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Good Morning, Julie:
Meant to send this file off to you on Friday, but my contractors showed up to
install our new windows and I got sidetracked. However, I'm attaching the
file in response to your request for information on Charles B. Brown of Bath,
ME. This information was extracted from an unpublished, handwritten
manuscript by Alfred T. Holt (still living) and this is the source that
provided me with the linkup to my perplexing problem of locating my direct
ancestors for DAR membership. I have nothing but high praise for the work Mr.
Holt is attempting and have offered my assistance to him many times. If you
ever get to Bath, do visit the Patten Free Library's History Room - it is
really a treasure trove.
I am sending this out to the Brown list just in case there is someone else out
there who would like to have this information for their own research.
Good luck in your research, Julie, and if I can be of any further help to you,
just ask.
Arlene L. Brown Ackermann
http://webpages.metrolink.net/~ala/arahp1.html
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From:Julie Brown [SMTP:]
Sent:Wednesday, January 29, 1997 9:54 PM
To:Arlene L. Ackermann
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Hi Arlene,
Thank you very much for your help. It means alot to me. I have talked with
my dad about the info that you have given me so far and he is very excited
about it. I would be very greatful for any more info that you could give
me.
Maybe one of these days real soon I can get a chance to go to Bath and
visit the library myself. I would like to do research on more of my family.
I have gotten a bit further thanks to you and a few other people who have
offered some information. I greatly appreciate any help that I can get at
this point. I am still learning how to research my family tree. I just hope
that I am able to help others one day soon.
Thank you again for all your help. I will be in touch again.
Sincerely,
Julie
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Research on Charles B. Brown of Bath, Maine conducted 28 January 1998 by
Arlene L. Brown
Ackermann () at the request ofJulie Brown () -
Information provided has
been extracted explicitly from an unpublished, handwritten manuscript by
Alfred T. Holt, "The Bath 15
Families." This manuscript resides only at the Patten Free Library in Bath,
ME. I have extracted this
information from the pages entitled BROWN-4, BROWN-5, BROWN-6, and BROWN-7,
Family #B:
Preface to The Bath 15 Families
Interspersed in alphabetic order in Henry Owen's "Families Allied to the Owen
Family" will be 15 family
studies starting with the 1983 composition of the Fisher family. This family
by chance was very easy and
gave us encouragement to proceed in collecting data for the rest.
The purpose of the entire collection, with the inclusion of H. Owen's
"Families ...," is to soundly establish
these families in Bath in the XIXth Century. The family - not the individual
- is what we are concerned
with. It has not been within the scope of these studies to trace the origins
nor the migrations of the
people.
The chief negative criticism of this work will be its superficiality, we
think. And we agree. We are sorry
that we don't have the time/money to do a thorough work on each family - there
are 40 more families
which we want to cover in the next decade.
Another objection to our work is the lack of negative data. It would be
greatly helpful to future
genealogists to know what has been searched to no avail. But to make a
statement of this nature
meaningful, we should be truly competent "searchers," and that we are not.
The 15 families were selected because there was evidence of significant
property holdings in Bath, and
they were from F to L alphabetically - the names from from H. Owen's
genealogical scraps. These
families are: Fisher, Foote, Foster, Gardiner, Hall, Henry, Hodgkins, Kimball,
Lambard (Lambert,
Lombard, etc), Larrabee, Ledyard, Lemont, Lincoln, Loring, and Lowell.
The material has been gathered from the following sources
(1) Vital Records. The Georgetown, Phippsburg, and Topsham records are
printed. Extractions of the
Vrs and in Mrs. Snowe's "Pioneers of Georgetown Families," in Mrs. Potter's
"Arrowsic Family Records,"
and in Dr. Buck's "Woolwich Notes." The Arrowsic, West Bath, and Woolwich
records were culled for any
mention of the 15 names. The Brunswick records were not searched. Three
points about the Bath
records should be made: (a) most of the records were destroyed by fire in
1837, (b) there are five volumes
of marriages and intentions that are just now being cross-indexed for brides
and grooms, and (c) the
amount of information in the records after 1892 is a great deal more than
before.
