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" May it please your Excellency and Honours, We Humbly pray, That you would be pleased for the prevention of the aforesaid Incon- veniences to set off the Familys that may Inhabit said Neck of Land, from the Town of North Yarmouth, and annex them to the Town of Brunswick, especially since but a part of said neck of Land is couched within the line of North Yarmouth Township. And as in Duty Bound your Petitioners shall ever pray.
" JOSEPH WADSWORTH ADAM WINTHROP HENRY GIBBS BELCHER NOYES JOB LEWIS
for ourselves and Partners."
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" We the Inhabitants of the said Neck of Land Most Humbly [Pray ?] That your Excelency and Honours would be pleased to grant the Prayer of the above named Proprietors of said Neck of Land that we may be Released under our very Great hardships, and as in Duty Bound shall ever pray.
" JAMES BREWER
RICHARD JAQUES
JOHN MATHEWS
JOHN STOVER
WILLIAM MAGRAY
ELISHA ALLEN
EDWARD QUINGHAM
ISAAC HALL
WILLIAM GIBSON
SAMUEL STANDWOOD
MOSES GATCHELL
DAVID STANDWOOD
JOSHUA CROMWELL
JOHN STEVENS
SAMUEL WINCHELL
JOHN ROSS JUNE
JOHN ORR
SETH TOOTHAKER
WILLIAM MACKNESS
JOB MOULTON
THOMAS MCGREGOR
ABIEL SPRAGE
JOHN SMART
WAIT WEBBER
JOHN LINDSEY
EBENEZER TOOTHAKER "
BENJAMIN DENSLOW
"IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, June 3, 1740.
" Read and ordered, That the Petitioners serve the Town of North Yarmouth with a copy of this Petition that they Shew Cause if any they have on Tuesday the 24th Instant, if the Court be then sitting, if not, on the first Thursday of the next Sitting of this Court, why the Prayer thereof should not be granted.
" Sent up for concurrence
" J. QUINCY, Spker "IN COUNCIL June 4th 1740.
" Read and Concurred
" SIMON FROST Dop! Secry
" Consented to
"J. BELCHER.
" A true Copy Examd
" SIMON FROST Dep'! Secry "
" The following order passed on the petition of the Propriet" of Merriconeag Neck, viz!
"IN COUNCIL June 27, 1740
" Read again and it appearing that the Town of North Yarmouth has been duly served with a copy of the Petition but no answer given
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in, Ordered that the prayer of the Petition be granted, and that that part of the Neck of Land within Mentioned which heretofore belonged to the Town of North Yarmouth together with the Inhabitants thereon, be and hereby are set off from the said Town of North Yarmouth, and annexed to & accounted as part of the Town of Brunswick there to do Duty and receive Priviledge accordingly.
" Sent down for Concurrence
" SIMON FROST Depy Secry
"IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 28, 1740.
" Read & Concurred
" J. QUINCY Spk!
" Consented to
" J. BELCHER.
" A true copy Examined
" SIMON FROST Dep! Secr? " 1
[1741.] Merriconeag Neck remained, however, annexed to Bruns- wick for a short time only, as on August 1, 1741, the foregoing bill was again brought before the Council, together with the answer of Ammi Ruhamat Cutter, agent for the town of North Yarmouth, and the matter having been thoroughly considered, it was voted " that the order of this Court within written passed the twenty seventh of June last (A) be & is hereby superseded & set aside, and that such of the Inhabitants of the neck of land within mentioned, (B) as are consent- ing thereto and shall give in their names to the Town Clerk of Brunswick for that purpose be & hereby are set off to the Town of Brunswick so far as relates to the Ministry, to do duty and receive priviledge accordingly." This vote was sent to the House of Repre- sentatives August 5, where it was read and concurred in, with the addition of some amendments at the places marked A and B. The first amendment simply inserted the date, and the second one added the words, " with their estates." 2
This legislation was not satisfactory to the people of Brunswick, nor to many of those upon Merriconeag Neck, and accordingly the following petitions were sent to the General Court this same year : -
1 Pejepscot Papers. 2 Ibid.
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"TO HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SHIRLY ESQ GOVERNOUR & COMANDER IN CHIEF IN & OVER HIS MAJESTYES PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY IN NEW ENGLAND,
THE HONOURABLE HIS MAJESTYES COUNCILL, AND THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN GENERALL COURT ASSEMBLED ANNO DOMINI, 1741.
