Lydia Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Mar 1784 - North Haven, Maine
Baptism:
Death: 23 Feb 1868 - North Haven, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Justus Ames (Abt 1744-Abt 1818)
Mother: Judith Arey (Abt 1750- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Samuel Young (25 Nov 1785 - 26 Jul 1863)
Marriage: 22 Feb 1807 - Vinalhaven, Maine
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Samuel Young)
Child
Lucy Ames Young b: 3 JUN 1809 in Vinal Haven
Mark Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1742 - Marshfield, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 29 Mar 1823 - North Haven, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Priscilla Howland (27 Aug 1746 - 7 May 1796)
Marriage: 11 Oct 1769
Status:
Children:
1. Mark Ames (1771- )
Notes
General:
Father: Jedediah EamesMarriage Notes (Priscilla Howland)
Mother: Bertha Tilden
or
Father: Ebenezer Eames b: 20 Dec 1711 in Marshfield
Mother: Margaret Barstow c: 27 Jun 1725 in Scituate
He married Priscilla and moved to North Haven and took up a large tract of land. He married (2) Rebecca Crosbery, and died in North Haven.
sources:
Narrative of the Town of Machias, Maine, the Old and the New, the Early and Late By George Washington Drisko
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine By Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs
Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts... By William Richard Cutter
Children
Experience Ames b: BEF JUN 1773
Mark Ames b: BEF JUN 1773
Benjamin Ames b: MAY 1774
Anna Ames b: 1780
John Ames b: 8 NOV 1782 in North Haven, Knox, ME
Isaac Ames b: 6 JUL 1784 in North Haven, Knox, ME
Abraham Ames b: 1787
Hezekiah Ames b: OCT 1790
Mark Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1771 - North Haven, Maine
Baptism:
Death: in Appleton, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Mark Ames (1742-1823)
Mother: Priscilla Howland (1746-1796)
Spouses and Children
1. *Mercy Perry (5 Jan 1775 - )
Marriage: 20 May 1791 - North Haven, Maine
Status:
Children:
1. Abner Ames (1798-After 1880)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Mercy Perry)
2 Abigail Ames b: 5 NOV 1803
+ George Hall b: 14 JAN 1802
2 Jabez Ames b: 7 MAY 1796
+ Abigail Hall b: 31 AUG 1803
3 Mark Ames b: 26 APR 1825 d: 13 APR 1894
+ Nancy Whitmore b: ABT 1825
3 Harriet Ames b: 17 JAN 1823 d: 9 JAN 1828
3 Jane Ames b: 17 DEC 1826 d: 1870
+ John Ingraham b: ABT 1825
2 Doyle Ames b: 5 JAN 1795
2 Abner Ames b: 24 DEC 1798
2 Priscilla Ames b: 1 APR 1801
(halldb)
Mercy Maria Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 21 Jun 1823 - Brooksville, Maine 2
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Belfast, Maine in Belfast, Maine
Parents
Father: Jacob Ames (Abt 1791-After 1880) 3
Mother: Eunice Verrill (1796-Between 1870/1880) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *John Richardson (10 May 1818 - 25 Apr 1888)
Marriage: 23 Nov 1846 - Belfast, Maine
Status:
Children:
1. John H Richardson (Est 1850- ) 4
2. Maria A Richardson (Est 1850- ) 4
3. Anna May Richardson (Est 1850- ) 4
4. Florence Richardson (Est 1850- ) 4
Merton Kidder Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1888 - Deer Isle, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Maine in Maine
Parents
Father: Charles T. D. Ames (1858-1943)
Mother: Aldana W Greenlaw (1866-1935) 6
Spouses and Children
1. *Addie May Bray (1889 - )
Marriage: 17 Feb 1908 - Deer Isle, Maine 7
Status:
Children:
1. Alice Armenia Ames (1911- )
2. Dennis E Ames (1914-1979)
2. Mary (1891 - )
Marriage:
Status:
3. Mildred Cynthia Gray (16 May 1895 - 10 Aug 1960)
Marriage: 14 Feb 1931 - Rockland, Maine
Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Addie May Bray)
1910 US census Deer Isle, MaineMarriage Notes (Mary)
April 15 Merton K Ames age 22 born in ME, father and mother born in ME, a yacht seaman living in Deer Island, Hancock County, ME with wife Addie M age 21, married 2 years, 1 child / 1 live, Harriet E age 1 all born in ME.
