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HISTORY OF ISLESBOROUGH.
JAMES TRIM'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
. James Trim's Lot in Islesborough, October 23, 1799.
Surveyed for James Trim a lot in north-east division on Long Island, in Islesborough, in the county of Hancock, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the east bank of said island, thence running north forty-seven degrees west adjoining on Jona- than Parker's land, two hundred and fifty-three rods to a stake and stones; thence north forty-two degrees east sixty-one rods to a stake and stones; thence south forty- seven degrees east adjoining on Prince Holbrook's land, two hundred and seventy rods to a stake and stones stand- ing on the bank at shore; thence southerly as Penobscot east bay runs, bounded thereby sixty-one rods at right angles to the first-mentioned bounds; containing one hun- dred acres of land.
JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. About twenty-five acres middling, the rest swampy, cold, poor land ; about fifteen acres hard wood, the rest spruce ; no good timber. No landing for a boat. Six miles to mill by water. No water in a dry time.
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JONATHAN PARKER'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Jonathan Parker's Lot in Islesborough, County of Hancock.
Surveyed for Jonathan Parker a lot of land in north- east division on Long Island, in Islesborough, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the east bank of said island, thence running north forty-seven degrees west adjoining on Samuel Veazie's land, one hundred and sixty-three rods to a stake and stones ; thence north forty-two degrees east seventy-eight rods to a stake and stones; thence south forty-seven de- grees east adjoining on James Trim's land, two hundred and fifty-eight rods to a stake and stones standing on the bank at the shore; thence south-westerly as Penobscot east bay runs, bounded thereby to the first-mentioned bounds; containing one hundred acres of land.
JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. Thirty acres middling good land; fifty acres swamp, mossy, cold, spruce wood, poor land; twenty acres about one half middling, very little hard wood, chiefly spruce, greatest part dead; no good timber. Seven miles to mill by water.
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JONATHAN COOMBS' CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Jonathan Coombs' Lot in Islesborough, County of Hancock, October 25, 1799.
Surveyed for Jonathan Coombs a lot of land in north- east division, on land bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the east bank of said island, thence running north forty-seven degrees west adjoining on Samuel Warren, Jr.'s, land, one hundred and twenty rods to a stake and stones; thence north seven degrees east one hundred and fifty rods to a yellow birch tree ; thence south fifty-seven degrees east, ninety rods to a stake and stones standing on the bank at shore; thence southerly as Penobscot east bay runs, bounded thereon to the first-mentioned corner ; containing one hundred acres of land. JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. Thirty acres middling good land; twenty about half middling ; fifty swamp, cold, poor land ; spruce wood ; no good timber. Six miles to mill by water.
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MIGHILL PARKER'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Mighill Parker's Lot in Islesborough, in the County of Hancock, October 19, 1799.
Surveyed for Mighill Parker a lot of land in north-east division on Long Island, in Islesborough, bounded as fol- lows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the east bank of said island, thence running north forty- seven degrees west adjoining on Hosea Coombs' land, one hundred and sixty rods to a stake and stones; thence north twenty-two degrees east one hundred and thirty rods to a stake and stones; thence south forty-seven degrees east adjoining on Joseph Woodard's land, one hundred rods to a stake and stones standing on the bank at Sabbath-Day Harbor; thence easterly and southerly as the said harbor and Penobscot east bay runs, to the first- mentioned corner ; containing one hundred acres of land. JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. About twenty-five acres middling good land, hard wood; the rest swampy, cold, mossy, poor, broken with gullies ; spruce wood, chiefly dead. Seven miles to mill by water.
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HOSEA COOMBS' CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Hosea Coombs' Lot on Long Island, in Islesborough, in the County of Hancock, Oct. 19, 1799.
Beginning at a cedar tree marked for a corner, thence running north forty-seven degrees east adjoining on Noah Dodge's land, nineteen rods to a stake and stones; thence north seventy degrees east adjoining on said Noah's land, thirty rods to a stake and stones ; thence south forty-seven degrees east adjoining on Mighill Parker's land, one hun- dred and eighty-six rods to a stake and stones standing on the bank of Penobscot east bay; thence south-westerly as said bay runs, bound thereon seventy-two rods at right · angles to a white birch tree; thence north forty-seven degrees west adjoining on Capt. Anthony Coombs' lot, one hundred and ninety-six rods to a stake and stones ; thence adjoining on William Grinnell's land to the first- mentioned corner ; containing eighty-seven acres of land. JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. About one half good land ; one half swampy, cold, poor land ; one fourth hard wood, birch and maple ; three fourths of wood spruce. No water in a dry time.
