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947
GENERAL INDEX.
Free-Will Baptist Society, Topsham, 427-8, 656; of Free-Will Baptist Society, Harpswell, 449; of Orr's Island, 449-50, 667; of Methodist Society, Brunswick, 400, 402, 644 ; of Methodist Society, Harpswell, 454, 667; of Orthodox Society, Topsham, 429, 432; Subscription Paper for building the Last, 654-6 ; of First Parish, Brunswick, 54, 102, 116, 220, 354, 358-60, 365, 371, 373, 637-42; of First Parish of Harps- well, 436, 445, 662-5; of First Par- ish of Topsham, 190, 214, 406, 413- 4, 652-4; of Unitarian Society, Brunswick, 394, 398, 643-4; of Uni- tarian Society, Topsham, 433-4; of Universalist Society, Brunswick, 393, 396, 643-4 ; of Universalist Society, Harpswell, 450; Old Yellow, 420, 656 ; of St. Paul's Parislı, 404, 644- 5; Union, at Growstown, 643; Un- ion on Harpswell Neck, 667 ; West, 228.
Meetings, Public, 337.
Meetings of Baptist Church Society, Topsham, 423-4; of Orthodox Soci- ety, Topsham, 429, 450.
Members of Brunswick Religious Soci- eties, etc., 381, 383, 392-4, 403-4; of Topsham Religious Societies, 415-21, 427 ; of Harpswell Religious Societies, 451-2.
Memorandum of Deeds, 38-9.
Memorials to the General Court, 63-5, 136-8, 184, 194-6; to the President of the United States, 191-2.
Memorial Hall, Bowdoin College, 515, 517, 518. Menhaden, 94. Merganser, The, 92.
Merriconeag, 5-6, 11, 13-14, 17, 19, 20, 30-1, 44-8, 75, 77, 84, 107, 155-6, 158, 160. Merrill's, 6. Merrill's Island, 78.
Merrymeeting Bay, 5-6, 10, 13, 14, 18-20, 28-9, 42-3, 54, 58, 60, 63, 69, 75-8, 81, 92, 107, 119, 132, 245. Meteorological, etc., 99-103.
Methodist Church, Society, etc., in Brunswick, 398-401 ; in Harpswell, 454-5; in Topsham, 435.
Mica, 95, 97.
Mice, 90.
Middle Bay, 18, 37, 66, 83, 85, 87, 88, 98, 155.
Middle Rock, 80, 211-12.
Middle Street, 541. Mild Winter. A, 102.
Military History of the three Towns, 676-705. Military Resolutions, 679.
Military Stores carried up the Kennebec in Gondolas, 683.
Militia. See Soldiers.
Militia Companies, 689-96.
Millinery Stores, 588.
Mill Privilege, 32, 556, 559, 604-5.
Mill-Pond Basin, 87.
Mill Street, 541.
Mills, 35, 604-9, 618-9; burnt in Bruns- wick, 259-64, 266, 269-70.
Mills, Grist, 32, 555-7, 607-8; at New Meadows, 557 ; Maquoit, 557 ; Mair Brook, 557; in Brunswick Village, 557; Purinton's, 608 ; Scribner's,558. Mills, Saw, 558-62; at Bunganock, 558-
9; at Catliance, 604-5 ; at N. Mead- ows, 559-60; Bourne, 561; early, 558-60; Embargo, 606 ; Folly, 559- 60 ; Goat Island, 321 ; Granny-Hole, 605; the Great, 319, 321, 606; Hodge, 321, 605 ; Hodge (New), 606 ; Humphrey's 561; Nye, 559, 562 ; Page's, 561; Patten, 320-1, 605-6 ; Perkins, 322; Perry, 562; Pike & Co.'s, 561; Purinton, 321-2; Rogers's, 321, 606; Shad Island, 560; Tide, 619; Wind, 619.
Mill, Paper, 322.
Milton, Town of, 11.
Minerals, 14, 46, 96-8.
Mines, 14, 46.
Minks, 90.
Ministerial and Minister's Lots, 27, 134, 357, 360, 407, 414.
Ministerial Taxes, 364.
Ministers, 109, 115, 116, 212, 454 ; Settle- ment of, 109, 115-16 ; Maintenance of, 22-3, 27, 116.
Minot, 26.
Minute-Men, 678.
Missionaries to Indians, 352-4.
Mobbing of Mr. Wilson, 680, 683-4.
