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  • ID: I117
  • Name: William Bridgham
  • Prefix: Dr.
  • Suffix: Jr.
  • Title: Jr.
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 26 NOV 1780 in Plymouth Plymouth Massachusetts
  • Death: 13 NOV 1864 in Buckfield Oxford Maine
  • _IFLAGS: 0
  • Note: Set up shop in Buckfield, heavily in debt. Almost was put into debtor's prison. Became very successful -- farmed, doctored, was postmaster, served in State Legislature. Lived in this house at Old Sumner Rd. and N. Buckfield Rd., Buckfield 1 2 3 4 5
  • Change Date: 25 OCT 2003 at 22:57:32



    Father: William Bridgham b: 1756 in Plymouth Plymouth Massachusetts
    Mother: Anna (Anne) Hammond b: Bef 1766 in Carver Plymouth Maine

    Marriage 1 Hannah Bradbury b: 1770/1780
    • Married: c. 1804 in Buckfield Oxford ME
    Children
    1. Has No Children Hannah Bridgham b: 13 JAN 1805
    2. Has Children Caroline Bridgham b: 3 SEP 1806 in Massachusetts
    3. Has Children Sydenham Bridgham b: 15 SEP 1808 in Maine
    4. Has Children Orville Bridgham b: 3 APR 1811
    5. Has No Children Aurelia Bridgham b: 9 JUL 1814
    6. Has Children William Pinkney Bridgham b: 3 SEP 1816
    7. Has No Children Mary Ann Bridgham b: 13 JUN 1825

    Sources:
    1. Text:
      1790 census, p. 1 New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
      Wm Bridgham age 34
      1 male over 16 [William 34]
      3 males under 16 [William 10, George 2]
      4 females [wife Anna 34]
      [Hard to read]
    2. Text:
      1800 census, New Gloucester, Cumberland, ME
      William Bridgham 26-45 [44]
      Two females under 10
      2 males age 10-16 [George 12]
      0ne female age 10-16
      One male 16-26 [William 20]
      One female 16-26
    3. Text:
      1820 census, Buckfield, Oxford, ME
      William Bridgham 45+
      1 male 0-10 [Wm. Pinckney 4]
      2 males 10-16 [Orville 9, Sydenham 12]
      3 males 16-36 [unknown]
      1 female 0-10 [Aurelia 6]
      2 females 10-16 [Caroline 14, Hannah 15]
      1 female 16-18 [unknown]
      2 females 16-26 [unknown]
      Hannah, his wife, is not on this census even though she lived to 1859.
    4. Text:
      1840 census, p. 13 Buckfield, Oxford, ME
      William Bridgham 50-60 [59]
      1 female [wife Hannah 60-70]
      3 males 20-30 [William P 24, Orville 29]
      1 female 10-15 [Mary Ann 15]
      1 female 20-30 [Aurelia 26]
      1 female 30-40 [?Hannah 35 or Caroline 34 or Lucy Hayford, Wm P.'s 1st wife?]
      1 in agriculture
    5. Text:
      1860 census, p. 11 Buckfield, Oxford, ME
      William Bridgham 79, physician, property worth $2000 goods worth $500
      Aurelia 43: has fits and is insane, cannot read or write
      Mary A. 34
      Rufus Hamlin 19, farm laborer
      Two doors from son William Pinkney Bridgham
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