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James Patterson. (See Chap. VII. on Proprietary History.) Nathaniel Patterson. " " "
Robert Patterson. " "
William Patterson, 2d, " " "
William Patterson, Ist. He came from Londonderry with William McLaughlin, his father-in-law, in 1770, and settled on lot No. 3, on the east side of the river. He was not related to the other Pattersons, and in distinction from one of them who bore the same name was called " Long William." He probably died in May, 1810. Martha, his wife, died Aug. 8, 1808, aged fifty- nine years.
John Robinson was a native of Ireland, and came to this country as a soldier under Wolfe, during the French war. He settled at Londonderry, and enlisted in the Revolution. For his services, £105 in depreciated Massachusetts securities were paid him. This he exchanged with the eccentric " Lord Timothy Dex- ter," of Newburyport, for lot No. 47. Dexter made quite a for- tunate speculation in purchasing the rights of several proprietors, which were not reclaimed after the town was abandoned during the Revolution. In 1784, when Robinson first arrived, he stayed a few days with James Miller, and then occupied an old hut on what is now the farm of Charles Read, about twenty-five rods from the shore. No road then existed, and he passed to and from Miller's on the beach. Robinson was a practical weaver. He raised flax, which his wife spun into thread. This he wove into linen cloth. He moved to Montville, and died there about 1808. George Robinson, who died here in 1858, was his son.
Winthrop Smith. He lived only temporarily in the town, and nothing further is known of him.
Robert Steele. (See Chapter VII. on Proprietary History.)
Jerome Stephenson, a brother of Solon Stephenson, came the year after the Revolution. He was one of the selectmen in 1785. He settled on the east side of the river, where Jolin H. Stephen- son now resides. He died in 1820, aged eighty-two years.
Solon Stephenson came in 1774. He lived on the east side, where he died of a fever, in February, 1807, aged seventy-three years. He was chairman of the board of selectmen in 1777, '78, and '79, and was one of the few who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. White's History refers to him as " a man memorable for his sincerity of heart, sound judgment, and con- stancy of purpose." His widow died in 1813, aged eighty-four years.
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Richard Stimson was one of the earliest settlers. Dr. Her- man Abbot claimed that he was a resident here before the arrival of the proprietors, in 1770 ; but this is doubtful. He lived on the west side of Half-way Creek, in what is now Searsport.
Henry True was here in 1785. In 1791, he received a com- mission as ensign in the militia. An entry in the town records states that he was drowned in Belfast River, June 8, 1803. Martha, his widow, died Aug. 9, 1823. Their children were : Samuel, born Oct. 14, 1785 ; Abigail, Aug. 24, 1787; Jenny, Dec. 17, 1789; Sally, Jan. 1, 1792 ; Joseph, Dec. 29, 1795; Fanny, Jan. 3, 1794 ; Charlotte, Nov. 29, 1797 ; and Martba, Jan. 14, 1800.
John Tuft. (See Chapter VII. on Proprietary History.)
Lemuel Weeks, a shipmaster, came in August, 1790. He was the first justice of the peace commissioned here after the Revolu- tion. The first house he occupied stood on the Miller lot, about where Union Street was afterwards located. He afterwards lived in a house on what is now Cross Street, where he died May 20, 1805. Elizabeth, his wife, died Dec. 12, 1790. She was a sister of John Cochran. Her first husband was John Mitchell, son of one of the proprietors of the same name. The children of Captain Weeks were : John, who died at sea; Sarah, who married one White, and lived in Massachusetts; and Betsey, who married Daniel Whittier, and, after his decease, Abraham Libby.
Jonathan Wilson came here in 1785, from Chester, N. H., when twenty-three years of age. He was the son of Robert Wil- son, a prominent citizen of that town. Colonel Wilson was acci- dentally drowned in Eastport harbor, April 13, 1833, aged sixty-seven years. Eleanor, his widow, a daughter of John Mitchell, survived him until Feb. 12, 1846. Their children were as follows : Alice, born March 22, 1785, married Martin Patterson, and died Feb. 3, 1875; Jane, born June 9, 1788, married Benjamin Eells, and died Aug. 5, 1874 ; Nathaniel, born Dec. 26, 1790, and died Oct. 27, 1849 ; Elizabeth M., born Feb. 10, 1793, and died April 20, 1797 ; Nancy, born May 14, 1795, married Captain David Green, and now resides in San Francisco, being the last survivor ; John M., born May 29, 1797 ; Henry K., born Oct. 27, 1799; George W., born June 24, 1802; Caroline, born Sept. 6, 1804; and Jonathan Day- ton, born July 1, 1807, and died Feb. 22, 1853.
