"The

Reminiscences of Gen. Neal Dow," published in 1898, lets in, on page 82, some light upon the Maynard family in addition to what we present above. We make a condensed abstract, as follows:

"When not quite twenty-six years of Gen. jage," writes Neal Dow, the apostle of total prohibition for the liquor traffic by legislative restraint, "I married Maria Cornelia, [previously Inoticed as Maria Caroline] Durant

Maynard, on the 20th of Jan, 1830. My wife's father, John Maynard, was born in Framingham, Mass., in 1766, where the family had lived two or three generations, the first John Maynard having come from England about 1660. My wife's father went to St. Croix when a youth, there met, and, in 1789, married her mother, Mary Durant, -born on the Island of St. Croix in 1771, who was a daughter of Thomas Durant, then in business in St. Croix. They remained there till 1800 when they came to Boston, Mass., where the youngest child Cornelia Durant Mayard was born, June 18, 1808. At the age of four her mother died, and she went to Boston to reside with an aunt. After the marriage event of Sally Maynard with Henry Smith, Cornelia went to reside with her, being Mrs. Smith's junior by thirteen years."

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After the death of Henry Smith the widow removed to Portland and sided in a one story house that stood on the westerly side of Dow street and Imext in the rear of the Neal Dow residence, the Smith house standing originally, we are told, on Exchange street, and was used as an insurance foffice. It had projecting eaves supported by pillars and was painted white, the blinds green, forming as a whole an attraction to the passer-by in conBequence of its uniqueness, the house having been removed since the death of the widow. Of its appearance on -Exchange street or where it was situeated we have no knowledge.

9 In the village cemetery at Saccarrappa may be seen a small sized white Imarble monument inscribed fol-hows: บ

HENRY SMITH,

born in Dighton, Mass.,

as

Portland, where William Pitt Fessenden, U. S. Senator and U. S. Treasurer resided a fine, airy specimen of ye olden time with large, neatly kept grounds, now occupied and owned by U. S. District Judge-the Hon. William L. Putnam. Judge Mellen died in 1841, but not in the large house he had constructed, nor in the smaller one on the opposite side of the way, but in Mrs. Jones' celebrated boarding

house that stood on the southwesterly corner of Park and Congress streets, which we exhibited in a former article in connection with the name of Capt. Thomas Browne, who occupied the premises a hundred years since.

from

Grenville Mellen was born in Biddeford June 19, 1799, graduated Harvard College in 1818, resided in Portland in 1823, removed to North Yarmouth where he remained five years. He was a remarkably bright young man and was the intimate of the first literary men of the country, and his writings had a wide circulation. He was author of many odes, lyrics and books of prose "Two Hundred Years Ago" being considered his best poem. (See "The Poets of Maine," published in 1888.) We find the following titles to his printed work:

1821-"An address delivered be

fore the Maine Charitable Mechanic's Association for the benefit of the Apprentice's Library."

1825-"Ode for the celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill at the monumental stone," June 25, of that year.

Young Mr. Mellen, it appears, was most deeply devoted to his wife and at her decease and that of her child, so early in lire-May 13,1829-three years after the marriage event, a cloud of melancholy came over him from which, it is said, he never fully emerged. He went to New York city, where he died Sept. 6, 1841. His remains were placed in a tomb of St. Mark's church yard, and later in the same year they were removed to the Steward vault under St. Luke's church; and in 1890 were forwarded to Portland by his nephew, Mr. A. H. Gilman, care of Henry Deering, Esq., and were interred by Mr. S. S. Rich, undertaker, in the presence of Mr. Deering and others, in the family lot in the Western cemetery of Portland, where there is a large monument.

An oil painting of him that has been knocked about considerably may be seen in the Maine Historical Society rooms, Portland.

poem.

1826-"Our Chronicle"-a poem.

1828-"Sad Tales, and Good Tales." 1828-"The Red Rover."

The memorial slab of the wife of Mellen and child may be seen at Dunstan, Scarboro, inscribed as follows:

The Remains of

MARY KING SOUTHGATE MELLEN,

THE BOYD FAMILY.

1.-Mary Southgate Boyd, b. in Portland, Jan. 20, 1797, eldest child of Joseph C. and Isabella (Southgate) Boyd and a granddaughter of Dr. Robert Southgate, m. Sept. 26, 1820, Dr. John Merrill, b. in Conway, N. H., son of Thomas Merrill and his fourth wife, who was Widow Elizabeth (Abbott) Cummings. Benjamin Merrill, brother of Dr. John, was a lawyer in Salem, Mass., where he died unmarried. Thomas, the father, seems to have been of a roving nature and died in the autumn of 1789, aged 65 years. [See p. 178, vol. 3, Me. His. and Gen. Recorder.]

