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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
Treasurer to keep ye key ; the Clerk and Treasurer to draw in some public meeting. Any absent Proprietor to draw by any person he shall appoint."
NARRAGANSETT NO. 7, OR GORHAMTOWN.
30 ACRE LOT.
IO0 ACRE LOT.
70 ACRE LOT.
No.
I.
drew
IOO.
drew
83.
2.
66
77.
67.
3.
44
19.
4.
109.
49.
5.
6.
7.
66
103.
24.
8.
66
12.
66
12.
9.
66
49.
66
63.
II.
6.
I.
66
52.
13.
66
3.
66
3.
15.
66
67.
66
42.
17.
17.
66
29.
18.
66
45.
II4.
19.
66
95.
66
57.
20.
66
31.
66
33.
2I.
66
32.
66
115.
22.
102.
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8.
23.
83.
66
102.
24.
66
76.
66
40.
26.
66
53.
I.
27.
66
120.
66
41.
29.
66
II2.
66
78.
30.
66
39
66
85.
31.
66
26.
66
80
34.
36.
66
55.
35.
66
29.
66
32.
36.
66
61.
66
81.
37.
66
38.
66
72.
39.
1
74
66
39.
40.
30.
66
45.
41.
66
16.
66
5.
42.
50.
60.
108.
66
106.
37.
66
II.
2.
12.
14.
2I.
66
95.
16.
66
40.
50.
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1
33.
42.
56.
66
6.
38.
93.
66
100.
32.
65.
IOI.
66
69.
25.
108.
7.
28.
II9.
20.
94.
1
89
THE FIRST SETTLEMENT AND FIRST SURVEYS.
30 ACRE LOT.
IO0 ACRE LOT.
70 ACRE LOT.
43.
drew
91
drew
59.
44
25.
61.
45.
48.
IIO.
46.
99.
4.
47.
28.
30.
48.
118.
99.
49.
24.
66
76.
50
4.
66
43.
52.
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25.
53.
66
2.
66
64.
55.
7.
66
86.
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66
94.
59.
78.
66
71.
60.
47.
15.
61.
6.
107.
62.
65.
38.
63.
66
107.
66
93.
64.
66
II3.
66
89.
67.
III.
66
13.
68.
69.
66
62.
69.
6.
90.
66
96.
70.
81.
66
I13.
71.
66
58
14.
72.
66
9.
66
18.
74.
75.
66
88.
66
31.
78.
66
82.
66
73.
79
22.
53
80.
46.
66
70.
82.
66
57.
66
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83.
66
52
46.
85.
19.
66
9.
86.
66
72.
66
77.
88.
66
114.
54.
89.
90.
105.
66
74.
73.
14.
64.
76.
121.
77.
92.
66
51.
48.
81
84.
71
II7.
87.
60
58.
65.
66.
66
54.
28.
57.
58.
IIO.
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54
55
79.
51.
51.
91.
18.
41.
36.
82.
96.
44.
90.
80.
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
30 ACRE LOT.
100 ACRE LOT.
70
ACRE LOT.
91.
drew
II6.
drew
103.
92
15.
F
III.
94.
5.
1.
75.
95.
96.
34.
II6.
98.
106.
6.
88.
99.
8.
105.
100.
II5.
66
34.
IOI.
27.
66
22.
102.
104.
27.
103.
79.
66
17.
104.
23.
66
104.
106.
85.
II2.
107.
66
68.
108.
33.
47.
109.
66
97.
66
92.
113.
66
II.
66
16.
II5.
I16.
70.
66
87
II7.
66
84.
66
109.
II8.
86.
66
II9.
13.
66
66.
120.
66
75.
2 I.
I2I.
TO.
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I22.
66
35.
66
97.
III.
73.
84.
II2.
66
89
68.
114.
66
63.
56.
IIO.
66
59.
105.
66
122.
108.
97.
87.
37.
93.
66.
The foregoing draft of lots is what each thirty acre lot drew, both of hundred acre lots and of seventy acre lots. Of the latter, the " foregoing is a true draft, of each lot drawn to each original lot according to their numbers, being one hundred and sixteen seventy acre lots, which with six lots given by David Gorham, Esq. in lieu of 400 acres granted him near Saccarappa adjoining Falmouth ; and one lot or number left in the Box, not drawn, supposed to be for an original lot, No. 123, for a school lot; completes the number of one hundred and twenty three Rights. The numbers left by said Gorham as aforesaid are Nos. 75-84-96-107-109 & 118."
