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Purinton, Humphrey, private, enlisted July 1, 1775; served one month and eleven days.
Roddick, William, private, enlisted May 20, 1775 ; served two months and twenty-five days.
Rogers, Mark, first lieutenant, enlisted May 15, 1775; served three months and two days.
Tarr, Joseph, private, enlisted July 20, 1775; served two months and twenty- five days.
Tarr, William, private, enlisted July 20, 1775; served two months and twenty-five days.
Thompson, Cornelius, private, enlisted July 1, 1775; served one month and eleven days.
Thompson, Joel, private, enlisted July 18, 1775; served three months and two days.
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Toothaker, Ephraim, private, enlisted May 17, 1775; served three months.
Williams, Samuel, private, enlisted June 10, 1775; served two months and four days.
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL LANNABEE'S COMPANY.
Birthright, Peter, private, enlisted Jaly 9, 1775; served six months and seven days.
Dolph, Ellis, private, enlisted July 9, 1775; served six months and seven days.
Hall, Nathaniel, private, enlisted July 9, 1775; served six months and seven days.
Larrabee, Nathaniel, captain, enlisted July 1, 1775; served six months and sixteen days.
Snow, Isaac. first lieutenant, enlisted July 1, 1775; served six months and sixteen days.
Toothaker, Abraham, private, enlisted July 10, 1775: served six months and six days.
Williams, Samuel, sergeant, enlisted July 9, 1775; served six months and seven days.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM LITHGOW'S COMPANY.
Andrews, John, private, marched Aug. 6, 1776; served five months and twenty-three days.
Barstow, Isaac, private, served five months and twenty-three days.
Doughty, Benjamin, private, marebed March 11, 1776; served eight months and fourteen days.
Hunt, William, corporal, served five months.
CAPTAIN GEORGE WHITE'S COMPANY.
Adams, Adam C., private, enlisted 1777.
Adams, Samuel, private, enlisted 1777; served one hundred and twenty-one days.
Allen, Pelatiah, private, enlisted 1777 ; served seventy days.
Curtis, Benjamio, private, enlisted 1777.
Henry, Zebalon, private, enlisted 1777.
Toothaker, Seth, private, enlisted 1777; served seventy-nine and a half days.
Whittum, Thomas, private, enlisted 1777.
Wilson, William, private, enlisted 1777 ; served sixty -eight and a half days.
CAPTAIN REED'S COMPANY.
Samuel Adams, Badger Aderton, Robert Bray, Patrick Herfernan, Luke Nickerson, and Arch. Weymouth.
CAPTAIN SMITH'S COMPANY.
James Whittum.
CAPTAIN LANE'S COMPANY.
James Bibber, James Doyle, Jotham Doyle, and Samuel Webber.
CAPTAIN CURTIS' COMPANY, IN COLONEL MITCHELL'S REGIMENT. Bishop, Hutson, enlisted 1778.
Booker, Isaiah, eulisted 1778. Gardner, Seth, enlisted 1778.
llaskell, Ward, enlisted 1778. Johnson, Jonathan, enlisted 1778.
COMPANIES, ETC., UNKNOWN.
Alexander, Thomas, captain, enlisted 1776.
Curtis, Nehemiah, captain, enlisted 1777. Doughty, t James.
Farrin, t --- , private. Ilodgkins, Eli, ensign, enlisted 1776-80.
Leavitt, Caleh, private, enlisted 1775; killed at Bunker Hill. Leavitt,ยก Nathaniel, private.
Merritt,t Ilenry. Merryman, Iluston, lieutenant, enlisted 1776. Puriuton, John M., captain, enlisted 1776-80. Purinton, t Stephen. Small, ; Samuel, private.
# Enlisted for "the term of nine months from the time of their arrival in Fish Kills."
+ From traditional sources alone.
Small, Ephraim, private.
Stover, Simeon Q., ensign, enlisted 1776.
Trufant, Samuel, lieutenant, enlisted 1776-80.
PRIVATEEISMEN. VESSEL "SEA-FLOWER."
