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Before winter set in, six new settlers arrived. Moses Chandler brought his family from Winthrop to the lot on the west side of the river, on which he had previously made a clearing, and William Gould made a permanent settlement on the farm next below the one his brother had entered. Samuel Keen and William Blackstone, who were brothers- in-law, came from Damariscotta and settled upon lots they had taken up several years before. Noah Billington and Turner Swift, both temporary residents, settled upon lot No. 19, east side, and Joseph Sylvester upon lot No. 23.
During the year the first marriage in the township was solemnized, at the house of Joseph Holland, between Joseph
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Battle and Eunice Maloon, Dummer Sewall, Esq., of Bath, performing the ceremony.
1786. At an adjourned meeting of the Associates, held in March, a tax of one pound was levied on each right, to be paid in labor on the roads at four shillings a day ; and Seth Greeley and Church Brainerd were chosen as survey- ors to oversee its expenditure. The proprietors had at this time closed the most of their business. Samuel Butterfield, Solomon Adams, and Samuel Bullen, were delegated agents on matters relative to securing a title to their lands, but it does not appear that anything decisive was done, or any records kept of the doings of the Associates, until February, I 790.
During the year, Peter Corbett erected the first framed house. It stood upon the knoll beyond the Rufus Corbett homestead, now occupied by Reuben Winslow. The timbers of this house are still in existence, in the house owned by William H. Pierson. But few settlers arrived in the course of 1786. James Winslow settled upon lot No. 50, east side, and Samuel Briggs, David Wentworth, James McCurdy, and Hugh Cox, settled upon lots on the west side. The two last named were not married and did not permanently locate in the town. Death began its inroads on the newly formed community in the course of the year. William Thorne, the father-in-law of Jacob Eaton, died September 15. The spot selected for his interment, was the elevation just east of the present site of the Center Bridge. This place continued to be used for a public burying-ground, and was the only one for many years.
1787. Settlements went rapidly forward during this year, and the back-lots began to be opened. Silas Perham and Silas Gould came from Dunstable, the former taking up a back-lot on the east side, and the latter a back-lot on the west side, of the river. Samuel Knowlton entered upon the lot still owned by his descendants, and Samuel Sewall on the next lot, back-lot No. 2. Gersham Collier settled at or about the same time, in the Porter's Hill district. Zaccheus Clough, Peter Gay, and Abraham Page, Jr., made permanent homes on the river-lots on the west side of the river, which
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they had previously entered. Isaac Teague also settled upon the farm now (1884) owned by Peter P. Tufts and Wil- liam H. Holley, and Lydia Blackstone came as a widow to settle upon the lot her husband, Benjamin Blackstone, had selected. David and Ephraim Cowan, who as Associates had frequently been in the town, made permanent settlements on river-lots Nos. 7 and 8, east side. A few other temporary settlements were also made.
1788. This was a memorable year in the history of the settlement, for it witnessed an important immigration from Dunstable, Mass. Lemuel Perham, Eliphalet and Oliver Bailey, and John F. Woods, with their families, left Duns- table with ox-teams, March II, and after a slow and painful journey of twenty-three days, arrived in the township. Silas Perham had made some preparation for the reception of his father's family, but the others boldly entered the wilderness, and took up the farms which they occupied through life. The other permanent settlers were Abraham Smith, on back- lot No. 4, east side; Joseph Bradford, on river-lot No. 38; Joseph Riant, on river-lot No. 32; and Samuel Eames, on river-lot No. 13, all on the west side of the river. In the course of this year Francis Tufts built the dam at Farm- ington Falls, which, with such repairs and alterations as the passage of a hundred years has made necessary, still remains as it was built. He also erected a saw-mill and a grist-mill below the dam, on the mill privilege which is one of the best in the State.
During the winter the first school was opened in the log- house of Robert Gower, taught by Lemuel Perham, Jr. Mr. Perham was an excellent teacher, and scholars were drawn from all parts of the settlement to receive the benefit of his instruction.
