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The Maine Genealogist The Maine Genealogist November 2018 Volume 40, Number 4 The Maine Genealogical Society P.O. Box 2602, Waterville ME 04903 http://maineroots.org/ OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 2018 President Carol Prescott McCoy, Ph.D Brunswick, Maine Vice President Peter M. Smith South Gardiner, Maine Membership Secretary Deborah Nowers Belfast, Maine Newsletter Editor Marlene A. Groves Rockland, Maine Event Co-Chairs Emily A. Schroeder South China, Maine Lynne Holland Brunswick, Maine Publications Sales Manager Roland Rhoades Gorham, Maine Recording Secretary Pam Beveridge Kenduskeag, Maine Treasurer Terry A. Gerald Wells, Maine Co-Webmasters Brian Bouchard Brunswick, Maine Don Taylor Scarborough, Maine Corresponding Secretary Nancy Battick Dover-Foxcroft, Maine DIRECTORS Term Expiring in Celeste Hyer Otisfield, Maine December 2018 Cheryl Willis Patten Smithfield, Maine Term Expiring in Clyde G. Berry Winslow, Maine December 2019 Lynne Holland Brunswick, Maine Term Expiring in Helen A. Shaw, CG Rockport, Maine December 2020 Marlene A. Groves Rockland, Maine The Maine Genealogist Editor Joseph C. Anderson II, FASG Dallas, Texas Contributing Editors Michael F. Dwyer, FASG Pittsford, Vt. Priscilla Eaton, CG Rochester, N.Y. Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP Dallas, Texas The Maine Genealogist (ISSN: 1064-6086) is published in February, May, August, and November. It is printed by Penmor Lithographers, Lewiston, Maine. See back page for membership rates and submission guidelines. For back issues, contact MGS’s Sales Manager at <[email protected]>. The Maine Genealogist Journal of the Maine Genealogical Society November 2018 Vol. 40, No. 4 CONTENTS PAGE EDITOR’S PAGE 162 MAINERS ‘ROUND THE HORN: Six Maine Members of the Suffolk and California Mutual Trading Company Priscilla Eaton 163 JEMIMA (HAM) (McKENNEY) BURSLEY OF MAINE Finding a Maiden Name Using the Laws of Place and Time John Clarke Bursley 177 WILLIAM DAY FAMILY OF WELLS AND CORNISH, MAINE A Fresh Look Edward G. Hubbard 179 STEPHEN C. SAWYER (1806–1892) OF MAINE: Identifying His Correct Parents Lindsay Ham Gillis 192 THE DESCENDANTS OF JAMES AND THOMAS FRANK: Two Brothers of Early Gray, Maine (continued) Thomas W. Frank 195 LINCOLN COUNTY, MAINE, WILL ABSTRACTS, 1800–1830 (continued) 201 INDEX TO VOLUME 40 209 SUBJECT INDEX TO VOLUME 40 232 Copyright © 2018 by The Maine Genealogical Society EDITOR’S PAGE This issue of The Maine Genealogist completes Volume 40, locking in forty years of publication of the journal since the Society was founded. This year’s vol- ume is dedicated to our most prolific author, Priscilla Eaton of Rochester, New York. Since the time of her first submission to this journal in 2001, Priscilla has con- tributed a total of twenty-four articles, many of them multi-part investigations of complicated Maine families. These include the Eatons and Bragdons of Wells, the Hobbses of Berwick, the Maxwells of Ogunquit, and the Fryes of Kittery. In 2010, Priscilla and I collaborated on an article for The American Genealogist revealing the English origin of Nathan1 Lord of Kittery. Priscilla followed that up in 2011 with an in-depth study in The Maine Genealogist of the first three generations of the Lord family in Maine. That article alone resolved more problems in previously printed sources than any other article published in the journal to date, and it is a masterpiece of genealogical analysis. In addition to many other short articles, Priscilla provided to this journal the nineteenth-century records of the First and Second Churches of Wells, which ran serially between 2013 and 2015. In 2018 alone, three of her arti- cles have appeared in these pages. Also in 2018, Priscilla published in The New England Historical and Genealogi- cal Register a fascinating account of a 1725 witchcraft case in Maine, and she wrote for The Genealogist (the biannual journal of the American Society of Genealogists) an article about the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Maine in 1825, focusing on the innkeepers who welcomed him as he went from town to town. Priscilla has a knack for finding compelling topics and utilizing innovative approaches to describe them. I have on hand several new articles by Priscilla, which will appear in future is- sues of this journal. In the meantime, Priscilla is tackling a genealogy of the Little- field family of Wells—a monumental task, as they are one of the most prolific and difficult-to-research families in Maine—and this promises to be a significant contri- bution to Maine family history. For this issue, Priscilla has contributed a study of six men from Maine who were members of the Suffolk and California Mutual Trading Company, a company formed to fund and organize a large-scale mining operation in California after gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848. Noteworthy is the way the sojourn in California influenced the men from Maine in subsequent years, with some returning home after the Gold Rush ended and others remaining in the western states. Although we have worked together for more than fifteen years, I never had the opportunity to meet Priscilla in person until this year, at the MGS April workshop, where she won one of the door prizes! 