52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 11: FRANCIS UPTON OF ALBANY MAINE PT2

My 4x great grandfather Francis Upton continued the family tradition of having a
large family; he and Sarah (Bancroft)Upton had twelve children. John Adams Vinton
gives a list of them in The Upton Memorial, but when I double checked the information
against several Maine record collections at FamilySearch, I found some discrepancies
in the dates. So I've put my corrections in red ink below:   
 
The children of Francis and Sarah Upton, were—

Sally6, born March 29. 1801; married Jan. 1, 1827, Sumner Frost; died May, 1845. Their children were—Lydia (Frost), Maria (Frost), Fanny (Frost).

Francis6, born July 15, 1802; married__ ,1826, Sarah Gardner, of Boston, He lived in Bridgewater, Mass., and died there in 1856.  ((Died 15Jan 1859 at North Bridgewater , Ma.))

Edith6, born___ ; lived about one year.

Micah6, born May 27, 1807; married May___, 1834, Ruth Abbott; died___ . ((Married 9Apr 1838;
died 6Nov 1840))

Eben6, born June 1, 1809 ; married Nov. 30, 1837, Lydia Bancroft, of Norway. Lives in Albany, Me.
((died 6Dec 1887))

Mary6, born Oct. 5, 1811; died April 29, 1839.

Hannah6, born March 28, 1814; married, 1st, Cyrus Moore: 2d, Peter Emery. Children—Solon (Moore), Betsey Jane (Moore), Cyrus Newton (Moore), Harriet (Moore), Noah Roscoe (Emery). Francis Henry (Emery).

Lucy6, born July 7, 1816; married Jan. 8, 1839, James Knight : died__ , 1856. Children—Ellen
(Knight), Amelia (Knight), Celia Ann (Knight). Isaac (Knight), Harriet Matilda (Knight), Charles
(Knight). ((Lucy was married Jan 8 1840))
Sophronia6, born Aug. IS. 1818; married Feb. —, 1845, James Farmer. They lived in Aroostook County, Me. She died in 1808. Children—James Francis (Fanner), Charles Henry (Farmer), John Augustas (Farmer), Ann (Farmer), Catharine Winfred (Farmer), .Sophronia (Farmer), Andrew (Farmer).

Harriet6, born Nov. 28, 1821; married April —, 1845, Abram Greer.. Children—James Lewis (Green), Annette Augusta (Green), Emma Isadore (Green)—deceased, John Arthur (Green), Charles Sumner (Green), Carrie Emma (Green) —deceased. ((Harriet died 1871 at Otisfield, Me.))

Andrew6, born Dec. 28. 1824: married Sept. —. 1858, Mary Holmes.

John6, born July 11, 1828; married June 14, 1855. He served in the 10th Reg't, Me., Vols., in the war of the great rebellion. He was killed while shackling cars on the Grand Trunk R. R., in Bethel, Me., July 31, 1866. ((born 11Jul 1824))
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Francis and Sarah's daughter Hannah is my 3x great grandmother through Betsey Jane Moore who
married Amos Hastings Barker.

BEDTIME GENEALOGY 17

Sometimes, the pieces of the genealogy puzzle just seem to fit
together with a life of their own.

I decided to search Footnote.com again for my ancestor Amos
Upton in the Revolutionary War Pension File. He hadn’t been
there the first time I’d looked but Footnote is still updating
those files so I checked, and voila…there it was. As I read it
I found he’d been a resident of Norway, Maine which I hadn’t
known before.

So while I downloaded the images of the file, I did a search on
Google and found A History of Norway, Me. by David Noyes
on Googlebooks. There is quite a bit of information about Amos
in there as well as some on his son Francis. This brought me to
Amos’ granddaughter, Hannah, who I didn’t know much about
other than she had married Cyrus Moore and that their daughter
(my great great grandmother) Betsey Jane had been born in
Waterford, Maine.

The Amos Upton file was still dl so I tried searching Googlebooks
for Hannah Upton & Waterford. I found The History of Waterford:
Oxford County, Maine by Henry Pelt Warren and on pp 273-274
in the Records of Families I found a Hannah Upton who married a
Cyrus, son of Stephen Moore and Millie Davis. There were two
younger Moore children listed, daughters Betsey and Jane.


Perhaps Betsey Jane Moore had been named after her aunts?


By this time the Amos Upton file was all downloaded so I decided
I’d blog about this and then turn in for the night. I’ll try to find
more Moores in the next day or so, but if this pans out I now know
the names of Cyrus Moore’s parents, which I hadn’t before tonight.


Ah, serendipity!