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. The contractors were to come into possession of their deeds in geographical order going from the south of the tract to the north. No deed was to be given until all bonds covering payments due previously had been cancelled.
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The State was to have the land surveyed within twelve months by men under cath appointed by the Committee, which was to deliver the plan of the survey to Jackson and Flint within two months after it was com- pleted.
In order to promote their interest in the first million acres, Knox and Duer also bought towns adjacent to it and on the coast. The million acres was inland and this additional purchase gave access to 263
the sea.
The year after the initial purchase the two entrepreneurs decided to take another fling and contracted to buy a third million acrea east of the Penobscot. 264 A tract was agreed upon, but when it was surveyed the Committee discovered than it contained much more than the amount 265 called for. The provisions in this contract were similar to those
266 in the other two. At the time the Committee made its report in 267 June 1795, no deed had been issued.
263. William Bingham's Maine Lands, ed. Allis, p. 61.
264. Agreement between Phillips, Jarvis, and Read, a major part of the Committee and Jackson and Flint for themselves and associates, April 18, 1792, Eastern Lands, Box 15.
265. William Bingham's Maine Lands, ed. Allis, p. 61.
266. Report of Committee, June 16, 1795, Table 23, p. 34, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
267. Ibid.
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SUMMARY OF SALES
The Committee especially appointed in 1784 to sell land in York 268 County made a report that November that listed the following points. It had sold two strips that totaled 3239 acres. A great part of another three strips adjacent to the Sanford headline had been contracted for by occupants. There was also a strip of 1594 acres of which it had sold but little as the settlers there had not come to terms with it. In addition there were eleven lots near Fryeburg that it had not sold as no customers had applied for them. To date it had paid government securities equal in specie to eight hundred seventy five pounds six shillings and eight pence into the treasury.
The Lincoln County Committee got off to a good start in its sales program. Sales in 1786 exceeded 100,000 acres, the highest figure prior to 1791. It might have been even more if only all boundary lines of previous grants had been permanently settled. However, the Committee had to report in 1785 that it could not sell about 200,000 acres applied for because the lines of the Waldo Claim and the tract claimed by the 269 Indians had not been ascertained. Unfortunately, this promising bud was blighted by the depression that occasioned Shays's Rebellion, and for several years land business was slow.
268. Report of Committee appointed by Resolve of March 20, 1784, with Mass. Resolve, Nov. 10, 1784, Chap. 76.
269. Committee Report, Jupe 1, 1785 in Eastern Lands, Deeds, I, 58-61.
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Then in the early 1790's there was a distinct upswing in the sales curve when the two large contracts were made with Jackson and Flint as agents of Knox and Duer -- two million in 1791 and one million in 1792. In 1791 there were also over 150,000 other acres sold or contracted for.
In 1793 the Committee started making sizable sales to a larger number of people than the previously existing average, and between March 1, 1794 and March 6, 1795 over eighty tracts totalling 1,000,000 acres had been sold or contracted for in some sixty six transactions.
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Following are tables showing all the sales transactions which the Lincoln County Committee of 1783 made and administered as well as those made by the General Court and administered by that Committee. Some of sums represent a slight error in calculation -- for instance the entry for lands under contract in table three should be 136,056 not 116,056 -- but they are close enough to give a good general impression.
Approximately 4,509,808 acres were either sold or contracted for throughout this period for a grand price of about 278,801 pounds 19 shil- lings and 10 pence. Of this, about 245,375 pounds 9 shillings had been 271
received at the time of the Committee report of June 1795. These These figures do not include the tract bought by Knox and Duer in April 1792.
270. Report of Committee, June 16, 1795, Table 16, p. 22, and Table 17, pp. 24-25, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
271. Report of Committee, June 16, 1795, Table 22, p. 33, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
These tables also show the mumber of families various contractors were required to place pa their lamds and the time in which they were gires to do this. A glance et the report for the period ending in March 1795, above that at the end most contracts called for forty Canilies in elgh: years.
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Account of land sold by the Committee for selling Eastern Lands
Consideration
Name of the Grantee
Date of the No. of Deed
State Notes
Continent Notes
Specie
Conditions
John Allan
2785 Mar 17
90
27.00.00
Moses Knap & others
Jun 29
26, 440
2392. 7. 3
297.11.11
Page, Fridge, & Co.
