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Ancestors of Russell Edward Spooner II

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442. John Butler

Owner of considerable land in Ipswich. In 1736, John disposed of it, and with his family removed to that part of the town of Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, later known as North Society of Lyme. There he acquired lands as early as 1736, and there he lived until his death in 1755, engaged in farming and as a trader.


466. Bartholomew Bryant

In 1758 he served in the Crown Point Expediction, in Capt. John Libby's Company, Col. Pebble's Regiment. He also served in the Revolutionary War. In 1763 he is listed in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine. In the 1766 Census he is listed in Pownalboro, Lincoln, Maine as having a 1 story, 1 room, log house, with wife and 3 females under the age of 16 years.

He settled at Scarboro after his marriage, on 40 acres he received from his father's will of 1757, being then "under age" ("Item. I give & bequeath to my Son Bartholomew Bryant all that Forty Acres of Land which I bought of Samuel Scott"). Due to a severe drought in 1764/65, he and brother Samuel Davis Bryant, with other Saco Valley residents, sold out and removed to the Machias area of Washington County, being the first to settle this area of Maine. He had a numerous family.