Benjamin Maxwell, a brother of Col. Maxwell, also did service in the French and Indian wars, and was a lieutenant in a company of Minute Men in the Revolution. He lived in Heath, in the homestead occupied by his daughter Mary. His sons were Winslow, Benjamin, and Patrick.
For more than a hundred years the descendants of the early settlers of this valley have been spreading out far beyond the borders of New England into the ever-retreating West, to people with thousands of their kit and kin from Ireland, and to develop the fertile fields and reap the harvests of prosperity and of cheerful endurance, daring enterprise and patient perseverance. Their love of liberty, their devotion to religion, their respect for law and order, chastened by sacrifice and suffering, make them ideal citizens to found and develop states and maintain the principles of the institutions established by the fathers of the republic.
SOME VOICES FROM YE OLDEN TIME.
BY THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY,[[3]] BOSTON, MASS.
Alexander Gilligan was a resident of Marblehead, Mass., in 1674.
Many Irish participated in the settlement of Salem, N. Y., in 1765. (The Salem Book.)
Samuel and Robert Elder, brothers, came from Ireland about 1730 and settled in Falmouth, Me.
In 1746 a marriage license was issued, Spottsylvania, Va., to Patrick Connelly and Ann French.
Dennis Lochlin, of Putney, Vt., was a representative to the General Assembly of that state in 1777.
Lucy Todd O’Brien married, in 1698, John Baylor of Gloucester county, Va. (Virginia Historical Magazine.)