Maine Genealogy Archives

Gorham Landowners, 1799

Source: Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, vol. 1 (Portland, Me.: S.M. Watson, 1884).

Forenames and surnames have been switched to facilitate searching.

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OWNERS OF TAXABLE LAND IN GORHAM, APRIL 27, 1799.

Copied for the "Recorder," from original record in the library of New England Historical Genealogical Society, by E. S. Strout of Boston.

Benjamin Adams
Hannah Adams
Austin Alden
Josiah Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon
Timothy Bacon
Joseph Baly
Daniel Baker
Barnabas Bangs
Barnabas Bangs jr.
Benjamin Bangs
Ebenezer Bangs
Heman Bangs
James Bangs
Joseph Bangs
Nathan Bangs
Thomas Bangs
Enos Bishop
Benjamin Blake jr.
Ithiel Blake
John Blake
Joseph Blake
Nathaniel Blake
John Brackett
Joshua Brackett
Cornelius Bramhall
Silvanus Bramhall
Benjamin Brown
Edmund Brown
Hezekiah Brown
Simeon Brown
John Burnel
John Burnel jr.
William Burton
Isaac Carsley
John Carsley
Benjamin Cates
Joseph Cates
James Chadbourne
Benjamin Chamberlin
Abigal Chick1
Moses Clark
Thomas Clay
Jacob Clement
Jeremiah Clement
Isaac Cloutman
Jesse Cloutman
John Cloutman
Andrew Cobb
Ebenezer Cobb
Ebenezer Cobb jr.
Jedediah Cobb
Reuben Cobb
William Cobb
Codman, widow2
Daniel Conant
Ebenezer Cotton
Josiah Cox3
Daniel Cresey
Joseph Cresey
James Crockit
Jonathan Crockit
Pelatiah Crockit
Peter Crockit
Samuel Crockit
Samuel Crockit jr.
Thomas Cross
John Darling
Allen Davis
Josiah Davis
Ebenezer Davis
James Davis
Prince Davis
Samuel Davis
Sylvanus Davis
Jeremiah Dorset
Christopher Dunn
John Dyer
John Dyer jr.
Jonah Dyer
William Dyer
Richard Edwards
Samuel Edwards
Elijah Elder4
Reuben Elder
Samuel Elder
Jonathan Ewell


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William Ewell
Simeon Farnham
Benjamin Ficket
Ebenezer File
George File
Joseph File
Samuel File
William File
William File jr.
John Flood
Morris Flood
Jeremiah Fogg
Moses Fogg
Doct. Dudley Folsom
Ebenezer Freeman
Jonathan Freeman
Nathaniel Freeman
Benjamin Frost
Enoch Frost
Colo Nathaniel Frost
Daniel Gammon
Joseph Gammon
Philip Gammon
Isaac Gilkey
Joseph Gilkey heirs
William Gorham, Esq.
Nathaniel Gould
Abraham Hall
Isaac Hall
Israel Hall
Almory Hamblen
Daniel Hamblen
Ebenezer Hamblen
George Hamblen
Jacob Hamblen
Joseph Hamblen
Prince Hamblen
Samuel Hamblen
Timothy Hamblen
George Hanscom
Jno. Hanscom
George Hanscom jr.
Nathan Hanscom
Barnabas Harden
John Harden
Zephaniah Harden
David Harding jr.
Elkanah Harding
John Harding jr.
Stephen Harris
Jacob Haskell
John Haskell
John Haskell jr.
Asa Hatch
Nathaniel Hatch
Lemuel Hicks
Joseph Higgins
Ephraim Hunt
Iehabod Hunt
Simon Huston5
Isaac Irish
James Irish
Stephen Irish
Rev. Caleb Jewett6
George Johnson
John Johnson
Matthew Johnson
Robert Johnson
Ephraim Jones
Stephen Jones
William Jones
Benjamin Allen Jordan
Ebenezer Kemp
Joseph Knight heirs
Josiah Lakeman
John Lamb
Samuel Larrabee7
Stephen Lary
Daniel Davis Lewis
George Lewis, Esq.
James Lewis
Lothrop Lewis
Samuel Lewis
Alison Libby
Benjamin Libby
Edward Libby
Edward Libby jr.
James Libby
Jethro Libby
Joseph Libby
Lemuel Libby
Mark Libby
Reuben Libby
Richard Libby
Samuel Libby
Simeon Libby
William Libby
William Libby jr.
John Lincoln
Royal Lincoln
Richard Lombard
Ebenezer Lombard
Ephraim Lombard
James Lombard
Jedediah Lombard


