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Family/Spouse: Louisa SALISBURY. Louisa was born on 11 Dec 1775 in Salisbury Cove, Hancock County, Maine; died about 1861 in Maine, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Louise COUSINS was born about 1820 in Maine, USA; died about 1848 in Sorrento, Hancock, Maine.

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• Occupation: Blacksmith
• Baptism: 11 Jul 1736, Wells, York, Maine
• Death: 18 Jan 1816, Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine

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Elisha Cousins was born in Wells, ME. When he was about 20 years of age he went to the adjoining town of Kennebunkport where he became acquainted with the Hamor family. Bathsheba Hamor was then 13 years old. Three-and-a-half years later, when she was 16-and-a half and he was 23, he married her. They lived in Kennebunkport for ten years before moving to Harpswell.
Elisha was a very prominent and influential citizen and took a very active part in the public business of the plantation and town of Mount Desert and also of Eden after its incorporation and held many responsible offices under each organization. At a meeting of the town of Mount Desert held April 7, 1794 the following vote was passed "4th Voted that Mr. Elisha Cousins go to the General Court and git the towns Land Confirmed to the Town.
In the records of an adjourned town meeting of Mount Desert on April 6, 1795: "Mr. Elisha Cousins protests against the Precedings of the aforesaid meeting." Attest, James Richardson, Town Clerk.
At the annual town meeting of Eden April 24, 1796 Mr. Cousins was chosen Moderator and Chairman of the board of Selectmen.
He was a Blacksmith. He and his wife were the founders of the Cousins family of Eden, Trenton, and Lamoine.

Elisha married Bathsheba HAMOR on 3 Dec 1758 in Hulls Cove, Bar Harbor, Hancock, Maine. Bathsheba was born on 1 Mar 1742 in Sheepscot, Lincoln, Maine; died on 23 Dec 1830 in Eden, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Military Event: French-Indian Wars
• Military Flag: Y
• Cause of Death: Smallpox

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From “The History of Wells and Kennebunk” by D.B. Robinson

Ichabod, the father, was an enterprising man, generally engaged in milling. He lived in Wells in the earlier part of his life, but in 1745 moved to Kennebunk. He was a soldier in the old French war and died with small-pox contracted while in service. ("He had a log house surrounded by flankers during the Indian troubles on the coast." Saco Valley Settlements, p. 591) At what period the ancestors came to Wells, no record informs us. In the assumption of a right to all the common lands by those who were inhabitants in 1716, Cousins does not appear to have a share, though we are confident that he lived there about that time.

His son, Nathaniel, was born in 1739 and to him we are indebted for much of our information in regard to the ancient history of the town. He was educated as a carpenter, devoted many years to framing buildings; afterwards labored in the shipyards and in milling, as long as his constitution maintained its strength. In his vigorous years he exercised considerable influlence. He was a soldier with his father in the French war of 1755 and at various times, amounting to four or five years, in the Revolutionary war, in which he was an ensign, lieutenant, adjutant, and after the war was over, a major in the militia, having been a captain before the struggle commenced. He was also one of the selectmen of the town, assessor, and many years clerk of the Second Parish. He was endowed wilth much physical power, gained by the laborious experiences of his life, and lived to the advanced age of ninety-five years. (The History of Wells and Kennebunk, pp. 772-773).

Nicholas Cole's grant, next below that of Edmund Littlefield, was conveyed by Ichabod Cousins and his wife, Ruth (Cole) (the granddaughter of Nicholas Cole) Cousens to (Joseph) Storer, May 10, 1745, "containing one hundred acres of upland, made to our grandfather, Nicholas Cole, May 7, 1681, by the town of Wells (History of Kennebunk, pp. 359-360)

Ichabod Cousins b. 1688. In a deposition made July 6, 1714, he stated that he had known the Josiah Littlefield farm ever since he could remember. (York County Court, July Term 1714) He m. Ruth Cole July 26, 1714. She was a daughter of Thomas and Abigail Cole, who were killed by the Indians while traveling toward night between York and Wells in 1702, and a granddaughter of Nicholas Cole. He purchase the shares of his sister and his nephew and nieces in his father's Wells farm in 1717 and 1726. (York Deeds XII: 134, 136) and the town confirmed his title in the right of his father.