1789-90. The vexatious controversy between the Ken- nebec Proprietors and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was at last compromised, and it was understood that the title to the township would vest in the State. The settlers therefore resolved to attempt to obtain a title to their lands. A meeting of the inhabitants was held at Samuel Butter-
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field's house, and it was agreed that a petition jointly signed should be forwarded to the General Court ; and it was fur- ther agreed that the Associates who had settled on settlers' lots should be treated as they would have been treated under the Plymouth Company, and that the settlers on proprietors' lots should be treated as other settlers on State lands. Samuel Butterfield and Benjamin Whittier were chosen agents on the part of the proprietors of the settlers' lots, and Francis Tufts an agent on the part of the settlers, on lots reserved for the proprietors of the Kennebec Pur- chase, agreeably to an arrangement made between them by Reuben Colburn and his Associates.
Upon the Commonwealth of Massachusetts coming into possession of the township, Daniel Cony, in behalf of the committee on Eastern Lands, caused a full inventory of the lands to be taken. This inventory was lodged in the Secre- tary's office, and both the town and the State were thus prepared to act intelligently. The report of this inventory has great value, as showing the condition of the township at the time it was made, and is here inserted :
To Dummer Sewall, Esq. Sir,
You are requested to proceed to Sandy River (at the expense of the settlers ) and take a fair list of the names of all the settlers in the township which was laid out by the Plymouth Company ; the number of the lots they respectively occupy; the time that each person began his improvements; the time he or she went on to the land to live; and the quantity of land now under improvement, together with an accurate plan of the said township, designating the respective lots, and make return thereof with a copy of this instruction unto myself or either of the committee as soon as may be after the business is completed.
D. CONY, in behalf of the commitee for the sale of Eastern Lands.
HALLOWELL, July 16, 1789.
N. B. September is the time proposed for doing the above business.
The Inventory is as follows :
.
INVENTORY.
Name of Settler.
Number.
Mark.
Time of Entry.
Time of Settlement.
Acres Under Improvement.
FRONT LOTS ON THE
: WEST SIDE OF
THE
RIVER.
Samuel Butterfield,
2
S
1781
1781
30
Josiah Blake,
3
P
1783
1789
I
Thomas Morse,
4
S
1787
1788
2
Thomas Kenney,
5
P
1788
1789
I
Moses Chandler,
6
S
1781
1785
7
Benjamin Weathern,
7
P
1783
1783
15
Thomas Hiscock,
8
S
1783
1783
I5
Jesse Gould,
IO
S
1782
1782
IO
William Gould,
II
P
1782
1785
5
Ezekiel Webber,
12
S
1782
1788
2
Samuel Eames.
I3
P
1784
1788
4
Reuben Lowell,
I5
P
1783
1784
7
Jesse Butterfield,
16
S
1781
1782
I5
Jonathan Knowlton,
17
P
1780
1781
50
Jonas Butterfield,
I8
S
1781
1782
15
William Gower,
19
P
1780
1783
6
Benjamin Whittier,
22
S
1781
1783
40
Jotham Smith,
27
S
1785
1789
2
Philip Gay,
26
P
1787
1789
2
Samuel Briggs,
28
P
1785
1786
2
Joseph Riant,
32
P
1788
1788
2
Joseph Battle,
33
S
1787
1787
5
Hugh Cox,
34
P
1782
1786
4
Peter Gay,
35
S
1781
1787
5
David Wentworth,
36
P
1781
1786
2
John Rice,
37
S
1782
1783
4
Joseph Bradford,
38
P
1781
1788
5
Reuben Butterfield,
39
S
1783
1784
5
Benjamin Handy,
40
P
1785
1789
John Story,
41
S
1789
1789
Isaac Powers,
42
P
1787
1788
Isaac Page,
43
S
1787
1787
I
Abraham Page, Jr.,
44
P
1784
1787
2
John Turner, .
45
S
1783
1789
John Austin,
46
P
1783
1784
2
James McCurdy,
47
S
1786
1786
T*
.
