Elsie Howard (Eaton) Greenlaw (1803 - 1892)

Born 1 May 1803 in North Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Avery Small — married 12 Dec 1829 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

Wife of William Greenlaw — married 24 Mar 1835 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Jul 1892 at age 89 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Elsy Howard Eaton was born 1 May 1803 in North Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine. Her parents were William Eaton (1748 - 1842) and Hannah (Haskell) Eaton (1761 - 1838).^[1][2][3]

She married 1st Avery Small 12 Dec 1829^[4] at Deer Isle

She married WilliamGreenlaw 24 Mar 1835 ^[5] at Deer Isle

Elsie died on 26 Jul 1892 in Deer Isle aged 89. She is buried in Mount Adams Cemetery, Deer Isle.^[6][6]

Excerpt from Noyes's Deer Isle pioneers

Elcy Eaton, born in Deer Isle, May 1, 1803. and married (1st) William Small, son of Avery Small of Sunset, by whom she had a sou, William Avery Eaton Small, who was lost at sea with Capt. David E. Adams, and married (2nd) as the second wife of William, Jr., the youngest of ten sons of William Greenlaw, Sr., by his wife Rebecca, the daughter of pioneer William Babbidge, who emigrated to Deer Isle prior to 1770. The senior William Greenlaw was brought, with his youngest brother Richard, to Deer Isle from New Brunswick, Canada, by his brothers-in-law, Joseph Whitmore who married a sister of William’s wife, and Capt. Seth Hatch, whose wife was also a sister to William’s. The father of William and Richard was Jonathan Greenlaw who is claimed, by good authority, to have been a settler on Deer Isle prior to William Eaton who is asserted to be entitled to this position by Hosmer. Jonathan, with Charles, Alexander, Ebenezer and William Greenlaw, presumably brothers, all of whom were from Scotland, settled on Campbell’s Neck, Deer Isle, where they engaged in farming and fishing. With a feeling of loyalty toward their mother country, they frequently sought the social element at Bagaduce (Castine) which \\ as seized in 1779 by the British for military headquarters in the East. Through this intimacy with that post they were suspected of transmitting information that was inimical to the interests of their American neighbors and consequently when peace was declared in 1783, the British troops evacuated Castine, and left the loyalists unprotected. The latter, including the Greenlaws, being Tories, took their departure for the Canadian Maritime Provinces, where they were designated refugees arid were rewarded for they loyalty by grants of land from their home government. The majority remained there and many possessed an intense hatred of the New Republic, which biller feeling has been handed down to their posterity to the present time. All, excepting the above brothers, William and Richard, remained East and left a prolific army of descendants throughout the Provinces. William, upon his return, became the first settler near what is called “Fish Creek” or “Greenlaw District,” Deer Isle, before going to New Brunswick with his father, he married his wife Rebecca, and there being no one qualified to solemnize marriages nearer than Bagaduce, about eighteen miles distant, where the chaplain to the garrison officiated, they were obliged to resort there.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123823044/elcy-h-greenlaw
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K4RQ-M86
3. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/69547081/person/32273065174/facts
4. ↑ Marriage #1: "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q283-L7DK : 22 July 2021), Avery Small and Elcy H Eaton, 12 Dec 1829; citing Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
5. ↑ Marriage #2:"Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-Z45 : 5 January 2021), Wm Greenlaw in entry for Peniah Greenlaw, 1828.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 January 2019), memorial page for Elcy H. Eaton Greenlaw (1 May 1803–26 Jul 1892), Find A Grave Memorial no. 123823044, citing Mount Adams Cemetery, Deer Isle, Hancock County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by R Moore (contributor 47672795) .

• Birth and Christening: "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4WQ-4QG : 22 July 2021), Eley ,
• "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4HF-X2Q : 22 July 2021), Eley Eaton, 1803.

• "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-SK4X : 18 January 2022), Elsy H Greenlaw, 1892; citing Deer Isle, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89NW-S9MT-Q?cc=1803978&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ28Q-SK4X

• Marriage: "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q283-L7GQ : 22 July 2021), Wm Greenlaw and Elcy Small, 24 Mar 1835; citing Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99L1-Q94Q-5?cc=1803978

• Death: "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28Q-SK4X : 18 January 2022), Elsy H Greenlaw, 1892; citing Deer Isle, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89NW-S9MT-Q?cc=1803978&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQ28Q-SK4X

• Noyes, B. Lake. 1901. Deer Isle pioneers, including Stonington, Maine ... [Haskell family].