonfield, 
 James River, Va., on October 9, 1848. 
 
 George James Carney upon the death of his father, 
 James G. Carney, in 1869, became treasurer of the Lowell 
 Institution for Savings, which position he has held for thirty- 
 four years at this writing. He is a member of the Unitarian 
 Society, Free Masons, Society of Colonial Wars, and other 
 organizations. He is a man of wide reading and interested in 
 all scientific matters. An expert in the ornithology of 
 Massachusetts, having one of the choicest cabinets of birds 
 collected by his sons and himself in the State. He is an ex- 
 pert with the lathe, printing press, gun and fishing rod. 
 
 His three sons have grown to manhood. 
 
 (a) James Andrew, born November 3, 1867, baptized by 
 Rev. Theodore Edson, D.D., October 20, 1868, a 
 
GEORGE J. CARNEY 
 
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 graduate of the Lowell High School in 1886 and 
 later from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
 in chemistry, in 1890. He has held several important 
 positions with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 
 R. R. Co. and is now master mechanic of the Burling- 
 ton division. He is a Free Mason and unmarried. 
 He is now residing in "West Burlington, Iowa. 
 
 (b) George Sydney, born August 9, 1869, baptized by Rev. 
 
 Augustus Woodbury, of Providence, R. L, June 9, 
 1872, like his elder brother attended the same schools 
 in Lowell. He graduated from the high schools 
 in 1888 and entered the Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology in Boston. He did not graduate from 
 this institution in consequence of his having a se- 
 vere attack of typhoid fever. He was identified 
 with the noted Textile School in Lowell ; also in 
 superintending the building of mills in the south. 
 He has frequently been consulted by those requiring 
 the benefit of his great skill in his chosen profession. 
 He is a Free Mason, unmarried, and at this time is 
 residing at Philadelphia, Pa. Pie has made a study of 
 ammunition for guns, and is very skillful in the use 
 of gun and rifle. 
 
 (c) Edward Bullard, born June 8, 1871, baptized by Rev. 
 
 Augustus Woodbury, of Providence, R. I., June 9, 
 1872. After graduating from the Lowell High School 
 in 1889, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology and was graduated in 1893 as a mechanical 
 engineer. He is now holding a position in the office 
 of the city engineer of Lowell, Mass. He is a Free 
 Mason ; indeed the three brothers hold high degrees in 
 the fraternity. It seems worthy of record that these 
 brothers as well as their father can personally build (as 
 they have) anything from a steamboat to a fishing 
 
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 rod with brass finishings, perfecting each detail them- 
 selves. For many years their steamer was a familiar 
 sight on the Merrimack Kiver, the father and sons 
 being licensed by the government as engineers. 
 
SYDNEY HOWARD CARNEY 
 
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 Sydney Howakd Carney. 
 
 Sydney Howard, sixth child and fourth son, of James G. 
 and Clarissa Willett-Carney, was born in Lowell, Mass., 
 August 2i, 1837, and was baptized by Kev. Henry Adol- 
 phus Miles, September 17, 1837. 
 
 When but a small boy, his family moved to Pawtucket 
 Street, near the Merrimack River. Here, in those days, the 
 nets were cast for shad, and magnificent salmon could be 
 had for the trouble of fishing, — salmon as large as a small 
 boy, and nearly as powerful ! This was before the " new " 
 canal was built and prior to the dams constructed at Law- 
 rence and Haverhill. 
 
 There were few neighbors and plenty of room for growing 
 boys. At a very early age, he with his brothers and a few 
 boys of his own age, spent all their leisure time in hunting 
 and fishing. As they were on the former site of the peace- 
 ful Pawtucket Indian tribe, they frequently found flint arrow 
 heads and other stone implements used by members of that 
 tribe. Portions of Indian skeletons were found when a ditch 
 was dug in Pawtucket Street. 
 
 He attended the primary school on School Street, then the 
 " north grammar school," Mr. Graves, principal, and then 
 the high school, Mr. C. C. Chase, principal. 
 
 He wells remembers one punishment he received for some 
 slight infraction of the " rules " while a pupil of the primary 
 school, which was of such a novel nature that it seems worth 
 recording to show the difference between then and now. 
 
 The teacher lived in a house about two hundred feet from 
 the schoolhouse. One day she w r alked into the schoolroom 
 and without any preliminary remarks directed one of the 
 " big " girls to go into the vestibule and get for her a large 
 
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 shawl. The teacher spread this shawl on the floor and then 
 laid the subject of this sketch on it. Taking up the four 
 corners she easily threw the bundle on her back and started 
 for her boarding-house. Her gait was rapid and as enjoy- 
 able as a ride on a camel's back. The bundle was not opened 
 until the dark cellar w r as reached and then the culprit was 
 released. The "teacher" remarked, when bolting the door 
 as she was leaving, " You are going to stay here awhile ; there 
 are RATS here ! " The prisoner fortunately was not terri- 
 fied as he listened to the sound of her retreating footsteps 
 and when he heard the front door shut w T ith a slam, pro- 
 ceeded to hunt for rats. He found a small old hoe and a 
 very large rat hole and set to work to unearth the rodent. 
 He was able to dig a very large hole before the teacher's re- 
 appearance. She was evidently alarmed when the prisoner 
 did not respond to her frequent calls, " Where are you ? " 
 After a hasty search the student was lifted from the hole 
 and led by the hand back to school, his only regret to this 
 day being that he did not get that rat for which he had 
 worked so hard. 
 
 He would like to speak at length of that grand teacher 
 and gentleman, Mr. C. C. Chase, of the Lowell High School, 
 but lack of space forbids. 
 
 He entered Amherst College in 1854, in the class of 1858, 
 where he remained until his junior year, when he left and 
 commenced the study of medicine soon after at the " Tremont 
 Medical School." This was a summer school conducted by 
 professors of the Harvard Medical College. He entered the 
 latter and in 1860 was appointed one of the " house pupils " 
 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his 
 medical degree while there. 
 
 In 1861 he was elected resident physician of the state 
 alms-house at Bridge water, Mass., where he remained one 
 year. 
 
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 His appointment to the latter institution was due to the 
 following letter : 
 
 " To the hoard of inspectors of state institutions : 
 
 " Gentlemen — The subscribers having had due op- 
 portunity of becoming acquainted with the personal 
 and professional merits of Dr. Sydney H. Carney, 
 would recommend him as well qualified to discharge 
 the duties of physician to one of the state alms houses, 
 for which he is an applicant. He is possessed of that 
 professional skill, kindness and fidelity which are so 
 desirable in an institution of the kind. 
 "Boston, March 12, 1861. 
 
 " Augustus A. Gould, Physician Mass. Gen'l. Hospital. 
 
 " Henry I. Bowditch, do. 
 
 "Calvin EUis, 
 
 " Chas. E. Ware, do. 
 
 " D. Humphrey Storer, 
 
 " Eobert Ware. 
 
 " J. B. S. Jackson, 
 
 " Chas. E. Buckingham, 
 
 "Jno. C. Dalton, 
 
 " Francis Minot, Physician to Mass. Genl. Hospital. 
 
 " Geo. C. Shattuck, 
 
 "Benjamin L. Shaw, Kesident Physician Mass. Genl. 
 
 Hospital. 
 
 " Henry J. Bigelow r , Surgeon Mass. Genl. Hospital. 
 
 "S. Cabot. Jr., do. 
 
 " George H. Gay, do. 
 
 " J. Mason Warren, do. 
 
 " John Homans, Consulting Physician Mass. Genl. Hos- 
 pital." 
 
 On April 30, 1862, Dr. Carney opened an office at 15 
 Decatur Street, where he and his wife, Hortense, daughter 
 
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 of Ebenezer Tilden, and Ruth He wes- Abbott, began house- 
 keeping, having been married at noon of that day at North 
 Reading, Mass., by the Rev. Mr. Heath. 
 
 The Civil War was on and Dr. Carney and his wife expe- 
 rienced many of the horrors of those terrible times. 
 
 When the call from Washington for volunteer surgeons 
 came one Sunday morning, Dr. Carney, in response to a re- 
 quest from Surgeon General Dale of Massachusetts left for 
 Washington the same afternoon with several other surgeons. 
 He did not have the opportunity for any field work as both 
 armies had soon become panic-stricken and had retired from 
 the immediate field of battle in great disorder. He had, 
 however, the privilege of visiting two of the Washington hos- 
 pitals by request of the authorities and reporting on the condi- 
 tion and needs of the Massachusetts soldiers under treatment. 
 These reports are on file in the surgeon general's office at 
 the State House in Boston, Mass. Dr. Carney returned to 
 Boston but had not been at home many days when the late 
 Dr. Henry G. Clark of Boston called one morning at about 
 seven o'clock and showed him a personal request from 
 Washington to leave at once, as a great battle would prob- 
 ably be fought within a few days, and urged him to accom- 
 pany him to the front. Drs. Clark and Carney left that 
 morning at 8.30. These two doctors went as speedily as 
 possible and reached General McClellan's headquarters in 
 due time, where, with Medical Inspector Vollum, they had 
 an opportunity of visiting the hospitals (barns) on that 
 battle field (the battle of Antietam, named from a creek of 
 that name which intersected the battle field), and rendering 
 great assistance to the wounded. 
 
 He practiced medicine in Boston until 1870. He was at 
 one time one of the sanitary inspectors of Boston. He was 
 also one of the physicians at the central office of the Bos- 
 ton Dispensary. 
 
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 In 1867 he became surgeon general of the Travelers In- 
 surance Company of Hartford, Conn, (with headquarters in 
 Boston), and remained with it for three years, when in 1870 
 he removed to New York City and became identified with 
 the New York Life Insurance Company. He remained with 
 this company until June 20, 1894. Since then he has been 
 in the active practice of medicine with his son, Dr. Sydney 
 II. Carney, Jr., in New York City. 
 
 The following letter from President James G. Batterson 
 is of interest : 
 
 " Travelers Insurance Company, 
 
 " Hartford, Conn., 25th March, 1870. 
 " S. H. Carney, Esq., M. D., 
 
 " My dear Doctor : — I owe } T ou many apologies for 
 not replying at an earlier day to your favor of Janu- 
 ary last — but the truth is I have not had a moment 
 for the past two months which I could call my own. 
 I take pleasure in acknowledging the arduous and 
 valuable Services rendered this Company in the adjust- 
 ment of losses, the discovery of frauds and villainies 
 innumerable, including the army of malingerers who 
 speedily received at your hands a prescription which 
 stopped the leaks in our Treasury. 
 
 " For your uniform courtesy and regard for the Offi- 
 cers of the Company we have only to assure you of 
 our good wishes in your new field of labor, hoping 
 that your Services may be as fully appreciated by 
 your superior Officers as they deserve. 
 
 " Very Truly Yours, 
 
 "J. G. Batteeson, Pres." 
 
 From 1870, when he removed to New York City, to 
 June 20, 1894, Dr. Carney was superintendent of the 
 Agency Medical Department, and associate medical di- 
 
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 rector of the New York Life Insurance Company. He 
 reorganized the entire medical department, examined the 
 losses by death, and fraud, and also prepared maps of the 
 United States, which showed by means of various tints 
 the diseases endemic in the different sections of the United 
 States. Upon the retirement of the late president of the 
 company, William H. Beers, he received the following let- 
 ter which, in some measure, shows the appreciation in which 
 he was held during twenty-two years of unceasing toil and 
 travel, in this and foreign sections of America : 
 
 " New Life Insurance Company, 
 " 346 and 348 Broadway, 
 " New York, 10th February, 1892. 
 
 "My dear Dr. Carney: — My connection with the 
 Company as its President is about to close, and this 
 appears to be a fitting occasion for me to express to 
 you my sincere appreciation of the valuable and faith- 
 ful services you have given the Company during a 
 long term of years. In all the matters that have been 
 committed to your care you have evinced rare and 
 skillful judgment and unswerving loyality to the in- 
 terests of the Company. 
 
 " I cannot make this commendation too strong, for 
 you have not been actuated by mere eye service, but 
 in season and out of season, even to the discomfort 
 of your family interests, and often, I think, neglect- 
 ing that which belongs to every man personally ; in 
 all things you have never tired or ceased in your 
 efforts to accomplish successful results in the duties 
 committed to your care. " Faithful in all things " 
 can be justly inscribed upon all }'our work in the 
 long, long years that are past, and this picture will 
 be among the pleasant remembrances of my life in 
 
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 connection with kindly thoughts of the harmonious 
 relations which have always existed between us, and 
 which I trust will long continue. 
 
 " With esteem and regard, I remain very sincerely 
 your friend. 
 
 " Wm. H. Beeks, Pres. 
 
 "ToS. H.Carney, M. D." 
 
 Dr. Carney has been a member of the Massachusetts Med- 
 ical Society, the New York County Medical Society, Har- 
 vard Medical Alumni Association, and was raised to Master 
 Mason in Winslow Lewis Lodge, F. and A. M., of Boston. 
 He is also a 32d degree Mason ; the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
 Fraternity in Amherst College ; the Society of Colonial 
 Wars ; the Sons of the Revolution. 
 
 On July 18, 1892, his wife died in the city of New York. 
 Words can but inadequately portray her life which has be- 
 come a hallowed memory. 
 
 She was born in North Reading, Mass., on April 24, 1840. 
 She attended the district school, later the Young Ladies 
 Seminary at Lansingburg, N. Y., and the Normal Musical 
 School, holding its session in North Reading, under the per- 
 sonal care of the celebrated Lowell Mason and George F. 
 Root. 
 
 She successfully completed the difficult course of study at 
 the State Normal School in Salem, Mass., and was graduated 
 on April 9, 1858. She had a singularly winsome dispo- 
 sition and in the companionship of the little child, the Rev. 
 Dr. Smith, composer of " My Country 'tis of Thee," found 
 much enjoyment, while a frequent guest at her father's 
 house. 
 
 Her father, Ebenezer Tilden Abbott, was born March 14, 
 1808, and died November 19, 1888. He was one of Nature's 
 sturdy noblemen, and came in direct descent from the first 
 
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 George Abbott and Hanna Chandler, who settled in An- 
 dover, Mass., in 1643. 
 
 Her mother, Ruth Hewes, is a descendant of Joshua 
 Hewes, and his wife Mary, who were married at Roxbury, 
 Mass., October 8, 1634, and from whom a long line of men 
 and women has sprung identified with the growth and de- 
 velopment of this country. One of the family, Joseph 
 Hewes, was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was 
 a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Hewes Abbott continues to enjoy life at the 
 age of eighty-eight years, and her children, grandchildren 
 and great-grandchildren now unite in affectionate devotion 
 to one who will always be remembered for her loving care 
 of them. 
 
 For twenty-two years, Mrs. Carney was a member of the 
 Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church, New York 
 City, the Rev. William M. Taylor, D.D., pastor, and an in- 
 terested member of, and contributing to, its various organi- 
 zations for Home and Foreign Missionary work. 
 
 Of a retiring disposition she enjoyed the personal friend- 
 ships of her chosen circle of friends into whose hearts she 
 grew and reigned there evermore. First, and ever first, was 
 her absolute devotion to her husband and children. The 
 beautiful home which she graced can never be forgotten by 
 those privileged to be guests therein. She was interested in 
 literature, both English and French, and, at spare moments 
 painted in water colors many charming scenes. 
 
 Dr. Sydney Howard and Hortense Abbott-Carney had 
 four children. 
 
 (a) Sydney Howard Carney, Jr., b. December 3, 1863. 
 
 {b) Charles Abbott Carney, b. April 29, 1869, d. October 
 18, 1869. 
 
 (c) Philip Dean Carney, b. October 19, 1870, d. August 
 10, 1871. 
 
 (77) Hortense Abbott Carney, Jr., b. March 31, 1872. 
 
SYDNEY H. CARNEY, JR. 
 
Ill 
 
 Sydney Howard Carney, Jr. 
 
 Sydney Howard Carney, Jr., was born at 15 Decatur 
 Street, Boston, December 3, 1863. He lived in Lowell from 
 1869 to 1875 and attended the primary school on Paige Street 
 presided over by that genius among school teachers, Miss 
 Abby Foster, who must have been among the first women in 
 America to introduce what is now called Kindergarten work, 
 and who made the hours of relaxation for the children so 
 happy that it was a pleasure to study. Later he attended 
 the Green Grammar School, and, in New York, the old 13th 
 Street Grammar School and later still Mr. William Rich- 
 ard's private school. He Avas admitted to Amherst College, 
 but deciding to study medicine did not enter. 
 
 He studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 
 New York, and at the medical school of Dartmouth College, 
 Hanover, N. H., receiving his degree in medicine, November 
 19, 1888, from the latter college. For a number of years he 
 was one of the medical examiners for the New York Life 
 Insurance Company in the city of New York and has since 
 practiced his profession in that city. He has been a mem- 
 ber of the New York County Medical Society ; the Delta 
 Kappa Epsilon Fraternity ; Kane Lodge, F. and A. M. ; 
 recording secretary of the New York Historical Society ; 
 historian and surgeon of the Society of Colonial Wars ; 
 and is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolu- 
 tion : 
 
 He has contributed to the Massachusetts and New York 
 magazines, newspapers and the Encyclopedia Americana. 
 
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 Hortense Abbott Carney, Jr. 
 
 Hortense Abbot Carney, Jr., was born in Lowell, JVlass., 
 March 31, 1872. She attended Miss Brackett's and Mrs. 
 Theodore Irving's schools in New York. Later she studied 
 under Mr. Augustus St. Gaudens and the late Mr. J. Wells 
 Champney. 
 
 In March, 1892, one of her oil paintings submitted to the 
 academy was accepted and hung at the spring exhibition in 
 the Academy of Design, 23d Street and 4th Avenue. Her 
 mother died the following summer and immediately the 
 cares of housekeeping devolved on her young shoulders. 
 Her mother's training, together with her own sterling char- 
 acter, paved the way for the years of unceasing devotion to 
 her father and brother, years well filled with anxious hours, 
 but ever blessed with her loving, tender presence. She is 
 a member of the Broadway Tabernacle Congregational 
 Church, St. John's School Society and the Daughters of 
 the Bevolution. 
 
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 Mary Howard Carney. 
 
 Mary Howard, seventh child of James G. and Clarissa 
 Willett-Carney, was born September 10, 1839, in Lowell, 
 Mass., and was baptized by Rev. Henry Adolphus Miles, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1839. 
 
 She attended Miss Lucy Dana's Private School and the 
 Lowell High School. It was said of her that she was a good 
 student and exceptionally brilliant in Latin. 
 
 She is a member of the Unitarian Society, The Middle- 
 sex Woman's Club, "The Fortnightly," and kindred soci- 
 eties and ever interested in assisting those in dire distress, 
 whether in her native city, or in distant communities. She 
 has shown that rare combination of practical "faith, hope 
 and charity " which will always be treasured in the hearts 
 of those who, knowing her sincerity, her high ideal of all 
 that is noblest and best in life, her inability to stoop to the 
 level of petty discord, will ever feel that her example is an 
 incentive to rise to a higher plane of usefulness. 
 
 One who heard her recite a composition many years ago 
 when at the Lowell High School was very much impressed 
 by these words " Ann Hutchinson was a pure, noble and 
 high minded woman, and that is my ambition." He adds 
 that her ambition has been gratified for she is all three. 
 
 On October 28, 1868, she was united in marriage to Jacob 
 Eogers, Esq., of Lowell. He was born in Exeter, N. H., in 
 1829, and was the son of Colonel Jacob and Martha Cram- 
 Rogers of Exeter, IS". H., being ninth in lineal descent from 
 John Rogers who was burned at the stake. Mr. Rogers 
 served in the Massachusetts Legislature and in many cor* 
 porations ; among others may be mentioned the following, 
 which have benefited by his business acumen and sagacity 
 during a long period of years : 
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 Director, Lowell Gas Light Co., 30 years. 
 
 Treasurer, do about 28 " 
 
 President, do " 2 " 
 
 Director and President, Kitson Machine Co., 15 years. 
 
 President, Kailroad National Bank, 15 years and 
 
 Director, do 25 " 
 
 Trustee and Chairman Investment Committee, Mechanics 
 
 Savings Bank in Lowell. 
 
 Director, Tremont & Suffolk Mills, 
 
 " Merrimack Manuf'g Co., 
 
 " Boot Cotton Mills, 
 
 " Mass. Cotton Mills, 
 
 " Mass. Mills in Georgia, 
 
 " Middlesex Co., 
 
 " Appleton Co., 
 President, Atlantic Cotton Mills, Lawrence. 
 Director, National Hide and Leather Bank, Boston, until 
 its consolidation with State National Bank, Boston, and now 
 Director, in State National Bank, 
 
 Traders & Mechanics Fire Ins. Co., 
 Stony Brook Railroad Corp., 
 
 " Lowell & Andover K. R., 
 President, Lowell General Hospital, 
 Trustee, Ayer Home for Young Women and Children, 
 " Old Ladies Home, 
 
 « Lowell Textile School. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have three children : 
 
 (a) Mary Carney Rogers, born February 21, 1870. 
 
 (b) Alice Poor Rogers, born May 22, 1875. 
 
 (c) John Jacob Rogers, born August 18, 1881. 
 
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 Mary Carney Rogers. 
 
 (a) Mary Carney .Rogers was born February 21, 1870, in 
 Lowell, Mass., and passing through the Lowell Gram- 
 mar and High School would have complied with the 
 strict requirements necessary to obtain one of her 
 grandfather's silver medals, but serious illness pre- 
 vented her receiving what, in justice to her other 
 work, should have been hers. She was graduated, 
 however, by the High School in 1887, and on Septem- 
 ber 26, 1894, was married to Frank Emerson Dun- 
 bar, Esq. He was born December 20, 1868, the son 
 of John F. and Theresa McDonald-D unbar, of Pitts- 
 field, Mass. Mr. Dunbar is a prominent attorney 
 in Lowell having been admitted to the bar in 1892. 
 He and his wife are members of the Unitarian 
 Society and interested in local charities. Mr. Dun- 
 bar, although a comparatively young man, has been 
 selected to fill many positions of trust, where honor 
 and rectitude are recognized. Among others it may 
 be noted that he is President of the Appleton Com- 
 pany, and a Director in the Union National Bank of 
 Lowell, the Kitson Machine Co., the Newmarket 
 Manufg. Co., of Newmarket, N. H., the Lowell Gas 
 Light Co., and the Ayer Home for Young Women 
 and Children, a Trustee and member of the Invest- 
 ment Committee of the Lowell Five Cent Savings 
 Bank, and a Trustee of the Lowell General Hopital, 
 Trustee of the Lowell Textile School, and Treasurer 
 and Clerk of the Stony Brook Railroad Corporation. 
 
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 Alice Poor Rogers. 
 
