Damon, Jonathan Jr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; Buckfield Village Cemetery
• Census: 1820, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
• Census: 1830, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME

Notes:

WAR OF 1812 - Massachusetts Militia - Pvt. Jonathan Damon, Jr.,, Capt. Jesse Turner's Co., Lt.Col. William Ryerson's Regt.

Family/Spouse: Perry, Bethia Barker. Bethia (daughter of Perry, Barnabas and Josselyn, Bethiah Thatcher) was born on 25 Dec 1791 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 29 May 1855 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Damon, Bethia Thatcher was born on 21 Jun 1820 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 10 Jun 1903 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
2. Damon, Lucinda Abigail was born on 22 Nov 1821 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 29 May 1832 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
3. Damon, Patience Barker was born on 19 Jul 1824 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 01 Feb 1826 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
4. Damon, Laura was born on 17 Aug 1826 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 15 May 1832 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
5. Damon, Hannah was born on 27 Oct 1828 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
6. Damon, Jonathan Barnabas was born on 30 Apr 1831 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 14 May 1832 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
7. Damon, Jonathan III was born on 14 Aug 1834 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 24 Jan 1840 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
8. Damon, Cinderella was born on 21 Sep 1838 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 18 Feb 1937 in Hebron, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.

Family/Spouse: Hasey, Mary Jane. Mary was born about 1827 in Woodstock, MA; died about 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Damon, Truman Sherman was born on 18 Dec 1856 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 03 Mar 1938 in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
2. Damon, Oscar Gardner was born on 14 Feb 1858 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died in Andover, Oxford Co., ME.
3. Damon, Llewellyn Robert was born on 14 Dec 1869 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 10 Aug 1944 in Rumford, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Aug 1944 in Andover, Oxford Co., ME.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Married by:: Rev. John Strickland
• Tombstone Photo: Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; Damon Cemetery
• Census: 1790, Bucktown Plantation, Cumberland Co., ME
• Census: 1800, Buckfield, Cumberland Co., ME
• Census: 1820, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
• Census: 1830, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
• Census: 1840, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
• Census: 19 Aug 1850, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; Farmer

Notes:

From: A History of Buckfield Oxford County Maine
Jonathan was the first Damon to go to Buckfield Maine. In the year of 1789 three young men from Mass, Luthur Gardner of Hingham, Jonathan Damon of Pembroke, Mass and William Brock of the same vicinity, settled in the section near David Farrar's.
A sister of Jonathan had married David Record who had moved to Buckfield from Pembroke Mass, in 1781. Whether her presents here was the cause of her brothers coming of the accounts or the accounts given by David Farrar caused him to seek a place of settlement is uncertain. He had been bound out while a child and had been incurred to hardship and toil. He was uneducated but honest and industrious. The first year of his coming he made a clearing and erected his log house. He did not return to Mass. on the approach of winter as did Gardner and Brock, but he hired out to Benjamin Spaulding at four dollars per month taken lard as payment.
In the year 1791 he raised a very large corn crop. It is said by his descendants that for many days and nights he only left his husking to prepare and eat his meals. He worked right along through the night, lying back among the fodder to sleep, when exhausted nature could no longer bear up under the constant strain. His only companion as he told one of his grandchildren in later years, was a big black bear that use to come every night and eat her supper from the opposite side of the pile of corn. "Why didn't you kill her??" asked the boy, while he was telling the story. "Because I was so lonesome that even the company of this bear was company for me" he answered.
After his corn was husked he went back to Mass. for the purpose of pursing the heart and hand of Miss Patience Josselyn. It is related at one of his visits she asked why his hands were so hard, and he answered because he husked so much corn. He won Miss Patience and they were married in April 1792. She had a brother living on what was once called the Andrew Hall farm, and she came from Mass with Jonathan and they were married in Turner, Me. by the Rev. John Stricklin.
Jonathan's ambition was to own land. As he prospered, he kept adding to his farm. He kept buying and clearing as long as there was any wild land near him. At last he owned many hundreds of acres. He cleared more land than any other pioneer in Buckfield. His children married and settled in and near Buckfield, and his descendants today are very numerous.

Jonathan married Josselyn, Patience Howland on 25 Apr 1793 in Turner, Androscoggin Co., ME. Patience (daughter of Josselyn, Thomas Jr and Barker, Patience) was born on 28 Feb 1765 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA; died in 1844 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Tombstone Photo: Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; Buckfield Village Cemetery
• Baptised: 05 May 1765, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA

Thomas married ( ), Alice before 1755. Alice died before 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Some children and dob's from http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=33763626

Thomas married Barker, Patience on 10 Jun 1761 in Hanover, Plymouth Co., MA. Patience (daughter of Barker, Samuel and Howland, Patience) was born on 27 Oct 1740 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; died about 1821 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Mayflower: # 2098

Notes:

Were his children born in Scituate or Marshfield ?

A deed dated 10-17-1734, conveys land to John Damon, late of Scituate.
His will, dated in 1742, bequeathed to wife Temperance, son John, son Nathan, and Daughter Temperance and Deborah. the widow Temperance probably married Blank Dunham, and was a widow again in 1768.

John married Oldham, Elizabeth on 12 Sep 1717 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Elizabeth (daughter of Oldham, Thomas III and Wormall, Desire, daughter of Oldham, Thomas Jr. and Sprout, Mercy) was born on 04 Oct 1691 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; died after 05 May 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Stockbridge, Anna on 01 Jan 1732 in Scituate, MA or Hanover, MA. Anna (daughter of Stockbridge, Thomas and Reed, Sarah) was born on 31 May 1710 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 11 Nov 1774 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 08 Dec 1707, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA

Samuel married Howland, Patience on 06 Dec 1739 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Patience (daughter of Howland, Jabez Jr. and Stafford, Patience) was born on 23 Mar 1717 in Bristol, Bristol Co., RI; died on 02 May 1802 in Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family: they had nine children
• Baptised: 24 Mar 1717, Bristol, Bristol Co., RI

Notes:

Buried:
Fern Hill Cemetery