Joshua Cane (1716 - abt. 1760)

Born 19 Mar 1716 in York, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Died about 1760 at about age 43 in Sanford, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

https://archive.org/details/cu31924051298770/page/210/mode/2up?q=Cane&view=theater[Cane's mill built about 1756 Sanford Maine]

" In 1760 , Benjamin and Naphtali Harmon petitioned the Court of Sessions that a jury be summoned to assess damages done to their land by overflow. Fifteen acres belonging to each, and seven acres additional to Naphtali were overflowed. The mill and dam were built on or about 1756, by James Littlefield, Wells, Samuel Cane , Phillipstown, John Hambleton, Berwick, and Joshua Cane, deceased, Phillipstown. ..." p 256 Lot Numbers at Sanford"'

1752 Petition

• "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F43H-8BV : 14 January 2020), Joshua Cane, 1716.

• "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F46D-WMG : 22 July 2021), Joshua Cane, 1781.

Research Notes

From a muster roll of Cap- tain Jonathan Bean's company, dated October 27, 1748, we know that James Chadbourn, Joshua Chadbourn. Jonathan Adams, Joshua Cane, Ephraim Low, Edward Whitehouse, John Stauyan, Samuel Willson, John Fiost, William Holt, and Joiin Chadbourn were scouts between December 10 and March 9, 1747/8. History of Sanford Maine Joshua was born in 1716. He is the son of Nicholas Cane and Mary Parsons. https://archive.org/details/cu31924051298770/page/38/mode/2up?q=Cane&view=theater

Revolutionary War reference to Cane, Joshua. He was the son of Joshua Cane, who took up a settler's lot in 1739. After his father's death, and mother's second marriage , he moved to Wells. page 74 History of Sanford.

Shelley, Wells VRs, 46; Thompson, “First Parish Church of Kennebunk,” 24. He was called Samuel Hatch Jr. in the Wells record. Susannah was possibly the widow of Joshua Cane who settled in Phillipstown in 1739 . Joshua and Susannah Cane bp. daughter Abigail at Wells, 8 Oct. 1755 (“Records of the First Church of Wells, Me.,” NEHGR, 75[1921]:314). Joshua had d. by 1760 when fellow mill owners in Phillips Town petitioned the court and he was called deceased (Edwin Emery, History of Sanford [Salem, Mass., 1901], 26, 256). Joshua Cane was b. York, 19 March1716/17, son of Nicholas and Mary (Parsons) Cane (Bragdon & Frost, York VRs, 30). It was perhaps his son, Joshua Cain, who m. Wells, 31 Jan 1781, Jemima Stewart (Shelley, Wells VRs, 83). Joshua Cane

Sources

• The history of Sanford, Maine, 1661-1900 by Edwin Emery

• Birth of Joshua Cane

• The Maine Genealogist November 2013

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