Gammon, Joseph

1756 - 1853  (~ 97 years)

• Name	Gammon, Joseph
  Birth	Aug 1756	Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., ME
  Gender	Male
  Military	Veteran of the American Revolution  [1]
  Tombstone Photo	Norway, Oxford Co., ME   [1]
  	Pikes Hill Cemetery
  Death	12 Dec 1853	Norway, Oxford Co., ME
  Burial	Norway, Oxford Co., ME   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I15546	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	23 Aug 2019

  
  

  Father	Gammon, Philip,   b. 1732, England d. 1801 (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Gatchell, Joanna,   b. 1712   d. 1782 (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F7263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Patrick, Polly,   b. Abt 1775   d. Between 1801 and 1869 (Age ~ 26 years)
  Marriage	01 Mar 1795
  Family ID	F7257	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

  Family 2	Reed, Drusilla,   b. 1769   d. 1835, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	Norway, Oxford Co., ME
  Children	1. Gammon, Harriet,   b. 19 Dec 1801, Otisfield, Oxford Co., ME   2. Gammon, Charles,   b. 6 Nov 1803, Otisfield, Oxford Co., ME   3. Gammon, Seba,   b. 30 Jan 1806, Otisfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 6 Apr 1889 (Age 83 years)   4. Gammon, Joseph J.,   b. 02 Sep 1809, Otisfield, Oxford Co., ME
  Family ID	F7265	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 May 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Aug 1756 - Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland Co., ME Tombstone Photo - Pikes Hill Cemetery - - Norway, Oxford Co., ME Death - 12 Dec 1853 - Norway, Oxford Co., ME Burial - - Norway, Oxford Co., ME Marriage - - Norway, Oxford Co., ME  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents

  Gammon, Joseph Estate Probate

  
  

  Headstones		Gammon, Joseph
  		Gammon, Joseph

  
  

• Notes

  From: "History of Gorham, Me", by Hugh Davis McLellan, 1903 Joseph, b. in Gorham in August, 1758, was a soldier of the Revolution, and a member of Capt. McLellan's company in the expedition against Bagaduce. After the defeat, he and John Lombard made their way to Gorham through the wilderness; they were without arms, and suffered great hardships, but finally, after a long time reached home in safety. Mr. Gammon and Mr. Lombard went together from Gorham to Otisfield, and afterwards to Norway, where they settled on adjoining farms, and there spent the remainder of their days. Mr. Gammon m. in Otisfield, Drusilla Reed, who was b. in Groton, Mass., in 1769. Ch: Charles, Harriet, Seba, Maria, Pomelia and Joseph. Mr. G. d. in Norway, in 1855, ag. 97. From: Charles F. Whitman, "A history of Norway, Maine: from the earliest settlement to the close of the year 1922" (Norway, Me.: unknown, 1924). Pages 82-83 Joseph Gammon left an account of his and John Lombard's tramp home to Gorham through the woods, on the disastrous failure of the expedition against Castine (Bagaduce) in 1779. Seven others from Gorham and Gray, who were afterwards early settlers in Norway, were also in that expedition, but nothing relating to how these seven reached their homes has come down to us. On the breaking up of the expedition through the cowardice and incompetence of Commodore Saltonstall of Connecticut, and the destruction of the American fleet by the marines to prevent the vessels from falling into the hands of the enemy, the soldiers with the exception of four companies which were collected by General Peleg Wadsworth, and marched to Camden, were told by their officers to separate into small squads and make their way to their homes as best they could with Indians as guides. Gammon and Lombard chose to go by themselves. With others they had jumped from the transport they were on, the day before they began their long tramp, into the Penobscot, from fear of being captured by the British, and swam ashore without their guns or any rations. To travel from an hundred to an hundred and fifty miles, through a trackless forest, subsisting on berries and roots, with an occasional meal of raw flesh from small animals and birds, which they were fortunate enough to kill; wading and swimming streams, plunging through swamps and miry places, in summer was a very serious undertaking even for old hunters, skilled in woodcraft. After a tramp of about three weeks they reached their homes in Gorham. Their clothes were in tatters; their feet nearly naked and covered with blisters; their flesh lacerated and bruised; but with a joy in their hearts that is indescribable

  
  

• Sources

  [S956] Pikes Hill Cemetery, (Norway, Oxford County, Maine; located at the summit of Pikes Hill along the east side of Pikes Hill Rd), Drucilla and Joseph Gammon marker. [S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Joseph Gammon (1756-1853), Find A Grave Memorial no. 15501209, citing Pikes Hill Cemetery, Norway, Oxford County, Maine, memorial created by Trescott Tucker.