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The old Page timber house was sold to Solomon Page by Jonathan Philbrook, and he sold it to Edward H. Page.
The correct pronunciation of Gutch is Gooutch. It is sometimes written in documents Goutch and Goutche.
In 1820 Bath had a celebration of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers, December 22, 1620, which consisted of a military parade, an oration, and a dinner of clams and parched corn.
During the latter years of Dr. Ellingwood's pastorate the " lecture " or "conference" room of the North Church was discontinued as such, and the room termed Music Hall was rented, and afterwards was deeded to that society, and used for lectures, prayer-meetings, and Bible classes, the occu- pancy continuing after the ordination of Dr. Fiske .- G. F. Magoun.
When the Goss Marine Iron Works was established, in 1883, citizens had taken stock in it to the amount of $100,000. It was transferred to the New
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HISTORY OF BATH.
England Ship-building Company in 1885, and to the organized Bath Iron Works in 1888.
During 1894 the Young Men's Christian Association completed a large and elegant edifice, on the corner of Front and Summer streets, the upper portion devoted to the uses of the Association, with stores on the ground floor on Front street. Adjacent, on its south end, a new block, contemporaneous with this building, has been rebuilt by the Sagadahoc Real Estate Loan Association, on the site of Columbian Block, burned in 1893, and contains an elegant opera house above with a row of stores underneath .. Mr. G. C. Moses is at the head of both of these improvements.
Bell for the Old North .- BATH, May 16, 1803. We, the subscrib- ers, promise and agree to pay to Mr. Samuel Davis, in thirty days from the date hereof, the several sums set against our names for the purpose of purchasing a bell for the new meeting-house in the town of Bath; the said bell to be brought to Bath within the thirty days, and if not the time of payment to be extended till it is. David Trufant, $50; Samuel Davis, $50; Jonathan Crooker, $50; Peleg Tallman, $50; Francis Wintergreen, $10; Samuel E. Duncan, $10; James Cogan, $5; Stevens & Heath, $8; James Sewall, $10; Joshua Raynes, $10; John M. Loring, $10; Nathaniel Smynger, $6; Cushing Allen, $5; Horatio G. Allen, $2; Joseph Trott, $14; James Oliver, $7; Aaron Kimball, $5; Laban Loring, $15; Christopher Cushing, $13; S. Sewall, $6; John M. Moody, $10; Mathew Paion, $5; Henry Sewall, $5; R. Bosworth, $5; Ebed Lincoln, $3; John Mark, $2; Samuel Adams, $5; David Shaw, $10; Ben Richardson, $5; Elijah Low, $5; William Couill- ard, $5; Caleb Marsh, $13; Joseph Hare, $10; Albert Hammond, $5; Caleb Lincoln, $10; Robinson & Towet, $10; Isaiah Crooker, $5; Capt. Benjamin, $5; Samuel Todd, $2; Stephen Morse, $2; John Richardson, $5; William Hodgkins, $S; Jacob Macdonald, $2; William S. Blassland, $3; Samuel D. Sloan, $2; T. Lowell, $3; Dummer Sewall, $10.
When this bell was rung for the first time after being transferred from the Old North to the Universalist Church, an excited member of this society rushed into the street, waving his hat, and shouted: "This bell, for forty years, has rung out hell and damnation; henceforth it shall ring out univer- sal salvation."
The steeple of the Universalist Church was surmounted by a figure of an angel. Parson Ellingwood one day humorously asked Anthony Raymond, the builder, if he had ever heard of an angel wearing shoes, whereupon Mr. Raymond asked the learned divine if he had ever known an angel barefoot.
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INDEX.
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Bath and Environs.
9 Arnold in the Kennebec. 68
George Waymouth.
10
John Parker.
First Footprints on Bath Territory. 11 Philbrook C8
Captive Natives.
11 Organization of the Town of Bath ... 69
Waymonth Home.
11
Petition to the General Court. 69
The Plymouth Company 12
The Act of Incorporation. 70
The Gutch Deed.
13 Town Clerks. 72
Boundaries of the Gutch Tract. 15 Jones Eddy. 73
Gutch-llis History
16
Fiddlers Reach. 74
74
North Bath
19
The Great Embargo. 76
Whizgig 19
South Bath.
