On the 1856 map of Kittery, Maine (at right), the land of "E. Brown" is highlighted. The 1872 map (below) also shows the property being in the possession of Elihu, but it would later be owned by his son James W Brown, following his return from Malden, MA.
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See blog on James W Brown for more on the family:
http://www.mynewenglandancestors.com/blog/brown-lockes-cove-kittery

ELIHU DEERING BROWN, the son of Capt James and Sarah (Fernald) Brown, was born in Kittery, Maine on 4 Nov 1800, and died there on 16 Feb 1879. He married first to MARTHA C FERNALD, a first cousin, on 29 Apr 1824 [Kittery VR, pg 280]. She was born in 1791, the dau of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chandler) Fernald, and died on 22 Oct 1837 [Old Kittery, pg 396]. He secondly married, on 17 May 1838 [Kittery VR, pg 292], to JANE CHANDLER FERNALD, also a first cousin. The daughter of Elihu and Hannah (Chandler) Fernald, she was born 9 May 1804 in Kittery, and died there on 16 June 1882.

​In the 1850 census, Elihu was listed as a laborer, and was a mariner by 1860. In the 1870 census, he was now a "retired mariner".​

​The children of Elihu D Brown, the latter three by second wife Jane.
i. THOMAS SULLIVAN BROWN, b. 5 Jan 1825; d. 11 Nov 1826
ii. SARAH ELIZABETH BROWN, b. 30 Sept 1826; d. 17 Sept 1827
iii. THOMAS BROWN, b. 3 Nov 1827; d. 19 Sept 1830
iv. MARTHA BROWN, b. 3 Aug 1829; Marr JOHN WILLIAMS 
v. SAMUEL FERNALD BROWN, b. 1832; d. 1881 in California (went west during the gold rush)
vi. JAMES FERNALD BROWN, b. 14 Sept 1839; d. 10 Oct 1840
vii. JAMES WILLIAM BROWN, b. 28 Dec 1841; marr EMILY A WAITE
viii. LYDIA MARGARET BROWN, b. 30 Aug 1845; d. 21 Oct 1846

Called Oak Bank or Locke's Cove, this inlet near the "back gate" of the Shipyard was the home of the Brown family for several generations. Their home (the yellow house just over the dock in the above postcard) was said to have been built in 1794. I don't have enough information on hand to say when it first came into the Brown family, but the 1872 map of Kittery shows it in the possession of "E Brown", who was Elihu Deering Brown. His son, my 3rd great-grandfather Joseph William Brown, would later own it. In 1900, my great-grandmother and her sisters moved here with their mother, when she was separated from her husband. When Joseph W Brown died in 1923, he willed this property to his daughter May F Brown, who lived there until the 1950's. 

I have four ancestors, two each from my paternal and maternal sides, who served during the Civil War.

ISAAC CHARLES HAVEN PRIDHAM, born in New Castle, NH on 11 Sept 1847; died on 16 Apr 1924 in Brighton, MA. He was buried in Riverside Cemetery, New Castle.

Isaac enlisted for two years into the US Navy at Portsmouth, NH on 23 Sept 1864, and served for 20 months on board the Receiving Ship USS Vandalia, in Portsmouth Harbor. He worked as a landsman from Sept '64 to 1 Jan '65, as an ord. seaman to 31 Jan, and as a lamp cleaner to 18 May 1866, when he was discharged.

When he applied for a pension in 1892, he claimed he was born in Sept 1844, to correspond with the age of "20" he gave when he had enlisted back in 1864, when he had actually been only 17 years old. When he needed to send in a birth record to the pension dep't to verify his identity, he had to admit to falsifying his birth date. He still received a pension. 

See also: my blog page on the Pridham family:
http://www.mynewenglandancestors.com/1/post/2014/03/the-pridhams-of-puddle-dock-portsmouth-nh.html

JAMES WILLIAM BROWN was born 28 Dec 1841 in Kittery, Maine; died there on 5 May 1923. He was buried in Orchard Grove Cemetery, Kittery.

He served as a private in Company G, 27th Maine Infantry, enlisting at Kittery on 10 Sept 1862. He was mustered into US service at Portland, Maine on 30 Sept 1862, and served until 17 July 1863, when the regiment was mustered out at Portland.

(at right) James W Brown at his home in Locke's Cove, Kittery, on his way to a GAR convention in Washington, DC, likely the one in 1915 (the 49th Annual Encampment).

For more on the 27th Maine Infantry, please see my website:
www.the27thMaine.com 

THOMAS STEWARD (aka Stewart, Stuart), born abt 1838 in Skowhegan, Maine; died 22 Oct 1897 in Embden, Maine. He is buried in Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, Maine. 

