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Note N13592 Index

Charles was a mechanical engineer, working in a foundry in North Adams (1910) and a woolen mill in Medford, Massachusetts (1920, 1930).

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Note N13593 Index

James was a machinist in Waterville, Maine.

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Note N13595 Index

Guy was a farmer in Waterville, Maine.

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Note N13596 Index

Perl was a deputy marshal, and a merchant, in Waterville, Maine.

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Note N13600 Index

Joseph owned a general store in Winslow, Maine.

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Note N13609 Index

John was a veterinarian in Belfast, Maine.

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Note N13629 Index

Caleb served 3 years in the Revolutionary War, from 13 October 1781 (when he enlisted in Massachusetts) to 1784. He began receiving a Veteran's Pension in 1818. The deposition given by Caleb when he applied for that pension tells of his exciting, yet often threatening and scary, expolits during the war. It is recorded in "Dubros Times, Selected Depositions of Maine Revolutionary War Veterans," a Maine State Archives Publication [page 3], and reads as follows:

"I Caleb Gordon, aged Sixty three uears, a citizen of the United States, born in Brentwood in the State of New Hampshire on oath testify & declare (being now resident in Augusta in the District of Maine) that in April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier for the Continental Service into what was called the Eight months service, into the company commanded by Capt Ballard--My Colonel I think was Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line--In August or September 1775 while serving under my first enlistment I volunteered to go with Col. Arnold in Capt Thayers Company to Quebec by way of the Kennebec through the woods. I went accordingly, and after great suffering by hunger and fatigue I arrived at Quebec. At the storming of the town, I partly ascended the wall in a scaling ladder, which was cut off by a chain shot from the enemy and I fell, having failed in our attempt upon Quebec. I afterwards was taken sick with the small pox and lay in a hospital near Quebec. After I had nearly recovered, upon an attack from the enemy, I effected my retreat with great labor, suffering, and difficulty, and arived at Bennington Vermont having passed by the way of Lake Champlain in August 1776, having served from my enlistment fifteen months. I was actively engaged with the enemy in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Fromthe above campaign and service I took no formal written discharge.
In August 1777 I again enlisted as a private soldier into the Continental Service of the United States against the common enemy for a term of Three years into the Company commanded by Capt. Stone and regiment commanded by Col Brewer of the Massachusettes Line. Under this enlistment I served two years and five months, and my wife being sick I hired for one hundred dollars a substitute for the remaining seven months. I myself by permission of my officers left the Army on the Hudson near New York in January 1780--On my return but within the three years, my right leg was amputated in consequence of a sore occasioned, as the Surgeon stated under oath, by the heats and colds of Service.
I took no formal written discharge, being unable in consequence of my misfortune to go and procure it. I am very poor, and in need of the bounty of the government. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to evey pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any, but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever--I request to be put on the Pension List for the District of Maine.
Caleb Gordon

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Note N13680 Index

Samuel was a farmer in Strafford, Vermont.

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Note N13691 Index

Horace served in the New Hampshire Legislature as Representative from Manchester, 1880-1881.