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1. #1 JORDAN, Ebenezer of Danville, Maine. He died 24 March 1854. His eldest son was Ebenezer JORDAN
   _{(N.B. see Jordan Memorial, page 284, #1073)}

2. #2 HOLMES, Gershom, died 5 Jan. 1852 of Auburn, Maine. One of his children was Gershom D. HOLMES. The Hon. Z. K. HARMON Esq of Portland, Maine was trying to obtain American Revolutionary pension funds.

3. #3 RAND, Betsey. Eunice COX, one of the children of Betsey RAND, late of Minot, Maine (in the part set off to be Auburn) in the County of Androscoggin, respectfully represents that said Betsey RAND, died 123 Feb. 1839, entitled to a pension under the act of Congress passed 4 July 1836 .... may be granted to Zebulon K. HARMON Esq. Signed and dated 9 May 1854 Eunice Cox, her mark "X", witnessed by Timothy COX, I concur in the foregoing petition as one of the children of Betsey RAND, signed William RAND

4. #4 JORDAN, Isaiah, died 5 March 1854. Clarissa M. JORDAN, widow of Isaiah JORDAN, Paid for coffin $8.00; robe &c $5.00; sett grave stones for Isaiah JORDAN $22.00; paid Ham BROOKS for making petition $1.25. James Bryant was the guardian of the minor children;
   • William H;
   • Benjamin;
   • Sarah M;
   • James M; and
   • Frank L.

   _{(N.B. see Jordan Memorial, page 279, #2799)}

5. #5 PRINCE, Jonathan, died 6 April 1854 of Minot, Maine. Rhoda PRINCE of Minot, Maine was his widow. John PRINCE was appointed administrator of the estate.

6. #6 CUMMINGS, James, late of Greene, Maine died before April 1855. (There was a James Comins who died 15 Mar 1853 age 62, wife, Betsey d. 11 Oct. 1841 ae 55, might this be the same family?) One petition states died intestate leaving no widow or next of kin but later Betsey J. CUMMINGS & James F. CUMMINGS are listed as children & heirs of James CUMMINGS under 14 years of age.
   _{(N.B. see pages 60, 64, & 154, & 188, Walter Lindley Mower's History of the Town of Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine 1775-1900, © 1938 & 1991)}

7. #7 HAM, James died 4 Feb 1854; Nancy HAM, widow of James HAM of Lewiston, Maine.
   Sarah GOFF filed a petition for division but it was dismissed. The petition was for her portion of the estate which would be one eleventh.
   • Sarah Goff of Auburn, Maine, married woman
   • Martha BROOKS of Lewiston
   • Ebenezer HAM of Lewiston
   • Ann BARKER of Lewiston
   • Eliza HAM
   • Ann HAM, the heir of Warren HAM of Lewiston
   • George W. HAM of Lewiston
   • Ursula GARCELON of Lewiston
   • Nancy JORDAN of Lewiston
   • Mary ALLEN of Hebron, Oxford County
   • Nelson HAM of West Bath, Sagadahock County
   _{(N.B. see page 192, Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine © 1989)}

8. #8 PLACE, Moses, died 16 May 1854, Harriet PLACE of Turner, Maine widow

9. #9 ROWE, WIlliam, died 14 Jan 1854, Nancy ROWE of Danville, Maine widow; John D. ROWE of Danville, Maine eldest son

10. #10 DAY, George J. died 12 Nov. 1853. Jeremiah Day of Leeds, Maine was listed as the father of the late George J DAY of Leeds, Maine