A notice of Colonel Wilson appears in Chapter XXXIV.
Among those who came here between 1790 and 1800 were William West, from Kingston, N. H., who, on arriving in 1793,
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`" found but two framed houses in the village, and the ground still smoking from the ashes of the forest ;" Thomas Reed, who came the same year; and Daniel Clary and Dr. John S. Osborn, a year after. Jonathan White came in 1795 ; James Shirley and William Griffin, in 1796. The latter was the father of the late Robert M. Griffin : he afterwards removed to Ohio. Captain Ephraim McFar- land and Robert White were citizens here in 1797. Robert and Jonathan White were brothers, and occupied adjoining farms on Northport Avenue. Their father, Colonel William White, of Chester, N. H., was a son of Deacon William White, who came from Ireland to Londonderry, in 1725. Colonel White was twice married, and had sixteen children. The children by his first wife, whose name was Mary Mills, were Jane, Jonathan, Susannah, Robert, Mary, Elizabeth, and Ann. Susannah married Jonathan Quimby, of Belfast. Mary, Elizabeth, and Ann settled and died in Montville. By his second wife, Elizabeth, a daughter of John Mitchell, he had William, John, Thomas, Sarah, James, David M., Olive, Lavinia, and Benjamin.1 William and James settled here. John resided in Montville. Benjamin, who lives in Ballard Vale, Mass., is the last survivor.
In 1800, the whole number of voters was 148. As nearly as can be ascertained, ninety-two resided upon the west side of the river, and fifty-six upon the east side. The following are their names : -
Ames, Jacob
Cochran, John, 3d
Badger, James
Cochran, Robert
Basford, Jonathan
Covell, Edward
Bean, Jeremiah
Covell, Judah
Brown, John
Crooks, Edward
Brown, John, Jr.,
Cunningham, Thomas
Bussell, Benjamin
Cunningham, Williamn
Bussell, Samuel
Dolliff, John
Clark, Abraham
Durham, John
Clark, Alexander
Durham, Tolford
Clark, Elisha
Eells, Nathaniel
Clark, Ichabod
Eells, Samuel
Clary, Daniel
Elwell, Jonathan
Cochran, George
Cochran, John
Cochran, John, 2d
Folsom, John Fox, Beniah
1 Chase's History of Chester, 614.
Cochran, Peter
Banton, William
Cochran, Robert Boyd
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Fox, Edward Frost, Enos
Giddings, Stephen Gilmore, Baptist
Gilmore, James
Gilmore, John
Gordon, James
Gordon, Joseph
Griffin, William
Hadley, Aaron C. Hall, Allen
Hamilton, Solomon
Hartshorn, Benjamin
Haskell, John
Hibbard, Daniel
Hinkson, Joseph
Hopkins, George
Houston, Jonathan
Houston, Joseph Houston, Robert Houston, Samuel
Houston, Samuel, 2d
Houston, Thomas Houston, William Hovey, Simeon
Hunt, Seth
Huse, John
Johnson, Daniel
Kimball, Reuben Kimball, William
Kirkpatrick, Daniel
Knowlton, William Lymburner, John
McFarland, Ephraim McKeen, Abner G. McKeen, Ephraim McKeen, Isaac
McKeen, Samuel Merriam, John Merrill, Wiggins Miller, James Miller, Joseph Miller, Robert Mitchell, Robert Muncey, Nathaniel
Nesmith, Benjamin Nesmith, James Nesmith, James, Jr.
Osborn, John S.
Patterson, James
Patterson, John
Patterson, Martin
Patterson, Martin J.
