,s\ \ '^ ^ YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1940 MONOGRAPH ON THE SOUTHGATE FAMILY OF SCARBOROUGH, MAINE THEIR ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS BY I.EONARD B. CHAPMAN MEMBER OF THE MAINE HISTORICAI, SOCIETY AI.SO OF THE MAINE GENEALOGICAI, SOCIETY We miss one from among our number. And, searching back, can only find -where lies A cold, stiff form, -wrapped in -wakeless slumber, While Hylas-echoes mock our frantic cries. —John Barrett Southgatc HUBBARD W. BRYANT Bookseller and Publisher PORTLAND, MAINE 1907 Bcs 3o§ 3 war a, piace ERRATA. Page 7. Bottom of first column, in front of "1 — Steward," place this character (*). 12. The names of two children (3 and 4), of .InhiH C. Boyd, died young. In front of the name Augusta Murray, same page, this character (*) should appear. 18. For 1872 insert 1772. 31. After the name of Robert Swan, place Esq. 32. Near the bottom of the last column it reads as follows: "The corner stone of St. Luke's Cathedral was laid on State street, August 7th, 1854, and on July 10, 1855, the building was consecrated." It was the corner stone of the Episcopal church edifice on Congress street, near State, that was laid August 7, 1854, the edifice being now known as St. Stephen's church. The St. Luke's, over which Bishop Southgate watched the year of its birth, sold its first building to St. Stephen's for $17,000, and erected its present structure on State street, at a cost of $110,000, and is not yet finished. 47. For "Dandridge" near the bottom of the last page, substitute Bedinger. Ill PREFACE. When I consented to occupy temporarily the editorial chair of the Deering News — a journal published in Portland, Me., but devoted to local matters in Deering, which was then an independent munici pality, since annexed territorially by an edict of the State Legislature to Portland — I announced that under the caption of "Grandpa's Scrap Book," I should begin on the following week the publication of obtainable records of marriages, births and deaths of persons, families and events connected therewith, and continue the practice from week to week at suoh length as circumstances would allow, of those who had lived in the distant past and left foot prints upon the sands of time, and in some cases continue the story of descent of the individual name to the latest date. This announcement was made June 30th, 1894, and it was soon made apparent to the publishers of the journal, by the increased circulation, that the innovation coupled with other changes, was very acceptable to the subscribers of the publication. May 14th, 1898, after an elapse of nearly four years — a period of many local events — a return to which even in thought is now exciting — of which the News was more than a simple recorder of happenings, I presented my last editorial to the public, which was followed on May 28, 1898, by a "Publisher's Card" that closed as follows : "Mr. Chapman will still conduct 'Grandpa's Scrap Book,' thus continuing this valuable feature of the News.'''' For a period of nearly six more consecutive years I kept on in the work and then stopped because I could not keep up with the demands of the compositors for "copy," thus making in all nearly ten years. The productions of this expenditure of labor have been gathered and preserved both by individuals and societies. And all this labor has been bestowed gratuitously. September 5, 1900, appeared the first article on Rev. Thomas Browne, which was continued in the next two numbers, making three in all. He came here in 1765, as pastor of the Stroudwater Congre gational church parish of Falmouth, and was continued till his worldly departure which was October 18, 1797. In the ancient parish burying ground enclosure may be seen his grave memorial as well as that of his widow. In my search to learn from whence he came and find a record of his offspring, I met with a statement that William Browne, a son of Rev. Thomas, married a woman named Octavia Southgate, and that Bishop Southgate married a daughter of William Browne. This let down the bars and opened up a field of inquiry extending from Maine to Texas, and nearly wide as long. October 3, 1900, I presented an article on Dunstan, where Dr. Southgate erected the "Abbey," which was followed the next week by another. October 17, my first article appeared relating to the Doctor and his descendants, which was followed by many others, the possessors of the name coming to my aid in every instance when solicited for information. In searching for Southgate I found many King names and records of incidents which I felt ought to be preserved in print, and so I kept on furnishing "copy" and when a sufficient amount of "dead matter" had accumulated a form of sixteen pages of book size was made up and a sufficient number of sheets printed to supply what was then thought would be the demand, now amounting to a hundred and fifty pages of print in addition to what here appears in the Southgate Monograph. I did not intend in beginning and do not now offer this work as a genealogy, only as the name given on the title page indicates — a mere writing, but one replete in dates and records of events of a personal nature worthy of preservation and emulation. As a family group the Dunstan Southgate and King name both contains many evidences of direct gifts of brain force seldom met which has been used by the possessors to make the condition of the individual, the hamlet, the town, the city and the State at large more intelligent by word and example. I have hoped for object-lessons in the form of likenesses of faces and residences — such may come later when some other person uses the data and enlarges upon what is herein recorded. VI I have a photograph of what is left standing at Dunstan Landing, in Scarboro, Me., of the original residence of Richard King, residences of six of his children — all large buildings; two views of grave memorials in the Dunstan village cemetery; one of the King memo rial recently erected in an adjacent cattle pasture, but under the protecting care of the Maine Historical Society; one of the Portland residence of Horatio Southgate, Esq. (son of Dr. Southgate); one of the last place of abode of William Browne, that stood on Middle, near India street, Portland — now removed; one of William himself, and son who died in Texas; one of the Joseph C. Boyd residence, Port land; one of the "Clifford," which was the summer residence of Walter Bowne, Esq., as well as his cemetery memorial, including the ancient Bowne ancestral residence, two hundred years old, and Quaker meeting house of the same age, all of Flushing, N. Y., and several others, copies of which it is proposed to place in the archives of the Maine Historical Society, with a copy of this work, where the collection may be consulted. To Mrs. Harriet A. (Southgate) Graham, of West End, Va., all are indebted for the half-tone cut of her father — Bishop Southgate — and for her manifest promptness in furnishing information when requested. I have recently found here in Portland, in the library of our Maine Historical Society, a copy of a history of the town of Leicester, located forty-three miles from Boston, Mass., and joining Worcester, from which it appears'that in 1717, both Richard and James Southgate were residing there, that the first regular town meeting was held in March of 1722, when James Southgate was chosen a selectman, and Richard, treasurer. This history, containing four hundred and sixty-seven pages, was published in 1860. The compiler states that the original draft was made thirty ye^rs before that date, for the labor of which he did not expect in return "reward of fame or money." In 1737, Richard owned seven hundred and seventy acres of land in the town, and his brother James had become a large owner of real estate. James was a Congregational church deacon. The statements of the compiler of the history conflict somewhat with my own. He puts down the name of "John" as the oldest child of Steward Southgate, who was Dr. Southgate's father, and leaves out VII the name of Elizabeth, whom I say died January 28, 1738. He says, "John was born January 15, 1788, and was a brother to Dr. Robert Southgate, of Scarboro, Me.;" that he was well educated, that he was adjutant of a regiment of minute-men who responded to the call of "to arms!" in April, 1775, was Captain in an artillery company, etc.; was a land surveyor, and showed a good deal of fastidiousness about the dress of the soldiers. He engaged extensively in the purchase of wild lands in Maine, owning a large tract just above Bangor on the Penobscot river. At Stillwater, August 17, 1806, he was drowned while on a business trip to that region, in attempting to cross the river on a raft, and his body was buried at Kenduskeag Point, on the banks of the Penobscot. In 1860, one of the descendants was alive and many of his private papers were in existence. Steward Southgate, Captain John's father, was first a Congregationalist, but became a Quaker prior to 1782. Father