The boundary lines of the town do not seem to have been located very accurately by the early surveys, or at least they were not so marked as to be easily found, and were often the cause of much
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20.
35.
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trouble between this and neighboring towns. The General Court, in December, 1753, upon complaint of Joseph Coffin and Cutting Moody, who were a committee chosen by Narragansett No. I to petition the Court in regard to a dispute that had arisen between the Proprietors of Narragansett No. 1 and Gorhamtown concerning the town line, " Ordered that Richard Hazen Esqr Run the Dividing Line between the Said Township Nº I and the Narraganset Nº 7 with Chainmen On Oath at the Charge of the Petrs and make return of his doings therein into the Secretarys Office as Soon as may be."
January 20, 1762, the Proprietors of Gorhamtown " Voted Moses Pearson and Enoch Freeman, Esqs and Capt. Morton be a committee to petition the General Court to run and mark the boundary lines between Gorhamtown, Pearsonstown, Scarborough, Falmouth and Naragansett No. one; agreeable to a plan of Narragansett No. 7 lately settled by the General Court."
Falmouth, Gorhamtown and Pearsonstown all appear to have petitioned, for, in the following February, "Upon Petitions from the Towns of Falmouth, Gorham Town and Pearson Town," the General Court appointed John Bradbury, Esq., James Gowen, Esq. and Rich- ard Cutts, Esq. a committee to run out the lines of the towns of Biddeford, Scarborough and Falmouth, and to fix the bounds at the head of each ; also to fix the bounds of the townships of Narragan- sett Number Seven, Narragansett Number One and Pearsonstown, and to give each town forty days' notice before commencing. In July, Moses Pearson and Solomon Lombard, Esqs. and Mr. Jacob Hamblen were chosen by the Proprietors as a committee to attend the General Court's committee in settling the boundary lines with Falmouth, Scarborough, Narragansett No. 1 and Pearsonstown. The head line of the town (between Gorham and Pearsonstown) was run out in the latter part of September, of the same year, by John Brown, Esq., who was accompanied by committees representing the two towns; Austin Alden being one of the Gorham men.
In December, 1764, the Proprietors " Voted the Treasurer procure an attested copy of the General Court's Committee's report and their surveyor's plan of the several townships made in the year 1763, and furnish the Committee for perambulating the lines of the town with a copy and lodge the report and plan with the Clerk." They also chose Wentworth Stuart, Edmund Phinney and Bryant Morton a committee to perambulate the several boundary lines of the town with the selectmen or committees of the adjoining towns.
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
The plan of the several townships, Narragansetts Nos. 1 and 7, and Pearsonstown, with the lines of Biddeford, Scarborough and Falmouth, which was made by John Brown, Esq., Surveyor, in 1763 by order of the committee of the General Court, which had charge.of running out the lines just spoken of, having been lost, the General Court on June 2, 1767, ordered that the Secretary write to Mr. Brown directing him to make another plan of the same townships and lines, from his field-book and notes, make oath that it was a true plan, and send it to the Secretary's office as soon as he could. This was done and, on the twenty-second of the same month, the General Court "Ordered That the said Plan be accepted in lieu of the first men- tioned Plan, and it is hereby declared that it shall have the same force and effect as the first mentioned Plan ever had or could have had, to all intents and purposes whatsoever."
CHAPTER VI.
FROM 1745 TO, AND INCLUDING, THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.
Previous to the breaking out, in 1745, of what is known as the fifth Indian war, there were living in town the following families: Capt. John Phinney, Hugh Mclellan, Daniel Mosher, William Pote, Ebenezer Hall, Benjamin Skillings, Eliphalet Watson, Benjamin Stevens, John Eayer (or Ayer), Jacob Hamblen, Clement Harvey (or Meserve), Jacob Reed, Edward Cloutman, Jeremiah Hodgdon, William Bryant, William McCallister, James Irish, Caleb Crowell, and possibly Cornelius Bramhall, although we think not.
