Samuel TRASK b. *[1703-1706] d. Bef 1790 CENSUS: Boombridge Genealogy

*[1703-1706] - Bef 1790 CENSUS

Personal Information | Media | Notes | All

Name	Samuel TRASK
Born	*[1703-1706]
Gender	Male
Birth	1703
Birth	Bef 1707
Birth	Bef 1710
Birth	If he is the second poll in Elias Trask Sr household in 1731 assessment
Residence	C 1725	Captured by Indians
Residence	History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine by George Augustus Wheeler Burr & Robinson 1875 Bangor p 27 ... The retaken Englishman knoweth the truth of all this, his name is Samuel Trusk of the town of Salem near to Marblehead. I have the honor to be Sir Your most humble & most obedient Servant Joseph Dabadis de St Castin [Historical Magazine Volume 2 3rd serv No 3 p 125] The Samuel Trask mentioned above, had been purchased by Castin from the Indians, who held him as a captive- under the following circumstances: a season of great scarcity occurred, which drove the Indians to the cranberry beds for subsistence. On one occasion, while they were gathering cranberries, a flock of wild geese alighted nearby, and Trask's success in capturing the birds so commended him to Castin's favor, that he "redeemed" him. After being taken from Castin, Trask was transferred to a vessel commanded by the celebrated Captain Kidd, with whom he remained for some time. [Williamson's Hist, of Me., Vol. 2, p. 144; also Sewall's Ancient Dominions of Me., p. 251.] In the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are letters referring to Indian affairs, written by Joseph Dabadis St. Castin, as lately as 1754. No trace is to be found of any of the family since that time. Inquiries made a few years ago, in the south of France, by Augustus C. Hamlin, M. Q., of the mayors of the Provinces of Pau and Oldron, go to show that no trace of the family can now be found there. In all probability, all the records and possibly the family itself were destroyed by the Revolution.
Residence	1725	with Castine
Residence	4 Mar 1727	Salem, Essex, MA
Residence	23 Mar 1727	[Salem, Essex, MA]
Residence	21 Nov 1730	Salem, Essex, MA
Residence	28 Dec 1730	Salem, Essex, MA
Occupation	14 Apr 1732
Occupation	Fisherman
Residence	14 Apr 1732	Salem, Essex, MA
Residence	30 Jul 1732	[Salem, Essex, MA]
Residence	9 Dec 1734	Rowley, Essex, MA
Residence	20 Jan 1737	Rowley, Essex, MA
Residence	Rowley land
Residence	26 Mar 1737	[Rowley, Essex, MA}
Petition	22 Mar 1749	for Wiscasset
Petition	17 Oct 1754	for Wiscasset
Petition	3 Jan 1762	for Majabagaduce
Residence	3 Jan 1762	Majabagaduce, Lincoln, ME
Assessed	1755-1764	Salem, Essex, MA
Residence	30 May 1764	Freetown, Lincoln, ME
Petition	1766	Freetown, Lincoln, ME
Residence	3 Nov 1766	Freetown, Lincoln, ME
Petition	1767	Freetown, Lincoln, ME
Petition	1774	Edgecomb, Lincoln, ME
Residence	15 Apr 1782	Edgecomb, Lincoln, ME
Death	August 1789
Death	NEHGS Register. See file 1725 Notes on Samuel Trask
Residence	Salem Village [Danvers]?
Residence	[1747]	Mid-coast Maine
Residence	Samuel Trask minor son of Samuel Trask appears in a muster roll commanded by Capt David Cargill.
Residence	*[1764]	Freetown, Lincoln, ME
Residence	Cushman, David Quimby, The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle: including early Pemaquid, Damariscotta, and other contiguous places, from the earliest discovery to the present time: together with the genealogy of more than four hundred families (Bath Me.: E. Upton & Son, printers, 1882) This year Edgecomb was incorporated as a town. The place was originally settled by Samuel Trask and others, in 1744 [sic. Probably 1764]. Under a possessory claim, they and subsequent settlers, lived undisturbed upon their lands ten years, when three men arriving from Boston, challenged their titles, in virtue of an Indian deed, and surveyed lots upon the Sheepscot river which they numbered and marked... The Boothbay Harbor Region By Jim Harnedy p 6 Edgecomb, the northernmost community of the region, was originally settled in 1744 by Samuel Trask and several other pioneers who held the landunder a possessory claim. Three men from Boston arrived in 1754 and made claim to the area under an alleged Indian deed. A Boston lawyer, who represented the original settlers, showed that the Indian deed provided no definite boundaries, and as a result of his strong defense, the three claimants abandoned their claim to the land. In appreciation for the lawyer defending their interest for no fee, the area was renamed Freetown. It retained this name until 1774, when it was incorporated as Edgecomb by the Massachusetts General Court, in honor of Lord Edgecomb (a friend of the American colonies). The southernmost territory on the peninsula is the beautiful island town of Southport. Originally part of Boothbay, Southport was incorporated as Townsend in 1842 and adopted its present name in 1850.
Died	Bef 1790 CENSUS
Buried	Samuel Trask in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Samuel Trask Birth Date: 1703 Birth Place: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Death Date: Aug 1789 Death Place: Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, USA Spouse: Hannah Trask Children: Thomas Trask David S. Trask Hannah Gove Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114231760/samuel-trask
Person ID	I50603	4 February 2018
Last Modified	15 Mar 2021

Father	Elias TRASK, b. 13 Jul 1679, d. BY 16 Jul 1741 (Age 62 years)
Mother	Hannah MARSTON, d. BY 1712
Married	23 Oct 1701	Salem, Essex, MA
	Name Elias TRASK Marriage 1701 Location Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Original Text Elias, and Hannah Marston, Oct. 23, 1701. Town Info Salem Volume Name Salem - V4 Page 393 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/rd/7794/393/140933468
Family ID	F20505	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Elizabeth LINDSEY, d. BY 1730
_MARI	4 Mar 1727	Salem, Essex, MA
	https://archive.org/details/publishmentsofin00sale/page/8/mode/2up?q= Publishments of the intentions of marriage of the town of Salem. vol 1 1708-1760 by Salem (Mass.) Publication date 1891 p 9 Salem New England Anno 1726-7 ... Samuel Trask Junr & Elia Lyndsey both of Salem March 4th ... p 14 Samll Trask & Hannah Steward, both of Salem November 21 1730
Married	23 Mar 1727	Salem, Essex, MA
	Name: Samuel Trask Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 23 Mar 1727 Event Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Event Place (Original): Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Gender: Male Marital Status: Unknown Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Lindsey Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Marital Status: Unknown Reference ID: v 4 p 40 GS Film Number: 877448 Digital Folder Number: 007011201 Image Number: 00147 Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M03851-5 Citing this Record "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-SQWF : 18 February 2020), Samuel Trask and Elizabeth Lindsey, 23 Mar 1727; citing Marriage, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011201. by the Rev Peter Clarke
Family ID	F20368	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 2 Hannah STEWART, d. [MAY 1790]

_MARI 21 Nov 1730 Salem, Essex, MA

https://archive.org/details/publishmentsofin00sale/page/8/mode/2up?q=
Publishments of the intentions of marriage of the town of Salem. vol 1 1708-1760
by Salem (Mass.)
Publication date 1891
p 9
Salem New England Anno 1726-7
...
Samuel Trask Junr & Elia Lyndsey both of Salem March 4th
...
p 14
Samll Trask & Hannah Steward, both of Salem November 21 1730

Married 28 Dec 1730 Salem, Essex, MA

Samuel Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Samuel Trask
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 28 Dec 1730
Event Place Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Male
Spouse's Name Hannah Steward
Spouse's Gender Female
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29G-VJJ5 : 13 July 2016), Samuel Trask and Hannah Steward, 28 Dec 1730; citing Marriage, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 761,210.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
Reference ID Vol. 5, page 24
GS Film Number 761210
Digital Folder Number 007009571
Image Number 00126
1730 Dec 28 Samuel Trask and Hannah Steward of Salem.
Samuel Trask
mentioned in the record of Samuel Trask and Hannah Steward
Name Samuel Trask
Spouse's Name Hannah Steward
Event Date 28 Dec 1730
Event Place Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHTP-1ZX : 4 December 2014), Samuel Trask and Hannah Steward, 28 Dec 1730; citing reference Vol. 5, page 24; FHL microfilm 761,210.
No image available
Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910
Indexing Project (Batch) Number M00404-7
System Origin Massachusetts-EASy
GS Film number 761210
Reference ID Vol. 5, page 24

Children

	1. Samuel TRASK, b. *[1731-1732], d. Aft 1813
	2. Jonathan TRASK, b. 2 Mar 1733, [Rowley, Essex, MA]
	3. David TRASK, b. 22 Dec 1734, [Rowley, Essex, MA] , d. 24 May 1819 (Age 84 years)
	4. Thomas TRASK, b. 26 Mar 1737, [Rowley, Essex, MA] , d. 1 Jul 1823 (Age 86 years)
	5. Joseph TRASK, b. C 1739, d. 9 Jul 1810, Jefferson, Lincoln, ME (Age ~ 71 years)
	6. Solomon TRASK, b. [1741], d. 22 May 1823
	7. Hannah TRASK, b. [1743], d. 23 Jun 1812
	8. Abigail TRASK, b. 26 Jul 1745?, d. Bef 1810 CENSUS?
	9. John TRASK, b. 24 Mar 1750?, d. Bef 1820 CENSUS?
	10. Elizabeth TRASK, b. 1751?, d. BY 1795?
	11. Phoebe TRASK, b. [AUGUST 1784], d. 5 Apr 1861
	12. Eunice TRASK, b. *[1785], d. 24 Feb 1868
	13. Lois or Eliza or Betsey TRASK, b. Bef 1788, d. Bef 1830 CENSUS?
	14. Sarah TRASK, b. [1790], ME , d. 16 Oct 1855
	15. Mary TRASK, b. *[1790], d. Bef 1860 CENSUS
	16. Lois TRASK, b. *[1791], d. Bef 1850 CENSUS?
	17. Almira TRASK, b. [1798], ME , d. Bef 1880 CENSUS
	18. Boothbay

Family ID F15500 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Documents		Samuel Trask House Discussion about Fannie Scott Chase's claim that the original Samuel Trask house was still standing in Edgecomb at the time of the publication of her history "Wiscasset in Pownalborough" in 1941.
Documents		Salem Origins of Samuel Trask Can the parents of Samuel Trask r Edgecomb be identified?

