uary 5, 1860, married Walter C. Allen and had one child, Blanche, who died at three years of age. 10. Phoebe Maria, born Baldwin, February 16, 1862, died April 14, 1870. II. George Parker, born Baldwin, December 20, 1866, married Annie Fitzgerald and had Howard T., George E. and Mabel F.

(VIII) John Samuel, son of Hon. Daniel Thompson and Eliza Ann (Sawyer) Richardson, was born in Baldwin, Maine, August 25, 1855. He was educated at Norway, Maine, Institute, Phillips Exeter Academy, law office of General Charles P. Mattocks, Portland, Maine, and Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1884 where he practiced until his admission to the Suffolk bar, March 23, 1885, since which time he has been in active practice in Boston. He began teaching school in Maine in 1873, when only eighteen years of age, and taught for some years. After coming to Boston he continued teaching in the evening schools for a period of twenty years (until 1905), sixteen of which he was principal of the Dearborn evening school. As a young man he took an active interest in politics; he served on the boards of selectmen, assessors and overseers of the poor two years, chairman one year; was elected and served as a representative to the general court of Massachusetts in 1893-94; was a delegate to the national Republican convention in 1896; in 1898 was nominated for district attorney of Suffolk county. Of over 70,000 votes cast, his opponent, Stevens, only received 2,012 majority. He acted as assistant district attorney from June, 1906, to May, 1907; was a member of the various city committees and has been delegate to a large number of city and state conventions. He is a member of Greenleaf Lodge, No. 117, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cornish, Maine, and of the Golden Cross. He married, December 31, 1884, Minnie J., daughter of Josiah and Margaret (Perrott) Bennett. Children: 1. Zana Frances, born November 8, 1885. 2. Joseph Leland, born March 10, 1887. 3. John Samuel Jr., born January 9, 1890. Joseph Leland graduated from Dartmouth College in class of 1908, and John Samuel Jr. is now in his sophomore year in the same college.

From an excellent account of the SMALL Small family, by Lauriston Ward Small, published in the proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, 1893, that part of the following sketch referring to the four earliest generations of the family is taken; the remainder is from other sources.

"Of the Smalls in England, some of them were lowly; some of them were knighted and held high social positions; one of whom-Sir John-was chief justice of India; another of whom-Colonel John-protected the body of Warren at Bunker Hill, as seen in the picture by Trumbull, I am not now to speak. In the year 1330 John and William Small, of Dartmouth, were flatteringly mentioned in an act under Edward III, and some of their descendants seem to have resided there continuously to this day. Just three hundred years later, or in 1630, one or more of the Smalls, who presumably lived in Dartmouth or other place in Devonshire, was a cavalier of high social position and a kinsman of the Champernownes, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Sir John and Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh. The Champernownes were the most powerful family in Devonshire, and were descendants of the old Byzantine kings, hence the Smalls of Maine, all of whom were presumably descended from that cavalier of whom I am speaking, can reasonably claim to have a drop of old Byzantine blood. One of the Champernowne girls married a Gilbert and became the mother of Sir John and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. After her husband's death she married Raleigh, and became the mother of one of the most brilliant men of that remarkable age, Sir Walter Raleigh. All these four noblemen and kinsmen were much interested in American colonization. Presumably because of kinship and the social influences incidental thereto, five Smalls came to America between 1632 and 1640; and that one who was certainly a cavalier brought with him a son of about twelve years named Francis. They were William, three Johns and Edward. William was unmarried and went immediately to Virginia. Two of the Johns were in humble life. The John who came in 1632 with Winslow, and married Elizabeth Huggins or Higgins, and was one of the founders of Eastham or Cape Cod, may have been the father of Francis, but a thousand silent tongues proclaim Edward as the man. I shall assume that it was Edward, it being clearly understood that I am without positive proof."

(I) "Edward Small, the presumptive father of Francis, came to Maine under the auspices of his kinsman, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, about 1632, or possibly a few years later. He and Champernowne, together with several others, founded Piscataqua, which has since been divided into the towns of Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick and Berwick. He was in Piscataqua in 1640, and seems to have been there some

years. He was a magistrate in 1645. He sold a part of his land in 1647, and perhaps went to Dover, New Hampshire; possibly he went to the Isle of Shoals. All in all it is most probable that he tired of a rough life in the wilderness and returned to England. Tradition says that he and John, the father of Eastham, were brothers, and many facts strengthen that tradition. The name of his wife I have not yet learned. In addition to Francis, I am confident that he had an older. son, named Edward, who once lived in Dover, New Hampshire."

