[MAINE] Ivory Hovey III (1748-1818) Dr. Ivory Hovey was the great grandson of The Reverend Robert Jordan (killed by Indians in Spurwink, Cape Elizabeth, Maine 10 Aug 1703) and Sarah Winter. Dr. Hovey was a surgeon of Colonel Scamman's Battalion during the Revolutionary War and was stationed at Fort Miller, Ticonderoga. Hovey became one of the town's wealthiest citizens and a founder of Berwick Academy in Berwick, Maine. In addition to merchant ships, wharves and warehouses, the Hovey family owned gristmills at Quamphegan and Chadbourne's Falls, a fishing boat, and two gundalows for bringing their wares up-river. At the death of his second wife, Frances. in 1816, the doctor was married again, to a woman from Newburyport, Massachusetts. Folklore claims that the ghosts of Ivory's first two wives, Mary and Frances, ruthlessly haunted his third wife. Maine author Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about Ivory in the fictional short story "River Driftwood" from Country Byways. She wrote of the handsome, generous physician who lived in grand style and hinted at rumors that his first wife, Mary, was murdered and his last wife haunted by both poverty and ghosts. (New England Ancestors, Summer, 2004). Offered here is a signed document, Berwick, Jan. 30, 1802, about 7 x 3.5 in. Account settlement with Capt. Ebenezer Ricker. VG. RARE!.

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