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METALLUK OR NATALLUC.
The Indian bearing the above name, or something like it, was the last of the once powerful tribe that once inhabited the valley of the Androscoggin, and he is well remembered by many now living. Of his early life but little is known. He left the banks of the Androscoggin with most of his tribe, and settled on the river Saint Francois in Canada, and Segar felt quite sure that he saw him there during his captivity. The late Jolin M. Wilson, who long resided on the Magalloway river, and knew Metalluk well, wrote as follows concerning him : "All that I knew of him prior to eighteen hundred and thirty-two, was obtained from common reports. It was said that he was a St. Francis Indian, and was banished from the tribe for some misdemeanor. He had three children at least, probably by his first wife. His sons names were Parmagummet and Wilumpi. His daughter married a man in Canada by the name of Moulton. Mettalluc lived several years on the shores of Richardson's lake with his second wife, who died there and was buried on a point of land since cleared and is a part of the lake farm. He then built his wigwam and lived alone some years at the narrows of Umbagog lake, on or near what is now the Stone farm. Leaving this, he next took up his residence in township number five, range two, where I found him in eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Here he - subsisted chiefly by hunting, and lived in a camp about ten feet square made of spruce bark. He was here some ten or twelve years without making any clearing about his camp and would draw potatoes from the settlement in winter twelve miles on a hand sled, rather than raise them. At this camp he was several times visited by Governor Enoch Lincoln, who would stay several days at a time.
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He was very civil and hospitable to strangers, but not very com- municative, and the only bad habit he had, probably, was that of taking too much fire-water when he could get it. In the winter of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in getting wood at considerable distance from his camp, he thrust a splinter into his eye, and was found in that condition by two men who happened that way, in a very cold day, perfectly blind. having lost one eye several years before. He was unable to reach his camp, and must soon have perished without assistance. Without being aware of his condition, his daughter and her son arrived here for the purpose of looking after him about the time he was brought from his camp, and took him with them to Canada.
He was entirely blind and helpless the remainder of his days, and died some six or seven years after he left this place, in Stewarts- town, New Hampshire, having been supported some time at the county charge. It is supposed that Metalluck at the time of death, was more than one hundred years old. He was a close built man, of about middling stature, very athletic and possessed of great powers of endurance. He came to my house one morning in the winter of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, about sunrise, having laid out about two miles in the woods, the night before, without fire. A damp snow had fallen the day before, and the weather had become very cold during the night. He had been on the track of a moose all day, until dark, 'almost see um,' he said, and when dark- ness obliged him to give up the chase, 'all wet, no strike um.'"
Governor Lincoln was in the habit of visiting Mataluck and camping with him, and left some account of him in his writings. One anecdote I believe Lincoln never published. He carried with him on his visit to Nataluc, a large penknife fitted up with different blades, awls, saw and the like. Nataluc had his eye on the knife and wished to buy it. Governor Lincoln told him he could not sell it to him. Nataluc's covetousness was only the more strongly excited, and he at last contrived a plan to secure the penknife. He had a little island in the lake of about an acre, on which is a sort of a cave in which he kept his furs, where they would not be plun- dered. He invited the governor to go and see his furs. He took his canoe and landed the governor, showed him his furs, and made him a most liberal offer of them for the knife. The governor told him he could not sell the knife. "Well," said Nataluck, "me no carry you off the island if you no sell me that knife." But, said
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the governor, I told you I would not sell it to you, and I shall keep my word, but I will give it to you as a present. Nataluc was over- joyed in the possession of his knife and of course reckoned Governor Lincoln as one of his real friends. He was visited by Hon. Moses Mason several times while he lived on the Magalloway river. He made a map of that river on birch bark, which appears to have been executed with fidelity. He had, on one occasion, shot an immense moose as he was in the water and dragged him to the shore, and cut off the best parts of meat and dried them. The doctor bought the horns, which afterward adorned his hall as a hat rack, and which are now in possession of Hon. David R. Hastings of Fryeburg.
CHAPTER XII.
