This post will serve as a record of my direct ancestors who served during the American Revolution. Considering the scarcity of some original sources, verifying the service of many of my relatives proves quite difficult. I'm sure this list will be amended as other names are found.

WILLIAM BLAKE (1740-1825)
Sergeant in Capt David Gilman's 

JOSEPH LEAVITT (1751-1801)
of Exeter and Wakefield, NH
Capt Moody's Company, Col Badger's Reg't
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COFFIN PAGE (1755-1801)
of North Hill (North Hampton), New Hampshire
Served in the 3rd NH Regiment (Capt. Richard Weare's Co., Col Scammel's Reg't)
Mustered in 7 May 1777, served for 8 months

ISAAC PRIDHAM
Born: 1 Sept 1746, New Castle, NH; Died: 16 Jan 1847, New Castle, NH
Private, Capt Caleb Hodgdon (later Abraham Perkins)'s Company,
Col Pierce Long's Regiment (1st NH Battalion)
enl 9/19/1776, serv 2 mos, 18 das; serv 12/7/76-1/7/77
1/7/77-2/7/77 (part of Capt Perkins Co. fit for march to Ticonderoga)

DANIEL STEWARD
Born: 21 Nov 1734, Salem, MA; Died: 2 June 1802, Fitchburg, MA
Buried: South Street Cemetery, Fitchburg (Find a Grave entry)
Served as private, Capt Aaron Guild's Company, Col Josiah Whitney'd Reg't
13 July 1776 - 5 Dec 1776 (stationed at Hull, MA)

THOMAS WHITCOMB
Born: 4 Oct 1736, Littleton, MA; Died: 21 June 1824, Norridgewock, ME
Served in Capt Hinds Company, Col Timothy Bedel (Beddle)'s Regiment
Enl: 10 Mar 1776, serv 10 mos; Captured at the Cedars in Canada
and held prisoner for about a month

​HENRY WYMAN
1762 - 1837
Buried: Jewett Cemetery, Madison, Maine

RICHARD YEATON​
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Wishing all a Happy Mother's Day! 

The following are photos I have of my direct ancestor females, with links to blog pages I have written about them in the past.

Her daughter, Emily Jane Brown (center photo), my 2nd G-Grandmother, married John Kramer of Colchester, CT, but she lived most of her life in Kittery. At right is my Great-Grandmother, Martha (Kramer) Leavitt, Emily's daughter, with myself and siblings.

More about their families here:
Brown - Locke's Cove, Kittery, Maine
Emily Augusta (Waitt) Brown
My Waitt (Waite) Family from Malden, MA
Emily Jane (Brown) Kramer
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My maternal line continues..

My Great-Grandmother, Annie (Knight) Smith (pictured here on porch with her sister Abbie). Her daughter, Alice (photo on right), is my gram (with me helping her at church bake sale...nice batch of brownies there!)

My paternal line:

My Pridham relatives here, including my grandmother Alice (Pridham) Dow, and her mother, my Great-Grandmother Louise (Condon) Pridham.

More about this family is written here:
​The Pridhams of Puddle Dock (Portsmouth, NH)

My 2nd Great-Grandmother was born HANNAH B STEWARD, the daughter of Thomas and Catharine (Young) Steward, on 19 Feb 1872 [adoption papers; age at death calculates to a birth of 2/27] in Skowhegan or Solon, Maine. She was the sixth of seven children born to Thomas and Kate, and the family was living in Athens, Maine when their mother died on 13 July 1875. Unable to care for all of his children, Thomas gave Hannah up for adoption. Luther and Lovisa Rowell of Solon petitioned the Somerset County court on 23 Oct 1875, with Thomas Steward signing over his rights. ​Hannah's name was subsequently changed to ALBERTA ANN ROWELL (she was listed as Annie A on the 1880 census).

The 1880 census for Solon, Maine (pg 20) shows the former Hannah Steward, now Alberta A (or Annie A) Rowell, with adoptive parents.

An image from the 1900 census for Norridgewock, Somerset, Maine (pg 9A), showing the family of Charles and Alberta Leavitt (the children number is wrong, as they had another son, Irving, who died young).

