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Voted good gates to be on the roads.
Town meeting, March 20, 1813. Thomas Boardman, Jabez Ames and Mighill Parker, selectmen.
Voted Mighill Parker and Thomas Boardman should be a committee to settle all bills on the meeting-house with John Gilkey, Esq.
Voted that Paoli Hewes be allowed three dollars per year for keeping the town treasury.
COPY OF WARRANT, 1814.
To Joseph Pendleton, one of the constables of the town of Islesborough, greeting.
You are hereby required, in the name of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts, to warn the male inhabitants of said town of Islesborough of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the Common- wealth, or the annual income of three pounds, or any estate to the value of sixty pounds, to meet at the meeting-house
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on Monday, the fourth day of April next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, to give in their votes for Governor, &c., &c.
A true copy. By me,
WILLIAM BOARDMAN, Town Clerk.
Pursuant to the within warrant I have warned the inhabit- ants of said town qualified as by therein expressed, to meet at the time and place, and for the purpose therein mentioned. JOSEPH PENDLETON, Constable.
Town meeting, April 4, 1814. Mighill Parker, Henry Rose and John Farrow, selectmen.
Voted that the town pound should be brought down to the meeting-house, if fit to move.
Voted Jesse Coombs should bring down the above to the meeting-house, and set it up in as good order as it was before, and that Jesse Coombs should have the privilege of repairing the same, if he would do it as cheap as anybody. Jesse Coombs to have fourteen dollars for bringing down the above and setting it up again.
Voted that Benjamin Williams and Thomas Boardman should trade with Mr. Still for his house, providing they can get it for fifty dollars.
Town meeting, April 3, 1815. Thomas Boardman, Jabez Ames and Benjamin Williams, selectinen.
Voted widow Calton bid to John Gilkey, Esq., for four shillings per week.
Voted Mr. Hardy and his wife to Joshua Dodge for four dollars and seventy-five cents per montlı, at public vendue.
Town meeting, March 16, 1816. Benjamin Williams, Jabez Ames and Paoli Hewes, selectmen.
Voted no school money this year.
Voted Mrs. Hardy should remain as she was last year.
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Town meeting, May 20, 1816. Holden for the purpose of giving in their votes for or against dividing the State of Massachusetts from the District of Maine.
For division, none ; against the division, seventeen.
Town meeting, Sept. 2, 1816. Voted against the separation, thirty-four votes ; for the separation, none.
Town meeting, April 7, 1817. Benjamin Williams, Jabez Amnes and Paoli Hewes, selectinen.
Town meeting, March 18, 1818. Elisha Eamnes, Henry Rose and John Farrow, selectmen.
Town meeting, March 18, 1819. Josiah Farrow, Thos. Gilkey and Josiah Eames, selectinen.
Town meeting, July 17, 1819. Voted in favor of sep- aration, two; voted against it, twenty-five.
Town meeting, Sept. 11, 1819. For the purpose of electing one delegate on the second Monday of October, for the purpose of forming a Constitution for the District of Maine. Elected Josiah Farrow.
Town meeting, Nov. 17, 1819. To give in your votes in writing, expressing your approbation or disapprobation of the Constitution agreed on by the convention at Port- land, October 29, 1819.
Voted in favor of Constitution, ten ; against it, one.
Town meeting, March 18, 1820. N. B. The Consti- tution of the State of Maine, under which we now assem- ble, provides that every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, excepting paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed, having his residence established in this State for the term of three months next preceding any election, shall be an elector of Governor, Senator and representa-
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tive, in the town or plantation where his residence is so located.
Town meeting, Oct. 18, 1820. Josiah Farrow, Henry Rose and Jonathan Parker, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 2, 1821. Josiah Farrow, Jona- than Parker and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Voted to raise no school money.
Voted Samuel Pendleton take Joseph Hardy for a year, and give twenty-five cents per week.
Town meeting, March 25, 1822. Josiah Farrow, Jona- than Parker and Henry Rose, selectmen.
