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HALEY: Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and his descendants 1930

  • 1600


By Walter Goodwin Davis and Adelaide Haley

This book presents the ancestry of Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and his descendants. He is first recorded in Maine in 1640. He was a juryman at 'Saco in the Province of Mayne' in the second General Court in September that year. Mary (West) Haley was buried in 1658 leaving four children. These are the descendants of this brave and courageous frontier family. Forward many years later, printed for the Fifth Annual Reunion of the Thomas Haley Assoc.-A reunion and extension of the Haley material in the book by the same author in 1916 on the Ancestry of Charity Haley (1755-1800). She was the wife of Major Nicholas Davis of Limington, Maine. Charity, daughter of William and Rachel Haley, was born in Biddeford, Maine in 1755. In 1777 she married a young soldier who had just returned from two years of Revolutionary service. Together they journeyed up the valley of the Saco to a little settlement in the forest now known as Limington. He cleared a farm and built a home where they raised a family and lived the difficult life of the frontier for twenty years.  

(55p., Illus, Index, 1930)