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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Maj. Eli Weston |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[3] |
4 Jul 1760 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Residence[2] |
1772 |
Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine, United StatesPioneered on the Kennebec River at present-day Skowhegan |
| Military[2] |
1775 |
Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United StatesAssisted Arnold's Quebec Expedition |
| Marriage |
2 Dec 1779 |
Winslow, Kennebec, Maine, United Statesto Sarah Kemp |
| Death[1] |
14 Oct 1846 |
Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United StatesAge 86 |
| Burial[1] |
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Bloomfield Weston Cemetery, Skowhegan, Somerset, Maine, United States |
Pioneering on the Kennebec River
Quoted from Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 3, pg 1141
- Peter Heywood, Joseph Weston and Isaac Smith were the pioneer settlers of that part of old Canaan, now Skowhegan, Maine. Peter Heywood and Joseph Weston came first in the early fall of 1771 with some of the boys and bringing some young cattle. They cut hay on some of the adjacent islands that had been cleared by the Indians, built a camp and left two of the boys, Eli Weston and Isaac Smith, to spend the winter and care for the cattle. The location was eighteen miles above Winslow, the nearest settlement, to which place the boys made one visit during the long winter. Weston was so late in starting from Massachusetts with his family that he could not get up the river, so they stopped in Dresden until January, then moved on to Fort Halifax, and the last of April, 1772, 'We got to my own house.' They located about two miles and a half below Skowhegan Falls near the islands, so that by cultivating the land on the islands and cutting, burning and clearing small tracts on the shore, they were able to raise a sufficient crop for their needs. Heywood probably came with his family the summer of 1772. His farm included the Leighton and Abram Wyman farms on the south river road, Skowhegan, and Weston's was below.
Assisting Arnold's Quebec Expedition
In 1775 during the Revolutionary War, an American army led by Benedict Arnold journeyed up the Kennebec River on its way to try to conquer Quebec.[1]. Eli, along with his father Joseph and brother William, assisted the army in getting the boats up the river and over Skowhegan and Norridgewock Falls. Joseph later died from a severe cold caught while helping the troops.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maj Eli Weston, in Find A Grave
Find A Grave: Bloomfield Weston Cemetery.
Maj. Eli Weston
4th son of Joseph Weston.
Born in Concord Mass.
July 4. 1760.
Died Oct. 14. 1846.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Burrage, Henry Sweetser; Albert Roscoe Stubbs; and George Thomas Little. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, c1909)
3: 1141.
- ↑ Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1891)
p. 207.
Eli Wesson Son of Joseph Wesson and Eunice his Wife was Born July 5/ 1760
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