20
Hazardous Voyages.
78
Its Early Settlers
20
Brig Mary Jane. 79
Relation with the Indians 22
Sloop Adoniran 83
Ancient Georgetown.
23
Schooner Three Friends. 83
Permanent Re-settlement of George- town.
24 Non-Intercourse Act.
85
Samuel Denny
25
King and Ames Controversy
85
Reminiscences of the Settlement 29
Bath in the War of 1812.
Attacking Savages. 31 The Great Alarm. 91
Battle of Arrowsic.
33 Other Accounts of the Alarm 94
Formation of a Town.
34 Military on Duty. 101
30 The Fort
105
Battle with the Barges. 100
More Barges 107
Town Records.
37
Major Zina Hyde's Record of War Times. 110
Formation of the Second Parish, Long Reach
41 Killing of Lieutenant Baker. 113
The Act. 43
Major Hyde Continues 114
Organization.
44
William King 119
Revolutionary Era.
44 Officers of the War 120
Town Officers. 49
Col. Denny MeCobb. 120
The King's Timber Ships. 50
Reginental Orders. 121
Roster of Officers of First Regiment. 122
Roster at Coxs Head.
126
Incidents of the War 127
Roll of Soldiers, 1775 .. 50
57
Nautical Adventure.
129
Militia Join General Washington 57
Opposers of the War.
133
Regimental Muster Roll, Georgetown At Siege of Castine '59 First Vessel Built on the Kennebec .. 135
Deprivations During the War.
The Second Build. 136
Bath Men Active in the Revolution .. 65 Sir William Phips. 136
Privateers
66
Early Building at Bath.
138
Incidents of the War
67
The Pioneer Builders
140
Christopher Lawson
18
Reminiseences
Vessels Laid Up. 77
The Adjustment. 84
90
Old Georgetown Records
The Town Comprised Additional Ter- ritory . 36
Arrest of the King's Agent. 52
Preparations for the War. 53
Detachments Sent to the Army. 55
The Kilgore Robbery 128
Arnold's Quebec Expedition.
58 Ship-Building. 134
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INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
After the Revolution 142
Chebacco Boats 143
Amos Nourse. 187
Snows. 144
John Campbell Humphreys 187
Former Mode of Building .. 144
Supply of Wood Material. 145
Southern Timber
145
Charles N. Bodfish 188
Carpenters and Sailors 140
Steamboat Building 148
Restrictions on Commerce. 149
Roland Fisher .. 189
Commercial Prosperity 149
English West India Ports. 150
James W. Wakefield 191
Cotton Carrying Trade. 151
Francis B. Torrey 192
The Post-Office. 192
Incidents Connected with the Postal Service at Bath .. 195
Effect of the Rebellion. 150
Iron and Steel Ship-Building 156
The Decoy Letter. 190
Municipal Government .. 197
The Clipper Period. 158
Destruction of the Town Records. 197
Marine Hospital 158
French Spoliation Claims.
158
Alabama Claims 159
Reminiscences. 100
Era of Pirating 162
Disasters to Bath Ships 163
A Total Wreck. 164
High Street Academy 204
Female Department. 205
Ship United States 167
Loss of the Hanover 168
Rebellion Episode. 169
Private Schools 208
Loss of the Ranier. 170
Ship Thomas M. Reed. 170
Libraries.
Iron Ships. 171
Shipping Notes. 1722
New England Company. 175
Strikes of Ship-Carpenters. 175
Packets. 176
Prominent Ship-Builders. 177
The Build of Vessels 179
Collection of Customs. 180
Collection District of Bath. 180
Temperance Societies. 235
Deacon Giles' Distillery. 23G
Bath Distillery
230
Retailers of Liquors. 238
First Temperance Reform Movement 239
Wine at the Communion Table. 239
First Washingtonian Society 239
`Martha Washington Society.
240
An Old-Time Raising. 241
The Maine Law
241
Prohibitory Law 242
The Centennial Celebration 212
The Evening Gathering
211
Parker Sheldon
186 .