11. #11 PATRICK, George, died 1854. Susan PATRICK of Topsham, Sagadahock,County, Maine was listed as the mother of George PATRICK late of Lisbon, Maine. Ezra TOBIE of New Gloucester, Maine was asked to answer questions about .....concealed and conveyed away one note of hand, one watch and sundry other articles part of estate of said George PATRICK....
    Questions & Answers
    • Have you in your possessions or had you at the time of the deceased of George W. PATRICK any notes, money, goods or chattels or bonds or other property of any description belonging to the estate of George W. PATRICK late of Lisbon, Maine and if so what did it consist of?
    • Ans.: I do not know that I had.
    • Did George W. PATRICK leave his chest in your dwelling home when he left to go to Canada?
    • Ans: He did.
    • When that chest was called for by Silas C. BICKFORD were you at home?
    • Ans: Silas C. BICKFORD never called for the chest to my knowledge.
    • Who did call for the chest & who took it from your house?
    • I do not know that one called for the chest. Charles PATRICK & Silas BICKFORD took it from my house.
    • Did you at the time the chest was taken from your house or at any other time examine or see the articles or property the chest contained?
    • Ans: I did.
    • What articles or property was there in the chest?
    • Ans: There was a silver watch. There was one note in his account book against me which I gave him when he started for Canada. Amount of principal of the note was forty dollars & thirty four cents. I think I am not certain as to the odd cents payable at my house without interest, there was his best wearing apparel. I think it was his best. There was a new drab brown hat. There was an account book. There even were some letters that my daughter wrote him. I believe there were a few lead types.
      _{(lead types, might mean tintypes, which was an early forms of photography, It is called ferrotype which is a positive photograph made directly on an iron plate varnished with a thin sensitized film. Also called tintype.)}
      

      I do not recollect of anything else.

    • Who brot (sic) the key to your home to unlock the chest & who unlocked it?
    • Ans: Silas BICKFORD brought the key to me. I do not know who unlocked the trunk.
    • Did you at the time the chest was unlocked have in your hands the note and watch you speak of or either of them?
    • Ans: I saw them. I do not know that I had the note or watch in my hands, Whatever I had to do with the chest, I did for my daughter who had the care of it. As I was looking over the things in the chest it is probable I had them in my hands but can not say certainly. I do not know that chest had been opened prior to that time, this was in June 1854 when he left late in the Fall prior.
    • What became of the note & watch you speak of?
    • Ans: I do not know but presume they are in my daughters possession. I know no doubt of it.
    • Did you hand the note & watch to your daughter after they were taken from the chest?
    • Ans: I did not. She was not in the chamber at the time the chest was unlocked. Charles PATRICK, the brother of the deceased called at my house in company with Silas BICKFORD & wished to know there of George's effects. I told he (George Patrick) had left his chest here in care (of) Lecta (TOBIE), my daughter. He wished to see what was in the chest. I called on her & she wished me to open it. I do not recollect who turned the key. After we found what the contents of the chest was Charles PATRICK after I stated to him that Lecta (TOBIE) by a gift of George PATRICK when he left before a witness that if he did not return she was to have the whole chest & contents. Charles PATRICK then exprefsed wish before me for the apparel & made a proposition. I told him I would see what Lecta (TOBIE) said about it. I was acting for her. He (Charles Patrick) stated that if she would consent to give up the wearing apparel, then he would let her keep the note & watch. She said she was willing to give it up provided he would present it as a gift to George's mother. He promised so to do, & she gave it up taking a receipt for the same.

    • How old is your daughter & does she live in your family or not?
    • Ans: My daughter is in her 18th year and resides in my family.
    • Did you at the time the chest was open go down stairs & request Lecta to go up and see what she would have out of the chest?
    • Ans: I do not know that I ever gave her any advise upon the subject.
    • Did you ever talk with Lecta against her having anything to do with George W. Patrick?
    • I think, I have admonish her against being too intimate with George W. Patrick, that was while he was at work with me in 1853.
      The answers to the interrogation proposed to him (Erza TOBIE) being made & subscribed by the said Ezra TOBIE.
      Signed by: Nahum MORRILL, Judge

12. # 12 WAGG, Rhoda of Danville, Maine died 6 March 1852, she was formerly the widow of Tobias GOULD
    Children of Rhoda WAGG:
    • William GOULD of Danville
    • John GOULD
    • Polly HAMMOND
    • Samuel GOOLD
      The reason this petition was placed in Probate was for a claim to a Pension, by Zebulon K. HARMON Esq of Portland, Maine, dated Aug. 1854.

