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The Weymouth House was built in 1848 by John W. Wey- mouth, and opened to the public August 15th of that year. By him it was conducted until his decease, in 1880, since which time, with the exception of one or two brief leases, it has been carried on by his two unmarried daughters, Elizabeth and Mary L.
Samuel Montgomery, who was born in 1784 and lived at East Boothbay, at the Carrying Place, ran a hotel there after his marriage for many years. He had no children, but adopted James and Samuel Murray and to them left his property. Alden Goudy, during a part of the time he was in trade at East Boothbay, ran a hotel where Charles C. Smithwick now lives. This period fell between 1855 and 1860. Other houses than those enumerated above are thought to have been exclu- sively conducted for the summer business and will appear in that chapter.
CHAPTER XX.
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. SEASIDE LODGE, No. 144, F. and A. M.
T T HE earliest association in town in the form of a lodge, or secret fraternal society, was that of the Masons. Sev- eral among the more influential citizens had for some years been members of the lodge at Wiscasset, and after due deliberation decided to apply for a charter, which they did in 1867, receiving it under date of October 7, 1867. The char- ter was to "Seaside Lodge, No. 144, F. and A. M., Boothbay." The charter members were :
Otis P. Rice,
Daniel W. Sawyer,
Caleb Hodgdon,
Robert Montgomery,
Westbrook G. Lewis,
Ezekiel W. Hodgkins,
M. E. Pierce,
George M. Hodgdon,
Silas Smith,
James L. Race,
Dennis Hagan,
George Snow,
Isaac Pinkham,
Sewall S. Wylie,
William Carlisle,
George B. Dunton,
Freeman Boynton,
Alden Blossom,
William Wilson,
Elbridge Love,
John F. Sargent,
Charles Cameron,
Henry Cameron,
George Hamilton.
The Masters of Seaside Lodge have been :
1869 Otis P. Rice.
1878 Caleb Hodgdon.
1870 W. G. Lewis. 1879 E. D. Winchenbaugh.
1871-73 W. F. McClintock.
1880-81 E. C. McClintock.
1874 Charles H. Fisher. 1882 W. I. Adams.
1875 Caleb Hodgdon. 1883-84 George W. Reed.
1876-77 W. I. Adams.
1885-86 George E. Vanhorn.
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1887 ' W. I. Adams.
1895-96 John R. McDougall.
1888-89 George H. Snow.
1897 George H. Snow.
1890 James D. Richards. 1898-99 Lewis A. Dunton.
1891 Willard T. Marr. 1900-01 Dennis S. Wylie.
1892-93 W. F. Buker. 1902-03 T. L. Montgomery.
1894 William E. Reed. 1904-05 Merrill A. Perkins.
The quarters first occupied by Seaside Lodge was the hall of Otis P. Rice, located on the east side of the street just northerly from the residence of G. B. Kenniston. This hall was burned and with it the early records of the lodge. They next opened at the hall over the store of Westbrook G. Lewis, at the head of the Harbor; from there they took quarters in the hall of N. K. Merry, on the east side of the Harbor, but soon came to the west side and for several years occupied the hall in the third story of K. H. Richards' store on Commercial Street. They remained there until 1894, when the present hall and anterooms were prepared for their nse. A present membership of 203 exists in good standing.
BAY VIEW LODGE, No. 196, F. AND A. M.
This lodge received its charter of date July 24, 1890. It was composed of twenty-six charter members, all, or nearly all, being former members of Seaside Lodge, and being prin- cipally composed of the members who lived at East Boothbay Village and Linekin. Their quarters were fitted over the new public hall, which was completed in 1890, where they have a commodious, well-furnished hall and convenient anterooms. The list of Worshipful Masters follows :
1 W. Irving Adams. 4 C. Tyler Hodgdon.
2 Dennis M. Hagan, 5 Frank Seavey.
3 Edward Whitehouse. 6 Victor Montgomery.
7 Harvey R. Barlow.
The total membership now (1905) is seventy-five.
