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This deed was followed on June 28, 1825 by a quitclaim from Robert and Harriet Hare to the Kanes, by this time residents of Albany, covering Nos. 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 95, 96, 97, 100, 137, 138, 139, 157, 158, 159, 181, 182 and 326 acres in lots close to the northeasternmost corner. Both these deeds between the Clark sisters disclose that that corner of the town, up to 1825, remained unsettled. It included over 600 acres and about six farms north of Jacob and Caleb Williams in the ter- ritory later occupied by Capt. John Walker and Timothy C. Spaulding. Wesley Gray, Amos Williams and George C. Pat- ten were more recent farmers of that neighborhood.
The partition of interests between the Clark sisters removed obstacles and during a few years that followed several more set- tlers obtained clear titles. Chemist Robert Hare at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and his wife, Harriet, made immediate progress toward turning their Embden lands into cash and mortgages. Before the partition, indeed, they had settled on
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March 4, 1823, with William Quint for $144 for 72 acres and 61 rods of land, west of his brother-in-law Jeremiah Thompson, down in that troublesome triangle south of the Brook, where the Kanes in 1825 surrendered their interest. William Quint, his brother, Nahum, and their sister, Abigail, wife of Jeremiah Thompson, had occupied adjoining farms there since 1815.
West Embden, it was evident, had been gaining a new popula- tion, for the Hares deeded to Benjamin Pierce Feb. 15, 1826, for $122 irregular shaped lot No. 205, east of Capt. Joseph Knowlton and Mose Williams and north of Simeon Cragin and Capt. Asahel Hutchins; and on April 28, 1827, they sold to Abel Cleveland for $168 the long lot No. 141 of 81 acres extending from a point west of the road that used to go to Black Hill east- ward north of the cross town highway to the Amos Hilton place ; and to Capt. Joseph Knowlton on Oct. 15, 1830, Lot 184, the second farm above the Mose Williams place on the North Village road. By Nov. 10, 1826, John Savage had sold his Lot 62 in mid- dle Embden to C. C. Chamberlain - after his cousin, Reuben Savage had lived there - and the claim of the proprietors in it was quitclaimed to Daniel Steward, Jr., at Anson for $200. Robert Hare, Jr., witnessed the deed of his parents, given April 28, 1827, to Nathan Thompson, Sr., for $250, by which he ac- quired farm No. 31 southeast of the Fahi. In early annals this was quite a notable farm for John Hilton lived there and also Phineas Eames, before moving northward to his father's. Prob- ably Nathan Thompson, who made numerous farm deals, traded farm 31, for on July 28, 1831 Elizabeth Nightengale, Joseph N. Greene and Brown & Ives were apparent owners and deeded it to John Hilton for $144. It was four years before John could persuade the town to lay out a road from his farm up to John Salley's and the main road, and in 1837 he was still petitioning to have the road completed.
Capt. Cyrus Boothby in 1827 purchased from the Hares for $120, Lot 7 abutting the Concord line and the northward tract of the big Thaddeus Boothby homestead, now owned by Mrs. Lovell Berry. Charles Williams in 1830, got Lot 6, east of Francis Wil- liams and part of that large unoccupied tract in the northeast.
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During ten years from 1825, Oliver and Anne Kane, also made headway in disposing of their Embden interests. They closed several sales in middle Embden, so that farms from the town house cross road, of later years, up to the Concord line nearly all were occupied. David Bronson, Ex-Representative in Con- gress in 1841-43 as a Whig, who was a lawyer at North Anson, paid $60 on Dec. 11, 1826, for Lot 61, where Sidney Dunbar now resides. Bronson had an extended political career, serving in both branches of the state legislature before he went to Congress, and as collector of customs at Bath and judge of probate in Sagadahoc county in the 1850s. He was a native of Suffield, Conn., and died at Talbot county, Md. The same year of 1826 Ephraim Dunlap paid the Hares $75 for Lot 87 northward on the shore of Embden Pond, later the Melvin Berry farm. The Dunlaps had been in that community already for 14 years, but by 1833, Ichabod, brother of Ephraim, had got three adjacent lots from the Kanes, paying $200 for No. 83 and $135 for Nos. 84 and 85. Joseph Vickers, Jr., about the same time, paid $125 for No. 57, near by, occupied in after years by Richard Delling and then by Lyman Berry. John McFadden, who married into the Dunlap family, bought the 55 acres in Lot No. 96, next to the Pond and north of Moses Ayer for $41.25 in 1826, while a little farther north, next to Concord line Benjamin F. Berry paid the Kanes $200 for the 100 acre farm No. 89, having Robert Wells as his neighbor on the east.
