Page:Sketches of representative women of New England.djvu/137

102 tember, 1762, and settled as pastor of the church in Scarboro, Me., where he died in 1775. Coffin mentions him as a graduate of Harvard in 1759, evidently an error, as his name is not in the college catalogue. He probably studied at Harvard for a time before going to Gloucester, Mass., where he taught school previous to entering the ministry, and where he found his wife, Anna Haskell, whom he married in November, 1762. She was the daughter of Captain William^ Haskell, of Gloucester, the fourth of the name in direct line. William' Haskell, the immigrant progenitor, settled in Gloucester. He was made Lieutenant of the train-band in 1661, and afterward was Captain. In 1672 and in several later years he served as Representative to General Court. Thomas" Pierce, born in October, 1763, son of the Rev. Thomas and his wife Anna, married about 1783 Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Joanna (Graves) Storer, of Westbrook, then Falmouth, Me. Of this union were born eleven children, Joanna, who became the wife of Samviel Sanborn, as recorded above, being the youngest.

Major Charles^ Frost, father of Lydia, the wife of Benjamin Pierce, was born in England, and came to this country with his father, Nicholas Frost, in 1634. He was killed by Indians in 1697, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He served as Deputy from Kittery to Massachusetts General Court in 1658 and in five later years. He was commissioned Captain in July, 1668; was made Commander-in-chief of the military forces of Maine, with the title of Sergeant Major, in August, 1689; and served as a Councillor or Assistant, 1693-97.

Sarah Wainwright, wife of Lieutenant Charles' Frost and mother of Abigail, wife of Thomas* Pierce, was daughter of Captain Simon Wainwright, of Haverhill. Her father com- manded a garrison during the Indian troubles, and was slain in an attack on the town, August 29, 1708. His wife was Sarah Gilbert.

Joseph Storer, of Falmouth, father of Elizabeth, Miss Sanborn's maternal grandmother, was a soldier of the Revolution. He enlisted for three years in the latter part of 1776, but tiled at Fishkill, in the State of New York, in 1777. In the Revolutionary Rolls of Massachusetts, in the State archives, "Joseph Storer: Appears in a list of men raised to serve in the Continental Army from Col. Peter Noyes's (1st Cumberland Co.) regt. Town belonged to, Falmouth. Town enlisted for, Falmouth. Term of enlistment, 3 years. Joined Capt. Blaisdell’s co.. Col. Wigglesworth's regt." (vol. xliii. 43 c).

Again: "Joseph Storer: Appears with rank of Corporal on Continental Army Pay Accounts of Capt. Smart's co.. Col. Smith's regt., for service from Jan. 6, 1777, to July 19, 1777. Residence, Falmouth. Reported, 'died.'" (Vol. xiii., part 1, p. 152.) Lieutenant Colonel Smith succeeded Colonel Wigglesworth.

Joseph Storer was survived by his wife Joanna, whom he married in Falmouth in 1764. Nearly half a century after his death, in accordance with a resolve passed by the Legislature of Maine in March, 1835, entitled a "Resolve in favor of certain officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and the widows of the deceased officers and soldiers," and in answer to her application made in June, 1835, Joanna Storer received a grant of State bounty land. She lived to the age of ninety-nine years and three months.

NNE WHITNEY, Boston's most noted woman sculptor, is a native of Watertown, Mass. The daughter of Nathaniel Ruggles Whitney, Jr., and his wife, vSarah Stone, she was born on September 2, 1821, the youngest of a family of seven children. Her father was a lineal descendant in the seventh generation of John Whitney, a native of Westminster, England, who settled in Watertown in 1635. As revealed by genealogical research, John Whitney was the third son of Thomas and Mary (Bray) Whitney, and was baptized July 26, 1592. Thomas Whitney, his father, was buried in St. Margaret's, Westminster, April 14, 1637. He was a son of Robert Whitney and grandson of Sir Robert Whitney, member of Parliament in 1559. "The Ancestry of John Whitney," compiled by Henry Melville and published in 1896, mentions the names of heads