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Facts and Events
Quoted from Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1, pg 158 &159
- He [Eleazer Coburn] married, January 18, 1801, Mary Weston, daughter of Samuel and Mary (White) Weston, and granddaughter of Joseph Weston, one of the first two settlers of Canaan. (An account of the Weston family is given elsewhere.) She was a strenuous worker, as she had need to be to conduct her household. Besides her fourteen children, thirteen of whom lived to maturity, several boys were brought up in the family. A sister of her husband, with two sons, found a home there, as well as the aged grandmother. The tailoress was in the home nearly the year round, and the shoemaker spent several week's there each fall. The family was seldom less than twenty, and there was always room for another. The mother, like her neighbors, spun and wove her own blankets, sheets and towels, made her own butter, cheese, candles, soap, &c., and knit her family's hosiery. No wonder she learned to use every moment, and in her old age was never seen without work in her hands. With all her labors she found time to go to church regularly and to minister to the needy of the community. She died in the home of her sons A. & P., December 21, 1860.
References
- ↑ 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. - ↑ Mary "Polly" Weston Coburn, in Find A Grave
Find A Grave: Southside Cemetery.
MARY.
Wife of Eleazer Coburn.
Died Dec. 21, 1860.
Æt. 78 yrs.
- 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)
1:158.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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 1049.
To Dolly Weston now Dolly Coburn Share No. one
A certain tract of land situated in Canaan & bounded as followes
beginning on west side of the road leading from scowhegan
Falls to James Webbs on the line between the Fletcher Lot so
called and the Lot called the Whitaker Lot at a stake and stones
thence following said line to the West-end to the line between
said Lots and the Emery tract so-called at the corner ---
thence southerly on said line thirty two rods to a corner
thence crossing said Emery tract at right angles to a marked
tree between said Emery tract & Tilly Mason's Land ---
Thence southerly following the lines of the sd Emery tract
round untill it comes to the south west corner of the Whitaker
Lot thence following the line of sd Whitaker Lot Easterly to the
aforesaid Road thence Northerly by said road to the first
mentioned bounds also one other tract in sd Canaan out of the
lot of Abraham Tract and so called the Ireland tract contain
-ing sixteen Acres more orles also one Pew in Canaan
Meeting House Numbered forty Two agreeably to the Plan
being her share of the real estate of the sd Deceased
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