and son lived neighbors. Richard Southgate, Jr., an uncle to Dr. Southgate, was a Baptist preacher as well as a farmer, and was known in his day as Elder Southgate. He was born in England, July 14, 1714, and died at the age of eighty-five. Upon his farm, which was Icicated in the south western part of the town, the cellar indentation of his residence was visible in 1860, where then was a collection of graves on his farm among which was his own grave memorial. The last interment was in 1799. Samuel Southgate, to whom allusion is made on page 8 of this work, was, it appears, a son of Elder Southgate, hence a cousin to Dr. Southgate. It is stated he lived in various places and finally died in Scarboro, in 1773, which agrees with rny own statement of time of his death. L. B. C. No. 44 Capisic St., Portland, Me., Aug. 12, 1907. DR. ROBERT SOUTHGATE. FROM A PORTRAIT BY THOMAS COLE. * DUNSTAN. THE ANCIENT HAMLET IN THE TOWN OP SCABBOKO. On the margin ol yon orchard hill Are marks ivhere time-worn battlements have been ; And in the tali grass traces linger still Of " arrowy frieze and wedged ravelin." Five hundred of her brave that Valley green Trod on the morn in soldier-spirit gay : But twenty lived to tell the noon-day scene — And where are now the twenty? Passed away. Has Death no triumph-hours, save on the battle day? — Fitz Greene Halleck, The town of Scarboro Is often de risively alluded to as a place of salt marshes and clam beds, but as we sur vey the field we marvel at the richness in 'display of intellect that has been produced by one little place within the town limits. Truly, much has been done to pre serve In collected form the general history of the town, which is exciting even in a general un folding, but in detail — ^tracing the de scent of the fo'ot-prints upon the "sands of time" of the descendants of the pioneers, more particularly the many ramifications of the last settlers and preserving in print the results, much remains to be done. We refer to "Dunstan," "the third principal set tlement of Scarboro," made in 1651, by Andrew and Arthur Alger, brothers, which settlement they gave the name appearing above after Dunstan in Eng land. Indeed the story, or the mater ial for it, of the re-settlement, is more difiicult in obtalnment because the chain of years is longer and the set tlers more numerous since, than be fore, the evacuation caused by blood- seeking Indians, and the desolation in consequence. The Alger brothers received the title to their tract of land from the ¦^Upon the top of Scottow's Hill stood Scottows' Garrison house. From the Richard King, Jr., resi dence, built in 1805, now in an excellent state of pres- revation, occupying the westerly slope, looking out upon the field of massacre and the " Valley green " of Dunstan, the view is charming. Indians and it comprised a thousand acres. "Arthur, in the division of the es tate, took the northern part, which was the highest English settlement in the region; it was separated from his brother's by a creek or brook; he died without issue. Andrew had six children; three sons: John, An drew and Mathew, and three daugh ters: Elizabeth, married to John Palmer; Jonanna married flrst Elias Oakman and second John Mills who dwelt in Boston, Mass., 'where she died, and the third married John Austin. John, son of Andrew, had several daughters, one- of whom, named Elizabeth, married John Mil liken, first of Boston, then of Scar boro, housewright. After the two brothers were tilled, and their houses, barns and crops destroyed, the family moved to Boston. An drew, Jr., was master of a vessel and was killed in Falmouth in 1690, leaving one daughter, wife of Mathew Collins. Mathew Alger was master of one of the transports in Sir William Phipp's expeditions to Canada, and died of the fieet fever soon after his return; he was the last surviving male of -that race, and the name in this branch is extinct in this country. The widow of the first Andrew married Samuel Walk er. Several of Andrew's children had married and were settled near him; flrst John, second Palmer, the others following, their dwellings fronting the marsh in the neighbor hood of where the Dr. Southgate house is seen which farm is a part of the Alger estate." [Maine His. So. Collections, "Vol I., p. 213. A. D. 1865.] The foregoing furnishes a compre hensive idea of the original occupancy of Dunstan. It was in the month of October, 1675, that the deed of murder and destruction of property was per formed. The force consisted of ten white men and sixty to one hundred Indians. Of the Alger settlement there were seven houses and twenty- four years had intervened since the starting of the enterprise. Of the Alger title the follo'wing copied from York Deeds, Vol II., p. 114, furnishes a good idea of the locality, and presents the names of the In dian claimants of the soil of the re gion at the time of advent of the Al gers. "The 19th of September, 1659." "The declaration of Jane the In dian of Scarboro concerning land. "This aforesaid Jane, alias Uphan- um, doth declare that her mother, namely, Naguasqua, the wife of Wickwarrawaske, Sagamore, and her brother, namely, TJgagoyuskitt and herself, namely IJphanum, co- equally hath sold unto Andrew Al ger, and to his brother Arthur Al ger a Tract of land, beginning at the mouth of the river called Blue Point river ¦where the river doth part and so bounded up along with the river called Oawascoage in In dian, and so up three score poles above the falls, on the one side and on the other side bounded up along with the northermost river that turneth by the great hill of Abram Jocelyn's and goeth northward, bounding from the head of the river south west and so to the aforesaid hounds, namely, three score poles, above the falls. This aforesaid Up- hanum doth declare that her mother and brother and she hath already in hand received full satisfaction of the aforesaid Algers for the afore said land from the beginning of the world to this day, provided, on con ditions that for time to come, from year to year, yearly, the aforesaid Algers shall peaceably suffer Up- hanum and her mother Neguasqua ^ The Salem, Mass., Probate Court throws additional light upon the situation. It appears that Andrew Al^er made a will March 23, 1660-70. He gave his wife Agnes his whole estate, with power to divide among his children, excepting his Blackpoint property. The inventory taken May 22, 1676, states that Andrew was wounded by the Indians and dying of wounds, Oct. 14, 1675. doth both live, and also one bushel of corn for acknowledgement every year so long as they both shall live. Uphanum doth declare that the bar gain was made in the year 1651 unto which she doth subscribe. The mark of Uphanum (X) . "In the presence of Robert Cooke the day and date above written." The quotation we first present in this connection shows that the numer ous Milliken family of Scarboro orig inates with John Milliken of Boston, Mass., whose wife was Elizabeth Al ger, daughter of John and grand daughter of Andrew Alger, who was killed at Dunstan, Andrew Alger's resi dence standing near the Dr. Robert Southgate brick mansion as now ob served, and that John Milliken remov ed to Dunstan, but the exact time we cannot state. On June 26, 1728, the First Church was gathered and we here present a few extracts from the church record of names "admitted in to full Communion with the church of Scarboro since the first establish ment." Sept. 8, 1728, Thomas Westbrook, Esq. Sept. 12, 1731, Nathan Knight. Sept. 17, 1732, Samuel Milliken and Nathaniel Milliken, "dismissed from a church in Boston." Oct. 31, 1736, Edward Milliken. May 29, 1729, Edward and Abigail Milliken had a son Joseph baptized. June 17, 1733, Nathaniel and Sarah Milliken had son Jonathan baptized. April 25, 1734, Samuel and Martha Milliken had daughter Jemima baptiz ed. Col. Westbrook's stay at Dunstan was temporary. It is traditional that he erected a saw mill there, and records show that religious meetings were holden at his abode, but we can not find that he owned real estate in that locality. The- mill stood east erly of Dunstan Corner. Nathan Knight, whose wife Mary was a sister to Col. Westbrook, pur chased land in Scarboro in 1720. then in 1731 a liouse lot in Dunstan which was sold to Richard King where he ever resided in that place and where he raised the family of which some of the imemlbers became very celebrated. A part of the house may now be seen on the road to taie "Landing." The original account book of Na thaniel Knight, son of Nathan and Mary (Westbrook) Knight, is before us as we write. Nathaniel's wife was Priscilla Berry and they fill unmarked graves near Stroudwater Falls, a mile southerly of Sacearappa vil lage. Their daughter Sarah was bap tized in Scarboro Aug. 25, 1728. He was an active man, and we propose to speak of him in detail later on. A few extracts, however, from the an cient account book we will here pre sent : 1728. to Dyating [boarding] ye men when hewing [masts] at Dunstan, £77-4-10 to making Walter