1917 June 5 Merton Kidder Ames of 66 Blake Land , Rockland, ME age 29 born on Deer Island, a chef at F.L. Newbert Resturant in Rockland, Me. Has wife and 5 children. Is med in hight, slight built, gray eyes and brown hair.
1920 US census, Rockland, Maine
Broadway
Merton Ames, 32, fish plant laborer
Mary Ames, 29
Harriet, 10
Alice, 9
Florence?, 6
Dennis, 5
Virginia, 3 1/12
Vera, 1 9/12
all b Maine
8
census
1920 Jan 1 Merton Ames age 32 born in ME, living at 128 Broadway Street in Rockland, Knox County, ME laborer in fish plant, with wife Mary age 29, Harriet age 10, Alice age 9, Florence age 6, Dennis age 5, Virginia age 3 1/12 and Vera age 1 9/12 all born in ME.
1930 April 1 Mary Ames age 40 born in ME, father and mother born in ME, living at 608 Maine St in Rockland, Knox county, ME with Florance age 17 a sales lady, Dennis age 15 a healer in a baker shop, Virginia age 13, Vera age 12, and son-in-law Oliver Rowe age 23 and wife Alice [Ames] age 19 and child Oliver age 9/12 all born in Me.
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Nancy Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Warren Ames (1900-1961)
Mother: Henriette ( - )
Nancy C Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1844 - Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Samuel Alonzo V. Ames (1815-1852) 6
Mother: Sylvia N Colson (1819-After 1880) 10
Spouses and Children
1. *O F Brown (Est 1840 - )
Marriage: 12 Dec 1874 - Rockland, Maine 11
Status:
Notes
General:
1860 living in Rockland ME
Nathaniel Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1677
Baptism:
Death: 1736 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
Children:
1. Dr Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764)
Dr Nathaniel Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Jul 1708 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 11 Jul 1764 - Dedham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Nathaniel Ames (1677-1736)
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Deborah Fisher (Est 1720 - )
Marriage: 30 Oct 1740
Status:
Children:
1. Fisher Ames (1758-1808)
Notes
General:
Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Ames
Nathaniel Ames[1] (July 22, 1708 \endash July 11, 1764), American almanac-maker and physician, published the first annual American almanac. He was the son of Nathaniel Ames first (1677\endash 1736) and the father of Nathaniel third. The family was descended from Richard Ames of Bruton, Somerset, England, whose son William emigrated to Massachusetts and settled at Braintree as early as 1640.
Early life
Captain Nathaniel Ames, father of this entry's subject, lived at Bridgewater and there married Susannah Howard on December 2, 1702.[2] Six children were born to them,[3] of whom Nathaniel second was the eldest son.[4] His father is said to have been learned in astronomy and mathematics, as well as practicing medicine. Nothing is known of his son's education, but he became a physician, probably without other medical training than instruction from his father, apprenticeship to some country doctor, and reading medical volumes.
The first American almanac
In 1725 he published the first annual number of his almanac, which was to become famous and remain the standard New England almanac for a half-century. At this time, he was still living at home in Bridgewater, and although the almanac bears on the title-page "by Nathaniel Ames, Jr.," it may well be that the boy, then only seventeen years old, received some help from his mathematical parent.[5] He is said to have moved to Dedham in 1732[6] and his name is entered from that place on the list of subscribers to Prince's Chronology, to which most of the subscriptions were made in 1728.[7] On September 14, 1735, he married Mary, daughter of Capt. Joshua Fisher of Dedham,[8] by whom, on October 24, 1737, he had a son, Fisher Ames, who died less than a year later, on September 17, 1738, surviving his mother, however, who had died on November 11, 1737.
