29 B76 C21 IV-- ly '**"' Cornell University Library F 29B76 C21 Historical sketches ot Bl"ft',i'k„f|!?,'|!?^| CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ■ HISTORICAL SKETCHES BLUEHILL, MAINE, BY R. G. F. CANDAGE, BROOKLINE, MASS. PRINTED FOR THE BLUEHILL HISTOKICAL SOCIETY. ELLSWOETH, MAINE : HANCOCK COUNTY PITBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1905. I Cornell University / Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028809809 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE, BY R. G. F. CANDAGE, BROOKLINE, MASS. FEINTED FOB THE BLUEHILL HISTOEICAL SOCIETY. ELLSWORTH, MAINE : HANCOCK COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1905. F C1\ m flISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, ME. MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES, STATE HOUSE, BOSTON. Haverhill, Jany, ye 6th, 1762. To Messrs. David Marsh, Enoch Bartlett, James McHard. James Duncan, Capt. Edmond Moors, Capt. Peter Parker, Dudley Carleton, Benj. Harrod. We the subscribers being desirious ot settling some of the Land upon the Sea Coasts or Kivers between the Land be- longing to the Heirs of the Late Honour- able Brigadier General Waldo and the River Passamaqade or St. Croix, desire our names may be carryed to the Great and General! Court at their next Session with a Petition which we desire you'll please draw and Lay before the same for Lands within said Limmits for the purpose afore- said: William Fairfield, Benjamin Clements, James Duncan, jr., Jonathan Buck, David Remmick, John Dow, jr., Isaac Bradley, David Marsh, jr., John Dow tersus, John Jonston, Nathaniel Rolf, Nathaniel Jon- ston, Jesse Jonston, Thomas Jonston, Caleb Jonston, Daniell Jonston, Moses Marsh, William Lampson, Tristram Knight, John Knight, jr., Oliver Knight, Charles Maddock, Josiah Fulsom, Samuel Little, WUliam Townsend, Joshua Saw- yer, Benjamin Moores, Samuell Clements, Enoch Noyes, Peter Clements, Jonathan Kimball, WiUiam McHard, Edmond Her- riman, Daniel HUl, Jeremiah Parker, Jon- athan Kimba.ll, jr., James Sawyer, Jo- seph Hadley, John JVCills, Cutten Marsh, James Mc Hard, jr., Enoch Badger, Maxey Hasseltine, John Hasseltine, Philip Clem- ents, John Moody, John Eaton, John Hazen, Benj'n Kimball, Elisha Jonston, Moses Hazen, John Ayres, Benj'n Pettin- gall, Ebenezer Hale, John Woodnmn, Robert Hale, Moses Moose, Moses Swazey, James Winn, Daniel Poor, Amiruhamah Moors, Samuel Plummer, Kelly Plummer, Jonathan Poor, WUliam Marshal, Moses Kelly, Josiah Herripian, Daniel Poor, jr., Stephen Coffin, Peter Johnson, Thomas West, Peter Morse, jr., Jacob Sayer, Ebe^iezer Mudgit, William Page, Peter Herriman, Joshua Howard, Moses Mudgit, Moses Bartlett, Asael Herriman, Lewis Page, Hanes Jonston, Samuel Robie, Ed- ward Sayer, William Page, Nathaniel Bartlett, Simeon Goodwin, Joseph Sayer, Thomas Whitaker, John Goodwin, Jacob Bayley, Joseph Pilsbury, Benj'n Moores, John Goodwin, jr., Epraim Bayley, Benj'n Pilsbury, Moses Little, Edmon Morse, Joshua Bayley, James Woodward, Stephen Little, Jacob Morse, John Bayley, Theoph- ilus Eaton, Moses Chase, John Hazen, jr., Epraim Noyes, Ezekiel Baton, James Simonds, James Bricket', Joel Herriman, Samuell Souther, Samuell Bayley, James Cook, Benj'n Eaton, Jonathan Webster, jr, Andrew Frink, Ezekiel Belknap, James Parker, James Clemens, Peter Page, James King, Samuell Ayres, Samuell Morrison, Ezekiel Wilson, Ebenezer Eaton, Mark Emerson, Joseph Johnson, Timothy Smith, Jacob Ayres, Ammy Haynes, Samuel George, John Pell, Samuel Trask, Asa Herriman, John Farnam, Evan Jones, Joseph Hanes, Barnard Kimball, John Muliiakin, Wilks West, Joseph JUUngs, David Pattangal, Richard Ayer, Nathaniel Burpey, Ebenezer Kimball, Jonathan Nelson, David Hanes, Joseph Swasey, Richard ' Emerson, jr, Dudley Lad, Samuel Moores, Ezra Chase, I)avid George, Timothy George, Enoch Marsh, Joseph Brown, Israel Morrill, Jacob Buck, Eben- ezer Porter, Nathan Baker, John Whiting, Jonathan B uck, jr, Samuell Duncan, Nathaniel Marsh, Epraim Cbanlder, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Poster, Joshua Springer, Benj'n Gage, jr, Adam Dickey, Reuben Mills, Amos MulliakiU, Nathan- iel Gage, jr, John Barnet, Moses Day, Samuel Hides, Mathew Sorow, James Toad, Benj'n Day, Thomas Beverly, Isaac Brewster, William Easman, Jacob Kim- ball, David Beverly, James Patterson, David Stett, Samuell Cochran, Eliphalet Morton, Joseph Bell, Mathew Patten, John Gilmau, Samuell Johnson, Ebenezer Kimball, Peter Ewins, Robert Stuart, Ebenezer Day, Samuell Kimball, James Archer, John Cochran, Bezeliel Carleton, John Weir, Benj'n Cudworth, William Cochran, Dudley Carleton, jr., Matthew Thornton, William Wallis, Nathaniel Cochran, William Kimball, John Mc- RISTOBIGAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. Laaghlin, Samuell Allison, James Cochran, Stephen Knight, John Duncan, William Duncan, George Duncan ter's, William Blair, George Duncan, jr., William Dun- can, jr., Abraham Duncan, Samuel Spaulding, Jonathan Qilmore, Joseph Mc- Cartney, John Duncan ter's, William Hopkins, James Gregg, Joseph Boyes, Timothy Walker, Hugh Ramsey, John Hogg, Abiel Freyer, Samuel Blodget, James Leister, John Stinson, Jeremiah Hssseltine, William Qooch, William Brad- ley, Simon Elliott, James Fowls, jr., Jona , Bates, Daniel Page, Nathan Joans, Nath'l Prye, jr., John Bragg, Jabez Fisher, Nath'l Allen, George Duncan, Jas. Hall, Samuel Fisher, James Pecker, jr., William Green- leaf, Elias Joans, Jno. Baker, Ebenezer Herrick, William Maxwell, James Harrod, Baley Bartlet, Isaac Osgood, Simeon Parker, Jno. Prince, John Varnum, Josiah Snelling, Benja. Hammatt, Jos. Milliken, jr., Wm. Frye, Joseph Stevens, Benj. Harrod, jr, Benja. Gushing, Nathan Parker, Jonathan Stevens, jr, Sam'l Hogg, John Freeman, Peter Parker, jr, Samuel Chickering, jr, James Eichardson, John Endioott, Robert Parker, Joseph Frye, jr, Eufus Clap, Nath'l Brown, Benj«. Stevens, Nicholas Holt, Epraim Bound, Nath'l Brown, jr, Samuel Poster, Ward Noioe, Samson Stoddard, John Hall, Jonathan Bigley, Benja Ingals, John Warren, jr., Jno. Cogswell, TheophUus Mansfield, Benja Bond, David Dexon, Isiac Parker, Robert Patten, William Mc- Hard, Jonas Harrington, Ebenezer Nichols, Jacob Tyler, Samuel Glover, Benja Kings- bury, Robert Duncan, Samuel Barnard, Thomas Bartlet, jr., Moses Daves, Nath'l Hall, Jonas Noyes, Jobe Gage, Joseph Parsons, Ebenezer Hall, Humphrey Bar- ret, William Fairfield, jr., Jon Marsh, jr., .Joshua Harrod, Wm. Watts, John Mico Wendell, Benja Mull Holmes, William Nickles, Charles Prescott, Andrew Black, Ebenezer Hough, Alexander Nickles, BaUingham Watts, James Brving, George Duncan, jr., John Duncan, jr., John Dammer. PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAT. To hin Excellency Francis Barnard Esq. Capt. Oenl, and Commaiider in Chief of a lid Province to the Honourable, his Majesties Council and the r epresenta- tioes in Oent. Court assembled at Bos- tun J any 13th 1762. The petitioners of the Subscribers here- unto on behalf of themselves and associ- ates whose names are contained in the several lists accompanying this Petition Humbly Sheweth. That your Petitioners and Associates who by far are the greatest part of them Persons Brought up to Husbandry and not having lands sufficient for themselves and sons -who are also Husbandmen- have been put upon the enquiry for wild- erness lands to Exercise their calling upon— and that in the course of their Enquiry they have been lately inform'd that there is a considerable Tract of of Unappropriated Wilderness Lands and Islands lying between the Province of Nova Scotia and that part of this Province called Province of Main of which this Government have the Inspection with the Power of granting the same -sending home such grants for his Majesties ap- pro bation And as your Petitioners and Associates apprehend the settling said Lands or Is- land would be agreeable to his Majesty — your Excellency and Honours and En- gage many persons to become settlers there that would otherwise go out of the Province - They Humbly pray you wUl please to grant them such a Quantity thereof as you may judge proper for such a number of persons as your Petitioners and Associates consist of Viz: 360, with Liberty of viewing and reconoiter- in jf the same — and to Plan and Pitch upon such Tract or Tracts or so much of it as they shall be allowed and find suitable for their purposa in some place or places on the Sea Coast, Rivers or Island part between the River St. Croix or Passamaquoddy-and land near Penobscot river b longing to the Heirs of Brig'dr Gen'l Waldo or of said Islands on the Coast, and return to your Excellency and Honor a Plan or Plans of the same setting forth and showing the Bounds and Ex- tent, in such time as you may see fit to order them. But inasmuch as the lands prayed for are at a considerable Distance from the respective homes of your Petitioners and Associates, and the preparing Habitations there and Transportating themselves and and Familys to them, wUl be attended with considerable difficulty and expense your Petitioners for themselves and Asso- HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. ciate further Pray your Excellency and Honor will please to Grant Time Propor- tionable to those things for fulfilling such conditions as you may see lit to Injoin them in case you should see cause to grant their request and as in Duty bound will ever Pray. (Si^jned) David Maesh, Enoch Baetlbtt, Jambs McHabd, Jambs Duncan, Edmund Moorbs, Dudley Cakleton, Peter Parker, Benj'n Harrod. en the house op representatives FEB. 20, 1762 Voted that the Petition of David Marsh, Enoch Bartlet, James McHard, James Duncan, Peter Parlier, Edmund Moses, Dudley Carleton, Benjamin Harrord, and three hundred and fifty-two others, their Associates, be so far granted, as that there be and is hereby granted unto Him, the said David Marsh and his associates here- in named, Viz : their Heirs and Assigns forever as Tenants in common, six town- ships of Land, each to consist of the quan- tity of six miles square, of the unappro- priated Lands of this Province, between the River Penobscot and the River St. Croix; to be laid out in as regular and contiguous a manner as he Land will ad- mit of : That no Township be more than six miles on the Sea Coast, or on Penob- scot or other Rivers. That they return a Plan or Plans of the same (talcen by a Surveyor and Chainman on Oath) to this Court for further confirmation, on or be- fore the last Day of July next: That they within BIX years after they shall obtain his Majesty's approbation of this grant (un- less prevented by war) settle each Town- ship with sixty good Protestant FamUiea, and buUd sixty Houses, none to be less than Eighteen Feet Square, and Seven Feet Stud; and clear and cultivate five acres of Land on each Share fit for Tillage or Mowing; and that they build in each Township a suitable Meeting-house for the public worship of God, and Settle a Learned Protestant Minister, and malce Provision for his comfortable and honour- able Support; and that in each Township there be reserved and appropriated four whol Rights or Shares in the Division of the Land (accounting one sixty-fourth Part a share) for the following Purposes, Viz : one for the first settled or ordained Minister, his Heirs and Assigns forever; one for the use of the Minister, one to and for the use of Harvard College in Cambridge, and one for the use of a school forever; and if any of the Grantees or Proprietors of any or each of said Townships respectively, shall neglect within the Term of six years as before mentioned to do and perform according to the several Articles respecting the Settle- ment of his Right or Share as hereby enjoyed his whole Right or Share Shall be entirely forfeited and enure to the Use of this Province. Provided nevertheless, the Grant of the above Lands is to become void and of none effect unless the Grantees do obtain his Majesty's Confirmation of the Same in eighteen months from this Time. And be it further Ordered as a Condition of the Grant aforesaid That each Grantee give a Bond to the Treasurer of this Prov- ince for the Time being, and to his suc- cessors in said off, for the Sum of Fifty Pounds for the Use of this Province, con- ditioned for the faithful Performance of the Duties required according to the Tenor of the Grants aforesaid, and that a Com- mittee or Committees be appointed by this Court to take said Bonds accordingly. And further that said Committee be em- powered to admit others as Grantees, in ye room of such Persons contained in ye Lists aforesaid, who shall neglect to appear by themselves or others in their Behalf, to give Bonds as such Time as ye Committee shall appoint. Sent up foi" Concurrence. (Signed) Jambs Otis, Speaker. In Council March 2, 1762. Read and Concurred Consented to (Signed) A. Oliver, Sec'y. Fra. Bernard. (Names attached to the act.) Enoch Bartlet, Wm. Fairfield, Thomas Johnston, James McHard, James Duncan, jr., Caleb Johnston, James Duncan, Jona Buck, Oliver Knight, Peter Parker, David Remmick, John Knight, jr., Edmund Moores, David Marsh, jr., Enoch Noyes, Dudley Carleton, John Johnston, Samuel Little, Benjamin Harrod, Jesse Johnston, Joshua Sawynr, Jon'n Kimball, Peter Clements, James Sawyer, PhUip Clements^ 6 HISTOBICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. Benj'n Pettingall, John Ayer^, Jeremiah Parker, Cutten Marsh, John Woodman, Benj'n Clemens, Enoch Badger, Moses Swasey, Isaac Snow, Amiruharaah Moores, Daniel Poor, John Dow, jr., John Moody, Jon'n Poor, Isaac Bradley, John Baton, Daniel Poor, jr., John Dow, jr., Elias Johnston, Moses Hetley, Nath'l Bolfe, Nathaniel Bartlet, Stephen Coffin, Nath'l Johnston, Thomas Whitaker, Thomas West, Moses Marsh, Daniel Bartlet, Wil- liam Page, William Lampson, Jacob Bayley, Asael Herriman, Daniel John- son, Ephraim Bayley, Peter Herriman, Will'm Townsend, Joshua Bayley, Moses Bartlet, Charles Haddock, Edmund Morse, Lewis Page, Josiah Fulsom, Jacob Morse, WUliam Page, Edmund Herriman, The- ophilus Eaton, Samuel Robie, Benj'n Moores, Ezekiel Eaton, Joseph Hadley, Sam'l Clements, Benj'n Kimball, Maxey Heseltine, Jas. McHard, jr., Jon'n Kim- ball jr., John Hesseltine, William Mc- Hard, John Mills, William Marshall, Daniel HUls, Moses Morse, John Hazen, Moses Hazen, John Hazen, jr., James Simonds, Ebenez->r Hale, James Bricket, Joel Harriman, Robert Hale, Samuel Bay- ley, Samuel Souther, James Winn, James Cook, Benjamin Eaton, Alpheus Goodwin, William Cook, Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Plummer, Jon'n Webster, jr., Andrew Frink, Kelly Plummer, Samuel Ayers, Eze- kiel Belknap, Josiah Herriman, James Pecker, James Clemens, Peter Johnson, Samuel Morrison, Peter Page, Jacob Sayer, Samuel Ayers tert's, James King, Peter Morse jr, Ezekiel Wilson, Ebenezer Eaton, Bbenezer Mudget, Mark Emerson, Ammy Hanes, Joshua Howard, Joseph Johnston, Samuel George, Moses Mudget, Jacob Ayers, Timothy Smith, Hanes Johnston, John Varnum, John Pell, Edmund Sayer, Asa Herriman, Samuel Trask, Joseph Sayer, John Mulliken, Barnard Kimball, Simeon Goodwin, Joseph Tillings, Joseph Hanes, John Goodwin, Wilks West, Evan Jones, Joseph Pilsbury, David Pettengall, Richard Ayers, Benjamin Pilsbury, Na- thaniel Burpey, Ebenezer Kimball, Benj'n Morse, Joseph Swazey, Rich'd Emer- son, jr, James Woodward, Ezra Chase, David Hanes, Asa Heath, David George, Jonathan Nelson, Moses Little, Israel Mer- rill, Dudley Lad, Stephen Little, Timothy George, Samuel Moores, John Bayley, Josiah Brown, Enoch Marsh, Ephraim Noyes, Jacob Buck, Ebenezer Porter, Joshua Springer, Jonathan Buck, jr., Simuel Duncan, Nathl Marsh, John Whiting, Simuel Foster, Moses Chase, Nathan Baker, Ephraim Chandler, Sam- uel Johnston, Reuben Mills, Benjamin Gage, jr., Jonathan Gilmore, George Duncan, ye 4th, Nathl Gage, jr., William Blair, John Bell, Amos Milliken, Samuel Allison, Adam Dickey, Moses Day, Timothy Walker, John Barnet, Benjamin Day, Hugh Ramsey, Samuel Hides, Wil- liam Easman, John Hogg, Matthew Storow, Jacob Kimball, Daniel Spaulding, Thomas Beverly, Eliphalet Martin, Wil- liam Hopkins, David Beverly, Samuel Johnston, James Gregg, James Tood, Ebenezer Kimball, Joseph Boyes, Isaac Brewster, Samuel Kimball, Jeremiah Hesseltine, James Patterson, Ebenezer Day, WUliam Bradley, Matthew Patten, Daniel Jaques, Daniel Page, Joseph Bell, Bezaliel Carlton, Jabez Fisher, Peter Ewins Dudley Carlton, jr., Jeremiah Fisher, James Achen, William Kimball, Samuel Fisher, Adam Wier, Stephen Knight, James Pecker, jr., John Wier, John Dun- can, Eben'rHerrick, David Stell, George Duncan, Isaac Osgood, Samuel Cocnran, William Duncan, Bayley Bartlet, John Gilman, Will'm Duncan, jr., Will'm Greenleaf, Robert Stewart, Gfeorge Duncan tert's, WUliam MaxweU, John Cochran, Abraham Duncan, Simeon Parker, Benjamin Cudworth, John Duncan tert's, John Varnum, WUliam Cochran, Samuel BeU, Wm. Torge, Nath'l Cochran, Alex- ander WUson, Joseph Stevens, Matthew Thornton, James Wilson, Nathan Parker, William Wallis, John Otterson, Peter Parker, jr., John McLaughlin, Samuel Fisher, John Farnum, jr., James Cochran, John Duncan, 4th,, Benj'n Harrod, jr., Joseph McCartney, David Storow, Jonathan Stevens, James Milliken, jr. William NickeUs, Robert Parker, Benj'n Gushing, Alex'r NickeUs, Joseph Pyre jr. Sam'l Hogg, Andrew Black, Sam'l Ch'ick- ering, John Truman, Benj. MuU. Holmes Jn'o Chickering, jr., James Richardson' Charles Prescott, David Nevens, Rufus' Clap, John Mico Wardell, Benj'n Stevens Ephraim Bounds, Wm^ Watts, Nicholas Holt, John Endicott, Edw'r Hough Sam- uel Foster, Nath'l Brown, BeUingham Watts, Ward Naice, Nathl Brown jr James Erving, Abiel Frye, Sampson Stod- HISTOBWAL SKETCHES OF BLUERILL, MAINE. dard, George Duncan, jr., Samuel Blodget, John Warren, jr., John Duncan tert's, Jamss Lester, Benj'n Jugals, John Dum- mer, John Stinson, Isaac Parker, John Cogswell, jr., William Gooch, Robert Pat- ten, Jonathan Bayley, Simeon Elliott, Jacob Tyler, David Dexon, Nathan Jones, Benj'n Kingsbury, William McHurd, jr., Ephraim Prever, Thomas Bartlet, jr., Sam- uel Glover, Nathl Ellen, Samuel Barnard, John Rail, EUas Joans, Wm. Fairfield, jr., Theophilus Mansfield, Jon'a Bates, John Marsh, jr., Benj. Bond, James Fowls, jr., Robert Duncan, Jonas Her- rington, Nathl Frye, jr., Mosts Davis, John Briggs, Jonas Noyes, George Duncan, Humphrey Barret, James Hall, Joshua Harrod, John Baker, Eben'r Nicholls, James Harrod, Nathl Hall, John Prince, Eben'r Hall, Josiah Snelling, Jabez Gage, Benj'n Hammett, Joseph Parsons. MASSACHTJSBTTS ARCHIVES. Bluehill Bat, June 17th, 1784. This is to certify that John Peters, of the iown aforesaid this day was chose by the Inhabitants of this Town to represent the twin State of the Proprietors and Settlers on Said Township to the Commit- tee chosen by the Gteneral Court of the Massachusetts State to received and ex- amin the Clames of Land in the County of Lincoln, &c., &c. Date of Proprietors' Settlement. Joseph Wood, 1762; Nathan Parker, 1764 ; Jonah Dodge, 1764 ; Jonathan Darl- ing, 1765; Peter Parker, jr., 1765; Nathan Parker, jr., 1765; Bzekiel Osgood, jr.; 1765; Joseph Wood, jr., 1765; Joshua Horton, 1768; Benjamin Friend, 1774; John Dodge, 1774; Ezekiel Osgood, 1774; Robert Parker, 1774; Thomas Coggins, 1765; Elisha Dodge, 1774 ; John Peters, jr., 1765; Marble Par- ker, 1764; Phineas Osgood, 1774; Obed Johnson, 1769; Jon'a Clay, 1769; Elizabeth Brown, widow, 1770; Peter Parker, 1765; Joshua Parker, 1765; Joseph Parker, 1765; John Roundy, 1762; Jos'a Titcomb, 1769; Joshua Titcomb, jr., 1767; Stephen Tit- comb, 1765; David Carleton, 1765; Moses Carleton, 1765; Michael Carleton, 1765; Samuel Parker, 1765; James Candage, 1766; John Peters, 1765; Nicholas Holt, 1765; John Osgood, 1765; Israel Wood, 1776; Daniel Osgood, 1776; Robert Haskell Wood, 1776; John Candige, 1782; John Randall, 1768; Joseph Candige, 1767; James Day, 1766; Thomas Carter, 1776; Nathan Osgood, 1776; Nicholas Holt, 1775; John Roundy, jr., 1783; Josiah Cog- gin, 1782; James Candige, jr., 1766; Chris- topher Osgood, 1774; Bbene'r Hinckley, 1774; Jon'a Darling, jr., 1776; Jon'a Day, 1766; Matthias Violary, 1776; Susannah Hinckley, wid., 1766; Henry Carter, 1783; James Carter, 1781; Lydia Day, widow, 1766; Nath'l Gushing, 1778; Jedediah Holt, 1778; Joshua Horton, jr., 1782. Thirty-six of the above -seven of them minors, all sons of Proprietors, who are on ye grounds except Steph. Titcomb, whose father has done ye duty on his right. No minor has his name. Captain Joseph Wood & Sons and John Roundy came and Settled at Bluehill bay before the land was either granted or layed out &c., &c., &c." MASaACHTJSBTTS ARCHIVES. BLDBHILL IN 1785. The Honourable Senate and House of Rep- re- entatives In General Court As- sembhd. The Petition of the Proprietors now Resident in a Township called No. 5, on Bluehill Bay, in the County of Lincoln and Commonwealth of the Massachusetts, Humbly Sboweth— That in the year 1762 the Governor and Council and House of Representatives, then in General Court Assembled, made a formal Grant of six Townships to David Marsh and others, one of which Towns your Petitioners are Original Proprietors and Agreeable to said Grant, we camA into the wilderness upon the Incouragement thereby given in the years 1763 and 1764, In order to fulfill the conditions of said Grant, and accordingly have fully satisfied the conditions of said Grant except the settling of a Minister, and we have had twenty years quiet and Peaceable Possesssion, and further, after we had been Settled here some time the Grant not being confirmed by the King, the Governor and Council was pleased to Issue a Proclamation for the encourage- ment of such Inhabitants as had Settled In those Towns In order to fulfill the con- ditions of said Grant, viz.: In the year 1768 said Proclamation was Issued De- claring the Intention of the then Province of Massachusetts, to protect and defend the said Lands to the Proprietors setled ander the said Grants upon which we 8 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. went on with courage, the Houses being built and the laud Cleared, which was re- quired to fulfill the conditions of said Grant, and we find his Excellency the Governor and Council willing to assist us In everything that was reasonable, that Lay in their power to Promote the Set- tlement of the Wilderness Country, and as they Declared their Intention to De- fend us against all other claims to this Part of the Country, Especially that of the Earl of Sterling either by Patten or Grant from which we are suflS- oiently Defended by said Proclamation, we cannot possably suppose but that the true Intent both of said Grant and Proc- lamation were that Every Proprietor should enjoy his rights and Privileges without any other acknowledgement than the fulfilling the conditions of said grant, and furthermore your Excellency and Honours cannot be unacquainted with the great expense we have been at In Laying out these Townships, and the expense we have been at In trying to Procure the King's Approbation and likewise In ful- filling the conditions of said Grant -But perhaps this objection will be made by some who will say we have not an or- dained Minister, and therefore we have not the conditions of said Grant In every Particular, therefore we have forfited our rights to said Lands, Answer. It is true we have not an ordained Minister, but, we together with a class of People among us called Settlers have been at more expense than it would have been to have f unfilled the conditions of said grant In every Parti- cular, Provided his Majestyes Royal appro- bation had been obtained and the non- Itesident Proprietors had come and settled when we did. For we have built a Suit- able house for Public Worship and have hired Preaching Every Summer for Seven- teen years. Except In the time of the late war, and a school master every winter. Built Bridges, cleared and maintained Public Koads through the Town, all which expense has been Bourne by us and that class of People called settlers residing among us. Wherefore we trust that on a full ex- amination of the Matter it will appear to the Honourable Court that our title is good and Valid, therefore we Pray your Honours to Remit or Discharge us of that Part of the Thousand Pounds which is laid upon us by a Resolve of the Court Passed the 17th of March, 1785, or other- wise confirm us as your Honours In your Great Wisdom and regard to justice shall see fit— as in duty bound shall ever Pray. No. 5. December 31, 1785. (Signed) Thomas Coggin, 1 Eight. Elisha Dodge, 1 Eight. Samuel Darling, 1 Eight. Peter Parker, jr., 2 Rights. Benj. Friend, 1 Right. Joshua Horton, 1 Right. Joseph Wood, 1 Eight. James Candage, 1 Right. Dudley Carleton, 4 Rights. Peter Parker, 6 Rights. Nathan Parker, 2 Rights. Simeon Parker, 1 Right. Ezekiel Osgood, 2 Rights. Phineas Osgood, 1 Right. John Peters, 3 Eights. John Eoundy, 1 Eight. Wido. Elizabeth Brown, 1 Eight. Eobert