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ADRIEL WARREN OF BERWICK, MA.INE HIS FOREBEARS AND DESCENDANTS ADRIEL WARREN OF BERWICK, MAINE HIS FOREBEARS AND DESCENDANTS BY VANETTA HOSFORD WARREN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS PRIVATELY PRINTED MCMLXIV Copyright 1964 by Vanetta H. Warren For the use of previously copyrighted material the author wishes to thank Gladys Hasty Carroll for permission to use her account of James Warren and the gourd which appeared originally in 11Dunnybrook," copyright, 1943, The Macmillan Company. Pinkham Press This Deposition establishes the year of arrival of James Warren in America CONTENTS Page Foreword V Chapter I - Eleven Generations of Warrens in America 3 Chapter II - The Elliotts and the Cooks 134 Chapter III - Autographs, Grants, Cases at Court, Depositions, Wills, etc. 155 Illustrations following 133 The Berwicks: locations of Warren Farms Cow Cove Harry B. Warren Farm House Photographs of the Warrens, Elliotts and Cooks Line of Descent 173 Index 173 iii FOREWORD The first record of the Warren family of Berwick, Maine, to appear in print is in the "History of Durham, Maine," by Everett S. Stackpole, 1899-..a brief account--which he ex­ panded in 1903 in his "Old Kittery and Her Families." The first genealogy of this line is by Orin Warren, Chase Press, 1902. This covers seven generations through the brothers James and Gilbert (sons of Jrunes2 ) and an eighth generation through John, the third brother, from whom Orin Warren stems. The descendants of Joshua Warren, believed to descend from the Berwick James are also included. This book is in many of our state libraries. William R. Cutter's "Genealogical and Family History of Western New York," 1912, swnma.rizes the earlier Berwick Warren records and carries through with some of the descendants of Moses Warren (son of James3 and Mary (Goodwin) Warren) who migrated to New York. A recent account is that of Leon Hugh Warren, M.D., 19.54, "Eleven Generations of the Descendants of James Warren Who Came from Scotland to South Berwick, Maine about 1652." Dr. Warren brings the family story down to his children through Samuel, son of James3. There are only two copies of this manuscript available to the public, one at the Maine Historical Society Library, Portland, Maine and a second at the Library of Con­ gress, Washington. The present account includes: 1. All records extant in the York County and Kit~ery and Berw;ck Town archaves relating to James1, James , Gil­ bert, and Gideon. 2. Use of Dr. Warren's genealogy, for which he has kindly given his permission, to make it available to the public. 3. Development of the story through Gideon (son of the above Gilbert), his son Adriel, of Vermont and New York, and _his son Henry_ B. ~~. Naw~Yor4 Maryl and , an<L J:Uinois, whose children migrated to Kansas and Oklahoma in the eighties and the majority of whose descendants reside there to this day. To McKinley H. Warren, great-grandson of Adriel Warren, and to our cousins who have contributed so much time and en­ couragement to assembling this material, the book is dedi­ cated. V ADRIEL WARREN OF BERWICK, MAINE HIS FOREBEARS AND DESCENDANTS Chapter I ELEVEN GENERATIONS OF WARRENS IN Al-lERICA THE BERWICK BEGINNINGS: The state of Mainer is kno.-.-rn for an unusual independence politically, economically and in reli­ gion. Those of us who migrate to Maine, if from choice, may have these qualities and make the move that we may breathe this ozone of freedom. Or if for other reasons than choice, before long, we will take on some of the native coloring. But your state of Mainer born, comes by this independence naturally from a singular, perhaps unique, set of ·circum­ stances in the very early colonization of our country. The Province of Maine was a Royalist, not Puritan Colony. Church membership -- the signing of the covenant -- was not a voting prerequisite. From the beginning it was a haven for those fleeing the persecutions by the clergy of the Massachusetts Bay. In 1602, Capt. Bartholemew Gosnold set out from the Cor­ nish port of Falmouth, England, with letters from Queen Elizabeth to be delivered to the Emperor of Cathaye by way of the mythical Northwest Passage. He skirted the coast of Maine, talked with Indians at present Cape Neddick, York, who used "divers Christian words" and returned. His letters were undelivered but two of his journals were printed and interest was aroused in the new land. In 1603, Martin Pring set sail from Milford Haven, landed briefly at Penobscot Bay, and later is said to have penetrated a few leagues up · the Piscataqua River. In 1605, George Weymouth, by far the most important of these seafarers, returned from the coast of Maine with five Abenakis natives (of the Algonquin family) he had kidnapped. Three of these came under the care of Sir -Feroinane.