S
1783
1787
3
Abraham Page,
29
S
1786
1789
Zaccheus Clough,
20
* Mortgaged to John Chandler.
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Timothy Page,
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HISTORY OF FARMINGTON.
Name of Settler.
Number.
Mark.
Time of Entry.
Time of Settlement.
Acres Under Improvement.
FRONT LOTS ON THE
WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER.
Moses Starling,
48 | E
1782
1783
7
Jacob Eaton,
Mill Lot
BACK LOTS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE
RIVER.
Samuel Knowlton,
I
S
1786
1787
5
Samuel Sewall,
49
S
1782
1787
6
Eli Brainerd,
4
S
1787
1788
2
Ezekiel Knowlton,
5
P
1787
John F. Woods,
6
S
1783
1788
3
Silas Gould,
7
P
1787
1787
15
Ephraim Butterfield,
8
S
1787
1789
I
Gersham Collier,
17
P
1787
1787
3
FRONT LOTS ON THE EAST SIDE
OF THE
RIVER.
Ephraim Cowan,
7
P
1787
1787
I
David Cowan,
8
S
1783
1787
3
Abiathar Green,
IO
S
1781
Robert Jones,
14
S
1782
1782
8
Simeon Russ,
15
P
1781
1783
8
Ebenezer Jones,
16
S
1782
1789
3
John Huston,
17
P
1782
1783
4
Joseph Brown,
18
S
1780
1781
16
Turner Swift,
19
P
1782
1785
2
Daniel Tibbetts,
20
S
1788
1788
I
Enoch Craig,
2I
P
1782
1782
8
William Kannady,
22
S
1781
1782
25
Joseph Sylvester,
23
P
1781
1785
IO
Seth Greeley,
24
S
1781
1782
20
Joseph Holland,
25
P
1781
1783
5
Joseph Greely,
26
S
1781
1782
I5
Ebenezer Sweet,
27
P
1781
1782
IO
Nathaniel Davis,
28
S
1781
178I
IO
Susannah Davenport,
29
P
1782
1787
3
Samuel Butterfield, Jr.,
30
S
1781
1786
3
Amos Page,
31
P
1781
1782
4
Ezekiel Page,
32
S
1781
1782
I5
William White,
33
P
1781
1783
5
2
Noah Billington,
49
INVENTORY.
Name of Settler.
Number.
Mark.
Time of Entry.
Time of Settlement.
Acres Under
Improvement.
FRONT LOTS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER.
Samuel Bullen,
34
S
1780
1782
8
Joshua Bullen,
35
P
1781
1785
5
Solomon Adams,
36
S
1782
1782
I5
Isaac Teague,
37
P
1781
1787
5
Church Brainerd,
38
S
1782
1783
20
Peter Corbett,
40
S
1781
1782
20
Lydia Blackstone,
39
P
1781
1787
4
Stephen Titcomb,
4I
P
1776
1781
50
Robert Gower,
43
P
1776
1783
60
Nehemiah Blodgett,
44
S
1780
1781
I2
Francis Tufts,
45
P
1780
1783
50
William Blackstone,
46
S
1782
1785
7
Lemuel Howes,
Josiah Parker,
48
S
1787
1787
5
James Winslow, .
50
S
1780
1786
IO
BACK LOTS ON THE EAST
SIDE
OF THE
RIVER.
Abraham Smith,
4
P
1787
1788
I
Asa Cree, .
5
S
1789
1789
Oliver Hartwell,
6
P
1788
1789
2
Lemuel Perham,
24
S
1786
1787
5
Eliphalet Bailey,
26
S
1787
1788
3
Oliver Bailey,
27
P
1788
I788
Joseph Rolfe,
27
P
1784
1784
9
Moses Adams,
28
S
1788
1789
.
.
The foregoing list with the numbers and dates was taken on the tenth of September, 1789, by the direction of Hon. Daniel Cony, Esquire, in behalf of the Committee for the sale of Eastern Lands.
(Signed )
DUMMER SEWALL.
