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Hall, it being his garden, and now the site of the present church. By the location of the house so near the homestead of the Major, it was judged that the society were entirely willing that he should sit under the "droppings of the sanctuary," although unwilling to aid them as they desired in their church enterprise. Mr. Geo. King, who built the house, took it down, and rebuilt in the fall of 1835. The form was retained with the exception that a belfry was built upon it. The cost of removal was about $900. Capt. Seth Morse donated the bell. A new bell was purchased in 1845, the old one having become unfit for use. The house remained unchanged until the fall of 1851, when the pulpit and galleries were lowered from their original positions, the windows enlarged, the pews taken up and made modern in shape and replaced. The work was done under the supervision of Mr. Charles Porter.
The organ was purchased in 1855, at a cost of $450. The build- ing was materially altered and improved in 1859, being provided with a vestry and an extension, furnishing twenty-four new pews to the audience room. The stoves were taken out and their place sup- plied with a furnace, the gift of Messrs. Chase of Portland. The repairs were made by Messrs. Augustus and Erastus King, cost- ing about $800. In Aug. 1877, a new bell was purchased, and in the summer of 1878, extensive repairs were commenced, and com- pleted the following year, at a cost of over $2000, rendering the house convenient and attractive, alike creditable to the village and society. This was during the pastorate of Rev. C. D. Crane, whose active efforts had much to do in pushing it to completion. To his Historical Sketch, given at the closing exercises in the old meeting- house, Sabbath evening, July 14, 1878, we are indebted for portions of this article. The first service in the new house was held Aug. 17, 1879.
The following have been the pastors and acting pastors of the church :
Rev. Joseph Walker ; settled pastor Dec. 31, 1821, to his death, Apr. 8, 1851. Salary, $400.
Rev. Horatio Merrill ; stated supply for a few months in 1851.
Rev. Francis Dyer ; settled pastor from his ordination, Dec. 31, 1852, to Oct. 3, 1854. Salary, $500.
Rev. Daniel Sewall ; settled pastor from installation, Jan. 4, 1855 to Aug. 31, 1858. Salary, $500 and wood.
Rev. Alanson Southworth ; settled pastor, Jan. 13, 1859, till his
RESIDENCE OF REV. JOSEPH WALKER, SOUTH PARIS.
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death, on the 25th of March, 1864. Salary, $600 and four Sabbaths vacation.
Rev. Francis Southworth ; part of the year 1865. Stated supply.
Rev. Jacob Chapman ; stated supply, one year, from Sept. 1, 1865.
Rev. Francis B. Knowlton ; acting pastor, Sept. 1, 1866, one year to Sept. 1, 1867. Salary, $750.
Rev. J. B. Wheelwright ; nearly ten years. Settled pastor from installation, Dec. 4, 1868, till June 11, 1877. Salary, $800.
Rev. C. D. Crane ; acting pastor from Sept. 3, 1877, till January, 1880. Salary, $1,000.
Rev. E. E. Bacon ; acting pastor for the year 1880.
Rev. E. C. Ingalls ; acting pastor for the year 1881 and 1882. Installed Aug. 1883, and is the present pastor. He was born in Glenville, N. Y., June 19, 1849, fitted for college at Andover Acad- emy, graduated at Harvard College in 1873, and at Andover Theo- logical Seminary in 1876 ; was ordained in 1877. He married, Feb. 13, 1884, Ella J., daughter of Josiah and Huldah (Estes) Cloud- man of Saccarappa.
JOSEPH WALKER.
