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Charles GLIDDEN

Charles GLIDDEN

Male [1752] - 1843

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  • Name Charles GLIDDEN 
    Born [1752]  Damariscotta, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Birth [BEFORE 1774]  [2] 
    Birth [BEFORE 1755]  [3] 
    Birth [BEFORE 1765]  [4] 
    Birth [1751-1760] 
    Residence 1772  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Centennial celebration of the town of Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, U.S.A.
      The historical address
      p 32
      Charles Glidden moved from Damariscotta in 1772 and took up the land bounded on the south by the road leading from Jefferson to Cooper's Mills, on the west by the Sheepscot river, on the north by the present town of Somerville, and on the east by Travel Pond. At the time of settlement he was six miles from any public road. He had two sons, Charles and William. William built the saw and grist mill at Cooper's Mills.
    Residence 13 Sep 1777  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Andrew Glidden
      Arnold Glidden
      Charles Glidden
      Michael Glidden

      Residence: 13 SEP 1777 Balltown, Lincoln, ME
      Note:

      Massachusetts State Archives Collection
      Volume 322 Page 180
      Bawltown letter dated 13 September 1777

      A list of the men's names in the Plantation of Bawltown [Balltown, Whitefield/Jefferson] from sixteen years and upwards agreeable to an act of Cort [sic] December 9th 1776

      Mecres Carr Capt
      Joshua Little 1st Lieut
      Benjn King 2nd Lieut
      Ephraim Brown Sergt
      Jonathan Bartlett [Sergt]
      Jacob Rowel [Sergt]
      James Murphy [Sergt]
      Samuell Parmer Corpl [Palmer?]
      Samuell Whitman [Corpl]
      Timothy Ferrin [Corpl]
      Thomas Grover [Corpl]

      Petter Dow
      Solln Clark
      Wllm Boynton
      Saml Bawl [Ball]
      John Boynton
      Jeri Brand [Bran, Brann]
      Isaac Brand
      Stephen Belden
      Thoms Cunningham
      Moses Cooper
      Thoms Day
      John Decker
      John Fish
      John Philbrook [Philbrick]
      Ebenezr Philbrook
      Jonathn Philbrook
      Andrew Gledden [Glidden]
      Arnold Gledden
      Asse Heath
      Saml Jonson [Johnson]

      Joseph Rogers
      James Reves [Reeves, Reaves]
      James Turner
      James Shepard
      John Duely [Dooley]
      Ebenez Grover
      Benjn Dow
      Charles Gledden
      Enoch Averil
      Caleb Bartlet [Bartlett]
      Leonard Cooper
      Caleb Conselis?
      Patrick Fallon
      Jonas Jonston Davis
      James Emery
      Stephen Grover
      Davi Huchens [Hutchins, Hitchings]
      Jonathan Heath
      Isaac Heath
      Daniel Lumber? [Plummer?]
      Nathan Longfello [Longfellow]
      [Jeremiah?] Norris
      Jonthn? Peaslee
      Oliver Peaslee
      Ezekiel Peaslee
      ? ?z? [Jonathan Noyes? Thomas Trask?]
      ?

      Ezekiel Sterns [Stearns]
      Thomas Turner
      Nicklas Turner
      Jonah Vining
      John Woodman Senr
      Ralph Chiney [Cheney]
      Willm Carr
      John Woodman Junr
      Abner Ford
      Ebenezer Philbrook
      Jonathan Bartlet
      Michael Gledden
      Joseph Bartlett
      Benj Kinney [Kenney]
      Joshua Chamberlin [Chamberlain]
      Richard Turner

      Mecres Carr Capt
      Joshua Littl Lieut
      Benjn King Lieut
      Benjn Stickney Clerk
    Residence 1790  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • 1790 United States Federal Census about Charles Glidon
      Name: Charles Glidon [Charles Clidon]
      Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 4 [Charles, William, Moses]
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 [Charles]
      Free White Persons - Females: 3 [Thankful, Thankful, Rebecca]
      Number of Household Members: 8
      Year: 1790; Census Place: Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 343; Image: 204; Family History Library Film: 0568142

