The Ulster-Scots of Maine – First Families
Surnames A-C
Members of the Maine Ulster Scots Project and its many friends have combined known family histories with many published sources to provide the following brief family digests.
The information comes from many sources, some accurate and some questionable, and is therefore only intended to be a guide toward further investigation.
This first families project is a work in progress and we ask for your feedback, additions and corrections by emailing: info@MaineUlsterScots.com
ADAMS
William Adams and brother, James, were born in Bute, Argyllshire, Scotland. William was born in 1689 and died in 1761. He married Mary Lang on October 28, 1718, in Portsmouth, Province of New Hampshire and they settled in Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire in 1721. They produced ten children – seven of whom are listed as: Mary, Andrew, Samuel, William, Jean, Sarah, and David.
Samuel Adams, the third child born to William and Mary, was born on April 3, 1733, in Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire but settled in Townsend, the District of Maine, sometime before 1762, where he married Sarah Reed on December 30, 1762. Samuel died on May 15, 1818, in Boothbay.
Sarah, the sixth child born to William and Mary, was born aboard ship on March 19, 1743, while en route from Ireland to America.
ALEXANDER Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
David Alexander was born about 1697. He emigrated from Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland to Boston on August 4, 1718. He moved to Topsham, District of Maine in 1719. He was killed about 1722 in Lovewell’s War. He may have married Elizabeth (Betsey). They had at least two sons. William who was born about 1706 in Ulster and James who was also born about 1709 in Ulster. It is believed that David Alexander and his sons came with the Temple group.
William’s farm consisted of 100 acres and was located on the Cathance River. William married Jennett Wilson in 1736 in Topsham. She was born about 1715 in Ulster, the daughter of James Wilson. Jennett also emigrated from Ulster with her father in 1719. William was on the muster roll of Capt. Joseph Heath’s company. He was listed as a sentry. Their children were: David who married Anna Ewing, John who married Elizabeth Clark Tarr, Samuel who married Rosanna Clark, and Hugh who married Catherine Ewing. William moved to Harpswell about 1737. He settled in the northeast extremity of Wigeon Cove, building a small house within 100 feet of the water.
David’s son James Alexander’s children were: Barbara, Douglas, Robert, William, and Elizabeth.
ALLEN
John Allen was born on January 3, 1747, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He married Mary Patten on October 10, 1767. He died on February 7, 1809, on Allen’s Island, Washington County, District of Maine. He took part in the first naval battle of the American Revolutionary War at Machias Bay.
Another Allen family originated in Birsay, Orkney, Scotland. Robert Allen (b. September 3, 1646, in Birsay; m. Hannah White in 1670 in Kittery; d. in Kittery). The family removed to Sanford, District of Maine.
ANDERSON
The Anderson’s originated from Scottish Ancestry. The family moved to the Bann Valley in Ulster.
Archibald Anderson was born in Bannockburn, Scotland on April 8, 1718. He was a weaver and married Ann Malcolm of Glasgow, Scotland. He came to Warren with the Scottish colony in 1753. Their children were:
James, born in Scotland on May 10, 1749, and married Hannah Nutting. They settled in Warren. He died on June 31, 1828.
Archibald Jr. was born in 1753. He married Elizabeth Wylie of Cushing.
John died in a snowstorm in October of 1769 or 70.
Samuel was born in 1762. He married Ann Boggs.
James Anderson married Isobell McQueston in 1728.
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David Anderson was in Sheepscot in 1733.
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James Anderson was born about 1700 in Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland. He married Antje (Anna) (Ann) Van Dyke. A son Jacob was born in Ireland. James apparently first settled in Old Orchard and then moved to Flying Point in N. Yarmouth, (now Freeport) Maine circa 1735. Four children younger than Jacob died there of throat distemper. James and Anna had at least two more children after the epidemic, James born in 1743 and Joseph.
Joseph married Jane Means who was born in Topsham in 1749. She died October 24, 1826, in Freeport. They had a son, George.
James Jr., was born in 1743 in Ancient North Yarmouth. He died February 20, 1811.
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Jacob Anderson, who was born in 1710, came from Dungannon, County Tyrone, Ireland. He first settled in Old Orchard and then removed to Flying Point in Ancient North Yarmouth. He married Agnis Phinney (Finney) of Brunswick. He died on October 6, 1790, in Freeport, District of Maine.
Jacob and Agnes’s children were: Job, Else, Anna, Jacob, Robert, and James.
The Anderson family built a block-house or garrison at Flying Point circa 1750.
