Mrs Sarah Scriggins

• Death Notes
  • Died in the old house on Harris Hill, New Gloucester

• General Notes
  • Was a remarkable woman and one well fitted for frontier life. After the death of Benjamin Hammond she married again on July 12,1788, a man named Joseph Washburn, who lived but a few years, and she was ever afterward known as "Granny Washburn."  She lived to be more than ninety years of age, and many of the tales she told of the early struggles and hardships are well remembered by her descendants.
    
    She was often lefta lone with her children for long periods while her husband was away on hunting expeditions and in the army, but she had a wonderful faculty of keeping the good will of the Indians, and is said to have no found it necessary to retire to the block house for safety but once.  She kept her family together after his death and brought them all up to be honorablem upright people.  It is reported that during the cold season of 1816 Granny Washburn was the only one who raised Indian corn in town, which she kept until spring and sold for seed at high price.