Black Genealogy
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine  04644
info@vfthomas.com

(updated 28 November 2025)

Welcome to the Black family genealogy. Family units are arranged alphabetically by the first name of the father (or single-parent mother). Links are provided to enable you to move up and down each lineage. To follow a line back in time (ancestors), click on the underlined portion of “(son of …)” or “(dau. of …)” beneath the name of the person you want to trace back. To follow a line forward in time (descendants), click on the name of the person whose offspring you want to see. A plus sign (+) following a name means that that person had one or more children, but that family group has not been added to this web page. To view documentation, including census data, click on the link “documentation and notes” below a family.

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   Josiah Black was elected on 30 March 1776 as the Moderator of the first public meeting of the then Mount Desert Plantation. He and Ebenezer Salisbury were elected at that first meeting to be “surveyors to repair” a public road from “Cromwell Harbor to Mr. Burrill’s”. The same committee chosen to lay out this road was also charged with laying out one “from Mr. Thomas Wasgatt’s to Mr. Black’s cove, located “just north of Hull’s; Cove” according to George Street’s Mount Desert: A History. A landing at this cove was one of three to be voted.

   Josiah Black “lived first in a small house near where Mrs. A. T. Hamor’s brick house now [1926] stands and afterwards moved to the north side of the cove. [Street, p. 159.] 

   

Allan L. Black
   (son of [...])
   b. 1868
   m. Fannie E. Torrey
            (dau. of Samuel Torrey and Mary Ann Gott)
            b. 1874
            d. 1944
                  bur. Mount Height Cemetery   Southwest Harbor, Maine
   d. 1954
         bur. Mount Height Cemetery   Southwest Harbor, Maine

children:
   Della M. Black   b. July 1892   Maine
   Arthur T. Black   b. November 1895   Maine   -   m. 16 September 1917   Frederica Norwood   -   d. 1978   -   bur. Mount Height Cemetery   Southwest Harbor, Maine
   Helen B. Black   b. age [10?] m., 21 d. at death   -   d. 26 April 1895   -   bur. McKinley Cemetery   Tremont, Maine
   Merle E. Black   b. February 1898   -   d. 10 February 1981   Ellsworth, Maine   -   bur. Mount Height Cemetery   Southwest Harbor, Maine

documentation and notes

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Charles Black
   (son of [?])
   b. March 1845   Maine
   m. 22 y. as of 1900 census
         Jennie […]
               b. October 1854   Maine

children:
   [child] Black
   [child] Black
   [child] Black
   William Black   b. January 1883   Maine
   Edgar C. Black   b. November 1884   Maine
   Carrie E. Black   b. June 1894   Maine
   Mildred E. Black   b. March 1896   Maine
   

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Everett J. Black
   (son of [?])
   b. 1893
   m. Bessie E. Joyce
            (dau. of Harry Joyce and Vandelia Norwood)
            b. 1899
            d. 1984
                  bur. Hillrest Cemetery   Tremont, Maine
   d. 1936
         bur. Hillrest Cemetery   Tremont, Maine

child:
   Mertis Black   m. […] Fulton
   Marion Black   m. Kenneth Farley
   Clayton Black   m. Charlotte Stanley

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Hiram Black
   (son of [...])
   m. Mary Myrick

child:
   Manford Gilbert Black   b. 13 April 1870   [Surry or Brooklin?], Maine   -   m. 3 January 1907   Lizzie Belle Merchant (dau. of John Gilman Merchant and Lucinda Jane Black)   -   d. 25 April 1919   -   bur. Forest Hill Cemetery   Mount Desert, Maine

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Josiah Black
   (son of [?])
   
child:
   Olive Black   m. Simeon Hadley   -   d. 1819

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