Butterfield and Tufts repaired to Boston, that they might be present at the opening of the General Court. Their double purpose was to obtain a title to lands for the settlers and to make a purchase of the residue of the unsettled lands
Samuel Keen,
.
.
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for themselves. Dummer Sewall, Esq., of Bath, had fre- quently been in the township, and through the inventory he had just completed, was fully acquainted with the character of the lands. Moreover, he was well known in Boston. By taking him into partnership, Butterfield and Tufts were able to easily accomplish their purpose, and obtained from the Legislature the following resolve:
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN SENATE, February 4th, 1790.
Whereas, the proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase by their committee on the fourth day of October 1779, under the appre- hension that the tract now called the Sandy River Lower town- ship, belonged to said proprietors, did enter into an agreement or contract respecting the land contained in said township with Reu- ben Colburn and his Associates, wherein the said Associates on their part agreed to survey and lay out said township, divide the same into lots, mark the lots for settlers with the letter S., and the lots to be reserved for said proprietors with the letter P., and return a plan thereof to the clerk of said proprietors, and within a certain time to settle said township, make improvements therein, clear roads &c: and in consideration thereof the said committee, in behalf of said proprietors, on their part agreed that the said Reu- ben Colburn and his Associates, should hold all the lots in said township marked with the letter S., in the said plan returned, a duplicate whereof accompanies this resolve. And whereas it ap- pears to this court that said Reuben and his Associates have com- plied with the said agreement, on their part, and would have been entitled to the several lots in said township marked with the letter S., if the said township had really belonged to said proprietors ; But whereas it now appears that the lands in said township are the property of this Commonwealth, and inasmuch as considerable advantage has resulted to said Commonwealth from the settlement of said township by said Associates: and in order that said Asso- ciates may not be disturbed in the possession of their settlements.
Therefore resolved that there be, and hereby is, granted and confirmed unto the said Reuben and his Associates aforesaid, their heirs and assigns, all the lots in said plan marked with the letter S., together with the mill-lot in said township so-called, as tenants
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in common, excepting such lots as have already been drawn to the Associates, which shall be held in severalty by each Associate, his heirs and assigns accordingly. And it is further resolved that there be, and hereby is, granted and confirmed to Dummer Sewall of Bath, Esq., Francis Tufts and Samuel Butterfield of Sandy River, aforesaid yeomen, their heirs and assigns, all the rest and residue of said township, on the following conditions, and with the follow- ing reservations, viz :- That the said Dummer, Francis, and Sam- uel shall quit the settlers hereafter named, who settled in said township before the first day of January 1784 viz: Benjamin Weathren, William Gould, Reuben Lowell, Jonathan Knowlton, William Gower, John Austin, Simeon Russ, John Huston, Enoch Craig, Joseph Sylvester, Joseph Holland, Ebenezer Sweet, Abram Page, William White, Samuel Keen, Lydia Blackstone, Stephen Titcomb, Robert Gower, and Francis Tufts, by granting to each of them to hold in fee, one hundred acres of land, to be so laid out as will best include his or her improvements and be least injur- ious to the adjoining lands, upon the receipt of thirty shillings from such settler, to be paid by each within nine months from this date. And also shall quit the settlers hereafter named, who settled in said township after the first day of January 1784, viz :- Josiah Blake, Samuel Ames, Samuel Briggs, Joseph Riant, Hugh Cox, David Wentworth, Joseph Bradford, Benjamin Handy, Isaac Powers, Abram Page, Silas Gould, Samuel Chandler, Ephraim Cowan, Noah Billington, Susannah Davenport, Isaac Teague, Abram Smith, Joseph Ralph, and Oliver Bailey, by granting to each of them to hold in fee, one hundred acres of land, to be so laid out as will best include his or her improvements, and be least injurious to the adjoining lands, upon the receipt of six pounds from each settler,-to be paid within nine months from this date. Reserving, however, four lots of three hundred and twenty acres each, for public uses, viz-one for the first settled minister, one for' the use of the ministry, one for the use of schools in said township, and one for the future appropriation of the General Court, to be laid out near the center of said township, and to average in good- ness with the other lots therein; and on condition that the said Dummer Sewall, Francis Tufts and Samuel Butterfield shall pay or give sufficient security to pay to the committee on the subject of unappropriated lands in the counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln, or to their successors in office, for the use of the Common- wealth, the sum of four hundred pounds in specie, within the
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HISTORY OF FARMINGTON.
