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Resolved; That the recording of such a life as was his, when we can truly say :- He was an honest man, a temperate man, a man who served his God -- make the brightest spots in the history of a community.
Resolved; That the members of this society deeply mourn the loss of one who has been a close friend of many and respected acquaintance of all and that the
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sympathy of the society is extended to the family of Mr. Ellis, while all will take comfort in the thought that
"Death's a path that must be trod If man would ever pass to God."
Resolved; That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the Piscataquis Historical Society and that a copy of the same be sent to the family of Columbus W. Ellis.
HENRY HUDSON, - Committee on
WAINWRIGHT CUSHING,
FRANK W. BALL, Resolutions.
INDEX
A
Abbot, village or town, 36, 73, 77, 91, 138, 139, 164, 166, 184, 185. Capt., 183. Ezra, 116. Abbot's History of Maine, 251, 252.
Abear, or Hibert, Simon, 296.
Abolition party, 174. Academies,
Corinna Union, 126.
Foxcroft, 89, history of, pp 100 to 117; men- tioned, 446, 447.
Hebron, 118. Limington, 126.
Monmouth, 126. Monson, history of, pp 118 to 126.
Acadia, 218, 220, 221, 222.
Acorn, Matthias, 364, 409, 414.
Act, of incorporation of Foxcroft Academy, 101; Quebec, 224; of proprietorship, etc., 336; to bring £163,200 into public treasury, 436.
Adams, Horace, 120. James, 438. Sprague, 36.
Adams' writings of Gallatin, note 238.
Adlum, Rev. S., 80. Administrations, state and national, 318. Adventists, 95. Age, The, 276, 317, 320.
Agents, from the states of Maine and Massachusetts, 333,
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339, 351, 355, 356, 403; for Massachusetts, 402; for Maine, 402.
Albany, N. Y., 158.
Albion, Me., 172.
Alden, Colonel, 158. Colonel Ichabod, 180. John, 444. Priscilla, 444.
Aldrich, Rev. R. H., 96.
Alexander, Capt., 177.
Sir William, 218, 219.
Alexander VI, Pope of Rome, issued a bull granting new world to Spain and Portugal, 216.
Alfred, Me., note 229.
Alien tax, 244.
Alleguash, The, 352.
Allen, Charles, 280.
Isaac, 86. Justice Frederick H., 90.
William, 173.
Allexis, Sac, 4.
America, boys of, 150; mentioned, 179, 217, 219, 221, 277, 293, 435, 438, 439, 440.
American, an, 420; authority, 263; citizens, 256, 267, 287, 288, 302, 329, 335, 371, 390, 393, 438 ; claim on North Eastern Boundary, 262; commis- sioners, 375; contention, 238; eagle and flag, 289; government, 221, note 226, 273, 330, 422; history, 280; inhabitants, 246; Indepen- dence by Great Britain, 261 ; Independence, 351 ; line, 232, 367; minister, 371 ; possessions, 230; privateers, 440; sense, 234; settlers, 242, 243, 245, 355, 387, 420 ; side, 365 ; significance, 233; soil, 245; subjects, 330; submitted as an, 363; stranger, 379; territory, 217, 298 ; troops, 278; Union government, 379; vessel, 300; Americans who reside in Madawascah settlement, 350. American Eagle, 243, 289, 351.
American Flag, 189, 286, 289, 415.
Americans, attacked fort, 176; mentioned, 235, 243, 244, 281, 289, 291, 292, 331, 332, 360; resi-
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dent at Matawascah, 360; mentioned, 399, 412 ; fourteen present at the celebration of John Baker and others, 415.
Ames, Betsey, 157. Daniel, 155. John, 79. Phineas, 154 to 157.
Samuel, 154, 155, 157. Sarah Ball, wife of Samuel, 154.
Amestown, now Sangerville, 67, 157.
Amherst, N. H., 201.
Amphitrite, a Moosehead Lake steamboat, 55.
Anacortes, Wash., 215.
Andover, Eng., 442.
Androscoggin River, 219.
Anglo Saxon, 216.
Angove, Mary, married Samuel Brown, 159.