Hinds trousers, 5-6 to one day carrying things to Stroudwater, 8-0 to sundry times my horse and boy to Stroudwater, 3-0-0 to 32 days hewing masts at Dunstan 9@pr. day, 14-8-0 to driving hogs to Stroud water, 8-0 These charges with numerous others are against Col. Westbrook, but only in a few cases dates of months are given anywhere. Evidently Mr. Knight kept a pocket or some other sort of a memoranda and occasionally some one who wrote a better hand than himself copied onto the pages of the book before us. In 1760 the "pound" or place of confinement for roving cattle was lo cated on the southwesterly corner made by the main highway and road to the Landing, and Morris Obryan had his residence and tailor estab lishment next westerly. Edward Mil liken was a saddler and another by the name of Milliken was a cordwain- er. In 1764, John Milliken states in a recorded deed, that John Alger was his grandfather, and, in 1773, that Samuel Oarle, Jr., and Joseph Hodg- don were his grandchildren, 'Who were mariners, and for "love and affection" he bore them gave them a piece of land located between the main high way and the Richard King's residence — easterly side of road to the Land ing. In 1770 it seems that the matter of bounds of the Alger claim was a mat ter of discussion when a deposition was taken and recorded as follows: The deposition of James Spring er of Georgetown, in the County of Lincoln, aged seventy-two years, testifies and says, that he came to Scarboro in 1728, and that he lived there about ten years, and that he was well ac quainted with the tract of land caled Alger's Claim, and that Ed ward Milliken, Samuel Milliken and Nathaniel Milliken lived on said Tract of Land at that time, and in the year 1730, he, the De ponent, was with Mr. John Jones, Surveyor, when he ran out said land, and he began at the Head of said Claim which was at the Crotch on the Nonesuch River, above the bridge, near the great hill called Joslin's Hill, and that he, the said Jones, run from the aforesaid Crotch south west and came out about sixty rods above the uppermost falls on Dunstan River, so called, and that he al ways understood by the general Talk of the people there that the aforesaid Line was the Head Line of Said claim, and that he has seen the tide flow up to the said Crotch and has carry'd pine] timber down said river from above the bridge where it now stands, about thirty feet long and from 12 to 17 inches square, and the said Millikens claimed the said Land as theirs and descendants of the said Algers at that time and that about the same time, he, the Deponent, helped to build a bridge over said River where it now stands in the road leading over said great Hill called Joslin's. James Springer. Falmouth, July 13, 1770. In 1782 the Millikens and other heirs to the Alger estate at Dunstan becamedissatisfled among themselves and they entered into an agreement to petition the Supreme Judicial Court for a commission to rearrange and finally settle all matters in dis pute — all the heirs signing. The com mission was appointed accordingly, Capt. Daniel Dole of Stroudwater be ing one of the board, which report ed two years later, or, in 1784, with a plan attached, the original papers filed in Boston, where they may be seen if not purloined. A little westerly of the road that turns northerly from the way from Stroudwater to Dunstan and easterly of Dunstan Corner, "Jona" Milliken's residence — a one story building — ap pears on the plan and is placed on the northerly side of the road. A little westerly of "Stickey Mead ow Brook," on the northerly side of the same way, going westerly, appears a two story residence marked Nathan iel Milliken. Continuing in the same course westerly appears a two story house marked Edward Milliken. In the southeasterly corner made by the main way and the way to the Landing appears a one story house marked Samuel Milliken. On the westerly side of the Land ing, on the westerly side of the river, fronting easterly, appears a dwelling marked Joseph Milliken, with a two story front and a one story hack — the Landing appearing on both sides of the river with a bridge below, or south erly of the Landing. He was many years an inn keeper. The Congregational meeting house, two storied, lappears in the north westerly corner made by the road to the Landing crossing the main way through Dunstan, and the lot com prised a half acre and twenty square rods. The burymg ground as now seen, comprising one acre and eight square rods. A little westerly of the burying ground appears the "Parsonage lot," comprising an acre and a half. Bet-ween the burying ground lot and the Parsonage lot two and a half acres are represented as assigned to Edward Milliken, this last lot extending back to the rear of the Parsonage lot and back of the burying lot. The present appearance of Dunstan does not indicate that vessels were once built there, that mast-logs a hun dred and more feet long were procured and sent off, that it was a place of much traffic, that it has produced from an adopted child a President for Har vard College, statesmen, a state Gov ernor, clergymen, doctors and lawyers, but what we indicate is true and though now bereft of Its pristine glory the hamlet will repay for a jour ney of some miles to view the situa tion as it appears today compared with what it has been, with its Con gregational meeting house gone, par sonage gone, those to recite its true story gone, mast trees gone, cattle pound gone, mili tary training gone, flip-drinking habit gone, but a harmonious blending In appearance of moderately aged and new residences and a neatly kept burying place of comparative great magnitude. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. In the month of September, 1730, the Rev. Samuel Willard was installed in Biddeford, but while on a visit at Eliot was taken ill in the pulpit and died two days later, which was in the month of October, 1740, leaving a widow and five children, of whom Eunice was born in 1733 and Joseph, Jan. 9, 1738, both in Biddeford. The father. Rev. Samuel Willard, was born in 1705, a descendant of Rev. Samuel Willard, pastor of the Old South church, Boston, Mass., born 1639, a copy of a painting of whom may be seen in the Memorial volume by Miss Ann A. Gordon, 1898, dedicated to the name of Miss Prances E. Willard, the female apostle of moral suasion for the fallen and legal prohibition for the liquor traffic, who, it is claimed, was also a descendant of Rev. Samuel Willard of Boston. Richard Elvins was born in 1716, and by trade was a baker and em ployed at Salem, Mass. He was a man without book education, hut be came converted by listening to the enchanting words and pulpit oratory of Rev. George Whitefleld, concluded to become a clergyman. In 1744 he was settled over the Dunstan society, and Nov. 13, 1744, he and Abigail Willard, widow of Rev. Samuel Willard, de ceased, were united in marriage and went to reside at Dunstan. He did not preach from notes but extempore, being gifted in speech. A sermon, however, of his, preached July 26, 1747, at Dunstan, was printed. But it was not till 1758 that the second or Dunstan Parish of Scarboro was in corporated, and fifteen males and fif teen females were dismissed from the First to form a church society for the Second. Elvins died at Dunstan, August 12, 1776, after having officiated there 30 years, but his grave, if he was interred at Dunstan, has no head stone. His widow removed to Massa chusetts. Of the five Willard children we have traced but two. Rev. Benjamin Chadwick graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1770, and December 19, 1776, was made a pastor of the Dunstan church. He was one of the original members who founded. May 28, 1788, at the residence of Rev. Thomas Browne, Woodfords district of Deering, the "Cumberland County Association of Congregational Ministers," noticed In the News of September 5-8, which has been continued to the present day. Chadwick was continued in the pastorate eighteen years, but be coming feeble In health and partially blind, in 1795, he was dismissed, when his health was restored to a great extent. In December of 1800 he was succeeded by Rev. Nathan Til- ton. Eunice, 'daughter of Rev. Samuel Wilarid, was Rev. Mr. Chadwick's wife. Mr. Samuel Libby, a clerk in. the coal office at 70 Exchange street, pos sesses one of Rev. Mr. Chadwick's sermons in manuscript. The paper upon which it is written is six inches long and there are forty-seven lines on a page. The letters are so small that scarcely a word can be read without study. A call and a perusal will repay. Mr. Libby will be pleased to show the document. There are others of the same sort of construc tion in existence. In 1799 Rev. Mr. Chadwick pur chased thirty acres of land located on the southerly side of the highway upon which hignway the hamlet of Dun stan is located. He built — we ven ture the assertion without positive proof — the one-story, low posted, good sized dwelling house, as now seen, painted white, on the premises, nearly opposite the cemetery, next, at this time, to the easterly side of the school- house, in which dwelling house his family resided and where all departed this life. For the thirty acres of land he paid -$500. Nearly a century has passed since the Methodists of Dunstan put them selves into an organized society. June !20, 1803, the Board of Trustees con sisted of the following named per sons: George Harmon, Thomas Thurston, Wentworth Dresser, Moses Waterhouse and Richard Waterhouse; and the board at that time received for the use of the Methodist Society from the Rev. Benjamin Chadwick and wife Eunice (Willard) a meeting house lot, located upon which Is the low posted building, -which is In good repair and used by the Methodists as a place of -worship, with ample shel ter in the rear for vehicles. Children of Rev. and Eunice (Wil lard) Chadwick: 1— Abigail, b. July 29, 1778. 