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Enoch Dill (1770 - 1835)

Enoch Dill
Born in Falmouth, Cumberland, Mainemap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 17 Apr 1792 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died at age 65 in Gardiner, Kennebec, Maine, United Statesmap
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Biography

Enoch was born in 1770 [1].

Enoch moved from Falmouth to Brunswick to Lewiston to New Sharon and finally to Gardiner.

"Enoch Dills Mark for Cattle & sheep is a hole in the right ear & a happenny the under side the left ear."[2]

“I Enoch Dill of New Sharon… in consideration of one hundred seven dollars and forty one cents paid by John Merrill of New Sharon… do… sell… fifty acres of land lying on the southerly side of the lot No. forty on the North side of Sandy River in New Sharon… this tenth of July… one thousand eight hundred and twelve….
Enoch Dill
In presence of
Wm Trafton
Wm Dill”[3]

“I Enoch Dill of New Sharon…. In consideration of seven hundred and fifty dollars paid by Richard Ramsdell of New Sharon… do… sell… land lying in Newsharon… being lot numbered fifty one in said town according to the plan made by Ephraim Ballard being a part of an undivided lot and the land on which I now live containing one hundred acres… In witness whereof I the said Enoch Dill and my wife Anna Dill… set our hand and seals this nineteeth day of October… one thousand eight hundred and fifteen… Enoch Dill”.

“I Enoch Dill of New Sharon… yeoman in consideration of one hundred dollars paid to me by William Dill of New Sharon… land lying in New sharon… beginning at the southeast corner of John Rawlings lot of land… to the northeast corner of Ezekiel Lancasters lands… containing fifty acres… this thirteenth day of December… one thousand eight hundred and fifteen… Enoch Dill”.[4]

Enoch was one of the first of the Dill family to move to Gardiner. He and his son were brick and stone masons by trade and built the Bowman Block and also the City Building. He lived on Brunswick Ave. on what was known as the Ben Sewall Hildreth Place.

“I Enoch Dill of Gardiner… bricklayer in consideration of one thousand and ninety one dollars paid by Robert Hallowell Gardiner of Gardiner… do… sell… two tracts of land situate in said Gardiner being lot No nine and Nine H on the south side of the Cobbossee Contee river and fronting on the Brunswick road [ ] containing forty [ ] eight and three quarters acres and lot no nine H containing fifty and a half acres as delineated on the plan of survey of the Cobbessee tract made by Solomon Adams Esquire and dated Dec, 30. 1808 and is the same lot that I this day purchased of said Robert Hallowell Gardiner… the said Enoch Dill… to pay to the said Robert Hallowell Gardiner… in nine equal annual payments payable the first day of November of each year… with lawfull interest…this fifteenth day of November… one thousand eight hundred and sixteen… Enoch Dill” [5]

Ellison Brown of Topsham, yeoman sold to Enoch Dill of Gardiner, Mason, 20 acres of land in Litchfield between County Rd. and Cobbossee Pond for $100, 1 May 1817.[6] On 18 Aug. 1818 Benjamin Shaw of Bowdoinham, Esquire and Enoch Dill of Gardiner, yeoman sold to James Sheafe of Portsmouth, Esquire 41 acres of lot No.38 in Litchfield for $287.[7]

“I Enoch Dill of Gardiner… in consideration of five hundred and sixty Dollars to me paid by Robert Hallowell gardiner of Gardiner… do… sell… land situate in said Gardiner being Lot numbered ten H on the south side of Cobbessee Contee river fronting on the Brunswick road and containing about fofty four and three eighths acres as delineated on the plan of the Cobbossee Contee tract made by Solomon Adams esq. and dated December 30.1808… this twenty fifth day of May… one thousand eight hundred and nineteen… Enoch Dill”.[8]

