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rest within the Bounds of their Charter Northerly. to the full and iust extent of their line, have thought meet & actually doe Grant as fol- loweth viz.
I. That the wholl tract of land beyond the river of Piscataq north- erly together wth the Ile or Ile's of Soles, within our said Bounds is and shall be henceforth a County, or Shire, by the name of Yorkshire.
2. That the People inhabiting these shall injoy pteccon, equall acts of favour, and justice with the rest of the People inhabiting on the south side of the River Piscataq, within the limitts of our wholl Jurisdiccon.
3. That Kittery shall be and remayne a Towneshipp, and have and enjoy the privileges of a Towne as others of the Jurisdiccon have and doe enjoy.
4. That they shall injoy the Same Bounds that are cleare between Towne, and Towne, as hath bene form'ly granted: when Comissionrs of each bordering Town hath viewed and returned to us or gen'all Court their Survey.
5. That both each Towne, and every Inhabitant shall have, and injoy all their just pprieties. and interests, in the howse's. & lands, which they doe possesse together by grant of ye Towne, or of ye Indians, or of ye former Gennerall Courts.
6. That the Towne of Kittery by their freemen shall send one Deputy yearly to the Court of eleccon. and that it shall be in their libty to se'nd to each Court two Deputies if they thinke good.
7. That all the prsent Inhabitants of Kittery shall be freemen, and of ye Country : and having taken the oath of freemen shall have libty to give their votes for ye eleccon of ye Governour, Assistants, and other gen'all officers of ye Country.
8. That this County of York shall have County Courts within them- selves in the most comodious & fitt places as authority shall see meet to appoynt.
9. That every Towneship shall have three men approved by the County Court to end small causes as other the townshipps in the Jurisdiccon hath where noe Magistrate or Comission resideth.
10. That the shire shall or may have three associates to assist such Comissionrs, as the present Comission's, or Authority of ye Massachusetts shall send or such Magitrates as shall voluntarily come vnto them from tyme to tyme.
II. That the Inhabitants of the County of Yorkeshire shall not be drawne to any ordinary gen'll Traynings out of their owne County with- out their consent.
12. That the Inhabitants of Kittery shall have alsoe the same privi- ledges that Dover hath vpon their Coming under the govermt.
13. That all such as have (or shall subscribe voluntarily as the rest have done) before the ending of this court shall have the priviledg of indemnity for all acts of power exercised by the former govt. vntill the ptest & for and in repect of such criminall matters as are breaches of penall lawes wth in the whole government.
prided that Abraham Cunly hath libty to appeale in respect of his case wherein he was fined ten pounds Anno 51.
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14. Pvided allwaise that nothinge in this our grant shall extend to determine the infringing of any psons right to any Lande or inhe'ritance whether by grant, by patent, or otherwise whe're possession is had, but such titles shall be left free to be heard and determined by due course of lawe.
Provided and it is hereby declared that nothing in this grant shall extend to restraine any civell acon or revew for former civell causes which revews shall be brought to any of our courts wth in one yeare now insuynge.
And whereas there are certaine debts and imports due to the Inhabitts of Kittery and Agamenticus, and some debts wch are owing from them to pticular psons for publique occacons, It is therefore ordered and agreed that Mr. Nicholas Shapley shall have power forth wth to collect such some or somes of money as are due to the aforesd Inhabits & pay such debts as are justly due from them and give an accompt thereof wth in one month to the commissionrs that shalbe then in present being, &if it shall then appeare that there is not sufficient to discharge the peoples ingagemt it shall be supplyed by way of rate according to their former custome.
Symon Bradstreete, Samuel Symonds, Tho: Wiggin, Bryan Pendleton.1
The fifth article of this grant was the one of most importance to the inhabitants of Kittery. It confirmed their legal right to the lands already possessed, whether granted by the town, by the Indians, or by the former Generall Court of the Province of Maine. Thus the government of Massachusetts was arrayed on their side against the claims of the heirs of Capt. John Mason and of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Most of the occupied lots had been granted by the town before this date, and those who had any rightful claim to other lands were left undisturbed by the terms of the thirteenth article. All the rest of the land in Kittery was acknowledged as belonging to the town, that is, to those persons who signed the submission, who thus became proprietors. Their heirs and assigns received their proper shares in long subsequent divisions of the public lands.
Article seventh is of great importance. It admitted all the inhabitants of Kittery at that time as freemen, although they were not church members. There was no organized church till
1This is copied from the Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. III. D. 28-31, and compared with the original. The copy found in York Deeds. I. 26, differs slightly in spelling and phraseology.
