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HISTORICAL RESEARCHES
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Copyright, 1904, by the Daughters of Liberty West Gouldsboro, Maine
PRESS OF W. H. SHERMAN, PRINTER AND STATIONER BAR HARBOR, MAINE
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PREFACE.
IN COMPILING these researches, the authors have en- deavored to present facts relating to the formation of the town, its history and progress in industrial and educational lines. Exhaustive inquiry has brought to light data supposed to be lost. The older inhabitants of the town have delved deep in memory's store-house and brought forth jewels precious to those who love the hills, the rugged shore line and wooded landscape of their native town. Friends far and near have added information of statistical and historical interest, that the sturdy and unremitting toil of our pioneers may serve to exemplify a spirit to be perpetuated by rising generations, ever remembering that the public school is the key to the future of the American Republic.
THE DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY,
GRACE WOOD CLARK, Secretary.
West Gouldsboro, December 31, 1903.
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TOWN OF GOULDSBORO.
O N FEBRUARY 16, 1789, the General Court of said Commonwealth of Massachusetts formally organized Township 3, or the plantation of Gouldsboro, as a town, in the County of Lincoln. (the county not bearing General Hancock's name until June 25, 1789) which took effect May 1, 1790, Maine not becoming a state until March 15, 1820.
The original grant was given to Nathan Jones, Francis Shaw and Robert Gould, in 1764. The disposition of Francis Shaw's portion is spoken of elsewhere. William Bingham of Philadelphia, purchased over 2,000,000 acres of land in Maine.
On July 12, 1796, William Shaw conveyed to William Bingham all the eastern portion of the town not sold with reserves of Harvard College lot, Schoodic peninsula and Public School lot, of 484 acres each, also three settlers' lots of 100 acres each near Mosquito Harbor, (Winter Harbor,) in all 6,789 acres, for £4,415 or $22,075.
In the division in 1790, William Shaw had the south- western quarter section and bought his eastern interest of John Lane, a London merchant. It is stated that Mr. Lane furnished money to Robert Gould the surveyor, but the town bears the name of the latter from his earnest
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efforts to procure the desired number of citizens to establish the town. Even the dogs were named Tobias, etc., to swell the list.
Gouldsboro is twenty-one miles east of Ellsworth and is on the Shore stage line. The area is about 30,000 acres. Forbes and Jones ponds are the chief bodies of water. The principal eminence is Mt. Cromer; 600 feet high. This mountain was named for a hermit who lived at the back of the mountain and, when the larder was empty, foraged the farms near by; sometimes a store was broken into, and groceries missed. Then the proprietors, after looking over their loss, accepted the inevitable, only remarking, "I know well enough it was Old Cromer."
The surface of the town is much broken, abounding in rocky cliffs of granite penetrated by veins of galena, zinc and copper. There is also greenstone and sienite. At Grindstone Point is an immense deposit of metamorphic or silicous slate which might prove excellent material for grindstones.
The soil is clay loam and gravelly loam, one-third of the area being unsuitable for cultivation. Potatoes and oats are staple products. Market gardening is increasing. Fishing is an important industry. The water powers em- ployed in 1903 are Chicken Mill stream, steam mill; West Bay stream, shingle and stave mill; Jones Pond, saw mill and grist mill.
The water power from Forbes Pond is not used at present for milling purposes.
There were squatters as early as 1700. The first male child born was Robert Ash Jr .; the first female, Mary (called Polly) Libby, daughter of Samuel Libby.
In 1861 there were 913 men in Gouldsboro. In 1900 the town's population was 1,259. This decrease is due to
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the exodus of many townsmen to various parts of the United States to engage in business strife. Although the town is a severe loser, yet the able management of town affairs proves there are yet citizens of New England type within her precincts.
The octogenarians have witnessed many changes of which perhaps the greatest are the coming of the mail six times a week bringing the daily papers; steamboat con- nection and railway service but seven miles distant; and the long distance telephone. The Winter Harbor octogenarians are: Capt. Nathan Hammond, aged 93; Charles Norris, 83; William Rand, 85; Albert Rand, 82; Nathan Bickford, 84; Elisha Bickford, 82; Mrs. Rachel Decker Sargent, 88; Mrs. Rhoda Joy Southard, 82; Jerry Tracy of Corea, 81; Mrs. Flora Whittaker Soule, 90; and Mrs. Abbie Guptill Hill, 83, of Gouldsboro; John Bunker, 90; William Wood, 89; Mrs. Eliza Spurling Bunker, 90; and Mrs. Mary Shaw Kingsley, 81, of West Gouldsboro.