2— Mary, b. April 6, 1781. 3— Sopiah, b. Jan. 17, 1783. The above are all the names we find on the Scarboro town records. August 31, 1857, Mary and Sopiah having sold the land received of their father, excepting an acre and the buildings on it, estimated at $600, and invested the money in Portland city bonds, and having become too aged to transact business and care for their personal wants, chose Amos Hight, Esq., their agent, with full power to act lor them, hut the two sisters did not survive long after the transac tion, and the following transcript of the inscriptions from the small white marble monument tell the rest of our Chadwick family story as we know it from the records. Rev. BENJAMIN CHADWICK died Nov. 3, 1819, aged 75. Eunice, his wife, died Feb. 18, 1831, aged 88. Abigail Chadwick died Nov. 14, 1846, aged 68. Sopiah Chadwick died January 13, 1866, aged 79. Mary Chadwick, died January 20, 1861, aged 80. "These all died in faith." PROF. JOSEPH "WILLARD. Joseph Willard was horn in Bidde ford Jan. 9, 1738. He was Six years of age when his widowed mother mar ried the Rev. Richard Elvins and went to reside at Dunstan, where he was a bare footed boy, his step father residing a few rods westerly of the cemetery which has since been enlarged so as to make the parson age lot join that of the cemetery. And it requires but a little stretch of the imagination to see him piling wood upon the "Landing" and unload ing goods from vessels, for he made several trips as a sailor in a coaster, but the evidences of intellectual merit appearing in such a convincing man ner friends advised a college course and tendered assistance, so that, in the graduating class of 1765, at Har vard we flnd his name, and a year later a tutor at the institution where he continued till 1772 when he iwas ordained at Beverly, Mass., as a Con gregationalist clergyman, Nov. 25, of that year. In 1781 he was elected President of Harvard College. Some of his lit erary work was printed, but not much. He is set down as a sound Greek scholar and had prepared a Greek grammar, which he left in man uscript. He held his position till death, which was at N&w Bedford, Sept. 25, 1804. FIRST GENERATIONS IN AMERICA. Rev. William Scott Southgate who complied the history of Scarboro per formed some labor on the gene alogy of the Southgate fam ily. IHe departed this life on Sunday, May 21, 1899, at Annapolis, Md., where he had been Rector of St. Ann's church for thiuty years, leaving his genealogical collection with his niece, Mrs. Harriet A. (Southgate) Graham residing at West End, "Va., from whom we have obtained the loan, and, having made very many addi tions — so many that the original is comparatively small — now present the whole to the public. John Southgate of Coombs, Suffolk County, England, was united in mar riage with Elizabeth , of the same place. James Southgate, a son, came to New England and settled In Leicester, Mass., where he died, leaving no male issue. Another son of John was named Richard. He was born in Coombs, Eng., March, 1671, and married there Oct. 17, 1700, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth Steward of Bridley, Eng., b. June 11, 1677. In 1715, Richard came to this country with Daniel Denny, arriving in Bos ton, Sept. 12. June 7, 1716, he return ed to England, but came back the next year with Rev. Thomas Pierce, arriv ing in Boston, July 20th. In 1718 he settled in Leicester, Mass., where he died April 1, 1758; his wife, Nov. 3, 1751. [For a notice of Denny and Pierce, see 'Vol. I, page 187, Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. L. B. C] Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Steward) Southgate all born in Coombs, England. 1— ^Steward, Sept. 8, 1703, m. Eliza beth iScott; 2d, Elizabeth Potter. 2— Elizabeth, March 23, 1705, d. 1791. 3 — Richard, Aug. 3, 1708, d. Aug. 24, 1708. 4 — Hannah, Deo. 10, 1709, m. Nath aniel Waite, d. March 30, 1754. 5 — Mary. June 9, 1712, m. Daniel LIvermore. 6 — Richard, July 23, 1714, m. Eunice Brown Jan. 20, 1741. Descendants residing in "Vermont. 1.^ — ^Steward, eldest child of Richard and Elizabeth (Steward) Southgate, b. in Coombs, Eng., Sept. 8, 1703, m. March 28, 1735, Sarah, 3d daughter of William and Sarah Scott of Palmer, Mass. She d. Sept. 19, 1748; he m. second, at the Quaker monthly meeting, Oct. 26, 1749, Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel and Rebecca Potter of Smithfield, Mass. They resided at Leicester, Mass., until 1730 when they removed to the "Elbows" (now Pal mer) In the county of Hampshire, Mass. He d. at Leicester, Dec. 1764. Children of Steward and -Sarah (Scott) Southgate: 1 — Elizabeth, b. Jan. 26, 1735, d. Jan. 28, 1738. 2— John, b. Jan. 13, 1737, d. Sept. 23, 1748. 3 — William, b. Aug. 29, 1739, d. Sept. 25, 1748. *4— ROBEEfT, (doctor), b. Oct. 26, 1741, m. Mary King of Dunstan, Scarboro, Me. B— Margaret, b. July 17, 1743, d. same day. 6 — Sarah, b. June 18, 1744. 7— Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1746, d. May 13, 1756. 8— Steward, b. Sept. 10, 1748. By second wife. 9 — Son. b. Oct. 21, 1750, d. same day. 10— Amos, b. Dec. 3, 1751, d. Sept. 30, 1775. 11— Rebecca, b. Aug. 23, 1754, d. Oct. 14, 1756. 12 — Son. b. March 11, 1757, d. same day. 13— Ruth, b. Dec. 3, 1758, d. Oct. 18, 1777. 14— Moses, b. July 19, 1761, d. Sept. 1777. FIRST GENERATION IN MAINE. 4.— DR. ROBERT ISOUTHGATE. It is a family tradition that Dr. Southgate arrived at Dunstan June 21, 1771, who was then thirty years of age lacking three months, born at Leicester, Mass., Oct. 26, 1741, son of Steward and Sarah (Scott) 'Southgate, coming on horseback, his saddle-bags containing his entire personal outflt. "What induced the Doctor to come hith er is among the hidden things of the past. That no records of his career in early manhood were left to the pub lic is a matter of regret. That the com piler of the history of Scarboro did not say more relative to his ancestors and insert more genealogical notes in in his work is, at this date, a source of wonderment, but such things were not so much in demand as now, and people were then less inclined to pay for printing. It is apparent that Dr. Southgate upon arriving here engaged In trade of some sort; this the records show. Every shop and inn keeper then held a license to sell alcoholic liquors. In 1771 his application was granted and renewed yearly till 1785. He was in company with one Samuel Southgate, but no records have yet been found showing the family relationship be tween the two. Prior to the year of 1774, however, Samuel Southgate had departed this life and Dr. Southgate was appointed and commenced actions in court as administrator against those Indebted to Samuel's estate. Follow ing is a copy of one record: "Whereas, Robert Southgate of Scarboro, In Our County of Cum berland, Physician, and surviving Partner of the late Company of Robert & Samuel Southgate the said Samuel now deceased; by the consideration of our Justices of Our Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Falmouth with in and for Our County of Cumber land, aforesaid, on the last Tues day of March, 1774, recovered judgment against John Milliken of Scarboro' aforesaid. Saddler, for the sum of Twenty-nine pounds," etc. In settlement the Doctor received an acre and half of land which was the first he received at Dunstan. Nov. 15, 1748, "Richard King of Scarboro, gentleman," purchased the Nathan Knight house lot at Dunstan, (Nathan Knight, who was noticed in our Dunstan articles), located on the easterly side of the road leading to the "Landing." Mary, the second child of Richard King in a family of nine children by two wives, became tihe wife of Dr. Southgate. 