PENTECOST CHAPTER, No. 55.
Pentecost Chapter was chartered June 20, 1894, with thir- ty-nine charter members; now (1905) the membership has reached ninety. The High Priests of this chapter have been as follows :
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1894-97 Willard T. Marr.
1898-99 John R. McDougall.
1900 Harry G. Stevens.
1901-03 Thaddeus L. Montgomery.
1904 W. F. Buker.
1905 Thaddeus L. Montgomery.
BOOTHBAY LODGE, NO. 32, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
This lodge was organized November 22, 1882, with ninety- three charter members. The total number of members made has been 510, while the number now (1905) in good standing is 401. From organization until August, 1894, the hall over the store of the late Isaac C. Sherman was occupied ; but at that time the present one was dedicated and has since been in use. The Chancellor Commanders have been as follows :
Charles W. Price, M. D., Nov. 22, 1882, to Jan. 1, 1883. George E. Vanhorn, Jan. 1, 1883, to Jan. 1, 1884. Freeman Boynton, Jan. 1, 1884, to Jan. 1, 1885. John R. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1885, to Jan. 1, 1887. Hiram W. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1887, to Jan. 1, 1888.
William J. Winslow, Jan. 1, 1888, to July 1, 1888. Allen W. Murray, July 1, 1888, to Jan. 1, 1889. Charles E. Kendrick, Jan. 1, 1889, to Jan. 1, 1890. Allen W. Murray, Jan. 1, 1890, to July 1, 1890. Fred P. Huff, July 1, 1890, to July 1, 1891. W. O. Seavey, July 1, 1891, to Jan. 1, 1892.
Gardner D. Reed, Jan. 1, 1892, to July 1, 1892. Hiram W. McDongall, July 1, 1892, to Jan. 1, 1893. Frank H. McDougall, Jan. 1, 1893, to July 1, 1893. F. H. Albee, July 1, 1893, to Jan. 1, 1895. Frank N. Adams, Jan. 1, 1895, to Jan. 1, 1896. Cyrus R. Tupper, Jan. 1, 1896, to Jan. 1, 1897. Harry G. Stevens, Jan. 1, 1897, to Jan. 1, 1898. Thaddeus Orne, Jan. 1, 1898, to Jan. 1, 1899. Lyman McDougall, Jan. 1, 1899, to Jan. 1, 1900. M. Fred Dunton, Jan. 1, 1900, to Jan. 1, 1901. · Byron Giles, Jan. 1, 1901, to Jan. 1, 1902. Alonzo P. Wylie, Jan. 1, 1902, to Jan. 1, 1903. Seth E. Rowe, Jan. 1, 1903, to Jan. 1, 1904.
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John A. Maddocks, Jan. 1, 1904, to Jan. 1, 1905.
George W. Greenleaf, Jan. 1, 1905.
The members of the Boothbay Lodge who have held Grand Lodge offices follow :
Deputy Grand Chancellors have been
J. P. Cash, 13th District, 1884-85.
Freeman Boynton, 13th District, 1885-89.
Hiram W. McDougall, 13th District, 1889-90. Lyman M. McDougall, 17th District, 1900-01. Lyman M. McDougall, 11th District, 1901-02. Byron Giles, 11th District, 1903-05.
Freeman Boynton, Grand Inner Guard, 1888-89. Charles J. Marr, Grand Master at Arms, 1896.
Charles J. Marr, Grand Prelate, 1897.
Lyman M. McDougall, Grand Chancellor, 1903.
CRESCENT CHAPTER, No. 54, ORDER EASTERN STAR.
Organized January 27, 1899, with a charter membership of thirty-five ; now (1905) having a total membership of ninety- five. Their chief officers have been as follows :
1899-1900 Lulu Farnham, W. M.
1901-03 Josie Seavey,
1904 Lena Murray,
1905 Idella Murray,
1899-1900 Edward Whitehouse, W. P.