Jul
2
7,000 1500.00.00
Benjamin Lincoln & others
1786 Mar
8 50,697
Joseth Vose
20
474
John Brewer & others
25 10,600
3000. -. -
Josiah Bragdon
Jun 15
80
17. 4. -
William Ingals
15
7
2. 2.
John Bean
15
26
8. 8. -
Robert Haskell
Jul
6
205
102.10. -
James Swan
7
9665 1443. 9. -
Aaron Hobart
Aug
3 17,090
2187. -. -
30 families 6 years 15 families 3 years
Edw. H & N J Robbins
Oct 21
17,860
2207.10. -
John Read
Dec
6,477
11814. 2. -
Henry Rust
1787 Feb
7
6,000
450. -. -
John Lee
14
523
89. 4.
John Coffin Jones
23
317
108.12.
-
36 families 6 years
John O'Brien
28
102
41. -. -
James Lyon
Jun 23
375
45.13. 4
Joel Parkhurst
Nov 22
44,525 4381. 4. 8
Nathan Jones
.788 Mar 26
453
105.18. -
1.10. -
John Coffin Jones & others
Apr 19 48 , 100 6120.17. 6
51. -. -
Bradley & Eastman
Oct 29
1,900
223.12. -
Jonathan Cummings
Nov 5
3,726
652. 1. -
Solomon Kimbal
25
343
1.10. -
Abijah Buck
Nov 30
John & Oliver Foster
789 Feb 19
238
15. -. -
Daniel Gott
Mar 25
305
18. -. -
Eleven Settlers in Buckstown
May 27
16.10. -
8910.02.06 337. 5. 4
60 families 6 years
Acres
72.10. - 20,033 1631.11. 4
# These tables are excerpts not completely verbatim from tables in Reports of Committee, June 16, 1795, " Eastern Lands, Box 49. The table numbers are those given them in the report. The money listed is British pounds, shillings, and pence.
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Account of land sold by the Committee for selling Eastern Lands
Consideration
Name of the Grantee
Date of the No. of Deed
State Notes
Continent Notes
Specie
Conditions
Moses Merrill
Jun 19
1,800
206. 5. -
18.15. -
William Wedgery
Jun 24
4,480
405.19. 8
James Webb
26
650
94. 3. 6
8.10. 4
Jonathan Torrey
Dec 19
35
18. -. -
Dummer Sowall
1790 Jan 28
6,823
394. 8.10
86.15. 9
Daniel Lunt
29
4,880
738. -.
Waterman Thomas
Feb
00
19,392
672. 8. -
Dummer Sewall & Others
Feb
11
400. -. -
Eliphalet Cheney
24
100
1.10. -
Joseph Dingley
24
1,643
246. 9. -
Peleg Wadsworth
Mar 10
7,800
233.11. 3
Prince Baker & Others
1791 Feb 18
23,600
187. -. -
561.15. -
Ezra Stiles
18
107
6. 6. -
Joseph Holt & Others
19
23,062
826. 5. -
208.10. 6
Jonathan Holman &C thers N 4
398.717
34590. 5. 2 9247. 7.10 26 44.17. 1
Lands Contracted for
1786 Jun 16
Benjamin York
1786 Jun 16
81
24. 8. -
1.10. -
John Fox
Abel Sawyer
in part for 1789 Jan 15
20,959
2881.17.3
261.19. 9
Thomas Poor & Others
A township
1600. -. -
Prescot & Whittier
1790 Feb 5
12,118
454. 4. -
144. 8. -
Samuel Titcomb
Jun 17
28,441
Porter, Hill & Emery William Read
1791 Feb 4
22,406
Moses Barnard
5
48,951
45 families 6 years
Asahel Foster
14
2,000
Tho Lowell & Other
settlers in Buckstown
19
30,020
2395.11, 5
Oliver Cummings
1787 Nov 23
100
land near Bakerstown
John Bridgham
510. 3. - 1282.14. - 90. -.
