Re: Abigail EASTMAN m. Wm Breed 1837-Lynn
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Re: Abigail EASTMAN m. Wm Breed 1837-Lynn
Warren 2/04/00
Mr. Brown -
Thank you so much for your help at the city of Lynn.I have the Eastman Genealogy by G.S. Rix, and believe I found the E. Porter Eastman on p. 463.There was an Edward Porter, but his family was concentrated in NY; the other was Ezekiel Porter Eastman(which makes it more believable that he would be the one to drop his first name), b. 18 Jun 1817; d. in Lynn MA 18 Feb 1860.He was from a family that I had thought could be a connection.They lived in Mt. Vernon and Strong, Maine, however (my Henry was born in Alfred, Maine), and their last child listed was a son Henry who was b. 1830 and d. 1832.I know that some families would sometimes give the next son the same name.And, as my Henry was born in 1833, he could have been part of the list, and they didn't include him (possibly because he ran away, and later generations did not know of him, or his family decided he didn't exist anymore - they could do that, sometimes).I may be reaching again, but I have managed to match a great deal of Eastman's in this book that I have found in other sources, and since Henry lived in ME and NH, where the greatest concentration of them were, you would think that he would match up somewhere, eventually.This family from Strong, ME also used more names for their children that I felt could be connecting than any other family in the book (i.e., William; Harry- he was supposed to have had an Uncle Harry; George; and John - no Abigail, however).I have been so close sometimes (at least I feel that I have), and then just hit a wall.
Ezekiel Porter's parents were Samuel Eastman (1784)/Benjamin/Samuel/Ebenezer/Samuel/Roger,and Jane Hitchcock (1786). Ezekiel m. Mary Macomber Haines, who d. Green Bay WI 26 Jun 1867.Children were Charles Follen Eastman, b. Monroe ME 30 Aug 1844; and Frank Marshall Eastman, b. Lynn MA 20 Jun 1869.In 1901 Frank was residing in Harrisburg, PA, a lawyer.
An addition to your info on the background of Lynn(which I found very interesting - I always try to find out about an area where an ancestor lived), one of the Eastman's I found in a census for Alfred ME, where Henry was born, was William R. Eastman.He was listed as a shoemaker.And the early Eastman's who arrived in the Alfred area in the 1700's were also of that profession.So I wonder if Henry was sent off to learn the same trade, and found it not to his liking.After running off, he became a newsboy at Sacramento, a druggist in San Francisco, and a railroad engineer in Virginia City, Nevada, just missing Mark Twain by less than a year of arrival; eventually settled in Oregon, and was the first pensioner on the OR&N, now the Union Pacific Railroad.I always wondered whether he thought the adventures he had in life were worth it all.The way the obit. read, he couldn't be kept at home, and had run away several times.
So again, thanks for your help, and I'll keep up the search.