George Washington linked to French ancestry story unfolds
A newspaper tale claims George Washington descended from Nicolas Marteau a French captain who settled in Virginia and helped shape early colonial governance. The account traces Marteau from Jamestown through Elizabeth City Yorktown to Washington's lineage, noting Marsau signed early Virginia protests and the Yorktown site.
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York
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Yorktown
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America
Ann Pope
Lawrence
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George’™ Reade
Kings
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Augustin Warner
Lawrence Washington
Augustine
Westmore- Potomac River
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Richmond area notes on bridges and local visitors
Richmond gossips detail bridge plans near the Richmond Dresden ferry and a wall of visitors in town. Officials, chamber members, and Swan Island interests are cited with a city meet at the Maine legislature last winter.
Georgetown Social Scene and Local Updates
Georgetown residents and visitors share news from a week of gatherings. Mrs. Annie M. Jones and Miss Etta Jones of Clearfield and Mrs Carroll Powers of Robinhood were guests at a Wednesday evening party with Mrs Newman assisting. Various travelers, new births, and calls on friends fill Bath and Robinhood communities, noting extended visits, house moves, and church events including evangelistic services led by Walter Colby.
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Walter Gordon
Roslindale
Elizabeth Hunt
Bath
Webster Johnson
Somerville
Mass
Kennebec Point
Manning
E. A. Carlisle
Winchester
Carrie Baker
South Portland
Augusta Rowe
Grace Hinckley
Duryea
Methodist Episcopal Hospital
New York City
Miss Hinckley
Doris Eldridge
Rockland
A. E. Rowe
Sumner Mains
Bath City Hospital
Russell Sumner Mains
Frank Heald
Dover
N. H
New York
Eugene Modlin
Cambridge
Modlin
Robinhood
Hollis Webster
Hollis
Sagadahoc Bay
Lexington
Walter J. Russell
Irving Gillis
Portland
Russell
B. H. Woodside
Ruth Hinckley
C. L. Hinckley
Walter Cummings
Roy Newman
Cathance
William
Zarah
Dahlev
Pessim
Robinwood
Ruth Powers
Center School
Sagadahoc-Lincoln Teachers’ Association
Powers
William Winkley
Medford
Lower Westport
E. B. Billings
Arthur Farrar
A.E. Rowe
Bowen
Camp Overlook
W. C. Todd
Etta Jones
Clearfield
Carrol Powers
Walter M. Colby
Hmovey
First Baptist Church
Christian Endeavor
Amy
Alice Hovey
Harry Horne
Lillian Berry
Five Islands News Beats One Last Summer Weekend
Local notes recount visiting families from Arlington New York and Bath and nearby towns over a two week span. Grange meetings resumed after storms and area residents attend fairs and high school events. Eleanor Mary Campbell and Clifford Landry wed in Brookline Massachusetts on Sunday September 29 with local families sharing in the announcement.
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John Prichard
Arlington
Mass
F. H. Rittall
Rittall
E. M. Horton
New York
Elizabeth White
Bath
C. D. MacMahan
Delbert
J. G. Stevens
Edith Wilkins
William Marr
North Jay
Wilkin
Ida H. Rowe
A. J. Nichols
J. T. MacMahan
William Belanger
Edith Anderson
Portland
L. G. Moulton
Seguinland
Chester Horne
M. E. Davis
Priscilla
Dorothy
Woodfords
L. H. Rowe
C. C. Davis
Christania Pinkham
Ladies’ Aid
Grange Hall
Percy Savage
D. L. Howard
Fenton Moore
Rnon Gray
Victor Pinkham
Barbara May
Boothbay Hospital
Otis Baker
Fisher
Norwood
W. E. Reed
Five Islands
Will Field
Lincoln E. Campbell
Eleanor Mary
Clifford Landry
Boston
Brookline
Westport Road Work Extends Third Class Highway
Westport implements extension of a third class highway on the hill south of the late William McKinney home at the Center. Several local notices report deaths, visits, and family movements including Frank B. Jewett’s death in Augusta and funeral at Mechanic Falls.
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William McKinney
Frank B. Jewett
Augusta
Mechanic Falls
Amos M
Mary Shattuck Jewett
Westport
Harry Jewett
Edward P. McLaughlin
Kendal Ester
Plymouth
Mass
Capt
Thomas McLaughlin
Winthrop Garvin
Santa Monica
Cal
Ronald L. Tarbox
Arthur K. Tarbox
Archie Higgins
Bath City Hospital
Lincoln Lodge Elects Officers at Monday Meeting
Lincoln lodge of I C C F elected Harold Carter as noble grand and Walter Norton as vice grand. George Sawyer was recording secretary, John F. Conant financial secretary, Henry G. Shaw treasurer, and Nathaniel L. Stover trustee for one year. Chester D. Colby trustee for two years, Maurice F. Knight trustee for three years.
