Written by Scott M. Jameson - © Copyright 2017-2018, The Jameson Perspective, TJP/SMJ.

      One would think that with all the money, power and intelligence a man could have in a life time that his life would go so unnoticed that little may arise in the historical search to discover that while Captain Samuel Jameson had such a coveted history that he, so surrounded by other illuminati of the period, would fade quietly into the Maine mists without so much as a whisper¹. Perhaps, at his death there was momentum to honor such a man as he, but passing history has covered his tracks quite well and others have thundered into fame more prolifically. This story is about a man who appeared to be well liked, of a stature honed by a pioneering spirit, a humble participant in the process of Democracy, a builder, churchman, father, husband and friend to all. He learned the rudiments of survival on his father’s farm, became engrossed in the financial and physical mechanization of ship building and sailing, developed a talent of getting along with neighbors and friends and having friends in high places. 

        The French and Indian War had just ended two years before young Jameson was born at Flying Point₁₂, a spit of land that stuck out on the Maine coast east of Freeport, leaving an apprehension upon the American Colonies still under the duress and yoke of London and its trade businesses. The Peace Treaty at Paris between France, England and Spain ended a tumultuous time with Britain claiming Canada, the French territories east of the Mississippi, Florida and most of India, while Spain grabbed the fertile valley of the Mississippi in Louisiana and all the lands west of the River and Minorca in the Mediterranean₁₂. As England hard-pressed the colonies in North America with the imposition of the Stamp Act in 1765 and the Townsend Act on imports two years after, war clouds loomed between Russia and Turkey. The War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 spurred many a battleground on the European continent as Russia struck at Sweden, the Chinese at Tibet in ‘55, Prussia against France and Austria and England versus Spain stirring up more dust than the furrowing of American farmers along the eastern seaboard. Plenty of money was being made as nation’s sent their ships plowing the Earth’s oceans west and down along the South American and African coasts, Cook having circumnavigating the globe in 1767 and in the following years charting more of the planet’s surface before his untimely death at the hands of Hawaiians in 1779₁₂. 

        The Earth was a vortex of changes as new opinions held sway. Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778, also known as Voltaire aroused the French countryside to action leading up to the French Revolution expounding upon the idea of free thinking that the nation across the Channel espoused for its own citizenry as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a pioneer of the Romantic Movement and proponent of the French Revolution, also, attested through his political thinking for reform in education and politics via his published, The Social Contract in 1762. Inroads to technological breakthroughs with electricity by Franklin in 1752, Hargreave’s Spinning Jenny in ‘64, Watts’ and Boulton’s first commercially available steam engines in 1775 and the Brothers Montgolfier first successful flight in a hot air balloon in 1783 France, all spurred expansion and growth. Wove like a coarse thread through it all and in a life-long engagement of the Seven Sins were the struggles attributed to both Catholics and Protestants including Wesley’s Methodist movement in 1745 and the defeat of the Stuart Jacobites in England and Scotland in 1746 cutting across political lines in one denouncement after another, a deluge of dark religious death for both souls and bodies₁₂.

        Out of this dark violent morass of changing history and hopeful enlightenment hangs a new generation of people; a highly Christian working class group of determined Scottish emigrants who see hope in all that they do. It has taken them 30,000 years to get to this point in time², a struggling confluence of political circumstances and daring-do crossing from the Iranian plateau into the eastern central grasses of lower Russia to the darkly forested mountains and valleys of Europe. By the time they came to the British Isles, their blood was so mixed in the general scheme of Man and God, it mattered not. For Capt. Samuel Jameson, it, too, did not matter as matters of daily import overwhelmed him, then, as it does to us, today. 