At this time the line of settlements ran close along the coast line, and Buxton, Gorham and New Marblehead (Windham) were in the frontier range of towns, and certain to be overrun by the savages. On account of this, there was great alarm among the inhabitants of Gorhamtown, and William Pote, Ebenezer Hall, Benjamin Skillings, John Eayer, James Irish and Caleb Crowell, with their families, removed to towns less liable to assault from the savage foe; most of them going to Falmouth, while a few returned to Massachusetts. The families of Capt. Phinney, Hugh Mclellan, Daniel Mosher, Eliphalet Watson, Jacob Hamblen, Clement Harvey, Jeremiah Hodgdon, William McCallister, Jacob Reed and Edward Cloutman moved into the fort, while of the two remaining families, that of William Bryant was completely wiped out (with the exception of a son), as elsewhere relat- ed, and it is not known with certainty whether Benjamin Stevens removed his to the fort, or left town. The inhabitants of Gorham numbered at this time about sixty souls, including men, women and children, besides ten soldiers and an officer furnished by Massa- chusetts to aid in their defence. A few families were added to this number from time to time, but with the fall of Quebec in 1759 and the triumph of the British arms over the French, with the consequent withdrawal of the Indians, many of the former settlers returned and took possession of their abandoned farms, and many new ones moved into town.
Nova Scotia being under English rule, the British Government, which had deported the French-speaking colonists in 1755, and
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HISTORY OF GORHAM.
granted a constitution to the country in 1758, sent troops to erect fortifications at Halifax to protect the country. The following is an account of the adventures of some Gorham men who were drafted to work on these defences in 1761, and is taken from the diary of Mr. Austin Alden, who was a Sergeant in Capt. Simon Jefferd's company:
On Wednesday, the 17th of June, 1761, at eleven o'clock in the morning, Austin Alden, Joseph Whitney, Nathan Whitney and Nathan- iel Crediford started from Gorham, and marched to Saco, where they joined Lieut. Lane and others of their company. During the first day they traveled as far as Kennebunk, where they stopped at "Jefferd's," near the Mousam River. In Wells they took dinner at "Maxfield's." It would seem that the Maxfield tavern in Wells has an old standing. They arrived at York the second night. The next day at Kittery the men were paid by Col. Sparrowhawk. Here Col. Moulton's men, and the company to which Alden belonged, took passage in a vessel for Boston. While on board Alden had two Johannes' stolen from him, but recovered one the next morning. Sunday morning, about eleven o'clock, they arrived at Castle William, and by one in the afternoon had landed all the men, when there was served out to each a blanket, a powder horn, a ball pouch, a canteen, and a haversack, and to each mess, a kettle. After which the men took possession of their quarters in the barracks. On the 26th they were all mustered into the service by the Muster Master General of the Castle, and the next day were embarked on board the transports bound for Halifax.
Following is the roll of Capt. Simon Jefferd's company, as embarked on board the schooner Recovery, at Castle William, Boston harbor, June 29, 1761 :
(In this roll I have marked the Gorham men with a G.)
James Whitaker
Sergt.
Austin Alden
Sergt. G.
Nathaniel Crockett
G. Samuel Stevens
Jonathan Stone Eleazer Ferguson
Corp. =
John Gray
Corp.
Robert Flood
John Alman, Drummer. Privates. Robert Moore.
John Weymouth.
Jonathan Gray, G.
Isaac Bunker.
Samuel Tobey.
Chas. Mahoney.
Samuel Goodale.
Thomas Kimball.
N. Gray Penney.
Walter Abbott.
Abbey McColley.
William Lewis.
Jacob Hooper.
John Smith.
Silas Abbott.
Isaiah Brooks.
Thomas Goodale.
Jonathan Shaw.
Benjamin Boothby, G. Jabez Lane.
Ebenezer Way.
Daniel Town.
David Hutchins.
Spencer Trueworthy.
Josiah Garland.
Nathan Whitney, G.
Walter Cousins. Aaron Bunker.
Nathaniel Crediford, G. Jonathan Adams.
IA Portuguese gold piece, worth about $9.
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FROM 1745 TO, AND INCLUDING, INCORPORATION OF TOWN.
Moses Thomes, G.
Isaac Winter, G.
Joseph Whitney, G.
Hew McRay.
Jonathan Crockett, G.
George Strout, G.
Samuel Grover.
Nicholas Henderson.
Martin Grant.
Phineas Ferguson.
Benjamin Grover.
Jonathan Holman.
Jonathan Nelson.
Peter Lovis.
Nehemiah Knowlton.
John Myrick.
Jonathan Clark.
Layton Williams.
Lawrence Tardue.
Henry Gloard.
Francis Hunton.
Andrew Cronoy.
Jonathan Hallett.
Joseph Brown, G.
Jonathan Green.
George Spencer.
Philip Allman.
Andrew Farrow.
