Walter Scott Chase [Parents] was born on 29 Aug 1831 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He died in 1902. He married Viola M Austin on 11 Nov 1855 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. Walter was born in 1831 in Dixfield, ME. He resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.
Viola M Austin was born in Jan 1832 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She married Walter Scott Chase on 11 Nov 1855 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. Viola resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.
of Byron, ME
They had the following children:
M i Wilder K Chase was born on 9 Nov 1855. He died after 1930. M ii Fred S Chase was born in 1864.
Isaac Park [Parents] was born in 1798 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. He died on 23 Apr 1855 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He married Mirriam Holman on 25 Dec 1823 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. Isaac resided in 1830 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided on 1 Jun 1840 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, USA. He resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
Other marriages:Smith, Emeline
Mirriam Holman [Parents] was born on 2 Sep 1805 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. She died on 2 Sep 1830 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. She married Isaac Park on 25 Dec 1823 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME.
They had the following children:
Peter Holman [Parents] was born on 16 Oct 1769 in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He died on 30 Oct 1829 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He was buried in Holman cemetery, Dixfield. He married Mercy Knight in 1796.
Mercy Knight was born on 1 Jul 1776 in Falmouth, Cumberland, ME. She died on 9 Dec 1855 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. She married Peter Holman in 1796.
They had the following children:
M i Jonathan Holman was born on 30 Oct 1797. He died on 18 May 1886. M ii Luther Holman was born on 16 Aug 1799. M iii John Jacob Holman was born on 25 Jun 1801. He died on 23 Jul 1889. M iv Peter Holman was born on 22 Feb 1803. He died on 12 Sep 1876. F v Mirriam Holman was born on 2 Sep 1805. She died on 2 Sep 1830. M vi Selby Holman was born on 7 Oct 1807. He died on 12 Feb 1890. M vii Merrill Holman was born on 27 Oct 1809. He died on 8 Nov 1885. F viii Nancy Holman was born on 10 May 1812 in Dixfield, ME. M ix Franklin Holman was born on 30 Aug 1814 in Dixfield, ME. F x Emily Holman was born on 13 Jun 1817 in Dixfield, ME. F xi Clarissa Holman was born on 25 Jun 1819 in Dixfield, ME.
Jonathan Holman , Col Col was born on 13 Aug 1732 in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He died on 25 Feb 1814 in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He married Hannah Sibley on 3 Nov 1763.
Other marriages:Trask, Susanna
From Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, MA
Col Jonathan Holman of Millbury was a Lieutenant in the French war; was a Colonel, and commanded a regiment in the battle of White Plains, and was distinguished for his bravery and activity.
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Part of a Paper Read at Advance Club By Isabel Russell
Once upon a time this valley of our lovely river was the home of the redmen. Four hundred years ago one of the most numerous, powerful and savage tribes of Maine, the Anasagunticooks, or Androscoggins, as they were sometimes called, roamed this land. Their hunting grounds covered our entire river valley with a fort at Brunswick, a place of council at Lewiston, and on the broad intervals of Canton were encampments of the Rocameco tribe, a branch of the Anasagunticooks. There was no tribe more hostile or vindictive than the Androscoggins. Their war parties ever ready to raise the battle cry in defense of their people went far and wide. During King Phillips war, under their chief, Sagamore Tarumkin, they joined Phillips forces in Massachusetts, and after ten years of peace they again became active and made attacks on colonies, beginning to settle on the lower Androscoggin. Up to this time, owing to their secluded location, they had been less disturbed by white people than any other tribe of Maine. Finally, the Government of Boston sent an expedition against them to destroy their fort at Lewiston, then called Upper Falls, but the Government seemed content to make no further inroads and their haunts were unmolested, but they still sent our war parties. After many years of fighting this tribe became very much depleted and early in the seventeenth century the French induced many of the Androscoggins, with the remnants of other tribes, to retire to Canada. But a few of the tribe remained in this locality for many years afterwards.At the outbreak of the Revolution about forty of them still made the shores and islands of our river their home. A century ago there must have been a few survivors, for I have heard my grandmother tell of their temporary camp in front and to the left of our house, probably made on their way to the fishing and hunting grounds farther up the river. One of her earliest recollections was of being carried in her father’s arms to see the Indians, and of how frightening she was at their strange looks and ways. She also remembered of seeing their canoes on the river.
When the last Indian disappeared, or where, no man can tell. Possibly he went to his brother’s in Canada. He might have joined the remnant of the Penobscots in eastern Maine or perhaps he lingered on in his old haunts till called to the happy hunting ground of the Great Spirit. Now we have only the name of the lake at Canton and the name of our beautiful river to perpetuate the memory of the once powerful tribe.