       A man of mixed blood, his history reaches far back to the turn of the 17^th century, when the first of his line craved an existence in the coastal hills and valleys of ancient Ayrshire. Three brothers, Robert Jamisone, John Jamisone and Archibald Jamisone³ had settled in the parish of Kilmarnock, an increasingly growing town some 6 miles east of the Firth of Clyde and 15 miles southwest of Glasgow, a crossroads to the sea and to some of the largest cities in Lowlands Scotland. It was also the path to escape the indiscriminate slaughter of man and idea, the route for Campbell and Jameson and MacGregor, alike, to Ireland fleeing from the life-threatening blows of an antagonistic and callous Catholic Crown. 

       Much of Jameson’s ancestry can now be traced back to these three men from the research I conducted in the past three years, two of which can be followed through their natural descendants⁴. All of the support is backed primarily from records attained at the National Archives of Scotland which includes birth, marriage, death and wills and from Googled sites on the Internet and Ancestry.com among others⁵. Moving on, his great grandfather, William Jameson, who married Margaret Adam(no ‘s’), left Scotland to Northern Ireland about 1704, settling into first, County Antrim where the next four children were born before making his way to County Tyrone and finally in 1718, to Boston. His brother, John, married twice, the first to Elizabeth Boyd circa 1690, Kilmarnock parish and secondly to Rosanna Irwin, who he married circa 1707 in County Antrim. After the death of his first wife, John Jameson moved to County Antrim in 1707, where he had a son, William, who died in 1727 in Connecticut. By 1711 he was in Omagh, County Tyrone, where the last of his children, excluding, Esther, were born and traveling with his brother, William, they set sailed for Boston⁶. Their other brothers, James and Robert remained, so far as I have determined, in the original and adjacent parishes and raised large families of their own₁. 

        Many of us who have links to these men through various lineages, Jameson and non-Jameson, know the struggles these men and women endured in their pursuit toward religious freedom so that we need not go into it. Be, that it may, both Jamesons remained in New England for the rest of their lives. William’s family removed immediately to Falmouth, Maine and John settled in Milton, MA then southern Connecticut where he died. Many of William Jameson’s descendants settled in and around Falmouth then headed into the Saco/Biddeford area, south, and others north to Yarmouth, Freeport and Friendship, Maine. James Jameson, William Jameson’s grandson, was born in the Saco/Biddeford area in 1738, and moved to Bowdoinham in 1758, with another brother, Samuel, who, by 1774, moved back to Saco. 

        As far as I can determine it, Mr. Jameson removed from Saco to Bowdoinham, Maine in 1758 and purchased a plot not at Flying Point, Freeport, but at Cathance Point⁷₁₆, Bowdoinham where he settled down and raised a family. By occupation he was a farmer and a mariner, working the farm in Bowdoinham and the docks in Freeport⁸ and in Portland where later his son, Samuel, learned his trades. He married Oct. 23^rd, 1758, Biddeford, Eleanor Stuart Campbell, daughter of Daniel Campbell⁹ and Elizabeth Stuart, born August 28^th, 1739, Saco, Maine₁. James stayed in Biddeford for a short time, and as stated previously, came to Bowdoinham settling at Cathance Point where he purchased a tract along Merrymeeting Bay. This piece of land bordering the Cathance River and surrounding it was known as Cathance Neck. Lots had been originally sited back in 1710, but new settlers were arriving like Gowen Fulton, William Patton, Capt. James Jameson, including Samuel Jameson, a brother, settling on John Hall’s, Capt. Reed and Capt. Robert Patten on Lots 4-7(Capt. James Jameson on Lot ​4); the area was settled between 1750-1755₁₁(pg.334), by these latter families. James’ brother, Samuel, had married Mary, a daughter of John Patten and Mary Means, while another brother, William Jameson, married Jane Means, all of whom had settled into Cathance Point and all of whom were inter-related by blood and many of whom removed to Flying Point₁. 

