Ninth Generation


332. Jeremiah Hodgdon279,1232 was born before 1737. He was baptized in 1737 in USA, Maine, Cumberland Co., Falmouth.1233 Cumberland Co. was formed from York. He appeared in the census in 1790 in USA, Maine, Cumberland Co., Bucktown Plantation.89 Bucktown Plantation
Jeremiah Hodgdon
2 free white males 16+
1 free white males <16
2 free white females
Jeremiah appeared in the census in 1820 in USA, Maine, Oxford Co., Hebron.1234 1820 HODGDON JEREMIAH Oxford County ME 219 Hebron
Jeremiah Hodgdon 00000 1 0000 1 0000
1 male 45+ (Jeremiah ~83)
1 female 45+ (Thankful)
He died on 24 August 1823 at the age of 86 in USA, Maine, Oxford Co., Hebron.1232 Jeremiah probably lived in West Gorham, on the northerly half of the hundred acre lot. He sold six acres to Samuel Brown, who built a house, another three acres to Colman P Watson, and in 1782, he sold the rest to Maj. George Lewis of Barnstable.
Jeremiah served as a private in 1778 with Capt. Richard Mayberry's company of Massachusetts Bay Forces under Col. Tupper. The company was mustered out at West Point, Jan. 1, 1779. Later that year Jeremiah Hodgdon was a corporal in Capt. McLellan's company in the Penobscot Expedition.
In 1781 he was one of the dissenters who signed a petition to the town asking to be exempt from paying the ministerial tax, claiming to be Baptist.
Jeremiah moved to Bucktown, now Buckfield after the death of his first wife. He married a second wife, Thankful Keen, and had four more children with her. He died in Hebron in 1823. Thankful Keen and Jeremiah Hodgdon were married on 26 January 1786 in USA, Maine, Cumberland Co., Bucktown (now Buckfield).947,1232 2nd wife.

333. Thankful Keen609 died after 1820.

Children were:

166

i.

Israel / Terral Hodgdon.

ii.

Abigail Hodgdon1232 was born on 12 May 1788 in USA, Maine, Oxford Co., Buckfield.594

iii.

John Hodgdon1232 was born on 23 June 1791 in USA, Maine, Oxford Co., Buckfield.594

iv.

Lydia Hodgdon1232 was born on 7 February 1794 in USA, Maine, Oxford Co., Buckfield.594