EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 KEPT BY THE 
 LATE PASTOR OF THE 
 
 FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST 
 
 IJV FALMOUTH, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 COUNTY OF YORK, (NOW CUMBERLAND,} 
 
 FROM THE YEAR 1720, TO THE YEAR 1788, 
 WITH AN 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A VARIETY OF OTHER MATTERS, 
 
 SELECTED 
 
 By SAMUEL FREEMAN, Esq. 
 
 PORTLAND : 
 
 PRINTED BY THOMAS TODD & CO. 
 
 1821. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 It has long been known to a number who were 
 cotemporary with the Rev. Thomas Smith, late 
 Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Falmouth, 
 a part of which is now Portland, in the State of 
 Maine, that he was in the practice of keeping an 
 Historical Diary. The desire has been expressed 
 by them and others that it might be published. 
 
 When the late Governor Sullivan was writing 
 his history of Maine, he applied to Mr. Smith for 
 the use of this Journal jra order to complete his 
 account of the Indian Wars, &c. but Mr. Smith 
 was unwilling to comply with his request, because 
 the Journal contained a mixture of private matters 
 not proper to be exposed to public view. 'It having 
 come into my possession, I have been induced, with 
 the consent of his surviving children to make and 
 print such extracts from it as I thought might be 
 useful and entertaining to those especially who from 
 local circumstances would be apt to take a peculiar 
 interest in the transaction to which they relate. 
 
 The Diary commences with the year 1720, and 
 reaches to the year 1788, a greater length of time 
 probably, than that during which any similar record 
 has been kept within the limits of this State. 
 
 The matters I here present the public are — 1. No- 
 tices of such Foreign Events as came to the know!- 
 
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 edge of Mr. Smith daring that period. — 2. Domestic 
 Occurrences ; or such as took place in the town of 
 Falmouth, and its vicinity, from the time of his 
 coming there in 1725, with marginal notes as to the 
 particulars of some of the events which are but 
 slightly mentioned. [These were taken from 
 Holmes' Annals, and chiefly as he quoted them from 
 prior writers.] And 3. A view of the life and 
 character of the deceased. Also a separate account 
 of the Seasons. 
 
 In the selection of these matters I may have been 
 either more minute or more deficient than another 
 person would have been, but in faithfulness to that 
 trust which was confided in me when the Journal 
 was put into my possession, I could not put it into 
 another's hands. I have noticed some things not so 
 much for the things themselves as for other reasons, 
 which will probably be apparent to the discerning 
 reader ; and as to the state of the seasons and of the 
 weather in the different parts of the year, which I 
 have inserted separately, partly in the words of the 
 Journalist and partly (for conciseness) in my own. 
 I would observe that they contain but an abridge- 
 ment of what is recorded in respect to them. To 
 have been more particular would have swelled the 
 work too much, to have been less so would have 
 rendered this part of it too imperfect, and to have 
 left it out entirely might have been regretted by 
 those who wish for an opportunity to compare 
 former times, in respect thereto > with the present, 
 
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 and the state of the atmosphere, with the health or 
 sickness prevailing at the time. 
 
 Upon the whole, whether the Extracts I have 
 made will be received with such acceptance as some 
 who have encouraged their publication may expect, 
 I will not presume to judge. If they should, in the 
 perusal of them afford that gratification which has 
 been contemplated, I shall not regret the time I have 
 taken to prepare them ; if otherwise, I shall only 
 regret their publication. 
 
 Upon the few additions to these extracts it is not 
 necessary to observe. 
 
 Of the matters which are contained in the Appen- 
 dix, some notice will be taken in the Preface to that 
 part of the work. S. F. 
 
 July, 1821. 
 
 1* 
 
FAMILY RECORD. 
 
 Mr. Smith was the eldest son of Thomas Smith, of 
 Boston, Merchant, (who married Mary Curran, May 9, 
 1701.) He was born at Boston, March 10, 1701—2 ; he had 
 three wives. The first was Sarah Tyng, a daughter of Col. 
 Tyng, of Dunstable, whom he married September 12, 1728. 
 She died Oct. 1,1742. The second was the Widow Jordan, 
 of Saco, whom he married March 1, 1743 — 4. She died 
 January 3, 1763. The other was the Widow Elizabeth 
 Wendall, whom he married August 10, 1766. She died 
 (after the death of Mr. Smith,) March 16, 1799. By his first 
 wife, he had eight children, viz. : 
 
 1. Thomas born September 19, 1729, who died February 
 23, 1729—30. 
 
 2. Peter born June 14, 1731 — now living. 
 
 3. Lucy born February 22, 1733 — 4, who died in June 
 1780. 
 
 4. Thomas born September 12, 1735, who died February 
 10, 1776. 
 
 5. William born December 18, 1736, who died October 
 16, 1754. 
 
 6. John born October 14, 1738, who died December 26, 
 1773. 
 
 7. Sarah born November 14, 1740 — now living. 
 
 8. A Child born Sept. 6, 1742, which died Sept. 14,1742. 
 By his two other Wives he had no children. 
 
EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 OF THE LATE 
 
 YvEV. THOMAS SMITH. 
 
 1719. 
 
 It appears by his Journals of the succeeding years, num- 
 bered 2, 3, 4, &tc. : that Mr. Smith began to keep a journal 
 this year, but what became of it, I do not know. That for the 
 next year is the oldest in my possession. 
 
 1720. 
 
 Mr. Smith entered the College at Cambridge, A. D. 1716, 
 and having made the study of Hebrew, a part of his employ- 
 ment, he intended probably to qualify himself as a minister of 
 the gospel. He took his first degree the present year. He 
 went frequently to Boston, and other places, but the incidents 
 he takes notice of through the year are unimportant. He 
 mentions the names of the following gentlemen as ministers 
 of the gospel at this time, viz : Thatcher, Sewall, Checkley, 
 Prince, Webb and Chauncy.* 
 
 * In this year, commenced the publication of the Boston Gazette. The second 
 newspaper published in America. The first was the Boston News-Letter, (a 
 weekly paper) first published in 1704. The third was the New-England Courant^ 
 commenced in 1721. I have one of these in my possession, printed January 15, 
 1726. It was printed by Benjamin Franklin, chiefly on a pica type, two 
 columns, and on half a sheet, of the size of pot writing paper. 
 
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 1721. 
 
 .Wy 12. — About this time the small-pox was brought into 
 Boston. 
 
 26. — The small-pox began to spread * 
 
 July 18. — Fast, on account of the small-pox. 
 
 [He mentions the names of several ministers in the vicinity 
 
 of Boston, viz : Cook, Appleton, Foxcroft, Gee, Fessenden, 
 
 Flint, Waldron, Prentice, Wigglesworth, Cotton and Ward. 
 
 The pages of this years journal are somewhat fuller than the 
 
 last, but not interesting.] 
 
 1722. 
 
 January 3. — Boston almost clear of the small-pox, and 
 wholly of inoculation. 
 
 February 26. — Town judged to be quite clear of the small- 
 pox. 
 
 July 12. — The Indians killed a man and drove the English 
 into the garrison, and at night, Capt. Starinan and others, 
 killed 16 or 18 of those Indians. 
 
 July 26. — War proclaimed with E.Indians. 
 
 Oct. 2. — Hot, more so than ever was known before at this 
 season. 
 
 [In September of this year, Mr. Smith preached at Maiden 
 and Sandwich ; and this seems to be the commencement of 
 his frequent performances afterwards.] 
 
 1723. 
 
 Januarys. — I preached at Bellingham. 
 
 7. — The committee of Bellingham was with me to acquaint 
 me of their call. 
 
 !6. — There has been nothing like winter yet. This month 
 has been the hottest that ever was felt in the country. 
 
 * It made great havoc there, and in some of the neighboring towns Inocula- 
 tion for that disease was now introduced into Xew-England, and a trial of it 
 recommended to the physicians, by the Rev. Cotton Mather. All however 
 declined it, but Doct. Zabdiel Roylston, who adventured to begin with his own 
 family, and afterwards continued the practice amidst violent opposition. Many 
 pious people were struck with horror, and were of opinion, that if any of his 
 patients should die, he ought to be treated as a murderer. The populace was so 
 enraged, that his family was hardly safe hi his house ; and he was often insults! 
 in the Streets. 
 
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 February 4. — The sharpest weather ever known at this time 
 of the year. 
 
 24. — The greatest storm and highest tide that has been 
 known in the country. 
 
 March 21. — I gave Bellingham an answer. 
 
 August 29. — Mr. Foxcroft preached a funeral sermon on 
 Dr. Mather, who is this day buried.* 
 
 1724. 
 
 January 8.— Doct. Cook, sailed for England, as agent for 
 this Province. 
 
 11. — Visible eclipse of the sun. 
 
 12. — The pirates had their trial and all cleared but four. 
 June 2. — Two pirates were hanged, viz : Archer and 
 
 White. 
 
 July 28. — Mr. Webb's Lecture turned into a Fast, by rea- 
 son of the very great drought, every thing being burnt up. 
 
 August lO.-r-Mr. Sewall was chosen President of the 
 College. 
 
 1725. 
 
 February 26. — Saturday last Capt. Lovell and company, 
 who sat out the 20th of last month, fell upon a company of 
 ten Indians, and killed them all.f 
 
 March 10. — Dies mea natalis (vicessima tertia.) 
 
 April 29. — Mr. Webb's Lecture turned into a Fast, upon 
 the account of the war> 
 
 *This was Increase Mather, who was President of Harvard College, from 1694 
 to 1701. He had been a preacher 66 years, and a minister of the same in Boston 
 62 years. He died in the 85th year of his age. His father, Richard Mather, came 
 to New-England in 1634, having been silenced by Dr. Xeal, Archbishop of York, 
 and was the last minister of Dorchester, and died in 1669, aged 73. His son, 
 Cotton Mather, a minister of Boston, died in 1728, at the age of sixty-five ; ail 
 eminently, pious and learned men. The last was the author of Magnolia Ckrisii 
 Americana. The books and tracts which this author published, amounted to 382>. 
 Among his manuscripts was a work which he prepared for publication, entitled 
 Biblia Americana:, or the Scrijrtures of the Old and Ne-o Testament illustrated, 
 " The writing of which" says his biographer " is enough constantly to employ 
 a man, unless he be a miracle of diligence the half of three score years and ten 
 allowed us." A catalogue of the 382 books, which he published, is subjoined to 
 his life. 
 
 *See a particular account of this in the Appendix. 
 
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 May 15. — We have an account that this day sennight, Capt. 
 Lovell's company had a bloody battle with the Indians.* The 
 Captain, Lieutenant and 15 others killed. 
 
 July 2,1. — The forces here went away for Richmond in 
 order to march to Penobscot. 
 
 £2. — Twenty-one Indians ran away in the night. 
 
 23. — Fourteen Indians taken again. 
 
 £4. — The Commissioners returned to Boston, with two 
 Penobscot Indians. 
 
 August £. — The two Penobscot Sagamores in here,in Capt. 
 Saunders, bound home. 
 
 9. — Capt. Saunders put a shore the two Sagamores. A 
 cessation of arms appointed for forty days between us and the 
 Penobscot Indians.:}: 
 
 10. — Orders came for forces here, to prepare for a march. 
 Two gentlemen came in here bound to St. Georges, to treat 
 
 with the Indians.^ 
 
 September 16. — News in town of the Indians killing 5 men 
 at Fort Dummer, and 5 more at the eastward. 
 
 £0. — The forty days out, that were appointed for a cessation 
 of arms. 
 
 £1. — I was invited to go up and preach at Norwich. 
 October^. — My father and brother came in from St. Georges 
 without the Indians. The Hostage and another Indian ran 
 
 away. 
 
 £3. — General Thanksgiving. 
 
 December 13. — Mr. Whalton brought the contribution for 
 last Sabbath, £2 65. 
 
 [In (he course of this year, Mr. Smith came twice from 
 Boston, preached atFolmouth seventeen Sabbaths, viz : From 
 June 27th, to Sept. 5th, and from Nov. 14th to the end of the 
 year. During which time he visited the people there and at 
 Purpooduck ; rode to neighboring places and frequently 
 diverted himself by gunning and fishing. In December he 
 attended the ordination of Mr. Jeffries, at Wells ; preached 
 there and spent about ten days there and in the vicinity.] 
 
 1726. 
 
 January 14. — The forces dismissed. 
 
 £4. — Yesterday and to day very severe cold. The river 
 frose over. 
 
 31. — Thus far has been a very smart close winter. 
 February 28. — Here (with this month) ends the winter. It 
 has been all along a close and hard a winter as has been 
 
 +Ibid. 
 
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 remembered. There has been good sledding all winter. 
 Never one thaw. 
 
 March 10.— Mea natalis 24 ; Destinav : Deis precaro. 
 
 18. — There has been the best gunning here this winter than 
 has been for some years past. 
 
 22. — Capt. Moody brought two Indians from North-Yar- 
 mouth. 
 
 23. — The Indians killed two cattle upon their return at 
 Winnegance, near Arowsick. 
 
 26. — It is observable that though the winter has been so 
 Jy severe, there has not been any thing like a storm the 
 
 whole time. 
 
 27. — We had news by an express from his Honor the Lieut. 
 Governor, that the Penobscot Indians had denied several 
 aiticles of the peace. 
 
 29. — Three persons drowned at Winter Harbor, in a 
 schooner of Elder Saywards. 
 
 April 5. — Three Penobscot Indians came here this evening. 
 
 9. — Twenty-six vessels now in the harbor. 
 
 IS. — The General Court met and sat 31 days upon the 
 Jesuit's Letter, which he in the name of the Indians, wrote to 
 the governor last month. They resolved to send them a 
 further supply. 
 
 24. — Saunders came in from Boston with a further supply 
 for the Indians : for Richmond as well as Georges. 
 
 26. — This day the committee acquainted me with the call 
 of the people generally planting here. 
 29. — Preached over to Purpoodock. 
 
 June 15. — About this time the ratification of the peace was 
 proposed to be, but put off further by the Indians. 
 
 26. — Capt. Moody, brought me £20, of the town's money. 
 Mr. Walton brought me £10 125. 3d. being what was gathered 
 on 27 Sabbaths. This evening sailed for Boston. 
 
 29. — Arrived at Cape Ann, after having put into Piscata- 
 qua river. 
 
 July 13. — This day returned from Boston. 
 
 15. — The N. Hampshire gentlemen came here in a brig. 
 
 16. — The Massachusetts gentlemen came here in the 
 evening, and lie below. 
 
 17. {Sunday.)— Mr. ShurtlifY preached here A. M. Mr. 
 Fitch, P. M. The gentlemen all at meeting. In the morning 
 the gentlemen came on shore and made considerable appear- 
 ance with their drums and guns. The governor guarded in 
 pomp to meeting. 
 
 22. — The gentlemen spent this week entirely idle, waiting 
 for the Indians. 
 
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 £3. — The Indians came here from Penobscot on a message 
 to the government, and were sent away in the afternoon. 
 
 24, (Sunday,) — I preached here A. M. Mr. Tappan P. M. 
 Mr. Fitch baptised the children, 22 hi all, besides an adult 
 person. Mr. White preached over to Purpoodock, A. M. 
 
 The Lieut. Governor, with the gentlemen, sailed up the bay ; 
 I was fishing with Mr. Tyng before the door. While the gen- 
 tlemen are gone, we enjoy ourselves. 
 
 £9. — This morning the gentlemen returned from Arowsick. 
 The Indians to the number of 40, all of the Penobscot tribe, 
 came inhere. In the afternoon the Congress opened. 
 
 31, (Sunday.) — Mr. Temberton and Mr. Welstead, preach- 
 ed kere. 
 
 August 1. — There was a public dinner, at which I dined. 
 2. — Several days were spent in private treaties, to pave the 
 way for the public ratifications. 
 
 4. — All private conferences were finished this day. 
 
 5. — The ratification of the peace was publicly done this 
 day in the meeting-house. 
 
 6. — Some affairs relating to the ratification that were left 
 unsettled yesterday, were this day finished, and all concluded 
 with a public dinner. 
 
 8. — The New-Hampshire gentlemen sailed. 
 
 10. — This week spent in interpreting to the Indians, the 
 journal of all their actions — and in fully settling some other 
 matters. 
 
 12. — The governor and other gentlemen sailed this day for 
 Boston. Capt. Franklin carried the Indians to St. Georges. 
 Mr. Welstead stopped here. 
 
 September 7. — N. N. E. storm brought into the harbor 
 about forty large fishing vessels. 
 
 17. — Captain Langdon came in here in a large ship. 
 
 30. — This month we have always great numbers of fisher- 
 men in here. 
 
 [Several days of this month Mr. Smith appears to have 
 spent in bodily exertion, both by land and water, visiting, 
 dining, See. with Mr. Collier, Moody, Jarvis, he] 
 
 October 9. — Town meeting to-day. They voted to build 
 me a house. 
 
 £7. — There is a considerable number of people down here, 
 to look out for farms, designing to settle here. 
 
 28. — This day we had news that the Indians had broken 
 out and taken a family in Kennebunk, viz. eight women and 
 two children, one of the women big with child. Their names 
 were Dude and Baster. 
 
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 Mvemher 21. — I sat out this afternoon for Boston. 
 26. — Arrived in Boston, having rode in all 124 miles. 
 December 7. — I sat out for Casco. 
 22. — Lodged at Mr. Jeffries, Wells. 
 
 24. — These two days I spent wholly with Mr. Jeffries in 
 his chamber. 
 
 31. — After some excursions to York, &c. sat out for Casco. 
 
 [At the end of the journal for this year is " some account of 
 the settling of the town of Falmouth, Casco Bay." The diffi- 
 culty of reading the writing of Mr. Smith, by reason of the 
 very fine letters in which all his journals are written, is on 
 this account, rendered much greater, by the leaf in which it is 
 written, having been wet and torn, and in several places the 
 writing entirely rubbed out. The following is as mnch as I 
 could pick out. It contains the greatest part, and though 
 imperfect, I think proper to insert it in the form it is, rather 
 than wholly to omit it.] 
 
 In the year* '17, a number of men, about 30, petitioned the 
 General Court for this tract of land, in order to make a set- 
 tlement of; who granted their petition, excepting the former 
 grants. Inhabitants most of the time between their being 
 *** the town filled but slowly. 
 
 When I first came down here, which was the 23d of June, 
 there were but about 56 families, such as they were, most of 
 them very poor, by reason of the Indians that kept the people 
 from their farms *** and confined them to garrisons, aert 
 some that were soldiers, that had found wives on the place, 
 and were mean animals ; and I have been credibly informed 
 that the men they' engaged to come to them, were as bad as 
 themselves, having a design of building up the town with anv 
 that came and offered ; but the war coming on, purged the 
 place of many of them, and in their room came others, and 
 some very good ****. This fall, came down I. Riggs, with 
 his family, and about the same time J. Sawyer, with his ; 
 both from Cape-Ann, both very good sort of men, errors ex- 
 cepted. When I came down, the meeting-house frame was 
 only covered ; but this summer it was handsomely finished 
 outside, Governor Wentworth giving the glass. 
 
 1726. --This spring came in*o town one Savage, and also one 
 Stimson and his family,*** whom the selectmen immediately 
 warned out of town, as they did several others, just about the 
 making of peace. 
 
 This summer, (peace being concluded) there came from 
 Cape-Ann, one Davis, a pretty troublesome spark, with his 
 
 * This year, except the centurial part of it, seems to have been left a b'ank, 
 
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 family. Also one of his wife's brothers, no better than he — 
 and a little after, another family who was also warned out of 
 town. Also one Haskell,a sober sort of a man, with his family. 
 John Sawyer brought here to live. 
 
 This fall came Isaac Savage and Mr. Pride, with their 
 families — also Mr. White's eldest son, who were sober and 
 forehanded men ; and many persons desiring to settle, and has 
 
 an unspeakable**** in a new settlement. Now Mr. B , 
 
 son and his wife of Piscataway, proceeding to great Hog 
 island. *** 
 
 This week we had a town meeting to consider of the petition 
 often several likely men to be admitted inhabitants, and the 
 matter was left to the selectmen. 
 
 This month I reckoned up the families in town, and found 
 there was 64, such as they were, accounting a man and his 
 wife a family There are likewise 13 or 14 young men mar- 
 riageable, that have land in the town and are inhabitants; 
 mid above 33 fighting men. 
 
 1727.— Came down here one **** [something like Morres- 
 tni>] who bought James or John Ballard's place, which Darling 
 was*** who moved away to Black Point. Last month Mr. Saw- 
 yer and York came here and finished their grist mill, which 
 every way answered their expectation. The people, before this, 
 sent their corn to B. to be ground. A saw mill was also built 
 upon the same stream. Several of the inhabitants began to 
 get logs ******** and that was the old saw mill that was In- 
 gersols. 
 
 Eight persons, several of them having families, came here 
 aad purchased a tract of land near Pond Cove, of Samuel 
 Jordan **** with an obligation ** of it ** to stand by one 
 another in peace or war ; and the first thing they did, built a 
 garrison for the good ofthe whole ********** 
 
 One Reddin came here to build a ship here. 
 
 One Woodbury and Skipper Dolliver purchased a small 
 tract of land of***** and were both down here. Woodbury, 
 a man of great substance, built a handsome house and a barn. 
 
 May 3. — The town admitted 7 persons into the town as 
 inhabitants, and came into a new method, viz : that every 
 person admitted from that time, should pay £10. Mr. Pike, 
 Webber, Woodward, Clark and *** built a house and barn *** 
 
 •August 9. — A sloop built before my door, was launched to- 
 day. 
 
 15. — The mast ship that loaded here sailed to-day. 
 17. — The town admitted 23 persons into the town, they 
 paying the £10. 
 
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 September 18. — The town admitted 5 persons into the town. 
 Among others, the town thought it their wisdom to admit a 
 number of gentlemen that stand their friends : viz. Mr. Shove, 
 Capt. Walton, Mr. Powell and Lewis. Some of them the 
 town admitted are substantial men — and Capt. Wheelwright. 
 
 People constantly flocking down here to petition for lots. 
 