" THE PETITION OF THE SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF BRUNSWICK IN THE COUNTY OF YORK IN BEHALF OF SAID TOWN,
HUMBLY SHEWETH
" That the Sd town being of but small Extent and the Inhabitants as yet but few in number & a considerable part of the Soil not so rich and fitt for tillage as in many other towns, and tho' the said Inhabi- tants from a Principle of Loyalty & dutifullness to the Government, are ready & desirous to do what they can towards the support of the publick charge, yet for the reasons above mentioned, they find it very difficult to maintain their families & support the ministry, & much more to pay the Province tax which the Honourable Court was pleased to lay upon them last year, and they find this Disability in some measure Increased by reason that a considerable part of Meri- coneag Neck, which hapens to fall within the line of North yarmouth, by reason of the large extent of Sd township into the Sea Cuting of the whole front of Brunswick next the sea, which was the last year by order of the Generall Court annexed to Brunswick has been since Set back to North yarmouth ; Now we beg leave Humbly to Represent to your Excellency & Honours that the town of North yarmouth is in extent of land more than three times as large as Brunswick, without reconing in the Necks & Islands Couched within the lines of Sd town, which much Increase the proportion, and the Sd town is much more numerous in Inhabitants, & their land by long Cultivation is become much more profitable, so that they cannot be reasonably suposed to stand in need of so small an addition as Mericoneag Neck. Now whereas the uper part of Sd neck, is Contiguous to Brunswick and the rest of it by land, is 18 miles nearer to the center of Brunswick & to Sª meeting house than to North yarmouth meeting house, & a much nearer & safer way to Brunswick in time of danger, where they can be relieved by land from Brunswick town, which they cannot readily, by North yarmouth, by land or water, and the addition of it to Bruns- wick, woukl something increase their number, & at present in Some measure Enable them to discharge the heavy tax laid upon them, which is very burthensom by reason of their Continuall fears and great
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poverty of the Inhabitants (excepting four or five familyes) Your Petitioners therefore Humbly pray that your Honours will so far Compassionate & Encourage them as to annex unto Brunswick the whole of Sa neck viz : that part of it that is couched within North yarmouth line & the uper part of it that lies between the lines of North yarmouth and Brunswick and which at present is within the bounds of no town and your Petitioners as in Duty bound Shall ever pray &c.
"BENJA LARRABEE, WYMOND BRADBURY, SAML HINKLEY,
Selectmen of Brunswick.
" We the Subscribers Inhabitants of Merriconeag Neck in Casco bay, such of us as fall within the line of North-yarmouth finding our- selves under a great burthen & disadvantage in being subjected to that town from whence we are so very remote & from whence we can expect no manner of benefit on account of the Ministry, School, or otherwise, & others of us who are not within the bounds of any town but lying between the lines of North yarmouth & Brunswick, but lying contiguous to Brunswick & Judging it to be very much for our Comfort & benefit to belong to sd town, do Humbly Joyn with the Inhabitants of Brunswick in the within Petition, and earnestly Suppli- cate your Excellency & Honours that for the reasons therein set forth you will be pleased to annex the whole of Mericoneag Neck to the town of Brunswick & your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.
" RICHARD JAQUES WAIT WEBBER JOHN STOVER JOHN MATHEWS THOMAS MCGREGOR NATH" L. BARNES " 1
These petitions were not favorably received by the General Court, but on June 14, 1749, that body, in response to a petition of the inhabitants of that portion of Merriconeag Neck and the adjoining islands, which was within the limits of North Yarmouth, passed an order to the effect that the Neck, the land and islands mentioned in the petition, and the northeast part of Sebascodegan Island, should be a distinct and separate precinct.2
1 Pejepscot Papers. Original Petition.
2 Massachusetts Records, 1749.
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In 1758 the following Act of Incorporation was passed : -
"ANNO REGNI
REGIS GEORGII
SECUNDI TRICES-
IMO PRIMO.
"AN ACT
For incorporating a neck of land called Mericoneag Neck, and certain Islands adja- cent, in the County of York into a Separate District by the name of
" Whereas the Inhabitants of Mericoneag Neck and the Islands adjacent have humbly represented to this Court the difficulties and great inconveniences they labour under in their present situation and have earnestly requested that they may be invested with powers priv- ileges and immunities of a District.
" Therefore be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives, That the said Neck of Land beginning where Bruns- wick line intersects the upper end of said Neck which is four rods above the Narrows of said Neck commonly called the Carrying Place, from thence including the whole of said Neck down to the Sea, together with the Islands adjacent hereafter mentioned, viz : Great Sebascodegan Island alias Shapleighs Island, Little Sebascodegan Island,1 and Wills 2 Island lying to the South east side of said Neck ; Birch Island, Whites Island and the two Goose Islands lying on the Northwest side of said neck and Damariscove Islands 3 lying at the lower end of said Neck, be and hereby are incorporated into a separate District by the name of Harpswell.