Acres
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Account of land sold by the Committee for selling Eastern Lands
Consideration
Specie
Conditions
Name of the Grantee
Date of the No. of Deed
Acres
State Notes
Continent Notes
Inc. Robinson & 8 Others Settlers in Butterfield John Ayer &) Settlers ir Joseph Bean ) Cutler's Robert Hichborn
Mar 4
10
1792 Jan 31
1,000
588. 3. 6
15.00.00
514,77310138.17.11
9247. 7.101950.11.10
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Date
To Whom Sold
No. of Acres
Consideration
1792 March 13
John Fox
2000
19. 0. 0 729.17. -
1793 Jan 9
Eben, Smith & Others
23073
28
William Bingham
=
Deed No. 1
120562
H
Deed No. 2
121280
Deed No. 3
114560
"
Deed No. 4
113855
Deed No. 5
119840
Deed No. 6
121280
Deed No. 7
121440
2
Deed No. 8
167183
=
Deed No. 9
125041
n
Deed No. 10
125041
H
Deed No. 11
125041
Deed No. 12
125041
3
Deed No. 13
125041
H
Deed No. 14
125041
11
Deed No. 15
125041
Deed No. 16
124877
73135.10. -
Deed No. 1 Deed No. 2
55364)
7739. 2. -
1794 Jan
22
Johan Bradley etc
520
51.17. -
Feb
15
Elijah Dix
30
9. -
15
William Phillips
16740
837. -.
30 families in 6 years
n
John Phillips
21220
1061. -.
-
30 families in 6 years
M Jacob Abbot
21210
1060.
30. families in 6 years
H
Benjamin Ames Jr
21978
1098. -. -
30 families in 6 years
M
Thomas Rusell Jr.
28484
1424. 4. -
30 families in 6 years
16
Leonard Jarvis
60000
2373, 7, 7
60 families in five years
2302651
89538.15. 7
Boston 26th February 1794
2000000
52032)
100 settlers before March 1795 (This is total for these two deeds)
400 settlers in 5 years 600 more in 8 years 1500 More in 12 years (This is total for these sixteen deeds)
Account of land sold since the 10th of March, 1791
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An Account of Lands contracted to be sold since the 10th day of March 1791
Date
To Whom Sold
No. of Acres
Consideration
1792 April 18 Henry Jackson & R. Flint
1000000
@ 21 Cents an Acre
March
6 Phineas Howard
2080
100. 0. 0
1793 April 16 Nathan Barlow
21920
1096. -. -
25 families in 6 years 25 families in 6 years
Zebina Curtis
21920
1096. -. -
= Zabad Curtis
21882
1094. 2. -
25 families in 6 years
"
Jesse Williams
22015
1100.15. -
25 families in 6 years
n
Marmaduke Wait
19794
989.14. 0
25 families in 6 years
Nov
12
Apollos Hitchcock
21760
1632.
-
(30 families in 6 years,
n
Seth Pease
21760
1632.
-
n
Calvin Austin
21760
1632.
-. -
1794 Feb
Charles Vaughan
21760
1854. 5.11
Chandler Robbins Jr
21760
1854. 5.11
Robert Hallowell
21760
1854. 5.11
Charles Bulfinch
25600
2185.10. -
Andrew Craigie
25600
2185.10. -
Gideon Lowell
1,313,131
21938. 8. 9
Boston February 26th 1794
(10 more in 10 years ( (15 families in 4 years, (10 more in 6 years, & (15 more in 8 years
Abenezer King Jr
21760
1632.
- (10 more in 8 years, &
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Account of lands aold since the 26th February 1794
Date
To Whom Sold
No. of Acres Consideration
Conditions
1794 March 1
John Peck
14643
912. 4. 6 40 families in 4 years
Ebenezer Warner Jude
Thomas Ruston one third of
Aug
26
49548 acres in the Townships)
No.4,5&6. The other 2/3 being
the Property of S. Freeman &) other proprietors
16516
1876.17. 8
Oct
10| Samuel Phillips
3019
151. -. -
Dec
9| John Derby
22707
1135. 7.