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later. It established a rule for Maine different from that of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where full citizenship was limited to those who were members of the church. This was a long step in the separation of church and state. It did not, however, grant toleration to any religious denomination other than the orthodox church, for Quakers were later disfranchised, and Baptists were driven from the town. Non church members were preferred to dissenters, although the orthodox church was made up of dis- senters.
Article thirteenth shows, as has been inferred above, that some had not at that time signed the submission.
The Commissioners, who had the powers of a civil and crim- inal court, appointed Thomas Duston and Robert Mendum con- stables for Kittery, and Philip Babb constable for the Isles of Shoals. At the same time Brian Pendleton and Thomas Withers were appointed judges, and Hugh Gunnison associate judge.
York submitted a few days later, and the eastern towns soon followed. Thus Maine became York County of Massachusetts. The relations were afterward somewhat disturbed and imperiled in consequence of revolutions in England, but in spite of all Maine continued to be a part of Massachusetts till 1820.
The town records tell but little of the history of Kittery. They contain scarcely an allusion to the Indian wars. There are the ustal acts of towns about church matters, roads, schools, and grants of land. In such matters the history of one town is the history of every other town, and the patience of the reader need not be burdened with a repetition of the details. The old tax lists would be of great historical value, had they been pre- served. I have been told by good authority that years ago such lists were used to kindle fires with by paupers at the poor-house, where the lists were stored. The following is the only tax list I have found on the town records, and it has been compared with a similar list found in the archives of Massachusetts. It shows who the landowners were in 1712. and it helps to determine where they lived. The list begins with the residents at Braveboat Har- bor. It follows the settlers in succession down to the end of Kit- tery Point, where Thomas Allen seems to have been the only landowner actually resident, probably on Warehouse Point. Business activity had shifted from this place to the vicinity of the
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Pepperrells. Nathaniel Thomas never lived here, but at this time owned thirty-six acres at the extremity of the point, with two or three old houses. Then the list takes us up on the east side of Spruce Creek, and down on the west side to Elihu Gunnison's. Then it shows who lived along Crooked Lane in regular order and so on up to Berwick parish at Thompson's Brook. The inhabitants of Berwick are given without much order. The amount of taxation reveals in part the comparative wealth of the people, though we are loth to believe that William Pepperrell was not worth one-third as much as Ichabod Plaisted. Most of his property was elsewhere or in other forms than real estate. This was a tax on land alone. There must have been many other residents of Kittery, but who they were we have small means of determining.
HOUSE OF CAPT. BENJAMIN REMICK, BUILT IN 1777.
"Pursuant to a vote of the Town of Kittery Bearing Date at their Legall Town Meeting Dec. 17th 1711 Impowering us the Subscribers a Comittee to estimate the yearly income of the reall
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Estates of the Severall Freeholders of sd Town as per the s:1 Vote on Record Doth appear. Accordingly we met on ye 16th of May Following and at Sundry Adjournments of our Meeting untill Monday ye first of Sept. 1712 and then concluded as fol- loweth, vizt.
Estates value yearly.
£ S
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Richd Mitchell
7
Joseph Crockett Junr
4
Edmund Gach [ Gage]
2 IO
Phillip Carpenters Estate I IO
Joseph Mitchell
3 IO
Nicholas Tucker
4
The Estate of Christr
Ebenr More
1
Mitchell Senr Decd
5
Mr. Elih Gunnison
IO