Abner Bishop, John Black, John Skolfield, Elisha Snow, Isaac Snow, John Suow, Marlbro Sylvester, Abraham Toothaker, Isaac Tooth- aker, and Josiah Totman.
WAR OF 1812-14. CAPTAIN JOHNSON'S COMPANY.# June 20 to 25, and Sept. 19 to 21, 1814.
David Johnson, captain ; Peleg Curtis, lientenant ; David Curtis, en- sign ; James Merryman (4th), Benjamin Raudall, Isaac Sylvester, James S. Wier, sergeants; Ebenezer Curtis, Thomas Merryman, John Reedl. Jr., Simeon Orr, corporals ; James Dunoing, drum- mer; Jacob Merryman, Fryeholt Esthmian, fifers.
Privates.
Alexander, Hugh, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Alexander, Isaac, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Alexander, Josepb, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Allen. Epbraim, Jr., enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Barstow, Robert, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Barstow, William, enlisted June 20 to 25.
Bibber, Courtney, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Blake, John (waiter), enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Blasland, William (waiter), enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Booker, Daniel, Jr., enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Clark, David, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Clark, Paul (waiter), enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Curtis, James, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Curtis, John, enlisted June 20 to 25.
Curtis, Paul, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Curtis, Simcon, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Douglass, George, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Donglass, William, enlisted June 20 to 25.
Ewing, James, Jr., enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Ewing, John, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Farrin, Winthrop, enlisted June 20 to 25.
Gardiner, Robert, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
HJersey, John, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
lodgkins, Benjamin, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Ingalls, John N., enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Jordan, William, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29. Kemp, Silas, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Matthews, Samuel, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Merryman, Benjamin, enlisted June 20 to 25.
Merryman, James (3d), enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Merryman, John, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Merry man, Michael, Jr., enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Merryman, Samuel, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Merryman, Waitstill, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Merryman, William, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Orr, David, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Orr, William, enlisted June 20 to 25, aud Sept. 10 to 29.
Perry, David, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Pinkham, Riebard, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Reed, William, enlisted June 20 to 25. Sinnet, Ilugh, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Skolfield, Samnel, enlisted June 20 to 25. and Sept. 10 to 29. Stevens, William H., enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Stover, Daniel, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Stover, David, enlisted June 20 to 25, aud Sept. 10 to 29. Stover, John, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Stover, Joseph, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Stover, Joshua, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
Stover, D'aul, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29.
Stover, Theophilus, enlisted June 20 to 25.
# From Treasury Department, Washington,
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Sylvester, John, enlisted Sept. 10 to 29. Sylvester, Marlboro', enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Sylvester, William, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Thomas, Jesse, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Toothaker, David, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Tolman, Levi, enlisted June 20 to 25. Webber, Charles, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Wheeler, John, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Wheeler, Simeon, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29. Wilson, John, enlisted June 20 to 25, and Sept. 10 to 29.
CAPTAIN SNOW'S COMPANY. Sept. 10 to 29, ISII.
Stephen Snow, captain; Paul Snow, lieutenant; William Merritt, ensign ; Stephen Merritt, Jonathan Holbrook, Elisha {'oombs, William Thomas, sergeants; Samnel Toothaker, Cornelius Too-
thaker, Kingsbury Eastman, Simeon Hopkins, corporals; Daniel Sawyer, Josiah Green, musicians.
Privates.
John Alexander, George Aubins, Humphrey Aubins, James Black- more (waiter), Samuel Blake (waiter), Jesse Coombs, Spencer Dingley, Ebenezer Dresser, James Eastman, Israel Holbrook, Elisha Hopkins, Timothy Kemp, George Leavitt, James Lorey, Isaiah Lunt (waiter), Isaac Merritt, Samuel Merritt, Samuet Otis, Jr., Leonard P. Prior, Joshua Purinton, Nathaniel Pur- inton (afterwards promoted to lieutenant), Benjamin Rich, Mark Ridley, Jr., Israel Small, Isaiah Snow, Jr., Jesse Snow, Jesse Snow, Jr., Samuel Snow, John Toothaker, Alexander Wilson, Seth Wilson.
