By Muriel Bristol | January 4, 2026
Isaac Hasey was born in Cambridge, MA, July 23, 1742, son of Abraham and Jemima (Felch) Hasey.
Abraham Hasey married, January 17, 1739-40, Jemima, daughter of Samuel Felch of Reading, who had recently come to Cambridge. She was born in the former town January 21, 1718. Hasey owned a small piece of property on the Watertown road, adjoining John Vassall, and was taxed 1/ 9 for it in 1770. After the death of his benefactor however he had to realize on it (Cambridge Historical Society, 1915).
Isaac Hasey attended Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1762.
Isaac Hasey, undoubtedly his [Abraham Hasey’s] son, enjoyed, probably through the kindness of Henry Vassall, the college education (class of 1762) which the Colonel himself never had the advantage of. His lowly social position is shown by his “placing” in the class, the last among fifty-one. Nevertheless the boy had good stuff in him, and after proceeding “A.M.” [Artium Magister or Master of Arts] became the first minister of Lebanon, Maine (Cambridge Historical Society, 1915).
Isaac Hasey taught school in York, ME, in 1764, and preached in Towah or Towbrook, [i.e., Lebanon,] ME. (His future wife, Rebecca Owen, taught also in York, ME).
During a part of this first year [1764] he was also engaged teaching school in the town of York. His custom was ride from York on Saturday, and return on Monday. His preaching was so acceptable to the people that they appealed to the proprietors to secure his permanent settlement among them. In 1765 they entered into such contract with him. June 26, 1765, he was ordained. The following persons composed the council: Rev. Mr. Pike, of Somersworth, Rev. Mr. Lyman and Rev. Mr. Langton, of York, Rev. Mr. Stevens and Rev. Mr. Chase, of Kittery, and the Rev. Mr. Foster, of Berwick. This council met in the house of Ephraim Blaisdell. As there was then no church in town their first work was to organize one. Besides Mr Hasey, five other males became members of it. After this business of organization, the council to the meeting-house for the public exercises of the ordination. This house, erected in 1753, was forty feet in length, thirty feet wide, and two stories high. It was furnished with two rows of benches, one for the men and for the women (York County Conference, 1876).
Isaac Hasey was ordained in Towah or Towbrook, [i.e., Lebanon,] ME, June 26, 1765, as the first settled minister of its First (Congregational) Church.
This ancient church as appears by the record on exhibition there, was incorporated in June 1765, being now [1875] just one hundred and ten years old, and in the first eighty-eight years of its life had but four pastors – the first, Rev. Isaac Hasey, commenced his labors at the age of 24, devoting his life for forty-seven years to their service, dying in 1812 at the age of 71, and buried, “There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher’s modest mansion rose.” He was succeeded by Rev. Paul Jewett, followed by James Weston in 1824, and by Joseph Loring up to 1853 – since this last date the changes in the pulpit have been numerous (Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), June 7, 1875).
Rev. Isaac Hasey married in Towah, [i.e., Lebanon,] ME, August 22, 1765, Rebecca Owen. Rev. Isaac Lyman, of York, ME, performed the ceremony. He was aged twenty-three years, nineteen days; and she was aged thirty-one years, two months, and ten days. She was born in Boston, MA, May 31, 1734, daughter of William Owen.
(The known children of Isaac and Rebecca (Owen) Hasey were: Isaac Hasey (1766–1852), Rebecca Hasey (1767–1859), Mary Hasey (1769–1848), Benjamin Hasey (1771–1851), William Hasey (1774–1820), Hannah Owen Hasey (1776–182?), Sally Hasey (1779–1854)).
Eleven-year-old Rebekah Owen (1734-1811) made this sampler with a central motif of Adam and Eve with the coiled serpent around an apple tree from the Garden of Eden while at home in Malden, Massachusetts, or at a girls’ school in nearby Boston. The border motifs and other elements of the composition bear similarities to other samplers made in schools of the period. The sampler is connected with York through Rebekah’s older sister, Mary (1727-1793), who was married to the local shipowner and merchant Edward Emerson, Sr. (1726-1806). The Emersons, who resided in what is now the Emerson-Wilcox House of the Museums of Old York, took in Rebekah after the death of her parents in 1754. She taught school in York and eventually married the Reverend Isaac Hasey (1742-1812), the first minister of Towbrook (Lebanon), Maine, in 1765″ (Murphy, 2008).