Mighill Parker, Esq., had votes for a representative, twenty-nine.
Town meeting, Sept. 9, 1822. Voted fourpence half- penny as a premium on crows' heads.
Town meeting, March, 1823. John Gilkey, Samuel Warren and Simon Sprague, selectmen.
Mighill Parker was the first representative.
Town meeting, April 15, 1824. Josiah Farrow, Simon Sprague and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Voted gates on the road to have posts near them con- venient to fasten horses to when passing the road, and also something to set the gate back with, when horses are passing through.
LICENSE.
Sept. 13, 1824. Mr. Philip Gilkey having applied for license to sell liquors, the selectmen and town clerk, after said Philip Gilkey having complied with the requirements of the law made and provided in such case, do license him, Philip Gilkey, to sell wine, beer, ale, cider, brandy, rum, and other strong liquor by retail, in said town of Islesbor- ough, for one year next ensuing, at his dwelling house in said town.
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Town meeting, April 4, 1825. Josiah Farrow, Thomas Boardinan and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Voted no money to defray town charges.
Josiah Farrow had eleven votes for representative.
Town meeting, March 25, 1826. Josiah Farrow, Henry Rose and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 2, 1827. Josiah Farrow, Thomas Boardman and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Voted to accept a road laid out from Capt. Philip Gil- key's wharf or landing to the road named in the petition, where laid out by the selectinen, provided the cost to the town do not overrun or exceed five dollars.
Town meeting, March 31, 1828. Josiah Farrow, Henry Rose and Thomas Gilkey, selectmen.
Town meeting, April 13, 1829. Simon Sprague, Thos. Boardman and Benjamin Williams, selectmen.
1830. Simon Sprague, Samuel Warren and Henry Boardınan, selectinen.
Voted to sell the pews in the gallery, and have the house underpinned.
1831. Simon Sprague, Samuel Warren and Samuel Pendleton, selectmen.
1832. Henry Rose, Jonathan Parker and Thomas Gil- key, selectinen.
1833. William Farrow, Thomas Gilkey and Jonathan Parker, selectmen.
A charge was brought against Josiah Farrow, by the town treasurer, in 1829. A committee was appointed by the town. The following is a report of the committee :
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That we have carefully and impartially examined and compared the clerk's, treasurer's, and said Farrow's accounts with the town, commencing with the year 1819, the year that said Farrow was first chosen one of the selectmen, and proceeding through said books to March 20, 1829, and to the satisfaction of your committee, have found the accounts of said Farrow substantially correct ; and in every instance where an order had been drawn in favor of said Farrow, he has proved to the satisfaction of your committee that he has observed a scrupulous exactness, not varying one cent in ten years, which we should have thought almost impossible for him to have shown, considering the imperfect manner in which the clerk and treasurer's books have been kept. Accounts that had been credited and settled once a year and vouchers mislaid, thrown by, or destroyed as useless. It further appeared to your committee that in all contracts and expenditures of the public money, that he has proceeded openly, the strictest principles of economy and honesty, and in the most satisfactory manner exonerated himself from the false impression cast upon him by the town treasurer.
JOSEPH PENDLETON, ELISHA EAMES, Committee. THOMAS BOARDMAN,
1834. Henry Rose, Rathburn D. Sprague and Joshua Farrow, selectmen.
1835. Thomas Boardman, William Farrow and An- drew P. Gilkey, selectmen.
1836. Rathburn D. Sprague, Jonathan Parker and Peleg Pendleton, selectmen.
1837. Rathburn D. Sprague, Thomas Boardman and Samuel Marshall, selectmen.
Voted to have the selectmen number the lots in the town.
Voted the gates should stand as formerly.
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Also voted to loan the public money, with security on real estate, not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars ; for not less than six months, nor more than one year. Left with the selectmen and treasurer ..