30 families in 6 years
Seth Wetmore
23650
1182.10. - 30 families in 6 years
Sarah Waldo
24132
1206.12. - 30 families in 6 years
William Wetmore
21760
1754. 9. - 30 families in 6 years
John Peck
21760
1754. 9. - 30 families in 6 years
John Coffin Jones
6345
497. 6. -
1795 Jan
20 David Cobb
3022
232. 3.11
31
William Brooks
8920
759. -. -
20 families in 8 years
Obadiah Williams
7670
698. 6. 9 20 families in 8 years
Joshua Bean
1225
84. 7. 6
Samuel Judkins
1456
117.14. 9
Samuel Linscut
1503
112.14. 6
Israel Hutchinson
1000
3. 6. 9
Goffe Moore
1672
22. 4. -
John Moore
132
10. 4. -
March
2|Martin Kinsley
21760
3704.12. 9
40 families in 8 years
5| Moses Abbot
21272
1810.10. -
40 families in 8 years
Jonathan Gardner 5
19220
1454. 6. 3 40 families in 8 years
5 Jonathan Cummins
19320
1461.17. 2 |40 families in 8 years
6
Phineas Bruce
1344
201.12.
2625432
21,143.15. 6
An account of lands contracted to be sold since the 26th February 1794
Date
To Whom Contracted
No. of Acres
Consideration
1704 Mar 1
William Howard
21760
1854. 5.11
James Bridge
21760
1854. 5.11
Oct.
John Ripley
23200)
Jamoa Glover
30500)
Norman Butlør
21760)
4144.17. -
1795 Jan 1
Sylvanus Waters
20800
1040. -. -
Nathan Coolidge
28160
1408. -.
Nahum Trask
21760
1650.13. -
Ira Langdon
21760
1088.
Charles Marsh
29440
1472. -.
Zabad Curtis
19720
1514. -.
4
John Stacy
19720
986.
-
Ephraim Eddy
19720
986.
Staphon Conant
19720
1109. -.
-
Aahbol Standley
21137
1205.16. 7
Stephen Jacoba
21760
1658.15.
-
Paros Jones
21760
1088. ..
Stephan Delano
21760
1088.
-
Ashbal Wella
21760
1224. -.
-
Joase Safford
22156
1246. 5. 6
Cenaa Nuwell
21760
1224.
, -
Abner Forbes
19156
1094. 8.
20
William Rogora
41-ł
39. 8. 6
Feb
Camual March and
18206
610. 6. -
Samuel March and
Ezra Hounafield
2505
JIS. 5. -
Mar
Titua Goodman
26490
2705.18. 9
William Inman
19624)
Henry Huntington
318
3N
Jonathan Maynard
21760
2222.12. 9
Park Holland
21760
2222.12. 9
M
Gaius Kibbe
21760
2222.12. 9
.
3
Elijah Lothrop
21760
2222.12. 9
M
Samuel Fowler
21760
2963.14. 7
M
Samuel Freeman and
-
21760
2222.12. 9
Harrison Gray Otis
21760
2222.12. 9
Justin Ely
22770
2325.19. 2
3
Alexander Campbell
21760
2973.14. -
John Evans
10880
1513.12. -
M
John Hubbard
21760
1852.10. -
4
Apollos Kinsely
21760
2222.15. 7
6
William Scollay
21760
2222.16. 5
N
Eben-Storer & C. Bulfinch
21760
2963.14. 7
n
George Storer
21760
2222.16. 5
n
Zebulon Trickey
645
58. 7. 6
869470-₺
67090.15. 3
Andrew Craigie
319
In addition to the land it had sold, the State still possessed approximately 7,200,000 acres that were not surveyed and marked on the plan for townships (this included about half a million acres for Indians), about 2,000,000 acres between the St. Croix and the Passamaquodda claimed by the British, about 852,827 acres most of which were surveyed but not under contract, 103,680 acres reserved for masts and surveyed and 2,839,453 acres in the tract surveyed for Jackson and Flint east of the Penobscot, negotiations for which had not been completed. 272
There were also about 10,000 unsold acres of surveyed islands between Penobscot and Passamaquodda, these islands ranging in size from 4,968-3/4 acres to one and one quarter acres. 273
The stepped up sales tempo of the 90's was not viewed with enthu- siasm in all quarters. In 1793 the Legislature had considered not selling 274 any more land. In February 1795 a General Court order appointed a joint committee to consider the feasibility of suspending the sale of eastern lands and directed the Land Committee to stop all sales until it
272. Report of Committee, June 1795, Table No. 24, P. 36, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
273. Report of Committee, June 1795, Table No. 23, P. 35, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
274. Note concerning action in House of Representatives, Feb. 19, 1793, Eastern Lands, Box 9; Jackson to Bingham, March 17, 1793, William Bingham's Maine Lands, ed. Allis, P.255.