Before the arrival of the white settlers in this section there was a period during which the primeval forests were disturbed only by native beasts or by these last remaining Indian hunters, or by the advent of adventuresome white hunters or trappers.
At this time, in the town of Sutton, Mass. Lived Col. Jonathan Holman, a descendent of one of the pioneer settlers of Sutton North Parish. Col. Holman had given distinguished service in the Indian French wars. He had served long, and suffered much. He often related the story of how at one time he barely escaped starvation by holding in his mouth for nearly a week, a pork rhine which he dared not swallow for fear he could not get another. He was 43 years old when the Revolutionary war broke out. He gave gallant service in this war. After the war was over, Col. Holman became interested in the purchase of public land. This section of the country was then known as part of the unappropriated public lands east of the Saco.
In 1787 Col. Holman with Deacon Waters and Capt. Elliott, both of Sutton, cruised our locality. These men with 25 others succeeded in purchasing from the committee for sale of eastern land, a tract on the east side of the Androscoggin river. A committee was chosen who laid out the township into 100 acre lots. There were 64 shares in the original township. This township was comprised of the land know known as Mexico and Dixfield. This purchase was called #1, Androscoggin purchase #1, or Holman town, until the incorporation of Dixfield in 1863. The remnant was then known as Holman town until the incorporation of Mexico 15 years later. The town line then ran back of the Trask house and the main highway over Harlow hill. Doctor Dix, one of the heavy land owners, bought the privilege of naming the town, by the promise of a library. After the incorporation of the town the settlers waited some time and receiving no library mentioned the subject to the busy doctor who was also a druggist and lived in Boston. Not long after, they received an old trunk containing about 50 second hand books. These constituted the doctor’s library.Who was the first white man to attempt to make for himself a home in this locality? We are not certain. John Stockbridge was the first to build his cabin in the town and his son erected the second frame house, but later they moved to Byron and settled Stockbridge hill. To Peter, Jonathan and Ebeneza Holman, the sons of Col. Holman of Sutton, is generally accorded the distinction of being the first permanent settlers. Peter, the young son of Jonathan was the first white child born in the township. Ebeneza Holman was the grandfather of Margaret Waite. A Mr. Foster from Augusta, in the company of one of the first land owners, visited the home of Ebeneza Holman, fell in love with Ebeneza’s daughter and married her.
In the history of Sutton we read of Col. Holman making an occasional visit to his boys down in Maine. He always rode in the saddle. His rule was to ride 70 miles a day. He had a powerful high spirited horse which he called his war horse. It was never broken to harness and it could be managed by no one but himself. Years ago an old lady named Wheeler, then 100 years old told Mrs. Waite of Col. Holman calling at her home, which sat in back of the Charles Towle home. She brought a chair for the Colonel to mount, although at that time she was 75 years old, spurning the chair he volted into the saddle lightly as a boy.
Early records mentioned the coming of quite a colony from Sutton to settle here in 1790. Marsh, Waite, Gould, Torrey, Severy, Leland, Marble, Putnam, Elliott, Mitchell, Stockbridge, Trask, and others. Most of these settlers selected the hills and ridges in the central part of the town for their first clearings on or about (the Common). In the vicinity of East Dixfield the Severys were probably among the first to settle. One of these Severys claimed the distinction of felling the first trees on Severy Hill, 1 ½ miles from East Dixfield, the place now marked by a big boulder. The Lelands settled Science hill. Solomon Leland was sent as a delegate to Portland in 1819 to help form a constitution for the new state of Maine.
On the opposite side of the road from the Reed house (Effie Cameron’s) and a bit father down under a steep hill was built the first frame house in the town of Dixfield by General John Holland, the great, great grandfather of Ella Russell and the great great, great grandfather of Tom, Dana, and Herschel Holt. Mother Russell tells of how at one time the women of that neighborhood were having a social evening at this home and of how the men having not been invited procured a porcupine, went to the top of the hill, and threw the animal down the chimney, thereby producing great consternation. The women were panic-stricken and some thought that the devil had claimed them for his own.
Farther up the river lived the Marbles, Norcrosses and pious Wheelers. The Marshes settled on the road that passes the Gates house. They were of old and honorable stock. The first preacher of Sutton was a Marsh, and to his wife Abigail, was born the first white child in Sutton.
Dixfield village was the last part of the town to be settled. Doctor Dix is said to have erected the first frame house which is now standing and houses our library.