13. # 13 POOLE, Sidney P. died 18 July 1854, of Minot, Maine, left widow, Frances P. POOLE of Minot and a son age 6 years,

14. #14 MOWER, William of Greene, Maine, died 28 July 1854; heirs: Rachel HASKELL of Greene, Lucy CHAMBERLAIN of Auburn.  Joseph CHAMBERLAIN was appointed the administrator.
    _{(N.B. see page 271, Walter Lindley Mower's History of the Town of Greene, Androscoggin County, Maine 1775-1900, © 1938 & 1991)}

15. #15 TURNER, Joseph Jr. of Leeds, Maine died 13 May 1854; Joseph TURNER of Leeds, Maine, administrator.
    _{(see pg 85-86, J.C. Stinchfield's History of the Town of Leeds. Androscoggin County, Maine © 1901 & 1996)}

16. #16 HAGERTY, Michael late of Lewiston, Maine, occ’ laborer; Daniel HAGERTY, brother of  Michael HAGERTY; petition signed by: Daniel HEGARTY; Mary HAGERTY (by her mark “X”), John HAGERTY (by his mark “X”). The administrator of the estate was H. G. CILLEY. On Tues Nov. 1854, there was a  …matter of complaint by H. G. CILLEY Esq, administrator of the estate of the late Michael HAGERTY of Lewiston, Maine. James CROWLEY was asked to appear under oath and answer to such questions as may be proposed to him relating to the same and thereafter submits him to be examined.
    • Did or did not Michael HAGERTY in his lifetime deliver to you money if so, how much and when was it?
    • Ans: He did give me in his life time and in the day preceding his death, to wit, above the first of August last past, a sum of money the exact amount of which sum I am unable to state but think about two hundred fifty dollars.
    • Did you take his and his wife's clothes or any part if so state in relation to the matter?
    • Ans: After the death of said HAGERTY and his wife, both of whom died of Cholera, I took by consent of John HAGERTY some clothes and buried them in the ground. Said Michael HAGERTY gave subsequently to the buried of the clothes as before stated I went home, took from the ground what clothes were there and put them into a sheel buck (sheel might mean "shed" and buck might mean "To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching", see www.dictionary.com) of where I live, I have now removed then now any part thereof from the sheel. These clothes did not come into my possession before the death of said HAGERTY and I do not claim to own them now.
    • The said CROWLEY wishes to make further answer to the first above question. The said CILLEY objected by the court said he may further answer: The said sum of money so given him the said CROWLEY by said Michael HAGERTY was given and received as a present by said CROWLEY and he was there to receive it as his own property, Signed by James CROWLEY.
    _{(N.B. For information on James CROWLEY, see page 125, Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine © 1989)}

            

17. #17 NEVENS, Davis of Lewiston, Maine, died 27 Sept. 1854; Hannah NEVENS, widow; Ira NEVENS  was appointed administrator.  
      _{(N.B. see page 274-275, & 276, Janus G. Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine © 1989)}                               

             

18. #18 McKENNEY, Charles of Danville, Maine, died 17 July 1854; Nancy O. McKENNEY, widow

            

19. #19 MORSE, Stillman of Lewiston, Maine, died 22 Aug. 1854; Rosilla MORSE, widow.
    _{(N.B. see page 271, Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine © 1989)}

             

20. #20 METCALF, Milton D. of Lisbon, Maine died 12 July 1854; Addison METCALF of Lisbon, Maine

21. #21 MILLETT, Charles of Lewiston, Maine, died 13 Aug. 1854; Mary K. MILLETT of Lewiston, Maine, widow.
    _{(N.B. see pages 71 & 370, Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine © 1989)}

22. #22 NASH, Lemuel of Auburn, Maine, died 18 Dec. 1853, Betsey NASH of Auburn, Maine, widow.