1901 William Reed,
1902-03 W. Irving Adams,
1904 Elmer Fernald,
1905 Frank Seavey,
MT. PISGAH CHAPTER, NO. 57, ORDER EASTERN STAR.
This chapter was chartered February 20, 1899, with fifty members. A membership now (1905) of 170 exists in good standing. The chief officers have been as follows :
1899-1900 Lizzie Montgomery, W. M. 1901-02 Neva Gregory,
1903 Mary Williams,
1904-05 Mabel Dunton,
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1899
Charles E. Kendrick, W. P.
1900 Royal Giles,
1901-02 Oscar Yates,
1903
Charles E. Kendrick, 66
1904-05 Woodbury Marson,
RATHBONE SISTERS.
Mizpah Temple, of Boothbay Harbor, was organized Jan- uary 6, 1904. The office of Most Excellent Chief has been filled as follows :
Mrs. Clara Giles, Jan. 6, 1904, to July 6, 1904. Mrs. Nellie Tupper, July 6, 1904, to Jan. 6, 1905. Miss Mary A. Kenniston, Jan. 6, 1905.
Membership reached in 1905 the number of 175. Mrs. Clara Giles was elected Grand Chief of the Grand Temple, Rathbone Sisters of Maine, in 1904.
ROYAL ARCANUM.
Aldebaran Council, 399, Boothbay Harbor, was chartered March 10, 1903. It has now (1905) a membership of thirty- three. The Regents have been Willard T. Marr, March, 1903, to March, 1905 ; Lewis A. Dunton, present.
CHAPTER XXI. THE FISHERIES.
O UR third chapter covers a greater part of the early voyages which were undertaken for the purposes of exploration. It is plainly evident that the voyages to America during the sixteenth century, the records of which have been preserved, were largely of this kind, and the pur- pose in several instances was to discover a westerly and shorter passage to the Indies than the one then traversed. At that time the four great maritime nations of Europe were England, France, Spain and Portugal. Each vied with the other for commercial ascendency then as they and others do at present. The fisheries, the riches of the sea, were one of the leading products sought. Each of the four nations mentioned was represented by a fishing fleet about Newfoundland in a com- paratively few years after Columbus and Cabot touched their respective points of discovery. The Biscayan fishermen, in fact, claimed to have preceded the voyage of Columbus by several years in their trips to the Newfoundland coast ; but evidence is satisfactory on the point that both Biscayan and Norman fishermen were there in 1504. It was from informa- tion obtained from returned fishermen that Chabot, Admiral of France, influenced Francis I to fit out the exploring expedition
of Cartier in 1534. Instances multiply with research which show that much of what has been preserved and printed in our histories regarding the voyages of the sixteenth century to America was first prompted by information from similar sources. The waters of what came to be Nova Scotia and New England were visited for more than a century by vessels from all these European nations in the fishery interest before settle- ment was attempted. It is recorded that Scavelet, an old fisherman in France, had, in 1609, made forty trips to the American coast. Spain, which had a fishing fleet about New-
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foundland as early as 1517, and at times in that century had reached one hundred sail, had by 1593 nearly retired from the business. Portugal's effort in the matter of time was similar, but it never reached the number that Spain did. Up to 1713 French fisheries had been more successful here than those of England. Statistics give the number of vessels engaged in the French codfishery in 1744 as 564, carrying 27,500 men and the catch amounting to 1,441,000 quintals.
Capt. John Smith, when he made his voyage to New England in 1614, making Monhegan his headquarters, dried 40,000 large cod and pickled 7,000 more; these with the furs he purchased of the Indians netted him a profit of $7,000 for his voyage. Before the Pilgrims touched at Plymouth Monhe- gan was a fishing headquarters on the New England coast, frequented by numerous vessels each season, but, as we have noted in an earlier chapter, it is not probable that any actual settlement existed there earlier than about 1620. During the seventeenth century Spain and the Canary Islands afforded the best fish market of any European country, for they had aban- doned the business for mining interests, which yielded larger profits. When Gosnold, in 1602, made his voyage along our shores he persistently tested the fishing. His first luck was poor and he named that famous Massachusetts projection " Shoal Hope"; but luck changed and he filled with the finest fish in size and quality, whereupon he changed this appellation to Cape Cod.