The Kanes also made sales in northeast Embden - two tracts to Capt. John Walker, one of 40 acres for $52.40 in 1826 off of Lot 5, north of Jacob Williams, and 100 acres east of the Savage Mill Stream in 1831 for $200, while John Williams bought the remaining portion of Lot 5 that year for $184. On the west side of the town the Kanes first sold Ephraim Sawyer Lot 182, east of Sawyer's home place. Then in 1826 they did a rushing business with Ephraim Cragin, owner of the Dr. Edward Savage farm on Seven Mile Brook. They sold him on March 1 Lots 138 and 158 of 160 acres for $120 and on Dec. 11 Lot 139 of 62 acres for $62 and Lot 159 of 100 acres for $100. This provided him with a home farm of three good tracts in a tier and a double back lot toward Black Hill and made him a land magnate in his locality.
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Following the several sales as described, the Kanes on Oct. 8, 1835, sold to Dr. Bezar Bryant for $270 all the rest of their Embden land. It comprised Lots 55, 56, 58, 86, 88 and 99 of about 564 acres, nearly all east of the road through middle Embden.
After receiving their partition deed of 1809 from the Clark executors, the Nightengale heirs had similar ups and downs with their Embden lands. They recorded no sales for 16 years there- after but on May 6, 1825 Samuel W. Greene for $2,600 quit- claimed to Elizabeth Nightengale, his mother-in-law, one un- divided third of certain lots, and Brown & Ives appeared as her associates and as tenants in common. There followed in 1825 the same boom sales that the Clark heirs experienced. It touched the middle Embden neighborhood, where on May 7, 1825, Isaac Salley paid to Nightengale and Brown & Ives $400 for lots 44 and 45 that became the old Salley homestead, bordering the Canada Trail. John Libby paid $200 for Lot 63 of 100 acres, west of the Trail and immediately opposite Isaac Salley. Libby had been living there at least since April 7, 1812, when he regis- tered his sheep mark with the town clerk.
Eastward Caleb Williams got for $150 a farm of 125 acres on the Kennebec River, south of his late father, Jacob, including the Caratunk water power and extending back to Martin Stream. Joseph Gage, of Augusta, paid $192 for Lot 68 border- ing the Sand Pond on the southeast; Warren Hill of New Port- land - nephew of Capt. Samuel Hutchins - paid $180 for Lot 189 on the New Portland line while far down the Canada Trail, touching the Anson line, James Y. Cleveland for $220 bought Lot 72 of 160 acres, east of the present Byron Slipp house and furthered his ambitious plans for a large ownership in that quarter of the township. The deed to Gage specified that two- thirds of the lot had belonged to Elizabeth Nightengale and one- third to Brown & Ives.
. Then for six years the Nightengales and Brown & Ives had no. more sales to record. One can only surmise the causes that led to a partition of interests through two deeds in 1831 and a third deed in 1832. In these three partitions Joseph N. Greene ap- pears as an associate with his grandmother and the following
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rear he had come to North Anson to take the management of he properties in hand. Samuel W. Greene, his father, was hen still living. Whatever disposition had been made at Provi- lence, if any, of that one-third interest in the township, it un- doubtedly figured much in the son's activities at this period. Joseph, apparently, had taken over his father's holdings. The irst instrument, dated July 7, 1831, assigned properties as follows :
To Brown & Ives 23 parcels, being Nos. 15, 17, 23, 26, 39, 40, +1, 60, 64, 67, 78, 116, 120, 125, 151, 162, 165, 166, 167, 174, 179, 188, and 201; to Elizabeth Nightengale and Joseph N. Greene 43 parcels being : 16, 29, 65, 66, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 161, 163, 168, 169, 170, 173, 175, 176, 178, 186, 187, 189, 202 and 203.
