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FROST Family Bible

One Bible page listed the children of Capt. John FROST: (spelling duplicated verbatim)
Elizabeth FROST was born March 20th, 1760 and dyed May 15th, 1750.
John FROST was born, July 17th, 1751.
Mary FROST was born February 5th 1753.
Samuel FROST was born June 10th, 1755,
Betty FROST was born October 9th, 1757 Died Oct the 8, 1853 (this death date is in different handwriting. Obviously entered much later)
Serah FROST was born, September 17th, 1763.
Simon FROST was born June 2nd, 1766.
Charls FROST was born July 21, 1771
Benjamin FROST was born February 2nd, 1774.

The second Bible page lists: (in a different person's handwriting)
Samuel LEIGHTON born 26th March 1779.
John LEIGHTON born Jan'y 10th, 1781.
Sally LEIGHTON born 10th April 1783. - Died July 2nd 1804.
Mark LEIGHTON born August 1st 1785.
George LEIGHTON born July 4th, 1787. - Died April 25th, 1818
Ellis LEIGHTON born August 30th, 1789. - Died May 24th, 1793.
Nancy LEIGHTON born June 29th, 1791. - Died Feb 15th, 1806.

In Perley LEIGHTON's book, A Leighton Genealogy, these are the children of Samuel LEIGHTON of Perry, ME, with the exception of Ellis being called Alice. I do not know which is correct. The Bible page sure looks like Ellis to me. There is also no Lydia listed as a child of Samuel, but Perley thought Lydia did not really belong to Samuel, and this is verified here.

Folded inside the Bible was a handwritten note from a member of the GOVE family, who had inherited the Bible.

FROST Soldier of the Rev. his daughter Betty FROST married (Samuel?) LEIGHTON who had a saw mill at Whiting, ME. Their son Mark LEIGHTON married Oliva Scott WOODWORTH of Nova Scotia. They had 13 children one of them Charlotte Olivia who married J.C. GOVE.

War Record of Jacob GOVE (J.C. GOVE's grandfather) Enlisted Apr. 1781 at Bradford, Mass. Rank private

Officers under whom services rendered:
Capts. Smith, Benson, John Mills, Col Rufus Putnam, 5th Mass, 1st Mass Discharged Dec 17, 1783

Most of this material given in Soldiers and Sailors of the Rev. Mass Volumes.
Jacob GOVE born Seabrook 1762 died Apr 5, 1823 at Lubec. Married Martha COCHRANE June 1789.
Jacob's son Jacob, born 1797, was the father of Joshua C GOVE, born in Lubec Nov 2, 1826, married Charlotte LEIGHTON Dec 16, 1852.

Transcribed and contributed by Bruce Woodsworth. "I received a reply from Gates Johnson in Perry, ME, who is in possession on the family Bible of Capt. John FROST. He was kind enough to send me scanned copies of the Bible pages and copies of the handwritten note that is folded up inside the Bible." --Bruce Woodsworth

