History of Cumberland Co., Maine, Part 91

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 780

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NAVAL.

VESSELS CAPTURED BY THE FRENCH FROM 1796 TO 1800.

Brigs .- " Neptune," Capt. Bela Blanchard ; and "Cassia," Capt. Allen Drinkwater.

Schooners .- " Union," Capt. Samuel Larrabee; " Retrieve," Capt. Joseph Chandler ; " Dispatch," Capt. William Cutter; "Centu- rion," Capt. Philip Greely ; " Lucretia." C'apt. William Young. Sloops .- " Farmer," Capt. Asa Greely ; "Jane," Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell.

NORTH YARMOUTH PRIVATEERS.

The following is a list of the vessels sailed or partly manned and owned by the people of North Yarmouth previous to the close of the war of 1812-14. with the dates of their commission :

Schooners,-" Mary," July 7, 1812, 22 tons, 2 guns, 14 men ; Joseph Sturdivant, master; Reuben G. York, mate. " Reaper," April 17, 1813, 206 tons, 6 carriage guns, 75 men; Ephraim Sturdivant, master ; Andrew Blanchard, muate. "Ilsley," 143 tons, 6 guns, 75 men ; Ephraim Sturdivant, master; Andrew Blanchard, mate. " Pilot," July 9, 1813, 19 tons, 2 guns, 8 men ; Joseph Sturdi- vant, commander; John Underwood, lieutenant. "Luey," Dec. 22, 1814, 25 tons, 1 carriage gun, 26 men ; John Bahson, com- mander; Perez Drinkwater, lieutenant. Also the "Mars," " Morning Star," " Yankee," "St. Michael," " Favorite," "Lilly," "Partridge," " Rover," " Parrott," "Auson," "Revenge," "Si- perh," "Orange," "Lively," "Washington," " Fly."

Brigs .- "Rapid," " Leo," "Clio," "John Champlain," " Grand Turk," " Dash," Capt. William Cammet, first commander, 16 men ; lost at sea, under Capt. Porter, with all on board. " Leopard," com- missioned May 29, 1813, 226 tons, 5 carriage guns, 22 men ; Phineas Drinkwater, commander ; Benjamin Rich, lieutenant. Sloops .- " Satisfaction," about 1798, 100 men ; John Stevens, captain ; Joseph Drink water, first lieutenant and owner. "Razor," 3 tons, 1 carriage gun, 6 men ; Joseph Sturdivant, owner and master. Ships .- " llyder Ali;" "Invincible," previous to 1800 the " Fame," Capt. John Rush; " Butler," Capt. Elliott Decring; "George," Capt. Jonathan Stone; "Portland." Capt. David Harding ; " President," Capt. William Crabtree; "Portland," Capt. John Dicks.

THE PRIVATEER SLOOP "SATISFACTION"

was purchased by Lieut. Joseph Drinkwater and fitted out as a privateer, 1778. She cruised on the coast of Ireland, and was in some engagements.

Officers and Orer .- Captain, John Stevens ; first lientenant, Joseph Drinkwater ; second lieutenant, John Bartlett ; lieutenants of marines, first, Richard Thomas : second, Ezekiel Loring ; master. James Brown; surgeon. Thomas Flint ; mate, Thomas Brewer; prize-mates, Thomas Dolibee, Benjamin Tucker, Nathaniel Lee ; boatswain, Samuel Knox; boatswain's mate, William Atkins ; gunner, Samuel Dunlap : gonner's mate, William Patterson : musicians, John Bartlett, Jr., drummer: John Wormstead, fifer : steward, Nathaniel Pierce; cook, Joseph Browo; carpenter, Aaron Sutters: cooper, John Cumber; crew : Abel Bathoriek, Philip Beason, Elins Briars, Andrew Brewer, Thomas Brewer, Increase Bleffin, David Carter, Daniel Chapman, John Caswell, James Clerk, William Clark, Robert Deverie, John Dally, Ben- jamin Dodd, John Ellis. Richard Evans, Amos Grant, John Grant, John Green, John Gray, John Hilbert, Robert Harslet, Abijah Ilitchins, Jonathan Ilarrick, John Hooper, Jobn llam- mon, Benjamin James, Robert Johnson, James Jackson, Francis Jarvis, Timothy Kimball, Edmund Langford, Downing Lee, John Laroy. John Lewis, Francis Moscar, John Miller, Thomas Mebraid, William Murphy, Robert Nulling, Edward Newhall, Robert Newhall, Nathaniel Nichols, James Nash, Edward Noah, William Orehard, Thomas Oliver, Andrew Peltroe, William Roe, Sylvester Stevens, Jonathan Sawyer, John Scarlett, Nathaniel Tibbetts. John Thates, David White, Allen Whitford, James Wheeler, Thomas Wormstead; boys: John Bubien, captain's clerk ; Azariah Allen, James Dunlap, Amos Grandy, Benjamin IIanover, Jacob Incker, Nathaniel Pierce, Jr., Joba Price.

SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.

The following soldiers in Capt. John Gray's company, Col. Jonathan Mitchell's regiment, in the Penobscot Ex- pedition, enlisted July 7 to Sept. 12, 1719 :

Captain, John Gray ; first lieutenant, John Soule ; secood lieutenant, Ozias Blanchard ; sergeants, Joseph Luden, James Pittee, Robert Anderson, James Rogers; quartermaster's sergeant, Ezekiel Lor- ing : corporals, Samuel Talbot, James Crocker, Calvin Carver, John Winslow : musicians, Jacob Brown (drummer), David Wood- ward, Jr. (fifer) ; privates, Nathaniel Aldrich, James Anderson, Seth Blanchard, William Buxton. William Bradbury, Ephraim Brown, Joseph Brewer, George Bartol, Thomas Burrows, Daniel Carter, Amaziah Delano, John Davis, Joseph Davis, Abner Den- nison, Joha Drinkwater, Jr., Josiah Dill, Benaiah Fogg, Joseph Humphrey, Amos Harris, Ezekiel llackett, Josh Lake, John Lee, Samuel Lawrence, Nathaniel Mitchell, Daniel Mitchell, Jr., Levi Marston, Jacob Merrill, Jr., John Oakes, Thomas Pearson, Jr., Edward Parker, James Pomeroy, Isuac Royal, William Ring, Moses Roberts, Josiah Reed, John Sweetser, Barnabas Soule, Richard Stubbs, Thomas Sylvester, William Sonle, William True, Burril Tuttle, Zebulon Tuttle, Jonathan True, Edward Titcomb, Jr., Comfort Videto, Benjamin Winslow, Josiah Wyman, Daniel Worthly, l'eter Wear, Joseph Williams, Nathaniel Weeks.

The following signed receipts for blankets delivered theul by the town committee when with their commands in the Continental army, April 12, 1777 :

William Adkinson, Daniel Brown, Benjamin Brown, Moses Brown, James Curtis, Nathan Johnson, William Lawrence, John Law- renee, Joseph Lincoln, John Mitchell, Jacob Royal, Samuel Wio- throp Royal, William Royal, Starbird Turner, Jonathan True. Jacob Bradbury, aged sixteen, Capt. Blanchard's company, Col. Rus- sell's regiment, enlisted March 28, 1781.

Capt. Samuel Larrabee, Dr. David Jones, surgeon.

John Baghdineer, aged eighteen, Capt. Soule's company, Col. Russell's regiment, enlisted Jan. 9, 1782.

Samuel Baker, aged nineteen, Capt. Brown's company, Col, Russell's regiment, enlisted .Jan. 8, 1782.

Joseph Towns, Capt. Brown's company, Col. Russell's regiment, en- listed March 7, 1782.

WAR OF 1812.

