Ida married Charles L. WILLIAMS on 3 Sep 1868. Charles died in ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Lydia Chase TIBBETTS on 4 Dec 1826. Lydia was born on 7 Nov 1804 in Maine; died on 18 Oct 1891 in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Farmer
• Census: 1850, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine

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Census:
lvg w/ son William

John married Abigail W. CARTER on 9 Oct 1798 in Hancock County, Maine. Abigail (daughter of James CARTER and Lydia DAY) was born on 30 Aug 1778 in Blue Hill, Hancock, Maine; died on 1 Feb 1844 in Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine; was buried in Sedgwick Rural Cemetery, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1790, Sedgwick, Hancock, Maine

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About 1770, Benjamin moved his family to Hancock County. In 1798, he and his family lived in Sedgwick, which at its incorporation as a town, in 1789, included the present towns of Sedgwich, apart of the town of Brooksville, and Brooklin.
In 1797, Benjamin gave some land (on the neck) to the town of Blue Hill to be used as a burying ground, and in return he received a vote of thanks.
They had 11 children.

Benjamin married Martha DODGE on 27 Jan 1769 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Rev John DODGE and Bethiah CONANT) was born on 15 Jan 1753 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 12 Apr 1824 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in N Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married Name: FRIEND

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Children:
Phineas b 23 Mar 1770
Samuel b 18 Oct 1771
John b 5 Dec 1773
Martha b 7 Dec 1775
Phebe b 15 Jan 1781
Bethiah b 25 Jan 1783, m George Dunham of Carmel, ME 27 Dec 1811
Benjamin b 27 Aug 1785, d 3 Oct 1862, m 16 May 1809, Ruth Bartlett by whom he had no children
Mary b 4 Nov 1787, m Eliphalet Grindle 18 May 1824
Daniel b 10 Dec 1789, d in infancy
Sarah b 21 Mar 1792, m Joseph Candage 10 Sep 1808, by whom she had eleven children
Daniel b 6 Jun 1795, d 1827, m Hannah Banks 5 Jun 1822, by whom he had 3 children. His widow m John Chatto

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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

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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

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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.