Samuel Adams of Bowdoin Land Grant Application
1835 land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office for Samuel Adams for service in the Revolutionary War.
Sagadahoc County
Samuel Adams of Bath Land Grant Application
1838 land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Samuel Adams for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Abigail.
Jedediah Adams of Bowdoinham Land Grant Application
1836 land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Jedediah Adams for service in the Revolutionary War, by his widow Rebecca.
Biography of George H. Hunter
George H. Hunter, of the firm Hunter, McMaster & Co., merchants of Pittsfield, was born in Bowdoinham, July I, 1830, his parents being Robert and Jane (Henry) Hunter. His father, a native of Topsham, who was well known in the county, lived in Bowdoinham for several years, carrying on a tannery and to some extent engaged in farming. In 1835 he located in a place about three miles west of Pittsfield village, and there carried on farming until his death in 1870, on May 31. He was also engaged in lumbering and in trading. Prominent as a politician and with …
Biography of Rosamus Lowell Mitchell
Rosamus Lowell Mitchell, the proprietor of an extensive woodworking establishment in Skowhegan, Somerset County, was born in Norridgewock, January 26, 1830, son of Jonathan and Nancy B. (Walton) Mitchell. Some of his ancestors were Revolutionary patriots. His grandfather, John Mitchell, a native of Bath, Maine, who spent the most of his life in Chester, Maine, and lived to be eighty-one years old, reared four sons and three daughters. Jonathan Mitchell, son of John, was born in Chester, now Chesterville, Maine. During the War of 1812 he was called out with a company, and served for a short time. He cultivated …