Col. John Storer was a builder and owner of ships and mills, town treasurer, a prominent officer at the Siege of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Canada, representative to the General Court, and judge of the Inferior Court. He was the executor of his father's will and had the homestead.

STORER, COLONEL JOHN, 1694-1768, Wells, ME. Captain of the Wells Company of Militia, 1723. Commissioned by Governor Shirley, February 5, 1744, Second Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain of the Third Company, First Regiment of Massachusetts Troops, in the Expedition against Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Canada; Colonel, 1755.