Historical Researches of Gouldsboro, Maine.
Copyright, 1904 by the Daughters of Liberty, West Gouldsboro, Maine
Press of W.H. Sherman, Printer and Stationer
Bar Harbor, Maine. pg.67
John Libby came from England and settled in Scarboro, Me. From there, Samuel, one of his four sons, came to Gouldsboro and settled, attracted by the large amount of salt hay and fine lumber. Here, his first wife having died, he married again, his second wife's family being Leighton. Her Christian name is not known.
Four children were born to them, the eldest , Polly, being the first white girl born within the present limits of the town. Mr. Libby's only son, Joseph, born in 1765, married in 1799, Bathsheaba Gibbs of Rochester, Mass.
Joseph then built a house on the present site of the Libby homestead. Of their six children, Daniel the eldest remained in the old home. He married, in 1826, Mary Ann Whitaker. To them were born six children, three of whom still live at the old homestead.
Historical Researches of Gouldsboro, Maine.
Copyright, 1904 by the Daughters of Liberty, West Gouldsboro, Maine
Press of W.H. Sherman, Printer and Stationer
Bar Harbor, Maine. pg.67-68.
Hilliard M. Sowle came to Gouldsboro from New Bedford, Mass., in the year 1825, at the age of 22, for the purpose of running a store for his Uncle, Thomas Mayhew, a wealthy New Bedford sea-captain. The store was situated just above where W. L. Nuptial's carding and shingle mill now stands.
In 1829 Mr. Sowle married Abagail Wilson and afterwards he bought the house and farm belonging to her father, Gowen Wilson, who then moved to Cherryfield. The house was the same in which he lived for more than fifty years and which stood, on of the land marks of the town, until a few years ago.
A few years after his marriage Mr. Sowle bought out his uncle's interest in the store and started in business for himself in a new store which he built where Ira Shaw's store now stands. In 1844 Mrs. Sowle died, leaving four children, and in 1846 Mr. Sowle married Flora Whitaker, who still lives at the old homestead. Of their four children three are still living.
Mr. Sowle was appointed town clerk in 1837. The first two entries in his record are as follows:--
Gouldsborough February 27th 1837. Then appeared Ephriam W. Taft and took the oath prescribed by law to serve as Post Master.
Before me, H.M. Sowle, Justice of the peace.
March 6th 1837. Then personally appeared Naham Jones and made oath that he killed or caused to be killed one Bear with this State.
H.M. Sowle, Justice of the peace.
In the same record is a list of 253 marriages which Mr. Sowle performed. That is not a complete list as there are a great many marriages which are recorded in the town books and not in his.
Mr. Sowle was postmaster for twenty years and was steadily engaged in trade from the time he came here until his death in 1882.
Historical
Researches of Gouldsboro, Maine.
Copyright, 1904 by the Daughters of Liberty, West Gouldsboro,
Maine
Press of W.H. Sherman, Printer and Stationer
Bar Harbor, Maine. pg.69-70
Thomas Gubtail (as recorded in the town records Vol. 1) was an active townsman. Many times his house was opened for town meeting prior to the erection of the first new town house. He came from Berwick in the earliest days of the township and married Sarah Wilson in 1768.
Gen. Cobb was a frequent caller at the Gubtail farm. The children were: Thomas, Marshall, Lucy, Amos, George, Millard, Curtis, Wilson, Nelson, and Mary Ann. The farm is now occupied by William, Everett and Emerson. The latter's house is over Thomas Gubtail's cellar.
John Gubtail was born in Berwick, 1730, and married Abigail Goodwin in 1752. Their issue was:
Abijah, married Mary Urann;
William, married Jane Downs;
Susan married William Whitaker, in 1770. (The great grandfather of the present townsman bearing his name.)
John, married Mary Woodman
Thomas, married Sarah Wilson, 1790, otherwise mentioned;
Amos married Abigail Urann;
Nahum, married Sarah Rolfe in 1796; (grand and great grandparents of the Winter Harbor Guptills)
Mary married Jesse Perry in 1798; (great grandparents of many Stevens descendants, Steuben. Jesse fought at Bunker Hill.)
Fannie, married Benjamin Spurling, 1799, (great grandparents of may Spurlings, some moved to Cranberry Isle.)
When the Civil feud broke forth, the town of Gouldsboro called a meeting and elected William Guptill lieutenant. He had charge of the town's affairs in this department and conducted the 26th regiment to Bangor. In the Spring of 1889 the authorities of some Southern states made requests of the North for the battle flags captured during the war. This suggested to Lieutenant Guptill the following:
TAKE BACK THE FLAGS
Take them, ye
Southerns, those symbols of treason,
We know that you worship and love them to-day.
The black clouds that darken the bright sun of reason,
The school and the engine will soon clear away.
Take them the
emblems of bondage and darkness,
We've no place to hide them from "Liberty's" sight.
When the "torchlight of Liberty" illumes the Southland,
You'll spurn them and burn them as brush in the night.
Take, those symbols
of perfidy, take them,
We execrate, hate them, and you will some day.
Their cost! Oh, 'twas fearful and boys in blue paid it,
And wish you the blessings of Freedom for aye.
Yes, Freedom, the
patron of light and learning,
We've sworn to protect 'neath the bright starry flag.
Then huzzah for the flag of the free and fearless,
And annihilation to slavery's rag.
Take them, cremate
them, in hottest fire burn them,
And bury their dust in Oblivion's tomb;
Then the high tide of progress will come to the Southland
And the blest, "Tree of Liberty" shower its bloom.
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