Sadly, similar to what happened to Hannah/Alberta, the widowed Charles Leavitt couldn't care for his family, and left young daughter Gladys in the care of others, including her grandfather, Joseph Leavitt of Solon. In 1907, she would be adopted by Amos and Katie Clarke, and took their surname. 

​See also:
Thomas Steward and Family

The only record seen that shows Catherine (aka Kate/Katie) as being born in Canada is the 1870 census, so this may be wrong. Son Herbert's marriage record lists Jerusalem as her birth place, perhaps more reliable than his death record, which says Lexington (which was his step-mother Estelle's birth place). Looking at the death records of her other children, Rosa's shows "unknown", while Emma's lists Skowhegan as Kate's birth place. 

No burial place has been found for Catherine (Young) Steward. Cemetery transcriptions of graveyards in Athens and Skowhegan have been searched, as well as all of those Somerset County cemeteries included in the Maine Old Cemetery Association (MOCA) records.

It is interesting to note that, in the 1870 census for Jerusalem, Franklin County, Maine, there are only five households in town (in 1860, there were 7, but 2 were unoccupied). One of those five households just happens to be a Young family. John Young, though himself listed as born in Maine, was also shown as having foreign born parents, just as Catherine (Young) Stewart was. Perhaps there is a link between them, though my research has yet to find one.

ADDENDUM, 2015
Since I began typing this blog, I also continued my search into these family members. In the past, I had searched high and low for those two girls (Mary and Sarah) that were only seen in the 1870 census. For many years, before we had the ability via Ancestry.com and Family Search to search for names, the family had been "lost" between 1860 and 1880, as myself and other researchers were always looking in Somerset County. It was in 2003 when I had found Thomas and his family in neighboring Franklin County, with two more names in the household we hadn't known about! Last night, trying again to find these Stewart girls, I lucked out. In the Mass VR, there is an 1897 marriage in Everett, MA between an Isaac W Bryden, Jr and a "May" F (Stewart) Crosgove, both a second marriage for them, both were listed "of Everett, age 30". She had been born in Skowhegan, the daughter of Thomas Stewart and Katie Young! 
Unfortunately, I have yet to find them in the 1900 census, and Isaac is afterwards seen in the 1902 Portland street directory, and remarries (listed as a widower) that same year. I haven't found May/Mary yet in a death record between 1897 to 1902.

ADDENDUM, 9/29/2016
Daughter Sarah has been found. Not sure how I previously missed her while doing blank searches for anyone with a Thomas Stewart/Steward and Catherine/Katherine (Young) for parents, but found her this time around. In 1907, a Sadie E Spaulding was married to an Arthur Woodman of Fairfield, and the above parents were listed. This marriage was listed as her second (in error), she being a widow. Her previous marriage was to William H Spaulding (6/27/1888 in Waterville, ME), whom she married shortly after her divorce from her first husband, Clarence Witham, was finalized. They had been married on 10/21/1883 in Embden, Maine, and they had a daughter Alice together. When Alice was married, she listed her mother as being born in Embden, which seems more likely the correct location, as compared to later accounts of her being born in Exeter, ME. Sadie, aka Sarah Etta, died in 1939, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery, North Anson, the same cemetery as her father. The Lewiston Daily Sun, 08/09/1939, printed an obituary for her.
​https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xSQgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gmoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3377%2C2672070

My 4th Great-Grandfather, Alaxis Steward (aka Alexis Stewart), was born in Canaan, Maine on 4 Dec 1812, per town vital records. From 1850 to 1870, he and wife Charlotte (Harnden/Harding) are seen with their children in the Skowhegan, Maine censuses. After this latter date, and prior to 1880, they moved out west to Otter Tail County, Minnesota. It is currently not clear if the parents, with sons Phineas and Lucius, all packed up and left at the same time, but they were all together in the township of Compton by the 1880 census. The 1895 MN State Census lists both Phineas and Lucius as being residents here for 17 yrs, so they arrived ca 1878.