He married Deborah Wyeth and she gave him 10 children: Mary, Nathaniel, William, Ruth, Sarah, John, Martha, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Daniel.

[13] Joshua (1778-1855) of his father's namesake and eldest child was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts prior to his parents moving the family to Fryeburg, Maine.

On December 2, 1884, some weeks after Samuel's death, Mary Davis waived her rights of administration to the will, recommending Albion O. Gamage to the role, which he undertook.

On behalf of young William, Thomas Boyd sold Davis Island to Daniel Gano and Anna Chittenden on October 29, 1887, only a year and a half after the trial.

His father, Henry, was an abolitionist pioneer and a companion of Joshua Leavitt, Lewis Tappan, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[45] In the early 1870s, Daniel's brother, Henry Abel Chittenden, Jr. (1846-1900), traveled to Milwaukee for his health to visit his college chum, James Greeley Flanders.

[79][78] Her ship's manifest delineated the following cargo: Her passengers (31 cabin, 20 steerage) included: Tuesday, May 21, 1878 - Saturday, May 31, 1878 - The Idaho departed for Ireland in dark gray skies and heavy rainfall.

[106] She, under her stage and pen name, Grace Courtland, published an article which successfully predicted the results of a mad rush on Wabash Stocks.

After her failures as a lecturer and operating in the semi-dramatic semi-society organization, the Parlor Reading Club, she was seen in the company of a young Daniel Chittenden, who claimed to be deeply in love with her but was only her business manager at the time.

Davis' Island on the western side of the bay, was reported sold, Monday, to New York parties who will erect elegant buildings, in the spring.

One reporter even asked her to opine on Jack the Ripper, for which she replied, I believe he is an Englishman by birth, that he lives in America, yes, in Massachusetts, that to all appearances he is a gentlemen, speaks different languages, and is an educated physician, who has had some unfortunate things occur in his own family, which has made him hate women of a certain class with a hatred that amounts to fiendishness.

[15] Martha Moulten Keezer (nee Whittemore) penned an article of the newly anointed Witches Island in the September 8th, 1890 edition of the Boston Evening Transcript: Among the many summer sojourners returning home to their fall and winter duties is one whose mode of spending her vacation is as odd and interesting as is the name in which she earns her livelihood.

Brokers go to her for counsel; bankers seek her out and ask her aid; speculators in particular court her favor, and place utter confidence in her judgements, and act accordingly.

The place is attractive in every way, and that the witch is not at all bitter towards outsiders is shown by the cordial manner in which she waves her flag or handkerchief to the parties sailing about the home.

On certain days in the week the flag flying from the top of the house signifies that she will tell the fortune of or otherwise inform any who will come ashore, and undoubtedly her summer profit is quite a little, for it is hard to withstand the charm that seems to surround such a woman.

Besides that, it is a novel and somewhat unusual thing to catch a glimpse of the home life of a woman who cares to spend her time alone in a place where she is obliged to be her own gardener, fisherman and workman in general.

Marth Moulten Whittemore, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Saturday, September 6, 1890[171]Whether the Whittemore piece boosted her sanguinity or the island or some other undocumented occurrence, she published a poem via the Buffalo News less than a week later titled September: A shadowy veil is gathering on the hills, The autumn winds are stealing from the South; The thirsty pastures drink the lazy rills Where butterflies are winging merry rout.

The thistle down is drifting on the breeze, And misty cobwebs fill the dreamy air; The faintest blush of nature in the trees Hath flamed the golden aster's hair.In stubble fields the garnered wheat Bespeaks the fruitful harvest o'er, Where burdened branches bend to greet The sweeping orchard's wasted store.In leafy groves the locust's call Is answering to the drone of bees; The flowers are fading, and the fall Is creeping o'er the upland leas.

[176] It was reported in 1893 that she bought ten lots in the Budd Lake area of Harrison, Michigan, with the intent of building a residence by the Detroit Free Press.

An 1888 Boston Globe edition contained a note from Anna threatening prosecution for someone at Austin and Stone's Dime Museum using her copyrighted name.

[189][190] After spending the summer at her cottage on Witch Island in 1895, Anna told the Portland Evening Express that she had great faith in Maine real estate.

She said it would not be fulfilled, however, until after Jay Gould's death, and she was right..."[214][full citation needed] During 1904, Daniel (ostensibly without Anna) spent time in Florida where uncovered at solution for household fleas.

Anna and Daniel had just moved to Boston after living, primarily, in New York for the prior 5 years, short of spending summers on Witch Island.

Quoting directly from the article: One of the best stories of the season as arrived from South Bristol, where D. G. Chittenden, whose veracity has never been questioned, saw a Horse mackerel pull a big motorboat and three captains thru the waters of John's Bay at high speed for a half an hour.

[15] Four months after Uncle Dan's renowned fish story, he and Anna sold Witch Island to novelist, Henry C. Rowland, at the beginning of December, 1916.

[238][239] Her father, John Ives Sewall (1905-1975), was an art history professor at the University of Buffalo for 20 years before retiring to South Bristol, Maine.

His son, Jotham Jr., published his memoir for the press in 1853 which briefly lays out Jane's lineage to Henry Sewall, Mayor of Coventry, England.

She continued to have frustrations with fires in 1978 where closed out a letter to the editor of the Maine Times with "If you love islands, you will bring your sandwiches made ready-made to eat, and you will leave your matches at home.

Of the changes, owners with 10 to 100 acres, which Witch Island was part of, would be required to conform to accepted forestry practices to grow trees with eventual commercial value.

Without an amendment to the 1981 changes, she would be forced to pay the penalty (which she had not the money for), handing 1/3 of Witch Island to South Bristol to get sold or giving in to the new forest practices.