Thomas Wasgatt (abt. 1751 - 1820)

Born about 1751 in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Thomas) Wasgatt — married 17 Apr 1781 in Mount Desert Island, Hancock, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 19 May 1820 at about age 69 in Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Born ABT 1745. Note: #N726. ^[1][2][3]

Died 19 MAY 1820. Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States. ^[4]

Census: 1800 Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N730. ^[5] 1810 Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N733. ^[6]

Event: MISC 30 OCT 1763. Castine, Hancock, Maine, USA. Map: Latitude: N44.387852. Longitude: W68.799736. Note: #N727. ^[7] Land OCT 1773. Trenton, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N728. ^[8] Land 16 JAN 1807. Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N732. ^[9] MISC 1783 Trenton, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N729. ^[10] Land 15 FEB 1808. Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N731. ^[11]

Note: #N734.

Marriage Husband Thomas Wasgatt. Wife Eunice Robbins. Child: Deborah Wasgatt. Child: Thomas Wasgatt. Child: Eunice Wasgatt. Marriage Note: #N3133.

Husband Thomas Wasgatt. Wife Hannah Thomas. Child: Hannah Wasgatt. Child: John Thomas Wasgatt. Child: William Wasgatt. Child: Nicolas Wasgatt. Child: Betsey Wasgatt. Child: Margaret Wasgatt. Child: Zena Wasgatt. Child: Zena Wasgatt. Marriage 17 APR 1781. Mount Desert Island, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N3134. ^[12][13] Event: Land Sale. 25 FEB 1806. Great Cranberry Isles, Hancock, Maine, United States. Note: #N3135.

Husband Thomas Wasgatt. Wife @I480@. Child: Thomas Wasgatt. Child: @I187@. Child: @I498@. Child: Abigail Wasgatt. Child: William Wasgatt. Child: Margaret Wasgatt. Child: @I193@. Child: @I196@. Child: @I194@. Child: @I183@. Child: @I185@. Marriage 30 JUN 1745. Berwick, York, Maine, USA. Map: Latitude: N43.265915. Longitude: W70.864510. Note: #N3131. ^[14][15]

Notes

Note N726The 1800 census lists a male 45 and over, making his birth on or before 1745.

Note N727See Notes.

Note N728Buys proprietor's rights, "October, 1773, I went Down and sold 2 rights to Thomas Wescott and his son Thomas, to make them proprietors.".

Note N729cleared two lots of land in Township No. 1.

Note N730Males.

Under 10: 0.

10-15: 2.

16-25: 1.

26-44:

45 and over: 1.

Females

Under 10: 2.

10-15:

16-25: 1.

26-44:

45 and over: 1, 1800 US, Eden, Hancock, ME, 8 OCT 2011, ME 030, PHOTO, 8 Nov 2011, Y, Y.

Note N731sale to son Thomas 3rd, Witness, Thomas Wasgatt, Jr. sold to son Thomas Wasgatt, 3rd: 1/4 part of saw mill at Duck Brook (lower mill); 1/4 part of saw mill at Duck Brook (upper mill) with land; 78 of saw mill at Cromwell's Harbor with land.

Note N732sale of land to son Thomas Wasgatt 3rd, Witness, Witness, Thomas sells half-share of lot (owned with Benjamin Stanwood) to son Thomas Wasgatt, 3rd. Likely this is a portion of lot E22 on Peter's Plan of 1807, north of and adjacent to Robert Young's lot and on Duck Brook.

Note N733For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Thomas, who would have been about 55 years of age in 1810.

Males

Under 10: 0.

10-15: 1.

16-25: 3.

26-44:

45 and over: 0.

Females

Under 10: 0.

10-15: 1.

16-25:

26-44:

45 and over: 1.

Note N734Held various positions within the town of Eden, including Constable and Survey of Highways. 1

Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... 1

MISC

Signed petition, Petition of T. Westgatt & others.

To His Excellency Francis Bernard Esqr Governor & Commander in Chief of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay.

The Petition of Thomas Westgatt and others inhabitants of a Tract of Land known by the name of Majabaagadoose in said Province Humbly Sheweth.

That most of your Petitioners were Soldiers in his Majesties Service in the Pay of this Province & were Dismissed from the Service after the Peace was settled & being Humbly of opinion that some of the Lands they had Conquered would be as likely to fall to their Share as to others they settled upon the aforesd tract of Land a Place where no English inhabitants had ever before settled & at Great Peril Labour & Expence they Cleared & cultivated Some Small Spots of Land & have got themselves Comfortable houses Suffering beyond Expression the Last winter & after having grappled through those Difficulties they have been able this Summer to Raise sauce & a few necessaries to Support their families & have been in hopes to have had their Settlements confirmed to them & accordingly Petitioned to the General Court for this purpose Long before the sd Land was granted to 60 others but your Petitioners being Poor & not able to attend and further their Petition they are informd it never reachd the General Court & that now the fruit of their heavy toil & Labour is like to be reapt by others unless your Petitioners will Submit to very hard terms offered them by the new proprietors your Petitioners are glad of an opportunity to lay their Distress Before your Excellency & Humbly Pray you wod take it into your Wise Consideration & Lay the Same Before your Assembly for their Consideration and Grant them Such Relief as your Excellency & their Honours shall think Just & Reasonable & your Petitioners shall Ever Pray.

Dated at Majabragadoose October ye 3d 1763 Thomas Wasgatt John Trott Sam Trott.

Matthew Toben hateviel C Ichabod C.

Thomas Wasgatt junr.

We whose Names are underwritten Do Sign the Within written Petition.

John Moore John Corson Soldier Samuel Matthews.

Stephen Littlefield Jacob D Samuel Westcot.

Joshua Gray John Gray Andrew X Gray.