The Ball
244
224
Patten Free Library 224
Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' HIome 227 The Present Building 229
Old Ladies' Home. 232
The Home Edifice. 234
Public Beneficent Bequests. 234
Outlying Custom-house Officers 181
Custom Houses. 181
The Collectors. 182
Their History 183
Joshua Wingate. 183
Henry Dearborn. 183
A Valuable Prize. 184
Joseph F. Wingate. 185
Mark Langdon Hill 185
Joli Barnard Swanton 185
William King 180
Joseph Sewall.
186
Court-house 198
Schools 198
Employing Teachers 200
North Street School-house. 202
Old "Erudition " 203
North Street Academy 201
Great Gale of 1839. 165
Graded Schools. 206
Center Street School-house. 208
Graduates of the High School 209
Patten Library Association.
Center Street Room.
Benjamin Randall. 188
David Bronson .. 188
Joseph Berry 189
James H. Nichols. 189
Edward St. John Nealley 190
The Clipper Ship. 152
Schooners 154
The Bath Ship. 157
A. J. Stone. 187
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INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Mystic Orders 240
Masonic. 24G
Old English Grants. 292
Solar Lodge 246
Indian Titles. 292
Montgomery Royal Arch Chapter 2-47
Old Landmarks 293
Famous Lawsuit. 295
Old Families 297
297
Young Men's Christian Association .. 249
Early Construction of Dwellings
297
Sagadahoc Historical Society 250
Old Houses.
298
How the Pioneers Lived. 300
300
Biographies 364
Non-Resident Natives 427
Bath's Newspapers .. 454
Church Edifices. 466
President Harrison's Visit to Bath 258
Visits of United States Steamships .. 259 An Ancient Strea 261
Old Roads .. 262
Bridges 264
Surplus Revenue of 1834.
264
Old Turnpike to Brunswick 266
Ferries 266
Military 267
Revolutionary Period. 267
Lexington Alarm 267
Siege of Boston. 268
Artillery 269
Reinforcements to the Continental
Army 269
Winter Hill 270
After the Revolutionary War. 271
Aroostook War of 1839. 274
Bath City Grays 275
Bath in the War of the Rebellion 276
Soldiers' Monument. 277
Companies of Reserved Militia. 278
Hyde Light Gnards. 279
Fire Department. 279
Chief Engineers. 281
Old-Time Fires. 281
Great Fire of 1837 282
Five Alarm System. 284
Water Works. 284
Cemeteries 286
Park 287
Paving Streets. 288
The Old Cannon 289
Ringing of the Town Bell 289
Gas and Electric Company 290
Electric Department. 291
Street Cars. 291
Ancient Landmarks. 292
The Episcopal. 493
The Swedenborgian. 195
The Baptist. 498
The Methodist 500
The Wesley 500
The Beacon Street. 503
The Universalist. 504
The North Street Free Baptist. 505
First Unitarian Society 506
Corliss Street Church. 507
The Roman Catholic 507
Banking Institutions 509
Old Bath Bank .. 509
State Banks. 509
Lincoln Bank 509
Commercial Bank 510
Sagadahoc Bank 510
City Bank.
511
475
The Wesley
475
The Beacon Street. 476
The Universalist. 470
The North Street Free Baptist. 477
The Corliss Street 477
The Catholic 477
The Unitarian 477
Church Organizations. 478
The North Church. 478
Winter Street Church 487
The South 488
The Winter Street 471
The Old South 473
The Central 474
The Baptist. 475
The Swedenborgian
Pleasant Cove Meeting-house. 466
Old Georgetown Meeting-house. 467
First Bath Meeting-house. 468
The Old North 409
Young Men's Business Club. 255
Know Nothing Party 255
Parlor Meetings. 252
The Society's New Room. 252
Seotch-Irish Settlers.
Board of Trade. 253
Officers 255
Early Settlers.
Associations. 249
Polar Star Lodge. 248
Other Orders 248
English Grants. 292
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INDEX.
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PAGE
Bath National Bank. 511
First National Bank. 512
Shaw Mill 515
Marine National Bank. 512
Pioneer Steamboats 515
Bath Savings Institution. 512
Railroads 516
Twenty-five Cent Savings Bank. 513
A Great Fire 517
Bath Iron Works Fire.
