New England Families

M/F Children of this Marr: Date City County State

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F 1 Abigail Bapt 12 Sep 1762[9] Wells, Maine
to Ezra Davis, Jr Marr Nov 1780[10] "what is now Castine"

Died bef 2 May 1843[11] prob Newburg

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M 2 William Born 16 Oct 1763[12]

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F 3 Mehitable Bapt 16 Jul 1765[13] Wells Maine

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M 4 Enoch

to widow Lydia Lovett Marr(1) 4 Sep 1794[14] | both of Cobenton Pl.

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F 5 Anna Born 1774-1780[15]

to Stephen Page Marr 2 Nov 1796[16] | both of Cobenton Pl.

Died 8 Jan 1817[17]

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F 6 Rebecca Born abt 1775[18

to Wm. Costigan Marr Dec 1800[19] both of Sunkhaze

Died bef 1850 Census[20]

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F 7 Esther Born 30 Apr 1777[21] Orono

to Wm. McPhetres Marr 15 Sep 1796[22]

Died 5 Sep 1869[23] Orono

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F 8 Phebe Born

to Francis Robishaw Marr 1797[24] both of Cobentown Pl.

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M 9 Samuel

Marr 3 Jan 1806[25]| Orono, both of Olamon

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Notes on the family of Joshua and Sarah (Low) Ayers

 

Joshua Ayers was baptized in Falmouth, Maine, in 1739 and married his

first wife in Wells in 1757, but was "of Phillipstown." He served in

the French and Indian War from 13 Aug 1755 to 12 December 1755 and was

of Phillipstown at the time. The company or regiment and/or book was

"Samuel How, Willard."[26] I need to look at this again.

 

In 1760 he was `late of Phillipstown now of Penobscot.'[27] He was in

the town of Penobscot, across the river from Fort Point, in 1763. He

sold out there in 1771.[28]

 

According to a petition that he and Jeremiah Colburn filed in 1776

with the General Court of Massachusetts, Joshua Ayers and Colburn

arrived in the Orono area "five miles above any settlement, where they

thought no person could turn them off" and began building houses and a

saw mill in July 1774. They moved their families there in October of

that year. In May of 1775, they heard reports that the Canadian

Indians might assist Great Britain and come across country and destroy

them so they moved out. One of them returned in August and the other

in June of 1776. (It doesn't say who returned first.)[29]

 

In 1776 Joshua paid tax of 1 pound, 7 shillings, and 9 pence.[30]

 

In 1784, when he sold part of the saw mill to Josiah Tolman, Joshua

said he had been there continuously except when he was `driven off by

the Brittons.'[31] His home was either on what was Middle St in 1874,

or in the Myrtle St. area of Orono as of 1957, according to two

different sources.[32]

 

The Park Holland Survey taken in 1796 found that Joshua was there by

1774 and also included his sons William (settled when?) and Enoch

(1786.)[33]

 

Joshua is on the 1790 Census of Conduskeeg Plantation with four sons

16 or under, five females, and himself.[34] He and his sons Joshua Jr.

(from his first marriage), William, and Enoch are on the 1800 Census

of Sunkhaze, Hancock Co. All of them said they came from "Hampshire"

when asked "from whence emigrated."

 

By June 1800 he and his wife were of Passadumkeag and he was of Olamon

[now Greenfield] when he died.[35]

Footnotes for this information:

9. Records of the First Church of Wells, Maine, in NEHGR Volume 76

(or in a book at NEHGS?).

 

10. Abstracts of Pension Files.

 

11. Maine Families. Date of her will being probated in Kennebec Co.

 

12. Maine Families: TR of Passadumkeag. Not likely born there though.

 

13. Maine Families: NEHGR 76:180.

 

14. Joseph W. Porter, editor, Memoir of Col. Jonathan Eddy, of Eddington,

Me., etc. (Augusta: Sprague, Owen & Nash, Printers, 1877), page 56.

 

15. 1800 Census, Bangor, Series M32, Roll 7, Page 75.

 

16. Joseph W. Porter, editor, Memoir of Col. Jonathan Eddy, of Eddington,

Me., etc. (Augusta: Sprague, Owen & Nash, Printers, 1877), page 56.

 

17. Orono VR, microfilm at NEHGS.

 

18. Maine Families: 1840 census of Burlington.

 

19. Joseph W. Porter, editor, Memoir of Col. Jonathan Eddy, of Eddington,

Me., etc. (Augusta: Sprague, Owen & Nash, Printers, 1877), page 57.

 

20. Maine Families.

 

21. Orono Centennial, p. 43ff.

 

22. Maine Families. No source. "By Seth Noble." Orono Centennial says

1795.

 

23. Maine Families. No source. Vital Records?

 

24. Joseph W. Porter, editor, Memoir of Col. Jonathan Eddy, of Eddington,

Me., etc. (Augusta: Sprague, Owen & Nash, Printers, 1877), page 57.

 

25. Maine Families. No source. Vital Records?

 

26. "Massachusetts Soldiers in the Colonial Wars," database at

NewEnglandAncestors.org.

 

27. Maine Families, various sources.

 

28. "Some Pioneer Settlers on Upper Penobscot River" in Bangor Historical

Magazine, Volume 6, pages 28, 29. Reprint pages 1250, 1251.

 

29. Found in Centennial Celebration and Dedication of the Town Hall,

Orono, Maine, March 3, 1874, (Portland, Maine: Bailey and Noyes,

1874), page 38ff.

 

30. "Heads of Families on Penobscot River" in Bangor Historical Magazine,

Volume 4, No. 6, pages 126, 7. Reprint pages 850, 1.

 

31. Maine Families, source: Lincoln Co. Deeds 18:135, and Centennial.

 

32. Maine Place Names, Penobscot Co., Ava H. Chadbourne (Freeport: Bond,

Wheelwright Co., 1957), pages 10, 11, says Myrtle St. Orono Centennial

say Middle St.

 

33. Summary of the surveyors' notes, as found in Ruth Gray, editor, Vital

Records of Old Town, Maine, Prior to 1892 (Camden, Maine: Picton

Press, 1996), pages vii and viii.

 

34. Maine Families for details. Series M637, Roll 2, page 73.

 

35. Maine Families: Hancock Co. Deeds 7:377.

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1800 Census, Sunkhaze, Hancock Co, Maine

Series: M32 Roll: 7 Page: 69

all on same page

 

EAYRES ENOCH ME HANCOCK SUNKHAZE 1800

1 male over 45 2 females under 10

1 female 26 to 45

 

EAYRES JOSHUA ME HANCOCK SUNKHAZE 1800

2 males under 10 1 female under 10

1 male over 45 1 female over 45

 

EAYRES JOSHUA JR ME HANCOCK SUNKHAZE 1800

2 males under 10 1 female 10 to 16

1 male 26 to 45 1 female 26 to 45

 

EAYRES WILLIAM ME HANCOCK SUNKHAZE 1800

2 males under 10 2 females under 10

1 male 26 to 45 1 female 26 to 45

all said "Hampshire" for "from whence emigrated"