August 31, 1857, Mary and Sopiah having sold the land received of their father, excepting an acre and the buildings on it, estimated at $600, and invested the money in Portland city bonds, and having become too aged to transact business and care for their personal wants, chose Amos Hight, Esq., their agent, with full power to act for them, but the two sisters did not survive long after the transaction, and the following transcript of the inscriptions from the small white marble monument tell the rest of our Chadwick family story as we know it from the records. ford Jan. 9, 1738. He was six years of age when his widowed mother married the Rev. Richard Elvins and went to reside at Dunstan, where he was a bare footed boy, his stepfather residing a few rods westerly of the cemetery which has since been enlarged so as to make the parsonage lot join that of the cemetery. And it requires but a little stretch of the imagination to see him piling wood upon the "Landing" and unloading goods from vessels, for he made several trips as a sailor in a coaster, but the evidences of intellectual merit appearing in such a convincing manner friends advised a college course and tendered assistance, so that, in the graduating class of 1765, at Harvard we find his name, and a year later a tutor at the institution where was he continued till 1772 when he ordained at Beverly, Mass., as a Congregationalist clergyman, Nov. 25, of that year. In 1781 he was elected President of Harvard College. Some of his literary work was printed, but not much. He is set down as a sound Greek scholar and had prepared a Greek grammar, which he left in manuscript. He held his position till death, which was at New Bedford, Sept. 25, 1804. FIRST GENERATIONS IN AMERICA. Rev. William Scott Southgate who compiled the history of Scarboro performed some labor on the genealogy of the Southgate family. (He departed this life on Sunday, May 21, 1899, at Annapolis, Md., where he had been Rector of St. Ann's church for thirty years, leaving his genealogical collection with his niece, Mrs. Harriet A. (Southgate) Graham residing at West End, from whom we have obtained the loan, and, having made very many additions-so many that the original is comparatively small-now present the whole to the public. Va., beth Scott; 2d, Elizabeth Potter. 2-Elizabeth, March 23, 1705, d. 1791. 3-Richard, Aug. 3, 1708, d. Aug. 24, 1708. 4-Hannah, Dec. 10, 1709, m. Nath aniel Waite, d. March 30, 1754. 5-Mary, June 9, 1712, m. Daniel Livermore. 6-Richard, July 23, 1714, m. Eunice Brown Jan. 20, 1741. Descendants residing in Vermont. 1.-Steward, eldest child of Richard and Elizabeth (Steward) Southgate, b. in Coombs, Eng., Sept. 8, 1703, m. March 28, 1735, Sarah, 3d daughter of William and Sarah Scott of Palmer, Mass. She d. Sept. 19, 1748; he m. second, at the Quaker monthly meeting, Oct. 26, 1749, Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel and Rebecca Potter Smithfield, Mass. They resided at Leicester, Mass., until 1730 when they removed to the "Elbows" (now Palmer) in to the county of Hampshire, Mass. He d. at Leicester, Dec. 1764. John Southgate of Coombs, Suffolk County, England, was united in marriage with Elizabeth of the same place. a son, came James Southgate, of Children of Steward and Sarah (Scott) Southgate: 1-Elizabeth, b. Jan. 26, 1735, d. Jan. 28, 1738. 2-John, b. Jan. 13, 1737, d. Sept. 23, 1748. 3-William, b. Aug. 29, 1739, d. Sept. 25, 1748. *4-ROBERT, of In 1741, m. Another son of John was named Richard. He was born in Coombs, Eng., March, 1671, and married there Oct. 17, 1700, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Elizabeth Steward Bridley, Eng., b. June 11, 1677. 1715, Richard came to this country with Daniel Denny, arriving in Boston, Sept. 12. June 7, 1716, he returned to England, but came back the next year with Rev. Thomas Pierce, arriving in Boston, July 20th. In 1718 he settled in Leicester, Mass., where he died April 1, 1758; his wife, Nov. 3, 1751. [For a notice of Denny and Pierce, see Vol. I, page 187, Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. L. B. C.] Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Steward) Southgate all born in Coombs, England. 1-Steward, Sept. 8, 1703, m. Eliza (doctor), b. Oct. 26, Mary King of Dunstan, Scarboro, Me. 5-Margaret, b. July 17, 1743, d. same day. 6-Sarah, b. June 18, 1744. 7-Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1746, d. May 13, 1756. 8-Steward, b. Sept. 10, 1748. By second wife. 9-Son. b. Oct. 21, 1750, d. same day. 10-Amos, b. Dec. 3, 1751, d. Sept. 30, 1775. 11-Rebecca, b. Aug. 23, 1754, d. Oct. 14, 1756. 12-Son. b. March 11, 1757, d. same day. 13-Ruth, b. Dec. 3, 1758, d. Oct. 16, 1777. 14-Moses, b. July 19, 1761, d. Sept. 1777. FIRST GENERATION IN MAINE. 4. DR. ROBERT SOUTHGATE. It is a family tradition that Dr. Southgate arrived at Dunstan June 21, 1771, who was then thirty years of age lacking three months, born at Leicester, Mass., Oct. 26, 1741, son of Steward and Sarah (Scott) Southgate, coming on horseback, his saddle-bags containing his entire personal outfit. What induced the Doctor to come hither is among the hidden things of the past. That no records of his career in early manhood were left to the public is a matter of regret. That the compiler of the history of Scarboro did not say more relative to his ancestors and insert more genealogical notes in in his work is, at this date, a source of wonderment, but such things were not so much in demand as now, and people were then less inclined to pay for printing. It is apparent that Dr. Southgate upon arriving here engaged in trade of some sort; this the records show. Every shop and inn keeper then held a license to sell alcoholic liquors. In 1771 his application was granted and renewed yearly till 1785. He was in company with one Samuel Southgate, but no records have yet been found showing the family relationship between the two. Prior to the year of 1774, however, Samuel Southgate had departed this life and Dr. Southgate was appointed and commenced actions in court as administrator against those indebted to Samuel's estate. Following is a copy of one record: "Whereas, Robert Southgate of Scarboro, in Our County of Cumberland, Physician, and surviving Partner of the late Company of Robert & Samuel Southgate the said Samuel now deceased; by the consideration of our Justices of Our Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at Falmouth within and for Our County of Cumberland, aforesaid, on the last Tuesday of March, 1774, recovered judgment against John Milliken of Scarboro' aforesaid, Saddler, for the sum of Twenty-nine pounds," etc. In settlement the Doctor received an acre and half of land which was the first he received at Dunstan. Nov. 15, 1748, "Richard King of Scarboro, gentleman," purchased the Nathan Knight house lot at Dunstan, (Nathan Knight, who was noticed in our Dunstan articles), located on the easterly side of the road leading to the "Landing." Mary, the second child of Richard King in a family of nine children by two wives, became the wife of Dr. Southgate. The exact time Dr. Southgate left the practice of medicine and adopted that of farming and became also a counsellor at law we cannot state. In 1800 he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas which position he held ten years. a In the years of 1807-8-9 he erected "Dunstan Abbey," located little easterly of the parting of the highway leading to Portland from Dunstan Corner a large, brick, two story dwelling, long ell, large barn and all the other buildings necessary to make complete a not only first class farm house but at that time a genteel appearing residence. But it seems the house was in the prospective quite a while before it was commenced. In the work entitled "A Girl's Life Eighty Years Ago," made of letters of Eliza (Southgate) Bowne, a daughter of the Doctor, under date of New York, July 8, 1803, an allusion is made as follows: "How comes on the new house? We are to come as soon as ever that is |