      Charles Gliden
      in the 1790 United States Federal Census
      Name: Charles Gliden
      Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Ball Town , Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 4
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females: 3
      Number of Household Members: 8
      Year: 1790; Census Place: Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 343; Image: 204; Family History Library Film: 0568142
    Assessed 25 Aug 1792  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1792
      Charles Glidden
      Polls rateable 21 years old and upwards: 1
      Barns:
      Acres of Tillage Land Including Orcharding tilled: 1
      Bushels of wheat:
      Bushels of Indian Corn: 12
      Bushels of Barley:
      Acres of English and Upland mowing including Mowed: 3
      Tons of Hay, the yearly Produce of the same: 2
      Acres of Unimproved Land: 160
      Acres of Land Unimproveable: 50
    Residence 1800  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 1800 United States Federal Census
      Name: Charles Glidden
      Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Balltown, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 [? ?]
      Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 2 [1785-1790] [Moses, William]
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2 [1775-1784] [John, Charles]
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [Charles]
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1 [Thankful]
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1 [?] [Rebecca is m in household of husband]
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1 [Thankful]
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 6
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 10
      Year: 1800; Census Place: Balltown, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 6; Page: 345; Image: 331; Family History Library Film: 218676
    Assessed 1810  Whitefield, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Valuation List for the Assessment of the town of Whitefield Anno Dommi 1810
      Names of persons to be taxed: Charles Glidden
      Polls: 1
      Buildings:
      Value:
      Improved Land: 1 2/3
      Value: 33.33
      Unimproved Land: 58 1/3
      Value: 175
      Horses:
      Value:
      Oxen:
      Value:
      Cows: 2
      Value: 30
      Young cattle: 3
      Value: 35
      Swine: 2
      Value: 8
      Mills:
      Value:
      Cash &c:
      Percentum Real: 5.50
      Percentum Personal: 4.38
      Total: 9.88
    Residence 1810  Patricktown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • 1810 United States Federal Census
      Name: Charles Glidden
      Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Patricktown, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 4
      Source Citation
      Year: 1810; Census Place: Patricktown, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 12; Page: 316; Image: 00320; Family History Library Film: 0218683
    Assessed 1811  Whitefield, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • A List of the Polls and Estate, Real and Personal, of the several Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Town of Whitefield in the County of Lincoln taken pursuant to and Act of the Genera Court of this Commonwealth, passed in the year of our Lord, one thousands eight hundred and eleven, entitled, "An Act for ascertaiing the rateable property within this Commonwealthy," by the subscribed of the said Balltown being duly elected and sworn.
      Peron's Name: Charles Glidden
      Polls rateable 16 years old and upwards to 21 years:
      Polls rateable twenty-one years old and upwards: 1
      Male Polls not rateable, not supported by the Town:
      Male Polls not rateable, supported by the Town:
      Dwelling-Houses:
      Shops within; or adjoining to Dwelling-Houses:
      Other Shops:
      Distill-Houses:
      Sugar-Houses:
      Tan-Houses:
      Slaughter-Houses, and other Working Houses:
      Pot and Pearl-Ash Works:
      Ware-Houses:
      Rope-Walks:
      Grist-Mills:
      Fulling-Mills:
      Saw-Mills:
      Sitting-Mills:
      Other Mills:
      Iron Works and Furnaces:
      Barns:
      All other Buildings and Edifices of the value of 20 dols, and upwards:
      Superficial feet of Wharf:
      Tons of Vessels and small Craft, of five Tons burthen and upwards, at House or abroad, computing the same according to the rules established by the laws of the United States:
      The amount of every person's whole stock in trade, goods, wares and merchandize, at home or abroad paid for or not paid for:
      The amount of securities of the United States, of this State, or any of the United States, and at what rate of interest:
      The amount of money on hand, including such as may be deposited in any Bank or with any agent, and exclusive of such as may belong to any stockholders as such:
      The amount of stock held by the stockholders in any Bank:
      Ounces of Plate:
      Shares in any toll bridges or turnpikes, and the value of such shares with the annual income thereof:
      Acres tillage land, including orchards tilled: 1
      Bushels of wheat:
      Bushels of rye:
      Bushels of oats:
      Bushels of Indian Corn: 20
      Bushels of Barley:
      Bushels of peas and beans raised on the said tillage land per year:
      Pounds of hops:
      Acres of English and upland mowing including orcharding mowed: 2
      Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same: 2
      Acres of fresh meadow:
      Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same:
      Acres of salt marsh:
      Tons of hay, the yearly produce of the same:
      Acres of pasturage, including the orcharding pastured:
      Cows the same will keep, with the after seed of the whole farm:
      Barrels of cyder, which can be made yearly upon the whole farm:
      Cow Rights:
      Acres woodland, exclusive of pasture land inclosed:
      Acres of unimproved land: 196
      Acres of land unimprovable: 20
      Acres of land owned by the town:
      Acres owned by any other proprietors:
      Acres of land used for roads:
      Acres of land covered with water:
      Horses three years old and upwards: 1
      Oxen four years old and upwards: 2
      Steers and cows three years old and upwards: 4
      Swine six months old and upwards: 1
      Amount of estate doomed:
    Residence 1820  Whitefield, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1820 United States Federal Census
      Name: Charles Gledden
      Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Whitefield, Lincoln, Maine
      Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
      Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3
      Free White Persons - Under 16: 6
      Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
      Total Free White Persons: 11
      Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 11
    Residence 1840  Jefferson, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • William Glidden
      in the 1840 United States Federal Census
      Name: William Glidden
      Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Jefferson, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 80 thru 89: 1 [father Charles] [1751-1760]
      Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
      Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2
      Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
      Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
      Total Free White Persons: 10
      Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 10
      Year: 1840; Census Place: Jefferson, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: 145; Page: 393; Image: 800; Family History Library Film: 0009705
    Died 11 Jul 1843  Jefferson, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Buried Glidden Cemetery, Jefferson, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Charles Glidden
      in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
      Name: Charles Glidden
      Birth Date: 1752
      Death Date: 10 Jul 1843
      Death Place: Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
      Cemetery: Glidden Cemetery
      Burial or Cremation Place: Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, USA
      Has Bio?: Y
      Spouse: Thankful Glidden
      Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=147850054&ref=acom
    Person ID I38044  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 11 Aug 2020 