Notes

Essex County Probate: 1751 Samuel Trask wid Mary [Mercy Bell s Samuel m Susanna]. 1741 Samuel Trask m Susanna
Lincoln County Probate: Nil
Liberty Men: Nil Trask
Pownalborough 1766: Nil
Moses Davis Diary: No entry for his death or burial.
Falmouth 1761: Nil
York County Registry Books Index 1741-1768: Nil Samuel Trask
Marriage Intention 1727: Samuel Trask Junr
Salem Town Records: Checked 1724 and 1725 for Samuel Trask
Salem Assessment: Saml Trask near Elias Trask 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764

Samuel was probably from Salem. He was married in Salem. Hannah's parents removed at some point to Rowley. Samuel Trask m Hannah Trask appear to have lived in Rowley as well for a while, as three children's births are recorded there. 6 children were said to have been born in Massachusetts, the remainder in Maine.

s? William Trask m Ann White

The Kennebec Trasks are not closely related.

Look for de Castine's account of Samuel Grass.

Need to find documentation about being taken by Indians.

Samuel TRASK New England Historical and Genealogical Register Journals and Periodicals
RECORD : 1902
VOLUME : 56
PAGE : 199
TEXT : Captain William Traske and some of his Descendants, Cont'd from pg 73
Samuel Trask (William, William, William) was born in Weymouth, February 1702. Diligent search among the records of the town in which his father lived, and those adjacent, has failed to reveal any trace of him. He may have died in infancy, or else early removed to parts unknown. There is no evidence, however, to show that he was the Samuel Trask, one of the first settlers of Edgecomb, Maine, whose parentage is still in doubt.
Letter from Castine 1725

https://books.google.com/books?id=iY8eAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volumes 14-15
p 140
Letter from Baron de Castine, The Younger 1725
Copied from Massachusetts Archive Volume 52 Pages 226-229 by J L Stevens
Sir,
I have the honour to acquaint you that the 9th of this present month as I rode at anchor in a small harbour about three miles distance from Nesket, having with me but one Indian and one Englishman whom I had redeemed from the Salvages, as well as my vessel, I was attacky by and English vessel, the Commander of which called himself Lieutenant of the King's ship and told me his name which I cannot remember. Seing myself thus attackt, and not finding myself able to deffend myself, I withdrew into the wood, forsaking my vessel. The Commander of the vessel called me back promising me with an oath not to wrong me at all, saying he was a merchant who had no dessein but to trade, and was not fitted out for war, specially when there was a talk of peace, and presently set up a flag of truce, and even gave me two safe conducts by writing, both of which I have unhappily lost in the fight. Thus thinking myself safe enough, I came back on board my vessel with my Indian and my Englishman whom I brought to shew that I had no thoughts of fighting, and that I had redeemed him from the Indians as well as the vessel. But as I was going to put on some claoths to dress myself more handsomely, the Commander who was com in my vessel with severall of his people, would not permitt me to do it, telling me that I was no more master of any thing, he only granted me after many remonstrances to set me ashore. But after I came down and they held forth to me a bag full of bisket that was given to me as they said as a payment for my Englishman, they did catch hold of me and the Indian who accompanyed me. I got rid of him who was going to seize upon me, but my Indian not being able to do the same, I betook myself to my arms and after several voleys I Kild the man who Kept him and got him safe with me. This is the second time that I have been thus treacherously used, which proceedings I do not suppose that you approve off, as being against the laws of Nations.
Therefore, I hope that you will do me justice, or that at least you will cause me to be reimbursed of the loss I have sustained, namely, for the vessel that costed me 80 French pistoles-for the Englishman, 10 pistoles, 51 pounds of beaver that were in the vessel with 20 otters, 3 coats that have costed me together 20 pistoles, 56 pounds of shot that costed me twenty pence a pound, 20 pounds of powder at 4 livres a pound, 10 pounds of tobacco at 20 pence a pound, a pair of scales 8 livres Tow cloth blanketts each 23 livres, Two bear skins 8 livres for both, 2 Kettles 30 livres for both; and severall other matters which they would not grant me, not so much as my cap. The retaken Englishman knoweth the truth of all this, his name is Samuel Grass, of the Town of Salem near Marblehead.
I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your most humble and most obedient servant, Joseph Dabadis de St Castin
at Pentagouet 23 July 1725 [Castine]
*This was Samuel Trask, to whom the following note on the Danvers Records refers, printed in Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st edition p 379
"1724 April 30th. Voted that the money, contributed for the redemption of Samuel Trask from the enemy, shall be appropriated for buying a bell; and that if said Trask should be heard of and stand in need of help for his redemption, that we will contribute towards it."
"The Trask here mentioned," says Mr Felt, "belonged to Salem Village, and had been redeemed from the Indians by Monsieur Castin before July 9th, when he was taken away by the crew of an English bark."
In Felt's Annals, 2d edition Volume 2 Page 255, under date of July 7th 1725, it is entered "Information is received that a sloop had been taken from the Indians, and Samuel Trask, of Salem Village, had been redeemed from Castine" See "Samuel Trask's Adventured" in Sewall's Ancient Dominion of Maine, Page 251

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Annals_of_Salem.html?id=249b3gPNo54C
Annals of Salem
Capture by Indians. Exploits with Castine. Story of Capt Kidd. Cunningham's gold.

Ancient dominions of Maine : embracing the earliest facts, the recent discoveries, of the remains of aboriginal towns, the voyages, settlements, battle scenes, and incidents of Indian warfare, and other incidents of history, together with the religious developments of society within the ancient Sagadahoc, Sheepscot, and Pemaquid precincts and dependencies
by Sewall, Rufus King
Published 1859
p 252
SAMUEL TRASK'S ADVENTURES.

Samuel Trask, when a boy, had been stolen from Salem by the Indians, and an appropriation for the purchase of his redemption was made by vote of the town. As no traces of him could be discovered, the money was applied to the purchase of a bell.

But Trask was a captive among the eastern Indians, and resided near the abode of the Baron de Castine on the Penobscot. While a captive, a season of great scarcity occurred, which drove the Indians to the cranberry beds for subsistence. While engaged in gathering cranberries, a flock of wild geese alighted, to feed near by. The birds were eagerly sought for food, and Trask, proving more successful in the capture of the birds than the natives, it commended him to his master's favor as a skillful huntsman. This skill and his seamanship brought him into the notice of Castine, who purchased him of his captors, and employed him on board his sloop. Lying at anchor off the southeast point of Sedgewick, an English sloop ran in and fired on Castine, who, deserting his vessel, fled with Trask and a native lad to the shore.

But the English commander ran up a white flag inviting and assuring Castine a safe return. Duped by the false pretences, Castine and the lad returned to their vessel. But Trask was seized by the Englishman, who declared the vessel a prize and Castine a prisoner, but permitted as a special favor his return to his people. Castine landed, leaving his property to the English freebooter. On being pursued by an English sailor, who seized the native boy, Castine shot him dead, rescued the lad and escaped.

The buccaneer sloop set sail, with Trask, and departed. From this craft he was transferred to the companionship of Captain Kidd, with whom he had been accustomed to visit the Sheepscot and cut spars from the head-land on the north shore of Oven's Mouth, and who often careened his ships within the deep creeks and coves of this river. On the capture of Kidd, and the dispersion of his crew, Trask retired to his haunts on the Sheepscot, and made his clearing within eye-shot of an alleged deposit of Kid's treasure on the east margin of Folley Island, within the precincts of the early " Free-town," now incorporated as Edgccomb. [Not possible, as Kidd died in 1701.]

His experience among the Indians gave him celebrity as one skilled in the curative art; and hence he was recognized among the early settlers of Freetown as Dr Trask. But he had acquired a relish for strong drink; and an early settler of Freetown, Cunningham by name, whose tippling shed Trask frequented, wormed out of the old man, while in his cups, the secret of the "pot of money;" and it is asserted on good authority, as coming from an eye-witness, that under cover of night, lighted by the moon-beams, the "seller of grog" visited Folley Island in a canoe, and forestalled Trask, by digging up and securing the buried gold.

* * *
https://books.google.com/books?id=0FSma01e0xkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Maine: A Guide Down East
Compiled by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Maine
p 265
The tradition that elderly Samuel Trask, one of the settlers of Edgecomb, was once a member of Captain Kidd's crew has furnished grounds for intermittent treasure hunting in this neighborhood. When Kidd was arrested and hanged, his state was very small, giving rise to many stories of treasure buried by him, or by his crew for him. Edgecomb gossips said that Trask had been one of the delegated to hide part of the booty and that it had been buried near his clearing in Edgecomb. Since Kidd died in 1701 and Trask did not come to this neighborhood till 1774, such treasue, had it been trusted to a boy, would have had a long period of travel.

* * *
Centennial celebration of the town of Jefferson, Lincoln County, Maine
August 21 1907
Compiled by Alberto A Bennett
Journal Printing Company
Lewiston, Maine 1908
p 33
About 1725 or 6 Samuel Trask, when a boy, was stolen from Salem by the Indians, and an appropriation for the purchase of his redemption was made by vote of the town. As no trace of him could be discovered the money was applied to the purchase of a bell. But Trask was a captive among the eastern Indians on the Penobscot. His skill as a huntsman as well as his seamanship brought him into the notice of Baron de Castine, who purchased him of his captors, and employed him on board his sloop. He was taken from Castine by an English freebooter and transferred to the companionship of Captain Kidd, with whom he had been accustomed to visit the Sheepscot and cut spars. On the capture of Kidd and the dispersion of his crew, Trask retired to Sheepscot and made a clearing within the limits of the early Free-town now incorporated as Edgecomb. His experience among the Indians have him celebrity as one skilled in the curative art, and among the early settlers he was known as "Dr Trask."

Three sons of Samuel Trask, Jonathan, David S, and Thomas, settled Ballstown about 1795. Their farms included most of the land between Third Baptist Church and William Hemmenway's in South Jefferson. They all took very active part in town affairs. Jonathan was the first representative from Jefferson to the General Court in Boston. David was the first town clerk. Thomas was the father of Rev Enos Trask, to whom reference has been made.
House in Edgecomb still standing in 1941

https://archive.org/details/wiscassetinpowna00chas
Wiscasset in Pownalborough
by Chase, Fannie Scott
Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1941
II. The Valley of Sheepscot
p 14
In the year 1652, a neck of land lying between the Damariscotta and Sheepscot Rivers, beginning at Sheepscot Falls and running to a freshet called by the English "Oven's Mouth" (subsequently known as Mason and Jewett's Neck, embracing the entire town of Edgecomb), was conveyed to John Mason by the Indian sagamores Robinhood and Dick Swash, and recorded at Pemaquid.
...
Edgecomb was first settled in 1774 by Samuel Trask and others who took up lands on Mason and Jewett's Neck and established their claims by possession in which they remained undisturbed for ten years...
...
The original house of Samuel Trask is still standing on the middle road from Edgecomb to Newcastle. It is of Cape Cod type, one story and a half, with a slanting roof.