2018 has been a productive year for this journal. Twelve articles were published about Maine families living in nine different counties. Several of these articles in- clude accounts of descendants who moved to other states and even to other coun- tries. Our authors hail from all over the country, and I am grateful to every one of them for allowing their work to appear in The Maine Genealogist. —Joseph C. Anderson II, Editor MAINERS ‘ROUND THE HORN Six Maine Members of the Suffolk and California Mutual Trading Company By Priscilla Eaton When a gold nugget was discovered in the raceway at Sutter’s Mill in January of 1848, gold fever swept the nation, reaching even the tiniest hamlets of Maine. As financing a trip to California to mine for gold was an expensive undertaking, the first flood of emigration was in the form of companies. An association was formed, officers elected, and the number of desired members determined. The price of shares varied from $50 to $1000, but many efforts were made to induce those of modest means to join the company, especially persons with specific skills like mar- iners, engineers, and mechanics. Young men who lacked the capital to purchase shares were often financed by investors, the miners obligating themselves to pay a percentage of their earnings back to the company.1 The Suffolk and California Mutual Trading and Mining Company was com- prised of 175 to 200 members, one of the largest and best outfitted. The company included a physician, counsellor [attorney], and chaplain, as well as many experi- enced mariners, engineers, and mechanics. Great care was taken to select men of good character. Miners were admonished to take their Bibles in one hand and their New England civilization in the other, and conquer all the wickedness that stood in their path.2 Each member owned two-hundred shares at a cost of $200 per share. Many other companies chose overland routes, but for those from New England sea- port towns, there was only one way to reach California, going ‘round the Horn. The Suffolk and California Mutual Trading and Mining Company paid $22,000 for the ship New Jersey and repairs including coppering.3 They envisioned that the ship could remain in harbor as a home for the men working in the city, or house those who were sick, or could possibly earn money for the company making runs between Panama and San Francisco. The 640-ton ship New Jersey departed Boston on 2 May 1849 with a total of 210 passengers. The ship took an easterly course until near the Cape Verde Islands and then steered southwest; encountered a heavy gale in the gulf stream and had head winds all the way to Cape Horn; was twenty days off the Falkland Islands and the passengers suf- fered terribly from the cold; finally got around the Cape and stopped at Callao [Peru] on the run up the coast. The passengers were so anxious to get ashore after their hard voyage that some of them sold part of their clothing to get money for a shore excur- sion. Lima was only seven miles from Callao and all who could visited the silver city 1 Octavius Thorndike Howe, Argonauts of ’49 (Cambridge, Mass., 1923), 3–5. 2 Oscar Lewis, Sea Routes to the Gold Fields, (New York, 1949), 43. 3 Charles A. Schultz, Forty-Niners ‘round the Horn (Columbia, S.C., 1999), 13. 163 164 The Maine Genealogist [November and wandered through the cathedral and churches, decked with gold and silver images, saw Rolla’s bridge and the tomb of Pizarro and had all the fruit they could eat for the modest sum of twenty-five cents.4 A passenger who boarded the New Jersey at Callao, Peru, offered the following description in a letter to his brother in England.5 I embarked on the 30th of August on board the New Jersey of Boston, which called at Callao for water. She had 210 passengers on board. I paid $80 passage money, and expected to live well, but was very much deceived; the paupers in your workhouse live much better than we did on the voyage. We arrived at this land of gold, San Francisco, on the 11th of Oct. This ship was a very good one and sailed well, the whole range of the vessel from fore to aft, was thrown open so as to make one long room, with berths built three deep down both sides, and along the middle, and long tables between them. The passengers were divided into messes, about 16 in each, each mess had a captain to serve provisions.
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