IN COMPANIES, ETC., UNKNOWN.
Georgo Dyer, Leonard Dyer, Paul Raymond, Robert Purinton.
HARRISON.
PIONEERS OF THE TOWN.
THREE miles west of Harrison village, a broad ridge ex- tending towards the north rises into a summit eight hundred and eighty feet above the level of the sea. This is the high- est point of land in Cumberland County. It commands a fine prospect of the surrounding country. To the north and westward the broken hills and rounded peaks rise in the distance till the vision is obscured by the nearer out- lines of Mount Pleasant. Lake Sebago, with its clear, crystal surface, lies in the foreground, and the white cluster of buildings on the opposite side, nestling in the green foliage, is the village of Bridgton. Two miles south of this point of observation, along the broad ridge now covered with meadows and orchards, and an occasional grove of maples, the Carsleys made the first opening in the forest in what is now the town of llarrison, erecting a rude camp, which should serve as a shelter on their return the next spring to make a permanent home upon the lands which they had selected. There were three of them, the father, John Carsley, and his two sons, Nathan and Seth, who came from their former home in Gorham early in the spring of 1793, hauling their camping utensils and their wives on hand-sleds. They had come prepared for sugar-making, for which purpose they had erected their camp among the maples, and brought their ontfit. Mrs. Nathan Carsley had been brought up among the Shakers, at Alfred, whose society she had abandoned to share with her young husband the dangers and hardships of pioneer life. Sugar-making was scarcely over when the young mother gave birth to a son, whose title to the honor of being the " first white child born in Harrison" has never been disputed. William Carsley, son of Nathan, was born in the rude sugar-camp which we have described, on the 14th day of April, 1793 .*
Deacon Seth Carsley, then a lad of eleven years old, drove a six-ox team through the rough paths and aeross Long Pond on the ice to Bridgton, for lumber to build the first house. John Carsley settled a short distance to the north of the little church-yard, where he sleeps beneath a stone bearing the inscription, "First Settler in Harrison." Deacon Seth Carsley, who had previously lived with his brother, married Susannah Whitney in 1809, and purchased a farm near by. He was made one of the first deacons of his church on its organization.
In the little well-filled burying-ground, near the resting- place of the first settler, sleeps Nathan Carsley and his wife Susie, and many others of the pioneers. Here are Edward Bray, Charles Walker, James Chadbourne, and Elijah Scribner, all deacons of the same church, and Col. Haskell Peirce. A rough granite slab bears the rude inscription, " John Pitts-di-March-22-1827, ac. 91." Flere also is the memorial of Oliver Peirce, Esq., once the most pros- perous and influential man of the town.
A neat school-house now stands in a grove on the exact spot of the camp of the Carsleys of 1793, and the site of the later dwelling of Nathan Carsley is marked by a soli- tary locust-tree still standing. Passing down the ridge a mile to the south you enter a road running in a direct line from the Emerson burying-ground on your left to Harrison village. The valley to the east was once Otisfield ; to the west, Bridgton ; this being the old division line between the two towns.
James Watson, born in Gorham Fort, and afterwards a soldier of the Revolution, married a sister of Nathan Cars- ley, also came to Harrison the same year and settled on the Pond road, a mile south of the present village, where he erected the first frame house in town.
In 1797, Maj. Jacob Emerson, son of William Emerson, of Bridgton, purchased land in the south part of the town near the Emerson burying-ground, erected a house, and
William Carsley is father of Nathan Carsley, who married Mary E. Newcomb.
RESIDENCE OF EDWARD K. WHITNEY, HARRISON, ME.
RESIDENCE OF P. TOLMAN, HARRISON, CUMBERLAND CO., ME .
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worked there, improving his place, for three years previous to his marriage. Benjamin Foster, another Bridgton boy, a son of Asael Foster, purchased land near him the same year, and lived alone in a camp several years, after which he erected a frame house, married Miss Nancy Veasey, of Denmark, and, as population increased, opened the first store in the town.
