March 4th, 2012.
I just received some interesting info on the Worsters of Columbia from Valdine Atwood of Machias. She found this in the Machias Union 1876 & from Early Pleasant River Families by Leonard F. Tibbetts & Darryl B. Lamson.
THE WORSTERS OF COLUMBIA

Rev. William Worcester (1595-1662), son of an Anglican vicar, matriculated from Cambridge University in 1620. He served as Anglican vicar at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, 1624-36, until relieved there by his Church because of his opposition to Church support for sports and recreation on Sunday, then he came in 1636 to New England where the Puritan beliefs were more in line with his own. He became the first minister at Salisbury, Mass., where he served from 1636-62 until his death. His great-great-grandson was an early settler at Pleasant River.

Moses Worster was at Columbia (Pleasant River) by 1763. He served in the Revolutionary War, first enlisting in 1775 as a private then as a sergeant in Capt. Francis Shaw’s Company and at Narraguagus and Pleasant River for the Defenses of the Seacoast. Later he enlisted in the company raised for the expedition against St. John, Nova Scotia. He was finally discharged in 1780.

He and his first wife, believed to have been Jude/Judith Norard/Norward had 12 children. They were: Moses, Jr., Mary, John, Miriam, Annie, Martha/Patty, Eunice, Joseph, Lucia, Isaac and Priscilla.

In 1770, Moses Worster, son of Moses, was born in Columbia on what is known as “Wooster’s Point”. He was the first white child born on Pleasant River. Worster’s Point is on the West side, a short distance below Columbia Falls.
The senior Moses was a soldier of the Revolution. He came from Scarboro or vicinity. He also did service in the Indian wars of an earlier date.
The sons of Moses, second, all settled at Columbia. They are: Amos, Leonard, Moses, and Aaron.
The daughters of Moses numbered eight. They are: Mary/Polly, Jude Norard, Esther, Hannah H., Miriam, Deborah, Abigail, and Louisa.
This family of twelve were all living in 1876 except Aaron and Judith N. who was the first wife of Jonathan Dorr.
Moses of the third generation lives at Saco, Columbia, and he has a son named Moses.
Leonard Worster married Lovee, daughter of the late Kinsman Corthell of Addison. Leonard and Lovee raised a family of ten children. They were all living in 1876, the youngest being thirty-two years old.
The Moses who first settled on the Point was Deacon of the Baptist church for a long term of years.
It is said of the first Moses that one time, when he had enlisted for the War, his wife followed him to the door, tossed her shoe after him as he departed saying, “Don’t get shot in the back, Moses.”
Judith N., above named, raised a family of fourteen. All but three were alive in 1876, the youngest being forty years old.
Jonathan Dorr is yet living. He was 85 years old on the 16th day of last April. In the late Civil War, he had one son, one son-in-law and three grandsons. One of his grandsons is supposed to have been killed at the same time that General Custer and his command were slain. Young Dorr was in the Indian service in Montana and latest advices indicate that he was in Custer’s command and shared the General’s fate.
I have only found one photo of Moses Jr. children that of Abigail Worcester who married Stillman Look that I received from Roberta Hammond of Columbia Falls.
How interesting this is to me as this is about my ancestors. Thanks go out to Valdine Atwood in finding this information and sharing with us all.
This first week after school vacation has been a bit trying to all of us with the new bus runs on the East end of the district, namely the Addison and Columbia Runs. The three runs that changed were Al Moore, Ronie Strout, and Fred Prince. I know I am still trying to figure out who all the students that are now riding my bus and what they look like. I am also watching them to see how they act on my bus and then assign seats to them. It is confusing somewhat as some students go certain days to babysitters and they don’t normally ride my bus. I have some students that might only ride in the morning and others that only ride at night, some notes says they are going to grandmas.
Because of all of this I will have to assign seats for all of them and also assign seats to the girl scouts that ride twice a month on the bus to their meetings. And the parents think we have it easy driving the bus with all of this going on and knowing where all of their children are going to and from and getting them there safely. So if we as bus drivers happen to forget where you think your child is suppose to go, don’t get mad at us, we are following orders from our director and will take them back to school or try and track down someone that actually knows where they are suppose to go.
On Saturday we attended the funeral of B. Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor a relative of all of the Worcester’s here in the Pleasant River area.
Get well wishes go out to Molly Woodsum of Winterport and Addison and Corey Worcester of Columbia Falls.
Condolences go out to Muriel Hartford’s family; Muriel was over 100 years old and had been in the Jonesport Nursing Home. I will miss her; she always looked forward to spring to get the first mess of dandelions that I would dig for her. I think she looked forward in the visit as much as having the mess of dandelions.
Both Conley and Muriel held being the oldest at the Worcester Reunions for a number of years.

Now for the rest of the news:
Today decided to wash my kitchen ceiling, started to work on it at 8 a.m and finished at 4 p.m. I use to be able to do the whole kitchen in one day but alas I can’t now. I did get behind the refrigerator and stove etc to clean and put back, now have the rest of the woodwork and walls to finish. I also have to do behind the wood stove when it is not going. Hopefully I will be able to finish this within this week between bus runs.
I believe I have a part time job working at the bakery down the road so Thursdays, Fridays (between bus runs) and Saturdays will keep me busy. Or rather will fill in whenever they need me.
The rain storm yesterday was torrential rains and it was hard to drive in. After attending the funeral we had some errands in Ellsworth to do before we returned home. We then went to Milbridge to attend the fund raiser for Cherryfield’s 4th of July activities. They had a pig roast meal Hawaiian style and all the fixings. It was some good and the price was right too!
Tonight I tracked down Carroll’s Aunt and Uncle and got their telephone numbers so we could talk to them both. It has been a few months as one is in an assisted living and the other is now living with her son and wife. I also got to speak with my friend Molly Woodsum to see how she was doing where she was in the hospital.
Tomorrow we have a bus meeting at the office, which we have to go to, don’t know if I will be able to get to the fitness center, hopefully we could get an hour in before we have to be at the meeting. We both went last week three days, but after todays cleaning spree I think I have done enough anyway.
Town meetings are coming up this month, Addison’s is March 13, but I will be gone with a team to Beal Island that night. Not much is happening in the town so I don’t think I will miss much that night.