Gazetteer of the State of Maine With Numerous Illustrations, by Geo. J. Varney
BOSTON. PUBLISHED BY B. B. RUSSELL, 57 CORNHILL. 1882. Public domain image from
546 GAZETTEER OF MAINE.
in several other offices. During his lifetime he administered on the estates of 91 different persons.
A large number of persons, natives or residents of the towm, were engaged in the Revolutionary war. Colonel William Turner was aide to Washington ; Elijah Dresser was in the battle of Bunker Hill; Lu- ther Cary, Joseph Ward well, Nathaniel Sawtelle and Joseph Ludden, were in the Continental army; Samuel Blake, Mark Andrews, Moses Merrill, Levi Merrill, Malachi Waterman, Richard Phillips, Abner Phillips and Joseph Leavitt, in the defense of Boston, 1775 ; Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, Benjamin Jones, John Leen, John Keen, jr., Asa Battles, Nathaniel Shaw, Daniel French, James Phillips, Nathan Richmond, William Ilayford, Benjamin Merrill, Job Randall, Solomon Millett, Ephraim Andrews, Benjamin Alden, William Putnam, John Allen, Thomas Atherton, Benj. Chamberlain, Wait Bradford, Isaac Phillips, Ichabod Phillips and Andrew Bass, in the Massachusetts militia; Israel Smith, Laban Smith, James Lara, Bennett Pompillv, Richard Hine, Benjamin Conant, Paul Lowell, Joshua Davis, Moses Snell arid Simeon Caswell, in Massachusetts Continental; Jesse Bradford served as guard of Burgoynes captured army; Abney Thayer on Castle Wil- liam, Boston Harbor ; Elisha Fisher, in Washingtons life-guard ; Abial Turner, in commissary department; John Bailey in last three years service ; Daniel Pratt, in Rhode Island troops ; Cornelius Jones, in Massachusetts troops and as a seaman; James Allen, musician in Massachusetts line; Jacob Gardner, during the Avar; and Nathaniel Marston, in New Hampshire line. In the war of 1812, Captain Ste- phen Turner was killed at the battle of Bridgewater, and Theodoeius Merrill died in the army. During this war the enemy making a demon- stration against Portland; a large number of militia were ordered there in defense ; and for this short campaign Mr. Benjamin Jones furnished nine sons. In the war of the Rebellion Turner furnished 319 men, paying them an aggregate bounty of $62,445; and furnishing for sol- diers relief $1,575. Twenty-eight of these were killed in battle or died of disease in the army.
The first mill in town was built by Samuel Blake in 1775, on Twenty-mile River, at what is now known as Turner village, and was destroyed in the great freshet of 1785. It appears to have been both .a saw and grain mill. It was rebuilt the next season. At this place there are now a grain-rnill, a general saw-mill, a box, carriage and shoe factory, a tannery, and several smaller manufactures. The other prin- cipal places of business, are North Turner Bridge on the Androscoggin River; Keens Mills, some three miles below, where there are mills for grain, lumber and paper pulp ; Chases Mills, on Twenty-mile River, in the western part of the town, having a hub factory and a lumber mill; North Turner, where is a grain-mill, lumber mills, a cheese and a shoe factory ; and West Turner, which has a large cheese factory. The first fulling mill in this town was built at Bradford village, and operated by John Haley. A pottery was also established at the same place by Reuben Thorp. By an act of General Court in 1803, William Brad- ford, Benjamin Evans, John Turner, Daniel Cary, Luther Cary and John Loring, were incorporated as a body politic by tbe name of the Ministerial and Grammar School Funds in the town of Turner; and they and their successors were to be a body politic and incorporate by that name forever. Their number was never to be over seven
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