MILITARY AFFAIRS .- SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.
EHTEL had its full quota of those who had served in the war for independence. Settlers began to pour into Maine and into the valley of the Androscoggin soon after the war terminated. They had been paid off in a depreciated currency which soon became worthless, and being poor, they came to the east- ward where land could be had on very reasonable terms. Massa- chusetts was poor in money but rich in wild lands, and she was disposed to deal very liberally with those who had assisted in achieving independence. The following list is believed to embrace all the ex-soldiers who settled in this town :
LIEUTENANT JONATHAN CLARK, who came here from Newton, served for a time as Commissary of Subsistence.
JAMES MILLS, formerly of Massachusetts, came here from Dublin, N. H. He served two short enlistments. He was killed soon after coming here by a falling tree.
ISAAC YORK came here from Standish, and had served in a Massa- chusetts Regiment.
ELI TWITCHELL, from Sherbourn, was at Bunker Hill. He be- came crippled for life, by injuries received in the service.
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JOHN KILGORE served at the mouth of the Piscataqua. He came here from old York.
ZELA HOLT served in the French and Indian wars and kept a diary. He also served in the war of the Revolution, and was at the surrender of Burguoyne's army. He was quite old when he came to this town.
MOSES MASON was in the battle of Bennington. He came here in 1799 from Dublin, N. H.
JONATHAN BEAN was living in Standish when the war began, and he came to Bethel before it was over. He is said to have served at Kittery and Portsmouth.
JOHN GROVER was at Dorchester Heights and saw other service.
EBENEZER EAMES served three full years. He came here from Dublin, N. H., but was previously of Needham, Mass.
MOSES BARTLETT, from Newton, is said to have been in the service.
ENOCH BARTLETT, eldest brother of Moses, served as a teamster.
JOHN HOLT served one or more terms of enlistment, but came here before the war was over.
BENJAMIN BROWN was five years in the patriot army.
JEREMIAH ANDREWS was in the battle of Bunker Hill and served another term before he came here from Temple, N. H.
AMOS HASTINGS assisted in digging the trenches at Bunker Hill, and was in the battle. He also served subsequently and attained to the rank of captain.
JONATHAN CONN served in the Indian wars and also in the war for independence. When a small boy, I greatly enjoyed his thril- ling accounts of contests with the Indians. He was at the surrender of Burguoyne. He was a pensioner and lived to be very old. He came from New Hampshire.
ABSALOM FAREWELL, an Englishman by birth. served in the old war and also in the revolution. He formerly lived at Marblehead.
REV. DANIEL GOULD left college to serve his country. He was an orderly sergeant.
EZRA TWITCHELL was in the battle of Saratoga, and in several other engagements.
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JOHN WALKER served on board a privateer and obtained consid- erable prize money as his share.
BENJAMIN RUSSELL came here from Fryeburg and to that place from Andover. He served in both wars and was quite old when he came here.
SAMUEL BARKER served in the army and was detailed as tailor. He had the honor of mending clothes for General Washington, and told it with great pride after he came here and Washington became President.
ISAAC RUSSELL served as clerk in the army. He perished during a severe storm of snow to which he was exposed, in Westbrook.
JACOB RUSSELL, brother of the Russells heretofore named, served on board a privateer.
Others who are said to have served but of which nothing definite is known, were Thaddeus Bartlett, Jeremiah Russell, Gideon Powers, Col. John York, Solomon Annas, William Staples, James Sprague, Samuel Ingalls, Asa Kimball, James Swan, James Barker and Amos Powers.
TOWN ORGANIZATIONS.
As already stated. many of the early settlers of Bethel had seen active service in the war for independence and their military ardor was imparted to their sons, so that very soon after the town was incorporated, the young men began to, take action for organizing the militia. The first company was organized in the year eighteen hundred, and embraced the entire town. The first captain was Eli Twitchell, and the second Amos Hastings. The following year the company was divided by the parish line, and the captains in the West Parish and named in the order of their service, were as follows :
Daniel Grant,
Samuel Barker,
Jonathan Abbot,
Elihu Bean,
Samuel Chapman,
John Harris,
Thaddeus Twitchell, Isaac Littlehale,
Timothy Hastings,
Samuel Chapman.
