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mill, this year married, and, after living a while in 'Snow's store, built a house on his own lot now occupied by his son Dea. Samuel Dean. George Emery from Kittery, a brother- in-law, came probably about the same time, 1789, to Owl's Hoad; - having resided for a time previous .in Harpswell. The preceding year, according to family tradition, though probably later as the name is not in the census of 1790, came the widow Sleeper and her five sons, who settled at Ash Point, and whose descendants have been numerous in the vicinity. John White, who this year married a daughter of Mr. Rendell at Owl's Head, and Eliphalet Gray, with a fam- ily of six, were also settled in the town; and Wm. Green, an Englishman, about this time was located on the farm since owned by J. W. Small on the George's River side of what is now South Thomaston.
1790, The new or federal constitution of the United States, which had been ratified by Massachusetts Feb. 9th, 1788, and put in operation April 30th, 1789, by the inaug- uration of George Washington as its first president, was now regarded as of equal authority with that of the State. And, it would seem from the records, that an oath to support the same, together with the test oath of the State constitution, was required here, even of the selectmen, -the number of whom was this year increased to five. In the first election under that constitution, the present State of Maine formed but one congressional district, and elected Hon. Geo. Thatcher of Biddeford its representative; but, in the election, this town does not appear to have taken any part. The first census under it, taken this year by Rev. T. Whiting of Warren, showing the extent of population the town had now reached and the families composing it, we here insert at large, al- phabetically arranged. The first column gives the heads of families; the second column, the free white males under 16 years of age; the third column, ditto, of 16 and upwards; the fourth, free white females ; the fifth, colored, or all other free persons; making an aggregate of 801 inhabitants : -
Babbidge, Benjamin 1 Barrows, Benajah 1
1
I
Brown, Samuel 1
2
6 Brewster, Zadoc 1
2 5
Brown, James 3 1 3 Bennett, David M. 1
Batchelder, Hezekiah 2 10 Blackinton, Benjamin 1 2 4
Bridges, John 3 1 6 Bly, Ebenezer
1.4 4
Brown, John 1 Bently, John Brown, Gideon 1 Bacon, Michael 1
Bartlett, Samuel, 4 1 5
Bernard, Isaac 1 3
Barrows, Ichabod 3
.
1 Butler, Phinehas 2
1 3 Barrows, Comfort 1 1
5 Case, Isaac 1
2. 3
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Chapman, William
3
1
4 Mathews, Anthony 2
1
2
Cook, John
1
1 Mathews, Joseph McIntyre, James 1
2
Cole, John
1
5 Morse, Daniel 2
1
1
5
Creighton, David 3
2
1 Orbeton, Jonathan
2
1
6
Crockett, John 1 2 1 Packard, Benjamin 2 3 Palmer, Daniel 3
3
1
3
Crockett, Nathaniel
1
1
Pillsbury, Joseph
4
1
4
Crockett, Nath'l, Jr., 4
2
7 Pillsbury, Nathan
1
2
1
Crouch, David
3
1
1
Porterfield, Patrick
2
4
Dean, Jonas
1
1
1
Post, Stephen
3
1
4
Dillaway, John
2
3
4
Perry, Joseph
2
1
1
Drought, Richard
1
1
Perry, Widow
2
3
Dodge, Ezekiel G.
1
1
2
Rankin, Constant
4
2
3
Emerson, Thomas
1
1
1 Rendell, Thomas
2
4
Emery, George
1
1
2
Rendell, James
1
1
3
Fales, Nathaniel
1
2
6
Robbins, Oliver
1
2
3
Fales, Nathaniel, Jr., 1
1
1
2
Robbins, Oliver, Jr.,
3
1
3
Fales, John
1
2
3
Rowell, William
1
2
3
Fales, David
5
5
6
Sayward, George
4
1
4
Fales, James
1
1
6
Sherman, Nathan
1
1
3
Farrow, Peter
1
Spalding, Timothy
1
3
1
Foster. Charles
1
1
Spalding, Jedediah
1
1
3
Godding, John 2
1
4
Spear, Jonathan
2
3
4
Gray, Eliphalet
3
2
2
Spear, William
2
1
1
Green, William
2
3
6
Spear, Jonathan, Jr.,
1
2
Haskell, Francis
1
2
4
Shibles, Robert
2
1
Heard, William
4
3
4
Simonton, John
3
2
5
HIIx, Thomas
3
1
3
Smith, Abiathar
4
1
3.