Moffitt's Point, 82.
Moles, 90,
Mollusks, 93.
Molybdenite, 98.
Molybdite, 98.
Monhegan, 7.
Moore, 88,
Mortality, 311.
Mount Ararat, 76.
Muddy River, 6, 21, 43, 76, 81.
Municipal History of Brunswick, 104- 54; of Harpswell, 155-79; of Tops- ham, 180-201.
Murders, 285, 287, 318.
Musconguz Company, 7.
Music. Instrumental, 214.
Musical Journal, The, 309.
Muskrata, 90.
Mussel Beds, 96.
Mustard-Mill, 571.
Mustard's Island, 81; Tavern, 102.
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GENERAL INDEX.
Musters and Parades, 695-6 ; Burlesque, 696.
N.
Nagusset Point, 3.
Nail-Makers, 582; Factory, 610.
Narrative, John Dunlap's, 209-11.
Narrows, Androscoggin or Pejepscot, 11, 81, 184. Navigation, 330-7. Newbury, 52.
New Casco, 101.
New Damariscove, 18, 21.
New England Farmer, 308.
New Haven, 19.
New Marblehead, 57.
New Meadows River and Settlement, 6, 8, 10, 18, 31-2, 38, 50, 58, 63, 66, 75- 7, 84, 90, 97-8, 107, 119, 132, 205. New Plymouth Company, 7, 17.
Newspapers, etc., 306-10; in Brunswick, 306-10; in Harpswell, 310 ;; in Topsham, 310.
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New Style of reckoning Time, 108.
New Wharf, 83, 87.
Niagara Engine Company, 273.
Niagara Fire-Engine No. 3, 272-4.
Noble Street, 541.
Norridgewock, 55, 57, 86; Indians, 64.
Northeast Boundary Question, 148. Northern Iris, 307.
North Yarmouth, 10, 47, 60, 85, 107, 109, 118, 155, 158, 160, 162-4; Island, 856.
Notable Features of the Country, 76-8. Nucleus Club, 242-4; Officers of the, 243-4.
O.
Oak, 99.
Oak Hill, Brunswick, 77, 83; Topsham, 82.
O'Brien Street, 541.
Obsequies of Lincoln, Observance of, 232-3; of Washington, 227-8.
Observatory, 77, 657-8.
Odd Fellows' Hall, 242, 297.
Oil-Mill, 571. 3
Old Feldspar Quarry, 97-8.
Old Style, 108. Old Sunday, 81.
Orations, etc., 228-31, 240, 245. Orchards, 98.
Ordinations in Brunswick, 358-9, 363, 366, 370, 372, 381-2, 389-90, 397 ; in Topsham, 410, 416-7, 421, 425, 429 ; in Harpswell, 436-7, 445-6.
Organ in Brunswick, The first, 372; Speech against, 372-3.
Organization of the Baptist Church, etc., in Harpswell, 447-8; of Methodist, in Brunswick, 399-400; of Free- Will Baptist, in Topsham, 427.
Origin of the Pejepscot Company, 21-3, 27.
Oriole, The Baltimore, 91.
Orr Street, 545.
Orr's Island, 47-8, 75, 84-7, 93.
Orthodox Church, etc., Topsham, 439- 32; Confession of Faith of, 429; Statistics of, 432.
Otter, 88. Owen's Hall, 297. Owls, 91.
P,
Page Street, 541.
Pail Manufactory, 571.
Painters, 582-3.
Paper-Money, 133, 188; Depreciation of, 188.
Paper-Box Manufactory, 572-3. Paper-Staining Manufactory, 573. Paper-Mill, Topsham, 608-9.
Parish, The Centre Cong. of Harpswell, 451-4 ; Communion Service given to, 453; Constitution of, 452; Votes of, 453.
Parish of Brunswick, The First, 354-65; established, 354; Church of, 365-77 ; Fund of, 377.
Parish of Harpswell, The first, 436-46 ; Church of, 436-46 ; First Minister of, 436 ; Votes of FirstChurch of,438-40, 441, 445; Records of, 444 ; Separa- tion from, 446.
Parish of Topsham, The First, 406-19, 432-5; Business Meetings of, 411, 412, 415 ; Church of, 407, 410, 429- 32 ; first Minister of, 406 ; Fund of, 413-15, 434-5; Votes of, 407-9.
Parish, Membership in a Poll, 418-9.
