Sagadahoc County, Maine

        Bowdoinham 1790 Census


        The following data is from the 1790 Federal Census of what is now Maine and appeared in Downeast Ancestry, Volume 1, No. 2 (August 1977); submitter unknown.

        Name of Head
        of Household        		Males
        16 and over        		Males
        under 16        		All
        Females
        Zebulon Preble
        Theos Blanchard
        Herman Smith
        Solomon Blanchard
        Nicholas Gobart
        David Pottle
        James Perry
        John Southard
        John Parks
        John Chesham
        Frederick Porter
        Caleb Weston
        Willm Burk
        Hezekiah Purnton
        Jethro Hatch
        Elihu Gitchel
        James Purnton
        Stephen Whitmore
        Francis Whitmore
        Ephraim Hatch
        George Maxwell
        Thomas Harwood
        Nathl McLallen
        Charles Gardiner
        Widow Coffin
        George Thomas
        Thomas Takins
        Clark Hatch
        Thos Dinsmore
        Thos Dinsmore Jr
        Zebulon Preble
        David Preble
        Zachariah Beel
        Josiah Beel
        Joshua Beel
        Jethro Hatch
        John Adams
        Jere Adams
        James Booker
        Joseph Sedgley
        James Maxwell
        Benja Gardiner
        Saml Preble
        Abraham Preble
        Phinehas Wiggins
        Job Jellitson
        Robert Sedgley
        Abraham Meloon
        Elaphan Raman
        Jona Preble
        Elisha Prat
        Abraham Whitmore
        Thos Springer
        John Prat
        John Springer
        Willm Dunham
        Ebenezer Macumber
        Robert Jack
        Seth Macumber
        John Headon
        James Mallee
        Joseph Ross
        Job Macumber
        Nathan Adams
        Abraham Preble Jr
        Abiah Cobb
        Saml C. Cooms
        Isaac Stuart
        Paul Ross
        John Staboard
        Willm Booker
        _____ Dinslow
        Willm Dinslow        		 1
        2
        1
        1
        1
        2
        1
        2
        1
        1
        1
        2
        1
        1
        1
        1
        1
        4
        1
        2
        2
        2
        2
        2
        1
        2
        1
        1
        1
        1
        1
        1
        2
        1
        2
        3
        1
        1
        2
        2
        2
        2
        1
        2
        1
        1
        2
        1
        3
        3
        1
        2
        2
        1
        1
        2
        1
        1
        2
        1
        2
        3
        1
        1
        2
        1
        1
        2
        1
        1
        1
        1
        1        		 4
        2
        4
        -
        1
        1
        1
        2
        5
        4
        3
        5
        3
        1
        4
        1
        3
        1
        1
        -
        2
        4
        2
        -
        3
        1
        1
        3
        3
        1
        1
        -
        -
        -
        1
        -
        3
        -
        1
        1
        3
        -
        2
        1
        1
        3
        1
        2
        2
        -
        2
        1
        1
        1
        2
        -
        -
        4
        2
        1
        5
        2
        3
        2
        2
        2
        1
        2
        1
        3
        1
        1
        -        		 3
        3
        5
        3
        8
        3
        3
        2
        6
        2
        2
        3
        3
        4
        4
        1
        3
        4
        1
        3
        6
        6
        8
        1
        5
        5
        2
        3
        3
        2
        2
        2
        -
        1
        4
        5
        4
        1
        4
        4
        5
        3
        1
        3
        2
        2
        3
        1
        5
        3
        2
        3
        3
        2
        1
        2
        2
        2
        2
        3
        1
        2
        6
        3
        5
        3
        3
        2
        1
        3
        1
        3
        1

        NOTE: As a followup, the following appeared in Downeast Ancestry Volume 1, No. 3 (Oct 1977) on page 30:

        The Mellee/Millay Family of Bowdoinham, Maine (from a communique by Neil C. Libby, 3720 Old Middleburg Rd., Jacksonville, Fla. 32210, who cites Rev. C.M. Sinnett's "History of the Millary Family in Maine.")

        James Mellee/Melle, listed in 1790 census at Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc Co., was born 25 July 1755, Kilkenny Co., Ireland, and drowned 20 Aug. 1817 in the Cathance River at Bowdoinham.  His 17 Dec. 1779 marriage to Abigail, daughter of David and Susan (Flanders) Eastman, is given in Congregational Church records at Harpswell Center.  In 1780, he bought a farm at Cathance Landing, now Bowdoinham Village.  At the time of the 1790 census James and Abigail had five sons - John, James, Philip, Nathaniel, and Jeremiah; later they had five daughters - Susannah, Catherine, Abigail, Margaret, and Mary - and another son, Kingsbury.  All of the children married.  Abigail died 21 Jan. 1827 at Bowdoinham, having outlived her husband by nearly 10 years.

        Between 1840 and 1850, members of the family met and voted to spell the name "Millay," as the pronunciation of it has always suggested that form.  (The 1790 census spells the surname Melee; old records of Harpswell, where James first lived in America, give the spelling as Melle.)

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