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ANTHONY COOMBS' CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Capt. Anthony Coombs' and Ephraim Coombs' Lots, in Islesborough, Oct. 30, 1799.
Surveyed for Capt. Anthony Coombs and Ephraim Coombs a lot of land in common and undivided in north- east division on Long Island, in Islesborough, in the county of Hancock, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a white rock on the east shore of said island, thence running north forty-three degrees west adjoining on Joseph Williams' lot, twenty-nine rods to a spring ; thence north nineteen degrees west adjoining on said Williams' lot, eighty-four rods to a stake and stones ; thence north forty-seven degrees west adjoining on said Williams' lot, one hundred and sixteen rods to a stake and stones ; thence north thirty-one degrees east twenty-six rods to a stake; thence north forty-four degrees east seventeen rods to a stake; thence north thirty-six degrees east adjoining on William Grinnell's lot, thirty-four rods to a stake ; thence south forty-seven degrees east adjoining on Hosea Coombs' lot, one hundred and ninety-six rods to a white birch tree standing on the bank at shore; thence south- erly and westerly as Penobscot east bay runs, bounded thereby to the first-mentioned corner; containing one hundred and sixteen acres of land.
JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. Thirty acres good land; thirty acres swamp, cold, poor land, spruce wood; the rest broken, ledgy land. No water in a dry time except one spring. Eight iniles to mill by water. About an acre fit for plowing in a piece.
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THOMAS GILKEY'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, PRIOR TO 1783.
Thomas Gilkey's Lot on Long Island, in Islesborough, November 6, 1799.
Surveyed for Thomas Gilkey a lot of land in Isles- borough, in the county of Hancock, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the northerly bank of Long Island harbor, thence north sixty- five degrees east adjoining on Charles Thomas' land, two hundred and twenty-one rods to a stake and stones ; thence south seventeen degrees east sixty-one and one half rods to a stake and stones; thence south sixty-five degrees west adjoining on John Gilkey's land, one hundred and thirty-seven rods to a spruce tree standing on the west bank of Mill Cove; thence south-westerly and northerly as the said cove and Long Island harbor runs, bounded thereon to the first-mentioned bounds; containing one hundred acres of land.
JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. About thirty-three acres good land, wood birch and maple; thirty-three acres swamp, wood spruce ; thirty-four acres cold, flat land, wood spruce.
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ROBERT SHERMAN'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Robert Sherman's Lot in Islesborough, November 3, 1799.
Surveyed for Robert Sherman a lot of land in south- west division on Long Island, in Islesborough, in the county of Hancock, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones on the bank, thence running south seventeen degrees east adjoining on Robert Coombs' land, twenty-eight rods to a stake and stones; thence south sixty-seven degrees east adjoining on said Coombs' land, thirty-nine rods to white birch stumps; thence south seventeen degrees east adjoining on said Coombs' land, ten rods to a maple tree ; thence south sixty degrees west adjoining on Jeremiah Hatch's land, two hundred and twelve rods to a stake and stones; thence north forty- eight degrees west adjoining on said Hatch's land, three rods to a stake at the shore of Penobscot west bay ; thence north-easterly as said bay runs, bounded thereon to the first - mentioned corner ; containing seventy - two acres of land. JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. One third good land; one third swamp, cold, poor land ; one third half-middling, broken with ledges. No water in a dry time. No good harbor for a boat. The wood now on the land chiefly spruce, and no good timber.
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JEREMIAH HATCH'S CLAIM AS A SETTLER, 1784.
Islesborough, November 4, 1799.
Surveyed for Jeremiah Hatch a lot of land on Long Island, in south-west division, bounded as follows, viz .: Beginning at a stake and stones standing on the bank of Penobscot west bay, thence running south forty-eight degrees east adjoining on Robert Sherman's land, three rods to a stake and stones; thence north sixty degrees east adjoining on said Sherman's land, two hundred and twelve rods to a maple tree marked for a corner; thence south seventeen degrees east adjoining on Robert Coombs' land, sixty-six rods to a hemlock tree, south sixty degrees west adjoining on Joseph Farrow's land, two hundred and seventy rods to a birch stump for a corner, standing on the bank of said bay; thence north-easterly as said Penobscot west bay runs, to the first-mentioned corner ; containing ninety-six acres of land.
