Damon, Jonathan b. 28 Feb 1765 Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA d. 14 Jan 1853 Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME: My Damon Genealogy

1765 - 1853 (87 years)

Name	Damon, Jonathan
Birth	28 Feb 1765	Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA [1]
Gender	Male
Census	1790	Bucktown Plantation, Cumberland Co., ME [2]
Census	1800	Buckfield, Cumberland Co., ME [3]
Census	1820	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [4]
Census	1830	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [5]
Census	1840	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [6]
Census	19 Aug 1850	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [7]
Farmer
Married by:	Rev. John Strickland
Tombstone Photo	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [8]
Tombstone Photo	Damon Cemetery
Death	14 Jan 1853	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [1, 9, 10]
Burial	Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME [8]
Person ID	I696	My Damon Genealogy
Last Modified	13 Oct 2014

Father	Damon, Thomas, b. 28 Mar 1731, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA
Mother	( ), Alice d. Bef 1778
Marriage	Bef 1755
Family ID	F396	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Josselyn, Patience Howland, b. 28 Feb 1765, Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA d. 1844, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 78 years)

Marriage Intentions 24 Mar 1793 Turner, Androscoggin Co., ME [11]

Marriage 25 Apr 1793 Turner, Androscoggin Co., ME [11]

Children

	1. Damon, Jonathan Jr., b. 14 Jan 1793, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 31 Aug 1871, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 78 years)
	2. Damon, Joseph Barker, b. 06 May 1795, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 01 Jul 1880, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME (Age 85 years)
	3. Damon, Thomas Josselyn, b. 05 Jun 1797, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 18 Nov 1878, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 81 years)
	4. Damon, Patience, b. 13 Jul 1799, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 08 Mar 1886, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME (Age 86 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	5. Damon, Ezekiel, b. 02 Dec 1802, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 27 Jun 1897, Paris, Oxford Co., ME (Age 94 years)
	6. Damon, Samuel Everett, b. 02 Aug 1809, Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME d. 07 Aug 1886, Auburn, Androscoggin Co., ME (Age 77 years)

Family ID F452 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 4 Mar 2014

Family 2	( ), Mary, b. MA
Family ID	F453	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	4 Mar 2014

Event Map

	Birth - 28 Feb 1765 - Pembroke, Plymouth Co., MA
	Census - 1790 - Bucktown Plantation, Cumberland Co., ME
	Marriage Intentions - 24 Mar 1793 - Turner, Androscoggin Co., ME
	Marriage - 25 Apr 1793 - Turner, Androscoggin 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 - Farmer - 19 Aug 1850 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Tombstone Photo - Damon Cemetery - - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Death - 14 Jan 1853 - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME
	Burial - - Buckfield, Oxford Co., ME

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Headstones

Damon, Jonathan

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.

Sources

[S492] Tombstone Records of Damon Cemetery of Buckfield, Me.
[S817] 1790 U.S. census.
1790 U.S. census, 1790 U.S. census, Cumberland County, Maine, Bucktown Plantation, p. 8 (penned), line 22, Jon'a Damon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 October 2014); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M637, 12 rolls.
[S759] 1800 U.S. census.
1800 U.S. census, Cumberland County, Maine, Town of Buckfield, population schedule, p. 236 (stamped), line 13, Jonathon Dammon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 11 October 2014); citing NARA microfilm, series: M32, Roll:6, image 236
[S607] 1820 U.S. census.
1820 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, town of Buckfield, population schedule, p. 233 (stamped), line 27, Jonathan Damon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2013); citing NARA roll: M33_37.
[S651] 1830 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, town of Buckfield, population schedule, p. 125 (penned), line 9, Jonathan Damon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 August 2013); citing NARA Series: M19, roll 50.
[S649] 1840 U.S. census.
1840 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, town of Buckfield, population schedule, p. 50 (stamped), line 22, Jonathan Dammon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2014); citing FHL film: 0009706, image 105.
[S11] 1850 U.S. census, Oxford County, Maine, population schedule, Buckfield, p. 102B (stamped), dwelling 243, family 265, Mary and Jonathan Damon; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed 22 September 2013); citing National Archives microfilm publication M432_263, image 203.
[S863] Buckfield Village Cemetery, (Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine; N Buckfield Rd; LAT/LON 44.29972N, -70.38389), Comfort, Joshua Allen, Mahala, Joseph Damon, Patience Joshlin, and Jonathan Damon marker.
[S776] Buckfield (Maine). Town Clerk, Buckfield, Maine. Town Clerk, "Vital Records, 1803-1898", Death of Jonathan Dammon; FHL microfilm 10604, section titled "Record of Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1763-1858".
[S815] Buckfield, Maine, "Record of Deaths, 1803-1891", p. 6, Jonathan Dammon; City Clerk's Office, Buckfield.
[S786] Maine, Marriage Records 1713-1937, Patience Josselyn and Jonathan Dammon, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 November 2011); citing Maine State Archives, Augusta, Pre 1892 Delayed Returns, roll 26.