Parker, 2 Eights. David Carleton, 1 Eight. AN OUTLINE SKETCH OE THE SOUTHERN PAET OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. ITS SBTTLEKS AND RESIDENTS BETWEEN THE SBDaWICK TOWN LINE AND THE HEAD OP THE BAY, FROM HISTORIC DATA, TRADITION AND MEMORY. By E. Q. F. Candage {1905). From the record ol the town's annual meeting held "March 6, 1769", we learn that it was "Voted that Joseph Wood, Jonathan Darling and Robert Parker be a Committee to lay out Roads where they should think proper to convean the Town on this side of the Salt Pond." The year previous the town voted "For to clear a Rhode from here to Pronobscutt" and chose a committee consisting of Sam- uel Foster, Israel Wood, Robert Parker, Joseph Wood and John Roundy to attend to laying out said "Rhode". At the annual town meeting held "Mon- day, April 7, 1794, voted that the follow- ing Roads be recorded. Viz: — "1. The Road on the Neck. "2. The Road leading to the Tide MUls from the Main Road that leads to Mr. Carleton's. "3. The Road from the Head of Blue Hill Bay to Noice's Brook by Mr. Joseph Parker's. "4. The Road leading from Beech Hill by the Meeting house to the Head of Blue Hill Bay. "5. The Road leading to the old Penob- scot Road near Mr. Robert Wood's from the Head of Blue Hill Bay by Capt. Joshua Horton's." The foregoing extracts from the records fix the fact of the location of the first roads laid out and buUt in the town. For the purposes of this paper our in- vestigation and statements wUl neces- sarily chiefly be confined to the consider- ation of the places and residents along the roads designated above as the "road leading to the Tide MUls" and "the Main Road that leads to Mr. Carleton's" in one direction and to the Head of the Bay in the opposite direction. It appears by the records that there were four person who settled in the south part of the town by the name of Carleton, whose given names were Edward, Dudley, Moses and David, all from Andover, Mass., and evidently brothers. They built the mills first known as Carleton's mills, mentioned in the town records in 1770 for the first time when Dudley Carleton was elected a selectman, in 1771 was re-elected and in 1772 vras chosen one of a committee to keep the fish course clear at Carleton's mUls. April 3, 1775, "Voted that the Inhabi- tants of the Town meet at the house of Mr. David Carleton the 2nd Monday in May to see Something abought making the hour Something better, at 8 o'clock in the morning. Meeting Ajourned to house and time aforesaid." Then follows this en- try: "The Disturbance Between Brittain and America Prevented the meeting Ac- cording to Ajournment." "This Disturb- ance" probably was news of the battle of Lexington. March , 28, 1776, David Carleton was chosen one of the committee of corre- spondence and in 1779 a surveyor of lum- ber. March 7, 1785, Moses Carleton was one of a committee of three "to hire a Preacher and Collect the Money to pay him." Edward Carleton was chosen a surveyor of lumber in 1789, and in 1792 and 1793 one of a committee to keep the fish course clear. The fish course was at Carleton's mills, to provide a passage for alewives to the pond above, where they went to spawn _ At those mills also frost fish came to spawn about the time of Christmas, and were taken in great numbers. Pish were a valuable article of food for the settlers of the town, and care was taken that the alewives should not be obstructed in their 10 HISTOBICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEIIILL, MAINE. yearly visits to the fresh water ponds where they deposited their eggs and hatched their young. The writer well remembers the fish course spoken of, and that on certain days when "the fish were running" they could be taken under regulations made by the town, whUe on other days the people took fish unlawfully and subject to a fine. In 1795, Edward Carleton was chosen with others to superintend and inspect the fish course, fix the place for catching flsh from Monday at sunrise until Wed- nesday at sunset. He was also allowed by vote of the town "three pence per light for 360 lights of sashes delivered for the Meeting house" and chosen to present the proposals to the church, by the town, for it to offer through a committee to Jonathan Fisher regarding his settlement, and that Mr. Carleton be desired to request the church by a committee to wait upon Jonathan Fisher, with the town's proposal for an exchange of the minister's lot and Mr. Carleton's lot, if he settles in the town. In 1797, "Voted that Major David Carleton have the consent of this town to bid upon the Pews as he shall please." This was for the sale of the pews of the new meeting house, and would indicate that'Major Carleton had moved to Sedg- wick and without the vote as above would not have had the right to bid for the pews when they came up for sale. From the church records it is learned that David Carleton and Mary, his wife, owned the covenant and had baptised Molly Adams Coggeswell and Dudley, July 4, 1784, by Rev. Seth Noble. Edward Carleton and Phebe, his wife, owned the covenant and had their daugh- ter Abigail Abbott baptised by Oliver Noble, Oct. 17, 1790. Moses Carleton and Mary his wife pre- sented the following children : Leonard, Oct. 17, 1790. Eev. Oliver Noble. Ebenezer, July 8, 1792. Rev. Peter Powers. Elizabeth, Aug. 22, 1794. Rev. Samuel Eaton. There is no record to show that Dudley Carleton was a member of the church at Blue Hill, that he had a family, or when and where he died. The Carletons were men of activity and business energy in the earlier years of the settlement of the town. They lived near- by their mills upon lands later conveyed to Amos Allen and his sons, who also purchased from them the mills that were buUt and owned for many years by the Carletons. Just where stood the houses of David, Edward and Dudley Carleton, the w^riter has no means of definitely determining at this writing, but the house of Moses was standing in the writer's boyhood upon the site of the present house of the late Joseph Allen. It was a two-story structure in front and of one story in the rear, but what year it was built cannot now be stated, though probably shortly after the Carletons came to the locality from Andover. In the early years of 1800, the Carletons buUt a ship near the mUls, called the "Juno", of which Dudley Carleton, 2nd, son of David, was master. She was 250 tons, single deck, and a fuU-rigged ship, in which the father of the writer made a voyage to Liverpool, England, and back to Boston as one of her foremast hands. A number of other vessels have been built there in later years, and lumber from the mUls, and wood from the landing have been scowed down the Salt pond, and passed out over the Fore Falls to form many cargoes shipped to western markets. It was DO uncommon sight to see half a dozen or more vessels at anchor below the Falls receiving cargoes from Carletons or AUen's miUs and other landings along the shores of the Salt pond, in the boyhood of the writer. Moses Carleton's family record is as fol- lows: 1. Moses, born Jan. 10, 1785; married Nancy 2. William, born Dec. 12, 1786; married Pamela Osgood. 3. Leonard, bom Jan. 30, 1789; married Sally 4. Ebenezer, born March 27, 1791. uj^j. ried Polly Dorr, of Penobscot, Nov 15" 1815. ■ ' 5. Elizabeth, born (no date given.) 6. Michael, born Oct. 26, 1795; a sailor preacher at Salem, Mass. 7. Polly, born Nov. 22, 1797; never mar ried ; died Sept. 20, 1865. 8. Parker, born AprU 7, 1800; died at Andover, Mass., Nov. 23, 1823. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 11 9. Betsey, born Sept. 21, 1802; married Josiah Cogging. 10. Sukey, born July 4, 1805; married Jonah Dodge. 11. Samuel, born Jan. 11, 1808; never married; died Jan. 10, 1862. 12. Phebe, born Dec. 2, 1810. Moses Carleton, head of this family, died Oct. 1838, aged 79; Mary his widow, August 20, 1857, aged 88 years. ' Ebenezer Carleton, son of Moses, mar- ried Polly Dorr, of Penobscot, Nov. 15, 1815, and settled on the west side of the First pond, where he livei as a farmer and brought up a family of children as fol- lows: 1. Charlotte, born Feb. 14, 1816; married Capt. John Douglass, of Brooksville. 2. Kimball, born July 30, 1817. 3. Susan, born April 10, 1819; died Jan. 27, 1824. 4. Abigail, born April 16, 1821 ; married Simeon P. Tapley, of Brooksville. 5. Elizabeth, born April 24, 1823; died August 13, 1825. 6. Deborah, born April 19, 1825. 7. Susan, born August 7, 1827. 8. Michael, born Nov. 4, 1829. 9. Lucinda, born Feb. 14, 1832. 10. Charles, born June 9, 1835. The other song of Moses Carleton set- tled elsewhere in the town, and the family of Major David Carleton removed to North Sedgwick. Amos Allen, born in Sedgwick, Oct. 3, 1772, married Joanna Herrick, of Sedg- wick, Dec. 25, 1793, removed to Blue Hill in 1795, where he became owner of Carle- ton's millg and of the land and buildings taken up and improved by the Carletons. He was a miller, farmer, ship-owner, preacher and a representative to the Maine legislature in 1820-1-2-3, and in 1842, and a man of influence and force of character. When elected to the legislature of 1842, it was generally supposed that he favored a bridge across the Falls, and all in favor of that object voted for his election. A petition was sent to the legislature for a charter to build the bridge, and requests to Mr. Allen to present the petition and advocate the measure. The petition recited the convenience it would be to the people residing in that part of Sedgwick, now Brool^lin, and on the Neck, with the miles travel it would shorten for those on the Neck desirous of \ traveling to Blue Hill village, either on foot or by carriage or team of any kind by land. Great was the surprise felt by the friends of the measure and those who had made Mr. Allen's nomination and election sure, to find him arrayed against the charter openly, and by a speech that set the legis- lators roaring with laughter by the ridi- cule he heaped upon the whole subject. Ag reported in the Portland Adiertiser of that date, which the writer of this ar- ticle read at the time, he first said it would be a positive disadvantage to the ship- building interests of the Salt pond, which was great and promised to become greater, and would prove, if the charter were granted, a depression of values above said bridge. Then he turned his ridicule upon the interests of the petitioners upon the Neck, by saying, "they talk about the convenience it would be for those having carriages to drive to the village!" "Car- riages", said he, "carriages and teams! The only carriage upon Bluehill Neck is Jerry Eaton's ox-cart, and the only team his oxen." The petitioners were incensed against him for that treatment of their case, and he never after went to the legislature. He died Jan. 28, 1855, aged 84 years. His chil- dren were : Hepzibah, born July 7, 1794; married Joseph Herrick, of Sedgwick. 2. Amos, born Dec. 27, 1796; died Feb. 14, 1802. 3. Ebenezer, born Nov. 28, 1799; died June 19, 1819. 4. Herrick, born Sept. 4, 1801; married Lydia Stover. 5. Amos, born Jan. 6, 1804; married PoUy Walker, of Brooksville. 6. Joanna, born Dec. 16, 1805 ; married Seneca Parker. 7. Joseph, born August 24, 1808; mar- ried 1st, Hannah Dodge, 2nd, Harriet N. Parker. 8. Hulda H., born April 22, 1812; mar- ried Eobert Wood Hinckley. 9. Harriet, born March 12, 1816; married 1st, Joseph Cole, 2nd, John Allen. 10. George Stevens, born Sept. 14, 1818; married Mary S. Osgood. 11. Daniel Barden (adopted), born May 17, 1822; married Mary E. Allen, of Sedg- wick. Amos Allen lived in a large two-story 12 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. house, built probably about the time he came from Sedgwick. After his death his son Amos lived in the homestead, and after him, his son David, making three generations to occupy it. Some ten or more years ago the old house took fire and vi^as consumed. Upon its site another house has been erected, and is occupied by descendants of the first Allen at that place. Joseph Allen, son of the first Amos, was married to Hannah Dodge, of Sedgwick, Dec. 25, 1834, and sei up housekeepifag about that time in the old Moses Carleton house, which he occupied for some years, then pulled it down and built upon the site the house now standing there. Han- nah Dodge, his wife, died childless in , and in 1868 he married 2nd, Harriet N. Parker, by whom he had children. Mr. Allen died a few years ago. Herrick Allen married Lydia Stover Jan 25, 1831, and it is supposed that he bunt his house about that time, which still stands the nearest to the mUl stream. His children were : 1. Caroline Augusta, born Nov. 28, 1831 ; married R. G. "W. Dodge. 2. Prances Joan Parker, born June 14, 1833. 3. Augustine Melville, born June 1 1835. 4. Edward Wheelock, born June 24, 1837. 5. Ruby Maria, born Sept. 3, 1839. 6. Harriet Elizabeth, born May 7, 1842; died AprU 29, 1847. 7. Julia Maria, born August 11, 1845; died July 14, 1863. 8. Rosooe George, born Dec. 22, 1847. Herrick Allen, head of this famUy, died March 15, 1869. The Aliens owned all the land from the Sedgwick line to Long cove fronting upon the Salt pond, and stretching back there- from some distance into the interior. They were good farmers as well as mill and lumbermen. Daniel B., the adopted son of Amos, sr., built his house upon the eastern part of the land of his foster lather previous to 1850, where he resided untU his death. The house, barn and out- buildings are all gone at this writing. He married Mary E. Allen, of Sedgwick, daughter of Nathan and Nancy Parker Allen, March 28, 1848. Their children were as follows : 1. Edith Hinckley, born Sept. 14, 1848. 2. Nancy Jane, born Dec. 29, 1850. 3. Lillia Adelaide, born August 16, 1853. 4. Nellie Maria, born Nov. 2, 1855. 6. Daniel Edwin, born Feb. 2, 1862. 6. David Benjamin, born Sept. 22, 1866. Amos Allen, sr., and his wife Joanna, were members of the Blue Hill Congrega- tional church, but in 1806 withdrew and joined the Kapti-sts, and were original members of the latter church at its organ- ization. He was licensed to preach, after which he was known as Elder Amos Allen. He preached for the Neck church and for the Baptist church at BrooksviUe. In those days the elders and ministers were accustomed to take wine and spirits on great occasions, and at other times when they felt like it. It is related of Elder Allen that while engaged to preach at Brooksville, he arose on Sunday morn- ing but not feeling well took a glass of rum on an empty stomach, which unfitted him to attend to his duties for that day. Later, being asked why he did not fill his engagement to preach on that Sunday, he frankly stated that the glass of rum over- powered him, and he thought it best to remain at home. The explanation was satisfactory to the church and all con- cerned. Beyond Allen's mUls upon the main road stood a small house, in the boyhood days of the writer, occupied by a Mr. Closson and famUy. The house has been gone many years. Off the main road to the right was the home of Eliphalet Grindle and famUy, and another not far distant from Grindle's was the house and home of a family by the name of Durgiu. The Allen neighborhood was isolated from the rest of the people of the town; it was a community by itself, well known to the writer seventy years ago. Long Cove was the next place of im- portance northeast of the Allen settle- ment. Its importance consisted of being a landing to which were brought cord- wood and saw logs from the interior to be scowed to vessels loading be- low the falls with wood for Bos- ton and elsewhere, and for rafting and floating logs to the tide mills. Wood to the amount of hundreds of cords wa hauled there each winter and pUed unon the shore awaiting spring and summer to be forwarded to market. It was a busv HISTOBIGAL SKETCHES OF BLUERILL, MAINS. 13 place for a portion of the year, and pre- sented a picture of activity and enterprise. The cove extended a quarter of a mile or more above the highway bridge that crossed over it, and it was the head waters of the cove where a brook emptied into it that the boys frequented in the spring to catch smelts. Upon the rise of ground east of the cove in those days was the house on the north and barn on the south of the road of William W. Gray. He was the son of Joshua Gray, of Sedgwiclc, and his wife was Lucy, daughter of Josiah Closson, of the same town. They had no children of their own, but adopted one or more. Mr. Gray was an industrious man, who gained a livelihood by farming, and by working at odd jobs for others. He and his wife have been dead a half century, his house and barn are gone, and his farm is now owned by a son of Daniel B. Allen. The next place north and easterly is what the boys called, sixty or seventy years ago, "Mackville". There lived Peter McFarland, a shoemaker of Scotch descent, who is said to have come from the city of New York, where he left a wife and several children, here to build a log cabin and make his abode prior to 1800. He married Elizabeth Carter by whom he had eight children, viz : 1. Jonathan Fisher, born Oct. 12, 1803; married Prudence. 2. Lydia, born Oct. 23, 1805. 3. Peter, born July 14, 1807; married Lucy Day. 4. Oliver Mann, born Nov. 20, 1810; married Luoretia Carter. 5. Irene, born August 2, 1613; married WiUiam Staples, of Sedgwick. 6. Alpheus, born Feb. 22, 1817; married Eebekah Carter. 7. Amos Allen, born Sept. 13, 1820; died in army at Ship Island, 1863. 8. Rodney, born Jan. 6," 1824; married Margaret Cain. Rodney is the only one living at this date; he resides at Bar Harbor. Peter McFarland, sr., had a struggle to earn sufficient from his farm and shoe- maker's bench to bring up his large JamUy. He was a man fond of grog, and a fiddler; his sons were fond of music and of Bong, indulging in both so far as their limited knowledge permitted. Rodney, the youngest son, beat the snare drum for the boy's military company of the neigh- borhood, of which the writer was cap- tain. With military hats made of paper adorned with tailfeathers of cock or hen, and with wooden guns and swords march- ing to the music of the "White Cockade" made by fife and drum, the boys were ready to parade whenever opportunity offered, and were proud of their warlike mimicry. Mr. McFarland, sr., played his fiddle for dances, having a series of old Scotch tunes, including the "Scolding Wife", "The Girl I Left Behind Me", "High Betty Martin" and the like, which'he played and charmed the boys of those days. He and all his famUy, save one, "have joined the great silent majority". Two of his sons, Alpheus and Amos, and a grand- son, Ebenezer, son of Peter, jr., were sol- diers in the army for the preservation of the Union in the war of the Rebellion. After the death of the heads of the family, the marriage of the children, and the removal of them from the haunts of their chUdhood, the iplace was owned for a number of years by Giles Johnson Grindle, and occupied by him and his family. The land stretched from William W. Gray's to Mother Bush Brook with a shore line upon the Salt Pond. The build- ings are gone at this writing, and the land is owned and cultivated by a son of the late Daniel B. Allen. Mother Bush Brook, after dark, was a place to be shunned by lone boys, for fear they might see the ghost of Benjamin Friend, whom tradition said haunted that spot. The "Ghost of Mother Bush Brook" was described in verse some years ago by the writer, and requires no further notice here. From that brook on|to the crown of the Coggin hill was a part of the rough stage road between Sedgwick and Blue Hill, wooded on both sides, and a lonely way, six or seven decades ago. Prom the brow of the Coggin hUl one looked down upon the Tide MUls or Falls district, where the settlement of the town began AprU 7, 1762. Beyond rises Blue HUl mountain in all its grandeur, with Newbury Neck, Schoodic and Mt. Desert hUls on the right, the sparkling waters of the bay, with Long Island nearer at hand, the Falls, the is- land where Wood and Roundy built their log cabins, and with the tide mills, pond, 14 HI8T0BICAL fiKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. etc., in the foreground. AU these the writer sees engraven upon the tablets ol his Ji emery as he saw them from that spot more than seventy years ago, when he was a boy of the neighborhood, though nearly three score years have gone by since that was his home. THE TIDH MILL NEIGHBORHOOD, began at the Coggin lot and extended to Bragdon's brook and just beyond, where the schoolhouse stood in which the writer first learned to lisp his "A B C's." The Coggin lot was the one taken up by Thomas Coggin, who came to it from Beverly, Mass., with his family in 1765. Here he built his humble abode and re- sided the first years of his life in town- just how many the record does not show. He was born Feb. 14,1731; married Lydia Obear Feb., 1755. He died Feb. 11, 1821, aged eighty-nine years; she died Oct. 22, 1800. He and his wife were baptized by Oliver Noble and taken into the church at the Palls June 13, 1873, and their son Samuel, and Molly his wife, were baptized by Eev. "William Lyons and became members of the church August 2, 1791. The children of Thomas and Lydia ( Abear) Coggin were : I. Hezekiah, born April 3, 1756. n. Molly, born Nov. 17, 1758; married Eobert HaskeU Wood Dec. 15, 1782. TTT. Lydia, born July 19, 1763; died May 1, 1791. IV. Josiah, born Nov. 29, 1764 ; married Molly Pecker, April 19, 1795; she was born Sept. 19, 1773; died July, 1853 ; he died in the South. Their children were : 1. Hannah Russell, born Nov. 22, 1795 ; married George Clay Jan. 20, 1817; she died Dec. 23, 1840. 2. Josiah, born Jan. 16, 1797; married Betsey Carleton ; he died no date. V. Samuel, born July 19, 1768 ; married Mary Horton Oct. 2, 1786; he died Sept. 13, 1843 aged 77 years. Children : 1. Samuel, born AprU 1, 1787 ; married Rebecca Cross. 2. Mary, born March 16, 1789; married Lewis H. Green. VI. Elizabeth, born Jan. 16, 1773; mar- ried Nathan Arnold; died July 20, 1819. The first remembrance the writer has of the "Coggin lot" was when Capt. Isaac Merrill built the house now standing in 1831. and the barn a year after. Capt. Merrill was the son of Caleb and Betsey (Candage) (Day) Merrill, widow of James Day; born May 5, 1804. He was a sea captain, who married Louisa Clough, daughter of Asa and AbigaU (Pecker) Clough, August 28, 1831; she was born Sept. 27, 1811; died August 22, 1847 leaving children as follows : 1. Caroline Carr, born Oct 20, 1832. 2. Juliet M., born Oct. 12, 1854. 3. William Horace, born Feb. 22, 1836. 4. Parris Granville, born Jan. 28, 1839. 5. Mary Louisa, born Dec. 5, 1841. 6. Abby Pecker, born Jan. 9, 1844. Capt. Merrill married 2nd Joanna S. Hinckley July 11, 1851, to whom was born a son, 7, Frank Pearl Wallace, March 10, 1855. Capt. Merrill sold his place and removed to the village, where he died Dec. 18, 1881, aged 77 years, 7 mon hs, 13 days. Since the days of Capt. Merrill, the "Coggin lot" has been owned and occupied by a Mr. Conary and others. The next house and place was that of James Candage, who built the house that was standing until a few years ago, some- where about 1803. James Candage was the son of James and Elizabeth Candage, who settled upon the Neck in 1766 from Beverly, Mass., born May 9, 1753; married Hannah, daughter of John Roundy, April 13, 1775; she was born at Beverly, August 4, 1753; died March 12, 1851, aged 97 years, 7 months, 8 days ; he died Jan. 12, 1819, aged 65 years and 8 months. Their chil- dren were : I. Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1775; mar- ried Samuel Morse. n. Samuel Roundy, born Jan. 15, 1781 • married Phebe Ware (Parker), widow of William Walker. HI. Gideon, born August 18, 1783 ; mar- ried Sarah Stinson. -.T;./"^*'' ''°" "'*°-*' ™6; ents, adopted it. Their father bought the house already mentioned, the Holt field, part of the Wood farm, in all something over a hun- dred acres, a meadow and wood lot ol another hundred acres, and half of the two tide mUls, and between fanning and milling, managed to provide for his large family comfortably and to dispense generous hospitality. The grist mill brought many people to it with grist to be ground, all of whom if there at meal or night time, were in- vited to make the house their home free of cost, which many availed themselves of The farm began at the tide mills with lines abutting on the west of land of Az Candage, on the east by the Sinclair plae" HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 17 and running over Oak hill to the back lot of Marble Parker. On the farm were kept a half dozen cows, a yoke of oxen, young stork, a horse, thirty or more shsep, pigs, hens and geese; hay was cut for the stock, crops raised for the support of the family, making it a busy place from April to November, and iu wiater wood was out and hauled for a year's supply, so that all were kept busy. Tha boys, when out of and between school, as soon as they were old enough to work, had a share of the work to be done in the mill, on the farm at the barn and in chores about the house, for neither parent believed in allowing their children to be brought up in idle- ness. They were not overworked, but taught habits of industry, so needful to the boy and useful to the man. In the upper part of the field stood a house built by one of the sons of Joseph Wood and occupied for some time prior to 1839 by Robert Robertson and family be- finvi nj DuilG a-iia rrfinonea to tho house on the bay shore towards Parker Point, where the family later lived, and where he and his wife died. The house from the field was moved down about 1830, and became the L and addition to the Samuel R. Candage house. The bricks tor building the chimney were brought from McHards' by vessel, and landed on the little beach near the tide mdls, and then hauled to the house in an ox- cart. The writer and a cousin on a visit to the house, desired to go down with the ox- team and see the bricks loaded and brought up. His father did not care to be bothered with children too young to look out for themselves, so he said, "now, children I want you to stay right here and watch the cat and prevent her from eating these bricks." Away he went for another load, and the children went on with their play, forget- ting all about the cat. But, as luck would have it, the cat came round the corner of the house strode up on to the pile of bricks, when the children espied her and drove her away. Great was their dismay to find a brick with a corner gone just where the cat stood when she was driven away. Then came the team back, when the writer exclaimed, "Father! The old cat got here while we were at play, and ate the corner of this brick, but we drove her away as soon as we could." A curious smile lighted up his face as he said, "Well, children, I am glad you did not let the cat eat any more of them, so keep a good watch, for cats are sly crea- tures." The children really were of the opinion that cats ate bricks; they had proof of it in the brick with the corner gone, and didn't the writer's father say that they ate bricks? No, he didn't say anything of the kind, but that was the impression his words left upon the child mind. The whole truth is better for children than a half truth. The oldhouse seems filled with memories of incidents, jokes, plays, and of people who visited it in the childhood of the writer. Of all that living throng he so well remember?, every voice but his is silent, and were it not for this reminiscent account, would be forgotten. After the death of Samuel R. Candage the old house and place, in part, were sold to Otis Car- ter, l-le uija io^viug it to his wiciow, and upon her death it went to an adopted daughter, who still owns it, and in whi-h Ebenezer M. McFarland has a life interest by Mrs. Carter's will. We will now pass on and turn the cor- ner of the road leading to the former site of the tide mills. On that corner stand several oaks planted by the writer, his father, and his son Samuel, more than sixty years ago. Ascending the little elevation in the road to the house of A. R. Conary we recognize the site of the house and inn of Nicholas Holt. He came from Andover Mass., in 1765, with his family. He was born March 10, 1716; mar- ried first Hannah Osgood, May 6, 1739; she was born May, 1714; died Sept. 1, 1744; married second Lois Phelps, April 29, 1751; she died Jan. 4, 1815; he died March 16, 1798. Their children were: 1. Jedediah, born April, 1740; died Sept. 1740. 2. Hannah, born Nov. 16, 1741; married Jonathan Darling. 3. Phebe, born Feb. 9, 1752; married Israel Wood; she was child of second wife. 4. Jedediah, born March 12, 1754; mar- ried Sarah Thorndike. 5. Nicholas, born Sept. 23, 1756; mar- ried first Phebe Bachelor, second Molly Wormwood. 18 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. At the house of Nicholas Holt town- meetiQjjs were hild iii early days. He was a justice of th3 peace, and whsii tin town was incorporated in 1789, it was he that was designated to call tha first town mi'eting under the act of incorporation. He was elected to town office and was an influential per.-ion in the town. The father of the writer called the field "thj Granny Holt Fi^ld", an i a little way back of the cellar to the old house were Beveral apple trees, one a greening, prob- ably the flrdt of its kind in the town. Upon this site later stood a shoemaker's shop used as a dwelling by a Mr. Sawyer, who came fron Biddeford to work for John Cheever, who carried on stioemaking previous to 1840, and after him occupied by Mrs. Joanna Parker and family, but long since gone. Farther down the road towards the tide mills stands the house built by John Cheever about 1835. Mr. Cheever came from Beverly to Blue Hill village and set- tled, where he kept a store and began to build a fishing fleet, the first being the schooner "Marion", built at the village. The father of the writer sold him the land for his house, store, wharf, fish flakes and garden, where he carried on business and continued to reside until his death in 1851, aged fifty-one years. His wife was BetSLy Gardner, of Beverly, by whom he had seven children, as follows: 1. Betsey Jackson, born March 12, 1824; married E. G. W. Dodge; died Aprilj 7, 1857. 2. John Gardner, born June 28, 1826; supposed to have been lost at sea. 3. Sarah Susan, born Dec. 15, 1829 ; died at Andover, Mass., Nov. 30, 1896. 4. Horace W., born Nov. 14, 1833; mar- ried and resides at Haverhill, Mass. 5. Austin W., born June 7, 1836; died from exposure in war of the Rebellion. 6. George B., born March 26, 1838; died from exposure in the war of the Rebellion. 7. Ella Thorndike, born Jan. 29, 1845; resides in Andover, Mass. After the death of Mr. Cheever, the fam- ily removed to Andover, Mass., where Mrs. Cheever died at the age of eighty- two. Mr. Cheever built at the tide mill landing brigs "Delhi" and "Equator" and bark "Sarah Jackson". He bought a Gloucester fishing schooner called the "Mary Ann", and carried on quite an extensive fishing business, curing his catches and sending Ihem to market, even S2nding his schponer "Marion" wioh a cargo of dry fish to the West Indies. He kept a variety store, manufactured sho"S, got out wood for market and was an enterpri3ing man, whose career was cut short by sudden death by heart failure. It Wisthe brij "Equator" that the writer first commanded in 1850, built by him in that year, that gave him occasion to remember Mr. Cheever with kindly feel- ings, and also the members of his family. After the Cheever family had left the place, it was sold to a Mr. Seavy, who also purchased the tide mills. He occupidthe premises for some years and then disposed of them, including the mills, to Capt. William Conary. The mills were tiken down or fell down during the ownership of Capt. Conary. After Capt. Conary's d;aththe Cheever house and place were sold to Irving 8. Candage, the present owner and occupant. The wharf has fallen into decay and the store and sheds caught fire and were destroyed several years ago. Down upon the point near the tide-mill site stands a house built in 1833 by Ben- jimin Clay, upon land purchased of the writer's father. Mr. Clay was a joiner by trade, and died in that house of consump- tion AprU 14, 1833. He "'■■» 5. Sarah Relief, born March 16 i8-?2- died August 15, 1832. ' ^'^^' 6. Benja Chesley (twin), born July aq 1835. y ^^ 7. Sarah Clarinda (twin), born Julv 20 1835. ' ^^ HISTORICAL SKETCJ-IKS OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 19 After the oscupancy o( Mr. Clay and family, Capt. Samuel Eaton and lamily from Deer Isle live, there a few years; then Phineas Dodge and family, and va- rious oth3rs from time to lime lor longer or shorter periods. Thd tide mills, the first of whivh was built in 1765, whjn at its raising every person in town was present and all sat about one table at dinner, was the first mill of the town, and was named "lin- deavor". The fathi^r and grandfather oE the writer were owners in the mills, and he worked in ttiem in boyhood, and has many recollections of them. His earliest is of the time when he was three years of ag3 and accompanied his father to the mills dressed in petticoats, and with his hind clasping his lunch of b.'ead and but- ter. The father was engaged in making re- pairs to "the nigger wheel", and had taken up a pLank of the mill flooring the better to get at the work. He had occa- sion to get some tools in the grist mill near at hand, so he sat his boy down away from the hole in the floor and told him to be sure and sit there till he came back. Hardly had he disappeared from sight before an un- controllable desire seized the writer to look down through that hole in the floor. So he crawled along untU he reached the spot and looking down saw the water be- neath, then lost his balance and pitched headlong through the hole into the waters below. He rose to the surface lying upon his back floating lightly and holding his hand up to protect his bread and butter. The tide was ebbing, carrying him slowly seaward, but he was unconcerned and ex- amined the floor timbers of the mill and thought them strange appearing. Just then his father returned and missed his boy, but on looking down through the hole made by removal of the plank in the floor the eyes of father and son met, but not a word was spoken. In order to reach the boy the father went out of the mill to the log wharf where lumber was piled, and climbed down the logs by hand and feet to the water's edge, but when he got there the child was beyond his reach. He climbed back, got a stick of some sort and climbed down again to the water's edge, reached out the stick, gently drew the child to him, dropped the stick, seized the child by his clothing and safely put him upon the whar above his head and clambered up himself. All thi time not a word had been spoken, but when the child was safe and he stood biside him, his pent-up feelings found vent and he said: "You yjung rascal, youl Didn't I tell you to sit still and not move?" The writer replied: "I wanted to see what was down there." "Well," said he, "you hive seen, haven't you? Now come along home to your mother and have your clothes changed." And the child trudged along home in hia wet clothes holding by one hand his father's and in the other his bread ana butter he had not let go of, and thus what might have proved a serious matter ended. At another time the writer and his brother Samuel were at work in the old saw mill at evening, and their father was at work in the grist mill. A log had been sawed mto boards and taken from the carriage ready to put on another log. A neighbor's son was present. The mill was poorly lighted by two oil lamps, and when ready to roll on the log, Samuel refused to help, and it was too heavy for one to man- age. Finding that argument did not pre- vail, the writer went into the grist mill and entered his bill of complaint, which the father came into the saw mill to set right. Samuel in the meantime had reconsid- ered his action, and was bending over the log straining every nerve to roll it into place. The father in the dim light saw the neighbor's son standing idle, and thinking it was his own son, said to him: "lake hold there and help roll on that log I" That haying no effect, he walked up and "boxed" the boy's ears, thinking him to be his son Samuel, and repeated his order: "Take hold, sir, and help roll that log onl" The boy "took hold", and on went the log, while the writer and his brother nearly split their sides with sup- pressed laughter at their father's blunder The boy who had his ears "boxed" began crying when Mr. Candage discovered his mistake and made an apology, saying : "I ask your pardon ; it was all a mistake and I take it all back!" The boy's ears were still smarting under the blow they had received, and he replied: "I don't see how you can take it back now I" Neither did the writer nor his brother. But this 20 HISTOniCAL HKETCITES OF BLUEBILL, MAINE. ended the incident, thougii the memory of it still clings to the writer with a (reshnees SB of an occurrence of yesterday. The mill pond was a favorite place for the boys to swim in. Sometimea a seal would pass into it through the flood gatep, and when the gates shut, he would be im- pounded, to becomethe target of thf sports- men of the neighborhood, and finally their prey. In the spring of the year, the flounders, that had wintered in the pond rose from their beds and sought larger liberty out- side by passing through the flood gates at near slack water, where many were tpeared and served up fried at table as a dainty bit of food. All this is of the past - the mills are gone an 1 all those that had to do with them in those days, the writer, probably, alone ex- cepted. Of late years the pond has been a preserve for lobsters, but even that use has been given up, and although the tide ebbs and flows as of yore, no use ia being mide of this once valuable water power. Near the mills was the shipyard of this part of the town, where many vessels were built in former time, and many others were rebuilt or repaired. But that industry, like the sawing of lumber and grinding of grain at the tide mills, has gone, evidently never more to return. The vessels built iii this yard were the B'hooner Conquest of 100 tons in 1820 by the Sinclairs; the brig Mentus of 176 tons in 1825 by the Sinclairs; ithe Bchooner Kleber of 119 tons by Samuel E. Candage, bark Virginia of 284 tons by the Sinclairs; ship Tahmaroo of 372 tons in 1844 by the Sinclairs ; bark Sarah Jackson 198 tons, 1846, by John Cheever; brig Delhi of 175 tons, 1848, by John Cheever; brig Equator of 156 tons, 1850, by John Cheever, and others whose data are not at hand. The bark Virginia, launched July 4, 1833, was the flrst vessel the writer remembers to have seen glide from her building blocks into the element for which she was intended to do duty in the world's carry- ing trade. It being a holiday, people in large numbers from far and near gathered to see the launching, among whom were women and children who seated them- selves upon the shores near the tide line and received a wetting from the wave that the launching caused. The writer re- membfrs hearing their screams of fright and alarm on the occasion as the wave rose and deluged their clothing but doing no oth( r damage. The Virginia was moored in the cove, there then being no wharf to place her be- side, to receive her spars, be rigged and completed for sea, and a floating bridge was constructed and placed between her and the shore for the workmen's conven- ience in passing to and from her. Capt. William Sinclair was fond of shooting, and had built a gunning float, scow form with a board nailed across each e ^d in which he went for wild ducks with his boat dressed in seaweed so as to not frighten the birds. One day the writer and his brother Eobert were in the boat, which was anchored with a stone tied to a rope, near the vessel, fishing for fiounders, tomcods and harbor pollock. When tired of fishing the writer, by order of his brother tried, to pull up the anchor while standing upon the cross board at the bow with tha ropa on oae side. The stone was heavy for nis youth- ful strength, and while straining and do- ing his best to pall it up, and it had about reached the surface, the stone slipped from the rope and the writer, relieved from its weight, tumbled backwards head down into the water. Down he went what seemed to be fath- oms, but were only fe;t; he heard the waters gurgling about his ears, drank a swallow or two of the water, had come to the conclusion he was to be drowned, but even that gave him little concern. He had pretty nearly lost consciousness when he rose to the surface and his brother reached forth his hand and rescued the half- drowned lad. On another occasion when learning to swim on the shore of the mUl pond, he swam across the creek and turned to swim back, when the thought cam3 to him that the water was beyond his depth, when with fright he sank like a stone The same true brother was at hand to be his rescuer, so that twice in boyhood that brother saved the life of the writer Strange to say that from the date of the last occurrence mentioned, the wr'i never had a recurrerce of that fright b^t could handle himself in water" of' ^ depth without fear and as though he we^^ amphibious. ® HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL; MAINE. n The latksr of the writer had a boat built which was named Hoosier, and which was rigged with two masts, bowsprit, fore- sail, mainsail, jib, flying jib and two gaff topsails, although only fourteen feet in length. She was a fast sailer, the pride of the family, and envy of others who had no boat. The writer, and his brother Robert made a trip in her to the vUlage in the month of March, and were returning when she ran upon a small rock and cap- sized instantly. The boys jumped upon the crown of the rook just large enough to stand on, took hold of the boat, righted and bailed her out with their shoes, and then proceeded homeward. TJie water was like ice and chilled them to the bone and they would have been drowned but for their fore- thought and activity. That experience they kept secret for a long time, that it might not worry their parents and stop their use of the boat. The island upon which Joseph Wood and John Eoundy first built their 'homes was, in the boyhood of the writer, owned by Marble Parker, and after him by his son Augustus. The latter sold it to David Friend and a portion went to a Mr. Syl- vester. Mr. Friend sold his part to Brooks Gray, and Sylvester his to Mrs. Bthelbert Nevin, of New York, Who built a fine cottage upon it, and at this writing is building another. These have been and are the owners in the past and at the present time. Passing on from the tide mill road back to the old stage road to and from Sedg- wick, there stands just where the former diverges a house built by Robert Clay, brother of Benjamin already spoken of, on land purchased of the writer's father in about 1834. Mr. Clay was a joiner and house carpenter like his brother, a cousin of Samuel R. Candage and a descendant of John Roundy, the first settler, through his father's marriage with Molly Roundy. He was born May 27, 1786; married Patty Nickerson, of Castine, May 17, 1807; she died March 21, 1854, aged sixty-seven ; he May 1852, aged sixty-six. Their children were: 1 Caroline, born Jan. 12, 1809. 2 Roxanna, born August 9, 1811. 3 Blmira, born Sept. 29, 1813. 4 "William, born March 5, 1816. 5 Martha, born Nov. 15, 1818. 6 William H., born March 25, 1821; was a sea captain. 7 Mary E., born April 8, 1823; married Marshall Hardin; died July 26, 1859. 8 Barzilla, born Nov. 18, 1825; died Feb. 3, 1832. 9 Eunice, born May 8, 1828; married Rufus Hardin. Mr. Clay sold his house and lot in the '40s to Samuel R. Candage and removed with his family to the village where he died. The next occupant of this house was Joshua Parker Candage, son of Azor and Chloe Candage, born July 8, 1819; married Melinda B. Stover, Oct. 3, 1844, and here began housekeeping at that ti'i e. They were married by Rev. Jotham Sewall . at his house, the pastor of the Congregational church, and the writer witnessed the cere- mony, the first he ever attended. Joshua Parker Candage, a cousin and close friend of the writer, had been brought up in the neighborhood, and be- ing the only son in his father's family, naturally sought the companionship of his cousins nearby. He had chosen the life of a sailor, and the seasons of 1845-6 the writer was his trusted first hand of the schooner Edward, of which he was master. The crew of that vessel in 1846, yet living, are Freeman R. Mclntyre and the writer. Capt. Candage gave up the sea a few years later, learned the trade of a ship carpenter, he having from boyhood been fond of mechanical labor, and later be- came a master builder, constructing sev- eral vessels, among which was the bark Oak Ridge in 1859, owned by the late Joseph Wesccott, esq. He removed from the Falls about 1848 to the Shorey place north of the old meeting- house site on the Penobscot road, which he purchased and where he continued to reside until his death. He had three sons and several daughters. The family record is not at hand, nor in possession of the writer. His son now living, the other two being deceased, resides in the city of Somerville, Mass. The next occupant of the Clay house was James Roundy Candage, brother of the writer, who married Mary Perkins Parker, his cousin June 23, 1843, by whom he had children as follows : 1 Wildes Parker, born in Portland, Me. 22 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAIKE. July 6, 1844; married and resided in San Francisco, Cal., where he had children and he died. 2 Georgianna Augusta, born August 16, 1816; married L. O. Perkins; died on D^vP Island, Bost'Jii Uarbor, whsre she was a matron, Nov. 2, 1902, and buried in the writer's lot at Brookline, Mass. 3 Sarah Norton, born Sept. 15, 1848; marriid, has children and resides in Los Angelc-3, Cal. 4 Sarah Stanley, born March 31, 1851 ; di.'d in Bushv/iyk, N. Y. 6 Annie Lizzie, born Jan. 2, 1857, mar- ried Qeor!;e W. Masoa and resides in Boston, Mass., at this writing. James, head of this family, died Dec. 14, 1858, at Fortunj Island, Bahamas, and his widow Oct., 1859, at Bushwick, N. Y. James R. Csndage was a sea captain, then a shipping master at New York, and went from that city to Fortune Island to purchase wrecked and other material to be shipped to the United States, and there died suddenly He removed from Bluehill to New York in 1851 or 1852. The nest occupant of the Clay house was Robert Parker Candage, a brother of James, son of Samuel R. and Phebe W. Candage, born Oct 26, 1822; married Feb. 13, 1850, Sarah Elizabeth Parker, his cousin and a sister to Mary, his brother James' wife. Their children were : 1. Burt Henderson, bora Nov. 25, 1850; married Emma Madura Conary. 2. Mabel Allen, born Oct. 24, 1852; mar- ried William Preston Wood; home in Florida. 3. Joanna Stanley, born July 24, 1855; married Albert R. Conary. 4. Caroline Walker, born Jan. 20, 1859; married Brooks Gray. 5. Mary Augusta Cory, born April 20, 1861; unmarried. 6. Phebe Ware, born Jan. 3, 1869; mar- ried Irving S. Candage. Upon the death of his father, this house and a part of the farm came into Robert F. Candage's possession, and in it and those of his heirs it has remained until the present time. Robert, like tha rest of his brothers, was a sailor and master of a vessel nearly all his manhood. He died Jan. 31, 1878, aged fifty- five years and three months. He was a strong, powerful man, stood six feet and an inch in height, and until within a year or two of his death, when exposure and overwork had en- feebled his strength, he knew^ not the sig- nificance of the word fear. Since his death the place has been occupied by his widow, now in poor health, but for many years postmistress at Bluehill Falls. On the lot practically, and less tban 150 feet from the house, stands the school- house of the district, built in 1831-5 by Simeon P. Wood, by contract, in which thi writer attended winter school under th'5 teachings of C. C. Long, Fred A. Darling and others. Across the road from the schoolhouse is the cellar over which it is said the house of Joseph Wood stood which he buUt, when he removed from the island at the Fore Falls. In that house it is supposed that Col. Rufns Putnam, the founder of Ohio, later was entertained in the year 1785, when he came to this place from sur- veying Black and VPhite islands in Egge- moggin Reach, ceeded to the Penobscot Indians by the Massachusetts general court. He brought with him unburnt coffee ber- ries, which he asked Mrs. Wood, as tradi- tion relates, to make into coffee. She had never before seen coffee, and he gave her no instructions. She put the berries into a kettle with water and hung it over the fire to cook, every little while looking to see if they gre>v soft. In dispair she served them at meal time, saying to Col. Putnam, "I have cooked that coffee a long time, but cannot make it grow soft, and I am afraid you won't like it." What reply the Colonel made, "Tradition sayeth not " or whether he "liked it" as a joke, the record is silent. The people of the place drew up a peti- tion to the general court and entrusted it to Col. Putnam to present, praying to be relieved of heavy taxes occasioned by the Revolutionary war which they were not able to pay, and the petition proved suc- cess „1. Col. Putnam effected the first white settlement in what is now the great state of Ohio, at Marietta, on AnS 7 1788, by people mostly led by h™ flj Essex county, Mass., twenty-two ye'^^ after the settlement was made at the luZ here at the Fore Falls. ^^*°'* Capt. Joseph Wood's lot probably in- cluded what was afterwards the Sin 1 ■ lot, as there are found in the town records msTOniGAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. 