Wiscasset in Pownalborough
IV. Early history of Wiscasset
p 46
Petition 22 March 1749/50 for incorporation of Wiscasset
...
Samll Trask
...
1725 Notes on Samuel Trask

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 47
1893
Letters of Col Thomas Westbrook and other
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/rd/11607/163/241600431
p 163
May it Please your Honr
The Lieut of the man of Warr arriv'd here the 6th Currt with a small Sloop they took from the Indians about Ten days ago, and one Samuel Traske, whom he redeem'd from Casteen, of whom I got the Enclosed Information, and the other from Lieut James March. It seems to me as if the providence of God had sent him at this Juncture to do us great service. I designe this night to follow Sanders & inform him of the Indian vessel, for I question wether he be gone from St Georges. I hear nothing from Mr Grant. If your Honr should draw any men from Berwick & Wells, I am of opinion that it would be best for the service to Draw the old Soldiers and let the new men guard the Inhabitants.
I am your Honrs most Dutiful servt
Thos Westbrook
Falmo July 7th 1725
Mass Arch 52: 214

May it Please your Honr,
I have stopt Samll Trask for the present, by consent of Lieut Prichard, for a Pilott. He has on board one Mr Bell that is a very good Pilott. I have talkt with him. He is willing to serve the Governr if he can get his bread by it. If Capt Slocom be not sail'd it would be for the service to send him with Slocum, and if he be, to send him by the first; wee very much want Slocum
I am your Honrs most Dutifull servant
Thos Westbrook
Falmo July 8th 1725
Mass Arch 52: 215

* See Register Volume 14 Page 139, 140 for a copy of a letter [Massachusetts Archives Volume 52 Page 226-9] from Baron De Castine, the younger, dated at Pentagouet 23 July 1725, in which he mentions the fact of having redeemed Samuel Trask, "of Salem, near Marblehead," "from the Savages," for 10 pistoles.

This Samuel Trask was a grandson of Captain William [Trask], of Salem, where he was born 13 Augst 1671, and died in Edgecomb, Maine, in the month of August 1789, at the advanced aged of 118 years. The tradition in the family is that "he walked a mile home and back on the day of his death, ate his dinner, sat back, appeared to be falling, and soon died." His wife survived him till the May following, when she died; was buried the 20th of May 1790.

It appears that a sum of money had been voted by the town of Salem for the redemption of Mr T from the Indians, but on the 30th of April 1725, his whereabouts not being learned, it remaining uncertain whether he was dead or alive, they voted to appropriate the money for the purchase of a bell," "and if said Trask should be heard of and stand in need of help for his redemption," they would contribute towards it. See Sewall's Ancient Dominion of Maine, page 251. Abigail Trask, grand-daughter of Samuel, married the Rev Samuel Sewall. She was a grandmother of Rufus K Sewall Esq, author of the above work. Felt's Annals of Salem, 1st edition, p 379; 2nd edition Volume 2 page 255, contains information concerning the said Samuel Trask. A facsimile signature of Samuel Trask is here given, his name being appended to various petitions for land etc, the originals of which are to be found in the Massachusetts Archives, as also that of his sons, Samuel Jr, of these petitions are printed in the Register. Samuel Trask and Hannah Steward, both of Salem, were published 21 November 1730. See Salem Press Historical and Genealogical Record Volume 1 Page 54. This was doubtless Samuel, the "redeemed captive."
These are not this family

Susanna Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Susanna Trask
Event Type Christening
Event Date 12 Apr 1730
Event Place Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Female
Father's Name Saml. Joseph Trask
Mother's Name Emma
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-ZLZZ : 13 July 2016), Susanna Trask, 1730.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
GS Film Number 864851
Digital Folder Number 004029870
Image Number 00093

Thomas Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Thomas Trask
Event Type Christening
Event Date 27 Feb 1731
Event Place Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Male
Father's Name Samuel Trask
Mother's Name Mercy
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-ZP6W : 13 July 2016), Thomas Trask, 1731.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
GS Film Number 864851
Digital Folder Number 004029870
Image Number 00093

Thomas Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Thomas Trask
Event Type Christening
Event Date 27 Feb 1730
Event Place Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Male
Father's Name Samuel Trask
Mother's Name Mercy Trask
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-5MBH : 13 July 2016), Thomas Trask, 1730.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
Reference ID p 25
GS Film Number 760604
Digital Folder Number 004934217
Image Number 00509

Thomas Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Thomas Trask
Event Type Christening
Event Date 27 Feb 1731
Event Place Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Male
Father's Name Samuel Trask
Mother's Name Mercy
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-ZP6W : 13 July 2016), Thomas Trask, 1731.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
GS Film Number 864851
Digital Folder Number 004029870
Image Number 00093

Thomas Trask
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records
Name Thomas Trask
Event Type Christening
Event Date 27 Feb 1730
Event Place Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Gender Male
Father's Name Samuel Trask
Mother's Name Mercy Trask
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-5MBH : 13 July 2016), Thomas Trask, 1730.
Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001
Reference ID p 25
GS Film Number 760604
Digital Folder Number 004934217
Image Number 00509

Samuel Trask [r Bradford m Rebecca Peabody]
Massachusetts Births and Christenings
Name Samuel Trask
Gender Male
Birth Date 22 Aug 1747
Birthplace BRADFORD,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS
Father's Name Samuel Trask
Mother's Name Hannah
Citing this Record
"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCKS-7J7 : 4 December 2014), Samuel Trask, 22 Aug 1747; citing BRADFORD,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0599732 IT 1.
No image available
Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Indexing Project (Batch) Number C50019-1
System Origin Massachusetts-ODM
GS Film number 0599732 IT 1
Settled at Majabagaduce 1762

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUpIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Documentary history of the state of Maine ..
by Maine Historical Society
Publication date 1869-1916
Volume 13 Page 242

Petition of Ebenr Thorndike & others 1762
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Janry 3d 1762
...
We the Subscribers having been Soldiers at Fort Pownall and now Settled at a Place called Magebaggadeuse on the Eastern Side of Penobscott Bay, and others desirous of settling there themselves, or Settling other good Families in their Room...
...
John Trott
...
Samuel Trask [Sr]
...
Samuel Trott
...
David Trask [s Samuel]
...
Thomas Trask [s Samuel]
...
John Trott
...
Thomas Trott
...
Samll Trask [s Samuel]
...
Joseph Trask [s Samuel]
...

...

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
Volumes 1 - 239
Muster Rolls
Valuations
Revolutionary Petitions
v. 117 -- Towns (from p.615), 1755-1762 ; v. 118 -- Towns (to p.760), 1763-1774.
Granite Mountain Record Vault
United States & Canada Film
1838257
7705905
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007705905?cat=1055547
[210/1330]
Volume 117 Page 769
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Jany 3d 1762
To his Excellency Francis Bernard Esq Captain General and Governour in and over his Majesty's Province afores'd the Honourable His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives, in General Court Assembled
We the Subscribers having been Soldiers at Fort Pownall and now Settled at a Place called Magebaggadeuse on the Eastern Side of Penobscott Bay, and others desirous of settling there themselves, or Settling other good Families in their Room; for the Accommodation of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request,Your Excellency and Honours wou'd Please to grant Your Petitioners and their Heirs, a Township to be bounded as follows, beginning about three miles above Casteens River, at a Place called Sandy Point and to run East North East Eight Miles, then South South East to the Ocean and then West South West Eight Miles, and then to the first Bounds mentioned, a Neck of Land Water and Islands, And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
Edward Milliken
Eben' Thorndike
Nath" Milliken
Samuel Freeman
Joseph Brown
Eze Cushing
John Bicknell Jun?
Ezekiel Cushing Jur
Mark Haskell
Jeremiah Cushing
Benja Milliken
Joseph Milliken
Lemuel Smith
Saml Cate
David Elwill
Nathanell Harmon
Danl Mackey
John Trott
Willm Masury
Samuel Trott
Henry Herrick
John Trott
William Morgan
Thomas Trott
William Bartlett
Stephen Huchinson
John Roundey
Samuel Osborn
Nicolas Thorndike
John Melbery Milliken
Andrew Thorndike
Thomas Milliken
Joseph Wood
William Haskell
Anthony Dyer
Thomas Stroute
Samuel Wood
Benjamin Robbins
Samll Trask
Benjamin Robbins
Joshua Silvester juner
Archebaild Hency
Samuel Silvester
Josiah heney
David Silvester
Daniel Noyes
Samuel Silvester
Stephen Combes
Samuel Trask
Joshua Combes
Joseph Trask
Andrew Simonton
David Trask
William Dyer
Spencer Bret
George Dyer
Rougles Colbe
Bengman Thorndike
Thomas Trask
David Alden
Thomas Williamson
John Thorndike
Bengman frizzel
Joshua Woodbery
Adam Silvester
Samuell Clark
Paul Thorndike
John Robinson Jur
Nathl Ingersoll
Nathaniel Jordan ju
Joseph Wilson
Edward Milliken Jur
[217/1330[
In the House of Representatives Feby 23 1762
Voted, That the Petition of Ebenr Thorndies and fifty nine Other his associates be so far granted as that therebe, and hereby is granted in the them the said Ebenezer Thorndike and his associates herein mentioned their heirs and assigns for ever as Tenants in Common, one Township of Land to consist of the Quantity of sic Miles Square of the unappropriated Lands if this Province, between the River Penobscot and the River St Croix. That the said Township be no more than six miles on the Sea Coast, or on Penobscot or other Rivers. That they return a Plan of the same (taken by a Surveyor and Chain men on Oath) to this Court for further Confirmation on or before the last Day of July next. That they within sic years after they shall obtain his Majesty's approbation of this Grant (unless prevented by War) settle said Township with sixty good Protestant Families, and build sixty houses none to be less than eighteen Feet Quare, and seven Feet Stud, and clear and cultivate five acres of Land on each Share fit for Tillage or mowing; and that they build in said Townshop a suitable Meeting House for the publick Worship of God, and settle a Learned Protestant Minister, and make Provisions for his comfortable and honourable Support:- And that in said Township [] be reserved and appropriated four Whole Rights of Shares in the Division of [] (accounting one sixty fourth Part a Share) [] following Purposes, Vizt, one for the first settled of ordained minister, his Heirs and Assigns for ever; one for the use of the Ministryl one to and for the use of Harvard College in Cambridge; and one for the use of a School for ever; And if any of the Grantees or Proprietors of said Township shall neglect within the Term of six years as beforementioned, to do and perform according to the several articles respecting the Settlement of his Right or Share as hereby enjoined, his whole Right or Share shall be entirely forfeited and enure to the use of this Province.
Provided nevertheless, the Grant of the above Land is to be void and of none Effect; unless tje Grantees do obtain his Majesty's Confirmation of the Same in eighteen months from this time.
And be it further Ordered as a Condition of the Grant aforesaid, That each Grantee give Bond to the Treasurer of this Province for the time being, and to his Succesors in said [] for the Sum of Fifty Pounds, for the Use of this Province, Conditioned for the faithful Performance of the Duties required according to the Tenor of the Grants aforesaid; and that a Committee or Committees be appointed by this Court to take said Bonds accordingly Sent up
And further that said Committee be impowered to admit others as Grantees in the room of such persons contained in the List aforesaid who shall neglect to appear by themselves or Others in their behalf to give bonds, at such time as the Committee shall appoint