518
Bank Incident .. :514
Appendix 515
Bell for the Old North 520
BIOGRAPHIES.
A
E
Adams, Francis 380
Adams, Samnel. 383
Anderson, Samuel, Dr. 386
Elliot, Washington. 438
Elwell, James W 427
Emerson, Luther D. 415
F
Fassett, Francis H. 439
Ferguson, M. H., Dr. 390
Fisher, Roland 189
Berry, Joseph 189
Bibber, Randall D., Dr 389
Bodfish, Charles N ..
188
Briry, Edward E., Dr 392
Briry, Milton S., Dr 391
Bronson, David. 188
G
Gutch, Robert.
10
H
Clark, Freeman 358
Clark, John C. 358
Clarke, Elisha. 425
Conklin, Abram. 505
Coombs, Ardon W 440
Coombs, Charles A. 402
Crooker, Isaiah, Sr.
309
Cushing, Christopher, Sr 310
Cushing, Sammel W. 401
D
Davenport, Charles 359
Davis, Jonathan.
311
Delano, Charles N
398
Denny, Samuel
25
Hathorne, B. W 404
Hayden, John 361
Donnell, Arthur C. 443
Hayden, J. F. 362
Donnell, Charles R. 420
Hayes, Joseph M.
408
Donnell, Joseph T. 419
Hill, Mark Langdon 185
Donnell, William T. 422
Hill, William D. 409
Drake, James B. 423
Hogan, William E 381
Drummond, Patrick 316
Holbrook, Moses, Dr 384
Duncan, Horatio A 424
Houghton Brothers 346
Duncan, Samuel. 423
Houghton Family 345
Dunnels, Amos F
492
Honghton, Levi.
340
Hammatt, Abraham 320
Harding, Edward K. 369
Harding, George E. 371
Harding, Henry M. 371
Harding, Nehemiah. 369
Harding, Samuel 442
Harnden Family. 357
Harnden, Lemnel W 357
Harnden, Sammel 357
Harnden, William A 357
Harrington, C. B. 418
Harris, Thomas G. 4-11
Hart, John, Dr 383
Dike, Samuel F. 496
Eames, Henry 406
Ellingwood, John W 483
B
Bailey, Barnard C .. 415
Bailey, Samuel D. 416
Barnard, John .. 306
Bartlett, Benjamin D., Dr. 384
Batchelder, W. S. 444
Fiske, Jolm O. 484
Fogg, William H .. 441
Fuller, Andrew J., Dr. 3S6
Fuller, Edwin M., Dr.
387
C
Clapp, Charles. 309
Trufants Point. 515
Early Banks .. 513
Notes .
519
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INDEX.
PAGE
Hughes, George E 381
Humphreys, Denny M. 398
Humphreys, John C 187
Humphreys, John H. 398
Hyde, Charles E
327
N
Nealley, Ed. B. 436
Nealley, E. S. J. 190
Nichols, George H. 426
Nichols, James H 189
Nichols, Read 406
Nourse, Amos, Dr 187, 384
J
Jenks, William 488
Johnson, George W 407
K
Kelley, John R. 417
Kimball, John H.
392
King, William. 186, 328
L
Larrabee, Charles S. 419
Larrabee William P 419
Lemont, Alfred 395
Lemont, John. 313
Lombard, Mrs. Dr. 382
Low, Frederic H. 106
Lowell, John S.
400
Lunt, Orrington 431
M
Magoun, David C 320
Mallett, E. B., Jr. 437
McDonald, John 411
MeLellan, James. 347
Merrill, Isaac HI .. 394
Mitchell, Anni R. 321
Mitchell, Edward P.
442
Mitchell, Nicholas L 321
Moody, Charles E 353
Moody Family 348
Morrison, P. II. M. 447
Morse, Albion H. 447
Morse, Alden.
405
Morse, Benjamin W
372
Morse, Charles C.
446
Morse, Charles H.
40-1
Morse, Charles W
374
Morse Families
372
Morse, J. Parker
372
Morse, James T 400
Morse, William H.
