Grandma Deborah's immigrant, her great-great grandpa Peter Heal, came to Maine about 1730. Some say he was a French protestant minister, fleeing France after the crackdown on protestants. Others say he was English or Irish, as were all the other ancestors and lateral relatives. An article in the Bath (Maine) Index from 1914 suggests the last name was really Dillon or DeLeon, and that perhaps Peter was on a ship wrecked off the coast and just stayed in Maine.
Deborah was born in Edgecombe, Maine to Isaac and Ruth Dunton Heal. When she was only 15, she married Elijah Young whose ancestors had been in New England since the early 1600's. They had seven children (that I know of) including two sets of twins. Son Abner married Jane Waldsmith and settled in Scott County, Indiana. One or two of their other children also lived in southern Indiana.
There is no record of Deborah or Elijah's deaths in Maine and some have speculated that in the early nineteenth century they moved with their family to Ohio. My great-great aunt, Larua McClure Milhous, wrote that she had once seen a letter from her great-grandmother, Deborah.
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I am looking for the parents of Betsey Young, who married Edmund Wilson as his 3rd wife in 1819. She bore 7 children and died in 1840. The marriage records say she was from Newcastle. Her children's names were Helen, Joseph Young, Antoinette, Albion Keith, Otis Dow, Alonzo and Maria Louisa. Could she be Elizabeth Young, born 1802 to Elijah and Deborah?
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