(2) Church Records. Except for the early Winter Street Church records, which
are incorporated in the
Bath Vital Records, I have not found any church records of much use. It is
regretable that the Elm Street
Baptist Church records are lost.
(3) Cemetery Records. The cemetery office in Bath has an excellent file. The
Patten Free Library has a
large collection of markings from the surrounding towns. The number of
unmarked gravesites is high.
(4) Probate Files. The probate files of Lincoln County (to 1854) and
Sagadahoc County (1854 into the
early XXth Century) were surveyed fairly thoroughly, but the deeds have only
been searched for certain
names - and then rather hurriedly.
(5) An attempt has been made to find material about the 15 families in the
Maine State Library and the
Maine Historical Society Library. Except for some published family
genealogies, we have been
disappointed. More work of this nature should be done at the Essex Institute
Library and the New England
Historical and Genealogical Society Library.
(6) We have sought, and are seeking, manuscript work locally, and have
advertised in the Connecticut
Genealogical Society journal. The latter course would seem to be a waste of
time; but I think there must
be much more material in town. For instance, the archives in the Maine
Maritime Museum have not been
surveyed.
(7) There are four special sources in the Lincoln County courthouse that have
been used: (a) a file of
Revolutionary War pension papers, (b) a marriage index - this is indexed only
for the groom's name and
depended on the town clerk sending in the data, (c) the Common Plea Docket
books - each volume is
indexed separately - valuable material has been found, but rarely, and (d) the
divorce file.
(8) An interesting source that I discovered was the Tax and Assessment records
of Bath. These
undoubtedly should be carefully studied and summarized, but is is a very
special task. The assessment
books for 1830-31, 1838, and 1852, and the tax lists for 1831-38, 1840,
1846-8, and 1850 have been
found.
(9) All the Bath school records seem to have been destroyed or lost.
(10) A unique work by Doris Rowland nd Helen McPhee (deceased 1983) is the
Newspaper Index in the
Patton Free Library. This gives genealogical data found in the newspapers of
the XIXth Century.
(11) The U.S. Censuses are very important, and the Patton Free Library now has
microfilm copies of the
1850-80 and the 1810 censuses of the towns in Sagadahoc County. Only rarely
did I study the earlier
censuses, which are in the Maine State Archives.
(12) What can be a fine source, the newspaper obituary, began to appear in our
papers in the mid 1890s.
Fortunately, the Patton Free Library has the Bath Times on microfilm and bound
volumes of the Bath
Independent.
(13) I have just found another source: the divorce fil in the office of the
Superior Court in Bath.
Alfred T. Holt; Withywindle, Bath, April 1984
List of Abbreviations:
AFR Arrowsic Family Records - Potter
AVR Arrowsic Vital Records
CR Cemetery Records - Bath
FGP Families of Georgetown Pioneers - Snowe
GVR Georgetown Vital Records
HO Henry Owen's notes in Patten Free Library
LCD Lincoln County Deeds
LCM Lincoln County Marriages - entries sent in by the town clerks (there is
also a divorce file)
LCP Lincoln County Probate
LCWD Lincoln County - West District - Deeds (1825-1854) located in Sagadahoc
County courthouse
naturalization - see LC
NI Rowland/McPhee Newspaper Index at Patten Free Library - genealogical
notes from
newspapers (1820 on) gathered by Doris Rowland and Helen McPhee
Obit Obituaries in Bath Daily Times, Bath Independent, or Bath-Brunswick
Times Record
PFL Patten Free Library
pension - see LC
PVR Phippsburg Vital Records - published
Rowland, Doris - see CR and NI. Many of her studies are found in the PFL, but
unfortunately she never
cited her sources
SCD Sagadahoc County Deeds
SCP Sagadahoc County Probate
SCSC Sagadahoc County Superior Court - index to the divorce dockets
tombstone either viewed by us or Brown-Rowland-McPhee (see CR)
TVR Topsham Vital Records - published
VR Bath Vital Records (bVR, mVR, dVR: birth, marriage, death). These were
largely destroyed
by a fire in 1838. Many families supplied data to the town clerk in
the following years. The
early baptismal records of the Winter Street church are included here.