(II) "Francis Small, who may be regarded as the father of the Small family in America, was born in England in 1620, and came to America in or about 1632. He received his name from his famous kinsman, Captain Francis Champernowne. In 1648 he resided In 1648 he resided in Dover, New Hampshire, and had a wife named Elizabeth (nee Leighton). In 1657 he lived in Falmouth, and in July of that year bought of the Indian chief, Scitterygusset, a large tract of land near Portland called Capisic. In 1663 he was attorney for Falmouth in some of the government squabbles of the times. He was at Cape Small Point for a time, and the place took its name from him. In 1668 he resided in Kittery and had a house and trading camp where the village of Cornish now is, and his was doubtless the first house built in that town, or on any part of the Ossipee lands. In the history of Shapleigh we find the following story, which the author found among the old papers of Colonel Shapleigh. In the summer of 1668 Francis Small sold goods to the Newichawannoch tribe of Indians on credit, to be paid for in furs in autumn, but when the time of payment drew near, the red men deemed it easier to kill Small than to pay him, and they decided to fire his house and shoot him when he came out to escape the flames. Captain Sundy, the chief of the tribe, was friendly to Small, and told him what the Indians were to do, and as he could not control them in the matter he advised Small to flee for his life. Small thought the tale a cunningly devised fable to frighten him away in order to avoid payment, but when night came, thinking it wise to be on the side of safety, he secreted himself in some pines on a hill nearby, which I assume to have been on the south of the present village known as Dr. Thompson's hill, and there watched through the long November night. With the coming of the first gray of approaching dawn, a flame shot up from the burning house, whereupon Small took to his heels with all possible speed

and paused not until he reached the settlement at Kittery. The chief followed Small to Kittery, and there made good the loss by debt and fire by selling Small the entire Ossipee tract of land for a merely nominal sum. The deed was made November 28, 1668, and has the Indian signature of a turtle. It conveys all the land between the Great Ossipee, the Saco, the Little Ossipee and the Neihewonoch rivers known as Ossipee, the same being twenty miles square, that is 256,000 acres. It is as large as a German principality. Distances were not well known in those days, and Small soon learned that the two Ossipees were not twenty miles apart, whereupon he sold all the land south of the Little Ossipee and reserved to himself Ossipee proper, which is now divided with the towns of Limington, Limerick, Newfield, Parsonfield and Cornish, and constitutes the entire northern part of York county, Maine. Aside from Capisic and Ossipee, Francis Small bought other large tracts of land in Maine, and was known as "the great land owner." When the Indian

wars came on, he left his son Samuel in Kittery, and with his wife and other children removed to Truro, Cape Cod, which adds a bit to the belief that John, the founder of Eastham, was his uncle. April 30, 1711, he deeded Ossipee to his son Samuel. He died in Truro or Provincetown, about 1713, aged about ninety-three years. ninety-three years. Of the personal appearance of this greatest of his race in America, we know nothing. He was active and alert. Governor Sullivan in his history of Maine says that he was one of the most enterprising and wealthy men in the state. His children were: Edward, Francis, Samuel, Benjamin, Daniel and Elizabeth."

(III) "Samuel, third son and child of Francis and Elizabeth Small, was born in Kittery, in 1666, and seems to have spent his entire life in that neighborhood. When his father fled to Cape Cod to escape the Indian wars, he remained in Maine, and his name appears frequently upon the public records of his time, but he was not an ambitious man like his father. He married Elizabeth, widow of James Chadbourne, and daughter of James. Heard. In 1711 he received from his father a deed of the Ossipee lands, hence was the second owner thereof. He was living in 1737 at the age of seventy-one years. His children were: Elizabeth, Samuel and Joseph."

