Descendants of William Christopher Wescott - Person Sheet
Birth1747/1748, Durham, Strafford County, NH, USA
Christen20 Aug 1749, Durham, Strafford County, NH, USA Age: 2
DeathCornish, York County, ME, USA
OccupationHunter and Trapper87
FatherJoshua DURGIN , 10740, M (~1719-~1767)
MotherHannah PERKINS , 10744, F (~1719-1799)
Spouses
Christen25 Feb 1759, Biddeford, York County, ME, USA87
Death5 Dec 1840, Cornish, York County, ME, USA87
FatherJeremiah BROWN , 11193, M
MotherMargaret PATTERSON , 11194, F
Marriage1 Feb 1771, Saco, York, ME
Notes for John DURGIN
Ken Martin has birth in Scarborough, ME?531
Resident of Cornish, ME, living there in 1830 (USC) - first clearer of land in Cornish, ME; Came as early as Henry Poindexter & Holmes, some say he was the first pioneer to pitch here. Owner of first grist mill & saw mill on the Great Ossipee River
Page 37, Married in Biddeford, ME, 7 February 177787
Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files has a John who moved to Cornish in York Cty MA (ME). They give birthdate as 20 August 1750 at Durham, Rockingham Cty, NH Application for pension benefits for John Durgin, Rev War Soldier. State of Maine, County of York On this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundrend and thirty two personally appeared (blank) the Court of Probate now sitting at Limerick in the County of York John Durgin a resident of Cornish in the County of York and the State of Maine. Aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn in according to law doth on his oathe make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the Untied States in the year 1775 in the month of May with Captain John Rice and seved in Colonel Edmund Finney's regiment in the Massachesetts line under the following Maine officers; John Rice, Captain, Captain Silas Burbank, First Lieutenant, Edward Milli(?), Second Lieutenant, Edmund Finney, Colonel, Samuel Marek,
Lieutenant Colonel, and Major Brown whose Batallions(?) name I don't recollect. I enlisted for eight months - my time expered in January 1776. I staid by the request of Colonel Finney one month after my time was out and left the service in February 1776. I enlisted in Scarborough, Maine (then Massachusetts, in the County of Cumberland). We marched from Scarborough through (blank) (blank) (blank), NH, Exeter, NH, Haverhill, and Lexington, Massachusetts to Cambridge, Massachusetts. We marched the next day after we got the news of the Battle of Bunker Hill. We were stationed all the while at Cambridge (blank) between Prospect Hill and Fort No. 2. We were fully engaged in fortifying the places in the vicinity (blank) hill, (blank) point. I never had a written discharge.
He was a hunter & one of first settlers of Cornish (Cornish Fams, pg 33). Built first saw mill on the outletof Long Pond. Last plantation collector, 1792-3 before the town was incorporated. Signed a remonstance to incorporate town of Cornish - 1791.
Resident of Cornish, ME, living there in 1830 (USC) - first clearer of land in Cornish, ME; Came as early as Henry Poindexter & Holmes, some say he was the first pioneer to pitch here. Owner of first grist mill & saw mill on the Great Ossipee River
Page 37, Married in Biddeford, ME, 7 February 177787
Abstracts of Rev War Pension Files has a John who moved to Cornish in York Cty MA (ME). They give birthdate as 20 August 1750 at Durham, Rockingham Cty, NH Application for pension benefits for John Durgin, Rev War Soldier. State of Maine, County of York On this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundrend and thirty two personally appeared (blank) the Court of Probate now sitting at Limerick in the County of York John Durgin a resident of Cornish in the County of York and the State of Maine. Aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn in according to law doth on his oathe make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the Untied States in the year 1775 in the month of May with Captain John Rice and seved in Colonel Edmund Finney's regiment in the Massachesetts line under the following Maine officers; John Rice, Captain, Captain Silas Burbank, First Lieutenant, Edward Milli(?), Second Lieutenant, Edmund Finney, Colonel, Samuel Marek,
Lieutenant Colonel, and Major Brown whose Batallions(?) name I don't recollect. I enlisted for eight months - my time expered in January 1776. I staid by the request of Colonel Finney one month after my time was out and left the service in February 1776. I enlisted in Scarborough, Maine (then Massachusetts, in the County of Cumberland). We marched from Scarborough through (blank) (blank) (blank), NH, Exeter, NH, Haverhill, and Lexington, Massachusetts to Cambridge, Massachusetts. We marched the next day after we got the news of the Battle of Bunker Hill. We were stationed all the while at Cambridge (blank) between Prospect Hill and Fort No. 2. We were fully engaged in fortifying the places in the vicinity (blank) hill, (blank) point. I never had a written discharge.
He was a hunter & one of first settlers of Cornish (Cornish Fams, pg 33). Built first saw mill on the outletof Long Pond. Last plantation collector, 1792-3 before the town was incorporated. Signed a remonstance to incorporate town of Cornish - 1791.