Nancy L. (Rich) Lancaster (1782 - 1855)

Born 25 Apr 1782 in Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Moore — married 27 Feb 1798 in Mount Desert Island, Maine

Wife of Joseph Lancaster — married 27 Oct 1806 in Mount Desert Island, Maine

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1855 at age 72 in Lancaster's Island, Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

-Nancy Rich b. 25 Apr 1782 |+Joseph Lancaster b. Abt 1782 |+Joseph Moore b. 1782, d. 1805, m. 27 Feb 1798, Mount Desert Island,

Oct. 27, 1806. Joseph Lancaster and Nancy Moore both of Mount Desert. David Richardson, Clerk of Mt. Desert.

Not only was Philip Langley allied by marriage to two early pioneer families but he himself was a land owner at Southwest Harbor before 1783. This property was later made over to his step daughter-in-law, Nancy Rich Moore, who, after her husband, Joseph Moore, was drowned, married Joseph Lancaster and with him and her children removed, in 1806, to Sutton's Island, the first settlers there.

The deed for Somes Island, as it was then called, given to Langley in 1788, in payment for the work which he did for Marie Therese Cadillac de Gregoire, was, with the possible exception of the Mayo deed for land at the Narrows, the first Cadillac de Gregoire deed executed on Mount Desert Island, and it antedates Daniel Gott's deed of Little Placentia from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by a year or more. Langley settled at Southwest Harbor almost fifty years before James Grenan appeared on the scene, and for near half a century until death took him, he was a highly respected, well beloved citizen, whose fondness for children was proverbial.

Nancy was born in 1782. Nancy is the child of John Rich and Emma Cross. ^[1]

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• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DBG8-64?cc=1401638&wc=95RQ-CX9%3A1031308201%2C1031662701%2C1031976001 : 9 April 2016), Maine > Hancock > Cranberry Isles > image 7 of 7; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2007/10/marriage-intentions-at-ellsworth-and.html

1. ↑ First-hand information as remembered by Adrian Stanley, Sunday, March 15, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-4D3V-W1?cc=1803978&wc=71R8-F7W%3A1029440301%2C1029471201 : 20 May 2014), Vital records 1892-1907 > LaMarsh-Lapham > image 640 of 4110; State Board of Health, Augusta.

"Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-4D35-T3?cc=1803978&wc=71R8-FSD%3A1029440301%2C1029465901 : 20 May 2014), Vital records 1892-1907 > Hiltunen-Hoffses > image 2911 of 3980; State Board of Health, Augusta.

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/regional/states/topics/me/20187/

http://www.cranberryisles.com/photos/gott.html

http://mdihistory.org/wp-content/uploads/Cranberry-Isles-Names.pdf

"United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYB2-CNH?cc=1786457&wc=31S2-1N3%3A1588666273%2C1588666164%2C1588668689 : 24 August 2015), Maine > Hancock > Cranberry Isles > image 3 of 4; citing NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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