Milford married Belinda Ann CONARY. Belinda (daughter of Asa CONARY and Eunice GOTT) was born on 8 Oct 1832 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; died on 31 Oct 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Residence: Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine
• Census: 1860, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

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Census:
lived next door to son Eldridge

Asa married Eunice GOTT on 15 Oct 1815 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. Eunice (daughter of Peter GOTT and Charity CANE) was born on 23 Apr 1793 in Ships Harbor, Mt Desert Island, Maine; died on 25 Oct 1867 in prob Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Questions: Parents correct? This Peter didn’t live at Mr Desert
• Parents Unproven: Y
• Census: 1860, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

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Cardigan Castle was granted to him by King Henry I.

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• Also Known As: CONNERY
• Questions: Conary’s in Kildare and Leighlin, County Clane, Ireland
• Questions: Who are his parents? What part did he play during Penobscot Expedition?
• Religion: Protestant
• Immigrant?: Y
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y
• Historical Notes: When Thomas immigrated to American, several events were occurring in Ireland: Land Issues: Land ownership and tenancy were significant issues in Ireland during this period. Many Catholics and tenant farmers struggled with landownership and tenant rights. This led to tensions and sometimes violent conflicts, as seen in the Whiteboy and Hearts of Oak movements. Catholic Penal Laws: The majority of the Irish population, particularly the Catholic population, faced severe legal and political restrictions under the Penal Laws. These laws discriminated against Catholics and other non-Protestant religious groups, limiting their rights to hold public office, own land, and practice their religion freely. Protestant Ascendancy: The Protestant minority, mainly of English and Scottish descent, held a dominant position in Irish society, particularly in politics and landownership. They formed the backbone of the ruling class and controlled most of the wealth and power in Ireland.
• Migration: Bef 1774
• Census: 1790, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine
• Census: 1800, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine
• Census: 1819, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine
• Census: 1820, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine

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According to Fred E. Bradford, Thomas died on Long Island in Blue Hill Bay, was Protestant of faith. He also lived in Brooksville, ME before moving to Deer Isle, ME.
Reportedly, Thomas was Scottish and settled in Northern Ireland. When Thomas settled in Maine is unknown, but he had deeded land about 1774 in what was called Majabagaduce which is now Penobscot and Brooksville.
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The CONARY's are originally Scottish and moved here from Ireland. The English transplanted Scottish people into Ireland from the 1600's through the early 1800's in hopes that the Scottish would control the "unruly" Irish. However, the Scottish turned out to be more Irish than the Irish themselves.
During the many immigrations to this country, many Scottish-Irish came with the true Irish, and came to be known as Ulster Scots.
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THOMAS CONARY was the first settler of what is known as Black Island, lying in the Reach, also called Conary's Island, and … was included within the limits of the town by the act of the Legislature of 1868. As has been understood, Mr. Conary was a native of Ireland.
He was a very witty person, and in former years I used to hear of many of his witty and comical expressions.
His first wife was the daughter of the ancestor of the Limeburner family, now living in Brooksville, by adoption. Mr. Limeburner emigrated from Scotland before the Revolutionary War, and with him came, besides his own family, two children, a son and a daughter adopted by him. The son was Cunningham Limeburner, who died at an advanced age, not far from 1825, in Brooksville, and the daughter, Mrs. Conary, was, I believe, a sister by birth to him.
After her death he married a daughter of Mercy Staples, and a sister of Messrs. Joshua and Moses Staples, and by both marriages had ten sons, one of whom made this town his permanent residence - Mr. Thomas Conary, Jr., who died at an advanced age. His other sons settled in towns in this vicinity, and all of the name in this and other towns near us are the descendants of Mr. Conary, Sr.
He had three daughters of whom I have had knowledge. One was the wife of Mr. Robinson Crockett, Jr., who lived in this town many years, afterward removing to Brooksville, where he died; another was the wife of Mr. Ebenezer Marks, of Brooksville; another of the late Mr. Amaziah Roberts, of Sedgwick.
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The names Conroy, Conry, Conree and Conary in Ireland are all derived from the native Gaelic Mac Conraoi and O'Conraoi Septs of County Galway and from the O'Conaire and O'Maolchonaire Septs of Munster and Roscommon. Other anglicized versions of these names include Conrahy, Connery and King.

Thomas married Olive STAPLES about 1780 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. Olive (daughter of Samuel STAPLES and Mercy CANE) was born about 1755 in prob Kittery, York, Maine; died after 1820 in prob Deer Isle or Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y

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• Questions: NOT Peter Gott, s/o Stephen GOTT & Patience TARR

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s/o Stephen GOTT (1705—1757) & Eunice EMMONS(1709–1755)

m2 Hannah NORWOOD abt 6 Oct 1821
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"Peter Gott, one of the most interesting characters of eastern Maine, took up the tract south of Moses Staples, or the point of land to Hocomock Head. This is now owned and occupied by the descendants of Isaiah L. Stanley and others. Peter is said to have been a cousin of Daniel Gott [Jr.], who owned Gott's Island, and after whom it was named . This Gott family came from Cape Ann, at which place there are still many of that name."
"Peter came to this State previous to the Revolutionary War, and settled at Ship Harbor, a small inlet east of Bass Harbor, and later moved to Swan's Island, where he reared his family. He married, near the year 1776, Charity Kain, by whom he had eleven children, born between the years 1777 and 1799; I have been able to trace only nine ; the other two presumably died young. After coming here he built a house near where the widow of Isaiah L. Stanley now lives" - page 109 History of Swan's Island

Peter married Charity CANE about 1776. Charity (daughter of Samuel CANE and Lydia LOWE) was born about 1756 in Phillipstown [Sanford], York, Maine; died about 1824 in Swans Island, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: KANE, KAIN
• Baptism: 12 Jan 1756, Wells, York, Maine

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Had 11 children.