" And the Inhabitants of said Neck of land and Islands shall be and hereby are invested with all the powers, privileges and immunities that the several towns in this Province by law do or may enjoy, that of sending a Representative only excepted.
" And be it further enacted That John Minot Esq. be and hereby is empowered to issue his warrant to some principal Inhabitant of the said District requiring him in his Majesty's name to warn and notify the said Inhabitants qualified to vote in town affairs to meet together at such time and place in said District as by said Warrant shall be appointed to choose such officers as the law directs and may be neces- sary to manage the affairs of said District :
" And the said Inhabitants being so met shall be and hereby are empowered to choose officers accordingly.
1 Now Orr's Island.
2 Now Bailey's Island.
8 One of which is now called Haskell's Island.
11
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"JANUARY 20th 1758,
" This bill having been read three several times in the House of Representatives passed to be enacted
" F. HUBBARD, Speaker.
"JANUARY 20th 1758,
" This bill having been read three several times in Council passed to be enacted
" A. , OLIVER, Sec'y.
" JANUARY 25th 1758,
" By the Governor I consent to the enacting of this bill
"T. POWNAL.
" Copy examined
" A. BRADFORD ". Sec'y of Commonwealth of Massachusetts"
It will be observed that no reference is made in the foregoing Act to the town of North Yarmouth. This would convey the impression that when Harpswell was made a precinct, it became legally separated from that town, which was probably the case.
The present name of the town is not known to have been used prior to the incorporation. By whom it was first suggested is not known. One authority I states that it was so named by the General Court, but according to traditionary accounts the name was given by the Dunnings. There is a Harpswell in Lincolnshire, England, and the name was probably first suggested by some emigrant from that vicinity and was favored by the Dunnings, who were English people, though from another county.
Harpswell, though similar to an incorporated town in most respects, had not the privilege of being represented at the General Court, and was therefore only a district.
The first recorded meeting of the district was held March 30, 1758. At this meeting Captain John Støver was chosen moderator; Andrew Dunning, clerk ; David Curtis, Isaac Hall, and Andrew Dunning, selectmen and assessors ; Lieutenant Lemuel Turner, district treas- urer ; Elijah Douglas and Taylor Small, constables ; James Babbage, Seth Toothaker, and John Coombs, tithing-men ; Waitstill Webber, William Alexander, and Joseph Thompson, surveyors of highway's ;
1 Kellogg, MSS. Lecture.
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Edward Easters, Thomas McGregor, and Joseph Linscott, fence- viewers ; Nathan Adams, James Gardner, and John Snow, hog- reeves ; and Elisha Allen, sealer of leather. It was voted at this meeting that hogs and horses should be allowed to run at large, according to the existing law. The meeting adjourned to the last Wednesday in May.
At the adjourned meeting on May 25, the following votes were passed : -
That Alexander Wilson and Andrew Dunning should be a com- mittee to settle with North Yarmouth, and to receive whatever money was due the town.
To have no schoolmaster this year.
That the selectmen should lay out the highways as they might deem advisable.
That the selectmen should settle "with Mr. Jaques, the former treasurer " probably of the former precinct or parish, "and should remove the Treasury into Lemuel Turner's hands."
That Thomas McGregor should be collector for that year, on the Neck, and should be allowed thirteen shillings and four pence for his services.
That Mr. William Harsey should be paid fifteen shillings for his trouble in making out the rates for the parish in 1755.
That Mr. William Blake and Mrs. Mary Young should be paid twelve shillings each, for making out the rates at the same time.
That Captain Timothy Bailey should be paid one pound for a note that he gave in the year. 1751 " for the Place being presented."
That Mr. Curtis be paid £33 1s. 1d. " for taking up Mr. Pattis- halls execution against the Parish."
That he have eighteen shillings for his time and expense in taking up the execution.
That Benjamin Jaques be paid thirteen shillings four pence " for going with Mr. Curtis to take up Patishal's execution."
That Benjamin Jaques and Alexander Wilson be paid three shil- lings each "for getting a power [of attorney?] to give Mr. Ralph Farnan."
That fourteen shillings be allowed Richard Starbird on his assess- ment for 1754.
That Samuel Eaton be paid three pounds for serving as clerk for four years ; and that Lieutenant Lemuel Turner be paid eighteen shillings, David Curtis twenty-four shillings, and Captain Timothy Bailey three shillings, for going to North Yarmouth. It will be seen
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that most of the foregoing relates to past transactions of the precinct, or parish, which have not been preserved as matters of record.