(IV) "Deacon Samuel (2), second child of Samuel (1) and Elizabeth (Heard) (Chadbourne) Small, was born in Kittery, April 17, 1700. In that town before he was quite six

teen years old he married Anna Hatch, and in no very long time thereafter removed to Scarborough, where he spent all the remaining years of his long and eventful life. His house was opposite to and a little south of the Black Point cemetery, and is supposed to be the one now standing, sometimes known as the Robinson house. In 1728, when the Old Congregational Church was organized, he was made deacon. He was the third and last single owner of the Ossipee lands. In 1773 he deeded the land to some of his children as follows: To Samuel and Joshua, three-eighths each. To Anna, Elizabeth, and his grandson, Benjamin, son of Samuel, one-twelfth each. The three men went up to Limington and took possession of their ancestral acres, and after a contest in the courts, the Indian deed was pronounced valid, and the title perfect. It should be noted that in 1712, when Francis was too feeble to even write his name, he deeded Ossipee to his son Daniel, with whom he was then living in Provincetown, Cape Cod, but the deed was invalid. When the Smalls had the land divided into towns, they reverentially named one of them Francisborough in honor of the first owner, but the settlers changed the name to Cornish. It should have been Smallton, as Carrollton was named for Carroll." Deacon Samuel was chosen clerk of Scarborough in 1727 and filled that office for many years. He was very often moderator of meetings, and usually one of the selectmen and a member of all important committees. Samuel Small, though seventy-five years of age in 1775, was active on the committees of correspondence, inspection and safety. For many years his was the most conspicuous name on the Scarborough record. The date of his death is unknown, but his years probably equalled those of his grandfather, Francis. Deacon Samuel had a son Samuel who was also a deacon, and whose name frequently appears on the Scarborough record prior to 1775, and to him are now credited some acts formerly ascribed to his father. Of Deacon Samuel's wife we know only her name. Their children were: Samuel, Anna, John, Joshua, Elizabeth, Sarah, Benjamin, James and Mary.

(V) Samuel (3), eldest child of Samuel (2) and Anna (Hatch) Small, was born in Scarborough, May 26, 1718, and some time after the outbreak of the revolution removed to Limington. He was town clerk and held various other town offices in Scarborough. He married Dorothy Hubbard and had eleven children.

(VI) Benjamin, son of Samuel (3) and Dorothy (Hubbard) Small, was born in Limington, August 11, 1744, and died there. He was a farmer in comfortable circumstances and much respected by his fellow townsmen. He married Phebe Plummer.

(VII) Benjamin (2), son of Benjamin (1) and Phebe (Plummer) Small, was born February 11, 1771. He resided in Limington. He married Mary Chase, born 1780. Children: Benjamin, Moses, Richard, Sewell, Maria, married a Mr. McArthur; Nathan, Joseph and Annice.

(VIII) Colonel Richard, third son and child of Benjamin (2) and Mary (Chase) Small, was born September 29, 1808, died August 18, 1882. He was a native of Limington, and resided there until he was twentyone years old. He then went to Buxton, where he became a merchant. In 1845 he moved to Guildhall, Essex county, Vermont, where for many years he was a prosperous farmer. While a resident of Maine he took a deep interest in military affairs, in which he was active and attained the rank of colonel in the militia. In Guildhall he took a leading part in local affairs, and served as selectman many years, and twice represented the town in the legislature. He was also associate or side. judge for some years, and was known as Judge Small. He married Abigail Ann Jose, born April 23, 1810, daughter of Alexander and Sally Emery Jose, of Buxton, Maine. She died March 8, 1898, aged eighty-seven years, eleven months, fifteen days. Judge Small and wife were members of the Congregational church. Their children were: 1. Sally B., married Ossian Ray, of Lancaster, New Hampshire; he was one of the leading men in the New Hampshire bar, a Republican, and served two terms in the national house of representatives. 2. Horatio N., graduated from Dartmouth College; soon after the beginning of the slaveholders' rebellion he enlisted as assistant surgeon in the Seventeenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry; this regiment did not leave the state, and Dr. Small was transferred to the Thirteenth Regiment, with which he saw active service some months. He was then made surgeon of the Tenth New Hampshire, later brigade surgeon; remained until the end of the war, being on the staff of General Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, whose regiment was the first to enter Richmond. After the close of the war Dr. Small settled in Portland, Maine, and became one of the most popular physicians, attaining a very large

practice; he died in 1887. 3. John Chase, mentioned at length below. 4. Abbie A., married Horace Porter, of Lancaster, N. H.

