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BROWN - Brown was among the first settlers of Raymond.
CASH - Cash was among the first settlers of Raymond.
COLE - Cole, Sally married SMITH, Thomas Jr.
CRISP - Crisp was among the first settlers of Raymond.
DAVIS - Davis was among the first settlers of Raymond.
DINGLEY - Joseph Dingley The first arrival of settlers was in 1770 when Joseph Dingley and Dominicus Jordan of Cape Elizabeth came up the Presumpscot River to Sebago Pond, attracted by the proprietors' offer of a free 100 acre lot to the first claimants on the spot. Resting overnight at the foot of the lake, Dingley stole away early with their canoe to the first (at the head of Kettle Cove) leaving Jordan to walk the shore to the mouth of the Jordan River where he set his stake in second place.
EVANS - EVANS, Birney b10/14/1867 married MORTON, Cora B
EVANS -EVANS, George E born1/1/1855 m HARMON, Emma J
EVANS - EVANS, John B born2/19/1830 Alton, N.H.,deceased.Aug. 11, 1913 ae 86yrs.,6mos.,7das.Standish. married WELCH, Sarah Elizabeth born about 1825, (daughter of Thomas & Rhoda (Smith) Welch),deceased.Aug. 29, 1911. Children:
EVANS - EVANS, John W. born July 27,1862,deceased Aug. 31,1950 Portland married Harriet B Jones
EVANS - EVANS, Loring S. born Oct 31,1872 or 1873?, deceased1913 married Hattie Smith m SMITH, Hattie
EVANS - EVANS, Nellie born July 27, 1862,deceased Aug 5,1932 Conway N.H. She married Walter R.Burnell
FOSTER - FOSTER, Grace b1714 m TRUMBLE, Judah III
FOSTER - FOSTER m BURNELL & BLACK
GAY - Gay was among the first settlers of Raymond.
HARMON, Charles B born1841 deceased 1/8/1862
HARMON, Hannah b married PEASE James
HARMON, Mulbry born1808 deceased 8/5/1886 married Rebecca ?
HARMON, Mulberry Jr born1854 deceased 1/1/1921 married WELCH, Anna R
HARMON, Sarah C born1854 deceased 10/27/1872
HILL, Gladys born10/19/1901 deceased 10/21/1965 married Hall, ?
HILL, ? married TRUMBLE (TRUMBULL), Alice born
HOOPER, Elizabeth E b11/27/1859 deceased 9/26/1918 married MAINS, Walter S.
JORDAN - Dominicus Jordan - The first arrival of settlers was in 1770 when Joseph Dingley and Dominicus Jordan of Cape Elizabeth came up the Presumpscot River to Sebago Pond, attracted by the proprietors' offer of a free 100 acre lot to the first claimants on the spot. Resting overnight at the foot of the lake, Dingley stole away early with their canoe to the first (at the head of Kettle Cove) leaving Jordan to walk the shore to the mouth of the Jordan River where he set his stake in second place.
KNIGHT - Ernest Knight is a reknowned historian in the Raymond area.
LEACH - Leach was among the first settlers of Raymond.
LITTLE, Ella Ruth born 1858 married WALLACE, William A
MAINS, Benjamin married KNIGHT, Mary
MAINS, Charles G born 1860 married BRADISH, Hattie Jane Smith
MAINS married to MERRILL, EMERY, LITTLEFIELD, COONEY, & WELCH
MARSH
MCDONALD, Laura E married WELCH, Albert L
PHIPPS - Sir William Phipps see Raymond below..
PIERCE - George Peirce, of Otisfield, a surveyor, was engaged to survey and lot out the town of Raymond for settlement. In the first rush of settlers to provide shelter on a productive site, assigned lots according to the Peirce survey map were difficult to discover and more ignored than observed. By 1790 tenancy and lines were in a mess, unsolvable by Peirce or the proprietors.
RAYMOND or RAYMENT - William Raymond, or Rayment as it was then sometimes spelled, of Beverly, Massachusetts, earned public recognition by leadership participation in the 1675 militia attack on the Rhode Island Indian stronghold of Narragansett in the Great Swamp Fight in King Phillips War. Then when the resentful Indians allied themselves with the French adventurers in Quebec to harass the English settlements along the Atlantic coast, Captain William Raymond raised a company of 60 men of Beverly to participate with some 2500 other Massachusetts colonists under Sir William Phipps in an attempt to destroy the French fortress, the center of French activity in the new world. They did attack and enter the city but the arrival of winter and epidemic in the fleet resulted in disaster and great loss of life. For more complete details see History of Raymond.
STAPLES - Staples was among the first settlers of Raymond.
SMITH - Smith was among the first settlers of Raymond.
SMITH, Hannah B born 1843 of Standish deceased 1911 married Sept 6,1863 WELCH, Sewall, born1840, deceased Jan.6,1907 Westbrook.
SMITH married ADAMS, WELCH, EVANS
SIMONDS - Simonds was among the first settlers of Raymond.
THOMPSON, Greenleaf married RICH, Abby
THOMPSON, George H born1882 married PEASE Carrie Luella
THOMPSON, Abbie M born10/5/1914 married WELCH, Thomas Jr.
TINNEY - Tinney was among the first settlers of Raymond.
WALLACE
WELCH - Betty Welch First baby born in Raymond. Betsy Welch, called in later life Betty, married Seth Libby, 1775-1867, buried in Raymond Village Cemetery. Betty's Neck on Panther Pond was named for her.
WELCH, Henry Lincoln born 5/31/1866 married TRUMBLE, Belle Hannah
WELCH, Thomas Feb 3, 1798, son of James, Raymond deceased 1885 married int. Nov.24, SMITH, Rhoda( Rhonda) of Standish, he of Raymond. She born1798 Buxton, daughter of Thomas & Rhonda (Rounds) Smith of Buxton, deceased.1872 Children:
WELLER
WINSLOW - Nathan Winslow of Portland as surveyor, though they failed to note on each lot the nature of the land as directed due to the work being done with snow on the ground. Lines were not cleared for sightings or elevations and generous allowances were made for "swag of chain" so that most 100 acre lots were, and still are in excess of that size. Many adjustments and changes in both map and sites were necessary before the first deeds could be written and recorded on 29 March 1794, but at last there was some order and legitimacy to the township of Raymondtown, Massachusetts.