Ingraham, Job
6
1
2
Smith, Jonathan
2
1
1
Ingraham, Joseph
2
1
2
Snow, Ephraim
2
2
3
1
Ingraham, Josiah
1
1
1
Snow, Elisha
1
3
3
Jameson, Robert
3
1
Snow, Ambrose
1
1
2
Jordan, Israel
4
3
3
Stevens, Thomas
1
2
3
Jordan, Robert
3
1
3
Stevens, Nehemiah
1
1
Jenks, David
2
2
4 Stevens, Thomas, Jr.,
1
3
Keen, John
1
Stevens, Daniel
1
Kelley, William
1
Stackpole, James 3
2
4
Killsa, James
1
2
3
Stetson, William
4
2
2
Kelloch, Findley
3
1
3
Sweetland, David
1
1
Keating, Richard
4
1
4
Tings, John
2
1
2
Killsa, Hugh
1
4 Thompson, William
2
1
5
Kilisa, George
3
1
2
Thompson, Ebenezer Tolman, Isaiah
4
1
4
Lampson, Jonathan
1
1
6 Tolman, Jeremiah
1
1
2
Lackey, William
1
1
2
Tolman, Samuel
2
2
2
Lewis, William
1
3
Tolman, Curtis
. 2
2
2
Lindsey, John
2
4
7
Ulmer, John
1
1
1
Lovett, Israel
3
3
3
Ulmer, George
3
1
5
Lowell, Rosamus
·)
1
1
Vose, Thomas
1
5
Meintosh, William
1
1
1
Vose, Spencer
1
2
2
Mclellan, Thomas
2
2
2 Watson, David
3
1
6
1
4
Robbins, Otis
2
1
2
Fales, James, Jr.,
Hewitt Waterman
1
Smith, Oliver
3
1
2
Coombs, Joseph
3
1
2
4
Covell, Micajah
1
1
1 Orbeton, James
Crockett, Jonathan 3
2
6
2
3
Kingman, Loring
1
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Waterman, Nathaniel 1
Walsh, William 1 1 Weed, James 3 5 1 White, John 1 1 3 Wheaton, Mason, 2 1
West, John 3 2
Witham, Wm .? [Ben.] 1 1
2 Webb, Wm .? [Benj.] 1 1
3 Woodcock, Nathaniel 2 2 2*
* Copied in March, 1862, by Capt. A. C. Spalding, from the original manuscript in the Census Bureau, Washington, D. C.
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HISTORY OF THOMASTON,
CHAPTER X.
VARIOUS INCIDENTS, FIRST POST OFFICE, AND FIRST MEETING-HOUSE.
AT the annual meeting in March, 1790, a vote is recorded that " Quakers have Liberty to wear their hats in Town Meeting;" but whether passed for the accommodation of Mr. Chapman of that denomination or as a joke upon some who wore their hats regardless of the custom then prevailing at such meetings, tradition does not state. Possibly the cold- ness of the weather made the wearing of hats a necessity ; as Capt. J. Watson wrote on the 7th April that "the snow was very deep, and that snow and sleet fell, all that day."
The first division of the town into school districts was made in Oct. 1790, as follows: "The 1st District to be from Warren line to the east line of J. Dillaway's land, and from thence to T. Stevens's upon the N. side of the road; the 2d, from the 1st District Line, including the Beech Woods, Mr. Creighton's, Mr. Butler's, and all the inhabitants upon the River to the Town line at Cushing (now St. George ;) the 3d, all the N. E. part of the town from Mr. Creighton's northerly line, including all the inhabitants to the Camden line and southerly on the sea-shore to Mr. Lindsey's; the 4th, all the inhabitants on both sides Wessaweskeag River, taking in Mr. Spalding; the 5th, all the inhabitants from Timothy Spald- ing's to Ash Point and Owl's Head Harbour, including James Rendell ; the 6th, all the inhabitants from John Godding's to Rosamus Lowell's."