The following enlisted September, 1814, and were us- signed to Fort Burroughs :

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Captain, Daniel Mitchell ; lieutenant, Amasa Baker ; ensign, Benju- miu Horrick ; sergeants, Jeremiah Mitchell, Jacob Blancbard, John True, Nathaniel Bacon, William Waistcoat; corporals, John Soule, Cushing Prince, Renben Brown, John M. Russell; musi- eians, Phineas Soule (drummer), Asa Bisbee (fifer) ; privates, Elisha Allen, Isaac Alleu, John Bracket, Cyrus Blanchard, Joseph Burton, Ephraim Batchelder, Rufus Batchelder, David Bosworth, James Brown, Samuel Beak, John Clough, John W. Collins, Eben Corliss, Benjamin Delano, Ezekiel Delano, Tristram Drink- water, John R. Drinkwater, Ammi Dennison, Benjamin Fogg, Jacob Favor, David Gray, Joseph Griffin, Stepben Hall, Willard Ilall, Ebenezer Jordan, John Kelly, Gershom Lincolu, Seth L. Lufkin, Seth Lambert, William Leighton, Charles Loring, Levi Lang, Joseph Low, Daniel Mitchell, Jr., John Meservey, Timo- thy Mitchell, Samuel Merrill, Thomas Marston, Robert C. Max- well, Thomas Nason, John Newbegin, Benjamin Porter, James Parker, Richard l'arker, William Parker, Renben Reed, Win- throp Royall, Samuel Soule, Isaac Soule, Isaac Skillings, David Shaw, William Smith, Levi Sweetsir, Salatbich Sweetsir, Samuel Sweetsir, John Swazey, John Snell, Daniel Staples, Reuben Skill- ings, James Skillings, Enos Sawyer, Benjamin Soule, William Thompson, Edward Thompson, Benaiah Titcomb, Jr., Enoch Tit- comb, Benaiah Titcomb, William Tyler, Zebulon Tyler, Bailey Talbot, Alpha Trebou, Jacob Winslow, James Whitney, Lemuel Wyman, Asa Worthley, Johu Whitcomb, Jeremiah Walker, John Whitehouse, John Young.

YARMOUTH GUARDS.

The following enlisted Sept. 11 to 18, 1814, and were assigned to Lieut .- Col. Samuel Baker's command :

Corporals, Solomon Winslow, John Scabury, Benjamin Pratt, William Seabury, Francis Yeaton, Levi II. Moulton, Solomon Winslow, Philip Lorry, William M. Drinkwater, John Sargeant, David Lawrence, John Pierce, Enos Storer, Simeon Prince, Ammi R. Mitchell, Jeremiah Blaisdell, John Winslow ; privates, John Blanchard, Nathaniel Beals, Benjamin Brown, James Bishop, William Batchelder, Ephraim Batchelder, Ebenezer Corliss, Charles Cutter, John R. Drinkwater, William C. Davis, Ammi Davis, Jeremiah Davis, James Field, Joseph Grouse, Rufus Gooch, Thomas Gooch, Benjamin Gooch, Rufus Gooch (2d), Reu- ben ITumphrey, Samuel Hatch, Jeremiah Loring, Samuel Lovell, Georgo Lewis, Jeremiah Mitchell, William Pettee, John Preseott, John Pierce, John Ross, Peter Ross, Isaac Ross, John Russell, William Sampson, David Seabury, Henry S. Swazey, Nathaniel Swazey, Benjamin Seabury, Charles Stubbs, l'eter Seott, Samuel True, Jacob True, Edward True, Bradbury True, Bradbury Truc, Jr., Nathaniel True, Benaiah Titcomb, Joseph Thomas, Thomas Wentworth, John Winslow, Thomas Wade, John Wilson, John Yoong.

May 4, 1812, Joseph Thomas, Isaiah Mitcbell, Thomas Gooch, Joseph Smitb.

July 26, 1814, Benjamin Seabury, Joseph Smith.

Sept. 8, 1814, Asa Bisbee, fifer, and the company required to be in readiness.

Detached from the Militia for Active Service .- Capt. Edward Brewer, Capt. Joseph Batchelder, Lieut. James Brewer, Lieut .- Col. Sam- uel Baker, Capt. Jacob Chase, Sergt .- Maj. John Ilayes, Capt. Jacob Johnson, Capt. Seth Mitchell, Capt. Jacob Merrill, Maj. George Rogers, Capt. Benj. Soule ; Ensigns Israel True, Nathan Weston ; Capts. Skillins, Leighton, Dennison.