Simeon Caswell, who was born in Taunton, Mass., in 1763, served a short time in the Revolutionary war, settled in Mi- not, Me., and removed to Harrison in 1797, in company with Nicholas Bray, an old army comrade, also from Minot. Mr. Bray opened a clearing on the " ridge," north of John Carsley. ITis son, Deacon Edward Bray, occupied the homestead after him, served in the war of 1812, and was one of the first deacons of his church. Rev. Nicholas Bray was a grandson. Mr. Caswell, who was the father of Simeon Caswell, also a soldier of 1812, settled on a farm a mile north of Bolster's Mills. Newell N. and John W. Caswell, leading manufac- turers of Harrison, are grandsons of Simeon Caswell, Sr.
Nephtali Harmon, son of Samuel Harmon, of York County, and father of Deacon William Powers Harmon, purchased of Joseph Moffatt, a former temporary settler, a tract of land three miles east of the village, in 1797, and immediately became one of the most prominent public men. Ile built a blacksmith-shop at the corner of the road which still bears his name, near the Summit Spring, was commis- sioned a lieutenant in the militia by Governor ('aleb Strong, of Massachusetts, in 1803, and made captain in 1805. Mr. Moffatt's child, who died on the summit, was the first person who died in Ifarrison. Another Nephtali Harmon, son of Rufus Harmon, of Sandford, came soon after and settled two miles south. They were known as Captain and " Little Nep." Samuel Harmon and George Harmon were his sons.
John Scribner, son of Edward Seribner, the " old man of Otisfield," settled on what has become since known as Scribner's Hill, near the Summit Spring, with Samuel Seribner, his cousin, in 1797. Col. Ebenezer H. Seribner, his brother, eame at the same time, married Phoebe, daugh- ter of Capt. Benjamin Kimball, of Bridgton, and settled on the west side of the summit. Willoughby, another brother, married a daughter of George Peirce, Esq., and settled in the south of the town.
John Woodsum, a descendant of Joseph Woodsum, the tailor of Berwiek, settled in Harrison in 1798, and has several descendants still living in the town.
Jeremiah Witham located south of John Carsley, in 1799. The Summit Spring was included in the farm of Abraham Burnham, who married Alice Scribner, of Wa- terboro', Mass., and was one of the earliest settlers in the town. Ile attached great value to his spring, which was almost unknown until 1876. This was considered the best location in the town even then. From the top of the hill could be seen the quiet lakes, surrounded by unbroken forests, which looked like a rich velvet carpet of many shades of green, changing with the seasons, while the mountains beyond rose half-barcd in rugged granite.
James Thomes, father of Ellison Thomes, and cousin of Col. Amos Thomes, settled in the south part of Harrison, near the Carsleys, in 1800, and was joined afterwards by
Col. Amos Thomes, who became a prominent and success- ful stock-farmer. Ilis son, who has succeeded him, is one of the most successful stock-raisers in the town and a promi- nent citizen. During 1800, Noah Stiles, of Bridgton, and his son Stephen settled in Harrison near Island Pond, and James Sampson, of Duxbridge, Mass., purchased the site of Harrison village, erected the first house on the flat, built mills on the outlet of Anonymous Pond, and opened a blacksmith-shop. His son, Ahira Sampson, erected his dwelling on the corner occupied by Walker & Monroe's store, and worked in the mill and shop. The first steam- boat on the lake, the " Fawn," was built and run by his grandson, Capt. Christopher C. W. Sampson.
Joshua Howard, father of Joshua Howard, who served in the war of 1812, and grandfather of Hon. Joshua Howard, settled in Harrison on the farm afterwards the home of Deacon James Chadbourne, and moved into a log house, without doors, on what was long known as the Howard farm, now one of the most valuable in the town, and owned by Jonathan Whitney. Levi Gilson settled in the northeast, near Crooked River, in 1803. He and his brother, Peter Gilson, who built a saw- and grist-mill below Bolster's Mills soon after, were formed, with John and Wil- liam Gammon, into a separate school district in 1812. In 1795, Edward Lowell located near Caswell's Corner, in the northeast. His grandson, Nelson Lowell, is the only branch of the family now living in Harrison.
