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Meanwhile Bristol Academy, which the grant of township No. 1 had made possible, was getting along as a going concern. Embden people have right to some interest in its long and splen- did history. Governor John Hancock signed the act of in- corporation for this oldest "institution for literary learning" in Bristol county. Prominent men of Taunton formed a society
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about 1790 to create "a permanent foundation for the instruc- tion of the rising generation in useful, polite and humane let- ters and accomplishments."
David Cobb, then representing Taunton in the General Court, obtained the land grant. The trustees paid Mrs. Hannah Crock- er $75 for a building site on what is now Summer street in that city. The building cost $5,000 and was dedicated July 18, 1796. This, as it happened, was one month after Benjamin Poor signed his survey map of Embden. There was left a surplus of about $5,000 for investment. A Mr. Doggett (Daggett), graduate of Brown University at Providence, served for 17 years as pre- ceptor. Bristol Academy became known as one of the best educa- tional institutions in Massachusetts-a state famous for its schools and colleges.
An advertisement in a Boston newspaper in the early days of the Academy said : "The boys will be taught the art of speaking and the misses needle work and fine art in all its branches. To the above system will be amended a school of manners, or danc- ing school; for which will be charged those who wish to attend three dollars and a quarter." The same newspaper added : "The building, which is delightsome and well constructed for its design, is situated near the pleasant and healthy village of Taunton, near the meeting house.''
This two story structure served the community for over half a century, till Augusta, 1852, when a new brick building was ded- icated, President Felton of Harvard College, delivering the principal address. This building still stands on the old site that was purchased with funds from the sale of Embden lands. It is diagonally across the street from the First Congregational Society's imposing church structure. This is now a Unitarian Church, but its predecessor was founded in 1637. The Academy building, but a few steps from the business heart of Taunton, is now the home of the Old Colony Historical Society, that moved there when Bristol Academy eventually ran its course and high schools were established in its stead.
Naturally enough the tale of Taunton's old institution was lit- tle known on the wilderness hillsides where settlers were felling trees acre by acre and making way for patches of grain to pro-
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PLAN OF EMBDEN FARMS, OR LOTS, BY BENJAMIN POOR, 1796
ures at lower left show acreage; at upper right lot numbers. Lots with names were rs' lots, except a few in interior, inserted at later date.
vide subsistence through rigorous winters. What was known was just as naturally soon forgotten, when new holders of title to the lands appeared. For Bristol Academy trustees lost no · time in journeying to near-by Rhode Island to find a purchaser for their Maine township and, ere long, they found one.
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Academy trustees transferred the township for $10,935.50 "well and truly paid," to Joseph Nightengale and Samuel W. Greene, both of Providence. The price paid was apparently 50 cents an acre for settlers' lots and all. But the area of the five ponds was deducted and 200 acres more. One can hardly surmise what this 200 acre deduction was for, except it may have been an estimated surface of the streams.
As to township boundaries, the settlers' five dollar lots (pre- empted prior to 1784), the settlers' twenty dollar lots (pre- empted after 1784) and the three reservations for public uses this deed followed the language of the deed of March, 1795. It was further specified that Joseph Nightengale acquired a two- thirds interest, while Samuel Greene, who was his son-in-law, acquired a one-third interest. The witnesses were John I. Clark and Jeremiah Whipple, Jr.
There were soon further transactions at Providence affecting ownership of this venture. John I. Clark, witness on the deed, became an owner with Nightengale. While the records are not altogether clear, the proprietorship of Clark and of Nightengale, as subsequently arranged, probably did not extend to Samuel Greene's one-third interest, but the proprietors were all Rhode Island men.
Thither now runs the chronicle of Embden's early develop- ment toward an incorporated town. It touches romantic achievements of formative days. Dollars wrested from enter- prises on the high seas and from far distant ventures were placed anew in terms of wild land values to be returned through toilsome years of settlers' industry.