Annance, Louis, chief of St. Francis Indians, came to Maine, 61 ; meets Governor Hubbard, 62.
Anticosta, Island of, 224.
Appleton, John, a chief justice of Maine, 23, 207. Moses, 23.
Archbold's Criminal Pleading, 298.
Argus, The, 276.
Arms and ammunition, 313.
Armstrong, Ferdinand, 245. James, 245. Arnold, Benedict, mentioned 5, 430. Joseph, 365.
Aroostic settlement, 365, 366, 367.
Aroostook County, 123, 125, 235, 252, 273, 316, 318, 319, 325, (Aroostic, 366) 422.
Expedition, 314, 315, 316, 317.
Falls, 272.
Region or country, 276, 278, 279, 420, 422, 423. River, 241, 244, 253, 271, 272, 365, 420, 421, originally known as Restook or Ristook, 241, spoken of as Aroostic, 366, 369, 377.
War, 277, 278, 440.
Arrow Street, 424.
Arrowsic, Me., 157, 158, 159.
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Articles of Separation. 229, note 229.
Ashburton, Lord Alexander Baring, 280, 439.
Ashburton-Webster treaty, 439.
Asheville, North Corolina, 147, 151.
Ashurst, Thomas, 217.
Atkinson, Livermore and Crosby, owners of Atkinson and Charleston, 206.
Atkinson, town of, 8, 20, 21, 69, 161, 162, 170, 171, 205, 206, 208. Corner, 205, 208.
Atlantic Ocean, 224, 225, 227, 231, 233, 234, 235, 264, 265.
Attorney General, 282, 283, 286, 287, 288, 292, 298, 305, 359, 360, 362, 364, 397, 398, 400, 403, 405, 406, 419, 437.
Atwood, John, 53.
Patty, second wife of Samuel Stickney, 193.
Aubert, Sieur Charles, de la Chenaye, note 236.
Augusta, Me., 124, 276, note 276, 278, 307, 316, 322.
Augusta Light Infantry Company, 318.
Austin, Mr., agent under 4th article treaty of Ghent, 348, 349.
Averill, Anna Boynton, poetess, 6.
Anna B., made clerk of Universalist parish, 97.
E. B., 27, 28, 29.
Elihu B., 114, 115.
Mrs. E. B., 97. Rev. E. B., 88.
Ayer, D. F., 97.
Mr., in Peter Brawn and the Bear, 140.
B
Bachelder, General, 277, 326. T. F., 122.
Bacon, James, 242, 248, 282, 284, 285, 286, 288, 290, 291, 292, 293, 351, 354, 364, 411, 414, 416. Badlam, Major Stephen, 160. Bailey, Rev. Dudley P., 77, 124.
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Bain, John, 283.
Baker, Amanda, Liser and Sophronia, daughters of John Baker, 409. Asahel, 364, 411, 412. Asal, 360, 361, 406. Hiram, 403.
John, one of principal figures of Aroostook War, mentioned 241, 242, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 303, 304, 305, 306, 315, (his place mentioned, 331) 351, 352, 353, 354, 360, 361, 362, (concerning his arrest, 363) 367, 374, 378, 380, 382, 391, 392, 394, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, (his arrest, 407,) (Mrs. Baker, 407, 411, ) 408, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 420. Nathan, brother to John, 287.
Ball, Frank W., 450.
Ballard, Capt. William H., 180.
Bangor, 20, 23, 54, 56, 97, 116, 162, 191, 194, 206, 207, 208, 209, 273, 274, (jail, 274) 275, (newspapers, 276) note 276, 307, 310, 311, (artillery, 319) 321, 326, 364, 366, 367, 429. and Aroostook Railroad office, church services held there, 98.
Commercial, mentioned, 207.
Whig, note 274 ; referred to, 275; editorial, 314, 315, 317; correspondence, 316; The Soldier's Return, 325.
Historical Magazine, 435.
House, 274, 318.
Independent Volunteers, 325.
Baptist deacon's mistake, 94.
Baptists, 65 ; history of in Piscataquis County, pp 66 to 85; mentioned 91, 93, 124.