Rev. Joseph Walker, the first pastor of the Congregationalist church, at South Paris, was born in Townsend, Mass., February 19, 1792. His father was also Joseph and his mother Ruth Jenkins. He received but little assistance in obtaining an education, like many New England youth, working his own way along and teaching school to replenish his oft depleted purse. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1818. He had previously studied medicine and fully intended to practice it, but changed his purpose, which led him to seek a college education. He studied theology with Rev. Mr. Coggs- well of Saco, and Dr. Payson of Portland, and made his first settle- ment in Paris, where he remained nearly thirty years, and until his death, which occurred in 1851. Prof. Packard of Bowdoin College, thus writes of Mr. Walker as a student : "He was a good student and held a good reputation for diligence and for a sound and dis- criminating mind. He was greatly respected both as a student and man. During the most active part of Mr. Walker's ministry, strong and heated religious controversies were going on among the clergy. The Unitarians as such, had just acquired "a local habitation and a name," and the Universalists were marshalling their forces under the able leadership of such ministers as Ballou, Whittemore, Deane,
:
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Cobb and others. The difference of opinion concerning the proper mode of baptism, was another much-discussed topic. Mr. Walker entered into the discussion with much spirit, and besides his pulpit labors, he wrote and printed two important pamphlets, bearing upon the questions at issue. His sermons were ably and logically writ- ten, his ideas being expressed in chaste and often in elegant diction, but his manner and delivery were not attractive. Dr. Estes, in his Centennial paper, thus speaks of him: "He had been educated in the schools ; was studious in his habits ; careful and elaborate in his preparation for the pulpit ; exhaustive in his treatment of his themes ; protracted in his pulpit services ; sound and instructive in the mat- ter of his discourses ; impressive in his bearing in the pulpit and everywhere ; always a clergyman ; always a faithful shepherd of his flock, keeping it well together ; a strict and thorough disciplinarian ; ever on the alert that no root of bitterness should spring up within his church ; and no foe assail it from without. If Elder Hooper kept the denominational watchfires burning on the hill, Mr. Walker did not allow them to go out in the valley ; and their not unfrequent. theological warfare was carried on by both those leaders from one and the same sentiment of loyalty to a common Lord." Mr. Wal- ker was married in 1822, to Clarissa, daughter of Stephen and Jemi- mah Robinson, who died in 1828, and in 1829 to Elinor Hopkins. By the last wife he had five sons and one daughter. Joseph, his oldest son, entered Bowdoin College in 1850.
THE METHODISTS.
Under the direction of Rev. John Adams, a Methodist class was formed at South Paris in 1815. The class consisted of John Wol- cott, class leader, and wife, Solomon Cloudman, who had been licensed as a preacher, and Betsey Morse Cloudman, his wife, Mrs. Jordan and her daughter Lucretia, and Philip Caldwell and wife. Mr. Adams was then in charge of the Poland circuit, of which Paris was a part. He was the first Methodist minister who labored in this vicinity. The interest in this form of religious faith which was first. awakened at that time, was cherished and strengthened in subsequent years under the preaching of Wishworth Ayer, Isaac Moore, Abel Alton, who commenced to preach in 1828 at Waterford, David Cope- land, who commenced his ministerial labors at Danville in 1824, Isaac Downing, who was at Bethel in 1829, Moses Davis, who was at Waterford in 1829, and here in 1830 and 1831, Henry Butler,
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who was here in 1832 ; Dudley Greeley, who commenced to preach in Vienna in 1832, and was located here in 1835 ; Benj. Bryant, who preached first in Unity in 1826, and was afterward two years here, and James Warren, who joined the New England conference in
METHODIST CHURCH, SOUTH PARIS.
1827, and came to South Paris in 1836. The Methodist chapel at South Paris was erected in 1836 and 1837, while Rev. W. F. Farring- ton was in charge. Mr. Farrington commenced preaching in Dur-
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ham in 1829, and went from Maine to Rhode Island in 1861. Since that time, the preachers in charge have been as follows :
Rev. Levi S. Stockman, 3 years, 1838-40.
Rev. Wm. Brown, 2 years, 1841-2.
Rev. Benjamin Foster, 1 year, 1843. Rev. James Thwing, 1 year, 1844.
Rev. Daniel Waterhouse, 2 years, 1845-6.
Rev. Rufus H. Stinchfield, 2 years, 1847-8.
Rev. Joseph Colby, 2 years, 1849-50.
Rev. Chas. Andrews, 1 year, 1851. Rev. Joseph Hawkes, 2 years, 1852-3.
Rev. F. A. Crafts, 2 years, 1854-5,
Rev. Alvah Hatch, 2 years, 1856-7.
Rev. Alpheus B. Lovewell, 1 year, 1858.
Rev. Rufus H. Stinchfield, 2 years, 1859-60.
Rev. Paschal E. Brown, 1 year, 1861.
Rev. Parker Jacquith, 1 year, 1862.
Rev. A. F. Barnard, 2 years, 1863-4.
Rev. Willard Bartlett, 3 years, 1865-7. Rev. John C. Perry, 1 year, 1868.
Rev. G. F. Cobb, 2 years, 1869-70. Rev. Alvah Hatch, 2 years, 1871-2.
Rev. Ira G. Sprague, 1 year, 1874.
Rev. J. B. Lapham, 2 years, 1875-6.
Rev. F. C. Rogers, 3 years, 1877-9.