Parish, St. Paul's. See St. Paul's.
Parish in Topsham, The Second, 413-14, 419-23, 426-9; Votes of, 420-1.
Parish in Topsham, The Third, 423-6. Partridges, 91.
Pastors, Lists of, 375, 429, 454-5.
Patents, Old, 9.
Patent to Purchase and Way, 7, 12, 29. I'atten's Point, 81.
Pauper's Cemetery, 146.
Pauper, The first in Topsham, 190. Peace, 51-2, 56, 62, 69.
Pearl Street, 541.
Peat, 98.
Peeking through the Door, 205.
l'ejepscot, 49, 51-2; Bank, 576; Com- pany, 24-5, 27, 34-6, 42 ; Agent of Company, 31, 33-4, 37-8, 127 ; Falls, 8, 25, 104; Fort, 15; Indians, 1; Journal, 309 ; Papers, 19, 29, 47 ; Papers, how obtained, 149 ; Proprie- tors, 17, 19, 21-5, 27-34, 33, 37, 43- 7, 53-4, 68, 96 ; Doings of the l'ro- prietors, 27-35, 48, 53, 96, 126, 131
949
GENERAL INDEX.
556, 558-9 ; Votes of Proprietors in Regard to Mills, 556, 558-9 ; Votes of Proprietors in Regard to Preach- ing, 357-9; Purchase, The, 7-26, 75, 83; Records, 8, 31, 33; River, 5, 9-11, 13-14, 20, 25 ; Settlement, 49; Tract, 3, 12, 18-19, 22-3, 26, 51, 75.
Pennacooks, The, 2.
Pemaquid Company, The, 7, 47, 52.
Pennellville, 83.
Penobscot Indians, 2, 52, 64; River, 1-7. Perambulation of Town Lines, 147, 154. Perch, 94.
Perkins Hall, 301.
Petitions, 105-6, 109-11, 113-14, 117-19, 121, 130, 132, 135, 143-4, 151, 156, 158, 160, 183-8, 201, 352, 461-2, 465, 466-7, 629-32.
Petition against dismantling Fort George, 629-32; for Annexation of Harpswell to Brunswick, 156-7, 159-60 ; for Incorporation of Towns, 105, 106, 180-1; for Incorporation of School Districts in Brunswick Village, 465 ; of Warumbo Manu- facturing Company, 466-7.
Phippsburg, 76, 144. Phlozopite, 97.
Photographers, 581.
Physicians in Brunswick, 311-13; in Harpswell, 314 ; in Topsham, 313-14. Picaroon, Attack upon a, 685.
Picaroon at Harpswell, Capture of a, 687-9. Pickerel, 94. Picnics, 232, 245. Pigeons, Wild, 91. Pine, 99. Pine-Grove Cemetery, 341-2. Pinnacle, The, 82. Pirates, 34. Piscatagna, 51. Pitchfork Manufactory, 610. Plague, The, 2.
Plate of Chas. N. Leavitt, A White Earthen, 674
Pleasant Point, 10,36, 54, 68, 81. Pleasant Street, 32, 154, 541, 545. Pleasure Boat, 337. Plough Mannfactory, 573.
Plovers, 91. Plymouth Claim, Bounds of the, 34.
Plymouth Company, 7, 17, 25, 33, 35-6, 39, 49. Pneumonia, 314.
Pocket Compass of Andrew Dunning, 6.3. Poems, 226, 230-1, 245. Point Agreeable, 3. Poland, 26. Pole Island, 86. Pollock, 94.
Pond Island, 86 ; Town, 36. Ponds, 76.
Poorhouses, 134, 143-5, 149, 151, 176-8. 203-4, 648.
Poplar, 99. Population, 43, 48, 116, 118, 599, 617, 623-4. Porgy, 94. Porpoises, 93.
Portland, 52, 68, 75, 77, 102, 127, 132, 189, 199 ; Road, 83.
Portrait of Rev. James Woodside, 670. Portsmouth, 52.
Postage, 303-6.
Post-Offices, 303-6; in Brunswick, 303 (burnt, 259) ; in Harpswell, 305 ; in Topsham, 304.
Postmasters in Brunswick, 303-4; in Harpswell, 305 ; in Topsham, 304-5 ; Income of, 304.
Potatoes, 220-1. Potter Street, 541.
Potters, 583, 610. Potts's Point, 19, 29, 85-7. Pound, 164, 171.