The Estate of Robt Andros Decd 2
IO
John Ingersoll
5
Mr. Richd Cutt
25
John Ingersoll Junr
3
Robt Elliott Esq
30
Richd Endells Estate
4
John Ilincks Esq
2
10
Elisha Ingersoll
I
Joseph Billing 2
10
John Frink
3
James Foy I
IO
Andrew Haley
6
Chrisr Mitchell
2
10
John Ferris
4 6
Clemt Dearing
5
Roland Williams Decd 3
1
The Estate of John Dearing Decd
5
Samll Hutchins
I
Rogr Dearing
2
IO
Andrew Lewis
5
Rogr Dearing Junr
5
Parsonage Land below
3
Mr. Moore
5
Peter Lewis Junr
2
Joseph Dearing
5
Enoch Hutchins Decd
5
The Estate of Joseph Eastmond Decd
Benja Hammons
1
Wm Pepperrell Esq
30
Mr. John Hole Decd
4
Widow Hooks Estate
3
Nicholas Weeks
3
Thomas Allen
2
Mr. Jos. Curtis Decd
20
Mr. Andrew Pepperrell
8
Samll Johnson Junr
1
Nathl Thomas Esq
5
James Pickernel Decd
2
Richd Crockett
4
Richd Rogers
6
Win Roberts Decd
2
Frans Pettegrow
3
Henry Barter
IO
John Monson
3
Aaron Ferris
Paul Williams
I IO
Joseph Crockett
5
Nathl Keen
IO
Samll Ford
I
Enoch Hutching Senr Decd 6
Robt Mitchell
I
IO
Dominicus Jordan
1
IO
Benja Hutchins
David Hutchins Deed
3
Mr. George Jackson
Joseph Couch
5
Peter Lewis
Thos Dearing
3
Dodavah Curtis
12
Joseph Weeks
Jos Wilson Senr Decd
John Ammee
George Frink
3
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John Shepherd
3
John Lidston
5
John Ball
3
Charles Nelson Decd 5
Thos Rice junr
2
Joseph Hill
20
Wm Godsoe
7
Peter Staple
12
Hen Benson
2
John Rogers
12
Danll Jones
2
Mr. Jos. Hammond 25
Hezekiah Elwell
2
Richd Green
5
Walter Denniver
2
Stepn Tobey
14
The Estate formerly Richard Rogers
8
Thos Hanscom
7
John Mogeridge
3
David Libby
6
W'm Bryer
2
Matthew Libby
6
Elihu Gunnison Junr
6
Danll Fogg
6
Thos Jenkins
2
James Staple
4
Jonathan Dani
I
IO
Mr. Joshua Downing &
25
Mr. Samll Winkley
4
Wm Brooks
2
Josiah Skillin
3
Moses Hanscomb
2
Charles Kelley
3
Capt. John Leighton
25
Mr. John Emerideth Decd
3
Mr. John Shapleigh Decd
40
Mr. Robt Cutt
25
Samll Hill
20
Capt Wm ffernald for
Nicho Morrell
17
his farms and Island
20
Alexdr Dennet
6
Thos ffurnalds Island
20
Edwd Avers
6
Diamond Sargent
I
IO
Abram Morrell
2
Silvanus Tripe
3
John Morrell Senr IO
8
John Woodman
4
John Morrell
8
Mr. John Newmarch
IO
Wm Fry
7
Thos Rice Decd
IO
Frans Allen
7
Jonathan Mendum
8
Thos Muzett
I
Chrisr Adams Decd
20
John Chapman
Nathaniel Furnald
5
Parsonage Land Middle Part
3
Samll Spinney
8
Samll Small
8
John Dennet
12
Mr. Charles Frost
50
John Fernald
IO
The Estate of Nicht
James Fernald
8
Frost Decd in partner-
Thos Spinney
3
ship between Messrs.
John Soper Decd
4
Richd Gowell
8
Jacob Remick
6
John Thomson
6
James Chadbourn 14
John Staple
6
Capt. John Heard 20
Thos Knight
2
Barthl Frost for his fathers Estate
6
Thos Fernald
4
Richd Chick
4
Peter Dixon
12
John Wittum
6
Christian Remicks Est
01
John Tydie
7
Richd King
12
Wm Stacy Decd
I
John Paul
5
Mr. John Frost
8
Danll Paul
5
Nicholas Jillison
8
John Gear Decd
3
Reynold Jenkins
Thos Worster
4
John Leighton
Robt Cutt. Charles Frost and Joseph Hammond 4
John Spinney Decd
6
George Brawn
3
Samll Pray Decd
2
his son
Limuel Going [Gowen]
8
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The Estate of Jona Nason Decd
8
Wm Wadlin
I
Timo Waymouth 6
Capt John Robinson 6
Thomas Greely 3
Wm Grant
5
John Gowen
IO
Timothy Wentworth 12
Nicho Gowell [Gowen] IO
George Gray Decd
8
Wm Smith 2
John Plaisted Esq
40
Samll Johnson
2
IO
John Hill Esq 25
Bartho Thompson
3
John Thomson 2
Danll Emery
IO
Humphrey & Wm Chad- bourn 20
Andrew Neal 12
Abraham Lord Decd his Estate 10
Alexdr Ferguson
5
James Ferguson Decd
5
Joseph Goold
3
Danll Furbish 6
Mr. Thos Broughtons former
BERWICK
Priviledge at Quamphegon 12
Samll Stacy 6
Gabriel Hambleton
4
Thomas Thompson 12
20
Richd Tozier
12
Nathan Lord
16
Abell Hambleton
4
Nathan Lord Junr
3
John Smith 5
Joseph Hodsdon
6
John Key IO
Richd Shackley
2
Chrisr Bots Est Decd
4
Samll Hodsdon
6
Moses Worster
12
John Hooper
3
Phillip Hubbard 25
Danll Stone
Danll Goodwin
IO
Moses Goodwin
8
James Emery
IO
James Emery Junr
3
Job Emery
7
Thos Abbot Senr
12
Walter Abbot
3
John Abbot
7
Peter Grant
6
Wm Goodin
IO
James Warren
IO
Jno Cooper
IO
Gilbert Warren 3
Frans Harlow
3 IO
Baker Nason
12
Benja Nason 16
Moses Spencer
3 IO
Wm Hearle Senr