Barber, Nathaniel, 177. Barbour, Robert, 120. Robert, Jr., 120. Barclay, Thomas, 225, 228.
Bard, Mr., fisherman on Moosehead Lake, 57.
Barett, Dr. Amasa, 208.
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Barett, Harriet, married Jules Golay, 208; second hus- band a Powers, 208. Martha, 208. Baring, Alexander, 439. Henry, 439. Sir Francis, 439. William Bingham, 439.
Barker, David, poet, 117. Hon. Lewis, 116. Barnard, Me., 199.
Barnes, Agnes, wife of Thomas Blanchard, 442. Lovisa, 91. Rev. Thomas, 91.
Barrelle, S. B., sent to Maine to collect information concerning arrest of John Baker and others, 374 ; mentioned 377, 384, 385, 390, 392, 393.
Barrett, Justice Samuel, 436.
Barrows, H. G. O., 53.
Bartlett, referred to in connection with John Baker, 289, mentioned 293. E. M., 77.
Mrs. Sarah, 159.
Nathaniel, 364, 419.
Rev. Daniel, 68, 73. Thomas B., 274.
Barton, Rev. F. E., 98.
Batchelor, B. L., 97.
Bates, Rev. George, 88. Susanna, married Nathaniel Blanchard, 442. Bath, Me., 430, 431, 433; England, 437. Trust Company, 433.
Bathgate, James, 109, 111, 114.
Battles, of Bennington, 154, 201; of Bemis Heights, 155; Lundy's Lane, 175; of "Chisterfield," 176; Saratoga, 178; Monmouth, 178; Bunker ITill, 190; White Plains, 190; storming of Stony Point, 195; of Long Island, 198. Bay des Chaleurs, 224, 282, 234, 235, 291, 297. of Fundy, 218, 224, note 225, 232, 234. of Passamaquoddy, 225. Bayfield, Mass., 192.
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Beal, A., 96.
Bear, or Bruin, Peter Brawn's experience with, 140; Samuel Stickney's experience with, 194; Thomas Towne's experience with, 208.
Bear Tax, 412.
Beaver, Isaac, 87.
Bedell, John, 296.
Bedford, N. H., 40.
Beecher, Harriet, 113.
Belcher, S. C., 116.
Belgium and Belgians, 255.
Bellevue Hospital, 446.
Bennett, Capt. John, 91, 167, 168. Isaac, 37, 39. John, 37, 38.
Nathaniel, 37, 38, 39.
Peggy, wife of Isaac, 39.
Peter, 213.
Rachel, wife of Nathaniel, 38.
Sally, wife of John, 38.
Sally, daughter of John and Sally; wife of Isaac - Edes, 38. Benson, Capt. Joshua, 195.
Bent, Captain David, 155.
Bicknell, Rev. J. S., 77.
Bigney, Benjamin, 52; built steamboat, 56.
Major, steamboat builder, 134.
Miss E. Adeline, 98. Mr. and Mrs. B. S., 98. Billerica, Mass., 204. Bingham, Ann Louise, 439.
Ann (Willing), wife of William, 438.
Hon. William, 434.
James, 437. Maria Matilda, 439.
towns in Piscataquis County, 435. William and the Million Acre Tract, pp 434 to 441. Bingham, Me., 161, 360.
Bingham's Kennebec Purchase, 435, 437. Penobscot Purchase, 435. Birch Stream and Other Poems, 135.
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Black, Colonel John, 437. George N., 437.
Black Stream, 156.
Blackden, William, 56.
Blacker, Robert, preacher, 93.
Blackstone's Commentaries, 298.
Blaine, James G., 444.
Blaisdell, Capt., 158.
Blake, Adoniram, 88. Samuel H., 115.
Blanchard Family of Blanchard, pp 442 to 445.
Abigail (Phillips), 443.
Abigail (Pratt), 445.
Agnes (Barnes), 442,
Ann Aurora, 444.
Charles, 120.
Daniel, 443.
David, 443.
Dorcas, 443, 444.
Dorcas (Bucknam), 444.
Edward, 442.
Edward P., 445.
Hannah (Shaw), 443.
Howard W., 445.
Jacob, 443, 445.