In Council March 3d 1762. Read and Concurred Consented to
A Oliver Secy

Fra Bernard

Samuel Freeman
Anthony Dyer
George Dyer
Ezekl Cushing
Thomas Strout
Benjamin Thorndike
Ezekiel Cushing Junr
Samuel Wood
David Alden
Jeremiah Cushing
Samuel Trask
John Thorndike
Joseph Milliken
Joshua Silvester Jr
Joshua Woodberry
Saml Cate
Nathl Harmon
Samuel Silvester
Samuel Clark
John Trott
David Silvester
John Robinson Junr
Samuel Trott
Samuel Silvester
Nathl Ingersoll
John Trott
Samuel Trask
Nathl Jordon Junr
Thomas Trott
Joseph Trask
Joseph Wilson
Stephen Hutchinson
David Trask
Edward Milliken Junr
Samuel Osborn
Spencer Bret
John Bicknell
Edward Milliken
Ruggles Coble
Nathl Milliken
Thomas Trask
Joseph Brown
Thomas Williamson
Mark Haskell
Benjamin Frissel
Benjamin Milliken
Adam Silvester
Lemuel Smith
Saml Elville
Paul Thorndike
Danl Mackey
Jno Milberry Milliken
Wm Masury
Benjamin Robbins
Henry Herrick
William Morgan
Benjamin Robbins [2]
William Bartlett
Archibald Henery
John Roundey
Josiah Henery
Nicholas Thornshike
Stephen Combes
Andrew Thorndike
Joshua Combes
Joseph Wood
Andrew Simonson
William Haskell
William Dyer
Daniel Noyes
Wiscasset Militia List 1757

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
v. 95A -- Muster rolls, 1757 ; v. 95B -- Muster rolls, 1757.
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
1783487
7705805
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007705805?cat=1055547
[556/910]
Volume 95 Page 336
A true list of the Company of Milta within the Destrict of Whiscasit & Under the Command of Jonathan Williamson
...
Samuel Trask [Serjt]
...
Nichodemas Place
Elisha Kenny
Samuel Ball
...
David Danforth
...
Joseph Decker
John Decker
...
Abraham Evins
Jacob Evins
...
Daniel MacKenny
David McKenny
John McKenny
Ephrim Grant
Andrew Grant
...
David Trask
Thomas Trask
Joseph Trask
...
Robert Cothrin
William Cothrin
...
Comation Officers & men upwards of Sixty
Viz
James Trant
...
John Deceker
...
In the Above List there is fifteen Persons upwards of fifty years Lam & Near Sited

The Above is True List of Every man Within the Destrict of Whiscasit Mounsweg Jeremy Squam Island & Sjeepscott without Newcastle line Taken April ye 30th 1757
Attest William Chas T Clark

* * *
Also
https://archive.org/details/bangorhistoricalv3bang/page/n101
The Bangor historical magazine
Publication date 1885
p 109
Soliders at Wiscasset and Vicinity 1757
From Massachusetts Archives Volume 95 Muster Roll 336
A true list of the company of Militia within the District of Whiscasite, and under the command of Jonathan Williamson:
...
Samuel Trask, Sergeant
...
Robert Trott
...
Elisha Kenny
Samuel Ball
...
Joseph Decker
John Decker
...
Elijah Grant
...
David Trask
Thomas Trask
Joseph Trask
...
David Danforth
...
Commissioned officers and men upward of sixty, viz: James Grant, William Graves. In the above list there is fifteen persons upward of fifty years of age, some near sixty.
The above is a true list of every man within the District of Whiscaset, Jeremy Squam Island, Sheepscot, without Newcastle line.
Attest William Clifford Clerk
Taken April 30th 1757
Where one Trask was buried in Whitefield

Land records v. 216-217 1858-1859
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
11467
8296883
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008296883?cat=352440
[431/600]
Volume 217 Page 207
John Plummer 2d & Simeon Plummer, Rebecca Plummer, Lucinda Murphy wife of Jacob Murphy all of Whitefield, Nancy Hunt wife of Moses Hunt r Pittston
Sarah M Plummer yeoman Whitefield
$100
quit claim
land in Whitefield
beginning at a yellow birch tree standing on the north side of an Island where one Trask was buried on the west side of Sheepscot river
thence running a west northwest course to the western branch of said river
thence down said branch as it runs about 40 rods to land owned or occupied by Abiel Plummer
thence an easterly course on said Plummer's land to Sheepscot river
thence up said river about 40 rods to the first mentioned bounds
30 acres
23 March 1855
John Plummer 2d
Simeon Plummer
Lucinda Murphy
Rebecca Plummer
Nancy Hunt
Wit: Thomas Bran, John Plummer 3d
[Deed afterward Sarah Plummer to Timothy Plummer]
Who is this?

* * *
Extracts from the Diary of Moses Davis

https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?volumeId=11658&pageName=414&rId=23516134

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
Extracts from the Diary of Moses Davis, J.P., of Edgecomb, Me., 1775-1823
communicated by William Davis Patterson Esq of Wiscasset, Maine
Volume Name 83
Page 414

Page 420
Saturday Jany 30 1819 Funeral of Willm Trask who died with a wound in his thigh
Why did Moses Davis call David Trask Sr "Uncle"? His wife Hannah's name is unknown.

Moses Davis s Moses Davis m Abigail Sargeant
m Sarah Rolfe d Samuel Rolfe m Judith Tappan

Extracts from the Diary of Moses Davis

https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image?volumeId=11658&pageName=414&rId=23516134

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.)
Extracts from the Diary of Moses Davis, J.P., of Edgecomb, Me., 1775-1823
communicated by William Davis Patterson Esq of Wiscasset, Maine
Volume Name 83
Page 414

Page 421
Monday May 24 1819 Uncle David Trask died this morning
Which David Trask? Probably a younger one.

Readex Newspaper Database University of Maine Folger Library

Legislative Acts/Legal Proceedings page [2], iss. 1354, vol. XXIV
Date January 13, 1829
Source
Weekly Eastern Argus (published as Eastern Argus.)
Place(s) of Publication Portland, Maine

Petition of David Trask for relief in consequence of an injury sustained by him, while laboring on the Highway, was read, and referred to the committee on claims. Sent up for concurrence.
Edgecomb Assessments

Edgecomb 1784: No Names

Edgecomb Assessment 1791
[8]
Samuel Trask 1 poll rateable 1 dwelling house 1 barn [m Dorcas or s Samuel m Dorcas]
Obadiah Trask 1 1 - [s Samuel m Dorcas]
Moses Trask 1 - - [s Samuel m Dorcas]
...
David Trask Junr 1 1 1 [s David m Hannah]
...
David Trask 2 1 1 [1/2 Grist, Saw, Fulling and Sliting Mills] [m Hannah]
...
Solomon Trask 2 1 1 [1 Shops Seperate from or adjoining other building]
Solomon Trask Junr 1 - -
...
Willm Trask 1 1 - [s Samuel m Dorcas]

Edgecomb Assessmnet 1792:
Solomon Trask 1 poll 16-21; 1 poll 21+ D
Solomon Trask Junr 1 poll 21+
David Trask 1 poll 16-21; 1 poll 21+ D
David Trask Junr 1 poll 21+ D
Elias Trask 1 poll 21+
Samuel Trask 1 poll not rateable, not supported by town L
Obadiah Trask 1 poll 21+ L
William Trask 1 poll 21+ L
James Trask 1 poll 21+
Moses Trask 1 poll 21+

Edgecomb Assessment 1800
David Trask 2 [s David m Hannah, Enoch? Daniel?] House Shop Barn 1/2 grist mill
Solomon Trask 2 [Solomon, Solomon] House Barn
Widw Bet??? T???? ?
Widw Hannah Trask - [wid Stephen s Solomon]
Ebenezer Trask 1 [s David m Hannah] 1/2 house 1/2 barn
Elias Trask 1 [s Davis m Hannah] 1/2 house 1/2 barn
Solo Trask for lower farm - 1 house 1 barn
Samuel Trask - [Samuel m Dorcas or Samuel s Samuel] House Barn
William Trask 1 [s Samuel m Dorcas] House Barn
Moses Trask - [s Samuel m Dorcas]
Peter Trask 1 [s John r Newcastle m Elizabeth Patterson] 1/3 house 1/3 barn [Not obvious who the other 2/3 might be]
Solomon Trask Junr -
John Trask - [John Trask m Hannah]
Samuel Trask Census 1840
Augusta: Samuel Trask m Eunice Chamberlain August 1830
New Portland: Samuel Trask m Mary Luce r New Portland 1850
Whitefield:
New Sharon: [1801-1810]
Avon: [1791-1800]
Bucksport: [1791-1800]
French and Indian Index

Service for Samuel Sr, Samuel Jr, David, Thomas
Joseph recorded under Joseph's file

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1471369?availability=Family%20History%20Library
French and Indian War muster roll index cards, 1603-1779
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
French and Indian war muster rolls index cards, Ezra Thompson, Jr. - Tuckerman, Abram (continued), 1710-1774
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
2429885
8732105
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008732105?cat=1471369
[2446/3514]
Samuel Trask begins
[2457]
144985
Samuel Trask Appears on A List dated Apr 30 1757 of men in Capt Jonathan Williamson's District of Wiscasset Co
List included "every man within the District of Whiscasit, Mounsweg, Jeremy Quam Island & Sheepscott without Newcastle line"
Rank: Sergeant
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 95 Page 336
[2458/3514]
144986
Samuel Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston January 25 1747/8 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt David Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered Service 23 July [1747]
Served until 20 January [1748]
Length of service 26 weeks
Year not given, probably 1747, 1747/8
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 92 Page 76
[2459/]
144988
Samuel Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston August 1748 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt David Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered Service 11 March [1748]
Served until 28 July [1748]
Length of service 20 weeks
Year not given, probably 1747/8, 1748
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 92 Page 123
[2460/]
144987
Samuel Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston 12 August 1748 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt David Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered Service 21 January[1748]
Served until 10 March [1748]
Length of service 7 weeks 1 day
Year not given, endorsed 1747/8
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 92 Page 91
[2462/]
144990
Samuel Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston 25 April 1757 of a detachment in His Majesty's service under the command of Sergt William Groves
Quality Centinel
Enetered service 12 March 1756
Served until 8 June 1756
Length of service 4 weeks
Service as guard over stores from Fort Western to Fort Halifax by order of Col Cushing
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 94 Page 247
[2463/]
144989
Samuel Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston 13 December 1748 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt David Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered service 29 July [1748]
Served until 2 December [1748]
Length of service 18 Weeks 1 day
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 92 Page 187
[2465/]
144991
Samll Trask Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston 29 October 1759 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt James Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered service 31 March 1759
Served until 15 July 1759
Length of service 15 weeks 2 days
Endorsed company at Penobscot
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 97 Page 244
[2466/]
144992
Samuel Trask Jr Appears on A Muster Roll dated Boston 25 January 1747/8 of a company in His Majesty's service under the command of Capt David Cargill
Quality Centinel
Entered service 21 September [1747]
Served until 16 November [1747]
Length of service 8 weeks 1 day
Reported son to Samuel Trask a minor
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 92 Page 77
[2467/]
144993
Thomas Trask Appears on A List dated Apr 30 1757 of men in Capt Jonathan Williamson's District of Wiscasset Co
List included "every man within the District of Whiscasit, Mounsweg, Jeremy Quam Island & Sheepscott without Newcastle line"
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 95 Page 336
[2378/]
144909
David Trask Appears on A List dated Apr 30 1757 of men in Capt Jonathan Williamson's District of Wiscasset Co
List included "every man within the District of Whiscasit, Mounsweg, Jeremy Quam Island & Sheepscott without Newcastle line"
Massachusetts Archives Muster Rolls Volume 95 Page 336
Salem Land

There are no Salem lots that are independent of Eleazzer Lindsey estate.

