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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Aaron Banks Note Born: 1 Jun 1738 Married: Died: 9 Aug 1823
WIFE
Name: Mary Perkins Note Born: May 1743 at Wells, , York, ME Died: 26 Nov 1833 at , , Hancock, ME Father: John Perkins Mother: Elizabeth Pearce
CHILDREN
Name: Elizabeth Banks Born: 5 Jun 1765 Died: 26 Nov 1853 at , , Penobscot, ME Husband: Jeremiah Wardwell
NOTES
1). Aaron was with Gov. Pownall at Fort Point and Castine in May, 1759, & was among petitioners for creation of township of Castine as a prospective settler there 01 03 1762 ref. Wilson Museum Bulletin, III 14, Fall, 1988 settler at Bagaduce in 1765 Brooks Hist. of Castine, Brooksville & Penobscot . cf.NEHGR 07 1890,p.261 Aaron and Mary settled at Castine in 1765 in 1779 the British burned his house and carried off the family as prisioners they returned to Castine after the war. He was a member ofthe York Town Militia in 1757, along with John Perkins Mary s father . During the 1760s and 1770s he resided along the shore opposite Banks Island now Nautilus Island , which he claimed Ellenore W. Doudiet, Majabigwaduce Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville Castine Castine Scientific Society, 1978 , p. 102, which reports that Hosea B. Wardwell, Esq., in his address 09 14 1887 at the Centennial Celebration of Penobscot, stated that Banks was a hero of the French and Indian Wars, and under General Amherst was at the capture of Montreal. Maine Place Names and the Peopling of its Towns, Ava Harriet Chadbourne Freeport, ME Bond Wheelright Co., 1957 , p. 2 In 1779 Aaron Banks, after his home was burned at the siege of Bagaduce, moved to the headof Northern Bay and settled in what is now Penobscot. He was born in York, Maine, enlisted in the French and Indian war under Captain James Cargill and was ordered to assist in building Fort Pownall. He then went to Castine Bagaduce and was transferred for service under General Amherst to Montreal in 1760. He was discharged in 1764 and walked to York, Maine. He then married and returned to Bagaduce, and became a successful farmer, sometimes engaged in navigation. Phil Perkins, Castine historian,believes 1995 that Aaron Banks home was at or near the NE corner of Court and Dresser Streets.
2).  Line 337 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long BIRT QUAY 0  Line 338 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long BAPM  Line 339 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long BAPM DATE 22 MAY 1743  Line 340 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long BAPM PLAC Wells, ME  Mary Perkins was baptised at Wells, Maine 05 22 1743.

						

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