space of one year from the time of passing this resolve, which committee upon the receipt of said sum of four hundred pounds, or sufficient security therefor, are hereby empowered to make and execute a good and lawful deed, to the said Dummer, Francis and Samuel, their heirs and assigns, of the land granted to them in this resolve, on the conditions, and with the reservations therein contained.
Sent down for concurrence.
THOMAS DAWS, Pres't pro tem.
In the House of Representatives, Feb. 4th 1790. Read and concurred.
DAVID COBB, Speaker.
A true copy. Attest JOHN AVERY, Jun., Sec'y.
Having given security to the satisfaction of the commit- tee, a deed was granted before the purchasers returned home. The deed, in parts but a transcript of the resolve, reads as follows :
Know all men by these Presents, that we the undersigned Committee appointed by the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusets, and, by the resolves of the same Court author- ized and empowered to sell and dispose of the unappropriated lands of said Commonwealth, lying within the counties of York, Cumberland and Lincoln, for and in consideration of security being given, agreeably to a resolve of said Commonwealth which passed the General Court the 4th inst., by Dummer Sewall, of Bath, Esq., Francis Tufts and Samuel Butterfield of Sandy River, yeomen, all in the County of Lincoln and Commonwealth aforesaid for the payment of the sum of Four Hundred Pounds lawful money in specie, in one year from the date of said resolve, have granted, bargained, sold and conveyed, and by these presents, do, in behalf of said Commonwealth, and conformably to the resolves atoresaid, grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto the said Dummer Sewall, Francis Tufts and Samuel Butterfield, all that tract of land which is known by the name of "Sandy River Lower Town- ship," in the County of Lincoln aforesaid, except the lots therein which are marked with the letter S, together with the mill lot in said township so called, which has been confirmed by the resolve aforesaid to Reuben Colburn and his Associates, which township
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or tract of land except the lots marked S, and mill lot are subject to the following conditions and reservations, viz :-. that the said Dummer, Francis and Samuel shall quit the settlers hereafter named who settled in said township before first day of January 1784, viz :- Benjamin Weatnern, William Gould, Reuben Lowell, Jona- than Knowlton, William Gower, John Austin, Simeon Russ, John Huston, Enoch Craig, Joseph Sylvester, Joseph Holland, Ebenezer Sweet, Abraham Page, William White, Samuel Keen, Lydia Black- stone, Stephen Titcomb, Robert Gower and Francis Tufts, by grant- ing to each of them to hold, in fee, one hundred acres of land to be so laid out as will best include his or her improvements, and be least injurious to the adjoining lands, upon the receipt of Thirty Shillings from such settler, to be paid by each within nine months from the date of said resolve,-and also, shall quit the settlers hereafter named who settled in said township after the first day of January 1784 viz : Josiah Blake, Samuel Eames, Samuel Briggs, Joseph Riant, Hugh Cox, David Wentworth, Joseph Bradford, Benjamin Handy, Isaac Powers, Abram Page, Silas Gould, Samuel Chandler, Ephraim Cowan, Noah Billington, Susannah Daven- port, Isaac Teague, Abraham Smith, Joseph Ralph and Oliver Baily, by granting to each of them to hold in fee, one hundred acres of land, to be so laid out as will best include his or her im- provement and be least injurious to the adjoining land, upon the receipt of Six Pounds from such settler to be paid by each within nine months from the date of the aforesaid resolve ; reserving however four lots of three hundred and twenty acres each for pub- lic uses, viz: one for the first settled minister, one for the use of the ministry, one for the use of Schools, in said township, and one for the future appropriation of the General Court, to be laid out near the center of said township, and to average in goodness, with the other lots therein-which before granted townships were laid out and surveyed by Joseph North, Esq., June 20, 1780, a plan of which is lodged in the Secretary's office-to have and to hold said granted and bargained premises on the conditions and with the reservations aforesaid to them, the said Dummer Sewall, Francis Tufts and Samuel Butterfield, their heirs and assigns to their proper use forever .- And we the said Committee in behalf of the Commonwealth aforesaid do covenant and agree with said Francis, Dummer and Samuel, that the Commonwealth shall warrant and defend the before granted premises to them, their heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and
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seals, this eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
NATHANIEL WELLS (s) JOHN READ (s) DANIEL CONY (s)
Signed, Sealed, Delivered in the presence of Samuel Cooper, Jacob Kuhn. Acknowledged before Samuel Cooper Justice of the Peace.