Rev. E. W. Simons, 1880-2.
Rev. Geo. L. Burbank, 1883.
Rev. Hobart Foss, 1884.
Mr. Stockman first preached in Kittery in 1836, and died June 25, 1844 ; Mr. Brown commenced preaching in Kennebunkport in 1834 ; Mr. Foster is a native of Newry, in this State, was superannuated several years ago and resides in Bethel : James Thwing first preached at Bristol in 1828, and died at East Vassalboro', July 8, 1848 ; Daniel Waterhouse preached at Alfred in 1840, and was stationed at North Conway in 1880 ; R. H. Stinchfield was at Norway in 1838, and was transferred to the Wisconsin conference in 1864; Joseph Colby at Bartlett, N. H., in 1844, and at Hollis in 1880 ; Charles Andrews was at Argyle in 1838, and at Falmouth in 1880 ; Joseph Hawkes was at South Paris in 1840, and again in 1852-3, and at
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Strong in 1880 ; F. A. Crafts was at Bluehill in 1844, and joined the Providence, R. I. conference in 1862 ; Alvah Hatch commenced at Calais in 1836, was twice here, and had his last charge at New- field in 1878 ; A. B. Lovewell was at Danville in 1849, now resides in Otisfield ; Paschal Brown preached at Penobscot in 1818, and joined the East Maine Conference in 1848; Parker Jaquith was at, Dixfield in 1837, was presiding Elder at Readfield in 1875-6, and in the Portland District in 1879-80. A. F. Barnard preached at. Cooper in 1832, and died March 27, 1867; W. B. Bartlett was at Fairfield in 1859, and at Cornish in 1880 ; John C. Perry commenced preaching at Norway in 1837, and died March 20, 1880; G. F. Cobb was at Bridgton in 1860, and at South Berwick in 1880; Alvah Hatch commenced at Calais in 1836, and was at Newfield in 1878 ; Ira G. Sprague, a printer by trade, preached at Andover in 1870, and was in charge at North Auburn in 1880 ; J. B. Lapham, a native of Burrillville, R. I., was at Kennebunkport in 1861, at. Elliot in 1880, and since then at Readfield ; F. C. Rogers, formerly a printer in Augusta, at South Paris in 1877, next in Brunswick, and since then in Lewiston ; E. W. Simons at Phillips in 1879, and at. South Paris in 1880. In 1848, the church edifice at South Paris was burned, and another was built in its place, costing $2000, which was repaired in 1860 and enlarged, and a vestry built under it in 1877.
During 1857, the parsonage was built, the meeting-house lot being extended by purchase of land of John B. Stowell, and deeded to the society by Wm. Deering. Two hundred and seventy dollars willed to the society by Eleazer Bryant, were used in the construc- tion of the parsonage, and the balance raised by sale of shares. These shares were subsequently bought up by a friend of the society, who also added five hundred dollars to the invested funds, so that the society is now out of debt, and has a fund of one thousand dollars.
The interest in Methodism at North Paris, began about the same time. Sometimes with South Paris, it formed one circuit, and at others not, but some forty years ago, they separated. Their meet- ing-house was built in connection with the Baptists in 1833, and was repaired in 1869. Since 1874 their preachers have been the same as at West Paris, and have divided their time between the two places. Randall Mitchell was here and in Woodstock in 1839, and afterwards joined the East Maine Conference ; Richard H. Ford was at Columbia in 1836, at North Paris in 1842, and located in 1877 ;
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Jonathan Fairbanks, a native of Winthrop, was at North Paris in 1843, and died May 16, 1877 ; Thomas Hillman was at Bartlett, N. H., in 1849, and at North Paris, in 1852 ; Levi Eldridge was here in 1857, and at Norway in 1861 ; Joseph Mooar was here in 1858, and at South Auburn in 1878 ; George Briggs was here in 1861, subse- quently settled near West Paris, and died there ; Alpheus Turner, a native of New Brunswick, formerly a sailor, was at West Newfield in 1849, and on Chebeague Island in Casco Bay, in 1880. At other times the North Paris church has been supplied by ministers residing elsewhere.
The class at West Paris was formed in 1866, by Rev. W. C. Stevens and three members. They now have a neat house of wor- ship, built in 1878, and a class respectable in numbers. Their min- isters preach also at North Paris, and since 1873 have been as follows :
Rev. S. C. Brown, 1 year, 1874.
Rev. J. Hillman, 2 years, 1874-5.