23 certain allusions to Capt. Wood's point, distinctly from the point at the Tide Mills. And in the boyhood of the writer a cellar "was to be seen opposite the Sinclair house where once had stood a house. The place opposite the schoolhouse, after Capt. Wood had removed from it, must have been occupied by his son Israel, as on the land were apple trees bearing the names of "Joe Tree", "Hannah Tree," "Lois Tree," etc., named for the children of Israel; they still bore those names within the i>^emory of the writer, whose father later owned the property. Israel Wood was born in Beverly, Oct. 27, 1741, and came with his father's family to the town in 1763. He married Phebe Holt, daughter of Nicholas Holt, Sept. 24, 176S; sh3 was born Feb. 9, 1752; died Feb. 12, 1831; he died Nov. 13, 1800. Their chU- dren were : 1. Phebs, born April 22, 1770; married Phineas Pillsbury, Oct. 21, 1788. 2. Anne, born April 8, 1772; died Dec. 19, 1773. 3. Lois, born Feb. 6, 1775; married Ezra Parker Dec. 27, 1791. 4. Anne, born Deo. 24, 1776. 5. Ruth, born Nov. 5, 1779; married James Savage March 7, 1811. 6. Israel, born July 20, 1782; married 1st Joanna Parker; 2nd Betsey Brigga Hatch. 7. Joseph, born April 1, 1785; married 1st Hannah Johnson; 2nd Joanna Hinckley. 8. Hannah, born Jan. 27, 1788; married Capt. Isaac Perry, of Orland, Nov. 25, 1815. 9. Samuel Holt, born July 19, 1791; died May 2, 1826. When the old house opposite the school- house was taken down, there is no evi- dence at hand to determine. The Edward Sinclair place with the house now standing thereon was next to the place just described. Edward Sinclair was born June 20, 1760, supposed at Beverly, where he died while on a visit May 19, 1827, aged sixty-seven years. He married Dec. 17, 1789, Mary Carleton, from Andover, a sister of David, Dudley, Edward and Moses Carleton. She was born Sept. 17, 1760, and died Jan. 1, 1841, aged 80 years and 4% months. The writer remembers her well, and sat up with her body after her death, in company with John Chatteau, as was the custom of those days. The Sinclair farm on the lower side of the road lay between the Cove and that of Marble Parker, and was bounded on the other side by land of Samuel R. Candage, the curve of the road, and land of Capt. Samuel Wood running over Oak hill to a woud lot and sheep pasture, containing a hundred acres or more. The house, a large square mansion of two stories, painted yellow, and with a sc[uare roof, was fitted for two families, Mrs. Sinclair, Maria and Dudley, her chil- dren, occupying one-half, and Capt. Edward, another son, and his family, the opposite halt, each having a side and back door, while in front was the door leading into the front hall and from that through doors either way to the separate apart- ments, with broad stairs to the upper chambers. It was the ideal house, in the mind of the writer in boyhood. The family of Edward Sinclair, sr., beside himself and wife already described, consisted of the following children, viz. : I. Maria, born April 24, 1791; never married, died. H. Edward, born Dec. 13, 1792; married Elizabeth Haskell July 5, 1825. HI. Nabby, burn Oct. 22, 1794; married Asa Clough, jr., Aug. 1, 1827; she died Dec. 3, 1827. IV. Dudley, born August 17, 1796 ; never married; died at Rockland, Me. V. Ebenezer, born March 1, 1798; never married ; was a sailor, and died in Cuba of yellow fever. VI. William, born June 18, 1801; a ship captain; married in New York city; had children ; died, no date. As the family record of Edward Sinclair is not found at Blue Hill, it would suggest that his children were born elsewhere. Mr. Sinclair's name is not found until 1815, although he may have been in town before that date. The mansion house was probably built a few years prior to his death in 1827. Edward Sinclair, his second child, born Dec. 13, 1792, married July 5, 1825, Eliza- beth Haskell, born in Beverly, Mass., April 20, 1800. Edward Sinclair, jr., was a sea captain in his younger days, and later removed to Aroostook county with his family, where he died. In the youth of the writer he resided in half of his mother's house (his father being dead) where his children were born. 24 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. The other half whs occupied by his mother, his sister Maria and brother Dudley, who carried on the farm. In that half the carpenters and workmen upon vessels built by the Sinclair's were boarded and lodged. When the bark "Virginia" was being bu-.lt, a Col. Haskell, from Gloucester, Mass., was the blacksmith that fitted her ironwork. He was a good workman, a bachelor, but fond of a glass of grog. The vessel was launched on the Fourth of July, so the Colonel, being patriotic, celebrated in the manner of those days, and took as much grog as he could carry to the house conveniently, and seated himself at the dinner table. The grog he had taken began its work and he imagined he was watching the ship start from the ways. "There she goes," said he, leaning to one side. "There she goes", and leaning further over lost his balance and went sprawling under the table, from which position he was unable to rise without the help of the others about the table and then to be helped to his bed. Dudley Sinclair was a good-natnred bachelor who liked boys, always had a kind word for them and they in turn were fond of him. He told them stories, fished with them, knew where berries were to be found and was as companionable as though of their age and size. The writer looks back upon the time when he shared his friendship and enjoyed his companion- ship, as bright periods in his early life. Capt. Edward Sinclair's children were as follows, viz : 1. Edward Dudley, born Aug. 1,1826; died June 6, 1834. 2. Frederick Augustus, born March 9, 1828; drowned in California. 3. Elizabeth H., born Oct. 1, 1829; mar- ried Carter, of Sedgwick. 4. Mary Carleton, born Sept. 10, 1830; married Burnham, lives at Sherman Mills, Me. 5. Eobert Haskell, born Aug. 6, 1833; a soldier of the War of the Rebellion. 6. Edward, born June 14, 1835; died un- married. 7. Frances, born April 3, 1838; died un- married. 8. Andrew, born Nov. 1, 1840; married, iresides at Sedgwick. At this writing none of the blood or name of Sinclair resides at Blue Hill. Dudley Sinclair sold the farm to Otis Rob- erts, after his brother Edward and family removed to Aroostook, and went to Rockland, Me., where he died at a good age. Mr. Roberts sold the place to Harvey Conary, who, with his wife, lived some years upon it, and there died, leaving a son aud daughter. The son has half the farm and lives in a house built by him near by. The old house and part of the land went to his sister, the wife of Burt H. Candage, son of Robert Parker and Sarah E. Candage, who still owns it. The old house has been kept in repair and is the finest residence in the Tide Mill dis- trict. THE MARBLE PAEKEB PLACE is the next, the house, barn and farm all lying on the right or eastern side of the old stage road, with a back pasture and wood lot beyond the Candage and Sinclair pastures and mill island already spoken of. This description fits a time seventy years ago when a gambrel-roofed house stood upon the site of the one now stand- ing, with well curb and old style sweep located a short distance from it. "What year tbe old house was built can- not now be determined, but 'twas some years before 1800. The lot of land that went with it was probably taken up by Peter Parker, sr., who came from Ando- ver, Mass., to Blue HiU in 1765. He was a brother of Col. Nathan and Robert Parker, and was born at Andover Jan. 8, 1741; married Phebe Marble June 5, 1766. She was born July 29, 1744; died Oct. 1, 1805. He died October 24, 1822, aged eighty-one years, ten months and twenty-three days. Their children were as follows: I. Phebe, born AprU 24, 1767; died May 3, 1795. ' n. Serena, born August 29, 1768: died October 12, 1784. m. Peter, born October 17, 1769 ; married Sally, daughter of Jonathan Darling Sept 13, 1794; she was born AprU 24, 1769- rtipH October 16, 1836; he died Ap'rU 30 1855 aged eighty-five years and Ave months ' IV. Hannah, born February 19 1771. died October 27, 1855, aged eighty-four years, ten months. V. Susannah, born July 27, 1772- mar ried Jonathan Ellis September 11 X795. HI8T0BICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 25 had lour children, Jonathan, Charles, Almira and Amos Hill; she died August 17, 1803. VI. Marble, born July 1, 1775 ; married Hannah Lovejoy. VH. Mary, born April 1, 1777; died July 8, 1793. Vni. Isaac, born May 23, 1792; married Hannah Carter. IX. Joanna, born May 6, 1794 ; married Israel Wood, jr. Marble Parker was the sixth child of his parents, born July 1, 1775; married Han- nah Lovejoy, September 17, 1798. She was born October 16, 1778; died July 13, 1847. He died December 17, 1866, of cancer, aged ninety-one years. He was tall, of large frame and coarse features, with a promi- nent Roman nose. His wife, on the con- trary, was short of stature, diminutive in size and of delicate figure. The writer's father said of her : "She is very short when standing, but tall as the average woman when sitting." Another way of express- ing the fact, that her body was of the usual length, but her limbs were very short. Mr. Parker's voice and presence were not magnetic, but repelled children of the neighborhood, whUe Mrs. Parker had a mUd, persuasive voice and a winning smile that were attractive. Mr. Parker had in his orchard by the road, with branches hanging over the fence, an apple tree that bore very early, toothsome fruit. One day a boy passing along picked up an apple from the road- side that had fallen from that tree. Mr. Parker saw him, called out to put it back, and then berated the boy for stealing, which wounded to the quick and left its sting in the wound. The boy had been taught that apples lying on the roadside were free to passers, and he had no thought that he was committing a crime by taking one or more from the ground. He told his companions of the occur- rence. They took his side of the question, and it was arranged between them that they would go and gather the fruit of that tree the next night. "With bags to con- tain the apples, they assembled in the darkness when all was quiet, stripped the tree, took the apples to a not distant hay loft, secreted them, and at their leisure feasted upon them. Shortly after that event the boys met Adoniram Day, then living at the Parkers, who related to them that the Indians, then camping upon Clough's shore, had come at night and stolen all the apples of that favorite tree. The boys said it was too bad, but said nothing more, though they had apples to eat lor weeks after. It was wrong for the boys thus to have acted, but whether right or wrong, they did what they considered they were justified in doing — sugar catches more flies (and more boys) than all the vinegar ever made from cider, or any other acid. The children of Marble and Hannah Parker were : 1. William, born September 18, 1798; died September 30, 1798. 2. Serena, born August 10, 1799; mar- ried Charles Colburn. 3. Harriet, born November 18, 1801. 4. Leander, born January 22, 1804; died October 3, 1804. 5. Isaac, born July 30, 1805; married Abigail Marshall Powers. 6. Sophia, born December 10, 1807; mar- ried George Robertson. 7. Augustus Granville, born August 7, 1812; married Dorothy H. Powers. 8. Phebe, bom Juive 8, 1816; died May 26, 1817. 9. Phebe, born January 4, 1818; never married, died in Massachusetts. 10. Edith, born July 25, 1820; never married, died in Massachusetts. In the latter years of Mr. Parker's life, his farm was carried on by his son, Au- gustus G., who tore down the old house and built the one now standing. After his father's death, Augustus Q. Parker sold the homestead to David Friend and removed to Flye's Point, Brooklin, w^here he and his wife died at a later date, leav- ing a son and daughter. The Parkers were Baptists, and Marble Parker and his wife were members of the Baptist church of Bluehill, he joining in 1816 and his father, Peter, in 1806, at its organization. The present owner, David Friend, has sold the greater part of the Parker farm, retaining a few acres near the house, the balance having gone to those interested in building summer cottages upon it near the bay shore. THE EDWARD SINCLAIR PLACE upon the other side of the road is the next house to be described, which is said to 26 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. have b3en built about 18:26 by Captain Ed- ward Sinclair, jr., who occupied it a lew years when first marri:'d. The occupant first remerabert'd by the writer was Edwin Wood and family, son of Israel Wood, jr. He was horn January 29, 1810, and married Susan ni{.,'in8 July 29, 1839. He lived thore [or a few years and then moved elsewhere. The ne>.t occupant of the place was Phiueas Dodge and family, then Israel Wood, a brother of Edwin, whose wife was Mary Wallter Gray, of Sedffwiclt. Israel Wood was a great-grandson of Jos- eph Wood, and his wife a great-grand- daughter of John Roundy, the first set- tlers of Blue Kill. Israel Wood and family removed to Ellsworth, where he and hii wife died some years after. Others hive occupied the place, and at this writing it is owned by a Capt. Duffy and family. THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE, the next building upon the road, stood upon a ledge at the left corner of what is now the shore road to Parker's Point. It was an old-style square struc- ture with square roof, unpainted and ancient-looking, that had been moved from beyond Bragdon's brook, its first location, about 1830 or 1831. It was the first school building, on its original site, where the writer attended school and afterwards upon this site. In winter it was attempted to be heated by a wood fire in an open fire-place, but a lew leet from the fire it was as cold as a barn with the cold wind passing under the building and up through cracks in the floor which set the scholars shivering with the cold, which, even the thought of now, causes an unpleasant sensation to the writer. Moses Pills bury was the teacher for years in that house, and the school was a mixed one, containing scholars from four to twenty years of ago. The writer cannot think of one beside himself now living who attended that school with him -yea, there is one, Alaiira Wood, now Mrs. J. (.}.. A. Butler, of New York. She probably would remember the incident of a dead crow being thrown down the chimney by boys outside, and the stir and smell it made in the schoolroom, when the feathers and flesh of the bird began burning, and the anger uf Master PiUsbury at the trick played upon him and the school. The old schoolhouse took fire on a Sat- urday afternoon in 1833, and was entirely consumed, with no scholar to mourn its loss. The writer was on the spot to see the last of its frame all afire, fall and be consumed. A boy of the neighborhood, but not a native, was an at'endant at that school and related to the writer under a promise of secrecy how the building took Are. As he has been dead many years and his name is not to be revealed, there is now no harm in stating how the fire origi- nated. He said that passing in the afternoon he went into the schoolhouse. The fire of the forenoon was still smouldering in the fire-place. He thought ol how lie and others had suffered with the co.d therein, and the desire came to him to have it warmea up for once, and then a better and warmer house would be budt. He took a live coal from the embers, placed it in a crack in the floor, fanned it until the fire had good headway, then slipped out, fastened the door and made his escape down through the pastures in in rear and back to the highway and shouted fire with all his might. The result was the total destruction of the old house and the erection of a better and warmer one upon another site nearer the tide mills. Great was the wonder how the old house took fire - two boys only knew the secret as above. No one ever mentioned that boy's name in con- nection with its destruction, and until now, for more than seventy years, the writer has kept the secret committed to him. THE SAWTKR HOtJSB and place next to the old schoolhouse site the writer well remembers. The house was built by Mr. Sawyer, the shoemaker from Biddeford, who first worked in the neighborhood for John Cheever. Mr Sawyer married a Miss Curtis for his first wife; she died and he married her sister for a second wife. He built this house previous to 1840, the exact date the writer does not kno*\-, and lived in it a number of years, then removed to the viUago and later from the town. The next occupant was Capt. John Robertson, son ol Robert Robertson, who HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 27 married Misa Nancy E. Brown in 1843-4. Cniidren were : 1. Robert H., born August 28, 1845; died September 28, 1846. 2. John Albert, born November 9, 1846. 3. Andrew Parker, born December 19, 1850. John Robertson was a sea captain, and died at Nswport, R. I., in 1854. His widow sold tbie place after his death and removed from the town to her native place in "Washington county. After Capt. Robert- son, Andrew Gay and family resided at that house and place. The next occupant and owner, Mr. Her- rick, still resides on the place. He /yas born iu Sedgwick, is a blacksmith by trade and a worthy citizen. THE SAMUBL WOOD HOUSE and place is the next in order. The orig- inal house was of two stories with brick end-walls, and with woodsheds attached. Samuel Wood was the son of Joseph 2nd and grandson of Joseph the first settler. His mother was Eleanor Carter, and he was bora Dec. 31, 1776, and married Fanny Colburu Nov. 6, 1805; she was bora Oct. 26, 1782; died March 27, 1851; he died August 5, 1842. Children were : 1. Simeon Parker, born August 2, 1807; married Lucy H. Powers. 2. Fanny, born Aug. 2, 1809; married Timothy Colburn. 3. Samuel, born June 12, 1811; married at Monmouth, 111. 4. Lydia Parker,'born March 8, 1814. 5. Miry Jane, born April 5, 1816; mar- ried Leonard Clough. 6. Robert Parker, born Jan 1, 1819; died Oct. 31, 1836. 7. Betsey Paters, born Sept. 30, 1821; married March 2, 1839. 8. Almira Ellis, born June 15, 1824; married J. Q. A. Butler. Capt. Samuel Wood, the head of this fam- ily, was a farmer and a highly respected man, whom the writer well remembers. His son Robert and the writer were as fast friends as boys of different ages could pos- sibly be. They fished for trout, gunned for partridges and played games together. All of the family have left town or died years ago, and the place, after the death of Simeon P., passed into other hands. The farm and pastures occupied both sides of the main road and extended over the hill, including more than a hundred acres. Be- fore the death of his father, Simeon Parker Wood married Lucy H. Powers, Dec. 25, 1839, and brought her to the old homestead to reside. After his father's and mother's deaths he pulled down the old house and built the one now standing on the old site. In his earlier days he was a land surveyor, but after marriage carried on the farm. He was a kindly man, fond of boys, and the boys of the neighborhood were fond of him. At one time he kept a shop in the old house, and among other things he sold were Malaga cask raisins at six cents per pound. The boys bought raisins of him which, as was common, had a good share of stems among them. They said to him, "Mr. Wood, what do you ask per pound for raisins with the stems taken out?" "The same price," said he. A boy said, "I'll take a pound." Mr. Wood pro- ceeded to weigh them in the usual manner, after which he picked out the stems. Then he said to the purchaser, "Don't you think I ought to take toll for picking out the stems?" upon which he took some, ate them and handed over the rest, which all thought was a good joke. Another time he went fishing for had- dock off the Palls in a boat by himself, and the writer and his tw3 brothers went in another boat and anchored near him. Mr. Wood had poor luck ; the boys good luck. They all landed and the boys threw out and counted their fish, which num- bered thirty-nine. Mr. Wood stood by watching eagerly the count, with his single haddock in his hand. When the boys threw down their last fiah and said "thirty-nine" he threw his one on to the pile in triumph and shouted "forty." "We have not done bad, have we boys?" The boys appreciated the joke and said, "Mr. Wood, take as many of the fish as you want," and he took them. The family of Simeon P. and Lucy Has- kell (Powers) consisted of the following children : 1. Samuel Albert, born Sept. 28, 1840; died Feb. 6, 1863. 2. Mary Jane, born May 9, 1844; mar- ried in New York. 3. Alma Frances, born Sept. 28, 1849;. married. 28 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. 4. Clara Amanda, born Nov. 14, 1851. 5. Sarah , born August 27, 1856; died July 6, 1858. 6. Almira Etta, born Nov. '21, 1869. Mrs. Lucy H. Wood, died Jan. 31, 1869; Simeon P. Wood, Jan. 19, 1878. After the deaths of the head of this fam- ily, the place was sold to Sewell Welling- ton Candage, son of Sands and Abigail (Norris) Candage, born on Blue Hill Neck May 21, 1840. He married Viola A. Black Jan. 10, 1867, by whom he had two chil- dren, Ada, born Feb. 18, 1868, and Fred- erick L., born April 14, 1870. Mr. Can- dage is the fifth in descent from James Candage who settled upon the Neck in 1766. He still owns the Wood place, and is a farmer. The Wood farm on the westerly side of the road extended from the line of the Sinclair farm to the Clough farm, near Bragdon's brook, except one acre belong- ing to Israel Wood, 2d, to be described later, and extended beyond the hill a con- siderable distance. Beyond the hill, Samuel Wood, brother of Simeon P., buUt a house and barn about 1833 in which he lived a bachelor's life until 1837, when he sold out and went to Monmouth, 111., where he settled, mar- ried ; had children ; became mayor of the place and a man of means and influence, and where he died at a good age. The writer well remembers. him and his bachelor home upon the hill, which he frequently visited when a boy, for like his brother Simeon, he was fond of boys and young company. Capt. Merrill Dodge bought the place, removed to it with his family from Long Island, and lived there until his death, after which the house and barn were torn down. Capt. MerrUl Dodge was the son of Jonah Dodge, of Sedgwick, who married Abigail, daughter of David Carter, of Long Island, Nov. 6, 1828; she was born Jan. 1, 1805; died Dec. 3, 1878; he died Jan. 27, 1884, upwards of eighty years of age. Capt. Dodge comM-.anded vessels in the coasting trade, was a smart coasting "skipper", fond of a joke, a good story- teller, a good mimic, fond of company and a companionable man. One of the writ- er's first trips coasting was with him in a schooner he commanded named "Passa- maquoddy". He had seven children, as follows: 1. Ezra N., born July 30, 1832; died Sept. 20, 1837. 2. Nancy L., born April 6, 1834. 3. Caroline J. C, born Feb. 24, 1837. 4. Sarah Ann, born Oct. 13, 1840. 5. Ezra N., bom Dec. 29, 1843; died July 14, 1844. 6. Susan M., bom Oct. 15, 1845; died Oct. 18, 1859. 7. Edwin B., born June 25, 1850. He also had an adopted son, Otis Gay, illegitimate son of Otis Gay, of Castine; a fine fellow, a schoolirate of the writer, also his shipmate in schooner "Passama- quoddy", in ship "Java" from New York to Charleston, S. C, and from that port to Liverpool, and back to New Orleans in ship "Iowa" and at the latter port died of cholera in the spring of 1849, after an ill- ness of less than two days. The writer communicated the intelligence of his death to Capt. Dodge, and mourned his death as that of a brother. The STINSON OR GEORGE ROBERTSON PLACE lay quite a distance back of the place last named. It is said that a Mr. Stinson, who came from Deer Isle, built the house; at any rate he lived there in the childhood of the writer, worked upon the farm of the writer's father sometimes, and gave the nick name of "Tag and Yell" to the writer because he wanted to tag after the work- men into the field, and cried if not per- mitted to do so. What became of Mr. Stinson and family there is neither record nor tradition known to the writer to de- termine. After Mr. Stinson left the place, it was occupied by George Robertson, who mar- ried Sophia, daughter of Marble Parker, Oct. 8, 1833. George Robertson was the son of Robert Robertson; he was a sailor and farmer ani had the foUowing chU- dren: 1. MarbleParker, bom March 17, 1834- he was foremast hand with the writer hi brig "Equator", Blue HUl to Boston and to Valparaiso in 1850-1; then went to California, where he died Nov. 30 1853 2. George Henry, born Dec's, 1836- died March 17, 1858. ' °*'°'^'ea 3. Cenova Sophia, born Jan. 1, 1833 4. William Harrison, born Pel^. 28 1840 5. John Allen, born August 4, I842'. UlSTOBICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 29 6. Charles Colburn, born Oct. 9, 1844. 