It has been said that this purchase of the township was not altogether to the satisfaction of the inhabitants. The agents, however, certainly accomplished for the settlers all they were chosen to do, in securing for them clean titles to their lands, and it is doubtful whether the unappropriated lots could have been disposed of in any manner more to the advantage of the settlers.
While these negotiations were pending, the settlements went rapidly forward. During 1789 Oliver Hartwell, Samuel Stowers, and Asa Cree, took up farms east of Bailey Hill, and Moses Adams the place now owned by Nathaniel Coth- ren. Ephraim Butterfield, Jotham Smith, and Ebenezer Jones, also moved on to the farms they afterwards occupied. The year following began the immigration from Martha's Vineyard, which gave so many valuable citizens to the town- ship. Andrew and Elijah Norton came on an exploring expedition, and selected as a permanent location for their father the lot on which Richard Norton and others now (1884) live. Here they built the substantial framed house which is still standing.
During the year, Eaton and Starling built permanent mills at West Farmington, to take the place of those built by Colburn and Pullen in 1781. As is fully detailed in his biography, Jacob Eaton also began the building of the little schooner Lark, the first and last attempt to convert Farmington into a ship-building emporium. Peter Gay put up a blacksmith-shop either this year or the year previous, although one Sally is said to have had a temporary shop on the west side before him.
The first decade in the history of Farmington thus draws
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to a close, with peace and prosperity within its borders. From an almost unbroken wilderness it has become a thriv- ing farming district, its surface thickly dotted with numerous clearings and improved farms. More than eight hundred acres have been put under cultivation, and many good farm buildings erected. Eight framed houses have been built, all of that substantial, roomy style of architecture which pre- vailed at that period. These were built, probably in the order named, by Peter Corbett, Samuel Butterfield, Nehe- miah Blodgett, Solomon Adams, Stephen Titcomb, Jacob Eaton, Ebenezer Norton, and Francis Tufts. It is possible that others not included in the list were also erected. Many others had framed barns, to which they soon added other buildings. The census taken in 1790, gives the number of inhabitants as 494, and the town books record the births of 63 children during the ten years ending December, 1790. The pressing needs of the new community are all supplied. Mills are in operation, blacksmiths and shoe-makers are plying their trade, schools have been established, and the people of the township are well-nigh independent of the out- side world. A magistrate's commission has been given to Moses Starling, and now the inhabitants can marry and be given in marriage, as well as settle their possible disputes. The market for their commodities is found at Hallowell, whither they haul the products of their farms and exchange them for such manufactured goods as are found necessary for comfort or convenience. The spinning-jennys and looms of the thrifty housewives supply their clothing, and they have no need to call on foreign looms. Little ready money is seen for these first ten years. Judge Parker relates in his History that Mr. Brown received in 1791 a silver dollar in payment for a day's work of himself and horse, which he remarked was the first dollar he had seen in the ten years he had lived on Sandy River.
Although no mail-line was established, a Mr. Willis began about the year 1790, to bring newspapers into the township, and in 1793 a weekly mail-line was opened to Hallowell. The social pleasures of the inhabitants were few. No
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