Rev. Benjamin F. Pease, 1 year, 1877.
Rev. M. C. Pendexter, 1 year, 1878.
Rev. Elbridge Gerry, Jr., 1 year, 1879.
Rev. S. C. Brown was at Newry in 1869-70, and at Rumford in 1880 ; of Rev. J. Hillman I knew nothing before or after his settle- ment here ; B. F. Pease was of Standish in 1874, and at Naples in 1880 ; M. C. Pendexter was at Naples in 1877, and at Richmond in 1880 ; Elbridge Gerry, Jr., was at Mercer in 1869, and here in 1879 and 1880 ; he was followed by Rev. G. B. Hannaford, a native of Winthrop, whose parents were originally of New Gloucester.
CALEB FULLER.
Rev. Caleb Fuller, son of our early settler of the same name, was born in Paris, November 12, 1805. He early developed a love for knowledge, and though means of obtaining it in those days were very limited he persevered and became a teacher of the public schools when only eighteen years of age. As a teacher, he met with marked success. He united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1826 and commenced to preach the following year. In 1828, he became a member of the Maine Methodist Conference, and during his more than 50 years of service, he has had settlements in the leading socie- ties of his denomination in the State, among them, at Bath, Augusta, Hallowell, Farmington, Belfast, Rockland, Gardiner and Portland.
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He has frequently served on School Boards, and in many ways has evinced a deep interest in the education of youth. He was a Chap- lain of the House of Representatives in 1843, and a member in 1848, when besides other committees, he served on the Committee on Edu- cation. Mr. Fuller has been twice married and has one surviving daughter by each marriage. His first wife was Luda Monroe of Livermore, and the second, Elizabeth B. Swift of Wayne. The daughter of the first marriage married E. K. Boyle, a lawyer of Belfast. and the one by his second, to Albert H. Davis, a merchant of Bridgeport, Conn. Two children died while young. Though strongly attached to the denomination to which he belongs, he has always shown a liberal spirit towards others, and manifested a fra- ternal regard for all Christian people. As to his abilities as a preacher and Christian worker, the places to which his superiors have assigned him, sufficiently indicate. He has been a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and frequently elected to the Chaplaincy of the Grand Lodge of Maine. He has now retired from active service and resides at his own house in Augusta.
FREE BAPTISTS.
A Free Baptist church was organized at West Paris, July 7, 1829. The first members had belonged to a church in Sumner. Rev. Wil- liam C. Witham was its first pastor and really the founder of the church. He was a native of Gloucester, Mass., and an account of him is contained in Family Sketches. He was ordained the day fol- lowing the forming of the church, and continued its pastor until 1839. The church was then without a pastor for many years, until 1851, when Rev. Robert Hayes was settled, who remained nearly nine years and was succeeded by Rev. Alexander Hill. Mr. Hill was a native of the town and neighborhood, being the son of Alex- ander Hill, who lived on the south bank of the Little Androscoggin, about a mile from West Paris Village. Mr. Hill resigned Dec. 16, 1876, and became a Universalist. He was succeeded by Rev. Geo. W. Gould, who resigned Dec. 30, 1878. A neat little church edifice was built by the society in 1866, and dedicated February 6, 1867. The church was ever small in point of numbers, but included in its membership many of our best citizens in the north part of the town.
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
TEMPERANCE REFORM.
Drinking Habits of the Early Settlers .- Intoxicants Regarded as Necessary in the Family Supply .- Early Reformatory Movements. -The First Temperance Societies in Town .- The Washingtonians. -The, Sons of Temperance, Good Templars and the Reform Clubs.