On 1 Jan 1892 the
amount of data supplied was greatly increased.
WBVR West Bath Vital Records - not published - very fragmentary
WCR Woolwich Cemetery Records
WVR Woolwich Vital Records - not published - Dr. Cleaveland Buck arranged
many of these
records into family groupings - typescript in PFL
B. The relationships of William1, William2, Freeman, William L. and Edwin
have been deduced from: (1)
the burial site in West Bath, (2) the appelation of "Jr" for William2,
(3) an anonymous paper[anon] in
the PFL that states that Freeman is William L.'s father, and (4) the
estate papers of Edwin in which
Apphia C. Pennell, the dgt of William L. Is called Edwin's niece.
1. William1 Brown b abt 1756, d 4 Mar 1841, bur West Bath[CR]; m Delia
Corroner, b 1759, d 7 May
1819, bur West Bath[CR]. Children (partial):
2. i. William Jr b 14 Sep 1782
3. ii. Freeman b abt 1795
2. William2 Brown Jr (William1) b 14 Sep 1782 Bath[VR], d 6 Oct 1861, bur.
West Bath[Lombard
Cemetery]; m 1 Jul 1807 Joanna Merritt[Bath Vital Records] b abt 1783, d
22 Nov 1836 Bath[VR], bur
West Bath[Lombard Cemetery]. Children[VR]:
4. i. Francis Merritt b 20 Dec 1808
ii. Delia b 5 Jul 1810, d 25 Jun 1813 Bath[VR], bur West Bath
5. iii. Harvey b 4 Jul 1815
3. Freeman2 Brown (William1) b abt 1795, d 25 Oct 1823, bur West Bath[CR]; m
Sarah H.
Leatherby[anon] b abt Feb 1790, d 21 Oct 1866, bur West Bath[CR].
Children (partial?):
6. i. William Leatherby b abt 1814
ii. Edwin b 1820, d.s.p. 26 May 1881, bur West Bath[CR]; estate[SCP
B-165] m Isabell (?).
They were in the 1850 census of Bath and the 1860-80 censuses of
West Bath.
4. Francis3 Merritt Brown (William2,1) b 20 Dec 1808 Bath[VR], d 13 Sep
1889; will of 2 Nov 1886
probated Nov 1889[SCP B-220]. m1 20 Aug 1835 Bath, Lucinda Rich[VR][see
also this manuscript
RICH-1]; m2 int. 25 Sep 1843 Bath Apphia Coombs of Windsor[VR]; she had a
son, Hiram Coombs, b
abt 1836[1850-60 Census]; m3 12 Apr 1866 Bath, Hannah S. Rich[VR][see
also this manuscript
RICH-4] dgt of Benjamin (b Cape Cod) and Rebecca (Snow) (b Harpswell) b
abt 1824 West Bath, d 6
Dec 1906 Bath[VR], bur West Bath; her estate probated by petition[SCP
B-371]. He was a farmer.
The family was in the 1850-80 censuses of West Bath. Children:
i. Albert b abt 1840, d.s.p. 18 Jun 1886, bur West Bath[CR];
estate[SCP B-190]. He may have
been married to Sarah M.[1870 census], but she does not appear in
the 1880 census nor in
the estate papers.
ii. Helen M. (adopted)[1880 census]
5. Harvey3 Brown (William2,1) b 5 Jul 1815 Bath[VR], d 17 Jul 1871, bur West
Bath[Lombard
Cemetery]; will of 23 May 1871 was probated Oct 1871[SCP B-111]; m 6 Jul
1845 West Bath, Lucinda
Cutting[WBVR] dgt of Henry and Sarah, b abt 1821, d 6 Aug 1870, bur West
Bath[Lombard
Cemetery]. He was a farmer. The family was in the 1850-70 West Bath
censuses. Children:
i. Sarah F b 1846/7, m 22 Dec 1866 Bath, William G. Houdelette of
Dresden[VR]
7. ii. Henry C. B 12 Dec 1850
iii. Josephine M. b abt 1853
iv. Martha D. B Oct 1858, d 1 Oct 1936 Bath[VR], bur Bath; m int 3
Jun 1882 Bath, Charles H.
