Marlboro SYLVESTER

Father: William SILVESTER
Mother: Mary BARSTOW 

                                            _Joseph SILVESTER _
                      _Amos SILVESTER _____|
                     |                     |_Mary BARSTOW _____
 _William SILVESTER _|
|                    |                      _Joseph HENCHMAN___
|                    |_Elizabeth HENCHMAN _|
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|--Marlboro SYLVESTER
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|                                           _Joseph BARSTOW____
|                     _Joseph BARSTOW______|
|                    |                     |_Susanna LINCOLN___
|_Mary BARSTOW ______|
                     |                      ___________________
                     |_Mary //_____________|
                                           |___________________

Notes

Updated February 18, 2012. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Wheeler, George Augustus, M.D., and Wheeler, Henry Warren, "History of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine: including the ancient territory known as Pejepscot (Google eBook)" (A. Mudge & Sons, printers: Boston, MA, 1878).

Page 686. "Not far from this time [1778], probably, an American sloop of war came into Harpswell for recruits. Quite a number of young men enlisted, among them Marlboro' SYLVESTER, David JOHNSON, and Abner BISHOP. SYLVESTER enlisted as clerk. Each received a pension after the war."

Pages 809-810. "SYLVESTER, MARLBOROUGH: Marlborough SYLVESTER, of Harpswell, was a son of William SYLVESTER, and was born in Hanover, Massachusetts, in 1753. He was a man of prominent affairs of the town, and held town offices for many years. He was town clerk from 1794 to 1799, inclusive, and in 1813, selectman from 1797 to 1808, inclusive, and in 1815, and representative in 1809."

(2) Family History, Volume S(4), Sylvester, Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC., p. 2.

(3) Genealogical History of Deer Isle Families [ME], Series 2, Volume 34, Ste-Sy. Compiled by Benjamin Lake Noyes. Donated to Daughters of the American Revolution library, Washington, DC, June 1950.

(4) Listed in Daughters of the American Revolution membership record 569548 (issued 1972).