Patterson, Nathaniel
Patterson, Robert
Patterson, Robert, 2d
Patterson, Robert, 3d
Patterson, Robert, 4th
Patterson, Starrett
Patterson, William
Patterson, William, 2d
Patterson, William, 3d
Patterson, William, 4th
Reed, David
Reed, Thomas
Robinson, Nathaniel
Russ, John
Sale, John
Senter, Alanson
Senter, Isaac
Shirley, James
Smith, Benjamin
Smith, Caleb
Smith, Joseph
Snell, John
Spring, Marshall
Spring, Nahum Spring, Thaddeus Steele, Robert Stephenson, Caleb Stephenson, Charles
Stephenson, Jerome
Stephenson, Solon
Stephenson, Zenas Stimson, Richard
Taggart, William Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, Thomas Thompson, Isaac
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Thompson, James Thompson, Samuel, 2d
Weeks, Lemuel
West, Stetson
True, Henry
West, William
Tuft, Annis
Weymouth, James
Tuft, John
White, Jonathan
Tuft, Jonathan
White, Robert
Tuft, Thomas
Wilson, Jonathan
Tuft, William
Winslow, Benjamin
Turner, Isaac
Young, Benjamin
Varnum, Moses
Young, John
Webber, James
Large acquisitions to the inhabitants took place between 1800 and 1805. At the close of the latter year, the estimated popula- tion was nine hundred. Among the prominent men who settled here early in the present century were three members of the legal profession : viz., Bohan P. Field, from North Yarmouth, in 1801; William Crosby, from Billerica, Mass., in 1802; and John Wilson, from Peterboro', N. H., in 1803. An interesting autobiog- raphy of Judge Crosby, which he prepared in 1840, when sixty- nine years old, for his grandchildren, contains the following de- scription of Belfast, as he found it on the occasion of his first visits : -
" I had heard much of Maine, and was charmed with the pros- pects which a new country presented to me. I examined the map, and fixed on Bangor as a central point which would rise to eminence.
" In the summer of 1801, I mounted my little horse, Robin, and took the tour of Maine. On arriving at the Kennebec, I visited the towns of Gardiner, Hallowell, Augusta, Norridgewock, and Waterville. From Waterville, I crossed over to Hampden. I found the road from Albion to Hampden merely crosstied and causewayed. At Hampden, I put up at a Mr. Libbey's, who kept a public house there, and devoted two days to rest for myself and horse, preparatory to my visit to Bangor, the grand object of my visit. On the third day, I went to Bangor; but, to my astonish- ment, I could see no village, now the city. I tied my horse to a bush fence, and descended the precipice just above the present Hatch House, which was then a mere frame, where I found one James Thomas. Mr. Thomas was kind enough to pull a paper out of his pocket, on which he shew me the great to be city of
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Bangor. I was so disappointed and mortified that I made up my mind to return home in the most direct way immediately. I mounted my horse, returned to Hampden, dined, and started for Belfast. At the Marshmill settlement, they told me that the road to Belfast was new and rather blind, but they thought I could get through to the settlement before dark, so I pushed on. But, before I reached any house, night came upon me. I lost my road once or twice ; but before twilight was gone I came to an open- ing and a log house, but found no one in it, nor any path out of the opening. So I tied my horse to a stump, and took up my lodgings for the night. I found in the house a good bed and a cat, and could hear a cowbell in the distance. I was extremely thirsty, but could find no water. I then laid myself upon the bed, and endeavored to get some sleep ; but it occurred to me that the country was then in a state of insurrection against the proprie- tors, and that house might be the rendezvous of the insurgents, and that finding me there asleep they might take me for a spy, and do me some harm before I could explain myself. So I got but little sleep that night. At early daylight, I pushed on, and soon came out to settlers. I found that I had lodged at the house of Mr. John Mason, and that he and his wife were on a visit at her father's. On my way to Belfast, I again missed my road, and got on to a winter road on the Goose River meadows. The mire was so deep I had to dismount and drive my horse before me, and finally came out at the Tilden Mills, where I got. so entangled among fallen trees that I had to get the millmen to haul me out. At about 10 o'clock, A.M., I arrived at the upper ferry on the Belfast River. But it was the fourth day of July, and the ferryman was absent. I then descended the east side of the river to the lower ferry. The ferryman here was gone, but I found a boy who set me across the river, and landed me safely on the Belfast Beach. The site of this village was then but a small opening ; but there were several new buildings and stores, and it being the fourth day of July, there was a considerable appearance of business and activity. I made no stay in the village, but simply called at Captain James Miller's to see if I could obtain some refreshment for myself and horse. He was very much engaged preparing for the 4th of July, but said there were some militia officers to dine with him, and that, if I would wait, I might dine with them. This did not suit me, so I pushed on. I next called at Colonel Thomas Knowlton's, in Northport, and I found him in