“I Enoch Dill of Gardiner… Bricklayer in consideration of four hundred and fifty one dollars paid by Robert Hallowell Gardiner of Gardiner… do… sell… a certain tract of land scituate in said Gardiner on the south side of Cobbossee Contee River being all of lot No. E nine and the easterly half part of lot No E eight fronting on Mill Street together with the buildings thereon- as delineated on the plan of survey of the Cobbossee Contee tract made by Solomon Adams Esqr and dated December 30th 1808 and is the same lot that I this day purchased of said Robert Hallowell Gardiner… Enoch Dill… pay to the said Robert Hallowell Gardiner… the sum of four hundred &forty one dollars in four equal annual payments payable the fifteenth day of November of each year… with lawful interest…this ninth day of December… one thousand eight hundred and twenty two… Enoch Dill” [9]

“I Enoch Dill of Gardiner… in consideration of ten dollars to me paid by Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner…so…quit claim… a certain trat of land situate in sd Gardiner on the north side of the Cobbossee Conte river being all of lot No E nine and the easterly half part of lot No E eight fronting on mill street together with the buildings thereon being the lot mortgaged by me to said Gardiner for four hundred & forty one dollars and interest which mortgage remains wholly unpaid… this seventh day of June…one thousand eight hundred and twenty four… Enoch Dill”[10]

From Perley's Historic Storms of New England is the story of "The Spring Freshet of 1826":

In the spring of 1826 occured a freshet that had been unparalleled in New England for more than thirty-five years... In the evening of Friday, March 24, the wind began blowing a gale from the southeast, and rain fell in such torrents that it seemed as if the very flood gates of heaven were open. It continued all night, and ceased the next morning... The Kennebec river in Maine was more affected than any other large stream. When the rain began, the river was covered with ice that was twenty inches thick... The river continued to fill... until three o'clock on the next morning when the ice could no longer resist the powerful pressure beneath, and it burst half a mile above Gardiner. The water raged down on the wharves at Gardiner, covering them four or five feet deep, and the great body of ice that followed pressed down upon them... the people saw it coming and realized its almost superhuman power. The only hope they had of saving their property lay in the resistance of Long wharf, from the end of which the warehouse had already been carried away... the ice leaped twenty feet from the surface of the water... a compact mass of ice, logs, trees, lumber, etc. was floating rapidly by and in the midst of it were embedded five schooners... The ice continued moving down for a mile or two below the town, where it was finally stopped by an unbroken field of ice and jammed so severely that it caused the water to rise to a height never before known in Gardiner. At six o'clock the water was thirteen feet above the common high water mark. The chief sufferers were... and the fishing schooner of Enoch Dill was utterly destroyed."[11] It's also likely that the schooner belonged to Enoch's son, Enoch Jr.

Sources

  1. Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4SK-VL8 : accessed 06 Jun 2013), Enoch Dill, 12 Feb 1770.
  2. Lewiston Vital Records- p.307
  3. Kennebec County Deeds- 1812, pp.27-8
  4. Kennebec County Deeds-- 1815, p. 134
  5. Kennebec County Deeds- 1817, p. 50
  6. Lincoln Co. Deeds- Vol.10, p.181
  7. Lincoln Co. Deeds- Vol.10, p.183
  8. Kennebec County Deeds- 1819, pp. 306-7
  9. Kennebec County Deeds- 1822, p. 471-2
  10. Kennebec County Deeds- 1824, p. 40
  11. Historic Storms of New England- Sidney Perley, The Salem Press, 1891- pp. 232-4
  • Dill: Descendants of Daniel 1660, York, ME- Helen Kermoul, Bellingham, WA, 1980- p. 27
  • Genealogical Records, Bible Records and Sketches of the Hathaway and Dill Families of Gardiner, ME- Mrs. George B. Peacock- p. 17
  • Janus Elder's notes- Androscoggin Hist. Soc., Lewiston
  • Cumberland Co. Records of Marriages 1786-1795- p. 147
  • Gardiner Daily Reporter Journal- 28 Jan., 11 Feb. 1910, O.B. Clason
  • Janus zg. Elder, History of Lewiston [Maine], p. 142.




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