 (b) Alice Poor Rogers, second child of Mary Howard Car- 
 ney and Jacob Rogers, was born in Lowell, on May 
 22, 1875, and was educated in the grammar and high 
 schools of that city. She married, on April 27, 1898, 
 Mr. Frederick A. Flather. He was born in Nashua, 
 N. H., March 21, 1867, being the son of Joseph and 
 Drusilla Drake-Flather, of that city, where he re- 
 ceived his education. On his removing to Lowell, he 
 became Assistant Superintendent of the Lowell Ma- 
 chine Shop which position he held for a number of 
 years, until called to Chicago, 111., where he is Gen- 
 eral Superintendent of the McCormick "Works. He 
 is a member of the Western Society of Engineers, 
 New England Cotton Manufacturers Association, 
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Ameri- 
 can Foundry Men's Association, American Society 
 for Testing Materials, and other organizations. Both 
 Mr. and Mrs. Flather are members of the Congrega- 
 tional denomination. 
 Two sons have been born of this marriage. 
 
 (a) Rogers Flather, born March 6, 1899. 
 
 (J) Frederick Flather, born March 6, 1900. 
 
 (c) Mr. Flather has a daughter, Drusilla, by his former 
 marriage. The family resides in Chicago, 111. 
 
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 John Jacob Rogers. 
 
 (c) John Jacob Rogers was born in Lowell, Mass., August 18, 
 1881. He is the third child of Mary Howard Carney 
 and Jacob Rogers. 
 
 He passed through the Lowell schools with honors, 
 being the only grandchild of James G. Carney to 
 receive the much prized " Carney Medal," upon 
 his graduation from the high school in 1899. 
 
 While in the high school he was colonel of the high 
 school regiment. 
 
 He entered Harvard University in September, 1900, 
 with honors. He is a member of the Yesper Boat 
 Club, Harvard Union, Harvard Boat Club, and Pres- 
 ident of the Pi Eta Society. 
 
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 Nathaniel Brown Carney. 
 
 Nathaniel Brown Carney, seventh child of Daniel and Sarah 
 Bell-Carney, was born at No. 9 1/2 Orange Street, Boston, 
 Mass., July 6, 1805, baptized in Trinity Church on July 14, 
 1805. His sponsors were Mr. Carney, James Kirkwood and 
 Elizabeth Carney. He was educated in Boston and was in. 
 business there from 1827 to 1837. He later engaged in busi- 
 ness in New York as commission merchant. He was the in- 
 ventor of the machine for covering the " hoop-skirt," so pop- 
 ular forty or fifty years ago. With this invention he made a 
 fortune for those days. 
 
 He was married to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Morse, born 
 April 11, 1805, daughter of Samuel and Sally Dix-Morse, 
 at the residence of her brother, Samuel F. Morse, Kneeland 
 Street, Boston, Mass., on September 14, 1841, by the Kev. Dr. 
 Young. 
 
 For many years they resided on Bond Street, New York, 
 and later in Brooklyn, where Mrs. Carney died, May 20, 
 1876. Her husband survived her until December 16, 1887. 
 
 Mrs. Carney was buried in the Morse Tomb at Mount 
 Auburn, Cambridge, Mass., while her husband was buried 
 in the family lot at Forest Hills, Mass. 
 
NATHANIEL BROWN CARNEY 
 
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 Sarah Bell Carney. 
 
 Sarah Bell Carney, the eighth child of Daniel and Sarah 
 Bell-Carney, was born in Boston, Mass., June 21, 1807 ; bap- 
 tized in Trinity Church on July 5, 1807 (her sponsors were 
 her parents and Susannah Averill), and died, unmarried, in 
 Lowell, Mass., at the residence of her brother, James G. 
 Carney, on August 20, 1868, where she had resided for many 
 years. She was a member of St. Ann's Episcopal Church 
 in Lowell. She was beloved by everybody who knew her, 
 being always kind and considerate. Of singularly sweet and 
 even temperament, she was a companion in the home where 
 all loved her. The following bill gives a glimpse of this 
 graceful and serene woman's life when a girl of twelve 
 years : 
 
 " Boston, September 30th, 1819. 
 " Mr. Daniel Carney, 
 
 " To Ann M. D. Turner, Dr. 
 
 " To one quarter's tuition in dancing, of your daugh- 
 ter Sarah, $7. 
 
 " Kec'd Payt. 
 
 " Ann M. D. Turner." 
 
 Many of these old bills give us the only light as to the 
 " finishing touches " of our kinsfolk in the last century. The 
 gracefulness of age may be often traced to the early home 
 environment with its lessons in dancing, deportment, music 
 and embroidery. It is interesting to know that, in their 
 day, they too were participating in those accomplishments. 
 
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 Osgood Carney. 
 
 Osgood Carney, the ninth child of Daniel and Sarah Bell- 
 Carney, was born in Boston, Mass., December 28, 1809 ; 
 baptized January 14, 1810, in Trinity Church (his sponsors 
 were his father, James Kirkwood and Elizabeth Carney), and 
 died August 2, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was engaged in 
 the Russian trade and had been to Russia as supercargo of 
 some vessel. Many souvenirs of his visits to Russia, then 
 considered far away, have been preserved in the family, in- 
 cluding examples of Russian handicraft in ivory and in 
 metal. He seemed endowed by nature with all those gifts 
 of mind and person which make the perfect man, hence the 
 greater regret that at the early age of twenty-six years, his 
 life was closed. 
 

 •IOSIAH W. CARNEY 
 
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 Josiah Wheeler Carney. 
 
 Josiah Wheeler Carney, the first child by the second mar- 
 riage of Daniel and Mary Wheeler-Carney, was born in 
 Boston, Mass., July 23, 1815 ; baptized on August 20, 1815, 
 in Trinity Church. His sponsors were his parents and 
 Joshua Vose. He attended the Franklin School on Com- 
 mon Street and later the New Franklin School on Washing- 
 ton Street, on the building committee of which was his 
 father. Mr. J. Adams was the master. In his fourteenth 
 year he moved to Sheepscott, Maine, and later to Worcester, 
 Mass., where he worked with Mr. Albert Curtis in the man- 
 ufacture of woolen machinery. In 1837 he went to Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, and remained there five years. Returning to 
 Worcester, Mass., he was associated with Mr. Thomas E. 
 Daniels in the manufacture of planing machinery, taking the 
 iron work for five machines to Cincinnati via New Orleans. 
 He then became the foreman for the Fitchburo- Railroad 
 Company at Charlestown, Mass., which position he held for 
 twenty years. He then went to Laona, N. Y., engaging in 
 farming and in some work for the Dunkirk Engineering 
 Company, finally moving to Dunkirk, K Y., in 1885. He 
 has been a member of the Presbyterian Church there. 
 
 He first married on November 16, 1837, Miss Betsy Lovell 
 
 Vose, daughter of Joshua and Rhoda Vose of Boston, Mass., 
 
 born November 5, 1814, died October 12, 1839. Issue by 
 
 this marriage, one child, a daughter. 
 
 (a) Mary Elizabeth, born April 29, 1839. Mary Elizabeth 
 
 Carney was married on October 16, 1870, to Mr. 
 
 George A. Davis, for many years engaged in the 
 
 cabinet business. He died in 1902. 
 
 He again married on December 25, 1843, Miss Sarah Hall, 
 
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 daughter of Isaac and Persis Sargent-Hall of Tewksbury, 
 Mass., born December 4, 1813, died January 17, 1866; issue 
 by this marriage, one child, a son. 
 (b) Charles Josiah, born March 20, 1845. 
 
 His third wife was Miss Sarah Elizabeth Yose, daughter 
 of Benjamin and Lucinda Vose, of Knox, Maine, born No- 
 vember 24, 1833, to whom he was married on February 19, 
 1872. No issue. 
 
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 Charles J. Carney. 
 
 (b) Charles J. Carney was born March 20, 1845. He was edu- 
 cated in the Charlestown, Mass., public schools and in a 
 private school in Boston, Mass., and subsequently entered 
 the employment of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company. 
 On October 22, 1862, he enlisted in the 5th Massachusetts 
 Regiment, serving with that regiment in North Carolina, with 
 General Burnside and General Foster. He was mustered 
 out in July, 1863. In 1864 he re-enlisted with the "100 
 day men," serving all of this period in Virginia. 
 
 After the war Mr. Carney devoted all his energy to ma- 
 chinist and engineering business. On February 9, 1869, he 
 married Miss Fanny A. Sibley, born in Cuba, N. Y., Octo- 
 ber 20, 1843 daughter of Mr. Russell Sibley (born in Sutton, 
 Mass.) and Almira Newton, his wife (born in Batavia, N. Y.). 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carney are members of the Methodist 
 Church, in Dunkirk, N. Y. 
 
 In 1872 Mr. Carney became identified with the Brooks 
 Locomotive Works, and remained with them until 1891, 
 when the American Locomotive Company was formed, when 
 he became superintendent of machinery and in charge of 
 the plant which employs 3,000 men and turns out two finished 
 locomotives each day. 
 
 Mr. Carney has also been a member of the Dunkirk En- 
 gineering Company, manufacturing marine and stationary 
 engines and boilers, logging locomotives and general machin- 
 ery. Also chief engineer and later consulting engineer of 
 the Dunkirk Water Works and Electric Light Department. 
 
 He is a member of Irondequoit Lodge No. 301, F. and A. 
 M. ; Dunkirk Chapter No. 91, R. and S. M.; Dunkirk Coun- 
 cil No. 25, R. and S. M., and Past Commander of Dunkirk 
 
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 Commandery No. 40, Knight Templar ; and also a member 
 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ; Yice 
 President of the Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce and Pres- 
 ident of the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of 
 Dunkirk. 
 
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 Emeline Cakney. 
 
 Emeline, second child, by second wife, of Daniel and 
 Mary Wheeler-Carney, was born in Boston, January 25, 1817, 
 and baptized, February 16, 1817, in Trinity Church. Her 
 sponsors were her parents and Elizabeth Carney. She was 
 educated at the well known Franklin School. In October, 
 1841, she was married to Mr. Moses Eastman, son of Moses 
 Eastman, of Bath, N. PL, by the Kev. Edwin Seabury, D.D., 
 the guests on this occasion joining in singing " Boylston " — 
 
 " Blest be the tie that binds 
 
 Our hearts in Christian love, 
 The fellowship of kindred minds 
 Is like to that above." 
 
 Later the guests indulged in dancing, and Daniel with fair 
 Mary "Wheeler, his wife, gave the stately, old-fashioned 
 dances, to show the younger generation the measured steps. 
 Emeline, ever the life of the household, an inimitable mimic, 
 was much sought after for private theatricals, and delighted 
 her friends in " Mrs. Partington," " The Widow Nugent and 
 the Will," and " The Hen was Never Taught to Swim." 
 
 For many years she has resided with her brother Edwin 
 Harvey Carney, and her sister Mrs. Ann Chase, at Sheep- 
 scott, Maine. She knew her Aunt Betsy (Mark's daughter 
 Elizabeth) most intimately, and from her, as well as from 
 her own father (Daniel Carney, Sr.) heard descriptions of the 
 early frontier life. " Susannah could talk French and it was 
 hard work for her to learn the English language. Aunt 
 Betsy said that among her mother's dresses were rich silks 
 and brocades and that when her father had gone to war, the 
 Canadians and Indians came to their log cabin, and Suzanne 
 would converse with them in the French language and the 
 
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 Indians would be friendly in consequence. At one time a 
 party of Indians came and after eating all that they had in 
 the house, they rolled themselves in their blankets and 
 laid down on the floor with their feet toward the fire and 
 went to sleep, while Suzanne took her little ones up into the 
 loft, for the night. In the morning the Indians arose early, 
 went out into the woods and killed a deer and brought it 
 back to the log house as a present." 
 
 Thrilling times those, far from Montbeliard, in a wilder- 
 ness, the husband away with his captain of colonial forces, 
 and Indians sleeping at the fireside, while the plucky mother 
 guarded her little flock ! Did eager eyes peer through those 
 "four squares of sash glass " for father and husband ? One 
 child, a daughter, was born of this marriage and named for 
 the wife of James G. Carney, of Lowell, Mass. 
 
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 Clara Roselie Wilder Eastman. 
 
 Clara Roselie Wilder, daughter of Eraeline Carney and 
 Moses Eastman, Jr., was born in Worcester, Mass., on June 
 19, 1849. On May 27, 1866, she married Mr. Charles Lud- 
 wig Feltman, born in Montville, Maine, on June 15, 1848. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Feltman reside in Baldwinsville, Mass., 
 where Mr. Feltman has been engaged in business for a num- 
 ber of years. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Frater- 
 nity. Their children are : 
 
 1. Annie Druscilla Feltman, born July 18, 1867, died October 
 29, 1867. 
 
 2. Charles Ludwig Feltman, Jr., born July 11, 1869, married 
 on September 26, 1890, Miss Nella Gertrude Greenwood. 
 He and his family are members of the Baptist Church in 
 Bald win ville, Mass. Issue : 
 
 (a) Harry G. Feltman, born June 1, 1891. 
 
 (b) Eva G. Feltman, born June 8, 1892. 
 
 (c) Permelia D. Feltman, born September 16, 1894. 
 
 (d) Maud D. Feltman, born October 10, 1897. 
 
 3. Clara Beatrice Feltman, born November 17, 1870, married 
 in May, 1890, Mr. Charles H. Gay. Issue : 
 
 (a) Stephen Henry Gay, born May, 1893, died November, 
 1893. 
 
 4. Frederick W. Feltman, born November 17, 1872, married on 
 February 14, 1897, Miss Delia Catherine Kelley. Issue : 
 
 (a) Annie Rosella Feltman, born April 9, 1897. 
 
 (b) Emma May Feltman, born July 3, 1899. 
 
 5.Allura E. Feltman, born May 3, 1874, married in 1889, Mr. 
 Chauncy L. Smith. Issue: 
 (a) Irene Smith, born November 30, 1889. 
 
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 (J) Wallace Smith, born June 23, 1891. 
 
 (c) John Smith, born June 27, 1892. 
 
 (d) Clara Smith, born March, 1896, died August 2, 1896. 
 
 (e) Ada G. Smith, born June 28, 1899. 
 
 6. Edwin F. Feltman, born March 4, 1876. Unmarried. 
 
 7. Harry G. Feltman, born August 13, 1884, died October 8, 
 
 1884. 
 
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 Anne Carney. 
 
 Anne Carney, the third child by the second marriage of 
 Daniel and Mary Wheeler-Carney, was born in Boston, 
 Mass., May 17, 1818, and baptized on June 7, 1818, in Trinity 
 Church. Her sponsors were her parents and Elizabeth Car- 
 ney. She received her education with her brothers and sis- 
 ters in the Boston schools. She married, on January 21, 
 1843, Mr. Elbridge Chase, born April 3, 1811. He was a 
 son of Captain Thomas Chase (captain of militia in "War of 
 1812), born in New Castle, Maine, November 13, 1778, and 
 Anna Woodbridge, his wife, born September 18, 1779. Mrs. 
 Chase resides with her sister Mrs. Eastman and her brother 
 Edwin H. Carney, at Sheepscott, Maine. 
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 Joseph Carney. 
 
 Joseph Carney, the fourth child of Daniel and Mary 
 Wheeler-Carney, was born in Boston, Mass., October 16, 
 1819, baptized, November 14, 1819, in Trinity Church. His 
 sponsors were his parents and Joshua Vose. He was edu- 
 cated in the Boston and in the Maine schools. He became 
 interested in the ship carpentering business, which he fol- 
 lowed until his death, January 23, 1895. 
 
 On July 4, 1854, he married Miss Charlotte Constable, 
 born in Prince Edwards Island, May 13, 1837, daughter of 
 William and Joanna Cumberland-Constable. 
 
 Mr. Constable was born in England, while his wife was 
 from Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Carney and their family were 
 members of the Methodist denomination. 
 
 They had the following children : 
 
 1. George Edward, b. September 22, 1855, married Miss Laura 
 E. Patterson, of Freeport, Maine. They had two children : 
 
 (a) Edwin L. died in infancy. 
 
 (h) Georgie Etta, born in February, 1889. 
 
 2. Elroy Elbridge, born August 7, 1858, resides in East Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
 3. Eliza Jane, born May 1, 1861, married in 1886 her cousin, 
 Stephen K. Cole, Jr. They had one child, Charles J., who 
 died in infancy. 
 
 4. Evalena, born May 29, 1863, d. June 2, 1863. 
 
 5. Osgood Weitzel, born October 28, 1864, married on Novem- 
 ber 30, 1893, Miss Christina A. Kobertson, b. March 1, 1863, 
 daughter of Margery McLean and Duncan Robertson of 
 Prince Edwards Island. 
 
 Mr. Carney is engaged in the general transportation busi- 
 
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 ness. He is Past Sachem of the Improved Order of Ked 
 Men. He and his family are members of the Baptist de- 
 nomination. They have one child : 
 Mildred, born May 7, 1895. 
 
 6. Eldorous Abbott, b. June 17, 1868, married May 30, 1891, 
 Miss Florence Gertrude Morse, b. February 22, 1872, daugh- 
 ter of John and Emma Morse of East Boston, Mass., died 
 October 31, 1898. They had two children : 
 
 (a) Florence, b. February 1, 1893, died March 20, 1893. 
 
 (b) Edwin Addison, b. December 26, 1896, d. April 6, 1898. 
 
 Mr. Carney lives in California. 
 
 7. Clinton V., born September 30, 1873, d. February 22, 1900. 
 He followed in his father's business of ship carpenter. 
 
 8. Mary Wheeler, b. September 26, 1877, married November 23, 
 1902, Mr. George Waterman Kendrick, b. November 29, 
 1878, in Chatham, Mass., son of Captain James Albert and 
 Phoebe E. Small-Kendrick. 
 
 Mr. Kendrick is a member of the Universalist denomina- 
 tion and resides in East Boston, Mass. 
 
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 Samuel Parker Carney. 
 
 Samuel Parker Carney, the fifth child by the second mar- 
 riage of Daniel Carney and Mary Wheeler, his wife, was 
 born in Boston, Mass., November 18, 1821, baptized in Trin- 
 ity Church on December 9, 1821 (his sponsors were his 
 parents and Joshua Vose), died September 29, 1859, and 
 is buried in the Carney lot at Forest Hills, Mass. Mr. 
 Carney was well known in his business occupation of ship 
 carpenter. He married Miss Mary Adeline Smith. For a 
 time Mr. and Mrs. Carney resided in New York, where 
 their first child was born. Their children were : 
 
 1. John, b. in New York, d. in infancy. 
 
 2. Mary Ann, b. 1847, d. 1865. 
 
 3. Evaline Vose, b. July 10, 1850, married on February 10, 
 1866, Mr. Leonard O. Tewksbury, b. July 6, 1839, died De- 
 cember 26, 1881. He was a son of Gerry and Martha A. 
 Burrill-Tewksbury, of Winthrop, Mass. Mr. Tewksbury was 
 engaged in the transportation business. He was a member 
 of the Baptist Church. Their children were : 
 
 (a) Martha A., b. February 16, 1868, married August 18, 
 1894, Mr. Herbert Mews. No children. 
 
 (J) Harriet L., b. December 20, 1870, married July 15, 
 1893, Mr David Ainsworth. Issue: Ethel H., b. 
 1894 ; Bertha, b. 1899 ; Addie, May, b. 1902. 
 
 (c) Edwin G., b. October 7, 1873, married May 10, 1898, 
 
 Miss Eva Debbins. Issue: "William D., b. 1899, d. in 
 infancy ; Edith V., b. 1902. 
 
 (d) Emma L., b. October 4, 1876, married May 9, 1893, 
 
 Mr. Alexander Knox, Jr. Issue : Eva A., b. 1894 : 
 Elizabeth, b. 1897. 
 
 (e) Frederick O., b. January 4, 1880, unmarried. He re- 
 
 sides with his mother, in Medford, Mass. 
 
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 Daniel W. Carney. 
 
 4. Daniel W., the fourth child of Samuel Parker and Mary A. 
 Smith-Carney, was born December 5, 1850. He resides in 
 North Andover, Mass., where he is the agent for the Stand- 
 ard Oil Company of New York. He has been a member of 
 the Old Volunteer Fire Department of Boston, Mass., and a 
 member of the Massachusetts State Militia. He is promi- 
 nently associated in the work of the Congregational denomi- 
 nation. When residing in Buffalo he organized the Mission 
 Sunday School on the east side of that city, commencing 
 with twenty German boys and girls. From this he has de- 
 veloped a beautiful church and cbapel. In Charlestown, 
 Mass., he and his family attended the Green Street Congre- 
 gational Church, he being Superintendent of its Mission 
 Sunday School. In North Andover, Mass., he has been a 
 Deacon, Clerk of the Church, Secretary of the Church Com- 
 mittee, member of the Parish Committee in charge of the 
 parish property, music and pastoral calls, as well as Superin- 
 tendent of the Sunday School of the Congregational Church. 
 In 1871 he was married in Charlestow r n, Mass., by Rev. Ad- 
 dison Parker, of the Bunker Hill Baptist Church, to Miss. 
 Adelaide A. Tarbox, born August 25, 1851, daughter of 
 Ephraim and Clarrissa Tarbox. In January, 1896, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Carney celebrated their silver wedding at their home in 
 North Andover. Mr. Carney takes an active interest in all 
 that tends to elevate the religious, social and political life of 
 the town. He has been a member of the Water Board, the 
 Improvement Society, and the Society of Pilgrim Fathers. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carney have had seven children : 
 
 (a) William Addison, born January 4, 1874, died Au- 
 gust 19, 1874. 
 
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 (5) Addie May, born June 2, 1875, married on October 1, 
 1901, Mr. Thomas W. Wallwork. They have one 
 child, a son, born August 14, 1902. 
 
 (c) Washington Irving, born May 1, 1877. 
 
 (d) Sidney Chester, born December 6, 1878. 
 
 (e) Walter Leon, born August 24, 1880. 
 (/) Clifton Parker, born March 27, 1886. 
 (g) Gardner Leslie, born May 21, 1894. 
 
 5. Edwin Alphonzo Carney, fifth child of Samuel Parker and 
 Mary Adeline Smith-Carney, was born in 1852 and resides 
 in Cambridge, Mass., where he is a merchant. He is Treas- 
 urer of the Wood Memorial Congregational Church. On 
 November 13, 1879, he was married to Miss Nellie L. Wyman 
 of East Boston, Mass. They have had four children : 
 
 (a) Alice May, b. March 29, 1881, d. August 1, 1881. 
 
 (b) Gertrude Mildred, b. November 14, 1882, d. December 
 
 14, 1899. 
 
 (c) Ethel Louise, b. June 18, 1890. 
 
 (d) Mabel Jenette, b. October 14, 1893. 
 
 6. Samuel Parker, Jr., sixth child of Samuel Parker and Mary 
 A. Smith-Carney, was born in Eichmond, Maine, July 11, 
 1856, died in Winthrop, Mass., March 10, 1882. He was 
 married on January 17, 1879, at Winthrop, Mass., to Miss 
 Florence Eva Burt, born March 4, 1858, died October 14, 
 1887, daughter of John and Jance Constable-Burt. They 
 had one child : 
 
 (a) Florence Evelyn Carney, born December 2, 1881. 
 She was married on September 10, 1901, to Mr. Her- 
 bert Alonzo Taylor, born June 20, 1879, son of At- 
 well Alonzo and Abbie Severance-Taylor, of Win- 
 chester, N. H., where they reside. 
 
