By Isabel Morse Maresh September 28, 1989 In the mid-1600s, three brothers by the name of Morse left England to settle in the colonies of...

By Isabel Morse Maresh June 22, 1989 Out in Montville, Elden Nathan Rowell was born March 18, 1890, to Charles M. and Ida (Sanborn)...

Memorial Day is upon us for another year. If you made your annual pilgrimage to the cemetery and found it well-trimmed and groomed, it...

By Isabel Morse Maresh - In Republican Journal 2009 Cora had a story to tell, yet it had been locked up in her memories for many years,...

by Isabel Morse Maresh Published in The Republican Journal ~ 19 October 1989 For many of us, quilts have been very much a part of...

April 13, 1989 By Isabel Morse Maresh The history of the local area is fascinating to the researcher. Some of our area has been in three...

April 6, 1989 By Isabel Morse Maresh Luther Gray was born in 1781 in Peterborough, N.H. He came to Belmont — then called Greene...

January 28, 1989 By Isabel Morse Maresh The conditions under which the early German settlers came to Waldoboro were very harsh. They were...

January 19, 1989 By Isabel Morse Maresh In the winter of 1814 and 1815, when the British occupied Castine, Penobscot Bay froze over....

August 18, 1988 By Isabel Morse Maresh Methods of education have changed, but for those of us whose education was in a one-room...

July 7, 1988 By Isabel Morse Maresh Austin Marriner was born Sept. 26, 1846, a great-grandson of one of the first settlers in what is now...

Winter 1995 By Isabel Morse Maresh How Bob and I came to h.o.m.e. is an interesting tale. The Bible tells us that "God works in...

August 11, 1988 By Isabel Morse Maresh The Chenery Farm, also called "The Pastures," of Belmont was owned by Horace Chenery. At the turn...

May 13, 1993 By Isabel Morse Maresh I am putting together a family history for my heirs. This one is not like the typical family...

December 24, 1992 By Isabel Morse Maresh Bob and I took a trip this week to the mountains which brought memories flooding back of our...

May 20, 1993 By Isabel Morse Maresh Today we think of our Irish immigrant ancestors to be a romantic lot, but their struggles were...

October 29, 1992 By Isabel Morse Maresh Today's mail from a correspondent brought some exciting news to a genealogical nut — evidence of...

May 17, 1990 By Isabel Morse Maresh Note: The spelling Marriner alternates with Mariner throughout because of changes over the years. The...

May 10, 1990 By Isabel Maresh Morse This is my apology for not having a column for the last two weeks. I want to relate this country...

April 12, 1990 By Isabel Morse Maresh It was not so many years ago that each town controlled its own schools, and had a school in each...