The " pound of good logs," voted in 1786, seems never to have been built; as the selectmen this year ordered that the barn-yard of Capt. Thomas Vose, who now occupied the Wadsworth house, be used as a pound for the present; and, the autumn following, votes were passed " that one pound should be built on the N. W. corner of the town Landing place near Wheaton's saw-mill," and another at Wessawes- keag; of which James Fales, Jr., and Wm. Rowell were chosen pound-keepers.
1791. At a meeting, May 5th, the town voted " that Capt. Josiah Reed have liberty to build a store on the town landing, near Col. Wheaton's Mill, for the term of seven years, he paying three shillings per year for the use thereof."
Reed came from Massachusetts, where he married Betsey, the daughter of Dr. John Taylor, proprietor of the township
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since named Union, and from whom he had, in 1782, receiv- ed a deed of some 14000 acres of land, all that remained unsold in that township. There he erected a saw-mill and," not improbably, resided for a time; but, in this or the pre- ceding vear. became, with his wife and two daughters, Eliza and Lucy, a resident of Thomaston. It may have been at his invitation and for the purpose of receiving some tendered acknowledgment of the favor granted by the above vote, that the town, in December following, " voted to adjourn the meeting for one hour to the house of Capt. Josiah Reed." He traded in the place many years, at first in the porch of his own house opposite the foot of what is now High street ; be- came a magistrate ; twice represented the town in the General Court; was flattered by the marriage of his eldest daughter to Henry J., son of Gen. Knox; but subsequently became in- volved, returned to Massachusetts, and was for a time a jus- tice of the peace in Boston, where, it is believed, he died in comparative obscurity.
While Reed was trading in this town, a piece of cloth was missed from his store, and a young fellow by the name of Louett, a tailor, was accused of purloining it. Whether guilty or not, the evidence against him was so strong that the magistrate thought proper to bind him over to the court for trial. Leonard Fales, then deputy sheriff, took charge of him, and, meeting old Mr. Creighton, told him he had a pris- oner in charge whom he " should be obliged to carry to jail, unless somebody would be bound for his appearance at court. Would'nt you be his bondsman ?" " Ye-e-s !" said C., in his deep hoarse voice, " I'll be bound for him." Well pleas- ed, they all turned back to the magistrate's to have the bond executed. Here, after being well " treated" by the prisoner and being asked by the magistrate if he was willing to be bound for Mr. L., he gave the same emphatic "ye-e-es ! I'll be bound for him." After partaking of a second treat and being told the bond was ready if he was willing to sign it, Creighton said, " I told you I'd be bound for him, and I will be bound that he will do the same thing again the first op- portunity." That not being the bond required, the prison- er's hopes were of course disappointed .*
Zephaniah Everton, whose grandfather came from England and was a manufacturer of gunpowder in Dorchester, Mass., came to this place about 1790. In 1777, at the age of thir- teen, he entered the army as drummer in Col. Jackson's regi-
* Mr. Nathaniel Fales (3d.)