Early map of Salem shows John Trask:
https://www.noblenet.org/salem/reference/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1700salem-turned.jpg

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 51-53 1727-1730
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866037
7463280
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463280?cat=209907
[238/895]
Volume 51 Page 227
Ralph Lyndsey coaster Lynn
whereas Capt Eleazer Lyndsey Junr late of Salem Decd by his Last Will & Testament Setled his Estate amongst his Children in Such manner & Form as in by the sd Will or the Record thereof will appear at the Decease of his Wife whereupon Habakkuk the Eldest son of the sd Eleazer Lyndsey did assume to make Sale of part thereof the sd Ralph Lyndsey (his Mother being yet alive) and did likewise Contract other Debts with the sd Ralph Lyndsey. Notwithstanding which the General Court have ordered a Division of the whole Estate of the sd Eleazer Lyndsey Decd among the Five Surviving Children of the sd Eleazer Lyndsey Decd
Joseph Boyce & Content his wife, Samuel Trask & Elizabeth his wife
...
8 January 1728
Ralph Lyndsey
Wit: Sarah Smith, David Boyce
Received 8 January 1728

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 51-53 1727-1730
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866037
7463280
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463280?cat=209907
[85/895]
Volume 51 Page 79
Elizabeth Lyndsey widow Salem
Sarah Smith widow, Joseph and Content Boyce, Samuel and Elizabeth Trask, John Trask as Guardian to Eleazer Lyndsey, Samuel Aborn as Guardian to Lydia Lyndsey
15 pounds annually during my natural life
estate of their father and her late husband Eleazer Lyndsey, saving only the necessary household stuff which is now in my possession and the stock upon the farm
2 May 1728
Elizabeth Lyndsey
Wit: Samuel Archer, John Higginson
Received 11 June 1728

Volume 51 Page 75 & 77 Order & Partition. Lynn, Nahant & Salem

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 56-58 1728-1731
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866039
7463282
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463282?cat=209907
[552/792]
Volume 58 page 52
John Higginson gentleman Salem
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem
60 pounds
the westerly half part of the Mansion House of Capt Eleazer Lyndsey Decd situate in Salem aforesd
and the westerly half of the Barn with the Land whereon they Stand
& about 7 Acres of Plowland in Lyn thereto adjoining
& about 9 acres of Wood Land adjoining to the aforesd Plow Land Situate in Lyn
All which were heretofore the Estate of Capt Eleazer Lyndsey of Salem Decd & were divided and Sett off to the sd Samuel Trask & Elizabeth his Wife Since Decd by a Comittee appointed by the Genl Court 26 April 1728
excepting annual payment of 52 shillings 6 pence to Elizabeth Lyndsey widow
18 March 1730
John Higginson
Wit: David Boyce, Joseph Boyce
Received 20 April 1731

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 59-60 1731-1732
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866040
7463283
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463283?cat=209907
[540/595]
Volume 60 Page 237
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem with consent of Hannah my now wife
Joseph Boyce tanner Salem
59 pounds
all that my half part of the dwelling house which was the estate and dwelling house of my father in law Eleazer Lyndsey Decr Vizt the Southwest End of the sd Dwelling house with the land whereon it Stands and thereto belonging containing half and Acre More or less bounded northerly & easterly on land of the sd Joseph Boyce as the sd line is Sett forth in the Division of sd Lyndseys Estate till it Comes to the Road and Westerly on My Own land from the Southwest Corner of the Orchard where the barn Stood to the Cherry Trees and from thence in a Straight line & parallel to the line between Salem and Lynn till it comes to the sd Boyces land with the priviledges Commonages and Commodities thereto belonging
14 April 1732
Samuel Trask
Hannah Trask
Wit: Joseph Vesey, John Higginson, Elizabeth Lindsey, Lydia Lindsey [Her mark]
Received 14 April 1732

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 59-60 1731-1732
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866040
7463283
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463283?cat=209907
[541/595]
Volume 60 Page 238
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem and wife Hannah
John Higginson gentleman Salem
60 pounds
a certain piece or parcel of land in Lynn in the County Aforesd containing Sixteen Acres More or less bounded Easterly partly on Salem Common and partly on Joseph Boyces land as the fence now Stands to the Southwest Corner of the Orchard from thence to the Cherry Trees and from thence Parallel to Lynn line till it comes to the line of the land Sett out to Joseph and Content Boyce and thence in sd line to the Road then bounded Southerly by sd Road and Westerly by sd Higginsons land in part and partly on land in possession of Daniel Mansfield and Partly on land of Zacheus Collins and Northerly on the Range line which was formerly laid out to Joseph Mansfield and Eleazer Lindsey with the fence thereon Standing or thereo belongin and all ways Water Trees Profitts Priviledges and Appurtenances whatsoever
14 April 1732
Samuel Trask
Hannah Trask
Wit: Joseph Vezy, Joseph Boyce, Elizabeth Lyndsey, Joseph Boyce
Received 14 April 1732
Rowley Land

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 64-65 1733-1734
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866042
7463285
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463285?cat=209907
[268/591]
Volume 64 Page
James Steward husbandman Rowley and wife Sarah
Samuel Trask husbandman Rowley
50 pounds
my dwelling house & barn & land adjoining containing 30 acres
northerly on land of Jona Russel
easterly on land of Solomon Steward
southerly on the highway
westerly on land of Thomas & John Carlton
also
6 acres
northerly on land called Rowley Common
easterly on Boyntons land
southerly on Webster's meadow
westerly on land formerly Spaffords now belonging to Solomon Stewar
all situate in Rowley
9 December 1734
Wit: Samuel Cole, Richd Saltonstall
Received 11 December 1734

Deeds, v. 83-84 1741-1743
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866050
7463293
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463293?cat=209907
[42/596]
Volume 84 Page 125
Samuel Trask husbandman Rowley
James Stuard junr housewright Rowley
140 pounds
my dwelling house & Barn & Land adjoining Containing Thirty acres
northerly on Land of Jonathan Russel
easterly on land of Solomon Stuard
southerly on the highway
westerly on land of Thomas & John Carlton
also
6 acres
northerly on land called Rowley Common
easterly on Boyntons Land
southerly on Websters meadow
westerly on land formerly Spaffords now belonging to Solomon Stuard
all situate in Rowley
20 January 1737
Samuel Trask
Wit: Jona Thurston, Benja Foster
Received 30 January 1737/8
Lynn Land of father in law Eleazer Lindsey

Volume 52 Page 18
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem and wife Elizabeth
William Shillaber shopkeeper Salem
100 pounds
part of the homestead of our Father Capt Eleazer Lyndsey Decd
land in Lynn in Salem Line
...
31 January 1728
Samuel Trask
Elizabeth Trask [Her mark]
Wit: David Boyd, Jona Twiss
Received 13 1729

Volume 46 Page 220
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem and wife Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lindsey widow Salem
50 pounds
land of our father Capt Eleazer Lyndsey decd in Lynn adjoining to Salem Line
...
8 May 1728
Samuel Trask
Elizabeth Trask [Her mark[
Wit: John Trask, Jonn Trask
Received 10 June 1728
Freetown Petitions

1766 for Court Closer to Pownalborough. Samll Trask, Samuel Trask Junr. [Volume 118 Page 183]
1767 for Court. Samuel Trask, Samuel Trask Jur [Volume 118 Page 210]
1774 for minister. Samuel Trask, Samuel Trask Junr. [Volume 118 Page 761]

https://books.google.com/books?id=ZUpIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Documentary History of the State of Maine, Volume 13
p 443
The Petition of the Inhabitants of a Plantation called Freetown in the County of Lincoln Humbly Sheweth

That Frankfort in the West side of Pownalborough in said County the place where the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace and Inferior Court of Common Pleas are now held is very near the western side of said County and quite remote from, By far the greatest Part of the Inhabitants of said County and that there are but two or three Houses near said Place in Which People who have necessary business at said Court can have lodgings and Entertainment so that a great part of the People during their necessary attendance on said Courts are much distressed for Necessaries and are oblidged to lodge on a floor or in Barns or sit all night by the fire during the whole stay at said Court.
Wherefore Your Petitioners humbly Pray your Excellency & honors that said Courts may be run over to the Eastern Side of Pownalborough aforesaid which is much nearer the Center of said County both as to land and Inhabitants and where those who have Business at said Courts my be sufficiently provided for there being a sufficient Number of houses there in which to Entertain and lodge them and for the Reasons aforesaid if Pownalborough should be divided into two Distinct Towns agreeable to a Petition as we understand now before your Excellency and Honours that what is now the Eastern side of Pownalborough may be made the Shire Town of the said County it being a Place well situated for the Courts to be held at and Your Petitions as in duty bound shal ever Pray &c &c
...
Solomon Trask
Samll Trask
Thomas Trask
Samuel Trask Junr
David Trask
Joseph Trask
Samuel Webber
...
In the House of Representatives Novr 3 1766 Read & Orderd that this Petn be referred for Consideration to the (Indorsed) Oct 29 1766 read & ordered to lye Novr 4 referrd toIn the House of Representatives Novr 3 1766 Read & Orderd that this Petn be referred for Consideration to the (Indorsed) Oct 29 1766 read & ordered to lye Novr 4 referrd to

https://archive.org/details/documentaryhisto00main/mode/2up
Documentary history of the state of Maine Volume 14
by Maine Historical Society
Publication date 1869-1916
p 16
Petition of the Inhabts of Freetown 1767
Province of the Massachusetts Bay
To His Excellency Francis Bernard Esrq Governour &c
The honble his Majesty's Council the House of Representatives in Geveral Court Assembled Jany 14th 1767
...[again asking for court]
...
Solomon Trask
Samuel Trask
...
Joseph Trask
...
Samuel Trask Jur
...

