Person:John Weston (48)

Watchers
John Whitney Weston
d.9 Oct 1878
m. 1782
  1. Mary Weston1782 - 1860
  2. Betsey Weston1784 - 1871
  3. Cephas Weston1786 - 1786
  4. Cynthia Weston1787 - 1872
  5. Samuel Weston1788 - 1838
  6. Stephen Weston1789 - 1869
  7. Eusebius Weston1791 - 1866
  8. John Whitney Weston1793 - 1878
  9. Daniel Cony Weston1795 - 1878
  10. Clarissa Weston1796 - 1856
  11. Increase Sumner Weston1798 - 1885
  12. Roxanna Weston1800 - 1891
  13. Ebenezer Weston1802 - 1894
m. 1821
Facts and Events
Name John Whitney Weston
Gender Male
Birth[1] 27 Mar 1793 Canaan, Somerset, Maine United States
Property[2] 5 Sep 1805 Canaan, Somerset, Maine United StatesReceived about 86 acres of land from the estate of his father.
Marriage 1821 to Sarah Parker Walker
Death[1] 9 Oct 1878

Quoted from Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 3, pg 1142

John Whitney, son of Samuel Weston, was born in Canaan, now Skowhegan, Maine, March 27, 1793, died October 9, 1878. In 1819 he purchased the interest in the saw mill of his cousin, Cyrus Weston, and continued lumbering all his life. Owning timber lands in the Dead river region, he was the first man to cut spruce timber to run down the Kennebec river for the market, and did an extensive business sending rafts of pine boards down the river to Augusta. In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a Universalist.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 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)
    3:1142.
  2. Case no W-5-R Warren, Margaret to W-6-R Weston, Samuel, 1799-1865, in Kennebec, Maine, United States. Maine, Kennebec County Probate Estates Files, 1779-1915. (Augusta, Kennebec, Maine: FamilySearch Historical Records, 1779-1915)
    Image 1052.

    Share No seven to John Weston being -----
    A certain tract of Land situate in Canaan Viz---
    A piece of Land out of Whitaker Lot so called
    Begining at a corner marked on said lot one hundred and
    eighty three Rods from the front line & sixteen Rods & twenty
    links from the North line thence running Westerly at
    parrallel line with the side line of the Lot till it
    comes to the Road leading from the falls to James --
    Webb, thence following said Road to the south line
    of the Lot thence Easterly on said South line to a corner
    marked thence running at right angles across the Lot
    by a line spotted to the first mentioned bound & continuing
    Eighty six Acres more or less
    Being his share of the real Estate of sd Deceased