History of the town of Livermore, Androscoggin county, Maine : from its inception in 1735 and its grant of land in 1772 to its organization and incorporation in 1795 up to the present time, 1928, Part 1

Author: Monroe, Ira Thompson, 1852-
Publication date: 1932
Publisher: Lewiston, Me. : Printed by the Lewiston Journal Printshop
Number of Pages: 564


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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF -


LIVERMORE


Androscoggin County MAINE From its Inception in 1735 and its Grant of Land in 1772 to its Organization and Incorporation in 1795 up to the present time 1928


By Ira Thompson Monroe


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History of the town of Livermore, Androsroggin County, Maine, from its inception in 1735 and its grant of land in 1772 to its organization and incorporation in 1795 up to the present time, 1928, by Ira Thompson Monroe. Lewiston, Me., Lewis- ton journal printshop (º1928]


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HEN my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dis- severed, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored through- out the earth, still full high ad- vanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster, hot a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, "What is all this worth ?"


-Daniel Webster.


CONTENTS


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Page


The Indians Pejepscot Purchase


10


Clark, Cutting, Family 92


How the Indians counted


12


Coffin, Family 92


The Beginning The Lotting


13


Campbell, Family 93


The Birth of Livermore


20


Chase, Job, Family 97


The Lots and the Lotting


22


Casey, John, Family


98


Ancient intentions of mar- riage


28 33


Delano, Zebedee, Family 99


Then and Now


The Church that never was built


37


Edgecomb, Family 102


Baptist Church and sale of pews


38


Fish, Thomas, Major 104


M. E. Church


47


Fuller, John, Family 107


Universalist Church


51


Fuller, Isaac, Family 108


Advent Church


55


Fuller, Isaac 2d, Family


109


Baptist Church, Second


55


Fuller, Aaron, Rev., Family 112


Fisher, Elijah, Family 113


Fisher, Stephen, Family 114


Fernald, Family 114


Alden, Charles, Family


59


Alden, Columbus, Family


59


Adkins, Family


59


Griffin, Family 115


Gibbs, Family 116


Goding, Family


120


Bigelow, Family


61


Benson, Family


63


Hinkley, Family 131


Holman, Family 133


Hamlin, Isaac, Family 134


Bowles, Family


66


Brettun, Family


67


Hayes, Family 134


Hewett, Family 135


Bryant, Family


69


Hobbs, Family 136


Boardman, Family


70


Bradford, Family


71


Briggs, Family


72


Hinds, Family 139


Knox, Family 143


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Kidder, Family 143


Keith, Family 144


146


Carver, Family


80


Child, Abijah, Family


82


Livermore, Elijah, Family 147


Childs, Abijah, Family


82


Livermore, Amos, Family 152


Coolidge, Family


83


Coolidge, Joseph, Family


85


Clark, Family


86


Learned, Family 154


Chase, Samuel, Family


87


Leavitt, Branch, Family 156


Chase, Thomas, Family


87 Lovewell, Family 156


Childs, Granville, Family 91 Lyford, Family


159


Atwood, Family


57


Alden, Amasa, Family


59


Gammon, Family 115


Allen, Family


60


Bond, Family 68


Haskell, Family 137


Hanscome, Family 138


Boothby, Family


73


Bartlett, Family


78


Beckler, Family


78


Bemis, Family


80


Keene, Family


Livermore, Nathaniel, Family 154


Benjamin, Family 63


Brown, Family 66


Elliott, Family 102


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Chenery, Family 96


Cooper, Family 91


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Leavitt, Joseph, Family Leach, Family