23. #23 PULSIFER, Ephriam Jr. of Poland, Maine. died intestate on 20 Spet 1854.
    Examination of Cushman R. PULCIFER of Poalnd, Maine on complaint of Sally PULCIFER, widow of Ephriam PULCIFER Jr.:
    • Do you live on the farm where Ephraim PULCIFER Jr. late of Poland, deceased formerly lived & where he died and was or not your father & husband of the complainant?
    • Ans: I live on said farm & he was my father & husband of complainant.
    • Did said deceased or not leave personal property at the time of his death?
    • Ans: He did not.
    • Who owned the stock on the farm, the furniture in the house & the other personal property on and about said farm at the time of his death?
    • Ans: Myself & my brother, John T. PULCIFER.
    • Of whom did you obtain it?
    • Ans: I brought the half I own of said brother.
    • Do you know how your brother came by it?
    • I believe he bought it of my brother Wilson PULCIFER who is older than either of us.
    • Of where did Wilson PULCIFER obtain it?
    • Ans: He had it, as I suppose, of different persons & accumulated it.
    • Is it not in whole or part, the came property, which once belonged to your father?
    • Ans: I suppose some of it is
    • Did or not your father own property of the above description some six years ago? Did he or not some eight years ago on said premise?
    • Ans: Not that I know of, Sir.
    • Did he leave any wearing apparel or anything of that kind?
    • Ans: I believe he did have.
    • What was its value?
    • Ans: I don't know; not much anyway.
    • Is it in your possession? Can you not give any idea of its value whatever?
    • Ans: Some he gave away & some is in my possession. I don't known what value is. It is something I never thought about.
    • Did or not your father in September 1847, leave with you notes, papers of value, accounts & money with a deed of a farm unrecorded?
    • Ans: No Sir, he did not.
    • Did he not leave with you a small trunk with papers in it formerly belonging to the complainant?
    • Ans: No, Sir.
    • Did he or not know what became of the property on George DENNEN/DENNING farm, so called, in Sept. 1847?
    • Ans: I do not know.
    • Do you know whether or not your father owned said personal property on said farm of that time?
    • Ans: I suppose, he did not, Sir,
    • Who did own it?
    • Ans: I believe it belonged to my brother, Haley (PULCIFER).
    • How long since you have known your father not to have any property? Have you ever known any?
    • I supposed he did own property. I have not known of his owning any within fifteen or twenty years.
    • Who was the owner of the personal property on the farm, where your father died, some eight years ago?
    • Ans: I believe it belonged to either my brother Wilson (PULCIFER) or John (PULCIFER).
    • How much of it belonged to your brother John (PULCIFER) at the time referred to A.D. 1846 or 7?
    • Ans: I suppose, John T. PULCIFER, my brother, owned the whole of the personal property on the farm, where my father died, in 1846 & 1847.
    • How old was John T. (PULCIFER) at that time?
    • I don't know exactly. I suppose he was (16 crossed out) 17 or 18.
    • Of what did said personal property consist & what was its value at the time of his death?
    • Ans: A yoke of oxen, & horse, some young stock & three cows, two sheep, two shotes (pigs). I don't know its value. There were farming tools & house furniture. I don't know their value.
    • Signed Cushman R. PULSIFER and Nahum MORRILL, Judge

