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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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t of Massachusetts). He was very active mpublic affairs as is shown by the town and courtrecords, as follows: Real Actions in Cumberland County, Court ofCommon Pleas, Vol. 5, P. 10, May term, 1795.John Marston, Jr., has set off to him by metes andbounds 5-12 of Lot 52 in the 120 acres Divisionwest side of Royals River. John Stockbridge of Freeport; Samuel York andStephen L. Harris of North Yarmouth. Committee.Vol. 5, P. 154. October term 1796, Partition be,-tween John Everton, owning 8 acres, Samuel Black-stone, owning 86 acres, and Richard Gerrish. oyvii-ing 50 acres, or 1-9—all of Freeport—of the 450acres Squadron No. 12 in North Yarmouth Goreso-called, but now Freeport. Enoch FoggJohn Stockbridgeand J.^COB Haskell, Jr.,a committee appointed by the Court to make divi-sion by metes and bounds. He moved to Byron, Maine, which is one hun-dred miles farther north and inland from Freeport,and, at that time, was in the woods. Here hecleared the land and brought it into cultivation and
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WORCESTER COUNTY 341 had a fine farm. He was looked to for advice andcounsel for miles around, as very few men inthose days were able to draw up legal papers andtransact business. He died at Byron, Maine, Au-gust. 1820. (VI) John Stockbridge, son of John Stockbridge(5). was born at Freeport, Maine (then called Yar-mouth, and a part of Massachusetts). August 11,1787. died at Byron, Maine, Xovember 2;, 1855. Hemarried Anna Leavitt. daughter of Joseph Leavitt,who was a lineal descendant of Henry Sampson,who came in the Mayflower. Henry Sampsonsdaughter, Dorcas, married John Bonney. Theirson. Ichabod Bonney, had a daughter. Sylvia, whomarried Jacob Leavitt. Their son, Joseph Leavitt,was father of Anna (Leavitt) Stockbridge. Shewas born in Turner, Maine, March 20, 1787. died in.\uburn. Maine, February IQ. 1870. Children ofJohn and Anna (Leavitt) Stockbridge were: I.Lehears Leavitt. born in Byron. Maine, February 18,1810, died in Chelsea, IVLissachusetts. 2. John Cal-vin, born in Byron, Mai

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