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ment, and served at Valley Forge and other places to the end of the war. After the war closed, he spent some time in fishing on the Grand Banks, came to Maine, first to the Ken- nebec and Sandy Rivers, afterwards to Camden and this iown. In 1701 and 1792, he worked on the mills in Union, boarding himself, but returned to this town, married, and set- tled at Watson's Point; where, after the building of the bridge, he was toll-keeper, and to the end of his life received as a pensioner the reward of his early services and priva- tions. David Gay, a native of Attleboro', came from New London, N. H., whither he had removed with his father's family while quite young and where he was brought up to the trades of tanning and shoemaking. The whole journey hither through the wilderness, was performed on horseback. Commencing with boot and shoemaking at the Shore, he after some few years turned his attention to lime-burning, which he carried on extensively there, and is said to have been the first to send lime from what is now Rockland to the New York market. One of the earliest wharves in the city was built by him; - only Lindsey's, and perhaps Spear's, both of them small, having been built earlier. About 1811 he re- moved to the Marsh on the road to Mill River, - where he lived 17 years, cleared a large lot of land, established a saw- mill, and built the house now occupied by his oldest son. In 1828, he removed back to the Shore; where, for the re- mainder of his active days, he was extensively engaged in trade, lime-burning, and navigation. There he built a house, of bricks made on his own land; and it is said owned the first chaise in Rockland. He was a devoted member of the Universalist Society in Rockland, and died in 1855; having lived to see the place, which he had first known as an infant settlement in the woods of some half dozen families only, become an incorporated and thriving city."
An article concerning the separation of Maine from the parent State, was, this year, dismissed by vote of the town at its May meeting. The intercourse between this place and Boston was at that time so intimate, in consequence of the wood, lumber, and lime, which found a market there, that a separation, involving as it did the entry and clearance of ves- sels, at every trip, seemed fraught with more inconvenience than benefit.
The school districts were again remodeled in December, but, from the small sum, viz .: £26, raised this year for the
* Rockland Gazette, W. E. Tolman, Esq., &c.
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purpose, the amount of schooling in each district must have been scanty. Among the instructors employed about this time were Wm. Walsh aforesaid, who, this year, received £6, 8s. 4d., " for keeping school in the North-east Meadow Dis- trict ;" Daniel Andrews, CC, in the same district ; Ambrose Snow, £9, at Wessaweskcag in 1790; John White, £5, 7s. 3d., in 1791, at Owl's Head Bay ; John Ramsey, £12, in N. E. Meadow district ; Samuel Rindes, £3, 8s., in W. Meadow district; and Jona. Adams, $68, in the Western district ; the last three probably in 1793 and 1794. .
. This year was marked by the supposed death by drowning of George Killsa, who had settled and then resided at Owl's Head. Having visited some of the vessels lying in that har- bor, he set out on his return in the darkness of evening alone in his punt. A man who was near by in a similar craft, after- wards remembered to have heard a gurgling sound, but sus- pected nothing at the time; and, though much search was made during the night and following day, no trace of the body was ever found .*
1792. On the 17th of April, Hezekiah Prince of Kings- ton, Mass., who, whilst an apprentice at the joiner's trade, had worked for the five preceding years here and at Vinal- haven, Camden, and Lincolnville, removed to this town with his chest of tools and clothes ; at that time the whole amount of his worldly property. Being now twenty-one years of age, he fixed his home at the house of Isaiah Tolman, jr., which he had himself assisted to build the preceding year ; took Jordan Lovett as an apprentice, and found an abundance of employment in Thomaston, Camden, and Warren. But, on June 23d of this year, Mr. Tolman had the misfortune to lose his valuable new house by fire, supposed to have been kin- dled from a broom set away in a corner, after being used about the hearth just before the family retired. This house was soon rebuilt, however, and the following year, 1793, became the first licensed tavern in what is now Rockland. By the burning of Tolman's house Prince lost all his clothes, except what he had on at work. Finishing his engagements for the season, he burnt a kiln of lime in the winter and took it to Boston for a market. In the winter of 1793-4 he took a jour- ney to Virginia on horseback, then the common and almost only mode of travelling. Returning here, April 8, 1791. he recommenced his business as joiner and painter, on the houses of West, Perry, Curtis Tolman, and others of this town, of
* Mrs. G. B. Cooper.