For knowledge of this great industry we largely have to depend on the records of those vessels which were fitted as public enterprises, for exploring purposes, and in nearly all such instances scores of fishing vessels are recorded in the American waters; while there is internal evidence in these same reports that information obtained from returned fisher- men was what stimulated the enterprise.
According to Captain Levett, whose visit at Cape Newagen has been noted, an English fishing vessel at that time (1623) was of about 200 tons and usually carried about fifty men. The crew put in twenty shillings each toward provisions, but otherwise were not assessed. They went on shares, as the custom has usually been. The vessel had one-third, the men
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one-third, and one-third was allowed for "victuals, salt, nets, hooks, lines and other implements for taking and making fish." The cost of obtaining this latter "third" was about £800. Full fares were the rule, and one-third of a full fare was 1,340 quintals. Fish at that time brought from thirty-six to forty- four rials per quintal, an average of forty rials, or one pound sterling. Thus the one-third amounted to £1,340, or £26 16s. per head for the crew ; while the vessel, additional to its one- third, received a bonus of £540 for overestimating the costs of fitting.
John Josselyn, in 1663, writing of the Maine coast, says :
"About eight or nine miles to the eastward of Cape Por- poise is Winter Harbor, a noted place for fishers ; here they have many stages. At Richmond's Island are likewise stages for fishermen. Nine miles eastward of Black Point lyeth scat- teringly the town of Casco [Portland], upon a large bay, stored with cattle, sheep, swine, abundance of marsh and arable land, a corn mill or two, with stages for fishermen. Farther yet eastward is Sagadahock, where are many houses, scattering, and all along stages for fishermen. From Sagada- hock to Nova Scotia is called the Duke of York's Province ; here Pemaquid, Martinicus, Mohegan, Capeanawhagen, where Capt. Smith fished for whales, Muscataquid, all filled with dwelling houses and stages for fishermen."
After speaking of the quantities of fish and the market for them which was made to the fishing vessels, he further states :
"To every shallop belong four fishermen ; a master or steers- man, a midshipman and a foremast man, and a shoreman, who washes it out of the salt, and dries it upon hurdles pitched breast-high, and tends the cookery. These often get in one voyage eight or nine pounds a man for their shares."
He then states that the fishermen usually attended well to business unless a "walking tavern" came along, meaning a vessel with liquors aboard, when, he says, they would abandon their work and drink until wearied of it, sometimes a week at a time, going ashore and holding high carnival. He also tells of being on our coast in 1638, in company with Capt. Thomas Wannerton, who drank to him at parting "a pint of kill-devil, alias rhum, at a draught," and further commenting on the Captain's characteristics says he was a " grave and discreet man."
ALONZO R. NICKERSON.
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After colonization commenced, while the abundance afforded by the sea was a large means of sustenance to the settlers, it afforded for a long period but slight revenue to them. The market was controlled by English merchants and the colonists were not equipped in any sense to cope with them. They lacked capital and prestige to obtain a foothold in the export trade, and there were no great centers of population in America to give them a trade at home. Massachusetts, of all the Colo- nies, had the greatest population, and she was also forcmost in the fishery interest. The English and French still came each year and fished from Labrador to Cape Cod as they had for- merly done.
When Dunbar was settling Pemaquid and Townsend, in 1729-30, the fishery interest was of enough consequence to cause him to introduce into his instruments of conveyance of lands to the settlers about Townsend Harbor in substance the following :
"Forty feet upon the shore was to be common to all fisher- men unless the settlers adjoining should consent to make fish for any fisherman at two shillings and sixpence per quintal, in such case said forty feet was to be included in his lot."