    Examination of Haley PULCIFER of Poland, Maine in May 1855.
    • Are you a son of said Ephraim PULCIFER Jr. & was he the complainant's husband?
    • Ans: Yes.
    • Did you or not in the spring of 1846, sell your father any personal property?
    • Ans: I did not, Sir.
    • Did you receive any money of your father at that time or about that time & if so how much?
    • Ans: I have no recollection of receiving any?
    • Did you not sell him a pair of oxen & steers & two cows and some hay which were on that farm of George DENNING, so called, at about that time?
    • Ans: I did not. I let them stay there until I called for them.
    • Did you or not convey the George DENNING farm, so called, by deed to Ephraim PULCIFER Jr. about 25 March 1846?
    • Ans::: I did not, SIr.
    • Did you own said farm at said time?
    • Ans: I think I did.
    • Did your father occupy it in 1846 & 7?
    • Ans: He did.
    • By what arrangement?
    • Ans: I gave him a lease to live there as long as I was a mind to let him.
    • Who made that lease?
    • Ans: I think, Squire (could not read) DUNN. (The first name looked like, "Jesie", there were both David & Josiah DUNN living in Poland, Maine at that time, we have not found a Jesie Dunn)
    • Did or not Amos CUMMINGS acknowledge that lease?
    • Ans: He did not, SIr.
    • Was or not that lease a deed?
    • Ans: No sir, it was not.
    • Do you not know where your father possessed or owned any property whatever at the time of his death?
    • Ans: I do not of his owning or possessing any.
    • How lately have your known of his owning anything?
    • Ans: He has not owned anything for 22 or 23 years. I guess of any amount.
    • Did your father give you any note or notes on or about 25 March 1846?
    • Ans: He did not, Sir.
    • Signed Haley PULSIFER and Nahum MORRILL, Judge
    Exam of Benjamin PULCIFER, of said Minot, Maine under oath.
    • Are you or not the brother of said Ephraim PULCIFER Jr.
    • Ans: I am.
    • Did you or not buy of said brother Ephraim, the farm on which he lived for the last 20 years of his life & where he died?
    • Ans: I did, before his first wife died. I paid him by at the time. The amount was as I believe in the neighborhood of twelve hundred dollars.
    • When & how did you pay these notes?
    • Ans: I can't tell whether I paid the full amount or obtained a discount. I took them up.
    • Did you pay any money on said votes?
    • Ans: I never took up an honorable just without paying money or something as good to offset. I declare to give any answer further. I paid money on said notes.
    • How much money did you pay?
    • Ans: I could not definitely say.
    • What, where and now much was the last payment that you made him?
    • Ans: I can't tell that neither.
    • What because of the farm?
    • Ans: I deeded it. I know not when to Wilson PULCIFER, the son of Ephraim PULCIFER Jr. I guess for $1200.
    • How was that paid?
    • Ans: I don't recollect.
    • What was the aggregate that you have ever paid on said notes?
    • I have paid the whole amount.
    • How where & what was the payment of any one note?
    • Ans: I don't recollect.
    • What date did he pay for the farm?
    • Ans: I don't remember.
    • On what terms did he live on the farm?
    • Ans: I think it was to pay me a fair compensation for the income of the farm.
    • Where & how did he pay it?
    • Ans: I couldn't state any exact time about it. It was worked on the notes.
    • Were of any of these notes given up to you before you conveyed the farm to Wilson (PULCIFER)? Were any delivered to you before that time?
    • Ans: Yes, all of them had been paid before that time, I think, I couldn't say how long before.
    • Did Wilsom (PULCIFER) pay you any money on the day you gave him the deed?
    • Ans: He paid we a certain part.
    • What part did he pay you in money?
    • Ans: He paid about half down, I think.
    • How did Wilson (PULCIFER) pay you the balance?
    • Ans: He gave me his notes which he has paid.
    • How late were any of these notes on Ephraim PULCIFER?
    • Ans: I can't recollect.
    • Signed Benja. PULSIFER

24. #24 SMITH, Jonathan of East Livermore, Maine, died 28 August 1854. Lydia SMITH, widow. Wesley G. SMITH; Marshall T. SMITH; Abby F. SMITH; Anna L SMITH and EMMA A SMITH also heirs.

25. #25 SNOW, Rachel W. of Lisbon, Maine died 16 July 1854. Ammon WOODWARD, brother of Rachel W. SNOW.

26. #26 TRUFANT, Isaiah S. of Durham, Maine, died 23 Sept. 1854. Nancy TRUFANT, widow & heirs & minor heirs.

27. # 27 CURRIE, Hannah of Poland, Maine died 28 May 1854, (insolvent)

28. #28 PULSIFER, Ephraim Jr. of Poland, Maine died 20 Sept. 1854. Sally Pulsifer, widow (see also #23)

29. #29 LOWELL, Betsey, widow died 2 Feb. 1855. Only children of Betsey LOWELL were: John BLAKE & Calvin BLAKE

30. #30 BRIDGHAM, Jarius G. of (Mechanic Falls) Poland, Maine, died 7 April 1855. Elizabeth BRIDGHAM, widow/ Other heirs listed were: Cyrus BRIDGHAM, brother & George & Cyrus Henry BRIDGHAM, brothers all of Minot, Maine.

31. #31 MERRILL, Edmund of Danville, Maine, died 29 April 1855, left widow: Elizabeth Jane MERRILL. Daniel FIELD was his surviving business partner. Mr. Daniel FIELD presented first account for settlement.

32. #32 LUDDEN, Levi of Dixfield, Oxford County, Maine, died 19 April 1855; Timothy LUDDEN of Buckfield, Maine administered and Phoebe LUDDEN, widow. The court was asked to move this case from Oxford County to Androscoggin County.

33. #33 WHITTEMORE, Ebenezer, a blacksmith, late of East Livermore, Maine, died 28 Feb. 1855. Paulina S. WHITTEMORE, widow.