ARMSTRONG Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
Clan Armstrong originally from Scotland thrived and grew to be “the most feared family of the borders” and earned the reputation as “able men, somewhat unruly and very ill tae tame.” The Union of the Crowns in 1603 meant cross border raids were no longer beneficial to the Crown and the reiving ways of the border families were no longer tolerated. Many of the clan were shipped to the new “Ulster Plantation” in Northern Ireland in the mid 1,600’s..
As part of the great 1718 Ulster migration, three Armstrong brothers (James, John, and Robert), with wives and family sailed to America from Northern, Ireland. They followed the Rev. James McGregor, first arriving in Boston where the Captain of the Brig ‘Robert’ was brought up on charges that he had brought the Armstrong family “who cannot give Security to indemnify the Town….” The ship then proceeded with its passengers to Casco Bay in search of Maine frontier land. An early winter season found the ‘Robert’ frozen into the ice of Falmouth (Portland) harbor. The passengers survived a grueling winter with few provisions.
Robert Armstrong went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire and then to Londonderry in the spring of 1719. Whom Robert Armstrong married, or when he died is not known. Robert’s son was Deacon John Armstrong who was a weaver.
John Armstrong is found still in Falmouth in 1733 as Spurwink and Purpooduck were set off as the Second Parish.
James Armstrong (b 1667i n Ireland) and wife Jean Jameson arrived with their children: Robert, Jean, Mary, James, John, and Simon. They stayed in Maine and settled in Purpooduck, which later became a part of Falmouth. James Armstrong had been made a Lieutenant by July of 1722, in the Company under the command of Col. Thomas Westbrook and later settled in Saco, Maine where he was a cabinetmaker.
James daughter, Jean married Robert Means, who also traveled to Maine aboard the Brig ‘Robert’. Jean Means bore 12 children who settled throughout the area of Casco Bay. She lived to be nearly 100.. The names of the families established by Jean’s children will still be familiar to many living in the area today: Means, McFarland, Maxwell, Finney (Phinney) Libby and Patten.
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BADGER
James Badger, who was born in 1697, came from Uffculme, Devonshire, England to North Yarmouth, District of Maine before 1730.
George Badger came from the Isle of Jersey, England about 1730.
BAIRD
The surname Baird is commonly found in Scotland and in Clogher, County Tyrone, Ireland. Aaron Baird was born in 1690. He married Hannah Glover. Their son was Thomas Baird. Aaron died in 1695 in Pemaquid, District of Maine.
BALLANTINE
John Ballantine was of Scottish descent. He came from Medford, Massachusetts Bay Colony to Newcastle, District of Maine about 1733. His children were Mary, who married William McLellan and Sarah who married John Cunningham.
BARBOUR Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
James Barbour came from Ireland to Falmouth, District of Maine in 1718. His children were Andrew, and Mary.
John Barbour, Sr. came from Ireland to Falmouth in 1718. His children were: John Jr., James, and Hugh. John Barbour, Jr. came with his father. His children were: Adam, Mary, Anne, and Hannah.
Matthew Barbour came from Westfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony to Warren, District of Maine. He married Mary Gray Blair who was the widow of William Blair. Their children were: Mary, Robert, and Lydia.
BAXTER
William Baxter was born on October 4, 1725, in Aberdeen, Scotland. He married Elizabeth Lovejoy on June 26, 1742, in Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Their son, Jonathan, was born in 1744, in Massachusetts. Jonathan Baxter’s son was Reverend Enos Baxter was born March 21, 1744 in Methuen, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married Jane Elliot on March 25, 1796, in Bristol, District of Maine. He died September 8, 1848, in Bristol.
BEATH
Walter Beath was born 1681 in Ulster, Ireland in either Derry or county Tyrone. His ancestry was Scots Presbyterian. The earliest being Covenanters. As a boy of eight, he was in the city of Londonderry during the siege. He came to America in 1718 and was in Lunenburg, Massachusetts Bay Colony on May 11, 1720. By reason of the inducement held out by Col. Dunbar, he came to Pemaquid, District of Maine and in 1731 settled in Townsend.
He was married and had a son, John, born in 1710 and a brother, Jeremiah, born in 1722. Walter Beath died January 11, 1759. Walter’s son Jeremiah came to Townsend with Dunbar in 1731.
John, Walter’s son, came from Londonderry, Ireland in 1718. He married Martha Fullerton. Their children were: Margery, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, and Margaret.
John Walter’s sister Jennett was born in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland in 1690. She died on October 15, 1754. She married William Fullerton. Their children were William and Magaret.