CHAPTER II
PAYING THE PROPRIETORS
Colonial personages rise impressively from the archives as one turns for early data of the Embden wilderness. Merchants with ships on the seven seas were they - bankers, speculators, patrons of schools and universities. In tracing their venture with 200 odd Embden parcels one crosses thresholds of big counting houses, meets these men as owners of grist mills, tan yards and distilleries, of lands in many states and as lords of stately residences. Out upon the harbor ride their six pri- vateers, ready to maneuver seaward for British cargoes.
In the fullness of time these magnates passed on; their Emb- den holdings were divided and redivided. Sales to the settlers were perplexingly slow. But the proprietors' deeds into the second generation were signed by exceptional names - by a fa- mous Pennsylvania chemist, whose son became a famous Pennsyl- vania jurist, and by kinsmen of a distinguished general of the Revolution. A half century and more it was before resident agents bought in the last remnants of these holdings to write "finis" into the records of original Rhode Island owners.
This, in outline, is the story of real estate in the rugged, beau- tiful Embden landscape- a different story than in adjacent towns. It hardly pertains to settlers before Jan. 1, 1791, already described, but it is the chronicle of all the forest expanse in be- tween, beginning in 1795. The olden records supply interesting details of the rise of families and neighborhoods.
Clark & Nightengale, a prosperous merchant firm of Provi- dence, acquired the township, marked No. 1, in the second divi- sion west of the Kennebec River, at least to the extent indi- cated in the preceding chapter. That meant John Innis Clark (1745-1808) and Joseph Nightengale (1748-1797), native of Pomfret, Conn., trading as equal partners and holding property as joint tenants. They laid the foundation of their large for- tunes by privateerng. Their first sloop, "Joseph," was commis- sioned by Gov. Nicholas Cooke, of Rhode Island in 1776 with let-
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ters of marque and reprisal. She was a vessel of 60 tons burden, armed with four carriage guns and ten swivels, provisioned with 8 barrels of pork, 6 of beef, bread in propor- tion ; 40 weight of powder, a proportion of ball with cutlasses and muskets and twelve men. Between 1776 and 1781 five other privateers were equipped at their wharf at the foot of Steeple street and sailed away in the patriot cause. One of these, the "Chance," fell into enemy hands. Officers and men, in June 1782, "were languishing in confinement at New York." But Clark & Nightengale owned property far and wide - dwellings, business houses, woodland, rights to construct a dam on Woonsaquatucket River. They were buyers and sellers of realty, located in Providence, North Providence, Warwick, and Rehoboth. They paid 50 Spanish milled dollars for "a negro man, a servant to us for life," on July 14, 1790, and then set him free.
John Innis Clark, a Scotchman, whose father, Thomas, lived in North Carolina, married in 1773 Lydia Bowen, soon after a term of service in the British Navy, and settled at Providence. Their two surviving children were daughters - Anne Elizabeth, born in 1779, and wife of Oliver Kane, merchant of Albany, N. Y., and Harriet, born in 1782, wife of Robert Hare (1781-1858) of Philadelphia. Hare worked, as a lad, in his father's brewery, gained a knowledge of chemistry, invented the ·oxyhydrogen blowpipe for which the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded him a medal. He was professor of chemistry at Wil- liam and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1818 and held a like position at the University of Pennsylvania till 1847. John Innis Clark Hare, his son, (1817-1905) had a long judicial career in the Keystone State.
Clark of the merchant firm was a patriot of much prominence. He served as major of militia during the Revolution, warden of St. John's Episcopal Church, in whose yard his remains are interred, a deputy in 1780 to the Provincial Assembly and during the last years of his life as the second president of the Providence Bank now the fourth oldest bank in the United States. His last illness was at Bradford, Vt., in the Connecticut River Valley, at the home of Capt. William Trotter, an old
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JOHN INNIS CLARK
DR. BEZER BRYANT
friend, where, surrounded by members of his family and a retinue of servants, his last will was executed. Oliver Kane and Ephraim Bowen, Jr., ex-sheriff of Providence County and brother-in-law, were the executors. His estate, according to the inventory, amounted to $168,369.26. The widow, Lydia, re- ceived the homestead mansion on the site of the present Thomas Hoppin house, with furniture and liquors, and $50,000. The remainder, including Embden lands, went to Anne E. Kane and Harriet Hare, the daughters. Mrs. Clark soon moved to Phil- adelphia.