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the Dillinghams, J. Palmer, Wm. Molineux, Daniel Barrett, and Jacob Mansfield, of Camden ; took Joshua Fuller as an apprentice ; purchased a $500 lot of land in Camden ; and built one-eighth of a schooner in company with Wm. M'Glath- ery of that town. In May, 1795, he removed to Wessawes- keag, and engaged work for his apprentices of Ephraim Snow and Wm. Mathews ; whilst he himself chartered a schooner of Islesboro' and took a load of lumber to New York. Los- ing about $150 on this adventure, he returned to Wessawes- keag in August and resumed work. In 1796, he took John Miller, afterwards of Warren, as an apprentice; built the Wessaweskeag meeting-house, as elsewhere mentioned; did the joiner work on the schooner Betsey & Jenny; went into trade ; married; and, about the end of the century, removed to Seal Harbor in St. George, where he manufactured salt in summer and the essence or extract of spruce in winter, both of which found ready sale in Boston." At this time he con- sidered his property worth $2500. Here we leave this en- terprising mechanic, for the present, and return to the year 1792.
Gen. Henry Knox, having now become interested as part owner in the Waldo patent, and having the purchase of the remainder in contemplation, this year sent a mineralogist to explore the same and ascertain what ores and mineral wealth it might contain. Accordingly, Monsieur Monvel, " a judi- cious young French gentleman, who was educated in the Royal academy in Paris" as such, came here and took up his quarters at Capt. T. Vose's, - commencing his work on the 18th of May, and prosecuting the same with almost uninter- rupted diligence till the 10th of Oct. 1792. During this in- terval, he seems, from his manuscript journal, to have ex- plored the whole patent, mostly on foot and alone, searching its mountains and swamps, brooks and ponds; testing its ledges and boulders ; and observing its soil, growths, and other advantages. Thomaston was particularly explored ; and the journal of his wanderings up and down the then wild and woody banks of the George's, Wessaweskeag, and Mill Rivers to the neighboring mountains and sea-coast, is inter- esting, and well agrees with more modern explorations. Other than the rich beds of lime-stone previously known, he seems to have discovered few minerals of value, except bog iron ore which he found between J. Reed's and T. Stevens's
* The late H. Prince, Esq. ; Diary and minutes furnshed by Capt. G. Prince of Bath ; Jeremiah Toiman, Esq. ; Mrs. Hannah Watson, &c.
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ROCKLAND AND SOUTH THOMASTON.
houses, as also near Keen's, and more abundantly far back in the country. He took his departure for Boston in the sch. Polly, October 11th, and arrived at Philadelphia on the 1st of November .*
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In June, 1792, Elder Isaac Case resigned the pastoral care of the First Baptist church, probably on account of the mea- gerness of his support. It is said that, on his removal from the place, he was compelled by poverty to resort to the chari- ty of a well disposed man not of his society, Mr. Woodcock, for the means of transporting his household goods, who, hav- ing received the good man's thanks and blessing as he was about to return with his team, said to him, " you are entirely welcome to what I have done, Mr. Case, but take my advice, and never give your services, or settle in the ministry again, without having a sufficient living lawfully secured to you." The labors of this self-denying and devoted apostle of the Baptist faith continued to be sought for and were successfully rendered in various places to a very advanced age. His lat- est days were, it is believed, spent in Readfield, Maine. He was succeeded as pastor here, after a time, by Rev. Elisha Snow. This gentleman, who, during the busy and exciting scenes of the Revolution, had, as the reader may have observed, lapsed into worldly-mindedness and indifference to religion, now, with characteristic energy, entered upon a course in accordance with the great change he had ex- perienced. When at length the war closed and American independence was acknowledged, he had felt himself left to the mercy of those who not only differed widely from him in opinion, but had also received injuries, real or supposed, at his hands, which they were now able and probably not un- willing to avenge. Pondering over his situation, and per- plexed with the difficulties that surrounded him, he had been led, on the occasion before alluded to, to reflect seriously upon his past life, and soon after was suddenly overwhelmed with such a sense of its utter unworthiness in the sight of God and opposition to the spirit and teaching of the Gospel, that, whilst working in his garden, he was struck as with a palsy, and, helpless as a child to work or move, could only exclaim " God is just and I am damned!" This was the burden of his discourse when the first wave of his remorse had subsid- ed and he had begun to find relief in penitential prayers and
Original MS. Journal, written in tolerably good English, and furnish- ed with a title page by Knox's own hand, -now in possession of Mr. Jas. E. Stimpson of Thomaston.
