Birth record for Hannah Ells SOULE is on Page 5 of Book 1 of Freeport, ME - IGI record is in C503381-2121.
The following Soule genealogy was written by Hannah Ells SOULE (Jesse, Jebediah, Jebediah, Moses, John, George) ~1865 and updated by Etta May DAVIS, her daughter, ~1940:
SOULE GENEALOGY The Soules came from Bantry, England. The Soule family of this country are the descendants of George Soule, one of the Mayflower Pilgrims and the thirty-fifth signer of that famous social compact. The name is an English surname and was early written in the colonial records Soal, Sole, Soul, now Soule. George Soule came, with others of that religious band, from that quarter of England known as the cradle of dissention - the point or junction of the three counties - York, Lincoln and Nottingham. George Soule came to this country a minor. He was entered on the list of passengers as an apprentice to Governor Winslow, living in his family. How long these relations of apprenticeship to the Governor continued is not known. In 1623, he was granted in his own right one acre of land on the South side of the brook to the baywards. In 1633, he became a freeman of the colony and was taxed that year for his share in the current expenses of their simple government. He had a grant of land near Powder Point which he sold in 1638, when he, with Myles Standish moved across the Bay to found the town of Duxbury, Mass. He represented the town in the general court of Plymouth in 1642-45-46-51-53-54 having for colleagues John Alden, Southworth, Pabodie and Starr. He was the original prospector of four new settlements. In 1637 he was a volunteer against the Indians. He was on of the committee to revise the colony laws. He was on of the principal promoters of Bridgewater, Mass. and Dartmouth, Mass. He married, not earlier than 1623, Mary Beckett, one of the passengers recorded on the "Ann", and her consorts of 1621 in company with Barbara Allen, Patience and Fear Brewster. Mary Soule was indicted for absence from church March 1658. He had by this time built a house. He had eight children. Zachariah, Mary, George, Susannah, John, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, & Benjamin.
His property descended to his sons. George(5) Nathaniel(8) Dartmouth, Middleboro to Mary(4), Elizabeth his daughters. John Soule, his son was born 1632. he was administrator of the estate of Samuel Chandler. In 1683, he married Hester Dewesbury (Dela Noye) the French Protestant, who joined the Pilgrims in Holland. A library is mentioned among his property - a rare thing in those days. He (John) resided in Duxbury near Island Creek. He died wealthy for those days. He died in 1751. He had seven children. Moses Soule, son of John resided in Duxbury near Island Creek. Little is known of Moses and long search has failed to reveal the name of his wife (who would have been Jebediah Soule's mother). Moses was a large land proprietor in several towns. He died wealthy. Moses had eight children - Isaac, Ichabod, Elsie, Gideon, Deborah, Cornelius, Barnabas, Jebediah. Jebediah, youngest son of Moses, married Tabitha Bishop Nov. 2,1741 in Duxbury, Mass. She was baptized in adult life in North Yarmouth, Oct. 26, 1766. Jebediah had eight children Ichabod, Deborah, Jebediah, Jonathan, James, Tabitha, Jesse, Mercy. Jebediah, son of Moses, emigrated to North Yarmouth from South Shore Duxbury. He was born in 1720. He went to Long Island, Casco Bay, where he settled. His descendants comprise more than half of the present numbers of persons who have borne the nameos Soule in Freeport, Maine. Ichabod, eldest son of Jebediah died previous to 1750, leaving daughter Abigail, who received nineteen acres from her grandfather's estate in the division among the heirs. Elsie, married Barnabas Berry before 1756 and received 3 1/2 acres ofmarshland from her father's estate. Gideon was an eccentric person. Deborah married John Hunt and received fourteen acres of upland from her father's estate. Cornelius born 1703 and removed to North Yarmouth about 1726, where he resided until his death. He, Cornelius, soon became prominent in town affairs being largely interested in land speculation. In the Registry of Deeds of York County no less than thirty transfers occur in as many years to which he was a party, and probably that does not represent all his business. In 1742 he acted as messenger for Governor Shirley in transporting some official letters from Boston to the eastern frontier. His journal of the trip is preserved in the Mass. Archives Vol. XXXVIII, worthy of production. Barnabas was born in 1705. Deborah, second child of Jebediah was baptized Sept. 15, 1765, at the First Church Falmouth, Maine by David Mitchell, Esq. She married Ambrose Hamilton of Chebeague April 25, 1763. Tabitha, sixth child of Jebediah, married by David Mitchell, to Nathaniel Stevens July 25, 1776.Mercy, youngest daughter of Jebediah, was married by David Mitchell to Samuel Bartol Jan. 23, 1786. Jebediah, 2nd, the third child of Jebediah, was born April 14,1751. On Nov. 7, 1776 he married Mary Pinkham, (who was born July 25, 1756). He had nine children: Marcy b. Nov. 3, 1777;Jane b. Feb. 1, 1780; Polly b. Oct. 4, 1782; Jebediah 3rd b. May 10, 1785; Susan b. August 11, 1788; Jesse b. May 29, 1791; Salomon b. March 22, 1794 and died Nov. 2, 1811; Joseph Edes b.July 17, 1797; Joanna Brown b. Aug. 27, 1800. Jebediah (the 3rd) married Hannah Brown Dec. 8, 1811. Children 7: Mary Anne b. June 18, 1812; Solomon b. Jan. 1, 1814; Jacob b.Nov. 7, 1815; Jane b. Feb. 19, 1818; George b. Aug. 21, 1820; Adelaine b. Aug. 31, 1824; Amanda b. April 28, 1828.Jesse, 6th child of Jebediah second, married Hannah Ells Jan. 4,1818. She died Aug. 10, 1831. They had Joseph b. May 18, 1819 and drowned at sea; Albion P. b. Feb. 10, 1822; Leonard G. b.Sept. 25,1826 and married Addrianna G. Merrill May 23, 1852, who died Feb. 9, 1863, Leonard then m(2) Elizabeth Trombley; Sarah J. born Sept. 18, 1829 and died when a young child. Jesse married Caroline Cummings Nov. 25, 1832. Their children: Hannah Ells b. Jan. 18, 1834; Enoch C. b. Mar. 17, 1835 married Eunice Merrill - 2 chr. Lewis, Linnie; Frances B. b. Sept. 12,1843. Jesse Soule died May 1873 - age 84. Joseph J. Davis, born in Yarmouth, ME, Sept. 9, 1832 died May 3,1916. Married Hannah Ells Soule Nov. 25,1852. (She died Mar. 11,1929.) They had eight children, four of whom died when infants -the four who grew up: Florence A. born Jan. 15, 1854 died March 8, 1908; Nelli born July 31, 1857 died Feb. 5, 1938; Charles Howard born Oct. 21, 1862 died March 6, 1945; Etta May born Sept.11, 1870 in Lewiston, Maine. Etta married Charles Haines Weymouth, who was born in Lewiston,May 18, 1868. They were married in Lewiston Dec. 31, 1891. Had three children: Seward Emmons Weymouth, born Oct. 14, 1892; Charles Haines Weymouth, Jr., born Aug. 5, 1897; Harold Davis Weymouth born Oct. 28, 1909.