In this reservation, when closely scanned, there is more to indicate that the fishing grounds were exceptionally good in this locality and this common, held for "all" unless the inhab- itants for a fixed rate would cure for "any," was more for the advantage of English fishermen than the Townsend settlers. That this conjecture is correct we may refer to the famous depositions of 1772, where Samuel McCobb tells us that "their whole living depended on cutting firewood and carrying it to Boston and other towns more than 150 miles from them." Further than this it would appear that, at least at times, enough fish for consumption was not obtained by them, else why were they forced upon a diet of " clams and water for several weeks together," as both Moore and McCobb tell us. In the deposi- tion of the latter it appears that these conditions were upon the people until the breaking out of the war with France. Condi- tions certainly did not improve during that war. It is proba- ble, however, with the increase of population between the close of that war, in 1759, and the commencement of the Revolution,
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sixteen years later, there was very marked improvement in every line in the settlement. Farms were cleared ; agricultural interests, both cropping and the raising of live stock, increased ; stores were established and the fisheries were worked. This latter branch of business, however, slower than the others to establish, was in an infantile condition when, from 1775 to 1783, it was completely crushed out by the patrol of the coast by British war vessels.
It may be mentioned in this connection that as early as 1730, the year Townsend was settled, three or four vessels with codfish were marketed direct from Isles of Shoals to Bil- boa, Spain, and as many or more continued to do so for many years annually thereafter. Many fish were also sent to Ports- mouth for shipment to the West Indies. Just previous to the breaking out of the Revolution some of the Boothbay vessels carried fish to the West Indies, and there are reasons for believing that some also carried cargoes to Spain. After the year 1783 the fisheries rapidly increased, and ten years later allowances on the bounty principal were made to fishing vessels actually engaged in the industry ; but this was not the bounty our older fishermen remember.
Improvement in the business continued until the embargo was placed on shipping previous to the War of 1812. That stopped all export trade and for a time ruined the industry. Fish, in 1808, both dried and pickled, spoiled all along the New England coast ; nor was there time enough after the embargo was lifted, before the war actually broke out, to revive the drooping business. At its close the privilege of fishing in the English Provincial waters was the first stumbling- block and the last obstacle to the conclusion of the treaty. The year 1818 arrived before it was adjusted; then to the advantage of the United States. The following year, 1819, saw the bounty enacted which lasted until 1866, allowing $3.50 per ton annually to vessels under thirty tons, and $4.00 per ton above thirty and up to ninety-six tons, which was maximum.
It was the response to this act and the reopening of the foreign markets at the same period that fixes the date when the fishing interests of real consequence to Boothbay began. The earliest men in town to engage largely in fishing were
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John M. McFarland, Capt. John Hodgdon, Capt. Tyler Hodg- don, John Andrews, Allen Lewis and John McClintock, on the mainland ; and on Cape Newagen Island, now Southport, Daniel Cameron, John Chaples, Capt. John Pierce, Major John Mckown, John Cameron and Eli Nelson. Most of these men were born before the year 1800, while Daniel Cameron, the first to operate the fisheries to much extent in this vicinity, was born in 1750.
Those of our locality who did the largest business cod- fishing, while that industry was at its height, were nearly all natives of Boothbay, and, for the most part, born in the first quarter of the last century. Those similarly engaged in South- port were nearly all natives of that island and reached the height of their business after it was an incorporated town ; therefore in the enumeration which follows, regardless of the dates at which they were engaged, those on the mainland and islands belonging to Boothbay will be classed under the head of that town, while the others will appear under Southport. This list, in each casc, includes what I have been able to rescue relating to the fishing establishments, once nearly the all in these towns. At this point it may not be out of place to state that while our neighboring localities were to some extent engaged as we were, in the magnitude and soleness of this industry Boothbay and Southport eclipsed all their neighbors. An old Bristol fisherman was the first to repeat to the author an old couplet which in codfish days had current circulation :
" Damariscotta for beauty, and Bristol for pride ; Had it not been for codfish Boothbay would have died."