Powder House, 635-6 ; Hill, 77, 95.
Pownal, 144. Pownalboro', 184.
Praying-House, Petition for a, 352.
Preachers in Brunswick, 355-8, 362-5, 371, 377-8, 380-4, 387-404 ; in Harps- well, 436, 446-50, 454-5; in Tops- ham, 406-9, 412-3, 419-20, 426-32, 435.
Presbytery, 359.
Presentation of Flag to Volunteers, 236. President's Reply to Memorial, The, 192. Press, Printing, 306 ; of Maine, 306, 310; Works from the, 306-10.
Prices, 589-99, 616, 622-3.
Price Current, 127, 128, 591-2, 595-6.
Price of Lumber, 591 ; paid for Harps- well Neck, 11 ; paid for Sebascodi- gan, 16 ; of Liquor sold in Bruns- wick, 597-8.
Prices regulated, 185, 188.
Priests, Catholic, 415.
Prince's Point, 84.
Prisoners, British, 127, 686, 689.
Prizes, 231, 276.
Privateers, 686. Processions, Public, 228-31.
Prongs, The, 86. Proprietors' Stock at Brunswick, 589-90. Protector Engine Company, 273 ; Fire- Engine No. 4, 272-4.
Protest against Call to Mr. Urquhart, 409 ; against Elections, 190-1; against Vote of Town, 202.
Public Dinners, 229-30.
Public Meetings, 17, 30, 232-8; Anti- slavery, 233-5 ; Anti-War, 237; Temperance, 251-4; War, 236-7 ;
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for Aid to Freedmen, 237 ; for Aid to Sufferers from Portland Fire, 238 ; for City Charter, 236; Location of Agricultural College, 237; orna- menting Village with Trees, 235; Relief of the Greeks, 233; in Regard to Brooks's Attack on Sumner, 235; of Soldiers of the Revolution, 233 ; to extend an Invitation to Presi- dent Jackson, 233.
Publishment Box, 417.
Public Lands, 521-8.
Puggymuggy River, The, 39.
Pulp Company, 274, 573 ; Manufactory, 573.
Pulpit Island, 21. Punch, 222. Purchase's House, 8.
Purpooduc, 60. Pythonian Library, 244 ; Society, 244.
Quabacook, 5. Quails, 91.
Quahaugs, 93.
Quahaug Bay, 86-7, 93, 155.
Quakers, 42, 164, 388, 436 ; fined, 164. Quarries, 14, 571.
Quartz, 95, 97. Quebec, 67. Queen Anne's War, 52-3.
Quick Carrying-Place, 5.
R.
Rabbits, 90. Raccoons, 90.
Ragged Island, 86.
Raid on the Indians, 145-6.
Railroads, 245, 325-30; Credit to, 326.
Railroad Company, The Androscoggin, 329; Atlantic and St. Lawrence, 327-8 ; Brunswick, 325; Kennebec and Portland, 326; Lewiston and Topsham, 329; Maine Central, 329 ; Portland and Kennebec, 329.
Railroad, Construction of, 326; Depots, 328 ; Fares on the, 327 ; first Trip on, 326; Headquarters of the, 327-8; Travel on the, 329-30.
Rain, 100-1. Raw Island, 86.
Reach, The, 69.
Rebellion against the Proprietors, 35.
Rebellion, War of the, 696-705.
Recognizee A, 125.
Records of the Baptist Church, etc., in Harpswell, 447-9.
Records of the Universalist Society in Harpswell, 451. Records of the Topsham Artillery, 691. References to Map, 41, 73-4.
Regattas, 224. Regimental Officers, 695. Regulator, The, 309.
Relics, Interesting, 670-5; of Mrs. Ran- dall, 672 ; of Skipper Malcolm, 672. Religious Revivals, 387, 401-2, 423-4, 455; Services, 108; Societies, 134. See also Denominational Names.
Relinquishment of Accounts by Samuel Eaton, 442; of Civil Contract, 442. Remonstrance against Repeal of the Act creating Village School District, 465 ; in Regard to Annexation, 202 ; in Regard to Election,190; in Regard to the County Jail Yard, 174.
Report of Committee to Communication from Boston, 165-7; of Rev. Sam- uel Eaton, 443-4.
Representative, The first, 111, 164; others, 125, 131, 174, 176, 188-90, 202.
