General Notes

Was  an officer in the English Army. Being a land surveyor he was sent, in 1762, to run out a military road from the Kennebec to Canada, and was unintentionally shot by one of his party when in the woods, by being indistincltly seen and mistaken for some animal. He was instantly killed. He is represented as a "large , dark complexioned,, stately, courtly , and handsome man."  His desk, chest and commission are preserved.  After his death his widow, of whom traditions, was married to one Haskins, but her last days were spent in the home of her son Henry, at Limingtion. Several of the Smalls settled in town.