Individual Details

Biography

Most of the births are recorded both at Sedgwick and Blue Hill – there are multiple date variations for the births – using those from the Blue Hill family record – volume 1, p 36 – but it is Hancock County, Maine Family Register – not specifically Blue Hill
Here is the family record at Blue Hill image 62, FHL Film # 007595324
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9N7-XLXB?i=61&cc=1803978
I am thinking the family is really in Sedgwick but he is in Historical Sketches of Blue Hill
https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00cand_0/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater

Property

a couple of grantor deeds – Benjamin to Moody and Benjamin to Robert Gray, 54:299 and 55:279
index
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-K3GZ-Z?i=51&cat=334690
deed books
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/334690?availability=Family%20History%20Library
another grantor – 8:536 and grantee 7:189
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3J-G9CX-8?i=37&cat=334690
7:189 – buying 100 acres with buildings in 1800
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-ZTHV?i=108&cat=334690
8:536 – Benjamin and Relief sell a small property
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-Z55Y?i=578&cat=334690
54:299 – Benjamin sells property in Sedgwick to Moody – he is of Sedgwick then
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-69V1-9?i=167&cat=334690
55:279 – 1830 this is Benjamin with wife Elizabeth of Sedgwick selling something in Blue Hill to Robert Gray – maybe the Elizabeth is Betsey Dowing – Benjamin Clough and Betsey Downing were married at Castine in 1820
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVL-69V9-V?i=456&cat=334690

On 10 April 1800, Benjamin Clough yeoman of Blue Hill, for payment of $600, purchased from Samuel Ober and Mary Coggins purchased lot number 66 of the first division with 100 acres and buildings. On 29 August 1800, Benjamin of Blue Hill and his wife Relief sold seven acres in Blue Hill to Nathan Arnold for $45.75.1

On 28 February 1825, Benjamin Clough yeoman of Sedgwick, in consideration of one thousand dollars, conveyed to Moody Clough of Sedgwick a 100-acre tract in Sedgwick, “being the lot of land which I now live on.” On 27 March 1830, Benjamin Clough of Sedgwick with his wife Elizabeth sold 55 acres in Blue Hill to Robert Gray for seventy-five dollars.2



1 Maine Land Records, Hancock County, 7:189, 8:536
2 Maine Land Records, Hancock County, 54:299, 55:279