    Father Charles GLIDDEN,   b. [1725], Exeter, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Apr 1776, Sheepscot, Newcastle, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Abigail WEATHERN,   b. Bef 1727,   d. Bef 1 Dec 1817, [Palermo, Waldo, ME] Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 90 years) 
    Married C 1745 
    Family ID F11043  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thankful ROGERS,   b. [1756],   d. 23 Dec 1831, Jefferson, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married C 1774 
    Children 
     1. Rebecca GLIDDEN,   b. 13 Jun 1775
     2. John GLIDDEN,   b. [1779],   d. 3 May 1836
     3. Charles GLIDDEN,   b. [1780], ME Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jun 1863
     4. Moses GLIDDEN,   b. [31 Dec 1783],   d. 10 Feb 1842
     5. William GLIDDEN,   b. [1787], ME Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. [1863]
     6. Thankful GLIDDEN,   b. [1788], ME Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1856
    Family ID F11056  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Samuel Johnson Tract Balltown    		Samuel Johnson Tract Balltown

  • Notes 
    • Balltown Assessment 1791: Nil
      Balltown Assessment 1797: Nil
      Balltown Assessment 1801: Nil
      Whitefield 1810: Charles Glidden
      Lincoln County Probate Index: Nil
      Maine Probate: Nil
      Lincoln County Probate Index: Nil
      Census 1830: Not with Rebecca, Charles, Moses, William [wife probably], Thankful
      Census 1840: Not with John, Charles, Moses, Thankful [with William]
      Census 1840: His son is in Jefferson. There is another Charles Glidden in Jefferson who is clearly not him either.
      Revolutionary Land Bounty Pension: Nil
      Massachusetts Soldiers: Nil

