Identifier: historichomesins01crane (find matches)
Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Subjects: Worcester society of antiquity. (from old catalog) Worcester County (Mass.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hou!there in 1770, and was a resident of the village i1788, and was there when the place was inconoratJd on February t8. 1795. The route by whiche went to Lewiston from Dracut was down tlMerrimac river to the sea in a boat. He was tow«by a sailing vessel to Harraseket, now FreeporIMaine. Thence he went by portages through tlforest to Royalstown. now Durham, where he agaiput out in his boat and eventually arrived at TwenIMile falls in safety. He was joined in T771 tDavid Pettingill and one of the Dracut Varnumand one other from New Gloucester. Before he w:married he had his cabin on the island in the riviabove the falls. The light in his cabin, by whiche frenuently read late at night, was a beacon Iguide the Indians who were not afraid of the rapidOn one occasion an Indian sirl warned him of a pito murder him at night. The Indians were iealoiof his success in killing otter. Paul shifted tllieacon. putting his lantern in his boat, anchnrein such a place that if the Indians came and mil
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WORCESTER COUNTY 467 took the light for the cabin where it usually slione,they would be swept over the falls and lost. Thetrick was successful and the Indians, who neverdiscovered the trick, left him alone afterward, be-lieving that he had a charmed life. He married Hannah Merrill. The record oftheir children here is incomplete. Two of themwere: i. David, born November g, 1770; died atGardiner, Maine, July 12, 1848, aged seventy-sevenyears, eight months. He married April 22, 1792,Esther Moody, daughter, probably, of Samuel andEsther Moody who were early settlers of Industry,Maine. She was born in Waterboro, Maine, May16, 1770. David Hildreth settled in Industry, Maine,in 1804, on the place now or lately owned byCharles S. Rackliff. He removed later to Gardiner,Maine, where he owned a saw mill. He was cap-tain of the Industry militia company. His wife diedin Gardiner, February 15, 1842. They had ten chil-dren, the two eldest of which were born in Lewis-ton, Maine, where Paul Hildreth l

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