[1759.] On May 9, 1759, a committee was chosen to settle the district and parish affairs, and another committee was also chosen to settle with the town of North Yarmouth, and to receive what money was due to Harpswell. At this meeting it was also voted to build a pound near the meeting-house, and also one on Mr. Joseph Thomp- son's land on the island called Great Sebascodegan.
On May 30, of this year, the town voted to purchase scales, weights, and measures for use as a standard. Jonathan Flint was allowed £1 9s. for laying out the main road from the Brunswick line to the lower end of the Neck ; James Gardner was also paid 3s. for carrying a pole to lay out the road, and Thomas Jones, Jr., and Captain John Stover, 3s. each, for assistance in laying out this road. £13 6s. 8d. was appropriated for the poor.
[1760.] In 1760 the town appropriated 35s. 4d. to pay David Curtis for his expense in obtaining books, scales, and weights.
[1762.] At the May meeting in 1762, it was voted that 2d. per head should be paid for all crows killed on the Neck before the Octo- ber following.
[1763.] In May, 1763, the town voted to pay Benjamin Jaques, Alexander Wilson, and John Alexander the sums assessed against them for the sloop built the previous year.
[1765.] In 1765 the town voted to allow Nicholas Pinkham the sum assessed upon his father " for the fine laid on the Quakers as appears by State and Rate Bills, 1760." 1
[1768.] At a meeting held March 25, 1768, the town voted - twenty-six to twelve - not to set off Great Sebascodegan Island as a parish. At a meeting held September 28th, it was voted not to send a delegate to the convention to be held at Boston, but the selectmen, with Andrew Dunning and Benjamin Jaques, were chosen as a commit- tee to prepare and forward a letter to that convention.
[1770.] The records of the meeting on May 22, 1770, contain the following entry : -
" The majority of votes for Mr. Samuel Stanwood as Representative were 20." This is the first mention to be found of the town's being represented at the General Court.
[1772.] In 1772 the town voted. to pay David Curtis and Elijah
1 This is the first and only record in either of the three towns where Quakers are spoken of as having been fined.
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Douglas one dollar each " for haling Boards from Brunswick." What the boards were for is not stated, but probably for the school-houses.
[1773.] On January 28, 1773, a communication from the town of Boston, setting forth the rights of the colonies and a statement of the infringement of their rights, was laid before the town for their consideration.
A committee, consisting of William Sylvester, Deacon Andrew Dunning, and Captain Benjamin Jaques, was chosen to write a reply and to submit it to the town at a special meeting to be held on the eighth day of March, at which time the committee reported as follows : -
" That generous Ardor for Civil and Religious Liberty which in the Face of every Danger and even Death itself induced our fore Fathers to forsake the Bosom of their Native Country their Pleasant Seats and Fertile Fields and begin a Settlement in this then a howling Wilderness is not extinct in us their Posterity.
" they Dearly purchased (with many Tears Prayers Mortifications & Self Denials) those happy Gospel Priviledges and Religious Liber- ties which we enjoy in Conjunction with the Royal Charter these we esteem dear and Sacred - we are greatly alarmed at the Innovations made upon our Charter Rights and think them a Real Grievance - We fear not Poverty but disdain Slavery.
' whatever Day,
Makes Man a Slave takes half his worth away.'
" We shall not particularly enumerate our Grievances but only Say we Concur with the Sentiments of the Committy of Correspondence at Boston as they have stated the rights of the Colonists and of this Province in Particular, and of the Infringements on those Rights. We openly and Frankly declare that we hold Fast our Loyalty to our Sovereign (Independency we have not in View - we abhor the Thought) and hold our Selves in Readiness at all times with our lives and For- tunes to assist his Majesty in his Defence as we have heretofore done (wlien for the Enlargement of the Brittish Empire, upon the Ruins of their Perfidious French Neighbors we have Cheerfully Emptied our Purses and furnished out our Quota of Men to join the Countless Numbers of loyal Americans who have Sacrificed their lives in the high Places of the Field & Desert - Many of whose Bones are to this Day whitning in the sun) yet we groan under our Burdens we sensibly feel them, but do not despair of Redress If the Importunity of a Poor widow May Moove an unjust Judge to avenge her How much More
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May we hope for Redress by Frequent application to our Gracious and good King which application we humbly conceive Should be Dutiful and loyal -Vewing our Selves to be the children and our Gra- cious Sovereign the Parent. And Could his Excelency Our Gov- ernour (whom we highly esteem & think to be endowd with Singular abilities) be prevailed upon to join the other Branches of the Legisla- ture Supplicating the Throne for Redress it appears to us the Most probable way of obtaining his Majestys Royal Attention and Relief.
