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• Occupation: Mariner, pilot of steamer "Mount Desert".
• Census: 1870, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

Notes:

Census:
goes to sea

Samuel married Maria S. MOSSMAN on 5 Nov 1861 in Rockland, Lincoln [Knox], Maine. Maria was born on 10 Aug 1834 in Rockland, Lincoln [Knox], Maine; died on 22 Aug 1910 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in Achorn Cemetery, Rockland, Knox, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Everett DOW was born about 1867 in Brooklin, Hancock, Maine.
2. William Dean CONARY was born on 6 Aug 1869 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; died on 19 Mar 1899 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in 1899 in Wenham Cemetery, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts.

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• Occupation: Mariner
• Residence: Swans Island, Rockland, & Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

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Named after his half-uncle Rev David Hutchinson.

David married Susan SMALL on 31 Jan 1825 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. Susan was born on 17 Jan 1801 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; died on 20 Mar 1865 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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d/o Andrew Small & Hannah Crockett.

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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

Notes:

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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• Military Event: French-Indian Wars, American Revolution - pressed by British
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y
• Cause of Death: Presumed shot and thrown overboard in the Penobscot Bay during the American Revolution.
• Baptism: 10 Jul 1715, Kittery, York, Maine

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[Samuel] was impressed on board of an English man-of-war during the Revolution, and was never heard from. The mother of this family, Mrs. Mercy Staples, afterwards married a Mr. Hutchinson, of Sedgwick, by whom she had two sons and one daughter. The sons were Rev. David Hutchinson, a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal church in the western part of the State, and Timothy Hutchinson, who lived and died on Little Deer Isle. The daughter, Susan, was the wife of Capt. Benjamin Gray, of Penobscot.
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Samuel Staples removed his family from Deer Isle to Swans Island in 1764. While fishing with others from Swans Island during the American Revolution, Samuel Staples was impressed into service by a British frigate. He was never heard from again, nor have any records of his whereabouts or fate been uncovered. According to the Bangor Historical Magazine, volume 5, when the British evacuated Bagaduce Maine, he was seized and carried off on a "Man of War" vessel and utilized as a pilot. Once the Penobscot Bay was cleared, it is presumed that he was shot and thrown overboard.
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The occupant of the land adjoining that of Mr. Thompson on the southeast was a man named Staples. His widow, Mrs. Mercy Staples, with Joshua and Moses Staples, seems to have been here very early, not far from 1764. In all probability the sons above named were then quite young. There was another brother, who must at that time have arrived at manhood, who was the father of Mr. Samuel Staples, who died at Green's Landing, in 1841, aged seventy-three years.
Samuel had one brother younger, named William, and two sisters, one, the wife of Mr. Stephen Babbidge, the other, that of Mr. Timothy Saunders. Their father was impressed on board of an English ship-of-war during the Revolution, when that iniquity was practiced. He was never heard of after that, and probably died while in the service.
Afterward Mrs. Staples married a Mr. Hutchinson, of Sedgwick, by whom she had two sons and one daughter. The sons were Rev. David Hutchinson, a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the western part of the State, and Mr. Timothy Hutchinson, who lived here many years and died on Little Deer Island; and the daughter was Susan, the wife of Captain Benjamin Gray, of Penobscot.
Mr. Staples moved to Swan's Island, where he died in 1845, aged over ninety years. The other son, Joshua, in whose name the lot appears on the plan, married the daughter of Mr. John Raynes, Sr., who had one daughter, Jane Staples, who married Mr. Elias Morey, Jr., who lived and died on Swan's Island.
The mother, Mercy Staples, also had a settler's right, and it was known as the "Granny Lot," as she was known as "Granny Staples." She had a deed from the Tylers, 'and it passed from her to her son-in-law, Mr. Thomas Conary, by whom it was conveyed to the late Pearl Spofford, Esq., and is now held by his heirs. The lot set off to Joshua Staples afterward became the property of Major Nathan Low, and is now held by his heirs.,

Samuel married Mercy CANE about 1745 in Phillipstown [Sanford], York, Maine. Mercy (daughter of Nicholas CANE and Mary PARSONS) was born on 14 Oct 1719 in York, York, Maine; died after 1796 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y

Notes:

She was on Deer Isle as early as 1764. She had a settler's right to the lot known as the "Granny Lot;" She was known as "Granny Staples."