(IX) John Chase, third child and second son of Judge Richard and Abigail Ann (Jose) Small, was born in Buxton, Maine, November 5, 1841, and at three years of age was taken by his parents on their removal to Guildhall, Vermont. He was educated in the common school, Guildhall, and in Lancaster Academy, just across the river from his home, in New Hampshire. At seventeen years of age he returned to Maine and entered the employ of his uncle, Charles E. Jose, a wholesale dealer in crockery, in Portland. He began as a clerk, showed an aptitude for the business, performed his work well, pleased his employers and their patrons, and in 1866 was taken into the firm. In the twenty-two years which followed, he put his best efforts into the firm's business, and in 1888 saw it the leading establishment of the kind in the state. Withdrawing from this business, he became a partner with another uncle, Horatio N. Jose, dealer in lumber, under the firm name of Bartlett Lumber Company. After remaining there two years, he became a clerk in the employ of Richard Briggs, of Boston, an extensive dealer in china ware, and there spent two years. From 1890 to December 16, 1891, he was again engaged in the lumber business in Portland. On the last mentioned date he was appointed postmaster of Portland, the metropolis of Maine, whose postoffice is the most important in the state, being the depository of all postoffices in Maine, northern New Hampshire and Vermont. This office he held until February, 1895. While postmaster, he was custodian of the building in which the United States courts and the postoffice are situated, and also had charge of the improvements on the building. Mr. Small is an energetic and practical business man, and is a director of the West End Land Association, and one of the executors of the will of the late Horatio N. Jose. From 1897 to 1905 he was special executive agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and from 1906 to the present has been cashier of the Portland Water Company. Mr. Small, it is hardly necessary to state, is a Republican-one of that kind of men who always supports the principles of his party and never flinches. In 1908 was alderman of ward 5. In religious sentiment he is a Unitarian. In fraternal circles he is prominent, and is a member of Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 17, Ancient and Free Accepted Masons; Mount Vernon

Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of which he was high priest two years; Portland Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, in which he filled all the offices, serving as commander for three years; and Maine Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, in which he has received the thirty-second degree. He is a member of the Cumberland Club. He married, October 20, 1869, Mary S. Dresser, born in Buxton, 1850, daughter of Richard and Mary Dresser, formerly of Buxton, who removed to Portland in Mrs. Small's childhood. Children: 1. Sally B., married John M. Kimball, who was superintendent of Slater's Mills, at Slatersville, Rhode Island; after the mills ceased to operate Mr. Kimball became the general agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Company for Eastern Massachusetts, office in Boston; he was active and efficient, and acquired a large business; he died in 1902. 2. Richard D., mentioned at length below. 3. Mary S., died young. 4. John C. Jr., resides in Portland, selling agent for Strawbridge & Clothier, of Philadelphia; member of the Cumberland Club, Unitarian in religious sentiment and in politics Republican.

(X) Richard Dresser, second child of John C. and Mary S. (Dresser) Small, was born in Portland, March 15, 1872. He obtained his primary and preparatory education in the common and high schools of Portland, and entered Harvard University in 1890, graduating in 1894. The following four years he spent as a student at the Harvard Medical College, from which he received his diploma in 1898. In 1898 and 1899 he was house surgeon in the Worcester City Hospital, and from there he returned to Portland, where with his excellent preparatory training he has established an extensive practice. He is associate surgeon of the Maine General Hospital, and instructor in obstetrics and histology in the Maine Medical School. He is a member of the Boyleston Medical Society, Boston; the Maine Medical Society and the American Medical Society. He is a Unitarian in religious belief, and a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Cumberland Club. Dr. Small married, 1901, Grace Florence Cogswell Potter, born in Boston, 1878, daughter of Henry Staples and Grace (Robbins) Potter. One son, Carleton Potter Small, born October 31, 1902.

Small is an abbreviation of SmalSMALL ley, Smalle, Smalls, and Smale, and was originally descriptive of the stature of the person who first bore it. It has been a family that has produced strong