In the East Parish, the trainings were generally at Bean's Corner . or in that vicinity, and the captain's were :
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Amos Hastings,
Asa Kimball,
John Holt,
Adam Willis,
Joseph Duston,
Jesse Duston,
Nathan Marble,
Hezekiah Moody,
Jonathan Powers,
James C. Bean,
Elias Bartlett,
Samuel Bird,
William Andrews,
William Goddard.
Amos Andrews,
A company of Light Infantry was organized in the West Parish, soon after the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, and the following were captains :
Eli Twitchell,
Walter Mason,
Norman Clark,
Edward Merrill,
Perkins P. Moulton,
Gideon A. Hastings.
Jedediah Grover,
A company of Cavalry was also organized in town and Nathan Twitchell was the first captain. Still earlier, an artillery company was organized, but a radical change was made in the militia laws of the State early in the forties, the militia, except in case of inde- pendent companies, no longer being required to do duty of any kind. During the existence of the active militia, Bethel had several field officers : Amos Hasting was Brigadier-General, Eli Twitchell, Thaddeus Twitchell, Samuel Chapman and James Crocker Bean were Colonels, and Amos Hills, Peter Grover and William Andrews were Majors.
The May trainings and the fall musters were gala days for the boys, and for some boys of larger growth, and there was no little disappointment and disgust felt, when they were done away with by a change in the laws. In those days, the holidays were few and far between. The circus had not then materialized, and except an occasional raising or a hauling bee, there was but little to call the people together. The training and the muster were generally made occasions of revelry, and as there was then no restraint upon the sale of alcoholic stimulants, there was generally a great amount of drunkenness. On the whole, there was probably more of evil grew out of them than good, and the doing away with them was doubtless wise legislation. For some years, no man could be elected captain who had not the means and the disposition to furnish drinks for his
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company, and this for a company of a hundred men was no small tax.
Following is a copy of the petition and the signers thereto, for a company of artillery in Bethel :
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
To His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief, and to the Honorable Council :
The undersigned your Petitioners would represent to your Excellency, that the second Brigade in the thirteenth Division of the Militia, is, at present composed of two Regiments of Infantry, is rapidly increasing in its numbers and promises soon to become a very respectable Brigade ; That in this Brigade there is but one company of Artillery which being located in the second Regiment a distance, at least, of thirty miles from the cen- tral part of the First Regiment, so that this said First Regiment has no opportunity of manœuvering in conjunction with any Artillery, and that as a very handsome company of Artillery can be got up, and principally from those who are now exempted by law from doing military duty with- out reducing any of the standing companies below their competent num- bers. Therefore the subscribers respectfully request, that they, together with such others as may lawfully join within the bounds of the first Regi- ment of said second Brigade, may be organized into a company of Artil- lery and authorized to elect their officers and fill up the company.
(Signed)
TIMOTHY HASTINGS,
JOSEPH TWITCHELL, CALEB ROWE,
EZRA TWITCHELL, JR.,
JACOB ELINGWOOD,
ELEAZER TWITCHELL, JR.,
ABBOT HOLT,
ROBBINS BROWN,
JAMES WALKER, JR.,
JOHN PRICE, JOHN HASTINGS,
CHARLES MASON,
JOSEPH C. WALKER,
ABIEL WALKER,
DANIEL GROUT,
O'NEIL W. ROBINSON,
HIRAM ALLEN,
MOSES MASON,
WILLIAM ESTES,
WILLIAM JOHNSTON,
JONATHAN A. RUSSELL,
JAMES F. CARTER,
GEORGE CRAWFORD, ASA TWITCHELL,
AARON MASON,
CALVIN STEARNS, AYRES MASON,
EBENEZER EAMES, JR.,
GREELEY SWAN,
LUTHER EAMES,
BEZALEEL KENDALL, JR.,
WILLIAM SWIFT, JONA. MERRIAM,
JAS BEATTY.