Son Isaac Hasey, Jr., was born in Towah, [i.e., Lebanon,] ME, June 21, 1766.
Massachusetts incorporated the 1733 land grant known as Towwoh Plantation under the name of Lebanon, Maine, June 11, 1767. (Maine was then a “province” of Massachusetts). Its name is said to have been given it by its ordained minister, Rev. Isaac Hasey.
The town, incorporated in 1767, is believed to have been named by Rev. Isaac Hasey, one of the town’s first learned men who claimed the town’s tall white pines reminded him of the Biblical description of the cedars of Lebanon (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), July 2, 1992).
Daughter Rebecca Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, October 11, 1767. Daughter Mary Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, August 16, 1769.
Son Benjamin Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, July 5, 1771. Son William Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, April 12, 1774.
Rev. Isaac Hasey’s diaries are a frequently cited source on Lebanon, ME, and its vicinity, during the Revolutionary War.
Abstracts Relating to the Revolutionary War, from Rev Isaac Hasey’s Diaries, 1775-1783. By George Walter Chamberlain. In Collections Maine Historical Society, Second Series, IX, 132. 1898.
Isaac Hasey, a parson in Lebanon, Maine, was awakened at four o’clock the same morning [April 20, 1775] to learn ” news of ye Regulars fighting.” To his mind this was “good news” and he busied himself to assist in mustering “ye Minute Men” to march the next day (Brown, 2020).
Daughter Hannah Owen Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, May 8, 1776.
Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the marriage ceremony of Samuel Twombly, Jr. [III], and Mary “Molly” Burrows, in Lebanon, ME, December 21, 1777.
Daughter Sally Hasey was born in Lebanon, ME, June 27, 1779.
Wakefield, NH, sought to “settle” a minister in their town in 1782. Its town meeting voted
…. to keep Thursday, 12th day of instant September, as a Day of Fasting and Prayer for Direction in the calling and settling of a minister.” “Voted also to invite the Rev. Messrs. James Pike, Jeremy Belknap, Joseph Haven, Isaac Hasey, Nehemiah Ordway, to assist and advise on that occasion” (Wakefield First Church, 1886).
Wakefield, NH, ultimately “called” Rev. Asa Piper, who was ordained and “settled” there in September 1785.
The diary of Parson Hasey gives this condensed report: “September 22, 1785. Chiefly clear; rode to ordination at Wakefield. Newhall prayed; Adams preached; Hasey prayed and charge; Haven right hand; Ripley last prayer. Sept. 23, rode home, A.M., Mr. Spring with me (Wakefield First Church, 1886).
Thomas Jefferson – then a Virginia delegate to the U.S. Congress (under the Articles of Confederation) – asked his NH legislative acquaintances, John Sullivan and William Whipple, for information about moose, in late 1783 to early 1784. Sullivan in turn asked Isaac Hasey and Gilbert Warren for information, and returned their replies to Jefferson in the fall of 1784 (Gish & Klinghard, 2017). Jefferson received appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary to France in May 1784.
The Massachusetts legislature passed a bill, in January 1786, authorizing Lebanon, ME, to assess and collect a ministerial property tax. It told of Rev. Isaac Hasey’s original settlement in 1765 and the towns’ contractual arrangements with him. The town’s account with Rev. Hasey had fallen into arrears, around 1782, and it sought authority to collect a ministerial tax in order to pay their minister (University Press, 1893).
Mother Jemima (Felch) Hasey died July 28, 1786.
Mr. [Benjamin] Hasey, like his father and uncle, was a graduate of Harvard, being of the class of 1790, of which one member still survives, the venerable Josiah Quincy, the oldest living graduate, who, at the age of ninety, is in possession of the ripe faculties which have given a luster to his name and age. Mr. Hasey received his preliminary education at Dummer Academy under the tuition of the celebrated Master Moody, and entered college in 1786 (Willis, 1863).
Daughter Rebecca Hasey married in Lebanon, ME, January 26, 1789, Thomas Millett Wentworth. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony. He was born in Dover, NH, February 19, 1753, son of Col. John and Abigail (Millett) Wentworth.