 [A memorandum is made in another part of this year's jour- 
 nal ; but so illegible as not to be fully understood. All I can 
 gather from it is,as I conceive of it,that this was a township a 
 number of years before, but taken by Waudghsgad, for the 
 French and Indians — and that " at this time the town book 
 was either burnt or carried into Canada, which was an 
 unspeakable loss," producing disputes between the old and 
 new proprietors. Some of whom had, or required lands 
 " over and over again."] 
 
 1727. 
 
 January 2. — I got home to-day, found all things well, the 
 people glad to see me. 
 
 3. — I was this evening at a notable supper at Mr. Whal- 
 tons, with about 19 of the neighbors. 
 
 [It seems, then, that large parties are nothing new.] 
 
 10. — Separated this day for fasting and prayer,* 
 
 23. — Town meeting to-day. They passed several votes in 
 my favor, viz. : To find me my wood — To clear with me every 
 6 months — To give me three acres of Land for my Honse 
 and Lot — and to clear the 3 acre lot. Yesterday wrote to 
 Mr. Thacher for my dismission. 
 
 29. — (Sunday)— Not a vessel in the harbor, nor one stranger 
 at meeting : but as many of our own people as ever I saw. 
 
 30. — To-day the people met and cut the timber for my 
 House, and drew part of it to the spot. 
 
 February 1. — Our letters were sent to the Churches for 
 their assistance at the intended ordination. 
 
 6. — My father came here in Young Saunders from Boston — 
 spent the evening with us, and went on board and sailed. 
 
 11. — A very cold day indeed, this. 
 
 13. — The river froze over this morning — broke away P. M. 
 29. — Town meeting to-day to settle things about entertain- 
 ing the ministers, and about building my Hous«„ 
 
 *So much of this Journal as is printed in italics^was originally written in pri- 
 t^tg characters. 
 
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 March 6. — Set apart this day for fasting and prayer. 
 
 8. — This day I was ordained Minister of the Gosjtel and 
 Pastor of the Church. Mr. Mosely made the first prayer — 
 Mr. Wise prayed and gave the right hand of fellowship — 
 Mr. Newmarsh gave the Charge, and Mr. Rogers closed with 
 prayer. 
 
 9. — My father came here this morning in an Indian canoe. 
 16. — Col. Westbrook came here. 
 
 21. — Col. Westbrook went to Richmond. About this time 
 Mr. Riddings came down here with a considerable quantity 
 of goods in order to build a sloop here. 
 
 25. — This week I spent very closely in preparation for the 
 Sabbath. 
 
 [The pages of his Journal for the rest of the year contain 
 nothing ; on another sheet at the end of the Journal there 
 appears to be a continuation of the Journal to the end of the 
 year, but it contains little or nothing mote than an account of 
 the arrival and sailing of vessels particularly.] 
 
 September 10.— About SO vessels before the door for several 
 days. 
 
 [From other sources I learn that on the 29th October in 
 this year, there was a great Earthquake,* upon which a gen- 
 eral revival of Religion took place — 40 out of 124 were the 
 fruits of it in the Rev. Mr. Emerson's Church in Portsmouth, 
 ko. he. Note. The Rev. Mr. Gookin was then minister of 
 Hampton, in that State, and Rev. Mr. Rogers of Portsmouth, 
 successor to Rev. Mr. Moody. (See Boston Recorder of Jan. 
 13, 1821, and Christian History for 1743, page 134. Of 
 J his book more hereafter.) ] 
 
 1728. 
 
 January 1. — There was a great light seen in the N. E. 
 in the beginning of winter, which they say, certainly predicts 
 a very cold winter, which proves true as to this. 
 
 *By this Earthquake stone walls and the tops of several chimnies were thrown 
 down; in some places the doors were unlatched and burst open, and people in 
 great danger of falling. Its duration is supposed to have been about two min- 
 utes, and its course from Northwest to Southeast, and it extended from Kennebec 
 to the river Delaware, at least 700 miles. On the same dayj the Island of Martin- 
 ico was in danger of being entirely destroyed by an Earthquake, which continued 
 with -very short intervals, eleven hours. Many lives were lost — St. Peters Churcil 
 was thrown down ; and beside churches, convents, and other buildings, above 
 300 sagar works were ruined 
 
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 29. — Set out for Boston and arrived February 3. 
 February 8. — I came away from Boston. 
 19. — I got home, found all things comfortable. Thanks be 
 to God. I have rode in all the journey, 319 miles. 
 
 26. — Town meeting to day which was spent in reading the 
 Town Books. 
 
 27. — Same. 
 
 March 10. — (Sunday) I preached on the sins of the Town, 
 16. — A great many creatures have died this winter by reason 
 of the deep snow and scarcity of Hay. 
 
 25. — My 30 and 10 acre lots, with the ministry's, were laid 
 out. 
 
 26. — Annual Town meetings. The cab ailing party carried 
 all before them — and got all the officers of their party. 
 
 This week the Surveyors have been wholly employed 
 in laying out 30 acre lots in several parts of the town and es- 
 pecially over at Purpoodock, where they have laid out all the 
 land upon the water side, which at first occasioned a great 
 disturbance — that five old improved places were given to some 
 furious sparks who alone would take them. 
 
 April 19. — I sat out for Wells. 
 
 22. — Returned home. 
 
 29. — Nothing but confusion in town. The caballing party 
 broke among themselves. 
 
 May 2. — This week and the las't, there has been a mighty 
 stir and unwearied endeavors to overturn the caballing crew 
 and **** are the chief instruments, who being disappointed in 
 what they were seeking after, and more disgusted, leave n» 
 stone unturned to put a stop to their unjust arid mad proceed- 
 ings, and have forced a town meeting for these ends. 
 
 6. — Town meetings. No Representatives chosen. Sat out 
 on a journey to Dunstable and returned June IS. 
 
 25. — Town meeting chiefly to consider the Selectmen's 
 accounts, and after having wrangled all day broke up in a flame 
 — as near fighting as possible. 
 
 26 — Mr. Thompson was ordained (at Scarborough.) 
 
 July 6. — J contracted the most intimate acquaintance with 
 Mr. Thompson, and spent most of the week past with him. 
 
 10. — We hear that the last Thursday's Lecture in Boston, 
 was turned into a Fast, on account of the drought, and it is 
 worthy of remark, that the late plentiful rains began that day 
 — doubtless an answer of prayer. 
 
 13. — I sat out on another journey to Dunstable. 
 
 August 13. — Returned to Falmouth and found all things 
 well. * 
 
 September 11. — I sat out this morning early [for Dunstable 
 where he arrived the next day.] 
 
 12. — I was married this evening [to Sarah Tyng.] 
 
20 
 
 14. — I sat out this morning for home, accompanied by Col. 
 Tyng, &.c. 
 
 28. — Got home very comfortably. We were met the day 
 before at Scarborough, by Mr. Cobb and several of the people, 
 women especially — had a very noble supper prepared for us. 
 
 November 1. — Town meeting to day. 100 acres of land 
 voted to every man. They differed about pews, and adjourned. 
 
 22. — There was a great uproar to-day, about Capt.Larabee, 
 complaining against Isaac Sawyer, for scandalising of him. 
 
 December 28. — There continues a desperate uproar in town 
 about Capt. Larabee, *** several neighbors summoned to 
 York, on account of his complaint against Sawyer. 
 
 [The journals of this year contain accounts of visits ; riding 
 out ; preaching here and there ; subjects preached ; whether 
 the meetings were fully attended or not ; state of the weather ; 
 domestic concerns, &c. fcc] 
 
 1 729—1 730—1 731—1 732. 
 
 The journals for these years are missing. 
 
 That there may be some supply, the editor thinks it not 
 amiss to insert the following from the Annals mentioned in the 
 preface : 
 
 1729. 
 
 The Natchez, an Indian nation on the Mississippi, formed 
 a general conspiracy to massacre the French colonists of 
 Louisana. *"** Two hundred Frenchmen were killed. Of 
 all the people at the Natchez, not more man twenty French, 
 and five or six negroes escaped. One hundred and fifty chil- 
 dren, and eighty women, with nearly as many negroes, were 
 made prisoners. But the next year, 
 
 1730, 
 
 Mr. Parrier, governor of Louisana, went against them with 
 a body of French troops, and so terrified them at their ap- 
 proach, that they shut themselves up in a fort which they had 
 built ; but were soon forced by the fire from the French 
 mortars to make signals for capitulation. They were carried 
 
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 to New-Orleans,where they were confined in separate prisons, 
 and afterwards transported as slaves to St. Domingo. Thus 
 were the French women and children released ; and that 
 nation, the most illustrious in Louisana was destroyed. 
 
 1731. 
 
 Thomas Hollis, the distinguished, benefactor of Harvard 
 College, died this year, at the age of 72 years*. 
 
 1732. 
 
 On the 2£d of February, this year, George Washington 
 was born in Virginia, at Bridges Creek, in the county of 
 Westmoreland. [He died at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799.] 
 
 1733. 
 
 January. [The beginning of this month, Mr. Smith took 
 a journey to Boston.] 
 
 7. — I preached at Greenland. I hope I did some good — 
 the people seemed mightily affected. 
 
 *The net produce of his donations in 1727, (exclusive af gifts not vendible,) 
 amounted to 4,900/. N. E. surrency, which placed at interest, at 6 per cent, pro- 
 duced 291/. per annum. This sum he appointed to be laid out annually in the 
 following manner : 
 
 To a Divinity Professor, 80/ 
 To a Professor of the Mathematics, ... 80 
 To the Treasurer of College, - - - 20 
 To ten poor Students in Divinity, - - - - 100 
 To supply deficiences, - - - - - 14 
 
 294/. 
 
 In addition to these generous donations, he gave the college a valuable appa- 
 ratus for mathematics and philosophical experiments. He also sent a set of 
 Hebrew and Greek types for printing, the present of a friend of his, valued at 
 39/. sterling ; and at different times, augmented the College Library with very 
 valuable books, partly his own gift, and partly by procurement from friends. 
 
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 11. — Attended the fast, (at Cape Porpus.) Mr. Cutter gave 
 great offence by bis rank Arminianism. 
 
 12. — Rode home alone, found all well through the goodness 
 of G od. 
 
 14 (Sunday.) — I was much carried out, and the people 
 seemed mightily affected. 
 
 29. — Some of the ship's men were put in the stocks by 
 order of Justice Wheeler. 
 
 27. — To-day was our town meeting, pretty peaceable ; 
 Messrs. Wheeler, Pearson, Baet, Thorndike and Cobb, Se- 
 lectmen ; Wheeler, Treasurer, and Pearson, Clerk. 
 
 29. — Public Fast. A very full meeting. I was as much 
 enlarged, and had the most extraordinary assistances th at ever 
 (I think) I found. I was longer much, and prayed with grea- 
 ter freedom, distinctness and propriety, than ever I did on a 
 fast day ; and I here record it to encourage myself to depend 
 and rely upon God, having been enabled to pray for assistance 
 more than usual, being out of order, and much concerned 
 about it. 
 
 April 7. — I have not been from home this week. Have 
 written a great deal. [This he seems to have always done 
 generally. From a view of his sermon in my possession, and 
 an account of them among his papers. I imagine that in the 
 course of his life, he wrote and preached not less than 3000.] 
 
 19. — Every body has had bad colds. 
 
 May 7. — Town meeting. They unanimously voted me 
 £160 for my salary. 
 
 June 23. — To-day Mr. Wheeler came from Boston and 
 brought news that the West-India bill about molasses,rose lOd 
 in the gallon. 
 
 July 18. — Sat out for Boston, arrived 23d. 
 
 August 4. — Returned from Boston; found friends all well. 
 
 September 5. — We ail rode in the Colonel's new road, to 
 see the place where the paper mill is to be set, [at Stroud- 
 water.] 
 
 18. — To day the inhabitants of Purpoodock had a parish 
 meeting, and voted to build a meeting house, and chose Mr. 
 Allen to be their minister* 
 
 October 2 1. — The sloops all sailed this morning. I suppose 
 there was about SO. 
 
 November 9. — Mr. Parker came here, bound to Boston to 
 be ordained. 
 
 December 7. — I make a practice of working some every 
 day. 
 
 30. — I rode to tho Truckhouse. 
 
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 [The pages of his Journal for this year are occupied witu 
 accounts of the weather and of ministerial and social visits, 
 more fully than usual, and of planting, sowing and reap- 
 ing, &tc] 
 
 1734. 
 
 January 13. — (Sunday). Sac. Can. about 40 at the com- 
 munion. 
 
 February 13. — We had news from Boston that there is like 
 to be Peace. 
 
 15. — Town meeting about building me a garrison ; East op- 
 posed and prevented it, but several of the people beat up 
 volunteers and set about it. There were about 50 hands went 
 to work on it. 
 
 March 11. — All the talk for a great while past is about war 
 expected ; we have often rumors of war, and sometimes 
 news that it is peace. 
 
 23. — All the week I am hurried about my garrison. 
 
 23. — I had about 50 persons assisting in raising my garrison, 
 and had a magnificent supper for them. 
 
 April 17. — We are all hushed about the news of peace. 
 
 May 12. — I sat out with mv wife on a journey, (to Dunsta- 
 ble.) 
 
 June 5. — Got home, found all well, thanks to God. 
 
 June 25. — Had the gates of my garrison hung. 
 
 July 28. — We were much alarmed to day by news about 
 the Indians appearing in a great body. There was a watch 
 this night. 
 
 29. — To day we had a scout of men went out to see if they 
 could make any discovery of Indians. There certainly is a 
 number of Canada Indians somewhere on the back of us. 
 
 August 3. — The coasters have entered into bonds not to 
 carry any more wood to Boston for a month. 
 
 10. — There were four of the Cape Indians drowned to day 
 going to N. Yarmouth. 
 
 September 5. — Mr. Waldo came to town. 
 
 16. — I sat out with Mr. Wheeler on a journey to Boston, 
 19. — (At York), I was to see the Indian woman that mur- 
 dered Trott's child. 
 
 25. — Sailed from Boston. *- 
 
 27. — Got home, found all well, thanks to God. 
 
 October 6. — (Sunday) Sac. Cain. 70 communicants. 
 
 16. — Messrs. Jeffreys and Cutter came here. We kept a 
 public fast to pray for the effusion of the Holy Spirit on the 
 youth. 
 
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 20. — (Sunday.) Not a very full meeting, but a great many 
 young people. They preached to them. 
 
 November 6. — My father came here. 
 
 8. — I rode with my father to see the colonial great dam. 
 
 10. — Mr. Allen was installed. I was there. Mr. Willard 
 preached. Mr. Thompson gave the charge, and Mr. JerTerds 
 the right hand of fellowship. 
 
 September 31 . — Destina P. M. Deum Laudare. 
 
 [Excepting his illness at sundry times, Mr. Smith seems to 
 have enjoyed himself much with his friends this year, and to 
 have attended many sick persons in his ministerial capacity.] 
 
 1735. 
 
 January. — [This month contains an account of a journey to 
 Dunstable, from 5th to 16th. The other part of the Journal 
 is similar to what is repeatedly recorded.] 
 
 February 4. — I sat out with my father on a journey to 
 Boston. 
 
 June 19. — (At York), prayed with the Court. The Indian 
 was brought to trial. 
 
 21. — Got well home, found all very well, thanks to God. 
 I never experienced more of the goodness of God than in this 
 journey. Met with no difficulty, no disappointment — but with 
 great civility and kindness in every place. 
 
 July 1. — There is an abundance of strawberries in my 
 swamp. 
 
 14. — T sat out on a journey, (returned the 18th.) 
 
 22. — Ministers meeting at Scarborough. 
 
 SO. — All hands set out in Mr. Wheeler's boat for Bruns- 
 wick. 
 
 August. — [A full page, and very finely written, but it con- 
 tains nothing particularly interesting ; there was however a 
 council at N. Yarmouth, respecting Mr. Cutter.] 
 
 September 16. — I rode round by the Falls, to seethe dis- 
 tressed families who lost their relatives a board Boardman. 
 
 October 13. — I sat out on a journey to Boston,(returned 25.) 
 
 31. — We had a Fast (as there has been almost every year) 
 on account of the sickness which broke out at Kingston,*]N.H. 
 
 * This was an epidemic disease, which obtained the name of the threat dis- 
 temper, which made its appearance in May and spread gradually through that 
 township during the summer. Of the first forty who had the disease, none re- 
 covered. In August it began to make its appearance at Exeter 5 and in Septem- 
 ber in Boston. It continued its ravages through the succeeding, winter and 
 spring; and did not disappear until the end of the next summer. In the pro- 
 
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 and which is got as far as Cape Porpoise, and carries of! a 
 great many children and young persons and alarms the whole 
 country. 
 
 November 6.— I first heard of Brunswick Fort being burnt. 
 9. — (Sunday,) Twenty vessels, chiefly sloops, sailed this 
 morning. 
 
 December 12. — To day Mr. Cutter was finally dismissed at 
 a town meeting. 
 
 [The Journals from 1733, inclusively, take up two full 
 octavo pages to each month. They shew the industry of the 
 writer, not only in the making of the Records, but in the 
 daily employments which are, in a very considerable degree, 
 the subjects of them. 
 
 The following Journal has no date, of the year, to it, but 
 some circumstances induce me to suppose it was made in the 
 year 1736. Each month, like the three last, takes up two 
 pages.] 
 
 1736. 
 
 January — [I see nothing in this month that needs to be 
 recited.] 
 
 February. — [I may say the same of this.] 
 
 March 12. — Parish meeting, they raised my salary 30l. so 
 that it is now 230£. I did not expect so much or hear that 
 they designed it. 
 
 April. — [I do not think it needful to notice any thing in 
 this month.] 
 
 May. — [Nor in this, unless it be the following.] 
 
 29. — I went over to Mr. Allen — met the ministers on the 
 affair of the Irish. They came over with me to dinner. 
 
 June. — [Nor in this, any thing.] 
 
 July. — [There is here nothing remarkable.] 
 
 August 14. — I sat out with Deacon Beautineau for Boston. 
 [He arrived there the 24th.] 
 
 vince of New Hampshire, not less than one thousand persons, of whom nine 
 hundred were under twenty years of age, fell victims to this malignant distem- 
 per. Tn Boston, four thousand persons had the same disease ; and one hundred 
 and fourteen died. In Haverhill, Mass., there died of the same disease from 
 Nov. 17, 1735 to Oct. 6, 1737, one hundred and ninety-nine persons. The num- 
 ber of inhabitants of Boston was estimated at sixteen thousand. This disease 
 gradually spread westward, and was two years in reaching the river Hudson, 
 about two hundred miles in a straight line from Kingston. It continued its 
 progress, with some interruption until it spread over all the colonies. 
 
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 September 1.— Came away from Boston, had a fine passage 
 •f 17 hours. 
 
 9 — We were exceedingly alarmed with news of the In- 
 dians attacking Saco, and the guns being frequently heard. 
 
 11. — The front of my garrison was done up. 
 
 IS.— We have a great deal of thought and talk about war. 
 
 £0. — The measles has been in town for several months. 
 
 October 22. — I am much discouraged, I feel so feeble and 
 broken. 
 
 SO. — I have reason to think I have the distemper going 
 about, viz. the slow fever and sore throat, and that I took it of 
 Daniel Kent who died lately. 
 
 November 15.— Mr. Macienathem installed. I had a clash 
 with him. 
 
 17. — Many persons are taken down, as I was, with a sore 
 throat and pain in the head and other bad symptoms, but soon 
 over. 
 
 December. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 [Mr. Smith frequently mentions having persons to dine 
 with him, especially on sabbath days, from which I conclude 
 he was very hospitable.] 
 
 1737. 
 
 January 3. — There is no wood, little corn, sad complaints 
 every where. 
 
 4. — Now there is corn there is no grinding, people know 
 not what to do. 
 
 9. — The distemper is broke out afresh, and proves mortal 
 at York and Wells. [It appears from the mention of a child's 
 death, to have been the throat distemper.] 
 
 11. — The distemper is in several places in the parish. Neal 
 lost three children. 
 
 19. — Mr. Wait© came in from Boston in about eleven 
 hours. 
 
 February 11. — Brunswick and Pemaquid Forts (which 
 were dismantled this session) are continued till May session. 
 
 19. — I was at prayer with a number of the Parish who met 
 about a new Meeting House. 
 
 March 5. — It is a melancholy time in regard to the scarcity 
 of corn, some have had none for several weeks. 
 
 12. — The distemper which seemed to be gone has broke 
 out again in several houses. 
 
 23.— Sailed for Boston. 30th AH the talk in Boston is 
 about the mob that pulled down the Market. 
 •April 8. — Got home after a pleasant passage. 
 
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 t\. — All the talk is, no corn, no hay, and there is not a 
 peck of potatoes to eat in all the eastern country. 
 
 May 1. — The distemper is now bad at North Yarmouth. 
 In all 75 have died of it in the whole town ; 49 here and 2C in 
 Purpoodock. 
 
 3. — Mr. Goodwin came in with 300 bushels of corn. So 
 that there is great rejoicing in town. Thanks to God. 
 
 June 4. — Corn is 105. a bushel in Boston, hardly any to be 
 got. 
 
 SO . — Sat out for Boston. 
 
 July 8. — Was at Commencement. 
 
 15. — Got home. 
 
 Aug. 3. — Ministers meeting here. 
 
 Sept. 17.— The distemper is beginning at Black Point, 2 or 
 S children have died of it. 
 
 October 13. — The distemper is still bad at Scarborough. 
 Not one has lived that has had it of late. 
 
 14. — They attempted to launch the mast ship, but she 
 stuck. 
 
 Novemher 18. — There has been a distressing time in Boston 
 for want of bread, but the night before Thanksgiving, 1500 
 barrels of flour was brought in, which reduced the price from 
 655. to 555. a hundred. 
 
 26. — Three children have died this week of the distemper 
 in the town, and the pleurisy fever prevails and has pioved 
 mortal to several at N. Yarmouth. 
 
 December 1. — We have melancholy accounts of the sickness 
 at N. Yarmouth. 
 
 2. — The distemper is now bad at Purpoodock, one Mour- 
 ton has buried 3 out of 4. 
 
 9. — All that had tbe pleuretic fever have died of it, save 
 one. 
 
 22. — There was a meeting of the Parish who voted to me 
 200Z. for my last year's salary. 
 
 Through the goodness of God, I and mine are brought to 
 the close of another year. 
 
 [Though Mr. Smith had been very frequently out of health, 
 he here makes reflections on various mercies he had been 
 favored with.] 
 