" WILLIAM SYLVESTER ANDW DUNING Committy."
BENJM JAQUES
The records continue as follows : -
" The question being put whether the foregoing Report be accepted it Passed in the Affirmative Nemine contradicente and thereupon voted William Sylvester Esqr., Deacon Andrew Duning & Capt. Benj. Jaques a Committy to Transmit an attested Coppy from the Clerk to the Comitty of Correspondence at Boston with the Thanks of this District to that Respectable Patriotic Town."
[1774.] At the annual meeting in 1774, the town passed the fol- lowing votes : " to allow Andrew Duning 6 shillings a year since 1759 for services as Clerk," and " to fence the burying place with stone or boards, as the Committee think proper."
At a special meeting, held August 11, William Sylvester, Esquire, Andrew Dunning, and Deacon Isaac Snow were chosen a committee to reply to sundry letters from the town of Boston, relative to enter- ing into a covenant for the non-consumption of British goods.
The committee reported as follows : -
" That the Town of Boston is Now Suffering in the Common Cause, a Cause which we Esteem to be Our Own that it is our Fixed Resolu- tion not to be Awed into Acquiesence by a Mad Exertion of Mere Power on the Part of Our Enemies but to hold and Defend Our Charter Rights to the Last. that a general Agreement between the Colonies of non importation & non exportation faithfully observed would (under God) be a Means of the Salvation of our falling Country that as the Honourable House of Representatives Did on June 17th 1774 Resolve that a Committy Should be appointed to Meet as Soon as May be the Committies that are or shall be appointed by the Several Colonies on this Continant to Consult together upon the Present State of the Colonies and to Deliberate & Determine upon Wise and Propper Measures to be by them Recomended to All the
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Colonies for the Recovery & Establishment of their Just Rights - & it is our Opinion that our now Coming into the non-Consumption agreement Previous to the Result of the Congress would be Prema- ture and that We should Anticipate the Verry End of that Respectable Body we therefore think it More Regular and Advisable first to hear the Measures advised to by the Congress and we hold our Selves in Readiness to Comply with the Same."
This report was accepted.
On September 14th, Joseph Ewing, Captain John Stover, and Andrew Dunning were chosen a committee "to go to Falmouth to meet the Falmouth and other Town Committees at Falmouth, ye 21st of Sept. Inst."
[1775.] On March 20, 1775, the town passed the following vote : " to Give the Men that Shall Engage as Minute Men too Shillings & Eight Pence pr Week allowing they Meet three Days each week & spend three Hours Each Day in exercising or Learning the Art Mili- tary for One Month from Date Agreeable to the Advice of the Con- gress - and if Legually called by the Chief Officers to March Out of Town Shall be entitled to forty eight Shillings as A Bounty or Incour- agement and the like Incouragement to Any Others that shall be Legally Called as above & comply with the call."
The selectmen were this year instructed to have the town's propor- tion of the Province rate paid to Henry Gardner, Esquire, " as soon as may be."
William Sylvester, Joseph Orr, Nathaniel Purinton, John Snow, Samuel Bartlett, James Ridley, Joseph Ewing, Andrew Dunning, Benjamin Jaques, Paul Curtis, John Stover, Ebenezer Toothaker, John Roduck, John Farnham, Mark Rogers, William Morgridge, Simeon Hopkins. Ezekiel Curtis, and Anthony Coombs, Jr., were chosen a Committee of Inspection and of Correspondence.
The town also voted to provide a stock of ammunition, double in quantity the amount required by law. On May 1st, William Sylvester, Nathaniel Purinton, John Snow, Benjamin Jaques, and Andrew Dun- ning were chosen a Committee of Supply.
At a meeting held on the 5th of June, it was voted that " the Remainder of the half barrel of Powder Purchased by the Committy of Supply be a Town Stock." It was also, at this time, " Voted to keep four Watches - One at the intervale By the Harbour or there Abouts One at the High Land Near Benj. Webbers One at the Lookout and One at Jaqueses Hill And Every Person Deficient being Duly Notified to Pay Six Shillings as a fine." It was also voted,
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" Not to fire a gun between Sun Set & Sun Rise except at the enemy or an Alarm on Penalty of Setting in the Stocks One Hour."
The town also voted that the powder should be furnished to those needing it, in the quantity of half a pound for each man, who applied and who should pay or give his note for it.
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