OTISFIELD.

GRANT OF THE TOWN.

THE town of Otisfield originally extended to Harrison village and the outlet of Long Pond, and, including the greater part of Harrison and Naples, was originally granted to the officers and soldiers of Capt. John Gorham's com- pauy, in 1771, for services in the Canada expedition of 1690. Thirty families were to be settled within six years, a meeting-house built, and four shares of one sixty-fourth cach of the lands of the grant were to be set aside for the grammar school, Harvard College, for the first settled minister, and for a perpetual fund for the support of the ministry.

The unsettled state of public affairs delayed settlement until after the war, when returned soldiers, inured to hardship and privation, songht homes in the new country " to the eastward of Saco River."

In 1774, James Prescott and Stephen Gorham were sent from Boston to compel the town of Raymond to fix the boundary lines between the two towns; and George Peirce was induced to build a mill at Edes' Falls, then in the southern part of Otisfield, as an encouragement to settlers. " In the confusion of the times occasioned by the British invasion, in 1775, the proprietors' book was lost." So reads the first page of the subsequent record. In October, 1776,

a meeting of the proprietors was held at " The Bunch of Grapes," in Boston, and a second drawing for lots took place, in which lot 116 was drawn for the college, 120 for the ministerial, and 71 for the school fund. It was then voted that the town previously called " Parkerstown" be given the name of Otisfield, and George Peirce be appointed to survey and establish the lines of the lots.

FIRST SETTLERS.

The land comprised a dense forest, approachable only on foot or by boats, rising in high broken ridges, between which were numerons ponds, confined above their natural level by the industrious beaver, whose dams still mark the old " mea- dows," or remain secreted in the timber at the outlet of the remaining ponds, which has grown since they were aban- doned. Benjamin l'atch arrived at Mr. Peirce's May 17, 1776, after a four days' journey from Groton, Mass., making that his home while hunting and trapping beaver in the ponds and meadows. In 1779 he selected lot 92, on the western slope of the high hill now known as Meeting-House Hill, as his future home, spent the fall in clearing land, piled his log heaps while boiling sugar the next spring, and in June of 1780 planted the first erop raised in the town. Daniel Cobb, who was driven from Naples through fear

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of Indians, moved in the same spring, and located on the top of the hill. His son, the late Rev. William G. Cobb, born at Edes' Falls, Oct. 14, 1779, and Levi, son of Ben- jamin Patch, born Nov. 21, 1782, were competitors for the prize of 100 aeres of land donated to the first male child born in the town. The land was awarded to Levi Patch, as an actual resident. He was afterwards the first postmaster of Otisfield.

In 1778, Joseph Spurr, with his sons, Enoch and Samuel, settled at Spurr's Corners. Zebulon Knight settled on the hill near Mr. Cobb, and was joined by Jonathan Moors, an old soldier, in 1779, Noah and Samuel Reed loeating a mile to the northeast about the same time. Ebenezer Kemp and John Fife also carue in 1779.

A committee was sent to Otisfield during this year, to see if the conditions of the grant were being complied with, and in 1780 Dr. Davis Ray was sent to erect a saw- and grist-mill. In the woods, a few rods below Mr. Holden's mills (where the outlet of Saturday Pond flows through a erevice in the rock, then takes a plunge of thirty feet ), these mills, the first in the town, were erected. This became the central place for business, and at one time supported two stores, but the will was suffered to decay, and, after 1845, the business was transferred to Bolster's Mills and Spurr's Corners.