159


162


Thompson, Family 216


True, Family 218


Monroe, Family


162


Merrill, Family


167


Moore, Family


171


Morse, David, Family


172


Morse, J. B., Family


174


Washburn, Israel, Family 222


Washburn, Reuel, Family


227


Williams, Family


230


Noyes, Family


192


Nelson, Family


Wing, Samuel, Family


232


Wing, Reuben, Family


235


Oldham, Family


183


Winslow, Family


236


Walker, Family


237


Pierpont, Family


183


Wyman, A. P., Family


238


Perley, Amos, Family


187


Pitts, Family


188


Parker, Family


189


Phillips, Family


189


Oriental Star Lodge 241


List of Soldiers in Civil War 242


List of Town Clerks 248


249


List of Selectmen


254


North Livermore Reading Club


255


Rowell, Family


196


Rollins, Family


197


Livermore Library


Index of Old Roads and


256


Records


261


Freshets


261


Bridges


262


Cold Year, 1816


Heiglits above sea level


262


Indian Chief Sabatus


263


Cyclones


School-houses, Ancient and Modern, and Old Districts


263


Saunders, Family


209


Sawin, Family


210


Drownings 267


268


Spencer, Family


211


Powder House and Pound


Stories Told by the Firelight 268


Shurtleff, Family


212


213 Conclusion 275


Soper, Family


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Wyer, Family


240


White, Family


Pollard, Family


191


Pray, Family


191


Poole, Family


192


Philoon, Family


Perley, Nathaniel, Family


194


List of Representatives


256


Ryerson, Family


197


Rose, Family


199


Richmond, Family


203


Russell, Family


Stevens, Elijah, Family


204


Sanders, John, Family


205


Stevens, Jeremiah, Family


207


Smith, Family


208


209


Ponds of Livermore 266


Stone, Family


Turner, Family 219


220


Timberlake, Family


229


Norton, Sylvester, Family


176


Waters, Family


181


230


Wyman, Thomas, Family


232


186


Weld, Family


239


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Strickland, Family


262


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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


Page


The Author


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North Livermore Village. 15


Baptist Church, North Livermore


39


Old Church at Livermore Center


49


M. E. Church, Hall, and Baptist Church.


51


Universalist Church, Norlands


53


Universalist Church and House of S. R. Morse, Brettun's Mills ... 55


Home of J. Guy Coolidge ..


85


Stump of Pine Tree on Top of Bowles Hill


121


Common at North Livermore and House of Judge Washburn


127


The Livermore House.


146


Dea. Livermore's Chair and His Wife's Wedding Shoes


147


Lura Chase Livermore.


153


Lieut. Charles F. Monroe.


165


Senator W. P. Frye, Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Morse and Fremont E. Timberlake, at the Morse Cottage, Rangeley Lake. 175


Sarah Livermore Pierpont.


185


Old Perley Store, Brettun's Mills


195


Umbagog Pulp Mill and Village of Livermore Falls.


211


Thompson Homestead, North Livermore


217


Israel Washburn


223


Library and Mansion, Norlands


225


The Blue and the Grey Clasping Hands


243


Baldwin Apples of Livermore


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PREFACE


For twenty-five years, the author of this book has con- stantly gathered the names, facts and incidents that compose the greater part of this history. Family traditions prove to be close to the truth and in no instance have I found them without foundation. Very few families are without any record of their ancestors, but a desire for such information is easily aroused by a general effort in this direction. I have known several instances where applications for government pensions have been denied, because the dates required in such applications, did not harmonize. Families keeping no genealogical record are sure to differ in dates and events. As the years go by and great fortunes are accumulated, their distribution requires a perfect line of descent and courts of law constantly emphasize this necessity.


History of Livermore


In writing a history of my native town, which originally included the town of East Livermore, with parts of Wayne, Leeds and Turner, together with the present town of Liver- more, with the exception of Chandler's Gore, which was annexed September 9, 1833, a few items of interest con- cerning the natives of this region will not be inappropriate; for it speaks of a race that is now practically extinct, yet who for ages roamed the territory drained by the Andro- scoggin river, who fought and loved, lived and died, on the very soil we tread, and yet today are only known in history. The western part of Maine was inhabited by a race of Indians, whom we designate as Abnakis. This nation was divided into four tribes, but the tribe of which I shall speak, we call the Anasagunticooks. They claimed dominion of the waters and territories of the Androscoggin river from its source to the sea. Their encampments were in New Hampshire, in the great lake region of Maine, and at Bethel, Rumford Falls, Canton Point, Lewiston and Brunswick. This last named place, called by the Indians, "Pejepscot," was one of the great passes between the Eastern and West- ern tribes, where the savages met in council to plan expedi- tions against the English. The Anasagunticooks were a warlike people, and were less interrupted in their privileges of fishing and hunting, than were some other tribes, but yet none were more bitterly hostile toward the colonists.