Benjamin Willard settled near Anonymous Pond in 1805 ; Jonathan Lakin, father of Jolin, Loring, and Thomas Lakin, settled half a mile south of the Carsleys in 1806, became a prominent man, and died at the age of ninety-two. James IFobbs Chadbourne and Benjamin Chadbourne were early settlers of two separate families. Benjamin settled half a mile north of Mr. Dawes, near Anonymous Pond, in 1807; James H., a prominent citizen, settled on the Howard place in 1811. Thomas Cummings, who settled on the hill south of the village overlooking Long Pond in 1810, near Aaron Kneeland, a former neighbor, who had come from Topsfield, Mass., two years before. David P. Kneeland, the tenth son of Aaron, is father of Almon Kneeland, pro- prietor of the Elm House at Harrison. David Kneeland, who came earlier, had a house, two barns, and eleven acres of cleared land in 1795.
LATER SETTLERS.
Among the later settlers whose families are still residents of the town, Wentworth, father of Charles E. Stewart, settled in the northeast part in 1814; Enoch Hlaskell set- tled near Bolster's Mills in 1812, where his son, Thomas, be- came widely known as an adventurous hunter and trapper ; Moses Whitney settled on the old town line, half a mile south of Meadow Brook, in 1815. Ile was one of a family of eleven who served in the war of the Revolution. Ed- ward K. Whitney, a successful and extensive stoek-raiser and leading citizen, is his grandson. James Weston, father of the prominent physician, Dr. Loton Weston, was an early settler. Stephen Ingalls, father of Ezra T., and grand- father of Hon. Melville E. Ingalls, settled near the south of the town, near Capt. William Kilborn, whose sister he married, about 1800.
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Edmond Phinney, an early settler, who lived near Deacon Carsley, raised two sons, Revs. Clement and Joseph Phinney, who became Baptist ministers, and one, Thomas, who became one of the society of " Friends."
Samuel Perley, a cousin of Enoch Perley, of Bridgton, settled near the Summit Spring, to the south, where he died in 1828.
lIon. George Peirce, grandson of the first settler of Naples, and of " old Doctor Farnsworth," a land surveyor, representative, Senator, member of the Governor's Council in 1857-58, and justice of the peace for forty-two years, has been intimately connected with the development of Harrison since the death of his father, Oliver Peirce, in 1849. The family have always been prominent and useful eitizens, whose business energy in early days has been a public benefit. The first marriage in Harrison after its in- corporation was that of Daniel Scribner and Hannah Samp- son, July 2, 1806.
Daniel Jumper settled near the head of Edson Brook in 1802. His son Daniel, now living, is one of the oldest res- idents.
BURYING-GROUNDS.
There is no part of Harrison more intimately associated with the hardships of the early pioneers than that sur- rounding the church-yard where sleep the early settlers, and the Emerson burying-ground, where the town line road leaves its course to wind its way to the sonth. Col. Amos Thomes, Major Jacob Emerson, Capts. Peirce Scribner and Benjamin Foster, John Johnson, and Moses Whitney rest here, surrounded by a prosperity whose long coming they could not wait. On the summit, where the first busy school was taught, the fathers of the Burnham, Scribner, and Perley families sleep in family groups, overlooking the valley, accompanied by Deacon Edward Stanley and the venerable pastor, Rev. David Jewell.