7. Almira Lovejoy, born Nov. 1, 1S47. 8. Augustus, born Jan. 7, 1849; died Jan. 7, 1849. 9. Augustine, born Jan. 7, 1849; died Jan. 9, 1849. 10. Blivira Parker, born Feb. 24, 1850; died Oct. 2, 1851. 11. Elvira Parker, born April 28, 1857. The Robertson family removed from this place to the village, and whether the old house is now standing the writer does not know, but presumes it is not. Mr. Rob- ertson was a member and deacon of the Blue Hill Baptist choroh at the time of his death. He lived to be over eighty, his wife dying before he did. THE ISBABL WOOD PLACE is the next to be described, which was upon the main road, the house occupying an acre on the west side and the rest of the farm lying upon the other and stretch- ing to the bay shore between lands of Asa Clough, sr., and of Samuel Wood. Israel Wood was son of Israel and grandson of Joseph the first settler. He was born July 20, 1782; married Joanna Parker, daughter of Peter and Phebe (Marble) Parker, May 2, 1808, born May 6, 1794; died March 4, 1820. They had two children, Kdwin and Israel, before men- tioned. Mr. Wood married for a second wife Betsey Briggs Hatch, of Nobleborough, Sept. 3, 1822, by whom he had children as follows : 1. Lois Parker, born June 11, 1824; married Charles Trueworgy, and moved to Ellsworth. 2. Joan Elizabeth, born Sept. 11, 1826. Israel Wood died in 1831, and his widow married for a second husband Benjamin Herrick. After the death of Mr. Wood and mar- riage of his widow, the place was sold to Isaac Parker, 2nd, who married Abigail Marshall Powers, sister to Mrs. Simeon P. Wood, and of the wife of his brother, Augustus Q. Parker, Feb. 19, 1835, and set up housekeeping in the Israel Wood house, built about ISOO, and still standing at this writing. Isaac Parker, 2nd, was born July 30, 1805, and died June 12, 1874. He had eight children as follows: 1. Harriet Melinda, born Jan. 9, 1836; married Joseph Allen. 2. William Jasper, born Sept. 17, 1837; died at Portland May 25, 1869. 3. Mary Augusta, born Nov. 22, 1839. 4. Dorothy Abby, born Deo. 6, 1842. 6. Francis Colburn, born Jan. 9, 1844. 6. Pearl Spofford, born Feb. 4, 1846. 7. Augustus Granville, born July 10, 1850. 8. Henry Austin, born March 28, 1853. Mrs. Parker, mother of this family, died June 12, 1874. William Jasper, the second son, followed the sea and made a voyage before the mast in ship Electric Spark of which the writer was master, from Boston to San Francisco in the '603. Isaac Parker, the father, was a sailor, and rose to command a coasting vessel in early life, but gave it up after marriage, except an occasional trip, and settled down to the life of a farmer. He made the trip to Boston with the writer once in schooner "Edward" and again in the brig "Equator" when she was new, in 1850, the writer being in command. Beyond the bounds of this farm on the highway is Bragdon's brook, where boys fished for trout sixty and seventy years ago, with twine for a line, bent pins for hooks and worms for bait. It seems but yesterday to the writer that he was thus engaged, and he almost feels the thrill of satisfaction again that went through his veins when he hooked and landed a tiny trout the like of which would require a dozen for a hungry boy's breakfast. At the mouth of the brook where it empties into the bay, at smelting time in the spring of the year, they had better catches of larger fishes. The old school- house stood half way between the 'irook and Clough s hill, on the right. That was the house moved to the Tide Mill district and burned as before related. The writer first attended school in the old house upon its original site, was pres- ent when it was moved, and remembers well as it was being hauled up the hill at Samuel Wood's that Robert Robertson, who was there, called out to the boys to "puss, boys, puss," meaning to push be- hind and help the oxen with their load. He was a Welchman by birth, and his articulation not always the clearest. *'Puss, boys, puss," was a by-word among the school boys for a long time after the event here narrated. gn HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. Here properly ends the description o( the Tide Mill district where the settle- ment of the town b?f ^ //a^40's. He was a shoemaker' and there carried on his trade for L number of years. He was a soldier of th Aroostook war in 1839, in the Blue Hm HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 5» company oj whicli Nathan Bllia, jr., vras the captain. Mr. Garland was born at Hampden, Jan. 22, 1820, came to Blue Hill when a lad and married Elvira Gregory, May 27, 1840, daughter ol "William and Edna Gregory, born Nov. 21, 1822. There were two chil- dren by this marriage: 1. William Albert, born May 16, 1841; died Aug. 6, 1866. 2. Sarah Eliza, born March 28, 1847. Mrs. Garland died, and the house was sold, Mr. Garland removing from town, but later he returned, purchased the Jo- seph Osgood place, married a second wife, but had no children by her. Both are dead. THE ANDREW A. AND ABBAHAM FISK houses and places were next to and adjoin- ing the Garland place, where now stands the Copper and Gold hotel. They were small houses, painted red as the writer remembers them in boyhood. The Pisks were shoemakers, iJ the writer's memory is correct. Andrew and Abraham Pisk were broth- ers, but where and when they were born or whence they came to this town there is no date in possession of the writer, or when their houses were built, although they were standing in the earli- est recollections of the writer. Andrew Pisk married March 12, 1827, Almira, daughter of Freeman and Thankful Hardin; she was born Nov. 15, 1802. Their children were : 1. George Washington, born Sept. 7, 1827; resided in Ellsworth. 2. Andrew Jackson, born Nov. 12, 1828; resided in Boston. 3. Benjamin Franklin, born Jan. 30, 1830. 4. Frederick Lorenzo, born March 10, 1833. 5. James Madison, born Sept. 24, 1834. 6. Rodney, born Sept. 9, 1836. 7. Helen Adelpha, born Nov. 15, 1838; died Oct. 10, 1839. 8. Almira Itebecca, born AprU 15, 1840; died Aug. 28, 1841. 9. Mary Jane, born Oct. 13, 1842. 10. John Freeman, born May 10, 1847. Mr. Pisk married Sarah E. MUliken for a second wife, by whom he had 11. Abby Prances, born April 1859. 12. Abraham Allen, bom April 15, 1861; died Sept. 27, 1865. 13. A son, born Jan. 16, 1870. 14. A child, born May 1872. Mr. Pisk, father of this family, died in "1882. Abraham Fisk married Sarah B. John- son, of Hampden, Sept. 13, 1834, which may indicate that he came from that town to Blue Hill. By that marriage there were four children born to them on the follow- ing dates: Dec. 31, 1835; Feb. 28, 1839; Dec. 17, 1840, and May 24, 1846, but no names for them are entered in the town records. When or where Mr. and Mrs. Pisk died, or when they left the town there is no record. JEKEMIAH T. HOLT PLACE, The next house and place to the Pisks' is the Jeremiah T. Holt house and place, for many years a tavern named "Trav- ellers Home", with swinging sign sus- pended from a post in front, and for many years the only tavern or hotel in the village. Jeremiah Thorndike Holt was the second son of Jedediah Holt, and grand- son of Nicholas, who came to the town from Ando ver in May 1765, settled,'at the Falls, and was the iirst keeper of a public house in the infant settlement. Jeremiah Thorndike Holt was born May 12,1781; married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Bailey Osgood, Nov. 24, 1808. She was born Nov. 5, 1789, and died Feb. 4. 1858. He died in April, 1832. The chil- dren of that marriage were : « 1. Jeremiah, born Dec. 27, 1810; died Nov. 1, 1816. 2. Julia Ann, born AprU 2, 1812 ; mar- ried Samuel S.Smith; died July 22,1853.. 3. Frederic Alex, born Feb. 20, 1814, died Nov. 6, 1814. 4. Jeremiah Thorndike, born May 8,, 1817: married Lovinia Darling. 5. Frederic Alex, born Feb 12, 1821; married Elizabeth Ellis; died in Boston. 6. Thomas Jefferson Napoleon, born Nov. 1, 1827; married Clarissa E. Peters. After the death of the head of this, family, his widow carried on "Travellers Home" until the marriage of her young- est son, Thomas Jefferson Napoleon, to Clarissa E. Peters on Aug. 6, 1851. He brought his bride to the home to live, and the house as a tavern, ceased. Napoleon, 60 HI8T0BIGAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. as he was known by the people of the town, attended the school at the academy with the writer, and also Miss Peters, who later became his wile. In August, 1901, they celebrated their golden wedding an- niversary, when the writer had the pleas- ure of sending them his congratulations in verse through the mail. Within two years of that date he passed on to the other life beyond the river. He was a painter by trade, and a pleas- ant friend, as boy and man, to meet and know as the writer knew him. His widow still occupies the old house in summer, but has spent the last two winters in Bos- ton with her only living child, a daughter. She had three children by her marriage : 1 Alice Annetta, born Nov. 7, 1854. 2. Clara Peters, born AprU 2, 1857; died May 16, 1882. 3. Maud M., born April 17, 1866; died Dec. 12, 1880. The house, built more than seventy-five years ago, still stands in good repair, as a landmark in the village, and seems good for as many years more as it has already stood. In that house Dr. Pulton had his homt and oflSce for many years, to it he brought his bride when he was married to Miss Abby M. Redman, of Brooksville, Jan. 13, 1849. He "sleeps with his fathers" but she is alive, well and youthful, beyond what would be expected of one of her years. THE BSIOK BLOCK next to the last described place has been partially described, but not wholly. In it Jonah Holt, its builder, kept his store in the east end of the ground floor, while in the other Frederic A. Holt, his nephew, kept a store and the postoffice. Above, the writer remembers that Lemuel Ellis once resided, and he seems to hear even now the sweet tones of his violin, French horn, and other instruments upon which he played, as he heard them more than sixty years ago. To the residents and visitors in later years the block will be remem- bered as the "Pendleton House", kept as a hotel. THE JOSEPH OSGOOD HOUSE and place were the next to the south of the last described. It was an old-fash- ioned, two-story, square-roofed house, minus paint, as early as the writer can re- member, built by Joseph Osgood about 1800, and occupied by him and family un- til he was old and past his labor, when he was cared for by his nephew, the late John Stevens, esq. Mr. Osgood was born at Andover, Mass., Oct. 6, 1760; married Hannah Bailey, March 31, 1785. She was born Dec. 19, 1766; died July 10, 1829. He died March 15, 1854, in his ninety- fourth year. He came to Blue Hill shortly after his mar- riage, and there resided up to the time of his death. He was a brickmaker and mason by trade. He used to say that he could build a brick chimney beginning at the top just as well as beginning at the base, if he could only get the first brick to stay in its place. The chimney in the tide mUl, owned by the writer's father, fell down, leaving the top sticking in the roof. Mr. Osgood was sent for to rebuild it, and came, when the writer and his brothers said to him: "Now, Mr. Osgood, you told us in tlie past that if you could make the first bricks stick you could build a chim- ney at the top and work downwards. Here is a chance for you to try it." "Ah, boys!" said he, "the bricks must aU be new to do that, for you can't make a new brick stick to an old one." And in that way he cleared himself of an awk- ward dUemma in the eyes of the boys. He was a kindly man, with a cheerful story for the young people, who were very fond of him. THE TOWN LAXDINQ in front of the Osgood house is where, by vote of the town, Spofford & Robinson es- tablished potash works. The vote of the town Oct. 4, 1790, concerning the same, was as follows : "Voted, That Messrs. Spoflord & Rob- inson shall have the privilege of the land whereon their potash works stand, and such quantity of land adjoining said works as the selectmen and said Spofford & Bobmson shall agree upon for twenty years, with the proviso that the Inhabi- tants of the Town shaU not incumber to the disadvantage of their business nor shall they incumber any part of said Town landing to the disadvantage of the Inhab- itants of said Town." innab- Upon that landing many seagoincr ves- sels were buUt in the past, and upon it mSTOmcAL SKETCHES OF BLUERILL, MAINE. 61 yearly were piled ready for shipment to western ports in the summer season, hun- dreds and thousands of cords of wood, hemlock bark and other products of farm and forest. In the writer's boyhood it was not uncommon to see from six to a dozen sail of coasting vessels there loading or awaiting turn to load. THB THOMAS COGGINS HOUSB next south of the landing and adjoining the Joseph Osgood place, was a two-story structure, with brick eT\ds. It was buUt about 1831, by Capt. Thomas Coggins, who with his family occupied it until he sold to Joseph Hinckley. Capt. Coggins died in 1858, and his wife March 27, 1860. Capt. Coggins probably came from Surry to Bluehill, and there married Dec. 30, 1829, Lydia Faulkner (Stevens) Parker, widow of Simeon Parker and daughter of Theodore and Dorcas Stevens, born May 22, 1798. She had three children by her first husband : Simeon, Simeon and Maria, all dying in infancy. Simeon Parker, her first husband, died Feb. 14, 1826, and she married Capt. Coggins as above stated. Capt. Coggins commanded several Blue- hill vessels, and was considered a capable and enterprising shipmaster of his time. The writer in boyhood knew him by report, but had no special acquaintance with him. He was one of the many who made the town noted, sixty or seventy years ago, for the number, skill and repu- tation of its seamen and master mariners. A chapter upon the lives, characters and achievements of Blue Hill shipmasters would prove instructive and interesting. The next owner and occupant of the place was Dea. Joseph Hinckley and fam- ily, until his death in 1884, aged eighty- seven years. He was the fourth child of Nehemiah and Edith (Wood) Hinckley, born July 8, 1798; married first Kuby Kim- ball, Aug. 22, 1822. She died Nov. 8, 1836; and he married, second, Elvina Stevens, Nov. 13, 1837. The chUdren of Mr. Hinckley were : By first wife : 1. Ruby Ann, born Nov. 21, 1822; mar- ried Capt. John Kimball Norton. 2. Joseph Thomas, born Sept. 21, 1824; married, Anna D. Colburn. 3. Edward, born Aug. 13, 1826; married Margaret Jarvis. 4. John Lemuel, born July 8, 1828; removed to California. 5. Almira Rebecca, born Sept. 13, 1830; married Dudley Scammous, of Franklin. Now a widow. 6. Julia Dodge, born March 4, 1833; died Aug. 25, 1853. 7. Wheelock Wesner, born March 20, 1835; married Mary L. Treworgy; he died Jan. 19, 1869. By second wife : 8. Lizzie Maria, born Oct. 29, 1840, died unmarried a few years ago. Dea. Hinckley was one of the foremost business men of the town, and also in matters pertaining to the church, of which he was a member. At his death the fol- lowing entry was made upon the records of the Congregational church of the town: "DBA. JOSEPH HINCKLEY." "No history of this church would be complete without fitting allusion to the memory of Dea. Joseph Hinckley, who died Nov. 7, 1884, aged eighty-seven years. Mr. Hinckley was a member of this church for nearly fifty years. Of him and his brother Nehemiah, it may well be said that they were for many years the very pillars of the church and society; they loved the church and loved it well. "Dea. Hincldey was a very liberal man, and to his liberality, activity, energy and zeal the church and society are largely indebted. In the fullness of his years, full of faith and ripe for the reaper, he answered the call: come over; come over, the river of Death to the delights of a brighter and better world." Mrs. Hinckley and her daughter Lizzie followed him in due time, after which the place was sold to Mr. Hoyt, its present owner and occupant. Mr. Hoyt is a wid- ower, whose deceased wife was the daugh- ter of the late Capt. Isaac Merrill, of this town. JMCr. Hoyt was born in Vermont, but all his active business life has been spent in Boston and vicinity. THE STEPHEN HOI/T HOUSE and place adjoins the one last described, and was built probably about 1825. Stephen Holt was the fifth son of Jedediab Holt, born May 10, 1788, and died May 16, 1830, of consumption. He married Edy, daughter of Robert and Ruth (Wood) Parker, Nov. 23, 1819. She was born Mar, 62 HISTOBIGAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 3, 1795; died at Thomaston, Me. They had two children : 1. Charlotte Auguata, born April 13, 1821; married Ephraitn Barrett of Thom- aston Oct. 1, 1842, and removed to her husband's home. 2. Sarah Thorndike, born Aug. 18, 1822; died Nov. 18, 1&31. After the removal of Mrs. Holt and daughter, the house was occupied by diffurent parties, but finally became the property of Wilford Qrindle, the present owner and occupant. THE ROBERT P. EWER HOUSE opposite the last named, was built by Mr. Ewer about 1840, and occupied by him until he left the town. It has since been owned and occupied by various persons, but IS now the property of John M. Snow. Mr. Ewer came to Blue HUl a young man. He was a house carpenter, and built the John Cheever house at the Falls in 1834 or 1835. He married, Sept. 3, 1839, Nancy Fisher, daughter of Joseph W. and Sally (Grindle) Johnson. She was born May 4, 1818. They had children as follows : 1. Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1839. 2. Mary Porter, born Aug. 12, 1842. 3. Lewis Cass, born Sept. 20, 1846. 4. Harriet Ada, born June 13, 1849. 5. Franklin Pierce, born Dec. 29, 1851. Eeturning to Main street, north aide, one finds a building on the corner of Union street buUt since the boyhood of the writer, owned and occupied by various persona, the lower part occupied as a store, but of no particular moment from an his- toric point of view. THE ANDREW WITHAM HOUSE next east of the above on the corner of Main and Mill streets, has a history worthy of recital. Just when it was buUt is difficult to determine, but it was prob- ably early in 1800, by Mr. Witham. He was born in Bradford, Mass., Nov. 11, 1763 ; came to Blue Hill a young man ; mar- ried, first, Mehitable Kimball, May 9, 1790. She was born Jan. 24, 1770; died Aug. 8, 1800. There were four children by that marriage as follows: 1. Charlotte Kimball, born Sept. 7 1790; married Oapt. Kobert Means. 2. John Gibson, born Sept. 18, 1794; died at Port au Prince, May 1812. 3. Mehitable, born Aug. 28, 1798; mar- ried Capt. Stephen Norton. 4. Harriet, born May 4, 1800; died Feb. 8, 1801. Mr. Witham married second, MoUy Parker, Oct. 20, 1801; daughter of Col. Nathan and Molly (Wood) Parker, born May 30, 1770; died July 13, 1830, leaving two children. 6. Ira, born July 19, 1802; married Bet- sey Hinckley; he died 18 6. Otis, born July 9, 1804; died at sea Jan. 12, 1828. Mr. Witham married third, Mrs. Ann Chadwick, AprLll2, 1831; she died July 2, 1836. Andrew Witham represented the town in the legislature of 1831, was a senator from Hancock county, a merchant, a ship- owner and an influential citizen. His pew in the old meeting-house was No. 1. His one story brick store stood a short distance east of his house, as the writer well remembers, and was built early in the last century. It long ago gave place to one of wood on the same site. He sold, among other things, the old style square sheets of baker's molasses gingerbread, of which boys were fond, and would not likely forget where it could be bought. "Squire Witham," as he was called by the town's people, was a kindly man to the boys and young people with whom he came in contact, which was reciprocated by them. He died in 1851, aged eighty- three years, respected and lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends. His house was occupied after his death by his son-in-law, Capt. Stephen Norton, until his decease in 1873, and then by ilr. Smlil), the shoe dealer, and wife, and now owned by Mrs. Smith. Between the \\ itham store and the miU stream, there were no buildings in the youth of the writer, but in later years several were buUt, and occupied by H B Darling, J. A. Gould, B. MorriU, John Stevens, esq., and others, though of little historical significance. On the opposite side of the street stood the old academy, removed from its origi- nal site in 1833, and changed over into a store, and occupied by Capt WiUiam Hop- kins, with other buildings in that row destroyed by fire many years ago. The most important in that row to-day are the Partridge and the J. T. Hinckley stores HISTOBICAL SKETCHES OF BLUERILL, MAINE. 63 THE MILLS BBLOW THE BBIDGIB, buUt in the early settlement 0/ this part of the town, though changed and rebuilt from time to time, still stand. Above the bridge the writer remembers the Matthew Ray edge tool shop, the Curtis furniture factory, the Daniel Osgood grist mill, the threshing mill, the Stevens carding and fulling mill, the stave mill, the cooper shop and the site of the Gteorge Stevens cotton mill for spinning cotton yarn, above High street, erectsid in the early part of 1800, ono of the early cotton mills of this country. Other miUs and ma- chinery not here mentioned may have been run by the waters of this small stream, all of which bear witness to im- portance once attached to this water power in the town's activities. Will they or those of a kindred nature ever be re- vived? It seems to be very doubtful to the citizens of 1905. All the men, women and children of the early settlers of the town, and even their grandchildren, whose lives and doings we have been considering, "sleep with their fathers" in the burying places of the town or elsewhere, and only a few houses of their building and a few meager records tell the story of their living ac- tivities, their loves, their hopes, their hardships, their fears, their joys and their sorrows. The greater part of those known to the writer in his boyhood have gone "to that bourne from whence no traveler returns", and when he visits his native town, it is to the cemeteries he directs his steps if he desires to learn of and commune with his thoughts concerning them. And yet the story of their lives must ever be of interest to the citizens and peo- ple of this town, and especially so to those who are their descendants. It has been especially so to the writer in gather- ing and noting the facts and incidents narrated in this fragmentary and imper- fect account of them. He feels a just pride in being descended from the first settlers, in being a native of the town, in sharing the friendships and in being held in remembrance by so many of his native townsmen, whose kindly good wUl felt and expressed has made his journey through life the sunnier, smoother, easier and happier. "Breathfs there a man with soul ao dead That never to hlmstlf hath said Thla Is ray own, my native land? Nor e'er within his bosom burned As home his footsteps he hath turned From wand'rlng on a foreign strand?" FROM THE FOTJE OOBNERS NEAR THE SITE OF THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE CONTIN- UIN& MAIN STEBBT TO THE SEDG- WICK TOWN LINE. The house on the northwest corner of the four roads was built by Moses John- son, son of Obed and Joanna (Wood) Johnson, about 1840, and occupied by him and his family until their removal from the town to Boston in the '50's of the last century. Moses Johnson was born Feb. 9, 1800; married Eosella Hinckley Nov. 27, 1828, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Coggins) Hinckley, born June 17, 1804. She died in Boston in 1888. He died in Boston ten or a dozen years before his wife. They had seven children, as foUows, viz.: 1. EdArard Moses, born Jan. 17, 1830; married Sarah E. Leach. 2. Gteorge Henry, born April 14, 1831. 3. Charles Carroll, born April 14, 1833. 4. Francis Howard, born Oct. 10, 1835. 5. Mary Louisa, born Aug. 21, 1838. 6. Clara Elizabeth, born Jan. 21, 1841. 7. Abby, born Nov. 10, 1844. Mr. Johnson inherited a large part of his father's farm, and was a farmer and an active man. He sold his property in town, removed to Boston, where he was a com- mission merchant for the sale of lumber, wood and eastern products and where he died as above stated. The house was next owned by Capt. Samuel B. Johnson, nephew of its buUder, and son of Robert, son of Obed and Joanna (Wood) Johnson, born Oct. 30, 1812. He married Susan Mary, daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Door) Treworgy, Nov. 20, 1841. She was born Nov. 23, 1820. Capt. Johnson commanded vessels from Blue Hill in the coasting. West Indies and European trades for many years, and was captured and had his vessel burnt by a Confederate cruiser during the war of the Rebellion. He and his wife were well known to the writer, she having been, before her marriage, one of his school teachers in the Tide MiU districi . They are both dead, but the date of their death 64 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. the writer does not have. Their children were as follows, viz. : 1. Edwin Augustus, born Nov. 4, 1843; died at sea Jan. 1863. 