 NOTE. "A heavy shock of an earthquake was felt in New Jersey this year. It 
 caused doors to fly open, and bricks to fall from the chimnies ; and excited great 
 consternation j yet did but little actual injury." 
 
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 1738. 
 
 January S. — Stroudwater Bridge fell down. 
 
 February 16. — 1 sat out on my journey to Boston, (arrived 
 23d) 25th*left Boston. 
 
 March 4. — Returned to Falmouth by water. 
 
 April 13.-Public Fast. I had extraordinary assistance; 
 vas an hour and a half in prayer, a. m. and above an hour, p. m. 
 
 17. — I was at the funeral of Mr. Townsend who died yester- 
 day. 
 
 June 8. — I went away this evening in Mr. West for Boston. 
 
 10. — Got to Boston about one. 
 
 23. — Came away in Stickney. 
 
 24. — Got to Cape Ann. 
 
 25. — Got home. 
 
 27.— The canker dissemper is broke out in Milton, Wo- 
 burn and Cape Ann and is at N. Yarmouth. 
 
 August 10.— The town and country is,now in an alarm by 
 news that Cox brought from the eastward. We keep a 
 watch every night on the neck. 
 
 10..— I was in the Evening at prayer with one Dyer and her 
 child who have the throat distemper, which prevails and 
 proves universally mortal at the Falls. 
 
 18. -— Col. Pepperil with the officers of the Militia and 
 troops came dow n here by order of the Governor to enquire 
 into the preparedness for war. 
 
 30.— At Mr. Powell's, (N. Yarmouth.) 
 Septemher 1. — I paddled myself to N. Casco, dined at Mr. 
 JNoice's and visited several families there. 
 
 11. — I set sail for Boston. 13. — Set sail for Falmouth. 
 
 14. — Got home. I was 22 hours going. 29 hours there, 
 22 coining home. 
 
 19. — There was a council to day about Mr. Prentiss' leav- 
 ing his people. 
 
 22. — Five of Mr. Allen's family have died (within a week) 
 of the throat distemper. 
 
 October 14.— My wife was delivered of a son to day. 
 
 15. — (Sunday) We baptized our child, John. 
 November 4. — The throat distemper is still exceeding bad 
 
 at Saco. 
 
 22.— The church suspended Mrs. *** (on account of he; 
 drunkenness. 
 
 [Though but few extracts are made from Mr. Smith's Jour- 
 nal this year, it should be noticed that his time seems to hav€ 
 been fully employed, as in former years.] 
 
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 1739. 
 
 [A part of the Journal for this year appears to be missing, 
 viz. the three first and the last month ; I say " this year" as 
 it is eovered with the outsides of the Almanac for this year, 
 but there is no date to the. Journal.] 
 
 April. — [From the 1st to the 10th is an account of a jour- 
 ney to York, where he prayed with the Court at which he had 
 some business. The other part of the Journal, though very 
 full, is not interesting.] 
 
 May 18.— We had a public fast to pray for the success of 
 the Gospel. [Several ministers present— Mr. Willard preach- 
 ed. 
 
 [The journal for the rest of the month gives an account of 
 a Journey to Dunstable.] 
 
 June. — [This month is occupied with an account of a trip 
 to Boston, and journey to Dunstable, of Mr. Smith, his wife 
 and child.] 
 
 July 13. — The governor and several gentlemen came here 
 in a man-of-war from Kennebec. 
 
 20. — This morning a sloop came from Boston with th© 
 counsellors, representatives and other gentlemen ; and gentle- 
 men from all parts of the country* 
 
 25. — To-day came here a great many of the chiefs of the 
 tribes. They made a great show. 
 
 26. — The Indians appearing with French colors ; the 
 governor would not see them to-day. The governor dined at 
 Mr. Wheeler's, and about 40 gentlemen, mostly young men, 
 dined at my house. 
 
 27. — There is nothing more remarkable this week than that 
 the governor and gentlemen are on the hill almost every day, 
 where there was a spacious great tent, with seats and benches, 
 and where they met the Indians. 
 
 28 — The Governor did not meet the Indians to-day, he 
 being with all the other gentlemen up to Col. Westbrook's, at 
 a dinner. 
 
 29.— There was a public dinner on the hill, where the Eng- 
 lish and about 200 Indians dined. P. M. Delivering presents 
 to the Indians. 
 
 SO. — The governor set out for Saco by four in the morning 
 and the gentlemen went on board the vessels. 
 
 31. — The Governor lodged at my father's truck-house, [a 
 Saco,] this night. 
 
 August's,. — The vessels all sailed to-day. They have left, 
 us quite bare, and nothing of the country's produce, left, only 
 3 bushels of corn and some small things. They allowed £12 
 for our house. 
 
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 S i' t — We had a public fast, to pray for the success of the 
 gospel ; many of the people attended — Ministers, Jeffries, 
 Thompson, Cutter, Moody and Prentice. 
 
 September G. — I visited all the people at Spirwink, except- 
 ing one Simonton, and a few on the Cape. 
 
 21. — There was a meeting of the New Proprietors to day, 
 at which they could not do anything by reason of Mr. Mount- 
 fort and some others not being allowed Proprietors. 
 
 22. — They finished the meeting to day, entirely to the 
 satisfaction of every body. The New Proprietors took in the 
 old ones by vote, (and others,) all signed Articles of Agree- 
 ment. This was the happiest meeting Falmouth ever had. 
 Thanks to God. 
 
 24. — There are 12 coasting sloops, besides some schooners 
 that all lie close before the door. 
 
 25. — I reckon I have in a short space of time past, visited 
 all the people except at Stroudwater and a few at the N. E. 
 part of the town. 
 
 October 18. — This day sat out for Boston. [The rest of 
 the month is taken up with an account of his journey -out, 
 there, and home.] 
 
 November 9. — To day the committee are selling 600/. 
 worth of land. They sold 1000 acres. 
 
 30. — Yesterday Mr. Moody was ordained. 
 
 [Mr. Smith in his Sabbath days Journals, generally men- 
 tions whether the meetings are full or thin, and very often 
 that strangers were present, how he was affected, and when 
 he was afterwards " tired," and this was not unfrequent.] 
 
 1740. 
 
 January 16. — Every body expects in the spring a French, 
 as there is now a Spanish War. 
 
 21. — I have not been abroad a week-day for this eleven 
 weeks, yet I have constantly gone out on Sabbath days. 
 
 25. — We have had a close week with our children, all hav- 
 ing the qtrincy as well as others of us. It seems to be going 
 through the country. 
 
 February 4 — A soldier was froze to death. 
 
 22. — I have been very ill and full pf pain with a bad cough. 
 March. — [Nothing material is recorded this month.] 
 April 21. — Orders are come to Boston for 5000 soldiers to 
 
 go to join the English forces in the West Indies, and are 
 thought to try for the Havana. 
 
 30. — I rode to Stroudwater to talk with Mr. Slemmons, 
 who is offended with my sermon to the Irish. Mr. Frost also 
 
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 made known that he is offended with me for some passage in 
 a sermon which he thought reflected on his taking Haskell's 
 house, &,c. 
 
 May S8. — Sailed in Capt. Fox's brig for Boston. 
 June 10. — Got home. 
 
 28. — There is strong expectation of war ; 2 French squad- 
 rons with one Spanish one having sailed, as it is thought for 
 the West Indies, and the Indians are surly and threaten a 
 war. 
 
 30. — I heard yesterday that Mr. President Hollyoke buri- 
 ed his wife and two children with the throat distemper. 
 
 July 3. — About this time we had a terrible alarm made by 
 Ares, Gorhamtown. 
 
 17. — We had a Parish meeting about receiving the new 
 meeting house. I was at prayer. A sad opposition there 
 was, but yet, by a majority, voted. 
 
 20. — We first met in the new meeting house an exceeding 
 full assembly. 
 
 24. — I had three sheep killed by a wolf. There were seven 
 others killed. 
 
 28. — A watch has been kept on the Neck, ever sinee Ares' 
 news. 
 
 30. — The church kept a day of Fasting and Prayer on ac- 
 count of the spread of Quakerism. Mr. Jeffrey and myself 
 prayed, A. M. Mr. Thompson preached. Mr, Allen and Mr. 
 Lord prayed and Mr. Willard preached, P. M. 
 
 31. — Our pews were appropriated. 
 
 •August 3. — (Sunday,) An exceeding full congregation and 
 communion and yet I reckoned more than 60 heads of fami- 
 lies that were absent, and many of their whole families with 
 them. 
 
 10. — (Sunday J A full meeting. Mr. Crocker preached for 
 me. Capt. Jones and Mr. Wilson have not been to meeting 
 in our new house, and there is an unhappy uneasiness about it. 
 
 September 29. — I sat out for York. 
 
 October 4. — Got home. 
 
 5. (Sunday,,) I preached extempore, A. M. about Mr. 
 Whitfield. 
 
 November 14. My wife was delivered of a daughter. 
 16. — (Sunday ,j We baptized our daughter by the name of 
 Sarah. 
 
 December 3. There has been a great freshet that has done 
 a great deal of damage. 
 
 21. — I rode to Saeo, lodged with my father at Smith's, who 
 was forced out of his own lodgings by vast quantities of ice 
 which jambed and raised the water 18 inches higher than her 
 bedstead. 
 
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 [I might have mentioned before, that Mr. Smith used to 
 keep a particular account of the presents made him. These 
 appear to have been very numerous and shew the regard his 
 people had for him. Indeed the connexion with them seems 
 to have been a happy one on both sides.] 
 
 1741. 
 
 January 2. — I walked over the ice from Capt. Moody's 
 
 beach, straight to Mr Cushing's to get corn. 
 
 3. — Our Mr. Stephen Jones, (we bear) is on shore at Cape 
 Cod with 1400 bushels of corn. 
 
 7. — I rode with Master Hodge to North Yarmouth ; we rode 
 round the Cove and turned down to Mr. Norris' across Pre- 
 sumpscot River, and lode from thence all the way on the iee 
 which was exceeding hard and secure. We were not three 
 quarters of an hour from Mr. Norris' to Mr. Loring's door. 
 
 10. — There has been for some time a melancholy scarcity 
 of corn. 
 
 11. — ( Sunday ,J I rode over the river and changed with 
 Mr. Allen. 
 
 14. — Melancholy tidings we have of vessels lost in the 
 storm last month. 
 
 15. — Twenty nine vessels came out of Holmes' Hole chief- 
 ly laden with provisions. We hear 17 of them were lost the 
 next day. 
 
 [There is a want of further Journal this year, until the 
 month of May, and after that month, to the end of the year.] 
 
 May 3. — We hear there is a famine in Ireland and an uni- 
 versal scarcity. 
 
 4. — Pretty many families on the Penobscot live wholly on 
 the clam banks. 
 
 9. — The fish have but now struck in, a great relief to peo- 
 ple almost perishing. 
 
 14. — Mr Jones came in with 900 bushels of corn. 
 
 1 5. — Mr. Jones sells his com at 1 5s. a bushel. It is 14s. in 
 Boston. People groan terribly at the price. 
 
 16. — A most melancholy time. God remember us in mer- 
 cy and be better to us than our fears. 
 
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 1742. 
 
 January 2. — I got home from a journey to Piscataqua, 
 xvhere I have been to observe and affect myself with the great 
 work of God's grace. 
 
 29. — I rode with my wife and preached a Lecture at Mr. 
 Frost's, where the work broke out. 
 
 31. — The blessedest Sabbath Falmouth ever saw. 
 
 February 19. — My Father died last night. 
 
 March 12. — I sat out with my brother on a journey to Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 April 3. — Returned from Boston. 
 
 9. — Had ten persons to see me about joining with the 
 church. 
 
 May 19. — We had a town meeting to see if the people 
 would receive the £1600 the General Court voted us. By 
 reason of opposition from Purpoodock, nothing was done. 
 
 26. — I rode this morning to Black Point, and with Mr. Al- 
 len, carried on a Fast, which was to pray for the revival of the 
 great work. 
 
 27. — The people voted to day to receive the money. [It is 
 not said what the money was voted for.] 
 
 June 14. — I sat out on a journey to Boston with my brother. 
 17. — Got to Boston. 
 July 10. — Got home. 
 
 12. — People have been much dissatisfied with my leaving 
 them so long. Mr. Bewal, by illness, disappointed me. 
 
 August — [The page of his Journal for this month is a blank. 
 A very singular neglect !] 
 
 31. — I rode to Gorhara Town and preached, and had great 
 assistance. 
 
 September. — [A full page again, giving, until the 14th, an 
 account of a trip to Boston.] 
 
 October 1. — My dear wife died between 2 and 3 P. M. — 
 [Some account of her death and characler, and of Mr. Smith's 
 meditations on the afflictive event, here follow.] 
 
 3. — (Sunday.) Mr. Allen preached here, and after service 
 we attended the funeral of my wife. 
 
 November 2. — Beef is now sold in this town at 9d per pound, 
 and other provisions extravagantly dear. 
 
 December 28. — I preached to young people in the old Meet- 
 ing House. 
 
 [The Journal for this year is less filled than any of the pre- 
 aeeding years, but it contains the record of events that were 
 interesting to Mr. Smith. The death of a sister, father, wife 
 and child.] 
 
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 1743. 
 
 January 23. — (Sunday.) I have been in a poor distracted 
 frame, this asd the three preceeding Sabbaths ; lost all cour- 
 age and ready to give up. 
 
 February 1. — I sat out on a journey for Boston. 
 
 19. — Got home. 
 
 March 15. — Parish meeting ; they raised my salary to 
 £265. 
 
 29. — I sat out on a journey to Piscataqua. 
 [He seems at this time, to have been looking out for anoth- 
 er wife.] 
 •April 13. — Got home. 
 
 18. — It pleased God to enable me to such a behavior at the 
 Bank* as that I had extraordinary acceptance, and met with a 
 great deal of acceptance and respect. 
 
 May 23. — I sat out for Boston with Mr. Crocker 
 
 26. — Got to Boston. There was a sad division in the Con- 
 vention of Ministers at Boston. Dr. Chauncey and others in 
 opposition to the late work of God in the land. They obtain- 
 ed a vote against the disorders, &c. thereby expressly own- 
 ing the work, which puts the Ministers on the other side into 
 a great ferment ; the people through the country are also uni- 
 versally divided, and in the most unhappy temper. The oppo- 
 sition is exceeding virulent and mad. 
 
 June 3. — I came from Boston to the Islands. 
 
 4. — Came to sail. 
 
 5. — (Sunday.) Got home to meeting, as they began sing- 
 ing. A. M. Mr. Hodge preached. 
 
 14. — Mr. Waldo come to town with an Execution against 
 Col. Westbrook, for £10500 and charges. 
 
 15. — I catechised the children on the Neck, about 70. 
 
 22. — I rode with my sister to a Minister's meeting at Scar- 
 borough ; had a Lecture. We met to declare our sense of the 
 late religious appearances. 
 
 July l.-^-Days of Fasting are kept in one place and another, 
 on account of the worms. 
 
 4. — I sat out for Boston in company with Deacon Mitchell. 
 
 6. — Got to Boston. 
 
 7. — Went to see Mrs. Pierce, A. M. but did not stay, being 
 obliged to attend a Convention of Ministers to bear testimony 
 to the late glorious work of God in the land which is opposed 
 by so many ; there were 90 ministers present, and with this 
 
 * The town of Portsmouth or Piscataqua was then called u the Bauk," 
 
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 happy concurrence, 30 ministers sent their testimony. The 
 who!; number of ministei and attesters, is 111 * 
 
 15. — Got home (fioin Boston.) 
 
 22, — Man) strange Quakers in town. 
 
 September 19, — i Expectation of a French war. Her Majes- 
 ty having got 'a victory over the French, and sent anil de- 
 manded the demolition of Dunkirk. 
 
 October 4. — The Court this year is kept at Purpoodock, on 
 pretence of no tavern this ?ide 
 
 13. — -Public Thanksgiving on account of the victory given 
 Her Majesty on the Maine. With 1800, she fought the French 
 with 2800, which gives a surpiising turn to the affairs of Eu- 
 rope. 
 
 14. — Yesterday the whole country was put into a great 
 fright, by Mr. Milliken bringing an express to Capt. Sherter. 
 
 [*There are now in the Portland Library, two volumes, entitled " Christian 
 History, containing accounts of the revival and propagation of Religion in Great 
 Britain and America." They were formed by a set of weekly papers published 
 under that title in the years 1743 and 1744. (The first number being published 
 March 12, 1743 and the last February 23, 1744—5.) In that of July 16, 1743 is 
 an account of the calling together by an advertisement in the Boston Gazette, 
 " the Ministers of that town and such other brethren in the country as were per. 
 tuaderi that there had been a happy revival of religion in many parts of the 
 land, through an extraordinary divine influence, to consider whether they were 
 not called upon to give an open conjunct testimony of an event so surprising; 
 gracious, &c. in an interview at Boston the day after the then approaching com- 
 mencement, and that those who could not be present would send their attesta- 
 tions in writing." 
 
 Ag'ft eably thereto, ninety Ministers met at Boston on the 7th of July, and ap- 
 pointed Doct. Colman, Moderator; Doct. Sewal, Assistant, and Messrs. Prince 
 and Hobby, Scribes. The result of this assembly, which " after inquiries, dicta- 
 tions, discourses and debates" they agreed upon, was denominated their " Te+- 
 timony and Advice this it was agreed should be published, and it is, together 
 witbthe " Attestation" contained in the Letters of 28 (and afterwards ^increas- 
 ed to 43) absent ministers, inserted in the first of the two volumes abovemen- 
 lioned, from page 155 to 200. 
 
 This is the Assembly or " Convention of Ministers" which Mr. Smith in his 
 Journal aays hejwas obliged to attend. It may be here noted, that the follow- 
 ing Ministers sent their joint " Attestation" to the Convention by Mr. Smith, 
 and it is recorded with the others, viz : 
 
 Rev. Benjamin Allen, Pastor of the 2d Church in Falmouth. 
 
 Rev. William Thompson, Pastor of the Church in Scarborough. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Jeffords, Pastor of the Church in Wells. 
 
 Rev.. Tohn Hovey, Pastor of the Church in Arundel. 
 
 Rev. Nicholas Loring, Pastor of the Church in North- YarmouA. 
 
 Rev. Moses Merrill, Pastor of the Church in Biddeford. 
 
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 Her Majesty we hear is now in Germany with 17000 fine 
 troops and expects to be joined with Prince Charles ofLor- 
 rain, with 6000 more. 
 
 November 1.— Mr. Jones is languishing and just gone. At 
 the desire of him and his friends I sat out on a journey to 
 Portsmouth, to bring down Doct. Rogers. 
 
 4.— -Came away with Doct. Rogers. 
 
 7. — Got home. 
 
 8. -— I was at the Funeral of Mr. Jones, who died on Satur- 
 day night (the 5th.) 
 
 December 14.— Mr. Wight was oidained. 
 
 15.— -The General Courts Committee are here fixing the 
 places for Block-houses, from Maiblehead to Berwick six ; 
 three further east. 
 
 20 —Sat out on a journey to Boston. 
 
 26.— -Cot to Boston. First saw a Comet, though it has 
 been seen near three weeks. 
 
 1744. 
 
 [The Journals now begin to be written on paper of a larger 
 size, \ iz : 8vo. Post.] 
 
 March 1. — I was married this evening [to Mrs. Jordan.] 
 
 10.— This day I am 42 years old. I took a religious notice 
 of it . I have rode in 13 months past, more than 3000 miles. 
 I have been to Boston 4 times. 
 
 April.-" [Nothing material.] 
 
 May 19.— We have had a Packet from government; certain 
 advice of a war with France 
 
 20.— (Sunday.) People are at work at North-Yarmouth 
 and this town about their garrisons to day. Not a very full 
 meeting ; many fearing to come. 
 
 23 —Samuel Waldo, jr chosen our Representative. 
 
 25.— All the talk and thoughts now is about war. People 
 are every w here garrisoning. We hear Canso is taken. 
 
 June 3.— (Sunday.) Not a full meeting, people fearing to 
 come. This morning there was a great Earthquake. 
 
 14.— The Soldiers came down here. The Province have 
 raised 500, 300 of them for the eastern country. 
 
 20. — Sat out for York. 
 
 23 — Got home. 
 
 28. — There was a public Fast on account of the War and 
 the Earthquake. 
 
 29. — A new recruit of Soldiers came down here, the Prov- 
 ince having raised 500 more, 300 for this eastern country, and 
 
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 S5 of them are posted in this town and two of them in my garri- 
 son. 
 
 July 9. — I catechised the children on the Neck ; about 80. 
 
 12. — Several gentlemen from the Court with others, with 
 the Mohawks are now down at Georges, treating with the 
 Penobscot Indians about being at peace with us, and about 20 
 Saco Indians are at Boston pretending to live among us. 
 
 26. — We hear the Penobsoot Indians have agreed to be at 
 peace. 
 
 August 1. — Mr. Waldo came here with a Colonel's com- 
 mission. 160 soldiers in this country are dismissed upon the 
 late treaty with the Indians. 
 
 28. — Gunning after pidgeons, which increase in plenty. 
 I brought home ten dozen in my chaise. 
 
 September. — [Rather a thin page in the journal of this 
 month, and nothing of any consequence.] 
 
 October 1. — This day I separated myself in some poor 
 manner for the exercise of humiliation, with respect to the 
 sore providence that happened on it a year ago ; and,herewith, 
 thanksgiving for so happy a resettlement, and supplication for 
 the blessing of God. 
 
 12. — Two soldiers, very drunk, were drowned. 
 
 SO — .1 rode to Justice Frost, designing to go to York, to see 
 Mr. Whitfield, (who came there a few days ago) but heard he 
 was dangerously ill, so returned. 
 
 31. — Mr. Pearson this morning came to see me, to oppose 
 Mr. Whitfield's coining here. 
 
 The parish are like to be in a flame on account of Mr. 
 Whitfield's coming, the leading men violently opposing. 
 
 My brother returned from England to York with Mr. 
 Whitfield. 
 
 November 2. — I am much about with the people to quiet 
 them with respect to Mr. Whitfield. 
 
 7. — Mr. El wins was ordained at Dunston. 
 
 9. — Had a church meeting, and chose Dr. Moody and Mr. 
 Cotton, Deacons. 
 