Jeremiah, 443, 444.
John, 442, 443.
Martha (Sweetser), 444.
Mary, 442.
Mercy, 442,
Mercy (Soule), 444, 445.
Nathaniel, 442, 443.
Olive, 443.
Ozias, 120, 121, 443, 444, 445.
Rachel C., 445.
Rachel (Cole Packard), 445.
Reuben, 443.
Rufus, 443.
Samuel, 443. Susanna, 442.
Blanchard, Susanna (Bates), 442.
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Blanchard, William, 444.
Blanchard, Me., 8, 69, 75, 163, 164, 165, 166, 271, 434, 435, 444, 445.
Blethen, Wm. D., one of builders of Lake House, Sebec, 136. Isaac, 182.
Blethen House, Dover, 88, 212.
Bliss, Mr. Justice, 247, 283, 297, 305, 399.
Blondeau, Joseph, note 237.
Blood, Abel, 191, 201.
Bloomfield, now part of Skowhegan, Me., 172, 173, 365. Blue Pearmain apples, 184.
Bluehill, Me., 325.
Blunt, Oliver C., 361.
Boats, kind used on Moosehead Lake, 55; horse-boat on Sebec Pond, 128; Boat Notice of horse-boat service on Sebec Lake, 129.
Bodly, Louis, 364.
Bodwell, John, 21. Nathaniel, 21.
Bonaparte, Joseph, ex-king of Spain, 440.
Books, of Bill Nye enumerated, 151; relating to the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, all named, pp 342 to 343; others referred to on same, 348; containing arguments of the agents, mentioned, 349; on North Eastern Boundary, referred to. 368.
Borestone Mountain, 4.
Boston, Mass., 11, 124, 201, 228, 434.
Botsford, Mr. Justice, '300.
Bowdoin College, 20, 36, 39, 43, 50, 100, 211 ; town- ships, 20. Bowdoinham Association, 68. Bowerbank, Me., 22, 69, 132.
Boylston, Mass., 172. Boynton, Captain John, 155.
Brackett, James R., 116.
Bradbury, John, 101, 103, 104, 105, 113, 115, 168.
Bradford, Capt. Robert, 196.
Rev. Lucius, 72, 77, 120, 121. Rev. Z., 79, 80.
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Bradford, Mass., 193.
Bradley, Rev. A. M., 96.
Bradstreet, Joseph, 431.
Braham, Minn., 215.
Braintree, Mass., 442.
Brawn, Peter, his celebrated bear fight on Sebec Lake, pp 138 to 141; 164, 165.
Katherine Becky, Peter's first wife, 139. Betsey Kincaid, second wife of Peter, 139.
Brawn cemetery, Foxcroft, 139. neighborhood, Foxcroft, 139.
Brent, Daniel, 349. Mr., 350.
Brewer, Colonel, 158.
Brewer Volunteers, 319.
Brien, John, 11.
Brier, George, 17.
Bristol, Me., 412.
R. I., 160, 195.
British, acts of parliament, 224; authority or authori- ties, 246, 252, 320, 363, 367, 371 ; commission- ers, 375; crown, 330; government, 239, 240, 250, 267, 285, 319, 337, 338, 354, 357, 388, 390, 399, 405, 438; government, authority, subjects, etc., 369; islands, 301; land agent, note 274, 318; laws, 291, 302; mentioned, 18, 155, 160, 162, 201, 205, 225, 235, 274, 335; minister, 238, 257, 328, 332, 335, 338, 354, 355, 388; Myrmidons, 320; officers, 276; officer and laws, 405; provinces, 238, 253, 272, 429; Regulars, 275, 319; settlements, 355, 356, 357; ship, 161 ; soil, 277; statement, note 237; subjects, 253, note 274, 297, 298, 357, 358, 360, 399; theory, 233; troops, 320; forces, 311. British Channel, 217.
Brookfield, Mass., 171.
Brooks, Col. John, 180. Brooks, Me., 175. Brougham, Lord, 277. Brown, Abner, 120, 121.
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Brown, Capt. Monroe, 55.
Capt. Simeon, 192. Daniel, 87.
