. The ancestors of my children : and other related children of the generations living in the morning of the twentieth century . hich has, since the first settlement there, beenknown as The Wiswell Neighborhood, so called in honorof its first settler, George Wiswell, who came from Norton,Mass., and doubtless, was a descendant Noah Wiswell, whounited with the Church in the latter place, in 1757, and diedthere in 1813, aged 84 years. In the above neighborhood, and on the road leading fromEast Orrington to what is now Holden Centre, William Cope-land purchased quite an extensive tract of farming a
. The ancestors of my children : and other related children of the generations living in the morning of the twentieth century . hich has, since the first settlement there, beenknown as The Wiswell Neighborhood, so called in honorof its first settler, George Wiswell, who came from Norton,Mass., and doubtless, was a descendant Noah Wiswell, whounited with the Church in the latter place, in 1757, and diedthere in 1813, aged 84 years. In the above neighborhood, and on the road leading fromEast Orrington to what is now Holden Centre, William Cope-land purchased quite an extensive tract of farming and timberland, and thereon commenced to make his homestead. Thistract of land was, at the time of its purchase, covered with adense forest. Acre after acre was cleared, and a home, afarm, a competence and a goodly estate resulted. For manyyears William Copeland^ served on the board of selectmen ofof Brewer. He held a commission as a justice of the peaceand throughout the whole Country Side was known as SquireCopeland. His whole business life was devoted to agricul-ture and the local public vService. He was ist Sergeant of. Silence (Laxe^) Copeland. LINE OF COPELAND 73 Captain Solomon Blakes Company, the Brewer Company,Major Thomas Georges Battalion, of the 4th Mass. Regiment,ist Brigade, and was in the Hampden battle, in Sept., the promotion of Captain Solomon Blake to the Colonelcy,Sergeant William Copeland was promoted to the Captaincy,and was with his Company at the review of his (the lothMass ) Division by Gov. John Brooks in 1818. The Divisionwas then in command of Major General Jedediah Herrickof Hampden, who had succeeded Major General John Blakeof Brewer. -|- William Copeland^ united with the Congregational Church at East Brewer, (later Holden,) June 4, 1832. By his wallhis homestead farm went to his youngest son, BenjaminFranklin Copeland^, who, in 1854 or 5, sold it to Charles , a son of George and Catherine (Comins) Hart, and agrandson of Captain Jacob
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