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Baker-Rouse Genealogy
Letherby 1 died . He married Johannah Milbury.
Johannah Milbury [Parents] 1 died . She married Letherby.
Joseph Carlisle 1, 2 died 3 on 14 May 1718. The cause of death was Drowned. He married Elizabeth Bane.
Other marriages:Mayne, Rachel
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
p275
"Joseph Carlile
The name of this settler was the football of illiterate clerks and appeared as Curline, Carbine, Curloine, Curlile, Carleill, and finally as Carlile. He first appeard here about 1690 as the husband of Elizabeth Bane, daughter of Lewis, Senior, and he with his wife were indicted for not attending public worship early in 1691 (Deeds v, pt. 7). He had a grant of land March 18, 1695-6 of thirty acres "where he can find it" (T.R. i , 130), and another in 1700 of forty acres at the Rocky Ground which he made his home (ibid i, 143). He was pound peeper in 1696 and surveyor of highways in 1701, but that was the extent of his public service. He was drowned May 14, 1718 "going over a pond near his home by accident fell in" (Sup. Jud. Ct. Mss. 12325). He was a blacksmith by trade. His first wife died without issue, as far as known, and he married (2) Mrs. Rachel (Main) Preble, widow of Stephen, March 29, 1695. She survived and was living in 1748 at the age of eighty-four years (Deeds xxvi, 23o, 295). In some way he was related to Elizabeth (Dodd) Royall, wife of John of York, as in 1693 he called her "his kinswoman" (Suffolk Deeds xiv, 236). The geneology of his family appears in Volume III of this history."
Elizabeth Bane [Parents] 1 died . She married Joseph Carlisle.
Lewis Bane died 1 on 7 Apr 1677. The cause of death was Killed by Indians. He married 2 Mary Mills about 1668.
Mary Mills 1 died . She married 2 Lewis Bane about 1668.
Other marriages:Brissom, Charles
They had the following children:
F i Elizabeth Bane M ii Captain Lewis Bane M iii Joseph Bane 1 died .
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
p302
"Joseph Bane
He was son of Lewis and mary (Mills) Bane and at the time of his capture was sixteen years old. He was taken by an Amaroscoggen Indian and lived with him seven years before he was redeemed. While living with the savages he learned their language, gained their friendship, and became a valuable interpreter for the provincial authorities. The Indians always asked for him in that capacity whenever treaties were to be made between themselves and the whites."
Charles Brissom 1 died . He married Mary Mills.
Mary Mills 1 died . She married Charles Brissom.
Other marriages:Bane, Lewis
James Black [Parents] 1 died . He married Abigail.
Abigail 1 died . She married James Black.
They had the following children:
M i Edmond Black
Josiah Black [Parents] 1 died .
History of York Maine by Charles Edward Banks; Sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of Historical Landmarks in York County, Inc. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Company. 1967.
Page 210
Josiah Black: He was another son of Daniel of Boxford and first appeared here in 1697, when he had a grant of land and another in 1701 (T.R. i, 124, 132), both of which he sold to Daniel Paul and John Provender. He leased the George Norton house in 1701 from year to year, and worked the homestead farm on half shares (Sup. Jud. Ct. Mss. 5174). He was here to participate in the division of common lands in 1732, later lived near Cape Neddick Pond and was a husbandman. By his wife Mary he had seven children and the genealogy of the family appears in Volume III of this history."
He had the following children:
F i Hepsibah Black
Edmond Black [Parents] 1 was born 2 on 25 Apr 1704. He married Hepsibah Black.
Hepsibah Black [Parents] 1 died . She married Edmond Black.
John Grant 1 died . He married 2 Dorthy Milbury about 1702.
Dorthy Milbury [Parents] 1 died . She married 2 John Grant about 1702.
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
Captured 1692 and carried to Canda.
Thomas Payne 1 died . He married Elizabeth Milbury.
Elizabeth Milbury [Parents] 1 died 2 before 1695. She married Thomas Payne.
They had the following children:
F i Bethia Payne 1 died . M ii Samuel Payne 1 died .
Peter Weare [Parents] 1, 2, 3 was born 4, 5 on 14 Dec 1618 in Charfield, Gloucestershire, England. He died 6, 7 on 25 Jan 1692 in York, York, Maine. The cause of death was killed by Indians. He married Ruth Gooch.
