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Andrew GLIDDEN

Andrew GLIDDEN

Male 1749 - [1835]

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  • Name Andrew GLIDDEN 
    Born 1749  Exeter, Rockingham, NH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Pension file
    Gender Male 
    Birth [BEFORE 1774]  [1
    Birth [BEFORE 1755]  [2
    Birth [BEFORE 1765]  [3
    Birth [BEFORE 1775] 
    Birth 1749  [4
    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  [1
    • 1790 United States Federal Census
      Name: Adndrew Gliden [Andrew Gliden]
      Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 3 [Andrew, Amos, ?]
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1 [Andrew]
      Free White Persons - Females: 2 [Mercy, sister Mary?]
      Number of Household Members: 6
      Year: 1790; Census Place: Ball Town, Lincoln, Maine; Series: M637; Roll: 2; Page: 343; Image: 204; Family History Library Film: 0568142
    Residence 2 Apr 1792  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Property mentioned in plantation records.
    Assessed 25 Aug 1792  Balltown, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1792
      Andrew Glidden
      Polls rateable 21 years old and upwards: 1
      Barns: 1
      Acres of Tillage Land Including Orcharding tilled: 3
      Bushels of wheat: 10
      Bushels of Indian Corn: 10
      Bushels of Barley: 12
      Acres of English and Upland mowing including Mowed: 9
      Tons of Hay, the yearly Produce of the same: 2
      Acres of Unimproved Land: 60
      Acres of Land Unimproveable: 100
      Horses 3 years old and upwards:
      Oxen 4 years old and upwards:
      Steers and Cows four years old and upwards:
      Swine 6 months old and upwards:
    Residence 1800  Kennebec, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • 1800 United States Federal Census
      Name: Andela Gladden
      [Andrew Glidden]
      Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Miscellaneous Gores and Settlements, Kennebec, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 3 [Andrew, Amos, ?]
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [Andrew]
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 3 [?, ? ?]
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [Mercy]
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 7
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 13
      Source Citation
      Year: 1800; Census Place: Miscellaneous Gores and Settlements, Kennebec, Maine; Series: M32; Roll: 7; Page: 86; Image: 251; Family History Library Film: 218677
    Residence 1810  Beaver Hill [Freedom], Kennebec, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 1810 United States Federal Census
      Name: Andrew Glidden
      Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Beaver Hill, Kennebec, Maine
      Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 [Robert, Grant]
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 5
      Source Citation
      Year: 1810; Census Place: Beaver Hill, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: 11; Page: 770; Image: 00756; Family History Library Film: 0218682
    Residence 4 Dec 1811  [Malta, Kennebec, ME] Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1820  Freedom, Kennebec, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1820 United States Federal Census
      Name: Andrew Glidden
      Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Freedom, Kennebec, Maine
      Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
      Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
      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 Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3
      Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
      Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
      Total Free White Persons: 6
      Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 6
      Source Citation
      1820 U S Census; Census Place: Freedom, Kennebec, Maine; Page: 683; NARA Roll: M33_35; Image: 169
    Residence 10 Jul 1832  Freedom, Kennebec, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Pension 1833 
    Residence [1801]  Freedom, Kennebec, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Pension
    Military REVOLUTIONARY WAR 
    Died [1835] 
    • Andrew Glidden
      in the U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872
      Name: Andrew Glidden
      Pension Office State: Maine
      Year Range: 1831-1848
      Ancestry.com. U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
      pension through 1835. No date of death given
    Person ID I38129  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2022 

    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 Mercy GROVER,   b. *[1754],   d. Bef 1830 CENSUS? 
    Married 1784? 
    Children 
     1. Male GLIDDEN,   b. *[1785-1790]
     2. Andrew GLIDDEN,   b. [1785], ME Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1880 CENSUS
     3. Amos GLIDDEN,   b. 20 Feb 1787,   d. Bef 1880 CENSUS
     4. Male GLIDDEN,   b. *[1795-1800]
     5. Female GLIDDEN,   b. [1791-1800]
     6. Female GLIDDEN,   b. [1791-1800]
     7. Robert GLIDDEN,   b. 1 Oct 1801
     8. Grant GLIDDEN,   b. 11 Feb 1805
    Family ID F11083  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Samuel Johnson Revolutionary War Military Service
    Samuel Johnson Revolutionary War Military Service
    Military Service of Balltown Men During the American Revolution
    Military Service of Balltown Men During the American Revolution

  • Notes 
    • Balltown Assessment 1791: Nil
      Balltown Assessment 1792: Nil
      Balltown Assessment 1797: Nil
      Balltown Assessment 1801: Nil
      Whitefield 1810: Nil
      Kennebec County Probate and Wills: Nil
      Maine Probate: Nil
      Lincoln County Probate Index: Nil
      Readex: 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

      See Samuel Perham for butted land in Balltown
    • Maine Court Records, 1696-1854
      Name: Glidden, Andrew
      Plaintiff/Defendant: DEF
      Residence: Albion
      Court: Kennebec County Supreme Judicial Court
      Date: Sep 1807
      Cause: EJECTMENT
      Location: 30-37
      VolumeandPage: 3-75-1402

