| 1770Caleb seems to be the Caleb who took land in Arundel, ME, January 14, 1754, settling thereafter in Bowdoinham. Family tradition says that Caleb of Bowdoinham was born in Scotland, came into America with his two brothers, had a son, Caleb, Jr., and three daughter and lived in Clinton and Fairfield, ME; that Caleb, Jr., was taken by an uncle when he was seven years old from Bangor, ME, to Clinton, "to prevent the English authorities from carrying him back to England." Tradition fails to chronicle the heinous crime of this seven year old fugitive from justice. I think the true explanation is that Caleb, Sr., was son of Miles and had the two brothers, Daniel and Stephen, and that Stephen took his nephew, Caleb, Jr., at the age of seven, Caleb, Sr., perhaps being then dead. I find that Stephen and Caleb, Jr., were both living in Castine in 1763, and that Caleb, Jr., with his wife and eight children left Castine in 1770. I also find that an Abigail Goodwin, born in 1763, was married in Fairfield in 1782 to David Emery. Her ten children are given on page 57. Emery Genealogy. I show her here as one of the three daughters of Caleb, but she may have been a niece, or what is still more likely, a granddaughter of Daniel or Stephen. |