        “Pastor Reuben Nason wrote in 1816 that the Manns, Andersons, Chases, Jamesons and Meanes came from the North of Ireland.₂₀(V3:ps36-7)” He lists the following at Flying Point (originally, Pine Point) on a petition dated March 7, 1763 as: Jacob Anderson, James Anderson, Thomas Campbell, Benjamin Chase, Roger Googins, James Jameson, Samuel Jameson, Matthew Patten, John Rae, George Rogers, David Sevey, and Silas Wentworth regarding a road to be constructed from Bungonock at the town line to the mill and arriving at the Meetinghouse. Then on March 7, 1774, many of the same townsmen including James Jameson, but not his brother who had left for Saco, protested against setting off being a separate parish from Harrisicket₁₅(#1,V3,ps.504-05). The Sylvestors, Soules, Townsends, Dillinghams, Curtises and Brewers were all from the Plymouth Company who settled at Mast Landing in Freeport, while the Dennison brothers, Abner & David, arrived from Gloucester and the Mitchells from Boston to South Freeport₂₀(Chp3.ps36-7). 

        The Pattens came as four brothers: Actor/Hector, William, Robert and Matthew all from the trade market town of Coleraine, Ireland. Historians place their arrival to the colonies in 1727₈(P3, Chp.2,pg.846), but others say, 1737, none-the-less three left Boston moving north to Falmouth and finally settling in Saco, and William was the only one to remain in Boston to raise his family. Hector/Actor Patten moved to Flying Point, Freeport. His son, John Patten, married Mary, a daughter of Robert Means of Saco, and they had the following children: Robert; Sarah, who married Robert Fulton; Jane, who married William Randall; Mary, who married Samuel Jameson, Captain Samuel Jamesons’s uncle; Hannah, who married Thomas Harward; Margaret, who married James Maxwell, who with the above Samuel Jameson had a joint blacksmith business; John; William; Thomas, who married Katherine Fulton; Joseph; Matthew; Dorcas, who married James Hunter; Actor, who also married a Hunter and David Patten, who married Hannah Reed₁. 

        John Anderson born in 1792, Windham, Maine was the son of Abraham and Lucy Smith Anderson₈(P3,Chp.2ps.827-8), whose ancestry can be traced back to his great grandparents, John and Rebekah Wait Anderson of Watertown, Massachusetts. His grandfather, Abraham, born 1709, Watertown, Massachusetts came to Windham, Maine via Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1738¹⁰. Having acquired land as early as 1738-40, his grandfather built up a considerable legacy in the lumber trade, developed it and passed it on to his children who increasingly profited from the business. Many of the children and grandchildren in their own right took up positions of civic and political responsibility in Windham and the state having always been held in high regard. As with the Pattens and others intermarriages occurred with the Smiths, Fultons and Farwells, all leading citizens and founders of the town. Honorable John Anderson married twice: Lucy Farwell in 1820, who died in 1821, and 1822, Anne Williams Jameson born 1804, Freeport the daughter of Captain Samuel Jameson and Nancy Hichborn₆(pg.143). Her history descends from Thomas and Frances Hichborn II of Boston where she married Jameson₁.         

        As boundaries were changing as fast as settlers poured in and then out of the territory, Bowdoinham became a port and ship building center, like Freeport. The town was originally granted by the Plymouth Company after a land ownership issue with the competing Pejepscot Company, but was later annexed to the Gardinerston Plantation in 1779₁₁(pg.120) and Patten Point to Topsham in ‘87.  Bowdoinham, in the meantime, has records documenting at least 195 vessels having been built here as follows: 1 steamer at one hundred ten tonnage; 45 ships of 30 tonnage¹¹ or more; 14 Barks of 5 tonnage or more; 71 Brigs weighing in at 12,0000 tonnage give or take; 57 Schooner class of 8600 tonnage and 7 Sloops. John Patten built the first ship here at Cathance a sloop of 90 tons named Merrymeeting, then in quick succession, the Defiance and in 1772, along with his son, Robert, and sons-in-law, Fulton, Samuel Jameson and Harwood₁₁(pg. 119) the Industry. Very quickly after the Revolutionary War shipbuilding increased dramatically, peaking between 1850 to 1860 due to the Civil War₂₁. South Freeport at one time had four shipyards of its own₂₁. 