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A MONG the many noted men of Boston, who early became interested in Maine lands, was Francis Shaw, merchant, who was born March 29, 1721. He married (first) Lydia Dickman of Boston, November 3, 1744. She died December 26, 1746. He married (second) Sarah Burt, September 22, 1747. In 1754 he bought a house on the street leading from Fish street to the old North Meeting House, and bounded by the lands of the New Brick Meet- ing House, and of John Tudor and Paul Revere. This was his homestead, where all his children were born.
In 1763 Robert Gould and Francis Shaw had the town- ship now Gouldsboro, explored, and Jan. 27, 1764, they obtained a grant of it from the general court. Tradition says that Mr. Shaw personally explored the township in 1763.
This attempt on the part of Gould and Shaw to found a town ended in disaster and in the end the largest part of the town went into the hands of William Bingham. I do not find that Mr. Shaw lived there but he visited the township often. Two of his sons were inhabitants of the town and died there.
Mr. Shaw died October 18, 1784. His will February 6, 1766 and codicil, December 5, 1783, proved October
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26, 1784, names wife Sarah; children; Francis, John. Sarah, Samuel, William, Abigail, Benjamin and Nathaniel. Witnessed by Theodore Jones of Gouldsboro, Benjamin Shaw and Nathaniel Shaw. His children have many descendants in Maine.
I. Thomas, born December 11, 1745; died September 14, 1747.
II. Francis Jr., born July 28, 1748, of Gouldsborough; died 1785.
III. John, born July 6, 1750, of Gouldsborough.
IV. Sarah, born February 14, 1752, married Samuel Parkman of Boston, his first wife. She died 1782.
V. Samuel, born October 2, 1754, of Boston, died 1794.
VI. William, born March 30. 1756, Gouldsborough and Quincy, Mass.
VII. Abigail, born July 5, 1757; married John Crocker. She died in Washington, D. C., August 12, 1797.
VIII. Benjamin, born August 4, 1758, of Boston, merchant. He was at Gouldsborough for some time. He and his wife Charity sold William Shaw lot in Goulds- borough, April 28, 1797, (Hancock Records volume 5, page 529.) He died in New York, 1807, aged 49.
IX. Nathaniel, born 1760. Bought land in Goulds- borough, September 6, 1784; the first deed recorded in Hancock County Records, volume 1, page 1. He lived there for some years. Nathaniel Shaw of Boston sold Asa Cole land in Gouldsborough, sixty acres, at Prospect Harbor, February 15, 1790. He died on his pas- sage home from Canton, 1791.
X. Susannah.
XI. Thomas, died at seven months.
An account of Col. James Shaw, Jr., was printed in the Bangor Commercial, June 5, 1897.
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John Shaw, son of Francis Shaw, Sr., was born in Boston, July 6, 1750. He lived in Gouldsborough and married Sarah, daughter of Nathan Jones of Gouldsborough. He died, 1780, aged 30. Mrs. Shaw married for her second husband Capt. W. R. E. Boyd of Portland.
I. Nathan, born January 14, 1780, at Gouldsborough. Town clerk 1808 to 1812; selectman 1816 to 1840; representative 1812. He married Eunice Bradish Smith, daughter of Ebenezer and Betsy (Cobb) Smith and grand- daughter of Gen. David Cobb, July 10, 1810, John Black, Esq., performing the ceremony. Eunice Smith was born July 12, 1791, and died May 2, 1859. Nathan died September 16, 1867. Captain Shaw was the father of six daughters and two sons .. One son, John B., and one daughter, Mrs. John Kingsley, are living. His nephew, Robert G. Shaw, and his widow, Judith P., were appointed administrators of his estate. The Quincy estate was sold to Anthony Baxter in 1805. He married Judith Proctor who died prior to 1810. A child I have been able to find, probably born in Gouldsborough, was Judith Proctor, married William Tuckerman between 1803 and 18107
William Shaw, son of Francis Shaw, Sr., was born March 30, 1756. He lived in Gouldsborough many years He was a petitioner there to the General Court July 1, 1775, and was at Machias, May 20, 1779, at a meeting of Warren lodge, F. & A. M., of which he was a member. Mr. Shaw was a justice of the peace at Gouldsborough for Lincoln county, 1785.
William Shaw, Sr., of Gouldsborough sold the farm on which he then lived, August 10, 1792, to William Shaw, Jr., for $300. William Shaw and wife Judith of Goulds- borough, sold land in Frankfort, formerly owned by Paul Kenney, to Isaac Clark, November, 23, 1795. William
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Shaw of Quincy sold David Cobb land in Gouldsborough January 13, 1800, adjoining his own place, (now Raymond Guptill's).