James Niles.
Isaac Mohoo.
John Collier, captain's servant.
The Gorham men were all on board of the schooner Recovery, Capt. Thomas Crandall of Plymouth, Master. After being wind- bound until the 30th of June, the expedition sailed for their destina- tion, Halifax. On July 2d they spoke a ship from Liverpool to Boston, commanded by Capt. Daniel McDonald. On the 4th, some of the soldiers discovered a rocky shore close under the bows of the schooner - the fog lifted, and they escaped the danger. On the after- noon of the 6th they spoke a sloop from Halifax. On the same afternoon they arrived in Liverpool harbor (Nova Scotia), where they took in seven days allowance of water. July 11th, before daylight, they again set sail, and arrived at Halifax at 8 o'clock in the evening. The next morning they landed and joined the forces there assembled. On the 15th the men were set at work on the fortifications. The following Sunday, the 19th, all the troops were assembled and mus- tered, and then reviewed by the Town Mayor, after which the Articles of War were read by the Adjutant, and the conditions of the working parties defined. These conditions were, that they were to have no pay (probably no extra pay); each man to be allowed two quarts of spruce beer per day, he to pay for it, and the artificers to have a small allowance of extra pay. When this was over, Mr. Alden attended church, but heard no preaching.
Mr. Alden speaks on the following day of a Court Martial being held, of which Capt. Jefferd was president, for the trial of one, Prichard; and that Boothby became frightened, fearing he had enlisted in the army as a Regular. On the 23d, in company with Crockett, McColley, Gray and Stone, he went to Dutch Town ; he also speaks of Moses Whitney. Up to the 3d of August he records work and camp duties. On the 4th he met Capt. Joseph Mclellan,-an old acquaintance,-from Casco Bay, and tells of Stone, Crockett and himself going on board Capt. Mclellan's vessel.
There were the usual camp duties up to Sept. 4th. About this time he was taken sick and remained so until Capt. Mclellan arrived again, when he brought him four fowl, a pot of butter, four
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letters from his wife, and two from her father. Being still very sick, he took physic and rhubarb until the 10th, and chronicles killing his chickens from time to time as he required nourishment in his illness, and also records as a luxury, having had some buttered turnips for dinner. He was attended during this sickness by Dr. Stimpson, Dr. Cook and Dr. Mather. He speaks of frequent arrivals from Falmouth of captains whom he knew, and of boarding and eating with them. From his account, he greatly enjoyed these meet- ings with acquaintances from near home, and often they brought him letters and delicacies from his friends.
Mention has already been made of the men being divided into artificers and country laborers. The following part roll shows who of Capt. Jefferd's company were entered as artificers.
Names of some of the soldiers in Capt. Jefferd's company that went from Maine to build the fortifications at Halifax, Nova Scotia, by order of the English Home Government. Taken July 14, 1761.
Nathaniel Crockett
House carpenter. 6
Jonathan Crockett
Joseph Whitney
66
Thomas Kimball
66
Samuel Newman
..
66
Jonathan Stone
06 Joiner.
66
Isaac Winter
House carpenter.
Nathan Whitney
Jacob Randall
Joiner.
Jonathan Baker
House carpenter.
Jonathan Gray
.6
66
George Strout
66
66
Nathaniel Crediford William Cowen
David Hutchins
Bricklayer.
Joseph Weymouth
Smith.
Moses Thomes
Mason.
Robert Moore
Smith.
/ The following were classed as ship carpenters, wheelwrights, boat builders, millwrights, and other kinds of artificers.
Samuel Waite. Paul March.
Levi Hutchins.
John Burbank.
Daniel Lord.
Joshua Lasdel.
Downer Hutchins. Sam'l Burbank.
The balance of the company were called Country Laborers, and used the spade, pick and shovel. Some of the above men were trans- ferred to Jefferd's company from other commands.
Elisha Newman
Samuel Tobey
66
97
FROM 1745 TO, AND INCLUDING, INCORPORATION OF TOWN.
As Mr. Alden was an Orderly Sergeant, he did not work with the working parties ; his duties being to see the parties properly organ- ized; turning them out in the morning and bringing them in at night. Thus he passed the time, between his duties as Orderly, and sickness, up to the time of his return home. He several times makes mention of some of the men being confined, of Court Martials and of floggings, when from twenty to one hundred lashes were ordered, and says that none of the men thus sentenced were pardoned. There was an officer who was equivalent to a driver, or perhaps superin- tendent, who frequently rode about among the working parties, and, if they did not move as expeditiously as he thought proper, usually applied the whip, or a long stick which he carried for the purpose. This kind of argument was not pleasant to the Colonists, who were there at small pay, and not from their own choice ; - such treatment was the probable cause of many transgressions, and opposition to officers, which led to many of the Court Martials, floggings and imprisonments.