        The confusion of land purchases is noted by the lack of documents for Jameson between 1758, when the family first arrived until 1763, when those under the Pejepscot Company came into the region previously, set up and had no deeds for entitlement to any of the lands they settled on. The proprietors, however, came to a settlement with the Plymouth (or Kennebec) Company, on February 20, 1758, and released to them all the lands to the northward of a line drawn through the mouth of the Cathance River₁₁(Pg.23), and running west-northwest to the west-side line of the Plymouth claim¹²₁₁(P3,Chp.2,pg.830). When the ownership issue was resolved Jameson¹³, among others, arrived and purchased their tracts from the  Plymouth Company, then moved on to Freeport where I find that James Jameson had his first deed recorded in 1771₁₆(V7,pg.80)(See Fig. 6, Map IV) in North Yarmouth. The lands the Jamesons purchased in Freeport are well documented for Flying Point where the ship building industry was underway₁₆.

        Freeport is a part of Cumberland County encompassing some 47 square miles in area with attractions at Leon Leonwood Bean (L. L. Bean), Wolfe’s Neck State Park and the Desert of Maine₉(Pg. 279). Originally, part of North Yarmouth known as Harrasseket after the river and first settled in 1700 and incorporated in 1789 named Freeport due to the “openness of its harbor₂₁.” The town grew from four separate villages known even today as Mast Landing, Porter’s Landing, Freeport Corner and South Freeport and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Timber was shipped from here which fueled additional businesses: grist mills, sawmills, fulling mills, and wood cutting enterprises for the ship building industry. Freeport Corner became the nexus for the town’s main commercial center with the arrival of the railroad in 1846 which became the Portland and Ogdensburg R. R. owned by investors and the President of the line General Samuel Jameson Anderson₅(Pg.48)₁₇. When L. L. Bean began manufacturing boots in town his enterprise grew so rapidly and became quickly popular by 1951, the store remained opened for 24 hours a day₂₁. 

        Freeport, Maine sits on the north east coast of Maine about 18 miles north east of Portland and facing into Casco Bay, the very bay that James’ ancestor, William Jameson, whose ship was locked in tight by ice in 1718. His family having migrated from Saco/Biddeford with others settled at Cathance Neck(or Point) in 1758₁₁(Pg.23) in Bowdoinham and with many of the same families all moved south to Flying Point in 1771₁₆, where his father, a mariner, purchased property. Freeport was a growing and prosperous town profiting in one way or another from the ship building trade that occurred nearby at Wolfe’s Neck, South Freeport and Flying Point. It was also a major stagecoach point for arrivals and departures to Portland and Rockport and a town of many prominent persons like Henry W. Longfellow, John G. Whittier, Franklin Pierce, General Samuel Jameson Anderson and his father, the Honorable John Anderson to name just a very few of the folks who called Freeport, home₂. 

        For a time the town was home to and renowned by many involved in the political controversies that captivated the colonies along the eastern seaboard from Maine being set off as its own sovereignty to the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and the capturing of American ships by the British. It was even said that on the second floor northeast corner of the Inn was signed the papers granting the state its freedom from Massachusetts and making Freeport “The Birthplace of Maine”¹⁴_2,3.  But this odd bit is historical folklore having grown out of political fervor during the period, has been thoroughly debunked by the Freeport Historical Society and by others¹⁵₃,₄. Most of the important meetings occurred in Augusta, Bangor, Portland and Boston. But, Jamesons Tavern, rocked with the times, was a political hotbed of political practitioners and businessmen who gathered at the Inn that was built in 1799 and then purchased and renovated as a tavern in 1801₁₆(V35,p224) by Jameson and his wife, Anne. They kept it for 27 years when Mrs. Jameson sold the place to her sister, Susannah Hichborn Codman, wife of Deacon Richard Codman in 1828₂.  Mrs. Codman also kept the Inn for 28 years selling it to a local shipbuilder, John Cushing of Porter’s Landing₂.

