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Marriage: Children:
  1. Lewis Washburn Child: Birth: 17 DEC 1791 in Poland (called Bakerstown Plantation at the time), ME. Death: ABT 1815

  2. Joseph Child: Birth: 5 JAN 1794 in Poland (called Bakerstown Plantation at the time), ME. Death: DEC 1875

  3. William Child: Birth: 8 APR 1796 in Poland, Cumberland, ME. Death: 20 SEP 1885

  4. Anna Edson Child: Birth: 3 SEP 1798 in Poland, Cumberland, ME. Death: ?

  5. True Woodman Child: Birth: 6 APR 1801 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 25 APR 1829 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

  6. Eliza Jane Child: Birth: 1803 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 5 AUG 1829 in Forbes District Cemetary, Paris, ME

  7. Elisha Coolidge Child: Birth: 1804 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 1824

  8. Granville Child: Birth: 5 MAR 1806 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 3 APR 1889 in Franklin Plantation, Me

  9. Marshall Child: Birth: 25 JAN 1808 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: BET 1889 AND 1890

  10. Aurelia Jones Child: Birth: 31 AUG 1810 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 8 JUN 1847 in Canton, Oxford, ME

  11. Adelphia Child: Birth: 1816 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME. Death: 22 JAN 1854 in Livermore, Androscoggin, ME


Sources
1. Title:   Vital Records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850
Page:   p. 24
Publication:   New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904
2. Title:   Maine Families, Book One: William Child, Senior, 1791 of Maine and His Wife Anna Washburn and Their Descendants
Page:   p. 122-124, 134
Author:   Harold C. Perham
Publication:   published privately, West Paris, ME, 1973
3. Title:   1800 Census - Poland, ME
Page:   microfilm p. 245
4. Title:   Maine Families, Book One: William Child, Senior, 1791 of Maine and His Wife Anna Washburn and Their Descendants
Page:   p. 84 (citing the vital records at the Archives in Augusta, ME)
Author:   Harold C. Perham
Publication:   published privately, West Paris, ME, 1973

Notes
a. Note:   N155 Elias Child wrote that in 1771 "he moved to Maine with the family of Mr. David Marshall of Massachusetts and settled in what was then called Sudbury, Canada, now Bethel, Maine. Attacked by the Indians, the inhabitants fled. The family relocated in Minot, Maine. There Mr. Child married, then moved to Livermore, Maine, where he settled on a farm." But I could find no other evidence to support that. (Mrs. Marshall's own testimony of the events of the Indian raid, compared with the births of their own children, doesn't leave room for William to have been with them at the time.)
  The 1790 Waltham, MA census indicates that he was in Abijah's home at that time., he lived in Livermore,ME. "He kept a tavern at Brettun's Mills, Livermore in the days of Sawtelle's Stage Line." (Turner's History of the Town of Peru)
b. Note:   s inscribed with: In Memory of William Child -- 1768-1819. His wife Anna -- 1774. Buried in Livermore.
Note:   he was buried in Old Fuller Yard beside his brother Ephraim in the area of North Livermore where the three Child brothers originally settled. A memory stone was placed in the Child cemetery in Peru (beside his son, Granville's grave) in 1972. It'


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