Lieut. Joseph Hancock (a cousin of John Hancock, of the Continental Congress ) settled, with his two sons, Joseph, Jr., and Thomas, at the head of Parker (now Pleasant ) Pond, where his grandson, C. F. Hancock's store, now is. Thomas, David, and Daniel Thurston located, in 1779, beside the beaver meadow, a mile south of the Spurrs; Mrs. Thurston attending at the birth of William G. Cobb in that year. Samuel Whiting located in the south part of the town, and in 1782 Mark Knight came. The proprietors were noti- fied that their lands would be sold at auction for not being settled. More time was finally granted, and in 1784 Joseph Wight settled at the head of a beaver meadow, near "the willow-tree," with his sons, Joseph, Jr., Benjamin, Thomas, and Nathan. Samnel Scribner settled on Scribner's Hill, in the south ; Jonathan Britton and Benjamin (father of Joseph and Ireson) Green northwest of Saturday Pond ; and in 1787 David Kneeland, Samuel Gammon, and Deaeon Stephen Phinney had joined the settlement.

On petition of Dr. Davis Ray, Benjamin Patch, Joseph Hancock, Jonathan Moors, and Samuel Gammon, a meeting was held, May 15, 1787, at the house of Deacon Phinney, to organize a plantation government. The officers chosen were David Ray, moderator of the meeting; Joseph Wight, Jr., elerk ; David Ray, Benjamin Patch, Noah Reed, assessors ; Jonathan Moors, collector.

In 1795 the following persons had also become residents of the plantation : Joseph Cotes, Nathaniel and William Edwards, William Gammon, Elias and Rowland Hancock (a second family of the name, who settled south of Bolster's Mills), Oliver llapgood, Stephen Johnson, Robert and Henry Knight, Ebenezer Kollock, David Mayberry, Joseph Morse, Dan. Morse (the first blacksmith in the town), Edward Scribner (who came in 1791 ) and his sons Joseph, John, Samnel, and Willoughby (settled on the highest land in the south of the town), Jonathan Smith, John Sawyer,

Elisha, Thaddeus, and Simeon Turner, George Walker, Zachariah and Thomas Weston, Nathan Haskell; in 1796, Ichabod Whitham, Nathan Nutting, John Holden ; and by 1803, Thomas Edes, Dennis Lovewell, William Anderson, John and Richard Lombard, Barney and Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Stevens, Timothy Jordan, Peter and Samuel Wardwell; Zach. Morton, Robert Anderson, Edwin, Joseph, and Daniel Scribner were annexed, with their lands joining Oxford County, formerly called Philip's Gore, in 1803.

In 1795 there were but 15 houses and 19 barns in the town ; George Peiree owned 2 horses, and 19 others owned 1 each. Among the 66 voters there were but 226 acres of cleared land, exclusive of the beaver meadows which had been partially drained, and furnished excellent pasture or hay. A careful canvass, made in the fall of that year, shows the entire potato crop to have been 86 bushels.

Many of the early settlers were soldiers of the Revolu- tion, and the greater number from the vicinity of Groton, Mass. In 1812 their descendants readily anticipated the need of the government for troops, and chose Capt. Daniel Holden, Grenfill Blake, Oliver Pierce, Silas Blake, and Ben- jamin Wight a committee of safety. A patriotic pledge, breathing the spirit of the great declaration, was signed, and the citizens responded cheerfully to the first call for troops with men already organized as minute-men. The oldest settler is John Edwards, who came in 1816, camped three years, brought his family in 1819, and is still living in the north part of the town at the age of ninety-one years.

PLACES OF HISTORIC INTEREST.

On the high hill where Daniel Cobb and Jonathan Moors settled, and the first two children were born, the first church, since replaced by a more modern one, was ereeted in 1797. Saturday, Pleasant, and Thompson's Ponds, and the distant Sebago Lake, were the only openings then visible in the wide expanse of timbered valley now broken by farms and numerous villages, and the high range of hills circling the county to the north and west were barely visible through the tops of the surrounding trees. Across the road the well-filled churchyard, selected by the proprietors as a bury- ing-ground in 1781, contains the remains of Major Moors, Joseph Wight, Benjamin Patch, and Levi Patch, the first child of Otisfield ; Dr. David Ray, first physician of Otis- field ; Samuel Seribner, Joseph Weston, " a soldier of the Revolution," and many other early settlers. The first male child born in the town-Elder Wm. G. Cobb-rests in the little cemetery south of East Otisfield, beside Pleasant Pond, with the early dead of his family. Half a mile or more to the south is the old first church, deeded to the town in 1845, and moved to its present position by Capt. Otis Fernald, Capt. Roland Holden, and Lyman Nutting, who removed the lower portion, but left the main features. Still farther to the south, but in sight of the town-house, a large willow- tree spreads its branches over the road.