Resignation of Rev. Dr. Adams, 373; of Samuel Eaton, 442; of Mr. Goss, 417 ; of Dr. Wheeler, 396.
Resolutions, 122-4, 128, 130, 132, 135-6, 138-41, 144, 147, 178-9, 191-4, 196- 9, 232, 234-6, 251, 254, 286, 429, 485, 679, 685, 697-8.
Resolution to support Congress, 685; in Regard to a Statement of W. S. Lindsey, M. P., 697-8.
Revision of Constitution, 133.
Revolutionary War, 676-89.
Rheumatism, Acute, 314.
Riding to Church, 212.
Ringing the Town Bell, 146, 151. River Road, 82.
Roads, 32, 117, 119, 128, 164, 205, 528- 38, 542-6.
Roads in Brunswick, 528-38 ; Twelve- Rod, 528, 534-38; Four-Rod, 528; from Fort to Town Landing, 528; from N. Meadows to Twelve-Rod Road, 529; from Stephens's Carry- ing-Place to Coombs's Point, 530; from Gurnet northerly, 530; from Old Meeting-House to Middle Bay, 530; from Brunswick to George- town, 530; from N. Meadows to the Androscoggin, 530; from Nathan Woodward's to N. Meadows, 532; from Maquoit to Bunganock, 532; on Mair Point, 532; from Alexander's to Raymond's, 533; from Bath to Freeport, 534 ; from Cook's Corner to Bath, 532-3; from Oak Hill to Bunganock, 533; the Pennell, 532; the Durham, 532; the Freeport, 532; Friends, 533; New Wharf, 533; Otis, 533 ; Shunpike, 533; Turnpike, 533.
Roads in Harpswell, 545-6; from the Ferry, 546; on Great Island, 546;
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GENERAL INDEX.
on Orr's Island, 546; on the Island, the Main, 545; on the Neck, 545; surveved, 545-6.
Roads in Topsham, 542-5 ; County, 544 ;
Foreside, 543; from Bowdoin to Bowdoinham, 544 ; from Elm Street to River, 544; from Isabella's Barn, 542 ; from Little River to Bowdoin Road, 544; from Main Street to the Landing, 544; from Narrows to Cathance, 542-3 ; from Rufus Rogers to Andros R. R. Bridge, 545; Lower to Bowdoinham, 543-4; Main Street, 544; Meadow, 544-5; over Goose Rock, opposed, 545 ; to Bow- doin, 544 ; to Bowdoinham, 543. Robertson's Hall, 297.
Robin, The, 91.
Rocamoco, 53.
Rock Cod, 94.
Rocky Hill, 77, 82, 97.
Rogue's Island, 86.
Roxbury, 20, 44.
S.
Sabattis's Visit to Brunswick, 68.
Sabbath-Breakers, 213.
Sabbath School, History of the first, 374-5.
Sabbath School of the Free-Will Baptist Society, in Brunswick, 390-1.
Sachems, 2, 10.
Saco Independent, The, 307 ; Indians, 52 ; River, 1.
Sacrament, Administration of the, 370- 1, 410, 417. Sacramental Plate of First Parish, Bruns- wick, 671. Saddle-Bags, 215.
Saddlers and Harness-Makers, 583, 612, 620.
Sagadahoc Agricultural Society, 204 ; Hall, 204, 301.
Sagadahoc River, 1, 7, 10, 13, 18, 51.
Sagamores, 2, 3, 10-12, 15, 52.
St. Francis Indians, The, 6.
St. George, The River, 1, 7, 57-8.
St. Paul's Parish, 402-5; a Mission, 403; Baptisms in, 405; Burials in,405; Confirmations in, 405 ; Communion Set, 404; Ladies' Society of, 404; Marriages in, 405; Organ of, 404 ; Rectors of,403-4 ; Wardens of,403-4. Salamanders, 93.
Salaries relinquished in Revolution, 683. Sale of Liquor prohibited, 203.
Salem, 123.
Salisbury, 16, 21, 55, 68.
Salmon, 94, 552; and Sturgeon Fishing, 8, 13-14, 38, 82, 211, 552 ; Island, 79. Salt Works, 573, 619. Sandpipers, 91.
Sand Plains, 96.
Sandy Gully, 82.
Sanitary Condition, 311, 314.
Sapsucker, The, 91.
Sash and Blind Factory, 607. Satire upon General Thompson, 681.
Sawacook, 5.
Scales and Weights, 164.