BIRD
Andrew Bird came from Scotland to Warren, District of Maine in 1753. He moved to Maple Juice Cove in Cushing. He married a woman named Hawthorne. Their children were Jane, Agnes, and Alexander.
BLACK
Daniel Black was born in 1628 in Dunbar, Haddingston, Scotland. He married Faith Bridges1. He died December 5, 1688, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He next married Mary Cummings2 on July 14, 1691, in Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He lastly married Sarah Adams3. He died in York August 12, 1712. Their son, Daniel, Jr. was born August 24 in Topsfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
BLAIR Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
The Blairs came from Aghadowey or Coleraine, Ulster, Ireland to settle in Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire. The family originated in Scotland, Margaret Blair (b. 1564) in Ardnamurchan, Scotland, married Donald Cargill. Blair descendants report that they may have come on the Robert in 1718.
Alexander Blair came from Scotland.
Robert Blair (b. 1693) married Rachel Boyd. They were encouraged to emigrate by Robert Holmes. They came from Ulster with Reverend William Boyd, James McGregor, and Reverend William Cornwell. They arrived in Boston on August 4, 1718. They went to Rutland, Massachusetts Bay Colony before 1720. Robert and Rachel settled in Nequasset, District of Maine (now Woolwich) about 1738. The children of Robert and Rachel were Mathew (b. 1704), David (b. 1708), John (b. 1710), Sarah, Dolly, and William before 1718.
James Blair was born in 1718 and married Jane Todd, also settling in Nequasset. He died in Woolwich, District of Maine.
Robert Blair was born at sea in 1738. He was a son of James and Jane Todd. He married Charity Robinson Knight of Bowdoinham. Their children were: Jane, Martha, Sarah, Margaret, Rufus, Charlette, and Charles.
Benjamin Blair was born in Falmouth and moved to Bristol. His father was a teacher and a Quaker. He married Margaret who was a daughter of Ebenezer Fullerton.
NOTE: Capt. James Blair married Isabella Rankin. They had a son, Alexander who was born on February 11, 1730. This may connect the Blairs of Maine with those in New Hampshire.
BOGGS
Samuel Boggs Sr., with his wife Anna, were among the first settlers in 1735 in St. George, District of Maine. He was of Scots Irish descent and came from the north of Ireland. Samuel died in 1783. Samuel Boggs Sr. and Anna’s children were William, John, Samuel Jr., Anne, Mary, and another daughter.
Lt. Samuel Boggs Jr. was born about 1725. He married Mary Giffin on June 28, 1757, in Boston. Their children were: Samuel III, Anna, and Robert. Samuel Jr. died July 28, 1779, during the Penobscot Expedition in Castine during the American Revolution. He is buried in Comery Cemetery in Waldoboro.
Samuel Boggs III was born in 1759 in Pemaquid. He died in 1834. He was also a Revolutionary War soldier. There are presently members of the family still residing in the Warren area.
BOLAND / BOLLAND
John Bolland was born on June 24, 1752, in Cork, Ireland. He married Chloe Jordan in 1784 in Pembroke, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He died on March 31, 1831, in Frankfort, ME.
BOLTON Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
Thomas Bolton was born in 1698 in Lismore, County Leitrim, Ireland. He died in 1787 in Windham, District of Maine. He married Mary McLellan who was born in 1699 in Ireland. She died in 1788 in Gorham, District of Maine. Mary had a daughter named Martha, who married Richard Mayberry. Thomas and Mary’s children were: Mary, William, Thomas, Bathsheeba, Anna, Richard, Anna, Daniel, Edward, and Martha.
BOOTHBY
Henry Boothby came from Ireland to Kittery, District of Maine about 1720. He removed to Scarborough. His children were: Thomas, Samuel, and James.
Thomas Boothbay came from Ireland to Kittery, District of Maine. He was born about 1700 in Ireland. He married Lydia Keene on January 8, 1724 / 1725, in Kittery. They settled in Scarborough. Their children were: Richard, John, and Henry. Thomas died March 25, 1758, in Scarborough.
BORELAND
John Boreland was born in 1752 and he died in 1814. He came from Ireland to Townsend about 1778. He married Sarah Campbell. Their children were: Sally, John, Samuel, James, Polly, and Elizabeth (Betsey).
BOYD
Rev. Alexander Boyd was a graduate of Glasgow University in Scotland. He may have been the son of Rev. William Boyd who was one of the four ministers who came to Boston in 1718. He preached at Georgetown, District of Maine for three months with the power to go to Wiscasset and Sheepscot. Later he served Sheepscot church in Newcastle. He returned to Georgetown in 1752.