Capt. Wentworth Stewart, Joseph Fogg, David Lowell, and many others have been gathered into the Ryefield Bridge Cemetery since 1859; another at Bolster's Mills is the resting-place of the more recent dead, among whom are Capt. John Brackett and Daniel Jumper, soldiers of the Revolution. In the east, the church-yard at Harrison village is most interesting for its beauty and the number of respected dead within its bounds. There are few citizens of Harrison who can not point out with pride the grave of some honored aneestor within these scattered folds. Many of the earlier dead still rest upon their homesteads.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
HARRISON VILLAGE,
comprising some 65 dwellings and 250 inhabitants, is built on a flat beside a sloping, sandy shore, at the northern terminus of the chain of navigable lakes, connecting by rail with Portland at Sebago. The tall spires of its three churches, and its large manufactories, are evidenees of prosperity, which began with the erection of the first saw- and grist-mill by James Sampson, near the wire-fac- tory, in 1800, and the custom earding-mill of Samuel Tyler, at the outlet of Anonymous Pond. Joel Whit-
more opened the first store in the village, in 1810, and Levi Burnham and Oliver Peirce afterwards. Deacon Silas Chadbourne was a tailor long before " ready-made" clothing was invented. Seth Carsley, son of Nathan Carsley, located early in the village, and ran a mill, where he soon aequired a wide reputation for his wooden plows. In 1829 he in- vented a machine for turning lasts and irregular objeets, took his model in a gig, and drove to Washington, D. C., where he procured his patent. In 1834 the manufacture of wire was commeneed by Grenfell Blake and lehabod Washburn. This has increased until the Eastern Wire Company (P. Tolman & Co.) occupy two large build- ings on the same ground, furnishing employment to 30 operatives. Newell N. Caswell erected a planing-mill in 1859, to which was added a grist-mill in 1865. Besides, there are here the manufactory of stave machinery and Woodworth's planers, T. HI. Ricker & Son, established for the manufacture of looms, by Luther Corman, in 1846; the elothing manufactory of Thomas D. Emery, established 1873, and employing 30 operatives; the stores of J. H. Illsley, established 1854 ; T. R. Sampson & Son, established 1862; Monroe & Walker, Evans A. Kneeland, established 1874; the Grange store, C. E. Tolman, C. E. Libby, estab- lished 1878; hotel of A. Kneeland, established 1860; paint store of Edward Bray, established 1871; E. M. Dudley, harness, established 1879; G. W. Wheeler, car- riages, established 1875; W. W. Kneeland, coffins and caskets ; A. S. Potts, J. S. Wentworth, smiths, 1861 and 1875. The tall brick chimney on Bear River, to the north, marks the woolen-factory, burned in 1872.
A line of eanal boats was established between Harrison village and Portland in 1828, and continued until the com- pletion of the Ogdensburg Railroad. Large storehouses and a tavern were ereeted, and for many years this was an im- portant eentre for trade.
BOLSTER'S MILLS,
lying on both sides of Crooked River in a deep valley, contains 140 inhabitants, the Methodist Episcopal church, and school-house, besides the business of the place. Isaac Bolster built the dam and saw-mill in 1819, a grist-mill in 1820, and soon after the post-office was created, with Mr. Bolster postmaster. His son, William Bolster, crected the fulling- and carding-mill in 1826, which was changed to a shingle- and planing-mill in 1870, by E. G. Coy ; the place also contains, in Harrison, a grist-mill established on the old Bolster mill site, in 1861, by O. G. Cook. John Brackett's earding-mill, established 1865.
Shoes : J. F. Allen, established 1872.
Harness : R. H. Cobb, established 1878.
Carriage Shops : Leander Dorman, established 1863.
Millinery : Miss E. Fernald, established 1872.
General Merchandise : Moses Hancoek, who is also post- master, established 1847. Grange store, established 1875.
A tannery was ereeted in 1826, run by Fogg & Billings, and closed in 1876.
The post-office is kept in either town, at the option of the postmaster. It was in Otisfield from 1846 to 1878. Mails are tri-weekly to Portland and return, by stage, leaving Bolster's Mills Mondays.
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CIVIL HISTORY.
The town of Harrison, named from Harrison Gray Otis, was formed from Bridgton and Otisfield, and was incorpor- ated by aet of the Legislature of Massachusetts, passed March 8, 1805, and comprised that territory south of a line east, 15 degrees north, passing through Island Pond, and included between Crooked River and Long Pond. The surface consists of high ridges spreading into broad rolling highlands, divided by Sueker, Edson, Meadow, and Johnson Brooks into three main ridges, the highest of which reaches an altitude of 800 feet above tide. The greater portion of these lands are under cultivation. Ilay, apples, and butter are the chief products. It is bounded on the north by Oxford County, on the east by Otisfield, on the south by Naples, and on the west by Long Pond and Bridgton. That part taken from Otisfield was surveyed by George Peirce, Esq.
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