Their Sagamores were Tarumkin, Warumbec and Kan- camagus, called by the English John Hagkins, but the tribe wasted away during the English and French wars, and in 1747 they were unable to muster more than 160 warriors and when the Revolution began about 40 of the tribe made


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the shores, the ponds and the islands of the Androscoggin their principal home until the St. Francis Indians of Canada persuaded the Anasagunticooks and the Warwenocks, an- other tribe of the Abnakis, to unite and make their home with them for the sake of French neighborhood.


A most important deed of conveyance was made by Warumbec and other Sagamores of the Anasagunticooks, July 7, 1684, to Richard Wharton, a merchant of Boston, of a tract of land supposed to contain 500,000 acres, situated on both sides of the Androscoggin and as far east as the Ken- nebec river, viz. :


Beginning at Merrymeeting Bay, thence up the Andro- scoggin, embracing on the west, a strip of land four miles in width to the upper or great falls, thence northeast 144 miles to the Kennebec, thence down said river to the place of be- ginning-reserving the use of all their ancient planting grounds, and the privilege of hunting and fishing.


This was called the "Pejepscot Purchase," or Patent, and like many old deeds, owing to the indefinite description of the boundaries, and to what falls was meant-no other pro- prietary purchase or patent in the State has caused so much discussion and controversy. For should the tract be bounded by a northeast line from the second or Lewiston Falls to the Kennebec river, the purchase would include only a territory of eight or nine townships, perhaps in all, 200,000 acres; less than half what Wharton expected the purchase to contain. Wharton dying insolvent, his Pejepscot purchase was sold in 1714 to Messrs. Winthrop, Hutchinson, Ruck, Noyes, Watts, Minot and three others for only one hundred pounds and they claimed that their purchase extended as far up the river as Rumford Falls, thus embracing the most of Liver- more. All those places on the Androscoggin river that attract the Englishman, attracted the Indian in like man- ner ; thus Brunswick was ancient "Pejepscot" and some his. tories give the same name to Lewiston Falls. Canton Point was Rockomeca, which means "place for corn;" Rumford


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Falls was named "Penecook," by its first settler, who came from Concord, N. H., and those Indians living at Bruns- wick were called the "Pejepscot tribe;" those at Canton Point, "Rockomeco Indians;" those at Rumford, "Penne- cooks;" and yet they were all Anasagunticooks of the Abnakis nation. There is no doubt that before the white man bared the hills and rich bottom lands in Livermore of its burden of timber and wood, that the Indian built his wig- wam, hunted, fished and roamed over every one of its 32,000 acres. Indeed, we have ample evidence of this in the relics found from time to time on the shores of every lake and pond and on the intervales of the Androscoggin.


The finest specimen of an Indian stone hammer that I ever saw, was found on the farm of William Green Griffith. I have in my possession a beautiful stone gouge, picked up by my father on the shore of Round Pond in 1867, and also a stone hoe found on the farm of J. T. Lyford. In 1861 William K. Wyman found three tomahawks under the stump of an old tree on the bank of the Androscoggin, and Tristam Hillman also found Indian relics farther down the river. A finely moulded, reddish colored pipe and a stone hatchet were ploughed out of the ground on the farm of Israel Wash- burn and a large stone mortar pestle, now in the Washburn Library, was found at Hillman's Ferry.


The largest stone mortar that I ever saw, was found on the old Thompson homestead. It is of the same pattern, but of twice the capacity of that in Plymouth Hall, Mass. It can be seen at the home of H. P. Berry, who owns the original Thompson estate at North Livermore.


