Mary Chadbourne

  General Notes:

70. JOHN 5 CHADBOURNE (45. James 4-3 Humphrey 2 William 1), born Kittery 23 Mar 1716/17 (KVR, 42); died Sanford 5 Apr 1789 (Boyle, EF Sanford-Springvale, 57); married Kittery (int) 12 Dec 1741 (KVR, 214) MARY SPINNEY, baptized Kittery 23 Sep 1723 (First CR, ts, MHS, 14), died 10 Jan 1789, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth (Pomeroy) Spinney of Kittery.

A blacksmith, John moved with his father in 1739 to Sanford, where he received a settler's lot (Sanford TR). He served with his brothers Joshua and James in the Indian Wars, in Capt Jonathan Bean's Co 1747-8, Capt William Gerrish's Co 1759, and as a captain on the Eastern Frontier in 1760. He was one of the owners of the Chadbourne Mills.

In 1756 he united with the First Congregational Church of Wells. In July 1750 John and James Chadbourne signed a petition as inhabitants of Phillipstown for the need for a road for "our infant settlement" (York Co Sessions, Box 247, Oct 1747-1765). A house built in the 1750s, still standing at 33 Elm St, Sanford, was probably built by his generation. Said by local residents to be the oldest house in Sanford, it has been changed by an addition on Elm St, but one can still visualize the house from the rear, which appears to have been the original front of the house. We attribute this house to John as it was built by a Chadbourne, and John's brothers had lived elsewhere by this time, except for Joseph who moved to Cornish circa 1770. [page 95]

Children (Boyle, op cit), surname CHADBOURNE:

i. SUSANNAH 6, b and d 1742.

ii. SUSANNAH, b and d 1743.

95 iii. JOHN, b Sanford 24 Mar 1752.

96 iv. ELEAZER, b Sanford ca 1754 or 1757.

v. MARY, bpt First Church of Wells 11 Feb 1756 (NEHGR 73:314) with one of her cousins; d Lyman 19 Dec 1838; m SILAS GRANT, son of Alexander Stone and Margaret (Goodwin) Grant. Children, surname Grant: 1. Foss, b 1778, d 5 May 1831, m 25 July 1799 Polly Waterhouse, 3 ch. 2. Silas, b 1779, d Ripley 6 Dec 1850, m Betsy Straw, 10 ch. 3. Peter, b Apr 1784, d Lyman 2 Nov 1862, m1 Jan 1811 Nancy Waters, no ch; m2 Miriam Maddex, 7 ch. 4. John W, b 4 June 1786, d 21 Jan 1862, m Sep 1808 Esther Waterhouse, 9 ch. 5. Lydia, b 1788, m Asa Andrews, 1 or more ch. 6. Mary, b 1789, m 4 Dec 1820 Nicholas Gould. 7. Benjamin G, b 1791, m Hannah Chadbourne, dau of Rev John and Elizabeth (Grant) Chadbourne, 2 ch. 8. Samuel, b 1793, m1 28 Nov 1825 Rachel (Armine) Huntress, 5 ch; m2 Jane Gould, 2 ch. 9. Alexander C, b 1794, m Margaret Gray, 3 ch. 10. Margaret, b 1796, dy.

Mary married Silas Grant Sr, son of Alexander Stone Grant and Margaret Goodwin, in 1777 in Lyman, York County, Maine. (Silas Grant Sr was born in 1753 in South Berwick, York County, Maine and died on 2 Jul 1842 in Lyman, York County, Maine.)