 7. Ida Estelle, the seventh child of Samuel Parker, and Mary 
 Adeline Smith-Carney, died in infancy. 
 
HENRY CARNEY 
 
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 Henry Carney. 
 
 Henry Carney, the sixth child of Daniel and Mary Wheeler- 
 Carney, was born January 12, 1823, baptized in Trinity 
 Church on February 2, 1S23 (his sponsors were his parents 
 and Joshua Yose), and died January 25, 1900. He married 
 in 1846, Miss Almira Bent, born November 12, 1828, died 
 March 4, 1901, daughter of John and Crosby Bent. 
 
 In a Boston newspaper of the period appears the following : 
 
 " East Boston, December 26, 1846. Marriage of a Volunteer. 
 " Sunday afternoon, at East Boston, Henry Carney, one 
 of Captain Webster's Company, was married to Miss Almira 
 Bent. Lieut. Kelley, officer of the day, allowed an escort 
 of thirteen men in uniform, with side arms, under a Sergeant, 
 to accompany the Groom from Headquarters in Pitts Street, 
 to East Boston, to witness the wedding. A furlough of 
 forty-eight hours was also allowed the bridegroom." 
 
 The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Joseph Whitman 
 of the Methodist Church. The honeymoon was brief but 
 the Mexican War was sufficient cause for patriotism on the 
 part of the } T oung soldier, who served through the war 
 under Daniel Webster's son, Captain Webster, and, at its 
 conclusion, was honorably discharged, and was one of the 
 very few pensioners of that war. 
 
 For fifteen years he was associated with the Copper Works 
 at Point Shirley and for thirty-three years with the Ferry 
 Company. In 1896 Mr. and Mrs. Carney celebrated their 
 golden wedding. The gifts then received " emphasized more 
 than words the deep, sincere love and respect existing for 
 the worthy couple." The Ferry employees presented a 
 plate of gold, while the Rev. Dr. L. P. Staples presented 
 another on behalf of the church. 
 
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 Mr. and Mrs. Carney had eight children : 
 
 (a) Mary E., born and died on October 28, 1847. 
 
 (b) Henry B.,.born October 27, 1848, died August 11, 1872. 
 (g) Alice I., born April 19, 1851, died May 31, 1856. 
 
 (d) Frederick A., born May 25, 1853. 
 
 (e) Daniel L., born April 12, 1855, died October 24, 1872. 
 (/) Liddie I., born November 14, 1859, died April 22, 1865. 
 (g) Kosa L., born February 2, 1862. 
 
 (h) Cora M., born June 8, 1864. 
 
 (d) Frederick A., the fourth child of Henry and Almira 
 Bent-Carney, resides in East Boston, and is engaged 
 in the packing business. From 1870 to 1873 he 
 served in the Massachusetts State Militia and with 
 his family is identified with the Methodist Church. 
 He has been twice married. His first wife was Miss 
 Clara L. Harding, of Unity, Maine, daughter of 
 Yirgil and Siloam Webster Harding. They had 
 three children : 
 
 Henry F. Carney, born June, 1879. 
 
 Webster H. Carney, born May, 1891. 
 
 Siloam Carney, born August, 1893, died 1894. 
 
 Frederick A. Carney married in 1897 his second wife, 
 Miss Isabella Hamilton Nann, daughter of Alexander 
 and Isabella Nann of St. John, New Brunswick. 
 
 (g) Kosa L. Carney, seventh child of Henry and Almira 
 Bent-Carney, married on April 27, 1887, Mr. James 
 Jackson, who is engaged in the manufacture of 
 mantels and cabinet work. Their children are : 
 
 (a) James Jackson, Jr., born February 28, 1888. 
 
 (b) Henry Carney Jackson, born December 21, 1890. 
 
 (c) Frederick Mains Jackson, born July 29, 1893. 
 
 (d) Bessie Almira Jackson, born October 30, 1896. 
 
 (e) John Franklin Jackson, born June 18, 1900. 
 
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 (h) Cora M. Carney, eighth child of Henry and Almira 
 Bent-Carney, married on November 3, 1886, Mr. 
 William A. Mains, who has been for thirteen years 
 foreman of the Framingham, Mass., water board. 
 They have had four children : 
 
 (a) William A. Mains, Jr., born November 24. 1887, d. 
 July 21, 1888. 
 
 (h) Elita R. Mains, born June 2, 1889. 
 
 (c) George L. Mains, born October 14, 1891. 
 
 (d) Walter G. Mains, born March 19, 1901. 
 
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 Franklin La Fayette Carney. 
 
 Franklin La Fayette Carney, the seventh child of Daniel 
 and Mary Wheeler-Carney, born in Boston, Mass., on Au- 
 gust 19, 1824, and baptized on September 4, 1824, in Trinity 
 Church (his sponsors were his parents and Joshua Yose), was a 
 little baby when General La Fayette was the guest of that city. 
 As the procession in the General's honor passed the resi- 
 dence of Daniel Carney, the carriage paused there; General 
 La Fayette bowed to Mine. Carney, who was the daughter 
 of Capt. Josiah Wheeler as before mentioned, and " Uncle 
 Kirk wood," the brother-in-law of Daniel Carney, held the 
 little baby in his arms, saying aloud, " His name shall be 
 La Fayette." The General smiled and bowed his acknowl- 
 edgment and the carriage then resumed its progress. 
 
 The early years of his boyhood were passed in Boston. 
 He has given the following too brief outline of his active 
 and most successful life : 
 
 " Going to Maine when six years of age, I had to put up 
 with the three months' public school per annum, on Garrison 
 Hill [This refers to the hill where the early settlers of 
 Sheepscott retired to the Garrison when attacked by the 
 Indians. Ed.] with an occasional private school and what I 
 learned when quite young in the printing offices of the 
 "Lincoln Patriot" and "Wiscasset Weekly." This com- 
 pleted my meagre education in school. Then, until 1842, I 
 was a clerk in Boston, and also in the Post Office, and 
 whatever I could find for my hands to do, to help Father 
 in his old age. In 1847, I commenced for myself, taking 
 the Post Office, [A position he held for thirty-four years. 
 Ed.] , the position of toll-gatherer on the Sheepscott Bridge, 
 and adding Insurance Agent, Justice of the Peace and opening 
 a general country store ; adding to these for three years 
 
FRANKLIN LA FAYETTE CARNEY 
 
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 the duties of Selectman and Overseer of the Poor. For 
 twenty-five years a Director in the First National Bank of 
 Wiscasset and other similar institutions, including the 
 Mariners Bank of Wiscasset which was organized by Ex- 
 Gov. S. E. Smith and me. In 1862, elected a member of 
 the House of Representatives from our District, Newcastle, 
 Alna and Dresden; James G. Blaine was the Speaker. In 
 1874, elected Senator for Lincoln County and for several 
 years a Trustee of the State Reform School. Other appoint- 
 ments were made and offered, but too busy in my business 
 to accept them. In 1860 I commenced building vessels, 
 building and owning in part the following : the three 
 masted Schooner "George W. Jewett;" three masted 
 Schooner " Annie P. Chase ; " three masted Schooner " Isaac 
 Osheton ; " Barks " F. L. Carney," " Pleiades," " Isaac Rich," 
 " Elwood Cooper " and " R. Murray Jr. ; " the double decked 
 brig " B. Inginae," and owned an interest in the Schooners " S. 
 N. Pool " and " Charter Oak." At this time began running 
 the Lincoln Mills, buying wood lots and farms and owning 
 shipping in all of the above. "Was always able to pay one 
 hundred cents on the dollar and got out of shipping in time 
 to save, I trust, with care, enough to last the little time I 
 shall need money. Being a member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church I have taken a leading part in its affairs 
 as Trustee of the Seminary for the Eastern part of the State 
 and also in building our Church at Sheepscott. For the 
 Rockland District Camp-Meeting Association, I furnished 
 the funds. This association was incorporated by the Legis- 
 lature to hold real and personal estate for the purpose of 
 religious and educational meetings. [Mr. Carney is spoken 
 of as the " Father " of the Undenominational Sunday School 
 Association for three counties, which some three thousand 
 persons attend annually. Ed.] On October 16, 1856, 1 mar- 
 ried Miss Cecelia A. Mahoney, daughter of Captain James 
 
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 Mahoney, of Northport, Maine. She was educated in the local 
 public schools and in the Belfast High School, and adopted 
 by her Uncle and Aunt, Dennis and Sarah R. Shattuck- 
 Mahoney, inheriting all of their large property. 
 Of this marriage there were three children. 
 
 Franklin Irving Carney, born September 30, 1858. 
 
 Iva Ardell Carney, born July 31, 1861. 
 
 Clarence Edgar Carney, born August 16, 1868. 
 
 Mr. Carney is vice president of the Lincoln County His- 
 torical Society and a member of the Society of Colonial 
 Wars. 
 
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 Franklin Irving Carney. 
 
 Franklin Irving Carney, the eldest son of Franklin La 
 Fayette and Cecelia M. Carney, was born September 30, 
 1858. He enjoyed the benefit of the fine local schools, sub- 
 sequently attending Lincoln Academy and thence to the 
 Portland Business College. He has been elected County 
 Commissioner for a term of six years for Lincoln County ; 
 has been Tax Collector for Newcastle ; Selectman, and Di- 
 rector in various institutions where his integrity and energy 
 are appreciated. Always interested in farming he has many 
 acres of land under cultivation, with cattle, sheep, etc. 
 
 On April 30, 1883, he first married Miss Jennie M. Mosher, 
 who bore him three children, and died February 5, 1896. 
 The children by this marriage are : 
 
 (a) Richard I., b. November 21, 1884. 
 
 (b) Marion, b. August 1, 1887. 
 
 (o) Doris L., b. September 7, 1888. 
 
 Richard, having been graduated by Lincoln Academy in 
 June, 1903, is now a student of Maine University. His 
 charming sisters are interested in music and have other ac- 
 complishments. 
 
 Franklin I. Carney married his second wife, Miss Flora I. 
 Sprague (born March 12, 1870), on November 2, 1898. 
 
 Three children have been born : 
 
 (d) Gladys Emma, b. November 11, 1900. 
 
 (e) Ruth Marguerite, b. September 5, 1902. 
 if) Alice G., b. September 15, 1903. 
 
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 Iva Ardell Carney. 
 
 Iva Ardell Carney, second child of Franklin L. and Cecelia 
 M. Carney, was born July 31, 1861. She received her edu- 
 cation at Readtield Seminary, Maine, and also at the Boston 
 Musical University. 
 
 She married on September 16, 1884, Mr. Arthur Lincoln 
 Doe, born in Vassalboro, Maine, March 1, 1861. He was the 
 son of Levi B. and Hannah P. Doe. He attended the Coburn 
 Classical Institute at Waterville, Maine, and was graduated 
 by Colby University, Waterville, Maine, in 1884. He has 
 since been interested in educational work, having been for 
 three years master of the Consolidated Grammar School at 
 "Woonsocket, R. I. ; master for three years of the Maplewood 
 Grammar School, Maiden, Mass., and for four years held 
 the same position at the Center Grammar School in the same 
 city; for seven years master of the Hodgkins Grammar 
 School, Somerville, Mass. Thev have had two children : 
 
 7 7 %/ 
 
 (a) Cecelia Iva, b. July 7, 1885. 
 
 (b) Arthur Franklin, b. January 27, 1888. 
 
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 Clarence Edgar Carney. 
 
 3. Clarence Edgar Carney, third child of Franklin L. and 
 Cecelia M. Carney, was born August 16, 1868. He received 
 the same educational advantages as his brother Franklin. 
 He is now Justice of the Peace in Maiden, Mass., and also 
 Assistant City Assessor for three years. He is interested 
 in real estate and insurance business. He married Miss 
 Britemarte Hopkins on September 27, 1892. They have 
 one child : 
 (a) Mildred I., b. March 29, 1895. 
 
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 Eliza Wheeler Carney. 
 
 Eliza Wheeler Carney, eighth child, by second marriage, 
 of Daniel and Mary Wheeler-Carney, was born in Boston, 
 Mass., December 27, 1826, baptized on January 21, 1827, in 
 Trinity Church (her sponsors were her parents and Eliza 
 Kirkwood), and died January 28, 1861. She married May 4, 
 1859, Mr. Parker C. Harley. They had one child, born the 
 day before her death, 
 
 (a) Edwin W., b. January 27, 1861, died July 28, 1861. 
 
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 Henrietta Carney. 
 
 Henrietta Carney, the ninth child of Daniel and Mary 
 Wheeler-Carney, was born in Boston, Mass., June 7, 1828, 
 baptized on June 24, 1828, in Trinity Church. Her sponsors 
 were her parents and Rhoda Vose. She married on Janu- 
 ary 15, 1853, Mr. Stephen Robins Cole, born June 10, 1821, 
 died May 24, 1901, in Brookline,Vt. Mrs. Cole resides with her 
 daughter, Mrs. A. B. Holloway, in New Bedford, Mass. The 
 children of Stephen Robins Cole and Henrietta Carney were : 
 
 1. "William A., born in Neponset, Mass., December 27, 1853. 
 Unmarried. Occupation, manufacturer of musical instru- 
 ments in Boston, Mass. 
 
 2. Frank Eugene, born in Worcester, Mass., April 17, 1855. 
 Occupation, manufacturer of musical instruments. He first 
 married Miss Ada M. Anderson, May 23, 1877. She died 
 June 3, 1886. 
 
 Children of Frank Eugene and Ada M. Anderson Cole : 
 
 (a) Percy Mortimer, born in East Boston, Mass., Decem- 
 
 ber 10, 1878. 
 
 (b) Harold Garfield, born in East Boston, Mass., Febru- 
 
 ary 23, 1881. 
 
 (c) Ray Leon, born in East Boston, Mass., September 27, 
 
 1885. 
 
 He married for his second wife Miss Arlina Duer, on De- 
 cember 31, 1888. No issue. 
 
 3. Minnie C. E. Cole, born in East Boston, Mass., February 1, 
 1857, died March 14, 1865. 
 
 4. Stephen Robins Cole, Jr., born in Charlestown, Mass., De- 
 cember 17, 1859. Occupation, engineer. 
 
 5. Howard Ellsworth, born in Somerville, Mass., March 4, 
 
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 1864. Occupation, box sawyer. Married Miss Minnie E. 
 Grant, May 5, 1882. 
 Children of Howard E. and Minnie E. Grant-Cole : 
 
 (a) Grace Irene, born in Cambridge, Mass., August 28, 
 
 1883. 
 
 (b) Gertrude Lubell, born in Cambridge, Mass., May 19, 
 
 1886. 
 (<?) Kuth Edrie, born in Somerville, March 9, 1899, died Au- 
 gust 25, 1899. 
 
 (d) Elsie Sybil, born in Cambridge, Mass., July 25, 1890. 
 
 (e) Edna Adaline, born in Dunkirk, N. Y., January 14, 
 
 1893. 
 
 6. Marion L. Cole, born in Charlestown, Mass., June 28, 1870, 
 married Mr. Arod Beales Hollo way, June 1, 1889. They 
 have had one child : 
 (a) Etta Marion, born in New Bedford, Mass., June 13, 
 1890. 
 
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 Addison Cakney. 
 
 Addison Carney, the tenth child of Daniel and Mary 
 Wheeler-Carney, was born in Sheepscott, Maine, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1830. An outline of his life would be to tell of kind 
 and useful deeds among his townsmen, who have recognized 
 his worth. He was selectman from 1883 to 1895, and also 
 postmaster. He is actively interested in the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, and a stanch supporter of temperance, 
 both in theory and practice ; ever ready to respond to those 
 in sickness or distress, by night or by day. He lives loved 
 and respected by all who know him. He married on May 20, 
 1855, Miss Helen A. Brown, of Alna, Maine. They have 
 had one son, Norman H., born August 10, 1858, married 
 October 30, 1889, Miss Elizabeth Marsh. 
 
 Two children have been born of this marriage : 
 
 (a) Luther, born July 27, 1890. 
 
 (b) Roswell, born January 6, 1892. 
 
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 Edwin Harvey Carney. 
 
 Edwin Harvey Carney, the eleventh child of Daniel, 
 Sr., and Mary Wheeler-Carney, was born in Sheepscott, 
 Maine, March 12, 1833. He now resides in the Carney 
 house at Sheepscott, where one finds reminders of the past 
 in tall mahogany clocks and tables, belonging to his father. 
 Until his eighteenth year he attended public schools and 
 then for ten or twelve years was associated with his brother 
 Franklin in business. 
 
 Later he erected and managed a cotton factory in Ben- 
 nington, Vt., going from there to Portland, Maine, where he 
 was in the wholesale grocery business. He has held many 
 offices of trust. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in Sheepscott and a member of D. 9 W. P. of State 
 Lodge of Sons of Temperance. He married, April 2, 1863, 
 Miss Jennie R. Yeaton, born February 12, 1844, of Alna, 
 Maine. Three little girls were left to him when the crush- 
 ing blow of her death came May 15, 1868. They lived to 
 maturity, married, and two of the daughters died within a 
 few davs of each other in 1885. In all this fiery furnace of 
 afliiction, the calm dignity of his Christian character has 
 sustained him. 
 
 His children were : 
 
 (a) Lubelle B., b. December 28, 1864, d. April 15, 1885. 
 
 (h) Mabel J., b. April 6, 1866, d. April 20, 1885. 
 
 (c) Maud I., b. April 13, 1868. 
 
 Maud I., the youngest daughter of Edwin Harvey and 
 Jennie R. Yeaton, married Albert E. West of Alna, Maine. 
 They have two daughters. 
 
JOHN VOSE CARNEY 
 
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 John Vose Carney. 
 
 John Vose Carney, twelfth child of Daniel, Sr., and Mary 
 Wheeler-Carney was born in Sheepscott Maine, November 6, 
 1835. He resides in Bennington, Vermont, where he has 
 been Judge of Probate, district of Bennington, since 1892, 
 having been elected six times to this position. In 1876 he 
 was elected Assistant Judge of the County Court, which 
 position he held for several years, and in 1884 he was 
 elected State Senator. He has held nearly all the positions 
 on town and village boards, and has also been a member 
 of the County and State Boards of Equalization of State 
 and County Taxes. 
 
 As a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church he served 
 as president during several sessions of the Lay-Electoral 
 Conference, and has, for over twenty years, been superintend- 
 ent of the Sunday School. 
 
 Judge Carnev was President of the Citizens Committee of 
 fifty in 1891, at the time of the dedication of the Ben- 
 nington Battle Monument and the one hundredth anniversary 
 of the admission of Vermont as a state. About forty thou- 
 sand visitors were perfectly cared for, under the supervision 
 of the Committee under Judge Carney, and the event has 
 been described in a book, " The Vermont Centennial." 
 
 At the close of President Harrison's oration, Jud^e 
 Carney presented him with a souvenir medal, of solid gold, 
 with these remarks : 
 
 "Mr. President, allow me, Sir, as the representative of 
 your many friends in Bennington, who recognize in you the 
 brave and patriotic soldier, the honest and eminent states- 
 man, and the true Christian gentleman, to present to you 
 this souvenir as a token of the respect in which you are held 
 
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 by the people of our historic town, trusting that, in future 
 years, it may recall to your mind pleasant memories of 
 this Centennial occasion. May the Great Ruler, who holds 
 the destiny of Peoples and Nations in his hands, grant you 
 many happy years of usefulness, in both Public and Pri- 
 vate life." 
 
 On March 23,1854, he was married to Miss Susan Abbott 
 of Worcester, Mass. They have had one child : 
 Allura, born June 12, 1855. 
 
 She was married in March, 1879 to Mr. C. N". Hodgkins 
 and died the day her baby daughter, Laura M., was born, 
 March 17, 1881. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 Margaket Carney. 
 
 Margaret, the fifth child of Mark and Suzanne Goux-Car- 
 ney, was born in Pownalboro, Maine, December 2, 1766, and 
 died September 24, 1860. Among the Pownalboro " Inten- 
 tions of Marriage," date of November 26, 1789, appears that 
 of " Peggy Carney of Pownalboro and Abner Marson, Jr., of 
 Pittstown." They were married in Dresden, Maine, on 
 January 15, 1790. Abner Marson, Jr., was the son of Ab- 
 ner Marson of Pittstown, and was born January 14, 1765. 
 
 He was drowned in the Kennebeck Eiver, September 3, 
 1821. There were ten children by this marriage. 
 
 1. Lucinda, born in Boston, Mass., January 9, 1791, died May 
 15, 1791. 
 
 2. Eliza, born in Pittstown, Maine, August 10, 1792. 
 
 3. Nancy, born July 23, 1794, died June, 1867. 
 
 4. James Carney, born December 31, 1797. 
 
 5. Lucinda 2d., born April 11, 1802, died January 3, 1874. 
 
 6. William, born July 30, 1804, died August 15, 1815. 
 
 7. Daniel, born September 27, 1806, died August 13, 1809. 
 
 8. Alfred, born October 2, 1808. He lived in Illinois, married, 
 and had one son, 
 
 (a) James Harvey Marson. 
 
 9. Elvira, born July 28, 1811, died November 3, 1827. 
 
 10. Harvey, born May 2, 1814, died September 1, 1837. The 
 descendants of these ten children follow according to seniority. 
 
 2. Eliza, the second child of Margaret Carney and Abner Mar- 
 son, Jr., was married in 1812 to Mr. Daniel C. Butland. 
 Their children were : 
 
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 (a) Susannah C. Butland, born September 20, 1813, and 
 
 married on November 1, 1840, Mr. James S. Hudson. 
 They had eight children, three sons and five daugh- 
 ters. Mr. Hudson died November 15, 1891, leaving 
 twenty-six grandchildren and six great-grand- 
 children. 
 
 (b) Daniel C. Butland, Jr., born August 15, 1815. 
 
 (c) James Marson Butland, born November 18, 1817. 
 
 (d) Eliza A. Butland, born November 28, 1819, died June 
 
 1, 1889, married October 2, 1846, Mr. John B. 
 Stevens. Issue : (1) Fannie Stevens, born September 
 6, 1855, married January 3, 1874, Mr. Nathaniel 
 Dodge. They have nine children. (2) Clara V. 
 Stevens, born June 23, 1858, married April 20, 1878, 
 Mr. George M. Beedy. They reside in California. 
 No issue. 
 
 (e) Uriah Butland, born January 1, 1822, married July 9, 
 
 1854, Miss Clara T. Pease. They have had one 
 child, 
 
 (a) John C. F. Butland, born November 7, 1856, 
 married, March 25, 1891, to Miss Elvina N. Phillips. 
 They have one son, Lawrence A. Butland, born 
 April 23, 1894. 
 
 (/) Sophronia Butland, born April 30, 1824. 
 
 (g) Alfred Marson Butland, born June 8, 1826. 
 
 (A) Alonzo Butland, born October 19, 1828, died in child- 
 hood. 
 
 (i) Bichard Orrin Butland, born January 22, 1831. 
 
 (J) Elvira Marson Butland, born January 12, 1834, mar- 
 ried December 24, 1857, Mr. Eben N. Brand. They 
 had one son, 
 
 (a) Koscoe O. Brand, born September 29, 1859, 
 died October 14, 1863. 
 