2. George Samuel, born Dec. 11, 1845. 3. Arthur Hawes, born Oct. 15, 1847; married Alice P. Carter. 4. Mary Louisa, born June 6, 1859; mar- ried Benjamin E. Fowler of Searsmont. Since the death of Capt. Johnson and wife, the house has been vacant the greater part of the time. THE ROBERT JOHNSON HOUSE and place were the next west of the one just described, and upon the north side of the road. Robert Johnson was the father of Capt. Samuel, and son of Obed and Joanna (Wood) Johnson. He was born Dec. 27, 1787; married Lucy Johnson Blodgett, April 15, 1811, of Penobscot. The house in which they resided and where their children were born was orig- inally of one story, built shortly after or about the time of their marriage, but had another story added overhanging the lower part in the boyhood of the writer. Eobert Eotertson, jr., who was quite a wag, said of it, "I came by 'Bob' John- son's house the other day and found his barn sitting on top of it as easy as could be. But it was a curious sight." The house and barn astride have long since been demolished. Kobert Johnson was something of a wit, especially when he had taken a nipper, as was the custom in his early manhood. It is related of him that at haying time many years ago he boasted that he could stow a load of hay upon the old style hay cart, called a sloven, no matter how fast the hay was to be pitched up to him. He had his trial of skill in that matter one day in his father's field with two men to do the pitching. It was on a side hill that the (eat began. All went well at first, but a jolt over a knoll on the side hill brought hall the load and Robert to the ground. One of the pitchers said : "Robert, what aro you down here lor?" The answer was quickly given and to the point: "After more hay, sir!" Mr. Johnson, his wile and probably all or near all ol their large family of nine children have gone to their long home and Jest. Their children were, viz.: 1. Samuel Blodgett, born Oct. 30, 1812; married Susan Mary Treworgy. 2. Bradshaw, born Sept. 25, 1814. 3. Franklin, born Oct. 12, 1816. 4. Eliza Hawes, born Feb. 26, 1819. 6. AbigaU Wood, born Aug. 1, 1821. 6. John Hawes, born AprU 11, 1824; died Aug. 31, 1825. 7. Harriet Edes, born Aug. 7, 1826. 8. John Hawes, born April 23, 1829. 9. Emily Mann, born Dec. 11, 1832. THE HOUSE OF REV. JONATHAN FISHER, the first settled minister of the town and pastor of the Congregational church for forty-one years, 1796 to 1837, located upon the south side of the road just beyond the Johnson house last mentioned, and built about 1798 or 1799, is the next to be de- scribed. That house was built after plans furnished by Mr. Fisher, and it is said that a considerable part ol the work thereon was done by him. The hinges, latches and catches lor the doors were all of wood made by him, and as also a part of the furniture, including a clock which ran for fifty years and then stopped, worn out. The house was painted with ochre dug from the farm and mixed with oil, giving to it a lustreless yellow color. The outbuildings were built by him. He also constructed a machine to run by wind for sawing his firewood, and a ma- chine for clearing his land of stones to be laid into fence walls about his farm. This is in many ways the most notable house and place in the town, and is often visited by strangers and sojourners in the town and vicinity. It is still standing, and oc- cupied by some of his grandchildren. Jonathan Fisher was born in New Braintree, Mass., Oct. 7, 1768, graduated at Harvard college, settled at Blue Hill July 13, 1796, and died in the town Sept. 22, 1817, aged seventy-nine years. He mar- ried Miss Dolly Battel!, of Dedham, Mass., April 2, 1796, and brought her to Blue HUl, where she ever after resided. She was born Feb. 24, 1770, and died Oct. 1, 1853, in her eighty- fourth year. Their children were as follows : I. Jonathan, born March 12, 1798- diBrt March 10, 1815. ' n. Sally, born Oct. 22, 1799; married Nov. 20, 1823; died Nov. 27, 1824- no children. ' HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 65 ni. Betsey, bora Jan. 7, 1801; married Jeremiah Stevens, a sea captain of Eden, afterwards of Portland; they had several children. IV. Josiah, born Oct. 17, 1802; a gradu- ate of Princeton college, N. J. ; settled in New Jersey as a gospel preacher; died in 1875; was married in 1832 in New Jersey; had a son who was also a New Jersey clergyman, and perhaps other children. V. Nancy, born Aug. 19, 1804 ; married Hosea Kittredge, Nov. 18, 1830; he was graduated from Amherst college in 1828 ; for a number of years preceptor of Blue Hill academy; removed to the "West pre- vious to 1840 and died at Marshall, Mich- igan, in 1873. Her death not noted. VI. WUlard, born April 18, 1806; mar- ried Mary Witham Norton, Jan. 16, 183i. She died Aug. 26, 1864, leaving chUdren. He died later, date not given. VII. PoUy, born Feb. 12, 1808; married Benjamin Stevens Nov. 11, 1829; died in 1878, leaving chUdren. Vin. Dolly, born Jan. 7, 1810; married Rev. Eobert Crossett of Dennysville, Me., August 19, 1830. They removed from Dennysville to the West where they both died leaving children. rx. Samuel, born July 12, 1812; died July 25, 1812. Upon the marriage of the son Willard, he took his wife to reside in the old house with his father, and upon the death of the father Willard continued to live in the old house untU his death. The children of WUlard and Mary W. Fisher were, viz.: 1. Edward Payson, born Feb. 8, 1836. 2. Josiah, born June 14, 1837. 3. Cynthia Hewins, born March 10, 1840 ; died Feb. 11, 1858. 4. Mary Augusta, born June 11, 1844. 5. Stephen Norton, born June 28, 1845. 6. Nancy EUen, born May 27, 1847. 7. WiUiam Harvey, born Feb. 18, 1852; died Sept. 15, 1873. 8. Frederick Austin, born Jan. 29, 1853. Since the death of their parents, Mary Augusta and Frederick Austin, neither of whom have been married, have made their home in the Fisher mansion. THE DBA. SBTH HEWINS HOUSE and place were next to the Fisher place upon the same side of the road. It was a 3tory-and-a-half house, buUt by Dea. Hewins about 1800, now gone, and another house built upon its site by Jonathan Stover, the present owner. Dea. Seth Hewins was born in Dedham, Mass., Feb. 12, 1773; married Katheriue Fisher, sister to Rev. Jonathan Pisher, Sept. 2, 1799. She was born March 27, 1771; died Aug. 15, 1854. They came to Blue Hill in 1799, and here resided until their death, he dying May 9, 1844. He was chosen a deacon of the Bluehill Congregational church March 17, 1808, in which capacity he acted for many years. At his death May 19, 1844, we find the fol- lowing entry in the church records con- cerning his connection with the church: "Obituary— Dea. Seth Hewins, who be- came connected with this church May 30, 1803, died Mny 19, 1844. Dea. Hewins was a man of wise temperament and regular in his habits; his religion was stable and consistent rather than brilliant and fluct- uating ; his love to the means of grace in the regularity of his support and attend- ance, both of which were continued amidst many infirmities to the close of life. "For many years he discharged accept- ably and profitably the duties of deacon ; from this however he was excused the last few years of his life on account of bodUy infirmities. His end was peaceful rather than triumphant ; his hope of ac- ceptance with Christ during life was checkered with doubts and expressed with caution, and the same was true when death drew near. We saw in him an illustration of the truth so often verified that men who were Christians ordinarily die as they lived. Yet none who knew him would doubt that he died the death of the righteous." Dea. Hewins and wife had four children born to them, all of whom preceded them to the spirit world. They were, viz. : 1. Katherine, born Feb. 22, 1801; died Feb. 16, 1823. 2. Seth, born Oct. 3, 1802; died May 19, 1827. 3. Cynthia, born Jan. 13, 1805; died June 28, 1835. 4. Sukey, born Dec. 18, 1807, died June 21, 1836. After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Hewins the house and place became the property of Jonathan Stover, who took down the old house in the '70's and erected upon its 66 HISTOniCAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. site the two-storj' house now standing. Mr. Stover is the son and third child of Isaac and Hannah (Door) Stover, born March 27, 1827, and married Eliza Ann Grindle, June 14, 1857. There is but one child entered in the Bluehill records, copy of which the writer has, and that is Ira W., born June 14, 1860. Westward of the Deacon Hewins place the next building was a schoolhouse located upon the corner of the road which branches from the main road and leading southward and along the east side of the First pond, so called. The first house and p ace along that road was that of Isaac Stover, in the boyhood of the writer. When the house was built is not Icnown, but it was prob- ably before 1826. Isaac Stover was a native of Penobscot, born about 1800, married Hannah Door, and had, according to the BluehUl rec- ords, the following children : 1. Melinda, born Sept. 25, 1822; mar- ried Joshua Parker Candage. 2. Lydia, born Nov. 25, 1824; died May 31, 1849. 3. Jonathan, born May 27, 1827; mar- ried Eliza Ann Grindle. 4. Eufus, born Sept. 9, 1829; married Selvina I. Gott, of Brooksville. 5. Hannah, born July 10, 1831. 6. George Emery, born May 6, 1834; n?arried Nancy M. Lulkin, of Sedgwick. 7. Sewell Watson, born Feb. 20, 1836; died Jan. 17, 1861. 8. Sarah Susan, born 9. Sarah Susan, born June 25, 1839 ; died July 23, 1864. 10. Maria Theresa, born Jan. 22, 1842; married Seth K. Chase. Isaac Stover died March 15, 1875; the death of his wife is not noted. The house and place are still owned by members of the family. THE JEREMIAH M'INTIRE HOUSE and place were situated next to the Stover place already described. Mr. Mclntire was not born at Bluehill, but came to it a young man, from what place the records do not state. He uas published to Lydia Knowles, of Sedgwir.k, June 8, 1818, and certified June 27, of the same year. Whether he or someone else built the house in which he and his family resided in the boyhood of the writer, there is no data at hand for determining. The writer knew him in childhood, when he sometimes worked upon his father's, farm, and also knew his children who were near his own age. His children, according to the record, were, viz. : 1. Abi ail, born April 30, 1819. 2. John Elliot, born March 9, 1821. 3. Ingerson, born Dec. 11, 1822; married first Elizabeth M. Cousins; second, Mehit- able P. Varnum. 4. Sarah, born March 4, 1825; died March 4, 1825. 5. Deborah Knowles, born April 7, 1826. 6. Freeman Knowles, born July 16, 1828; married Lucy Ann Lufkin Nov. 8, 1851. 7. Nathan Tenney, bom April 9, 1830. 8. Sylvanus Byard, born April 24, 1833; died Jan. 17, 1854. 9. Francis, born ; died Jan. 28, 1851, aged about 16 years. Mrs. Lydia Knowles Mclntire died March 21, 1839, and Mr. Mclntire married Oct. 22, 18^, Sarah P. Eaton, but no chU- dren are recorded by the latter marriage, nor the deaths of ilr. and Mrs. McLntire. Freeman Knowles Mclntire was a ship- mate of the Avriter in schooner Edward, of Blue Hill, during the season of 1846. At his golden wedding anniversary celebra- tion held at Blue HUl Nov. 8, 1901, the writer sent through the mail to him and wife congratulations. THE HATT E. BILLINGS HOUSE and place adjoined the last mentioned. Mr. Billings was from Sedgwick, but resided nearly all his life upon this place. Whether he buUt the house in which he lived is not known to the writer, but the supposition is that he did in the '30s of the last century. His publishment to Phebe Ann Friend, of Sedgwick, whom he married May 11, 1833, appears in the Blue Hill records, as also do the births of their children, who were as follows: 1. Emily Augusta, born March 15, 1834- married David P. Friend, of Sedgwick ' 2. Albion Paris, born Aug. 8, 1S35; lost at sea March, 1869. 3. Harriet Ann, born Dec. 10 1836- married Elbridge Aclar, of Charlestown ' 4. Isaac Pear, born July 1, 1838. 5. John Kingman, born Jan 7 isdn. died Nov. 6, 1872. ' "' HISTOBIGAL SKETCHES OF BLUERILL, MAINE. 61 6. James K. Polk, born March 29, 1841; died March 23, 1863. 7. Mary Matilda, born Nov 21, 1844; matried George W. Clough, of Worcester, Mass. Mr. Billings, head ot this family, was a farmer. He died March 5, 1872. KBTUKNINa TO THE MAIN ROAD at the schoolhouse previously mentioned and going westward therefrom, one came to the Douglass houses and places upon the left near the border of the Second pond, upon which stood two houses in the writer's boyhood occupied by James and Sylvanus Douglass. When and by whom those houses were built, the writer has no means of knowing; he only remembers them as they were nearly seventy years ago. They are still standing. The first Douglass found recorded as a resident of the town was John, said to have been born Dec. 25, 1779, probably in that part of Sedgwick now BrooksvUle. He married Mary Door, June 2, 1812. She was born May 14, 1793. Their children were : 1. Achsah Ann, born Aug. 12, 1813. 2. John, born April 26, 1815. 3. David, born May 17, 1816. 4. Barius, born Oct. 6, 1818. 5. Robert, born Feb. 2, 1821. 6. Sarah, born Feb. 22, 1825. 7. Mary, born April 6, 1829. Then follows Isaac Douglass, born June 17, 1784, who, it is recorded, married an- other Mary Door, June 14, 1813. She was born Feb. 8, 1789. They had seven children, as follows : 1. Sabrina, born Oct. 22, 1814; died Sept. 18, 1829. 2. Mary, born Aug. 30, 1816. 3. Sukey Horton, born Oct. 26, 1818. 4. Nathan Tenney, born Jan. 3, 1820; died June 10, 1821. 5. Joseph Parker, born March 25, 1822. 6. Seth, born April 6, 1825; died June 10, 1825. 7. Seth Hewins, born June, 1826. Just where these two families had their habitation the writer has no means of knowing for a certainty, but he presumes it was at the places or near them where James and Sylvanus lived in later years. Just what relation they were to the latter the writer can only venture the sugges- tion that they were uncles, as it is evident they were not parents. Sylvanus Douglass is recorded as having been born Jan. 5, 1807, and to have mar- ried Susan Limeburner, of Brooksville, Nov. 3, 1831. She was born Jan. 24, 1810. Her death is not recorded, but Mr. Doug- lass died Sept. 18, 1880, aged seventy-three. They had two children, as follows : 1. Ellen Maria, born Sept. 19, 1836; died June 16, 1853. 2. Solomau Thornton Gott, born April 6, 1842; married Mira Gray. James Limeburner Douglass, supposed brother of Sylvanus, was born Oct. 13, 1811; married, first, Exemy Thompson Blodgett, Nov. 21, 1833. She was born Dec. 24, 1810. They had four chUdren, as fol- lows: 1. Caroline, born Jan. 39, 1835. 2. James William, born March 26, 1837. 3. Otis, born Jan 15, 1843. 4. Mary Abby, born March 15, 1848. The mother of these children died June 5, 1862, and Mr. Douglass married Else R. Harding, a widow with one child, Laura A. Harding, born April 16, 1851. Mr. Douglass died Dec. 13, 1865. THE MINING CEAZB. Sylvanus and James L. Douglass were industrious farmers, known to the people of the town as well as to the writer. Their farms and lands contiguous thereto con- tained the noted Blue Hill and other cop- per mines, where hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended and lost in the endeavor to work those mines successfully between the years 1870 and 1890. The land- owners who sold their hold- ings realized a handsome sum thereon, but all who put money into the mining enterprises expecting to j^ealize a hand- some return were sadly disappointed and lost their investments. One who knew that locality before the mining craze, were he now to return to it, would wit- ness a scene of desolation that would make him heartsick. The waste of money in this locality has been prodigious, and without benefit to the town except in a small way incident- ally. Could the same amount have been given to the academy and to the churches as endowments, it would have resulted in benefits, not only to this generation, but to those who shall come after it. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. The activity and energy displayed in those enterprises caused a village to spring up in that locality, while the abandon- ment left it desolate and deserted and the landscape denuded of trees and foliage, sad to look upon. The fame of the Blue Hill copper mines was at one time wide spread, and the town was spoken of as being the richest in Hancock county. Alaal what a dream! and how many awoke from it to find that their hard- earned savings of a life-time had vanished while they dreamed and erected castles in the air that tumbled to the ground when the light of sober sense shone upon them and were shattered in pieces that could not be gathered up! Like the apples of Sodom, that investment seemed golden and in- viting, but at touch and taste the glitter turned to ashes. BENJAMIN OLOtJGH. Upon the north side of the main road near to the intersection with it of the road branching to "the Kingdom", in the Douglass neighborhood, stood the house of Benjamin Clough, in the boyhood of the writer. His father's name was Benjamin, born Aug. 15, 1755, married Relief Wyman, March 12, 1788. She was born Sept. 16, 1761, and died March 25, 1819. The date of his death is not recorded. He was sup- posed to be an older brother of Asa and John, who came from HaverhiU, Mass., early in the settlement of Blue Hill. The children of Benjamin, sr., and Re- lief Wyman (Clough) were: 1. Moody, born Oct. 4, 1789. 2. Abigail Wyman, born August 16, 1792. 3. Hannah, born August 16, 1793. 4. Phebe, born July 16, 1795; died June i&, 1827. 5. Benjamin, born June 20, 1797; mar- ried Amy Knowles. 6. Dorias, born July 5, 1800. 7. Ezra, born August 5, 1803; died Jan. i7, 1804. Benjamin, the fifth child of this family, who owned the house and place above de- noribed, married Amy Knowles, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Gray) Knowles, March 2, 1823. She was born June 28, 1802; died April 29, 1880. He died Sept. 13, 1873. Their children were :— 1. Samuel Knowles, born Oct. 15, 1823; lost at sea. 2. Job Nelson, born Dec. 15, 1825; mar- ried Mahala H. Dodge, of Sedgwick. 3. Matthew Limeburner, born Feb. 25, 1828. 4. Lydia Jane, born Aug. 15, 1830; died Oct. 4, 1834. 6. Phebe Maria, born Nov. 2, 1832. 6. Jane Elizabeth, born August 15, 1835, 7. Lyman Pearl Hall, born Jan. 23, 1838; married Adeline Grindle, of Penobscot. 8. Sarah, born Feb. 26, 1840. 9. Mary, born Dec. 20, 1842. When and by whom the house in which this famUy resided was buUt, the writer does not know, nor does he know where the father of Benjamin resided in the town. Beyond this house and the Douglass lots, on the north side of the road, where the outlet stream of the Fourth pond crosses, once stood a saw mill, a part of the dam, decaying timbers of the mill and a heap of saw dust were to be seen there in the writer's boyhood, but he does not know when or by whom the mill was built, although the indications were that it must have been about 1800. From the last-mentioned place the road turns to the southward and ascends a long hiU about seven-eighths of a mile in length to the Sedgwick line. Upon that stretch of road were three or four houses upon the right and one on the left in the writ- er's boyhood, and there is about the same number at this writing. Those houses were then occupied by families by the name of Gray and Grindle, whose de- scendants probably stUl reside in them. This was the old road to BrooksviUe via Hutchinson's Perry across the Bagaduce river, or via Walker's, around the head of the river, before the bridge was buUt low- er down, and the road via "the Kingdom" was opened and came into use. Many times the ^.-riter drove over it in former time upon his way to and from Brooks- vUle on visits to relatives and friends. From the Sedgwick line on to the Ferry and to WalkerviUe very little change or improvement has taken place in the last sixty years; if there has been any it has been a retrograde one in the appearance o the buildings and farms, which have fallen mto decay. The land, stripned of its forest trees, presents to the passer-by a rooky, barren soU, discouraging in aspect HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 69 not only to the traveler but also to one who is fated to till it and thereby gain his livelihood and support of his family. BBTTLERS AND KBSIDBNTS UPON LONG ISLAND, BLUB HILL BAY. The first building erected upon Long Island, so far as my record shows, was a Baw-mill on the east side, opposite Deep Cove, built by James Candage and Eben- ezer Hinckley prior to 1776. Twenty years later, about 1796, James and David Carter, eons of James Carter, sr., went from their father's home on Blue Hill Neck to the Island, and settled near what is now known as the Sand, or Carter's Point, where they and their families continued to reside, and where James and David and their wives died and were buried. They each had large families, as was the rule in those days. James Carter, jr., was born at Damaris- cotta. Me., Oct. 31, 1764, came to Blue Hill with his father's family in 1770 at the age of six years. He married, first, Hannah Bartlett, March 8, 1792. She died leaving one child, and he married, second, Mercy Cain, of Sedgwick, born Nov. 10, 1773, by whom there were twelve children. He died Nov. i, 1834, aged seventy, and Mercy hia widow, a number of years later. The children of this family by first wife were: 1. David, born May 12, 1792; drowned Oct. 22. 1813. By second wife : 2. James, born Dec. 7, 1794; drowned Oct. 22, 1813. 3. John, born Jan. 11, 1796; died Sept. 23, 1796. 4. Charlotte, born July 27, 1797; mar- tied WUliam Boamer. 5. John Pearce, born April 26, 1799; married, first, Joanna Gott, 2nd 6. Judith, born March 16, 1801; married John Trundy. 7. Charity, born March 16, 1803; mar- lied Israel Conary. 8. Amos, born June 3, 1805; married Martha Choate. 9. Pamelia, born March 13, 1808; mar- lied Joshua Conary. 10. Mercy, born March 1, 1810; married William Conary. 11. Moses, born AprU 25, 1812; married Mariam Parker. 12. Irene, born April 11, 1816; died July 3, 1816. 13. James, born Oct. 24, 1817; married Isabella Smith. In this family lived, and was brought up from childhood, Harriet Little, who married George E. Franks, April 8, 1841. David Carter, brother of James, jr., who settled upon Long Island in 1798, was born in Edgecomb, Me., July 24, 1768, married AbigaUCain, of Sedgwick, Oct. 17, 1791. Mr. Carter died March 14, 1844, aged sev- enty-five years and eight months. There s no record of the death of Abigail Cain, his wife, at hand. The children by their marriage were : 1. Joanna or Jenny, born Dec. 16, 1791 ; married David Gott, of Mt. Desert. 2. Hannah, born Sept. 26, 1794; married Joseph Gott ; he was lost at sea. 3. Mary, born Nov. 22, 1796; married Ebeuezer Day. 4. Samuel, born June 21, 1800; married Sally Curtis. 5. Robert, born Jan. 9, 1803; married Melinda Candage. 6. Abigail, born Jan. 1, 1805; married Merrill Dodge. 7. David, born August 25, 1810; died Sept. 22, 1810. James and David Carter raised their own corn and grain, cattle, sheep and swine for use of their families, spun, wove and knit their clothing from the wool of jtheir sheep, and lived within their own re- sources. They were industrious and worthy people and members of the Bap- tist church organized upon the Neck and taking in residents of Long Island. The writer well remembers them as com- ing to the tide-mill, owned by his father, with grists of corn, barley, rye and wheat, to be ground. Their farms being on new- ly-cultivated ground, yielded them good crops of bay, cereals and vegetables, and the neighboring waters of the bay fur- nished an abundant supply of edible fish for food. JOHN PBAECB OABTEB son of James, jr., cleared a farm upon which he built his house, barn and out- building, a half or three-quarters pf a mile north of his father's house, where his children were born and where he resided untU his removal to Sedgwick. He was an industrious and thrifty man, 70 HISTOIilCAL SKETCHES OF BLUE HILL, MAINE. who at one time owned the greater part of Long Island. He, like others of the Carter family, was of robust frame and constitution and possessed a remarkable retentive memory for historical data. He was born upon Long Island, April 26, 1799, married, first, Joanna Gott, March 11, 1820. She died, and he married again. He died at Sedgwick, in 1889, aged ninety years. His children were: 1. John Pearee, jr., changed to Byron Pearce, born March 11, 1821, married Han- nah A. Carter, Feb. 1845; died Feb. 15, 1852. 2. Isabel H., born March 19, 1823; mar- ried Henry Dunham. 