 14. — The soldiers are all dismissed except a travelling com- 
 pany under Capt. Jordan, with whom are enlisted three Sa- 
 co Indians, and their families are settled at Stroudwater, and 
 provided for by order of government. 
 
 14.— Col. Pepperil and others aregone as Commissioners to 
 demand of the Indians their sending the quota of men to join 
 us against the St. Johns' Indians, (with whom we are now at 
 war) agreeable to their agreement in the treaty with governor 
 Dummer, and in case of their non-compliance, after 40 days, 
 to assure them that the government will proclaim war with 
 them. 
 
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 The throat distemper has broke out again in Kingston, 
 Exeter and Stratham, and proves very mortal. 
 
 December 26. — Deacon Mitchell, of North-Yarmouth, died 
 about this time. It has been a sickly and dying time there, 
 with the slow fever. 
 
 [Mr. Smith seems to have enjoyed better health this year 
 than for two or three years past.] 
 
 1745. 
 
 January 15. — An express is gone to Boston with the In- 
 dians' answer : viz. That their young men won't comply with 
 the proposal of taking up arms against the St. Johns' Indians. 
 
 24 — Great and prevailing clamors every where against 
 Mr. Whitfield. 
 
 February 13. — Ministers meeting relating to Mr. Whitfield. 
 Present Messrs. Thompson, Jefferris, Hovey, M Morril and 
 myself ; had much of uneasiness. [See Note Page 85] July 
 7, 1743. 
 
 22. — All th6 talk is about the expedition to Louisburg. — 
 There is a marvellous zeal and concurrence through the whole 
 country with respect to it. Such as the like was never seen 
 in this part of the world. 
 
 28. — Annual Fast, which was earlier in the year than usu- 
 al, on account of the expedition to Louisburg. 
 
 March 10. — I rode to New Marblehead, [now Windham,] 
 to change with Mr. White. 
 
 19. — We hear that Mr. Whitfield who was to day at Biddc- 
 ford, has got to Dunston. 
 
 20. — Mr. W T hitfielc! having preached at Dunston yesterday, 
 and to day went back to Biddeford, but Mr. Loring and Mr. 
 Allen sent letters with messengers, which brought him back. 
 
 21. — Mr. Whitfield preached, A. M. at Biddeford, and re- 
 turned to Scarborough and preached P. M. for Mr. Thomp- 
 son. 
 
 22. — Mr. Whitfield preached, A. M. for Thompson, and 
 P, : . M. for Mr. Allen. I was over at Presumpscot ; Messrs. 
 Whitfield, Wise, and Rogers lodged at my house. 
 
 23. — Mr. Whitfield preached in mv pulpit, A. M. Multi- 
 tudes flocking from Purpooduck and elsewhere. 
 
 24. — (Sunday,) Mr. Wise preached to my people. Mr. 
 Whitfield preached at North Yarmouth all day. 
 
 25. — We came home with 13 persons who dined with me 
 Mr. Whitfield preached here P. M. to a great congregation. 
 All opposers at meeting but the two Noices. 
 
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 £6.— r heard Mr. Whitfield, A. M. at Mr. Aliens, and P. 
 M. at Mr. Thompsons. 
 
 I have been in great concern about Mr. Whitfield's coming 
 among us, there having been such a violent opposition to him 
 among all our leading men except Mr. Frost, and such un- 
 wearied pains taken to prejudice the people against him, so 
 that I feared nothing but such a quarrel as would be fatal to 
 me, but now he is come — stand still and see the Providence 
 of God. 
 
 The wonderful providence of God is to be observed witU 
 respect to Mr. Whitfield, that Messrs. Loring and Thompson 
 should come just as they did, and that Mr. Whitfield should 
 come just as he did, when Messrs. Pearson, Wait, Wheeler, 
 Moody, Freeman and others were all gone out of town, so 
 that there was no uneasiness, but all well, and a general re- 
 ception — Thanks to God. 
 
 April 2. — Mr. Waite returned, so that the parish is in a 
 buzz about Mr. Whitfield. 
 
 11. — Mr. Longfellow came to live here. 
 
 17. — He began to keep school. 
 
 27. — I have hardly been out of doors this week, being ill. 
 
 May 17. — (Sac Led) Mr. Fox was chosen Representative, 
 there was much disorder at the meeting. 
 
 19.— (Sunday,) For several Sabbaths and the lecture, I 
 have been all in a blaze ; never in such a flame, and what I 
 would attend to is that it was not only involuntary, but actu- 
 ally determined against — I went to meeting resolving to be 
 calm and moderate, lest people should think that it was wild- 
 ness, and affectation to ape Mr. Whitfield, but God (I see) 
 makes what use of me he pleases, and I am only a machine in 
 his hand. Tibi Jesu. 
 
 27. I set out with my wife in our chaise for Boston. 
 June 22. — Got home. [While Mr. Smith was at Boston 
 
 he heard Mr. Whitfield twice.] 
 
 26. — People are uneasy on account of the Indians ; they 
 having been discovered in several places. 
 
 28. — Constant expectation of the Indians doing mischief. 
 July 6. — We had news to day that Cape Breton was taken 
 
 the 27th of last month.* There is great rejoicing through the 
 country. We fired our cannon five times, and spent the after- 
 noon at the Fort rejoicing. 
 
 . 7. — (Sunday) Our people on the neck were again all day 
 rejoicing, and extravagantly blew off a vast quantity of pow- 
 der. 
 
 * Tbe expedition to Cape Breton was one of the most remarkable events 'n 
 the history of North America. It was hazarde us ir. the attemi t,but suc<;essfiii 
 
 in the execution. 
 
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 18. — Public Thanksgiving on account of the successes at 
 Cape Breton. 
 
 19. — We had an alarm to day on account of an express 
 from Capt. Bradbury, that advised of the Indians breaking 
 out and killing a man and 40 cattle, and burning a garrison 
 and saw mill. This is the first mischief in this eastern coun- 
 try, though two men have been killed at the westward this 
 summer. 
 
 20. — For a fortnight past we have been exceedingly trou- 
 bled with musquetoes. They would not surfer us to sleep. 
 
 22. — Alarms continually on account of the Indians. 
 50. — A man was killed at Topsham, and a boy scalped. 
 Jlugust 1. — One Capt. Bean has a company that scouts 
 
 from Saco to Presutnpscot, and one Capt. Mocbun has anoth- 
 er that scouts from Presumpscot to Brunswick, besides there 
 are other companies that scout all along the frontier. 
 
 5. — Indians were discovered at Gorhamtown. 
 
 15. — Her Majesty is this summer over at Hanover. The 
 French drive all before them in Flanders, having retaken the 
 most if not all the places, the Duke of Marlborough died last 
 vear, but then the war is all in our favor by sea. We having 
 taken, besides other rich prizes, seven East-Indiamen and 
 three South Sea men. 
 
 23. — War with the Indians was proclaimed at Boston. 
 The Indians killed a man and horse, at Red Meadows. 
 September 5. — "We have news of there being two Indians 
 
 killed and one taken at Georges. (Mem. The captive is 
 Col. Job ; the killed, Col. Morris and Col. Sam. The ex- 
 ploit was done by 19 of the inhabitants, under one Lieut. 
 Proctor.) 
 
 8. — (Sunday,) An alarm at North Yarmouth stopped the 
 people. There was an Indian fired at, at Long Creek. 
 
 15. — (Sunday,) Col. Cushing's son was shot. 
 
 16. — We live very quiet on account of the Indians. 
 19. — Public Fast on account of the Indian War. 
 
 People seem wonderfully spirited to go out after the In- 
 dians. Four companies in this town and many more in other 
 towns are fitting for it ; the government offer 400 pounds for 
 the scalp of a man to those who go out at their own expense, 
 and 310 pounds to those who have provision from the Pro- 
 vince. 
 
 30.— No Indian news since ihe 8th of this month. 
 
 October^. — We have not heard of an Indian being any 
 where upon this Eastern frontier for near a month, and there 
 is reason to think that immediately upon their breaking out, 
 they went away to Canada. (The reasons are here given.] 
 
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 B. — We have news that 13 Indians appeared at Sheepscot 
 last week, viz. Monday, and killed two men, and wounded a 
 third, as they were gathering corn. We hear too, that five In- 
 dians were seen a day after at Cathans, so that I suppose they 
 are now returned from Canada. 
 
 13. — 'Tis generally a very sickly, dying time through the 
 country, with the usual nervous or slow fever. 
 
 We have tidings daily of our people dying at Cape Breton, 
 and of many coming home and dying after arrival. 
 
 15. — Capt. Stephen Jones sailed with a company in quest 
 of Penobscot Indians. 
 
 20. — (Sunday,) [Mr. Smith here appears to have been dis- 
 couraged, and to fear that his usefulness was over. He ob- 
 serves that in his last prayer he said, a dead minister and a 
 dead people, and prayed that God would set a man over the 
 congregation that icould do the people service. But in mak- 
 ing the record of these expressions, he appears to have blam- 
 ed himself for using them ; he however added to his prayer, 
 that while he continued he might be faithful. I would ob- 
 serve here that in the course of 3Ir. Smith's Journal it appears 
 he had some differences with two or three of his parish, in 
 noting which, he expressed a concern lest he had given occa- 
 sion for them, by something he said ; although he was not 
 sensible of his having either said or done any thing that af- 
 forded a just cause for them. They were however of short 
 continuance, for in every instance they were happily compo- 
 sed. This I mention to shew his regard to harmony and 
 peace, as well as the conscious temper of his mind in the above 
 instance.] 
 
 November 1. — Capt. Jones returned, having seen no In- 
 dians. 
 
 17. — (Sunday,) Pretty full meeting; had great assistance?, 
 P. M. 
 
 23. — About this time Lieut. Jordan's wife perished in the 
 sea, w ith two more women and three men from a sloop bound 
 to Boston. 
 
 28. — Mr. Leavit was ordained at Salem about this time, 
 with vast disturbance. 
 
 December 1. — We have news of the Indians (to the number 
 ©f 900) destroying a Dutch village near Albany, of 30 fami- 
 lies. 
 
 19. — Several children have died of the Cjiiincy and throat 
 Hiistenioer. 
 
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 1746. 
 
 January 11. — Mr. White came home and brought sad 
 news. The success of the rebels, having taken Edinburg, 
 and made a bloody sacrifice of all the people within 30 miles, 
 and being 13,000 strong, &c. 
 
 22. — We hear that the sickness at Louisburg increases 
 much ; and that Capt. Cutter is dead. 
 
 28. — Read all the newspapers, which confirm the sad ac- 
 counts of the rebellion in Scotland. 
 
 February 12. — There is a scout of 200 men from the 
 western towns, under one Stephens, who are to penetrate the 
 frontiers of Canada. 
 
 18. — From the newspapers to-day, I learn that the Wool- 
 wich man of war had taken and carried into St. Kitts, a 
 Spanish Galleon, worth a million sterling ; that the King of 
 Prussia is suing for peace, and that the troops from Gibraltar 
 for Louisburg, were arriving in several parts of America. 
 
 March 18. — Parish meeting. Most of the principal per- 
 sons were for allowing me £50 on account of keeping me out 
 of my salary for two years past, but *** opposed and prevented 
 it. 
 
 [The best of men have some enemies.] 
 
 April 19. — This morning 10 Indians killed Briant (of Gor- 
 hamtown) and four of his children, and took or killed his wife 
 and Reed and Cloutman, which puts the people in great 
 surprise. 
 
 May 2. — Mr. Longfellow was agreed with, [as a school 
 master] for another year at £<200 per annum. 
 
 6. — I sat sail this evening in Wait's sloop, for Boston. 
 (Returned the 17th.) 
 
 21. — Mr. Cooper was ordained. News came to us this 
 morning that the Indians had burnt all the Houses at Broad 
 Bay, and killed cattle at Pemaquid. 
 
 23. — News came from Georges, that the Indians had fallen 
 on a company of our men, killed one and wounded a second ; 
 and that our people killed an Indian which they scalped, and 
 wounded a second, which 'tis hoped is dead. 
 
 27. — News from Sheepscot,that five persons returning from 
 meeting, were fired upon by 15 Indians, who killed one and 
 mortally wounded a second, which second killed an Indian as 
 the Indian was coming to kill him. 
 
 June 6. — Two soldiers were killed by the Indians at the 
 side of Westcoat's field, [at Long Creek.] There were 25 
 soldiers in the field, besides Westcoat's own folks, and only 7 
 Indians drove them all — scalped the two men, took their 
 
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 . kkthes and three guns ; (after Skillin, Stephen Irish, and 
 one or more of our men had courageously stood and made a 
 few fires) the Indians never supposed there were so many men 
 there, but only Westcoat's hands. 
 
 9. — I see by the governor's proclamation, that the govern- 
 ment has voted to support 3000 volunteers in the present 
 expedition. New-Hampshire 1000 ; Connecticut 600 ; 
 Rhode-Island 400. Heard that 2000 French and Indians, 
 were designing to-morrow, to make a powerful attack upon 
 our frontiers. The news that alarms us, comes to us from 
 Capt. Saunders, viz. That a young Indian taken captive, 
 declared it to us. 
 
 10. — An Indian was seen and fired at three times out of 
 Mr. Frost's garrison, [at Stroud water.] 
 
 13. — This neighborhood are now building a block-house 
 near Mr. Larabee's for the common defence. 
 
 15. (Sunday) — An Indian was seen and fired at by N. 
 Crocket, near the Causeway, by Chapman's, [near what is 
 now called the Horse-tavern] upon which account a great 
 number of our men were absent from meeting, and pursuing 
 him. 
 
 16. — Our people seem more awakened and alarmed on 
 account of the Indians than ever they have been. It is the 
 same scout of Indians that are still upon our back, and which 
 did the mischief at Gorhamtown. They grow exceeding 
 bold, having no check as yet. 
 
 17. — I was at New-Casco at the funeral of Mr. Joseph 
 Sweat, who yesterday P. M. was killed by the Indians near 
 Blanchard's, at N. Yarmouth. Merriconeag, we think, was 
 attacked this morning, there being continual firing there, and 
 from thence to N. Yarmouth. 
 
 20. — The expedition to Canada goes on in this Province, 
 but slowly ; our people being dispirited on account of the 
 sickness and their unfair treatment at Cape- Breton. 
 
 July 4. — We had news that the rebellion is defeated. It 
 was on the 16th April, when the Duke obtained a complete 
 victory, having lost but 300, and the rebels 2900, with many of 
 the principal officers. 
 
 [Mr. Smith seems to have been in low spirits on two of the 
 Sabbaths this month " and ready to give up," yet said he, " I 
 do not learn that the people perceive it."] 
 
 August 2. — The Indians came upon Mr. Proctor's folks 
 and we hear that they have killed one. 
 
 5. — Godfrey discovered an Indian in the swamp behind 
 Bracket's. 
 
 9. — Philip Greely was killed. 28 Indians, (some say 32) 
 were seen together by Mr. Wiers. 
 
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 11. — To-day we were all in arms going to N.Yarmouth, 
 hearing it was attacked ; but it proved to be the Indians kill- 
 ing hogs. An Indian fired at Weston, just by the neck. 
 
 12. — Our men were this P. M. in a scout searching the 
 swamp between the Bracket's. 
 
 15. — Two Frenchmen and an Indian fired on Mr. Allen 
 Dover, coming through the bog from Black-point, and he 
 fired twice on them, and 'tis thought killed one of them. 
 
 20. — I attended a fast at Purpoodock, on occasion of the 
 drought, and preached P.M. but was in such a clouded dark 
 frame as (I think) I never was at any other time. 
 
 26. — This afternoon Mr. Stubbs and a soldier with him, 
 were killed by the Indians on the backside of his house. It is 
 thought the same Indians that killed Greely. 
 
 September 12. — We have news that Cioutman and the 
 other Gorhamtown captive are well at Canada. 
 
 21. — Boston is now alarmed with tidings of a French fleet 
 that was seen off Cape Sable. 
 
 25. — Mr. Waite came in and brought news that Boston is 
 all in an uproar, that 700 men came in on Monday, and that 
 10,000 were expected in by Tuesday night, and that gentle- 
 men are sending their principal effects into the country. 
 
 28. — Mr. Gordon brings news that 15000 men are already 
 got into Boston ; that all shops and ware-houses are shut up, 
 and that they are fortifying the end of Long Wharf. 
 
 29. — Salem, Marblehead and Cape-Ann, are in great dis- 
 tress, sending away their effects, kc. 
 
 October 5. — Our people are now alarmed. 
 
 6. — Town meeting about sending away the records. I had 
 concluded to send away my family to Harwich, but my wife 
 negatived it. 
 
 8. — We are packing up the principal of our effects to send 
 them with the family to Newbury. 
 
 11. — We are only waiting for an opportunity to go to New- 
 bury. 
 
 16. — Public fast on occasion of the French fleet, &,c. We 
 have now certain advice that they are in Jebucta, fortifying. 
 That Annapolis is besiesed,and that there is a mortal epidem- 
 ical sickness among the French, and their Admiral dead. 
 
 17. — My wife never concluded 'till to-day not to move 
 away. 
 
 25. — Mr. Waite brought news from Boston, that a storm 
 cast two of the transports on shore, on the Isle of Sable ; that 
 two of the large men of war (of the Jebucta fleet) had parted 
 with their masts* ; and that a reigning mortal sickness had 
 
 *They were overtaken by a violent tempest off Cape-Salle, and *hat slaps 
 escaped destruction returned singly to France. 
 
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 been among them. All of which entirely disconcerted thera 
 in their measures and obliged them to stay so long at Jebucta. 
 But upon taking one of our vessels, and hearing that the Eng- 
 lish fleet were pursuing them, they hurried out, and that the 
 disappointment had caused the Duke D'Anville to poison 
 himself, and the next Admiral to fall on his sword, and to burn 
 a 60 gun ship. 
 
 November 30. (Sunday) — I am quite discouraged, my voice 
 failing by reason of a rheumatic hoarseness. 
 
 December 7. (Sunday) — Thin meeting, and growing more 
 and more so. Public Worship is like to drop ; for in the 
 summer people fear to come, because of the Indians, and in 
 the winter they cannot come. 
 
 [This ends the journal of a year, replete with accounts of 
 war and war's alarm.] 
 
 January. [No events of any importance are noticed this 
 month.] 
 
 February 12. — People think I am in earnest about leaving 
 
 20. — We have melancholy news of our troops at Menis, 
 viz. that an army of 600 French and Indians in the night sur- 
 prised them and killed 69, took 50 with two sloops that had 
 our ammunition, &c. and obliged the rest of our army to 
 capitulate. Our army consisted of about 500. Col. Noble* 
 and our Capt. Jones was killed and many of this county. 
 
 25. — Visited and prayed with Mrs. Gilman, on occasion of 
 the death of her son Moses, who was killed at Menis with 
 several others. 
 
 We hear father Hall and Roberts of this place lately died 
 at Annapolis. God is weakening us exceedingly, and griev- 
 ously thinning our small numbers in this country. Every 
 thing in God's Providence looks dark and distressing. 
 
 March 9. — Annual Parish Meeting. [Mr. Smith here takes 
 a thankful notice of the harmony of the parish, and their 
 liberality towards him in voting £150, new tenor (Instead of 
 £400 old tenor J for his salary, of which he gave £100 old 
 tenor to New Casco for preaching six months with them, 
 which was kindly accepted.] 
 
 16. — Mr. Waite with several others were to see me, com- 
 mending my Sermon, fcc. There is a surprising turn to the 
 People's countenances. Thoughts, words and actions t«- 
 
 1747. 
 
 I am quite discouraged, my voice 
 
 is gone. 
 
 * His loss was 60 killed, and 50 wounded. 
 
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 wards me. Thanks to God. [The turn was doubtless imagi- 
 nary, for none of these things appears to have been against 
 him.] 
 
 25. — The people came and fitted three swivel guns in my 
 boxes. 
 
 April IS. — The Indians first were discovered (about 8) 
 and killed a young man, one Dresser at. Scarborough. 
 
 14. — We are all in alarm to day. Every where Indians 
 are seen. They took W. Knights and two Sons at Sacaribig. 
 
 17. — The Indians one day this week killed Mr. Elliot and 
 Son and carried away one Murch. 
 
 18. — I was present at the taking off the hand of one 
 Doubleday by the Doctor of the mast ship. 
 
 1 9. — (Sunday) Very thin meeting ; people fearing to come, 
 partly by reason of what the Indians have done and partly 
 they having some time since resolved to keep at home. This 
 being the fatal day, as people universally looked upon it, on 
 which the Indians first do mischief, and on which they did 
 it last year, but none was done now. 
 
 21. — The Indians to day (about 10) killed Mr. Foster and 
 carried away his wife and six children. They killed several 
 cattle. Our folks pursued them, they say there were 50. 
 
 22. — We are all alarmed again. In the evening one 
 Stephen Bailey was fired upon by seven Indians near Long 
 Creek. 
 
 23. — I prayed with a company of young men (viz. 26) who 
 are now going out under the command of Capt. Ilsley in 
 pursuit of the Indians ; may God give them success. 
 
 A scout of men are now out from N. Yarmouth, another 
 going out from Purpoodock. We are in the most distressed 
 circumstances. Swarms of Indians being about the frontier, 
 and no soldiers save Capt. Jordan's Company of 50 men, 30 
 of whom have been for sometime at Topsham, guarding the 
 government timber. 
 
 24. — The Indians are spread all over the frontier from 
 Topsham to Wells 
 
 May 2. — Five Indians have this week killed two women. 
 
 5. — The Indians killed a man (one Hinkley) at New Mea- 
 dows and chased one yesterday at Wells, in the heart of the 
 town. 
 
 7. — The Indians fired upon a man in Dunston. 
 
 8. — We hear the Indians yesterday at Damariscotta took a 
 man and killed his wife and daughter-in-law. 
 
 9. — The Indians at Topsham fired upon a canoe in which 
 tbey killed two men and greatly wounded one more, only a 
 woman escaped unhurt. 
 
 19. — Capt. Ilsley and Morris are out with scouts pursuing 
 
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 the Indian. The former takes two whale boats to go to 
 Sebago. 
 
 23. — We have been for some time pretty quiet as to the 
 Indians. 
 