p 216
Petition of Inhabts of Freetown 1774
To his Excelency Thomas Hutchinson Esqr Captain General and commander in Cheif in and over his Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England To the Honourable his Majestys council and the Honourable House of Representatives of said Province in Generall Court Assembled January 26th AD 1774
...[asking for minister]
...
Joseph Trask
...
Solomon Trask
...
Samuel Trask
...
David Trask
...
Samuel Trask Junr
...
Lynn Land with Joseph Boyce

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 51-53 1727-1730
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866037
7463280
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463280?cat=209907
[237/895]
Volume 51 Page 226
8 January 1728
Ralph Lyndsey coaster Lynn
Joseph Boyce tanner Salem and wife Content, Samuel Trask fisherman Salem amd wife Elizabeth
5 acres 20 poles of land in Great Nahant in Lynn
which he purchased of their brother Habakkuk Lyndsey by his deed dated 14 January 1722/3
also of & in the moiety of 8 acres 100 poles in Lynn which he purchased of Habakkuk Lyndsey 8 January 1721/2
all that lot or parcel of land situate lying & being in the Township of Lyn aforesd near the Dwelling house of Capt eleazer Lyndsey Junr Deceased
10 acres 100 poles laid out by the Comoners & Proprietors of Lynn as part of Town's Comons to William Rowland Decd adjoining to a lot of land laid out to Capt Eleazer Lyndsey Jur Decr
Ralpy Lyndsey
Wit: Sarah Smith, David Boyce
Received 8 January 1728

Volume 55 Page 134
Joseph Bayce tanner & Samuel Trask fisherman Salem
John Higginson gentleman Salem
32 pounds
land in Lynn
about 10 acres
land laid out by the commons & proprietors of Lybb
part of the William Rowland
adjoining land land out to Capt Eleazer Lyndsey Junr
which we bought of Ralph Lyndsey 8 January 1728
mortgage terms
9 April 1730
Joseph Boyce
Saml Trask
Wit: John Cabot, Phillip Sanders
Received 11 April 1730

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/209907?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Deeds, 1639-1866; index to deeds, 1640-1879 (Essex County, Massachusetts)
Authors: Essex County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds
Deeds, v. 56-58 1728-1731
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
866039
7463282
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007463282?cat=209907
[552/792]
Volume 58 page 52
Samuel Trask fisherman Salem
John Higginson gentleman Salem
quit claim
10 acre lot of land in Lynn laid out to William Rowland adjoining land of Capt Eleazer Lyndsey
which lot was heretofore mortgaged by Joseph Boyce & me the sd Samuel Trask to sd John Higginson 9 April 1730 [sic]
1 March 1730[/1] [sic]
Samuel Trask
Wit: Benja Prescott, Wm Osgood
Received 20 April 1731 [sic]
Salem Village Parish Records. Redemption of Trask

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/410968?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Salem Village Parish records, 1670-1735
Authors: Salem (Massachusetts). Town Clerk
Salem Village Parish records, 1670-1735
Family History Library
United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film
876096
8182407
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/008182407?cat=410968
[625/892]
Salem Village April the 30th 1725
The Inhabitants of this Village are hereby Required tin his Megstys name to Meet together att their Ussal place of meetting on wensday the 12th of May insueing the Date here of att four of the Clock in the afternoon To Make Choice of some Meet person or persons to receive the Mony that was subscribed or that shal be subscribed toward the buying of a bell for our meetting house of of the Committy that was Chosen to Received or Colect to same also to consider how you wil dispose of the mony that was Contributed for the Redemtion of trask from the enimy and to give the above sd person or persons that shall be chosen Instructions also if the Mony thay is subscribed Be not sufficient to pay for the Bell that is Come to consider how the Remainder shal be Raised also to give the committy that was Chose to seat our meeting house further instructions or add some more men to said committy or Chuse a new Committy to seat our Meeting house.
By order of the Committy
Nathl putnam Clark
att a Meetting of the inhabitants of sallem Village May the 12th 1725 Capta Jonathan putnam Chosen Moderator
1ly...
3ly Voted that the mony that was contributed for the Redmtion of Trask shall goe toward buygin the Bell for our Meeting house
4ly Voted that if the sd trask shod be heard of and stand in meed of help for his Redemtion that we wil contribute toward it
5ly voted that Decon Edward putnam Shal Deliver the mony that was contributed for the Redemtion of Trask to Decn Eliezar putnam & Capt Thomas flint

[629/892]
Salem Village May the 26th 1725
Colector Nicholas Hawards List of Rates for Mr Peter Clarks Salery for the year 1725
...
Nil Trask

No other Trasks in the rates lists back to 1719. None forward to 1728.

[862/892]
Persons Married by Sam Parris
...
3 Jan 1794 [Jonathan] Fuller to Susan Trask
...
Novem 26 [1701] John Trask to Hannah Osburn both of Salem
Novem 26 Benjam Hanson of Dover to Elizth Trask of Salem
...
[869/892]
Town Clerk for Sal
...
May 9 1711 Benja Trask of Beverly & Triphe Herrick

No other Trasks in the indexes
Salem Land 1760

Samuel Trask
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
Name: Samuel Trask
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1755
Marriage Place: Salem, Massachusetts
Spouse Name: Mary Mason
Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Essex County Registry Books
Volume 110 Page 222
Elias Trask carpenter Salem
Samuel Trask sailor Salem
9 6 8
my dwelling house being in Salem and half an acre of land the said house stands upon
southerly on the Horse Pasture
easterly on land of Mr John Shillaber deceased
northerly on a land commonly called Shillaber Land
westerly on land in the possession of the widow Abigail Richards
21 January 1760
Elias Trask [His mark]
Wit: Jonathan Tucker, Richard Richards
Received 5 October 1762

No remarriage for Salem.
1749 Petition Wiscasset

https://archive.org/details/documentaryhisto12main/page/48/mode/2up
Documentary history of the state of Maine ..
by Maine Historical Society

Publication date 1869-1916
Volume 12 Page 49
Petition Wiscasset

To the Honble Spencer Phips Esq r Lieut Govr & Commander in Chief the Hon ble his Majestys Council the House of Representatives of ye Province of the Maschusets Bay in Generall Court Asembled at Boston by Prorogation to the twenty Second day of March 1749.

The Humble Petition of us the Subscribers &c A Number of Inhabitants to the Number of about Fifty Famelys who have been for fourteen or Fifteen Years last Past Bringing Forward a Settlement at a Place Called Whiscasick to ye Eastword of Georgetown Within the County of York and

Whereas we finde by Sad Experance that we in the sircumstances that we are in and for want of our being Erected into a Township and being Invested with ye Powers & Privalages that Other of his Majesty's Good Subjects do Injoy Cannot Orderly Prosed to ye Calling Settling & Supporting a Gosple Minister Employing & Mentaining a Schoolmaster for ye Teaching our Children & Many Other 111 Conveyances not Nesasery to be Mentioned to Your Honours You well Knowing what People meet with where Order & Goverment is wanting This therefore waits on Your Honours to Pray You to take ye Premises into Your wise Consideration & If it may be Agreable to Your Pleasures that You would be Pleased To Erect us into A Town or Otherways as You shall think fitt & Invest us with the Powers & Privileges as Other of his Majesty's Good Subjects do Injoy in the like case. May it Please Your Honours Whereas We Setled Under a number of Properiators where of Sr William Pepperrill Baronite is one Known by the name of ye Whiscasick Properiators & in Order to Include their Claim within ye said town or Presinct which we Pray may be Called by ye Name of Whitehaven this we would Humbly Propose that ye Bounds thereof be Stated & described After ye following maner Vix Begining at a Place Known by ye Name of Sheepscutt Narrows thence Runing Northwest 5 Miles then Runing three Miles & a half South West then Runing by Georgetown Eastren line Untill it comes to ye Sea Then begining at Sheepscutt Narrows aforesd & runing South East 2 Miles then South three Miles from thence South West Untill it comes to ye Sea, takeing Jaremy Squam or Long Island with all Other Small Islands that may fall within ye sd bounds So may it Please Your Honours we have taken leve to Propose & Wait Your Pleasure & as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c

Jonn Williamson
James Nelson
Joseph Young Ju
Robert Foy
Isaac Young
Samll Trask
Elisha Kenny
Ebenezer Gove
Robert Huper
John Gray
Jacob Metcalf
Joseph Welch
Thomas Young
William Boyinton
Richerd Holbrook
Henery Hooman
Obadiah Allbee
Aron Abott
Michall Sevey
James Peirce
Robert Lambert
Ambros Colby
Sharabiah Lambert
Ruglas Colby
Abraham Preble
Timothy Dunton
Nathanel Runlet
John Rowell
James Gray
Frances Gray
David Danford
John Baker
Joshua Silvester
Moses Gray
George Gray
Joseph Tayler
William Hilton
Jonathan Howard
Joseph Young Jr
Jonathan Blackledge
Andrew Bowman
Caleb Boyinton
Benjamin Colby
In the House of Repves April 9 1750
Read and Ordered that the Prayer of the Petn be granted and Colo Storer has leave to bring in a Bill Accordingly
Attr Roland Cotton Clerk Don Rep
1754 Petition Wiscasset

https://archive.org/details/documentaryhisto12main/page/48/mode/2up
Documentary history of the state of Maine ..
by Maine Historical Society

Publication date 1869-1916
Volume 12 Page 317

Wiscasset Petition 17 October 1754

Prov. of the Massachusets Bay

To his Excellency Wm Shirley Esqr Capt General & Govr in Chief &c To the honble Council & House of Representatives in General Court assembled

The Memorial of us the Subscribers Inhabitants of Whiscasett & Mounsweg Bay at the Eastward part of the Province

Humbly Sheweth

That with great Labour & Expence we have subdued & Cultivated our Lands, have increased in Number, so as to stand it out against the Enemy the Last ware; have had a Minister Preaching with us for more than five Years last past, have assisted him Acording to our Ability, in building him an house & Should have setled him among us, but that of Late a number of Gentlemen calling themselves by the Name of the Proprietors of the Plymouth Purchase, have claimed our lands & by their Agent Samuel Goodwin Partly by Promises & Partly by Thretnings, have Prevailed on a considerable Number of the Inhabitants (without the least Pretence of Right as we Concive) to take up under them, So that we are thrown into great Confusion & Disorder & notwithstanding the Proprietors, we hold under, have assigned Three Publick Rights in the town one of which was for a Meeting House to be set upon & by their Help & Assistances we Should before now have proceded to build one but We are prevented by the s d Goodwins perswations on a Number not to go foward with it, but to joyn with Frankfort in making one town which he Hatters them with the Notion of its being the Shire Town, upon the Dividing the County & hath prevailed on Sundrey of the Inhabitants to sign a Petition to the Great & Gen 1 Court for this purpose which should it be Granted will entirely destroy this Settlement (perhaps, the best below Casco Bay to the Eastward) as it will expose us much even to our Indian Enemys & we be Altogather without a Minister: Besides this there can be no Reason for it as there is Land Enough to make two Large handsome Townships & Whiscaset hath at present upwards of Seventy famelys and lays as compleat as most places for either a Town or a District. We have all along been desireous of haveing the Gospell setled among us & for that End have chearfully expended of our Substance for the Support of it being perswaded that Religion lays the Foundation of all other Happiness, we have for a Considerable time had a Minister with us, who has Cherefully Submitted to the hardships of a place just beginning, in Common with ourselves in hopes that by & by, he should fare better, for this end he hath joyned us once & again in Petationing the Grt & Generall Court to be erected into a Town or District in Order to Preserve the Rules of Morality & Religion amongst us & More especialy the due Observation of the Lords day which for want thereof is Shamefully Neglected but if we should after all be United with Frankfort all these good Purposes must be Defeated & Whiscasett ruined.