Ames v. Gay
Ames' wife had owned a tavern and the situation gave rise to Ames v. Gay, one of the famous lawsuits of New England. Ames (a compulsively litigious man) claimed inheritance to her estate according to the Province law through their son Fisher against his mother-in-law Hannah, who claimed the rights to it under the Common law, a struggle continued by her family after she died in December 1744. In August 1749 Ames won the case, and thus established an exception to the rule of inheritance in Massachusetts. However, two of the eleven Superior Court of Judicature justices were against him, leading the normally amiable Ames to an especially vituperative stance against lawyers for the rest of his career.[9] He took down his tavern sign and replaced it with a cartoon of the judges, all easily identifiable. Each was shown studying the Province laws, except the two dissenters, who had their backs turned to the law books. Chief Justice Paul Dudley, one of the dissenters, sent the sheriff to arrest Ames and confiscate the libelous portrait. Ames was warned and quickly substituted Matt. 16:4: "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it."[10]
A second wife
On October 30, 1740, he married his second wife Deborah, daughter of Jeremiah Fisher, by whom he had five children, the eldest being Nathaniel third (1741-1822), and the third son being Fisher Ames.[11] In that year, 1740, he was also one of the subscribers to the celebrated Land Bank.[12] In addition to his duties as local doctor, as publisher of the almanacs, and as amateur astronomer, Ames for many years ran the well-known "Sun" tavern, which brought him an economically and politically strategic position; as taverns often doubled as courthouses, Ames was also a common lawyer, a business that aroused the anger of trained legal practitioners. The contemporary entry in John Whiting's Diary reads "Jan. 25, 1750, Dr. Ames began to keep tavern", although Briggs and Kittredge provide different dates for the commencement of this venture.[13] [14] He continued to live at Dedham until his death of fever in 1764. After Ames died, his widow continued to keep the tavern until she married Richard Woodward, when it became the Woodward Tavern,[15] under which name it was known as the site where the Suffolk Resolves were drawn up in 1774. It was demolished in 1817 and is now the site of the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds.
Legacy
His chief importance is as founder and editor of his almanacs, the publishing of which his son, Nathaniel third (a Harvard graduate and physician), continued for ten years after his father's death. The father issued the first number in 1725, three years before James Franklin started his in Rhode Island and eight years before Benjamin Franklin inaugurated Poor Richard's Almanack. Ames must have been a household word throughout New England, for it is said that the circulation of his almanac, with its sharp-tongued commentary on Massachusetts politics, religion, and social life ran to 60,000 copies.[16] Moses Coit Tyler considered it as superior to Franklin's, which it resembled in many ways. Besides the astronomical observations, Ames published short articles, extracts from the English poets, such as Milton and Pope, and used the same pithy and witty maxims as made the reputation of Franklin, such as: "All men are created equal, but differ greatly in the sequel."
He had taste for good literature and considerable wit, though some of it seems a trifle forced today, and the quality rather improved when the almanac was continued by his somewhat abler son, who nevertheless was not the genial gentleman his father was, genuinely liking only farmers and despising printers.[17] Ames, however, undoubtedly did much to bring, if only in brief allusions and extracts, some knowledge of the better English authors to innumerable New England farmhouses.[18]
Ames gave rise to an entire industry, and he had many imitators. Among those who followed in his footsteps was Dudley Leavitt of Meredith, New Hampshire, a teacher, newspaper publisher and polymath who published his first Leavitt's Farmers Almanack in 1797.
Nathaniel Ames
Sex: M
AKA: Nathaniel Eames
Individual Information
Birth: 24 Jul 1808 - Vinalhaven, Maine
Baptism:
Death: After 1880 - Vinalhaven, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Ames (1787- )
Mother: Elsa Burgess (1788- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Charity Brown (8 Mar 1811 - After 1880)
Marriage: 1830
Status:
Children:
1. Winthrop T Ames (1837-1887)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Charity Brown)
other children, in Vinalhaven:
Ezekiel, abt 1839
Esther, abt 1844
Eldrisge, abt 1846
Olive Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1838 - Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jacob Ames (Abt 1791-After 1880) 3
Mother: Eunice Verrill (1796-Between 1870/1880) 4
Pamela Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
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Parents
Father: Russel Forrest Ames ( - )
Mother: June ( - )
Robert Call Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Dec 1901 - Vineyard Haven (Tisbury), Massachusetts 12
Baptism:
Death: 22 Jun 1962
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Edwin Ames (1876-1963) 13
Mother: Nellie Luce Call (1875-1914)
Spouses and Children
1. *Florence M Fisk (4 Nov 1906 - 30 Mar 1994) 6
Marriage: 2 Sep 1929
Status:
Children:
1. Robert Thatcher Ames ( - )
2. Donald Ames ( - )
3. Helen Elizabeth Ames (1930- ) 6
4. Betsy Louise Ames (1940- ) 6
Notes
General:
Robert lived a time in Amherst MA, and worked as a stock broker.