Many of the men were often sick, so that the usual number of men that were mustered mornings for duty in Jefferd's company was only from thirty-seven to forty-seven. On the 13th of November, Mr. Alden speaks of Jonathan Adams attempting to kill himself, but does not state the cause.
Oct. 8th all the Sergeants and Corporals met at the Captain's room on the Citadel Hill, about noon, by his orders, and were all treated to a glass of wine. It would appear that discipline was somewhat lax, as notice is taken of an order, which three of the Orderlies received, to keep the men in better subjection. Record is often made of confinements, and of men being put under guard. The men lived in tents until Dec. 7th, when the tents were turned in, and at the same time Mr. Alden received permission to return home. He was at first ordered to remain through the winter, much to his dissatisfaction, but by dint of much entreaty he finally persuaded his officer to countermand the order.
Dec. 12, 1761, all were ordered on board the transports. This order was obeyed with surprising alacrity by all. Mr. Alden was on board the ship St. Andrew, and he says he had a fine frolic in the evening in the great cabin of the ship. They sailed on the 14th at eight o'clock in the morning for Boston. After a stormy and tempes- tuous passage, accompanied with intense cold they anchored in Boston harbor on the 24th. The following day Mr. Alden put his things on board a Portland schooner, which sailed on the 27th, but on account
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of the weather, put in at Cape Ann. On the Ist of January, the schooner put into Winter Harbor (at the mouth of the Saco River), and as he did not want to be all winter getting home, Mr. Alden started on foot, by land. Saturday night he stopped at "Foss's " in Scarboro', and on Sunday evening, Jan. 3d, arrived at home, after an absence of nearly seven months. The account does not tell how or when the other Gorham soldiers reached home.
With the increase of population came the desire of a number of the residents of Gorham to be incorporated into a town, but this was opposed by many, and chiefly by the non-resident Proprietors, who objected principally from the fear of a rise in their taxes incident to the increased expenses of a town government. The first movement that we find in the direction of incorporation was in 1760, when at a meeting of the Proprietors held at the house of Capt. Joshua Freeman in Falmouth, on the 26th of February of that year, it was
" Voted Moses Pearson, Esq. be chosen agent to attend the Gen- eral Court, make answer and Show Cause why the prayer of the petition of Messrs Jno. Phinney, Bryant Morton and others should not be granted.
"Voted Capt. Waite, Deacon Cotton and Capt. Bangs, be a com- mittee to Draw an answer and Give Reasons why the prayer of the petition of Messrs Phinney, Morton and others should not be Granted."
Another attempt toward incorporation was made in 1762, when we find this article in a notification for a Proprietors' meeting, dated Jan. 4th : " To choose an agent, if the Proprietors think fit, to oppose the petition of a Number of Inhabitants of said Gorhamtown who pray that the lands in said town might be incorporated into a town, District, or parish, and that the inhabitants be Vested with power and privilege as in all other Like Cases." At the meeting, held on the 20th of the same month, it was voted to dismiss this article, and there is no record of any more active opposition being made to the measure.
As to the exact number of inhabitants in town at this time there is no record, but a fairly close approximation may be made from the County rate bill for 1763. By this County rate bill, committed to John Harding for collection, it appears that the tax for 1763 was £9-48-5ª-of. The assessment was made by Bryant Morton, Hugh Mclellan and Amos Whitney, assessors. The bill contains one hundred and twenty-nine names, two of whom were non-residents, and one a female, which would leave one hundred and twenty-six
FROM 1745 TO, AND INCLUDING, INCORPORATION OF TOWN. 99
male names, residents of Gorham, on the bill. Polls were then tax- able at the age of sixteen, and there are one hundred and forty-four taxable polls on the bill. Old Capt. John Phinney is the only resident who is not charged with a poll tax. Two persons, only, are taxed for their "faculty ;" Samuel Crockett, who is charged five and one-half pence, and Joseph Cates, two and one-half pence. Thirty-seven inhabitants paid only a poll tax, which was eleven pence each. The highest resident tax was seven shillings and five pence, charged to Hugh Mclellan. Of the seventy-five different sirnames, there are twenty-nine which are not now (1875) to be found in town.