Scarborough, 2, 18.
Scenery, 76-8, 82, 86.
Schools, 116, 134, 145, 204; Provision for early, 457.
Schools in Brunswick, Public, 457-60, 461 ; first Teacher in, 457.
Schools in Brunswick, Private, 477-81 ; Miss Buss's, 477-8 ; Mrs. Putnam's, 478; O'Brien's, 478; Miss Chap- man's, 478; Smith's, 478 ; Preble's, 478 ; Jones's, 478-9 ; Dodge's, 479 ; Adams's, 479 ; Miss Lee's, 479; Misses Owen's, 479; Woodhull's, 479; Baker's, 479, Miss Folsom's, 479; Miss Dunning's, 479 ; Miss Hinckley's, 479-80; Pike's, 480; Kendrick's, 480.
Schools in Harpswell, 493-7 ; Private, 497.
Schools in Topsham, 482-92; Private, 487-92; Thompson's, 487 ; March's, 488 ; Miss Eastman's, 488 ; Mrs. Fields's, 488-91 ; Miss Wheeler's, 491-2; Miss Wilson's, 492 ; Nut- ting's, 492 ; Woodside's, 492 ; Frank- lin Family, 487 ; Topsham Female, 488.
School Districts in Brunswick, 458-9 ; Votes of, 460-2.
School Districts in Harpswell, 494-5 ; in Topsham, 483, 484.
School District in Brunswick, The Vil- lage, 460-75 ; Act of Legislature in Regard to, 462, 467 ; Board of Agents of, 463-4, 467 ; Depositions concern- ing, 466; Doings of, 463, 467-75 ; first Meeting of, 463 ; Formation of, 460-7; Petition for, 461-2, 465 Schools in, 463-4, 473-5.
School Books adopted in Topsham, 485. School for Indians, 457 ; High, Topsham, 484.
School Fund of Topsham, 483-5.
School-Houses, 165, 486; in Brunswick, 459-60; burnt, 261, 266, 269, 271; in Harpswell, 493, 495-6 ; in Tops- ham, 486.
School Lots, 27, 189, 457, 459, 482, 483; Sale of, in Topsham, 483.
School-Masters, 112, 115, 119, 125, 458, 460, 477-81, 482, 486, 495, 497. School, Negroes in, 459.
Schools, Special, in Brunswick, 480-1 ; in 'Topsham, 492.
School, Special, for Dancing, 481 ; Em- broidery, 481 ; Instruction in Fancy
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GENERAL INDEX.
Painting, 481; French, 481 ; Music, 481; Navigation, 481 ; Singing, 481, 492 ; Writing, 481, 492.
School, Supervisors or Committee of, in Topsham, 484 ; in Harpswell, 494-5. Schools, Votes of Brunswick in Regard to, 457-9, 461 ; Votes of Proprietors in Regard to, 457.
School Street, 541-2.
Scragg Island, 87.
Sculpin, 94.
Seals, 93. Sea Point, 83.
Seat of Government, 144.
Sebascodigan, 5, 6, 11-4, 17-9, 30-1, 46, 48, 75, 84-5, 155, 160, 164.
Second Adventist, The, 310.
Second Adventist Church, etc., Tops- ham, 435.
Second Indian War, 51-2.
Second Union Bank, The, 575.
Selectmen, Brunswick,104-5,108-11, 118, 160; Harpswell, 162; Topsham, 183. Seminary, The Brunswick, 476-7; The Pleasant Street, 476.
Separation from the Town, 119, 143; of Maine from Massachusetts, 132-3, 142-3, 171-3, 186-9, 191, 199.
Sermons, 212.
Settlements, Abandoned, 37, 52; under the Proprietors, 37-48.
Settlement of Rev. Mr. Clement, 431 ; Coffin, 365, 370; Elisha Eaton, 436 ; Samuel Eaton, 437 ; Ellis, 409 ; Goss, 416; Harlow, 445; Kellogg, 453; Kendall, 422; Lamb, 449; Lord, 429; Mead, 372; Miller, 362-3; Moore, 364; Pinkham, 448; Potter, 446; Rice, 433; Rutherford, 355; A. D. Wheeler, 433; Samuel Wheeler, 408; Wilde, 431; Woodside, 354.
Settlers, Attacks upon the, 49-56, 58, 60- 3, 66-8. Settlers, Early, 3, 7-26, 27, 37-9, 41, 43, 47-8, 69, 205, 865.
