PAGE, Simon, Col.

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Col. Simon Page came to Winthrop between 1783 and 1785 and built a large two story dwelling and farm partly on a rangeway and partly on lot #24 in East Readfield[i] – the Stanley Road falls within that lot now.  He was named Captain of the militia in 1785 and Colonel in 1788. When Readfield separated from Winthrop in 1791 the town boundary actually passed through the chimney of Simon Page’s house and he was then considered a resident of Readfield. He sold his house in 1820 and moved in with his daughter Sarah and her husband Dr. Peleg Benson. He was blind the last years of his life. After he sold the house it burned and the new owner, Eliphalet Foster, built a new one that fell completely in the town of Winthrop.[ii]  Col. Simon Page married three times to 1) Sarah Clifford 1746- c.1770 2) Hannah Weare 1747 – 1780 3) Mary Brown 1750 – 1820. He had ten children – five were sons Samuel b.1770; Simon b.1774; Stephen b._?_; Sewall b.1787; Lewis b.1790

Simon’s son Samuel married Mary Whittier, daughter of Nathaniel Whittier of East Readfield. Samuel built a two story house at the corner of Stanley Road and route 17 – known in the 19^th century as “Bowker’s Corner”- where he ran an inn known as Page’s Tavern.[iii] There was a livery stable near there also which was still operating into the 20^th century. This was all located in proximity to where the Newman house sits today (2013).  

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[i] Kingsbury and Deyo, History of Kennebec County (New York, H.W. Blake & Co., 1892), page 891

[ii] Stackpole, Everett; History of Winthrop with Genealogical Notes by Keene; pub. 1925 and reprinted 1994; Heritage Books Inc. Bowie, MD; page 532-533

[iii] ibid