Rev. Thomas Roby, the first minister, brought from Mas- sachusetts two willow-sticks, when he first came to Otisfield in 1796. One he cut in pieces and planted on his own farm, the ministerial lot, between Jolinson Knight's corner and Ray's mill. The other he gave to Mrs. Abigail Wight. who cut it in three pieces, two of which she planted on her

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own place. The third she gave Dr. Joseph Wight, who planted it in front of his residence. The latter is the tree referred to at the elose of the preceding paragraph.

The South Otisfield cemetery is honored by the grave of William Edwards, one of the first settlers, who died in 1847, aged ninety-four years, and others who shared with him the hardships of pioneer life.

At Spurr's Corners, Mark Knight and David Thurston cach donated half an acre of land, previous to 1801, to form the ground where they are buried. A smaller yard, two miles to the west, was opened after.

Elmwood Cemetery, near the church at Ray's Mill, eom- prises three acres of land donated by Deacon Eliphilas Wight. It was incorporated in 1869, and is the most beautiful cemetery in the town. The other principal bury- ing-grounds are the Seribner ground, south of East Otisfield, containing many old granite stones with the simple initials and date, among which is " E-S" (Edwin Scribner) " A- G-101-". The East Otisfield cemetery of the Wight family, and the North Otisfield, where are buried John and Capt. Elisha Lombard, David Sawyer, Timothy Jordan, and other pioneers. There is also an old cemetery two miles north of East Otisfield, and a small family ground a few rods east, near the lake, containing the grave of Nathaniel Lamb, who died in 1850, aged seventy-one.

VILLAGES.

EAST OTISFIELD,

on Thompson's Pond, contains the saw-, grist-, and shingle- mill of Stephen D. Jilson, established 1850, on the site of the old Scribner mill, J. D. Wight's blacksmith-shop, store of Horace A. Hall, established 1828, a school-house, and six dwellings. Mails are received by stage tri-weekly, con- necting with Oxford and Portland. Ilorace A. Hall, post- master.

BOLSTER'S MILLS,

in Otisfield, contains ten dwellings, I. H. Stuart's lumber- mill, the Hancock House, M. Ilancock, established 1859, and F. Chute's blacksmith-shop. It is a part of the main village in the adjoining town of Harrison.

SPURR'S CORNERS,

the Otisfield post-office, contains a church, school, the store of R. G. Scribner, closed in 1878, 17 dwellings, Bangs & Co.'s clothing manufactory, established 1871, shoe- shop of Benjamin Stone, Jr., established 1874, and half a mile east of the corner the store of C. F. Haneock, estab- lished 1849, and the carriage-shop of E. A. Holbrook. Mails from Oxford Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and from Portland the alternate days. R. G. Scribner, postmaster.

Nearly three miles south, on the Mayberry place, is the Oriental Mineral Spring, a new and popular resort for invalids.

INCORPORATION.

In pursuance of the act of incorporation of the town of Otisfield, passed by the Massachusetts Legislature Feb. 19, 1798, a warrant was issued to Benjamin Patch, yeoman, for a meeting to be held at the public meeting-house, May 28, 1798. At this meeting, David Ray was chosen Mod-

erator ; Enoch Spurr, Clerk ; David Ray, Pelatiah March, Zebulon Knight, Selectmen and Assessors; Lieut. Mark Knight, Treasurer; George Peirce, Esq., Constable and Collector ; Elijah Turner, David Mayberry, Tithing-Men ; Capt. P. March, Jonathan Moors, Nathan Burnam, Fence- Viewers.