1838. Joshua Farrow, James B. Williams and Dexter Farrow, selectmen.
1839. Joshua Farrow, James B. Williams and Henry Boardınan, selectinen.
The selectinen bound out William G. Thomas, son of Wealthy Thomas, to James Skinner, until he shall come to the age of twenty-one.
1840. James B. Williams, Dexter Farrow and Thomas H. Parker, selectmen.
1841. James B. Williams, Andrew P. Gilkey and Thomas H. Parker, selectmen.
1842. James B. Williams, Thomas H. Parker and William Farrow, selectmen.
1843. James B. Williams, Nelson Gilkey and Joseph Boardman, selectmen.
1844. Nelson Gilkey, Andrew P. Gilkey and Williamn Farrow, selectmen.
1845. Thomas H. Parker, Henry Boardman and Chas. Nash, selectinen.
1846. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Philip F. Coombs, selectinen.
1847. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Othniel Coombs, selectmen.
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1848. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Othniel Coombs, selectmen.
1849. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Simon D. Sprague, selectinen.
1850. Charles Nash, Nelson Gilkey and Andrew P. Gilkey, selectinen.
1851. Charles Nash, Nelson Gilkey and Simon D. Sprague, selectmen.
1852. Charles Nash, Simon D. Sprague and Walter F. Dodge, selectmen.
1853. Nelson Gilkey, Thomas H. Parker and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
1854. Nelson Gilkey, Thomas H. Parker and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
1855. Nelson Gilkey, Thomas H. Parker and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
1856. Nelson Gilkey, Thomas H. Parker and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
Voted to have the old meeting-house converted into a town-house.
1857. Nelson Gilkey, Silas Bunker and Benjamin Ryder, selectmen.
In 1855 and 1856 there was a political society known as Know-Nothings, or Native Americans. They held private meetings in the school-houses. They created con- siderable excitement, and had a strong opposition, with a kind of hostile resistance. When the decisive vote was declared, the Know- Nothings having the most votes, elected their town officers.
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1858. Silas Bunker, Benjamin Ryder and Elisha K. Pendleton, selectmen.
1859. Silas Bunker, Calvin Eames and Lorenzo Pen- dleton, selectmen.
1860. Silas Bunker, Benjamin Ryder and Lorenzo Pendleton, selectmen.
1861. Nelson Gilkey, Lorenzo Pendleton and William P. Boardman, selectmen.
I862. Silas Bunker, Benjamin Ryder and Daniel Hatch, selectmen.
At a meeting of the inhabitants in 1863, voted to raise three hundred and twenty-five dollars, to be paid to each man that would volunteer to fill the town quota of twenty men, for the call of the President of the United States, October 17, 1863.
Voted Finley B. Keller a recruiting officer of the town, and the recruiting officer shall not pay over three hundred and twenty-five dollars out of the town, and to get them as cheap as possible.
Voted that the town treasurer be authorized to hire money to pay volunteers as fast as needed.
Voted that if the town fail to get their quota of volun- teers, and should a draft be made, that the town pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars to each man that is draft- ed and accepted and mustered into the service of the United States.
1863. James B. Williams, Benjamin Ryder and Wil- liam Farrow, selectmen.
1864. James B. Williams, Benjamin Ryder and Wil- liam Farrow, selectinen.
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1865. James B. Williams, Henry B. Coombs and Wil- liam Farrow, selectmen.
1866. James B. Williams, Henry B. Coombs and Wil- liam Farrow, selectmen.
1867. James B. Williams, Thomas H. Parker and William Farrow, selectmen.
1868. James B. Williams, Thomas H. Parker and William Farrow, selectmen.
1869. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Henry B. Coombs, selectmen.
1870. James B. Williams, Charles Nash and Finley B. Keller, selectmen.
1871. Nelson Gilkey, Calvin W. Sherman and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
1872. Nelson Gilkey, Calvin W. Sherman and Silas Bunker, selectmen.
1873. Charles Nash, Finley B. Keller and Dodge Pen- dleton, selectmen.
Voted that the tax bills committed to William P. Sprague, Ephraim Coombs, James B. Williams and E. K. Pendleton, be put in the hands of the selectmen, and for them to appoint some person to collect the amount due on them.
