| MAIN FAMILY Ezekiel Main, the first person of that name who came to Stonington, CT., to reside permanently. He came here in 1670 and in 1672 he received a grant of land from the town. He purchased other lands and in 1680 received another town grant of land, all of which extended from the old goldsmith shop of Mr. David Main, nearly to the residence of Mr. Nathaniel M. Crary, in what is now North Stonington, Conn., bounded nearly all the way by Shunnock River on the south, and on the north in part by lands of Mr. Joshua holmes. This Mr. Ezekiel Main, married, Mary. It is not know where he married before or after he came to this town to reside, probably a short time before as Mrs Ezekiel Main was a partaker at the ordination of Mr. James Noyes, the pastor of the first church in Stonington in 1674. Ezekiel Main was admitted to the church, Sept 3, 1676, and he died June 19, 1714. children of Ezekiel and Mary Main: Ezekiel: Mary bapt. July 1, 1677, d. young: Jeremiah: Thomas, bapt. Sept 22,1679, d. young: Phebe bapt. Aug.7, 1681 m._______Kingsbury Ezekiel #2 was admitted to the church in 1695, and he m. Mary (daughter of Thomas and wife, Naomi Wells) Jan. 14, 1689; he died Oct. 20, 1715 children: Ezekiel, b. and d. Dec.. 24, 1691. Mary Main died Jan. 12, 1693 and Oct 22, 1695, Ezekiel married 2nd Hannah Rose. Children of Ezekiel and Hannah: Hannah b. Sept. 23, 1698; Mary b. June 14,1700; Ezekiel, b. Dec. 10, 1701, d. young: Patience, b. Feb. 22, 1704-5; Jeremiah, b. Sept 9, 1707; Pheeby, b. April 9, 1708; Ichabod, b. Aug. 3, 1712; Merriam, b. Nov. 4, 1712, d. Oct. 20, 1729 Jeremiah Man (# 4), m. widow Ruth Brown. It is not certainly known whose daughter she was but she with her daughter Ruth were admitted to the first church of Stonington and baptized July 16, 1699. Mr. Jerimiah Main wa admitted, May 18, 1712, and he d. Nove. 11 1727. There were married Oct. 11, 1699. Children of Jeremiah and Ruth: Thomas, b. July 19, 1700: Hannah bapt. May 17, 1703; Elizabeth, b. Feb 22,1702-03, married Ebenezer Brown (Num. 4 Brown family); Lydia, b. April 19, 1705; Sarah, b. May 19, 1706; Jeremiah, b. April 10 1708, married Jan. 25, 1726-7 Abigal Worden; Hepzibah, b. March 24, 1710, m. Oct. 31, 1727, Joseph Brown: Nathaniel, b. Aug 4, 1714 m Jan. 10,1737-8, Anna Spaulding and m. 2nd. Johanna Parkhurst: Anna, b. Aug. 21, 1718; John b. May 20, 1716, m. Nov. 8, 1738 Sarah Morgan: Peter, b. Aug. 5, 1718, m. Sept. 17, 1740, Mary Egglestone The above information was found in the book: History of the Town of Stonington, county of New London, Connecticut From its first settlement in 1649 to 1900 with a genealogical register of stonington families by: Richard Anson Wheeler, member of the new England Historic Genealogist Society & life member and one of the vice presidents of the Connecticut Historical Society and Life member of the New London County Historical Society. |
| The following was found in the History of Susquehanna county by Emily C. Blackman: Four brothers, Samuel, Nehemiah, Ezekiel and Meacham Maine came from the East about the same time with those others just mentioned. Samuel is mentioned in Mr. Miner's list of early Wyalusing settlers, as here, with a family of seven, in 1798; but from other sources of inforemation it seems evident they did not precede Mr. Whipple. Samuel and Meacham Maine were in Usher and the other brothers in Manor. Ezekiel Maine, Jr. was born on the "shay Farm", where his father began his clearing and where David Turrell afterwards lived. It as once known as Maine Hill. His farm was east of that of his brother Samuel, who was located on the flat at the junction of South creek with the Wyalusing. Two or three old apple trees now designate the spot. He sold the farm (or whatever title he may have had to it- once dereived from Connecticut) to Samuel Lewis, his brother-in=-aw, who came a year later; and he then moved to what is not called the Hunter Farm, once Butterfield's. Mecham Maine was on the water=shed between the two principal creeks emptying into the Wyalusing from the south. He and his brother Samuel removed to Indiana prior to 1813. Nehemiah Main's location was first in what is now Bridgewater but very soon after, where Urbane Smith lives in Dimock. |
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| Mayne's were first found in Devonshire where they were seated from early times and were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy their liege Lord, for the distinguished assistance at the battle of Hastings in 1066 A.D. Some of the first settlers with this name or some of it's variants were: Gregory Maine, settled in VA. 1650 George Maine settled in Georgia, 1735 Captain Maine settled in Boston, 1768 Andrew and his wife and child settled in Barbados, 1679 |