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Note N500 Index
Edward was a farmer. He died when he was thrown from a horse.
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Note N501 Index
Joseph was called "Uncle Jose" to distinguish him from the other Joseph Scribners.
His second wife, Mary, was the widow of Fletcher Ingalls, who died in Otisfield 16 August 1804 (OTISFIELD VRs [op. cit.], 307). She and Joseph are buried in the South Otisfield Cemetery.
Joseph was known to have an ugly temper. One day in 1816, while he was chopping wood, a constable, Squire Keith of Oxford, came to arrest him for debt. Joseph said to the officer, "You come an inch nearer and whit goes your horse's head." The officer stepped closer. Joseph then struck the horse with an axe and killed the horse. As a result, he was placed in jail in Portland for a time.
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Note N502 Index
John and Elizabeth rode on horseback to Otisfield in November of 1796, bringing with them their six-month-old son, William. They came by a trail of spotted trees near the end of their cold November journey through the wilderness of Maine.
The Norway, Maine, "Advertiser" of 24 October 1914, carried this article written by a nephew, Granville Fernald:
"One of the most conspicuous old men that I can remember was Uncle John Scribner, in his last years of life. He was of very portly form, and as he came up the aisle of the church, supported by his long staff, his venerable form and snowy locks suggested one of the old prophets of Israel. There were many Scribners, two or three generations that I can remember well. I have a distinct impression to this day of the beautiful expressive eyes of the race of Scribners in Otisfield. It is a feature of the family yet to be seen in some of the children of the family I know."
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Note N504 Index
Simon owned several parcels of land in various parts of Otisfield. No doubt, he continued in the family occupation of lumbering and milling.
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Note N505 Index
Jonathan was a farmer.
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Note N513 Index
Thomas lived in Waterborough and Brighton, Maine. In his obituary, it is written that "he lived a very exemplary life till death, which was peaceful and calm, he being filled with the grace of God."
Thomas' second wife, Deborah, had been married twice before marrying him at age 72 Her first husband had been Solomon McFarland, whom she married 14 October 1776 in Bristol, Lincoln County. Solomon served for 8 months and 9 days in the Revolutionary War, mainly during the hostilities at Castine. Much of the valuable information about Deborah is included in Solomon's Revolutionary War Pension File #W15469 [op. cit.]. They had three children, but all had died before 12 March 1839, the date of Deborah's Widow's Declaration, included in that Pension File. That Declaration was made before the Judge of Probate of Essex County, Massachusetts, David A. White. Solomon had died in 1785 in Essex County. In 1789, Deborah married John Welch of Georgetown, Maine. Her only surviving child, Deborah (Welch) Bushey, has a supporting Statement, which she made on 17 October 1846, included in the McFarland Pension File. John Welch died 12 March 1830 in Georgetown, about 8 months before Deborah married Thomas.
Thomas' third wife, Judith, had been married previously (1805) to John Libby of York County. They had three children. After Thomas died, she married a man named Jackson, sometime between 1850-1856.
In the early part of the 1800's, several of Thomas' children and their spouses left Maine for the Midwest states (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois). Pelatiah was in Ohio (and, later, Illinois) after being discharged from the Army; Aaron and Rhoda went to Michigan; John and Thankful went along, too.
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Note N515 Index
No information about William and Rebecca has been located, because the first book of town records of Limerick (where William was living when he married Rebecca, and presumably where they settled) from the date of the town's incorporation in 1787 to May of 1806 was lost by theft prior to 1894. Sometime later, the records book was "discovered at the town dump," according to a local collector, Charles Libby of Limerick, who said two boys found the records and sold them to him. But, there is no further information in that records book regarding William and Rebecca. There is, however, the entry of Marriage Intentions between a William Leighton of Limerick and Miss Sally Favour of Limerick, dated 8 November 1792, in LIMERICK VITAL RECORDS 1780-1813 (Maine State Archives Microfilm Roll 312). If this is the same William, then it is very possible that Rebecca died very soon after her marriage to William (possibly in childbirth). Although there is no mention of Rebecca's death in the Limerick Records, there is mention of the death of a 3 week-old child of William Leighton, no date given, on Page 78 of LIMERICK VITAL RECORDS 1775-1850 (Maine State Archives Microfilm Roll 311). Also see VITAL RECORDS OF LIMERICK, MAINE, With a full copy of Limerick Town Records Book A, 2nd edition (Parsonsfield, ME: Ancient Landmark Society of Parsonsfield, undated).