The second partition was recorded Dec. 22, 1831, by which Brown & Ives acquired Lots 33, 37, 71, 145, 204, an unnumbered lot in the southeast occupied by William Spaulding, and a 13 acre gore next to Lot 22. Nightengale and Greene by this agree- ment obtained Lots 30, 34, 36, 42, 70, 74, 75, 190, 191 and 200; also east end of Lot 1 of 92 acres occupied by Christopher Thomp- son ; an unnumbered lot in the southeast corner of the town oc- cupied by Elijah Wilson ; a lot bounded on the west by the first range line, north by land bounded by the farm formerly owned by John and Jeremiah Chamberlain, east by land formerly owned by Stephen Chamberlain and south by Thomas McFad- den ; a 28 acre gore in the northeast corner of Lot 34 and a gore next Lot 33 but west of the land that Benjamin Colby, Jr., formerly owned, being the second farm from the Anson line. Apparently this second partition was not entirely correct and a new deed was recorded, May 5, 1832, differing from the previous one of Dec. 22, 1831 only as to tracts awarded Nightengale and Greene. Their corrected list stood at Lots 30, 34, 36, 42, 70, 74, 75, 160, 190, 191 and 200, with the remainder the same as above.
The Providence merchants proceeded to close out their Embden investments. They had accumulated numerous gore lots, ad- joining settlers' tracts along the Kennebec. Even before the dissolution with widow Nightengale they had sold to Ephraim
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Spaulding of Anson for $14.67 part of a gore at the head of the Jeremiah Chamberlain property and a 22 acre gore at the head of the Thomas McFadden farm for $44, while Joshua Gray bought 55 acres at the head of his farm and another tract, or part of gore, near Ephraim Spaulding. To John Hamblet, of Solon on Oct. 19, 1832, they sold 46 acres on the south side of the southeast- ernmost lot in Embden. Benjamin Colby owned the north half. James Collins, of Anson, who long had an interest in Embden farms in the vicinity of Fahi Pond bought in 1833 and 1834 Lots 33, together with the 13 acre gore, and 37, which gave him quite an acreage around the south end of the Pond, including the old John Wilson mill seat. Collins paid a total of $381. Long years afterward Temple Ireland resided on Lot 33.
Joseph N. Greene on Jan. 18, 1833, paid Brown & Ives $98.75 for Lot 151 of 79 acres. Micha S. Howard had been occupying it and Lot 150, tracts lying south of Hancock Pond and east of the Fairfield Williams farm of the 1880s. In a few months Howard quitclaimed his interest in the tracts to Joseph Greene for $45. Lot 201, further northwest, where D. Tripp lived later, was transferred by Brown & Ives to Daniel Steward, of Anson.
By this time Thomas Ives had died and on April 1, 1836 his firm deeded all their Embden holdings, amounting to 1790 1-2 acres, to Joseph Greene for $980. One-half of this was im- mediately transferred to Dr. Bezar Bryant, his father-in-law, for $494.68, while the other half was deeded to Zenas Bryant, the doctor's son, for $494.69. The 19 lots thus conveyed were Nos. 15, 23, 26, 39, 40, 41, 64, 67, 71, 116, 125, 145, 162, 165, 166, 167, 174, 179 and 188, for which the Bryants paid a little less than 55 cents an acre. Lots 26, 39, 40, 41 and 67 are part of the great bog between the Fahi and Sand Ponds; the other lots are in inaccessible regions west of Embden Pond between Black Hill and Hancock Pond. And thus the Bryants added these bargain remnants from Brown & Ives to the six tracts of 564 acres ac- quired of the Kanes in 1835.
