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- Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis. Vol. II. Gardner-Moses
Hall, of Marshfield, p. 132 ff
xi. CALVIN, b. Nov. 4, 1758; m. (1) in Topsham Nov. 22, 1781, Tabitha Jellerson; m. (2) Rhoda Austin. They lived in Litchfield and Monmouth, where he d. before Feb. 17, 1835, when Rhoda Hall requested to be appointed administratrix of his estate. Hiram Shorey was appointed, however, on Feb. 24.
He began his Revolutionary service at the age of seventeen, enlisting with his brother uther in Capt. William Lithgow's company March 11, 1776, for service at Falmouth where he remained until Nov. 23, 1776. His home given as Georgetown, his name appears on the return of men raised in Lincoln county "to serve with guards over tropps of convention, magazines and public stores under Gen. Heath, as returned by Brig. Gen. Charles Cushing under the date Aug. 20, 1778, at Pownalborough." He was enlisted from Col. McCobb's (5th) Lincoln regiment. On March 5, 1781, at Bowdoinham, he reciepted for a bounty paid him for service in the Continental Army for three years.
Children, born in Litchfield:
1. Martin, b. Feb. 11, 1782.
2. Calvin, b. Jan. 28, 1784; m. July, 1804, Polly Getchell.
3. Susanna, b, March 19, 1786; m. George Tozier.
4. John, b. Feb. 8, 1788; m. Deborah Cooper.
5. Zilpha, b. May 12, 1790; (1) Joshua Babb, Jr.; m. (2) March 13, 1810(?), Samuel Judkins.
6. Job, July 27, 1793.
7. Francis, b. Aug. 6, 1796; m. May 11, 1818, Martha Getchell who d. Oct. 23, 1885; d. Nov. 23, 1882.
8. Joseph, b. Sept. 19, 1799; d. at sea.
9. Nathaniel, b. in 1803; m, Sarah Tibbetts.
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