. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . a minister he erected four meeting-houses andraised money to repair and refurnish two others. His second marriage was March 4, ), when he marriedMiss Ruth P. P)nrt of Somerset. Five children were born, fourof whom are now living: Mrs. Charles A. Wood of Middle-horo, Mrs. Louis K. Harlow of Brookline, S. Henry Coombsof Watertown, and Mrs. John F. Holmes, with whom he resides. Capt. Robert Hudson Coombs. The sea h;is always presented a strange fascinationto some jKOple, and one of these was Capt. RobertHudson Coombs, born at Islesboro, Me.
. The story of Anthony Coombs and his descendants . a minister he erected four meeting-houses andraised money to repair and refurnish two others. His second marriage was March 4, ), when he marriedMiss Ruth P. P)nrt of Somerset. Five children were born, fourof whom are now living: Mrs. Charles A. Wood of Middle-horo, Mrs. Louis K. Harlow of Brookline, S. Henry Coombsof Watertown, and Mrs. John F. Holmes, with whom he resides. Capt. Robert Hudson Coombs. The sea h;is always presented a strange fascinationto some jKOple, and one of these was Capt. RobertHudson Coombs, born at Islesboro, Me., in 1828. Hebegan his career as a sailor when only nine years old,and progressed so fast that at the age of sixteen he wasmaster of the schooner Jane of Belfast. After that 103 he followed the sea many years and commanded theschooners Diana, Eri, Royal Welcome, Tip-pecanoe, Pensacola, Fred. Dyer, and LydiaBrooks; the brig Russian; the barks P. R. Hazel-tine and Diana; and the ships Live Oak andCora, the last one being named for his daughter. 104. ISlIM lllI. Atl-: <i| i<K\. Ill \K^ Il \KK I. (XPMI Li_ iwn I :!.iOV »VD CHAPTER IX. STORIKS. A Story ok thk War of is 12.[As tulil by Mrs. Alonzo Tin iiitoii. | My fi:ran(K;itli(M\ Zrhuloii Coombs, was \u flic l^lti\V:\v. Tbo years oC 1812 .iiid lsi;{ wovo caWrA Ibc coldyoars. One oi tluin — 1 do not know wliicb — bad afrost every niontli, and no corn was raised. So tbeGovernor of Massacbusetts (for this was before Maim*became a separate state) issued a proclamation that bewould give every soldiers wife two bushels of corn ifshe would go to Bath and get it. So my grandmotherrode from Bowdoin to Bath ou horseback, a distance ofabout twenty miles. She got the corn and returned toa grist-mill thai was somewhere near Brunswick, andhad her corn ground into meal. She then started forhome, but her horse became frightened, threw^ her off,and broke her arm. She led her horse to the nearestdoctor, — I think in Brunswick, —and ha
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