We therefore most earnestly intreat Your Excy & Honours to take these our distressed Circumstances into Your most wise Consideration & if it be agreable to Your Wisdom & Goodness that you would be pleased to form us into a Town or District agreable to our former Petition & Plan now lying before this Honbl Court, whereby we apprehend your best Purposes respecting ourselves as well as the Community will be Answered but the Contrary (we fear) will be our Ruin
and as in Duty bound shall ever pray

Jona Williamson
Frances Gray
Robert H
John Bladgdon
Timothy Dunton
Thomas Murfey
Lemuel Norton
Richard Greenlif
Michall Seney
John Perce
Jacob Metcalf
Thomas Mc Kenney
Job Averell
Ebnezer Gous
Israel Averell
Joseph tayler
David Danford
Samuell Greenlif
Thomas Williamson
John Rowell
Joshua Sylvester
Patrick Bryant
Richard Holbrook
William Clark
Joseph Young
William Cliford
Isaac Young
Samuel Trask Junr
Sam11 Kincaid
Henery Slooman
John Gray
Israel Honowell
Elisha Kenney
John Alley
Samuell Barlo
John Kinnicon

37

We whose names are Underwritten being over Perswaded by the Insenuations of Sam 11 Goodin to Sighn a Petation to be Joyned with Frankford not Duly Considering the Ill Efects that would Attend it. Desire ye the Prayer of that Petation may not be Granted

Obediah Allbee
William Boyinton
Robert Lambert
Samll Chapman
4
37
41 In all.
The Salem Origins of Samuel Trask

Can the parents of Samuel Trask m Elizabeth Lindsey m Hannah Stewart be identified?
Samuel Trask was associated with only 1 other Trask in Salem, namely John Trask, guardian of Elizabeth Lindsey's brother. Can this John Trask be identified?
Did Samuel Trask return to Salem?

William D Romanski
February 2021
wdromanski @ hotmail.com

* * *
The Parentage of Samuel Trask

Samuel Trask was called "junior" at the time of his first marriage in 1727, suggesting he was-if not the son of a Samuel Trask-the youngest Samuel Trask in Salem. There were 3 Samuel Trasks thought to be living at this time.

1. Samuel Trask m Susanna was born in 1671, and would be the eldest man of that name in 1727.
2. Samuel Trask m Mercy Bell married in 1714 and was born in 1690. He could be considered "junior" if he were the only other in the town.
3. Samuel Trask s Elias Trask m Hannah Marston was known to be living as late as 1741. He was born some time after the marriage of Elias in 1701 and, no probably later than 1707.

The youngest known Samuel Trask in Salem was Elias's son, who could be the same.

Nothing is known of Samuel s Elias after his father's will in 1741. That document only reveals that he was still living at the time, and gives no further information about him. Apart from cash bequests, the whole of the estate of Elias was left to his widow for her care and the care of his two youngest daughters, presumably not yet of age. Furthermore, on the decease of his widow, the estate and any remainder was to go to those two daughters. The eldest children, including all his sons, were not further provided for. No record of any of Elias's children can be found after 1749.

There is nothing to demonstrate that Samuel Trask Junr was Elias Trask's son. However, there is nothing to contradict the claim. With no further evidence of another Samuel Trask in Salem at the same period, that Samuel Trask m Elizabeth Lindsey m Hannah Stewart is s Elias Trask m Hannah Marston is the best working hypothesis.

Men Named Samuel Trask of Age in 1727 who were born or connected to Salem.
Samuel Trask b 1671 d 1739 m Susannah
Samuel Trask b 1690 m 1714 Mercy Bell s Samuel Trask m Susannah
Samuel Trask b bef 1710 s Elias Trask m Hannah Marston

Samuel Trask b 1702? s William Trask m Ann White r Braintree probably bur 1722
Samuel Trask b 1671 d by 1729 s John Trask m Abigail Parkman

* * *
John Trask Guardian to Eleazer Lindsey 1728

In February 1728, John Trask of Salem was appointed guardian to Eleazer Lindsey, a minor of 13 years of age, a son of Eleazer Lindsey, and a brother to Elizabeth Lindsey m Samuel Trask. Who was this John Trask? He was certainly of age at this time, ie b before 1707, and lived in Salem. The probate documents of the guardianship reveal Trask's signature. If his signature could be matched to that of a known John Trask in another document would reveal his identity. The Essex County Probate Files hold many Trask documents, including the mention of many John Trasks. Most can be eliminated.

The probate file of John Trask m Hannah Osborn holds numerous papers regarding his estate. His sons John and William were his administrators, and so there are several examples of the signature of John s John. His signature does not resemble the signature of Eleazer's guardian. Deeper in the file there are several bonds that were signed by John deceased, that his administrators needed to settle. These signatures bear a striking resemblance to the signature of guardian John Trask. So we can conclude that John Trask m Hannah Osborn was the guardian of Eleazer Lindsey.

* * *
Was it coincidence that Samuel Trask Jr m Elizabeth Lindsey and John Trask were both connected to the settlement of Eleazer Lindsey's estate? Were Samuel and John closely related?

John's son Samuel was named in his own probate file in 1737 as a minor, so he would have to be born after 1716. Thus Samuel who m Elizabeth Lindsey in 1727 could not be his son. Was Samuel a nephew of John? John's brother George was born in 1690, and married in 1714, excluding him as Samuel's father. His other brother William had moved to Braintree by this time. He did have a son Samuel though, but it appears that he died in 1722.

The next closest family of Trasks were John Trask m Abigail Parkman. The sons of this couple could have sons of their own who were of age to marry in 1727. Nicholas s John was not known to have a son Samuel, but the composition of his family is uncertain. Jonathan s John was not married until 1710. Only Elias s John was known to have a son Samuel, as described above.

It is a viable conclusion that John Trask who was guardian to Eleazer Lindsey was first cousin once removed to Samuel Trask who married Eleazer's sister Elizabeth.

* * *
Did Samuel Trask return to Salem?

Samuel Trask r Salem of age in 1760

Samuel Trask s John Trask m Hannah Osborn r Sutton
Samuel Trask s William Trask m Ann White bur 1722

Elias Trask, carpenter of Salem, sold his house and the land it was on to Samuel Trask, sailor of Salem. Twenty five years earlier, Elias Trask, blacksmith of Salem, mortgaged the same house and land to John Shillaber, presumably his sister Mary's husband. Also Elias Trask s Elias Trask m Hannah Marston is not known to have married or had any children, the fact that the younger Elias Trask (who lived into the 1790s) retained the homestead, had the name Elias, and was called Junior, suggests he may have been the son of Elias s Elias. Who was Samuel Trask who bought the farm?

Samuel Trask appears in the Salem yearly valuations in the same ward as Elias in 1755 and is listed every year through 1764. Was he another unrecorded son of Elias s Elias? If so, his appearance in 1755 may indicate his arrival at the age of 21 years that year, or since the previous valuation. If that was the case, he would have been born about 1734. It is unclear just when the youngest Elias was born, but the latest he could have been born, judging from the 1760 deed, would have been 1739.

There is no record of Samuel Trask disposing of the Salem land, or any other records that could refer to the same person. There is a marriage record of Samuel Trask of Salem to Mary Mason in 1755. There are no records in Salem for baptisms of any children of this couple, nor any death or probate records. It is possible that Samuel Trask, another son of Elias emerged in the record in 1755, and died after the valuation in 1764? It is possible, but there is another compelling alternative.

In October 1754, Samuel Trask was a signer of a petition praying the incorporation of the town of Wiscasset in Maine. We do not hear from him again until January 1762, when he signed another petition, this time seeking a grant of land on Penobscot Bay. Samuel Trask appears in the Salem valuations from 1755 through 1764 in the same ward as Elias Trask and his relatives. Did Samuel leave Maine and return to Salem? Perhaps to escape the rising violence of the war with the French and the Indians?

Despite his family's long residence in Edgecomb, we have no clear evidence that Samuel Sr owned any land there. His son Samuel had begun work in the settlement on a mill dam in 1760, and settled there (according to lore) in 1764. Samuel Sr signed petitions regarding that town in 1766, 1767 and 1774. The gap between the 1754 petition and the 1766 petition can be neatly filled by a return to Salem as described by the valuation records of those intervening years.

With the possibility of Samuel Trask Sr returning to Salem by 1755, we are further intrigued by the fact he may have married yet again, that same year to Mary Mason. We find no information about Mary Mason, whether she may be a widow, the names of her parents, no probate or land records. Was Mary Samuel's third wife? Again, we have no evidence to confirm this hypothesis, but it should be noted that there is little trace of Samuel's second wife, and presumably the wife of his children, Hannah Stewart. No deeds record Hannah Trask releasing her dower right. No headstone exists. There are no probate records for Samuel or his wife. In fact, the one record that we assume refers to Hannah is the mention of her burial in May of 1790 in Moses Davis's diary. That note, however, simply calls her "old Miss Trask." We know very little about Samuel Sr's wife's life in Maine, so little, in fact, that Samuel may have remarried, a fact that has remained unknown for hundreds of years.

* * *
Conclusion

The best working theory of Samuel Trask's origins is that he was born some time in the first decade of 1700 to Elias Trask m Hannah Marston. There are several records that refer to him in Essex County before his removal to mid-coastal Maine. The one record that associates him with another Trask is the guardianship record of his first wife's younger brother. John Trask who was appointed guardian would be his father's first cousin, in the case that Elias was indeed his father.