'The exact time Dr. Southgate left the practice of medicine and adopted that of farming and became also a counsellor at law we cannot state. In 1800 he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Comimon Pleas which position he held ten years. In the years of 1807-8-9 he erected "Dunstan Abbey," located a little easterly of the parting of the highway leading to Portland from Dunstan Cor ner — a large, brick, two story dwell ing, long ell, large barn and all the other buildings necessary to make complete a not only flrst class farm house but at that time a genteel ap pearing residence. But it seems the house was In the prospective quite a while before it was commenced. In the work entitled "A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago," made of letters of Eliza (Southgate) Bowne, a daughter of the Doctor, under date of New York, July 8, 1803, an allusion is made as follows : "How comes on the new house? We are to come as soon as ever that Is DUNSTON ABBEY." FROM A PHOTO — 1392. flnished. If you choose to send so far, I will purchase any kind of furni ture you wish, perhaps cheaper and better than you can get elsewhere." At another time she writes her par ents she is ashamed of the old house. Our authority for the assertion It was commenced In 1807 is a statement made by Hon. Seth Scammon. It now remains as originally constructed and In its history a wonderment to the stranger who passes, and ten years ago, or thereabouts, when we first visited the premises, they were owned by Mr. Scammon, who had occupied the "Abbey" since 1864 when he and Ezra Carter, the first of Saco, the last of Portland, purchased the home farm and seven other pieces of real estate of the heirs of Horatio Southgate, who received the property by will from the Doctor, who was the father of Horatio, paying $18,000 — the homestead of Ho ratio Southgate at Portland not being included in the $18,000 sale. It was In front of or adjacent the "Abbey" that Andrew Alger resided when he was murdered by the Indians two hundred and twenty-six years ago. Looking southward from the front of the "Abbey" countless acres of marsh land appear, a belt of English grass land intervening; beyond, the ocean; while both sides, the scene Is skirted by woodlands. Looking towards the southwest in the direction of the site of the King house, the land is undu lating, and all, independent of the marsh, of a rich quality in fertility, the marsh prized higher by the flrst set tlers than the up-land. But it was the northerly view, at the rear of the "Ab bey," and much nearer, and far less in magnitude as to the question of number of acres, that attracted our special attention outside the historical consideration, where lofty evergreens had by the hand of Nature been placed, earth embankments, water-jets, rills, surface table rocks containing sculp tured names of those whose "strife is past and triumph won" — reflections of Nature in all its miniature beauty by placid water, with stepping stones naturally arranged, paths carpeted by the waste of trees, all canopied by out stretching boughs of lofty specimens of monarchs of the forest. But a few years later when we again visited the scene — Alas! the venerable, long, white bearded Saco school master, like the builder of the "Abbey" had been called — obeyed — and the woodsman axe in hand, had come and felled the trees; so where natural beauty once abounded and there were expressions of glee in the early history of the Ab bey and Its surroundings and echoes from the lofty tree-domes, the evil spirit of the Indian of two centuries had appeared and permeated the minds of the lords of the land in the manner we here indicate. And now — ¦ ** We search the world for truth, we cyll The good, the pure, the beautiful From gravestone and written scroll. From all old flower-fields of the Soul." and here present the record as we see it. Hark! The voice of the Indian or something else. Do you hear it? " Who wants recorded family rec ords?" "Let the dead bury the dead." "Who wants eternal sunshine or show er?" "Who would fix forever the love liest cloud-work of an autumnal sun set, or hang over the earth an everlast ing moonlight? Give us desolation!" The echo — two hundred years earl ier — "Give us desolation!" For us let there be Nature's land scape perpetually displayed, rational glee and its echo — in realization "the dream that lovers dream," for Nature's path leads up higher In thought, and rational thought has made man what he is in his improved estate. " Earnest words must needs be spoken. When the warm heart bleeds or burns With its scorn of wrong or pity." Within the cemetery enclosure at Dunstan, Scarboro, may be seen a tall, thick, white marble slab that dis closes the da;te of the demise of Dr. Robert Southgate and wife Mary (Ring) southgate, but his name la without a title. To other sooirces of The bacik o!f the -slab points to »n- iffiformation the cemetery visitor must other story — ^a story with many look to ascertain -what he was as re- branches — the story of -ten children gards his occupation. The face in- whose names are inscrib-ed, time erf scriptlon is as follows: ' demise anid ages, but there were ROBERT iSOUTHGATE, twelve, two that did not receive names died before they were called away. N'OT- 2, 1833. Clustering around the parental Aged^ years. record stone are five others (bearing MARY SOUTHGATE, ^.j^^ ^^.^^ ^j Southgate— then the long March 30 1824 ™'^ **^ Horatio's wl-^es and children Aged 68 years. in another place. SECOND GENERATION. Children of Dr. Robert and Mary (King) Southgate. "There were six daughters, all re markable for great personal beauty." 1— iMary King, b. Sept. 4, 1775, d. unmarried, June 22, 1795. 2— (Daughter b. an;d d. Jan, 9, 1777. 3— iSon, b. and d. Nov. 7, 1777. •4 — Isabella, h. March 29, 1779, m. Joseph C. Boyd of Portland. ?5— Horatio, b. Aug. 9, 1781, m. 1st, Abigail McLellan; 2d, Mary Web ster; 3d, Eliza Neal. *6^BlIza, b. Sept. 24, 1783, m. Wal ter Bowne. *7— iOctavia, b. Sept. 13, 1786, m. (William Browne. 8— Miranda, b. Feb. 15, 1789, d. unmarried July 17, 1816. ?9- Frederick, b. August 9, 1791, d. unmarried May 29, 1813. •10 — ^Arixene, b. Sept. 17, 1793, m. Henry Smith. 11— Robert, b. Oct. 14, 1796, d. July 6, 1799. •12— 'Mlary King, b. May 6, 1799, m. Grenville Mellen. ¦ESABEDLA SOUTHGATE. ¦4. — Isabella Southgate (Boyd), b. March 29, 1779, Slaughter of Dr. Rob ert and Mary (King) Southgate, m. Jan. 24, 1796, Joseph Coffin Boyd, b. at Newburyport, Mass., 1760, son of James Boyd of Boston, Mass. His mother twas a sister to the Rev. Paul Coffin of Buxton. James C. and broth ers were all brought up to mercantile pursuits, and all left home young. One became a clergyman; one went to In dia, where he joined the English army, upon returning he -engaged in the cause of his country and became a Brigadier in the war of 1812-15. Robert came to Portland flrst, then Joseph C, and ithey engaged in triade on the corner of Exchange and Mid- idle streets, where the "Boyd Block" Appears. Joseph C. iflxist resided on Pleasant Street, where !the flnst children were bom, in a house that Dr. John Merrill sold as guardian to the Boyd children in 1833 to Joseph Adams for $1,600; he resided second In the large three story residence -numbered 65 situated on the northerly side of Spring street which he built where Dr. John Merrill later resided whose heirs still retain and occupy the premises. In Septemlber of 1798 a military company was organized in Portland and adopted the name of "The Portland Federal Volunteers," with Joseph C. Boyd serving as Captain. "The company offered its services to John Adams, Esq., President of U. S. A., to be ready whenever called upon by him In defence of a just cause of their country." The proposition was accepted by the Secretary of War Nov. 6, 1798. Uniforms: "Short Red Coat with blue facings; -white pantaloons and vest; black V2 gai ters; cap trimmed -with bear-skin, in front of which a plate representing a star with the letters P. -F. "V." "On the 25th of June, 1799, an ele gant standard was presented in front of the Longfellow mansion on Con gress street by Miss Zilpha Woods- worth in behalf of the Ladies of Port land." September 1st, 1800, the company met to offer their services to the President as a company of Light In fantry, Joseph C. Boyd' — ^Captain. July 4th, 1801, their services were ac cepted, when Joseph C. Boyd was made Major. In 1800 Joseph C. went to Friance where he remained a year and a half. Upon his return he beoaime a Notary Public. In 1812 we find him as clerk of the court of Common Please. He served also in the Custom House as deputy several years. In 1820 he -became State Treasurer, which position he held at the time of his death. 15-^Augusta Murray, b. m. Llody Tilghman. Jan. 1819, -Miss Isabella Southgate was a pupil in 1793 at Leicester, (Mass.) Academy. From on address delivered in 1847 by Rev. Dr. Pierce of Brookline, Mass., who had been an assistant, we extract the following: "Miss Isabella Southgate, from Scarboro, Maine, was a youth of trans- cendant beauty and accomplishments. Though in my class which I instructed at the university were Dr. Channing, Judge Story, and other respectable scholars, yet I have been in the habit of remarking, I never knew one male or female, of a more extraordinary mind than was evinced by that gifted young lady." She d. Jan. 28, 1821, aged 42 years; he. May 12, 1823, aged, 63 years. Children of Joseph Coffin Boyd and Isabella (Southgate) Boyd. *1— Mary Southgate, b. Jan. 20, 1797, m. Dr. John Merrill. 