34. #34 MYRICK, Stephen, of Lewiston, Maine died 12 May 1855, Mary T. MYRICK, admx (N.B. The Myrick family settled in Sabattus, Maine)

35. #35 GEORGE, Tabitha of Leeds, Maine, died 29 April 1855. Betsey SPOONER of Leeds, Maine, daughter. On 18 April 1855, Seth MILLET went to Portland, Maine to see if he could get a pension for the late Tabitha GEORGE. Menerva MORRIS was also listed as heir to estate.

    _{(see page 109, Francis George's family, J.C. Stinchfield's History of the Town of Leeds. Androscoggin County, Maine © 1901 & 1996)}

36. #36 NOWELL, Jeremiah of Webster, Maine, died 5 Sept. 1854. Eleanor NOWELL, widow. Children: Jeremiah NOWELL & Hannah NOWELL.

37. #37 ALLEN, Abraham W. of Perryville, Auburn, Maine, died 30 April 1855. Ruhamia A ALLEN, widow.

38. #38 PULCIFER, Jonathan of Poland, Maine died 18 July 1855. John R. PULCIFER, son and only heir & Mary PULCIFER, widow of Jonathan Esq.

39. #39 ROSS, John of Wales, Maine died 28 Sept. 1855. Bethiah ROSS, widow. Rebecca ROSS WITHERILL, daughter of John ROSS, heir at law to John ROSS, She married Isaac WITHERILL. Isaac WITHERILL was their only child and heir at law. (see affidavit of William WITHERILL, dated 28 March 1971)

40. #40 MOORE, Joseph of Lisbon, Maine died 9 Sept. 1855, Ann (Peirce) Moore, widow

41. #41 SNOW, Rachael W. late of Lisbon, Maine, died 14 July 1854 (sic, all other sources state died 16 July 1854), Ammon WOODARD of Lisbon, Maine brother of the late Rachael W. SNOW of Lisbon, Maine. In the record of Administrator's Bond the following were listed Ammon WOODARD & John B. DOUGLASS of Lisbon, Maine and William WOODARD of Lisbon, Maine. The relationship to each other was not stated.

42. #42 MERRILL, Ezekiel late of Lewiston, Maine died 26 July 1855. Sally (Dingley) MERRILL, widow of Ezekiel MERRILL. Rufus MERRILL of Brunswick, Maine the eldest son of Ezekiel MERRILL was named admin.

43. #43 SMITH, John W. died 22 Oct. 1855 late of Lewiston, Maine. His widow was Elizabeth SMITH. Left children: George W. SMITH and Julia A. SOULE, who were the only heirs of said John. W. SMITH. The following had claims against his estate:
    • Lewis WARE of Lewiston, Maine $20.45 (see page342 of Elder's History of Lewiston, Maine, 1989)
    • Josiah DUNN Jr. of Lewiston, Maine $22.85
    • Saunders LUCE of Auburn, Maine $63.74
    • Henry NOWELL of Portland, Maine $20.19
    • John APPLETON & Co. of Portland, Maine $16.76
    • E. HOWELL of Portland, Maine $8.59
    • Ottie H. LITTLEFIELD of Auburn, Maine $62.52
    • Samuel SOULE of Auburn, Maine $139.65
    • John R. HALL of Lewiston, Maine $127.36
    • E. H. CHASE of Lewiston, Maine $1.75
    • Marshall FORD of Lewiston, Maine $453.82
    • George SMITH of Portland, Maine $7.00
    • Edw. M. PATTEN of Portland, Maine $12.00
    • Jonathan TUCKER of Portland, Maine $465.95
    • Woodbridge C. OSBORNE of Portland, Maine $1452.21

44. #44 BREWER, Hezekiah, occ' husbandman, late of Webster, Maine, died 2 Sept. 1855. Left a widow, Thankful BREWER. In his will he names: Franklin Sumner BREWER, his son, and Thankful S. BREWER, his wife, The will was dated on 18 Nov. 1854 and witnessed by Jesse DAVIS, Cyrus HASKELL & Melvin HENDERSON.