 The Canada men are still coming down and sent out in 
 I scouts aaer Indians. 
 
 25. — We are now alarmed again with a certain account of 
 | the French Fleet. 
 
 £6. — We have news that Friday last, the Indians killed at 
 Peru iquid our Mr. John and Joseph Cox, Vincent, Smith 
 \ and Weston of Purpoodock and five men of the Fort,and took 
 < Dyer, Mayo and Cox of this town, and only a lad and Mr. 
 i Lowell escaped, the latter exceedingly wounded. 
 
 29. — We have now news that neither the French nor Eng- 
 lish Fleet are like to come to America. 
 
 June 15. — Sailed for,and 16th arrived at Boston, Came 
 from there the 26th, and got home the 29th. 
 
 July 1. — The whole frontier was thrown into surprise by 
 alarm. Some Indians discovered by Capt. Smith at Saco. 
 
 7. — We have news of admirals Warren and Anson taking 
 six India ships, with their convoys, from France. 
 
 August 20. — Our captives came home from Canada ; 171 
 came in a large ship from Quebec and 90 more are coming ; 
 30 left sick and 70 are dead. 
 
 We have accounts from Canada that but eight or nine of the 
 French Fleet that escaped admiral Anson and Warren. The 
 whole Fleet consisted of 38 ships. All designed to recruit 
 Canada, and reduce Annapolis. They had 1000 stand of 
 arms; 7000 suils of clothes with stores of ammunition, &c. 
 Thus is Annapolis and this part of the country saved sur- 
 prisingly a 4th time. Glory to the all disposing Providence 
 of God. 
 
 The India ships were immensely rich, having a million and 
 a half in specie. Admiral Anson's share come to £60,000. 
 
 26. — We have news that admiral Warren and commodore 
 Fox have taken a great many of the French West India 
 sugar ships. 
 
 27. — The Indians took Wm. Bolton and wounded a lad of 
 Mr. Mayberry's at Maiblehead, [now Windham]. There ap- 
 peared to be 27 French and Indians. 
 
 September 3. — We have an express that Wednesday last in 
 the morning, the French and Indians, about 50, killed three, 
 men and wounded two, at Pemaquid ; after which they attack? 
 ed the Fort for two hours. 
 
 21 — The Indians moved off upon their taking Wm. Bolton, 
 for we have heard nothing of them since. I purpose hearing 
 by him of the Canada soldiers — discoursed them. 
 
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 October 6. — I prayed with the Court, P.M. Justice Cane 
 drunk all day. 
 
 7. —The Canada officers begin to move off. 
 
 Aevcm&er 11. — Brigadier Waldo went off with Doct.Oliver 
 and Mr. Wheaton. 
 
 24. — (Sunday). I preached a funeral sermon on the occa- 
 sion of those eight ministers that have died within a year, viz, 
 Messrs. Fitch, Shurtlef, Rogers, Tappan, Colman, Tukinson, 
 Moo i y and Wiswell. 
 
 December 9. — The Town-house at Boston was burnt. 
 
 [The Journal of this month contains two pages exceeding- 
 ly crowded, but nothing so interesting as to require notice 
 among these extracts, upon the general plan on which they 
 have hitherto been made.] 
 
 1748. 
 
 January 6. — We have news (via W. Indies,) that Commo- 
 dore Hawke fell in with theMartinico fleet of 200 sail, four days 
 from Brest, and took six ships of the line and two frigates. — 
 The merchantmen escaped with only one ship of the line and 
 one frigate. 
 
 C pt. Pearson brings news from Boston of Admiral Hawk, 
 having a few days after the success abovementioned, taken 6 
 men of war with their transports. 
 
 9. — The difficulties of living daily increase, unrighteousness 
 and oppression are breaking out like a deluge. 
 
 There is no standard, but every man is getting what he can. 
 
 10. — The prices of the necessaries of life (through tht de- 
 preciation of money) do daily monstrously increase. 
 
 31. — (Sunday.) I preached at Biddeford. 
 February 5. — I was at prayer with Justice Moody ; walked 
 there in snow shoes. They thought he was dying. 
 
 1 1. — There is a surprising body of snow upon the ground. 
 20. — Justice Moody died this morning. 
 
 27. — Went to Saccarapig. Mr. Conant tells me he has 
 ground 1000 bushels of Corn this winter, there being no other 
 mill than his, between North-Yarmouth and Saco. 
 
 [Although but little is here noticed from the Journal of this 
 month, the pages are particularly filled with accounts of 
 the weather, and the difficulties attending the great depth of 
 the snow.] 
 
 March. — [Mr. Smith, this month seems to have been much 
 disheartened in his pulpit, apprehending that he is slighted by 
 his people ; but he says,] 
 
 17. — Parish meeting. They voted me £60r>. 
 
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 [A very lull account of the weather is contained in the pages 
 of this month.] 
 
 April 18. — I was at prayer with Mr. Cary, who died while 
 I was there. 
 
 May 3. — Capt. Burnel was killed by the Indians at Bruns- 
 wick, and with him . 
 
 16. — I sailed for Boston with Capt. Ephraim Jones. 
 June 9. — He returned. 
 
 20. — Indian Corn is now 30s. a bushel ; Flour £10 a hun- 
 dred. 
 
 The Indians killed one Eaton and took at N. Yar- 
 mouth, and burnt all the houses eastward of Wier's. There 
 was an hundred of them. They way laid the whole road to 
 Ncw-Casco. 
 
 21. — I was to see Lambert who is awakened and wrought, 
 upon. [This is not the only person that was awakened by 
 Mr. Smith's preaching.] 
 
 23. — A melancholy dry time This and the mischiefs 
 done by the Indians, make it a dark time indeed. 
 
 July 2. — We had news that the preliminaries of Peace are 
 agreed on, and a cessation of arms. Happy tidings ! 
 
 8. — I have been to prayer with one Whitney, who was 
 wounded by the Indians, and died this night. 
 
 31. — The lightning killed Mrs. Hicks and her child. Mr. 
 Giddings was much burnt and near dead. None escaped un- 
 hurt but a little child, which by crying brought in the people, 
 who found Mis. Hicks and 3 of her children prostrate on the 
 hearth, and Mrs. Giddings appeared dead. 
 
 August 4. — I don't know whether I was ever so hurried in 
 the ministry, so constantly praying with the sick and at funer- 
 als. [This frequency of prayer continued during the month.] 
 
 September 1. — There is an asthmatic quincy prevailing on 
 this week among the children, that proves dreadfully mortal. 
 
 24. — I have not been in my study this week, only yesterday 
 P. M. I am out all day visiting and praying with the sick. 
 
 November 9. — Nine children have lately died at N. Yar- 
 mouth, with the canker ail. 
 
 7. — I am hurried perpetually with the sick ; the whole 
 practice rests on me, and God gives me reputation with satis- 
 faction of mind, as being a successful instrument in his hands. 
 
 December 12. — We tapped the barrel of Wine sent us by 
 Messrs. Frost, Fox, Wheeler, Noice, Pearson, Wait, Ilsley, 
 Berry and Dalton. 
 
 [Thus ends the few extracts from the journal of this year, 
 not, to the public, so gloomy and distressing as the two last.] 
 
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 1749. 
 
 January 28. — (Sunday.) I labor for want of breath, being 
 grievously oppressed at my breast. I raise much, and have 
 a continual cough ail this month, which with my other com- 
 plaints quite dishearten me. 
 
 February 4.— Maj. Freeman came home from the General 
 Court, and brought with him the new Act for drawing in all 
 the paper currencies, by the exchange of silver. 
 
 16. — Yesterday one Mrs. Deering of Bluepoint was found 
 barbarously murdered ; 'tis supposed by her husband. 
 
 March 14. — Town Meeting. Maj. Freeman, chosen Treas- 
 urer ; Capt. Pearson, Clerk : Col. Cushing, Strout, Cotton, 
 Snow and Thompson, Selectmen. 
 
 15. — Parish meeting. The people raised my salary £50 
 viz ; to $650. 
 
 23. — Annual Fast. I had uncommon assistance, especially 
 in the first prayer ; I was about an hour, and I was an hour and 
 a half in sermon. 
 
 26. — (Sunday.) I could not speak in morning sermon. 
 I told the people they were convinced of the necessity of 
 looking out for another Minister. 
 
 April 13. — Mr. Joshua Freeman sent in near 3 gallons of 
 choice Madeira Wine. 
 
 [Several other presents are particularly mentioned this 
 month.] 
 
 May.-— [Visiting and receiving visits of friends, and visiting 
 and praying with the sick, were the principal subjects of the 
 Journal this month, besides accounts of the weather which 
 occupy nearly a full page of every month.] 
 
 June 15. — Public Fast on account of the drought. 
 
 July 6. — The Indians are now at Boston, treating about 
 peace. They have taken a boy and killed a man on the wes- 
 tern frontier. 
 
 25. — My wife came home from Boston. She brings good 
 news, that the entive prospect of nature is changed at the 
 westward from the brink of a dreadful ruin and absolute fam- 
 ine, never more suddenly and signally saved. Thanks to God. 
 
 August 9. — I went with Peter, in a float, to New-Casco to 
 "visit Mr. Blackston. 
 
 24. — Public Thanksgiving on account of the great mercy 
 in the late seasonable and refreshing rains. 
 
 SO.— Sailed for Boston with Mr. Bradbury. 
 
 September 14. — Got home (from Boston.) 
 
 28. — The Commissioners came to town, viz: Mr. Hutch- 
 inson, Choat, Williams, Otis, Downing and Hutchinson. Mr. 
 Welstead, Chaplain ; Col. Cotton, Clerk. 
 
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 SO. — The town is full of company. 
 
 October 1.— (Sunday.) Mr. Welsted preached P. M. 
 
 2. — Contribution yesterday #17 15s. 
 
 6. — Mr. Russel and New, went away, as did a great part of 
 the company in town, being tired Waiting for the Indians. 
 
 10. — The Commissioners spent P. M. here. There is but 
 very little company in town. 
 
 14. — The Norridgewock Indians came this morning. The 
 Treaty opened P. M. in the Meeting-House. 
 
 16 — The Treaty was finished this evening. 
 
 17. — I dined with the Commissioners. The presents were 
 delivered to the Indians 
 
 19. — Peter sailed this morning with the Commissioners in 
 Saunders. 
 
 November. — [On several Sabbaths in the course of this 
 month, Mr. Smith, complained of weakness of body and de- 
 pression of mind.] 
 
 December 8. — Mr. Paddeshal kept Sabbath here, but did 
 not preach. 
 
 [Here closes the short Journal of a year, a year exempted 
 from the distresses of war, and favored with a Peace with the 
 Norridgewock Indians. 
 
 Although the Extracts are few, the labor of the jour- 
 nalist was not diminished ; indeed it seems to have increased, 
 for the pages are fuller, although the subjects of them are not 
 so generally interesting at the present day.] 
 
 1760. 
 
 Prefixed to the Journal for this year, is the following 
 memorandum. 
 
 I was born the 10th of March, A. D. 1701 — 2. 
 
 I was admitted into College, July, 1716. 
 
 Took my first degree, 1720. 
 
 I began to preach April 19, 1722. 
 
 I came to Falmouth, June 22, 1725. 
 
 I was ordained March 8, 1727. 
 
 I was married Sept. 12, 1728. 
 
 My Father died Feb. 19, 1741— -2. 
 
 My Wife Oct. 1, 1742. 
 
 I was married 2d time, March 1, 1743 — 4. 
 
 Thomas went to Boston, April 12, and was bound [to Mr. 
 Scolley] for 6 years and 9 months, July 3, 1750. 
 
 William, went to Mr Grant. Nov. 24, 1750. 
 
 January 11 — There has been a great uproar abom the 
 men that killed the Indians at Witchcassit, they tiavujg been 
 
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 lescued by some of our people from the officers, and to day 
 after surrendering themselves to Capt. Bean, at Truck-house, 
 were carried to York. 
 
 £9. — I sat out with Maj Freeman, for a ride (to York.) 
 
 February 1. — Mr. Lyman has been lately ordained at York. 
 
 3. — I rode home. 
 
 22. — A special Supreme Court at York, for the trial of the 
 men that killed the Indians. 
 
 March 11. (Sunday) — I spake with vast difficulty, and the 
 populace wonderfully slighted me. [As he thought.] 
 
 15. — Annual fast. Had uncommon assistance, was an hour 
 in each of the first prayers. Never was I darker and more 
 discouraged before the day came ; my voice, freedom and 
 fluency being all gone. I make a minute of it to record God's 
 goodness, always to excite my thankfulness and trust in him. 
 
 27. — Parish meeting ; they raised my salary £50 to £700, 
 some opposition : though £800 was urged by several. 
 
 tfpril 2. — This day the Province treasury is open, and silver 
 is given out for our Province bills, which now cease to pass. 
 This is the most remarkable epoch of tins Province. Its 
 affairs are now brought to a crisis. 
 
 10, — Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Newman last week died sud- 
 denly. It is remarkable how many disastrous events and 
 sudden deaths have been in this pJaee within a year or two : 
 this is the tenth. 
 
 Mayo. — I have been drinking tar water for more than a 
 week, and find myself surprisingly better ; the soreness of my 
 vitals is gone, and I feel hardly any pain. 
 
 27. — (Sunday ) I fear I was too fervent, and I think greatly 
 slighted. [This was an apprehension frequently expressed ; 
 but from good reasons that might be offered, I think it was 
 more imaginary than real.] 
 
 June 15. — I rode to York. Abbe was acquitted to the great 
 surprise of the court, who continued the other two prisoners 
 to be removed for a trial elsewhere. This unhappy affair 
 gives this country an ill name, and 'tis feared will bring on a 
 war. 
 
 21. — Rode to Newberry. An epidemic cold prevails. 
 
 25. — Rode to Boston. 'Tis a time of great perplexity and 
 distress here on account of the sinking of the paper currency. 
 There is a terrible clamor, and things are opening for the 
 extremest confusion and difficulties. The merchants, shop- 
 keepers and others in Boston, having for some year's past, got 
 money easily and plentifully by the abundance of that frau- 
 dulent and iniquitous currency, and abandoned themselves 
 to the utmost extravagance and luxury in all their way of 
 living, are now in a sad toss, and make outragous complaints 
 at the stop put to it by the late act. 
 
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 July 6. — Mr. Tyng has been exceeding friendly to me as 
 (I thank God) ail my friends have been. 
 
 July 14. — There is news of a brig full of people gone to 
 Penobscot to settle there. 
 
 August 31. — There seems to be a dismal storm gather- 
 ing. The Penobscot Indians are in arms, to the number of 
 150, and GO Canada Indians came to join them, designing a 
 blow. Families are moving from thence. A man of war of 
 20 guns is sent there from Boston. The French in a large 
 brig were seen some time since going there. There were 
 also two more brigs with soldiers, war-like stores, &c. sailed 
 from Louisburgh at the same time. There was two 60, and 
 a 36 gun ship, 20 transports, and a ship with 300 women. 
 
 September 8. — There was an alarm in the night at the tower 
 occasioned by an express from Richmond, that an Indian had 
 told them that in 48 hours the Indians would break upon us, 
 and that 60 Canada Indians were come to reinforce them. 
 
 9. — (Sunday) Not a full meeting ; the people fearing to 
 come. 
 
 10. — We hear that on Saturday all Kennebec was in a 
 blaze, a firing guns. People are universally moving to the 
 garrison. 
 
 11 — AH the talk is about the Indians, and various accounts 
 and expresses. It is said some have been seen at Gorham- 
 town. 
 
 13. — We have news from Witchcasset, that the Indians 
 took (or killed) a man and a boy there to-day, and that a great 
 fire was seen at Sheepscot, like the burning of the houses,and 
 that the people heard alarm even to Pemaquid. 
 
 14. — A man was taken this week by the Indians at Mac- 
 quoit. 
 
 16. — (Sunday) Captain Wheeler died. 
 
 18. — Indians were discovered and pursued at Dunstable; 
 the same (I guess) that were on Wednesday last seen at Gor- 
 hamtown. 
 
 20. — The Quakers had a meeting at Proctor's. Training 
 day to impress 100 men here and at Scarborough, to scout 
 from Saco to Georges — Muggridge's doings. The people are 
 in a sad ferment. An unwarrantable and in-concerted thing. 
 
 22. — Webb's son was taken atMarbiehead [now Windham] 
 by the Indians. 
 
 23. — Capt. Ilsley (who has the command of one of the 
 companies) went into th« woods to-day. . 
 
 26. — The Indians are discovered almost every day, 2 or 3 
 together, in the back parts of the town. 
 
 30 — Mr. Roberts died, though perfectly well the night 
 before : the 16th instance of a sudden deaih within 2 years. 
 
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 October.— [A number of children died in the parish tlua 
 month, in one week.] 
 
 November 16. — I was at prayer with Quimby's child, which 
 is sick of a fever, that first broke out at Gorhamtown, where it 
 was quite epidemical, hardly any escaping. 
 
 20. — There are 25 persons sick at -Gorhamtown garrison, 
 four have died. 
 
 24. — The fever spreads now all over the parish. 
 
 December 2. — I heard Capt. Preble was unusually affected. 
 
 26. — Mr. Lombard was ordained at Gorhamtown ; [Min- 
 isters present, Messrs. Loring, Smith, (who preached) Allen, 
 Thompson and Morrell.] 
 
 [The ministerial duties of Mr. Smith must have been ardu- 
 ous ; but he faithfully discharged them, and though he was 
 sometimes dissatisfied with himself, and feared that his people 
 were so with him, yet he always gave them remarkable 
 satisfaction.] 
 
 1751. 
 
 January 24. — This winter [for its mildness] will go down 
 memorable to posterity. 
 February 14. — I rode to Biddeford. 
 
 16. — Sat out for home, but my horse throwing me out of 
 the ferry boat into the water, I was obliged to go back to Mr. 
 Morrill's. I struck my face (and forehead especially) against 
 * rock, which had it not been under water, would have dashed 
 me to pieces. Ordered by the preserver of men. 
 
 19. — Came home. 
 
 March 27. — Attended Mr. Little's ordination. 
 
 •April 19. — We are alarmed with tidings of the Indians 
 coming upon us. One was shot at by Mr. Haskill's negro, at 
 Saccaribig. 
 
 20. — It is a sickly time at Scarborough. 
 
 £4. — It is a melancholy time as ever the country knew. 
 1st- On account of the great convulsion and perplexities re- 
 lating to a medium, some towns not having raised any money 
 for public taxes, nor chosen officers. 2d. With respect to a 
 war with the Indians. 3d. The epidemic fever. 4th. The 
 coldness and wetness of the spring. 
 
 May 7. — I catechised the children on the neck, about 130. 
 
 11.- Capt. Darling in a mast ship, came in. 
 
 June 3. — Job Burnal was killed by the Indians on the road 
 behind Capt. Merrill's, and his horse also. 
 
 July 10. — It is a time of health, and therefore a time of 
 leisure with me. 
 
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 27. — We have news of the Indians taking 7 persons on 
 Wednesday last, at the new meadows, viz. 3 Hinkley's, 2 
 Whitney's, Purrington and Lombard. 
 
 SI. — The freshet has carried away many bridges, hay, fcc. 
 on Presumpscot river. Saccaribig bridge and the Presump- 
 scot great dam broke. 
 
 August 3. — People are quite mad in town, there being 50 
 men pressed in Col. Cushing's regiment, and 100 more to be 
 pressed, to escort and protect the proposed treaty. 
 
 19. — I sailed for Boston in Wilson, log-laden with a tow 
 of masts. 
 
 23. — We were becalmed off the Brewster till dark, and 
 then a tempest arose northerly, and a dismal night, much to 
 be remembered ; may I never loose sight of the sense of it., 
 
 24. — Got to Boston. 
 
 30. — Came away. 
 
 31. — Got into our harbor, sun near an hour high. 
 September. — [Nothing particular.] 
 
 October. — [Nothing that need be noticed.] 
 November. — [Pages less filled than usual, and less impor- 
 tant.] 
 
 December. — [Fuller pages, but chiefly respecting ministerial 
 duties.] 
 
 [This year's journal notices but few events of much impor- 
 tance, the chief of which are enumerated the 24th April. 
 The complaints of Mr. Smith, as to his health and spirits, 
 were much fewer than for some years past.] 
 
 1752. 
 
 January 3. — Walked over to Col. Cushing's on the ice and 
 might have rode in my sleigh, as I designed, but was dis- 
 couraged. 
 
 8. — A pleuretic fever prevails (at Biddeford) and proves ex- 
 ceedingly and remarkably mortal. 
 
 14. — [Mr. Smith here gives an account of an exeursion 
 with his wife and others to N. Yarmouth and Brunswick on 
 the ice, passing over Harrisicket Bay a-going, and venturing 
 on their return to come directly from Brunswick across the 
 Bay without Macquoit Island to New Casco, and over thence 
 to the Beach home.*] 
 
 * This will give the reader an idea of extreme cold weather, but the winter 
 of 1696, is said " to be colder than had been known in New-England, since the 
 first arrival of the English. During a great part of it, sleighs and loaded sleds 
 passed on the ice from Boston as far as Nantasket, 
 
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 21. — Last night there was a smart southerly wind which 
 brought in a swell and broke the ice, and the ebb tide carried 
 it away, so that the harbor is all open as high as acioss Capt. 
 Pearsons 1 to Sawyer's Dock, and where the people were pass- 
 ing yesterday — and where teams and horses might have pass- 
 ed, there is no ice. 
 
 Februury 6. — Rev. Mr. Jefferds of Wells, died last Satur- 
 day of the pleuretic fever, which prevails there. 
 
 March 24. — We hear the small pox spreads at Boston, past 
 all hope of stopping it. 
 
 23. — 'Tis thought some thousands have been inoculated 
 this week in Boston. 
 
 Jlpril 8. — I sat sail for Boston in Goodwin. 10 — Arrived. 
 
 14. — All business is laid aside in town. The streets deso- 
 late, many of the shops shut up, and the people universally 
 spend their time to attend the sick. 
 
 16. — 'Tis said there are 3000 now inoculated* A harvest 
 time to the Doctors. 
 
 23. — All the talk in all companies is about inoculation, the 
 town is sadly divided about it 
 
 25. — I came away from Boston. 29. — Got home. 
 