 (k) George Bailey Butland, born February 5, 1836. 
 
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 3. Nancy, the third child of Margaret Carney and Abner Mar- 
 son, Jr., was married in October, 1815, to Captain Joseph 
 Jackson. They had four children : 
 
 (1) Margaret Jackson, born October 5, 1818 and married 
 
 on November 16, 1840, Mr. John Brann, of Clifton- 
 dale, Mass. They had nine children: 
 
 (a) Helena R. Brann, born September 1, 1841. 
 
 (5) Florence H. Brann, born December 30, 1843. 
 
 (c) Angelia C. Brann, born May 11, 1847. 
 
 (d) Laforest J. Brann, born November 27, 1849. 
 
 (e) Glenwood J. Brann, born October 9, 1851. 
 (/) Elmer B. Brann, born June 10, 1855. 
 
 (g) Willis E. Brann, born September 11, 1857. 
 (h) Herbert W. Brann, born March 2, 1859. 
 (i) Alice M. Brann, born September 9, 1861, married 
 Mr. Joseph B. Lowell. 
 
 (2) Joseph Jackson, born November 28, 1820, resided in 
 
 New Orleans, where he was Chief of Police. 
 
 (3) William M. Jackson, born January 24, 1823. 
 
 (4) Louisa Jackson, born May 31, 1825. 
 
 4. James Carney, the fourth child of Margaret Carney and 
 Abner Marson, Jr., married Miss Charity Alexander Mar- 
 son. They had nine children : 
 
 (a) Charity Marson. 
 
 (b) William Henry Marson. 
 
 (c) Julia Marson (died in infancy). 
 
 (d) Alfred Marson. 
 
 (e) Cavalier Marson. 
 (/) Julia Marson, 2d. 
 
 (g) Victoria Isabel Marson. 
 (h) Marie Marson. 
 (i) Celia Marson. 
 
 5. Lucinda, the fifth child of Margaret Carney and Abner Mar- 
 
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 son, Jr., married on January 3, 1825, Mr. John Cass, of Pitts- 
 town, Maine. They had seven children : 
 
 (a) John Cass, Jr., born October 28, 1825. 
 
 (b) Llewellyn Cass, born October 8, 1827. He married on 
 
 March 7, 1858, Miss Sarah A. Black, of Portland, 
 Maine. 
 
 (c) Angenora Cass, born May 1, 1830, married Mr. Alphonse 
 
 Yeaton. 
 
 (d) Daniel Van Buren Cass, born January 17, 1834. 
 
 (e) Mark Carney Cass, born December 3, 1837. 
 
 (/) James Harvey Cass, born March 28, 1843, married 
 Miss Edna A. Smith, of Calais, Maine. No issue. 
 
 (g) Olive Lydia Angevine, born August 17, 1848, married 
 on January 1, 1869, Mr. Daniel Booker. 
 
 (b) Children of Llewellyn and Sarah Black-Cass : 
 
 1. Luella M. Cass, born February 4, 1865, married on Septem- 
 ber 10, 1888, Mr. Frederick Black. Issue : Florence, born 
 June 15, 1889 ; Edith C, born February 16, 1893. 
 
 2. Lucinda Maria Cass, born November 7, 1866, married on 
 September 1, 1888, Mr. George Cass, of Pittstown, Maine. 
 They have two children : 
 
 Elmer, born August 19, 1889. 
 Fay, born August 8, 1893. 
 
 3. George E. Cass, born July 22, 1872. 
 
 4. Edith E. Cass, born April 28, 1876, died June 17, 1881. 
 
 (c) Children of Angenora Cass and Alphonse Yeaton : 
 
 1. Olive M. Yeaton, born January 31, 1870, married on Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1890, Mr. Kobert G. Shea. Issue, Rudolph e R. A. 
 Shea, born December 2, 1890. 
 
 (g) Children of Olive L. A. Cass and Daniel Booker. 
 1. Harvey C. Booker, born September 12, 1872, married on 
 
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 April 4, 1895, Miss M. Thayer, of Pittstown, Me. Issue, a 
 daughter, born November 7, 1895. 
 
 2. Percy H. Booker, born April 10, 1880. 
 
 3. Raymond G. Booker, born May 19, 1882. 
 
 4. Clifford A. Booker, born May 19, 1884. 
 
 5. Clyde R. Booker, born July 12, 1887. 
 
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 Susannah Carney. 
 
 Susannah Carney, the sixth child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, was born January 8, 1768, and died March 23, 
 
 1849. She married Mr. Ebenezer Howard. They had two 
 children : 
 
 1. Daniel Cowdin Howard, born May 5, 1790, died April 29, 
 1870. He married Miss Theodocia Simpson on Decem- 
 ber 27, 1818. She died in 1877. They had the following 
 children : 
 
 (a) William Haley Howard, b. March, 1821, died in 1825. 
 
 (b) Daniel Osgood Howard, b. October 6, 1825, died No- 
 
 vember 2, 1895. He was unmarried. 
 (o) Mary T. Howard, b. January 30, 1828, married Joseph 
 Dunton, who died in 1893. 
 
 2. William Whiting Howard, b. October 22, 1792, d. August 11, 
 
 1850. He married first, Mary Trask Carney, daughter of 
 Daniel Carney, Sr., his cousin, who died September 17, 
 1838. No issue. His second wife was Hepsibeth Damon, 
 who, after Captain Howard's death, became the wife of 
 James Carney. She died November 18, 1892. 
 
 William Whiting Howard was captain of the Brig " Sa- 
 battis," built by Daniel Carney, Sr., and others. Captain 
 Howard died on a voyage to Brazil and was buried at sea. 
 His second wife and the mate carried the vessel safely to 
 " Rio." 
 
 Daniel C. Howard was in the War of 1812, and was a pen- 
 sioner of that war. His commission as Lieutenant was is- 
 sued by Governor Brooks. 
 
 Ebenezer Howard's watch, purchased in 1793, Avas given 
 to Daniel Osgood Howard on January 1, 1852, having been 
 in constant use for fifty-nine years. 
 
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 Daniel Osgood Howard was a Sergeant in the Civil War ; 
 a Libby prisoner and severely wounded at Gettysburg. He 
 served in the army for three years when he was honorably 
 discharged. 
 
 A gold locket of Susannah Carney Howard has engraved 
 within a mourning device her initials " S. H.," while on a 
 shield appear " T. H. ae. 3 mos." ; " E. H. ae. 29 Years " ; the 
 former probably refers to a child and the latter to her hus- 
 band, who was killed in Boston, Mass. 
 
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 Jane Carney. 
 
 Of Jane Carney, the seventh child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, we find no record other than that in Kev. 
 Jacob Bailey's diary, under date of April 17, 1769. He writes : 
 
 " Baptized Jane Carney." In 1772 he mentioned 
 
 " Ruthy Carney," and it is possible that her middle name 
 was Ruth, as the blank space would indicate that the middle 
 name had escaped his memory at the time of writing. There 
 was no other Carney family in Pownalboro, and this 
 "Ruthy Carney" appears among a list of little children who 
 were either his school children or " perhaps catechumens in 
 his parish." 
 
159 
 
 Joanna Carney. 
 
 Joanna Carney, the eighth child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, was baptized by the Rev. Jacob Bailey on 
 April 26, 1772. 
 
 There were eighty persons present at the little church in 
 the wilderness on that occasion, as he records in his diarv. 
 Joanna died March 29, 1808. 
 
 One of Suzanne Goux-Carney's letters, to her brother 
 George Goux, was written by Joanna when a little child, 
 and at its close are the words, " excuse Joey's writin." 
 
 On April 5, 1772, Mr. Bailey had baptized James Jac- 
 queens (the name appears as Jacqueen and also James Jac- 
 quenot Jacqueens), who married Joanna Carney about 1790. 
 It is supposed that the town register containing the record 
 of their marriage was destroyed by fire. Their only child, 
 a daughter, Susannah Carney Jackins (notice change in 
 spelling ; the name was later spelled Jackson) was born 
 February 19, 1793, died April 18, 1875. She married on 
 October 18, 1820, Capt. Joseph Lancaster, Jr. He was born 
 July 22, 1790, and died October 10, 1875, at Richmond Vil- 
 lage and was buried near his father, who was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary War, from Woolwich, Maine. Joseph Lan- 
 caster, Jr., was engaged in seafaring life, and was the cap- 
 tain of a vessel. He and his family were Congregational- 
 ists. 
 
 The children of Susannah Carney Jackins and Joseph 
 Lancaster, Jr., were : 
 
 1. James Jackins Lancaster, born January 4, 1822, died Jan- 
 uary 2, 1847, unmarried. 
 
 2. William Preble Lancaster, born March 24, 1825, died July 
 7, 1889, in Richmond, Maine. He married Miss Letitia 
 Finch, who died February 25, 1900. They had no children, 
 
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 but adopted a son, James Lancaster, who lives at the farm 
 at Richmond, Maine, with his family. 
 3. Joseph Jackins Lancaster, born April 23, 1826, died January 
 31, 1893 and married on November 27, 1853, Miss Eebecca 
 Smith. She was a daughter of Elias and Almira Smith, of 
 Bath, Me. They had the following children : 
 
 (a) James E. Lancaster, born January 8, 1854, married 
 
 in 1875, Miss Ella Hunt, daughter of Eobert and 
 Miranda Hunt, of Bath, Maine. She died in July, 
 1893. Issue, one child, died in infancy. Mr. Lan- 
 caster, resides in Concord, N. H. 
 
 (b) Elias S. Lancaster, born May 8, 1857, married Octo- 
 
 ber 20, 1880, Miss Anne Burgess, daughter of James 
 D. and Ellen Burgess, of Boston, Mass. They have 
 five children, as follows, and reside in Maiden, Mass. 
 
 (1) Gertrude R., b. November 25, 1881, married 
 
 January 21, 1900, Mr. William Davis ; they 
 have had one daughter who died in infancy. 
 
 (2) Joseph H., b. June 11, 1883. 
 
 (3) Frederick W., b. February 13, 1888. 
 
 (4) George E., b. August 18, 1890. 
 
 (5) Charles W., born November 21, 1900. 
 
 (c) Frederick Lancaster, b. 1860, married in 1893, Mrs. 
 
 Belle Boyce-EUiot, widow of Andrew Elliot. Her 
 family were from Eastport, Maine. Issue, a son, 
 James Elliot Lancaster, born in 1895. Mr. Lancaster 
 is a mason by occupation. 
 
 (d) Annie F. Lancaster, born in 1867, died in childhood. 
 
 (e) Joseph J. Lancaster, born in 1867, died in childhood. 
 (/) William P. Lancaster, born in 1869, died May, 1903. 
 
 L Caroline B. Lancaster, born September 26, 1829, died 
 March 20, 1902, married Mr. Henry Hoxie, of Augusta, 
 Maine. Issue : 
 
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 (a) Georgiana E. Hoxie, born November 9, 1852, in Bath, 
 
 Maine, attending schools in Augusta, Maine, and 
 Boston, Mass., married on July 17, 1879, Mr. John 
 Alexander, b. January, 1846, a native of Scotland, 
 and by occupation a mechanical engineer, residing in 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 (b) James V. Hoxie, born May 24, 1859, died in infancy. 
 
 (c) Charles O. Hoxie, born October 11, 1859, died Novem- 
 
 ber 27, 1880. 
 
 (d) Susan J. Hoxie, born October 23, 1863, died Septem- 
 
 ber 23, 1880. 
 
 5. Joanna Carney Lancaster, born November 24, 1835, and re- 
 sides in Somerville, Mass. The writer is indebted to her, 
 and to Mrs. John Alexander, for much of the above informa- 
 tion, about their individual lines of descent. 
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 James Carney, Sr. 
 
 James Carney, Sr., the ninth child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, was born in Dresden, Maine, June 5, 1774, 
 and was baptized by the Rev. Jacob Bailey on Sunday, July 
 24, 1774 ; he was but eight years old when his father died. 
 At an early age he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade 
 (in those days of vast importance as most of the working 
 tools were fashioned by them) with Deacon Faxon, of Bos- 
 ton, Mass., with whom he worked for eight years or more. 
 He then went to Newcastle, Maine, where, in February, 
 1797, he purchased from William B. Eaton, a Boston trader, 
 fourteen acres of land, the price for the same being six hun- 
 dred and sixty dollars. Later he added to this property, and 
 here he built a two-story house on the south side of the street, 
 near the bridge, and on October 5, 1799, married his first 
 wife Miss Joanna Marson, born October 4, 1780. She was 
 a daughter of Captain Stephen and Jennie Marson of Dres- 
 den. In 1804 he sold out his business and went to Boston, 
 where he joined his brother Daniel in the grocery business. 
 In those days the salt water came within one hundred feet 
 of the store. James Carney took passage on one of the 
 Hallowell Packets to the Kennebeck River, and, being at- 
 tracted to the old town of Dresden, as well as learning 
 that the house built for the Colonial Judges was for sale, 
 immediately purchased it in 1805. He moved his family to 
 the new home, furnishing the house with many pieces of fur- 
 niture bought at the auction sale of Governor Bowdoin's ef- 
 fects, among them being straight backed mahogany chairs, 
 with claw feet ; an old-fashioned secretary and desk, and a 
 stately tall clock, giving the hours, da} r s of month and 
 changes of the moon. These are still in the possession of his 
 grandchildren. There being no outbuildings on the place, 
 
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 he built barns, and a blacksmith shop, earning his living 
 on his farm, and at his trade. Twelve children were born, 
 six boys and six girls, all living to manhood and woman- 
 hood. 
 
 James Carney's first w r ife was the mother of all his chil- 
 dren. She died May 4, 1832. On March 7, 1834, he married 
 a second time, Mrs. Jane Baker, widow of Captain John 
 Baker of Wiscasset, Maine. 
 
 James Carney w r as a man of very temperate habits, an 
 iron constitution and, being a hard worker, wished no one 
 idle about him. He was a strong politican, being a Whig, 
 and taking an active part in the political affairs of his coun- 
 try. At the close of the War of 1812-1815 he gave a ban- 
 quet at his house when news of peace was received. His 
 antipathy to slavery was marked. 
 
 In his religious life he was a Universalist and did much 
 to encourage preaching in the town. He w T as ever charitable, 
 harnessing his horse, at any time, to carry meat, vegetables 
 and fruit to those in want. In 1811 he built at his landing 
 the hull and spars of the Brig " Dresden," 175 tons, for 
 Boston men, receiving twenty-five dollars a ton. He also 
 made much of the ironwork for shipbuilders in his vicinity. 
 He died March 15, 1858. 
 
 His children were as follows : 
 
 (a) Melinda, eldest child of James, Sr., and Joanna Marson- 
 Carney, born August 5, 1800, in Newcastle, Maine, 
 died, August 5, 1830. She married Mr. John Car- 
 lisle, of Dresden, Maine. Issue : two sons, Decatur, 
 who followed the sea and died at the age of 22 years, 
 and John Dexter Carlisle, born 1820. 
 The latter was very successful as a sea captain. In 1860 
 he commanded the " Young America," one of the largest 
 ships of that period. He married Miss Mary E. Libby, of 
 Portland, Maine, making that city his home, until a few 
 
164 
 
 years before his death, when he removed to Kichmond, 
 
 Maine, where he died December 17, 1890. 
 (b) Amanda, second child of James, Sr., and Joanna 
 Marson -Carney, was born July 27, 1802, in Newcastle, 
 Maine, and died August 17, 1839. 
 She married Capt. Oliver Blanchard of Dresden, Maine. 
 He died and was buried at sea, on August 31, 1833. 
 His widow lived with her father, after her husband's 
 death. No issue. In the family burial ground, on 
 the old Carney place, rests the remains of James 
 Carney, Sr., his first wife, Joanna Marson-Carney, 
 nine children, one grandchild and two great-grand- 
 children. In 1871 James Carney, Jr., erected a 
 granite monument there arid left a sum of money 
 safely invested, the interest of which is exclusively 
 used to keep the lot in perpetual repair. 
 
mm 
 
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 •FAMES CARNEY. JR. 
 
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 James Carney, Jr. 
 
 (c) James Carney, Jr., third child of James, Sr., and 
 Joanna Marson-Carney, was born May 27, 1804, 
 and died January 2, 1887. 
 
 He settled in Richmond, Maine, and for many years 
 was engaged in making edged-tools and ironwork 
 for vessels. 
 
 Later he became interested in, and commanded vessels 
 doing coasting business, owning one vessel and being 
 part owner in eleven others. In 1850 he superin- 
 tended building the depot for the Kennebeck and 
 Portland Railroad and other buildings. For ten 
 years he was the company's station agent, and he 
 was a member of the board of selectmen for twelve 
 years. 
 
 In 1861 he became Commissioner of Sagadahoc County 
 as well as Representative to the Legislature. In 
 December, 1864, he became cashier of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Richmond, Maine, a position he most 
 satisfactorily filled for over twelve years, while for 
 three years he was treasurer of the Richmond Sav- 
 ings Bank, from its organization March 30, 1871, to 
 May 25, 1874. 
 
 "The Richmond Bee," in announcing his death in 
 January, 1887, gave the story of his life as follows : 
 
 " Among the papers of the late Capt. James Carney, 
 whose death is recorded on another page, there was 
 
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 found the following autobiographical sketch [The 
 account is more than interesting — it is valuable ; and 
 we feel that we are doing our readers no ordinary 
 service in laying it before them. — Ed.] : 
 " I, James Carney, worked on my father's farm in the 
 town of Dresden, Me., and in his blacksmith shop, 
 commencing as soon as I was old enough to blow 
 the bellows or strike the iron. In early youth I went 
 to a private school occasionally, but generally at- 
 tended district schools in the town. In those days 
 pupils went to any district school they pleased, as 
 the teacher taught in the several districts in rotation. 
 When school was taught in the district where I lived, 
 I was obliged to walk three-quarters of a mile to get 
 there, and in other instances I was forced to make a 
 much longer journey. To attend school at the East- 
 ern river upper bridge, so-called, I had to walk a dis- 
 tance of two miles. When I attended school in the 
 Major John Poluresky district, on the east side of 
 Eastern river, I had to travel a still greater distance, 
 while to reach the Cork Cove district, near the 
 lower part of the town, or the Bickford schoolhouse, 
 necessitated a journey of more than three miles. I 
 could only attend school in the winter, and, taking 
 into account the stormy weather and the deep snows 
 which prevented my walking such long distances, it 
 will readily be seen that such schooling as I was 
 able to get did not amount to much. Then there 
 were the tyrannical teachers, with their birch withes 
 and big ferules, set to keep order over sixty or a hun- 
 dred boys ; as may be imagined they found little time 
 to look after any one pupil. I write this to show the 
 limited chances for gaining an education in my 
 younger days. 
 
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 " At the age of fourteen I began hauling cord wood 
 from Mr. Benjamin Heed's farm in Bowdoinham (now 
 Richmond) to what was then called White's Landing, 
 now Richmond village. Reed's farm and wood-lot 
 were about two miles and a half north of the village. 
 In those days there was only a narrow road swamped 
 out from the landing to Reed's farm. It led through 
 thick woods, the whole distance, coming out on top 
 of the hill near where the present residence of James 
 K. Hathorn stands. Thousands of cords of wood and 
 hemlock bark were hauled to the landing every year 
 from the surrounding woods. For two winters I 
 hauled from Reed's woods, leaving my home in Dres- 
 den very early in the morning, and returning quite late 
 in the evening, somewhat tired and hungry. But it 
 was business, and I liked it, as I was my own master 
 and felt that I was earning something to help sup- 
 port the family. 
 
 " While engaged in teaming I hauled wood one winter 
 from Nicholas Gaubert's woods, situated more than 
 two miles from my home. At another time I hauled 
 wood for Mr. Llewellyn Lithgow, from a point near 
 the upper bridge, now known as Dresden Mills ; but 
 that winter I boarded with my Aunt Benson, who 
 lived near the bridge. 
 
 " I also drove a team a part of one winter for Mr. Tur- 
 ner Barker, boarding in his family. In the winter of 
 1822-23 I was hauling wood and logs in Dresden 
 for Mr. James Houdlette. That winter I had the 
 misfortune to spoil a fine ox, by his catching a hoof 
 between the sled runners and a stone while descend- 
 ing a hill. This ended my winter's work and cord- 
 wood operations. 
 
 " At that time I considered myself a ' number one ' 
 
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 teamster, quite a farmer and something of a black- 
 smith. The last named trade I had always disliked, 
 but my father, being himself a blacksmith, insisted on 
 my learning it. ' Get the trade,' he would say, ' and 
 then if you can find anything better to do, do it ; but 
 if you should happen to fail in your business you will 
 have a good trade to fall back on.' Such advice was 
 very good for me, or any other boy. 
 
 " I had it in my mind to follow the sea for a living, and 
 make money ; but as my father had so strong a desire 
 to see me a blacksmith, I thought I would be a work- 
 man and master of the business. Well, as I had 
 worked hard, — I might say like a slave, — for many 
 years on the farm, and in the shop, I thought I would 
 finish learning my trade away from home. With 
 the consent of my father I concluded to strike out 
 and learn to do ship work and make edged tools. 
 So I packed up my duds and put them in my trunk, — 
 or painted box, — and started for Hallowell. This 
 was in the fall of '23. At that time Hallowell was 
 the liveliest place on the Kennebeck river, and more 
 business was done there than in any town this side 
 of Portland. 
 
 " I worked in Hallowell some three years, part of the 
 time as a journeyman, and learned to do ship- work and 
 edge-tool making. In June, '26, I came home at the 
 request of my father, and did the iron work of two 
 vessels for him. In the fall of that year, by the ad- 
 vice of my father, I bought a blacksmith stand of a 
 man named Pennington, in Richmond. The village 
 at that time consisted of ten or a dozen houses and 
 stores. 
 
 " Here I began life for myself, on my own account. 
 My house was where the Maine Central Station now 
 
169 
 
 stands. In the summer and fall of 18271 repaired 
 and improved the dwelling, so that it was for me — 
 and us, a cosy home. I say us, for quite early in life 
 I had made up my mind that when I could say I was 
 worth one thousand dollars I would get married. I 
 now had that amount, and more, and was heartily 
 tired of keeping bachelor's hall. Accordingly, on 
 the 25th of November, 1827, I was united in mar- 
 riage with Miss Lucinda Patten Martin, daughter of 
 John and Rachel Martin, who lived in Bowdoinham, 
 about a mile below Richmond. There were no mar- 
 riageable young ladies in Richmond at that time, and 
 a young man who wanted a wife was obliged to go 
 out of town in search of one. Our wedding tour 
 was a journey from the home of the lady's parents 
 to our new home in Richmond. 
 
 " I still worked at my trade, finding all the business I 
 could attend to. My wife and I worked early and 
 late, summer and winter, to get a start in the world. 
 Many a night, when I have been driven to get off 
 work, I have labored until twelve and one o'clock, 
 and would be up and at it again before daylight. I 
 worked on in this way until March, 1831, when I 
 threw up the sponge — or rather the hammer — say- 
 ing : ' Lie there till I call for you ! ' I then went on 
 board a schooner that I owned the commanding part 
 of, and continued in the coasting business many 
 years. 
 