Approved : WILLIAM WHEELER, Col. Ist Reg. 2d Brig. AMOS HASTINGS, Brig. Gen. 2d Brig. 13th Div. LEVI HUBBARD, Maj. Gen. 13th Div.
Bethel, December 29th, 1815.
NORMAN CLARK,
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The following list of Bethel commissioned officers, is from the files of the Adjutant General's office in Augusta :
Daniel Gould, Chaplain, July 2, 1807.
Peter C. Virgin, Paymaster, April 26, 1813.
Timothy Hastings, Quartermaster, September 16, 1813.
Samuel Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel, August 8, 1818. Wm. Russell, Jr., Brigade-Quartermaster, March 24, 1819. John Grover, Surgeon, April 15, 1819. Thaddeus Twitchell, Captain, May 4, 1819. Elias Bartlett, Captain, May 4, 1819.
John Hastings, Quartermaster, December 5, 1821.
Thaddeus Twitchell, Lieutenant-Colonel, July 5, 1821.
Elias Bartlett, Major, July 5, 1821.
Eli Twitchell, 3d, Captain, May 1, 1821.
Timothy Hastings, Captain, September 8, 1821.
Asa Kimball, Captain, September 8, 1821.
Thaddeus Twitchell, Lieutenant-Colonel, July 5, 1821.
Eli Twitchell, 3d, Lieutenant-Colonel, August 10, 1825. Norman Clark, Lieutenant, May 1, 1821. Asa Twitchell, Ensign, May 1, 1821.
Luther Eame-, Ensign, May 14, 1823.
Samuel Barker, Jr., Captain, April 5, 1823.
Wm. Andrews, Captain, April 4, 1823.
Elihu Bean, Lieutenant, April 5, 1823. Andrew Willis, Lieutenant, April 4, 1823.
Ebenezer Eames, Ensign, April 5, 1823.
James F. Carter, Ensign, April 4, 1823.
Perkins P. Moulton, Ensign, August 9, 1823.
Elihu Bean, Captain, May 14, 1825. Ebenezer Eames, Lieutenant, May 14, 1825.
Eli Twitchell, 3d, Lieutenant-Colonel, August 10, 1825.
Adam Willis, Captain, May 14, 1825.
Norman Clark, Captain, August 31, 1825.
Ebenezer Eames, Lieutenant, May 14, 1825. Amos Andrews, Lieutenant, May 14, 1825.
Perkins P. Moulton, Lieutenant, August 31, 1825. Luther Eames, Ensign, May 14, 1825.
Israel Kimball, Jr., Ensign, August 31, 1825.
Nathan A. Foster, Ensign, September 3, 1825.
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Nathan F. Twitchell, Lieutenant, June 24, 1826.
Amos Andrews, Captain, May 8, 1827.
Nathan A. Foster, Lieutenant, May 8, 1827.
Hezekiah Moody, Ensign, May 8, 1827.
Wm. Bragg, Adjutant, September 8, 1827. Amos Andrews, Captain, May 8, 1827.
Nathan A. Foster, Lieutenant, May 8, 1827.
Wm. Bragg, Adjutant, September 8, 1827.
Wm. Frye, Adjutant, July 21, 1828. Perkins P. Moulton, Captain, June 21, 1828. Israel Kimball, Jr., Lieutenant, June 21, 1828.
James Estes, Ensign, June 30, 1828.
Jedediah Grover, Jr., Ensign, June 21, 1828.
Nathan F. Twitchell, Captain, October 6, 1828.
Wm. Frye, Adjutant, July 21, 1828.
James Estes, Lieutenant, July 11, 1829. Chas. McKenney, Lieutenant, June 4, 1830. Amos Andrews, Major, November 27, 1830.
George Chapman, Lieutenant, June 19, 1830.
Nathan Stearns, Ensign, June 19, 1830.
George Chapman, Ensign, March 22, 1830.