 23 — When I left Boston, 21 had died that had been inocu- 
 lated,!, e. about 1 per cent. Sixteen died, of about 90, in the 
 common way i. e. about 1 in 6. 
 
 May 4. — Capt. Saunders has a man on board sick of the 
 small pox. 
 
 June 16. — At Wells, the town concurred with the church 
 in the choice of Mr. Fan weather. 
 
 July 2. — Public Fast on account of the Small Pox and 
 Fever prevailing. 
 
 By contribution we gathered £47 10s. O. T. for the poor 
 of Boston. 
 
 August. — [There is but little in this month besides an ac- 
 count of a journey with his wife to Boston from 11th to 25th. 
 The design of the journey was a visit to Mr. Plaisted at York, 
 who with his wife have been very ill a great while.] 
 
 September 2. — I rode with Major Freeman and Peter to 
 Marblehead [Windham] a pigeoning — we' got near ten dozen. 
 
 Mem. New Style by Act of Parliament took place the 
 3d of this month, which shortened it 11 days. [The days are 
 numbered 1,2, 14, k,c] 
 
 October 24. — The Commissioner (viz. Col. Wendall, Capt. 
 Watts, Judge Russell and Mr. Hubbart) having been to 
 Georges and ratified the Peace, put ia here, and I dined and 
 spent die day with them. 
 
 * Holmes says, 2109, of whom 31 died 5 5514 had it in the natural way, of 
 whom 514 died. The total number of inhabitants in Boston v.as 17.574. 
 
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 November 16. — Public Thanksgiving. I could not speak 
 in Ser. and gave the blessing without the last singing. I am 
 quite discouraged (mem. I hear the ser. was uncommonly ad- 
 mired by strangers and others.) 
 
 [See an observation at the end of the year 17 50.] 
 
 [From the paucity of extracts this year, it is not to be 
 concluded that the entries were few ; for they were nearly as 
 minute and numerous as common, though not so interesting. 
 Domestic Concerns, social interviews with his friends, offi- 
 cial duties and accounts of the seasons, &c. furnished suffi- 
 cient matter to fill the pages of this year's journal.] 
 
 1753. 
 
 January 25. — Our two School-masters (Mr. Longfellow 
 and Mr. Wiswell) opened their Schools on Monday 22d. 
 
 February 27. — Last night Maj. Freeman's Warehouse was 
 consumed by Fire. 
 
 It is a time of dismal scarcity for Bread. 
 
 March 14. — We are relieved from the distress for want of 
 Bread, a sloop and schooner having arrived, [with a supply of 
 Corn, I suppose.] 
 
 April 10. — We have an epedemic illness prevailing, called 
 the rash. Thank God, it is in so few instances mortal. 
 
 27. — I am incessantly every day, (except yesterday) at 
 prayer with the sick. 
 
 May 22. — Capt. Preble was chosen Representative. 
 
 June. — [The Journal of a trip to Boston from 14th to 1 8th, 
 takes up the c hief of the page for that month. The rest of it 
 has nothing material.] 
 
 July. — [I need not make any extracts from the Journal of 
 this month ] 
 
 August 11. — Gov. Shirley returned from England, where 
 he had been about 4 years. 
 
 , September. — [Less matter, (and less of it for extracts) in the 
 Journal of this month, than usual.] 
 
 October 2. — I went in a whaleboat to Mericoneag, with our 
 three young Deacons.* 
 
 [*Who these three " young: Deacons" were, I don't know. It appears by the 
 Records of the Church, that the following persons were appointed to that ofliee 
 at the times here mentioned — viz : 
 1727— Sained Co >b, | 1744— Samuel Moody, 
 
 1729— B( Tiry Wheeler, | YV'i iam Cotton, 
 
 Benjamin York, \ 1751— Jam«s Jlilk, 
 
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 28. — (Sunday.) Not a full meeting P. M. I was earnest 
 and blundered in reading my notes, and was (perhaps) vapou- 
 ry, and thought the people slighted me much, tho' my wife 
 don't think so 
 
 [I make this extract to confirm a sentiment I have before 
 
 expressed.] 
 
 November 1. — Annual Thanksgiving ; had great assistance. 
 
 23. — Capt. Ross brought his family to live here/ 
 
 24. — Capt. S. Waldo came here. 
 
 26. — New-Casco was voted off a Parish. 
 
 December 8. — Dined at Deacon Cottons ; had a splendid 
 entertainment. 
 
 13. — I reckoned up the families of the Parish, and there 
 were 302, and New-Casco being set off (62 families) there re- 
 mains 240, 120 of whom are on this Neck. 8 on the Islands, 
 21 on Back-Cove, 48 in Stroudwater Parish (including Long- 
 creek) and the remaining scattered on Presumpscot and Back- 
 of-the-Cove families, and in Purpoodock 300 families. In 
 the whole town 500 families. 
 
 [Several Presents made to Mr. Smith, are mentioned in the 
 Journal for this month ; and I would observe, that, (generally 
 speaking) such notices are common in every month of the 
 year ] 
 
 1754. 
 
 January 11. — I rode to Doughty's and prayed. They have 
 lost three children of the throat distemper, a fourth is very 
 dangerous. 
 
 February 26. — I sat out with my wife and Peter for York. 
 
 27. — Mr. Richardson was ordained (at Wells.) I began 
 with prayer. Mr. Loring preached. 
 
 March 13. — I got home well. I have every where in my 
 journey met with great kindness and respect. 
 
 19. — We are now raising six companies of soldiers [mak- 
 ing collectively 800] to cover the eastern frontiers, the Indians 
 having lately appeared surly and threatening at Richmond, 
 and the Government being apprehensive, they design to break 
 upon us. The new settlement of the Plymouth patent is the 
 provocation. 
 
 Samuel Cobb, Jr. 
 17G9 — Natbaniel G. Moody, 
 Benjamin Titcorab, 
 
 | 1781— Bicbard Codman, 
 | Samuel Freeman, 
 
 | 1799^- Woodbury Stortfr. 
 
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 April 4. — Annual Fast. Had wonderful assistance, spoke 
 easy, and in high spirits. Thank God who has appeared to 
 help me last Sabbath and to day. 
 
 May 6. — Mr, Allen died. 
 
 9. — Was buried. 
 
 22. — Sailed to day for Cape-Ann. 
 
 27. — Got to Boston. 
 
 June 13. — Returned from Boston. 
 
 18. — We have been painting and fitting up our House for 
 the Treaty which is approaching. 
 
 21. — The Norridgewock Indians came here (42 in all and 
 25 men.) 
 
 24. — Several of the Transports (that have the soldiers from 
 Kennebec) got in to day. 
 
 25. — Eight hundred soldiers got in and encamped on Bangs' 
 Island. 
 
 26. — The Governor [Dummer] got in this morning. P. M, 
 came on shore, lodges at Mr. Fox's. 
 
 27. — The Government dined in the Court Chamber. 
 
 28. — Yesterday and to day we had a vast concourse dined 
 with us, at our own expence. I dined with the Governor. 
 
 29. — The Government yesterday met the Norridgewock 
 Indians, and to day proposed to them the building of the 
 Fort at Teuconic. 
 
 30. — (Sunday.) Parson Brockwell preached A. M. and 
 carried on in the Church form. I preached P. M. 
 
 July 1. — The Norridgewocklndians gave their answer, and 
 refuse the Forts being built at Teuconic. 
 
 2. — The Treaty was signed between the Governor and the 
 Norridgewock Indians. 
 
 I dined with the Governor. Mr. Thompson, Elvin and 20 
 others, dined with us at my expence. 
 
 3. — The Indians had their dance. Three young men of 
 the Norridewock tribe went to Boston, and the rest returned 
 home. 
 
 5. — The Penobscot Indians came (15 men) and the Gov- 
 ernment met them in the Meeting-House. 
 
 6. — The Treaty was finished. Seven gentlemen went up 
 the bay, and others to Boston. 
 
 8. — The ship sailed with Mr. Danforth, Oliver, Bourn and 
 Hubbard from us, and the whole body of Representatives. 
 
 9. — Mr. Langdon and Doct. Dearborn here. I paid the 
 latter £252 for John's living with him. 
 
 14. — (Sunday.) Mr. Brockwell preached. He gave great 
 offence, as to his doctrine. Our Fishermen are all fled home, 
 alarmed with the news of a French war proclaimed at Hali- 
 fax. 
 
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 17. — The Governor went to North-Yarmouth and returned 
 at night. 
 
 19. — I dined with the Governor. The Governor drank tea 
 with us. The ships relumed. Mr. Wheelwright, Lincoln, 
 and Minot of the Council ; Hancock and others. 
 
 23. — The Governor dined at Col. Cushings. The rain 
 prevented me. 
 
 28. — Mr. Erwin came to town, and Mr. Storer who lodged 
 with us. Capt. Osborn sailed for Boston, having paid me 
 near $100 for my House. 
 
 August 30. — The Governor and the gentlemen with him, 
 sailed in Saunders for Kennebec, to visit Cushnoc and Teuto- 
 nic Forts.* 
 
 September 3. — The Governor returned from Kennebec. 
 
 8. — The Governor sailed with Col. Masquerene, Mr. Brock- 
 well, Mr. Wheelwright, Richmond, Charish, Minot and 
 Price. 
 
 Thus ended a Summer's scene of as much bluster as a Cam- 
 bridge Commencement, and now comes on a vacation when 
 our House and the town seems quite solitary. 
 
 12. — I attended a Fast at Purpoodock preparatory to the 
 settlement of a Minister, (other ministers, Thompson, Morrill 
 and Lombard.) 
 
 October 5. — I have spent a good deal of time at Court to 
 hear the cases between the Plymouth and the Pejepscot Pro- 
 prietors. The former left them. Gridley for the former, 
 Otis for the latter. 
 
 7. — I sat out out on a Journey [to Portsmouth] 
 
 12. — Returned. 
 
 16. — The Church at Purpoodock made choice of Mr. Hol- 
 yoke, to be their Minister by a majority of one vote. 
 
 21. — I had the melancholly tidings to day that my son Wil- 
 liam died last Wednesday night. 
 
 The Parish at Purpoodock concurred with the Church by 
 the major ity of two votes. 
 
 November 5. — A smart Storm with a deluge of rain and 
 thunder and lightning in the night. N. B. There has been 
 the least thunder the Summer past that has been for years. 
 
 December 8. — (Sunday.) The W — 's make a wretched 
 practice of spending P. M. together with others, carousing. 
 
 15. — Purpoodock Parish is in a sad situation, dismally di- 
 vided and quarrelling. 
 
 *IIe went 40 miles above Norridgewock, but found no French Fort. He 
 erected one at Teuconic which was named Fcrt Halifax, another at Cushno.c 
 named Fort Weston. Minot. 
 
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 1755. 
 
 January 16. — Peter began to keep school on the Neck. 
 
 Februarys. — Several of our people went over to Purpoo- 
 dock to hear Mr. Clark. 
 
 1 k — Justice Noiee died this evening. 
 
 March 10. — I received a letter from the Secretary inform- 
 ing me that the Governor and Council had warned me to 
 preach the next Election Sermon. 
 
 April 7.— Mr. Fox died last night. 
 
 <25, — Mr. Clark (who returned to Purpoodock on Tuesday) 
 gave his answer to day. 
 
 30. — Mr. Moss was ordained at Berwick. This is a day 
 much to be remembered. The Indians having done mischief 
 upon it, viz. killed the Peales, Briant and family at Gorham- 
 town. 
 
 May 8. — There was a Council at Purpoodock to day, Mr. 
 Loring Hovey, Morril and myself, with delegates. 
 
 15. — We have news that the Indians on Tuesday last took 
 two men and burnt a house at Frankfort. 
 
 18. — fSun.hy,) Thin meeting, many having gone yester- 
 day, and fearing to be pressed, to Sabago, and New Boston, 
 [now Gray,] a report alarming us of the latter's being de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 22. — Oui forces sailed from Boston for Siganecto with a 
 fair wind. 
 
 25. — We have news from Sheepscot that 5 men were taken 
 there by the Indians, a ploughing, and that 2 escaped. 
 
 29. — We have news that one Snow was found killed by the 
 Indians on the back of North Yarmouth, and another man 
 {with him) taken. 
 
 June 27. — News comes of the Fort at Chicanecto's being 
 taken, after a conflict of about an hour. We lost but 4 men.* 
 There was in our army 2270, all New Engiand men, except 
 870, who were the Kings regulars. 
 
 28. — There in a French fleet of 15 sail upon the coast, and 
 an English fleet dogging them, that have taken two seventy 
 gun ships. 
 
 July 3. — Public Fast on occasion of various expeditions a- 
 gainst French forts. 
 
 7, to 16. — [On a Journey to and from Portsmouth.] 
 
 17. — We have news of a second English squadron arriving 
 
 Cape Sable shore. 
 
 Minot says only one, 
 
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 18. — One Winter here (of Boston) in favour of Clark, the 
 former a bad man ami belied very much among the people at 
 Purpoodock, who are in a dreadful mad temper. 
 
 30. — We went to Purpoodock where was a grand Council 
 of 15 Churches. [Here they are enumerated.] 
 
 SI. — The Council continued. Messrs. Rogers and Elwins 
 only were for installing Mr. Clark, and ten othei ministers a- 
 gainst it, we had close hot work through the whole. In the 
 close of this day the Council had like to have been broken to 
 pieces, about voting by Churches. 
 
 August 1. — The Council spent the two days past in hear- 
 ing the facts. Spent this in summing up the evidence, and 
 in the evening voted not to instal Mr. Clark, there being 23 
 votes against it, and 18 for it, and 2 neuters, Mr. Wise and 
 Mr. Langdon. 
 
 The result was read this morning and the Council dis- 
 persed. 
 
 7. — We have news which confirms the first news. [I have 
 not observed that this was mentioned before,] viz: General 
 Braddock's being killed with 24 more officers and 35 wound- 
 ed (20 only escaping unhurt) and 600 soldiers killed and 
 wounded, and the whole army put to the rout, and flight, and 
 the artillery taken. 
 
 10. — (Sunday,) Very full meeting — the Purpoodock peo- 
 ple over — Mr. Clark preaching again. 
 
 14. — Our Justices are at work, contriving to take Mr. Clark 
 in hand. 
 
 18. — Things are in a sad toss about Mr. Clark. 
 
 28. — General Fast, partly on occasion of General Brad- 
 dock's defeat* and partly for success to Gov. Shirley's expe- 
 dition to Niagara and General Johnson's to Crown Point. 
 
 September 8. — The engagement at Lake George, was to 
 day a victory,! in answer (I hope) to the prayers on the late 
 Fast. 
 
 * It will not, I conceive, be thoHght amiss to give here the following- particu* 
 lars of this defeat. " After an action of three hours, General Braddock, under 
 whom three horses had been killed, received a mortal wound ; and his troops 
 fled in extreme dismay and confusion. The provincials, who were among- the 
 last to leave the field, formed after the action by the prudent valour of Wash- 
 ington, and covered the retreat of the regulars. The defeat was entire. Of 85 
 •fficers,64 were killed and wounded, and about half the privates. The defeat- 
 ed army fled precipitately to the camp of Dunbar, where Braddock expired of 
 his wounds. 
 
 tThe French General, Baron Dieshaw, who had received a wound in his leg 
 ffM leaning- en a stamp, entirely alone, while looking for his watch to sun e* 
 
es 
 
 19. — I was to visit Mr. Pearson on occasion of the news we 
 have of Col. TitCQmb's being killed in General Johnsons' ar- 
 my, who have had an engagement with the French and In- 
 dians at Lake George. 
 
 October 9. — [A. complaint having been brought against Mr. 
 Clark, for lying, the cause was this day tried at Court, and he 
 was icquitted by the Jury. " There were thousands of peo- 
 ple present."] 
 
 November 10. — I prayed at New Casco with Mrs. Clark's 
 grand child and widow Douglass, both ill with the throat dis- 
 temper ; eight children have died there. [These died too.] 
 
 17. — There was, in the night, at a quarter past four, a most 
 amazing shock of an earthquake. It lasted two minutes, that 
 seemed as if it would shake the house to pieces, and then 
 threw down near 100 bricks of our chimney, and did the 
 same to many other chimneys in town.* 
 
 18. — We had a lecture on occasion of the earthquake, ex- 
 ceeding full considering the short notice people had. Peo- 
 ple are universally greatly s *• prized and distressed. 
 
 19. — A pleasant calm day and night, not a breath of wind, 
 and such was last night when the earthquake was, and all yes- 
 terday. We have never known two days and nights together 
 so calm and pleasant. 
 
 22. — Besides several earthquakes we have had this week, 
 we had this evening at half after eight, a very smart one 
 which exceedingly surprised us. Continued cloudy 'till to- 
 
 der it, one of the soldiers, suspeeting him to be in search for a pistol, poured a 
 charge through his hips, and he was conducted a prisoner to the English camp 
 Capt. M'Ginnes, commander of the provincials fell in the action. 
 
 * It began at Boston a little after 4 o'clock in a serene and pleasant night, and 
 continued nearly four and a half minutes - , about lOOehimnies were in a man- 
 ner levelled with the roofs of the houses, and about 1500 shattered and thrown 
 down in part. The ends of about 12 or 15 brick buildings were thrown down 
 from the tops to the eves of the houses. The vane of the market-house was 
 thrown down, a new vane of one of the churches was bent at the spindal. At 
 New Haven, the ground in many places seemed to rise like the wavei of the 
 sea, the houses shook and cracked, as if they were just ready to fall. Its course 
 was northwest to southeast, its extent was from Chesapeak Bay, southwest to 
 Halifax, northeast about 800 miles, but from northwest to southeast it reached 
 at least 1000 miles, and perhaps many more. It probably passed by the West 
 Indies to the eastward of the Islands. About 2 o'clock, P. M. the same day 
 the sea withdrew from the harbor of St. Martin, leaving the vessels dry, and 
 fish on the banks, where there used to be 3 or 4 fathoms of water, and when it 
 came in it arose six feet higher than usual. There was no shock felt there 
 though here it was the most violent th»t was ever known in the country. 
 
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 day it rained, and when we had a great shock of the earth,-, 
 it not only rained but the wind blew. 
 
 December 11. — Peter went to preach and live at Marble- 
 head. [Windham.] 
 
 18. — We had a Fast on occasion of the Earthquake, 
 
 19. — There were two or three Earthquakes to night. 
 
 27. — We have an accoont that Lisbon is destroyed and S00 
 miles on the ocean towards the Straights mouth, St.Ubes and 
 Algizero. Other places sunk, and Cadiz and Saville great- 
 ly damaged, 60 miles back ; but we hear as yet no more. 
 
 80. — I catechised, and prayed, and exhorted the children 
 in the meeting-house. (£00 of them.) 
 
 [It will be noticed that some of the events of this year, were 
 uncommon and important.] 
 
 1756. 
 
 January 4. — (Sunday,) Mr. Bosworth preached. I was in 
 the evening called to Justice Frost, who, going from meeting 
 was seized with a fit, but before I got to him, he was dead. 
 
 3. — Public Fast; on occasion of the Earthquakes in Eu- 
 lope and America. 
 
 20. — Clarke's messengers returned, not being able to get 
 Installers. 
 
 29. — We hear of Mr. Wise's death. 
 
 February 3. — Town meeting to choose Representative — 
 after a vioient struggle by Clarke's party, in favor of Capt. 
 Robinson, Major Freeman was chosen. 
 
 .March 9. — Town meeting. Mr. Longfellow chosen Town 
 Clerk. 
 
 26. — We have news from St. George, that a party of In- 
 dians, the day before yesterday, killed two young men and 
 scalped a third. 
 
 April 12. — This morning the robbin, which has visited us 
 several springs past, began to serenade us. 
 
 May 3. — Mr. Clark set out once more to get Installers. 
 
 10 — This morning we are alarmed with young Knights, 
 who escaped from the Indians 3 days ago, and got to North 
 Ifarmouth this morning, who brings news of 120 Indians 
 coming upon the frontier who are to spread themselves in 
 'mall scouts from Brunswick to Saco. 
 
 11. — Capt. Milk with 40 men, Capt. Ilsley with a com- 
 pany and Capt. Skillin with another, went out in pursuit of 
 the Indians. Capt. Smith with a reinforcement out of the 
 N. Yarmouth and New Casco companies, went with Knight 
 to the place where he left 3 squaws and where the Indians 
 
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 left their beaver. We hear that Capt. Berry is also gone 
 with his scout. 
 
 13. — The Indians a few days ago took a man at Brunswick 
 that was in company with others who threw away their guns 
 and escaped. They killed one Mains and at Flying 
 Point, and carried away a young woman but they also left an 
 Indian there, a man firing down through the chamber floor, 
 and killed him on the spot. 
 
 14. — This morning one Brown was killed and Winship was 
 wounded and scalped at Marblehead, [Windham]. Manches- 
 ter fired upon them, and we hope killed an Indian, as did 
 Capt. Skillin another. The Indians fled affrighted and left 
 5 packs, a bow and a bunch of arrows, and several other 
 things. 
 
 Brown and Winship were going with a guard of four men and 
 four lads to work upon Brown Place about a mile from the fort, 
 right back, and the two Walker's forward on about 60 rods, and 
 the Indians fired on them, whereupon Manchester fired once but 
 Farrow and Sterling with the other two lads run aw ay home, 
 and the Indians fled also in great haste. Capt. Skillin w ith a 
 company being gone out in the woods about a mile were call- 
 ed back, and with Capt. Brown's scout (that happened also 
 to be there) pursued the Indians, and fived on one, and then 
 all shouted for victory. Manchester was the hero of the 
 action but Andersol [I believe it should be Anderson] be- 
 haved gallantly (calling, follow on my lads) ; or the English 
 perhaps all of them would have been killed. 
 
 18. — Maj. Freeman was again chosen our Representative, 
 Capt Waldo his Competitor. 
 
 20. — There is a great bustle again at Purpoodock. Jon. 
 Rogers and the Clevelands are come there to install Mr. 
 Clark who spent to day in a mock council. Many of our 
 people went over, and 
 
 21 — This afternoon installed him in Simonton's orchard. 
 
 23. — (Sunday) Had a contribution in favor of Jos. Knights. 
 
 June 4. — Peter ('who has discontinued preaching at Marble- 
 head 3 sabbaths past by reason of the Indians) went there to 
 day. 
 