2 — James Joseph, b. July 25, 1798. Intention of m. recorded Oct. 15, 1825, -with -Miss Harriet Dumimer of Hallowell. They resided in the Boyd Spring street residence, where he d. April 30, 1829, and the widow returned home. One ?5 — Robert Southgate, b. Aug. 24, 1804, m. Margaret A. Hall. *6— iSamuel StlUman, b. May 27, 1807, m. Catharine C. Wilkins. 7 — Frances Greenleaf, b. Nov. 25, 1808, d. Dec. 11, 1824, unmarried. 8— iHoratio Braid, b. April 17, 1810, d. March 11, 1833, unmarried. 9— Walter Bowne, b. April 21, 1811. A farmer 'at Andover. this state, but removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he continued the calling, and where -he resides unmarried. lO^Mlrand-a Elizabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1812, d. May 31, 1830. *11 — (Frederick William (Reverend), b. March 15, 1815, m. Mary Eliza Railey. 12 — Octavia Carolme, b. March 15, 1815, d. April 6, 1826. 13 — ^Edwaird Augustus, b. June 10, 1816, m. Sariah Farrington of An dover, this state, and settled in St. Paul, Minn., where he was first -a farmer than a doctor. 14^Bllen Almira, b. Aug. 8, 1817, d. April 6, 1826. HORATIO SOUTHGATE. 5.— ^Ho^atIo Southgate, b. Aug. 9, 1781, son of Dr. Robert and Mary (King) South'gate, at the age of thir teen was placed at school at Exeter (N. H.) Academy with Henry Wads worth; Joseph -tj. Buckmlnlster, Augnis- tihe and iBnshrod Washington from Virginia; Daniel Webster and others as companions. Prom there he went to the law office of Salmon Chase of Portland. At the October term of court holden in New Gloucester in 1802 at the age of 21 years and two months he was admitted to the -Cumberland bar as a practitioner with an office -where the Canal Bank building is located in Port land, and one at Dunstan Corner in Scarboro. In 1806 he purchased of Joseph Dil- lans a two story d'welling house and lot, which was his first venture In real estate, for which he paid $2,700, where he ever after resided while a citizen of Portland. The property -was located on the -southerly side of Pleasant street, is now owned and occupied by Moses H. Foster, proprietor of the Preble street dye-house and is num bered 124. The front door was origin ally in the end but Mr. Southgate had it changed to the side as now observ ed. In it fifteen of the sixteen South- gate children were born — ^the other at Dunstan. In 1809 he was a trustee of the Port land Academy. In 1814 he was appointed County Treasurer. In 1815 he became register of the Probate Court for Cumberland County and held the office twenty-one years. In 1818 he was one of the founders of the Portland Benevolent Society, and a member of the Board of Foreign Missions. In 1821 he was a memlber of the board of overseers of the Portland House of Correction. 12 In 1830 he prepared the "Prohate Manual," a work of much merit. In 1840 he was the Portliand Demo cratic candidate for mayor. The vote stood: Greeley, (Whig), 497 Cutter, ("Whig) 509 Southgate, (Democrat) 702 Scattering 9 Total 1717 Under date of April 17, 1840, Rev. Caleb Bi^adley records in his diary as follows : "Election in Portland, but no choice of mayor. Four candi dates — ^two in each of the political parties. Whig candidates, Levi -Cutter -and Eliphalet Greeley; Tory [Democrat] Horatio South- gate and C. B. Smith. Thus they are divided In the city and so through the nation and a nation divided against itself cannot stand, and unless we become better unit ed as a people our ruin is inevit able; there is no help for it; noth ing can save us but the blessed influence of an overruling Provi dence. Lord turn the hearts of the people. O. save us with an ev- erlas-ting salvation! These are days of Calamities; we hav'e hrought down judgments, and more judgiments are in reserve un less prevented by repentance. We are a wicked nation and have for gotten God and what He ha)s done for us and our fathers — ^how He drove out the heathen, or suffered them to be subdued In order to make a way for our European fath ers. We seem to have forgotten how He appeared for us in our struggle's for independence. Noiw. God seems to be saving: 'Shall not my soul be avenged on such a na tion?'" In 1841 Horatio Southgate Esq., was again run and received 680 votes; 'Churchill, 710; scattering, 137; total, 1527, and 'Southgate, "the Tory-Demo crat" (according to Parson Bradley,) was beaten by the Whig's. Horatio Southgate, Esq., was three times married as follows: First — ^With Nabby McLellan, Nov. 1, 1805, dau. of Hugh and Abigail (Browne) iMcliellan, she b. Dec. 31, 1785, d. Au gust 28, 1816. Second— With Mary Webst6r;May 10, 1818, b. Jan. 7, 1799, d. Feb. 28 1819, dau. of Noah Web ster, the compiler of Web ster's Dictionary. Dr. Webster d. June 25, 1847, aged 82 years; his wife survived him, having had one son and six daughters who grew to maturity. The third child of Dr. Webster m. for her first husband Edward Cobb of Portland. M'ary was the fourth. Third— With Eliza Neal, Oct. 14, 1821, dau. of James and Abi gail C. Neal of Portland. She d. Feb. 21, 1865, aged 66 years. After the death of his father (Nov. 2, 1833,) Horatio Southgate, -Esq., re moved from Portland to Scarboro and occupied "Dunstan Abbey," where he died Aug. 7, 1864, leaving a will that was destroyed in the Portland great flre of 1866. In the Dunstan cemetery is a row of Southgate white marble head-stones, including the monument of brown col or, that is fourteen paces long. There are thirteen of them and all of a size. The Inscription upon the face side of the monument is as follows In memiory of HORATIO SOUTHGATE and the members of his family who are here interred. The south side contains a record of his own birth and time of death as it does his three wives, whose names we have presented. The other two sides sure devoted to a record of his offspring. Children of Horatio Southgate, Esq., -and his three wives, all born in Portland but the last who was born in Dunstan. 1— Robert, b. Sept. 4, 1806, d. July 27, 1807. •2 — Robert, (Reverend) b. Jan. 27, 1807, m. Mary Frances Swan. •3- Abigail Browne, b. Oct 28, 1809, m. Dr. John Barrett. 13 •4— Horatio, Jr., (Reverend) b. July 5, 1812, m. first, Elizabeth Browne, second in New York, 1864, Sarah Elizabeth Hutchin son. •5 — Frederick, (Reverend) b. Oct. 23, 1814, m. Mary Moore of Gardiner. By Second Wife: e^Mary Webster, b. Feb. 5, 1819. She was adopted by Dr. Noah Webster, m. Henry Trow bridge, Jr., Esq., of New Haven, Ct. By Third Wife: 7— Richard, b. Jan. 27, 1822, d. Nov. 1852, aged 30 years. 8— Elizabeth, b. Juply 20, 1823, d. Dec. 17, 1862, unmarried, aged 39 years. 9— Emily, b. Nov. 13, 1824, d. Oct. 8 1837 10— Julia, ' b. Feb, 5, 1826, d. Oct. 1837. 11 — ^Edward Payson, b. Sept. 27, 1827, d. Jan. 26, 1846. 12— -Ellen, b. May 7, 1829, d. Nov. 26. 1852, aged 23 years. •13 — ^William Scott, (Reverend )b. April 10, 1831, m. Harriet Ran dolph Talcot. •14— John Barl-ett, b. July 25, 1833. d. Feb. 7, 1862, unmarried, aged 29 years. IS^Henry Martin, b. Aug. 4, 1835, d. Dec. 30, 1852. 16 — Julia Ahby, b. in -S-oarboro, Jan. 25. 1838. m. Thomas Wins low of Gardiner, this state. She d. Jan. 23, 1883, at Brooklyn, N. Y.; he d. a month earlier, same -place. He -was a wtid'ow- er 'and 'had children. ELIZA SOUTHGATE. 6. — Eliza Southgate (Bowne), b. Sept. 24, 1783, dau. of Dr. Robert and Mary (King) Southgate, was christen ed by the name of "Elizabeth" and "Elizabeth" appears upon the back of her father's memorial at Dunstan cemetery, but the name appears in print as Eliza and her letters are signed Eliza so we will refer to her as Eliza, but of her natural and acquired accomplishments we cannot speak in a manner the subject demands. In 1888, 'Charles Sicribner's Sons of New York, printed selections of her correspondence in book form with an introduction, portraits and views, en titled "A Girl's Life Eighty Tears Ago." Her minature as well as her writ ings represent her as a most charming young woman, who, like most of her name hereabouts, filled an early made grave. Of the ten pages of introduc tion we can make but one 'brief extract as follows: "Love and friendship followed her wherever she went in her too brief span of life, and fortune heaped her girlish lap with all good things; but she showed herself worthy of her blessings and kept herself unspotted from the world." The book contains a flne minature of Walter Bowne which, with her de scription, present him as a charming man, who became her husband. He was a merchant doing business In New York city, and his people were Quakers. They met the flrst time in the month of September of 1802, -vrhile bott were making -a pleasure tour of the state and each became at sight en amored with the other. Xt Boston, Mass., May 30, 1803, she wrote her sister, Octavia (Southgate) Browne, from which letter we here make an extract: But I have not told you how General Knox found us out at Newburyport. [The place of in terment of Gen. Knox's remains is marked at Thomaston ceme tery, this state, by a sunken grave, a small, inclining monument, en closed 'by a rusty, tumble-down fence.] 