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the same situation. So I pushed on once more. I reached the Ducktrap Stream a little before sunset, and hired a boy to swim my horse across it. I then became faint, and determined to throw myself into the first house I came to. This happened to be the house of one Hezekiah French, a native of the town of Billerica, and an old acquaintance. Here I was most kindly and hospitably entertained for the night and the next forenoon. From Lincoln- ville, Mr. French's place of residence, I proceeded to Broad Bay, in Waldoborough, where my horse gave out. I then put myself and horse on board a coaster, and returned to Boston, and thence home. " Notwithstanding my disappointment at Bangor, I still felt a yearning towards Maine and its wilderness. The passing glimpse I had of Belfast continually haunted me. In the fall of the same year, I took a trip to Belfast by water to examine it and its vicinity. Upon my second visit there, I found Mr. Field there, an attorney, afterwards my brother-in-law, and five or six new settlers from North Yarmouth, all very pleasant, and as many new stores and buildings going up. The country was new, but its scenery was wild and beautiful. Its broad bay, gentle hills, its fishing and fowling were enchanting. I at once made up my mind to make it my home. So I entered into a league of amity with Mr. Field, made a contract for the erection of an office, and returned home to settle my affairs at Billerica. Having sold my house and arranged my business at Billerica, I took leave of my friends there, and arrived at Belfast on the second day of January, 1802, and have resided here just thirty-eight years this day.
"I will now give you a description of this village and country as I found it in 1802. There were within its present limits only five old framed houses, some log houses, one old store, and two old meeting-houses ; and few rods north of it, on my present farm, five Indian wigwams. But there were ten new stores and houses going up, and in part finished. There was not a rod of stone wall nor a rod of highway made on this side the bay. The appearance of the whole was that of a dilapidated forest, covered with stumps and prostrate hemlock, and other logs. The forest was then standing entire on the west side of Wilson's Hill, and the people were then cutting off the cord-wood. The land this side the hill, and between it and the village, had been burnt over the year before. The site of my dwelling-house was hardly visible from the beach ; and my office, opposite Phoenix Row, was erected in the midst of large hemlock logs and stumps. The country west
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was one continuous, beautiful even sheet of forest, with a few here and there scattering openings. The roads into the country were only bushed out and partly causewayed, and travelling intercourse with the shore settlers was principally in open boats, with Castine and the Islands entirely so."
Dr. Thaddeus Hubbard, from New York, and Dr. Chauncy C. Chandler, from Vermont, established themselves as physicians in 1803. Nathan B. Foster, land-surveyor, William Lowney and Henry Goddard, schoolmasters, came in 1804 ; Asa Edmunds, also a schoolmaster, the next year. Of traders, William Salmond, from Hanover, Mass., came in 1802 ; John Angier, from Bridge- water, Mass., and William Moody, from York, in 1803; Francis Anderson, from Wiscasset, Samuel Spring, from Waltham, Mass., and Benjamin Palmer, from Camden, in 1804; and Andrew Leach, a native of Scotland, in 1805. During the last-named year, Edmund Brown, brother of the late John G. Brown, Simon D. McDonald, James Cassin, and Reuben Derby, traded in the village : none of them remained long. Paul Giles, who came from Gilmanton, N. H., in 1801; John Milliken, from North Yarmouth, who erected the house now occupied by Ex-Governor Crosby, in 1802, and afterwards removed to Davistown ; and Wil- liam Durham, - were tanners here in 1805. Jonathan Pitcher was a brick-maker, and James Bicknell was a brick-layer. Alvan Edmunds, saddler ; Samuel Peck, from Ipswich, Mass., cabinet- maker ; Abel Baker and Elisha Cole, tailors; Oliver Rouse, Abraham Libby, from Rye, N. II .; John Haraden, from North Yarmouth ; Thomas Bartlett, from Concord, N. H .; and Ben- jamin Joy, joiners; Jonathan Quimby, from Lebanon, N. H .; John Moor and Ansel Lothrop, blacksmiths ; Salathiel Nickerson, senior, Benjamin Monroe, Jonathan Ferguson, Samuel Cunning- ham, Stephen Longfellow, Apollos Alden, Samuel Burd, Annas Campbell, Benjamin Hartshorn, Benjamin, John T. and James Poor, Nathaniel Stanley, Daniel Whittier, Thomas Whittier, and George W. Webster, all well-known citizens, - were settled here before the close of 1805.