 17. — Col. Cushing recovered his Cause of rates. A terri- 
 ble uproar about Mr. Clark's being poisoned by Mr. Lovet. 
 
 July 14. — This day the ministers kept a private Fast, on 
 occasion of the contentions in our town and the reproaches 
 cast on the ministers. 
 
 22. — Public Fast on occasion of the expedition to Crown 
 Point. 
 
 We are visited with the sore judgment of the worms that 
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 v t w ere 13 years ago, which have destroyed whole fields ot 
 English and Indian corn in divers places. 
 
 27. — Mr. Clark is on the road with his wife 3 days, and to 
 day preached to the quakers and a huge rabble gathered toge- 
 ther through curiosity which occasions a great toss among 
 the people. 
 
 '20.— -We have news many ways, that war with France was 
 proclaimed the 16th of May. 
 
 August 20. — A brig is here from Ireland, sent by brigadier 
 Waldo with passengers. 
 
 24.— All the daily talk is about the French expedition to 
 Minorca and our fleet that are sent there in the defence of it, 
 and our army gone against Crown Point. We are in hourly 
 expectation of engagements that will be decisive of the fate of 
 each. 
 
 September 6.— We have news that Port Mahon was sur- 
 rendered to the French the 29th June. Admiral Byng not 
 having succoured it, but withdrew from an engagement with 
 the French fleet to Gibraltar ('tis thought through corruption.) 
 We have also the shocking news that Oswego Forts with 1500 
 men have surrendered to the French. 
 
 9. — Son Thomas came home being done with Mr. Schollay 
 
 10. — Rode to N. Yarmouth and dined with Mr. Wiswell. 
 19.— Mr. Wiswell gave in his answer to N- Casco. 
 
 26.— (Sunday ) A thin Meeting, some of our men being gone 
 to Georges upon the news brought us yesterday, that Georges 
 Fort was attacked (which was not true, but one of our schoon- 
 ers was burnt and two taken, and 3 men killed and 3 missing. 
 
 23.— Capt. Ross had a large ship launched. 
 
 29.— It is a sickly time generally through the country ; at 
 Saco the throat distemper has killed 14 children ; at Dunston 
 they have the fever and ague ; and at Black Point, N. Yar- 
 mouth and Falmouth the slow fever and bloody flux. 
 
 October 2.— Governor Shirley sailed for England. 
 
 7.— I rode to Black Point and attended a fast on occasion 
 of the sickness. 
 
 12.— I was over to Purpoodock visiting and praying with 
 Dr. Wise, staid all night. 13.— Dr. Wise died. 
 
 14. — We have news that 13,000 French regulars besides 
 Canadians and Indians are got near our arm» at lake George, 
 and that the army is very sickly.* 
 
 * It was agreed in a council of Colonial Covernment at New York, to raise 
 10,000 men for an expedition against Crcwn Point ; 6000 for an expedition 
 agaiast Niagara and 3000 against Fort du Quesne,and tbat 2000 should advance 
 «p the river Kennebec and destroy the settlement on the Chaudiere •, but major 
 general Winslew finding there were only 7000 raised for the former, declared 
 them inadequate to the enterprise. The attempt proposed against Fort du 
 Quesne was not prosecuted, and the expediiion up Kennebec terminated in a 
 mere scouting party which explored the country. 
 
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 Capt. Rouse put in here having lost his lieutenant and 9 
 men with his pinnance by Indians. 
 
 SO. — The town is full of company. In the harbor are Rouse, 
 Tennv, Granger, the Deal ships' and a snow from Boston. 
 
 November 8.— I went to New Casco to the ordination of 
 Mr. Wiswell. [Other ministers, Loring, Thompson, Hovey, 
 Morrel.] 
 
 12.— The Centurion man-of-war arrived here from Halifax 
 to guard the ships. 
 
 December 31. — Having obtained help from God, I and 
 mine continue and are brought to the end of another year- 
 Blessed be his name. 
 
 [The journal of this year records events, which might be 
 deemed disastrous, but He who ruleth over all, is wise and 
 good and righteous in all he does. Let then all the people 
 praise Him (however they be affected by his government) and 
 join in the ascription with which it closes and that of David 
 king of Israel.— " Blessed be his Name.] 
 
 1757. 
 
 February 6.~The snow was so deep in drift, that there was 
 no possibility of getting to the Meeting House. We met and 
 had one meeting at the Court House. 
 
 March 13. — One Clark of Sebago town killed Woorster 
 and wounded Gray and Sands. 
 
 April 9. — Yesterday 6 Purpoodock men were put to goal 
 for their rates to Mr. Clark. 
 
 20. — Jos. Cox, Bayley and others, sailed upon a cruise for 
 6 weeks after the Penobscot Indians. 
 
 May 4.-— Eighteen more Purpoodoc men were put to goal 
 for Clark's rates. 
 
 14.— Yesterday young Webb of Marblehead was fired upon 
 by two Indians, 70 miles back in the woods. 
 
 18. — Seventeen Indians waylaid and had a short engage- 
 ment at Topsham with Lithgow and 8 men, two of our men 
 were wounded and two Indians carried off dead. 
 
 30".— We hear by a man that made his escape, that 2 of 
 his companions were killed by the Indians 70 miles up Ame- 
 riscoggin. 
 
 30.— -I prayed with a young woman who was in prison for 
 the murder of her infant. 
 
 June 2. — Cox and Bayley returned from their cruise after 
 the Indians, bringing with them the scalps of two men whom 
 they killed, two canoes and a quantity of oil, fish and feathers. 
 
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 7.— We hear that Capt. Whitney was killed by a number 
 of our men who fired upon a camp w here he was, supposing 
 Indians were in it. 
 
 17. — Marshal Daune raised the seige of Prague and ob- 
 tained a victory over the king of Prussia. 
 
 20. ---Capt. Waldo came home from Boston and brings the 
 most melancholy tidings of the drought at the westward and 
 that the small pox is in our forts and that it is feared a great 
 French fleet is coming to America, upon which account all 
 hearts ache at Boston and people appear quite discouraged 
 and disconsolate. 
 
 21. — We had a fast upon the occasion of the distressing 
 drought. 
 
 22. — The association meeting was turned into a fast. 
 
 20. — Public Fast on occasion of the drought and appre- 
 hension of a French fleet to attack us, and many disappoint- 
 ments and threatening impending judgments. 
 
 July 2. — Lord Loudon we hear has sailed from N. York 
 with transports for Halifax. 
 
 3. — No person sick in the parish, a remarkable mercy ! 
 
 7. — The melancholy case of N. Casco opened to day about 
 their turning to the Church of England. 
 
 8. — To day at half past two we felt a considerable earth- 
 quake. 
 
 I hear Merriconeag parish is broken to pieces. 
 
 15.— Mr. Cox's sloop came in from Halifax, and brings 
 pews of the arrival of a French fleet consisting of 17 ships of 
 the line and 15 other men of war, and 64 transports and that 
 Lord Loudon had 87 transports. 
 
 18. — We have had the greatest abundance of cherries that 
 ever we had (perhaps 20 or SO bushels.) 
 
 It is a time of remarkable health in the parish, and through 
 the country, and has been so hitherto, throughout the year. I 
 myself grow very fat. 
 
 25. — An uneasiness in the church, on account of the Pur- 
 poodock people partaking with us. 
 
 26, — A clamouring by some of the town against me for 
 visiting Mrs. Cox, who has broke out with the small pox, when 
 I did it at the desire of the Justices and Selectmen. 
 
 Several families have moved away for fear of the small 
 pox. 
 
 30. — Our cherries are not yet gone, and people are satisfi- 
 ed and tired coming for them. More than a hundred women 
 and some men have been after them, and the currants cannot 
 be diminished. 
 
 August 14.— We have news that 16,000 French and In- 
 dians have attacked our fort at the Lake. 
 
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 15. — We have news that our fort William and Henry, at 
 the Lake, was taken on Tuesday last, and that fort Edward 
 was besieged by 16,000 of the enemy. The country is all in 
 an uproar, inarching to their relief. General Johnson is there 
 and General Webb, with 5,000 men.* 
 
 19.— Sailed for Boston. 
 
 27. — Amidst all the distress of the *own, upon occasion of 
 our loss and disappointment, we have to day, further melan- 
 choly news by a ship from London, of the Duke's being beat. 
 
 September 2* — Returned from Boston. 
 
 October 19. — We hear that our fleet at Louisburgh had all 
 like to have been lost on the 24th of September. That the 
 Tisbury, with 450 men, foundered, and that the Ferret was 
 missing, and most of the others lost their masts. 
 
 November 3. — We have news from Halifax that the peo- 
 ple there talk of leaving the place ; that our Province. Snow 
 is taken ; that 6 large men of war are gone home in Jury 
 masts, and that Hanover is faken. 
 
 30.— The price of beef at Boston is 12 pence per pound ; 
 corn per bushel, 205. ; here 22 and sixpense. 
 
 I am provided with every thing needful for the coming win- 
 ter. 
 
 December 14. A Council at Gorham. 
 
 16. The Council finished, and brought the aggrieved 
 brethren to agree. 
 
 26. Capt. Pearson g^vc me a barrel of cider. 
 
 [I notice this as a further memento of the numerous pre- 
 sents made to Mr. Smith.] 
 
 [This appears to have been a healthy year, generally, and 
 with Mr. Smith in particular. With but one exception, he 
 made no complaint of discontent with his performances on 
 the Sabbath, nor expressed any doubt of the people's satis- 
 faction with them.] 
 
 1758. 
 
 Januaiy 20. — I rode to Gorham and joined the council : 
 six churches. 
 
 21.— The council sat yesterday and to-day, in hearing a 
 tedious exhibition of charges brought against Mr. Lombard 
 by the disaffected. 
 
 * The last was surrendered by capitulation, and the garrison was to be allow- 
 ed the honors of war, and to be protected against the Indians until within the 
 reach of Fort Edward ; but no sooner had the soldiers left the place, than the 
 Indians in the French army, disregarding the stipulation, fell on them, and 
 eommitted the most cruel outrages. 
 
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 £4.— We spent yesterday and to-day in hearing a tedious 
 exhibition of charges brought by Mr. Lombard against the 
 disaffected, and in debating and voting on the same. 
 
 25. — All this morning was spent in debating what the re- 
 sult of the council should be ; whether to continue Mr. Lom- 
 bard upon trial for twelve months, or dismiss him, and when 
 I w is putting it to vote, a motion came into the council that 
 the parties had agreed. 
 
 26. — And so the matter was finished by nine o'clock this 
 evening. 
 
 February 13.— We have the confirmation, and particulars 
 ©f the news that the King of Prussia, with 18 or 20,000 men, 
 obtained a complete victory over the Imperial and French 
 army of 60,000 men. An astonishing event ! Glory to God. 
 
 16.— Two Londoners with £100,000 sterling, were cast 
 away on Lynn beach by the storm. 
 
 23.— We have the happy news of a second complete victo- 
 ry over Prince Charles and Marshd Douse, (Imperial gener- 
 als) by Prince Bevere. The Prince Bevere was beat, but 
 afterwards the King of Prussia joined him, and the above 
 victory was obtained, with 30,000 against 70,000. 
 
 March 15.— Parish meeting— -They voted £800 for my 
 salary, and I gave them a receipt for all arrears. 
 
 21. — We have a confirmation of the last news. We hear 
 of a prodigious expedition, entered upon, against Canada.* 
 
 26.— Horses and sleighs go every where over the snow, 
 which is as high as the fences. 
 
 April 5.— Joshua Moody is now recruiting men for the 
 Canada expedition. There are to be 500 men raised in this 
 county. 
 
 28. — Mr. Francis Waldo, who came to town on Manday, 
 dined here. He is appointed Collector for this port. 
 
 May 3. — One Ingersol and one Willard are come to town 
 with recruiting orders for ninety more men out of this part 
 of the country, which makes the people quite ma#, that when 
 we had cheerfully enlisted our quota, (viz. 500) they should 
 now get a pressing. 
 
 * The British government having determined to send a large force to Ameri- 
 ca, to operate by sea and land against the French, Mr. Pitt, in a circular letter 
 to the colonial governors, called upon them to raise as large bodies of men as 
 the number of inhabitants would allow. The northern colonies were prompt 
 and liberal in furnishing supplies. The legislature of Massachusetts voted to 
 furnish 7,000 men, Connecticut 5,000, and New-Hampshire 3,000. These troops 
 were ready to take the field very early in May, previously to which term. Ad- 
 miral Boscawen had arrived at Halifax with a formidable fleet, and_ 12 ; 006 
 troops under the command of (ien. Amherst, 
 
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 11. — Our soldiers sailed for Kittery in 3 transport sloops. 
 
 24. — One Pomeroi, upon Kennebec river was killed by the 
 Indians, and a young man taken captive. 
 
 June 1. — The two last Thursdays' newspapers are full of 
 the success of the Duke of Brunswick. In Hanover, the 
 French were driven out of every place with great loss. Their 
 army sickly, and multitudes dead and killed, and by a deci- 
 sive battle they were entirely routed — all their magazines 
 taken and Hanover entirely evacuated. 
 
 3. — Admiral Boscawen has arrived at Louisburgh with his 
 fleet from Halifax. It consisted of twenty-four ships of the 
 line, eleven frigates, and four bomb ships. 
 
 4. — He landed his troops at Gaberouse Bay. 
 
 11. — We hear that Mr. Preble, of Arowsic, and his wife 
 were lately killed by the Indians, and their six children and a 
 young woman carried away captives. 
 
 16. — Parish meeting about the bell Capt. Ross sent for, 
 which is come. After much concerted opposition, made by 
 the out families, who threatened never to come to meeting, 
 and talked of being set off a [separate] parish. The parish 
 voted £100 L. M. to pay for it. 
 
 26. — Brigadier Waldo came to town by land, as did his sons 
 by water. 
 
 29. — We attended a fast upon the expedition. Mr. Mor- 
 rell and I preached. Messrs. El win, Thompson, Hovey and 
 Lombard prayed. 
 
 July 2. — (Sunday) Our bell (which weighs more than 800) 
 which was hung yesterday, rang at the usual hours. 
 
 6. — We had a fast with respect to the great expedition: 
 Mr Elvin preached. 
 
 12. — Attended a fast. I preached. 
 
 19. — I attended a fast. Messrs. Thompson and Elvirfc 
 preached. 
 
 21. — News that Louisburgh is taken, the joy of which is 
 abated, by news that our army at Ticonderoga is routed, and 
 retreated with the Joss of 2000 men. 
 
 27. — The news of the taking of Louisburgh is contradicted. 
 Jlugust 17- — Capt. Jordan came here and brought us news 
 
 of the reduction of Louisburg on the 26th July, which is con- 
 firmed by a letter from Thomas, in Boston, to Mr. Cod man. 
 The people spent P. M. and most of the night rejoicing. 
 
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 24. — We have [further] confirmation of the news of the 
 reduction of Louisburgh* and hear of great rejoicings at Bos- 
 ton and Portsmouth; 
 
 30. — We Ijave been all in alarm by the advices of great 
 firing al Georges. 150 men (mostly volunteers'* are gone in 
 Mr. Cox. 
 
 31. — Upon their return from Pemaquid, they brought news 
 that i he French and Indians had attacked Georges, took ;.nd 
 returned a woman : killed fiO cattle, and moved off. 
 
 September 12. — The epidemic cough we had all the last 
 winter, now again prevails in every house. The children 
 especially are grievously exercised with it, and seem as if 
 they would die. 
 
 14. — Day of prayer and Thanksgiving on occasion of the 
 reduction of Irfutsburgh, and defeat of our army at Ticon- 
 daroga. 
 
 1C. — Capt. Tenny in a mast ship came here to load. 
 
 21. — We hear that Prince Ferdinand, in command of his 
 Majesty's army, obtained a complete victory over Count 
 Clermont, and the French army on the 23d June, in which 
 the latter lost 8000 men, and the former only 1000. 
 
 22. — Admiral Anson, with a great fleet, and the Duke of 
 Marlborough, with 16,000 troops, have been to St. Malo, and 
 burnt 300 ships. 
 
 October 16. — I prayed with Enoch Ilsley's child, who is ill 
 with the cough and fever, as hundreds of children are in the 
 parish. 
 
 November 3. — A small man of war run aground coming in 
 here, as an escort to the mast ship. 
 
 6. — The man of war and mast ship sailed. 
 December. — [Nothing to be noticed.] 
 
 [I have not observed in the journal of this year, that Mr. 
 Smith expressed any disheartning circumstance or donbt of 
 approbation and acceptance.] 
 
 1759. 
 
 January 11. — I preached a Lecture entirely extempore, 
 determining to do it but the moment before I began. 
 
 * It was taken with the loss of about 400 men killed or wounded. The garri- 
 son lost upwards of 1500, and the town was left almost in a heap of ruins. The 
 conquerors found 22| "cces of cannon, ana IB mortars, with a large quantity of 
 stores and ammunition. The inhabitants of Cape Briton, were sent to France 
 in English ships; butthi garrison amounting to 5637 officers end men, were 
 '•arried prisoners to EagfaMd. 
 
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 27. — The measles is spreading through the tewns in this 
 part of the country. 
 
 February IS. — Mr. Thompson died this morning. 
 
 21. — I rode with my wife to Mr. Thompson's Funeral. 
 There was a great concourse of people, as many from my 
 parish, as there were Horses and Sleighs. 
 
 March 14. — Parish Meeting. Voted to enlarge the Meet- 
 ing-House and build a Steeple. 
 
 [Many were ill, and several died with the measles this month, 
 and Mr. Smith was much employed in visiting and praying 
 with the sick. 
 
 How much he was engaged in this kind of ministerial duty, 
 and how many scenes of sickness and death he has been wit- 
 ness to ! And it may be observed, that he was not only ' much 7 
 in prayer, but eminent in his copious, fluent and fervent man- 
 ner of performing that exercise.] 
 
 April 4.— Mr. Townsend was ordained in Gorham. Capt. 
 Phinney prayed before the charge, and Capt. Morton gave it, 
 and Townsend did all the rest. 
 
 18. — A remarkable Comet in the N. E. about Sin the 
 morning. 
 
 May 4. — Governor Pownal came here in Capt. Saunders. 
 8. — He sailed to day with 400 soldiers for Penobscot, to build 
 a Fort there. 
 
 31. — We hear that Brigadier Waldo died suddenly at Pe- 
 nobscot on Wednesday last. 
 
 June 28 — General Fast on occasion of the expeditions. 
 
 July IS. — I have baptized S3 infants in about six weeks. 
 
 24. — Our people threw off the easterly end of the Meeting- 
 House. 
 
 August. — Prince Ferdinand at the head of the Allied army 
 of 48,000 in Hanover [had] obtained a complete victory over 
 Marshal Contaide's army of 140,000. 
 
 8. — We have the joyful news of Niagara* and Ticondero- 
 ga'sf being taken, and that the army have landed near Que- 
 bec. 
 
 9. — Yesterday Mr. Hemmenway was ordained [at Wells.] 
 16. — There were public rejoicings upon the confirmation 
 
 of Niagara and Ticonderoga being taken, and Crown Point 
 being deserted and burnt. 
 
 *The garrison at Niagara, consisting of 609 men, were to march out with the 
 honors of war, and to be carried to New- York, and the women and children to 
 Montreal. 
 
 tThe enemy, after blowing up their magazines, and deing what damage the 
 iftue would allow, evacuaved the Fort and returned to Crown Point. 
 
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 £9. — Had a Lecture. Baptized six ehriltlren. 
 
 [It may be here mentioned, that, during the ministry -of Mr. 
 Smith, the number of baptisms in his Society, (as it appears 
 by the Church record,) was 2S62 — viz : Of Infants 2331. 
 Adults 81. 
 
 September 13-— This was the memorable day when Gen. 
 Wolfe's army obtained the victory over the French army at 
 Quebec, which brought about the surrender of the City* 
 
 17. — Quebec surrendered. 
 
 18. — Our army entered into and took possession of Quebec, 
 26.— The captains of the mast ships made a great Barba- 
 
 que on Hog-Island, for a general frolic. 
 
 27 — There are 133 Houses upon this neck, besides Tucker's 
 shop, Preble's and Bangs' warehouses and Bradbury's work- 
 shop, which have families in them, and the fort. 
 
 October 5. — We have a deluge of company this week, and 
 indeed through the whole summer. 
 
 [The social disposition of Mr. Smith, always afforded him 
 the company of the most respectable strangers, and frequent 
 visits of his acquaintances and friends.] 
 
 14. — We have news that Quebec is taken, and that General 
 Wolfe and Montcalm, are killed. (See Sept. 13.) 
 
 16. — The cannon were fired at the fort yesterday and to- 
 day. Mr. Mavhew's house was illuminated, and small arms 
 jired in the evening, upon further and more authentic news of 
 the victory at Quebec. 
 
 17. — The three mast ships fired and were illuminated upon 
 the same occasion. 
 
 18. — The country is all in extacy, upon the surprising news 
 of the conquest of Quebec. General Wolfe, with an army of 
 5000 men, on the 13th of last month, having got above the 
 city, and landed on the north side,attacked the French behind 
 the city, who after a terrible engagement of 15 minutes, fled 
 into the city, which surrendered the 17th. 
 
 9& — Public Thanksgiving for the - reduction of Canada and 
 Quebec particularly. 
 
 *In the battle at the plains of Abraham, about 1000 of the enemy were made 
 prisoners, and nearly an equal number fell in the field and in the pursuit. 
 p The loss of the English, both of killed and wounded, was less than 600 men. 
 Quebec ; at the time of its capitulation, contained about 10,000 souls. After it 
 was reduced, it was garrisoned by about 5000 men, under the command of Gen 
 Murray. 
 
 At attempt was made the next year to recover it by Jhe French, under the 
 command of M. de Levi, but Gen. Murray with 30»0 men, marched out on the 
 28th April, to the plains of Abraham, and attacked them near Sillery with great 
 impetuosity, and after a fierce encounter, retired into the city. In this Action bp 
 lost oyer 600 men, and the French a greater number. 
 
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 November 1.— I dined with Capt Granger, and spent P.M. 
 on board Darling, with Capt. Hagget. [Captains of the tin ef 
 mast ships.] 
 
