Person:Ephraim Norton (1)

Name	Ephraim Norton
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	28 Aug 1752	Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage		to Deborah Instance (add)
Residence^[1]	Abt 1788	Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United Statesrem to Farmington from Edgartown, MA
Occupation^[2]		Sailer, in whaling industry.
Death^[1]^[2]	Abt 1839	Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Norton, Ephraim (507), in Banks, Charles Edward. The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. (Boston: G H Dean, 1911)
Vol III p.357-374.

See online transcription of a portion of this reference at The History of Martha's Vineyard. "b. 28 Aug 1752; res E., rem Farmington, Me., where he d. 1839. He m. Deborah Instance."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Butler, Francis Gould. A history of Farmington, Franklin County, Maine: from the earliest explorations to the present time, 1776-1885. (Farmington, Maine: Press of Knowlton McLeary & Co., 1885)
p. 539.

"Ephraim Norton was in early life a sailor, and engaged in the whale fishery. He probably came to the township in 1788, and settled temporarily on river-lot No. 31, east side, but soon removed to a lot in the "gore," where Timothy S. Norton now (1885) resides, and where he lived to the close of his life. His wife, whose name was Deborah Instance, d. in 1825. He d. in 1839. Six children, four of whom were b. in Tisbury, Mass., and two in Farmington:" Source cites list of children.