Voted to recall and take out of the Supreme Judicial Court in this county, in favor of the inhabitants of Isles- borough, and against William P. Sprague, the suit now pending.
1874. Charles Nash, Finley B. Keller and Dodge Pen- dleton, selectmen.
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Voted to accept the proposals of William P. Sprague in relation to tax bills committed to him for collection, for the years 1865 and 1866, as follows :
If the town will relinquish their claims against Wil- liam P. Sprague and his bondsmen for uncollected taxes for the years 1865 and 1866, he will agree to deliver the bills for said years to the selectinen, without any claims for his commissions, for money he has collected, which commissions would amount to two hundred and one dol- lars. Voted to accept the above offer.
Voted to choose a committee of three. Chose Mark Pendleton, Benjamin Ryder and Henry B. Coombs to take William P. Sprague's tax bills, and examine them and report to the town.
1875. Charles Nash, Finley B. Keller and James H. Ryder, selectmen.
Voted this year to raise seven hundred dollars to pay L. A. Knowlton for interest.
Voted that the selectmen appoint a man to collect the balance due on the tax bills of Ephraim Coombs, E. K. Pendleton, James B. Williams and William P. Sprague.
1876. Charles Nash, Calvin W. Sherman and James H. Ryder, selectinen.
Ninth article in the warrant : To see if the town will vote to exempt from tax money furnished by parties in town, to pay in part or the whole of what the town owes L. A. Knowlton, providing they will let money to the town for six per cent. annual interest.
Voted to adopt article ninth in the warrant, as it reads, providing it can be done legally.
1877. Charles Nash, Calvin W. Sherman and James H. Ryder, selectmen.
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Voted to pay the taxes in to the treasurer, and after six months expire, the bills to be put into the hands of the high sheriff of the county for collection.
At a town meeting December 17, 1877, voted to pass the article to rescind the vote in relation to putting the tax bills into the high sheriff's hands for collection.
1878. Charles Nash, Daniel A. Hatch and James H. Ryder, selectmen.
1879. Charles Nash, Daniel A. Hatch and George M. Dix, selectmen.
1880. Nelson Gilkey, Daniel A. Hatch and Watson H. Coombs, selectinen.
1881. Nelson Gilkey, Daniel A. Hatch and Watson H. Coombs, selectmen.
1882. Nelson Gilkey, George M. Dix and James H. Ryder, selectmen.
1883. Nelson Gilkey, Daniel A. Hatch and Samuel T. Keller, selectmen.
1884. George M. Dix, James B. Williams and Samuel T. Keller, selectmen. 1.1
1885. George M. Dix, James B. Williams and E. A. Eames, selectmen.
1886. Amariah Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Walter E. Haynes, selectmen.
Voted a discount of ten per cent. on those who pay their taxes on or before the first day of November.
1887. Amariah Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Walter E. Haynes, selectmen.
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1888. Amariah Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Austin Trim, selectmen.
1889. Amariah Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Austin Trim, selectmen.
1890. Austin Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Winfield S. Pendleton, selectmen.
1891. Austin Trim, Samuel T. Keller and Winfield S. Pendleton, selectmen.
1892. Austin Trim, Winfield S. Pendleton and Benja- min F. Heal, selectmen.
Voted to raise three thousand dollars to build town hall and high school.
TOWN CLERKS.
