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Note N776 Index

Sylvanus was a farmer. The ferry over the Androscoggin River at West Bethel was known as Mason's Ferry because Sylvanus and family lived nearby.

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Note N783 Index

Bezaleel was commonly known only by his middle name, Kendall. His work was as a millwright, working in the lumber mills in many parts of Maine, such as Bethel, Bath, Gilead, Albany, Mason and Masardis, and in Gorham, New Hampshire.

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Aaron was a farmer. In 1843, the family moved from Parkman to what is now Oxbow in Aroostook County ("a mile south of what was already nearly nowhere," according to one local resident). Several years later, they moved south about 30 miles to a halfway camp near Patten in northern Penobscot County. It was at this camp that a fatal fire in 1865 took the lives of Diadoma and two of the children. Aaron suffered severe burns and died soon afterward.

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Note N790 Index

Hiram was a farmer and a stone mason.

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Note N794 Index

Miles worked as a carpenter in Springfield for some years. In 1852, at age 42 (most likely, soon after the death of Lavinia), he enlisted in the Army (Co. G, 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment)) and served nobly. He was disabled, and was discharged 18 September 1861. He filed for a Civil War Pension on 23 August 1881, according to the GENERAL INDEX OF CIVIL WAR PENSION FILES, 1861-1934 (op. cit.). While he was away during the war, Hannah lived with the Lorenzo Clark family, and son Lorenzo lived with the Stephen Gardiner family.
Miles became an undertaker.

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Apparently, Diana (who never married) had a mental disability. In the 1870 Census of Patten (where Diana was living with her sister, Jemima Wadlin, and her family), there is the notation "idiotic" following Diana's name (NARA Microcopy 593, Roll 555, Page 391, Dwelling 57, Family 63).

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Lorenzo was a farmer in the towns of Old Town, Crystal and Patten.
The Civil War was especially tragic for Jemima and Lorenzo. They lost both of their sons in the conflict.

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Note N801 Index

Hannah suffered from rheumatism for several years.

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Note N802 Index

Reuben was a tailor in Patten, Maine.

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Note N804 Index

Daniel spent the early years of his adult life (1851-1861) as a farmer. The Civil War led him to an illustrious military and public career.
He enlisted in Co. I, 14th Maine Infantry Regiment, on 31 December 1861. After serving two years, he re-enlisted for three more (on 1 January 1864), and served as a Corporal in Co. D of the 14th Maine. He took part in the battles of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Winchester and Opiquam Creek, Virginia, among others. It was during the Louisiana Campaign of 1863 that the regiment was without tents of any kind. The soldiers had to sleep in the open air, and many of them caught chills and fever (One finds it somewhat of a mystery as to why a number of Maine regiments were sent to fight in Louisiana, Georgia, and other southern states, where the unfamiliar climate wreaked havoc on the health and well-being of men who knew only a northern climate).
Daniel was taken prisoner at Opiquam Creek 19 September 1864 and was taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. He spent only ten days there, being transferred to Belle Isle Stockade on an island in the James River near Richmond. Then, after two months, he was taken to Annapolis, Maryland, paroled and exchanged for a Confederate prisoner. He was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant 28 July 1865 (Wade Scribner, "Scribner Family History" [op. cit.], 11).

After the War, he returned to Patten and worked as a clerk in the store of Gardner and Coburn for six months before going into business for himself as a merchant and farmer. In 1870, he was appointed Trial Justice and Justice of the Peace, a position he was to hold for 35 years. He served in the Lower House of the Maine Legislature in 1885. Other offices that he held were: Selectman of Patten, 1883-1904; Treasurer of Patten, 1893-1900; Town Collector of Patten, 1897-1902. He belonged to the Congregational Church in Patten, and was a Deacon of the church for several years (Sinnett, THE HISTORY OF THE SCRIBNER FAMILIES [op. cit.], 95).