Major Amos Trask, son of Samuel Trask, one of the first settlers of Sutton, came with the first settlers. He was engaged to marry Lucy Parks of Sutton. After he had been there a short time she joined him, making the journey alone over spotted trails. They married and lived in a house near the Common. In 1820 Amos Trask bought the Doctor Dix house, which at that time was unfinished, and moved into this part of the town. Major Trask had had two shares in the original township. Later, he bought two more. He lived only a few years after moving here. He was a self made man, industrious, frugal, a generous neighbor and a faithful friend. During the year that there was no summer he had a large stock of corn which would have commanded a good price. He would not sell, but supplied poor people who had none. When he died he was a rich man for those times, have estate worth $10,000.
His children were among the first settlers of this village. Peter, the only son, was the father of John, Oscar, and Louisa Trask. Lucina, the oldest daughter was Lelia Foster’s great grandmother. Lucy, the second daughter, was a true pioneer mother, going far and near in cases of sickness and trouble. She was the mother of Delphine Root and Emily Knight. Louisa, the third daughter, was Walter Chase’s grandmother. Her husband kept a store. Liquor was then sold as freely as molasses. When Mr. Chase sold liquor to men with poor families, Aunt Cina, as she was called, stopped them on their way home and gave them supplies from her own store. When Mr. Chase remonstrated, she said, “Mr. Chase, just as long as you dispense liquor to these men, just so long shall I dispense provisions.”
The fourth daughter of Major Trask was Ann, the mother of William Eustis and Mary Greenleaf – Mason, Wallace, Albert, Humphrey Eustis and Sarah Mitchell.
Susan was the youngest daughter, and my great grandmother. Susan was quite a handful in her youthful days. I have heard them tell of the time that her sisters and their beaux went for a horseback ride on the Mexico road, leaving Susan at home. Two young for a swain and with no mount except an old work horse, which after their departure she mounted bare back, urged to it’s utmost speed and overtook them. Needless to say that she somewhat marred the pleasure of their ride, as passing them ever and anon riding back she reminded each one of instances of their past, better left unmentioned.
Susan was 15 years old when her father died. She went to a private school, met [Isaac] Newton Stanley and became engaged to him. Susan was named for her aunt, the second wife of Col. Holman. She went to Sutton to visit this aunt to buy her trousseau, one of the articles of which was a leghorn flat with a crown 9” high worn with a clouded blue pelisse.
The Stockbridges have already been mentioned as early settlers. Joseph Edmond’s mother was the daughter of that name. She married an Edmond who came to this town as a blacksmith, no mean calling in those days. Other Edmonds settled in Mexico. A story is told of two of these Edmonds, one a very small man. They journeyed into this country thru New Hampshire on foot, with all their earthly possessions tied in bundles and strung on sticks, carried over their shoulders. They had but 2¢ in money between them. One the way they came to a toll bridge. Two cents was charged per person for crossing. What should they do? After a few minutes conference they approached the toll taker and inquired if the price was the same for light and heavy packs. On being assured that it was, the smaller paid 2¢ and mounted his brother’s shoulders, and the crossing was made. So might I go on for hours telling of the different families and incidents of these early settlers; of Cox who drove the stage to Augusta in later years; of Eustis who having sold the township for $10,000, came here and built a home and mill; of Mitchells, Baxters, Brocks, and many more, but time forbids further mention of these individual families.
The first homes which the early settlers built were small and crude log cabins. A few years sufficed for the clearing away of a large portion of forests and fencing of fields for cultivation. Orchards were planted. Soon nearly everything was produced at home that was needed for convenience and rough comfort. Every farmer kept a few sheep for wool and raised flax to make clothing for Summer wear. Not a small part of the house industry was the spinning of the wool which had been carded into rolls by hand. The weaving was all done at home on hand looms. From 3 to 5 yards was all that could be woven in a day. A shoe maker came to the home once a year and made shoes for the family for Winter. They went barefoot during the Summer.
Hugh fireplaces supplied heat for warmth and contained cranes for cooking. Brick ovens were heated once a month when they baked pies, beans, indian puddings, pound, fruit, and seed cakes. I have heard my grandmother tell of how her mother stored her pies well covered on the spare chamber floor and how at one time being sent on an errand there in the evening she forgot the pies and stepped in every one.
They made their own soap from scraps of fat. Tallow candles served for illumination.
In the earliest days of the settlers they made a trip to Augusta in ox teams once a year, preferably in Winter, for supplies which consisted for the most part of a hogs head of molasses and barrel of codfish. There was little money used in those days. Of $75.00 worth of trade only $3.00 to $5.00 was given in exchange, the rest barter. Mrs. William Waite’s father owned Siberia and made shingles, and took them to Augusta once a year for barter.