      Maine Court Records, 1696-1854
      Name: Glidden, Andrew
      Plaintiff/Defendant: DEF
      Residence: Albion
      Court: Kennebec County Supreme Judicial Court
      Date: Sep 1822
      Cause: EJECTMENT
      Location: 65-2
      VolumeandPage: 6-92-4948
    • Author: Chamberlain, George Walter, Date of Publication: 1925
      Subjects: Glidden, Charles, ca. 1632-1707?, Glidden family.
      p 110
      Sergt Andrew Glidden was born in Exeter in 1749 and died between 1835 and 1840...He lived in Ballstown...1772 to 1801; in Freedom 1801 to 1820; in Etna 1822 to 1824; in Waldo County 1824 to 1835
      ...
      blacksmith
      ...
      [confuses with son]
    • https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/581614?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Court records, 1761-1989
      Authors: Maine. Court of General Sessions
      Court dockets 1834-1842 Court records v. 1-4 1761-1816
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      1765424
      7856980
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007856980?cat=581614

      [368/1111]
      Lincoln Ss Anno Reipublicae Americanae Tertio
      At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Pownalborough within and for the County of Lincoln, on the last Tuesday of September, being the 29th Day of said Month, Anno Domini 1778

      [373/1111]
      p 170
      Ordered That the Sum of nineteen pounds seven shillings and Six pence, taxed in three Bills of Costs against Nehemiah Turner, Thomas Grover and Andrew Glidden, who were criminally prosecuted at this Court and ordered to go without day be paid out of the County Treasury to Jona Bowman Esqr agreeable to his Acct.
    • Court Case for Harboring Deserters

      Deserters:
      Stephen Grover s Ebenezer Grover m Martha Grant
      Arnold Glidden s Charles Glidden m Abigail Weathern
      Benjamin Turner s Nehemiah Turner m Lois Hutchins

      Accused Harborers:
      Ebenezer Grover m Martha Grant
      Thomas Grover s Ebenezer Grover m Martha Grant
      Andrew Glidden s Charles Glidden m Abigail Weathern

      https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/581614?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Court records, 1761-1989
      Authors: Maine. Court of General Sessions
      Court dockets 1834-1842 Court records v. 1-4 1761-1816
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      1765424
      7856980
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007856980?cat=581614
      [368/1111]
      p 165
      Lincoln Ss Anno Reipublicae Americanae Tertio
      At a Court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Pownalborough within and for the County of Lincoln, on the last Tuesday of September, being the 29th Day of said Month, Anno Domini 1778

      [371/1111]
      p 168
      The Government and people of the Massachusetts Bay v Ebenezer Grover, Thomas Grover & Andrew Glidden

      all of a place called Ballstown in the County of Lincoln Yeomen, upon a presentment of the Grand Inquest for the Body of the County aforesaid against them, for that on the first Day of December last [1777]

      Stephen Grover of said Ball Town Yeoman, Arnold Glidden of said Ballstown Yeoman, and Benjamin Turner of Newcastle

      in said County Yeoman were Soldiers duly inlisted into the Army in the Service of the United States of America & afterwards on the twelfth day of February last [1778] did desert from the said Army and Service & continued to be Deserters until the first Day of August last [1778], and that the said

      Ebenezer Grover, Thomas Grover & Andrew Glidden at said Ballstown,

      on the said twelfth day of February last aforesaid [1778], and from the said twelfth day of February until the first day of August aforesaid [1778], having probable Cause to Suspect & knowing that the said

      Stephen Grover, Arnold Glidden & Benjamin Turner

      were Deserters as aforesaid, the said

      Stephen Grover, Arnold Glidden and Benjamin Turner

      with Force and Arms did conceal & harbour, in evel Example to all others in like kind offending & against the peace &c. And to the said Presentment the said Ebenezer, Thomas & Andrew severally plead not Guilty.

      And Whereupon a Jury was Sworn according to Law to try this Issue, to wit, William Martin foreman & fellows, who upon their Oath Say, That the said Ebenezer Grover is Guilty. That the said Thomas Grover is not Guilty. That the said Andrew Glidden is not Guilty. It is therefore Considered by the Court that the said Ebenezer pay a fine of twelve Pounds, One Moiety to the Use of Saml Ball the Prosecutor, and the other Moiety to the Use of this Government & that he pay Costs standing committed till this Sentence be performed; And that the said Thomas & Andrew go thereof acquitted without day.

      Ebenezer Grover discharged of his Recognizance by Proclamation.

      Thomas Grover discharged of his Recoge by Proclamation.

      Andrew Glidden discharged of his Recoge by Proclamation.
    • https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/60966?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Town and vital records, 1791-1924
      Authors: Whitefield (Maine). Town Clerk
      Town and vital records, 1791-1924
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      12312
      7596939
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007596939?cat=60966

      [462/645]
      Monday 2 April 1792 at the house of Joseph Carr
      Warrant 9 March 1792

      [464/645]
      [Back to town meeting business]
      Road description Joseph Rogers
      Stearns
      Benjamin Plumer
      Joseph Rogers
      Ebenezer Stearns
      Charles Glidden
      Andrew Glidden
      Jonathan Noyce
      Timothy Plummer
      Choat
      Benjamin King
      Nath Peasley
      Samuel Carlton
      Richard Poor
    • Land in Jefferson adjacent to Samuel Johnson

      See Francis Bowden, William Palmer.