IO
Humphrey Spencer Decd his Estate
15
Thomas Goodwyn
IO
Mr. Jerr Wise
IO
John Nason 8
Charles Frost
Wm Pepperrell Richd Cutt
Jos Hammond
Nicholas Morrell John Dennett
Danll Emery John Leighton Henry Barter
8
Richd Lord
3
Roger Plaisted 5
Hen Childs Est Decd 6
Ichabod Plaisted Esq 100
Joseph Pray
Banony Hodsdon
6
John Hearl
Thos Hohes Decd his Estate 6
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Parsonage at Berwick 3
James Grant
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A petition to form a township of the parish of Berwick was presented to the General Court before 20 Aug. 1700. for then the Court mentioned such petition and gave notice to the inhabitants of Kittery to answer to said petition at the next session of Court. There seems to have been opposition, and the matter dragged along for twelve years or more. No petition can be found in the Massachusetts Archives.
Under date of 20 March 1712, the following appears in the records of the Council. "Upon Reading a petition of Upper Kit- tery in the Parish of Berwick Praying to be made a Township, Ordered that John Wheelwright and Thomas Noves and Capt. Lewis Bane be a Committee to repair to Kittery, giving Notice before Hand of their coming to the Select Men that they may attend them and hear their allegations and Objections (if any they have ) why the Prayer of the Petition may not be granted, Mr. Wheelwright to appoint the Time of Meeting and to make their Report to the Court on the second Wednesday of their Ses- sion in May next.'
June 3. 1713, the Council has this record, "A vote sent up from the Representatives referring to the affair of Kittery Read and Non concurred & voted that the House be desired to recon- sider the vote of the Board after Committees report."
Under date of June 9. 1713. "For a final issue of the affair of Kittery
Ordered that the Report of the Committee be withdrawn and laid aside and that the Precinct of Berwick extending from Thompsons Brook upward be henceforth a distinct & separate Town and have & enjoy all Immunities & Priviledges as other Towns have & do by Law enjoy. continuing the Name of Ber- wick. And ordered that all the present Town Rights & common & undivided Lands do yet remain to the Freeholders & Proprie- tors of Kittery & Berwick as before their Separation to be allotted & divided to & among the whole Propriety at such Time & in such Way & Manner as shall be agreed on by the Major Part , i the Interested as the Law directs."
Consented to
J. DUDLEY.
Thus Berwick became a separate town, and Sept. 29. 1713, John Plaisted. Ichabod Plaisted. Benjamin Nason. Philip 1lub- bard. James Warren and John Croad assembled at the house of
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Capt. John Heard and there met William Pepperrell. Joseph Ham- mond, and Charles Frost, these being evidently the selectmen of the two towns, to treat about the division between the towns and any other matters relating to the same.
The new town included all that now belongs to Berwick, South Berwick and North Berwick, as well as a small part of Lebanon. At the time of its incorporation the population centered about the mills at Great Works. Quamphegan, and Salmon Falls. The northern part had few inhabitants. South Berwick was incorpor- ated as a separate town 12 Feb. 1814, and a portion of Berwick containing five hundred and forty-four inhabitants was annexed in 1881. North Berwick was taken from Berwick and incorpor- ated as a town 22 March 1831.
The population of the town in the year 1776 is given in the town records. The lower parish then contained nine hundred and twenty-three inhabitants, the middle parish six hundred and fifty-six. and the upper parish, now Eliot, one thousand four hundred and fifty-seven, making a total of three thousand and thirty-six. Some old tax lists of about this date and a little earlier inform us pretty accurately as to who were living in Kit- tery. A tax list delivered to Jonathan Hammond in 1751 gives the following names of persons residing from Great Cove to Sturgeon Creek. They have here been arranged alphabetically for more convenient reference.