James 8 Gray Andrew Westcot Joseph Lowel.

John Daley David Daley John Daley Junr.

Jonathan Stover John Hanson Stephen Goodwin.

Nathan Lankester Thons Simon John Smart.

Thomas Laighton Samuel Leighton Thomas Laighton Jun.

Thoder Laighton Hatuel Laighton Thomas Laighton.

Trustram Pinkhan Josiah Tucker Eyod Howard.

James Howard Benj Howard ArChibell haney.

Joseph Sessions Jeremiah Springer John Grindal.

Jeremiah Veasey William Westcot John Dame.

Jonathan Swett Joshua Ebenezer Low.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S339 Rev. O. H. Fernald, D.D.; Early Settlers of Bar Harbor; unknown; page 2, columns 1-2; Rev. Fernald was great, great grandson of Thomas Wasgatt
2. ↑ Source: #S341 family of Thomas and Margaret (Wasgatt) Davis, book 2, pp. 139 - 143
3. ↑ Source: #S340 28
4. ↑ Source: #S349 p. 38, death of Thomas Wasgatt, FHL microfilm 10616
5. ↑ Source: #S338 p. 203, Thomas Wasgatt
6. ↑ Source: #S342 p. 448, Thomas Wasgatt
7. ↑ Source: #S340 27
8. ↑ Source: #S355 100 Thomas Wescott and son Thomas Jr. purchase proprietor's rights from Ebenezer Thorndike
9. ↑ Source: #S1255
10. ↑ Source: #S355 101 Henry Dyer testifies that Thomas Wasgatt Jr assisted with clearance of two lots of land in Township No. 1
11. ↑ Source: #S337 FOOT Mount Desert Island, Maine, deed, Thomas Wasgatt 2nd to T. Wasgatt, Jr, 22:422, dated 16 January 1807, Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Ellsworth; digital images, Hancock County Registry of Deeds (http://www.hancockcountydeeds.com : accessed 3 November 2011).
12. ↑ Source: #S238 p. 38
13. ↑ Source: #S349 p. 38, marriage of Thomas Wasgatt and Hannah Thomas, FHL microfilm 10616
14. ↑ Source: #S357 p. 311
15. ↑ Source: #S358 p. 509 Thomas Westgate and Margaret Davis married 30 Jun 1745 by Mr. Wise

• Source: S1255 Mount Desert Island, Maine, deed, Thomas Wasgatt Jr. to T. Wasgatt, 3rd, 22:423, dated 16 February 1807, Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Ellsworth; digital images, Hancock County Registry of Deeds (http://www.hancockcountydeeds.com : accessed 3 November 2011)
• Source: S337 Mount Desert Island, Maine, deed, Thomas Wasgatt 2nd to T. Wasgatt, Jr, 22:422, dated 15 February 1808, Hancock County Registry of Deeds, Ellsworth; digital images, Hancock County Registry of Deeds (http://www.hancockcountydeeds.com : accessed 3 November 2011) NOTETYPE: Deed
• Source: S338 1800 U.S. Census, Maine, Hancock, Eden, Population Schedule, NARA Microfilm Publication M32 NOTE1800 U.S. census, population schedule. Maine. Hancock, Eden. NARA microfilm publication M32, roll 7. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Digital images. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).
• Source: S339 O. H. Fernald, “Early Settlers of Bar Harbor,” The Bar Harbor (Maine) Record, 14 August 1890, online images, MyHeritage (http://www.myheritage.com : 17 May 2015), families of Thomas Wasgatt and Job Stanwood, p. 2, c. 1 NOTEO. H. Fernald, “Early Settlers of Bar Harbor,” The Bar Harbor (Maine) Record, 14 August 1890, online images, MyHeritage (http://www.myheritage.com : 17 May 2015), families of Thomas Wasgatt and Job Stanwood, p. 2, c. 1.
• Source: S340 Philip Howard Gray Penobscot Pioneers, Vol. 6: Lawrence, Michaels, Perry, Wescott Publication: Name: Picton Press; Location: Camden, Maine; Date: 1996;
• Source: S341 Picton Press, "Early Records of the Plantation of Mt. Desert, ME," (compact disc, images of transcribed manuscript, 2005, original manuscript held at Bar Harbor Historical Society, Bar Harbor, ME): Publication: Name: FHL microfilm Picton's Original Record Series, Town of Bar Harbor 1726-1896, CD 3; Note:
• Source: S342 1810 U.S. Census, Maine, Hancock, Eden, Population Schedule, NARA Microfilm Publication M252 NOTE1810 U.S. census, population schedule. Maine. Hancock, Eden. NARA microfilm publication M252, roll 11. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. Digital images. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com).
• Source: S349 Eden, Maine, Town and vital records, 1796-1891 Repository: #R4 Note:
• Repository: R4 Family History Library
• Source: S355 The Maine Historical Magazine, vol. 8 , Bangor, Maine: Chas. H. Glass & Co., 1894 NOTEThe Maine Historical Magazine, vol. 8 , Bangor, Maine: Chas. H. Glass & Co., 1894. Porter, Joseph W., Editor and Publisher images online. Google Books. http://books.google.com : accessed 20 November 2011 : 29 January 2009.

• "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4N7-KP2 : 14 January 2020), Thomas Wasgatt, 1781.

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKK-YV1 : accessed 13 November 2021), Thomas Wescott Jr, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing p. 87, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 2; FHL microfilm 568,142.

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR8-Z4Z : accessed 13 November 2021), Thomas Wasgatt 2nd, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing p. 203, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 7; FHL microfilm 218,677.

• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2W-FV9 : accessed 13 November 2021), Thomas Wasgat, Eden, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing p. 448, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 218,682.