      Land records v. 42-43 1798-1799
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      11379
      8128467
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008128467?cat=352440
      [543/573]
      Volume 43 Page 221
      Andrew Glidden yeoman Balltown
      William Palmer tailor Balltown
      $60
      land in or near Balltown
      beginning at a pine tree marked on four sides at the northwest corner of William Perham land
      thence running on the westerly side of the road that goeas to Great Pond Settlement till it strikes Saml Johnson land to a maple tree marked on four sides
      thence running southwest by Johnson land to birch tree marked on four side
      thence running northwest till it strikes Abr Heath land
      thence running southwest on sd Heath land till it strikes a pine tree marked on four sides
      thence southwest till it strikes Clark Meadow fence
      thence keeping said Meadow fence till it comes to a stake & stones
      thence running southeast to the bounds first mentioend
      100 acres
      16 May 1796
      Andrew Gledden
      Wit: Saml Waters, Ruth Waters
      Recd 9 July 1799
    • Revolutionary War

      Pension: 9 months private 3 montsh sergeant

      Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol 6
      p 503
      Andrew Glidden
      Capt Samuel McCobb's Co Col Nixon's Regiment
      receipt for advance pay, signed by said Glidden and others, dated Cambrdge, July 26, 1775
      also
      4th Corporal, Capt Timothy Heald's Company, Colonel Samuel McCobb's regiment
      entered service June 30, 1779
      discharged 25 September 1779
      service 2 months 27 days on Penobscot expedition

      Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol 6
      p 503
      Andrew Gliddon
      New Castle
      Private, Capt Israel Davis's company, Colonel Edward Wiggleswoth's regiment
      return [year nor given]
      residence, New Castle
      reported never joined
    • Massachusetts Archives Revolutionary War Soldiers Card Index

      https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/746935?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Muster rolls (index file cards) of the Revolutionary War, 1767-1833 [Massachusetts]
      Authors: Massachusetts. Secretary of State
      Gleason, John - Goodnuff, Eli
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
      2026871
      7843551
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007843551?cat=746935
      [298/2853] Andrew Glidden begins
      [173/2852]
      Andrew Gleden private Capt Samuel McCobb Col John Nixon 1 August 1775 - 1 June 1775 at Pleasant Pond
    • Revolutionary War Pension

      Andrew Glidden
      in the U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900
      Name: Andrew Glidden
      Pension Year: 1833
      Application State: Maine
      Applicant Designation: Survivor's Pension Application File
      Archive Publication Number: M804
      Archive Roll Number: 1082
      Total Pages in Packet: 14
      Ancestry.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

      [537/1259]
      [Index Card]
      Massachusetts
      Andrew Glidden
      S 18837

      [540/1259]
      Private Massachusetts Troops McCobb's Co Nixon's Regiment 9 moths
      Sergeant Hale's Co, McCobb's Regiment 3 months
      Declaration in Open Court March 26, 1833

      [Page]
      private under Capt McCobb Col Nixon Massachusetts Troops
      Pension issued 3 May 1833

      [Page]

      [541/1259]
      [Page]
      Deposition of Thaddeaus Bailey ae 72 Albion
      13 July 1832

      [542/1259]
      [Page]
      Declaration of Andrew Glidden r Freedom ae 82
      19 July 1832
      Capt Samuel McCobb Col John Nixon Massachusetts troops
      enlisted at Balltown May 1775 for 8 months marched to Cambridge
      stationed at Prospect & Winter Hills near Bristol
      served out full term
      discharged at Cambridge 1 January 1776

      June or 1 July 1779 enlisted Capt Hale Col Saml McCobb 3 months
      marched from Balltown to Camden or Penobscot Bay
      then across the bay to Bagaduce neck
      was then defeated by the enemy & retreated & went to Coxe's head at the mouth of Kennebec river where he completed his term of enlistment
      dischared 30 September 1779
      enlisted and served as a sergeant
      [Page]
      b Exeter 1749 and believes record of age in that town
      during war home was at Balltown
      continued to reside there until he removed to Freedom about 31 years ago [1801]
      enlisted into service and not drafted or received as a substitute
      only verbally discharhed
      Deacon Mathew Randall, Timothy Walker and others of Freedom can testify to his character and belief of service

      [545/1259]
      Rev Eli Ayer and Benjamin Carr attest

      [548/1259]
      Deposition of Samuel Boyd r Palermo ae 79 or 80
      10 July 1832

      [550/1259]
      Depostion of Daniel Plumer r Palermo
      service
      10 July 1832

  • Sources 
    1. [S332] Census, US Federal, 1790, Department of Commerce, (1790).

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

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

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