      Some confusion also existed in the old newspaper accounts about the construction of the Jameson Tavern as 1779,¹⁶ by Dr. John Angier Hyde_2,15,16, a prominent and leading citizen in Cumberland County who practiced medicine for 65 years in Freeport and elsewhere in the county. Except that Dr. Hyde was born July 10, 1771, Rehoboth, Massachusetts₁ and did not arrive in Freeport until 1792₁₅ (V4,#1,ps.494-5) when he began his medical practice traveling the countryside. In 1796, he married, and two years later in 1798-9, he had the house constructed which he sold only two years later to Captain Samuel Jameson. Why he sold out is not known as he remained a prominent citizen in Freeport until his death February 19, 1857₁₅. By this time Samuel Jameson had obviously acquired enough to purchase the two year old home and moved his family into it.₁₆(V35,p.224;V46,p.212)

        Captain Samuel Jameson grew up in Freeport’s shipping industry that included ship building, a large local fishing industry and occupations like mariners, navigators and shipwrights. Like his uncle Samuel Jameson who invested in Patten’s ship, Industry₁₄(V3,pg.101,99), and like his father, James, Samuel was a mariner, one who served aboard ship traveling the seven seas doing a variety of functions. I have not dwelled into this aspect of Capt. Jameson’s life, but it can be surmised that he function in a variety of occupations and appears to have been well paid for his work. It is clearly also the reason why we discover so few records of him in his early years. As a lad and at an age when he could be apprenticed, possibly with his father, he turned to the adventures of the seas making a career and a profit from it. 

        The few records I have discovered for some of the Jamesons are the following:

1758, Residents of Cathance Point were: William Patten, John Patten, Capt. James Jameson, Samuel Jameson, Robert Fulton and Abraham Preble, Jr₉.

1771, first land purchase by Capt. James Jameson in Freeport₁₆.

1772, Capt. Samuel Jameson, investor in John Patten’s ship, the Industry₈.

1777, 78, 1785, 1786, and 1787, Samuel Jameson, Selectman of Bowdoinham₈.

1780, Samuel Jameson, landowner in Bowdoinham & communicant of the Meeting house₁₁.

1782, William Patten, late of Bowdoinham, Hannah Patten, widow, administratrix, dower set off my John Fulton of Topsham, Abraham Whittemore and Samuel Jameson of Bowdoinham and 1784, appraisal of said estate by Jonathan Perry, James Fulton of Topsham and Samuel Jameson of Bowdoinham₁₉.

1787, With Zach Beal and Stephen Whittemore, sent a petition to Boston regarding the poor state of taxes raised in Bowdoinham due to the rising beef prices and the shortage of it because of the “late tedious war” outlining the issues procuring the meat, the financial debt incurred for the Snowshoe militia resulting in the petition to be excused from the Beef Tax₁₉. 

Many of the men who served at Lincoln County during both the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War were from Bowdoinham among whom were the Pattens, Adams, Puringtons and one Samuel Jameson₁₉.

1794, Deed, from James Jameson to son, Samuel Jameson, Freeport; additional purchases by Samuel from John Dunning and Ephraim Carter in that year₁₆.

1801, J. A. Hyde to Samuel Jameson, which Jameson converted into an Inn and tavern₁₆.

1806, First imposition of a tax on Spirits and alcohol-Samuel Jameson at the top of the list in Freeport₂₀.

1814, buried at the First Church cemetery of Freeport₉.

1828, Widow of Capt. Jameson, sold tavern to Dea. Richard Codman₂.

1856, John Cushing purchases Codman’s Tavern₂.