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John Lombard jr.
Joseph Lombard
Solomon Lombard
Thomas Lombard
Stephen Longfellow, Esq.
Stephen Longfellow8
Charles Lord
Thomas Lothrop
Abner Lowell
Rev. James McCollister9
Abner McDonald
Joseph McDonald
Peletiah McDonald
David McDugle
James McIntosh
Cary McLellan
Thomas McLellan
William McLellan
William McLellan jr.
Nicholas Means
Daniel Merrill
John Miller
David Morton
James Morton
Thomas Morton
James Mosher
James Mosher jr.
Nathaniel Mosher
William Motley
Ebenezer Murch
Ebenezer Murch jr.
Samuel Murch
Matthias Murch
Samuel Murch jr.
Zebulon Murch
Lot Nason
Uriah Nason
William Nason
Enos Newcomb
Samuel Newcomb
John Paine
Richard Paine
William Paine
Nathaniel Parker heirs
Nehemiah Patch
Charles Patrick
Daniel Paul
Ebenezer Peabody
Isaac Pearsons, Esq.10
Benjamin Pettengill
Coleman Phinney
Docker Phinney
Edmund Phinney, Esq.
Edmund Phinney jr.
James Phinney
James Phinney jr.
John Phinney jr.
Joseph Phinney
Stephen Phinney
Andrew Plaisted
Aaron Plummer
Christopher Plummer
Isaac Plummer
Robert Plummer
Joseph Pomrey
Increase Pote
Increase Pote11
Samuel Prentiss
Henry Pride
Joseph Pride
William Pride
Christopher Rand
Jeremiah Rand
Amos Rich
Thaddeus Richardson
William Riggs
William Riggs jr.
John Butler Rion
Benjamin Roberts
Joseph Roberts
Joseph Roberts jr.'s widow
Walter Ross
Abiel Rounds
Joel Sawyer
Stephen Sawyer
Zechariah Sawyer
John Silly
Caleb Shaw
Josiah Shaw
Benjamin Skillings
Benjamin Skillings12
Thomas Skillings
Ephraim Smith
Hezekiah Smith13
Hezekiah Smith14
John Tyng Smith
Aaron Snow
Joseph Crocker Snow15
Thomas Snow
William Snow
Ellis Standish
Samuel Staples
David Steel
Benjamin Stevens
Frederick Stevens


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John Stevenson
Jonathan Stone
George Strout
William Strout
Joseph Stuart
James Sturges
Jonathan Sturges
Nathaniel Sturges
Joseph Swett
Joshua Swett
Josiah Swett16
Josiah Swett17
Moses Swett
Josiah Thacher, Esq.
Charles Thomes
George Thomes
Sarah Thomes
William Thomes
Jeremiah Tole
Zebulon Trickey
Simeon Tryon
James Tyler
William Tyng, Esq.
John Walker
John Ward
Joseph Ward jr.
Nathan Ward
James Warren
Nathaniel Warren
Samuel Warren
George Waterhouse
Joseph Waterhouse
William Waterhouse
Daniel Watson
Edmund Watson
John Watson
David Watts18
Abraham Webb
Edward Webb
Eli Webb
Benjamin Weeks
Edmund Wescot
Nehemiah Wescot
Reuben Wescot
Samuel Whitmore
Asa Whitney
Daniel Whitney
Isaac Whitney
Joseph Whitney
Micah Whitney
Moses Whitney
Zebulon Whitney
Jeremiah Williams
Eliz. Wise, widow19
Charles Wood
William Wood

Stephen Longfellow, Principal Assessor.
Joseph Thrasher, Assistant Assessor
Nathaniel Wilson, Assistant Assessor
James Means, Assistant Assessor
Docker Phinney, Assistant Assessor
Lothrop Lewis, Assistant Assessor


1Occupant, John Butler Rion. 3Occupant, Joshua Edwards. 3Portland; occupant, Richard Dresser.
4Occupant, Benjamin Bangs. 5Heirs; Samuel Elder, guardian; occupant, Richard Marbury.
6Owned and improved by settled minister of gospel. 7Limington; occupant, Joseph Jones.
8Occupant, Joseph Weston. 9Settled minister. 10New Gloucester. 11Occupant, John Wormell.
12Deceased, heirs. 13Of Windham; occupant, Robert Hooper. 14Occupant, Samuel Bemis.
15Falmouth, Co. Barnstable; occupant, Amos Whitney. 16Heirs; occupant, James Tyler.
17Heirs; occupant, John Woodward. 18Buxton; occupant, John Horton. 19Occupant, Samuel Lary.