Enoch, Revolutionary soldier of Sebec, sketch of, pp 157 to 160. Moses, 199.
Plebia, wife of Enoch, 160.
Samuel, son of Enoch, 159.
S. O., 111, 114.
Stephen, 120, 147.
Stephen P., 114, 115.
Brown University, 100.
Browne, Rev. Sewall, 72.
Brownville, Me., 8, 20, 193, 194, 199, 200.
Brownville Village Cemetery, 194, 200.
Brunswick, Me., note 229, 446.
Bryant, David, 87.
G. E. S., one of the first to propel boat by power on Sebec Lake, 128, 131. Pelham, 87.
Bryant & Keating, horse-boat owners, 130, 131. Buck, Almira, 79. Benjamin T., 79. Daniel, 88, 184. Elizabeth (Quail), 446.
Hon. Alfred E., ex-minister to Japan, attended Foxcroft Academy, 116.
Joshua, 91, 120.
Moses, 87.
Nathaniel, 446.
William, 111, 114, 446, 447. Wm. & Co., 447.
Buckfield, Me., 175, 184.
Buckmore, George W., 271, 272, 273; his report to land agent, note 273.
Bucknam, Dorcas, married Jeremiah Blanchard, 444. Bugbee, David, 116. Buker, E. C., 120.
Bullard, Col. John, 177. Bunker, Clement, 11. Burbank, Elder D. E., 72.
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Burdin's Corner, 81.
Burgoyne, his invasion, 178; surrender of, 155, 180, 183, 188. Burleigh, Gilman, 114. Burnham, Elder Asa, 21. a minister said to have lived in Dover, 89. Burnt Island, 419.
Burr, Aaron, mentioned, 5, 438, 439.
Burseley, Barnabas, 92, 93.
Burton, Sarah, second wife of Thomas Towne, 200. Capt. Benjamin, 160.
Butler, Frank, 166. Rev. T. M., 80.
Butterfield, J. F., 116.
Butterfield's, on the Calais road, 310, 311.
Buxton, Me., 183.
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Cabinet of London and Washington, 280.
Cabot, John, 217.
Cadia, 218.
Calais, Me., 310, 311.
California, 124.
Call, James, 88.
Calvin, John, 118.
Cambridge, Edward, 283.
Cambridge, Mass., 424, 425. Me., 81, 82, 83. Campbell, William, 87. Canaan, 163.
Canada, mentioned, 2, 3, 58, 216, 217; river de, 218; mentioned, 220, 235, 236; government of, note 236, mentioned, note 237; provinces of, 262 ; men- tioned, 309, 277, 280; line, 294 ; road, 308, men- tioned, 264, 353; the Canadas, 380; mentioned, 392, 393; the Canadas, 396; mentioned, 405, 413, 414, 420.
Canfield, Rev. Harry L., 97.
Cannon, Cyrus, 363.
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Cannon, Siras and Cyrus, 401, 409. Canterbury, N. H., 20.
Cape Breton, 216; called Baccaleos, 218
Cape Florida, 216. Cape Rosiers, 224. Cape Sable, 218. Capen, Aaron, 59. Gen., 53. John, drowned in Moosehead Lake, 60. Mr., at Deer Island, 57, 58.
Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Canadas, 396.
Carey, Daniel, 48. Carleton, County of, 313.
Carpenter, Col. Joshua, 101, 102, 103, 104, 113. Nathan, 114.
Carr, F. H., 96. minister named, 95.
Moses, oldest resident of Sangerville, 91, 96. Carratunk, 20, 161.
Carter, Jonathan, 13.
Carver, Leonard D., 124.
Case, Dr. Isaac, 19. Rev. Isaac, 82. Castine, Me., 325. Casualties, first drowning in Moosehead Lake, 59.
Catholic or Catholics, 217, 294.
Caulkins, Rev. H. L., 84.
Chadbourne murder trial, 213.
Chadwick, Joseph, surveyor, 3, 4.
Chamberlain, Abraham, 291, 293. Calvin, 114, 115. Nathaniel, 86, 87, 104. Samuel, 8, 101, 113, 115.