 " During that time I ran various vessels that I had 
 an interest in, visiting most of the ports alongshore 
 from the Kennebeck to Cape Delaware. For three 
 seasons I cruised between Hallowell and Philadelphia, 
 carrying granite to the last named city, and bring- 
 ing back coal. I have built and repaired numerous 
 
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 vessels in my day, and have owned one whole vessel 
 and parts of eleven others, including schooners, brigs 
 and barks. 
 
 " In 1842-43 I lost nearly all the property that my 
 wife and I had worked so hard for, through shipwreck 
 and the depreciation of shipping. It made us feel 
 blue and low-spirited for a time, but I made up my 
 mind to ' pick flint ' and try it again. I did so, and 
 by dint of hard work, and driving things day and 
 night, I managed to do very well. 
 
 "Previous to my loss I had, by the request of my 
 father, moved to a house near his own in Dresden. I 
 bought the place of Capt. David Blan chard, and moved 
 there in the fall of '36. We lived in this house some 
 two years, and in it two children — Lucinda Ellen and 
 Annie Eliza — were born. In the fall of '38 we went 
 to Philadelphia and New York, spending the winter 
 and keeping house at 120 Clinton Street, in the last 
 named city. In the spring of '39 we returned to 
 Dresden, and the winter following we moved to 
 Richmond, occupying a house which I afterward 
 bought of George H. Gardiner. Ten j^ears later I 
 rebuilt and enlarged the house, which is the dwelling 
 where I now live. 
 
 " After running several vessels that I had an interest 
 in for fifteen years, I took to the land again. On the 
 2d of January, 1851, my wife died of consumption. 
 A better or more worthy wife no man could wish 
 for. She was the mother of seven children — three 
 boys and four girls. On July 7, 1852, I married 
 Mrs. Howard, widow of Capt. William Howard, of 
 Dresden, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua 
 Damon, of Wiscasset, Me. She had one son at the 
 time of our marriage. His name was William, and 
 
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 he was between eight and nine years of age. We 
 were married at Westbrook, Me., at the home of 
 brother Willard C. George, who was a Universalist 
 clergyman. 
 
 " In December, 1850, I was appointed to superintend 
 the erection of the passenger depot, and other build- 
 ings, for the Kennebeck and Portland Railroad. For 
 some ten years I was station agent and ticket seller 
 for the company in Richmond. The station stands 
 on the site of my early home, where I began house- 
 keeping. For about twelve years I was a member 
 of the board of selectmen, serving most of the time 
 as chairman. 
 
 " In the winter of 1861-2, I was chosen representative 
 to the Legislature. It wasduring the Rebellion, and 
 it was hard work to drum up recruits for the army. 
 However, we raised our quota by paying each man a 
 bounty of from one hundred to five hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 " In the years that are past I have held various public 
 offices, having served as assessor of taxes, road and 
 street commissioner, overseer 'of the poor, collector 
 of taxes, town agent, constable, school agent and 
 commissioner of Sagadahoc count} 7 ". I have also 
 superintended, I should think, more than a hundred 
 funerals. 
 
 " In 1865 I was chosen cashier of the new First 
 National Bank, which position I filled for about 
 thirteen years. 
 
 "In 1871 I was chosen treasurer of the new Richmond 
 Savings bank, and held that office some three years, 
 until the passage of a law prohibiting a national 
 bank cashier from holding the two offices. On Jan- 
 uary 1, 1877, I resigned m}^ position in the bank, said 
 
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 resignation to take effect on the first of July follow- 
 ing. On the 7th of July I left the bank, being at 
 the time in very poor health. 
 
 " While acting as station agent I bought, surveyed and 
 paid for several thousand cords of wood which was 
 generally hauled into the village in the winter season. 
 I remember that one day I measured and paid for 
 sixty-seven loads. This, in addition to my other 
 duties, was no small job. I have owned three farms, 
 and have done more or less work on them all. I 
 have owned eleven different dwellings and many 
 house lots in the village, and have done much repair- 
 ing on buildings of various kinds. 
 
 "I write these things to show that I have not been an 
 idle man during the greater portion of my life, and 
 that the world will be none the worse for my having 
 lived in it — at least, I hope so. 
 
 "James Carney." 
 
 At a joint meeting of the officers of the Richmond 
 Savings Bank and the First National Bank, Judge 
 William T. Hall, in accepting a portrait of the late 
 Captain James Carney, said : 
 
 "To } t ou, Mr. President, and the Directors of the 
 First National Bank, and to you, Mr. President, and 
 the Trustees of the Richmond Savings Bank, in behalf 
 of the daughters of our late friend and associate, Cap- 
 tain James Carney, I have the pleasure of presenting 
 this fine crayon portrait. 
 
 " When we look upon it, it will remind us of the noble 
 face of our late friend and associate as he appeared 
 in his earthly and material form when he was with 
 us, and took part in the busy, bustling activity of 
 business life. It will remind us that a grand old 
 
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 r> 
 
 Roman has lived with us, and lived for a purpose, 
 and filled his place and lot in life, and in his ripe old 
 age has passed from us over the dark river to the 
 great unknown, leaving to us the rich blessing of his 
 wise counsel. 
 
 " Born in Boston, May 27, 1804, he came with his 
 parents to Dresden, when a } T oung child, and was 
 reared as a farmer's son, inured to the hardships of a 
 country life in a new country. Endowed with a con- 
 stitution of iron, and a powerful physical organization, 
 he was fitted to endure the many hardships which he 
 experienced in his young manhood and middle 
 life. 
 
 " He came to Richmond in 1828, when there was 
 nothing but a landing place for coasters here. A few 
 scattered dwellings, a store, and a blacksmith shop, 
 was all that was here then, where this large and beauti- 
 ful village now stands. Engaging in the business of 
 a blacksmith, building portions of small vessels, pur- 
 chasing cord-wood and produce that was brought in 
 by farmers to be shipped to Boston and other ports, 
 and managing sailing coasting vessels, constituted 
 his employment until he entered the service of the 
 railroad as station agent about 1850, which position 
 he held, together with the office of selectman, up to 
 and including a portion of the period of the late war 
 of the Rebellion, during which time he was honored 
 by his constituents by being sent as a Representative 
 to the Legislature. 
 
 "In December, 1864, he became the Cashier of this 
 National Bank, and held the position until July 7, 
 1877. He also held the position of Treasurer of this 
 Savings Bank, from its organization, March 30, 1871, 
 to May 25, 1874. 
 
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 " In all the positions lie occupied and held, he was 
 always a faithful and reliable man, honest to his con- 
 stituents, and honest to the teachings of his own 
 conscience. His life was one of activity from his 
 earliest youth. He never knew what it was to be 
 unoccupied, until failing health abated his physical 
 forces ; and to the time of death, January 2, 1887, 
 his mind remained clear, and his counsel wise. 
 
 " For a quarter of a century I was intimately ac- 
 quainted with and associated with the deceased in 
 business connected with these banks, and otherwise, 
 and I stand here to bear witness to the great fidelity 
 which he always exercised in all matters confided to 
 his trust and care ; and you, gentlemen, will all give 
 the same evidence. I remember a remark that he 
 made to me, more than twenty years ago, and as it has 
 a lesson in it, I will repeat it. It was about the time 
 the country was much stirred up over a large num- 
 ber of bank defalcations, when he said to me : 'Wil- 
 liam, I shall never be a defaulter, for if I were 
 inclined to be one my pride would keep me from 
 it.' 
 
 " He was a truly proud man ; and his daughters take 
 pride in presenting this likeness of this ' grand old 
 man ' to you, so that you can keep his memory green 
 in your minds, and, emulating his example, so live that 
 if man allures thee, consent thou not. Like him, be 
 wise and prudent, diligent and watchful of all thy 
 virtues, so that when called to leave the shore, 
 touched by that mysterious sea which never yet has 
 borne on any wave the image of a homeward sail, 
 it may be said of thee : ' Thy virtues, like a moun- 
 tain, cover as with a mantle the frailties of mis- 
 guided man.' 
 
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 " I move you that a vote of thanks be given to Mrs. 
 Caroline A. Cook, Mrs. Lucinda E. Tyler, Mrs. Annie E. Mc- 
 Kenzie, and Mrs. Sarah A. B. Hathorn, in whose behalf I 
 present this portrait, and that it be placed in a conspicuous 
 place in these banking rooms, so that not only ourselves, but 
 all of the friends of the deceased can look upon it now, 
 and in the }^ears to come." 
 
 James Carney, Jr., married his first wife on November 
 25, 1827, as above stated. She was Miss Lucinda Patten 
 Martin, daughter of John and Rachel Martin, of East Bow- 
 doinham, Maine, born in 1807, and died January 7, 1851. 
 She was the mother of all of his seven children, three sons 
 and four daughters. On July 7, 1852, he married his 
 second wife, Mrs. Hepsibeth Damon Howard, widow of 
 his cousin, William Whiting Howard. She died November 
 18, 1892. 
 
 The children by the first marriage were as follows : 
 
 1. John D'Oscar, the first son, was born August 30, 1830, in 
 Richmond, Maine, and followed the sea as a profession, be- 
 coming a captain. His future career seemed most promis- 
 ing, as he was held in the highest esteem by all who knew 
 him. He died from yellow fever on August 1, 1856, at 
 Havana, Cuba, and was unmarried. 
 
 2. Caroline Augusta was born August 31, 1832. She first mar- 
 ried Gilmore B. Rollins on October 20, 1856. He was the 
 son of Enoch and Martha Blair Rollins, of Pittston, Maine. 
 He was very successful in making improvements in agricul- 
 tural implements. He died March 18, 1858. One son, 
 Charles Gilmore Rollins, died December 2, 1859, aged one 
 year. On January 19, 1869, Mrs. Rollins married, in Chi- 
 cago, 111., Mr. John Malcolm Cook, son of John and Cath- 
 erine Malcolm Cook. Mr. Cook was from London, England, 
 while his wife was born in Inverness, Scotland. John Mal- 
 colm Cook was a designer and carver in ornamental wood- 
 
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 work. He died April 27, 1899, aged sixty-five years, in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio. One child, a daughter, Caroline Malcolm 
 Cook, was born in Chicago, 111., February 9, 1871. She 
 married on August 15, 1898, Oliver Dallyn Collis, son of 
 George and Thirza Collis. Mr. Collis was from Portsmouth, 
 England, while his wife was a resident of Hamilton, Ontario, 
 Canada. 
 
 James Horace was born October 16, 1834, at Richmond, 
 Maine, and, like his brothers, followed the sea for many 
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 Lucinda Ellen Carney. 
 
 4. Lucinda Ellen Carney was bom in Dresden, Maine, Decem- 
 ber 27, 1836. She was married on September 5, 1860, to 
 Charles Henry Tyler, Esq., born December 6, 1830, in Bos- 
 ton, Mass., son of Martin Tyler, born 1798, "a lusty son of 
 New England soil, a scholar and a gentleman." Martin 
 Tyler died in 1834 and was buried in Christ Church (" Paul 
 Revere's Church ") Boston, Mass. 
 
 Charles Henry Tyler attended the Elliot School, Boston, 
 and the Valentine School, Northboro, Mass. He became 
 bank messenger at the age of sixteen and at twenty-one was 
 paying teller in the Globe Bank. Later he became a broker 
 in shipping and California gold mines. A man of temper- 
 ance, strict integrity, generous to a fault, and ever ready to 
 offer comfort and happiness. He and his family attended 
 Rev. Edward Everett Hale's church. Their children are : 
 
 (a) Charles James Tyler, born February 12, 1864, in Bos- 
 
 ton, Mass. He is engaged in the shoe business and 
 unmarried. 
 
 (b) Lucinda Ellen Tyler, born June 23, 1869, in Boston, 
 
 Mass. Baptized by Rev. Dr. Hale. She was first 
 married on October 25, 1892, to Mr. Stephen Bartlett 
 Webber, in Chicago, 111. He was born in Shapleigh, 
 Maine, and died August 27, 1895. Of this union 
 there is one child, a daughter, Dorothy Tyler Web- 
 ber, born August 5, 1893, in Boston, Mass. On 
 November 22, 1897, Mrs. Webber married Mr. Er- 
 nest Lowell Condon. They have one child, Jean 
 Eldon Condon, born July 4, 1900. 
 At the age of twenty years, Mr. Condon designed the 
 plans and won the competition for the greatly ad- 
 mired engine house in Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Con- 
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 don has been a frequent contributor to New England 
 publications, as well as being a musical composer of 
 merit. One of her compositions was presented by- 
 request to Miss Francis Willard for the "Young 
 Woman's Hymnal." She was also on the Board of 
 Musical Directors in Eev. Mr. Colyer's church. 
 (<?) Gertrude Francis Tyler, born September 6, 1878, in 
 Boston, Mass. She was educated in the Boston 
 schools and at Dean Academy, Franklin, Mass. She 
 was married on June 26, 1901, to Mr. Tracy Hatch 
 Tucker. He was born June 16, 1876, and is the son 
 of Frederick Manning and Emma M. Hatch-Tucker. 
 Mr. Tucker, Sr., was born February 3, 1855, in Port- 
 land, Maine. His wife was born in Lowell, Mass., 
 October 2, 1852. Mr. Tracy Hatch-Tucker is a 
 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
 nology and a member of the firm of F. M. Tucker 
 Co., bankers and brokers, Boston, Mass. 
 
 5. George Frederick Carney was born April 8, 1842, and went 
 to sea as a young man, meeting an untimely death by drown- 
 ing while rounding Cape Horn, on a voyage from New York 
 to San Francisco, on June 3, 1867. He was unmarried. 
 
 6. Annie Eliza Carney was born May 4, 1839, in Dresden, 
 Maine, receiving her education there. She married on 
 April 15, 1880, Mr. Charles Gordon McKenzie, in Chicago, 
 111. He was born November 20, 1851, at Ellon, Aberdeen- 
 shire, Scotland, being the third son of John and Margaret 
 Grewar McKenzie. The father was a native of Ballater, 
 and his wife was from Braegarie, Braemar, in the Highlands 
 of Aberdeenshire. 
 
 Mr. McKenzie's brother James was formerly a partner 
 of the late Cecil Rhodes, in South Africa and his brother 
 William Samuel McKeenzie was killed in the Boer War. 
 
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 Another brother, Thomas McKenzie, is engaged in manufact- 
 uring mining machinery in Johannesburg, while the only 
 surviving sister, Catherine McKenzie, is the wife of Alex- 
 ander Johnston, a merchant in Aberdeen, Scotland. 
 Sarah Amelia Breck Carney, was born March 31, 1844, at 
 Richmond, Maine. She married, at Richmond, Maine, on 
 December 29, 1868, Mr. Frederick Eugene Hathorne, son 
 of James and Nancy Bickford Hathorne. Their two children 
 died in infancy : 
 
 (a) Sarah Amelia Hathorne, died in Boston, November 11, 
 
 1874. 
 
 (b) James Eugene Hathorne died in Bangor, Maine, Sep- 
 
 tember 9, 1888, and is buried in the family lot at 
 Dresden, Maine. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hathorne reside in Roslindale, Mass. 
 
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 Mary Ann Carney. 
 
 Mary Ann Carney, the fourth child of James, Sr., and 
 Joanna Marson-Carney, was born January 21, 1807, and 
 died April 16, 1886. 
 
 She married Royal Sanford, Esq., of Charlestown, Mass. 
 He was lost at sea en route to New Orleans. They had 
 three children, one son and two daughters. 
 
 1. Alphonso, their first child, was born in Charlestown, Mass., 
 in September, 1832, died in Tamworth, N. H., April 9, 1882. 
 His first wife was Miss Eveline Morse, of Natick, Mass., by 
 whom he had two children, 
 
 (a) Marian Eveline, b. October 7, 1856. 
 
 (b) Harry Alphonso, b. August 16, 1858, died November 
 
 20, 1884. 
 
 His second wife was Miss Louise Putnam of Danvers, 
 Mass., daughter of Joseph C. and Louise Hanson Roberts- 
 Putnam. Issue by this marriage : 
 
 (c) Walter Barry, b. April 21, 1861. 
 
 (d) Edith Putnam, b. October 11, 1865, died March 8, 
 
 1874. 
 
 (e) Mabel Louise, b. March 15, 1872, died December 3, 
 
 1898. 
 (/) Charles Harrold, b. March 28, 1874, died November 
 19, 1886. 
 
 2. Emma R., the second child of Mary Ann Carney and Royal 
 Sanford, was born November 1, 1835. She first married in 
 1852, Mr. Winchell Green Vose, of Boston, Mass., b. January 
 4, 1830, died March 5, 1865. He was the son of Samuel D. 
 and Abigail T. E. Nichols- Vose. By this marriage there 
 was one child, a daughter, 
 
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 (a) Emma Florence Vose was born on June 16, 1853. 
 She married on December 8, 1878, Mr. Charles Ed- 
 win Prince, of Cambridge, Mass. They have one 
 child, Grace R. Prince, b. November 27, 1884. 
 In 1878 Mrs. Emma R. S. Vose married Mr. Elbridge 
 Marcellus Rawson, b. November 12, 1840. He was a son of 
 Mr. Artemus Rawson (of Upton, Mass.) and Dorcas Rice 
 Rawson, his wife, of Paris, Maine. 
 
 Octavia C, third child of Mary Ann Carney and Royal 
 Sanford, was born in 1837, and died on June 25, 1895. She 
 married, in 1859, Levy Crosby Barney, Esq., of New Hamp- 
 shire. They had two daughters. 
 
 (a) Jennie T., born January 13, 1862, married, in 1884, 
 
 Mr. T. F. G. Day. They have four children : 
 Frank Crosby Day, b. March 30, 1885. 
 Emma Rawson Day, b. October 27, 1887. 
 Ralph Leslie Day, b. July 22, 1889. 
 Chester Hathorne Day, b. January 12, 1891. 
 
 (b) Eva May Earl, married 1887, Mr. William Elliot. She 
 
 died December 22, 1899, leaving one child : 
 Lillian May Elliot, b. March 20, 1888. 
 
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 Maek Carney (2d). 
 
 Mark Carney, the fifth child of James, Sr., and Joanna 
 Marson-Carney, was born September 26, 1808, and died 
 January 5, 1846. He settled in Dresden Mills, Maine, and 
 first learned his father's trade. Later he became a partner 
 of Mr. Theophilus Blanchard. He married Miss Abigail Ben- 
 son, born July 12, 1813, died August 26, 1888, daughter of 
 Abigail Carney and Nathaniel Benson, Esq., on September 30, 
 
 1834. Of this union there were five children : 
 
 1. Benson Carney, born at Dresden Mills, Maine, March 8, 
 
 1835. Educated in the Dresden schools, and has been en- 
 gaged in the carpenter trade. On December 19, 1874, he 
 married Miss Rosa B. Clark. They celebrated their silver 
 wedding in 1900, when over one hundred guests assembled 
 on that occasion ; many beautiful gifts together with ex- 
 pressions of esteem, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, testi- 
 fied the affectionate regard in which they were held by their 
 kinsmen. They have no children. 
 
 2. Frederick W. Carney, born November 18, 1836, died Au- 
 gust 20, 1838. 
 
 3. Louisa M. Carney, born January 8, 1841, died August 15, 1903. 
 She married in 1877, Captain George Fearing Hollis, 
 U. S. N., born Cambridge, Mass., February 13, 1838, died Au- 
 gust 6, 1903. He "received his education in the public 
 schools of Chelsea and by private instructions from Rev. 
 Henry Hudson, in Fayal, Azores. When he was sixteen years 
 old he started the Chelsea Pioneer and some years later the 
 Chelsea Herald. When the war broke out he enlisted in 
 the army and was attached to the 1st Regt. Mass. Vols., and 
 later was transferred to the navy. In 1864 he was the first 
 to open communication with Sherman's army, while scout- 
 
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 ing with a boat crew. After the war he engaged in the 
 manufacture of tin cans. In 1888 he was appointed con- 
 sul at Cape Town, and while there instituted the first con- 
 sular service between the Transvaal and the Orange Free 
 States. In 1893 he returned to this country and was made 
 storekeeper at the United States Custom House in Boston. 
 Captain Hollis was one of the organizers of the Union Navy- 
 Association of Past Officers and was a member of Post 40, 
 G. A. R. of Maiden, the Kearsarge Association of Naval 
 Yeterans, the Faulkner Citizens' Association, First Univer- 
 salist Church of Maiden, and the Maiden Men's Club. 
 
 "While home on a furlough in 1862, he married Eliza A. 
 Simmons of Augusta, Maine. She died in 1868, and in 1876 
 he married Miss Louisa M. Carney of Dresden Mills, Maine. 
 
 " Captain Hollis had three children, William S. Hollis, con- 
 sul at Lorenz Marques, South Africa ; Mrs. Buck of Melrose 
 and George S. Hollis, who survive him." 
 
 Maria Elizabeth Carney. 
 
 Maria Elizabeth Carney was born January 6, 1843, in Dres- 
 den Mills, Maine. She married on October 22, 1865, Mr. 
 John L. Bixby, who is an expert accountant. They have 
 had two children : 
 
 (a) John L„ Bixby, Jr., b. December 10, 1867, in Chicago, 
 
 111. Occupation, manufacturer. He married on 
 April 21, 1898, Miss Margaret Maud Oaks. They 
 reside in Arlington Heights, Mass., with their two 
 children, Harold Oaks Bixby, b. February 18, 1899, 
 and Katherine Marion Bixby, b. February 14, 1901. 
 
 (b) Leon G. Bixby, b. Chicago, 111., October 27, 1869. He 
 
 married Miss Susie E. Spaulding on November 21, 
 1894. Mr. Bixby died March 26, 1900. His wife 
 and one daughter, Gladys M. Bixby, b. Novem- 
 ber 13, 1897, survive. 
 
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 5. Serena Mayers Carney was born on March 30, 1845, in Dres- 
 den Mills, Maine. She married on January 6, 1875, Mr. 
 Lewis P. Gleason, b. March 7, 1840. He is in commercial 
 business. They have no children. 
 
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 Daniel William Carney. 
 
 Daniel William Carney (in middle life be dropped the 
 name Daniel), the third sonof James, Sr., and Joanna Marson- 
 Carney, was born July 16, 1810, and died January 24, 1887. 
 He early developed a fondness for a sea-faring life and 
 went to sea at the age of fourteen and at the age of nineteen 
 was in command of the Schooner " George." It is an in- 
 teresting fact that during more than fifty years of active 
 life on the ocean, there was not a single loss of life from 
 shipwreck among those under his command. He was well 
 known and highly esteemed by the entire shipping frater- 
 nity of New England. 
 
 On October 23, 1836, he married Miss Catherine Morrison, 
 daughter of Dr. George McKay Morrison (a native of Scot- 
 land and a graduate of Edinburgh University) and Mary 
 Peaselee-Morrison (of the Haverhill, Mass., family) of Dres- 
 den, Maine, and built a house on the land on the opposite 
 side of the roadway, which leads from the county road direct 
 to the river, past the " old Carney Place." In 1863 he and 
 his wife sailed on his ship " City of Bath " to England and 
 Gibralter, and met the Confederate Privateer " Sumpter," 
 which had recently destro} r ed seven vessels. 
 
