_Joseph BRIDGHAM ____+
| (1651 - 1707) m 1700
_Joseph BRIDGHAM ____|
| (1701 - 1759) m 1722|
| |_Mercy WENSLEY ______
| (1667 - 1746) m 1700
_John BRIDGHAM ______|
| (1729 - 1820) m 1754|
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| |_Abigail WILLARD ____|
| (1702 - 1776) m 1722|
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|--William BRIDGHAM
| (1756 - 1837)
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|_Joanna COMER _______|
(1731 - 1810) m 1754|
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[NI0226]
Excerpted from "Genealogical History of Maine" by George Thomas Little:
"Dr. William, fourth son of John and Joanna (Comer) Bridgham, was born 1756. He removed to Shepardsville, Maine, with his father, and afterward went to New Gloucester, where he resided until his death."
The 1790 census shows William living in New Gloucester, Maine, with 3 white males under 16, and 4 white females. This may have included servants, since he did not have enough children to make these numbers.
[NF0116] The 1800 census shows that William's household consisted of 2 girls under 10, 2 boys and a girl between 10 and 16, and man and a woman between 16 and 26, and one man between 26 and 45. William remarried in 1801, so it is probable that William's first wife, Anne, died before 1800. It is also likely that Elizabeth, b. 1802, daughter of Anne, and Elizabeth, b. 1803, daughter of Lydia, are actually the same person.
[NF0117]
The 1800 census shows that William's household consisted of 2 girls under 10, 2 boys and a girl between 10 and 16, and man and a woman between 16 and 26, and one man between 26 and 45. William remarried in 1801, so it is probable that William's first wife, Anne, died before 1800. It is also likely that Elizabeth, b. 1802, daughter of Anne, and Elizabeth, b. 1803, daughter of Lydia, are actually the same person.
The 1810 census shows the household had 2 boys and 3 girls under 10, 1 girl between 10 and 16, a woman between 26 and 45, and a man over 45.
The 1830 census lists 2 girls between 15 and 20 (probably Sarah and ?), 2 men (probably Michael and Clark) and 1 woman between 20 and 30 (possibly either Elizabeth or Mary), a woman between 50 and 60 (probably Lydia), and a man between 70 and 80 (probably William). (The www.ancestry.com index lists this as William Bridghan.)