Oliver[see also this manuscript OLIVER-9]
6. William3 Leatherby Brown (Freeman2, William1) b abt 1814, d 26 Jan 1881,
bur West Bath[CR]; his
will of 15 Sep 1876 was probated May 1882 and estate distributed Sep
1910, both by petition[SCP B-167]. He was a sea captain. The family was in
the 1850-80 West Bath censuses. Children[census
and estate]:
i. Sarah M. b abt 1837 West Bath, d 30 Jan 1906 Bath[VR] m Elliot G.
Penney[estate].
Children: Nancy and Gertrude
ii. Rhoda Jane b abt 1841, d (?), m Seth P. Nason of
Wiscasset[estate]. Children: Jesse
Howard, Charles Elmer, and Mary Matilda[anon]
iii. Cinda b abt 1841, d 2 Jan 1867, bur West Bath[CR]
8. iv. Charles B. b abt 1846
v. Mary E. B abt 1849, d (?), m1 Kingsbury Bubier (b Litchfield)[mVR
of Blanche 22 Sep 1903].
Children: Fred, Cora, Jennie, Blanche, and Bert[anon]. She m2 16
Apr 1894 Bath, Willis J.
Higgins[see also this manuscript - HIGGINS-12]; no children. She
m3 2 Apr 1908 Bath,
Andrew Bubier (b Bowdoin)[VR]
vi. Apphia C. b abt 1851, d (?), m John B. Pennell[estate] of
Harpswell. Children: Charles, Alice,
Will, Hiram, and Worthing[anon]
9. vii. Hiram b abt 1856
viii.Ella Frances b 19 Jan 1859 West Bath, d 20 Jan 1943 South
Paris[obit and VR]; m1 Will
Clark of South Paris. Children: Ruby and Rose[anon]. She m2
Ellis Coombs[see also this
manuscript - COOMBS-6]
ix. Albertine b 1859[only in the 1860 census]
7. Henry4 C. Brown (Harvey3, William2,1) b 12 Dec 1850[CR] West Bath, d 6
Feb 1913 West
Bath[WBVR], bur West Bath; will of 9 Feb 1895 was probated by petition of
10 Feb 1913[SCP B-445].
m abt 1875[1910 census] Martha J. Bliss, b 20 Aug 1853[CR] Pittston[mVR
of Katie], d 31 Dec
1914[CR], bur West Bath. Children:
i. Katie B. (adopted) b abt 1871[1880 census], m 5 Jun 1894 West
Bath (?) McNary. Resided in
Chelsea, MA in 1913[estate of Henry]
ii. Jennie d 23 May 1875 at 2 mo[CR], bur West Bath
8. Charles4 B. Brown (William3, Freeman2, William1) b abt 1846, d (?), m
Susie Hart of Tenant's
Harbor. He was a sailor[1870 census of West Bath]. Children (all of
Tenant's Harbor in 1910)[estate
of William L. and anon]:
i. Frank - a steamboat captain
ii. Arthur - Hagans Shoe Co., NY
iii. Harry - wholesale fish store, Tea Wharf, Boston
iv. Emma m (?) Dwyer by 1910; later resided in Whitman, MA
9. Hiram4 Brown (William3, Freeman2, William1) b 18 May 1856[obit], d 21 Feb
1943[CR], bur West
Bath; m Lillian M. Holbrook[see also this manuscript - HOLBROOK-3, -4]
dgt of A. Melvin and Jane
(Frazier) (b Westbrook), b abt 1870, d 2 Nov 1937 Portland[WBVR], bur
West Bath. No children
mentioned in their obituaries.
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