453
Morse, William R 453
Moses, Frank O 376
Moses, Galen C. 375
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Moses, Oliver 413
Moses, William V. 374
Moulton, George, Jr. 421
Murphy, JJames F 408
Ilyde, Edward C. 3:24
Hyde Family 322
llyde, Jonathan.
322
Hyde, Rodney
328
Hyde, Thomas W 325
Hyde, Zina 323
0
Olys, William B
442
Owen, Henry W 376
P'
Packard, Charles A., Dr. 390
Page, Albert G. 355
Page, Albert G., Jr 356
Page Family 353
Page, William D. 356
Palmer, Ray 491
Patten, Charles E. 342
Patten Family 336
Patten, Frederic H. 314
Patten, George F.
310
Patten, Gilbert E. R. 343
Patten, James F. 342
Patten, John 337
Patten, John O. 314
Payne, Frederic W
449
Payne, John H. 450
Payne, William E., Dr. 391
Percy, David T 364
Percy, George W 445
Percy, Isaiah 376
Peterson, John. 312
Peterson, Levi. 312
Philbrook Family 302
Preble, George A. 421
Prescott, Benjamin 384
Purington, John L. 409
Putnam, Israel, Dr 385
Putnam, William
450
R
Raeburn, Doctor.
387
Rairden, Bradstreet S. 414
Randall, Benjamin 188
Reed, Franklin .. 368
Reed, Parker MeCobb 411
Reed, William M. 365
Richardson, John Green
363
Richardson, William.
362
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INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Ricker, George W 412
Riggs, Benjamin. 317
Robinson, James D 420
S
Savage, James W., Dr 392
Sewall, Joseph. 186
Shaw, Albert H. 410
Shaw, David. 307
Shaw, John O.
378
Shaw, Joshna. 319
Shaw, Milton G. 422
Shaw, Susannah. 307
Wakefield, James W 191
Sheldon, Parker 186
Waldron, Timothy, Dr 3S4
Shorey, Henry A. 452
Webb, William 183
Snipe, Seth T
378
Weeks, Francis W. 403
Spaulding, Joseph W 446
Wescott, James B., Dr. 389
Spear, Howard D. 408
White, Seneca
491
Sprague, Franklin P 382
White, T. F.
500
Stearns, Silas. 498
White, William L.
405
Stetson, Alfred D
407
Whitmore, Parker M. 396
Stinson, David. 318
Whitmore, William E. 397
Stinson, Felix U.
448
Wingate, Joseph F. 185
Stockbridge, Jolm.
393
Wingate, Joshua, Jr. 183
Stockbridge, Jolm, Dr.
381
Winter, Francis 478
Winter, Samuel 318
Swanton, Henry W 359
Swanton, John Barnard. 185, 359
Swanton, John Bosworth. 359
Swanton, William. 358
PORTRAITS.
OPPOSITE PAGE
OPPOSITE PAGE
Bibber, Randall D.
389
Moses, Galen C. 375
Davenport, Charles.
359
Moses, Oliver. 413
Dike, Samuel F.
496
Page, Albert G .. 353
Elwell, James W
427
Patten, Gilbert E. R 112
Fiske, John O
194
Patten, James F 74
Harding, Samuel 400
Patten, Jolm. 46
Hyde, Jonathan. 322
Patten, Jolm O. 454
Lemont, Alfred. 382
Percy, David T 364
Lunt, Orrington. 431
Reed, Franklin 275
Moody, John M.
196
Reed, Parker M. 474
Moody, Samuel. 180
Reed, William M. 158
Morse, Benjamin W 372
Weeks, Francis W. 466
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Residence of Samuel Denny. 25
Block-house of Sammuel Denny. 31
Judge Samuel Denny Stocks. 31
Erudition School-house 203
Patten Free Library. 224
Old South 25G
Old North 287
Donnell Homestead 444
Bath's First Meeting-house.
468
Old Georgetown Meeting-house.
408
T
Tallman, Peleg. 314
Tarbox, Andrew 396
Tarbox, Henry C. 30G
Taylor, Charles W 418
Thompson, George E. and Frank N .. 421
Torrey, Francis B. 192
Trott, Joseph M 382
Trufant, David. 311
Twitchell, Fritz H. 379
Work, Abel E. 396
Wyman, Scott L.
448
Swanton Family 358
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