JOHN HARKNESS, Surveyor.
N. B. Thirty acres middling good land; forty acres swamp, cold, spruce, poor land ; twenty-six about half- middling ; the upland broken with ledges. No water in a dry time. No good harbor for a boat.
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CHAPTER III.
THE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.
TN 1788 the subjoined petition was sent to the General Court, asking for incorporation as a town, by the name of Winchester :
To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, in General Court assembled :
Humbly shews the committee appointed by the inhabit- ants of Long Island Plantation, in the county of Lincoln, that there has been several surveys of the said island, from the report of which we have always understood that no part of the centre of said island lay within three miles of the main, except from the report of Capt. Stone, who made the last survey, who says that the said island was within three miles of the main; but your petitioners humbly beg leave to observe that they conceive Capt. Stone may be mistaken, as they have understood that in his calculations he governed himself by Grant's survey and plan, which survey by said Grant is deemed very erroneous. It appears by the resolve of the Honorable General Court, confirming the grant of thirty miles to the heirs of Brigadier General Waldo, that all islands whose centre is within three miles of the main shall be considered and included within this grant. Your peti- tioners conceive that the true meaning of the word centre is by a line running through the centre of said island, and not confined to any point or neck of land jutting out of the body of said island.
LILY POND, HEAD OF SPRAGUE'S COVE.
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Since the survey and report made by Capt. Stone, your petitioners have had an accurate survey of the distance of said island from the main, by an able surveyor, who assures your petitioners that no part of said island is within three miles of the main, and chainmen were duly sworn to faithfully and truly execute the duty of their several sta- tions. Your petitioners therefore humbly entreat the Honor- able General Court that some disinterested principal inhab- itant in the vicinity may be empowered as well in behalf of the inhabitants as of the Commonwealth, to employ and inspect such persons as he may think capable of taking an accurate survey of the true distance of said island from the main, and make report thereof to the Honorable the General Court for their determination, and your petitioners will defray the expense attending such survey.
Your petitioners also entreat the Honorable General Court that all tax bills forwarded to be assessed on said plantation and its inhabitants may be stayed, and the assessing and col- lecting the same may be suspended until the lands are meted out and confirmed to the settlers, and a legal valuation can be presented. And as the different plantations in this part of the county of Lincoln are to be incorporated, your peti- tioners pray that Long Island Plantation, with the islands contiguous, may be incorporated into a town by the name of Winchester, that the inhabitants may be in the enjoyment of those privileges which are annexed to towns corporate, there being more than sixty families settled and residing therein, and as in duty bound will ever pray.
SHUBAEL WILLIAMS, 2 JOHN GILKEY, Committee.
Long Island, Oct. 22, 1788.
January 28, 1789, the act was passed, but the name was changed.
An act for incorporating Long Island Plantation, with islands adjacent, in the county of Lincoln, into a town by the name of Islesborough.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., that the tracts of land
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described as follows, viz .: Long Island, Seven-Hundred- Acre Island, Job's Island and Lime Island, situated in Penobscot bay, in the county of Lincoln, with the inhabit- ants thereon, be and they are incorporated into a town by the name of Islesborough.
FIRST TOWN MEETING IN ISLESBOROUGH, 1789.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To Shubael Williams, one of the principal inhabitants of Long Island Plantation, in said county, yeoman :
Whereas by an act of greeting the General Court passed the twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand seven hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided that the land described as follows, viz., Long Island, Seven-Hundred- Acre Island, Job's Island, and the Lime Islands, situated in Penobscot bay, in the county of Lincoln, with the inhabit- ants, be and they are hereby incorporated into a town by the name of Islesborough; and whereas by the same act the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for the said county, is directed to issue his warrant to one of the principal inhabitants of the said plantation, to call a meeting of the inhabitants thereof in the name of the Commonwealth, directed to notify the meeting of the inhabitants next at nine of the clock in the forenoon, at the dwelling house of you, the said Shubael Williams, for the following purpose, viz .: To choose all such officers as towns are by law requested to choose at their annual meeting, in the month of March or April annually, and to act on all such other busi- ness as may be necessary to be done.