Sextons, 121.
Shad Island, 78-9; Mill, 79.
Shapleigh's Island, 20. Sheep stealing, 283.
Sheldrake, The, 92; Point, 21.
Shells, 96. Shelter Island, 84
Shingle Manufactory, 610. Ship burnt, 268.
Shipwrecks, 332-4.
Sidewalks authorized, 152.
Singing in Church, 363, 370. Sixth Indian War, 65-70.
Skeletons, 674.
Skunks, 90. Slaves and Slavery, 205-6.
Sleeping in Meeting, 212-3.
Sleeve-Buttons of Capt. John Rogers, 673.
Sluiceway, The Topsham, 603.
Small Island, 86.
Small Point, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 28. Small-Pox, 314-16.
Sinelts, 94.
Smith's Journal, Extracts from, 60.
Smithsonian Institution, Report of, 99- 101.
Smoking Fish Point, 18.
Snakes, 92.
Snipes, 91.
Snow, 100, 102 ; Island, 8.
Snow's Pond, 59.
Soap Factory, 573.
Societies, Bowdoin Temple of Honor and Temperance, 256; Brunswick and Topsham Athenæum, 242, 245; Brunswick Brass Band, 246 ; Bruns- wick Division Sons of Teniperance, 255; Brunswick Humane Society, 241 ; Brunswick Linnæan, 245-6; Brunswick Lyceum, 244-5; Bruns- wick, Topsham, and Harpswell, for the Suppression of Intemperance, 250-1; Brunswick Total Abstinence and Charitable, 252; Brunswick Watch Association, 247-9; Cadets of Temperance, 255-6; Castalian, of Brunswick, 245; Hayden, 246; Joshua Nye Lodge, Good Templars, 256; Ladies' Soldiers' Aid, 242 ; Lib- erty Association of Brunswick, 247 ; Martha Washington, 254; Mozart, 246; Nucleus Club, 242-5 ; Patrons of Husbandry, 239; Peace, 246 ; Pejepscot Division Juvenile Tem- perance Watchmen, 255; Pejepscot Lodge, Odd Fellows, 242; Pytho- nian, 244 ; Reform Club, 256 ; Saga- daliock Agricultural and Horticul- tural, 238-9; Sawacook Division Sons of Temperance, Topsham, 255; The Temperance, 255; Temper- ance, of Brunswick, 251-2; Tem- perance, of Bowdoin College, 252; Temperance, of Harpswell, 256; Temperance Watchmen, 255; Tops- ham Antislavery, 246-7; Topsham Temperance, 252 ; Town History and Natural History, 246; True Washingtonian Temperance, of Topsham,254-5 ; Umted Lodge Free Masons, 239, 241 ; Washington Fire Club, 244-5; Washington Temper- ance, 252; Washington Total Absti- nence, Brunswick, also of Topsham, 252-3; Young Men's Temperance, 252; Young Men's Washingtonian, 254.
Soil, 98-9. Sokokis, The, 1.
Soldiers, 30-50, 51-2, 54, 57, 60, 62. 66, 114, 117, 124-7, 130, 144, 167-70, 172, 174, 186, 200, 677-8, 682-3, 635.
953
GENERAL INDEX.
Soldiers' Monument, 154. Somerset Point, 36, 82. Spalenite, 980. Spanishı War, 57-65. Sparrows, 92. Spawell, 62. Speeches, 232-7, 250, 679-80. Sprague's Quarry, 97-8. Spring Street, 542. Spruce, 99. Spruce Company, The, 682. Squirrels, 90.
Stable Keepers, 583.
Stage Companies, 323-5.
Stage Drivers, 323-5. Stage House, 292-3.
Stage Routes, 302-3, 323-5.
Stages, 323-5 ; Fares on, 324.
Statement of Pejepscot Title, 23-6.
Statistics of Church-Goers in Brunswick, 405. Stave Island, 11, 81. Steamboat Navigation of the Kennebec, 143.
Steamboat, The first, 335-6; Flushing, 336; Kennebec, 336; Patent, 336 ; Rough and Ready, 245, 336; Tom Thumb, 336 ; Victor, 336-7.
Steamboats, 245, 335-7.
Stetson Street, 542.
Stevens's Carrying-Place, 6, 8, 19, 39, 107, 119.
Stevens's River, 39, 76.
Stocks, The, 111, 115, 120, 280-2.