Thomas Millet [Wentworth], Col. John’s (4) son, went to Lebanon, Maine, when quite young to superintend a farm for his father. This was in South Lebanon. Here the Rev. Isaac Hasey was preaching, and keeping his now famous diaries. Mr. Hasey had a daughter, Rebecca, and Thomas Millet fell in love with her and it must have been mutual, for they were married Jan. 26, 1789. I believe Lebanon was to Somersworth, what Barrington was to Portsmouth and early Dover; a place to send the overflow of sons. Thomas Millet lived in South Lebanon many years, and finally bought the three hundred acre farm above Lebanon Centre, almost to the Acton line. This farm included some of the ponds at Milton on the west, and Mt. Towwow on the east (Metcalf & McClintock, 1927).
He [Thomas M. Wentworth] was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1788, which ratified by that State the Constitution of the United States. The vote stood 187 ayes to 168 nays; Mr. Wentworth voted in the negative. He represented Lebanon in the Massachusetts Legislature (while Maine was a district) seventeen years. He was one of the wealthiest men in the county (Wentworth Genealogy).
Revd Isaac Hasey headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included four males aged 16-plus years [Rev. Isaac Hasey, Isaac Hasey, Benjamin Hasey, and William Hasey], and five females [Rebecca (Owen) Hasey, Mary Hasey, Hannah Hasey, and Sally Hasey]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Farnham, Esqr, and Joseph Hardisen.
Thomas M. Wintworth [Wentworth] headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the First (1790) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-plus years [himself], one male aged under-16 years, and two females [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth and Theodosia Wentworth]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Richd Furbush and Edward Burrows.
Daughter Mary Hasey married in Dover, NH, April 20, 1793, Ezra Kimball, Jr. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony. Kimball was born circa 1764.
Soon after leaving college [in 1790], he [Benjamin Hasey] entered the office of the late Judge Thacher in Biddeford as a student, and was admitted to practice in April, 1794. In June of the same year, he established himself at Topsham, where he continued to reside until his death, March 24, 1851, a period of fifty seven years, a single, as well as a singular man. The only lawyers in Lincoln, exclusive of Kennebec County, when he commenced practice there, were Langdon, Lee, and Manasseh Smith, all in Wiscasset (Willis, 1863).
Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the marriage ceremony between Thomas Applebee (“Appleby”) and Judith Rines in Lebanon, ME, January 12, 1797.
Daughter Hannah Owen Hasey married in Lebanon, ME, February 23, 1800, Dr. Nathaniel Adams. Rev. Isaac Hasey performed the ceremony. Adams was born in Portland, ME, in 1778, son of Benjamin and Miriam (Watson) Adams.
Isaac Hasey headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Rebecca (Owen) Hasey], two males aged 16-25 years [Benjamin Hasey and William Hasey], one female aged 16-25 years [Sally Hasey], and one female 10-15 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Reuben Hull Copp, and Richard Furbush.
Thomas M. Wentworth headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth], one female aged 16-25 years, one male aged 10-15 years, one female aged under-10 years [Theodosia Wentworth], and two males aged under-10 years [Thomas M. Wentworth, Jr., and Isaac H. Wentworth]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Gershom Lord and Nathaniel Whitehouse.
Ezra Kimball, Jr, headed a Dover, NH, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Mary (Hasey) Kimball], two males aged 16-25 years, one female aged 16-25 years, and one female aged under-10 years [Maria Kimball].
Nathaniel Adams headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Second (1800) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 16-25 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Hannah O. (Hasey) Adams]. Their housheold appeared in the enumeration between those of Jedediah Wentworth and Edmund Cowill [Cowell].
Son-in-law Ezra Kimball, died of a putrid fever in Dover, NH, October 13, 1801, aged thirty-seven years.
Isaac Hasey of Lebanon, ME, subscribed to Rev. Roswell Messinger’s religious dissertation Sentiments on Resignation, when it was published in 1807 (Messenger, 1820).