Births

Bailey Decosta, H. Elmer - born 04/18/1921 in Columbia Falls, ME; died 04/19/2000, age 79
Baker Frost, Mary Ann [ Emery ] - born 09/01/1932 in Alexander, ME; died 04/14/2000, age 67
Barnes Lord, Luther B. - born 04/08/1906 in Pembroke, ME; died 04/26/2000, age 94
Beach Flaherty, Margaret B. [ Forbis ] - born in Eastport, ME; died 12/30/1999, age
Beckett Smith, Mary A. [ MacDonald ] - born 04/13/1925 in Calais, ME; died 08/07/1999, age 74
Brown Hold, Walter S. - born 12/06/1930 in Grand Lake Stream, ME; died 04/06/2000, age 69
Butterfield Way, Norma [ Law ] - born in Forest City, ME; died 06/16/2000, age
Carter Denbow, Donald Eugene - born 03/22/1926 in Lubec, ME; died 12/11/2000, age 74
Chesteron, Fay S. - born in Columbia Falls, ME; died 05/11/2000, age 68
Chesterton, Faye S. - born 09/16/1931 in Columbia Falls, ME; died 05/11/2000, age 68
Church Ingersoll, Gladys I. [ Gray ] - born 10/03/1910 in Jonesport, ME; died 04/10/2000, age 89
Diffin Ayer, Ronald C. - born 05/31/1916 in Robbinston, ME; died 11/14/1999, age 83
Diffin Nash, Porter R. - born 04/04/1924 in Robbinston, ME; died 12/25/1999, age 75
Duplisea Poole, George Raymond - born 12/29/1937 in Topsfield, ME; died 09/19/2000, age 62
Edgerly McDowell, Ruth Mildred [ MacKechnie ] - born 11/11/1921 in Princeton, ME; died 01/15/2000, age
Felix, Harold F. - born in Eastport, ME; died 08/06/2000, age 78
Foss Knight, Millard E. "Bud" - born 03/26/1914 in Jonesboro, ME; died 12/28/1999, age 85
Foss, Esten Filmore - born 12/24/1929 in Machias, ME; died 02/25/2000, age 70
Gould Fitch, William A. - born 08/18/1910 in Princeton, ME; died 10/18/1999, age 89
Gould Marco, James R. - born 05/26/1951 in Wakefield, RI; died 04/11/2000, age 48
Griaza, Sherry A. [ Flynt ] [ Brown ] - born in Jonesport, ME; died 07/13/2000, age 56
Griffin, Frances [ Crane ] - born 09/06/1915 in Lubec, ME; died 05/08/2000, age
Hickling Middleton, Woodrow G. - born 03/04/1913 in Baileyville, ME; died 05/13/2000, age 87
Hoffses Alley, Elmer W. - born 12/26/1914 in Head Harbor Island, ME; died 09/21/2000, age 85
Ingersoll, Gordon Harold - born 12/05/1915 in Addison, ME; died 09/13/2000, age 84
James Dodge, Florence J. [ Boynton ] "Dolly" - born in Princeton, ME; died 04/18/2000, age 84
Kelley Copp, Sarah S. - born 01/12/1917 in Lubec, ME; died 05/15/1999, age 82
Kelly, James Thomas "Jack" - born in Danforth, ME; died 03/01/1999, age 57
Libby Jamieson, Edith L. [ Mac Leod ] - born 06/26/1921 in Princeton, ME; died 01/25/2000, age 78
Lincoln, Ralph L. - born 09/13/1921 in Eastport, ME; died 04/03/2000, age 78
Look Dyer, Allan B. - born 05/28/1921 in South Addison, ME; died 06/15/1999, age 78
Look Dyer, Clifton R. - born 01/22/1905 in South Addison, ME; died 01/24/2000, age 95
McLellan Hamilton, Phyllis H. [ Randall ] - born 06/03/1904 in Topsfield, ME; died 04/27/2000, age 95
Merryfield Butler, Perley F. - born 11/04/1940 in Calais, ME; died 01/04/2001, age 60
Murphy Diffin, Mildred Louise [ Ward ] - born 05/18/1900 in Robbinston, ME; died 06/29/1999, age 99
Noyes Roix, Charles J. - born 08/15/1912 in Topsfield, ME; died 05/31/1999, age 86
Oliver Look, Stephen L. - born 02/14/1954 in Jonesport, ME; died 09/15/1999, age 45
Oliver Reed, Morton B. - born 07/17/1933 in Columbia Falls, ME; died 05/13/2000, age
Parker Perry, John W. - born 07/02/1935 in Harrington, ME; died 05/08/2000, age
Pennell Carney, Alice P. [ Wakefield ] - born 12/31/1914 in Whitneyville, ME; died 02/09/2000, age 85