-o Gor..ge.s.,..-eapta-in and commander of the seaport of Plymouth. Thus exposed to the wonders and opportunities of­ fered by the New World, Gorges was roused to an enthusiasm over colonization there which never abated until his death (1647). He invested some 20,000 pounds there, though he him­ self never set foot in America. As a result of the interest aroused by these journeys, on April 10, 1606, King James granted two charters to two sepa- ... :; ... rate companies, the Northern and the Southern Virginia. Gorges was a charter member of the Northern Company, known also as the Plymouth, with its headquarters in Plymouth, England. Gorges and Sir John Popham, also a member, initi­ ated expeditions to America under this charter, soon after. Popham, in two ships with one hundred colonists and supplies for a plantation, sailed from Plymouth in 1607, and settled at the mouth of the Kennebec, the first English colony on the New England coast. This effort endured for only one year. In 1614, Captain John Smith mapped the New England coast, named it and said the Indians called the northern part, "Mayne." In the winter of 1616-17, Richard Vines, steward of Gorges, remained a winter at the mouth of the Saco River and demonstrated that Englishmen could survive a Maine winter. Though no permanent colonies were established in this period, Gorges and others continued to send out yearly fish­ ing fleets under the charter which seem to have netted some profit. On November 3, 1620, Gorges and others received an en­ larged charter with more powers and privileges from the re­ cently created Council of Plymouth and Gorges became associ­ ated with Capt. John Mason, secretary of the Council. The partners received a patent dated Aug. 10, 1622 which defined their lands as all the country between the Merrimac and Sagadahoc Rivers, extending from the Atlantic into the River of Canada (St. Lawrence) and including the savage nations towards the Great Lakes (later called Laconia). Under these charters, settlements were begun in 1623 at the mouth of the Piscataqua at Odiorn's Point, Strawberry Bank (Portsmouth), the Hilton's point, Dover on the west side, and at Kittery on the east side. In 1629, Gorges and Mason agreed to make the Piscataqua River the divisional line between their interests and thus were defined the Provinces of Maine and New Hampshire, which in turn gave their names to two of the New England states. Following this division Gorges received many patents from the King; that of 1639 made him a Lord Proprietor, his powers those of a prince. The early settlement at Kittery Point was the nucleus which was to become Old Kittery or Kittery Parish, its early jurisdiction to extend thirty miles northward along the Pis­ cataqua and up the Salmon Falls River to Stair Falls, and along the coast eastward to Brave Boat Harbor which marked the boundary between Kittery and York, where Gorges had his special interests. In 1647, Kittery was incorporated as the first town in ••• 4 ••• Maine. The earliest settlement along the upper Piscataqua was near the head of navigation in an area called Newicha­ wannock. This was just north of the juncture of the present Salmon Falls and Great Works Rivers, it being the private estate of the Indian Rowles, an important Sagamore under the renowned Pasaconway. The falls at the present bridge across the Salmon Falls River in South Berwick were named Quampheg­ an, and very soon the whole area was called Quamphegan-­ later Upper Kittery, Kittery Common, Upper Parish, Parish of Unity, and Quamphegan Landing. It was incorporated in 1713 as Town of Berwick, present Shorey•s Brook dividing it from old Kittery. In 1814 it was set off from Berwick and in­ corporated as South Berwick. In 1831 the northern area was set off from Berwick and incorporated as North Berwick. To confuse things further, the Salmon Falls River was called the Newichawannock and the Great Works, first christened Asebenbeduck, became the Little Newichawannock, or Little Salmon Falls, and finally merely Little River, even when deeds were beginning to name it The Great Works. On the present map of York county there are two Little Rivers, one entering the Salmon Falls River north of Berwick village and a second flowing into the ocean in the town of Saco. On the maps of Commonwealth Towns ordered made in 1795 by the General Court of Mass. Bay, (Mass. archives, Vol. I:1395), these two Little Rivers are named, as well as a northern branch of the Great Works (now called Negunta­ quid), designated as Little Hobbs and a lower branch now called Frosts Brook, called Warren's Little River. These two branches became kno~m locally as Little Rivers. A total of five rivers (perhaps more) were designated in deeds simp­ ly as Little River in the same decade.

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