      Monmouth/Freedom families

      Rebecca Worcester m Ebenezer Sylvester [m1 Moses Leighton]
      Moses Glidden s Charles Glidden m Thankful Rogers
      Andrew Glidden m Mercy Grover s Charles Glidden m Abigail Weathern
      Jonathan Currier m Deborah Kelley
    • Centennial celebration of the town of Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine, U.S.A.
      The historical address
      p 32
      Charles Glidden moved from Damariscotta in 1772 and took up the land bounded on the south by the road leading from Jefferson to Cooper's Mills, on the west by the Sheepscot river, on the north by the present town of Somerville, and on the east by Travel Pond. At the time of settlement he was six miles from any public road. He had two sons, Charles and William. William built the saw and grist mill at Cooper's Mills.
    • The descendants of Charles Glidden of Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire
      Compiled by George Walter Chamberlain
      Edited by Lucia Glidden Strong
      Boston 1925

      p 120
      Charles Glidden was born in Damariscotta, Maine, as early as 1752; died in Jefferson, Maine, 11 July 1843 ae 91. He married before 1790 Thankful Rogers who died in Jefferson 23 December 1831 ae 75.

      [Several deeds after 1800]

      ...
      Children born in Ballstown
      Charles about 1779
      William m Charlotte Capen
      Moses said to have been a brother to above
      Thankful m - Abbott
      Eunice m - Dow
    • The Riot at Damariscotta Bridge
      Lawrence M. Sturtevant
      The New England Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Jun., 1987), pp. 264-278
      Minutes of the various embarrasments & obstructions met with, in an attempt to run a line between the Plymouth companies lands and that of the Commonwealth, eastward of Kennebec River, in March and April AD. 1806 in conformity to Instructions given by the Agents of the Commonwealth and a Committee of the Plymouth Company, grounded on a Resolve of the Legislature passed Feb 27th, 1806
      By Cha. T
      p 268
      From that time untill Saturday morning 22d of March, Mr Jonathan Bartlett rode night & day through Balltown & Patricktown to prevail with the Setlers to cease their opposition-& on Saturday morning joined us as did also Mr. Charles Glidden & Charles Glidden Jun both of Balltown to assist accompany & guard us.
    • 20 acres of Travel Stream

      https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/352440?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Land records, 1761-1912; indexes to land records, 1761-1901
      Authors: Lincoln County (Maine). Register of Deeds
      Land records v. 65-66 1807-1808
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      11391
      8296823
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008296823?cat=352440
      [323/559]
      Volume 66 Page 23
      Charles Glidden to James N Cooper & Leonard Bartlett
      Charles Glidden yeoman Ballstown
      James N Cooper r Newcastle & Leonard Bartlett r Long Pond yeoman
      $150
      beginning at a hemlock marked on 4 sides standing on Travel Stream
      thence SW 40 rods to birch marked on 4 sides
      thence southeast 80 rods to a maple tree marked with marking Irons
      thence notheast 40 rods to spruce marked with marking irons
      thence northwest to the bounds first mentioned
      20 acres
      19 March 1805
      Charles Glidden Jr [His mark]
      Wit: Saml Waters, Richard Bran
      Received 21 November 1807

      Leonard Bartlett to James N Cooper Volume 66 Page 23
      [324/559]
      Leonard Bartlett yeoman Long Pond
      James N Cooper yeoman Newcastle
      $250
      beginning at a hemlock marked on 4 sides standing on Travel Stream
      thence SW 40 rods to birch marked on 4 sides
      thence southeast 80 rods to a maple tree marked with marking Irons
      thence notheast 40 rods to spruce marked with marking irons
      thence northwest to the bounds first mentioned
      1 undivided fourth a a sawmill, all priviledges, appurtenances, tackle, apparrel, dogs, chains, and other tackle
      20 acres
      20 acres
      21 July 1807
      Leonard Bartlett
      Ana Bartlet
      Wit: Jere Bailey, Rachel Philbrick
      Received 21 November 1807

  • Sources 
    1. [S3821] The descendants of Charles Glidden of Portsmouth and Exeter, New Hampshire, Mrs. Lucia Mabel Glidden Strong, (1925).

    2. [S332] Census, US Federal, 1790, Department of Commerce, (1790).

    3. [S2920] Census, US Federal, 1800, Department of Commerce, (1800).

    4. [S2922] Census, US Federal, 1810, Department of Commerce, (1810).



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