Damon, Jonathan

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]

1. Damon, Jonathan Jr. was born on 14 Jan 1793 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 31 Aug 1871 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
2. Damon, Joseph Barker was born on 06 May 1795 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 01 Jul 1880 in Sumner, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
3. Damon, Thomas Josselyn was born on 05 Jun 1797 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 18 Nov 1878 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
4. Damon, Patience was born on 13 Jul 1799 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 08 Mar 1886 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
5. Damon, Ezekiel was born on 02 Dec 1802 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 27 Jun 1897 in Paris, Oxford Co., ME; was buried in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME.
6. Damon, Samuel Everett was born on 02 Aug 1809 in Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME; died on 07 Aug 1886 in Auburn, Androscoggin Co., ME; was buried in Paris, Oxford Co., ME.

Family/Spouse: ( ), Mary. Mary was born in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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]

Notes:

Experience was a blacksmith and a cooper. He would have been making the simplest of tools, such as iron shovel, hoes, broad axes and supplies for the ships that came to Scituate harbor.
He was known as the pioneer of Pincin Hill, MA, which is a part of Scituate, MA.

Experience married Rawlins, Patience in 1686 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. Patience (daughter of Rawlins, Nathaniel and Silvester, Lydia) was born before 04 Jul 1658 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA; died on 04 Jan 1710 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptised: 04 Jul 1658, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA

Thomas married Wormall, Desire on 08 May 1727 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA. Desire (daughter of Wormall, Josiah Jr. and Sherman, Patience) was born in 1709 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA; died before 05 Jan 1735. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]