Solomon served for fourteen days as a drummer with Capt. Amos Turner's company of Minutemen, Col. John Bailey's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. He enlisted May 3, 1775 as a private in Capt. Turner's company, Gen. John Thomas's regiment; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; he served for three months, six days. His next service was a four day stint with Capt. Lemuel Curtis's company, Col. Anthony Thomas's Plymouth County regiment, which marched to Cohasset March 5, 1776 on an alarm. He was then with Capt. Samuel N. Nelson's company, Col. Aaron Willard's regiment; in Jan., 1777 he was granted a travel allowance from Hanover via No. 4 or Charlestown to Skeensborough. On Jan. 28, 1777 he granted an allowance for travel from Fort Edward via Albany to Hanover. He was with Capt. Amos Turner's company, Col. Titcomb's regiment, which detached and marched to Tiverton, RI, agreeable to resolve of April 11, 1777. The period of his service with this company was two months, six days. A "list of men enlisted from Plymouth Co. for the term of 9 months from the time of their arrival at Fishkill, June 10, 1778 Capt. Soper's co., Col. Cushing's regt." describes Solomon as aged 30 years, 5 ft. 7 in. in stature, dark in complexion., and a resident of Hanover, Mass. [Soldiers, 2:737].Solomon moved to Gray, Maine and then to Paris, Maine (Plantation #4) and was among the early settlers of South Paris, Maine. Solomon was one of the first millers on the Little Androscoggin River in South Paris, and his was the first frame house built in Paris (1789). He later moved to Woodstock where his sons and his daughter were living, his sons being among the first settlers of that town and those for whom Bryant Pond was named. On Jan. 25, 1800, Solomon bought a parcel of land, part of lot 8 on the eastern side of the pond in Woodstock and, in the deed, Solomon is called a housewright from Paris. He sold the land the next year to Rowse Bisbee. Solomon eventually returned to Paris, where he d. Mar. 5, 1826.
Roots and herbs doctor; came to the west part of Woodstock, Maine with his brother, Solomon, in 1798, being one of the first settlers of that town and the family for which Bryant Pond was named.
They settled on the thousand acres allotted for the Bryant's and their families and Dr. Bryant travelled throughout the area practicing his "medicine". Christopher was a private in Capt. William Ryerson's Regiment in the 1st Mass. Militia during the War of 1812; the company was in service only twelve days, from Sept. 13 to Sept. 24, 1814, during which it time it protected Portland, Maine from British attack. In 1820, Christopher was living in Greenwood, Maine where he died in 1840.
Christopher and Susanna are buried in Bryant Cemetery, Rowe Hill in Greenwood, ME.
Sister of Sally who m. Christopher's brother, Solomon.
Susanna was living with her son, Christopher, in North Woodstock, Maine after he married and was considered quite feeble-minded and helpless at that time.
Deacon Christopher Bryant Jr.-864
The first white child born in Woodstock, ME.
Solomon and his brother, Christopher, travelled to the west portion of Woodstock, Maine where they were the first settlers. He settled on a lot near his brother which was afterwards occupied by his son, Eli, and later by his grandson, Alfred D. He later moved to Greenwood, Maine and then lived with Allen T. Cummings. Both Solomon and Sally died in Greenwood, ME.
For sixteen years prior to his settlement on the Vineyard, about 1651 or 1652, Nicholas Butler had resided at Dorchester, Mass., whither he emigrated in 1636 from England.
Nicholas is first mentioned in the records under date of May 8, 1653, when he participated in one of the divisions of land. Two years prior to that, on Oct. 15, 1651, he had made his "well-beloved sonne John Butler" his attorney to collect and pay debts, which may be the most probable indication of the time of his leaving Dorchester and entrusting the settlement of his affairs there to his son. When he came to the Vineyard, he was well into middle life. Though the date of his birth is not known, vet the knowledge existing of his children's ages enables us to proximately fix his birth about the years 1595 - 1600, and his age at fifty-five when he took up his residence at Edgartown. That he was a man considerably above the social average is shown by the number of his servants, the fact that his son Henry was a graduate of Harvard College (class of 1651),and this standing was at once recognized in his new home, for he became in 1653 one of the "five men to end controversies," that is magistrate. The next year he was again chosen and in 1655 he was re-elected and called "Assistant" to the chief magistrate. In all the records he is called Mr. Butler or Mr. Nicholas Butler, a use of which prefix is distinctive. In December, 1661, he was fined for absence from town meeting and "for Going away Disorderly." Beyond the usual duty on juries and an occasional trivial litigation his name does not further appear upon the town records.
His homestead lot was near Swimming Place Point, and consisted of twenty acres. Nicholas Butler died Aug. 13, 1671, the day after his will was made.
She was a widow with five children when she m. Henry Butler and eight years his senior.
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