Shortly before Joseph Greene came to North Anson, there had been a considerable adjustment of his interest and of Elizabeth Nightengale's in Embden lands. They sold 25 acres of back Lot 74 eastward of the Calvin Walker farm to Calvin's father, Dea-
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con Joseph, in 1831 and a few months later other acres thereof to Deacon Joseph's cousin Elder Benjamin Gould, Jr., while John Cleveland, son of Luther, got the remaining 25 acres to join up with Cleveland holdings on the Middle road. They placed a mortgage of $150 for Joseph Chick (father of Philander) on his farm No. 114 near Embden pond. Then on July 9, 1832, Joseph Greene deeded to his grandmother his rights in more than 50 properties, much, if not all, of which may have represented claims of his mother, Mary R. Greene, his sis- ter, Catherine, and his younger brothers, William Ray, and George Spencer Greene. The widow paid him $1,239.40 on this transaction by which she acquired :
Nos. 16, 29, 30, 34, 36, 42, 65, 66, 70, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 128, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 161, 163, 164, 168, 169, 170, 173, 175, 176, 177, 180, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 200, 202, 203 and the grantor's rights in six other parcels and gores. Most of these were parcels that had been represented in other sales or partitions including the east end of Christopher Thompson's lot 1, John Cleveland's 25 acres of Lot 74, part of a southeast lot that Elijah Wilson oc- cupied - the other part of which William Spaulding had pur- chased - the land west of the Stephen Chamberlain place, and two gores of land near Benjamin Colby. The several lots enu- merated included with few exceptions those that Brown & Ives had also conveyed to the widow July 7, 1831, and also several other lots.
The adjustments of family claims continued as Joseph took the management of township realty in hand. By Oct. 26, 1833, he seems to have repurchased the Christopher Thompson and Elijah Wilson tracts and Nos. 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 128, 163 and 177 - all the latter in that part of Embden where he was mak- ing his new home. Describing himself in the deed as of Emb- den, he gave his grandmother a mortgage of $500 on the ten parcels, to be paid in five years. At about this time he also gave to Mary R. Greene, who wrote her residence as of Embden, a mortgage of $190 on Lots 16, 42, 75, 78, and 79. The year of 1833 the town assessors entered 34 Nightengale lots as subject to taxation for highways. They were assessed at $1 per acre and
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taxed at $.0157 cents on the dollar. The total Nightengale high- way tax was $48.46.
Except for selling a Kennebec River frontage, north of the 400 acre Mill lot, to Christopher Thompson for $115 in 1825, Joseph Greene's farm sales in Embden hardly began till 1832 but from that time on his name was signed to many deeds. In this regard he was particularly active at bringing settlers to northwest Embden, hard by the section where he was maintaining his own domicile. Through his offices, Isaac Burns, in 1832, went upon Lot No. 190, west of Black Hill - where William Stevens dwelt nearly a half century later. Burns paid $176 for that farm and Greene, two years later, sold him No. 177, im- mediately west. The Burns homestead was finally rounded out by the purchase for $400 from Ira Hutchins of farm 189 ad- jacent, where Hiram Hill had started.
The farm trader from Providence also placed the Tripp fam- ily in the town, quitclaiming on March 8, 1833, to David Tripp (1791-1862) and his wife Polly Richardson (1793-1863), the farm north of Hancock Pond, designated as No. 170. Otis Strickland bought No. 202 in 1834 for $64 and a year later Nos. 173 and 203 for $112, all in the same northwest community. Otis and his brother Daniel D., had been there then several years. Henry Goodridge, who had made a clearing on No. 200, between the Tripp and Wilbur farms, paid Joseph Greene in August, 1836, $88.25 for his deed. The Wilbur farm (No. 191) was sold to Warren Hutchins in 1834 for $90. His success as the maker of that neighborhood in the corner by Lexington and New Portland with settlers of industry and sterling character like the Burnses, Tripps, Stricklands and Goodriches, was widened by further transactions, such as the sale to William R. Jackson on March 18, 1835, of Lot 163, in the Black Hill at the terminus of the road finally established there for a few years after a series of appeals to town meetings. But a short distance away was Lot 115 south of the Eli Foss place, which he trans- ferred to his mother.