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tears. Such was the apparent depth and sincerity of his con- trition, that even to his enemies it seemed cruel to call it in question ; and, in the great religious revival that was then in progress under the preaching of Mr. Case, none of the con- versions appeared more supernatural and astonishing than that of Mr. Snow. Yet, conscious that
"Never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep,"
he prudently withdrew, as before noted, and began his labors as a servant of Christ in a distant field. Now, however, on the removal of Mr. Case, he returned to his old home and place, and was soon enabled, by his zeal, self-humiliation, and vehement eloquence in prayer and exhortation, to gain the ears, and through them in a great measure the confidence, which he ever after retained, of his townsmen and neighbors. Soon after the departure of Mr. Case, an unhappy dispute arose among the members of this church, chiefly in reference to the doctrine of the atonement. Mr. Snow, whose active mind and energetic will were never without influence wherev- er exercised, believed and strenuously contended that the atonement made by Christ was partial, extending to those only who were elected and foreordained from all eternity to be saved ; that against all such, the Father, having received satisfaction, had no further claim and could not lawfully con- demn them ; and that, if Christ had died for all men, then all would have been entitled to salvation. Dea. Samuel Brown, on the other hand, believed that Christ died for all mankind ; and that all, by complying with the required conditions, might obtain salvation through the atonement of his death. Each had their adherents in the church ; and the dispute produced confusion for a considerable timo; caused the ordinances to be neglected ; and finally resulted in the exclusion of thirty- four members by the majority. Among this number was the clerk, Dea. Brown, who, probably deeming his party as much the church in all respects but in numbers as their opponents, retained the records. He afterwards joined the Methodist3 or, according to some, the Freewill Baptists; removed to Camden, and subsequently to Ohio, carrying the records with him. These, the church never recovered ; though several of the excluded members afterwards returned to its bosom.
The town meeting, this year, after the choice of modera- tor, " adjourned from N. Fales's to the house of D. Fales," where all the subsequent meetings during the year were held. Mr. Robbins, whose house had been made use of for that pur-
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pose during the first ten years of the town's corporate exist- ence, and who was one of its earliest, enterprising, and re- spectable citizens, was, in March of this year, after lingering and suffering some weeks with a broken leg, removed by death. at the age of sixty-five.
The practice of " warning out" strangers, fallen into disuse since 1788, was this year voted- to be renewed, indiscrimi- nately, and all who receive and harbor such persons contrary to law to be prosecuted. Notwithstanding its precaution, however, the town had not escaped the common lot of such corporations ; troubles respecting Mrs. Anna Clark continued ; the town's last attempt being to get a guardian appointed over her as a non compos. Other pauper expenses (settled in open meeting and the amount not recorded) appear to have been incurred for a few years preceding this, which probably induced the vote, March 13, 1792, " that there be a work- house built for the poor of the town." Yet, as there was no committee raised nor money voted to execute the measure, it was probably allowed to sleep, as the vote for building a meeting-house had done before.
At the May meeting of this year, Samuel Brown was, for the seventh time, elected representative. Whether this favor, so long annually bestowed, had offended his own modesty, or whether his course and the schism in the Baptist Church had occasioned some murmuring among the electors, or from whatever other cause, Mr. Brown thought proper to decline the proffered honor, and resigned the office in open town meeting. On a second ballot, however, the same gentleman was re-elected, but, the year following, was succeeded by Josiah Reed. On the question this year submitted by the General Court, in relation to erecting Maine into a separate government, ten votes were thrown here in favor of the measure, and twenty-three against it. At the second Pres- idential election, Nov. 2, 1792, Maine constituting one dis- trict, this town gave for Edward Cutts of York, David Mitchell of Cumberland, and Thomas Rice of Lincoln, each eleven votes, the whole number cast. These were elected, and, with those of Massachusetts proper, voted for George Washington and John Adams for President of the Union, no distinction being then made between the first and second of- fices ; but Washington, having the greater number, became President, and Adams, Vice-President.
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