Joseph Nightengale had quite as interesting a career as his partner. His wife was Elizabeth Corliss. He was a captain of a cadet company in 1774, '75 and '76. He built a mansion, three stories high and 54 feet square on Benefit street between Power and Williams streets in 1790. It stood on a lot of 37,000 square feet. The property was sold to Nicholas Brown in 1814 for $16,-
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500. There Joseph and Elizabeth Nightengale raised their large family, oldest of whom was John C. Nightengale. He mar- ried in 1795 Martha Washington Greene at Mulberry Creek, Ga., where her father, Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Rhode Island had gone to live after the war. It was Gen. Green whom Cornwallis described "as being as dangerous as Washington, vigilant, en- terprising and full of resource." The next oldest child was Mary Rhodes (1772-1835), who married Samuel W. Greene (1771-1849), of North Providence, a nephew of General Greene. Their children were Catherine Greene, Joseph N. Greene (1796- 1870) who became a resident of Embden and died there; Wil- liam Ray Greene and George Spencer Greene. These children with their mother, Mary, and their grandmother, Widow Eliza- beth are of chief Embden interest.
As surviving partner, Clark, under the joint tenant deeds, be- came owner of record of the Embden lands. He and his exec- utors, however, scrupulously regarded the rights of the Nighten- gale heirs, although it was not till after his death that efforts to distribute the lots equitably were incorporated into a deed and recorded. The Hares and the Kanes got their respective shares of the Clark division, less a large block sold to their uncle Cornelius Soule; and the Nightengales came into their inher- itance of the other half. For some cause or other, the Nighten- gale lots sold less rapidly. In the several divisions of the Night- engale interests the great merchant firm of Brown & Ives, known and respected the world over, became owners for a season. Nicholas Brown (1769-1841) married as his second wife Mary Bowen, a relative of Mrs. John Innis Clark. A very wealthy man and an outspoken Baptist, he gave generously to institutions of learning, including over $160,000 to Brown University, which bears his name. Thomas Poynton Ives (1769-1835), born at Beverly, Mass., and a brother-in-law of Nicholas Brown, was likewise a patron of Brown University and served 43 years as one of its trustees. Ives was head of Providence bank for 24 years. When President Monroe in 1817 visited Providence, sail- ing on the "Firefly" he was one of the local committee to wel- come him.
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The Embden land interests therefore were the holdings mainly of family groups. These interests were undoubtedly managed along standard lines of thoroughness, with which the two Provi- dence counting houses and executors of the Clark and the Night- engales estates were entirely familiar. But the rights of divers heirs were complicated. The completion of records in these transactions involved extended correspondence and long jour- neys. A settler who had grudgingly paid the proprietors for his land might find a quitclaim of dower or of another child's inheritance necessary to read his title clear. Distant residence in Providence, Albany, Philadelphia, or in Georgia, probably aggravated the difficulties.
Hence the agent of the proprietors became a man of impor- tance to the settlers. The first was Dr. Bezar Bryant, of North Anson, whose service in that capacity began in 1812. His son- in-law Joseph N. Greene came to North Anson about 1833 and after a short residence established himself on his big and sightly farm west of Embden Pond, known in later years as the Sky Farm. They were alike agents for the proprietors and traded extensively on their own account.
