Jacob DeCoster and his wife Priscilla Rogers, a descendant of the matyr of Smithfield, came from Bridgewater, Mass, in 1786 and settled on the part of Hebron, known as fifty years ago as "Sodom" and died there on a farm since called the DeCoster place. He was a sailor on a vessel engaged in the coasting trade and was at Charleston, S.C., when the news of the battles of Lexington and Concord and closing of the Port of Boston was received there. The agent in Charleston would not let the vessel depart for fear of its being captured. Jacob DeCoster made the journey home to Bridgewater on foot. Tradition says he was nearly two months on the way.
History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman, 1915.
According to The History of Norway, Maine, Jacob and Priscilla were buried in an old burying ground on the Buckfield-West Minot road near their farm.
History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman, 1915.
According to The History of Norway, Maine, Jacob and Priscilla were buried in an old burying ground on the Buckfield-West Minot road near their farm.
Jacob DeCoster and his wife Priscilla Rogers, a descendant of the matyr of Smithfield, came from Bridgewater, Mass, in 1786 and settled on the part of Hebron, known as fifty years ago as "Sodom" and died there on a farm since called the DeCoster place. He was a sailor on a vessel engaged in the coasting trade and was at Charleston, S.C., when the news of the battles of Lexington and Concord and closing of the Port of Boston was received there. The agent in Charleston would not let the vessel depart for fear of its being captured. Jacob DeCoster made the journey home to Bridgewater on foot. Tradition says he was nearly two months on the way.
History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman, 1915.
According to The History of Norway, Maine, Jacob and Priscilla were buried in an old burying ground on the Buckfield-West Minot road near their farm.
History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, by Alfred Cole and Charles F. Whitman, 1915.
According to The History of Norway, Maine, Jacob and Priscilla were buried in an old burying ground on the Buckfield-West Minot road near their farm.
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