For sale by Daniel Johnson, AT THE PORTLAND BOOKSTORE, Sentiments on Resignation, By the Rev. ROWELL MESSINGER, of York. THE following general character of the work is given by the Rev. Dr. HEMMENWAY: “The Sentiments on Resignation, are, like the celebrated Night Thoughts, effusions of a heart exercised with sore affliction. The author, soon after his settlement in the gospel ministry, with agreeable prospects of usefulness and comfort, had his prospects darkened by distressing calamities, which issued at length in a total privation of his sight. On this occasion, his mind was turned, with peculiar attention, to the great duty of Resignation to the will of God. Finding light arising upon him in darkness from his meditations on this subject benevolence prompted a desire that others might partake with him, in the instruction and consolation he had found in time of need. With this view he has, notwithstanding the obvious difficulties and disadvantages he must have been under, in being obliged to make use of borrowed pens, offered his thoughts to the consideration of the public. the perusal of the sentiments here exhibited, we doubt not but that the pious and devout christian will find much agreeable entertainment, with seasonable edifying instruction. If any should think the language more highly ornamented with the flowers and figures of rhetoric, than is suited to the understanding of the lower class of readers, it should also be considered that persons of a more elegant taste have as much need as any, to exercise and cultivate “Sentiments of Resignation,” and should therefore be furnished with instructions on the subject in a manner, suited, by striking the fancy, to engage the attention and touch the heart. Upon the whole, whatever defects or inadvertencies a critical eye may discern, in this performance, we think they are less and fewer than one would have expected, when the circumstances above mentioned are considered; and that the work will do the author honor, and we trust will be extensively useful (Portland Gazette, July 6, 1807).
Revd Isaac Hasey headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], two females aged 45-plus years [Rebecca (Owen) Hasey and Polly Hasey], one female aged 26-44 years, and two males aged 16-25 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of William Furbush and Thos M. Wentworth, Esqr.
Thos M. Wentworth, Esqr, headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 26-44 years [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth], one female aged 16-25 years [Theodosia Wentworth], two males aged 10-15 years [Thomas M. Wentworth, Jr., and Isaac H. Wentworth], and one female aged under-10 years [Sally Wentworth]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of [her father,] Revd Isaac Hasey and John Nock.
Wd Mary [(Hasey)] Kimball headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 26-44 years [herself], one female aged 16-25 years [Maria Kimball], and one female aged 10-15 years [Abigail G. Kimball].
Doctr Nathl Adams headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Third (1810) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 26-44 years [himself], one female aged 16-25 years [Hannah O. (Hasey) Adams], and three males aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Elihu Hayes and Edmund Cowell.
Rebecca (Owen) Hasey died in Lebanon, ME, December 10, 1811, aged seventy-seven years. Rev. Isaac Hasey died in Lebanon, ME, October 17, 1812, aged seventy-one years.
Son Benjamin Hasey joined with other MA State Representatives G.W. Wallingford, Samuel A. Bradley, Ebenezer Inglee, John G. Deane, Joel Miller, and Samuel Stephenson, in June 1816, in publishing their remonstrance against a proposed separation of the Province of Maine from its parent Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Maine would become a separate State in 1820).
Mr. [Benjamin] Hasey represented his town in the legislature of Massachusetts several years before the separation; but he had no taste for politics, and he withdrew from all public employment. He was fifteen years one of the trustees of Bowdoin College. Reserved and retired in his habits, he became more so as he left the common highway so much frequented by lawyers and politicians. It was not unnatural that a man of his sensitive nature should have shrunk from scenes which are often contaminated by low intrigues and self-seeking arts. Of the most rigid integrity, regular and quiet in all his modes of thought and action, nothing disturbed him more than the cant of demagogues. As may be supposed, he was strongly conservative, – change was distasteful to him. This may be a reason why he never married. For more than thirty-eight years he boarded in the same family, and for many years he occupied the same office, to which he daily resorted until within a few days of his death, in the same manner as when he was in practice. But with all his peculiarities, he was ever to be relied upon; his word was sacred, his act just, his deportment blameless. As a counsellor, his opinions were sound and much valued, and for many years he had an extensive practice in the counties of Lincoln and Cumberland. We remember the prim, snug-built, and neatly dressed gentleman, with his green satchel in hand, according to the usage of that day, taking his seat at the bar, and waiting calmly for the order of his business: he rarely appeared as an advocate, his natural diffidence and reserve disqualifying him for any display. Many years before his death he left the active duties of the profession; the innovations which were taking place in the manners and course of practice at the bar, were ill suited to his delicate and conservative feelings. The want of ancient decorum and respect, the absence of forensic courtesy, fretted upon his nerves. The abolishing of special pleading annoyed him, and the revision and codification of the statutes thoroughly confused his habitual notions of practice, displaced his accustomed authorities and cast him afloat in his old age on what seemed a new profession. He lived in the past and believed in it, and strove as much as mortal could to keep himself from the degeneracy of modern ideas. Mr. Hasey, at the time of his death, was the oldest surviving lawyer in the State; when he commenced practice the whole number was but seventeen, all of whom he survived except Judge Wilde, who had removed from the State (Willis, 1863).