Mr. Shaw was a large landholder in Gouldsborough and other towns in Maine. He moved to Quincy, Mass., about 1799. He bought eighty acres of land there, with buildings on the north side of the Plymouth road, now Adams street. of Nathaniel Beale, April 19, 1799.
On the Quincy town records is the following: "Died, August 13, 1803, William Shaw, aged 47, at Chandlemouth, on his return from a journey to the Springs."L"
Samuel Shaw, son of Francis Shaw, Sr., was born in Boston, October 2, 1754. He was a merchant, a Revolu- tionary officer, and aide-de-camp to Gen. Knox. His house in Boston was in what is now known as Bulfinch Place where the Hotel Waterson stands. He lived some time at Gouldsborough and sailed in the ship Empress for Canton, China, February 22, 1784, as supercargo.
The Empress was the first American ship sent to Canton.
Mr. Shaw was appointed Consul to Canton by Washington and held the office until his death. He returned to this country and built at Braintree, now Quincy Point, in 1789, the largest merchant ship afloat, 820 tons. Job Prince was master and Shaw went out in the vessel to Canton, where she was sold. Mr. Shaw died at sea May 30, 1794, on his way home. His nephew, Josiah Quincy, president of Harvard college, wrote a most excellent memoir of him.
Mr. Shaw married Hannah, daughter of the Hon. William Phillips of Boston, in 1792. She was born November 29, 1756. After her husband's death she went to Dedham, Mass., and lived with her sister, Mrs. Sarah Douse. In 1819 the two sisters gave the Unitarian Church of Dedham a clock.
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Nathan Jones, was born at Weston, Mass., September 29, 1734. Married October 12, 1756 to Sarah Severns, who was born at Weston, May 5, A. D. 1734. Their children were:
I. Nahum Jones, born at Weston, August 6, 1757; died at the Island of St. Martin's, March, 1793, aged 36 years.
II. Sarah Jones, born at Weston, January 15, 1759; married John, son of Francis and Sarah Shaw. Their children: John B., born at Gouldsboro June 28, 1778, lost at sea, 1800; Nathan Shaw, born January 14, 1780. John Sr. died October 25, 1780, at Gouldsboro Point, Sarah coming home with her son, Nathan, to live with her father at West Gouldsboro. While Nathan was still a baby, a detachment of English soldiers made a raid on the settlers of Frenchman's Bay. Word had been received of their coming, for the silver and valuables had been secreted about Col. Jones' lake under hemlock bark which had been peeled to go to the tannery of Thomas Hill. The big clock was hid on an island in the lake. (This was afterwards bought by Barney Hill; in later years purchased by Alpheus Hardy and placed in the hall of his Boston residence.) The coming of the British from the cove to Col. Jones' house on the corner was not seen in time for the proprietor to absent himself, although the door was secured. A heavy knock and loud call for Col. Jones and his possessions was the greeting, The Colonel escaped through the bedroom window. Mrs. Jones making no response, the door was broken open but Mrs. Jones, thinking the fastening of the bedroom door slight, held it; this too was battered and the cords of Mrs. Jones' fingers cut by a bayonet.
The intruders gained entrance but Col. Jones was then secreted in the woods on the hill. No threats persuaded
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Mrs. Jones to tell where the Colonel was or the whereabouts of the possessions of value. Seeing the grandson, Nathan, in the cradle, and the brick oven all heated for the day's baking, the captain commanded that a soldier put the infant in the oven if Mrs. Jones did not tell. The brave woman assured them they could exact no revelation. The child was not roasted and the party departed without prisoner or plunder.
In after years Mrs. Shaw married Capt. W. R. E. Boyd of Portland, an Englishman. To them three daugh- ters were born, Maria, marrying Wales Taft of Weston, Mass. Their children were: Fletcher, a wonderful mathe- matician, who died in South Carolina; Maria, who married Henry, son of Ebenezer Wood; and Edward, now residing in New York. Mrs. Boyd died at Salem, July 13, 1848, at the age of eighty-nine years, six months.
III. Theodore Jones, born in Weston, March 1, 1760. He married Sally Brimley of Boston. His second marriage was in Sullivan, Maine, November 24, 1793, to Katherine Winthrop Sargent, who was born at Amherst, N. H., April 15, 1775. After this marriage he resided in Ellsworth, Me. He was a lumberman and manufacturer and was the father of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters. He died February 7, 1842, and his wife died May 8, 1848.
IV. Louisa Jones, born at Weston, May 23, 1763. Mrs. Louisa Jones Holden died at New York, November 18, 1834, aged seventy-three.
