Hezekiah married Nancy Ann CONARY on 29 Mar 1846 in Swans Island, Hancock County, Maine. Nancy (daughter of Israel CONARY and Martha GOTT) was born on 29 Nov 1824 in Swans Island, Hancock County, Maine; died on 3 Jul 1910 in Winterport, Waldo, Maine; was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Swans Island, Hancock County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Husband and wife are 2nd cousins.

Elias married Jane STAPLES on 25 Nov 1814 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. Jane (daughter of Joshua STAPLES and Martha “Patty” RAYNES) was born on 8 Jan 1791 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; died in 1854 in Swans Island, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Noteworthy: Served at Valley Forge
• Military Event: American Revolution - MA: Cpl; served at Valley Forge
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y

Notes:

Joshua served 6 years 2 months in the Revolution as a pvt and a corp; his discharge was signed by Gen. Washington and he received the Badge of Merit. p 259
Served at Valley Forge.

Joshua married Martha “Patty” RAYNES about 1790. Martha was born on 2 Jun 1750 in York, York, Maine; died in 1799 in Swans Island, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

d/o John Raynes

Other Events:

• DAR#: ---
• 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

Notes:

[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]

Other Events:

• 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."