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George SMOUSE

George SMOUSE

Male [1733] - 1810

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  • Name George SMOUSE 
    Born [1733] 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation April 1780 
    Laborer, Penobscot 
    • Name George SCHMAUX
      Record 2004
      Location
      Original Text The Artificers and Inhabitants Who Built Fort George, Penobscot, 1779-1780
      Volume Name 26 (2004)
      Page 63
      The Maine Genealogist. Farmington, ME: The Maine Genealogical Society, 1977-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.)
      https://www.americanancestors.org/DB531/rd/14529/63/265106399
      Dutchmen from Broad Bay
      Account dated 24 April 1780: "To work done in getting Lyme Stone and Loading to Brigt Molly Transport & Cutting wood." The first six named (left to right [Including Geo Schmaux]) worked for five days, the others for four days, all at the rate of 2/6 per die.
      ...
      Geo Schmaux
    Grant 21 May 1785 
    Residence Waldoboro, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 22 Feb 1795  Non-resident St Stephen Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died June 1810  Waldoboro, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • George Smouse
      in the Maine, Death Records, 1761-1922
      Name: George Smouse
      Death Date: Jun 1810
      Death Place: Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine , USA
      Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 93
      ae 77 [1733]
    Person ID I59465  4 February 2018
    Last Modified 6 Jul 2020 

    Father Absentees Lincoln COUNTY 
    Family ID F19802  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Christina DEMUTH,   b. 1729,   d. 1808  (Age 79 years) 
    Children 
     1. George Demuth SMOUSE,   b. [1759],   d. 20 Mar 1806, Waldoboro, Lincoln, ME Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Margaret SMOUSE
     3. Catherine SMOUSE
     4. Mary SMOUSE
    Family ID F19157  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Petitions: Nil
      ECW: George Smosse Passamaquoddy
      Me Soldiers and Sailors Revolutionary: Nil
      Loyalist Claims: Nil
      Charlotte County Registry Books: Only estate by Sheriff
      Penobscot Brooks: Nil
      Caren Secord: Nil
      Back Lands: Nil
      Frontier Missionary: Nil
      Lincoln County Registry Volumes 10-27: Checked. Extracted

      Note: There is no evidence of a son John apart from a typo in the absentee probate file for George.
    • History of the town of Waldoboro, Maine
      Chapter XII. Waldoboro during the revolution
      p 93
      Soon after the Revolution the property of the Royalists, or tories, was confiscated. In Volume 3 of the Lincoln Probate records, we find the names of Jacob Young, John Smouse and George Cline recorded as "absentees."

      https://archive.org/details/historyofoldbroa01stah
      History of old Broad Bay and Waldoboro
      by Stahl, Jasper Jacob, 1886-
      Publication date 1956
      Volume 1
      Page 286
      ...
      George Smouse b Germany 1733 d Waldoborough June 1810
      wife Jane b Germany 1729 d Waldoborough 1808
    • St Stephen Grant

      https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/RS686/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&Key=3746
      Index to New Brunswick Land Grants, 1784 - 1997 (RS686)
      Name SMOOSE, George
      Volume NS-A
      Page 176
      Grant number 96
      Place Passamaquoddy
      County Sunbury
      Date 1785-05-21
      Accompanying plan No
      Acres 100
      Microfilm F16302
      Comment Re-registered NS Grant of 1784/08/03: Penobscot Association
      Other names on this grant (188):

      Charlotte County Registry Books

      Volume B Page 369
      [372/753]
      No 600
      John Dunn Esq Sheriff of Charlotte County
      William Tyler Esq St Stephen
      lands of non-resident proprietors in St Stephen
      18 13 -
      Thomas Morris Lot 193
      Matthew Scallion Lot 151
      George Smouse Lot 144
      24 February 1795
      John Dunn
      Wit: Peter McDiarmid, N Marks
    • Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records, 1760-1800
      Lincoln Probate Records
      p 171
      John Smouse, late of Waldoborough, and Absentee. Moses Copeland, of Warren, agent, 6 January 1781; Nathan Bucklen and Joseph Copeland, both of Warren, sureties [Volume 3 Page 206] William Farnsworth and Jabez Cole, both of Waldoborough, and Joshua Collamore of Meduncook, appraisers and commissioners to examine claims [Volume 3 Page 206] Inventory 29 March 1781 103 - - [Volume 3 Page 206] Account filed 15 June 1784 [Volume 3 Page 208]

      v. 3-4 Probate records 1784-1796
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      11470
      7138993
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007138993?cat=288850
      [224/576]
      Volume 3 Page 206
      ...to apprize all the estate real & personal whereof George Smouse [sic] late of said Waldoborough yeoman an absentee was seized or possessed at the time of his leaving this Commonwealth and which was left by the said John [sic]...
      6 January 1781
      ....
      the estate of George Smouse [sic]
      200 acres with the building thereon
      ...
      the estate of George Smouse [sic]
      ...
      the estate of George Smouse [sic] late of Waldoborough
      [225/576]
      ...
      the estate of George Smouse late of said Waldoborough yeoman an absentee
      ...
      ...George Smouse
      ...Estate of George Smouse
      ...Estate of George Smouse late of Waldoboro...
    • https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/352440?availability=Family%20History%20Library
      Land records, 1761-1912; indexes to land records, 1761-1901
      Authors: Lincoln County (Maine). Register of Deeds
      Land records v. 26-27 1790-1791
      Family History Library
      United States & Canada Film
      11371
      7834674
      https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007834674?cat=352440
      [566/595]
      Volume 27 Page 244
      George Smouse yeoman Waldoborough
      Jacob Read yeoman Waldoborough
      30 pounds
      162 acres in Waldoborough
      27 November 1788
      George Smouse
      Wit: Arthur Noble, Nathan Jewett
      Rcd 12 October 1791