Given under my hand and seal at Penobscot, this seven- teenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
GABRIEL JOHONNOT, Esq.
Islesborough, April 6, 1789.
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April 6, 1789. A record of the first meeting after the incorporation of the town.
Agreeable to the above warrant, we met at the time and place appointed.
I. Voted Thomas Ames moderator.
2. Voted Fields Coombs town clerk.
3. Voted Capt. William Pendleton, Valentine Sherman and Fields Coombs, selectmen.
4. Voted Capt. John Pendleton for town treasurer.
5. Voted Hosea Coombs and John Gilkey, constables.
6. Voted Harry Pendleton and Capt. Peter Coombs, tythingmen.
7. Voted Capt. Anthony Coombs surveyor of wood and other lumber.
8. Voted Capt. Thomas Pendleton and Noah Dodge, surveyors of highways.
9. Voted Noah Dodge and Joshua Pendleton, for hog- reeves and fence-viewers.
Io. Voted Gabriel Johonnot seven votes for register of deeds. Voted Richard Hunnewell seven votes for reg- ister of deeds.
April 15, 1789, same year, they called a town meeting. Voted to raise taxes.
Town meeting June 9, 1789. Voted John Gilkey and Samuel Pendleton to lay out town roads.
Town meeting April 19, 1790. William Pendleton, Shubael Williams and John Gilkey, selectmen.
Voted hogs run at large, but yoked, according to law, from Ioth May to last of October.
Town meeting Nov. 25, 1790. Voted for a repre- sentative to send to Congress. George Thatcher, Esq., had sixteen votes.
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Town meeting April 24, 1791. William Elwell, Samuel Warren and William Grindle, selectmen.
Town meeting Sept. 4, 1794. Voted that the town be divided into districts for schooling, and every district have his part of the money now assessed for that purpose and put to that use.
Town meeting April 6, 1795. Samuel Warren, Wil- liam Philbrook and Godfrey Trim, selectmen.
Voted that the whole sum of money as assessed for building the meeting-house, the bills shall be returned to the selectinen again, and they that have paid shall receive their money again from the constable.
Town meeting April 4, 1796. Samuel Warren, Shu- bael Williams and William Philbrook, selectmen.
Town meeting April 3, 1797. Samuel Warren, Mighill Parker and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Town meeting April 4, 1798. Samuel Warren, John Gilkey and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Town meeting Nov. 5, 1798. Agreed to build a ineet- ing-house, and voted John Gilkey, Joseph Boardman and Mighill Parker for committeemen to purchase a spot of land and cultivate the same at the best and cheapest rates.
Voted to leave it with the said committee to build said meeting-house at the best advantage for the town.
Voted four hundred dollars to be laid out upon building the said meeting-house, &c., &c.
Town meeting April 1, 1799. Samuel Warren, John . Gilkey and Jeremiah Hatch, selectmen.
Voted to do nothing about the meeting-house.
Town meeting October 7, 1800. Voted to select a minister. Voted Charles Thomas for the minister.
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At the town meeting April 23, 1792, Samuel Warren, William Grindle and William Elwell, selectmen.
Town meeting, May 1, 1792.
Voted for a separation, fifteen votes ; voted against it, nine votes.
Voted every man must work one day on the highway.
Voted to choose a committee to fix a place where to set up a meeting-house. William Elwell, Anthony Coombs and Samuel Pendleton for the committee.
Voted hogs run at large if properly yoked.
That the constables shall have one shilling on the pound for collecting of rates.
Town meeting, January 14, 1793.
Voted to build a meeting-house.
Voted to choose two men to appoint a plan to build a meeting-house.
Voted Capt. Job Pendleton and Capt. Godfrey Trim for said men, and appoint the place.
Voted Capt. Shubael Williams and Mighill Parker for committeemen to agree with carpenters to build the meet- ing-house, the work part thirty by forty, one story high.
Voted fifty pounds be raised to build said house and other charges.
At the regular town meeting, April 1, 1793, Samuel Warren, Shubael Williams and William Elwell, selectmen.
Town meeting May 30.
Town meeting, Sept. 5, 1793. Voted liberty to keep bars across the highway, if so minded.
At the town meeting, April, 1794, Shubael Williams and John Pendleton were selectmen.