The free use of intoxicating drinks by the early settlers of this town, has frequently been referred to in this volume. It has not been spoken of to their disparagement, nor to convey the idea that they differed in their habits in this respect, from the inhabitants of other towns, for they did not. The free use of intoxicants was one of the great vices of the period, and general throughout the country ; and people of all classes had come to regard them as essential to health. The universal demand for spirits created a supply, and for years after the first settlers came to Paris, they constituted a part of the stock in trade in every general store. They were dispensed both by the glass, to be drank on the premises, and by the quart or gallon to be carried away. As a family supply, they were considered as essential as tea, sugar or molasses, and on all the old account books of that period, charges of rum, gin, brandy, wine and toddy are sandwiched in with other family supplies, and make up half, and in some cases more than half of the entire account. Elder Hooper, though a very good man and an able preacher, was in the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors both in public and in private, and his example could not have been otherwise than injurious to a people who followed the guidance of the minister, not only in spiritual, but in temporal affairs, with much more faith and confidence than is the habit in our day. Elder Hooper did not drink to intoxication, and there were probably comparatively few in town who did, but in a . community where rum was freely sold and drank by all classes, the crime of intoxication could not be regarded as a very grave one, and a reprimand from a minister who walked up side by side and took his drinks with the one against whom it was directed, could not have had great weight, even if administered. Capt. Isaac Bolster, who came here from Hebron in the spring of 1784, is said to have been the first trader in town and so the first liquor seller. The testimony concerning this man, is that he was energetic and enterprising in
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business, conscientious in the discharge of every duty, both public and private, a religious man, and one that enjoyed the fullest confi- dence of his fellow citizens. But he was deluded as were the peo- ple of his day and generation generally, in the belief that intoxicants were essential to health, and he probably thought it no more harm to sell rum than molasses. His minister who was also the minister of the town, patronized him, and certainly he should not hesitate to follow where the good Elder Hooper took the lead! There is no doubt that if these two men had lived in our day, with all the light that has been shed abroad upon this subject, they would have been temperance men in principle and in practice, and would with us look with amazement upon the delusions and practices of a hundred years ago. In vindication of the truth of what has been stated, several pages from Capt. Bolster's account book are introduced here, a trans- cript of his account with his minister, and a few others :
1798.
J. H.
DR.
Oct. 16,
2 Gal. N. E. Rum,
0
13
4
Nov. 14,
1-2 Gal. N. E. Rum,
3
4
Dec. 10,
1-2 bushel salt,
5
0
1 1-2 pints W. I. Rum.
2
1
1798.
A. H.
DR.
Apr. 19, 1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
4
1-2 Gal. Gin,
4
0
Apr. 28,
1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
8
May 3,
1 1-8 Gal. Brandy,
13
6
1 Gal. Gin,
8
0
1-2 Gal. W. Rum,
6
0
2 qts. Brandy,
6
0
2 qts. N. Rum,
3
4
June 3,
2 qts. Brandy,
6
0
2 qts. W. Rum,
5
6
July 15,
14 pounds Rice, at 3 1-2,
4
1
2 qts. N. E. Rum,
3
4
6 pounds Fish, 5,
2
6
2 qts. Brandy,
6
0
Aug. 4,
2 qts N. Rum,
3
4
Sept. 25,
1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
8
Nov, 26,
1 qt. W. Rum,
2
10
1 Box Wafers,
5
1800.
S. M.
DR.
Feb. 8,
2 qts. W. Rum, 3 pints Brandy,
5
0
4
6
48
s.
d.
1 qt. Wine,
2
3
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1800.
S. M.
DR.
S.
d.
1 pound Tea,
4
6
May 2,
1 Gal. W. Rum, 1-2 pound Tea,
9
3
June 21, 2 Gal. N. Rum,
12
0
June 22, 1 Scythe,
7
6
2 1-2 Gal. N. Rum,
15
0
Aug. 10, 6 qts. N. Rum,
9
6
1 Gal. Molasses,
4
8
1 pound Tea,
5
0
Oct. 16,
2 Gal. W. Rum,
1
1
0
2 Gal. N. Rum,
12
4
1800.
J. B.
DR.
Apr. 10,
1 Axe,
10
6
19,
1 "Gallen" W. Rum,
9
6
May 15,
1 Gal. W. Rum,
9
6
26,
1 Gal. W. Rum,
9
6
June 14, 1 Gal. W. Rum,
9
6
July 9,
1 Gal. W. Rum,
10
0
Sept. 4,
1 Gal. Brandy,
10
6
2 pounds "Shuger,"
2
5
Oct. 21,
6 qts. Brandy,
15
9
2 qts. Molasses,
2
6
2 pounds "Shuger,"
2
5
Nov. 7,
1 Axe,
10
1 pound Tea,
3
6
23,
1 Gal. Brandy,
10
6
1801.
L. P.
-
DR.
July 11,
2 qts. N. Rum,
3
2
1 qt. W. Rum,
2
8
1-2 pound Tea,
1 6
1 glass "Tod."
4
18, 1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
6
21, 1-2 mug Tod.
S
27, 7 gills W. Rum,
2
5
2 qts. N. Rum, 1-2 mug tod.
3
3
28, 2 qts. N. Rum, 1-2 mug tod.