'We always kept to our selves, but in passing the entry Gen. Knox, who had just come in the stage, met Mr. Bowne and ask ed where he was from; he told him from the Eastward. Alone? No. Who is with you? Mrs. Bowne. So plump a question he could not evade, so the General insisted on being introduced to the bride. I was walking the room and read ing, perfectly unsuspicious, when the opening of the door and Mr. Bowne's voice — 'General Knox, my love,' quite roused me; he came up, took my hand very grace- 14 fully, pres't it to his lips and beg ged leave to congratulate me on the event that had lately taken place. After a few minutes of conversation — 'And pray, sir,' said he, turning to Mr. Bowne — 'when did this happy event take place?" I felt my face glow, but Mr. Bowne, al-ways delicate and collected, said — "Tis not a fortnight since, sir.' The stage drove up to the door, and after hoping to see us at Mrs. iCarter's he took his leave, and this morning I found him wait ing in the breakfast room to see me. He introduced me to General Pickney and his family from Caro lina, — General Pickney, they say, is to be our next President. 'Mr. Bowne,' said General Knox to Gen eral Pickney, 'has done us the honor to come to the District of -Maine for a bud to transport to New York.' He was very polite 'and said 'he must find us out in New York.' Only think, I never thought of the wedding cake when I was in Salem. You would laugh to 'hear 'Mrs. Bowne' and 'Misa Southgate' all in a breath — 'How do you do. Miss Southgate? — I be? pardon, Mrs. Bowne,' and do it on purpose I believe; when I hear an old acquaintance call me 'Mrs. Bowne' it really makes me start at flrst, it sounds so very odd. Mr. Bowne will be in, in a minute — and if I don't seal my letter, he will insist on seeing it, so love to ¦all. In a letter to her mo-ther darted Ang. 9, 1803, she says: "Only think, 'tis just a year today since we first 'saw each other, and here we are, married, happy, -and enjoying ourselves in Beth lehem. Memorable day!" (Bethle hem, Pa., to which they had gone on account of yellow fever in N. Y.) As Mrs. Bowne's health was failing In 1808, it was thought best that she spend the winter in Charleston, S. C, to -which place she went with -Mr. William Browne and wife Octavia (Southgate) Browne, who was a sister to Mrs. Eliza Bowne, making the jour ney by water. From the last letter written by her, dated Charleston, S. C, Jan. 28, 1809, we present an extract as follows: "How are my dear little ones? I hope not too troublesome. Octavia is in flne health and grows quite fat for her. Frederick has been unusually troublesome. My dear little Walter! I hardly -trust myself to think of them, — precious children — how they bind me to life! Adieu." HON. WALTE'R BOWN'E. Hon. Walter Bowne, born at Flush ing, ILong Island, N. Y., April 26, 1770, was a son of James Bowne of that town whose residence stood on the highway now known as "Broadway." His father was a farmer. From the Lawrence Genealogy compiled by Thomas Lawrence of Providence, R. L, printed in 1858, par ticularly, from a newspaper article that appeared In "The Flushing Jour nal" of Dec. 28, 1871, and various other sources, we have gleaned much pertaining to the ancient name, but can use only a little here. It appears that Thomas Bowne was born at Metlock, in Derbyshire, Eng land, and baptized in May, 1569. His son John was born In the same place and baptized March 9, 1627. There was a daughter, Dorothy, baptized Aug. 14, 1631, and the three came to this country, the children landing In Boston, Mass., 1649. June 15, 16'51, John visited Flushing, and secured a title to 250 acres of land. May 7, 1656, he was united in marriage with Hannah iField, daughter of Robert Field, and at once put up a small house which was supplemented in 1661 by — strange as It may seem — the Bowne house as now seen on Bowne avenue, in the center of Flushing vil lage. In good repair, owned by a des cendant, and used as a museum build ing which is open every afternoon to the public. His wife was the first to put on the drab, and in 1662 John iBowne was indicted "for the high crime of being a Quaker and thereby an enemy of God and the State." He had the choice of paying a flne of £25 or banishment, and he chose the latter, when he was sent across the seas to Holland, but the West India Company ordered his release. 15 refusing to recognize the Governor's course, Bowne going on foot and un attended from the Irish coast to Am sterdam to plead his case. In 1665 he was back to Flushing, but his wife had died In the month of February of the previous year in London, England, and his father, Thomas Bowne, had died In his son's Flushing home, -dur ing his son's abselce. His residence now became the headquarters of the Quaker sect, the present parlor of the house being used as the audience room of the sect, till near the year 1600, when a house was built for public worship which now stands, as originally constructed two centuries ago southerly of the Sol dier's Monument on Broadway with a burying place attached. We cannot enumerate the articles the house contains, nor describe it outside or In, only say that the sofa, or couch, upon which John Fox rested, who was the Father of Quakerism, re mains where Fox used it In 1672, or thereabouts, and where he addressed "many people many times." We have said that John Bowne mar ried Hannah Field. Another record says her name was Hannah Bicker- staff, and after her, who died in Lon don, Mary Cook became John's second wife. He died Oct. 20, 1695, aged 68, leaving thirteen children. John's son John succeeded him in the possession of the house, who was followed by his son John, then Rob ert, the last John's son, then an other John, making the fourth by the name of John who married Ann Field, the male line in the possession of the house stopping here. Mary, the daugh ter of John and Ann Field, as his wlfe,married in 1784, Samuel Parsons, one of whose sons, Samuel B. Parsons, still surviving, resides upon a part of the parental acres, and before us is a manuscript letter recently written by him at the age of eighty-four, which for correctness in composi tion and neatness in penmanship would do credit to an accomplished female seminary graduate. He is a practical horticulturist and nur seryman, and a writer of high repute on horticultural subjects. We have visited his homestead grounds and observed the John Bowne house of 1661 many times. There is a town of Flushing, and a village of Flushing, the village is in land and about six miles from New York city. The town land is good and farming is about the only industry, but since the establishment of rapid transit, the land In some parts is be coming too valuable for farming pur poses and is being cut up and used for residences. The place was "Tory" during the days of the Revolution, and at the close of the war many families re moved to the British (Provinces. In the matter of introduction of a popular school system (Flushing was very slow. It was not till the year of 1814 that the first public school house was built. Of the school and boyhood days of Walter 'Bowne we have no means of ascertaining. He did not take to tilling the many acres of the ances tral farm but to a traffic in hardware at the corner of Burling Slip and Water street in New York city -with Richard T. Hallet as a partner. We have presented a glimpse of his meeting with Eliza Southgate, the marriage event, honeymoon, and her untimely death, so will pass on to the fact tihat he resided on Bleeker street. New York, but whether or not the house is intact we cannot say. In politics he was a Democrat and in 1816 was State (Senator, a position he held several years. In the years of 1828-'29-'30 and '31 he served as Mayor of New York. At that time there was in New York a branch of the civil government known by the name of "iCouncil of Ap pointments," with supreme powers, which filled all the offices from the highest to the lo-west grade. Of this body Walter -Bowne was a member in i6 1821, when Fitz Greene Halleck, the poet and writer, addressed to him at (Albany, N. Y., a "poem." commenc ing as follows: " We do not blame you, Walter Bowne, For a variety of reasons, You're now the talk of hall the town — A man of talent and renown ; And will be for perhaps two seasons. That face of yours has mag:ic in it, Its smile transports us in a minute To pleasure's sunny bowers. But there is terror in its frown. Which, like the mower's scythe, cuts down Our city's loveliest flowers." His last office was that of Commis sioner, appointed by the Washington Government to superintend the erec tion of the New York Custom house. He was noted in his private and public dealings for scrupulous and ex act dealings, descending to the small est details. He acquired a large es tate. In the time of his mayorality the city numbered 200,000 in popula tion. In commemoration of the marriage event of his only son, Walter Bowne, Jr., which was in 1827, he erected on the easterly side of Broadway, at Flushing, a large residence which was given the name of "Clifford," where he spent his summer months, a photo graph of the premises being before us as we write, but the house is so shaded by trees along the drive-way we cannot here describe it. It went to his grandson, Simon Rapalye Bowne, which was used a spell, later, as a school for boys, since sold, and the lot cut up into house plots and the locality named "Bowne Park," the mansion presenting at this time the appearance of one who has seen (bet ter days. 