The Indians' genius was mechanical ; a few specimens of their sculpture in stone are resemblances of men, beasts and fishes. They ascertained the true qualities of many herbs, plants, barks and roots. They imparted this knowledge to our race and learned us to make snowshoes and spear fish by torchlight. Their "homony" was corn, broken in a mortar and boiled; their "nokehike" was corn, parched and


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pounded ; "suckatash" was composed of corn in the milk and green beans. They taught us to raise maize, or Indian corn, by manuring the soil with fish, planting it when the leaf of the white oak "is as big as a squirrel's ear," and hoeing it in hills. Different tribes of Indians have different dialects, though no one tribe ever had an alphabet, and nothing mortal can be the subject of more perpetual change than a language never written-never reduced to letters. Their manner of counting will show us the affinity of the Tarran- tine or Penobscot dialect, to that of the Anasagunticooks.


English


Tarrantine


Anasagunticook


One


Pez-a-gun


Pus-suck


Two


Neice


Nees


Three


Noss


Was


Four


Neaon


Yorr


Five


Polenes-q


Palarmus


Six


Nequitence


Umkitush


Seven


Tomboinence


Tabarmus


Eight


Sonsuck


Sarsack


Nine


Nour-lee


Noliwee


Ten


Me-da-i-ra


Metarlar


Land they called "keag," to which they prefixed other qualifying words, as "Penops-keag," which means "rock- land ;" "Cunds-keag," "legland;" "Medawam-keag,""' "rip- ples or pebblesland ;" "Spum-keag," "heavenland." The ter- ritory embraced in the State of Maine, was called "Mavoo- shen." Pierpole, who died at Lake Umbagog in 1825, was a friend to Deacon Livermore and the last Anasagunticook Indian to visit the town of Livermore.


Among Deacon Livermore's papers I found, in what I suppose to be his own handwriting, the following :


Feb. 28th, 1789. "Description of Indian Names by Pierpool :


Broonswick-Pegipscook old town.


10-Mile Falls-Segokemecon.


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Harrises ditto-Amilcongon.


By Coledges-Olomachnam.


Penecook falls-anquamigpuntook.


Rocomeaco Point-morocomeacok old Town.


E. Livermore Intervale-Nouquekee.


Foolers Town-Mottombos."


I wonder if Dea. Livermore thought when he penned the above lines, that 139 years to a day afterward, an unknown hand would be copying and strange faces scrutinizing the memorandum that he made on that day.


THE BEGINNING


During the war between England and France an expe- dition consisting of twelve English and twenty-four Amer- ican sail was dispatched from Boston, Sept. 18, 1710, for the capture of Port Royal, a seaport town in Nova Scotia. This fleet arrived and landed its forces on the 24th and on the first day of October had batteries erected within one hundred yards of the town, which after a severe cannonad- ing, surrendered to Queen Anne of England, with the provis- ion that all prisoners were to be transported to France or be permitted to remove to Canada, or Placentia, as that prov- ince was then called. The English loss in this engagement was fifteen men, beside twenty-six who were drowned by the wrecking of a transport. The conquest of the entire peninsula soon followed and Nova Scotia has ever since been a British Province, an event highly important and interest- ing to the State of Maine and especially to the town of Liv- ermore.


Among the soldiers of this expedition who assisted in the reduction of Port Royal, sixty were from Waltham and sur- rounding towns, but not until 1735 did they or their heirs, petition the General Court of Sessions for any gratuity for services rendered. In this year, through Nathaniel Harris, Esq., a petition for a township of land in Her Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay, adjoining the Connecticut


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River, was granted and some of the proprietors took pos- session and expended money in the improvement of the new plantation. In the course of years a dispute arose regard- ing the boundary between what is now the State of Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire, and the plantation, when a survey was made and the State line established, to the pro- prietors' "great loss and Disappointment, fell within the Bounds of New Hampshire Province."