3
3
Aug. 8,
1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
6
2 qts. W. Rum,
5
3
10, 1-2 mug tod.
8
31, 1 Gal. N. Rum,
6
4
1
1 Gal. Molasses, 1 quarter Alspice,
5
.
9
7
8
-
2
3
1801.
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1801.
L. P.
DR.
S.
d.
1-1 Tea,
11
Oct. 10,
6
2
10
6
1
4
1-2 mug Tod.,
8
23, 3 Gal. W. Rum,
1 10
6
1 qt. W. Rum,
2
9
Nov. 10, 3 qts. W. Rum, 3 glasses Tod.,
7
11
1
0
These five accounts are taken promiscuously from Mr. Bolster's Day Book, and a hundred others of similar character might be taken, but these are sufficient for the present purpose of illustrat- ing the babits of our grandfathers, in respect to the use of intoxi- cating drinks. Compare this with the accounts at our grocery stores at the present time, and a correct idea can be formed of the progress which the temperance cause has made in fifty years, since the first State temperance organization was formed in Maine.
But Capt. Bolster was not the only one who dispensed the liquid poison to our early towns-people. Dea. Caleb Prentiss opened a store at South Paris, near the beginning of the century, and a page from his account book is given as further illustrating this subject.
1800.
DR.
Dec. 29, Abraham Bolster,
$3 00
Ezra Brett, to 1 Gal. Vinegar,
43
John Nason, to Brandy, 06
Barnabas Briggs, to 2 doz. Biscuits,
39
James Perry, to 2 drinks,
20
Jonathan Shurtleff, to drink,
10
John Daniels, to drink,
10
Daniel Stowell, to 1-2 bush. Salt,
59
Isaac Cummings, to 1-4 Saltpetre,
20
Asa Sturtevant, to 1 lb. Brimstone,
19
Dr. Stevens, to drink,
09
Lemuel Perham, to drink,
10
Edmund Dean, to drink,
10
Abijah Warren, to drink,
05
Daniel Stowell to paid John Tuell,
2 14
Dec. 30,
Jacob Twitchell, to 2 Biscuit,
04
Levi Jackson, to drink,
10
to 1-4 1b. Brimstone,
04
Dr. Stevens, to 1 1b. Brimstone,
16
1-2 mug tod., 1 Gal. N. Rum, 1 Gal. W. Rum. Molasses,
8
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HISTORY OF PARIS.
1800.
DR.
Dr. Stevens, to 1 lb. Saltpetre,
21
to 1 qt. Molasses, 19
to 2 qts. Brandy, 44 to drink, 09
James LeBaron, to drink,
10
Abraham Bolster, to Brimstone,
06
to mug Flip,
11
: Elisha Cummings, to drink,
09
Ezra Pratt, to Brandy,
26
to 1 Gal. Vinegar,
43
Andrew Peterson, to 2 Biscuit,
04
Robert Wightman, to 2 oz. Saltpetre,
13
to drink,
12
Lemuel Jackson, to drink,
10
The condition of things here described continued without material change for many years. The Massachusetts Society for the sup- pression of intemperance was organized in 1812, but its influence. never extended to the interior of Maine. The American Temper- ance Society was organized in 1826, and this was the result of many years' agitation of the subject ; how many, it is impossible to say. The proceedings of the second meeting held in Boston, January 28, 1829, were printed. At this time, there were two hundred and twenty-two temperance societies, of which five, exclusive of Massa- chusetts, were State societies. Thirteen of these societies were in Maine, though Maine then had no State organization. Two of the Maine societies; viz. : East Machias and Prospect, made reports. The former reported ninety members, and only two grog shops in the place, and after the following September, there was to be no retailer in town. The society at Prospect, organized in April, 1827, with five members, now had one hundred and one, of whom forty- six were females. One retailer had struck ardent spirits from his list of merchandise, and in one ship yard, it was no longer used. The following members of the American Society were reported as belonging in Maine : Bath, Rev. John W. Ellingwood ; Portland, Rev. Charles Jenkins, Rev. Bennet Tyler, D. D., Hon. Albion K. Parris and Hon. Wm. P. Preble ; Saco, Ether Shepley, Esq. The East Machias Society organized in January, 1827, may have been the first temperance society in the State. The other societies in Maine were in Brunswick, Gorham, Portland, Gardiner, Buckfield, New Sharon, Saco, Livermore, Norway, Windsor and Brewer Village: The Livermore Society, then in Oxford County, was organ-
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