Stoddard's Hall, 297.
Stone's Hall, 297.
Stores and Shops, 584-9 ; burnt, 258-65, 268-70.
Store-Keepers, 584-9. Storms, 101-3. Stove Manufactories, 613. Stow, 122.
Streets named, 539-42, 545; Signs erected, 545. Students' Pranks, 223. Sturgeon, 94, 552. Sucker, 94. Suicides, 318; Punishment of, 282. Summer Street, 80, 545. . Sunfish, 94. Sunset Ilill, 77.
Superstitions, 220.
Surplus Revenue Money, 150-1, 175, 201-2. Surveyers, 620. Surveys of Land, 29-30, 35-6, 75, 126, 148, 172, 189, 525. Suspender Factory, 574. Swallows, 91. Swamp, Depot, 32. Swan Island, 20-1, 27-8; Pond, 76.
Swivels captured from Picaroon, 689.
Sword, John Harmon's, 673 ; Nathaniel Purinton's, 673. Sword-Fish, 94.
T.
Tailors, 583, 612-13, 620. Tanager, The Scarlet, 91. Tanners, 583-4, 610-11, 620.
Tarbox Quarry, 97-8. Tariff, 147.
Tavern, Encouragement to keep a, 290. Taverns and Public Halls, 34, 290-302. Taverns burnt, 260, 268, 271.
Taverns in Brunswick, 290-7 ; in Harps- well, 301-2; in Topsham, 298-301. Taverns, American House, 294; Bailey's, 301; Baker's, 300; Blanchard's, 299 ; Bowdoin Hotel, 296; Brunswick House,294-7; Chase's, 292 ; Cleaves's, 296; Coombs's, 290; Curtis's, 291; Dennetts', 300; Dinsmore's, 300; Dunlap's, 291; Elm House, 301; Eastman's, 301; Gatchell's, 296 ; Green's, 300 ; Half-Way House, 296 ; Haynes's, 300; Hebberd's, 300; Ho gkins's, 294, 323; Hunter's, 298- 9; Hunter's (Widow), 299 ; in Fort, 291; Jack's, 300 ; Jewell's, 302 ; Lin- coln House, 294, 300 ; Maine Hotel, 294 ; Mansion House, 302 ; Merrill's, 299 ; Moorhead's, 292-3 ; Mustard's, 300 ; Nichols's, 292-3 ; Mrs. Nichols's, 292 ; Old Wheeler's, 296; Pejepscot House, 294 ; Pumpkin, 293 ; Puring- ton's, 299 ; Reed's, 298 ; Richardson's, 300; Rogers's, 299; Ross's, 291; Sager's, 300; Sandford's, 300; Spear's, 290; Starbird's, 301 ; Stinch- field's, 294, 296, 323 ; Stoddard's, 293; Stone's, 291 ; Storer's, 296 ; Temper- ance House, 300 ; Thompson's, 290 ; Thompson's (Brigadier), 299; Til- ton's, '299 ; Tontine Hotel, 294-6; Tucker's, 300; Union House, 301-2 ; Vcazie's, 300 ; Walker's, 300 ; Walk- er's (Elijah), 302 ; Washington Hall, 292; Washingtonian House, 301 ; Whitney's, 299; Wilson's, 298; Winchell's, 298; Wyman's, 299.
Taxation, 36, 115-17, 121, 129, 132, 184- 8, 190,203.
Teal, The, 92.
Telegraph Companies, 337-8.
Telegraph Company, American, 337 ; Atlantic and Pacific, 338; Interna- tional, 337; Maine, 337; Western Union, 337,
Telegraphı Line, 329, 337-8.
Telegraph Offices, 329, 337-8. Telegraph Operator, The first, 337. Temperance, Addresses, 250, 253; Ban- ner, 253 ; Pledge, 251, 253 ; Reform, 249-56.
954
GENERAL INDEX.
Temperature, 100-1. Ten-Mile Falls, 8, 56, 65. Terraced Land, 96.
Terramugus Cove, 10, 80. Territorial Limits, 26.
Theatre, 224. Third Indian War, 52-3.
Thompson's Brook, 84; Street, 542.
Island, 80;
Three Years' War, 53-6.
Thrushes, 91-2. Thunder-Storms, 102-3.
Tin Shops, 588-9, 613 ..
Titanito, 98.
Title of Andrew Lee's Sermon, 410.
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