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LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
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LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
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LDS Church's Ancestral File - not verified.
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As provided by Margaret "Jill" Goode Bohman (author of the privately-published [2003] family genealogy):
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Lemuel Morgrage. Born 11 Apr 1792. Died 17 Sep 1870 in Castine, ME. Buried on the Morgrage Homestead along Route 166 in Castine, on the property owned in 2002 by Richard and Barbara Falk (adjacent to the balance of the Homestead, owned by the Brownells - and further Homestead property owned by Al Snapp). He was a Private In Captain Thomas Emerson's Company, Massachusetts Militia, in the 1812 War; a warrant of 160 acres was awarded for his Service. He was at the Battle of Hampden, ME 23 Sept 1814. Wife: Mary Butler. Born 16 Nov 1796 in Sandown, NH. Died 26 May 1876 in Castine, ME.
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8 Peter Morgrage, Sr. Born 12 Aug 1752 in York, ME. Died 11 Jan 1817
in Castine, ME.
THE MORGRIDE FAMILY - - DERIVATION OF NAME: Centuries ago, there lives in Somerset County, England, Baron Mogg, his domain extending into several counties through a ridge of mountains. The people in that vicinity were called Mogridge acquainted with English people, natives of Somerset and Devonshire who know this to be a historical fact. The Mogridge family is an old English family. At different times and places there is a slight difference in the spelling of the name. It is found in early documents as Mogridge, Moggaridge and Morgradge. Sir Bernard Burke, who is the author of "The Peerage and Baronatage," "History of the Extinct and Dormant Peerage," "The Sanded Gentry," "The General Armory," etc. writes it "Mogridge" and he is considered an authority. The family is mentioned in histories of Sussex, Someretshire and Gloucestershire Counties, England as early as 1623. The earliest ancestor in America was John Moggaridge, who is spoken of in the "York Deeds," Book 4 York, ME; also William and others who lived in the middle and latter part of 1600. John Mogaridge and his son Samuel of York, lived in Old Newbury, Mass., prior to 1700. They were ship builders, and among the earliest shipwrights in New England. Their shipyard was called Mogaridge's Point, for many years; (where Jackman's Wharf is or was) A copy of a contract to build a ship for two Englishmen is preserved in the records of Newburyport, Mass. In the Massachusetts Archives are to be found the names of several Morgrages and Morgridges who were in the Revolutionary War, from York; Amesbury and Newbury. Samuel Mogridge under Brig. Gen. Wadsworth, and William Morgrage, at Bunker Hill, from York. The original Morgrage house is no longer extant in the Castine area, but the original well for the site is. The homestead was passed on down through the family and some where along the line the property changed hands to the Writer Waldo Pierce who didn't keep the property up and the property was sold by Mr. Pierce to the Brownell Family and is still in their family to date April 2000. Also on this site is a family cemetery and as best I could read they are as follows:
Elizabeth D.
wife of Loring T. Cummings
and daughter of John H. & Abigail Wilson
died Oct. 8, 1852
20 yrs. 2 mo. and 12 days
Though ye miss the smile of gladness
and your home is still and lonely
Let no mourning sigh of sadness
Rise at what your God hath done
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Elijah D. Wilson
died May 23, 1878
Age 48 yrs 6 mo 3 days
(I couldn't read anything else on stone)
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Mary J. Wilson
died either 1832 or 1882
(was very hard to read stone worn with age)
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son of John H. & Abigail Wilson
23 yrs 3 mo ? days
(stone broken and very very worn with age)
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Mehitable Littlefield
Died April 28, 1858
Aged 64 years
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The Family Cemetery is visible from highway 166 being marked with a white picket fence just left of the Big Red Barn.
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[908] See "The Life and Family of John and Mary (Roper) Staples of Ipswich, MA," Russell E. Bidlack, in The Sparks Quarterly, pp. 4192ff. [John may have previously married in 1661 in Boston, MA to Mary Sinnet, who may have died after bearing her only child.] Her will is in Essex Probate Records, file 25951.