In cases of sickness there was no doctor. The experienced mothers of the communities served as nurses and dispensed simple remedies. Mrs. Waite tells of one midwife who attended over 300 cases of child birth, traveling on horse back with saddle backs, or ox teams during the deep snow of the Winter.
Neighborhood visitations served to supply amusements. There were also barn raisings, husking bees, quiltings, and occasional dances in the homes when the guests went in the afternoon, and danced till sunrise the following day. A fiddler furnished the music and the host served supper, a midnight meal, and breakfast of generous fare.
The daughters of that day were trained in the way they should go. They were taught to cook, spin, knit, weave and sew, to speak in low tones and to walk demurely. I have heard my grandmother tell of being called back many a time to walk again across the floor.
The sons were sent to school when they could be spared, usually a few weeks in the Winter. The young married early in those days, but youthful cares, hard labor, homely fare and outdoor life seemed conducive to physical, mental and spiritual growth. Though they could not be called educated, they had good common sense, sound judgment, and strong purpose. They have handed down to us a legacy that no money could buy. A legacy of noble achievement through trial, hardship and sacrifice. To them we owe many of the privileges and many of the blessings we enjoy. It would be hard to select the most worthy of these earliest settlers of ours. Each family had distinctive merit. Some of them can be barely mentioned for there was not time nor means to secure information, but the records of most would be well worth our consideration I am sure.
It has been such a pleasant task, this journey back over the years, to vision the first dwellers in this locality where many of us have lived for so long, and it is a privilege to pass on to you this bit of lore of these bygone days.
[Typed as written on December 30, 2002 from a copy supplied by Dexter Stowell. This paper was presented in 1959 to the Advance Club of Dixfield and was reprinted as part of the town of Dixfield’s 2003 bicentennial calendar.]
Hannah Sibley was born in 1741 in Uxbridge, MA. She died on 31 Jan 1783 in Sutton, Worcester, MA. She married Jonathan Holman , Col Col on 3 Nov 1763.
They had the following children:
F i Ruth Holman was born on 6 Dec 1764. She died on 6 Jul 1765. M ii Solomon Holman was born on 24 May 1766. He died on 26 Nov 1862. M iii Robert Holman was born on 28 May 1768. He died on 29 May 1768. M iv Peter Holman was born on 16 Oct 1769. He died on 30 Oct 1829. F v Ruth Holman was born on 20 Nov 1771. She died on 14 May 1855. M vi Jonathan Holman , Capt was born on 3 Jan 1774. He died on 23 Nov 1847 in Dixfield, Maine. F vii Mercy Holman was born on 14 Nov 1775. She died in Aug 1791. M viii Ebebezer Waters Holman was born on 25 May 1778. He died on 19 Jan 1876 in Dixfield, Maine. M ix Elijah Holman was born on 2 Feb 1780 in Sutton, Worcester, MA. He died on 3 Nov 1857 in Sutton, Worcester, MA.
Harold J Woodward was born in of Birmingham, AL. He died in Weld, ME. He married Annie Chase.
Annie Chase [Parents] was born in 1879 in Dixfield, Maine. She married Harold J Woodward. Annie resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.
Other marriages:Van Aken,
Van Aken. married Annie Chase.
Annie Chase [Parents] was born in 1879 in Dixfield, Maine. She married Van Aken. Annie resided in 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine, United States.
Other marriages:Woodward, Harold J
Albert Fisk Eustis [Parents] was born on 10 Dec 1832 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He married Evalena Knight on 21 May 1859. Albert was born on 10 Dec 1832. He resided in 1870 in Colebrook, Coos, New Hampshire. He resided in 1880 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He resided in 1900 in Cambridge Ward 5, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He resided in 1910 in Cambridge Ward 10, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Dealer in hardware and agricultural tools. They were living in 1877 at Colebrook, N.H.
Evalena Knight was born in Jun 1837 in Paris, ME. She died in Apr 1916. She married Albert Fisk Eustis on 21 May 1859. Evalena was born in 1838 in Maine. She resided in 1880 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. She resided in 1900 in Cambridge Ward 5, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She resided in 1910 in Cambridge Ward 10, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
They had the following children:
F i Carrie A Eustis was born on 2 Nov 1860. She died on 8 Dec 1861. F ii Grace Eustis was born on 11 Jan 1863. F iii Nellie Eustis was born on 19 Jun 1870. She died on 23 Feb 1871.
