CORNELIUS SOUTHWORTH

CORNELIUS SOUTHWORTH


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34 ii. CORNELIUS5, b. 1703; d. 20 Oct., 1755; m., about 1732, Mrs. Hannah Scales, d. 19 May, 1762, wid. of William Scales, who had been killed by the Indians (see note, p. 42), and dau. of Thomas Ayres of Brookfield, Mass. He moved to North Yarmouth, Me., about 1726; was received into the First Church there 1731. He was assessor of the town in 1733, constable 1734, Selectman many times. In 1742, he carried letters from Boston to the eastern frontier for Governor Shirley. He was the first representative of the town of North

Yarmouth to the General Court of Massachusetts. He was captain of Company F, Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers (Col. Sylvester Richmond's) in the siege of Louisburg and the expedition against the French in

1745. He had no children. He divided his estate, after his wife's death, between her son, Thomas Scales,

and Cornelius Soule, his brother Barnabas Soule's son.

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