Fields Coombs, 1789 to 1801, 1807 to 1810
Joseph Pendleton, 1801-1807
Jeremiah Hatch, 1810-1812
William Boardman, 1812-1817
Elisha Eames, 1817-1824 and 1827
Josiah Farrow, 1825-1827
Luther Coombs, 1828 Elisha Parker, 1829-'32
Andrew P. Gilkey, 1832 Anderson Parker, 1833 Rathburn D. Sprague, 1834-1837 James B. Williams, ..... 1837 to 1854 and 1866-'68 Silas Bunker, 1854 and 1862 Otis F. Coombs, 1855-'57, '58-'62, '63-'65 & '79 Peleg Pendleton, 1857 Charles Nash, 1868-1879 Benjamin Ryder, 1865
Nelson Gilkey, 1880-1885 Jason R. Ryder, ........ 1885 and 1892
Lincoln L. Gilkey, 1886-1892
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THE FINANCES OF THE TOWN OF ISLESBOROUGH.
The town, as shown by the reports of the selectmen, has never been in an embarrassing condition, the reports showing that their assets were more than their liabilities. The town frequently voted to pay the taxes in to the treasurer, and in many cases where the tax payers failed to do so, the treasurer or the constable became the collector. There was a residue remaining uncollected year after year; moneyed men out of town holding the orders and receiving great usury. In the year 1875 the town paid to one man seven hundred dollars for interest. One of the principal causes was unsettled taxes, and the town having a lawsuit about that time, was a sufferer to quite an amount.
In early Islesborough days the taxes were promptly col- lected, the town loaning money to the inhabitants, having a surplus in the treasury, the collector often paying into the treasurer the whole amount, on or before the annual March meeting. History repeats itself, and the halcyon days of our fathers have come back. In the years of 1888 and 1889 the taxes were all paid in to the treasurer, also in 1890 and 1891, to Amariah Trim and John P. Bragg, collectors. In 1891 the town was out of debt, with a small surplus in the treasury.
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CHAPTER IV.
SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL-HOUSES.
A BOUT the year 1823 the Legislature made a law re- quiring the taxing of real estate for the building of school-houses, and repairing the same, in the districts where they are situated, and the town then defined the districts by limits, not by families or houses. Among the first transactions of the town after the organization was to divide the town into school districts.
At the commencement of the present century the first settlers were limited in books, and it is surprising that so few grew up without learning to read or write. All the books that they had were the Bible, Watts' hymn book and the Almanac, which were resorted to on all occasions. Many who never had but a few months' schooling became good readers and writers, and spelled correctly in after life. The first schools were kept in rooms in some house in the district, the teacher boarding around from house to house in the district where he taught school. This practice was kept up for more than fifty years. Each family would contribute and haul their proportion of the fuel, which was used in an open fire-place that burned half a cord a day. The ferule and birch were often made use of, and at times with great severity, whenever the teacher thought necessary, and were remembered by the scholars as long as they lived. The first school books were the American Preceptor, English Reader, Webster's Spelling Book,
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Walsh's Arithmetic, Greenleaf's Grammar and Webster's Dictionary.
A transient visit was occasionally made by some travel- ing preacher, who would be hired to teach the winter school, among whom were Lemuel Rich, Elder Macomber, and Elder Ephraim Emery. The summer school was often kept by some of the inhabitants' daughters. Among the first teachers were Masters Powers, Abbott, Hall, Witham, Williams, Luce, Trueworthy, Andrew and George Pendle- ton and Josiah Eames ; Mrs. Christina Thompson, Lydia Phillips, Eliza Farrow, Betsey and Sally Eames and Henry Rose; and at that time there was a plan made of the town, dividing it into seven school districts. I have made diligent search, but have not been able to find the plan. After a number of years they added a new district known as the Bluff, or No. 8. These school-houses remain on or near the same places where they were first located more than sixty years ago. That of district No. I, situated on Seven-Hundred-Acre Island, remains the same as originally built. It has been kept in repair, and while not ornamental it is comfortable.
In district No. 2, a new school-house was built a few years ago, and is called by the inhabitants Dark Harbor school-house.
In district No. 3 the original school-house is to be taken down this year and a new one built. The school is known1 as the Creek school.
In district No. 4 a new school-house was built a few years ago. It is of good size with modern seats, is painted white, and has green blinds. It is built on or near the same place where the old school-house stood. This dis- trict is the largest in Islesborough, and has the miost scholars. "The school-house is known as the East Side school-house.