During the next five years there was a large influx of popula- tion from various parts of New England. Among them may be. mentioned Oakes Angier, brother of John Angier, Phineas Ash- mun, and Joseph G. Cogswell, lawyers, none of whom remained long ; Edward Cremer and Charles Hall, physicians ; George W.
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Bruce, stone-ware manufacturer, from Portland; Josiah Bean and Lewis Bean, from York ; James Brown, from Boston ; Leon- ard Crosby, from Dixmont; James, Thomas, and William Cun- ningham, from Peterboro', N. H. ; John H. Conner, from Sandwich, N. H .; Samuel Campbell, afterwards of Montville; Andrew Derby, from York ; Henry Davidson, from Windham, N. H .; Capt. William Furber; William Grinnell, from Block Island ; Samuel Jackson ; Captain Robert Kelsey ; Joseph P. Ladd, from Epping, N. H. ; James McCrillis, from Meredith, N. H .; Calvin, Fisher A., Luther, and William Pitcher ; Nicholas Phillips; David and Eben Peirce, from Boothbay ; Nathan Read, from Danvers, Mass. ; George Watson, from Boston ; and Nathan Swan, from Andover.
From 1810 to 1815 came Dr. Herman Abbot, physician ; Zaccheus Porter, from Peterboro', N. H., and William White, from Union, lawyers ; Hugh J. Anderson, from Wiscasset; William Avery, from Preston, Conn .; Samuel French and William Fred- erick, from Gloucester, Mass. ; Benjamin Hazeltine, Richard Holt, Philip Morrill, Thomas Pickard, and Peter Rowe, well-known traders in their day and generation ; Samuel Burkmar, James Douglas, Josiah D. Hinds, Noah Prescott, Isaac Smith, Elijah Torrey, John Wales, Asa West, and Peter Winslow. Of these, Peter Winslow and Ex-Governor Anderson are the only sur- vivors.
Hugh Johnston Anderson, the second son of John Anderson, a prominent merchant of Wiscasset before the embargo of 1807, was born in that town, May 10, 1801, and came here when four- teen years old. In 1816, upon the death of his uncle, Francis Anderson, a merchant on Main Street, he succeeded to his busi- ness, which he continued until 1827. From 1827 to 1837, he was clerk of the judicial courts ; and, from 1837 to 1841, a member of Congress from the Waldo District, which then comprised a por- tion of Kennebec County. In 1843, he was chosen by the Demo- crats governor ; an honor which they repeated in the two successive years, each time with an increased majority. In 1848, he presided over the electoral college of Maine, and in 1850 acted as commissioner in establishing the State Reform School. In 1854, having been appointed by President Pierce commissioner of customs, he removed to Washington, where he still resides ; making, however, an annual visit to his former home. In 1857, he vacated the position last-named to accept that of commissioner of the mint in California, and remained some time in San Fran-
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cisco. From 1866 to 1869, he was auditor of the treasury for the Post Office Department. The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Governor Anderson, by Bowdoin College, in 1850.
From 1815 to 1817, Rufus B. Allyn and Joseph Williamson, lawyers ; Dr. Eben Poor, physician ; Hutson Bishop and John S. Kimball, traders ; Robert Emery and John T. Gilman, Thomas Marshall and Manasseh Sleeper, - established themselves here.
