Anthony COOMBS

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from History of Gloucester, Massachusetts: page 65Others who settled permanently here (Glaucestor, Massachusetts) between 1700 and 1750, the greater part of whom have descendants residing in town are as follows:John Andrews, Phillip Bayley, Benjamin and Enoch Boynton, Stephen Butler, William Burns, Jacob and Stephen Burnham, John Choate, Samuel Clark, Thomas Cotton, John and Anthony Coombsand again from page 59:EMIGRATION TO FALMOUTH AND NEW GLOUCESTER.The natural increase in population together with the constant stream of new comers produced a scarcity of farming land. Consequently in 1727 and 1728 a tide of emigration set toward what is now Maine, then a part of Massachusetts. The motive to better material conditions prompted their ancestors to make the uncertain venture in America, and today, the ruling passion, strong, impels their descendants to seek new and enlarged fields of endeavor.Thus in the year mentioned Richard Babson, John Brown, Anthony Coombs...of this town were also admitted as inhabitants of Falmouth, but it is not certain whether all these latter took up their residence in that town.fromA Genealogical History of the Harwood Familiespage 34:Anthony Coombs, a French Protestant, born in France in 1656, and came to America in 1675.fromNew England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV(The Coombs Line).The records of the Coombs family are very incomplete, as far as they have been found. The pioncer was, according to tradition, of French descent. Three of the family, Peter, Anthony and John, came to Brunswick, Maine, from Newburyport, Massachusetts, having lived previously in Plymouth county. Some of the family settled early in Bath, Maine, Joshua Coombs, of Bath, died in 1789; Jacob Coombs was administrator; William Brown and George Fields Coombs, his sureties. In 1790 there were at Bath, heads of families, according to the federal census, Joshua with two sons under sixteen and six females; Stephen with four males over sixteen, two under that age and five females; another Stephen with three males over sixteen, two under that age and six females; George with two males over sixteen, five under that age and four females. Fields Coombs was a soldier in the revolution from Brunswick, a drummer in Captain Bent Lemont's company, Colonel Nathaniel Wade's regiment, in 1778. John Coombs, of Harpswell, was in the revolution. Fields Coombs appears to be the same man as George Fields Coombs, mentioned above.Peter Coombs came to Brunswick in 1730 and lived, first, at Howard's Point, below the farm of Bartlett Adams, afterwards removed to the Freeman Cross farm. Children: George, of whom further; Peter, Samuel, Caleb.George, son of Peter Coombs, of Brunswick, was born, lived and died in New Meadows, now Brunswick, Maine. He married Abigail Berry. Children: 1. Peter, died young. 2. George, married (???) Parsley and had five sons and six daughters. 3. Benjamin, married (???) Sawyer and lived at New Gloucester. 4. Asa, married (???) Thomas, of Brunswick. 5. Lieutenant Joseph, born at Brunswick, March 10, 1752, settled at Wessaweskeageg. 6. Thomas, married (???) Coombs, of Whitefield. 7. Joanna, married (???) Coombs. 8. Abigail, married Thomas Berry. 9. Betsey, married (???) Combs. 10. Isabella, married (???) Donahoe.George Coombs, was born in Bradford, Maine, and died there. He was descended from the Brunswick pioneer mentioned above and was probably a son of George Fields Coombs. He was a farmer in Bradford all his active life. In politics he was a Whig. He married Levina Bither, who was born near Bradford, 1805, died at Stillwater, in 1883, Children of George Coombs. 1. George W.,Page 1659resided at Stillwater, and died there in 1908; was a cooper by trade and afterwards worked in various lumber mills; married three times; his second wife was Sarah Carson. 2. Almira, married Arthur Boothby Sutton (see Sutton 1). 3. Eliza, married Frank Stearns, of Bradford; they removed to Eureka, California, where he died; he was a cooper by trade; she died in 1912, aged eighty years. 4. Elizabeth, married (???) Web
ber, a soldier in the civil war; he died soon after the war; she resides in Boston.