Voted that fifty pounds, that is now assessed for build- ing a meeting-house, shall be collected for building two
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meeting-houses, and each end of the town have their part, what they paid for building said house.
Voted to settle Mr. Thomas Ames a minister, under salary of twenty pounds a year.
Town meeting, April 7, 1800. Samuel Warren, John Gilkey and Jeremialı Hatch, selectinen.
Voted gates, and across the road.
Town meeting, Aug. 25, 1800. Voted to have a town school-master.
Voted one hundred and twenty dollars to support a town school.
Town meeting, April 6, 1801. Samuel Warren, Jere- iniah Hatch and Fields Coombs, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 5, 1803. Mighill Parker, Jere- miah Hatch and Benjamin Williams, selectmen.
Voted Ephraim Coombs rates-gatherer, three cents per dollar.
Town meeting, April 7, 1803. Samuel Warren, John Gilkey and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 2, 1804. Samuel Warren, John Gilkey and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Town meeting, Nov. 5, 1804. Voted fifty dollars for weights and measures.
Voted no money for the meeting-house.
Town meeting, April 1, 1805. Noah Dodge, John Gil- key and Samuel Warren, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 7, 1806. Noah Dodge, John Gil- key and Samuel Warren, selectmen.
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Voted to build one pound to Mr. Jones' field, driven this year, and one to Mr. Noah Dodge this year.
Voted Joseph Jones and Joseph Pendleton to build one, and Noah Dodge and Mighill Parker to build the other. They are to be built - feet square.
Town meeting, April 6, 1807. Samuel Warren, John Warren and John Gilkey, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 16, 1807. Voted chose Mighill Parker and John Warren with the meeting-house com- mittee, the time that Sat. is on or before the first day of July next.
Town meeting, April 4, 1808. John Gilkey, Thomas Boardman and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Voted twelve cents a head for crows.
Voted two dollars on him that kills the most crows.
Voted that Philip Sylvester shall take William Getchell six months for nothing, and return him clothed as well as he takes him.
Voted that the surveyors of roads have power to dis- tress, if people will not work on the roads.
Voted Mighill Parker and John Warren committeemen to finish the business and settle the accounts against the meeting-house.
They held these meetings the first time in the meeting- house, 1804.
We, the subscribers, do hereby request the inhabitants of the upper end of this island to meet Saturday, at the house of Hancock Rose, for the purpose of consulting with each other respecting a school, and, if they shall see fit to ap- point a committee, establish the same. We do furthermore
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request the inhabitants, of both classes, to meet or consult whether it would not be beneficial for them to form them- selves into one body or class.
Signers :
RATHBURN DODGE, STEPHEN VEAZIE, JONATHAN PAKKER, FIELDS COOMBS, JOHN VEAZIE.
Town meeting, Oct. 29, 1808. Town met at time and place appointed, for the purpose of settling that execution brought against the town by Doctor Webster, of Castine.
Voted to choose an agent to settle with Webster.
Voted Mighill Parker for agent.
Voted to board William Getchell from house to house- every house according to what they are worth-till next April meeting.
Town meeting, April 3, 1809. John Gilkey, Jr., Thomas Boardman and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 2, 1810. Mighill Parker, Thomas Boardman and John Farrow, selectmen.
Voted that the road that goes across the northern cor- ner of Mighill Parker's land may be moved close to the line between himself and Joseph Woodard, only Mr. Parker is to make it as good as it now is, on his own expense.
Town meeting, Dec. 5, 1810. Met at the time and place appointed, agreeable to law, for the purpose of rais- ing money to support of William Getchell.
Voted one hundred and seventy dollars for that purpose.
Town meeting, April 1, 1811. Thomas Boardman, William Philbrook and Jabez Ames, selectmen.
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Town meeting. Voted that they should build gates across the roads ten feet wide in the clear. Should have but two gates to one farm.
Voted that the bounty upon crows' heads be twelve cents per head.
Town meeting, April 6, 1812. Thomas Boardman, Jabez Amnes and William Philbrook, selectmen.
Voted Benjamin Williams, Noah Dodge and Paoli Hewes are the committee to judge between Jabez Amnes and Elisha Nash where the road should be, so that Jabez Ames should clear the road and make it good passing.
Voted twelve cents for old crows' heads, and six cents for young crows' heads.
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