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 HENRY DEARBORN.

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��Stratham, N, H., to Salem, Mass., breaking up a court. For this diver- sion he was sentenced to be stripped and run the gauntlet. But so great was his beauty that the women rose en masse and demanded his pardon, which was granted. He had a brother Simon, who was the father of Simon who settled in Monmouth, Maine, and a brother of Henry, twelfth and young- est child of Simon, who settled in that part of Pittston now Gardiner. He was one of the eminent military men of his time.

FirrH GENERATION.

John, son of Jonathan, born in Stratham April 2, 1718; died March 22d, 1S07. He married (i) Mary Chapman; (2) Mary Cawley. He lived and died on his father's farm in Stratham. He had three sons, Jona- than, James, and John. The latter lived on the homestead after his fa- ther's death.

SIXTH GENERATION.

Jonathan, oldest son of John and Mary Chapman, married Abigail Leav- itt and settled in Chester, N. H. I have not the dates of their birth, mar- riage, or death. His farm was No. 1 7. O. H. In 1759 there was a road laid out upon his petition. He was a peti- tioner for the act which resulted in the incorporation of Raymond, N. H., May 8, 1764. At the first town-meet- ing he was chosen a highway surveyor. He was a soldier with many others of the Dearborn family in the war of the Revolution. He was in Capt. Runnels' company in the regiment commanded by Thomas Tasker. He had children. First, John, married Mehitable Cram ; second, Abigail, married Simon Page ; third, Jonathan, married Sarah Page ; fourth, Nathaniel, married Mary Cram ; fifth, Sarah, married (i) Nehemiah Cram; (2) Josiah Brown; (3) John Moody.

SEVENl'H GENERATION.

Jonathan, third child and second son of Jonathan and Abigail, born in

��Raymond June 4, i 768 ; died in East Pittston, Maine, March 6, 1847. He married Sarah Page, who was the daughter of Robert Page, of Raymond. Her mother was Sarah Dearborn, fifth child of Simon, and a sister of Gen. Henry, the patriot statesman. Robert Page was born April 21st, 1732 ; died December 31st, 1816. Sarah Dear- born, his wife, born November 25th, 1735; died January 12th, 1S21. Sa- rah Page, Jonathan's wife, was born December 31st, 1758 ; died December 23d, 1829. They left two children, Sarah and Henry.

EIGHTH GENERATION.

Henry, second child and only son of Jonathan and Sarah, was born in Raymond, N. H., February 9th, 1797 ; died August 21st, 1883. He married Pamela Bailey, of Pittston, March 3d, 1822. She was the daughter of Capt. David P. Bailey, who married Mary Smith, daughter of Major Henry Smith, one of the earliest settlers in Pittston. Mrs. Dearborn's parents lived and died in the house occupied now by Capt. James Bailey, their oldest son. Sarah, the oldest child of Jonathan, married Jonathan Swain, of Epping, N. H. She died July 12th, 1873, and left two children, Mary and Sarah. The eldest married Dudley L. Harvey, Esq., one of Epping's best citizens ; the other is unmarried.

Henry, when a boy, went to Boston with his uncle Page, and visited Gen. Dearborn. He took quite a fancy to him and sent him to an academy in Milton, Mass. The General sent his carriage for him every Saturday, and he spent the Sabbaths under his roof in Roxbury. After he had completed his education he entered a wholesale grocery store, in Boston ; was there but a short time. He had a typhoid fever. The General sent him to his farm in Pittston, when he had fully recovered his health. He was started in business by the General with Rufus Gay, well known to your older readers. He mar- ried Mary Marble, a daughter of Dor- cas Osgood, who married Isaac Mar-

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