Thomas M. Wentworth, Esqr, headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth], one female aged 26-44 years [Theodosia Wentworth], one male aged 16-25 years [Thomas M. Wentworth, Jr.], and one female aged 10-15 years [Sally Wentworth]. Two members of his household were engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Miss Sally Hasey and John Door.
Dr Nathl Adams headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 45-plus years [himself], one female aged 45-plus years [Hannah O. (Hasey) Adams], one male aged 16-25 years, one male aged 10-15 years, one male aged under-10 years, and two females aged under-10 years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Joseph Gerrish and Joshua Hodsdon.
Miss Sally Hasey headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fourth (1820) Federal Census. Her household included one female aged 45-plus years [herself], one female aged 26-44 years, one female aged 16-25 years, one female aged 10-14 years, and two males aged 45-plus years. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Billy M. Furbish and Thomas M. Wentworth, Esqr.
Son William Hasey died in Lebanon, ME, December 31, 1820, aged forty-six years.
Daughter Sally Hasey married in Lebanon, ME, January 1821, Rev. Joseph Hilliard.
Widowed son-in-law Dr. Nathaniel Adams married (2nd) in South Berwick, ME, November 13, 1822, Ann Jenkins, he of Lebanon, ME, and she of Berwick, ME. Rev. Joshua Chase performed the ceremony.
Thomas M. Wentworth headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 60-69 years [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth], and one male aged 70-79 years [Isaac Hasey, Jr.]. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Charles Blaisdell and Thomas Legro, Jr.
Joseph Hilliard headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Fifth (1830) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 50-59 years [himself], one female aged 50-59 years [Sally (Hasey) Hilliard], one male aged 30-39 years, one female aged 20-29 years, one female aged 15-19 years, one female aged 10-14 years, and one male aged 5-9 years.
Son-in-law Dr. Nathaniel Adams died in Somersworth, NH, October 30, 1830, aged sixty-two years.
Granddaughter Mary E. Adams married in Portsmouth, NH, Samuel Williams, of Hartford, CT.
MARRIED. In Portsmouth, Mr. Samuel Williams, of Hartford, Conn., to Miss Mary E. Adams, daughter of the late Nathaniel Adams, Esq. (Dover Enquirer, October 25, 1831).
Son Benjamin Hasey, Esq., of Topsham, ME, appeared in the ΦΒΚ [Phi Beta Kappa] Fraternity Catalog of 1833, as a surviving member of Harvard University’s Class of 1790.
Granddaughter Martha C. Adams married in Portsmouth, NH, Dudley Buck, of Hartford, CT.
Married. In Portsmouth, Dudley Buck, Esq., of Hartford, Conn., to Miss Martha C. Adams, daughter of the late Nathaniel Adams, Esq. (Dover Enquirer, September 19, 1837).
Benjamin Hasey headed a Topsham, ME, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself]. One member of his household was engaged in a Learned Profession or as an Engineer.
Thomas M. Wentworth headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 80-89 years [himself], one female aged 70-79 years [Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth], and one female aged 30-39 years [Theodosia Wentworth]. One member of his household was engaged in Agriculture. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George Tibbetts and Jesse Furbush.
Joseph Hilliard headed a Berwick, ME, household at the time of the Sixth (1840) Federal Census. His household included one male aged 60-69 years [himself], one female aged 60-69 years [Sally (Hasey) Hilliard], and one female aged 20-29 years.
Son-in-law Thomas M. Wentworth died in Lebanon, ME, November 23, 1841, aged eighty-nine years.