Perhaps it was his faith in this new northwest neighborhood that moved Joseph Greene to operations in the Moulton neigh- borhood eastward and near the shore of Embden Pond. Into
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that community had come Jonathan Fifield Moulton and his four sons, after a residence of a few years in Concord. By pay- ing Capt. Nathaniel Moulton $100 in June, 1833, he bought his rights for betterments in Lots 124 and 127 and Jonathan Fifield surrendered his claim to No. 127 in August for $30 more. James Cooper yielded his equity in No. 126 for $47 - the Benjamin Moulton farm that touched the Concord line. By these transac- tions Joseph Greene had cleared the way for his manor place on No. 127 with the most entrancing outlook in all Embden. There he was to flourish with plenty of land for himself and some farms for sale into the bargain. Thither into the wilderness, seven miles from North Anson, when there was hardly more than the semblance of a road up the west side of Embden Pond, he brought luxurious furnishings for his mansion. There were splendid pieces of mahogany, some of which are cherished pos- sessions to this day of the Bryant family in New Jersey.
Embden's greatest realtor did business in farms also with numerous settlers in other parts of the town. Over on Town- house hill, or Ford hill, that was to be, he sold in 1833 to Ira Ford for $150 Lot 80, which Daniel Goodwin subsequently owned but which includes the tract on which the present town house has stood since 1847. It is north of the farm, where Barzilla Ford used to reside. He made sales, also, over to the south of Fahi Pond and settled aged contentions of ownership. One of these was over Lot 36, where John Wilson, veteran of the Revolution, had his dwelling. For $200 Greene conveyed to Wil- son and his wife, Catherine Law, a life interest in that property with ownership in perpetuity, after their deaths, to their young- est daughters, Sally and Susan Wilson. This was while Brown & Ives were selling to James Collins the adjacent acreage around the south shore of the Pond that included Wilson's old Mill seat in which Benjamin Colby, Jr., and John Gray at one time owned shares. Greene also sold to Benjamin Colby, Jr., the 28 acre gore at the northeast corner of Lot 34 for $28. That was when Benjamin Colby, Jr., in his two-story mansion a lit- tle westward, was approaching the hey day of his career as farm- er and town leader. But Lot 34, except for the 28 acres, was sold by Greene in 1834 to Elijah Wilson, son of John, who had
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married Sarah Butterfield, of Solon in 1830 and was trying quite successfully to become a big land owner, like the Colbys and the Luther Clevelands. Elijah paid $264 for the farm. Likewise Greene disposed of an unnumbered farm to Ambrose Colby, Jr., in September 1834 for $280. It was northeast of the Fahi, near the Chamberlain and McFadden properties. In 1835-36 he disposed of back lots 75 and 76 to James Y. Cleve- land and Jefferson Cleveland for a total of $225. These were in the 4th range of the township and lay between a Cleveland farmstead in the 3rd range near the Canada Trail and Cleve- land holdings purchased in 1827 of Nathan Daggett (Nos. 102 and 103) on the Embden Pond Mill Stream in the 5th. range. These two deals greatly furthered the efforts of Luther Cleve- land's sons toward a little rural empire. Right in that neigh- borhood, too, Joseph Greene got $200 from Thomas McFadden for Lot 71, where Benjamin Young, his son-in-law had been liv- ing. This was northwest of Benjamin Colby, Jr., (Lot 35) where years afterward David Young resided.
On and on runs the recital of Joseph Greene's triumph as a salesman. He had come up from North Providence at the dawn of a boom era and rode the crest of popular demands. When set- tlers of that day had continued for a decade or so Embden was at its zenith of population. But local prosperity slackened. As rich, virgin lands in the middle west were heralded in New Eng- land, the exodus that followed the star of empire set in, while the magnate on the Sky Farm and Dr. Bezar Bryant at North Anson still had lots to sell.