Robert Shank Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Winthrop Ashley Ames (1904-1981)
Mother: Margaret Shank (Est 1907- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Julie ( - )
Marriage:
Status:
Robert Thatcher Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Robert Call Ames (1901-1962) 6
Mother: Florence M Fisk (1906-1994) 6
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Ellen ( - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Private
2. Private
3. Private
Roger Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1930
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Winthrop Ashley Ames (1904-1981)
Mother: Margaret Shank (Est 1907- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Gail (Est 1930 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Russel Forrest Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Warren Ames (1900-1961)
Mother: Henriette ( - )
Spouses and Children
1. *June ( - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Russell Ames ( - )
2. Pamela Ames ( - )
3. Debra Ames ( - )
Russell Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth:
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Russel Forrest Ames ( - )
Mother: June ( - )
Ruth Ames
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1650
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Uriah Oakes ( - 25 Jul 1681)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Hannah Oakes (Abt 1660-1714)
2. Ames Oakes (1681- )
Samuel Alonzo V. Ames
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Oct 1815 - Brooksville, Maine 14
Baptism:
Death: 16 May 1852 - Rockland, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death: drowning
Events
• Occupation
Parents
Father: Jacob Ames (Abt 1791-After 1880) 3
Mother: Eunice Verrill (1796-Between 1870/1880) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Sylvia N Colson (1819 - After 1880) 10
Marriage: Est 1834
Status:
Children:
1. Amos M Ames (1835- )
2. Captain Alonzo C. Ames (1837-1885) 15
3. Frances H Ames (1839- ) 6
4. Henrietta E Ames (1841- ) 16
5. Nancy C Ames (1844- ) 6
Notes
General:
Died of intentional drowning in Rockland, near Steamboat wharf.Marriage Notes (Sylvia N Colson)
Sylvia may have been married to another Ames, rather than this one.
Census: 1850 Portland Ward 4, Cumberland, ME
Census: 1860 Rockland, Knox, ME
1870 census, Rockland Maine
house 133/ household 146
(shared house with Stephen A Devine & his 2 daughters, household 145)
Sylvia N. Ames, 50, keeping house, $0/500
Nancy C. Ames, 26, dress maker
Eunice Colson, 83, dress maker
all born in Maine
Sources
1. Edward J. Poulin, Ames, Eames genealogy (e-mails, 2002). .... Faye Constantino, Brooksville ME records (e-mail 2002).
2. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 106:115.
3. G. H. Tapley, editor, Brooksville Maine Vital Records (Cay-Bel Publishing, Brewer Maine. 1986), 27.
4. Charles Edwin Hunger, Plattsmouth, Nebraska & Beyond (2003, http://www.gencircles.com/users/hungerce/4).
5. Charles Edwin Hunger, Plattsmouth, Nebraska & Beyond (2003, http://www.gencircles.com/users/hungerce/4), http://www.gencircles.com/users/hungerce/4.
6. Edward J. Poulin, Ames, Eames genealogy (e-mails, 2002).
7. Maine State Archives (http://www.state.me.us/sos/arc/).
8. S-A Morse, Ames genealogy (email. amessociety.org), Jan 2007.
9. S-A Morse, Ames genealogy (email. amessociety.org).
10. Vineyard Gazette (online at vineyard.net).
11. Vital Records of Rockland, Maine, 290.
12. Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1910. Boston: NEHGS [online]).
13. Vital Records of Tisbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1910. Boston: NEHGS [online]). .... Edward J. Poulin, Ames, Eames genealogy (e-mails, 2002).
14. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 106:115 (1952) Brooksville, Maine VR (just "Samuel Ames").
15. 1870 US census, Rockland Maine, p 170, family # 237.
16. Edward J. Poulin, Ames, Eames genealogy (e-mails, 2002). .... G. H. Tapley, editor, Brooksville Maine Vital Records (Cay-Bel Publishing, Brewer Maine. 1986).