Thomas Boyd was born on December 28, 1732, in County Antrim, Ireland. He married Mollie in 1758 and settled at Back Narrows, Townsend, District of Maine. He had one son, Adam.
George Boyd (Thomas’s brother) was born born in 1740 in Dunluce, County Antrim, Ireland. He married Margaret Kelloch on November 16, 1765, and settled in Bristol, District of Maine. They had two sons, Thomas, and George. George died in October 1787, in Boothbay.
Samuel Boyd (Thomas’s brother) had a son, Thomas, who was born on January 28, 1748, in Dunluce, County Antrim, Ireland. Thomas married Catherine Wylie on March 8, 1770. Thomas died on June 9, 1803, in Boothbay, District of Maine.
Both generations of the Boyds were at Pemaquid first then removed to Townsend. Another branch of the Boyd family begins with James Boyd, who was born in Ireland in about 1695. He died about 1760 in South Berwick, District of Maine.
BURNS
William and James Burns came to the District of Maine with the Robert Temple group about 1718. James married Elizabeth. Their children were: William, Jemima, and Kezia. William married Jemima Ellwell on December 24, 1725.
Joseph Burns and family were in Mosongus in 1729. He married Elizabeth and their children were: sons, Joseph Jr. and William who moved to Broad Bay.
William and Joseph Burns Sr. came under Dunbar and received a lot of land. They were dissatisfied with the location and left for Broad Bay (now Warren) at the invitation from Waldo. After problems with the native Penobscots, they removed to Scituate, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Later, they returned to the District of Maine about 1748 and settled in Moscungus. They received a land deed from Waldo.
Samuel Burns was settled at Sheepscot.
James Burns of Bristol who married Sarah. Their children were: William, James, Robert, John, Sarah, Margaret, and Jean.
John Burns was born in 1701 in Coleraine, Ireland. His father was Thomas Burns. John emigrated in 1736 with his wife and three of their seven children. They settled in Nottingham West, Province of New Hampshire.
BURTON
Capt. Benjamin Burton Sr. was born December 9, 1749, in Broad Bay, now Thomaston, District of Maine. He married Alice Lewis in Ireland. They were some of the first settlers in Cushing. He commanded the stone blockhouse there. Capt. Burton and Alice’s children were: Rebecca, Agnes, Mary, Alice, Benjamin, Jr., John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Thomas, William, and Jane.
CALDERWOOD
James Calderwood married Margaret Longmuir in 1722 in Ireland. James and Margaret’s children were: John, Jane, and Robert.
John Calderwood was born on February 15, 1725, in Londonderry, County Antrim, Ireland. He married Elizabeth McCurdy in Warren, District of Maine in 1750. He died in 1808 in Vinalhaven.
Jane was born in 1723 in Ireland. She married John Clark in Cushing, District of Maine.
Robert was born on February 22, 1726, in Londonderry, County Antrim, Ireland.
CAMERON
Daniel Cameron was born in Scotland about 1750. He died on October 14, 1819. He came to Boston and removed to Cape Newagen. He married Eleanor White. Their children were: John, William, and David.
CAMPBELL
Alexander Campbell was born in Scotland in 1690. He died in 1762 in Georgetown, District of Maine. He married Frances Drummond who was born in Ireland in 1721. Their children were: Margaret (Rogers), Alexander, John, and Nancy.
James Campbell Sr. was the first of three brothers to settle in Maine. He arrived in Boston on the Elizabeth in 1719. He married a daughter of David Given / Giveen of Brunswick who lived on Mair Point for several years. In 1743-44 he served in Arthur Bragdon’s company against the Norridgewocks. Between 1725 and 1740, he took up land in Sheepscot where he was an agent for Christopher Tappan.
James Campbell Jr. was born in Sheepscot on May 22, 1725. He had a son, Michael, who settled in Townsend, District of Maine. He married Sarah Malcolm of Georgetown who was born in 1733. Sarah was the daughter of Michael and Sarah Malcolm of Georgetown. They had eleven children. The family did not come with Dunbar but were of the same general descent.
John Campbell was born in August 1743 in Georgetown, District of Maine. He married Ann Drummond in November 1773. He died on April 10, 1808, in Georgetown. Their children were: Patrick, Sussanah Rogers, Daniel, Nancy Rogers, Alexander, and Elijah.
Jenny Campbell had 100 acres at Fresh Falls, now Damariscotta Mills.
CARGILL
David Cargill, who was born in 1690 in Agadowey, Londonderry, Ireland was of Scottish descent. He came to Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire in 1719. He married Mary Abernathy, of Coleraine, Ireland on June 22, 1722, in Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire. His brother-in-law, Rev. James McGregor, officiated. Their children were: John, James, William, David, and Abernathy.
