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• Cause of Death: Angina Pectoris
• Census: 1850, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

Cynthia married Albert C. NEWCOMB on 22 Aug 1863 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Albert was born on 8 Apr 1832 in Vermont; died on 13 Apr 1897; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
by Andrew McKeown

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• Also Known As: CONNERY
• Occupation: Brickmaker
• Military Note: Rank: Corporal, Annual allowance: 24, placed on pension: 21 Oct 1816
• Military Event: War of 1812, Capt Pinney’s 4th Inf; Corp
• Military Flag: Y
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y
• Census: 1830, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine

Isaac married Charity CARTER on 20 Mar 1822 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine. Charity (daughter of James CARTER and Mercy CANE) was born on 16 Mar 1803 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; died on 26 Mar 1883 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota; was buried in Carter Point Burying Ground, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married Name: REIDHEAD
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y
• Census: 1850, Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine
• Census: 1860, Brooklyn, Hennepin, Minnesota
• Census: 1870, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota
• Census: 1875, Brooklyn, Hennepin, Minnesota
• Census: 1880, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota

Notes:

known children:
Lydia Luddington (?—1849)
Benjamin (1764—1833)
Elias (1748—1797)

Census:
Lvg w/ son Vespasian

Census:
52 4th St S; log w/ dau Lucinda

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Husband and wife are 2nd cousins.

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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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• Religion: Baptist - 1st Baptist Church, Sedgwick
• DAR#: A134507
• Military Event: American Revolution - MA, Capt Nathaniel Fales, Penobscot: Pvt
• Military Flag: Y
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y

Notes:

James Carter fought with his father in the Expedition on the Penobscot 1779.
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Descendant of Elizabeth Marshall, came to Saco in 1628 with husband Thomas Lewis. Elizabeth Marshall is a direct descendant of Edward I Plantagenet. Comes from a long line of distinguished military men.

James married Mercy CANE on 12 May 1794 in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine. Mercy (daughter of Samuel CANE and Abigail PIERCE) was born on 10 Nov 1773 in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine; died on 20 Nov 1863 in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Carter Point Burying Ground, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: CAIN
• Religion: Baptist - 1st Baptist Church, Sedgwick
• Confirmed Ancestor?: Y

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• 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]

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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."

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• DNA Fact: confirmed by triangulation
• DAR#: A019947
• Military Event: American Revolution - MA, Capt Nathaniel Fales, Maja Bagaduce: Pvt
• Served American Revolution?: Y
• Military Flag: Y

Notes:

Military: Bet 1 Aug 1779 and 29 Aug 1779 Castine, Hancock, Maine.
Came from Edgecomb Maine to Blue Hill in 1770.
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Revolutionary note: Expedition
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The expedition organized by the Americans in June, 1779, to dislodge the British who had occupied the point where is now the town of Castine, Maine, as a base of supplies and a naval station, has been known in history as the Bagaduce expedition, but at that time was called "The Expedition to the Penobscot." The arm of the sea now called Bagaduce River was in former times called Matchebiguatus, an Indian name meaning at a place where there is no safe harbor. At the time of the Revolution it was known as Maja-Bagaduce, which was contracted into Bagaduce and hence the name of the expedition.
The fact that the campaign was a disastrous failure has probably deterred historians from the preparation of a full history of the affair; but as it was one of the most prominent events in Maine's Revolutionary history, it seems proper that the service, with the company rolls of the men who composed the regiments, should be recorded. The men were in no wise responsible for the results, and no doubt acted as well as they could under the circumstances in which they found themselves placed.
http://www.kinquest.com/usgenealogy/revwar/bagaduce.php
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The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted during the Revolutionary War by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The flotilla of 19 warships and 25 smaller support vessels sailed from Boston on July 19, 1779 for the upper Penobscot Bay in the District of Maine carrying a ground expeditionary force of more than 1,000 colonial Marines and militiamen. Also included was a 100-man artillery detachment under the command of Lt. Colonel Paul Revere. The Expedition's goal was to reclaim control of what is now mid-coast Maine from the British who had seized it a month earlier and renamed it New Ireland. It was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place both on land and at sea in and around the mouth of the Penobscot and Majabigwaduce Rivers at what is today Castine, Maine over a period of three weeks in July and August of 1779. One of its greatest victories of the war for the British, the Expedition was also the United States' worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor 162 years later in 1941.
On June 17 of that year, British Army forces under the command of General Francis McLean landed and began to establish a series of fortifications centered on Fort George, located on the Majabigwaduce Peninsula in the upper Penobscot Bay, with the goals of establishing a military presence on that part of the coast and establishing the colony of New Ireland. In response, the Province of Massachusetts, with some support from the Continental Congress, raised an expedition to drive the British out.
The Americans landed troops in late July and attempted to establish a siege of Fort George in a series of actions that were seriously hampered by disagreements over control of the expedition between land forces commander Brigadier General Solomon Lovell and the expedition's overall commander, Commodore Dudley Saltonstall, who was subsequently dismissed from the Navy for ineptness and failure to effectively prosecute the mission. For almost three weeks General McLean held off the assault until a British relief fleet under the command of Sir George Collier arrived from New York on August 13, driving the American fleet to total self-destruction up the Penobscot River. The survivors of the American expedition were forced to make an overland journey back to more populated parts of Massachusetts with minimal food and armament.
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From “The Carter Families of Hancock County”
Blew hillbay Fabruary 25d 1779
Cornel Buck Sir
I Have Reseved a Grait Loss By the ingins I now Live On A island Alone & the Ingins Came & sott Down here with me & there Dogs Have Drove 6 sheep in the water & Drowned Them & I have gott 2 fleeses out of them & 3 yews & the Rest was All Lost The ingins ses that if I Right to you that they will pay you so that I may have may pay if they Dont Pay you I should Be glad that you wold send me word to Cornel Holt & some of them ses that Cornal Johnathan Lowder will pay me there is 3 or 4 injuns that must pay Sum says that one did Drive them (some) that the other Did Drive tham But it Layes in the Club (group?) for they All sott Down together there was meeseee & sabattes & Little Essah & Sabees & I shall be very Glad if you wold Be so kind As to Take sum Note of thes fue lins & Git the pay or Let me in sum way to Git it for i am a poor man & want toe wool to cloath my Famely very much the injuns Has Desirerd that I should send to you By them So No more A present But I Remain you Most ABliged.
Frind
James Carter
Sir pray send me A fue lins to Cornel Heth.

James married Lydia DAY on 4 Jan 1764 in Lincoln, Penobscot, Maine. Lydia (daughter of Jonathan DAY and Lydia BENNETT) was born on 13 Feb 1743 in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 29 Aug 1828 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• DNA Fact: confirmed by triangulation

Notes:

She died at Carter's Point in Blue Hill, ME. Rev. Jonathan Fisher said that she was deranged in the latter part of her life.

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• Also Known As: CAINE
• Historical Notes: York Co, Maine Court Index: 1686-1760. Courtesy of the Maine State Archives Full Name CANE, SAMUEL Def/Plt DEF Location Sanford Index Number 609283 Court CCP Volume/Page 15-196 Box/File 135-10 Cause DEBT Year 1760 Month 10 Full Name CANE, SAMUEL Def/Plt DEF Location Sanford Index Number 607595 Court CCP Volume/Page 15-159 Box/File 134-15 Cause DEBT Year 1760 Month 4 Full Name CANE, SAMUEL Def/Plt DEF Location Sanford Index Number 609260 Court CCP Volume/Page 15-141 Box/File 133-49 Cause DEBT Year 1760 Month 4 Full Name CANE, SAMUEL Def/Plt DEF Location Sanford Index Number 603491 Court CCP Volume/Page 15-21 Box/File 131-8 Cause DEBT Year 1759 Month 4 Full Name CANE, SAMUEL Def/Plt DEF Location Sanford Index Number 607592 Court CCP Volume/Page 15-149 Box/File 133-60 Cause VALUE Year 1760 Month 4

Notes:

Samuel Cane's father settled at Phillipstown [Sanford] in 1739. Phillipstown was Samuel Cane's home until about 1700. Samuel Cane stated, in a 1785 census, that he had been at Sedgwick, Maine for 15 years. He is listed as one of the early settlers of Sedgwick, Maine.

Samuel married Abigail PIERCE about 1760. Abigail (daughter of Samuel PIERCE and Abigail STEARNS) was born on 14 Feb 1740 in Wells, York, Maine; died in 1836 in Long Island, Cumberland, Maine; was buried in unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married Name: GARFIELD