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From: Dana Edgecomb <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] WILKINS Marriage ~1800 - Which Town?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:32:15 -0500
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Hi Betty;
Unity was formerly Twenty-Five Mile Pond Plantation. You
should check the 1771 Massachusetts Direct Tax list (Maine
was then part of Massachusetts.
The only Wilkins in the 1790 Maine Census is David,
in Lewistown Town and the Gore adjoining, with a family of
2-2-4.
Dana Edgecomb



At 05:52 AM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'd like to ask for advice. My ancestor, Samuel WILKINS, was reportedly
>born in "Maine" between 1770 and 1780. We have NO idea who his parents
>were, but I have a "thought" that his father was one of the four WILKINS men
>reportedly living in "Maine" in the late 1700's.
>
>He also reportedly was married in "Maine" right around 1800. *If we do
>not know which town he was married in, is there any way to find a record of
>his marriage?*
>
>The 1810 Census shows Samuel and Electra "Leeta" WILKINS and their children
>living in Unity, ME. I thought perhaps they had married there, but I
>read on-line yesterday that Unity was not incorporated as a town until 1804.
>The family was also in Unity (with more children) in 1820. .. By the
>1830 Census they were living in Amity, ME, in Aroostook County.
>
>We have NO idea what Electra's maiden name was, so we don't know which early
>"Maine" family she came from. If she married right around 1800, then she
>was also born right around 1780 also.
>
>Most WILKINS had connections to patriarch, Bray WILKINS' descendants in
>Middleton, MA. But, I have never heard of anyone making a direct
>connection with the WILKINS families living in "Maine" .. "prior to 1800" ..
>to the families in Middleton, MA. That is, with the possible exception of
>David WILKINS who lived in Lewiston and Greene, ME, with his large family.
>
>So far in my research, I know of three WILKINS men, besides David, who lived
>in "Maine" .. "prior to 1800" ... and they were:
>
>William WILKINS, a surveyor who lived in the Vassalboro and Unity area, but
>who signed up to fight in the War .. as a resident of Pittston, ME. I
>believe he might have died between 1780 and 1800. He is mentioned in
>regards to 1780, but he never applied for a pension - nor did a wife or
>mother (that I know of).
>
>Edward WILKINS lived "in the back woods north of Bangor." He or his wife
>did apply for a pension. I believe he and his wife are buried in a
>cemetery in Charleston (?), ME. I would very much like to find out if
>they had children.
>
>Joseph WILKINS was a soldier in the War, but absolutely nothing else is
>known of him. Perhaps he died in the War; perhaps he didn't return to
>"Maine." ??
>
>Thank you for your time !
>
>HAPPY NEW YEAR ... almost !
>
>Betty (near Lowell, MA)
>
>
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