      In his personal life, Capt. Jameson married Anne Hichborn, some times written in the records as Nancy, April 30, 1779₁, Boston, daughter of Samuel and Ann(Williams) Hichborn whose great-great grandfather was Thomas Hitchborn, II, husband of Frances Pattishall. In all likelihood, the family came from England and resided in Boston at Hichborn’s Wharf. Mr. Hitchborn/Hichborn was a joiner and a boat builder and licensed to sell alcohol dockside. His own son, Thomas III, and grandson, Samuel, probably continued the shipwright tradition and through some circumstance Jameson met Samuel Hichborn. One thing led to another and Capt. Jameson whisked his new bride back to Freeport. There were two children of this marriage: Ann Williams Jameson and Susan Ramsey Jameson, both born in Freeport. Samuel’s sister, Catharine Jameson, married Jacob Martin Anderson, a son of Jacob and Agnes Phinney Anderson of Cumberland, Maine, but I have established no relationship between the two branches of Andersons₁. 

        The records are meager regarding Jameson’s physical stature, but it would seem as a Captain of ships his authority was probably supported by his physical demeanor, a commanding presence that brought men to him. He had to have been likeable and worldly, a comrade in arms as he reached out from the lowest ranks of the shipping industry to bartending as a charismatic owner of his own Inn and tavern. That he died at the young age of 49₁ does not diminish his fortitude, his strength, nor his great love of Freeport, his name carried these odd 200 years to the present. His children were his pride and joy, both daughters marrying into wealthy shipping magnates like himself. Ann having married the Honorable John Anderson_1,6(pg.143)_22,7 who was held in high regard by the town and state he resided in. Was elected to the State Senate of Maine in 1823, in 1824, U.S. Representative, and remained for eight years, appointed U. S. District Attorney by President Jackson, 1833-1836, and in the same year was elected Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1833 and in 1842. In 1836 was appointed by President Van Buren as Collector of Customs for Portland, reelected to Mayor in 1842, continued as Collector of Customs under President Tyler in 1843 and was asked by President Polk to be Secretary of the Navy but declined due to poor health₇. He had two children by his previous wife, Lucy Farwell₁: Edward Watson Anderson, who followed in his father’s footsteps as selectman in town and in the state legislature; and John Farwell Anderson who studied and became a civil engineer. Hon. Anderson’s second marriage to Anne Jameson produced a remarkable man of the period, Brigadier General Samuel Jameson Anderson, born 1824, Windham and died 1905, Portland₁₈(Pg.644). Went to Bowdoin graduating 1844, then to Harvard graduating in 1846₇, moved to Portland and practiced law until 1865, and later joined into a partnership, Anderson and Harmon. He married Jane Wade Dow, daughter of John Dow and Sarah Brooks Wade of Portland_1,7(Pg. 592). He was an Alderman in Portland in 1855-56, elected as Attorney General for Cumberland County for four years and appointed by President Buchanan in 1856 as Collector (or Surveyor) of the Port. He became June 19, 1869, the first president of the Portland & Ogdensburg Railway, its office in Portland and served until his death in 1905₁₃. 

        Captain Jameson had a third daughter, the first having died as an infant, then Anne Williams, and lastly, Susan Ramsey Jameson, born in 1806, Freeport and died 1843, in the same town_1,22. She married in 1828, Edward Watson but based on my research I can not say where he was born, when, nor provide any parentage even though there are a number of Watsons in Bowdoinham, Portland and other surrounding towns in Maine and of course you can find them in Boston, Lowell and Roxbury in earlier times. Like all those above, Susan Hichborn, sister of Anne Williams Hichborn Jameson, also married into a wealthy ship building family, the Codmans. Richard Codman Jr. was born in 1758 in Portland, Maine the son of Richard and Anne(Jones) Codman Sr. whose ancestor was John Codman out of Boston. The Jones, too, were ship builders out of Boston_1,2,6. These, then, were the people in Capt. Jameson’s life. A more thorough search will no doubt reveal Samuel’s early times in Boston along with his sailing career among the brigantines and sloops of the past. 

