Hannah DEAN

Hannah married Capt Benjamin RANDALL on 13 Aug 1748 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Benjamin was born on 20 Nov 1725 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; died on 08 Jun 1786 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1800, Living in Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass.

Abigail married Samuel PADELFORD on 30 May 1780 in Raynham, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Edward PADELFORD and Sarah BRIGGS) was born about 1756; died on 13 Sep 1811 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Amos WHEELER on 18 Jun 1803. Amos (son of Amos WHEELER and Mary Belcher HENSHAW) was born on 5 Aug 1764 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts; died on 17 Nov 1806 in Woodstock, Vermont. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ? DEAN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1800, Living in Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass.

Family/Spouse: Robert DEAN. Robert was born on 28 Oct 1775 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died on 24 May 1822 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His father dying when he was three years old, he was adopted by James Udall, Esquire, of Hartland, Vt., with whom he lived until seventeen yeas of age, receiving instruction in the common schools and at Thetford Academy. In 1820 he went to Leicester, Mass., where his relatives resided, and attended Leicester Academy for a while, subsequently teaching school until he entered Williams College, from which he graduated in 1827. he then taught the academy at Marlboro for two years, at the expiration of which time he was elected principal of the Latin Grammar School in Salem, He remained in that position for three years, studying theology, meantime, with the Reverend Charles Upham, D.D., who was then pastor of the First Church in Salem. Resigning his school in 1832, he spent a year at Harvard Divinity School, graduating therefrom in 1833. From Cambridge he went to Meadville, Pa., to supply the pulpit of the unitarian Society, and remained there seven or eight months. While at Meadville he received a call to settle over that parish, but declined on account of the distance from his relatives and friends. In 1834 he was invited to and was settled over the unitarian Society in Standish, Me. He continued in that place until 1839, when he received a call to settle in Topsham, Me., where he ever after lived. For fourteen years he preached in the Unitarian Meeting-house in Topsham. At the end of that time the Unitarian Society of Topsham and the universalist Society of Brunswick were united under the name of "The Mason Street Religious Society," in Brunswick, and Mr. Wheeler was invited to become pastor of the new organization. He preached to this society until 1865, when he resigned and was soon after appointed missionary for The American unitarian Association to the State of Maine.

In 1860 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Bowdoin College. He was a member of the Maine Historical Society and for many years was a member of its standing committee. Soon after coming to Topsham he was elected a member of the superintending school committee of the town and held the position until within a few years of his death. He was also for many years on the committee of examination of Bowdoin College. "He was a man of unquestioned ability, of cultivated, and literary tastes, an easy graceful writer and ready in extempore address. Few of his contemporaries excelled him in mathematical scholarship. He kept well up with the college curriculum in all its departments. He had a poetic taste and faculty beyond the average of cultivated men. Of clear mental vision and acute argumentative powers, he was strong as he was also fair and good-natured in general debate."

"Calm habitually, even to sedateness, self-governed and judicious, he could yet make merry with the gayest within the bounds of right and reason. Of singular purity of life and conversation, possessing a heart as tender and true as that of a child, scorning all equivocations, pursuing the right with unflinching purpose, leading the life of the humble and devoted Christian he won the love and esteem of all who knew him."

His wife, now eighty-four years of age, is living with her son Henry in Brunswick, Maine.

Amos married Louisa Amelia WARREN on 25 Aug 1830. Louisa (daughter of Elijah WARREN and Mary Belcher WHEELER) was born on 18 Aug 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]