3. Serena Q., born June 10, 1825. 4. Julia Ann, born July 7, 1827. 5. Charity, born June 3, 1829; married Capt. Sleeper, of Rockland, Me. 6. David Q., born July 31, 1832. 7. Abram B., born March 7, 1835. The house and buildings once situated upon the J ohn Pearce Carter lot no longer are standing. JAMBS DAT, JB. At Deep Cove lived James Day, jr., who went thither from the Neck many years ago. He married Nancy \ates, as else- where related, and had seven children, viz.: -James, Eliza, Melvina, Moses, "William, Luther Roundy and Nancy Yates. The head of this family was drowned by the upsetting of his boat near the shore of Newbury Neck in Nov. 1850, in his seventy-fifth year, and his widow died July 19, 1864, aged about eighty- six years. Favorite places for fishing for cod, hake and haddock, in Blue Hill Bay, sixty and seventy years ago, were at the Land Point on the Neck and at Deep Cove nearly op- posite on the shore of Long Island. The writer with others in boyhood often fished at Deep Cove, landed at Mr. Day's shore, gathered berries upon his and on adjoin- ing land, and retains clenr and pleasant recollections of those occasions and of the families then residing in that vicinity. None of the houses and people of that period on the upper half of the island remain, and the mention of them even may be strange and new to the people of the present generation. MOSBS FRIEND. Upon the crown of the island, between Deep Cove and the ola mill site on the east side, was the farm and building of the late Moses Friend, to be seen clearly from the main land. Mr. Friend came to that place from Sedgwick, where he was born. He was a descendant of Benjamin Friend, sr., the first of the name to settle upon the Neck. Just how many years Mr. Friend resided on Long Island there is no data to de- termine, bul it was for a number of years. The buildings he occupied have long since gone and the fields ha mowed and cultivated have gone back to a state of nature, leaving little or nothing to remind one of their former existence. JOHN BABTLBTT. Half a mile or so north of Deep Cove and the house of James Day, was the lot and house of John Bartlett, so well known to the writer "in days lang syne", but, like the others mentioned, long since deserted of habitation and of habitant. John Bartlett was born at lit. Desert in the early years of 1800, married Mary Hale, of SedgBcick, July 27, 1826, and set up housekeeping upon Long Island. Their children were: 1. Caroline Hale, bom Dec. 23, 1823, out of wedlock. 2. George Gurley, born July 2, 1827; married Hamilton. 3. Mary Ann, bom Sept. 2, 1828; mar- ried William A. Hall. 4. Frederick Augustus, bom Oct. 21, 1830; died July 15, 184S. 5. Vienna, born May 1, 1833. 6. John Bushrod, born Aug. 27, 1834; died May, 1866. 7. Nancy Elizabeth, born June 30, 1836; died July 12, 1853. 8. Hiram Hinckley, born Dec. 4, 1838. 9. James Candage, born April 20, 1811. John Bartlett was a fisherman, and gained his livelihood in that business, with a little farming. In 1840 and 1841, he resided upon Outer Duck island which had but a single house upon it. When his wife was about to be confined with her last child she was brought to Blue Hill Falls to the house of the writer's grand- mother where the child was born and named James Candage Bartlett for the writer's grandfather. When Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett returned to Duck island, the writer accompanied them and spent two weeks with the family on HISTOBICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 71 the island in fishing and in visiting little Duck island, Baker's island and its light- house, Gott's Island, Bass Harbor, etc. It was a new experience to the writer and in all his wandering about the world since then he has not forgotten it. The boy, James Candage Bartlett, grew to manhood, settled and married at Somer- ville, Mass., where he still resides. John Bartlett, his father, died many years ago, the date not recorded. His mother died in Charlestown, Mass., at the house oJ a married daughter some years ago at near- ly ninety years of age. URIAH MARKS. A mile or so north of the house of John Bartlett on Long Island, stood, years ago, now gone, the house of Uriah Marks, son of Joseph Marks, whose wife was Melvma Day, daughter of James and Nancy Yates Day. Lpon the head or northern end of Long Island seventy years ago, was the farm, house and barn of Joseph Marks, who there resided many years, although at this writing but little evidence is seen that it was ever inhabited. The Marks and Bart- lett places were favorite resorts for berry- ing parties and for parties indulging in clambakes, fishing and other sports. Of the family of Joseph Marks there is no data at hand by which the writer can make a true record, but from memory he can speak of a son, Uriah, and a daughter, Thankful. The family came to Blue Hill and to Long Island from either Sedgwick or Penobscot, and there it would be natural to look for the family history. Joseph Marks' wife was Martha A. BUl- ings, who came from Sedgwick or Penob- scot. He died in April, 1855, and she in 1872. They had nine children, among whom were: Joseph, Abel B., Otis &., William, Caroline, Calorn B. THE CABTBR FAMILY. Returning from the upper end of Long Island to the earliest settlement made by James and David Carter, we find located between the houses erected by them, the house of Robert Carter, the son of David and Abigail, who was born Jan. 9, 1803, and married Melinda Candage, daughter of Joseph Candage, jr., Sept. 1, 1837. The house referred to in which he and his family resided was buUt shortly after his marriage, but has been gone from the spot many years. Robert Carter was blind, having been made so when a child by measles or some other disease incident to children. He was a kindly and well- informed man, possessing that remarkable memory so characteristic of his race, which enabled him to retain what was read or told to him. He died in 1867 at the age of sixty- four. His children were: 1. Vienna, born Dec. 14, 1839. 2. Matilda, born May 5, 1846. 3. Rose Eleanor, born Jan. 29, 1854. In the David Carter house (father of Robert), long since demolished, lived, after the death of the builder, Samuel, brother of Robert, and his family. He was born in 1800, married Sally Curtis, of Surry (Newbury Neck) by whom he had seven children. 1. Abijah Sprague, born Nov. 21, 1830. 2. Sarah, born Nov, 3, 1832. 3. Deborab, born July 4, 1836. 4. Joanna, born March 4, 1839. 6. Susan Emeline, born March 27, 1841. 6. Abigail, born Feb. 11, 1843. 7. Mary Jane, born June 2, 1845. Samuel Carter was a farmer, a man ol good reputation, and a deacon of the Neck and Long Island Baptist church. The writer knew him s,nd his family well, at the time he taught a winter school upon the island, but of his and his wife's later life and their deaths he knows nothing. In the youth of the writer, Samuel Cain, brother to the wives of James and David Carter, lived upon Long Island, but just where, it is now not easy to locate. He was a tall, thin man with sharp features and a prominent nose, and by the wags of the day, was called "the mosquito maker". When he made his appearance on the main land the word would be passed around with the caution "Look out for mosquitos, for Sam Cain has just brought a raft of them from Long Island." Mr. Cain has been dead many years — peace to his ashes -and though a very worthy man the story of his mosquito- making doubtless sticks to some people left who knew him besides the writer. James Carter, jr., lived upon his father's place on the island. He married and moved to Sedgwick, where he died at a good old age. JOSEPH GOTT. The next place below Carter's Point, in the memory of the writer, was that ol 72 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. Joseph Qott, who came from Mt. Desert, and married Hannah Carter, daughter of David and Abigail (Cain) Carter, Decem- ber 16, 1812. He was a farmer and fisher- man and was lost at sea about 1840, from the bowsprit of schooner "Mary Ann", Capt. Samuel Eaton, owned by John Cheever. He had children as follows: 1. Lemuel, born Oct. 23, 1813. 2. Harriet, born Sept. 2, 1815. 3. Mary, born May 9, 1818. 4. Joseph, born Nov. 9, 1820. 5. Sophia Carter, born Nov. 20, 1822. 6. Martha, born May 29, 1825. 7. David, born Oct. 25, 1827. David Qott, brother of Joseph, also lived on Long Island, probably at this place. He married Joanna Carter, a sister of his brother's wife, June 27, 1808. He was drowned July 7, 1814. His family record Bhows that he had four children : 1. Abigail, born Aug. 20, 1810; married Moses Friend. 2. Joanna, born March 28, 1812; married Amoa Qott, BrooksvUle. 3. Hannah, born March; 28, 1812; mar- ried Qalen O. Marks, BrooksvUle. 4. David, born March 23, 1814; died March 31, 1815. FKANCIS AND ISAAC GRANT. The next place and house was that of Francis Grant, who came from the Ken- nebec and married Mercy Gray, Sept. 2, 1812. He gained his livelihood by farm- ing and fishing and the children were : 1. Thomas, born Oct. 27, 1813. 2. Moses, born Jan. 9, 1816. 3. 1 George Stevens, born Sept. 6, 1818. 4.( Lydia Gray, born July 24, 1822. 5. Francis, born Feb. 26, 1824. 6. Mercy, born July. 3, 1827. Francis Grant died Feb. 17, 1873, aged eighty-five, and Mercy, his wife, in 1844. Isaac Grant and family, he a brother of Francis, from Bath, settled upon the island near his brother sometime previous to 1840. He was a ship's caulker by trade, caulked the ship Tahmaroo bui t at Blue Hill Falls in 1842, and other vessels built in the town. He and his family moved at a later date to Ellsworth, where his sons [saac and George became vessel owners and active business men. The members ot bis family are not given in the Blue Hill cecoids. THE CHATTBAUS. Another family by the name of Kitfield resided for s jme years near the Grants, but there is no entry in the town records concerni'ig thi family. Farther down the island shore lived three families by the name of Chatteau — Joshua, Charles and John who came th re from Deer Isle. Thsy were fisherman, boitouilders and farmers. The record of family of Joshua is not found in the town books, Charles Chatteau, (afterwards changed to Chatto) married Martha Eator, daughter of Jeremiah and Patty Eaton, of Blue Hill Neck, Jan. 6, 1825. The births of his children as recorded were : 1. Louisa, born Aug. 3, 1825; married George Closson Aug. 29, 1840. 2. AlmLra Jane, born Feb. 21, 1828; died Nov. 25, 1829. 3. Abigail, born May 6, 1829. Dates of deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Chat- teau are not recorded. In the boyhood of the writer, Charles Chatteau was master and owner of a pink- stern fishing vessel named "Credit". It was in the days when bounties were given to fishing vessels. The writer and other boys of his acquaintance made a fishing cruise with Capt. Chatteau among the outer islands— Swan's Island, Outer Long Islands, etc.— finding their own provisions and having half the fish they caught. They did not catch many fish but had a pleasant outing at what was called "bounty catch- ing" for the vessel. A year or two later the "Credit" was seized by the United States authorities for obtaining a bounty iUegaUy; was condemned and sold. And the connundrum among the boys was, "Why cannot Charles Chatteau do any more business?" The answer was, "He has lost his Credit." John Chatteau married Hannah (Barks) Friend, widow of Daniel Friend, July 22, 1829. She had by her first husband, Mr. Friend, three children as follows : 1. Deborah Shacksford, born AprU 16, 1823 > 2. Martha Dodge, born Nov. 10, 1824. 3. Daniel B., born Dec. 28, 1826. and by Mr. Chatteau her second husband as recorded : ' 4. Hannah, born May 27, 1830. 5. John Eoundy, born Nov. 26 1833 6. Stephen, born Dec. 13, 1835.' HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 73 The dates of deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Ghatteau are not given. AMOS OARTBB. Farther down toward the extreme lower end of the island resided Amos Carter, son of James, jr., born upon the island June 3, 1805, married Martha Choste, by whom he had children, as follows : 1. Joan Emeline, born March 11, 1830. 2. Hannah Angeline, born March 11, 1830. 3. Mary Augusta, born May 13, 1832. 4. Lavina H., born Dec. 20, 1833. 5. Martha Edna, born Feb. 13, 1837. 6. Mercy Caroline, born Dee. 20, 1840. 7. AmoB Pierce, born Oct. 20, 1842. Mr. Carter died about 1844, and his widow married Elder Samuel Macomber, a Baptist preacher, October 2, 1847. Moses Carter, a brother of Amos, lived on the lower end of the i&land. He married Olive Dow Feb. 10, 1836, by whom he had chil- dren as follows : 1. Rowland C. born Jan. 8, 1838. 2. Nelson, born Dec. 25, 1841. 3. Sarah D., born Aug. 10, 1843. 4. Mary L., born Nov. 5, 1847. 5. Byron P., born Feb. 18, 1854. This family removed from the island many years ago and nothing further is recorded of it at Blue Hill. OTHER LONG ISLAND FAMILIES. Capt. MerriU Dodge, whose wife was Abigail Carter, a daughter of David Car- ter, lived on the island at the lower end, but later removed to the main land in the tide-mUl district, where he lived and died. A history of him and his fajiily belong to that part of the town. Nathan Staples, whose wife was Sally, from Sedgwick, lived upon Long Island near the lower end. His famUy record is as follows: Children: 1. Elizabeth, born July 10, 1838. 2. John, born Jan. 3, 1841. 3. Nathan, born April 20, 1843. David Cain and famUy once lived here, bat their famUy record is not found in the Blue Hill records. John Cain, brother of David, born Dec. iS 1814; married Deborah Friend, daugh- ter of Daniel and Hannah (Bark) Friend, who had a large family of children as fol- lows: 1. Samuel Pearly, born Dec. 4, 1845. 2. John Warren, born Oct. 28, 1847. 3. Hannah Maria, born May 18, 1849. 4. Sabrina, born Dec. 5, 1852. 5. Martha Ellen, born AprU 26, 1855. 6. Harriet Ann, born , 1857; idled Sept - , 1860. 7. Newell Judson, born Oct. 11, 1859. 8. George Elmer Ellsworth, born Oct. 1, 1861. 9. David Willis, born March 5, 1864. This family removed from Long Island to Surry. Samuel Cain, a brother of John and David, once lived on Long Island. He was a ship-caulker by trade, and he married Hannah Molntire, by whom ho hadjchil- dren: 1. Herbert, born April 16, 1844. 2. Alice, born March 16, 1845. 3. Arthur, born August 5, 1846. 4. Evelyn, born Nov. 3, 1849. 5. A daughter, born April 23, 1855; died March 12, 1857. Upon removing from Long Island, Samuel Cain settled at Blue Hill ivUlage. James Fogg, from Preeport, settled upon Long Island sixty or more years ago. His wife was a Chatteau, sister of Charles, Joshua and John. He had a family of children, the eldest being Sarah, who mar- ried Pearly Cain, who lived in Brooklin. Mr. Fogg's house was on the east aide of the lower end of the island. His family record is not found in the copy of the town records in possession of the writer. Next to Mr. Fogg's place was that of Stephen Dunham, a half brother of the Chatteau's above named. His wife was a sister of Eliphalet Grindle. They had no children. Abel S. Town also lived on Long Island before and at the time of his marriage to Sarah R. Choate, youngest daughter of George Choate. One or more Conary lived 9.t one time on Long Island, and in later days other families, unknown to the writer, have lived there. On the easterly side from Stephen Dunham's place to the head of the island there have been no houses, and only one, that of Moses Friend, on the central ridge. Along the ridge, from the upper end to the Carter places and thence along to the lower end ran a rough and hard road. 74 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. A granite quarry was opened at the lower end some years ago, but was eventu- ally abandoned and several mines were opened, but did not prove a success. At this writing, 1905, probably lew, it any, of the descendants of the families named in this paper are living on the island. In outline and physical appear- ance, except having been denuded of its forest traes, it remains much in the con- dition it presented to one who knew it sixty or seventy years ago. SETTLEMENT, ORDINATION AND PASTOB- ATB OF REV. JONATHAN FISHER THE FIRST SETTLED MINISTER AT BLUE HILL. Jonathan Plsher was born at New Braintree, Mass., October 7, 1768, son of Jonathan and Catherine (Avery) Fisher. He entered Harvard college from Dedham, Mass., in 1788, . rom which he graduated in 1792. He studied theology, and was licensed to preach at Brookline, Mass., by the Cambridge (Mass.) Association, October 1, 1793. In the spring of 1794, he preached four months at Blue HUl, returned to Cam- bridge, but accepted a call in the spring of 1796 to become pastor of the Blue Hill church, and went thither in July of that year. The town had begun in 1792 the erection of its meeting house, and was carefully looking about for a pastor who would settle there. The town and parish in those days were one, so it is to the town records that one must turn to learn of the negotiations that took place, which re- sulted in the settlement of Mr. Fisher. At a meeting of the town held on Sep- tember 24, 1795, it was "Voted, That the town will settle a Minister. "Voted, That Mr. John Peters, Mr. Robert Parker and Col. Nathan Parker be a committee to apply to Mr. Jonathan Fisher and see if he will settle as a Minister to this town, and request his Conditions and report the same to this town on Monday, the 12th day of October next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon." October 12, 1796, the town assembled, chose Bbenezer Floyd, moderator and "Voted, That Capt. Joseph Wood, jr., Mr. Phineas Osgood, Mr. Ebenezer Floyd, Mr. Robert Parker and Mr. John Roundy be a Committee to form proposals to be offered to Mr. Jonathan Fisher to settle in this town and lay the same before the citi- zens at their next meeting. Adjourned to Friday the 16th inst., at 1 o'clock p. m., at the meeting house." October 16, 1795, "Voted, That the Church in this town be desired to appoint a Committee at their meeting on Tuesday next to wait upon Mr. Jonathan Fisher and make him the fol- lowing Proposals to settle in this tosvn, viz: — "That the town will allow him one hundred and twenty pounds cash, or sixty pounds cash and build him a barn forty by thirty feet as a settlement, and that they will also allow him Sixty pounds Salary and fall and Clear for him five acres of land yearly on the Minister's lot for ten years, and after th>! expiration of the said ten years they wUl allow him Eighty pounds yearly as a Salary during his services to this town as their Minister, and that he may absent himself from the Service of the Church five weeks in each and every year. "Voted, That Mr. Edward Carleton present the foregoing Propospals to the Church at their Meeting to be held on Tuesday next, to be by their Committee offered to Mr. Jonathan Fisher. "Voted, That Mr. Edward Carleton be requested to desire the Church in their directions to the Committee which they may appoint to wait upon Mr. Jonathan Fisher with the Proposals of this town to inform him that it is the opinion of this town that an exchange can be made in the Minister's and Mr. Carleton's lots to his wishes, if he should see fit to settle with the town. "Voted, That this Meeting stand ad- journed to Friday next, then to meet at the Meeting house at 3 o'clock in the afternoon." October 22, 1795, the town met agreeable to adjournment, and proceeded as follows viz:— ' "Voted, That this town accept Mr Jonathan Fisher's answer of this day and agree to his proposed Settlement and Salary. "Voted, That the said answer be re- corded." mSTOBIGAL SKETCHES OF SLUEHILL. MAINE. 75 BiiDE Hill, Oct. 22, 179s. To the inhabUantt of the town of Blue Hill. Gtentlemen :— Having received your proposals for settllDK In the Ministry among 70a and bavlng taken a view of the lot of land reserved tor the first Minister; the settlement anl salary appear to be generous and «qual to my expecta- tions; considering the Infancy of the Country. In the land I am somewhat disappointed, It being much of It broken, and containing but lUtle timber. Considering this last clrcum. stance, I hope the town will not be offended, nor think It unreasonable, It I request that the pro- posals stand as follows, viz : That the town will allow him two hundred dollars cash and build him a barn forty by thirty feet of thirteen feet and a large stud and finish It completely as a settlement and that they win also allow him two hundred Dollars salary and cut acd haul fifteen cords of hard wood eight feet In length and (all and clear five acres of laud on the minister's lot yearly for ten years. That after the expiration of the said ten years, they will allow him two hundred and fifty Dol- lars as Salary, and cut and haul thirty cords of hard wood, eight feet In length, yearly, during his services to this town as their minister; that a full payment of the salary tor each and every year be made before the commencement of the year following; that he may absent himself from the services of the Church five weeks In each and every year and that In the case of time of sickness, he shall not be obliged to make It good; except the time exceeds four weeks yearly. If these proposals be agreeable to the town, they win be cheerfully accepted on my part, provided I can find my way clear to settle In this town on any conditions. I request your prayer to God for me, that he would direct and assist me. I can give you en- couragement of my accepting your Invitation, but request the liberty of deferring a positive answer till after my arrival at the westward. Wishing grace, mercy and peace to attend you. I am. Gentlemen, Your Servant In Christ, Jonathan Fisher. "Voted, That Mr. John Roundy, Mr. Peter Parker and Mr. Jonathan Darling be requested to acquaint Mr. Jonathan Fisher that the town have accepted and agreed to his proposed Setttlement and Salary, and that it is their desire that he would come down for the purpose of set- tling by the first of May next, if conven- ient, if not, as soon after as convenient. This meeting was then dissolved." To Messrs. John Roundy, Peter Parker and Jonathan Darling. Gentlemen : By a vote of the town at their meeting held by adjournment on Thursday the 22d Oct. 1795, you were requested to acquaint Mr. Jonathan Fisher that the; town have ac- cepted and agreed to the settlement and Salary proposed by him this day In his answer to the town's proposal of the 16th. Tou are also by a vote of said town deelred to acquaint Mr. Fisher that It Is their desire that he would come down for the purpose of set- tUng by the first of May next If convenient. If not, as soon after as convenient, Eeen Floyd, Town Clerk. Blue Hill, 22d Oct., 1798. "Mr. Jonathan Fisher, having accepted the offer of the town and agreed to settle as their Minister, the town are hereby no- tified thereof and that a Meeting will be held at the School house on Beeoh HUl on Monday, the 4th of January next, at one o'clock in the afternoon for the follow- ing purposes, viz : "1st. To choose a Moderator. "2d. To agree upon a method and the time when to chop down the trees for Mr. Fisher, "3d. To see what steps they will take with regard to buUding a barn for Mr, Fisher. "4th. To see if they will take any steps ■with regard to ordaining Mr. Fisher. Bern Floyd, Joseph Wood, Jr., Selectmen." Blue Hill, 16th Dec, 1795. Blue Hill, Monday, 4th January, 1796.