John Allen, John Allen, Jr., John Brawn. Daniel Brown, Joshua Brooks, John Cole, John Crocker. Abraham Cross, Roger Deering. Ebenezer Dennett. Jr., Peter Dixon, Michael Devaughn ( called Michael Vaughan in a subsequent list ). Joseph Fiekl, Stephen Field. Stephen Field. Jr .. Abraham Fernald. Dennis Fer- nald. Joseph Fernald. Moses Fernald. Thomas Fernald. William Fernald. James Fogg. Parker Foster, John Frye. Andrew Green, Aaron Hanscom, Daniel Hanscom. James Hanscom. John Hans- com. Moses Hanscom, Thomas llanscom, Thomas llanscom, Jr .. Timothy Hanscom, Samuel Hanscom. Uriah Hanscom. Joseph 11ill. Samuel Hill. Jr .. John Hickey, Joseph Hammond, Esq., Joseph Hammond. Jr .. John Hammond. George Hammond, Daniel Knight, Gideon Knight. Thomas Knight. Edward Ken- nard. Michael Kennard. Samuel Kennard. Michael Kennard. Jr., Richard King. John Leighton. William Leighton, Ephraim
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Libby, Matthew Libby, Samuel Libby, Solomon Libby, Daniel Lydstone, Robey Lydston, Waymouth Lydston, Benjamin March, Samuel Moore, Amos Paul, Stephen Paul, John Peters, Enoch Remick, John Remick, Joshua Remick, Nathaniel Remick, Isaac Remick. William Remick, George Rogers, John Rogers, Nathan- iel Rogers, Widow Abigail Spinney, John Spinney, Nathaniel Spinney, Thomas Spinney, William Spinney, John Skriggens, Paul Skriggens, Miles Staple, Nathaniel Staple, Hezekiah Staple. Hezekiah Staple. Jr., James Staple, Joseph Staple, Joseph Staple, Jr., Joshua Staple. Capt. Peter Staple, Peter Staple, Jr., Solomon Staple, William Staple, William Staple, Jr., Mark Staple, John Seavey, Capt. John Shapleigh, Madam Martha Shapleigh and sons, Alexander Shapleigh, Humphrey Scammon, William Stacey, John Tetherly, Widow Mercy Tetherly, William Tetherly. William Tetherly, Jr., Widow Eliza Thompson, John Tobey, Stephen Tobey. Thomas Wittum, Edmund Welch, Samuel Welch, and Downing Woodman.
The tax list of 1756 for the same district adds the following names, David Boyce, John Deering, Edmund Coffin, John Foster, John Gowell, Jonathan Hammond, Jacob Garland, Widow Susanna Knight, Widow Martha Libby and son Reuben, Ephraim Libby, Jr., William Mallaley. Jonathan Moore, Edward Preble, John Pettegrow, Samuel Pettegrow. Timothy Richardson, Ichabod Remick, Tobias Shapleigh, Constable. Noah Staple, Robert Tripe and Thomas Tripe.
The list of 1758 adds the following names, James Fogg. Jr., Samuel Hanscom, Jr .. Isaac Hill, Widow Sarah Lydston, Widow Hannah King. Ebenezer son of George Hammond, Jonathan Moore, Widow Patience Moore, Jeremiah Paul. Joseph Paul, Isaac Reed, Isaac Reed, Jr., Joseph Remick, John Spinney, Jr., Edmund Spinney, David Staple, Robert Staple, Solomon Staple, Jr., Ephraim Tobey, Jr., John Tobey, Jr., Samuel Tobey, Daniel Toward. John Seriggins, Jr., and Robert Young.
AAmong the papers left by Hon. Mark Dennett is a "Rate or Tax made on Tools and Estates Rateable in the Middle Parish in Kittery for paying ye minister's Salary and Other Parish Charges arising within the same at four Shillings on Each Tool and Two Pence on ve Pound for Estates." It is dated 30 Sept. 1763. The sum total of the tax was sixty-five pounds, seventeen
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shillings and eight pence. The names of the taxpayers are here arranged alphabetically.
