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 The Supreme Court of Maine. well called the Declaration of Independence in embryo, although it happened in the pre ceding century. Sir Edmund Andros was

son was Major Isaac Appleton who died in 1747. Isaac was born in 1664, at Ipswich, and married Priscilla Baker, a granddaughter

JOHN APPLETON. deposed during the English Revolution of 1688, and Major Appleton had the stern satisfaction of handing Andros into the boat which conveyed the crest-fallen tyrant to the castle. Major Samuel Appleton died in great honor in the year 1696. His third

of Lieutenant-Governor Symonds, whose wife was a daughter of Governor YVinthrop. Isaac Appleton, second, was born in 1704, at Ipswich, and married Elizabeth Sawyer of Wells, Maine. He was the father of ten children. Of these, Francis, who settled at