 A chain of black and white beads made by his wife in 
 1836 is still in existence. This sentiment is woven thereon ; 
 "D. W. Carney, Toujoursla Meme." 
 
 He resided with his cousin, James G. Carney, in Lowell, 
 Mass., for a few months, in 1833, his name appearing in the 
 Lowell Directory for that year, as an accountant. His 
 cousin was at that time cashier of the Lowell Bank. 
 
 He was a man of great determination, gentle and consid- 
 erate, but his voice could be heard if occasion required. A 
 
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 friend once said that he could hear him " whisper " to his 
 
 oxen, a mile away ! 
 
 The following letter written by him, when on one of his 
 
 voyages, to his wife's mother, is a characteristic expression 
 
 of the man : 
 
 New Orleans, December 5, 1859. 
 "Well Mother Morrison : — 
 
 In many of the children's letters they say you want 
 me to write you a good long letter. I can write a long 
 letter but perhaps it will neither be good or interest- 
 ing to you. 
 
 In the first place I am glad to hear you enjoy good 
 health, hope you are comfortable and contented. 
 Hope you have made up your mind to enjoy life as 
 much as your situation and means will admit. It's 
 useless to be looking to some future days for happiness, 
 working and toiling as you have to guard against pov- 
 erty in some future day ; instead of enjoying the 
 privileges we have we are worrying and fretting the 
 best part of our lives to hoard up for the future, w r hen 
 not one out of ten live to enjoy the fruit of their hard 
 earned property that they have laid up for what they 
 term a rainy day, in their Old Age, but leave it for 
 their children to quarrel about. 
 
 Industry and Economy are good qualities in every 
 one, but, to deprive ourselves of the necessaries and 
 conveniences that promote a great deal of happiness 
 through life for the sake of hoarding up for the future, 
 is doing injustice to ourselves and no benefit to our 
 children in my opinion. 
 
 "What are your views of the present generation ? Do 
 you think their style of living deserves to be encouraged 
 by one toiling night and day to save something for 
 our children to ruin their health and morals by follow- 
 
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 ing every new fashion that they can borrow from the 
 French ? Most they think about is the latest fashion 
 and some new novel, with their everlasting routine 
 ceremonies that have neither improved Society or 
 their morals. Let them live in the plain honest style 
 of our Fathers and Mothers ; good thick shoes and 
 woolen gowns; woolen stockings knit by their own 
 hands ; eat beans and peas instead of spiced cake 
 full of chemicals to make it taste good and rot their 
 teeth out and give them consumption ! 
 
 But then, what is the use of you and I advising 
 them ? We cannot stop the current of hypocrisy and 
 vanity that is sweeping over this Country. 
 
 All trying to assume a different character from 
 their real one ; learning no trades, expecting to get a 
 living by their grent learning or knowledge. Their 
 Papas and Mammas think their children are smarter 
 than common and they will give them a liberal or 
 classical education and make a Minister, a Doctor or 
 a Lawyer of them, when their talents are not sufficient 
 to make a good farmer. After toiling for years to 
 give them an education that ought to accomplish your 
 object, you will often see them at thirty years of 
 age, hanging around the Old Homestead, dressed up, 
 while their parents are slaving to maintain them. 
 Well, let them go on, if they will not be advised and 
 you and I will get into some quiet corner, that is if 
 we can find one, where we can enjoy some of the 
 realities of life in the old fashioned way, living to suit 
 ourselves, talking as we mean, and not an everlasting 
 tumult of ceremonies and compliments with neither 
 friendly feelings nor good intentions, which is fashion- 
 able now days. Well you have seen trouble enough, 
 and I sickness enough, to wean us in a great measure 
 
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 from this World of Trials, but still we have strong ties 
 to bind us to it, with all of its cares, sickness, anxiety, 
 we are subject to, and dread the time that we shall be 
 called to that unknown World about which so many 
 different opinions exist. I do not believe that we can 
 have any more troubles or trials in a future World then 
 we have here. We all have a Monitor within us that 
 teaches us right from wrong and if we do nothing that 
 our conscience dictates to us that it is wrong I think 
 we shall be happy, both here and hereafter, no matter 
 what our Creed is ; the belief that our happiness de- 
 pends on, is not so much on our Creed or belief, but up- 
 on the manner we live, the fidelity which we obey the 
 commandments, that is plain to understand ; so it is 
 useless to argue what this or that Chapter of Scripture 
 means, as very few of the great, learned men agree 
 about the meaning of some very important parts of 
 the Scripture, although they are capable of translating 
 it from the original writings. So it is not good for 
 you and me to argue about the Bible, where there are 
 so many different Creeds, supported by different inter- 
 pretations. Some believing in a Trinity of Gods, others 
 in a Unity ; some think faith alone will make them 
 happy hereafter, others add Charity, while some say 
 it requires Faith, Charity and Good Works. You and 
 I will try and live up to the last Creed and then we 
 shall be sure we are right. 
 
 Some people think there are millions of Planets in- 
 habited same as the Earth. One God rules over all 
 with a Mediator for each planet. Jesus Christ being 
 the God for the Earth, and we are to pray to him as 
 our only Saviour. It is hard to decide who is right 
 where so many learned divines differ about regenera- 
 tion and justification. Regeneration is supposed by 
 
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 some to be conferred by Baptism, others imagine it to 
 be an operation effected in a moment. I think Reli- 
 gion is a progressive work that is constantly operating 
 on Mankind and will eventually work all the evil out 
 of them, either in this or the Spiritual World, although 
 there may be some hard cases that will suffer years of 
 torment before they will leave off their evil deeds and 
 live according to the example set us by our Saviour ; 
 but we will lay all arguments aside and live according 
 to the dictates of our Consciences, this with Faith, 
 Charity and Good Works ; by this I think we shall 
 gain all the blessings and happiness that will ever be 
 conferred on Mankind. 
 
 Yrs. &c. William. 
 
 He lived at his home until his death, aged seventy- 
 seven years, where he reared a family of two sons and 
 three daughters. 
 
 (a) William Donald, eldest child of D. William and Cath- 
 erine Morrison-Carney, was born June 12, 1838, died 
 March 5, 1902. He was a mariner during the early 
 years of his life. During the Civil War he and others 
 Avere taken prisoners, on August 15, 1863, on the 
 high seas, by the Confederate Privateer " Georgia," 
 off the Island of Trinidad. He was at that time 
 Chief Officer on the " City of Bath ; " after the pro- 
 visions were taken from the vessel the}' were paroled 
 and allowed to go their way. During the later 
 years of his life he was in the employ of the New 
 York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, 
 in Boston, Mass. The following letter to his 
 widow, from his superior in office bears date, Boston, 
 March 6, 1902. 
 
 " My dear Mrs. Carney. — I am deeply pained on 
 
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 learning of the death of your estimable husband. I 
 feel it a personal loss, for I can assure you it has been 
 a source of great satisfaction to have had associated 
 with me for the past five years such an upright and 
 conscientious gentleman. I shall miss him very much 
 and I beg you to accept of my deep sympathy in your 
 affliction. Sincerely yours. 
 
 " J. Wallace Joedan." 
 
 He married on July 22, 1865, Miss Matilda Cobby, of 
 Shoreham, England. She was the daughter of John and 
 Matilda Miller-Cobby, and was born October 30, 1843 ; four 
 children were the issue of this marriage, as follows : 
 
 1. Hugh Toland Carney, eldest son of William Donald, and 
 Matilda Cobby-Carney, was born July 1, 1866. After com- 
 pleting his education in Dresden, he became, in 1886, asso- 
 ciated with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad 
 Company, first as locomotive fireman and was promoted to 
 engineer in October, 1890. He is a member of Landmark 
 Lodge, No. 103, F. and A. M. On May 14, 1893, he was 
 married to Miss Laura J. Warner, of Sioux City, Iowa, and 
 niece of Dr. J. W. Warner, of New York city. They have 
 had the following children : 
 
 Clara Winifred, b. August 2, 1895, d. August 2, 1895. 
 Donald Warner, b. April 16, 1897. 
 Franklin Morrison, b. September 30, 1898. 
 
 2. John William Carney, second son of William Donald and 
 Matilda Cobby-Carney, was born May 11, 1869. Like his 
 brother Hugh, he received his education in Dresden, and in 
 1888 entered the service of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. 
 Paul Railroad Company, as locomotive fireman, being pro- 
 moted to the position of engineer in June, 1893. He still 
 holds that position. He is a member of Landmark Lodge, 
 
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 No. 103, F. and A. M., in Sioux City, where he married, on 
 September 28, 1892, Miss Lucy E. Warner, a sister of his 
 brother's wife. One child, a daughter, has been born to 
 them. 
 
 Donna Belle, b. August 31, 1894. 
 
 3. Anna Bell, third child of William Donald and Matilda 
 Cobby-Carney, was born October 6, 1877. She is a graduate 
 of the New England Baptist Hospital, at Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 4. Sarah Winifred, fourth child of William Donald and Ma- 
 tilda Cobby-Carney, was born November 30, 1879. She is a 
 teacher of music, and also organist of the Unitarian Church 
 in Roslindale, Mass. 
 
 (b) Jennie Morrison, second child of D. William and 
 
 Catherine Morrison-Carney, was born June 8, 1843 ; 
 moved to California in 1863, where she married, on 
 February 9, 1867, John Ogden Earl, Esq., who Avas 
 born in Newark, N. J., June 20, 1824. Mr. Earl has 
 been interested in mining operations. He is a Mason 
 and Knight Templar. They have two children : 
 
 (a) Morris Earl, born September 20, 1872. 
 
 (b) Ogden Morrison Earl, born October 14, 1875. 
 The last named married on April 29, 1903, Miss Anabel 
 
 Flower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Flower, of 
 San Francisco. 
 
 (c) Clara Ann, third child of D. William and Catherine 
 
 Morrison-Carney, was born August 4, 1842, in West 
 Dresden, Maine, where she attended the public 
 schools, later going to the high school in Gardiner, 
 Maine. 
 She married on March 29, 1869, Mr. Wilmot W. Brook- 
 ings, born October 23, 1830, son of Mr. Brookings 
 and Susannah Bailey-Brookings, of England. 
 
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 Mr. Brookings was graduated by Bowdoin College, at 
 Brunswick, Maine, in 1855. He studied law in the 
 office of the Hon. William Pitt Fessenden, of Port- 
 land, Maine, and was admitted to the bar in that 
 city in 1857. Moving from there to Dakota Terri- 
 tory, he became " President of Council of the Peo- 
 ples Legislature" in 1859; sent to the House of 
 Representatives, and also Speaker, 1863-65 ; Presi- 
 dent of the Council, and District Attorney, Yankton 
 County, 1867-8 ; appointed by President U. S. Grant 
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota, 
 in 1869 ; was President, Vice President and Solicitor 
 of the first railroad in Dakota, i. e. " the Dakota 
 Southern," 1871-1881; Editor " Sioux Falls Leader" 
 1883-85 ; President Minnehaha Trust Co., Minnehaha 
 Canning Co. and Sioux Linen Mills, in 1889-93. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Brookings have no children. 
 (d) Julia Fletcher, fourth child of D. William and Cathe- 
 rine Morrison-Carney, was born January 6, 1845, in 
 West Dresden, Maine, and died in Richmond, Maine, 
 March 31, 1902. 
 
 For many years she traveled extensively, living for a 
 time in San Francisco, Cal. She returned to Rich- 
 mond when her mother died in 1885 and married an 
 old schoolmate and settled there. She married first 
 Mr. Charles F. Gihon, in Sioux City, Iowa, and later 
 Mr. Charles Frederick Gorham, in Boston, Mass. 
 Mr. Gorham lives in Richmond, Maine. 
 
 Mrs. Gorham was enthusiastic in collecting data about 
 her branch (James Carney, Sr.) of the family and 
 wrote for Mr. Charles E. Allen of Cedar Grove, 
 Maine, a sketch of the family, which appeared in his 
 " Huguenot Settlers in Dresden, Maine." 
 
 Mrs. Gorham was peculiarly sensitive to publicity and 
 
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 in October 1895, she wrote me : " Now that I have 
 written the sketch over at your request and made it 
 as far as possible include the entire (James, Sr.) family, 
 I want to have it clearly understood that I am not to 
 be mentioned in connection with it, for I have simply 
 gathered the facts together for you to use or cast 
 aside as you see fit." 
 
 During her cheery life this request was observed, but 
 now that she has gone, it would be most ungracious not 
 to publicly acknowledge her generous assistance in 
 searching for family facts. Her gifts of old letters, 
 photographs, daguerreotypes and tiles from the fire- 
 place in the old Carney house, have made the labor 
 on this little volume so much more interesting to the 
 writer. 
 (e) Osgood Howard Carney, the fifth child of D. William 
 and Catherine Morrison-Carney, was born June 10, 
 1848. 
 
 His early boyhood was passed in Dresden and Rich- 
 mond, Maine, where he attended the public schools 
 and academy. 
 
 In May, 1872, he moved to South Dakota, where he en- 
 tered mercantile life. He was elected vice-president 
 of the South Dakota Merchants' Association, and is 
 now president of the Retail Merchants' Association in 
 Yankton, S. D. 
 
 He married on May 8, 1872, Miss Carrie Foster, born 
 June 20, 1853, daughter of Samuel S. and Frances 
 Ripley-Foster. Her father was born in Salisbury, 
 Conn., while her mother's family lived in Spafford, 
 K Y. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Carney are members of the Congregational 
 denomination. They have had three children : 
 1. Foster DeWitt Carney, born September 16, 1873, married 
 13 
 
194 
 
 November 17, 1897, Miss Cora Westfall, of Waterloo, 
 Iowa. 
 
 They have had two children : 
 
 (a) Daughter, born January 2, 1902, died January 16, 
 
 1902, at Waterloo, Iowa. 
 
 (b) Mary Clarissa, born April 14, 1903, Yankton, S. D. 
 
 2. Kate Morrison Carney, born November 15,1874, married on 
 November 27, 1893, Mr. Carl E. Bigelow, of Detroit, Mich- 
 igan, born June 6, 1865, and died in Dallas, Texas, October 
 10, 1899. Their one child, Ruth, was born September 12, 
 1895. 
 
 3. Carroll Earl Carney, born August 12, 1890, died December 
 3, 1890. 
 
195 
 
 Sarah Bell Carney. 
 
 Sarah Bell Carney, the fourth daughter of James, Sr., 
 and Joanna Marson-Carney, was born December 5, 1813. 
 She died January 16, 189-1. She was of a singularly lovable 
 disposition. Her domestic life was beautiful. In her home 
 she lived in an atmosphere of flowers and friends, ever 
 given to hospitality and eager to offer comfort to those in 
 distress. During her own illness she was always cheerful 
 and desirous of making those near and dear to her suffer 
 less on her account. 
 
 She married Thomas Conery, Esq., of Boston, Mass. By 
 this marriage there were three daughters : 
 
 (a) Sarah Elizabeth. 
 
 (l>) Anna Bell. 
 
 (c) Emma S. 
 
 Mr. Conery was for many years identified with the Sand- 
 wich Glass Company ; later he became a partner with Mr. 
 Cyrus Butterick in the express business, being appointed by 
 President Pierce to attend to all government work of that 
 nature. At the time of the Boston fire he had all of the 
 gold of the Custom House on one of his wagons under his 
 supervision and surrounded by a guard of soldiers. His 
 love for horses, and indeed all animals, was shown not alone 
 in owning the handsomest horses in Boston, but also in the 
 fact that he was one of the first five who advocated that a 
 law be passed for the prevention of cruelty to animals. He 
 was a handsome man, of magnificent physique, being over 
 six feet in height, and, like his beloved wife, of a genial 
 temperament, gathering around him hosts of friends. 
 
 He retired from active life in business at the age of sixty- 
 two, and died from blood-poisoning six years later. He was 
 
196 
 
 of English descent, his father coming to Boston with his 
 brother and two sisters. Mr. Conery's younger brother, 
 John Quincy Adams Conery, died about five years ago. 
 
 The Misses Anna Bell, and Sarah Elizabeth Conery, have 
 inherited all the amiable qualities of their parents, and 
 whether at their charming home in Boston, or at their 
 country place at Hull, Mass., relatives and friends are always 
 sure of that rare, cordial welcome, which rests and soothes 
 those who are in need of refreshment. Through their kind- 
 ness the only letters of Suzanne Goux (dictated to her chil- 
 dren and written by them in a childish hand) have come 
 into possession of the writer. The Misses Conery own the 
 French Hymnal, formerly the property of Suzanne Goux. 
 
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 Clara Jane Carney. 
 
 Clara Jane Carney, the fifth daughter of James, Sr., and 
 Joanna Marson-Carney, never married. 
 
 She was a good, true, frank and open-hearted woman. 
 
 A favorite with all her brothers and sisters, respected by 
 all who knew her. 
 
 She was born on August 28, 1816, and died June 14, 1881. 
 
198 
 
 Thomas Johnson Carney. 
 
 Thomas Johnson Carney, fourth son of James, Sr., and 
 Joanna Marson-Carney, was born June 10, 1818, and died 
 May 4, 1871. He preferred a studious life and was educated 
 for the Universalist ministry. He studied with the Eev. 
 James P. Weston, of Gardiner, Maine, and, on June 4, 1848, 
 was ordained a minister of that denomination, in Philadel- 
 phia, Penn. On May 1, 1849, he was married to Miss Julia 
 Fletcher, born April 6, 1823, daughter of Joshua and Nabby 
 Warren -Fletcher, of Lancaster, Mass. She has been an au- 
 thor of great popularity, and, while a teacher in the Boston 
 Public School, wrote for her class, 
 
 " Little drops of water, 
 Little grains of sand, 
 Make the mighty ocean, 
 And the pleasant land." 
 
 In her own words this is how she came to write it. 
 
 " The end of the school year was near at hand and many of 
 the teachers became interested in a system of shorthand, 
 then known as phonography. It was the first attempt at 
 shorthand writing that had ever been made in this country 
 and its introduction naturally created some little speculation 
 as to its practicability, especially among the school teach- 
 ers. The system was taught then by Andrews and Boyle, 
 of 21 School Street. One day I attended a session of the 
 class after studying up some of the characters beforehand. 
 After the fundamental principles had been explained we 
 were asked to compose something in the phonographic char- 
 acters, spelling each word according to sound. It was sug- 
 gested that the smaller the words the better the results, both 
 in regard to speed and accuracy. With this suggestion in 
 
199 
 
 mind I sat down at one of the school desks and penned in 
 stenographic characters the following : 
 
 "Little drops of water, 
 Little grains of sand, 
 Make the mighty ocean, 
 And the pleasant land." 
 
 " That afternoon when I went home I found a young man 
 waiting for some ' scraps,' as the editor called them, for a 
 Sunday School publication, now called the Myrtle. I had 
 nothing on hand, but remembering the verse which I had 
 written in shorthand I rewrote it and added a couple more 
 verses. The paper published the poem in full, and soon 
 after it was copied by all the leading papers of the country. 
 Later the words were set to music with the result that it 
 has become one of the most familiar songs in our Sunday 
 Schools, primary schools and kindergartens." 
 
 Mrs. Carney has written other well known songs. We 
 mention only two — " Fill your Home with Sunshine," and 
 " Deal gently with the Erring." She was also a regular 
 contributor to " The Ladies' Kepository." 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Carney had pastorates at "Wayne Vil- 
 lage, Maine ; Cooperstown, N. Y. ; Sycamore, 111. ; Frank- 
 lin Grove, 111., and at Beloit,Wis. Failing health necessitated 
 his giving up a settled pastorate, and becoming a resident of 
 Galesburg, 111., he preached as a missionary in many differ- 
 ent places until his death, which was caused by having been 
 thrown from his horse. Of their nine children, 
 Amanda Joanna, born February 9, 1850, married, Febru- 
 ary 26, 1880, Harlan F. Robertson, Esq., of Galesburg, 111. 
 They have one child, Mary Eleanore, born March 26, 1885. 
 William Thomas, born July 8, 1852, died August 24, 1872, 
 while a sophomore in Lombard University. 
 Fletcher, the second son, born October 18, 1853, was edu- 
 cated at Lombard University and is a prominent lawyer in 
 
200 
 
 Galesburg, having been city attorney for many consecutive 
 years. 
 
 He conducted the celebrated Galesburg "Waterworks case, 
 which he carried successfully through all the local courts, 
 and which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United 
 States in favor of the city. 
 
 Mr. Carney married June 6, 1883, Miss Jennie L. Gaddis, 
 and has three children : 
 
 {a) Winifred, b. March 18, 1884. 
 
 (b) Eugenia, b. October 29, 1888. 
 
 (c) Harold Fletcher, b. September 20, 1890. 
 
 4. James "Weston, the third son of Eev. Thomas Carney, was 
 born on March 2, 1862. He was graduated by Lombard 
 University, and later received a degree from the Divinity 
 School of Tufts College in Massachusetts. He assumed 
 charge of the Liberal Congregational Church at Holyoke, 
 Mass., and has also been Chaplain of the 2d Regiment Mass. 
 Militia. 
 
 5. Eugene Francis, fourth son of Rev. Thomas Carney, was 
 born November 3, 1864. He was graduated by Lombard 
 University and became the founder and editor of the " Lom- 
 bard Review." For several years he was city editor of the 
 " Galesburg Plaindealer," at the same time acting in the 
 capacity of special correspondent of several leading Chicago 
 and St. Louis papers. He died suddenly in 1887, while act- 
 ing as clerk in the Illinois Senate. 
 
 The following children of Rev. Thomas and Julia Fletcher- 
 Carney died in infancy : 
 6 and 7. Twin son and daughter, Maine and Illinois, born 
 May 5, 1855 ; Maine died October 4, 1855 ; Illinois died Oc- 
 tober 14, 1855. 
 
 8. Julia Louisa, born October 21, 1856, died March 24, 1858. 
 
 9. Charles Henry, born September 3, 1858, died April 13, 1859. 
 
201 
 
 Osgood Carney. 
 
 Osgood Carney, the tenth child of James, Sr., and Joanna 
 Marson-Carney, was born April 10, 1820. He followed the 
 sea, being a captain, until his death on December 8, 1845. 
 He was unmarried. 
 
 Howard Carney. 
 
 Howard Carney, the eleventh child of James, Sr., and 
 Joanna Marson-Carney, was born April 15, 1822. He was 
 educated in the Dresden schools and became president of 
 the musical society there. He died, unmarried, May 1, 
 
 1850. 
 
202 
 
 Octavia Elizabeth Carney. 
 
 Octavia Elizabeth Carney, the twelfth and youngest child 
 of James, Sr., and Joanna Marson-Carney, was born Octo- 
 ber 27, 1824. As a child she attended the schools in Dres- 
 den, Maine, later becoming a resident member of the noted 
 academy in Gardiner, Maine. She was gifted with a very 
 fine voice and took a prominent part in the Musical Society 
 of Dresden, of which her brother was the president. She 
 has been an active member in the Unitarian Society in New- 
 ton Centre, Mass., where she resides. She was married on 
 June 12, 1859, in Baltimore, Md., to Mr. Thomas Wilson, 
 of York, England. Mr. Wilson was engaged in the book 
 publishing business, until his death in February, 1886. 
 Their children, two daughters, reside in Newton Centre, 
 Mass. 
 
