Re: Henry W. Yeaton
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Re: Henry W. Yeaton
Dan Atwell 4/15/06
A few notes on your posting:
--The son of Benjamin Yeaton listed with him as a 2nd poll tax in 1774 would not be sons Philip or William as they are far from being 18 years old, so we are certainly looking at another son here (so long as that tax list is correct!). I have just about all of the New Castle tax lists copied, but unclear who it could be at this moment. My interest is in Philip as he is a direct ancestor of mine, and his descendants are part of the Amazeen genealogy I've been compiling for the past dozen years.
--I've taken a look at all of my Philip Yeaton notes, and it's clear that he is not the same person that married Mary Harvey. Philip of Portsmouth, mariner, and Mary his wife, sell several properties in Portsmouth, the last one dated 4 Aug, 1790 takes place after Philip of New Castle marries Elizabeth Amazeen. That deed clearly puts him in the port city for the 1790 census (taken 1st Monday of August), and would exclude him from being the Philip 'Eten' of Bristol, ME in same census. Not to say that he wasn't up there at all, but he was definitely in Portsmouth for 1781 when he bought 2 lots of land at Pickering's Neck (sold in 1789 + 1790 - another deed involved part of a house he won in judgement and sold off in 1787).
--Another Philip in the area is the fisherman/mariner of Rye, buying land up in Epsom (1793+1797), and he was up there by 1809 when he sold one of those properties. He's not on 1790 census, he'd still be unmarried then and probably living with family.
--That leaves my Philip of New Castle. I don't see him buying a property on the island, but he did have a house per 1799 valuation, so perhaps it was inherited. He is last seen on the 23 April, 1799 New Castle inventory list (supposedly still alive), as the 1800 town tax list, and the years after this, call him deceased. The 1800 census, which would have been taken in August, list Elizabeth as the head of household. The 1800 town tax list may have also been written around August, as other years seem to have same month given when signed by selectmen, so this narrows down the death of Philip as between April 1799 and August 1800. Unfortunately, it seems that the local papers didn't bother mentioning his passing. I've searched these papers in the past for him, the old fashioned microfilm way, but now many of these papers are on 'Early American Papers' and I am now searching through those titles I hadn't before (still on a page by page basis - I've yet to use an ocr program that does a complete job - hard to blame them when it's a 200-year old paper trying to be scanned!). The probate for Philip doesn't help with his death date, as proceedings into settling his estate didn't start unitl Feb, 1802.
--You also mentioned his sons John and Philip - they and their families are listed in the New Castle town records on microfilm (volume 3, pg 405), both have Philip Sr. as father. Philip and Elizabeth also had daughter Jane and a child that died in 1796 (1800 and 1810 census numbers looks like there could be an unaccounted son and daughter in the household as well)
--Another thing on Philip - I have his birth year as circa 1768-69, a couple of years later than the article gives him. I base this on his arrival on the tax lists in 1787 at age 18, not 21 as poll taxes usually were. For a time, at least starting in 1779 and going on until, or past, 1793, the age for males required to pay the poll tax was only 18 years old - several New Castle tax lists (including the dates above) include this age in the tax column. This was probably due to the Revolutionary War - I'm sure those taxes were greatly needed! This may only be a 3-year change in some birth dates, but it is good to know when making these calculations.
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Re: Henry W. Yeaton
john dow 5/07/06