In 1770, these same petitioners or their heirs and assigns, through Samuel Livermore, Leonard Williams and George Badcock, again petitioned the Court of Sessions, called at this date the House of Representatives, for a grant of land as the equivalent of the one lost, and on the 11th of June, 1771, the prayer was granted with these conditions, viz. : "That the Grantees within seven years settle sixty Fami- lies in said Township, build a House for the public Worship of God, and settle a learned Protestant Minister and lay out one sixty-fourth part for the first settled Minister, one six- ty-fourth part for the Ministry, one sixty-fourth part for the Use of Schools and one sixty-fourth part for the use of Har- vard College forever." The petitioners were instructed to locate this grant of land "in some of the unappropriated lands in the Province of Maine to the eastward of Saco River, adjoining to some other former grant." Armed with this authority, and acting for the petitioners, Samuel Liver- more and Leonard Williams appointed Lieut. Elijah Liver- more and Elisha Harrington as executive officers to carry out the enterprise and push to completion the planting of a township in the Province of Maine that was destined to be successively named, "Oxford Royal," "Port Royal," "Liver- ton," and finally Livermore.


We find this record, containing the necessary in- structions to these officers which is copied verbatim. "By virtue of the Power vested in us by the foregoing Grant we appoint you jointly to lay out said Township, with such other assistance as you shall find necessary, with the follow-


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ing instructions, that you go directly to Brunswick Falls on your Way thither call at Col. Bagley get what Information you can of him both as to the best Land and best Place at Casco Bay consult likewise with Capt. Jones and get what knowledge you can. At Brunswick take a Boat or Battoe and a skillful Pilot go up Androscogging River, see what the Navigation is, proceed up as far as Rockey Meco, explore the Distance from any other Grant, if the Land is good and will make a good Township lay one out 9 mile and forty Rods long, and five miles wide if you can adjoin it any former Grant if not and by extending it to ten miles and 1/2 long you can obtain the Intervale lay it out there ten miles and 1/2 long and four miles and 1/2 wide if the land will not suit go up little Androscogging River if the land will there suit lay it out under the same Instructions if you cannot obtain a Township there take the best Advice and best Pilots you can and lay it out in the best Place and Manner you can We likewise appoint you Mr. Elisha Harrington Surveyor of said Township with Power with the Concurrence of Mr. Liv- ermore to appoint and agree with some other skillful Sur- veyor to complete said Survey if you should be called off before you have completed the same we expect you will com- plete a Plan of said Township and send or bring it to us as soon as possible that we may present the same to the Gen- eral Court for their Acceptance


Given Under our Hands this ninth Day of August 1771


Between this last named date and April 27th, 1772, Elijah Livermore and Elisha Harrington explored the An- droscoggin valley and selected the land lying on both sides of the river and adjoining "Sylvester," or Turner, on the north, according to their instructions, and reported to the Proprietors at a meeting held at the house of Samuel Liv- ermore in Waltham, June 17, 1772. At this meeting a committee, consisting of Elijah Livermore, Ebenezer Learned and Richard Woodward was elected to run the lines


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around and divide into lots the land that had been selected for the Township and on Aug. 18th of this year a party con- sisting of Ebenezer Waters as surveyor, Elijah Livermore and Richard Woodward as chainmen, and Thomas Fish and Ebenezer Learned as assistants, started from Waltham and at Boston they took sail and arrived at Hallowell via the Kennebec River, landing about a mile below Fort Western, on the 25th; from here they traveled to Winthrop where they arrived at noon on the 27th and spent the rest of the day searching for a boat. Being un- able to find any or even materials with which to make one, they moved forward to Samuel Frost's, about two miles from Wilson Pond, where they fortunately found boards, and on the 28th Maj. Fish commenced building a boat and with the help of Ichabod Howe completed it by noon of the 29th. In the afternoon they launched the craft, loaded their provisions and equipage, crossed Wilson Pond and at sunset were encamped on the western shore.