Although it has been assumed that Samuel Trask lived the remainder of his life in Maine, there exists the possibility that he returned to Salem for a period. During the French and Indian War, from 1755 through 1764, a Samuel Trask with no progenitors nor successors in record appears in Salem. He married in 1755, bought a house from Elias Trask, and was assessed in the same Ward as Elias. This period exactly corresponds with a gap in the record of Samuel Sr in Maine. If Samuel Sr did remarry, the burial of "old Miss Trask" in 1790 may refer to Mary Mason and not Hannah Stewart, as has always been assumed.
1762 Petition for Majabagaduce

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
Volumes 1 - 239
Muster Rolls
Valuations
Revolutionary Petitions
v. 117 -- Towns (from p.615), 1755-1762 ; v. 118 -- Towns (to p.760), 1763-1774.
Granite Mountain Record Vault
United States & Canada Film
1838257
7705905
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007705905?cat=1055547
[210/1330]
Volume 117 Page 769
Province of the Massachusetts Bay Jany 3d 1762
To his Excellency Francis Bernard Esq Captain General and Governour in and over his Majesty's Province afores'd the Honourable His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives, in General Court Assembled
We the Subscribers having been Soldiers at Fort Pownall and now Settled at a Place called Magebaggadeuse on the Eastern Side of Penobscott Bay, and others desirous of settling there themselves, or Settling other good Families in their Room; for the Accommodation of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request,Your Excellency and Honours wou'd Please to grant Your Petitioners and their Heirs, a Township to be bounded as follows, beginning about three miles above Casteens River, at a Place called Sandy Point and to run East North East Eight Miles, then South South East to the Ocean and then West South West Eight Miles, and then to the first Bounds mentioned, a Neck of Land Water and Islands, And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c
Edward Milliken
Eben' Thorndike
Nath" Milliken
Samuel Freeman
Joseph Brown
Eze Cushing
John Bicknell Jun?
Ezekiel Cushing Jur
Mark Haskell
Jeremiah Cushing
Benja Milliken
Joseph Milliken
Lemuel Smith
Saml Cate
David Elwill
Nathanell Harmon
Danl Mackey
John Trott
Willm Masury
Samuel Trott
Henry Herrick
John Trott
William Morgan
Thomas Trott
William Bartlett
Stephen Huchinson
John Roundey
Samuel Osborn
Nicolas Thorndike
John Melbery Milliken
Andrew Thorndike
Thomas Milliken
Joseph Wood
William Haskell
Anthony Dyer
Thomas Stroute
Samuel Wood
Benjamin Robbins
Samll Trask
Benjamin Robbins
Joshua Silvester juner
Archebaild Hency
Samuel Silvester
Josiah heney
David Silvester
Daniel Noyes
Samuel Silvester
Stephen Combes
Samuel Trask
Joshua Combes
Joseph Trask
Andrew Simonton
David Trask
William Dyer
Spencer Bret
George Dyer
Rougles Colbe
Bengman Thorndike
Thomas Trask
David Alden
Thomas Williamson
John Thorndike
Bengman frizzel
Joshua Woodbery
Adam Silvester
Samuell Clark
Paul Thorndike
John Robinson Jur
Nathl Ingersoll
Nathaniel Jordan ju
Joseph Wilson
Edward Milliken Jur
[217/1330[
In the House of Representatives Feby 23 1762
Voted, That the Petition of Ebenr Thorndies and fifty nine Other his associates be so far granted as that therebe, and hereby is granted in the them the said Ebenezer Thorndike and his associates herein mentioned their heirs and assigns for ever as Tenants in Common, one Township of Land to consist of the Quantity of sic Miles Square of the unappropriated Lands if this Province, between the River Penobscot and the River St Croix. That the said Township be no more than six miles on the Sea Coast, or on Penobscot or other Rivers. That they return a Plan of the same (taken by a Surveyor and Chain men on Oath) to this Court for further Confirmation on or before the last Day of July next. That they within sic years after they shall obtain his Majesty's approbation of this Grant (unless prevented by War) settle said Township with sixty good Protestant Families, and build sixty houses none to be less than eighteen Feet Quare, and seven Feet Stud, and clear and cultivate five acres of Land on each Share fit for Tillage or mowing; and that they build in said Townshop a suitable Meeting House for the publick Worship of God, and settle a Learned Protestant Minister, and make Provisions for his comfortable and honourable Support:- And that in said Township [] be reserved and appropriated four Whole Rights of Shares in the Division of [] (accounting one sixty fourth Part a Share) [] following Purposes, Vizt, one for the first settled of ordained minister, his Heirs and Assigns for ever; one for the use of the Ministryl one to and for the use of Harvard College in Cambridge; and one for the use of a School for ever; And if any of the Grantees or Proprietors of said Township shall neglect within the Term of six years as beforementioned, to do and perform according to the several articles respecting the Settlement of his Right or Share as hereby enjoined, his whole Right or Share shall be entirely forfeited and enure to the use of this Province.
Provided nevertheless, the Grant of the above Land is to be void and of none Effect; unless tje Grantees do obtain his Majesty's Confirmation of the Same in eighteen months from this time.
And be it further Ordered as a Condition of the Grant aforesaid, That each Grantee give Bond to the Treasurer of this Province for the time being, and to his Succesors in said [] for the Sum of Fifty Pounds, for the Use of this Province, Conditioned for the faithful Performance of the Duties required according to the Tenor of the Grants aforesaid; and that a Committee or Committees be appointed by this Court to take said Bonds accordingly Sent up
And further that said Committee be impowered to admit others as Grantees in the room of such persons contained in the List aforesaid who shall neglect to appear by themselves or Others in their behalf to give bonds, at such time as the Committee shall appoint

In Council March 3d 1762. Read and Concurred Consented to
A Oliver Secy

Fra Bernard

Samuel Freeman
Anthony Dyer
George Dyer
Ezekl Cushing
Thomas Strout
Benjamin Thorndike
Ezekiel Cushing Junr
Samuel Wood
David Alden
Jeremiah Cushing

Samuel Trask

John Thorndike
Joseph Milliken
Joshua Silvester Jr
Joshua Woodberry
Saml Cate
Nathl Harmon
Samuel Silvester
Samuel Clark
John Trott
David Silvester
John Robinson Junr
Samuel Trott
Samuel Silvester
Nathl Ingersoll
John Trott

Samuel Trask

Nathl Jordon Junr
Thomas Trott

Joseph Trask

Joseph Wilson
Stephen Hutchinson

David Trask

Edward Milliken Junr
Samuel Osborn
Spencer Bret
John Bicknell
Edward Milliken
Ruggles Coble
Nathl Milliken

Thomas Trask

Joseph Brown
Thomas Williamson
Mark Haskell
Benjamin Frissel
Benjamin Milliken
Adam Silvester
Lemuel Smith
Saml Elville
Paul Thorndike
Danl Mackey
Jno Milberry Milliken
Wm Masury
Benjamin Robbins
Henry Herrick
William Morgan
Benjamin Robbins [x2]
William Bartlett
Archibald Henery
John Roundey
Josiah Henery
Nicholas Thornsdike
Stephen Combes
Andrew Thorndike
Joshua Combes
Joseph Wood
Andrew Simonson
William Haskell
William Dyer
Daniel Noyes
[70 grantees]

v. 117 -- Towns (from p.615), 1755-1762 ; v. 118 -- Towns (to p.760), 1763-1774.
Granite Mountain Record Vault
United States & Canada Film
1838257
7705905
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007705905?cat=1055547
[398/1330]
Volume 117 Page 20
Another grant of Penobscot Township 1765
No Trasks mentioned
1764 Freetown Petition for Court

Massachusetts Archives

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1055547?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Massachusetts State Archives collection, colonial period, 1622-1788
Authors: Massachusetts. State Archives
Volumes 1 - 239
v. 6 -- Colonial (from p.521), 1724-1775 ; v. 7 -- Commercial, 1685-1714 ; v. 8 -- Depositions (to p.57), 1662-1766.
Granite Mountain Record Vault
United States & Canada Film
2294418
7702908
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007702908?cat=1055547
[76/1196]
Volume 6 Page 535d

[Samuel Trask, David Trask, Thomas Trask, Solomon Trask, Joseph Trask, Samuel Trask Junr]

Freetown Petition to the General Court
Province of the Massachusetts Bay
To his Excellency Frances Bernard Esqr Capt General and Commander in Chife The Honourable his Majesty Council & the House of Representatives in General Court Assembled the 30th Day of May 1764
The Petation of the Subscribers Inhabetants of a Place called Freetown in Sheepscott River in the County of Lincoln & Province Aforesaid Humbly Shews
That We have lived here for Many Years and when we ware formerly Called to Courts, by Experance we found it Very Expencive and a great Hardship to Attend them But as Your Execlancy and Honours in Your Great Wisdom was a few years ago Peased to Relive this Remote Part of the County of York by Dividing said County into three by Which Appointment we are not Oblidged to go farther then Falmouth to Answer in Suts of Law but as we now understand, that some Persons are Indevoring to Get such our Benefit and favor taken from us by having Actions for Title of Land Tryed in the Countys of Milddlesex Seffulk Essex or Worster but as we are a Poor People it must have a great tendancy to Contribute our Ruin by our Attending Courts at so great a Distance from home and as we Humbly Apprehend that a Jury in the Courts of Cumberland will be as Disintrested as in any of the Other Countys We therefore Humbly Implore Your Excelancy and Honours not to Take from us the Privelige you formerly Granted us and your Petationers as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c
Samuell Trask
William Clifford
Ebenezer Gove
John Cuningham
Moesos libbey [?]
Jmes Chas
David Trask
noer colby
Nathan Gove
Thomas Trask
Benjamin Allbee
Asel Gove
Solomon Trask
James More
Jonathan Williamson
John gray his mark
Joseph Clark
Daniel Fisher
Nehemiah harreNden
Hennert Rins
Joseph
James Stewart
Joseph Rins
Jonathan Knight
Thos Jones
Nathan ?
James Thomas
? ?
Joseph Withom
William Maker
Denel Whitom
Benlaman Whittons
Nathan Knight
Samuel Comhalum?
Elisha Nevers
Jabez Nevrs
John Jontham
John Dunton
John Dunton Jur
Joseph Dunton
Nehe Herrenden
Samuel Davis
Joseph Trask
Edmund Colby
Elzer Gove
Samuel Trask Junr
1805 Petition for Miinister in Edgecomb

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/335712?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Authors: Edgecomb (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
10845
7834654
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834654?cat=335712
[178/629]
42 signers Edgecomb Petition for a Minsiter 1805
In the House of Representatives January 29 1805
...
Solomon Trask
...
Solomon Trask Jr
...
Enoch Trask
Daniel Trask
...
William Trask
Julia Trask Illigitemate Child of Mary Trask 1823

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/335712?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Authors: Edgecomb (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
10845
7834654
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834654?cat=335712
[213/629]
Born in Edgecomb Sept 23 1823 in the Alms House Julia Trask an Eligitimate Child daughter of Mary Trask
Julia Trask b 1823 d Mary Trask illegitimate

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/335712?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Authors: Edgecomb (Maine). Town Clerk
Town and vital records, 1774-1932
Family History Library
United States & Canada Film
10845
7834654
https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834654?cat=335712
[213/629]
p 45
Born in Edgecomb Sept 23 1823 in the Alms House - Julia Trask an Eligitimate Child daughter of Mary Trask

? Mary Trask 62193 b 1786 d David Trask m Elizabeth Gove