Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Ebenezer Drake

History of Paris, Maine From Its Settlement to 1880, with a History of the Grants of 1736 & 1771, Together with Personal Sketches, a Copious Genealogical Register and an Appendix By William Berry Lapham, Silas P. Maxim: "EBENEZER DRAKE Ebenezer Drake was in trade many years at North Paris was a man of honor and integrity respected and confided in by the com munity and successful in business He was modest even to diffidence yet a man of sound judgment and every waj reliable He was a member of the Baptist chr rch at North Paris and one of its strong supports He was probably the son of Ebenezer and Martha Gurnej Drake of Bridgevvater Mass His wife was also a Gnr ney a daughter of Jacob who was an early settler in this town He had two children Horace who died some years ago and Eliza He moved from this town to Mechanic Falls and engaged there in the manufacture of paper and"

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