Other marriages:Puddington, Mary
Ancestry.com. Maine Pioneers, 1623-1660 [database online]. Orem, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1999. Original data: Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623-1660. n.p., 1908.
York, had lawsuit in Piscataqua court in 1640. Proprietor; witness to an Indian deed to Humphrey Chadbourne in 1643; bought land at Cape Nuddocke beach 18 Oct. 1644. Had land grant from the town in 1646. [York De. I.] Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt. 22 Nov. 1652. He deposed 7 Dec. 1658, ae. about 40 years, relative to land grants made 14 or 15 years before. Was a faithful friend of the Mass. govt. and was imprisoned in 1668 by the royalist authorities for that cause; petitions describe his sufferings; had been lame many years. [Bax. MSS.]
He died before April 18, 1692, when the inventory of his estate was taken; the widow Mary presented it in court Nov. 1, following. [York De. V.] She made her will 21 Jan. prob. 7 April 1719; beq. to children Hopewell and Daniel Wear, Mary Roberts and Sarah Nowell, and to son in law Nowell.Mentioned several times in entries from Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Edward Godfrey:
On 5 January 1680 "Ann Godfrey, sometimes of York, now of Kittery," deposed that she "did about twenty odd years agone, give & grant unto William Moore of York" two acres of marsh and thatch at Braveboat Harbor "being about the middle of my farm, which since I disposed of to Major Nicho[las] Shapleigh," but whereas Peter Weare failed to record it, she now requested that it be recorded [YLR 3:86].
Edward Johnson:
On 11 June 1657 "Mr. Edw: Johnson of Yorke" deposed that "little before Thomas Gorges Esqr. went out of New England which was about thirteen or fourteen years ago ... he was present in the marshes of York" and gave Peter Weare possession of a parcel of marsh [YLR 2:179].Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol II. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
p16
"Peter Weare
For nearly three centuries descendents of this rugged pioneer have lived in York and have been identified with Cape Neddick. The precise date of his emigration is not known, but he first appears as a settler at Great Works, Kittery, about 1638, when he and Thomas Brookes, alias Basil Parker, bought land of John Wilcox on the Asbenbedick River. Peter Weare was then about twenty years of age and came from Charfield, Gloucestershire, probably son of Peter Weare of that parish, and perhaps descended from a Thomas Weare who was living there before 1500. (***footnote: It is quite probable, but not yet proved that Nataniel Weare, who came to Newbury, 1635, and later to Hampton, N.H. was a cousin or near kinsman of our settler. Both named sons Peter and Nathaniel, and it is known that the Hampton family came from the same part of England. Nathaniel was an apprentice in Bristol in 1618.) How Peter Weare became associated with Basil Parker, a London haberdasher, in the property at Great Works is not known, but it is established that they were living at that place in June 1640 (Maine Court Records i, 42) and shortly after had a confirmation of their land from Thomas Gorges (***footnote: Parker came over first as agent of the Shrewsbury Merchants who had land in New Hampshire, and as this city was in close connection with Bristol, this may explain the origin of their association.)
Of his early activities he stated in a deposition in 1665 that twenty-seven years previously he had "oftentimes travailed the country, some of the natives always with him, with hath from time to time affirmed that the lake called Winnepasaket issues into the river of Merremake, & having some Indians with me upon the north side of the sd lake, upon a great mountaine, did see the said lake" (Mass. Col. Rac. iv, pt. 2, p243). This presupposes his employment in the traffic of furs, then a lucrative business. They both left Kittery and came to York to reside. Weare was called "of Gorgeana" in June 1643 (Deeds ii, 179), and thenceforth he resided here until his death. He lived first near the present meeting house, but by 1650 he had acquired a lot on the north side of Cape Neddick River which became the Weare homsetead for generations. From this time forth Peter Weare became a leading citizen of the town and often a storm centre of politics.