If we take the one hundred and forty-four taxable polls for the male population over sixteen years of age, and allow the same number of females of the same age, it will give us two hundred and eighty-eight over sixteen, to which add fifty per cent for those under that age, and we have the population of Gorham for the year 1763 to be four hun- dred and thirty-two persons, which is probably not far from the fact. As to the amount of stock and the produce of the farms we have but small data on which to calculate.
The tax bill we have for this year is for but a small amount, and after deducting the sum assessed on the polls, there was but four pounds, eleven shillings, seven and one-half pence remaining, to be assessed on the property. Excepting those who paid only a poll tax, all who owned real estate are assessed, as well as nearly all for personal property. As this bill contains the earliest list of names of the inhabitants of Gorham, I will insert it here :
Alden, Austin.
Freeman, Nathan.
Irish, John.
Acors, Moses.
Freeman, Jonathan.
Irish, Joseph.
Bangs, Barnabas.
Freeman, Jonathan, Jr.
Irish, James.
Burnal, John.
Fly, James.
Irish, Thomas.
Brown, Joseph.
Emery, William.
Irish, William.
Bridges, Josiah.
Wro, Isaiah.
Jones, Henry.
Cazlee, John.
Gilkey, James.
Jelason, Samuel.
Cotton, John.
Gammon, Phillip.
Lombard, Soln., Jr.
Cotton, William.
Gammon, Joseph.
Lombard, Richard.
McCallister, William.
Green, John.
Lakeman, William.
Crocket, Samuel.
Goes, Jonathan.
Libbee, Joseph.
Cates, Joseph.
Hix, Lemuel. Ilarding, John.
Louis, Abijah.
Cresey, John.
Harding, Seth.
McDaniel, Charles.
Davis, Prince.
Harding, Zepheniah.
McDaniel, John.
Davis, Joshua.
Hamblin, Jacob.
McDaniel, John, Jr.
Crocket, Peletiah.
Hamblin, Daniel.
Mosher, Daniel.
Edwards, Richard.
Haskel, William.
Mosher, James.
(Freeman, Enoch.) Frost, Benjn.
Hodgdon, Jeremiah.
Murch, Walter.
Frost, David.
Hatch, Joseph.
Murch, John.
Murch, Ebenezer.
Frost, Elizabeth, widow. Files, William.
Hackelton, James. Hall, John.
Murch, Saml.
Hanscom, George.
Larry, Dennis.
Cobb, Elisha.
Jones, Samuel.
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McLellan, Hugh.
Quinbee, Jacob.
Whitney, Nathaniel.
McLellan, William.
Strout, George.
Whitney, Moses.
McLellan, James.
Stewart, Wentworth.
Whitney, Moses, Jr.
Morton, Bryant.
Skillins, Benjn.
Whitney, Amos.
Morton, Ebenezer.
Stevens, Benjn.
Whitney, Aaron.
Morton, Thomas.
Stevens, Nathan1.
Whitney, Joel.
Morton, Jabez.
Sawyer, John.
Whitney, Nathan, Jr.
Phinney, John, Capt.
Sawyer, Jonathan.
Weston, Thomas.
Phinney, Edmund.
Sawyer, David.
Weston, Joseph.
Phinney, Stephen.
Sinkler, David.
Watson, Eliphalet.
Phinney, John, Jr.
Sawyer, Stephen.
Watson, John.
Phinney, James.
Thompson, Phineas.
Webb, David.
Pilkenton, Joseph.
Tombs, Thomas.
Webb, Seth.
Peabody, Samuel.
Tibbetts, Joseph.
( Wait, Benj., Maj.)
Pote, Thomas.
Tinney, George.
Whitney, Joseph.
Rolf, Daniel.
Williams, John.
Whitmore, Samuel.
Rolf, Daniel, Jr.
Williams, Hart.
Nolan, David.
Rounds, Joseph.
Whitney, Nathan.
Warren, Samuel.
Rich, Lemuel.
Whitney, David.
Rich, Lemuel, Jr.
Whitney, Abel.
Finally, Oct. 30, 1764, the General Court passed an Act incorpo- rating Gorham as a town ; making it one of three towns incorporated in that year : Topsham, Gorham and Boothbay; Gorham being the twentieth in this State to receive this honor. This Act, which was passed at Concord, was as follows : -
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