A strip, 410 rods wide, was annexed to the northeast side in 1803; that part of the original grant west of Crooked River was taken off in 1805; a part of Naples was taken off in 1834; and 47 acres were added to the east in 1858. The surface, which is low, broken, and well timbered, in- eludes Little, Moose, Saturday, and the greater part of Pleasant Pond. Otisfield is the most northerly town in Cumberland County. It is bounded on the north by Nor- way, in Oxford County, on the east by Oxford, Thompson's Pond, and between 350 and 400 acres of land not incor- porated in any town,* on the south by Casco and Naples, and on the west by Harrison, Crooked River forming the boundary line.

CIVIL LIST.

SELECTMEN.

ASSESSORS OF OTISFIELD PLANTATION.

1787 .- David Ray, Benjamin Hatch, Noah Reed. 1788 .- David Ray, Zebulon Knight, Benjamin Pateh. 1789 .- The same were said to have held over. 1790 .- David Ray, Zebnion Knight, Jonathan Moors. 1791 .- The same were said to have held over. 1792-93 .- David Ray, Zebulon Knight, Benjamin Patch. 1794 .- Joseph Wight, Jr., Enoch Spurr, David Thurston. 1795 .- Joseph Wight, Jr .. David Thurston, Jonathan Britton. 1796-97 .- David Ray, Samnel Gammon, Capt. Pelatiah Mareh.

SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF OTISFIELD.

1798 .- David Ray, Pelatiah Mareh, Zehnlon Knight. 1799 .- Capt. Pelatiah March, David Thurston, Jonathan Britton. 1800 .- Pelatiah March, Enoch Spurr, Daniel Ilolden. 1801-2 .- Enoch Spurr, Daniel Hollen, Nathaniel Burnam. 1803 .- Lient. Daniel Holden, Dr. Sireno Burnell, Lient. Robert An- derson, Samuel Scribner, David Thurston. 1804 .- Benjamin Wight, David Ray, Pelatiah March. 1805 .- Enoch Spurr, Zebulon Knight, Capt. Robert Anderson. 1806 .- Enoch Spurr, Benjamin Wight, Rohert Anderson. 1807 .- Enoch Spurr, Zebulon Knight, Benjamin Wight. 1808 .- Enoch Spurr, Stephen Knight, Robert Anderson. 1809-10 .- Daniel Holden, Stephen Knight, Robert Anderson. 1811 .-- Daniel llolden, Enoch Spurr, Grinfill Blake. 1812-13 .- Daniel Holden, Enoch Spurr, Benjamin Wight. 1814-17 .- Grintill Blake, Daniel Holden, Thomas B. Chambers. 1818 .- Grinfill Blake, Nathan Wight, Oliver Peiree, Esq. 1819 .- Nathan Wight, Francis Chute, Silas Blake. 1820 .- Grintill Blake, Oliver Peiree, Benjamin Wight. 1821 .- Benjamin Wight, Oliver Peirce, Enoch Spurr. 1822 .- Benjamin Wight, Thomas Shedd, Oliver Peirce.

1823 .- Benjamin Wight. Thomas Shedd, Francis Chnte. 1824 .- Thomas Shedd, Roland Ilollen, Francis Chnte. 1825 .- Jonathan Britton, Roland Hoklen, Benjamin Holden. 1826 .- Thomas Shedd, Benjamin Wight, Roland Holden. 1827 .- Roland Holden, John Phipps, John Liunell. 1828 .- Roland Holden, Thomas Shedd, John Phipps. 1829 .- Roland Holden, Oliver Ilaneock, Jonathan Britton. 1830 .- Roland Itolden, Benjamin Wight, Wyatt Turner. 1831-32 .- Roland llolden, Wyatt Turner, Harvey Mayberry. 1833 .- Henry Holden, Samuel R. Anderson, Jefferson Bray. 1834 .- Roland Ilolden, Henry Holden, John llancock.

# The land " unassigned to any town" is the property of Dominiens J. Edwards, and has had no resident owner for some years. It com- prises 347 acres, on the west side of Thompson's Pond, which has never been taxed.

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History of Cumberland Co., Maine, Part 91

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 780

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 780