Moses HODSDON II (26 Jul 1740-1810) +
Dorcas LORD (15 Sep 1746-19 Jan 1838)

Moses III (7 Apr 1766-2 Nov 1845) — m. Mercy Young on 24 Nov 1788

Ebenezer (15 Nov 1768-8 Jun 1791)

Noah (9 Aug 1770-9 Jul 1771)

Sarah (4 Apr 1772-3 May 1772)

Martha (24 May 1773-23 Sep 1778)

Sarah (30 Jul 1775-????) — m. Moses Perkins

Nathan (16 Jul 1777-27 Aug 1778)

Martha (26 Jul 1779-????) — m. Ebenezer Varney

Isaac (18 Dec 1781-24 May 1864) — m. Polly Wentworth on 24 Jan 1805

Nathan (30 Mar 1784-????) — m. Hannah Chadbourne; m. Dorothy Pierce

Israel (18 Apr 1786-5 May 1802)

Dorcas (11 Oct 1789-4 May 1807)

Moses was the sixth child of record born to Moses Hodsdon I (7 Apr 1702-4 Feb 1782) and Sarah Thompson (1702-28 Aug 1781), who married on 4 Jul 1723 and settled in Berwick, York County, Maine. He was named for an older brother who died young, a naming practice he too was to adopt.

Dorcas was the daughter of Ebenezer Lord (1719-1811) and Martha Emery (1726-1773), also from Berwick.

Moses and Dorcas married, lived, and died in Berwick. They’re buried in Chadbourn Cemetery, North Berwick.

Children

Moses Hodsdon III (1766-1845)

Moses has his own entry in the family tree.

Ebenezer Hodsdon (1768-1791)

Ebenezer...

Noah Hodsdon (1770-1771)

Noah died in childhood.

Sarah Hodsdon (1775-????)

Sarah was named for her older sister who died in infancy. She married Moses Perkins.

Martha Hodsdon (1779-????)

Martha was named for her older sister who died at age 5. She married Ebenezer Varney.

Isaac Hodsdon (1781-1864)

Isaac was a general, but I don't have information about his career. He married Polly Wentworth (14 Nov 1781-17 Apr 1859) on 24 Jan 1805. They had one child I know of, by adoption:

John Littlefield (9 May 1815-24 Mar 1895)

Polly died in 1859 and is buried in Boutelle Cemetery, Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine. Isaac died in 1864 and is buried with her.

Nathan Hodsdon (1784-????)

Nathan was named for his older brother who died in early childhood. This was a stubborn family when it came to names. He had two wives, Hannah Chadbourne and Dorothy Pierce.

Israel Hodsdon (1786-1802)

Israel...

Dorcas Hodsdon (1789-1807)

Dorcas...

Lineage

The first new-world Hodsdon was one Nicholas Hodsdon, probably from the town of Hoddesdon a few miles north of London. He arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts around 1635. He married his cousin Esther Wines on 6 Dec 1639. They had six children. After her death, he moved to Watertown, Massachusetts and married married Elizabeth Wincoll (1628-Jul 1686), widow of John Needham. They had five more children.

By 1655 they had moved to Old Kittery, an area covering both sides of the Piscataqua River that divides what are now Maine and New Hampshire. They lived a short time at Quamphegan and later near Birch Point Brook in South Berwick. In 1659, Nicholas and several others were ordered to Boston on charges of “entertaining Quakers”, to which Nicholas pleaded not guilty. He claimed he hadn’t known they were Quakers.

Some accounts claim this was the same Nicholas Hodsdon mentioned in an old letter as being killed by Indians in 1704 in Wells, Maine. However, that man was a militia soldier, an unlikely job for a man in his nineties. Our Nicholas probably died well before that time, and is probably buried at his family homestead in Kittery, York County, Maine, where his second wife is buried.

Line of descent from Nicholas to the parents of Moses II:

Nicholas HODSDON or HODGDON (~1611-????) + Esther WINES (1621-29 Nov 1647)

Israel HODSDON, Sr. (~19 Jul 1646-Jul 1675 or 1696) + Ann THOMPSON (1653-1727)

Israel HODSDON, Jr. (1674-1750) + Ann WINGATE (18 Feb 1668-21 Jan 1740)

Moses HODSDON I (7 Apr 1702-4 Feb 1782) + Sarah THOMPSON (1702-28 Aug 1781)