John Adams, John Adams, Jr .. John Alles ( Ellis?), Henry Benson, Henry Benson, Jr., Richard Carter, Abner Cole, Ezra Cole, Robert Cole, Timothy Cole, Joseph Curtis, Widow Anne Cottel. Edward Cutt, Esq., Robert Cutt, Dr. Thomas Cutt and son Thomas, John Dennet and son William, John Dennet, 3d. Nathaniel Dennet, Dr. Benjamin Fernald for the Estate of James Fernald deceased, Arkles ( Hercules ?) Fernald, Dennis Fer- nald, Ebenezer Fernald, Elijah Fernald, John Fernald, 3d, James Fernald and son John, Widow Mary Fernald, Nathaniel Fernald and son Timothy, Nathaniel Fernald's Estate, Tobias Fernald, William Fernald, Jr., Benjamin Fitts, Samuel Fitts, Elijah Green, John Godsoe, Capt. John Gowell, John Gowell, Richard Gowell, Benjamin Hammons, Edmund Hammons, Joel Haley, Josiah Haley, John Haley. Pelatiah Haley, Samuel Haley, Moses Hans- com, Timothy Hanscom, Benjamin Hutchins, Enoch Hutchins, John Hutchins, Thomas Hutchins, Capt. Richard Keating, Ephraim Keen, Isaac Keen, John Keen, Joseph Keen, Simeon Keen. James Johnson, Widow Elizabeth Johnson, Benjamin Jen- kins. Andrew Lewis, Peter Lewis, Jr., Thomas Lewis and son Thomas, Ebenezer Leach, Joseph Manson, Samuel Manson, John Marr. David Mendum of Portsmouth, John Mendum, Joshua Mendum. Widow Rachel Mendum, Robert Moore, James Picker- nail. Samuel Pickernail, Dr. Daniel Pierce, John Peters, Widow Mary Pettegrow and son William, John Pokesfield, Richard Pope and son David, John Rogers, Thomas Rogers, William Rogers, Benjamin Remick. Samuel Rice. Hezekiah Staple, Ebenezer Spin- ney. Jonathan Spinney, Mark Spinney, Nicholas Spinney. Mark Shepard. Mehetabel Shepard, John Shapleigh, Jr., Charles Smith, William Smith, John Tapley, Daniel Toward. Capt. John Went- worth, Capt. William Wentworth, John Waymouth. Benjamin Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Benjamin Wittum. Joseph Weeks and son Samuel. Nicholas Weeks. Jr., Widow Judah ( Judith ?) Wil- son. William Wilson and William Wilson, Jr.
Of the names found on the foregoing tax list the following are omitted in 1765: Henry Benson, Jr .. Widow Anne Cottel. Capt. John Gowell. Ebenezer Fernald. Benjamin Fitts, Pelatiah Haley. Moses Hanscom, Ephraim Keen, Andrew Lewis, William
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Smith, Mary Spinney, Widow Mary Pettegrow, Daniel Toward, John Weymouth and Benjamin Wittum.
The following are added in 1765 : Joseph Adams, John Allen, Jr., Zaccheus Beal, John Cole, Abraham Crocker, Thomas Cutt, Jr .. John Dennet, Jr., Nathaniel Fernald, 3d, John Godsoe, Jr., William Haley, Thomas Jackson, Dennis Jenkins, Samuel Man- son, Jr., William Mendum, William Pickernail, Edmund Wilson, and Gowen Wilson.
The following names are omitted in the tax list of 1767: Dr. Benjamin Fernald, Dennis Fernald, Elijah Green, Enoch Hutch- ings. Widow Elizabeth Johnson, Samuel Manson, John Pokes- field. John Rogers, John Peters, Charles Smith, William Smith, Mehitabel Shepard, Mark Spinney, Hezekiah Staple, John Tap- ley, John Weymouth and Edmund Wilson.
The following names are added in the tax list of 1767 : Joseph A 'lams, Thomas Adams, Broadstreet Chase, Thomas Clark, Mark Dennet. Widow Jane Fernald, Benjamin Fernald, Jr., Nathaniel Fernald, 3d, Tobias Fernald, Jr., Joel Fernald. Ephraim Fitts, Widow Elizabeth Hutchins, Stephen Hutchins, Enoch Hutch- ings, Edmund Ingraham, John James, Ichabod Jenkins, Benjamin Jenkins. Josiah Jenkins. Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hutchins Lewis, Samuel Manson, Jr., Andrew Peters, Thomas Pettegrew, William Pickernail. John Rogers, Richard Rogers. Nicholas Spinney. Samuel Staples, Amos Wittum, Abner Wittum ..
The Maine Historical Society has a valuation list of the upper part of Kittery ( now the upper part of Eliot ) in 1776. It con- tains the following names here arranged alphabetically. Those prece led by Qr. belonged to the Society of Friends.
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