        Such men and women as these were the working capital of a new and growing nation. They studied and placed great momentum against all odds that might defy their determination, their will and belief in themselves and in God, against the tyranny of a mother country, from the persecutions of a religion that cared naught but for their own spoils and greed. So many of these names have come to our present time steeped, like good tea, in a boiling cauldron of a political quagmire. All, for the most part, solid, sturdy Scotsmen brewed from the stormy waters across the Atlantic: Anderson, Codman, Purrington, Pattens, Hichborn, Adams, Martin and Jameson to name just a few. While Captain Samuel Jameson is primarily known for his tavern, he, like his father and ancestors before him, blazed an incredible trail that built a nation; some times it takes a hammer to crack the veil that history places over such people. Some times, the light of a passing ship fades from our sight, but its still there none-the-less, a beacon for those who know where to search. 

Footnotes

^1. There are thousands of files on the Internet that tag Capt. Sam Jameson, but I have failed to unearth any significant details, biographies and the like to detail his life.
^2. Based on DNA time lines of FTDNA.com
^3. Based on my research on the family in Ayrshire, Scotland - to see any sources or citations, please contact me at jamesonone@live.com.
^4. See both family tree charts include with this article. The author does not claim complete proofing of the family lines and an article outlining source support will remain for another time. While the timeline is significant in and of itself, relativity of the family also remains to be determined through the use of DNA.
^5. See Bibliography and Sources.
^6. Gov. Shute's Letter of 1718.
^7. Once you get into the records one begins to realize how land boundaries were constantly changing.
^8. A lot of confusion exists as many authors compound the issue of location in their stories of many of these families including Cpt. James Jameson. It is likely that Jameson as a mariner worked the ports in Freeport, Bowdoin, Portland and Boston.
^9. Born 1710, Biddleford, Maine; died Oct.13, 1761, Biddleford; married Elizabeth Stuart, and son of Thomas Campbell, immigrant
^10. In the History of Cumberland County, Maine, the author, W. W. Clayton, states that Anderson came to Freeport in 1776.
^11. Tonnage or Tunnage was important on ships entering ports in New England as a tax and as a weight classification.
^12. History of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Wheeler & Wheeler chp.2, page 25, The Pejepscot Purchase.
^13. While several deeds have been listed none have been located for the Jamesons.
^14. Oddly enough, the main reason Freeport was not considered the "Birthplace of Maine" was due to its voting record; they voted five times against the separation of Maine from Massachusetts.
^15. Central Maine Newspaper, Febr. 21, 2013, by  Kelly Bouchard, http://www.centralmaine.com
^16. No doubt a typo; it gives credence that we all need to check our facts.

Bibliography 

_1. National Archives of Scotland, Ancestry.com, PRONI and others.
_2. Brief Historical Article on Jamesons Tavern-www.jamesontavern.com;
_3. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT;
_4. Freeport Historical Society-www.freeports-role-in-maines-statehood;
_5. General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine, 1794-1889, Brunswick, Maine, 1889;
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_7. History of Bowdoin College, 1806-1879, Packard, A.S., 1879;
_8. History of Brunswick, Harpwell, and Topsham, Wheeler & Wheeler, 
_9. History of Cumberland, Maine, Clayton, W. W., Philadelphia, PA , Everts & Peck, 1880;
_10. History of the Dudley Family, Dudley, Dean, #VI, Wakefield, MA, 1892;
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_14. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, 1885-1966, Davis, Walter D., Vol. III, Neal-Wright, GPC, 1996, Baltimore, MD;
_15. Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine, #1, Jan. 1879, Vol. III;
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_17. The Biographical Directory of the Railroad Officials of America Edition of 1906, Edited and compiled by T. Addison Busbey, Assoc. Editor of the Railway Age, Chicago, IL, 1906;
_18. The Book of Dow, Dow, Robert P., Claremont, NH, 1929, Priv. Publ.;
_19. The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760-1800;
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