From: "Glen Atwell" Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:49:39 -0400 I just happened to find this information that Mixed the TWO different Atwell (And by this the two different Lake families) into one report. But it does show the Maine-Boston Lake family were married to the Mainwaring family. ATWELL, BENJAMIN, New London, by w. Mary had Thomas, b. 1670; Mary, 1672; William, 1674; John, 1675; Joseph, 1678; Richard, 1679; [[vol. 1, p. 77]] Samuel, 1681; and Benjamin, 1683. BENJAMIN, Scarborough 1663, s. of a wid. b. bef. Sept. 1640, when his mo. was a wid. but bec. w. of Richard Martin, was after of Falmouth, there k. by the Ind. 11 Aug. 1676, leav. Joseph only 5 yrs. old. Willis, I. 37, 134, 140 and 3. One Joan A. wh. testif. 1688, that she was 60 yrs. old, had been, I think, wid. of John Andrews, and was then wid. of Benjamin Atwell. JOHN, Lynn 1650. JOSEPH, Kittery, s. of Benjamin, was, it is said, brot. up by William Scriven, but no more is heard. ---------------- Corbins http://www.micmac.org/index.html a Robert Corbin is mentioned by Winthrop' as being captain of the Speedwell, in August, 1637. Our Robert married Lydia, the daughter either of Richard Martin or of his wife, by her former husband, Atwell, and lived on a. large farm adjoining Martin's on Presumpscot river, until he was killed by the Indians, August 11, 1676. In 1653--54, agents for merchant Thomas Lake and later Thomas Clarke set up trading posts at Taconnet (Winslow) and Arrowsic Island (near the mouth of the Kennebec). The resulting Clarke and Lake Company gained title to much of the lower Kennebec. Numerous smaller fur-trading operations were developing in the area as well. At the same time, families were settling along the shores of the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers, at Pemaquid. At Cape Newagen, and on the islands of Damariscove and Monhegan. In 1664, the Crown granted the Kennebec area to the Duke of York, who sent a Royal Commission to Maine in 1665. The commissioners met with local inhabitants, received oaths of allegiance, chose officers, and gave licenses to four entrepreneurs for the "retayling of wine or lyquors or strong drink." The Berwick-Kittery area, on the well-timbered Piscataqua watershed, was particularly active. The first mill was built by Captain John Mason in 1634 on the Little Newchawannock River (Berwick). Although short-lived, it was followed by at least six other mills between 1648 and 1660. By the mid-1670s York supported at least ten mills; Wells and Saco had three each. Farther east, the Clarke and Lake sawmills in the Sagadahoc area readied a hundred thousand feet of boards for shipment in 1675. The Piscataqua region also provided numerous white pine masts and spars, many of which were being shipped directly to England. ===== Pioneers Maine Rivers pg 118: ANDREWS, John, born 1600; planter at Pascataqua 1636; Kittery Point 1640; Brave Boat Harbor 1649; died 1671; widow Joan, born 1621, married Philip Atwell 1672; children Ann (Billings), Elizabeth (Manwaring), Joanna, John, Robert & Sarah (Mitchell