Dr. Bryant was a remarkable man. Born at Kingston, Mass., in 1769 of an old colonial family, he was graduated from Brown University in 1796 and soon entered the office of Dr. Low of Brunswick, studying there for three years, during a part of which time he taught school. He married Sally Houston and settled at North Anson in 1800 to practice his profession of medicine, but it was not a sickly community. When Somerset county was organized in 1809 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas with two associates. In his own words printed by the Anson Advocate in 1863:
"This office I held about three years until the court was abol- ished and another established I suppose to get rid of us and ap- point others who loved the people more. About the time the court was abolished I was appointed agent for Clark & Nighten- gale and for Brown & Ives, who were proprietors of the Town of Embden. I continued to attend to their business for many years. I am now (1859) ninety years and seven months old. By industry and economy I have been able to bring up a large
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family and, although I have never been rich I have always had and still have a competency."
Dr. Bryant had many activities, besides being the first physi- cian in the village. He kept the first hotel there where Bunker's block stands. He also had a village store as early as 1801. He owned a large acreage of village land north of Madison Street, aside from many lots in Embden.
Returning to the earlier period of Sept. 20, 1808, when John Innis Clark at Bradford, Vt., closed his earthly accounts, it should be kept in mind that Embden was then mostly a new town of settlers located in a six mile row up and down the Ken- nebec and for approximately two miles along Seven Mile Brook. The interior was a hinterland of both those settlements. If pioneers had penetrated there at all, it was in small numbers. The settlers were only becoming well accustomed to thinking and talking about themselves as men and women of Embden. They had thought of themselves as part of divers settlements. The three roads Embden town meetings had been quick to au- thorize and slow to improve were not of a character to encourage pioneers. One, of course, was out of North Anson and along Seven Mile Brook westward and another was along the Kenne- bec northward; while the third was the Canada Trail, also out of North Anson and northward to the Chaudiere River. It had been blazed first by the Indians. Hunters found it convenient. Rude thoroughfare that it was, the necessities of communication with Quebec and the surrounding country assured its continued use. Little wonder therefore that new comers, finding the river frontages pre-empted were quick to note the accessibility of wild lands along the Trail. Therefore the middle Embden neighbor- hood was the first to be established in the interior. There the Rhode Island proprietors had their first sales.
The Clark executors on June 13, 1809, the summer following his death, took the first step toward distributing the Embden properties. They recognized their obligation to transfer one- half the joint holdings to heirs of Joseph Nightengale. What principle of division they followed is not known. Beginning west of the settlers lots on the Kennebec side there are eleven ranges, according to Benjamin Poor's survey of June 18, 1796.
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Embden Pond covers much of the area of the fifth and sixth ranges. The Nightengales were given from four to 13 lots in each of these 11 ranges, except the fifth in which they had none. The deed recorded June 13, 1809, was signed by Ephraim Bowen, Jr., of Warwick and by Oliver Kane, merchant, then of New York City, as executors, and conveyed 100 lots as well as six small islands in the Kennebec River to Elizabeth Nightengale, widow of Joseph, and to her three sons - William (1774-1815), Joseph, Jr. (1775-1865) and John Corlis Nightengale (1786- 1827) of Columbia, Tenn. These were the three youngest chil- dren. It does not appear why John C. Nightengale and Mary R. (Nightengale) Greene, the mother of Joseph N. Greene, were not included in the deed. Probably their heritage had been paid for in Samuel W. Greene's third interest.
The six islands contained respectively 53-1-2, (Colby Island), 20 1-2, 13, 9 1-2, 4 and two acres, or a total of 102 1-2 acres, while the other parcels were : Nos. 1, 2, 15, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 86, 100, 109, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 154, 158, 160, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 171, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 184, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 200, 201, 202, 203 and 204.
The Clark executors followed this deed of June 13 with one recorded July 10, 1809, transferring to Cornelius Soule, Mar- iner, of North Providence for $4,120 a block of 19 lots or farms. They were in a compact territory covering the 5th., 6th., and 7th. ranges between the Anson line on the south and an east and west line drawn a little below the foot of Embden Pond on the north. The price was $2 per acre for 2,060 acres. This be- came known as the Soule purchase. Cornelius Soule was at Bradford, Vt., when John Innis Clark died and was the first of three witnesses to his will. He was probably Clark's brother-in- law.
