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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Soldier
Birth: 1750 / / RI Death: 28 Aug 1828 Hampden / Penobscot / ME
Simeon Gorton was born about 1750 in present-day Rhode Island. He married Elizabeth before the year 1775 in the part of Massachusetts that is now the State of Maine. He served as a soldier in the Massachusetts Militia in Colonel Josiah Brewer’s Penobscot Militia Regiment. Evidence of his service is found in the form of a “Petition from Penobscot River to the General County, 1777,” which is dated 5 November 1777, is found in the Massachusetts Archives, Vol. 183, Page 261-262, also published in the Bangor Historical Magazine, Vol. 4, pages 12-13.
The known children of Simeon Gorton and Elizabeth are given by Vital Records of Hampden, Maine, Prior to 1892, Volume 1: 1751-1835, page 28:
“The Berths of Mr. Simeon Gorton’s children which his wife Elisabeth bore him
Viz their daughter Prisca was Born December 25, 1775
James was Born November 6, 1777
Wealthan was Born August 13, 1779
Elisabeth was Born June 19, 1781
Matilda was Born December 19, 1783.
Attest Abner Knowles Town Clerk"
Simeon Gorton died 28 August 1828 and was laid to rest in the Locust Grove Cemetery at Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine. On his headstone is etched: “SACRED to the memory of SIMEON GORTON, died Aug. 28, 1828. Aged 78.”
In his Last Will and Testament at Will Book 3, Page 525, Penobscot County, Massachusetts [presently Maine], Simeon Gorton named his [second] wife Catherine Rice Gorton, Buchan Haskins as trustee for his son Simeon Rice Gorton, daughter Priscilla Durrell, son James Gorton, daughter Elizabeth Kendall, daughter Welthy Wheeler, daughter Matilda Myrnick, with his wife Catherine as Executrix.
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