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Lincoln Lodge
I.C.C.F
Harold Carter
Noble
Walter Norton
George Sawyer
John F. Conant
Henry G. Shaw
Nathaniel L. Stover
Chester D. Colby
Maurice F. Knight
Personal notes from Bath residents and visitors update
Mr and Mrs Humphrey A Owen return to Bath from Sabine summer cottage. Mrs Charles Stinson of Auburn, formerly Bath, returns home after several days in the city. Donald Small of Bath Iron Works returns from a visit in Augusta. Miss Carmen Atkinson of Bath office of the A and E St Ry on annual vacation to Boston. Three times as many men committed death by own action as women in Illinois last year.
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E. EF. Martin
W. W. Spear
Portland
George W. Sawyer
Lynn
Mass
EB. R. Glidden
Winchester
E. N. South
Charles Alexander
Ernest Stewart
Evelyn
Brunswick
Chester Lord
Norris Sidelinger
John S. Parker
Alfred Niles
William Walker
Front Street
Farnham
Father Biglin
Old Town
Marie Pottle
Bloomfield
N. J
Herbert Carr
Walpole
William Carr
Bridge Street
Irving Hodgdon
Luther Litch
Bangor
Annie Huntley
White Road
Canaan
Arthur Jackson
Augusta
South Pleasant Street
Methodist Ladies’ Aid
North Harpswell
Charles Pennell
Progressive Grange
Colleen Hinckley
Warren Joy
Patty Duren
Ann Wilson
Barbara Bond
Esther, Ring
Carlton Ring
John York
Patricia York
Mary Jane Gonya
Jackie Gonya
Fred Elliot
Hallowell
Perley Joy
Springfield
Frank Yeaton
Leon Gidden
Joseph Bragg
Clara Williams
China
Irving Fickett
Jeanette Fossett
C. H.,bryant
Richmond
Boston
Holden Priest
Swan Island
Ida Hibbard
Roxbury
L. Foster
Pleasant View Farm
Alfred J. Niles
Enterprise Grange
Lincoln-Sagadahoc County Teachers’ Association
Bath
Albert Darrah
Farmington
William E. Johnson
George B. Anthony
Jamestown
R. I
Bertha Graves
South Dartmouth
Frank Dickey
John E. Watson
Dresden
Lincoln
Walter Higgins
Joanna Smith
Vinton McKenna
Forest
High Street
Ray Merrifield
C. H. Bryant
John C. Bryant
Freeport
Mary Nelson
Baptist Parsonage
Edward McNerney
Bernice Mercereau
P. J. Quigg
Maine
Canada
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
I.C.C.F
Sip
Humphrey A. Owen
Sabine
Charles Stinson
Auburn
Donald Small
Bath Iron Works Corp
Carmen Atkinson
A & E St. Ry
Kennebec Gunboat's Fierce Civil War Record and How It Faded
The Kennebec built at Thomaston earned a strong Civil War record alongside Cayuga and Kin e o. It participated in Farragut’s campaigns from New Orleans to Vicksburg and Mobile Bay, engaging forts and batteries with scarce casualties. After war service, it faced misfortune, was sold in 1865, converted to a bark, and lost with all hands on its first voyage as a merchantman.
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Bath and Brunswick Rotarians at Sebasco
About 65 Bath and Brunswick Rotarians joined N. W. Cushman at Shore Acres 5 club for a day trip to Sebasco. The party featured golf between the two clubs with Ben Furbish and E. W. Bridgham as handicappers, quoits and barnyard golf, and a shore dinner in the clubhouse praised as one of the best. Weather was ideal and guests toured Cushman’s new clubhouse rising beside the old one.
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Brunswick
N. W. Cushman
Shore Acres
Sebasco
Owen J. Ledyard
Francis Parry
Walter Plummer
Percy Nickerton
Harry Passmore
High Street
Winneganee
Phippsburg
Cushman
Elmer F. Campbell
Chester Plant
Ben Furbish
E. W. Bridgham
Quoits
Gauvin and Stone Sign for Next Week's Bout
Eddie Gauvin of Bath will meet Rocky Stone of Biddeford at the Arcade Arena a week from Friday night Oct. 11. Stone is a colorful battler who stands toe to toe, leaning on a upright stance with both hands ready for instant action. The card also features Joe Gillo versus Cowboy Clark over four rounds, with Ernie Kingsbury likely to accept Elwell's challenge for another prelim.
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Bath
Rocky Stone
Biddeford
Arcade Arena
Buck—Potvin
Kewiston
Joe Gillo
Cowboy Clark
Hyde Windlass
Gillo
Ernie Kingsbury
K. O. Elwell
Kingsbury
Elwell
Sheet Boy
Eddie Ferris
Corliss Street Church seeks new pastor after summer
At a special meeting the Corliss Street Church decided to procure a pastor as soon as possible to resume church work after the summer recess. The church has been pastorless since Aug. 1 when Rev. R. H. Carey ended his term. A finance committee was chosen for the rest of the church year.
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R. H. Carey
Sidney L. Eaton
Carroll A. Deering
Benjamin H. Stackpole
J. H. Hunt
C. A. Plant
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