'The original marriage record writ ten on time-browned paper is now be fore us and is as follows: Walter Bowne and Eliza South- gate, daughter of Robert and Mary Southgate, were married at Scarboro (Maine), May 17, 1803, by Nathan Tilton, minister of the Gospel at Scarboro. In Archdale Church yard, Archdale street, Charleston, S. C, may be seen a monument with an inscription as follows: Sacred to the memory of ELIZA (S. BOWNE. Wife of Walter Bowne of New York, Daughter of Robert South- gate, Esq., of 'Scarborough, Dis trict of Maine, who departed this life on the 19th day of Feb ruary, 1809, aged 25 years. [Since the above was prepared we have learned that the remains were removed from Charleston to a church vault in -New York city thence to the Mushing, 'Long Island, N. Y. ceme tery.] Walter iBowne died at his Bleeker street residence August 31, 1846, aged 76 years. His remains were deposited In a (New York church yard vault but were removed to the Flushing ceme tery, where they repose. (Children of Hon. Walter and Eliza (Southgate) Bowne: *1.— ^Walter, Jr., b. June 18, 1806, m. Eliza Rapalye. *2.— Mary, b. July 2-5, 1808, m. Hon. John W. Lawrence. OCTAVIA SOUTHGATE. ^ 7. — Octavia Southgate (Browne), b. Sept. 13, 1786, daughter of Dr. Robert and -Mary (King) (Southgate, has been notl-ced in our Browne articles in th» News as the wife of William Browne, son of Rev. Thomas Browne of the Stroudwater, or 4th iPariah of Fal mouth, now the First of Deering. William Browne, the youngest child of Rev. Thomas Browne, b. In the Woodfords district of Deering, March 1, 1778, m. Nov. 28, 1805, Octavia Southgate, daughter of Dr. Robert ISouthgate of Dunstan Corner, Scar boro, born there Sept. 13, 1786. "When William Browne entered up on his business career the future was bright. While with his cousin, Steph en McLellan, for a business partner, and a young woman of position, and many personal charms, for a wife, he 17 purchased a lot and erected, or com menced, a dwelling on State street, now by far the finest street in Port land if not the entire state, upon which site, or aJdijacent the improsing Roman Catholic church edifice, where stood till recently the wooden build ing constructed by the Catholics in 1829-30, and dedicated Aug. 11, 1833, may now be seen. A copy of a -daguer reotype of Mr .Browne taken when he was aged, evidently when a wan countenance and a carelessness in dress had overtaken him, it is our good fortune to possess, abtalned from Washington, D. C; and from the state of Texas a photograph of William's son William, one of the youngest in graduation at Bowdoin College — lawyer, Methodist preach er, poet and editor who died in Texas, but we will forego for the present our own observations and present a copy of an article fortunately found in the Portland Advertiser of Nov. 16, 1861, by Hon. Wm. Willis, one of Port land's historians, entitled — WILLIAM BROWNE. "The Injury received hy Mr. Browne a day or two ago, in crossing the street, terminated fatally on Thursday morning. He died In his 83d year. We shall really miss Mr. Browne, for we scarcely even passed through the thoroughfares of our city without meeting this aged and genial citizen. "Mr. Browne was born in West brook, (the part that is now Deering) March 1, 1779, and was the youngest son, and last surviving child of Rev. Thomas Browne, the first minister of Stroudwater parish, who was installed in 1765, and died in the pastorate, Oct. 18, 1797. -His other children were Capt. Thomas Browne, long an active and influential citizen of Portland, who died in 1849; Abigail, who mar ried Maj. Hugh McLellan in 1872; Elizabeth married Archelaus Lewis, of Westbrook, and Rebecca, who mar ried Capt. John L. Lewis of this city in 1802. "The subject of this notice first went to school to a stern old fellow namdd McMahon, who kept at Wood fords Corner, during the desolate con dition of the Neck (Portland) after Its destruction by the British. A number of boys were sent out there to him and boarded with Mr. Browne some of these were Thomas Robinson, John Deering and a son of Thomas Cum mings. Young Bro'wne afterwards went to school to Master Long, who kept in a building apposite the 2d Parish church, owne^d (by Samuel Free man; ,the postoffice was also there. All his companions in these schools with the teachers, have long since passed away, and this the youngest of their nuniber frail and feeble al ways, has lingered till now, and has at last been carried off by an untimely injury. "When a boy he was put into the store of Joseph McLellan & Son, which stood on Congress street just below where Blake's bake house stands (No. 532 Congress street.) They kept, as was the custom of the day, a general assortment of every thing that would sell, and received in barter whatever was produced in the country. They kept there, doing a profitable business, which was already extending into shipping and foreign voyages, until about 1798, when they established themselves on Union wharf, just then built, and were exten sively concerned in navigation, having large ships employed in the European trade. They built a ship about every year. 'The father, Joseph, came from Gorham, (Me.) and huilt in 1755 the house, a part of which is now stand ing on the same lot and the first built in this part of the town; he was also County Treasurer many years. The son Hugh was a most Industrious man, being always a rival of the sun at his post of duty. He and his brother Stephen built In 1801, the large houses on High street, one now owned and occupied by Messrs. Wingate, built by Hugh, the other, owned and occu pied by Mr. Noyes and Mr. Jose. "Mr. (Browne in 1801 'formed a busi ness connection with Stephen McLel lan. and they were the first occupants of the store of Jones' Row, on the cor ner of Fore and Exchange streets. He went to England the same year and purchased goods to the amount of $50,000; and so prosperous was the trade there, they were rajpidly sold out and he went abroad again, partly to purchase goods and partly for his health, traveling on the continent. They soon moved to a larger store in the new block, which was built by llsaac Illsley, and occupied partly for a Custom House, that being in the same room as now occupied by the Bank of Cumberland. To make way for this i8 then elegant Mock, the house of Col. John Waite, sheriff of the county, was moved off, and now stands in a dilapi dated condition, a third story added opposite Mr. Brown's sugar house; It was originally gamJbrel roofed. "In that place, they went down in the general crash of 1801, which over whelmed all the principal merchants of the town — MdLellan & Son, Taber & Son, Weeks & 'Tucker, Webster, In graham, Storers, etc. Prom the di saster Mr. (Browne never recovered, and being a permanent invalid he has been a wanderer after health and found it not, and has had but little profitable employment since that time; so that he has had many years of struggle through his long pilgrim age; in narrow circumstances, but al ways to his commendation be it spoken with a submissive, nay, cheer ful spirit. He was ever a strictly con scientious, upright man, and a sincere Christian professor ; his life gave tok en to his profession. "In ISO'S, Mr. Browne married Octa via, daughter of Dr. Robert Southgate of Scarboro, who gave a grace and charm to society wherever they mov ed, some sixty years ago. She bore him five children, two sons and three daughters; the sons only survive, and they have long lived far away, where their society and sympathy have failed to touch the parential bosom. One daughter married her cousin. Bishop Southgate. The death of his wife, the sweet and cherished companion of his early years, coming with other sor rows, seemed to leave the widowed haiE(band in utter loneliness; still he waited patiently for his o-wn time, which he always trusted would be in God's good time. It has come a wel come Knessenger; saying "come up higher." W. Several of Octavia's letters appear hi the book entitled "A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago," which show her as a woman of culture. William Browne and his wife Octavia accom panied Mrs. Eliza (Southgate) Bowne on her fatal sea voyage to Charleston, S. C, and the contents of his flrst let ter addressed to Dr. and Mrs. South- gate of Scarboro, dated at Charleston, Jan. 1, 1809, we will present, as fol lows:Our Most Esteemed Friends: We have now been in the city a w««k.