BOOTHBAY LIST.
John M. McFarland began about 1790 ; mostly shore fish- ing until 1820 ; succeeded by his sons, Nathaniel and Andrew ; two shore boats; two bankers, the Albatross and another ; yard and stand where W. M. Sawyer's store is.
Capt. John Hodgdon commenced soon after 1820. He lived where his son, John M., does. He had four bankers, Legislator, Ocean, Only Son and Atlantic, besides some shore boats. His flake yard was westerly from his house and would spread 650 quintals.
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Tyler Hodgdon lived where his son, the late Albion P. Hodgdon, did. He had two bankers, the Regalia and another. He commenced business soon after 1820 and was succeeded by his son, above-named.
Thomas Hodgdon commenced the fishing business about the same time that his relatives, previously mentioned, did, but it was at his old home on Westport. Being owner of one-half the island now known as Hodgdon's Island he moved his. busi- ness to that place in 1842. He had three or more bankers, among which were the Tasso and S. G. Hodgdon. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen G. Hodgdon.
Capt. William Barter, on the east side of Barter's Island, had one schooner.
Isaac Barter, on Barter's Island, had two schooners, the Young Sultan and Liberator.
Edward Barter, Barter's Island, had three bankers, George Washington, Arizona and Mary Edwards.
Warren and George Reed had their stand on Campbell's Cove. They had two bankers, one of which was the G. W. Reed.
The Smith brothers, Marshal and Stevens, had their stand at West Harbor. They were in business there before 1830 and continued until removing to the Harbor or a little later. The Rising States was one of their vessels.
Paul and Joseph Harris began business about 1838. Their yard was where R. A. Lewis lives, at the Harbor, extending westerly over the property now owned by C. F. Dodge. They had four bankers, Columbus, Annie Sargent, P. G. Maddock's and C. G. Matthews.
Capt. Sewall Wylie had two bankers, doing business at the head of the Harbor, where he succeeded John Andrews.
Allen Lewis commenced business earlier than 1830. He lived on the southern slope of Pisgah and his yard was where the Barrett cottage stands. He had four bankers, Allen Lewis, Forrester, S. H. Rowe and another ; also several shore boats.
Joseph Auld had his stand and yard where the Menawarmet landing and grounds are. He had one banker, the Caravan; was in business as early as 1845.
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John McClintock commenced where the Baldwin Fish Com- pany is now located. He began fishing in 1833, although he had a store there somewhat earlier. It is probable that he did, for a time, the largest business in town. His bankers, in the order of purchase, were as follows: Orion, Two Brothers, Betts and Sall, Susan, Superior, Liberator, Gold Hunter, S. M. Libby, Foaming Billow, Northern Chief, Montebello, Only Son, Kate S. McClintock and King Fisher. He continued business until about the date of his decease, 1874, and was succeeded by his sons.
Ezekiel and Eliphalet Holbrook, on Linekin, commenced business in 1843 with one boat, which they increased to three bankers. They were engaged in partnerships with the Farn- hams and Nathaniel Foster. The Grampus was one of their bankers.
McDougall & Race (Simon McDougall and James L. Race) had a yard at Race's Point, East Boothbay, in 1862. They had five bankers ; dissolved partnership in 1876, Captain Race continuing the business. The Nellie Short was among their vessels.
Robert and Leonard Montgomery had three bankers. Their yard and stand were at Meadow Cove, East Boothbay.
William Blake, East Boothbay, had one shore fisherman. He was captured by rebel privateers during the Civil War.
Levi Reed, East Boothbay, had one banker.
John Swett, who settled in Boothbay in 1795 on Thirty Acre Island, later known as Swett's Island and now Isle of Springs, with his sons Harvey and Hiram, who lived and reared families on the island, conducted a fishing business from there. They engaged almost wholly in catching and smoking herring, but caught some mackerel. They had several well- known vessels, among which were the Van Buren, Champion, Banner and Meridian.
SOUTHPORT LIST.
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