Chamberlain house in Foxcroft, for dormitory, 110. Chandler, Anson G., Justice, 90.
Charles H., 132. Charles P., preceptor of Foxcroft Academy, 105, 106, 114, 115, 117. Gilbert, 89. Chandler, John, 350.
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Chandler, Mr., 348.
Chapel, one built at Greenville, 98. Congregational in Foxcroft, 104.
Chapin, Aretus, 120, 122.
Chapman, agent for determining true St. Croix, 349. Elijah, 361. Charles I, 219, 220. II, 221.
Charleston, Me., 89, 206.
Charlestown, Mass., 442,
Charter for Foxcroft Academy, 101.
Chase, Abel, 11, 13, 16, 19.
Andrew J., 162.
Capt., 169.
Captain Ezekiel, 20.
Charles Vaughan, son of Ezekiel, the first white child born in Piscataquis County, 162.
Daniel, Esq., 23.
Ezekiel, 12, 19.
Ezekiel, Revolutionary soldier, sketch of, pp 160 to 163.
Ezekiel, Jr., 20.
Ezekiel L., 20.
Harriet, married Josiah Crosby, 204.
Hon. A. J., 20.
Jacob, 160.
Jonathan, 13, 17, 19, 160.
Jonathan A., 20.
Joseph, 25, 26, 28.
Roger, 20. Stephen, 210.
Chase Cemetery, Sebec Station, 162.
Chase's Corner, 23.
Chateaugay, Madawaska, 290, 291.
Chattiqua, 413.
Cheputnaticook river, northern branch of Scoodiac, 225, 310.
Cherry, Capt. Samuel, 174. Cherryfield, Me., 73, 429. Chester, 438. Chesuncook Lake, 5, 53.
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Chicago, Ill., 121, 430. Chief Justice, 298, 437.
Chief Magistrate of Maine, 395.
Child, James L., 251. China, Me., 366.
Chipman, Mr. Justice, 247, 283, 298, 305, 348. Rev. A. C., 77.
Chippewa river, 430.
Christians, 217.
Church, history of Baptist in Piscataquis County, pp 66 to 85; history of Universalist in Piscataquis County, pp 86 to 99; Universalist church used as a court house, 89, 90; Guilford Free Meeting- house, 92; built at East Sangerville, 93; Roman Catholic in settlement above Madawaska, 413; Weymouth, 443; second of North Yarmouth, 444 ; Cumberland, 444.
Cilley, Mary, married Enoch Leathers, 175.
Cincinnati, 444.
Civil posse, 323. Power, 313. War, 132, 444. Clapp, Captain, 166. Clark, Gilman, 114. in Peter Brawn's anecdote, 141. Rev. A., 68. Rev. W. H., 76.
Samuel C., 101, 103, 113.
Claverie, Pierre, note 237.
Clay, Hon. H., 329, 330, 333, 334, 335, 339, 342, 347, 355, 356, 357, 358, 368, 369, 374, 377, 390, 391.
Clifford, Nathan, 257. Clopper, Henry, 295, 296. Clouse, Rev. William J., 80. Cobb, General, 437. Sylvanus, Universalist preacher, 86. Cobscook, The, note 226. Coburn, Chester, 96. ex-Governor, 431. Joshua, 74, 75.
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Cochrane, J. B., 111, 114.
Coffin, George W., 242, 331, 402, 403. Colby College, 72. University, 81. Cole, Col. Clark, 117. Samuel, 54, 120. William, 74.
College, Colby, 72.
Bowdoin, 20, 36, 39, 43, 50, 100, 211.
Harvard, 204.
of Philadelphia, 438. Waterville, 72.
Collins, John, 283. Colorado, 214.
Columbus, 216, 217.
Commander in Chief, 316.
Commanding General, 317.
Commissioners, to act on treaty of 1783, 227, 228; American, 231, 280; Boundary, 315 ; under treaty of Ghent, 329, 340, 342; for determining true St. Croix, 348; commissioners, etc., 348; appointed under treaty of Ghent, 370,
Committee, Joint Select, 336; report of, 337; of Ameri- can citizens, 354.
Composite Lodge, F. & A. M., 30.
