AllenParkinson - Person Sheet
AllenParkinson - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Child
Birth14 May 1768, Waltham, Middlesex, MA72
Death1819, Livermore, Androscoggin, ME73
Memohe was buried in Old Fuller Yard beside his brother Ephraim in the area of North Livermore where the three Child brothers originally settled. A memory stone was placed in the Child cemetery in Peru (beside his son, Granville's grave) in 1972. It's inscribed with: In Memory of William Child -- 1768-1819. His wife Anna -- 1774. Buried in Livermore.
Residence1800, Poland, Cumberland, ME74
FatherCaptain Abijah Child (1733-1823)
MotherBeulah Harrington (1737-1789)
Spouses
Birth6 Oct 1774, Bridgewater, Plymouth, MA75
Death183776
FatherEliab Washburn (1740-1818)
MotherAnne Edson (~1746-1821)
Marriage19 Jun 1791, Bakerstown, ME77
ChildrenLewis Washburn (1791-~1815)
 Joseph (1794-1875)
 William (1796-1885)
 Anna Edson (1798-?)
 True Woodman (1801-1829)
 Eliza Jane (1803-1829)
 Elisha Coolidge (1804-1824)
 Granville (1806-1889)
 Marshall (1808-~1889)
 Aurelia Jones (1810-1847)
 Adelphia (1816-1854)
Notes for William Child
Elias Child wrote that in 1771 "he moved to Maine with the family of Mr. David Marshall of Massachusetts and settled in what was then called Sudbury, Canada, now Bethel, Maine. Attacked by the Indians, the inhabitants fled. The family relocated in Minot, Maine. There Mr. Child married, then moved to Livermore, Maine, where he settled on a farm." But I could find no other evidence to support that. (Mrs. Marshall's own testimony of the events of the Indian raid, compared with the births of their own children, doesn't leave room for William to have been with them at the time.)78

The 1790 Waltham, MA census indicates that he was in Abijah's home at that time., 79
he lived in Livermore,ME. "He kept a tavern at Brettun's Mills, Livermore in the days of Sawtelle's Stage Line." (Turner's History of the Town of Peru)
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