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- [S872] Francis Bryon Greene, History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905, (Name: Loring; Location: New York; Date: 1906;), Family History: Daws (Dawes, Dawse).
Ebenezer Daws set. among the rest of the early ones at Back River, coming from the westward. His w.'s name is unk. , but tradition says she was sister to John Matthews. They are known to have had two sons, John and Jonathan. The Back River home was where Albion Lewis lives. John m. Mary, sister to Patrick McKown, coming with her brother to America, 1763. They were m. in 1768. Their home was where the Dolloff homestead was, on road from E. B. to B. Ctr. They first built a log house, but later the frame one now on the place, which was the first building contract taken by John, Jr., and Thomas Leishman. They had no chil. In Patrick McKown's will, 1779, occurs the clause that his sister should “take my youngest son, John, and my daughter, Nancy, as her own." This son became the well-known Major John McKown and the dau. m. John Ingraham . John Daws was a sea captain, in the foreign trade ; he d. Nov. 4, 1811. She lived many years in Major McKown's fam., but boarded with the Handleys in her last years at her old home. She d. Dec. 16, 1825, a. 83. Jonathan Daws m. Elizabeth Barter, 1768, and lived on his father's homestead . They had ten chil., b. bet. 1770-88 : John, Lydia, Mary, Elizabeth , Benjamin, Lois, Abigail, Patty, Jenny, Sally. The father was a sea captain and d. Mar. 27, 1812. The chil. set. elsewhere.
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