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275
received further direction. That direction came in March in the form of a resolve which stated that the Committee should carry on its work as far as completing "all bargains definitely concluded and agreed upon" before February 2 was concerned but that it should make no more sales 276 unless specifically authorized to do so by the General Court.
There had been considerable discussion of the matter in the General Court in the month between February 2 and March 2. The Committee pointed out that it had made a number of verbal contracts with people and although they had not as yet been committed to writing its members thought it was bound to honor them unless the General Court expressly told
it it could not. 277 The two legislative branches were not united in thought on this point. The Senate felt that all such verbal contracts should be carried out but the House would approve of only four -- the only ones on which some money had already been paid -- saying that a decision on the rest ought to be postponed until the General Court had decided 278
what it was going to do regarding the Maine lands. On February 10 a joint committee proposed a resolve which called for a completion of
275. Mass. House Journal, Feb. 2, 1795 (two entries), copy with Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
276. Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
277. Scrap in Eastern Lands, Box 46; report of Land Committee re- garding towns they have agreed to sell, the contracts for which have not been completed, with Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
278. Report of House Committee on Senate Order of Feb. 2, with Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
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contracts and agreements already made but a suspension of any further 279
sales. This resolve then shuttled back and forth between the House 280 and Senate, changing in content as it went. The Senate favored future sales of certain lands not yet contracted for (in general, the lands that were already surveyed) plus the completion of any contracts already made. It also would have authorized the Committee to accept pro- posals on land the sale of which had been suspended, these proposals then being forwarded to the General Court for its consideration. The House talked only about completing the contracts on which some money had been advanced. These positions placed the two bodies at some distance from each other and the impasse continued through several exchanges. At one time a consultation committee was chosen in an attempt to iron out the differences and eventually an agreement was reached and the resolve passed.
Why were sales stopped at this time?
Williamson says that the General Court feit that such a course 281 would be wise and Greenleaf wrote that the rapidity and extent of 282 recent sales led them to take this action.
279. Proposed resolve of joint committee, Feb. 10, 1795, with Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
280. See Papers with Mass. Resolve, March 2, 1795, Chap. 131.
281. Williamson, The History of the State of Maine ... 1602 ... 1820, II, p. 569.
282. Greenleaf, A Statistical View of Maine, p. 102.
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Probably the major factor was the opposition of those General Court members who did not favor sales of large amounts to one or a few persons and who were, it would seem, spurred into vigorous activity by the spectacular success of the program. The fear that undoubtedly motivated them is expressed by a writer in the Independent Chronicle who remarked on February 5 that he was pleased with the debate on the subject in the General Court and added that if care were not taken in the disposal of the Maine lands large tracts would fall into the hands of individuals, and monopolies would arise. Then there would be a real danger that a feudalistic system would spring up there and the inhabitants 283 would become mere manor tenants.
There is an indication that the passing of the resolve stopping sales did require some political maneuvering. Samuel Phillips wrote in March that if his son had seen some of the actions he had in the last few weeks -- political maneuvering and tampering by interested parties -- he 284 would never desire a public office.
One wonders whether Henry Jackson did anything to encourage the passing of this resolve. There were two reasons why he might favor it. In the first place it would turn prospective buyers toward the large 285 Knox-Duer tracts now owned by Bingham, whom he represented. Secondly,
283. Item in Independent Chronicle, Feb. 5, 1795.
284. Taylor, A Memoir of His Honor, Samuel Phillips, LL.D., p. 94.
285. Jackson to Bingham, Feb. 24, 1793 in William Bingham!a Maine Lands, ed. Allis, p. 247.
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it would prevent the Committee from selling the land at the head of the Waldo Patent. The Patent proprietors had hoped to acquire this to make up for the land they had lost to the Plymouth Company because of over- lapping boundaries and Knox and Jackson had asked for the refusal of it. However, in January 1795 Jarvis asked Jackson to tell Knox that un- less something was done to achieve this end. the Committee would feel free to sell it to anyone else after February 15, 1795; its duty to 286 the State compelled it to take this stand. It must be stressed, though, that there is nothing in the records to indicate that Jackson did indulge in any overt action designed to stop sales.