 (a) Cora Bell. 
 
 (J) Victoria Adelaide, b. December 21, 1864, married Au- 
 gust 22, 1885, Dr. Charles Corken, born July 25, 1848, 
 in Birmingham, England. He was the son of Mar- 
 garet Nanfan (of Worcester, England,) and William 
 Duncan Corken (of Edinburgh, Scotland). Dr. and 
 Mrs. Corken have three children : 
 (a) Gladys, b. May 8, 1887. 
 {b) Ruth, b. March 31, 1890. 
 (e) Charles Victor, b. September 25, 1895. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Nancy Cakney. 
 
 Nancy Carney, the tenth child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, was born June 10, 1776, died in 1865. She is 
 said to have married first, a Mr. William Isbestos, who was 
 lost at sea, having been captured by pirates. On October 14, 
 1798, she married Mr. Andrew Peters, born in Andover, 
 Mass., October 26, 1771, died April 9, 1825, in Wiscasset, 
 Maine. He was the son of Sergeant Andrew Peters and 
 Hannah Kimball-Peters. For the information concerning 
 the descendants of Nancy Carney Peters, the writer is in- 
 debted to Mrs. Edward McClure Peters, of New York City 
 (her valuable genealogy of the Peters family has just been 
 issued), who kindly placed the following data at the writer's 
 disposal. Children of Nancy Carney and Andrew Peters : 
 William Peters, born in New Castle, Maine, March 9, 1799, 
 died in Oakland, CaL, June 15, 1885. He married in 1835, 
 in the Parish of Potsea, County of Southampton, England, 
 Miss Cicely Silver, daughter of William and Frances Nyren 
 Silver. The issue of this union follows : 
 (a) William Bonaventure Peters, born in Le Havre, France, 
 died in Oakland, CaL, in 1875. He married in 1864, 
 in Washington, D. C, Miss Margaret Major. They 
 had three children : 
 (1) William J. Peters, who has been connected with 
 the United States Geological Survey, and, in 1903, 
 second in command of the Ziegler Expedition to 
 the Arctic region, representing the National Geo- 
 graphical Society. 
 203 
 
204 
 
 (2) Mrs. Cecile Peters Yon Sieberlich, who resides in 
 San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 (3) 
 
 (b) Cicely Frances Peters, born in Le Havre, France, mar- 
 
 ried in Washington, D. C, Mr. Francis Boarman and 
 residing in San Francisco, Cal., in 1903. 
 
 (c) Andrew Vincent Peters, born in France, died in Eugene, 
 
 Oregon, May 12, 1901. 
 
 (d) Albert Kichard Peters, born in France, February 10, 
 
 1835, resides in "Worcester, Mass. He is a priest in 
 the Church of Rome and a member of the Society of 
 Jesus. 
 
 (e) Joseph Chrysostom, born in France, married in San 
 
 Francisco, Cal., Miss Alice Cain (who was born in 
 England) the daughter of Mr. Edward Cain and his 
 wife Alice. They had nine children, four sons and 
 five daughters, and live in San Francisco, California. 
 
 (/) Mary Harriet Peters, born in Ingouville, France ; 
 resides in San Francisco, Cal. 
 
 {g) Arthur Silver Peters, born in Savona, N. Y. He mar- 
 ried in San Francisco, Cal., Miss Agnes Lancaster, 
 daughter of Mr. Lucas Lancaster. They have had 
 seven children. 
 
 (h) Ignatius Kemble Peters, born in Georgetown, D. C, 
 died June 12, 1901, in Eugene, Oregon. He married 
 in Eugene, Oregon, Miss Eudora Henderson, daughter 
 of Mr. Richard Henderson. No issue. 
 
 U. Sarah Carney Peters, second child of Nancy Carney and 
 Andrew Peters, was born in Newcastle, Maine, July 14, 
 1800, died in 1888, unmarried. She removed to Indiana 
 with her mother. 
 
 3. Andrew Peters, third child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 
205 
 
 Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, January 7, 1802, died at 
 sea on the Schooner " Grecian," July 13, 1828. 
 
 4. Albert Kimble, fourth child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, September 4, 1803. 
 
 5. Hiram Peters, fifth child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, March 9, 1805, died July 
 21, 1805. 
 
 6. Nancy Peters, sixth child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, September 21, 1806, mar- 
 ried Mr. Thomas McNally. 
 
 7. Kiah Bailey Peters, seventh child of Nancy Carney and 
 Andrew Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, March 27, 1808. 
 
 8. Nathaniel Peters, eighth child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 Peters, born in Newcastle, Maine, January 20, 1811. 
 
 9. Harriet Peters, ninth child of Nancy Carney and Andrew 
 Peters, born " probably in Alna, Maine," married Mr. Joseph 
 Van Kirk. In 1847 Mrs. Nancy Peters resided in New Al- 
 bany, Floyd County, Indiana, with her three daughters. 
 
206 
 
 William Howe Carney. 
 
 William Howe Carney, the eleventh child of Mark and 
 and Suzanne Goux-Carney, was born January 28, 1778. 
 
 He was baptized by Rev. Jacob Bailey on March 28, 1778. 
 The Rev. Mr. Bailey having been on a visitation during 
 February, evidently caused this delay. "William Howe Car- 
 ney died at St. George, Newfoundland, in 1800. He was 
 unmarried. 
 
207 
 
 Abigail Carney. 
 
 Abigail Carney, the twelfth child of Mark and Suzanne 
 Goux-Carney, was born May 5, 1780. In the baptismal rec- 
 ord of Trinity Church, Boston, Mass., is recorded, " Abigail, 
 dau, of Mark Carney, by Susanna Gouge, his wife, Aug. 24, 
 1780." Her sponsors are recorded as " Mr. Burns, Mrs. Mor- 
 rison and Mrs. McElroy." This gives the clue to about the 
 time when the family moved from Pownalboro to Boston. 
 
 Abigail Carney married Mr. Nathaniel Benson. Their 
 children were as follows : 
 
 1. John H. Benson, born May 28, 1803. 
 
 2. Catherine Benson, born August 2, 1805. 
 
 3. Lucia B. Benson, born May 8, 1807. 
 
 4. Susan II. Benson, born October 14, 1809. 
 
 5. Caroline L. Benson, born November 15, 1811. 
 
 6. Abigail Benson, born July 12, 1813. 
 
 7. Eveline Benson, born July 7, 1815. 
 
 The End. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbott, Abiel, 86 
 
 EbenezerT., 106, 109 
 
 George, 110 
 
 Hortense, 105 
 
 Ruth H., 106, 110 
 
 Susan, 150 
 Adams, Ashur, 84 
 
 J., 121 
 Aiken, John, 87, 88 
 Ainsworth, Addie M., 132 
 Bertha, 132 
 " David, 132 
 
 Ethel H., 132 
 Alexander, John, 161 
 Allen, Charles E., 192 
 Anderson, Ada M., 145 
 Andrew, John A., 89 
 Andrews, Hannah, 32 
 John, 32, 34 
 Austria, Empress of, 24 
 Averell, Mr., 53 
 Averill, Susannah, 119 
 Avery, John, 87 
 
 Badger, Thomas, 57 
 Bailey, Jacob, 31, 34, 45, 158, 159, 
 162, 206 
 
 Thomas J., 84 
 Baker, Jane, 163 
 John, 163 
 Bangs, Edward D., 63 
 Barker, Turner, 167 
 Barney, Eva M. E., 181 
 
 Jennie T., 181 
 
 Levi C, 181 
 Barry, William, Rev., 85, 97, 100 
 Bartholdi, M., 23 
 Bartlett, Elisha, 86 
 Bas, Joseph, 3 
 Batterson, James G., 107 
 
 14 
 
 Bedlow, Mrs. A. L., 80 
 Beedy, George M., 152 
 Beers, William H., 108, 109 
 Bell, Abigail M., 54 
 " Benjamin, 54, 70 
 " Sarah, 54 
 Bellows, John, 60 
 Benson, Abigail, 182, 207 
 Caroline L., 207 
 Catherine, 207 
 Eveline, 207 
 John H., 207 
 Lucia B., 75, 76, 207 
 Lucia C, 75, 76, 81, 82, 83, 
 
 167 
 Nathaniel, 75, 182, 207 
 Susan H., 207 
 Bent, Almira, 135, 136, 137 
 " Crosby, 135 
 " John, 135 
 Berrian, Maj. and Mme., 46 
 Beuclin, M., 13, 15, 16, 26, 27 
 Bigelow, Carl E., 194 
 
 Henry J., 105 
 Ruth, 194 
 Bixby, Gladys M., 183 
 Harold O., 183 
 John L., 183 
 John L., Jr., 183 
 Katherine M., 183 
 Leon G., 183 
 Black, Edith C, 154 
 Florence, 154 
 Frederick, 154 
 Sarah A., 154 
 Blaine, James G., 139 
 Blanc, Catherine, 29 
 Blanchard, Amos, 85 
 David, 170 
 Oliver, 164 
 209 
 
210 
 
 Blanchard, Theophilus, 182 
 Blaney, Mr., 40 
 Boarman, Francis, 204 
 Boillon, Catherine, 29 
 Bonhotal, Catherine, 13, 17, 28 
 
 " Jeanne, 13, 17, 28 
 
 Booker, Clifford A., 155 
 Clyde R., 155 
 Daniel, 154 
 " Harvey C, 154 
 Percy H., 155 
 " Raymond G., 155 
 Bouteiller, Catherine, 28 
 Bowditch, Henry I., 105 
 Bowdoin, Gov. 162 
 " James, 33 
 
 William, 8 
 Bowman, Jona., 10 
 Brackett, Miss, 112 
 Brand, Eben N., 152 
 
 Roscoe O., 152 
 Brann, Alice M., 153 
 Angelia C, 153 
 Elmer B., 153 
 Florence H., 153 
 Glenwood J., 153 
 " Helena R., 153 
 Herbert W., 153 
 John, 153 
 " La Forest J., 153 
 Willis E., 153 
 Breckenridge, Lucian S., 83 
 Brookings, Susannah B., 191 
 
 Wilmot W., 191 
 Brooks, Gov., 156 
 Brown, Helen A., 147 
 
 " John, 1, 8 
 Brownell, George, 86 
 Buck, Mrs., 183 
 Buckingham, Charles E., 105 
 Bugnon, Catherine, 27 
 
 " Suzanne, 29 
 
 Bugnont, James, 3 
 
 John, 2 
 Bullard, Jemima, 93 
 Joanna L., 93 
 Seth, 93 
 Bullfinch, Charles, 59 
 Burgess, Anne, 160 
 
 Burgess, Ellen, 160 
 
 James D., 160 
 Burns, Mr., 207 
 Burnside, General, 123 
 Burt, Florence, 134 
 " Jance C, 134 
 " John, 134 
 Butland, Alfred M., 152 
 " Alonzo, 152 
 
 Daniel C, 151 
 " Daniel, Jr., 152 
 " Eliza A., 152 
 " Elvira M., 152 
 " George B., 152 
 
 James M., 152 
 John C. F., 152 
 Lawrence A., 152 
 Richard O., 152 
 " Sophronia, 152 
 Susannah C, 152 
 Uriah, 152 
 Butler, Benj. F., 88, 89, 100 
 Butterick, Cyrus, 195 
 
 Cabot, S., Jr., 105 
 Cain, Alice, 204 
 
 " Edward, 204 
 Carlisle, Decatur, 163 
 
 John, 163 
 " John D., 163 
 
 Carney, Abigail, 41, 43, 44, 75, 182, 
 207 
 
 Adaline, 63 
 
 AddieM., 134 
 
 Addison, 63, 147 
 " Alice, 96 
 " Alice G., 141 
 " Alice I., 136 
 
 Alice M., 134 
 
 Alice W., 82 
 " Allura, 150 
 " Almira B., 135, 136, 137 
 " Amanda, 164 
 " Amanda J., 199 
 
 Ann, 63, 125, 129 
 
 Anna B., 191 
 
 Annie E., 170, 178 
 " Artena M., 82 
 
 Arthur P., 82 
 
211 
 
 arne 
 
 y, Benjamin B., 54, 67 
 
 
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 Benson, 182 
 
 
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 Bessie W., 81 
 
 
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 Caroline A., 175 
 
 
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 Caroline G., 42, 76, 78, 
 
 79 
 
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 Carrie F., 103 
 
 
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 Carroll E., 194 
 
 
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 Catherine, 43, 44, 57 
 
 
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 Catherine M., 1S9, 191, 
 193 
 
 192, 
 
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 Cecelia A. M., 139, 141 
 
 , 142 
 
 It 
 
 Charles A., 110 
 
 
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 Charles H., 200 
 
 
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 Charles J., 122, 123 
 
 
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 Charles T., 96, 97, 98 
 
 
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 Clara, 96 
 
 
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 Clara A., 191 
 
 
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 Clara J., 197 
 
 
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 Clara W., 190 
 
 
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 Clarence E., 140, 143 
 
 
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 Clarissa, 5 
 
 
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 Clifton P., 134 
 
 
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 Clinton V., 131 
 
 
 it 
 
 Cora M., 136, 137 
 
 
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 Cora W., 193 
 
 
 it 
 
 Daniel, 4, 5, 30, 32, 37 
 
 , 39, 
 
 
 41, 43, 44, 46, 47 to 57, 60 
 
 
 to 68, 72, 74, 75, 84, 118 to 
 
 
 121, 125, 129, 130, 
 
 135, 
 
 
 13S, 144, 145, 147, 
 
 148, 
 
 
 149, 156, 162, 165 
 
 
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 Daniel L., 136 
 
 
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 Daniel W., 133 
 
 
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 Daniel William, 54, 72, 
 189, 191, 192, 193 
 
 185, 
 
 it 
 
 Donald W., 190 
 
 
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 Donna B., 191 
 
 
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 Doris L., 141 
 
 
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 Edward B., 101 
 
 
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 Edwin A., 131 
 
 
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 Edwin Alphonso, 134 
 
 
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 Edwin H., 63, 125, 
 
 148 
 
 129, 
 
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 Edwin L., 130 
 
 
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 Edwin S., 83 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Eldorous A., 131 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Eliza, 63 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Eliza J., 130 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Eliza W., 63, 144 
 
 
 Carney, Elizabeth, 30, 32, 41, 43, 44, 
 46, 50, 53, 118, 120, 125, 
 129, 130 
 
 Elroy E., 130 
 
 Emeline, 63, 125, 127 
 
 Ethel B., 83 
 
 Ethel L., 134 
 
 Eugene F., 200 
 " Eugenia, 200 
 
 Evalena, 130 
 
 Evaline V., 132 
 
 Fessenden V., 42, 83 
 
 Fletcher, 199 
 
 Florence, 131 
 
 Florence E., 134 
 
 Foster DeW., 193 
 
 Franklin I., 140, 141 
 
 Franklin L., 32, 58, 63, 138, 
 141, 142, 143,148 
 
 Franklin M., 190 
 
 Frederick A., 136 
 
 Frederick W., 182 
 " Gardiner L., 134 
 
 George E., 130 
 
 George F., 178 
 " George J., 96, 100 
 
 George S., 101 
 
 Georgie E., 130 
 
 Gertrude M., 134 
 " Gladys E., 141 
 
 Harold E., 81 
 
 Harold F., 200 
 " Henrietta, 63, 145 
 
 Henry, 63, 135, 136, 137 
 
 Henry B., 136 
 
 Henry F., 136 
 " Herbert C, 82 
 " Horace H., 96 
 " Hortense A., 68, 105, 110 
 
 Hortense A., Jr., 110, 112 
 " Howard, 201 
 
 Hugh T., 190 
 
 Ida E., 134 
 
 Illinois, 200 
 
 Iva A., 140, 142 
 
 James, 4, 30, 34, 37, 41, 43, 
 52, 53, 57, 68, 69, 84, 156, 
 162 to 165, 180, 185, 192, 
 195, 197, 198, 201, 202 
 
212 
 
 Carney, James, Jr., 164, 165, 
 
 166, 
 
 
 \T2, 175 
 
 
 it 
 
 James A., 100 
 
 
 ti 
 
 James G., 3, 4, 54, 73, 74, 84, 
 
 
 86 to 89, 91, 93 to 97, 
 
 100, 
 
 
 103,113,117,119,126 
 
 , 185 
 
 n 
 
 James H., 176 
 
 
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 James W., 200 
 
 
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 Jane, 34, 43, 158 
 
 
 a 
 
 Jennie M., 191 
 
 
 a 
 
 Joanna, 7, 34, 43, 159, 
 
 164, 
 
 
 165, 180, 182, 185, 
 
 195, 
 
 
 197, 198, 201, 202 
 
 
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 John, 132 
 
 
 it 
 
 John D. O., 175 
 
 
 ii 
 
 John V., 63, 149 
 
 
 it 
 
 John W., 190 
 
 
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 Joseph, 63, 130 
 
 
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 Josephine E., 75 
 
 
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 Josiah W., 63, 121 
 
 
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 Julia F., 192, 198, 200 
 
 
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 Julia L., 200 
 
 
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 Kate M., 193, 194 
 
 
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 Liddie I., 136 
 
 
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 Louisa M., 182, 183 
 
 
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 Lubelle B., 148 
 
 
 ii 
 
 Lucia M., 81 
 
 
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 Lucinda E., 170, 177 
 
 
 it 
 
 Luther, 147 
 
 
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 Mabel J., 148 
 
 
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 Mabel Jennette, 134 
 
 
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 Maine, 200 
 
 
 tt 
 
 Margaret, 43, 44, 49, 50, 
 153 
 
 151, 
 
 it 
 
 Maria E., 183 
 
 
 n 
 
 Marion, 141 
 
 
 ii 
 
 Mark, 3 to 7, 10, 23, 30 to 35, 
 
 
 37, 40, 41, 43 to 47, 
 
 125, 
 
 
 151, 156, 158, 159, 
 
 162, 
 
 
 203, 206, 207 
 
 
 u 
 
 Mark, 2d, 182 
 
 
 ti 
 
 Mary, 43, 45, 92 
 
 
 n 
 
 Mary A., 132, ISO 
 
 
 a 
 
 Mary O, 75, 194 
 
 
 n 
 
 Mary Cobb, 75 
 
 
 ii 
 
 Mary E., 136 
 
 
 it 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, 121 
 
 
 it 
 
 Mary H., 96, 113, 114, 
 117 
 
 116, 
 
 Carney, Mary T., 54, 66, 156 
 
 Mary W., 121, 125, 129, 130, 
 
 131, 132, 135, 138, 144, 
 
 145, 147, 148, 149 
 Matilda C, 190, 191 
 Maud I., 148 
 Melinda, 163 
 Mildred, 131 
 Mildred I., 143 
 Molly, 34, 44, 49 
 Nancy, 43, 203, 204 
 Nathaniel B., 54, 68, 118 
 NeUie L. W., 134 
 Norman H., 147 
 Octavia E., 202 
 Osgood, 54, 120, 201 
 Osgood H., 193 
 Osgood W., 130 
 Philip D., 110 
 Philip W., 83 
 Richard I., 141 
 Robert F., 83 
 Rosa L., 136 
 Roswell, 147 
 Ruth M., 141 
 Ruthy, 34, 158 
 Samuel P., 63, 132, 133, 134 
 Samuel P., Jr., 134 
 Sarah A. B., 179 
 Sarah B., 53, 54, 65 to 68, 70, 
 
 72, 75, 84, 118, 119, 120, 
 
 165, 195 
 Sarah W., 191 
 Serena M., 184 
 Sidney O, 134 
 Siloam, 136 
 Sydney H., 68, 69, 70, 96, 
 
 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110 
 Sydney H., Jr., 107, 110, 111 
 Susannah, 9, 41, 42, 43, 44, 
 
 51, 54, 57, 68, 70, 156, 157 
 Thomas J., 198, 199, 200 
 Walter L., 134 
 Warren O., 81 
 Washington I., 134 
 Webster H., 136 
 Willard C. G., 82 
 William, 34, 41, 54, 67, 69, 
 
 75, 76, 81, 83 
 
213 
 
 Carney, William A., 133 
 " William B., 75, 76 
 " William D., 189, 190, 
 191 
 William H., 43 
 " William Howe, 206 
 
 William T., 199 
 Winnifred, 200 
 Cass, Angenora, 154 
 " Daniel Van B., 154 
 " Edith E., 154 
 " Elmer, 154 
 " Fay, 154 
 " George, 154 
 " George E., 154 
 " James H., 154 
 " John, 154 
 " John, Jr., 154 
 " Llewellyn, 154 
 " Lucinda M., 154 
 " Luella M., 154 
 " Mark C, 154 
 " Olive L. A., 154 
 Champney, J. W., 112 
 Chandler, Hannah, 110 
 Chardon, Peter, 1 
 Chase, Anna W., 129 
 " C.C., 103, 104 
 Eibridge, 129 
 Thomas, 129 
 Chesneau, Catherine de, 6 
 Clancy, Ann, 12 
 
 Daniel, 33 
 
 David, 4, 5, 12, 31, 33, 34, 
 
 47,48 
 Elizabeth, 9, 12 
 George, 12 
 " Margaret, 12 
 Mary, 12 
 Clapp, Joshua, 93 
 Clark, Henry G., 106 
 John, 87, 88 
 Rosa B., 182 
 Cobb, Elizabeth Y., 75 
 Cobby, John, 190 
 
 Matilda, 190 
 Matilda M., 190 
 Coffin, William, 56 
 Colburn, Warren, 86 
 
 Cole, Charles J., 130 
 
 " Edna A., 146 
 
 " Elsie S., 146 
 
 " Frank E., 145 
 
 " Gertrude L., 146 
 
 " Grace I., 146 
 
 " Harold G., 145 
 
 " Howard E., 145, 146 
 
 " Marion L., 146 
 
 " Minnie C. E., 145 
 
 " Percy M., 145 
 
 " Ray L., 145 
 
 " Ruth E., 146 
 
 " Stephen R., 145 
 
 " Stephen R., Jr., 130, 145 
 
 " William A., 145 
 
 Collis, George, 176 
 
 " Oliver D., 176 
 
 Thirza, 176 
 
 Colyer, Mr., Rev., 178 
 
 Condon, Ernest L., 177 
 
 Jean E., 177 
 
 Conery, Anna B., 30, 195, 196 
 
 " Emma S., 195 
 
 John Q. A., 196 
 
 Sarah B. C, 195 
 
 Sarah E., 30, 195, 196 
 
 Thomas, 195 
 
 Constable, Charlotte, 130 
 
 " Joanna C, 130 
 
 William, 130 
 
 Cook, Caroline A., 175 
 
 " Caroline M., 176 
 
 " Catherine M., 175 
 
 " James, 88 
 
 " John, 175 
 
 " John M., 175 
 
 Cooper, William, 37, 39 
 
 Corken, Charles, 202 
 
 Charles V., 202 
 
 Gladys, 202 
 
 Margaret N., 202 
 
 Ruth, 202 
 
 William D., 202 
 
 Coulomb,)., . , „ ,, , _ ... 
 _. , ' > Mane, 13, 14, 15, 30 
 Coulon, ) 
 
