James Shattuck, of Pepperell, MA and Solon, Maine

JAMES SHATTUCK, my 6th Great-Grandfather, was born in Pepperell, Massachusetts on 6 June 1763, the son of James Sr and Phebe (Tucker) Shattuck. He died on 14 Aug 1830, aged 66 yrs, 2 mos, and is buried in the Jewett Cemetery in Madison, Maine.

He was first married to Sybil Tarbell, on 7 Sept 1784 in Pepperell, MA. She died on 27 Jun 1804, and he remarried her sister Amy on 1 Dec 1804. They were the daughters of David and Bathsheba (Woods) Tarbell. I believe "Emma", the name of his wife buried beside him, is probably an alternate spelling for Amy, his second wife.

Some time following the 1810 Pepperell, Mass census, he left for Maine, and settled in the town of Solon.

Though I currently don't have his earliest land deed in my notes to establish an exact time of arrival in town, on 7 July 1818 [Somerset County Deed, v.9 p.30], he did sell 125 acres in Solon for $500. to a Joseph Tarble of Norridgewock, "where I now live and bought of Joseph Heald". One of the properties Mr Heald had purchased in 1804 [Kennebec Deeds, v.3 p.165] was lot #39, which was the same land that James' son Lovell Shattuck lived on years later. [NOTE: There are quit claim deeds involving his widow and others, so I will edit this entry after I gather more data from the Registry of Deeds.]

1883 Map of Solon, Maine, showing lot #39, the smaller black box marking the spot where son Lovell lived in the 1850's

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Map on right shows the location of the Jewett Cemetery in Madison, Maine, where James and Amy/Emma Shattuck is buried.
GPS co-ords are :44.890414, -69.792478

Google map (above) shows where highlighted lot from map on left is located in Solon on current map.