Perhaps the Rhode Island proprietors and their successors made money out of their investment, but it was a long and toil- some process. Probably if John Innis Clark and Joseph Nighten- gale could have penetrated the veil of half a century they would have placed that part of the earnings of the privateers of the Revolution elsewhere.
The town books show that when Maine became a state in 1820, the proprietors had 115 unsold lots of 10,718 acres, of which Nightengale's heirs had 72 lots of 6268 acres; Clark's heirs 29 lots of 2990 acres and Cornelius Soule 14 lots of 1460 acres. There were taxes to pay, small sums to be sure, but much
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JOSEPH N. GREENE, MRS. JOSEPH N. GREENE, MRS. DANIEL WELLS
larger than figures indicate in present times. A quaintly spelled entry of 1830 runs: "Widow Knightengale's school tax $20.24 ; Widow Soal's school tax, $1.55; Robert Hair's school tax $.91." This was but a little of all their Embden taxes. In 1850, after nearly 20 years of Joseph Greene's high powered endeavor, with sturdy re-enforcements from Dr. Bryant and sons at North Anson, the town records show that Greene and Bryant still owned Lots 165 and 166 and J. N. Greene owned Lots 118, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153 and 170.
Both were men of resolute character and performed un- doubted service for the town. Their names are still respectfully remembered in Anson and Embden by generations that know but dimly of their careers. Their family circle was charming. While Joseph Greene and his wife died childless, their Embden household was much frequented by Bryant sons and daughters from whom are numerous interesting descendants.
The children of Bezar and Sally Houston Bryant were Cyrus (1803), Zenas (1805), Betsey (1807), Marcia (1809), Lucinda
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(1811), Adeline (1813-1897) and Jonas (1815). By his second wife, Laura Williams there were Owen and Adelia (1829) who never married. Cyrus lived at North Anson, up the street from the Academy and his children were Charles, Marcia, Alice, Obediah, Daniel, Adeline and Emma. Alice Byrant married Cornelius B. Niles and lived and died at Union Springs, N. Y. Of their three children - Mary, Emma F. and Harry - the latter went to England for employment with the Pearsons and as assistant manager helped construct the electric railroad in : Mexico City, where he died.
Dr. Bryant's daughter, Marcia, married Nov. 23, 1831, Daniel Wells, Jr., (1808-1902) of West Waterville. They lived in Mil- waukee from the time it was a frontier hamlet. He had a wonderful career during his 66 years of residence there, includ- ing many public honors. He was the first justice of the peace in the territory of Wisconsin, served in the territorial legisla- ture, built the City Hotel in 1844, helped secure the first bridge over the Milwaukee river, made extensive investments in lands and for four years (1853-1857) was a Democratic Representa- tive in Congress. Among his many large enterprises was the Wells office building. He was also extensively engaged in bank- ing and lumbering and at his death was said to have been the wealthiest man in Wisconsin. Mrs. Charles Norris of Wisconsin, is his daughter.
Adeline Bryant, the younger sister of Mrs. Wells, became on Jan. 11, 1833 the wife of Joseph N. Greene. Their nephew, George Greene (1814-1848), of Providence lived with them and died in Embden. The Bryant nephews and nieces were frequent visitors at the splendid establishment, almost as much a home to them as their residences in the village. Most of the Bryant girls were teachers and at some time taught the school in Dis- trict No. 10 where the Greenes resided. Sarah Adelaide Bryant, daughter of Jonas taught there in 1858. She married Lieut. Isaac H. Thompson. Perley B. Thompson, Anson Academy, '88, a business man of Norwood, Mass., is their son. He has an old English watch, inscribed with Joseph Greene's name, that has been passed down to him through the generations. Perley's wife was Mary Niles, a granddaughter of Cyrus Bryant.
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