— "Voted, Gapt. Joseph Wood, Jr., Moder- ator. Voted, That there be ten acres chopped down for Mr. Jonathan Fisher by the 10th day of May next. "Voted, That the Selectmen apportion to each High- way District in this town according to the High-way rate the last year, their several proportions for chop- ping down the said ten acres and send the same to the several Surveyors of Kifii. ways who with their Districts, or sucii part as are necessary, shall chop down tnu same as may be laid out by the Committeci to be appointed at this meeting for th-o purpose at the above time and the same to be deducted from their next year's High- way rate at ix per day. "Voted, That Capt. Joseph Wood, Jr 76 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLTJEHILL, MAINE. Mr. Robert Parker and Mr. John Peters be a Committee to lay out the before-men- tioned ten acres, who are to be allowed the same wages while they are employed on that business as tiioso who chop down. "Voted, That the Barn to be built for Mr. Jonathan Fisher be put up at this meeting to the lowest bidder." The same was Icnoclced oft to Daniel Spofford who agreed to build the same for |140. "Voted, That this meeting stand ad- journed to Saturday next, then to meet at the School House on Beech Hill at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Saturday, 9th January, 1796— The town having met according to adjournment: — "Voted, That Mr. Daniel Spofford be allowed one hundred and forty seven Dol- lars for buUding a Barn for Mr. Jonathan Fisher, at or before the first day of June 1797, of the following dimensions, viz: — forty feet long, thirty feet wide and thir- teen and a half feet stud and finish the same complete. "Voted, That Mr. Daniel Spofford be paid fifty Dollars at or before the first day of June next towards building said Barn and that the remaining Ninety- seven Dol- lars shall be paid to him at or before the first day of June, 1797. "Voted, That the Town Treasurer give to Mr. Daniel Spofford and receive from him Bonds conformable to the foregoing votes." Blue Hill, April 4, 1796 -At a meeting of the town held this day it was "Voted, That Sixty-nine Dollars be granted for completing Mr. Jonathan Fisher's Settlement and Salary." Blue Hill, Thursday, June 30, 1796— At a regular meeting of the town held this day it was "Voted, That the Ordination be held in Mr. Daniel Osgood's field above the mUl yard. "Voted, That Mr. John Peters, Mr. Daniel Osgood, Mr. Robert Parker, Mr. Daniel Spofford and Phiiieas Osgood be a Committee to prepare for the Ordination in the Meeting house or open air as they shall think best. "Voted, That Seventy Dollars be assessed upon the town for paying Mr. Jonathan Fisher's Services previous to his being ordained and other town uses." Blue Hill, July 12th, 1796. "According to appointment convened this day at the house of Col. Parker, a Council for the ex- press purpose of ordaining Mr. Johnson Fisher to the pastoral care of this Church. The Council is composed of Pastors and Delegates from the following Churchs: "The Church of Deer Isle, Rev. Peter Powers; Delegates, Thomas Stinson, Esq.; dea. Caleb Haskell. "The Church at Sedgwick, Rev. Daniel Merrill; Delegates, Messrs. Ebenezer Eaton, Solomon Billings, Amazy Dodge. "The Church at Penobscot, Rev. Jona. Powers; Delegates, Messrs. John and Thomas Wason." The Council, when convened, voted: "1st. That Rev. Peters Powers be Mod- erator of said Council. "2d. That Rev. Daniel Merrill be Scribe to said Council. "3d. After prayer being offered to Al- mi£;hty God for his gracious presence, the Council proceeded to inquire into those matters which were necessary in order to a regular proceedure. "4th. Necessary matters being duly considered, the Council, on the 13th of July, 1796, voted to proceed to ordain Mr. Jona Fisher to the pastoral care of the ' Church at Blue Hill. Not far from two on the clock P. M., Mr. Fisher was or- dained accordingly. Attest :-DAurBi, Meebill, Scribe to said Council. "True copy on file. Ebbn Plotd, Town Clerk." At a meeting of the town held I^ov. 6, 1797, there was received from Rev. Jon- athan Fisher the foUowing communica- tion: "Oct. 8, 1797. The subscriber makes the following pro- posaU, viz. ; let. That instead of the five acres of land to be lelled and cleared annuaUy for seven euccce- slve years, the Town raise and pay to the sub- Bcrlber yearly before the 13th of July m each year the sum of Forty Dollars "2d That within the termor the said seven years the Town construct and complete a brldee over the Fore Falls, so called, upon the general principles of the plan presented by the anh Borlber last spring. These propotals being complied with on thP part of the Town, the Subscriber obligates him self on his part, In addition to what he has ^\ ready offered, to pay annuaUy to the Treasurer" HISTORIOAh SKETCHES OF BLTTEHILL," MAINE. 77 during seven years, one-half of said sum of Forty Dollars, to be appropriated a part of the expense of said bridge. That these proposals may be agreeable to the Town Is the desire of Gentlemen, lour Sincere Friend, Jonathan Fisher," In reply to the above proposals the town "Voted, That Mr. Fisher be allowed thirty- five Dollars in lieu of chopping and clearing the next five acres for him. "Voted, That Mr. Ebenezer Floyd, John Peters and Capt. Joseph Wood, Jr., be a Committee to wait on Mr. Fisher with the above proposal. "Voted, That the Selectmen notify the BuUding a Bridge over the Forefalls aad desire persons to bring in before the next annual meeting what they will build said Bridge for upon Mr. Fisher's plan, and the plan which has been presented to the Town, or any particular part thereof, and lay the same before the Town at their next annual meeting for their further consider- ation. "Voted, That the Committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Fisher present the thanks of the Town to him for his gener- ous offer towards buUding the Bridge over the Fore-Falls. "Voted, That if Mr. Fisher accepts the thixty-five DoUars voted to allow him, the Selectmen are to direct the labour appro- priated for chopping for him, tojchoppmg down on the School lot this faU." At the annual meeting of the town held AprU3, 1798, another proposal from Mr. Fisher was read, as follows : March 19, 1798. To the Inhabitants of Blue Bill: The subscriber makes the following proposals, 'to accept of thirty Dollars to be paid annu- ally by the 13th of July for six years ensuing, after the present. In lieu of felling and clearing five acres of land annually on his lot. for that Ty°Jccep:.'.« this proposal, or those pre- vlously made, the Town will oblige their ' ' j-rlend and Servant, JONATHAN FISSBR. After the reading of the communication, ^^tCed to accept the abov.e proposal.' At the annual meeting of the town held "^^S'StMr selectmen confer with the Rev. Mr. Fisher respecting the hauling his wood and see if he is wUling to accept a commutation in lieu thereof and report the same to the Town at their next meeting." Mr. Piaher's reply to the Selectmen was in writing, read at the annual town meet- ing held April 9, 1800, as follows: I'LITI? Ull.tj, ^'Hr-'h aiof. 1800. To the Selectmen of the Town of Blue Hill; Ggntlemen: Respecting the commutation proposed in lieu of cutting and hauling my wood, I would observe that for myself I am fully contented wlrh the present modejof getting It; If there be a commutation to be permanent. I should not be willing to accept less than a Dollar for each cord to be hauled ; If the Town prefer this, or setting it up at Vendue, to the present mode, I will not object to either. Tours, etc., Jonathan Fisbeb. After listening to the reading of Mr. Fisher's communication the cowu "Voted, That the Rev. Jonathan Fisher be allowed one Dollar for each cord of wood which the town are obliged to out and haul for him by agreement at his settlement. "Voted, That fifteen Dollars be assessed upon the Town to pay the Rev. Jona. Fisher in lieu of cutting and ,hauling his wood." From the town records it appears that all matters relating to Mr. Fisher's settle- ment were carefully considered, and changes made in the terms thereafter were made after both parties had gone over them and mutually agreed about them. The records show that although Mr. Fisher was careful about his money matters, and he had need to be on the sums agreed upon, he was generous in his dealings with the town. His proposal in regard to a bridge across the Falls, shows that he was not only generous in his offer, but had the foresight to see that a bridge there was, and would be, a demand that some day would have to be heeded and met. He was a man Interested in the progress and welfare of the town, in edu- cation, serving many years upon the school committee, and was more than any other person instrumental in founding the acad- emy of the town in 1803. He was an industrious man, his house having been buUt from plans he drew, and much of the labor in its construction was 78 HISTORICAL SKETCBES OF BLtlUBlLL, MAIHTH. performed by his bands. It was his cus- tom to visit once a year at least every fam- fly in town, and Jot down all births, mar- riages and deaths in a record he kept from the time of bis settlement to the end of his pastorate over the church. His visits and journeys about the town and vicinity were usually made on foot, and 'tis said that be never wore an overcoat or under flannels in the Bevereat of winter weather. He was known to walk to and from Bangor, when he attended the meet- ings of the theological seminary. But it was as pastor of the chur'ch that he dis- played great energy, tact and perseverence, sometimes even under what would have been serious hindrances and discourage- ments to other men. When he was ordained the church had twenty-three members, and steadily grew in influence for the next ten years until the number bad reached nearly a hundred. In the beginning of 1803, Mr. Fisher noted in his record "That much exertion was made by the itinerant Methodists to introduce their peculiar tenents, much re- embling those of the Ancient Pelagians. Numbers flocked after tbem. The pastor felt it to be his duty to attend their meet- ings and publicly state what he believed to be the truth in opposition to error dis- semminated. The result was favorable beyond expectation, and the current towards the Methodists subsided." "After this, till near the close of 1804, the church was quiet except some trying cases of discipline, but in the close of this year it began to be manifest that the Rev. Mr. Merrill, of Sedgwick, was falling away to the Anti-Pedo Baptist senti- ments. This led the way to a divison of the church in Sedgwick and Blue Hill. Dec. 6th, 1804, one of the sisters of the church in Blue Hill requested a dismission from the church on account of being dis- satisfied with her baptism, which was the first instance of the kind that had occured in the place. It was agreed generally that dismission in such a case could not be granted. "March 14th, 1805, a Brother and Sister offered reasons and withdrew from the com- munion of the church; their reasons were that they considered baptism to be the only door of admission to the church and that immersion after believing is essential to baptism. During this year other Brothers and Sisters followed this ex- ample, until the number amounted to 21, "Feb. 13, 1S06, Seventeen of those who bad thus withdrawn were formed into a Baptist church, and after this generaUy held meetings by themselves. April 1st, 1811, the whole number which bad with- drawn themselves from the Pedo-Baptists and joined the Baptist church in Blue Hill previous to this date was forty-onej four of these after withdrawing returned." This left a membership to Mr. Fisher's church of thirteen males and twenty- eight females; total forty-one. "Several of those withdrawn to the Baptists have removed from the town, two of them have been ordained as Baptist ministers, men of good character but of small education." At the close of the year 1820, the number of members in Mr. Fisher's church was eighty-eight; residing out of town thir- teen, leaving the resident members at seventy-five. This was a trying time to Mr. Fisher, but notwithstanding what bis thoughts might have been be never said an un- Chirstian word against those who went out from bis communion to form the Baptist church of the town. On the con- trary, he has left on record his estimate of tbem as of being of good character. Mr, Fisher was of unblemished Chris- tian character, and he tried to carry bis own standard into the church of which he was the honored pastor for so many years. The records of the church were written out by him, beginning August 11, 1796, and ending August 29, 1837, in fuU, and show bow carefully he attended to every detail, and how, with unflinching recti- tude, be sought to correct the errors of err- ing members. In some particulars the record is too minute, and might well have been abridged to the benefit of the church and its membership, but that was not his way of dealing with facts. His way was to record all that took place in the church meetings in the plainest language, where matters of discipline were being consid- ered, whatever readers in after time might think or infer therefrom. He was just as particular to record any matter concerning himself or famUy that was called in question, as of matters per- taining to others. The writer, by way of HISTORICAL SKETGH ES_OFmATV'.TTTT.T, MAINE. 79 illustration, quotes from the record as fol- lows: "March 25, 1830. The Brethren o( the church met at the Meeting house to make inquiry concerning an alleged contradic- tion between Mr. and Mrs. Fisher on the subject of some cherry rum thrown away between them. Mrs. Savage states that at the church fast, spealcing about the diffi- culties in the church, she mentioned re- ports concerning cherry rum thrown away. Mrs. Fisher said we had a demijohn in the cellar. I brought it up and asked Mr. Fisher what I should do with it? He said, "what 1 was a mind to." I emptied it out. That she asked Mrs. Fisher if Mr. Fisher did not dig a hole and help her empty it. She said, "no, I emptied it myself. Mr. Fisher had no hand in it.' In this con- versation Mrs. F. said she had heard that she had been obliged to empty it. "Mrs. Edith Hinckley stated the same in substance more briefly. Dea. Seth Hewins stated that Mrs. Fisher had said to him that there was a story in circula- tion that Mr. F. made her empty the cherry rum, but she said the empting of it was a voluntary thing, but does not re- member whether she said she emptied it or Mr. F. "Mr. Israel Wood stated that in com- pany of Mrs. Fisher he began to speak atout the rum that was turned out. That Mrs. Fisher took up the story and said he carried the rum out to the manure heap and dug a hole and buried it. "Mr. Nehemiah Hinckley stated that he (Mr. F.) came into his house from Bucks- port, that he asked him about destroying the cherry rum ; that Mr. F. gave a rela- tion of pickling the plums, baying the rum and putting it into the demijohn, and of the fashion then of occasionally treating those who called. That they wanted the demijohn ; that he carried it out to a chip manure heap, emptied it out and buried it up. Mr. Hinckley replied that there was a report that Mrs. Fisher emptied it. Mr. F. said it was a mistake ; he did it. "Mrs. Fisher admits in substance the evidence respecting what she said; says she carried the demijohn out and began to empty it. That Mr. F. took it from her and carried it further. She says that in saying Mr. Fisher had no hand in it she meant he had no hand in forcing her to empty it, having heard that there was a story going round that he compelled her " "Mr. Fisher made a statement in sub- stance as follows: That the cherry rum was grown into disuse, that they wanted the demijohn and that the con tents might not be a temptation to any- one, mutually concluded to throw it away; that they were brought forward, that Mrs! Fisher, as he believes, carried the demi- john just out of the door and began to empty it, that he took it of her and car- ried it to a heap of chip manure, in the top of which he opened a hole, turned the contents of the vessel containing a quan- tity of choke cherries and perhaps two quarts of rum and water into the hole, and covered it up. That he carried the vessel out, meaning out from within doors, but recollected afterwards that he took it from near the door without. "The Church voted that Mrs. Fisher offer in public the following acknowledge- ment: "I, the sabecTlber, acknowledKC that at a church fast a few months since, being questioned con- cernlDg the turning out of some cherry mm and intending to convey the Idea that Mr. Fisher did not compel me to do It, unintentionally conveyed the Idea that Mr. Fisher did not do It himself. I confess that I have reasons to regret that from this misunderstanding reports unfav- orable to the cause of religion have been put In circulation. I ask forgiveness of all whom I may have given occasion of ofTence, and pray that I may be more circumspect In the manner of speaking In time to come. Attest:— JoN. FisHBK, Factor. Mr. Fisher was so careful that he and his wife should not only abstain from evil, but from any appearance of it, that this fine point in ethics was considered in all its bearings and put upon record, while a like occurrence of to-day would be treated as of no consequence and not worthy of record or of investigation. No shepherd ever watched over his flock to see that they did not stray from the fold into forbidden pastures with greater care than did Rev. Jonathan Fisher watch over and care for the members of his church at Blue Hill during his long pas- toral care over that body of Christian believers. How well the writer remembers him as pastor of the church, his seemingly aus- tere manner, his earnestness in his discourses, his prayer and the opening of 80 HISTORICAL SKETCHi:s OF SLUEHILL, MAIJSfE. his eyes during the long prayer, as the children thought, to see if they were pay- ing attention and not talcing an advantage ol that period to shift about and indulge in play. How well, too, he remembers his re- proof to boys in the gallery, who did not give their attention to the sermon, but whispered or in other ways did not pay due respect to the Lord's house upon the Lord's Day services. And how he and other boys of that day sat and wondered what would be the consequences if the cord suspending the sounding board Over the pulpit desk should part and the huge board should descend with a crash upon Father Fisher's bald head. Blue Hill owes a debt of gratitude to Rev. Jonathan Fisher for bis pious ex- ample set before its people ; for his un- flinching adherence to duty as a Christian minister, and the far-reaching and noble work he for forty- one years did in the service of the church, the town and for his Divine Master. Age and infirmities crept upon him, and the time came in 1837 when he thought he should rest from his pastoral labors, and he sent in his letter asking to be dismissed. A council was called and held October 24, 1839, which dismissed Mr. Fisher, and he received the following certificate : "This is to certify to whom It may concern that by an Ecclesiastical CouncI' convened In this place today the Pastoral relations between the Eev. Jonathan Fisher and the C' ngresa- tlonal Church here to which he has lately min- istered, has been regularly dissolved, and that the Council In their results, which la made out at length In connection with that which respects the ordination ot his successor, have testified to the unblemished and ministerial character of Mr. Fisher and their high esteem and love for him as a tried and faithful Servant of the Lord. "Wherever he may be called in the ordinance of Uod to travel or to labor In the ministry In preaching the Gospel or administering Its or- dinances, may the churches receive him cord- ially. By order ot the Council. MiQHiLL Blood, Moderator. B. B. Beokwith, Scribe. On the day and by the same council that dismissed Mr. Fisher, Rev. Albert Cole, was ordained over the church at Blun Hill as Eev. Jonathan Fisher's successor. The council convened in the old meet- ing house, which was well filled with members of the church, delegates to the council and town's people, among whom was the virriter. It was the first ordina- tion he had attended, and ceremonies were new, solemn and impressive. Mr. Fisher was there, and kept, or rather en- tered, the action of the council in the church records, his last act in that con- nection. The old meeting house was destroyed by fire the first Sunday in 1842 (January 2,) but no mention of that fact is found in the church records. The services of the church were thereafter held in the acad- emy building on Sundays, until the new church was built, finished and dedicated January 11, 1843. Rev. Jonathan Fisher attended church regularly, when health and the weather permitted, sometimes preached, and attended funerals of the older members of the church. On the Church records is the last entry concerning Rev. Jonathan Fisher as follows :- "Sept. 22, 1847. Rev. Jonathan Fisher. Born m New Braintree, Mass. Oct. 7, 1768. Died in Blue Hill Sept. 22, 1847, aged 79 years wanting 15 days. In 1790 he made a public profession of religion and joined with the Church in Dedham, Mass. At a great sacrifice sought an education for the Gospel ministry. He was graduated at Harvard University July 18, 1792, here also, he persued his Theological Studies. He came to Blue Hill in 1794 and was ordained as the First Pastor of this church July 13, 1796. The church" at that time consisted of 23 members, all of whom passed into Eternity previous to their Pastor. "The last of them died a few weeks since at the age of 94 and Mr. Fisher officiated at his funeral. (Mr. Jedediah Holt). Ut. Fisher proved himself a self-denying, de- voted and highly useful minister of Christ; his doctrinal views were distinc- tively Calvauistic. The doctrines of the Bible were held by him with great tenacity, and defended with abUity. Hs was fearless and unflinching in the avowal, exposition and enforcement of Eternal truths. It was enough for him to know that God had revealed it. "Few men have ever given to the people of their charge so much instruction in the various truths and duties of religion as he. His mind was richly stored with di- HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BLUEHILL, MAINE. 81 vine knowledge, nor did he fail to bring out of God's Word and out of the treas- ures of his learning, things new and old. "He was dismissed froai his pastoral charge on account of growing infirmities of age, Oct. 24, 1837, having been Pastor of his flock a little more than forty- one years. His last sickness was short, only about 24 hours, and although his sufferings were extremely great in that time, his mind was staid on God. He died as he had lived, a Christian. "Rest, Holy Man of God." His funeral sermon was preached by Eev. Stephen Thurston, who had known and appreciated his worth and Christian character for many years. At a church conference held Oct. 6, 1847, it was "Voted, That Rev. Stephen Thurston be requested to furnish a copy of the sermon preached at the funeral of the Eev. Jona- than Fisher for publication. "Voted, That the clerk make that re- quest in behalf of the church. "Attest:— Jos. P Thomas, Clerk." At the one hundredth celebration of the gathering of the church at Blue HUl, Rev. Stephen Thurston gave the historical ad- dress. "In the history of this church" said he on that occasion, "the first pastor. Rev. Jonathan Fisher, stands out in high relief, as the most distinguished and remarkable man ever connected with it, indeed as the most remarkable man in the town, and did more for its enlightenment and moral elevation than any other* man. I should be surprised if there is an intelligent man in town who would dissent from this opinion; he was decidedly a man of mark. "Few, I am confident, have ever in- structed a people so fully and on such a variety of subjects. He seemed to have more comprehensive views of the fullness and richness of the word of God- its exhaustless treasures of wisdom and grace —than most ministers, and he was skUlf ul in developing those treasures and thus enriching the minds of his hearers." "For elevated moral principle and strict adherence to it in daily life, I know not the man, have never known him, -who ex- ceUed the first pastor of this church. The love of right as he understood it was of supreme authority. He -would no more inteUigently and allowedly trample upon it, than with a mUl-stone about his neck he would cast himself into the sea. In- deed, I verily believe that he had the mar- tyr spirit and in other days would have gone to the stake for a principle. "For the sick, the bereaved, the poor, the suffering of every kind, Mr. Piaher had a heart of sympathy and a hand for re- lief. He was liberal in his charities and a most unselfish man. While living on a salary of about three hundred dollars, I knew him to subscribe one hundred dol- lars for one charitable institution. A poor family lost their house by fire; he gave them several dollars in money. These were specimens which I happened to know about. "When he was dismissed from his pas- toral care, this people were charged to deal kindly with him in hia declining years, and when called to lay his lifeless remains in the grave, to erect over them a humble stone, to tell the passer- b.' , here lies the man who, for more than forty years, preached the everlasting gospel to this people. I rejoice to know that this charge has been regarded and that they have raised a respectable monument over his grave. In doing this they have hon- ored themselves no less than their ven- erated friend." Three and a half generations have passed away since Mr. Fisher was or- dained over the church at Blue Hill. He has rested in his grave in the town, with the graves of those near his to whom he ministered, for nearly sixty years, and few there be that remember him in life, and yet one would lack perception who does not discern that his example and infiuence are yet a force in the community where he labored and brought forth fruitful results. The history of a town and of its people, should ever have interest for its citizens, and for all who are descended from those who shaped its course in education, re- ligion and in civic and social morality. Such history is a beacon li