Compyn's Digest, 298.
Confederacy, 257.
Congregational church, 61, 95, 445; chapel, 104; de- nomination, 147.
Congregationalists, 65, 70, 78, 124.
Congress, mentioned, 214, 241; representative to, 258; mentioned, 260, 264, 269, 271, 273, 278, 282; session of, 337, 340 ; proceedings of, 439.
Congress of the Confederation, 438.
Connecticut, 247.
River, 224, 227, 231, 265.
Connelly, Patrick, 421. Connor, William, 54.
Constitution of the U. S., 257, 376.
Constitutional Militia Force, 313.
Continental army, 154, 158, 174, 183, 190, 195, 201.
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Continental Congress, 171, 438. Cook, Samuel, Esq., 331. Coombs, Leonard, 273. Corinna Union Academy, 126. Corinth, Me., 135.
Cork, Ireland, 275. Cornhill, London, 424.
Cosmopolitan Club of Dover and Foxcroft, 112.
Council of Maine, 250, 259.
Court, first held in Piscataquis County in Universalist meeting house, 90; mentioned, 299, 300.
Cousins, Joseph, 146. Cowie, Dr., 44. Cox, Captain, 160.
Coy, Henry, 87. Crafts, Herbert L., 37. Justin E., 120. Leonard S., 120. Samuel, 41.
Craig, Daniel, 244, 421.
Crawford, Dr. William, 4.
Crea, William M., 420.
Cressy, Rev. W. E., 68.
Crockett, Aunt Sarah, 134.
Capt. A. G., connected with Sebec Lake steamers, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137. Joel, 11. Mrs. A. B., 95.
Crockett & Jones, steamboat owners, 132.
Crosby, (notes of family, pp 204 to 210.) Annie C., 215.
Clara I., (Mrs. Charles Altenberg), 215.
Cornelia, wife of Dr. Amasa Barett, 208, 209. Edgar H., 122. Elizabeth (Foss), wife of Oliver, 208. Etta (Mrs. James Bird), 215.
Harriet, married Ephraim T. Morrill, 207, 211. Harriet Chase, wife of Josiah, 204, 209. Harriet Chase (Mrs. Edward Bebb), 208. Henrietta, married Geo. W. Ingersoll, 209. Henrietta Hill, first wife of Josiah, 211.
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Crosby, Hon. Josiah, 116.
Horace, 208. J. Willis, 213, 215.
Josiah, of Dexter, 204, 209; sketch of life, pp 211 to 215.
Mary, 208.
Mary Bradbury (Foss), second wife of Josiah, 211.
Mary Wilson, first wife of William Chase, 208.
May (Mrs. A. B. Stickney), 215.
Mehitable, married Ichabod Thomas, 198.
Oliver, 113, 204, 205, 208, 209, 215.
Old Crosby Homestead, 207.
Old Crosby Place, 205.
Philip, 113.
Susan W. Dunmore, second wife of William Chase, 208.
S. P., 215.
William, 208.
William Chase, 208.
Wilson, 208.
Crosbytown, now Etna, 175.
Cross, Caleb, 13.
Moses, 12, 17. Moses, Jr., 17. Noah, 11, 13.
Cross brothers, Moosehead Lake fishermen, 57.
Crosse, John, 425.
Crown, clerk of, 295; lands, 297, 300, 362, 412, 419.
C. S. Douty Circle, of Foxcroft, 112.
Cumberland, Me., 444, 445.
County, 178. Regiment, 443.
Cummings, Peter, 74, 75. Silas, 53.
Curtis, Abel, 92. Charles W., 124. Joseph M., 120. Cushing, Col. John, 198. Joseph W., 21. Wainwright, 450.
Cushman, Gustavus G., 274. Solomon, 120.
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Daggett, H. F., 30. Rev. John, 71. D'Aigle, John Battis, 410. Larrion, 413. Dallas, Tex., 215.
Dalton, William, 364, 365, 366, 369.
Dana, Governor, 120, 121. Samuel, 11, 14.
Dane, Solomon F., 120. Darling, Deacon, 53.
Dartmouth College, 61.
Davee, Alonzo H., 120.
