81:, or Assembly to be held at Salem, on Wednesday, the fifth day of October next. We desire you to observe the following instructions: that you use your endeavors to obtain a vote of the House, for the re-establishment of the former Charter of this Province. We instruct you to join with other members, which compose said Court, in forming themselves into a Provincial Congress in order to secure them in the enjoyment of their Charter, and Constitutional Rights of Freemen, and as Christians.
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1751. He was called to preach at Gorham by the town proprietors the previous year, when he was the first settled clergyman in Gorham. A part of the block house was fitted for public worship, where he ministered for about a dozen years. He had several children. His sons, Solomon and
Richard, had large
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A Gorham town meeting was held March 12, 1765. Officers elected included
Surveyors of Lumber, and Lot layers. They voted Solomon Lombard, Esq. to serve for, and represent, Gorham at the Massachusetts Great Court, convened in Boston July 17, 1766.
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September 1768, a Gorham town meeting was held, and Solomon Lombard, Esq. (the former pastor) was chosen as "an agent to go to Boston, as soon as may be, to join a convention of agents from other towns in the
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Little, George Thomas. (1909). Genealogical and Family
History of the State of Maine (compiled under the editorial supervision of George Thomas Little). Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Volume IV,
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McClellan, Hugh D. (1903). History of Gorham, Maine. Smith & Sales, Portland, Maine & Picton Press, Camden, Maine. Compiled and edited by his daughter
Katherine B. Lewis. P. 632, 633.
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While the town of Gorham was a part of
Massachusetts, it had four judges of the Court of Common Pleas (1776-1781). Solomon Lombard was chosen to be one of these in 1776.
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Pierce, Josiah (1862). History of the Town of Gorham, Maine. Foster & Cushing; and Bailey & Noyes. Portland, Maine. p. 92, 110, 118, 119, 120 184, 228, 232.
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graduate, he was married to Sarah
Purington by Rev. John Avery of the Truro Congregation Church on June 3, 1725. They had 13 children born at Truro before relocating to
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Whitman, Charles F. (1924). Norway, Maine, A History from the earliest settlements to the close of year 1922. Lewiston
Journal Company, Norway, Maine. p. 457, 458.
46:, was born Solomon Lumbart on April 5, 1702 in Truro, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, the son of Jedediah and Hannah (Lewis) Lumbart/Lumbert. A 1723
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Farmer, John. Genealogical
Register of the First Settlers of New-England. (Reprinted with additions and corrections by Samuel G. Drake. P. 181.
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in 1765. Lombard, Esq. was an agent to the Boston Convention in 1768, a representative to the
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