John Mason Eustis , Esq. was born on 30 May 1800 in Rutland, MA. He died on 16 Jan 1881 in Dixfield, Oxford, MA. He married Anna Trask on 31 Aug 1823 in Dixfield, ME. They were married on 31 Aug 1823 in Dixfield, Oxford, Massachusetts, USA. John was born in Rutland, MA.
During John’s life, he held public office as Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace, served as a member of the Maine State Legislature and held several other appointments in the State of Maine and U.S. Government.
John Eustis was town clerk in 1831. 1867 – Clover and Cider Mills were rebuilt by P.J. Whitman, son-in-law of Charles Lyman Eustis. Mills burned in 1880. NOTE: 1841 – Charles Lyman Eustis bought the Woolen Mill and re-doubled the size of the building and installed the woolen machinery. Building burned in 1868. NOTE: 1840 – Peter sold the mills to Charles L. Eustis. 1843 – Charles L. Eustis erected a chapel on Lower Main Street – now a private house. NOTE: POTASH MILL – was built by Dr. Joseph K. White. It was later owned by Joseph Yetton, then Charles Lyman Eustis. It stopped running in 1865.
Anna Trask [Parents] was born on 18 Oct 1805 in Dixfield, ME. She died on 20 Apr 1880 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. She married John Mason Eustis , Esq. on 31 Aug 1823 in Dixfield, ME. They were married on 31 Aug 1823 in Dixfield, Oxford, Massachusetts, USA. Anna resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. She resided in 1870 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine.
They had the following children:
F i Susan Moore Eustis was born on 21 Jun 1824 in Mexico, Oxford, ME. She died on 17 Dec 1826. Susan was born on 21 Jun 1824. F ii Isabel Buckminister Eustis was born on 2 Feb 1826 in Mexico, Oxford, ME. She died on 12 Sep 1828 in Dixfield, Maine. Isabel was born on 2 Feb 1826. She was born on 2 Jul 1826. M iii Joseph Mason Eustis was born on 15 Dec 1827. He died on 31 Oct 1898. M iv Charles Wallace Eustis was born on 23 Jun 1829. He died on 8 Mar 1906. M v George Edwin Eustis was born on 7 Nov 1830 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He died on 2 Oct 1853. George was born on 7 Nov 1830.
Never married.M vi Albert Fisk Eustis was born on 10 Dec 1832. F vii Sarah Mason Eustis was born on 19 Oct 1834. She died on 22 Nov 1909. M viii Col William Tappan Eustis was born on 8 Aug 1836. He died on 14 Aug 1925. M ix Humphrey M. Eaton Eustis was born on 10 Sep 1840. He died in 1913. F x Mary Stanley Eustis was born on 22 Feb 1844. She died on 28 May 1934.
Simon Barnard [Parents] was born in 1792 in Marlboro, MA. He died on 12 Feb 1872. He married Lucy Simonds on 12 Feb 1818.
Lucy Simonds was born in 1796. She died on 13 Aug 1842. She married Simon Barnard on 12 Feb 1818.
They had the following children:
F i Lucy Barnard was born on 25 Jul 1819. M ii William Barnard was born on 1 Jul 1821. He died on 19 Jan 1844. M iii Nathan Simonds Barnard was born on 2 Jun 1823. M iv Silas Barnard was born on 10 Apr 1827. F v Susan Simonds Barnard was born on 30 Jul 1829. F vi Julia Ann Barnard was born on 8 May 1831. F vii Mary Eliza Barnard was born on 26 Nov 1834.
Dewitt Clinton Chase [Parents] was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Maine. He died on 2 Jun 1872. He married Celia Augusta Hayford. Dewitt was born on 15 Oct 1836 in Dixfield, Oxford, ME. He resided in 1850 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1860 in Dixfield, Oxford, Maine. He resided in 1870 in Wilton, Franklin, Maine. He resided in 1930 in Lagrange, IL.
Other marriages:Delano, Sarah Ann
Newman, Clara A
Newman, Florentine E
Celia Augusta Hayford was born on 25 May 1841 in Canton, Oxford, ME. She died on 10 Sep 1895 in Canton, Oxford, ME. She married Dewitt Clinton Chase. Celia was born in 1841 in ME.
This marriage doesn't make sense. Celia died in 1895 but we know that Dewitt was married to Sarah A before that and Dewitt and Sarah had Dewitt C Chase in 1889 in IL. They could have gotten divorced but this marriage doesn't look like it existed to me. It was just listed in Ancestry.com family tree someone else put together and posted online. I deem it unlikely, kbrg.