He was drafted on 15 July 1863 at Skowhegan, ME, to serve in Co F, 7th Maine Infantry, but did not report for duty. He was arrested on 27 Jan 1864 and brought to camp, only for him to return home the next day. They arrested him again on 3 Feb. It is not clear in the records whether the recruits were still in Maine, but Private Steward deserted on 12 July '64, and was again arrested, on 23 July. He deserted a third time in August and was arrested a week later, this time being shipped to Carlisle, PA. By this time, the 7th Maine had been mustered out of service, except for later recruits and those who chose to re-enlist, and were transferred to the 1st Maine Veteran Infantry. The monthly muster rolls after this date would show him "absent, sick", right up to the muster out roll of the regiment on 28 June 1865. An affidavit in his pension file claims he suffered from scurvy, chronic diarrhea, piles and a trouble in the head, spending the entire winter quarters at Petersburg in the hospital. In the spring of 1865, he was transported to City Point Hospital. In the 1865 Maine Adjutant Report, it shows him being discharged on 2 July '65.

My 5th Great-Grandfather ELIHU FERNALD (1763-1851) seems to have been a lifelong resident of Kittery, Maine, seen in all the census records from 1790 to 1850, living there. The "Old Kittery and Her Families" book says he was a carpenter, and had thirteen children.

I have yet to look up real estate transactions concerning Elihu, but it seems that he sold his property to son Elihu Jr prior to 1847. Elihu Jr, in his will, wrote that his father had the right to live in his Kittery home, as would sister Olive Locke, so long as she took care of their father. Junior had already moved to Portsmouth, NH by this time, and had owned a house on Bow St. 

In York County Probate, widow Margaret Fernald filed Elihu Jr's will, and an appraisal of his Kittery property was taken in 1856 (submitted in Nov). It contained:
   "a certain lot of field and pasture land, with dwelling house and barn thereon containing about 34 acres, situated on the main road leading from Traips Corner to Kittery Point Bridge, known as homestead of Elihu Fernald, dec'd."

Below is the 1850 census, showing Elihu (Sr) living with his daughter Olive and her family.  

Several children of Elihu and Hannah (Chandler) died young, but are not seen in the Orchard Grove Cemetery plot. I don't believe this cemetery had even been started at this time, so they may have been buried in a family plot on their homestead. 

               GENEALOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE FAMILY OF ELIHU FERNALD OF KITTERY, MAINE

ELIHU FERNALD (Jonathan, Ebenezer, William, Renald) was born on 3 Oct 1763, likely in Kittery [Kittery VR, pg 164], the son of Jonathan and Sarah (Weeks) Fernald. He died on 4 Dec 1851, in Kittery. He married on 18 Jan 1787 in Kittery, Maine [Kittery VR, pg 172] to HANNAH CHANDLER, the daughter of Thomas and Jane (Marr) Chandler. She was born 23 Sept 1765 and died on 20 Sept 1836.

The following list of children, from "Old Kittery and Her Families", pg 395. Not sure yet of the original source of these birth dates, as they are not found in Kittery vital records.
i. JAMES BROWN FERNALD, b. 11 July 1787; d. 25 May 1822. Marr Ann Card, moved to Portsmouth, NH.
ii. MARY FERNALD, b. 9 May 1789; d. 10 July 1789
iii. MARY FERNALD, b. 9 Jul 1791. Marr Robert Newson
iv. HANNAH C FERNALD, b. 14 June 1793.Marr William Parker of Saugus, MA.
v. ELIZABETH FERNALD, b. 16 Sep 1796. Marr John Alden Of Boston, MA.
vi. BENJAMIN CHANDLER FERNALD, b. 1 Jun 1798; d. 11 Sept 1878. Marr Lavinia L Fernald. Lived Portsmouth
vii. SARAH FERNALD, b. 23 Mar 1800. Marr Thomas Jones of Portsmouth, NH
viii. ELIHU FERNALD, Jr., b. 6 May 1802; d. 24 Aug 1847. Marr Margaret T Holbrook. Lived in Portsmouth, NH
ix. JANE C FERNALD, b. 9 May 1804; d. 16 June 1882. Marr ELIHU D BROWN on 17 May 1838.
x. PAMELIA FERNALD, b. 14 Oct 1806. Marr Samuel Parker of Saugus, MA
xi. OLIVE C FERNALD, b. 30 Jan 1808; d. 30 Nov 1874. Marr William B A Locke.
xii. THOMAS FERNALD, b. 28 Oct 1809; lost at sea ca 1829
xiii. MARTHA FERNALD , b. 18 Jan 1811; d. 10 Sep 1814