 Crosby, Susan C, 91 
 
 Curtis, Albert, 121 
 
 Gushing, Charles, 10 
 
214 
 
 Cuvier, M., 24 
 
 Dale, Dr., 106 
 
 Dalton, John C, 87, 105 
 
 Damon, Hepsibeth, 156, 170, 175 
 
 Joshua, 170 
 Dana, Lucy, 113 
 
 " Moses W., 51 
 Daniels, Thomas E., 121 
 Davis, George A., 121 
 
 " William, 160 
 Day, Chester H., 181 
 Emma R., 181 
 " Frank C, 181 
 " Ralph L., 181 
 " T. F. G., 181 
 Dean, Alice L., 99 
 
 Benjamin, 99 
 Ellen, 99 
 Debbins, Eva, 132 
 Debloise, George, 55 
 Dieny, Rev. Mr., 13, 14, 15, 24, 25 
 Dodge, Nathaniel, 152 
 Doe, Arthur F., 142 
 " Arthur L., 142 
 " Cecelia I., 142 
 " Hannah P., 142 
 Levi B., 142 
 Dubois, Judith, 17, 27, 28 
 
 Rev. L., 14, 24 
 Duer, Arlina, 145 
 Dumaresq, James, 55, 56 
 Susannah, 56 
 Dunbar, Frank E., 115 
 John F., 115 
 Theresa McD., 115 
 Dunton, Joseph, 156 
 Duvernoy, Clement, 5, 24, 25 
 
 Earl, John O., 191 
 " Morris, 191 
 " Ogden M., 191 
 Eastman, A. L., 75 
 
 Benjamin, 75 
 Clara R. W., 127 
 Emeline C, 30, 47, 125 
 
 129 
 Moses, Jr., 125, 127 
 Eaton, William B., 162 
 
 
 Edson, Rev. Theodore, 86, 100 
 Eliot, John, 85 
 Elliot, Andrew, 160 
 
 Belle B., 160 
 
 Lillian M., 181 
 " William, 181 
 Ellis, Calvin, 105 
 
 " Joseph, 51 
 Emerson, Samuel, 10, 32 
 Eustis, Gov., 61 
 
 Faivre, Catherine E., 29 
 Faxon, Deacon, 162 
 Feltman, Allura E., 127 
 " Anna D., 127 
 
 " Annie R., 127 
 
 Charles L., 127 
 " Charles L., Jr., 127 
 Clara B., 127 
 Edwin F., 128 
 Emma N., 127 
 Eva G., 127 
 Frederick W., 127 
 Harry G., 127, 128 
 Maud D., 127 
 Permelia D., 127 
 Fessenden, John, 57 
 
 William P., 192 
 Finch, Letitia, 159 
 Fitch, Jonas, 7 
 Flather, Drusilla, 116 
 
 Drusilla D., 116 
 " Frederick, 116 
 
 Frederick A., 116 
 Joseph, 116 
 Rogers, 116 
 Fletcher, Joshua, 198 
 " Julia, 198 
 
 Nabby W., 198 
 Flower, Anabel, 191 
 
 W. D., 191 
 Foster, Abby, 111 
 Carrie, 193 
 Frances R., 193 
 " James, 40 
 
 General, 123 
 Samuel S., 193 
 Fox, Jesse, 88 
 Freeman, Joshua, 8 
 
215 
 
 French, Cyril, 86 
 
 Gaddis, Jennie L., 200 
 Gamball, George, 40 
 Gardiner, George H., 170 
 
 John S. J., 55, 56 
 " Mary, 56 
 
 Silvester, 33 
 Gaubert, Nicholas, 167 
 Gay, Charles H., 127 
 George H., 105 
 " Stephen H., 127 
 George, Willard C, 171 
 Gerry, Elb ridge, 57 
 Gihon, Charles F., 192 
 Gleason, Lewis P., 184 
 Glidden, Elisha, 86 
 Goodwin, Robert, 57 
 " Samuel, 7 
 
 Gookin, Squire, 40 
 Gorham, Charles F., 192 
 Julia F. C, 192 
 Gould, Augustus A., 105 
 Goux, Goud, Gough, Gout, Gowe, 
 Gue 
 Abraham, 14 
 Adam, 13, 16, 17, 27, 28 
 Catherine, 11, 15 
 Daniel, Sr. and Jr., 7 to 10, 12 
 to 15, 17, 18 to 21, 26 to 29, 
 31 
 David, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 26, 
 
 27, 29 
 Elizabeth, 5, 11, 12, 14, 17, 
 
 27, 33, 47, 48 
 Georges, 2, 5, 7 to 10, 14, 17, 
 
 18, 34, 48, 49, 159 
 Georges E., 28 
 G. G. S., 20 
 Jacques, 27, 28, 29 
 Jean, 27 
 Jean C, 27 
 Jean D., 17, 27, 28 
 Jean F., 27 
 
 Jean G., 14, 15, 17, 29, 30 
 Jean J., 28 
 Jean N., 27 
 Jean P., 29 
 Jules L., 28 
 
 
 Goux, Goud, Gough, Gout, Gowe, 
 Gue 
 Marie, 14, 29 
 Marie E., 28 
 Peter, 2, 3, 11, 13 
 Pierre, 13 to 17, 19, 26 to 29 
 Pierre F., 29 
 Pierre J., 28 
 Rodolphe, 15, 26 
 Servois le, 15, 26 
 Solomon, 14, 17, 29 
 Suzanne, 1, 5, 7, 12, 14, 15, 17 
 to 22, 24, 28, 30, 31 to 33, 
 35 to 37, 42 to 49, 62, 125, 
 126, 151, 156, 158, 159, 162, 
 192, 203, 206 
 Grant, Minnie E., 146 
 Graves, Mr., 103 
 Gray, William, 84, 95 
 Great, Frederick the, 23 
 Green, John O., 86 
 Richard, 55 
 Greenhalge, Frederick T., 91 
 Greenwood, Nella G., 127 
 Griffen, Harriet, 81 
 " Horatio, 81 
 " Martha E., 81 
 
 Hale, Edward E., Rev., 177 
 Hall, Asa, 88 
 " Isaac, 122 
 " Persis S., 122 
 " Sarah, 121 
 " William T., 172 
 Hancock, John, 33 
 Hanks, Elizabeth G., 91 
 Harding, Clara L., 136 
 
 Siloam W., 136 
 Virgil, 136 
 Harley, Edwin W., 144 
 " ' Parker C, 144 
 Harrison, Benjamin, 149 
 Hartshorn, Joseph, 93 
 
 Thomas, 93 
 Hastings, Richard L., 88 
 Hatch, Jabez, 56 
 Hathorn, Frederick E., 179 
 James, 179 
 James E., 179 
 
216 
 
 Hathorn James K., 167 
 
 Nancy B., 179 
 " Sarah A. B., 175, 179 
 
 Heath, Rev. William, 106 
 Henderson, Eudora, 204 
 Richard, 204 
 Hewes, Joseph, 110 
 Joshua, 110 
 " Mary, 110 
 Hodgkin, C. N., 150 
 
 Laura M., 150 
 Hollis, George F., 182 
 George S., 183 
 Louisa M. C, 182, 183 
 William S., 183 
 Holloway, Arod B., 145, 146 
 
 Etta M., 146 
 Hollowell, Benjamin, 33 
 Holstein, Princess of, 24 
 Homans, John, 105 
 Hopkins, Britemarte, 143 
 Hopkinson, Thomas, 88 
 Hosmer, Jane E., 91 
 Houdlette, Charles E., 9, 34 
 " James, 167 
 
 M. Adelaide (Preface) 
 Hovey, Charles, 87 
 Howard, Daniel C, 156 
 
 Daniel O., 156, 157 
 Ebenezer, 156 
 Mary T., 156 
 
 Susannah C, 41, 156, 157 
 William H., 156 
 William W., 66, 156, 170, 
 175 
 Hoxie, Charles O., 161 
 " Georgiana E., 161 
 " Henry, 160 
 James V., 161 
 Susan J., 161 
 Hudson, Henry, Rev., 182 
 
 James S., 152 
 Hunt, Ella, 160 
 Judah, 40 
 Miranda, 160 
 Robert, 160 
 Hunter, Rev. H., 66 
 Huntington, Elisha, 90 
 Hutchinson, Ann, 113 
 
 Irving, Mrs. Theodore, 112 
 Isbestos, William, 203 
 Iselin, Catherine, 27 
 
 " Suzanne, 13, 17, 26, 29 
 
 Jacob, Daniel, 3 
 Jacoe, Dennis, 3 
 Jacot, The Misses, 18, 19 
 Jaccot, Catherine V., 20 
 Daniel, 20 
 David, 20 
 Jacob, 20 
 Jeanne, 14 
 " Jonas, 20 
 Jackins, James, 41 
 " Joanna, 41 
 
 " Susannah C, 159 
 
 Jackson, Bessie A., 136 
 " Francis, 60, 61 
 
 Frederick M., 136 
 Henry C, 136 
 " James, 136 
 " James, Jr., 136 
 J. B. S., 105 
 John F., 136 
 Joseph, 153 
 Louisa, 153 
 " Margaret, 153 
 William M., 153 
 Jacqueen, James J., 7, 159 
 Jakin, Christopher, 34 
 Jalot, Daniel, 2 
 Jaquin, James F., 3 
 Johnston, Alexander, 179 
 Jordan, J. W., 190 
 
 Kelley, Delia C, 127 
 Edward, 44 
 " Lieut., 135 
 Kendrick, George W., 131 
 " James A., 131 
 
 Phcebe E. S., 131 
 Kidder, Richard, 10 
 Kirkwood, Aunt, 70 
 Eliza, 144 
 " James, 37, 39, 40, 118, 
 
 120, 138 
 Knox, Alexander, Jr., 132 
 " Elizabeth, 132 
 
217 
 
 Knox, Emma L. T., 132 
 " Eva A., 132 
 
 LaFayette, General, 61, 62, 138 
 Lancaster, Agnes, 204 
 
 Annie F., 160 
 Caroline B., 160 
 Charles W., 160 
 Elias S., 160 
 " Frederick, 160 
 
 Frederick W., 160 
 George E., 160 
 Gertrude R., 160 
 " James E., 160 
 
 James J., 159 
 " Joanna C, 161 
 
 " Joseph H., 160 
 
 " Joseph J., 160 
 
 " Joseph, Jr., 159 
 
 " Lucas, 204 
 
 William P., 159, 160 
 Lang, D. G., 87 
 Lapham, Maj., 4 
 Lapus, Andrew, 40 
 La Varie, Elizabeth de, 6 
 Le Cerf, Anne, 6 
 Leissner, Charles, 8, 31 
 Lewis, Joel, 86 
 Libby, Mary E., 163 
 Lilly, George, 10 
 " Lydia, 67 
 Lincoln, Abraham, 94 
 
 Levi, 62, 63 
 Lithgow, Llewellyn, 167 
 Lods, Georges, 12, 18, 26 
 Loring, John F., 60 
 Lory, Catherine E. P., 28 
 Lowell, Joseph B., 153 
 Luther, Count Henri E., 1 
 
 McClean, Andrew B., 100 
 Ann E. S., 100 
 " Lizzie, 100 
 McClellan, General, 106 
 McClennachen, Rev. Mr., 31 
 McDonald, Mrs. A. L., 80 
 McElroy, Mrs., 207 
 McKenzie, Annie E., 175, 178 
 " Catherine, 179 
 
 McKenzie, Charles G., 178 
 " James, 178 
 
 John, 178 
 Margaret G., 178 
 Thomas, 179 
 William S., 178 
 McNally, Thomas, 205 
 McNeil, James, 40 
 
 John, 40 
 
 Mahoney, Cecelia A., 139 
 
 " Dennis, 140 
 
 " James, 139 
 
 Sarah R. S., 140 
 Mains, Elita R., 137 
 " George L., 137 
 " Walter G., 137 
 " William A., 137 
 " William A., Jr., 137 
 Major, Margaret, 203 
 Marconnet, Abraham, 6 
 Charles, 6 
 " Elizabeth, 6 
 
 Henrietta, 6 
 Lancelot, 6 
 Louis, 6 
 Marie, 6 
 " Samuel P., 6 
 
 " Suzanne, 6 
 
 Marsh, Elizabeth, 147 
 Marshall, Josiah, 60 
 Marson, Abner, 41, 151 
 
 Abner, Jr., 151, 153 
 Alfred, 151, 153 
 Cavalier, 153 
 Celia, 153 
 Charity, 153 
 Daniel, 151 
 Eliza, 151 
 Elvira, 151 
 Harvey, 151 
 James C, 151, 153 
 James H., 151 
 " Jennie, 162 
 
 Joanna, 162, 164, 165, 180, 
 
 195, 197, 198, 201, 202 
 Julia, 153 
 Lucinda, 151, 153 
 Marie, 153 
 Nancy, 151, 153 
 
218 
 
 Marson, Stephen, 162 
 " Victoria I., 153 
 William, 151 
 William H., 153 
 Martin, John, 169, 175 
 
 Lucinda, P., 169, 175 
 Rachel, 169, 175 
 Mason, Lowell, 109 
 Mays, John, 40 
 Mead, John, 88 
 Mermet, Pierre, 15 
 
 Suzanne R., 15 
 Merrill, Jno., Jr., 64 
 Mews, Herbert, 132 
 
 Martha A. T., 132 
 Mignerey, Catherine, 27 
 " Elizabeth, 14 
 
 Jean N., 20 
 Jeanne, 27 
 Marie E., 29 
 Miles, Rev. H. A., 103, 113 
 Minot, Francis, 105 
 
 George R., 39, 41, 42 
 Montfoucon, Sybilla, 23 
 Morris, Mr., 69 
 Morrison, Catherine, 185 
 
 George McK., 185 
 Mary P., 185, 186 
 Mrs., 207 
 Morse, Rev. Abner, 93 
 " Emma, 131 
 Eveline, 180 
 Florence G., 131 
 John, 131 
 " Sally D., 118 
 Samuel, 118 
 Samuel F., 118 
 Sarah E., 118 
 Mortier, Pierre, 21 
 Mosher, Jennie M., 141 
 Murray, Isaac, 49 
 
 Nann, Alexander, 136 
 Isabella, 136 
 Isabella H., 136 
 
 Nichols, Perkins, 39, 42 
 
 Nubert, Elizabeth, 27 
 
 Nye, Mary, 10 
 
 Oaks, Margaret M., 183 
 
 
 O 'Brian, William, 4 
 Odiorne, George, 84 
 Oliver, Henry J., 60 
 Orange, William of, 6 
 Osgood, Hannah, 70 
 
 Parker, Rev. Addison, 133 
 
 Rev. Samuel, 44, 45, 49* 
 Patterson, James, 32, 56 
 Laura E., 130 
 Pease, Clara T., 152 
 Pennington, Mr., 168 
 Perkins, H. J., 82 
 Pernon, Catherine E., 29 
 Perret, Abram, 20 
 
 Catherine, 29 
 " Mary E., 28, 29 
 Pierre, 20 
 Suzanne, 29 
 Suzanne C, 28 
 Peters, Albert K., 205 
 Albert R., 204 
 Andrew, 63, 64, 203 
 Andrew, Jr., 203, 205 
 Andrew V., 204 
 Arthur S., 204 
 Cicely, F., 204 
 Edward McC. (Mrs.), 203 
 Hannah K., 203 
 Harriet, 205 
 " Hiram, 205 
 
 Ignatius K., 204 
 Joseph O, 204 
 Kiah B., 205 
 Mary H., 204 
 Nancy, 41, 204, 205 
 Nathaniel, 205 
 Sarah O, 204 
 William, 203 
 William B., 203 
 William J., 203 
 Philipse, John, 60 
 Phillips, Elvina N., 152 
 Pierce, President, 195 
 Pierpont, Rev. John, 92 
 Pitt, James, 33 
 Plancon, Ann J., 27 
 
 " Catherine E., 28, 29 
 " Elizabeth 29 
 
219 
 
 Plancon, Judith, 13, 15, 29, 30 
 " Pierre, 20 
 
 " Suzanne, 28 
 
 Pochard, John, 2, 3 
 
 Suzanne, 1G, 17, 26, 27, 29 
 Polereczky, Andrie F. de, 11 
 
 John, 11, 166 
 Pounhot, Mary E., 29 
 Pownall, Thomas, 31 
 Prince, Charles E., 181 
 
 Grace R., 181 
 Putnam, Joseph C, 180 
 Louise, 180 
 Louise H. R., 180 
 
 Quincy, Josiah, 60 
 
 Rawson, Artemas, 181 
 " Dorcas R., 181 
 E. M., 181 
 Reed, Benjamin, 167 
 Revere, Paul, 42 
 
 Paul, Jr., 57 
 Rhodes, Cecil, 178 
 Richards, Williams, 111 
 Robbins, Edward H., 60 
 
 Elias, 56 
 
 Robertson, Christina A., 130 
 
 " Duncan, 130 
 
 Harlan F., 199 
 Margery McL., 130 
 Mary E., 199 
 Robinson, Mrs. M. A., 80 
 Rogers, Alice P., 114, 116 
 Colonel Jacob, 1 13 
 Jacob, 113, 114, 116, 117 
 John, 113 
 John J., 114, 117 
 Martha C, 113 
 Mary C., 114, 115 
 Rollins, Charles G., 175 
 Enoch, 175 
 Gilmore B., 175 
 Martha B., 175 
 Root, George F., 109, 175 
 Rowe, Jno., 52 
 Russell, James, 86 
 Russia, Catherine Empress of, 24 
 " Paul, Czarowitz of, 24 
 
 it 
 n 
 
 Saint Pierre, J. H. B. de, 66 
 Sanford, Alphonso, 180 
 " Charles H., 180 
 Edith P., 180 
 Emma R., 180 
 Harry A., 180 
 Mabel L., 180 
 Marion E., 180 
 Octavia C, 1S1 
 Royal, 180 
 Walter B., 180 
 Saumarez, Matthew, 56 
 St. Gaudens, Augustus, 112 
 Seabury, Edwin, Rev., 125 
 Shattuck, George C, 105 
 Shaw, Benjamin L., 105 
 
 Thomas B., 91 
 Shea, Robert G., 154 
 
 " Rudolphe R. A., 154 
 Shepherd, J. B., 76 
 Sibley, Almira N., 123 
 " Fannie A., 123 
 Russell, 123 
 Silver, Cicely, 203 
 
 Francis N., 203 
 " William, 203 
 Simmons, Eliza A., 1S3 
 Simpson, Theodocia, 156 
 Smith, Ada G., 128 
 Almira, 160 
 Chauncy L., 127 
 " Clara, 128 
 " Edna A., 154 
 
 Elias, 160 
 
 " Gov. S. E., 139 
 
 Irene, 128 
 
 John, 128 
 
 " Lucy R., 83 
 
 Margaret, R., 83 
 " Mary A., 132, 133, 134 
 Rebecca, 160 
 Rev. Dr., 109 
 Robert A., Jr., 83 
 " Wallace, 12S 
 Spaulding, Sidney, 88 
 
 Susie E., 183 
 Sprague, Charles, 58, 59, 61 
 
 Flora I., 141 
 Staples, L. P., Rev., 135 
 
220 
 
 Stephenson, Thomas, 57 
 Stevens, Clara V., 152 
 " Daniel, 82 
 
 Fannie, 152 
 
 Harriet A., 82 
 
 John B., 152 
 " Joseph, 57 
 
 Sarah K., 82 
 Stillfin, Michael, 8 
 Stillman, Rev. Dr., 54 
 Storer, D. H., 105 
 
 Talor, Comal, 48, 49 
 Tapley, Joseph, 88 
 Tarbox, Adelaide A., 133 
 " Clarissa, 133 
 Ephraim, 133 
 Taylor, Abbie S., 134 
 Atwell A., 134 
 Florence E. C, 134 
 Herbert A., 134 
 William M., Rev., 110 
 Tewksbury, Edith V., 132 
 Edwin G., 132 
 Emma L., 132 
 Frederick O., 132 
 Gerry, 132 
 " Harriet L., 132 
 
 Leonard O., 132 
 Martha A., 132 
 " Martha A. B., 132 
 
 William D., 132 
 Thayer, M., 155 
 Tower, Isaac, 50, 51 
 Trask, Jonathan, 37, 39, 45 
 Tucker, EmmaM. H., 178 
 Frederick M., 178 
 Tracy H., 178 
 Turner, Ann, M. D., 119 
 Tyler, Charles H., 177 
 " Charles J., 177 
 Gertrude F., 178 
 Lucinda E., 175, 177 
 Martin, 177 
 
 Van Kirk, Joseph, 205 
 Vickser, Augusta, 91 
 Vienot, Rev. Mr., 26 
 Vollum, Dr., 106 
 
 Von Sieberlich, Cecile P., 204 
 Vose, Abigail T. E. N., 180 
 
 " Benjamin, 122 
 
 " Betsy L., 121 
 
 " Emma F., 181 
 
 " Joshua, 121, 130, 132, 135, 138 
 
 " Lucinda, 122 
 
 " Rhoda, 121, 145 
 
 " Samuel D., 180 
 
 " Sarah E., 122 
 
 " Winchell G., 180 
 
 Wall work, Thomas W., 134 
 Wanalancet, Chief, 85 
 Ware, Charles E., 105 
 
 Robert, 105 
 Warner, J. W., 190 
 " Laura J., 190 
 Lucy E., 191 
 Warren, J. M., 105 
 Washington, General, 59 
 Webber, Dorothy T., 177 
 Stephen B., 177 
 Webster, Captain, 135 
 
 Daniel, 62, 135 
 Welsh, Thomas, Jr., 60 
 West, Albert E., 148 
 Westfall, Cora, 194 
 Weston, James P., 198 
 Whaling, Richard, 4 
 Wheeler, Josiah, 40, 58, 59, 138 
 
 Mary, 58, 121, 130, 131, 
 
 132, 135, 138 
 Rhoda B., 58, 59 
 Wheelock, Ephraim, 93 
 Whipple, Oliver M., 87 
 White, Elijah, 40 
 Whitman, Joseph, 135 
 Whitney, Hananiah, 88 
 Willett, Andrew, 93 
 
 Clarissa, 92, 96, 97, 100, 103, 
 113 
 " Jemima B., 92 
 " Joseph, 92 
 Sibbel H., 93 
 Willard, Francis, 178 
 Wilson, Cora B., 202 
 
 OctaviaC, 4, 202 
 Thomas, 202 
 
221 
 
 Wilson, Victoria A., 202 
 Wood, Horatio, 87 
 Woodbury, Augustus, Rev., 101 
 Wright, Jno. S., 84 
 
 " Nathaniel, 86, 95 
 Wuillamier, Jean G., 15 
 Jean N., 15 
 Wyman, Nellie L., 134 
 
 Yeaton, Alphonso, 154 
 
 Jennie R., 148 
 
 Olive M., 154 
 Young, Rev. Dr., 118 
 
 Zentz, Rev. G., 12, 18, 25, 30 
 Zigler, Catherine E., 27 
 

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