V. Pamela Jones, born at Weston, May 23, 1763. Pamela Jones Foster died at Trenton, Me.
VI. Abijah Jones, born at Weston, April 23, 1765. With Nathan Shaw he built a store where the balm of Gilead trees now stand on the way to the shore from the "corner" at West Gouldsboro. Captain Jones was captain
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of the militia and during practice, excited by alcoholic beverage, he disputed the manner of sword practice with Rolfe, a soldier of experience and accidentally killed him. This troubled Captain Jones until his death.
Captain Jones began the erection of a house a little above the residence of his fathers on the east. The cellar cost $1,500 and other expenses were in proportion, so that the firm failed and the house was sold by creditors at auction, to Ebenezer Wood, then living at Waukeag Neck. A mortgage of $100 was held by an heir in New Portland and this too had to be settled.
Mr. Wood took the Mexican coin in saddle bags and on a small, gaunt, homely steed, set forth. He tarried over night at an inn with some officials who were bound to Court. They queried his destination for dinner. Upon receiving the reply a loud laugh passed around, but at noon time, Mr. Wood had passed the other riders and waited to receive his fellow travellers at the tavern. They ex- pressed unlimited surprise at the ability of the steed. But this is only a sample of the stuff in our town at this time. The house has passed through several hands finally coming back to Ebenezer Wood, now being occupied by his young- est son, Samuel and used as an inn for the past thirty years.
Capt. Jones afterwards built the house that is occupied by Foster Bunker and Guy Sargent. Capt. Jones married Katy, daughter of Dimond Sargent of West Gouldsboro. They had three sons, William, lost from the O. H. Perry; George, who dropped dead at the lobster factory, Prospect Harbor; and Foster, who died at home. Capt. Abijah died January 7, 1835, aged seventy years.
VII. Nathan Jones Jr., born at Gouldsboro, February 7, 1767, died there Nov. 11, 1789.
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VIII. Mary Jones, born at Gouldsboro July 27, 1768. She was commonly known as "Polly." While visiting in the Provinces she obtained a chance to return home with two neighbors from Gouldsboro who were coming in their boat. They were taken as prisoners and kept in the fort at St. Andrews all winter.
Miss Jones washed and mended for the soldiers. In the spring they effected an escape and upon arriving home the Jones family first learned of the daughter's whereabouts as they had supposed she was visiting her friends. Miss Mary Jones died at Gouldsboro, August 8, 1825, aged fifty-seven years.
IX. Eunice Jones, born at Gouldsboro, January 16, 1770.
X. Elisha Jones, born at Gouldsboro, August 31. 1771, He married the widow of Dr. Joseph Taft, formerly of Braintree, Mass., settled at Weston and died there 1824. Mrs. Taft Jones had two sons, Wales, otherwise spoken of, and Francis, Colonel of the militia. He came in declining years to take charge of Elisha Jones' farm. He was in the lumber business at St. John before coming to West Gouldsboro, and married Betsy, a sister to Abner Johnson, of Anodyne Liniment fame.
Col. Taft was a thorough farmer and woodsman, always keeping a crew of men employed. 'In winter his team of four oxen was in the woods by starlight and the "boys" got up in the morning in those days. His two daughters, Susan and Elizabeth, died several years ago; his two sons, Francis and George, have but passed from our midst in recent years. The name Taft's Point still remains. Elisha Jones died December 14. 1842.
XI, Daniel Jones, born at Gouldsboro, January 17, 1773, died at sea, November 22, 1790, aged seventeen years.
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XII. Susan Jones, born at Gouldsboro, September 11, 1774, died at Addison Point, 1857.
Mrs. Sarah Jones died at Gouldsboro, March 27, 1804, aged seventy years.
Col. Nathan Jones died at Gouldsboro, May 7, 1806, aged seventy-three years. His life in Massachusetts we are unable to learn but he came here about 1765 with his family. He is recorded in Weston, Massachusetts, tax list 1764 as Capt. Jones. He owned, besides the northwestern quarter section of Gouldsboro, a mill and wharves at Morancy, Sullivan, and other possessions. The saw mill he built here was burned, and one since. The present one was built by F. P. Noyes. The grist mill has been moved to its present position and repaired but the frame is the one Col. Jones erected. It is owned by Mrs. Nathan Shaw, Jr., and operated by James Kingsley, a great-great-grandson. The depression "on the corner", by the roadside above S. L. Tracy's store, marks the house of this town proprietor. He and Mrs. Jones were buried on the hillside above their house. now behind the buildings of William Wood. The lake and cove still perpetuate his name.
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THE ACT OF INCORPORATION.