From the first he identified himself with the Massachusetts pretentions to the ownership of Maine, and was used by them to bolster their claims. He signed the Submission of 1652 and the petiton to Cromwell in 1656. In 1659 he represented York in the local legislature held by Wiggin and Danforth by virtue of a commission from Masachusetts; again at Boston, 1660, and in 1665 at the important session of the general Court during the controversy with the Royal Commissioners. In 1668 he signed a petition to Massachusetts to resume control of the Province. So obnoxious did he make himself to the lawful authroties of Gorges in this year that they imprisioned him in the town jail, "but at night the doors of the jail were staved in pieces by his confederates and he was set free" (Colonial Papers xxxiii, 58), when the Justices of Massachusetts supported by an armed force appeared in York to seize the Courts. The Justices of Maine wrote to Colnel Nicolls that he had been a principle leader in all these disturbances, "repayring to the General Court in the midst of all for his security." (ibid). This second military invasion of Maine in force was successful and Weare began to profit by his partisanship. He was commissioed as Recorder by the General Court "if Mister Edward Rishworth the recorder of said County of York, neglect or refuse his duty therein" (Mass. Col. Rec. iv, pt 2, 152), which proved to be the case and Weare assumed the duties. "His records show," said the editor of York Deeds "that he was poorly qualified to the office to which he was appointed. In an age when spelling was largely a matter of personal choice, his orthography was lamentable; and his handwriting was worse than his spelling. The labor of writing was so irksome to him that he frequently employed Rishworth to make the records, to which he affixed his clumsy signature." (ii, 8). In 1669 Rishworth was again elected Recorder, but the Court set aside the election and reappointed Weare, who held the office another year to be succeeded by Rishworth. He held the office of County Treasurer in 1670 and Clerk of the Writs in 1665.
In local affairs he seemd to have the confidence of his neighbors. For eighteen years, beginning in 1663, of which there remains a record he was elected a Selectman, the last time in 1683 and for seven years, 1654 to 1673 he served as Town Clerk, despite his lack of qualifications for this kind of work. Although out of sympathy with his Provincial politics the town recognized his abilities and his long service justified their confidence. He can be classed as one of York's most useful citizens in her early years of development.
In the bitter personalities engendered during the excitement of the Usurpation he was called by Capt. John Davis, his wife's stepfather a "Base nave & cripell cur" which indicates that he had suffered some disabling injury in his life but that he was vigorous enough in 1685 to cross the ocean is evidenced by the fact that he proved at London "as executor" the will of his younger brother, Thomas, when he was about seventy years of age (P. C. C. 128, Cann). He was married twice; his first wife was Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth Gooch, but she had died probably before the date of her father's will (1667). For his second venture he took Mary, daughter of George and Mary (Pooke) Puddington, who had been an inmate of his household as a housekeeper (1649-1663) and married her the next year. This marriage did not turn out satisfactorily and she was indicted in 1675 for "liveing from her husband." Upon examination she explained that it was "b cause her husband was not willing to have her Company, neither did he provide helpe or necessary Accomidation for her Convenient reception which iff he would shee was willing to go to live with him." he was ordered to provide properly for her, and she to return to her husband, both upon a prescribed penalty. She outlived him and died January 28, 1718-19 aged about eighty-five years. Her will was proved April seven following. He was killed in the massacre of 1692. His estate was valued in 1727 by a family settlement at 570pounds-2-10 (York Probate iii, 250). He had the following children by both marriages:
(By first wife)
1. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Donnell. She was living in 1702.
2. Mary, m. John Drury (Deeds ix, 36).
3. Hannah, m. (1) Nathaniel Jewell (Suffolk Deeds xiv, 421). (2) Michael Shaller in 1697 (Deeds ix, 36).
4. Peter, b. 1649, eldest son (Deeds vii, 105).
5. Phebe, m. Isaac Marion about 1681.
6. Nathanial, prob. died young without issue.
7. Ruth, m. Timothy Cunningham
(By second wife)
1. Daniel, b. about 1666
2. Joseph, b. about 1668.
3. Sarah, b. about 1670; m. Peter Nowell.
4. Elias, b. about 1672.
5. Mary, b. about 1674; m. Charles Roberts (Deeds x, 188).
6. Hopewell, b. about 1676.
The geneology of this family will appear in Volume III.
Banks, Charles Edward. History of York Maine, Vol I. Regional Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD. 1931
Page 295
Probably died in the York Candlemas Massacre (Jan 24, 1691-2) in which about 150 Abenakis attacked the town of York, burning all but four houses on the north side of the river, capturing about 80 people, and killing about 50.
Ruth Gooch [Parents] 1 died 2 before 1667. She married Peter Weare.
They had the following children:
F i Elizabeth Weare F ii Mary Weare F iii Hannah Weare M iv Peter Weare F v Phebe Weare M vi Nathaniel Weare 1 died 2 as a child. F vii Ruth Weare
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