Wm. Frye, Aide-de-Camp, March 12, 1831.
WAR OF 1812-16.
At the breaking out of the last war with Great Britain, public sentiment was much divided. There was a strong party in almost every State that doubted the policy of declaring war, and the necessity for it, and the State Government of Massachusetts to which Maine then belonged, bitterly opposed the action of the National Government. But the people of Maine, more especially those in the interior of the State, were loyal to the President of the United States, and many towns passed resolutions sharply condemn- ing the action of Massachusetts in refusing its support. Men from all parts of the District of Maine enlisted and served as regular troops, but the rolls are kept in Washington, and it is difficult to obtain information from them. Several served in this way from Bethel, and among them Mason Grover and Phineas Frost, who was wounded. When the Maine coast was threatened, a company was made up from Bethel and from some of the neighboring towns,
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and marched to Portland, and the following is the roll of this company :
Roll of Captain Joseph Holt's company in Lieutenant-Colonel William Ryerson's regiment, drafted from Bethel and vicinity and in service at Portland from the 25th of September to the 9th of November, 1814, (with three days additional for travel) :
Joseph Holt, Captain. Jonathan Powers, Lieutenant. Aaron Cummings, Lieutenant. Eleazer Twitchell, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Corporals.
Isaac Kilburn,
Herman Holt,
John Atherton,
Daniel Scribner,
Norman Clark.
Daniel Chaplin, Jr.,
Josiah Brown,
Musicians.
Ebenezer Colby,
George W. Langley,
Joseph Willis.
Nathan F. Twitchell.
Privates.
Atherton, Ezra
Hale, Israel
Andrews, William
Hersey, Caleb
Annis, Solomon, Jr.,
Hapgood, Sprout
Brown, Herman
Haskell, Sam'l, Jr.
Bell, John, Jr., Bridgham, Bryant
Jordan, Wales
Bridgham, Jabez Bisbee, Moses Brigham, Luther Billings, Daniel
Jewell, Lewis Kendall, Joseph
Brown, Asaph
Kimball, Isaiah, Jr.,
Barker, William
Kimball, Jeremiah
Barker, Samuel Bean, Jesse
Kilgore, Gabriel Kilgore, Elihu
Beckler, Francis
Kendall, Bezaleel
Bean, Daniel, Jr.
Locke, Luther
Blake, Benjamin Bean, Kimball
Libby, Samuel
Morse, Mariner
Holt, Timothy A.
Jones, Sullivan
Jewell, John, Jr.
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Bartlett, Ebenezer
Moffatt, Stephen
Bean, Nathaniel
Plummer, Josiah
Beebe, Robert
Page, Samuel
Cummings, Francis
Proctor, John
Cross, Ebenezer, Jr.
Pride, Josiah
Chamberlain, John
Peabody, Asa
Chapman, Timothy
Russell, Chandler
Case, John
Shed, John
Coffin, Naphtali
Sanders, Geo. W.
Capen, Timothy
Smith, Amos
Cushman, John
Sanborn, Nathaniel
Dustin, Farnham
Swift, William
Estes, John
Stearnes, Charles, Jr.
French, John
Stiles, Nathan
Frost, Peter
Shorey, Urbane
Foster, Jeremiah
Sprague, Elbridge
Frisbee, Austin S.
Totherly, William
Grover. Elias
Trull, Silas
Greenwood, Nath'l, Jr.
Twitchell, Sylvanus
Grover, James, Jr.
Twitchell, Asa
Grover, Peter
Warren, Abijah
Grover, Asahel
Whitcomb, Paul
Grover, James
Wheeler, Samuel
Haskell, Parsons
Wetherbee, Jude
Hapgood, Oliver, Jr.
Warren, Perley
Hale, Charles
Walker, Joseph C.
Hale, Benjamin, Jr.
THE BOUNDARY CONTEST.
