The Cooper and His Wife

The oldest structure I found on the shore of York Harbor in Maine was this weather-beaten one, with a sign that said “Fish House 1838.” Believe it or not, my ancestors were here 202 years before then. William Dixon came to America along with 700+ Puritans led by future governor John Winthrop. They came in

The Ferryman

This is Stage Neck in York, Maine, and right here, at the place of this rotting old wooden bridge, is where my 8x great-grandfather William Moore worked as a fisherman and ferryman in the 1600s. I believe William came here in 1851 as an immigrant from southeastern England. In 1653, he married locally-born Dorothy Dixon,