Died. At Lebanon, Nov. 22, Thomas Wentworth, Esq., aged 89 years (Dover Enquirer, November 30, 1841).
Daughter Mary (Hasey) Kimball died in Dover, NH, April 29, 1848, aged seventy-eight years.
DEATHS. 29th ult., Mrs. Mary Kimball, widow of the late Ezra Kimball, aged 78 (Dover Enquirer, May 2, 1848).
Thomas M. Wentworth, [Jr.,] a farmer, aged fifty-three years (b. ME), headed a Lebanon, ME, household at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census. His household included Rebecca [(Hasey)] Wentworth, aged eighty-two years (b. ME), Andrew Goodnage, none, aged eighteen years (b. ME), Daniel Fall, aged fourteen years (b. ME), and Isaac Hasey, none, aged eighty-three years (b. ME). Thomas M. Wentworth had real estate valued at $15,000.
Benjamin Hasey, a lawyer, aged seventy-nine years (b. ME), resided in the Topsham, ME, household of Susan Purinton, aged seventy-seven years (b. NH), at the time of the Seventh (1850) Federal Census.
Son Benjamin Hasey died in Topsham, ME, March 24, 1851, aged seventy-nine years.
Obituary Notice. DIED at Topsham, Me., March 24, 1851, BENJAMIN HASEY, Esq., aged 79 (Little & Brown, 1852).
The Hon. Frederic Allen, his cotemporary in Lincoln County, has furnished the following well-considered estimate of Mr. [Benjamin] Hasey’s character and standing: “He was well versed in the principles of the common law. His reading was extensive, both legal and miscellaneous. His memory was tenacious, his habits studious. In his person, though very small in stature, he was of the most perfect formation, and always most neatly attired. He had much good sense, was a strict adherent to the old federal party, from whose leading opinions, so long as the party had a distinctive existence, he never wavered, and had little charity for those who did. He was not much employed as an advocate: he generally argued not over one case a year, and that was done very well. His address to the jury was brief, free from all repetition or copious illustration. He left the world in the same apparent quietude in which he had lived, leaving a name much honored, and a character highly respected” (Willis, 1863).
State of Maine. LINCOLN, SS. At a Probate Court held at Wiscasset, on the 5th day of January, A.D. 1852. Ordered, that Thomas M. Wentworth, administrator of the estate of Benjamin Hasey, late of Topsham, in said County, deceased, notify the heirs at law and creditors of said deceased, and all persons interested, that his first account of administration on the estate of said deceased will be offered for allowance at a Probate Court at Wiscasset, on the first Monday of February next, when and where they may be present if they see cause. Notice to be given by publishing an attested copy of this order in the Eastern Times, printed in Bath, three weeks successively, before said Court of Probate. Given under my hand this fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. ARNOLD BLANEY, Judge of Probate. Copy attest – EDWIN S. HOVEY, Reg. (Eastern Times (Bath, ME), January 15, 1852).
Son Isaac Hasey, Jr., died in Lebanon, ME, April 22, 1852, aged eighty-five years.
Daughter Sally (Hasey) Hilliard died in Berwick, ME, July 14, 1854, aged seventy-five years.
DEATHS. In Berwick, Me., July 14th, Mrs. Sally Hilliard, wife of the late Rev. Joseph Hilliard, aged 75 years (Dover Enquirer, July 18, 1854).
Daughter Rebecca (Hasey) Wentworth died in Lebanon, ME, September 8, 1859.
Marriages and Deaths. WENTWORTH, Mrs. Rebecca, Sept. 8th, at Lebanon, Me.; born 11th Oct. 1767, aged ninety one years and 11 months; dau. of Rev. Isaac Hasey, the first settled minister of Lebanon, Me. He was born in Cambridge, Mass., graduated at Harvard College, 1762, and m. Rebecca Owen, born at Boston, 1733. She was the widow of Hon. Thomas Millet Wentworth, who died 3rd Nov. 1841, aged eighty-eight yrs. He was the son of Col. John Wentworth, of Somersworth, N.H., by his second wife, Abigail Millet, and grandson of Capt. Benjamin, by his wife, Elizabeth Leighton. Capt. Benjamin was son of Ezekiel, and grandson of Elder William, the immigrant settler. J.W. (NEHGR, January 1860).
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