45. #45 ESTES, Silas late of Durham, Maine, died 8 Dec. 1855, Edward Estes of Lewiston, Maine listed as eldest son. Letter dated on 8 April 1856 to the court by Sarah H. FAIRFIELD stated she is the daughter of Silas ESTES late of Durham, Maine saying that she is entitled to one ninth part together with:
    • Edward ESTES of Lewiston, Maine,
    • Josiah ESTES of Lewiston, Maine
    • Samuel ESTES of Durham, Maine
    • Isaac H. ESTES of Durham, Maine
    • Prudence DAVIS wife of John V. DAVIS of Lewiston, Maine
    • Miriam McINTOSH wife of Ezekiel McINTOSH of Durham, Maine
    • Wealthy PLUMMER, deceased daughter of Silas ESTES
      her children and heirs:
      • Silas PLUMMER of Lisbon, Maine
      • George PLUMMER of Lisbon, Maine
      • Edward PLUMMER of Lisbon, Maine
      • Charlette HACKETT, wife of Henry HACKETT of Lisbon, Maine
    • Joseph ESTES of Harpswell, Cumberland County, Maine

Probate Records for Androscoggin County Towns before 1854

• Cumberland County Probate Records 1760-1854 lost by fire.
  • Please note that towns below were part of Cumberland County 1760-1854. (Check Deeds for Probate Records)
    • Auburn,
    • Bakerstown Plantation
    • Danville,
    • Durham
    • Mechanic Falls,
    • Moses Little's Gore
    • Minot,
    • Poland,
    • Pejepscot Claim

• Oxford County (Has a good index to Cumberland County Deeds, check for probate records before 1805, for Livermore & Turner)
  • Livermore 1805-1854
  • Turner 1805-1854

• Kennebec County (published Probate Records for the year 1800)
  • Livermore Falls 1799-1800 (published), 1801-1805 (unpublished) &1844-1854 (unpublished) (part of Livermore before 1844)
  • Wales, 1799-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)
  • Leeds 1799-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)
  • Greene 1799-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)

• Lincoln County (Published Probate Records before 1800)
  • Wales 1760-1799 (published),
  • Lewiston 1760-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)
  • Sabattus 1760-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)
  • Webster 1840-1854 (unpublished)
  • Lisbon 1799-1800 (published), 1801-1854 (unpublished)
  • East Livermore 1760-1800, (published), 1800-1805 (unpublished)

• York County, Maine Probate Records before 1800 (published)
  • Sylvester Canada (Turner, Maine) Land grant 1690, first settler was Isreal Haskell in 1775.
  • Part of New Gloucester, set off in 1774, not incorported as part of the town (So called Moses Little's Gore) 1735-1759.

Other Maine Probate Records, See publishers for price

• Whitney Family Probate Abstracts from Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 1 1687 - 1775 Frost, John Eldridge, Maine Probate Abstracts Volume 1 1687 - 1775 (Camden Maine: Picton Press, 1991) (selected abstracts posted by Tim Doyle, February 12, 2000, Courtesy of the Whitney group) Maine Probate Abstracts (Picton Press)

• Lincoln County Wills 1760-1800 (Heritage Books of Bowie, MD)

• Penobscot County Maine Probate Abstracts 1816-1883, (Picton Press)

• YORK COUNTY, Maine Will Abstracts 1801-1858. (Picton Press)

• See Maine Genealogist February 2001
  • Probate and Miscellaneous Notices From The Falmouth Gazette & Weekly Advertiser, 1785-1786 (see pages 33-36)
• Young's Vital Records from Maine Newpspers 1785-1820 ( see Heritage Books of Bowie, MD)

Maine County Probate Pages

• Aroostook County Registry of Probate
• Cumberland County Registry of Probate
• Franklin County Probate
  • LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILHELM REICH of Rangeley, Maine
• Hancock County (currently under construction)
• Kennebec County Probate Records (1995 to present)
  • Early Kennebec County Records Posted online
    • Dr. Ben Page's estate (1844) of Hallowell, Maine?
• Knox County Probate Page
• Lincoln County
  • Lincoln County Probate & other County Departments
  • Lincoln County Court House
  • Lincoln County Probate, Wiscasett, Maine
    Docket 11-1892 Vol. 4 P 6
    Will of Mahala Jane [Barter] Dodge

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