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In district No. 5 the school-house was built in 1864, twenty eight years ago, and this year, 1892, has had ex- tensive repairs. It is second in size in regard to scholars. The school-house is known as the Ryder school-house.
District No. 6, called the Sprague or West district, is a sinall one, having but a few scholars. The original school-house is still standing, but is kept in good repair.
District No. 7, known as the Parker district, has one of the best school-houses in town, having been recently repaired. A high school is being taught in it the present year. At present all the children in town have good schools and competent teachers, and many are sent to seminaries, high schools and commercial colleges, with but little thought on their part of the hardships those who preceded them sustained in order to acquire an educa- tion. It remains to be seen whether with their education they can fulfil their duties of life and make the record of their fathers.
I wish each school could be supplied with a copy of the town history, not as a special study, but for reference. How many good compositions could be written from it; and the rising generation would better know what it cost the first settlers to establish the town.
NEW TOWN - HOUSE.
In 1892 the town made a handsome appropriation for building a new town-house, with accommodations for the high school. It is built on the commanding eminence be- tween Crow Cove and Bounty Cove, being the site of the first meeting-house and town-house. A plan of the build- ing is herein given.
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REPRESENTATIVES TO THE LEGISLATURE FROM ISLESBOROUGH.
Josiah Farrow was a member of the convention for framing a Constitution, 1819-20.
1823, 1826 and 1829, ... Josiah Farrow. 1832 and 1836,. Thomas Boardman.
1842,
.Varnum Rose.
1839 and 1845, Dexter Farrow. Senator, 1847
1848, 1851 and 1852, ..... Joseph Boardman.
1855, Calvin Eames.
Nelson Gilkey. 1858,
1862,
Andrew P. Gilkey.
1864,
Otis F. Coombs.
1867 and 1869,
Thomas H. Parker.
1870 and '74, Calvin W. Sherman. Senator, 1881 1877, Lorenzo Pendleton. 1880, Winfield S. Pendleton.
1889, Mark P. Pendleton.
1820. Thomas Waterman was the Representative from North Haven and Vinal Haven, originally Fox Islands ; not of Islesborough, as given by the Maine Register, Islesborough being in the same class.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE,
and the years their names appear on the records.
John Gilkey, 1805 to 1809
Mighill Parker, 1818-1824
Josiah Farrow, 1825-1836
John Payne, 1834-1840
Henry Rose, 1835
Francis Grindle,
1838
R. D. Sprague, 1842-1866
Simon D. Sprague, 1844-1875
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Joshua Farrow, 1846-1866
Charles Nash, 1853-1879
Nelson Gilkey, 1861-1879
Rodolphus Pendleton, 1865
Thomas H. Parker, 1867-1875
William P. Sprague, 1874, last commission dated March 15, 1888.
Joseph A. Sprague, 1878, last commission dated May 15, 1890.
Alonzo Coombs, last commission dated April 27, 1886.
John P. Farrow, commission dated Feb. 6, 1889.
PHYSICIANS.
One of the worst troubles the first settlers had to con- tend with was the want of a physician. There was no regular doctor here until 1830. When sickness was in any of the families they would mnan a boat and cross the bay, the people of the lower end going to Lincoln- ville, there get a team, and one of the party go to Camden after Dr. Estabrook, he being very popular with the first settlers, and was employed by them as long as he would come. He probably was their principal physician for more than thirty years. The people of the upper end of the town generally sent to Castine after Dr. Oliver Mann. He has crossed the bay a good many times for the Islesborough families, never refusing to come, no mat- ter how bad the weather. The town was indebted to the late Dr. Joseph L. Stevens, of Castine, who was called there often for a large number of years. The old people speak of him with great respect. Mrs. Lydia Pendleton was called when there was no doctor (while the boat was gone to Camden). She had acquired some practical knowledge, and became very useful; was known by the inhabitants as Aunt Lydia Jonathan.
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