Among those who came between 1817 and 1826 were Hiram O. Alden, Dr. J. P. Alden, Cyrus Arnold, William Barnes, Wat- son Berry, Samuel B. Bond, Helon Brooks, N. H. Bradbury, Thomas H. Carr, Henry Cargill, Gershom F. Cox, George P. Day, Ephraim Fellowes, Bartholomew Flowers, Dennis Emery, Jonas Emery, Simeon Foss, James Gammans, Luther Gannett, Charles Goodwin, James B. Hanson, Arvida Hayford, Samuel Haynes, Paul R. Hazeltine, Sullivan Hicks, Daniel Howard, Joel Hills, Benjamin Kelley, Daniel Lane, John H. Lane, James Langworthy, Frederick A. Lewis, Samuel Locke, Jeremiah Lothrop, Heard Milliken, Dr. Hollis Monroe, Ephraim T. Morrill, Samuel A. Moulton, James B. Norris, Peter Osgood, Andrew W. Park, Joshua Pickard, Dr. William Poor, Freeman C. Raymond, Josiah Simpsor, William R. Simpson, Joseph Smith, Peter H. Smith, William Stevens, Oliver A. Washburn, James W. Webster, and John W. Wilder. From the year last-named to 1830 came Albert Bingham, N. M. Lowney, and James White, lawyers; N. C. Bishop, Horatio G. K. Calef, Mayo Hazeltine, Prescott Hazel- tine, Charles Moore, and Samuel Otis, traders ; Otho Abbot, Isaac Allard, Jonas S. Barrett, Timothy Chase, Nathan Heywood, Frye Hall, Alexis Morrill, Lewis C. Murch, Herbert R. Sargent, and Charles Treadwell, all well known in the community.
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CHAPTER XV.
BUILDINGS.
Buildings in 1800. - Oldest Houses. - Engravings of the Two Miller Honses. - Nes- mith's Corner. - View of Nesmith's Store. - First House on Main Street. - Build- ings between High Street and Sandy Beach. - Increased Population. - New Streets. - Plan of the Village in 1805. - Location of Different Buildings. - Valne of Real Estate. - Territory Uncleared. - The Babel. - View of Buildings at Corner of Main and High Streets, 1825. - Engraving of House of Bohan P. Field. - Dwellings erected in 1809. - Improvements between 1810 and 1820. - Church Street located. - Great Activity in Building from 1820 to 1830. - First Brick Stores. - Eagle Hotel. - Town Hall. - Phoenix Row. - Private Residences. - Brick School-house. - Jail. - Fire-Proof Block. - Crosby's Block. - Brick Stores in 1840. - Dwelling-honses erected between 1840 and 1850. - View of High Street in 1843. - Sale of land at Corner of Main and High Streets. - Johnson Block. - Granite Block. - Engraving of City Block. - Peirce's Block. - Engraving of Hayford Block. - Reconstruction after Great Fire. - Principal Business Places erected.
I N what is now the thickly settled and business portions of the city, viz., the space from the line of Congress Street to the water front, bounded on the north by Peirce Street, and on the south by a line continued from Allyn Street, but few build- ings had been erected up to the beginning of the present century. Commencing on the road leading from Little River to Nesmith's corner, the first house within the limits above-mentioned was that built by Captain Ephraim McFarland, in 1799, and now owned by the heirs of the late Dr. N. P. Monroe. It originally had a square roof, surmounted by a balustrade. In its day and generation it was regarded as the handsomest house here. The next buildings were the school-house and meeting-house, which stood opposite the house of Asa Faunce. Then, on the easterly side of the road, came the Miller house, known lately as the Frothingham house. This was built by James Miller, in 1791; and at the time of its destruction by the great fire of August, 1873, was the oldest dwelling-house standing on the western side of the river. It was the first house of two stories erected in town. The engraving represents its appearance when occupied by Mr. Frothingham.
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Opposite, stood Miller's barn, supplied with water from a spring, which existed within a few years. In the rear of Miller's
JAMES MILLER'S HOUSE. BUILT 1791. BURNED 1873.
premises, near Union Street, was his one-story house, built in 1770, and which remained fifty-seven years. The frame formed a part of Joshua Pickard's store, which occupied that built by Furber & Bean in 1844, and was burnt in 1846, having been moved to the site of Mcclintock's block, at the corner of Main and High Streets. There was no building between that and the house of Robert Miller, still in existence, at the corner of
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