Thomas, 105, 106, 113, 115, 271.
Davies, Charles S., note 243, 354, 394, 396, 399, 400, 401, 402.
Davies' Report, note 244, note 245, note 246. Davis, B., 93. B. H., 137. F. C., 116. H. S., 137. Joseph W., 199. Stedman, 42. William, 137. Davison, Alpheus, 120, 121. Charles, 122. John, 421.
D. C. Society of Mayflower Descendants, 445. Dead River, 5. Dean, Daniel, 166. Eben, 164.
Ebenezer, of Blanchard, Revolutionary soldier, sketch of, pp 163 to 166. Ebenezer, 163. Ebenezer, Jr., 166.
Jane, wife of Eben, 166. John, 163.
John, son of Ebenezer and Jane, first child born in Blanchard, 166.
Martha (Bateman), wife of William, 163.
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Dean, Mary, wife of Ebenezer, 163. Mary (Farmer), wife of John, 163. William, 163. Deane, Colonel John G., note 226, 254.
Deba, Joseph, 410.
Deed, of land to Baker by Maine agents, 402.
Deer Island, 53, 57.
Deering, Joseph H., 37.
Democrat, 273, 275, 276.
Democratic candidate and ranks, 214; papers, 276; party, 276. Dennett, James, 11. Joseph, 11.
Dennis, Rev. J. M., 88.
Department of State of the United States, 256, 328, 332, 335, 336, 340, 347, 349, 354, 355, 368, 369, 373, 374.
Deposition, of William Dalton, 365; of Jonathan Wilson, 367; of Asael Baker, 406, 411; of Charles Stetson, 412, 415; of Jacob Goldthwaite, 417 ; of Charles Smart, 419.
Deputy sheriff, 421.
Dexter, Daniel S., 81.
H. J., 81. Samuel, 14.
Dexter, town of, 75, 83, 97, 116, 124, 168, (road, 173,) 211, 215, 444.
Dexter, artillery, 319; Gazette, 145 ; rifle corps, 319.
Dibble, William, 410.
Dibblee, George I., 296.
Dillingham, Rev. W. A. P., 88.
Dingley, Nelson, 214.
District of Columbia, 445.
Dixmont, 36.
Documentary history of the North Eastern Boundary Controversy, pp 282 to 327.
Doe, Jacob, 11.
Dole, Mr., a preceptor of Foxcroft Academy, 116.
Donald, R. E., 116.
Doore, James C., 157.
Dorchester, Mass., 38, 179.
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Douglass, George H., 39, 45. Henry, 39. James, 11, 19, 39. Jeremiah, 11, 17.
Sir Howard, 329, 331, 334, 358, 360, 373, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 388, 394, 397.
William, 11, 17. William, Jr., 11. Douty, Calvin S., 117.
Dover, Me., 23, 28, 38, 69, 70, 73, 79, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 94, 97, 98, 99, 108, 109, 110, 111, 116, 138, 139, 162, 164, 167, 168, 172, 173, 174, 181, 189, 190, 192, 194, 197, 201, 207, 212, 251 ; poor farm, 157 ; village cemetery, 172, 173, 182, 192. N. H., 174, 204, 205, 208, 209, 211.
Dow, Lincoln, 189. Dowman, Seth, 11. Downing, John, 56. Ric'd, 11. Drake, Captain Lebbeus, 166. Sir Francis, 217. Drew, Rev. E. S., 77.
Rev. William A., editor of the Gospel Banner, 93. Drummond, a Mr., 431.
Dudley Island, 300.
Duer, William, 434, 435.
Dundee, highest point of land in Foxcroft, 137.
Dunlap, Governor, 252, 259. Robert P., 251. Dunmore, Susan W., 208.
Dunn, H. W., 122. Dunning, Lieut., 325. Dunn's, on the Calais road, 310, 311.
Duperree, Captain, 294, 295.
Durgin, Judge Martin L., 23. Durham, N. H., 427.
Dutch, 255. Duxbury, Mass., 198.
Dwelley, Allen, 87; Revolutionary soldier, sketch of, pp 166 to 169. Dyer, John L., 122.
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