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Robert was a farmer in Lexington, Maine.

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Note N998 Index

William was a farmer in Buxton, Maine.

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Note N999 Index

David was a farmer in Waterborough, Maine.

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Note N1000 Index

Daniel was a farmer in Waterborough, Maine.

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Note N1002 Index

Lydia never married. She worked as a housekeeper.

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Note N1003 Index

John was a farmer in the towns of Waterborough, Shapleigh and Hiram, Maine.

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Simeon was a farmer in Harrison, Maine.

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Note N1019 Index

In Daniel Remich's HISTORY OF KENNEBUNK FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1890 (Kennebunk, ME: Carrie E. Remich & Walter L. Dane, Trustees, 1911), page 418, we learn that, in the local newspaper's Advertising Column of 30 December 1826, the following notice appeared:
"Rowell Scribner occupies the cellar recently vacated by Abial Kelley, Jr.; accommodates teamsters and others and keeps an assortment of groceries for sale."

Ruth and Rowell divorced before 16 March 1830, the date that she had her name legally changed back to Ruth Coffin (Richard Roberts [comp.], "Name Changes of Maine Residents, 1803-1892," THE MAINE GENEALOGIST, 18 [Famington, ME: Maine Genealogical Society, 1996], 85). Shortly thereafter, she married George Otis of Portland.

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John was a very popular and well-respected man. It was written of him in 1899:
"John Taylor Scribner is the oldest Whig and Republican in York County, Maine. At every State, Presidential and Municipal election since 1828 he has borne his party ticket, with never a cut or blemish to his integrity. This is a record he points to with pride. He has always shunned political preferment. His only office was that of Selectman, to which he was elected when Waterboro, Me.,was Democratic, by a majority of two to one. He possesses a retentive memory, and has a choice selection of sparkling anecdotes which he vastly enjoys relating to an appreciative circle. He is not fond of early retiring, and, should listeners prove sufficiently interested, will often tarry to the wee small hours. He distinctly remembers Lafayette's visit to America in the early twenties and of his stopping over night in the tavern at Sanford, Me. this tavern being kept by 'Long John Emery.' It was during the boyhood of Mr. Scribner that the terrible scourge known as the spotted fever swept over Maine, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Often so many people lay dead that the burial rites were omitted. Mr. Scribner's father and brother, and a lad who lived on their farm were simultaneously stricken with this disease and were nursed by his mother" (THE HISTORY OF THE SCRIBNER FAMILIES [op. cit.], 132-133).

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David's first wife, Islethera, was named for an island. She died two days after giving birth to an infant son, who also died that day.

David was engaged in the lumbering business early in his adult life, then became successful in the grain business, operating with his sons the D. & C. E. Scribner Grain Company. He served one term in the Maine Legislature, and was a Deacon of the Topsham Baptist Church for 40 years.

A few months before he died, David complied a Family Record of his great-grandfather Edward's children and descendants (Several references to that information are included in this history). As a part of that Family Record, David wrote a personal memo. Portions of that memo follow:

"I think my Grandfather once lived in Ipswich & my Grandmother in Newmarket & moved from there to Waterborough about the time of the revolutionary war in which my grandfather suffered hard service- - and after that settled on____ a good farm in Waterborough on which my father was born and died in 1804 at the age of 38. A few years before his death my Grandfather had a paraletic shock to which he lost the use of one side of his body and was a cripple for the rest of his life. Some 20 years- - he had given his farm to my father and my father was to maintain the old folks and when my father died my mother was left with four children a fifth was born after his death. I was then in my ninth year the oldest & only son my mother being left with a large family and no means for support except what we could raise on the farm. I was to take charge & could be spared but little to attend the district school & that was about one & a half miles off so that my advantages for education were very limited of course & I went out into the world very poorly prepared . . . but trained to honest industry. my Christian parents & Grandparents and their prayers and instruction have followed me through all my life and by the grace of God through his son Jesus Christ I hope to meet them and all my Sisters in Heaven.

"I never thought it a hardship to work my father taught me to work when I was very young & I enjoyed it though I loved play too as well as other boys & having good health I was never Idle . . . I tended stock & went to school what I could till my mother married again which gave me a little more time to atend school but no time for idleness."

Following David's death, a Memorial Sketch was written by F. Ricker, possibly a reporter for a local newspaper. Portions of that sketch follow:

"His home was ever the haven of hospitality and good cheer. As a husband and father he loved warmly, and was warmly loved in return. . . . after his sight and hearing had become dull and almost dead, . . . they counted it a pleasure to have some member of the household read to him for hours each day, and the reading was of a high order. The best current religious publications, history, biography, works pertaining to the realm of invention and discovery, and all the newer phases of public thought and inquiry, whether religious, political, or educational had for him a keen interest. . . . 'his Christian life was as conspicuous as his thorough business integrity, which no one who knew him ever questioned.' . . . David Scribner was no ordinary man. Modest, gentle, unassuming, he yet had the courage of his convictions. His integrity was incorruptible. No breath of suspicion ever tarnished it. . . . Would that there were scores like him in every community in the land "

Topsham was a part of Lincoln County until 1854, when Sagadahoc County was organized.