David Cargill came to Newcastle, District of Maine in 1732. He was surveyor of the Tappan land at Sheepscot. His son was the Tappan agent. David received a 175-acre grant of land from David Dunbar at Frederick’s Fort in Pemaquid. He also received from 100 acres of land from Christopher Tappan on the Sheepscot River as far south as Oven’s Mouth.
He was engaged in the shipping business, supplying Boston and New York with staves and lumber. He drowned at sea with his eldest son John in 1748. After his death, his son David operated the business.
CLARK
George Clark was born about 1720 in Londonderry, Ireland He came to the St. George area from Londonderry, Province of New Hampshire some time before 1751. He died in Bristol, District of Maine. He may have been a grandson of the Reverend Mathew Clark who came from Londonderry, Ireland about 1728. (Mathew as a young man was at the Siege of Londonderry and an active participated in the fight. He was wounded in the cheek which never healed properly so wore a black patch to cover it.)
Samuel Clark came to Brunswick, District of Maine from Ireland in 1739. He married Martha (?) in Boston on October 24, 1719.
John Clark, with his wife and five children from Merrymeeting Bay, had been previously warned out of Boston.
CLARY / MCLARY
John Clary Sr.’s name was spelled in the 1790 census as McClary. He settled in Georgetown, District of Maine, and married Jane McKenney before 1750. Their children were: Jane m. John Grinnel, John Jr., Allen m. Mary Raidon, and Robert (b.1759).
John Jr. moved to Balltown, now Jefferson, where he built a log cabin near Pleasant Pond, now Clary Lake.
COCHRAN
James Cochran came from Ireland to Brunswick in 1717. He married Lilly Kilgore. Their children were: James, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel, Samuel, Elizabeth, and Susannah.
Another James Cochran came from Londonderry, Ireland to Topsham, District of Maine in 1720. He married Leticia Patten. Their children were: Thomas, Peter, and Molly.
John Cochran was a selectman in Brunswick in 1719.
COOPER
Boyce Cooper I came from Ireland with his family as indentured servants before 1740. He came in a brig of his own. He first came to Portsmouth, Province of New Hampshire, removed to Pemaquid, District of Maine, and then later to Broad Bay (now Waldoboro) where he died. His son, Boyce Cooper II came with him to Pemaquid. Boyce Cooper II also settled in Broad Bay and then removed to Warren. He was captured by the native Penobscots and taken to prison in Canada. An exchange of prisoners brought him home, He married Katherine Kellyhorn1st and then Lydia North 2nd. Boyce Cooper II children were: Boyce III, Elizabeth, and Catherine.
Francis Cooper, Esq. came from Ireland and settled in Broad Bay, District of Maine.
CORNWALL Passenger family - 1718 ‘Robert’
Reverend Gabriel Cornwall was one of the first settlers of Casco Bay. The name Cornwall has been spelled several different ways but was original spelling was Comwalmuch. Since the area was in need of religious instruction, he was invited to work there. After a lack of support, he left.
CRAIG
Hugh Craig came from Ireland about 1729. He settled first in Windham, District of Maine and later removed to Gorham. He married Elizabeth Warren in Falmouth on November 11, 1749. Their children were: Betty, Mary, Thomas, Rebecca, John, Jane, Hugh, and Martha.
CREIGHTON
David Creighton Sr. was an early Scots-Irish settler to Broad Bay (Lot 39), District of Maine. He was killed by native Penobscots in the War of 1741. His wife was Jennet (surname unknown); however, her 2nd husband was Thomas Cunningham of Peterboro, Province of New Hampshire. David Creighton Sr’s children were: Abraham, Samuel, Lucretia, and David Jr.
David Creighton Jr. was born on January 2, 1736. He died on August 29, 1811. He married Mary Gamble.
CUNNINGHAM
Thomas Cunningham was born in 1706 in Ireland. He married Elizabeth1 and then Jennet Creighton2. He died in Petersboro, Province of New Hampshire. Thomas Cunningham children were William, John, Samuel, James, Mary, and Elizabeth – all born in the Province of New Hampshire.
William Cunningham was born in 1739, in Townsend, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married Dorothy Colby in Wiscasset, District of Maine on January 28, 1766. He died on June 6, 1832, in Belfast.
John Cunningham of Newcastle, District of Maine married Jane Simpson or Sarah Ballentine.
Samuel Cunningham of Belfast, District of Maine.