Dr. Merrill fitted for college at Exeter Academy, graduated at Harvard, studied medicine under Dr. Warren of Boston and graduated from Harvard Medical school in 1807, and was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

He was appointed guardian of the minor children of Joseph C. Boyd (father to his wife) and occupied the Spring street Boyd residence, the title to which is still in the Merrill name. He was senior warden to St. Luke's church-the only office of which we find a record that he filled, His name appears as one of the founders in 1851.

He d. May 27, 1855, aged 73 yrs., 6 mos. She d. April, 1861, aged 64 years.

The Merrill burial place is in Evergreen cemetery, the lot enclosed by an Arborvitae hedge, within which are various designs, sizes and patterns of lettering memorial stones.

The epitaph on Dr. Merrill's is as follows:

I look for the Resurrection of the dead and the Life of the world to come.

That of his wife, as follows:

Having the testimony of a good conscience in the communion of the Cathollc church; in the confidence of a certain faith; in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy home, in favor with thee our God, and in perfect charity with thy word.

Children of Dr. John and Mary S. (Boyd) Merrill.

1-Isabella Southgate,

1823, d. Feb. 6, 1871.

not marry.

b. July 3,

She did

2-A daughter that died young. *3-Charles Benjamin, (Colonel) b.

April 14, 1827, m. Abba Isabella
Little.

*4-John Cummings, (doctor) b. Nov.
3, 1831, m. Clara Brooks.
5-Mary Boyd, resides in New York
city, unmarried.

5-Robert Southgate Boyd, b. in Portland, August 24, 1804-a brother to the preceding-m. Margaret Ann Hall, int. of m. Oct., 1831, dau. of Joel Hall, a merchant of Portland, and sister to the wife of John Neal, Esq., he a lawyer, editor, author, poet and critic of Portland, also to wife of a Dr. Cummings of Portland. They resided at No. 45 Park street. He d. in Portland Dec. 1, 1877, aged 73 years, 3 mos.; she, May 1, 1881, aged 70 yrs., 4 mos.

We find recorded the names of four children of Robert S. and Margaret A. (Hall) Boyd, as follows:

1-Joel Hall, b. Dec. 9, 1836. Intention of marriage with Frances W. Whitmore recorded Jan. 24, 1862. They resided at No. 45 Park street. He d. Jan. 15, 1894. They had no children.

He was a Custom House official several years. *2-Samuel Stillman, b. May 6, 1838, m. Harriet E. Churchill. 3-Robert Southgate Boyd, b. Dec. 11, 1842. He resided in Boston; m. Elizabeth Wilson, and was burned to death March 17, 1887, in Buffalo, N. Y. 4-William Edward, b. June 4, 1844, d. May 31, 1845.

6-Samuel Stillman Boyd, b. March 27, 1807, son of Joseph C. and Isabella (Southgate) Boyd (and bro. to No. 5, next above) graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1826. His name stands at the head of the roll of that year. He then went to Cincinnati where his cousin, Bellamy Storer, was in practice and read law with him two years, from which place he went to Mississippi. In his first case in court he introduced points of law the court had not heard of which the judge sustained thus making him famous in that region. He grew in public favor rapidly, so that, in 1832, at the age of twenty-five, the office of Attorney General was tendered him, but he declined the offer. In 1837 he became a citizen of Natchez, and held for a while a seat on the Supreme court bench of the state. He often met in the forum his classmate at college, Sargent S. Prentiss, one of the most gifted orators Maine has produced, who was born at Gorham, this state. In the knowledge of law, by direct gift, and studious study, in deep reasoning and flights of speech, he was Prentiss' peer. politics a Whig, and in 1852 President Fillmore urged his name for a seat upon the U. S. Supreme court bench. He performed a large amount of work, retired from active business with a fortune, indulged in literary pursuits and the pleasures of being with his children. A photo of him appearing in the history of Bowdoin College shows a face of finely cut features.

He was in

6-Robert Southgate (Boyd) b. Feb.

13, 1851, d. July 22, 1877. (b) 7-Caroline Stillman (Boyd) Feb. 17, 1854, m. James Surget. (c) 8-Anna Maria Wilkins (Boyd) March 18, 1859, m. William Benneville Rhodes.

(a) 3-Isabella Southgate Boyd b. Feb. 24, 1845, dau. of Hon. Samuel S. and Catharine C. (Wilkins) Boyd and granddaughter of Joseph C. and Isabella (Southgate) Boyd, m. in Bordeaux, France, Nov. 15, 1870, William Offley Forrester. He is a wine merchant in London, England, where they reside.

Children of William O. and Isabella S. (Boyd) Forrester:

1-Maria Isabel (Forrester) b. March 29, 1872.

2-Adrianne Offley

b. Dec. - 1873.

(Forrester)