Shortly after this the Clark executors recorded deeds with a handful of settlers in middle Embden where the new neighbor- hood seems to have comprised quite a cluster of cabins. The
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first was Sept. 21, 1809, by which John G. Savage (1785-1863), of Anson, son of Jacob, paid $300 for Lot 62 - the Elder Ben-
jamin Gould-Henry Caswell farm of later years. It has recently been purchased by five maiden Cox sisters from Engle- wood, N. J. who have repaired the house and made it their sum- mer residence. About the time of the deed to Savage, Samuel Clark bought Lot 46, on the east side of the road, one farm north, for $300. Isaac Foss preceded Samuel Clark as occupant of this acreage. The old time Dunbar schoolhouse was located on the Clark farm. It was not till March 1, 1814, that the proprietors gave another deed in this neighborhood when they transferred for $300 to Nathan Thompson, Sr., Lot 48, of 100 acres - the second farm north from Samuel Clark and known as the Orlando Hooper place. It was Nov. 10, 1832 - eighteen years later - that Nathan Thompson paid the Kanes $200 for Lot 12, immediately east of his first purchase. But on June 6, 1814, Moses Ayer, Jr., then rearing his famous family on Ayer Hill, got his deed from the Clark executors to Lot 82 for $300.
The next accession of home owners in the middle Embden neighborhood came five years later, although the settlers had been on the ground considerably earlier. Reuben Savage, cousin of John, paid $300 for Lot 47, the F. E. Bosworth place, June 23, 1819, and Robert Wells on Nov. 10, 1819, paid $200 for Lot 54, west of the Trail as it passes into Concord. This appears to have been the first land transaction with the proprietors in that upper neighborhood.
During this period the Clark executors sold their rights to a few tracts in other parts of the town. Eastward of Nathan Thompson and near Moses Thompson and John Rowe, Jonathan Stevens, Jr., bought for $182 an unnumbered lot of 91 acres, on Nov. 10, 1819, probably the place where the brick house was erected. Over in west Embden there were four earlier transac- tions. Capt. Asahel Hutchins paid $45 for a deed to his settler's ground Sept. 29, 1809, and July 21, 1810, James Wentworth was deeded Lot 143, rather south of Black Hill for $237 while on Feb. 1, 1815, Solomon Walker, of New Portland, paid $235 for a little over 32 acres west of the Hutchins' farm and Andrew Went- worth paid $237 for Lot 142 south of one owned by his brother
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James. Andrew's farm was later owned by his kinsman, Jesse Burns and then by Fred B. Pierce, son of David.
The holdings of the Clark estate remained undivided between the two daughters till 1825. For six years there had been no record of completed sales, when on July 4, 1825 Oliver and Anne Eliza Kane for $10 quit claimed to Robert and Harriet Hare, of Philadelphia, Lots 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 50, 51, 52, 53, 160, 184 of 100 acres each, and all except the last two in the eastern part of Embden. The quitclaim also covered the southwesternmost farm in the town, below Seven Mile Brook, of 90 acres, described as unsold, two islands of 45 1-2 acres in the Kennebec opposite the Grays ; a farm of 34 acres near the Kennebec, part of which was John Thompson's settler's lot; Lot 61 in middle Embden formerly sold to Stephen Ayer who moved to the Donley place on the Kennebec; Lot 14 formerly sold to Joseph Spaulding who had moved to Caratunk; 54 acres of Lot 4, near Caleb Wil- liams; and No. 59 formerly sold to Samuel Dunlap, which be- came the William Atkinson place in middle Embden; Lot 13 of 93 acres; No. 6 of 298 acres and a two acre island in the Ken- nebec opposite ; and Nos. 140, 141, 144, 185, and 205. Much of this was saleable land.
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