In the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, it was reported to the Land Agent that a large number of lumbermen from New Brunswick were operating upon certain disputed territory on the Aroostook river, and robbing it of its valuable timbers. Thereupon, Sheriff Strickland of Penobscot county was directed to drive the trespassers away. He went to Aroostook with a posse of two hundred men, and the trespassers retreated before him across the border. But at the provincial town of Woodstock, they broke into the arsenal, and having armed themselves, they turned back to meet the sheriff's posse. They captured the Maine Land Agent, and
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Sheriff Strickland believing that bloodshed would be the result of the meeting of the opposing forces, hastened to Augusta to lay the matter before the Governor and Council. The legislature being in session, immediately appropriated the sum of eight hundred thou- sand dollars to defend the public lands, and the Governor ordered out the State Militia to the number of ten thousand. A draft was ordered and there was great excitement throughout the State. There was a draft in Bethel but no organization was formed, and parties were hired to carry the drafted men to the rendezvous at Augusta, (see abstract of town records for that year).
The Governor of Maine immediately dispatched a messenger to Washington to lay the case before the General Government, and Congress appropriated ten millions of dollars to meet probable ex- penses, and authorized the President of the United States, in case Governor Harvey of New Brunswick should persist in his supposed purpose, to raise fifty thousand volunteers for a term not exceeding six months. On the sixth of March, General Winfield Scott and his staff, one of whom was the late Robert E. Lee, arrived in Maine and opened communication with Governor Harvey. The question of boundary was amicably settled in eighteen hundred and forty- two, and in due time the State received from the General Govern- ment the sum of two hundred thousand dollars as a reimbursement for the expenses incurred in defending the integrity of American territory.
There are many now living in this town who will remember the bloodless Aroostook war, but the majority of the people have come upon the stage of action since Governor John Fairfield issued his flaming proclamation announcing that "Our State is invaded." Later developments have shown that the affair was really a trifling one ; that the trespassers were in no sense sustained by the Colonial Government, and that war was not as imminent as many feared. To the enrolled militia who were obliged to stand a draft, it appeared to be a real thing, and the varied emotions as depicted upon their countenances as they put their hands into the box to draw out the slip of paper which was to determine their fate, was an interesting study to the outsider. It was a bitter cold day, and perhaps it was the cold that caused some to shake and tremble as they came forward to determine their destiny, but many were full of fun and the jokes and sharp repartees that occasionally shot out from the ranks, kept every one in fairly good spirits. After the draft, those who did not
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wish to go, found no trouble in obtaining substitutes and at low rates, so the draft did not prove so great an evil after all. The men went no farther than Augusta, and after remaining in quarters a few days, were paid off, discharged and sent to their homes.
CHAPTER XIII.
TRAVEL AND MAIL FACILITIES.
RIOR to eighteen hundred and fifteen, there was no post office nearer than Waterford, and the next nearest was at Norway. The march of improvement is nowhere more strikingly shown than in the improved facilities for travel- ing, and for the transmission of intelligence through the means of the mail. The first settlers of Sudbury Canada traveled on foot, making the journeys through the woods to Fryeburg, Paris, Norway and even to Portland. After roads had been opened, these journeys were made on horseback, a great improvement on the old method of locomotion. The earliest carriages were of the crudest and clumsiest kind, the bodies resting directly upon the axles, and a ride in one of them over the rough roads of the period was anything but a pleasure. Leather springs were the first improvement, and since then, the improvement in durability, ease and style has been steady, and has apparently reached perfection. In the early times, the mails were brought into Oxford county by post-riders who made the circuit on horseback, and brought a mail from Portland once a week, when the condition of the weather permitted. The first regular post rider into Oxford county, was Jacob Howe, father of the late wife of the late John Adams Twitchell of this town. He com- menced about the year seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, to bring the mails to Bridgton and Fryeburg, and when in eighteen hundred and one, post offices were established at Paris and Norway, he extended his route by way of Waterford where an office had been established in the year eighteen hundred. After a while, he came up by way of Gorham and Baldwin to Bridgton, Fryeburg, Water- ford and Paris, and returned to Portland by way of Poland, New Gloucester and Gray. Waterford was for some years the distrib-
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