Individual Details
Jeremiah Hodgdon
(Bef 1737 - 24 Aug 1823)
Jeremiah served as a private in 1778 with Capt. Richard Mayberry's company of Massachusetts Bay Forces under Col. Tupper. The company was mustered out at West Point, Jan. 1, 1779. Later that year Jeremiah Hodgdon was a corporal in Capt. McLellan's company in the Penobscot Expedition.
In 1781 he was one of the dissenters who signed a petition to the town asking to be exempt from paying the ministerial tax, claiming to be Baptist.
Jeremiah moved to Bucktown, now Buckfield after the death of his first wife. He married a second wife, Thankful Keen, and had four more children with her. He died in Hebron in 1823.
Events
Families
Spouse | Thankful Keen ( - 1820) |
Child | Israel / Terral Hodgdon (1786 - 1827) |
Child | Abigail Hodgdon (1788 - 1858) |
Child | John Hodgdon (1791 - 1866) |
Child | Lydia Hodgdon (1794 - ) |
Spouse | Abigail Early (1740 - 1781) |
Child | Mary Hodgdon (1762 - ) |
Child | James Hodgdon (1765 - ) |
Child | Joseph Hodgdon (1768 - ) |
Child | Mehitable Hodgdon (1770 - ) |
Child | Sarah Hodgdon (1772 - ) |
Child | Elizabeth Hodgdon (1774 - ) |
Child | Jeremiah Hodgdon (1776 - ) |
Child | Ebenezer Hodgdon (1781 - ) |
Father | Jeremiah Hodgdon ( - 1749) |
Mother | Mary Babb or Cotton? ( - 1777) |
Sibling | James Hodgdon ( - ) |
Sibling | Benjamin Hodgdon ( - ) |
Sibling | Elizabeth Hodgdon ( - ) |
Sibling | Seth Hodgdon ( - ) |
Sibling | John Hodgdon ( - ) |
Sibling | Polly Hodgdon ( - ) |
Notes
Baptism
Cumberland Co. was formed from York.Marriage
2nd wife.Census
Bucktown PlantationJeremiah Hodgdon
2 free white males 16+
1 free white males <16
2 free white females
Census
1820 HODGDON JEREMIAH Oxford County ME 219 HebronJeremiah Hodgdon 00000 1 0000 1 0000
1 male 45+ (Jeremiah ~83)
1 female 45+ (Thankful)
Endnotes
1. McLellan, Hugh D., History of Gorham, Me. (Portland Me.: Smith & Sale, printers, 1903, c1902, 931 pgs.), p. 574.
2. McLellan, Hugh D., History of Gorham, Me. (Portland Me.: Smith & Sale, printers, 1903, c1902, 931 pgs.), p. 575.
3. McLellan, Hugh D., History of Gorham, Me. (Portland Me.: Smith & Sale, printers, 1903, c1902, 931 pgs.), p. 575.
4. Tim Mallory, "Hodgdon Family records," e-mail messages from
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.).
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1820 > Maine > OXFORD > HEBRON Series: M33 Roll: 37 Page: 122.
7. McLellan, Hugh D., History of Gorham, Me. (Portland Me.: Smith & Sale, printers, 1903, c1902, 931 pgs.), p. 575.