From here the next morning after a short carry, over the divide, by the Indian carrying place, to Androscoggin or Wayne Lake, they once more embarked and steering west- erly across the pond, entered Dead, or as it was called then, Lucy's River, and soon after emerged into the Androscog- gin and landed at Dailey's Mills near the mouth of the stream which they named Brush Brook. Presumably, the next day was occupied in arranging their camp and prepar- ing for the task before them, for on the first day of Septem- ber, 1772, they run the first line of the first lot in the town of Livermore. The house of C. E. Emerson and that known as the Washington Dailey place, directly opposite, are on lot No. 1; Lot. No. 2 is the Orren Bryant farm ; a part of lot No. 3 is owned by James Wood of Lewiston and in like man- ner, following the river eastward to Strickland's Ferry and thence northerly, up as far as the Walter W. Wing farm, they continued the lotting and here they turned and run out a tier of lots adjoining, and on the west of those already


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located, back to the east line of lot No. 2, missing their ob- jective by five rods, according to the old plan now in the Washburn Library.


When we consider the character of their instruments, and the degree of accuracy required, together with the fact that this line was more than three miles in length, we con- clude that the surveyor was competent and although tradition says that Deacon Livermore, who carried the rear end of the chain, contrived to smuggle in a "long step," for every meas- urement, we must admit that their work was more reliable than some of that done by other parties in neighboring towns. These twenty-two lots thus far located, on account of the area of each, and the sinuosity of the river, do not corner together but are constantly jutting by each other, a fact that has puzzled many a later surveyor not acquainted with this circumstance who has attempted to trace the lines described. The rest of the lots run out by this party are 160 rods east and west by 100 rods north and south, the corners meeting and the lines parallel to each other.


In the survey and allotment made and returned by this party, the area embraced within a line drawn from the bank of the river near Dailey's Mills due west until it intersects the original town line 400 rods south of Brettun's Mills, thence northerly to the vicinity of the farm owned by W. H. Drake, thence due east by the south line of Asa S. Goding's farm, crossing Round and Long Ponds, past the north side of the old Loney graveyard until it strikes the river and thence by the river to the place of beginning, would include what is called the "First Division," because it was just the survey made by this party, during the months of September and October, 1772, and presented, together with the plan thereof, to the Proprietors, at a meeting held at the house of Isaac Gleason in Waltham, Nov. 11, 1772. The expenses of the surveying party were paid at this meeting and amounted to £113, 7s., 8d. Lots were drawn, sold and ex- changed; taxes assessed and collected; meetings held and


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the new township was "boomed." April 30, 1773, Maj. Thomas Fish, William Foster, Ebenezer Gleason and David Mixer sailed from Boston in the sloop "Sally," Capt. John Martin, for Falmouth, bound to Oxford Royal as they called the new township. They cast anchor at 3 P.M. May 2d, in Falmouth roadstead and the next day started overland via New Gloucester, Little Androscoggin and Sylvester, for the lot which Livermore had chosen on which to erect his camp and on which in after years he built the house, still stand- ing, and known as the Deacon Livermore place. It appears that Livermore, with his hired help and cattle, had preceded Maj. Fish and his party, for somewhere in New Gloucester both parties including "Dea. Livermore's hired hands, with four oxen and a horse," joined company and together, through thicket and brush, through forest and stream, camping on the damp ground and sleeping in wet garments they toiled forward, animated with thoughts of the glowing future, and at sunset on the 17th day of May, when within one mile of Livermore's lot, and being desirous of spending the night there, Dea. Livermore and Maj. Fish, leaving the others in camp, started through the woods and becoming be- wildered, spent the night on an "Island" in the meadow just east of where J. B. Dicker now lives. In the morning they recognized the "lay of the land," and soon reached their des- tination. It is a matter of record that all of this party with the exception of Dea. Livermore, returned to Massachusetts, although making frequent visits to the plantation, but Liver- more might have remained here during the winter of 1773-4 for in Maj. Fish's diary, we find that on May 7, 1774, he found Dea. Livermore "well at his camp" and from the fact that this was Fish's first visit in this year, and considering that it was too early in the season for planting, we conclude that, perhaps, the Deacon might have spent the previous winter in his camp on the well known Livermore place.




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