Ichabod Cousins had an extended military experience. His name appears on the muster-roll of Capt. James Grant's Company for service from June 24 to August 4 1725, the year of Lovewell's memorable battle at Fryburg. He served as a sergant in Col. John Storer's Company at the siege of Louisburg (NEHG Register 22:116), and we have direct authority that he was "a soldier in the old French war (1755) and died with the small-pox contracted while in the service.
?Administration of his estate was granted to his son Nathaniel on April 3, 1764. The will of his widow, Ruth Cousins, in which she mentions her sons Ichabod, Thomas, Benjamin, Samuel, Joseph, Elisha, and Nathaniel, and her daughter Ruth Wakefield, was proved Nov 23,1768.

Ichabod married Ruth COLE on 26 Jul 1714 in Wells, York, Maine. Ruth (daughter of Thomas COLE and Abigail WORMWOOD) was born on 15 Nov 1694 in Kennebunk, York, Maine; died on 23 Nov 1768 in Wells, York, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Twin?: Y

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• Military Event: King Philip’s War
• Military Flag: Y
• Cause of Death: prob killed by Indians
• Residence: 1666, Wells, York, Maine

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He took an oath of fidelity, July 7, 1670. In 1684, Thomas received a grant of 100 acres west of the river which forms boundary between Wells and Kennebunk, ME and southeast of the post road, which was obtained from town of Wells, ME. He was driven away with other settlers by Indians in 1690 and may have been slain during the warfare as there is no further record of him, and his farm was in the possession of his children in 1717.
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He saw service in the local actions during King Philip's War, and his deposition in regard to the fight which took place near Black Point in 1675 is preserved in the evidence in the case against Capt. Scottow:
'The deposition of Thomas Cousens aged about 30 yeares makes oath that being with Capt Winckoll when he was ingaged with the Indians neere Blackepointe, and faire within sight of the garrison, Capt Winckol sent two men to Mr Scottow for some releife, being then likely to have bene over throwne, by the enimy, but the said Scottow would not send any help to us, he had at that time upward of forty men in his garrison, but from Mr Foxwels garrison, which was as farr from us as Mr. Scottows garrison was, we had five men which did us a great pleasure, and they left but two men in the garrison, which if we had releife from Mr. Scottows garrison, in an ordinary way with gods blessing, we might have given the enimye a great overthrow, and after the fight was over, this deponent went to Mr Scottows garrison, and heard Souldiers generally say, that they see Capt Winckoll ingaged with the enimy, and would have gone to have releived them, but Mr Scottow would not suffer them, but charged them to Keepe the garrison, and further this deponent saith that it was generally reported at Blackpoint, that in theire great distress they could have no help from Mr Scottows garrison, he being the comander thereof, and further saith not.
Taken upon Oath the 16th January 1679
before me Samll. Wheelwright Comissr.'
[York Deeds XI: 4]

This testimony resulted in a summons before the County Court to answer a charge of 'suspicion of perjury,' brought at the instigation of Captain Scottow. He was acquitted of this charge, but convicted of 'presumtuous and reproachfull expressions' against the Captain, doubtless for the purpose of satisfying that important personage [Early Records of Maine, Maine Historical Society Copy, Vol. III, p.399; Vol. IV, p. 76. ] whose conduct during the critical days of 1675 and 1676 was subject to severe criticism.

Thomas married Hannah GOODALE WARD in 1675 in Wells, York, Maine. Hannah was born on 6 Aug 1645 in Wells, York, Maine; died on 16 May 1690 in Wells, York, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cause of Death: Killed by Indians

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• Cause of Death: Killed by Indians while traveling at night between York and Wells

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From History of Wells and Kennebunk, Maine, by E.E. Bourne, 1875, pg. 221: "But during the next year (1696)...Thomas Cole and his wife Abigail, and two other men and their wives, who had been on a visit to York, on their return were waylaid by them [Indians]. Cole and his wife were shot dead.

Thomas married Abigail WORMWOOD about 1688. Abigail was born in 1664 in Wells, York, Maine; died on 24 Jun 1696 in Wells, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cause of Death: Killed by Indians while traveling at night between York and Wells