1789 .- COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
TN THE year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine an act for incorporating the Plantation of No. 3, Gouldsborough, so called, in the county of Lincoln, into a town by name of Gouldsboro. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same that the Plantation of Gouldsborough, included within the bound- aries hereafter described, beginning at Frenchman's Bay at the bound mark between Gouldsborough and Township No. 2, thence running easterly by the south lines of Town- ship No. 2 and No, 7 to Gouldsborough harbor, the easterly, southerly and westerly by the bay to the bounds begun at including Stave Island, Jordan's Island, Iron Bound Island, Porcupine Islands, so called, Hern Island, Preble Island and Schoodick Island, together with the inhabitants thereof, be and hereby are incorporated into a town by the name of Gouldsboro and the said is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and immunities which other towns in this common- wealth by law do or may enjoy, and, be it further enacted, that Alexander Campbell Esq. be and he is hereby impowered to issue his warrant directed to some principal inhabitant of the said town of Gouldsboro requiring him to
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notify the inhabitants thereof to meet at such time and place as he shall therein appoint, to choose all such officers as towns are by law required to choose at their meetings in the month of March or April annually.
In the House of Representatives February 16, 1789. This bill having had three several readings passed to be enacted.
WILLIAM HEATH, Speaker P. T.
In Senate February 16, 1789. This bill having had two several readings passed to be enacted.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS, President.
Approved
JNO. HANCOCK.
A true copy.
Attest : JOHN AVERY, Secretary.
1789-LINCOLN SS.
To Mr. Thomas Hill of Gouldsborough in said county, Yeoman, Greeting:
In pursuance and agreeable to the foregoing act you are hereby authorized and required in the name of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts to notify and warn all the freeholders and other inhabitants . within said Town of Gouldsborough qualified to vote in town affairs as the law directs that they assemble and meet together at the house of Capt. Samuel Libby in said town on Thursday the 23rd day inst. April at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to vote and act on the following particulars namely :-
Ist. To choose a Moderator to regulate said meeting.
2nd. To choose a Clerk.
3rd. To choose a Treasurer.
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4th. To choose all other town officers as the law directs.
Given under my hand and seal at No. 4, 2nd of April A. Domini 1789.
ALEX. CAMPBELL, J. Peace.
By virtue of the foregoing warrant to me directed the Inhabitants of the Town of Gouldsborough are notified to meet at the time and place for the purpose therein mentioned.
Gouldsborough 4th April, 1789.
THOS. HILL.
Agreeable to the foregoing order the town met at the time and place and made choice of the following officers:
Nathan Jones Esq., Moderator; William Shaw, Clerk; Dr. Benj. Alline, Treasurer; Thomas Hill, Samuel Libby, Eli Forbes, Selectmen and Assessors; Thomas Hill, Con- stable and Collector for year ensuing; Nathan Jones, Samuel Libby, Benj. Godfrey, Surveyors of Roads; Thos. Hill, William Shaw, Abijah Cole, Surveyors of Lumber; William Sargent Jones, Clement Furnald, John Gubtail, Jr., Fence Viewers; Benjamin Ash, John Gubtail, Jr., Deer Reever; Dr. Benjamin Alline, sealer of weights and measures; Peter Godfrey, sealer of leather.
Voted: That there be fifty pounds raised to be worked out on the highways.
Voted: That the selectmen are directed immediately to assess the county tax for Six Pounds Two Shillings.
Voted: That Twenty Pounds be granted to defray the necessary expenses of the town for the ensuing year.
Voted: That the meeting be dissolved.
A true copy.
WILLIAM SHAW, T. Clerk.
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The officers chosen at the foregoing meeting were legally notified and took their oaths for the faithful perform- ance of their several trusts. A county tax for the sum of Six Pounds Two Shillings also a town tax of twenty pounds also a Highway tax for Fifty Pounds were assessed and the bill delivered to Thomas Hill to collect, a copy of which is on file. Valuation 4400 Pounds.
Agreeable to warrant the Freeholder and other inhabi- tants met at the house of John Gubtail on Monday the 5th day of March 1790 for the purpose of choosing Governor, Lieut. Gov. and senator. Upon counting the assorted votes it appeared that
John Hancock for Gov. had 21 votes.
Samuel Adams for Lt. Gov. had 18 votes.
Alex. Campbell for Senator had 27 votes.
Meeting dissolved.
The first town meeting was held May 31st, 1793, of which there is the following record:
At a legal meeting on the 31st day of May, 1793. Voted that four school houses should be built within the town.
Voted that there should be a committee of four to see that said School Houses be built; Viz .:- Thomas Hill for the western ward; Thomas Gubtail for the center ward; Samuel Joy for the eastern ward; Abijah Cole for the southern ward.
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