EVALUATION
No system, no matter how perfect, will work well unless it is efficiently administered. Therefore, the 1783 Committee, which handled most of the land sales, must be given some of the credit for whatever success that program experienced.
Their conscientiousness and cooperative attitude undoubtedly played a significant role.
Land transactions handled by the Committee according to direc- tives issued by the General Court were carried out in a way that left no question as to the ownership of the property. This procedure fore- stalled much of the confusion that resulted from grants in Maine immediately preceding the Revolution.
286. Jarvis to Jackson, Jan. 24, 1795, Knox Papers, vol. XXXVII.
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In 1795 the Committee wrote that it had had such good fortune with the securities it had received to insure payment for land sold 287
that the State in no case had suffered any loss.
The speculator was a significant figure in the sales picture. The State regulations allowed the Committee to sell parcels of any size. In actual practice, though, aside from sales to squatters, the majority of the sales were in township quantities or more. Since there is little indication that people often got together in large groups and bought a township to be divided between them, one is led to believe that most of the money taken in came out of speculators' pockets. Indeed, Greenleaf wrote in or around 1913 that non-resident proprietors owned about one hundred eighty untaxed townships plus about one million two hundred sixty-four thousand acres in the taxed areas 288
in Maine. Many of these plots were purchased from the State before 1795. Therefore, this class of people did play a significant role, in providing the State an income from its wild lands.
As has been seen the most successful sales period was that of 1793-95. Why was this? There would seem to be at least two answers - better times and the publicity given the area by the Knox-Duer purchases. Actually this research unearthed nothing that made a direct
287. Committee Report, June 16, 1795, pp. 2-3, Eastern Lands, Box 49.
288. Greenleaf, A Statistical View of Maine, p.95.
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statement that these sales focused attention on Maine lands, but the Committee did write that the demand rose directly after they had been made.
It was many years, of course, before the committee succeeded in selling as much land as it wanted to. There were several reasons for its lack of complete success: the uncertainty of boundaries, the failure of proprietors to provide access to the unsettled regions beyond their bounds by building roads through their own property, and the unwilling- ness of some people to pay the price asked.
Settling the land was as important and objective to the State as selling it. Indeed, perhaps in the last analysis settlement was more important. And people did come. For example, by 1800, 13,354 had settled in those towns in which the first settlements were begun be- tween 1790 and 1800, Bingham tracts excluded. 289 However, in most cases the proprietors did not succeed in settling the required number of families 290 on their towns, and not as many new residents materialized as the authorities had hoped for. A number of factors kept the population influx down.
There was a considerable amount of land in the District that was rocky and mountainous and most uninviting even in the days when upland farms were premium property. This kept settlers away and undoubtedly discouraged township buyers although it is true that by 1795 the
289. Ibid., pp. 66-67.
290. Ibid., p. 114.
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Committee experienced little difficulty in finding customers. At the same time, there was land elsewhere that was more desirable. Some New England emigrants went to western New Hampshire, Vermont, and the Berk- shires, for instance. Undoubtedly these spots were closer to some of these 291 people than was Maine. The Genessee lands of western New York were also available at this time and were being taken up. The soil there was 292
good and the climate milder than that in Maine. Furthermore, the 293
national government was selling portions of the fertile Ohio Valley -- Rufus King of Massachusetts had stated in 1786 that 3,000,000 acres would 294
soon be ready.
In 1788 a communication from that area reported that
eight hundred fifty boats, six hundred wagons, twenty thousand men, women, and children, seven thousand horses, three thousand cows, and nine hundred sheep had passed Muskingum from October 1786 to September 15, 295 1788. Two sets of Maine proprietors alleged that the craze for western lands was a principal cause for their failure to meet their
291. Richard J. Purcell, Connecticut in Transition, 1775-1818, (Washington, 1918), p. 142.
292. La Rochefoucauld, Liancourt, Travels Through the United States of North America ... in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797, I.
293. Extract of a letter from New York, April 22, 1797, in Boston Gazette, May 7, 1787.
294. Speech of Rufus King to House of Representatives in Boston Gazette, Oct. 16, 1786.
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