Perry Dorr, Marion Estelle [ Brown ] - born 12/28/1915 in Harrington, ME; died 03/31/2000, age 84
Perry Parsons, Lillian M. [ Goodrich ] - born 10/08/1898 in Forest City, ME; died 04/19/2000, age 101
Polyott, Philip L. - born in Calais, ME; died 05/02/1999, age 73
Ramsdell Scovill, Wyman Henry - born 10/06/1921 in Lubec, ME; died 04/13/2000, age 78
Renshaw Stuart, Phyllis E. [ Dennison ] - born 05/31/1917 in Machiasport, ME; died 01/04/2001, age 83
Reynolds, Molly Elizabeth - born 06/22/1960 in Machias, ME; died 09/14/1999, age
Rice, Thurman C. - born in Marshville, ME; died 02/05/2000, age 81
Savage, Catherine E. [ Lanigan ] "Kay" - born 04/27/1931 in Eastport, ME; died 04/19/2000, age 68
Seamans Bunker, Bernardine [ Yesulitis ] - born 07/18/1921 in Baileyville, ME; died 05/13/1999, age 77
Sirles, Dorothy H. - born 12/02/1914 in Lubec, ME; died 05/05/2000, age 86
Sisson Staples, Martha Howard [ Dildilian ] - born 11/08/1908 in Machias, ME; died 05/02/2000, age
Sisson Staples, Martha Howard [ Dildilian ] - born 11/08/1908 in Machias, ME; died 05/02/2000, age 91
Swainson, Frances [ Morgan ] - born in Cherryfield, ME; died 07/08/1999, age 85
Tenan Colewell, Caroline Louise [ Sawyer ] - born 06/26/1905 in Cherryfield, ME; died 04/06/2000, age 94
Thornton Lyons, Wayne P. - born 12/27/1922 in Brookton, ME; died 01/04/2001, age 78
Tinker Palmer, Leonard H. - born 12/22/1913 in Lubec, ME; died 05/19/2000, age 86
Towns Carver, Natalie [ Murphy ] - born 10/08/1934 in Baileyville, ME; died 05/25/2000, age 65
Tuck Golding, Linda Mae [ Lawrence ] - born 12/24/1944 in Danforth, ME; died 04/14/2000, age 55
Twomey Nettleton, Eelise - born 09/18/1953 in Wakefield, RI; died 06/15/2000, age 46
Wass Dinsmore, Willard R. - born 06/29/1911 in Harrington, ME; died 05/25/2000, age 88
Willey Curtis, Harmon C. - born 08/10/1914 in Harrington, ME; died 08/20/1999, age 85
Willey Sprague, Merrill Walter - born 06/20/1903 in Cherryfield, ME; died 10/11/1999, age 96
Willey, Herbert M. - born 09/29/1925 in Cherryfield, ME; died 12/09/1999, age 74
Worcester Mawhinney, Ida W. [ Strout ] [ Harrington ] - born 01/25/1911 in Harrington, ME; died 09/12/1999, age 88

Source: Legacy and Memory of Jose Rivera Nieves Obituary Index

Military

Regarding the death of Hiram Hills ROBERTS, Sr. (1828-1863)

I, Lewis Roberts of Northfield, Washington County, State of Maine do hereby certify and say that I was a private in Co. H 28th Maine Regiment - that my brother Hiram H. Roberts was also a private in said Co H - that on or about the fourteenth day of August AD 1863 whilst the regiment was returning from Louisiana to Augusta Maine where it was finally discharged the said Hiram H. Roberts was very sick so that it was deemed advisable and necessary by the officers in command to leave the said Hiram H at
Bellefontaine State of Ohio - said Hiram H was left at said Bellefontaine and I was left also to take care of him - that I did take care of said Hiram H till the twentieth day of said August when he died - I was with him when he died and
know that he died of a disease contracted in the service of the United States and in the line of duty - his disease was diarrhea and jaundice.
his Mark: Lewis (X) Roberts
Witness L
W B Smith Mark
L.G. Downes
State of Maine } (Dept of the Interior stamp)
Washington County }
Personally appeared the above named Lewis Roberts to me well known & whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and subscribed & made oath to the forgoing statement on this 18th day of April A.D. 1864. Before Me W.B. Smith - Justice