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 1775-18xx) — m. Moses Perkins, Jr. on 14 Mar 1805
Nathan (26 Jul 1777-27 Aug 1778)
Martha (26 Jul 1779-1860) — m. Ebenezer Varney on 23 Feb 1804
Isaac (18 Dec 1781-24 May 1864) — m. Polly Wentworth on 2 Feb 1805
Nathan (30 Mar 1784-8 May 1848) — m. Hannah Chadbourne on 27 Sep 1810; m. Dorothy Pierce in Oct 1826
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. A book called Old Kittery and Her Families by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, published in Lewiston in 1903, lists his parents and siblings.
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.
Noah (1770-1771), Sarah (1772-1772), Martha (1773-1778), and Nathan (1777-1778) all died in infancy or early childhood. Israel (1786-1802) and Dorcas (1789-1807) died in their teens.
Moses has his own entry in the family tree.
Ebenezer died at age 23. No record of a wife or children.
Sarah was named for her older sister who died in infancy. She married Moses Perkins (~1775-18xx) from New Hampshire in 1805. Children:
James (29 Mar 1802-????)
Amelia Aurora (14 Jul 1807-Jan 1834) — m. Gorham Lincoln Boynton about 1831
Betsey C. (18 Apr 1810-21 Sep 1897) — m. Charles P. Sanborn on 17 May 1840; m. Benjamin Chesley on 15 May 1859
Rachel (1 Dec 1811-18 Sep 1829)
Dorcas (29 May 1814-????)
Hannah (22 Dec 1819-????)
Although some accounts have her dying in 1829, Sarah (74) was still alive in the 1850 census for Wolfeboro, Carroll County, New Hampshire. She and Moses (76) were living with widowed daughter Betsey and her son John Sanborn.
Martha was named for her older sister who died at age 5. She married Ebenezer Varney (24 Dec 1774-1822) in 1804. Children:
Ebenezer, Jr. (12 May 1804-21 Nov 1889) — m. Sarah Payson Hill on 21 Jun 1828
Paul (2 Apr 1806-3 Sep 1859) — m. Eliza Freeth on 4 Jul 1829
Dorcas (3 Sep 1808-20 Mar 1897) — m. Kendall Gibbs on 3 Sep 1828
Clarissa (9 Apr 1816-6 Oct 1904) — m. John Wesley Witham on 4 Jun 1843
In the 1860 census, Martha (82) was living with the family of her daughter Clarissa in Carmel, Penobscot County. She died later that year, and is buried in No. 74 Cemetery, Berwick, known now as Chadbourne-Varney-Hodson Cemetery.
Isaac married Polly Wentworth (14 Nov 1781-17 Apr 1859) on 2 Feb 1805. They had two children, the elder by adoption after the 1819 death of his father, Jeremiah Littlefield:
John Littlefield (9 May 1815-2 Mar 1895) — m. Elizabeth Ellen True on 19 Feb 1839
Sarah “Sallie” (1818-29 Dec 1899) — m. Miles Hurd about 1838
In probably the 1820s, Isaac built a general store in East Corinth, Penobscot County, as mentioned by a 27 Jun 1981 article in the Bangor Daily News. Isaac also was a general, although details of his career are undetermined.
In the 1850 census, Isaac and Polly (both 68) were living in Corinth with a servant named Joanna Webber. Polly died in 1859 and is buried in Boutelle Cemetery, Corinth, Penobscot County, Maine. The 1860 census found Isaac, age 78, living with the family of his son John in Bangor. Isaac died in 1864 and is buried with Polly.
Nathan was named for his older brother who died in infancy. This was a stubborn family when it came to names. He married Hannah Chadbourne (1786-31 Jan 1819) in 1810. They had one child of record:
Isaac (1815-24 Sep 1848)
Hannah died in 1819, and is buried in Chadbourne-Varney-Hodson Cemetery in Berwick. In 1826, Nathan married Dorothy Pierce (1794-11 Mar 1890). Their children:
Frederick (3 Feb 1827-4 Jan 1909) — m. Ann Sarah Coffin on 24 Jan 1870
Franklin (1828-15 Jun 1842)
Charles (~14 Jan 1832-23 Jan 1912) — m. Cynthia Cressey on 10 Apr 1859
Oliver (1835-????)
Israel (1838-9 Nov 1863)
Isaac C. (????-24 Sep 1838)
Moses ()
Nathan died in 1848, and is buried in Boutelle Cemetery, Corinth. His son by his first marriage, Isaac, died a few months later and is also buried there.
Son Israel was a Union soldier in Company H of the 6th Maine Volunteer Regiment. He was mortally wounded in the Second Battle of Rappahannock Station on 7 Nov 1863 and died two days later. He’s buried in Boutelle Cemetery also.
Dorothy carried on until 1890, and is buried with Nathan.
The first new-world Hodsdon was one Nicholas Hodsdon, born about 1611 probably in 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 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 to face 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)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37858131/israel-hodsdon -- 1675 virtual grave of Israel Hodsdon (1646-????)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37872553/ann-hodsdon_evans -- 1727 virtual grave of Ann Thompson Hodsdon (1653-1727)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142762249/moses-hodsdon -- 1782 grave of Moses Hodsdon I
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142762275/sarah-hodsdon -- 1789 grave of Sarah Thompson Hodsdon
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK2-97T -- 1790 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR3-MW7 -- 1800 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH24-63X -- 1810 census
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142762307/moses-hodsdon -- 1810 grave of Moses II; links to children
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142762339/dorcas-hodsdon -- 1838 grave of Dorcas
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZ8-ND1 -- 1850 census, Sarah
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VQ-V55 -- 1850 census, Isaac
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDC4-B63 -- 1860 census, Martha
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDCQ-YQ4 -- 1860 census, Isaac