 13. — I was to see John Waite, who is returned from the 
 river St. Lawrence, and who came away with the last of the 
 fleet. 
 
 21. — This day is memorable for the defeat of Gen. Winch, 
 with a Prussian army of above 12,000 men, who all surren- 
 dered to the Austrian army ; and also for the defeat of the 
 Brest fleet, by Sir Edward Hawke. 
 
 December SI. — We have news from Europe, that the 
 French are still upon the design of invading England and 
 Ireland. 
 
 [Some time this year Mr. Edward Sawyer was appointed 
 sexton of the parish, as successor to old Father (Arthur) 
 Gooding.] 
 
 1760. 
 
 January 20. — News is come from the General Court that 
 the disaffected brethren at Purpoodock are setoff. 
 
 February 6. — Brigadier Preble is returned from Boston 
 and brings news of the county's being divided. 
 
 29. — We have certain news that Admiral Hawke has taken, 
 destroyed and scattered the whole Brest fleet, and (bad news) 
 that the Prussian army under general Winch has all surren- 
 dered. 
 
 b March 1. — We have news that Mr. Bernard, (Governor of 
 the Jerseys) is appointed our Governor, and Mr. Pownal, 
 Governor of South Carolina. 
 
 20. — I had a letter from Brigadier Preble, giving an ac- 
 count of the Penobscot Indians coming for peace. Governor 
 Lawrence has made peace with the St. John's and Passama- 
 quoddy Indians, and the neutral French and Cape Sable In- 
 dians are also come in. 
 
 23. — (Sundav,) I was this morning called to Capt. Ross', 
 Mr.Flatt and*' Mr. M'Clean being killed by the fall of the 
 kitchen garret floor, full of corn, upon the chamber floor 
 (where Mr. M'Clean was) which carried it down in an instant 
 and killed Mr. Flatt in the kitchen. One of the servants was 
 wounded, but the rest escaped in the chimney. 
 
 25. — I prayed at the funeral of Messrs. Flatt and M'Clean. 
 The largest and most solemn funeral that ever was in tire 
 town. People were very much affected. 
 
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 28. — We have the confirmation and particulars of the late 
 awful fires in Boston, viz. : a fire at N Boston on Monday 
 noon, but soon extinguished. A fire on Thursday at Griffin's 
 wharf, that endangered the magazine, but also soon put out. 
 And a prodigious fire on Wednesday night, the greatest that 
 ever was in America. It broke out in Cornhill at the widow 
 Jackson's, and consumed all the southeast part of the town ; 
 from thence, all the lower part of Milk-street and the most of 
 Water-street, Pudding lane, Quaker lane and Mackrel lane, 
 as far as Col. Wendell's wharf, containing 349 buildings, i. e. 
 175 warehouses and shops, and 174 tenements inhabited by 
 220 families* 
 
 SO. — The loss by the above fire is computed to be £100,000 
 sterling, or a million old tenor. 
 
 81. — The general Court have voted for the use of the suf- 
 ferers £3000, lawful money. 
 
 April 6. — (Sunday) Wecontributed £179 old tenor, for the 
 .sufferers by the fire 
 
 May 1. — We have news of a cessation of arms. 
 
 2. — We hear that all hope of peace is over for this year, 
 and that the contending nations are going at it in earnest. 
 
 IS. — Visited among the soldiers under Capt.Ingersol, now 
 going away. 
 
 24. — Sailed for Boston in Capt. Saunders. Put into Cape 
 Ann, and 
 
 SO, Got to Boston. Maj. Freeman and Capt. Pearson are 
 in town about dividing the county. 
 7. — Rode to Dunstable. 
 10. — Returned to Boston. 
 
 12. — Came away from Boston with an easy pretty breeze. 
 
 13. — The wind continued fair till near night, when arose a 
 dreadful N. E. tempest, which drove us back to York. 
 
 14. — Got home P. M. with a pleasant N. W. gale. 
 
 23. — Maj. Freeman and Capt. Pearson returned from Bos- 
 ton with news of the division of the county into three. 
 
 24. — News from Boston of the siege of Quebec's being 
 laised, which occasions great joy. 
 
 July 29. — Lord Rutherford, was to see me. He has lately 
 been with some men of war from Louisburgh, in pursuit of 
 three French vessels, in the Bay of Chalours, and destroyed 
 ihem. They were destined for Quebec, with stores. 
 
 30. — Col. Cushinghas lost his sloop and negro ; taken by 
 the above French ships. 
 
 31. — I dined at Capt. Ross', with Lord Rutherford. 
 
 *Minot says, " It raged with such violence, that in abeut four hours, it des- 
 fveyed nearly a te»th part ef the tow»." 
 
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 August 19. — Our people raised the steeple of the mee'tii^ 
 house. I prayed with them. 
 
 30. — We have had no news this year, except the raising the 
 siege of Quebec. 
 
 September 11. — We have news of General Amherst taking* 
 Isle Royal, 35 miles above Montreal. 
 
 18. — We hear that Capt. Howland has taken Isle Nut, St. 
 Johns, and Chamble Forts,with an army of 5500 from Crown 
 Point. 
 
 20. — News from Boston that our armies under General 
 Amherst, had joined at Montreal,* and taken it. Our people 
 were there upon rejoicing all the afternoon. 
 
 22. — Our people are rejoicing again. Our house was illu- 
 minated, as were several others in the neighborhood. 
 
 23. — It is as sickly a time in Boston as has been known. 
 
 24. — [Sickly here too.] 
 
 25. — We hear a small army of Russians under Forequet, 
 have been routed, and that he himself being taken afterwards, 
 died of his wounds ; also that the right wing of Prince Ferdi- 
 nand's army was routed with 1000 killed. 
 
 October 9. — Thanksgiving for the reduction of all Canada, 
 by taking Montreal. 
 
 [There was a Council the latter part of this month at 
 Brunswick between Mr. Dunlap and his people, which ter- 
 minated upon an agreement that he be dismissed, and that 
 his people pay him all arrears and £200 O. T.] 
 
 31. — And thus ended this difficult affair, to the surprise and 
 joy of all concerned. The council was unanimous, and each 
 party perfectly satisfied. 
 
 November 4. — We have news by the way of Halifax of a 
 victory gained by the king of Prussia over general Laudaun, 
 wherein the latte'r lost 7000 killed and 4000 taken. The king 
 of Prussia left only 600. 
 
 10. — The new impression of the Psalm book was brought 
 us, 380. 
 
 14. — We have the confirmation of the king of Prussia's 
 victory over Laudaun, viz. That the Austrians lost 10,000 
 men and 5000 prisoners and 82 cannon, and all their tents 
 and baggage, and that the Prussians lost only 530 killed and 
 1000 wounded. 
 
 26. — We have a great deal of good news by the nssst-ship? 
 arrived at Portsmouth, viz. That Count Daun being recall- 
 ed, General Beck was beaten by the king of Prussia, with the 
 
 *It was surrendered with Detroit, and all other places within the .governmenT 
 of Canada, to his Britanic Majesty on the 8th inst. The destruction of an arma- 
 ment ordered out from France in aid of Canada, completed the anmhitotioii of 
 the French power on the continent of North Amenta. 
 
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78 
 
 loss of 23,000 killed and token. That Bfoglig »as sick and 
 his army retreating from Hanover. That Prince Henry had 
 drubbed the Russians, and that the French interest in theEast 
 Indies was lost. 
 
 [O, War ! What havoc dost thou make !] 
 
 December 5. — I dined with the new civil officers of this new 
 county of Cumberland, upon their being sworn. 
 
 8. — The people upon this Neck are in a sad toss about Dr. 
 Coffin's having the small pox, which 'tis thought he took of a 
 man at N. Casco, of whom many there have taken it. It is 
 also at Stroudwater. 
 
 9. — The uproar is quieted by the removing of Dr. Coffin to 
 Noice's Farm. 
 
 28. — I have married 22 couple the year past. 
 
 [I have taken no notice of marriages in these Extracts, 
 nor of the frequent deaths of women and children, but where 
 the deaths of men are mentioned, I have thought it proper 
 to notice them either in these extracts, or in the list of names 
 at the end.] 
 
 1761. 
 
 January C. — We have now the news confirmed that King 
 George the 2d died of a rupture in his heart, the 25th Oct. 
 aged 77 years, wanting 1 7 days ; and that his grandson George 
 Sd, was proclaimed at Boston this day se'nnight. 
 
 15. — We have the great news of «a complete victory gained 
 "by the King of Prussia, over Count Dann, and the whole Aus- 
 trian army, but no particulars. 
 
 February 14. — I had an exceeding ill night, was greatly 
 distressed, and a disposition to fits. 
 
 28. — I never, in my apprehension more nearly looked death 
 in the face ; my father being seized with fits about this time 
 ©f life (i. e. near 60.) 
 
 [Mr. Smith was much engaged this month visiting and pray- 
 ing with the sick.] 
 
 March 5. — The two nights past I have been disquieted and 
 distressed with the return of my old complaints, viz a con- 
 stant agitation at the pit of my stomach, that expands all over 
 ane with quick startish convulsions. 
 
 7. — Had an extreme ill night. 
 
 8. — (Sunday) a very full meeting, was feeble, but greatly 
 assisted. 
 
 [Mr. Smith was frequently ill with colds, &c. but at this 
 time he was in his apprehension, dangerously so. I have 
 therefore noticed it.] 
 
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 9. — Things remain in a dismal situation about the school 
 master Richmond, a very worthless fellow, by means of which 
 the peace of the neighborhood of the neck is broken up and 
 dreadful quarrelings occasioned. The old selectmen sent him 
 out of town, but he returned and kept school at . An- 
 nual town meeting. Capt. Pearson, Moderator ; Mr. Stephen 
 Longfellow, Town Clerk ; though *** tried to oust him. Se- 
 lectmen reduced to three,(Capt. Milk,Deacon Merrill and Mr. 
 Stout) by means of which Deacon Cotton and Capt. Gooding 
 were dropt. Capt. B. Wait offering to serve for nothir»g,was 
 chosen town treasurer. Votes for a Register, of the new 
 county were brought in. Maj. Freeman and Nathaniel 
 Moody were competitors. A workhouse was appointed. 
 The meeting lasted 2 days. 
 
 12. — We were last night about a quarter after two, awak- 
 ened and roused outofour beds by an astonishing earthquake* 
 much such as that five years ago ; only that in that there was 
 a more terrible jar, and this was undulatory. We had a lec- 
 ture on the occasion at 4 P. M. 
 
 21. — Having obtained help of God, I continue to this day, 
 which makes ine 59 years old. 
 
 23. — The uproar in town continues ; besides, Col. Waldo, 
 to-day carried a complaint to Boston, against Capt. Pearson, 
 signed by 300. 
 
 31. — A sickly, dying, melancholy time. 
 •April 22. — Mr. Bosworth came here. 
 
 24. — Our people made uncommon rejoicings yesterday (on 
 occasion of the King*s coronation.) 
 
 May 5. — I prayed and dined with the court ; the first for 
 this new county of Cumberland. 
 
 22. — I had a very bad sleepless night, with many great 
 convulsions through the night. I am entirely worn out w ith 
 extraordinary service, at prayer continually, and for want of 
 sleep. 
 
 26. — I sat out with Mr. Codman on a journey to Boston,, 
 [for his health it appears.] 
 
 June 2. — Rode to Boston (from Cape Ann) with Mr. 
 Saunders. 
 
 9. — Came away from Boston [by water.] 
 
 11. — Got home, more comfortable than ever in my life, n© 
 fits, and could sleep well. 
 
 16.— I prayed with Capt. Milk's little girl, (of 7 years old) 
 siek and remarkably religiously impressed. 
 
 26. — Out people raised the spire of the steeple. I prayed 
 with them. 
 
 *Twro shocks were felt on the sara« day, in all the New-England Colonies. 
 
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 July 7. — We had a fast on occasion of a very distressing 
 and increasing diought. Mr. Wiswell preached. There was 
 afresh shower ju*t as we went out of the meeting house, 
 which very much affected the people. 
 
 8. — It pleased God to give us gentle showers from 9 to 1£ 
 A. M. to prepare for a wonderful great shower that followed, 
 and lasted an hour, when the heavens gathered blackness, the- 
 rain poured down abundantly, so as I never saw the like. 
 
 17.— I rode with Mr. Longfellow in the Chaise to the mast 
 ships (Darling and Hagget) which came in yesterday. I es- 
 caped signally from hurt by the chaise wheel running over 
 me. 
 
 £4. — By Brigadier Preble, from Boston, we have the con- 
 firmation of Belleisles being taken, and that the expedition to 
 the Mississippi is given up. 
 
 £5. — The lire is broke out and flames at Dunston, Gorhana 
 and New-Casco. A most melancholy awful time. 
 
 £9. — The man of war came in, Capt. ScarrF, a 40 gun ship, 
 to convoy the mast ships. 
 
 August 7. — I spent P. M. on board the man of war with 
 Ross, Pearson, Freeman, and Longfellow. 
 
 19. — A great storm ; there has been no rain like it. Thug 
 in the mount God is seen, and thus God has began to work 
 deliverance (when we have been brought a great while to an 
 extremity) as he did in July £8th, 1749, a month before this 
 time. 
 
 £3.— Capt. Ross came in, in a large ship to load; as did 
 Capt. Malcom some time ago, besides which there lie here, 
 3 mast ships and the man of war. 
 
 31. — My Brother came here in Capt. Target, with the man 
 of war that went from hence to Boston, to take and carry to 
 France the merchants money, viz. £££,000 sterling. The 
 fleet consists of the man of mar, Mr. Target, 3 mast ships, 
 \ Darling, Hagget and Mallard) and £ brigs (7 in all.) 
 
 September £7 . — (Sunday) An exceeding full meeting. Pe- 
 ter [Mr. Smith's son] preached here all day, to great accep- 
 tance. 
 
 October. — [Thete is nothing proper to be extracted from 
 
 the Journal of this month.] 
 
 November. — [Nor from that of this month.] 
 
 December 7. — This evening we had very nearly lost our 
 
 house. — [Here are enumerated a number of things that were 
 
 burnt.] 
 
 [Notwithstanding the illness of Mr. Smith this year, there 
 seems to have been no remission of his ministerial labors ; a 
 close application to which it is probable(if it was not the cause 
 of his complaints,) was unfavorable to his health. 
 
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 1762. 
 
 January 4.— Father Goodwin was buried. 
 
 February 5.— We have news from London, that the King 
 •f Prussia has saved his army without fighting, as Prince 
 Ferdinand has done Hanover. 
 
 8.— Sterling of Marblehead [Windham] says that the snow 
 "with them is more than five feet deep. 
 
 11. — There is no passing from the wind-mill to themeet- 
 ing-house. 
 
 28. — A wonder of a winter, this will be famous for, to 
 posterity. The deep snow falling as early as the 3d Decem- 
 ber ; since which, it kept snowing continually. 
 
 March 1. — A time of remarkable health in the country, ant! 
 hardly any body sick in the Parish. 
 
 [Mention is frequently made this month of the difficulty of 
 passing on account of the depth of the snow.] 
 
 31. — God is appearing to work deliverance as he did at 
 this time, 14 years ago, (1748) when we had just such a win- 
 ter as this has been. . 
 
 April 4. — (Sunday) There is nodding on horse-back, nor 
 in a sleigh or chaise, but in a narrow bad foot path. 
 
 7. — We have news of the surrender of Martinico to Gen. 
 Montcalm ; that Admiral Saunders had taken a Spanish Gal- 
 leon with half a million sterling, and that the Reteon man of 
 war, has taken a register ship worth £40,000 sterling. 
 
 8. — Our people are rejoicing upon the conquest of Marti- 
 nico. 
 
 May 11. — We hear Spain declared war with England, the 
 1 5th January. 
 
 14. — Collector Francis Waldo was chosen Representative. 
 [His brother, Col. Sam. Waldo, had been for several years 
 before.] 
 
 24. — Capt. Darling in a mast ship came here. He brings 
 a confirmation of the news of peace between the new Czar 
 and the King of Prussia. 
 
 June 24. — The Judges [of the Supreme Court] came to 
 town. Lynde and Russel stay here. 
 
 July 5. — The woods are all a fire ; 6 houses, 2 saw -mills, 
 several barns and cattle were burnt at Dunston. 6 families 
 burnt out at North-Yarmouth, and a vast deal of damage done 
 in fences burnt, and fields and pasture laid open. 
 
 7. — We had a fast on occasion of the grievous drought ; 
 not a very full meeting, many being at work about the fires.. 
 
 17. — Mr. Wiswell (at New-Casco) is close confined in the 
 height of distraction. Domine Brown there. 
 
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 22. — Our people are every day frolicing, notwithstanding 
 the distress of fires. 
 
 26. — We have an account of St.Johns and New-Foundland 
 being taken by 2 line of battle French ships, and a frigate 
 and about 1600 laad troops from Brest. 
 
 28. — A day of Public Prayer on occasion of the drought 
 and famine feared. 
 
 90. — It pleased God to give us a steady rain for several 
 hours. 
 
 August 12. — Pepperilborough gave Mr. Fairfield a call. 
 13. — It pleased God to give us a very bounteous shower. 
 16 — another. 
 
 18. — Another. 21. — A great deal. The earth is now 
 wonderfully soaked and refreshed, and the grass begins f 
 look green. 30. — The grass grows wonderfully. 
 
 31. — We have news of the taking Moor Castle at the 
 Havanna. 
 
 September 6. — Mr. Wiswell went to Boston last night. 
 
 10 — We have the good news, that the Havanna surren- 
 dered on the 14th July. A great conquest in itself, but vast- 
 ly great by the men-of-war we took and destroyed, together 
 with an immense sum of dollars. 
 
 22. — An ordination at Windham [doubtless of his son 
 Peter, tho' he is not named]a prodigious concourse of people, 
 a great and admired solemnity ; Mr. Morrel began with 
 prayer, Mr. Langdon preached. I gave the Charge. Mr. 
 Loring gave the R. H. F. Mr. Elvin preached. It was 
 thought by all to be the most finished solemnity of the kind 
 ever known. 
 
 October 7. — Public thanksgiving for our successes in war 
 this year. 
 
 10. — Governor Barnard came here from the eastward. 
 27. — Mr. Fairfield was ordained at Pepperilborough. 
 
 29. — Capt. Ross, in a large ship (of 700 tons) came hereto 
 load, as did a Snow of his, a few days ago, besides which there 
 are now 5 other ships and Snow's here a loading. 
 
 November 3. — Mr. Miller was ordained at Brunswick. 
 
 19. — Mr. Wiswell returned to this place from Doct. How, 
 of Antlover. 
 
 December. — [No occurrences proper to be noticed.] 
 
 1763. 
 
 January l. — This year begins with a great breach macto 
 
 upon me, and a great change. 
 
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 8.— (Sunday) I went to meeting this morning under no 
 
 apprehension of my wife being near her end; but last night 
 she refusing to take an) sustenance, and continuing to doit, 
 alarmed ine, and 
 
 3> At midnight, she fell asleep and never awaked, but ex- 
 pired about 4 in rhe morning, without a sigh or a groan. 
 
 6. — Attended the funeral of Mrs. Smith. She wanted 4 
 months of 65 years. We had lived together near 10 ;e<?rs. 
 
 February 4. — Wednesday morning Brigadier P»« bi< Col. 
 Waldo, Capt. Ross, Doct. Coffin, Nathaniel Moody, Mr. 
 Webb and their wives, and Tate sat out on a frolic to Ring's, 
 and are not yet got back, nor like to be, the roads l-t;ing not 
 passable. 
 
 5. — Thomas and wife, Codman and Sally, Butler and 
 Nancy Codman, with vast difficulty, returned that s me day 
 from Windham. We feared Butler had perished. 
 
 6. — (Sunday) Our people generally spent yesterday shovel- 
 ing snow to the meeting house and elsewhere. 
 
 9 — We are every where shut up ; people are discouraged 
 making paths. They say there is now 5 feet of snow upon 
 a level, but it is mountainousiy drifted on the clear ground. 
 It is a melancholy time, near a famine for bread. 
 
 11. — Oar frolreers returned from Blaekpoint, having been 
 gone just ten days. They got homeward as far as long 
 creek last night ; and with vast difficulty and expense reached 
 home. 
 
 13. — (Sunday) Pretty full meeting considering how diffi- 
 cult it was to get there. The people shovelled a foot path 
 from Mr. Codman's new house to the meeting-house, [now 
 called Temple-Street] through 3 feet of snow. 
 
 17. — A cessation of arms was proclaimed at Boston on 
 Monday last. 
 
 20. — (Sunday) still a difficulty in getting to the Meeting- 
 house. 
 
 27. — (Sunday) Thin meeting, it being very blustering and 
 cold and difficult to get to the meeting house. 
 
 28. — There is no path any where through the country fur- 
 ther than BTrOud Water- and up to Windham. Mr. Marston 
 was obliged to leave his horse at Hampton and come home 
 with snow-shoes. 
 
 March 1. — To day in God's gracious Providence we were 
 relieved by the coming in of Mayhew's schooner from Con- 
 necticut with 1000 bushels of Indian corn. People were re- 
 duced to the last and extremest distress ; scarce a bushel of 
 com in the whole eastern country. 
 
 8. — Yesterday and to-day we had the coldest and longest 
 storm this winter, there fell 19 inches, about as much as bzr 
 been copsumeci. 
 
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 10. — I married Samuel Green and Jane Gustin ; they came 
 
 en snow-siioes across the Cove from Capt. Ilsley's to m 
 house. 
 
 11. — The definitive treaty of Peace between Great Britain 
 France and Spain with the accession of Portugal, was signed 
 yesterday at Paris. 
 
 18. — *** and *** set up for Town Clerk and quarrelled 
 dreadfully about it, but sat up a wrong person, and therefore 
 did net succeed. The old officers were chosen. 
 
 19. — *** set up my salary at £1000, but was opposed and 
 prevented by 
 
 23. — To day came in a sloop from Boston with 3000 bush 
 
 els of coi n. 
 
 21-. — A schooner came in from Cape Ann, with 1600 bush 
 els, w hich sells for 30s. or 27s. by the 100 bushels. Thus in 
 God's ine-ciful Providence we have again a most seasonabl 
 and full supply. 
 
 35. — Capt. Gooding got in with £300 bushels more. 
 
 April B —The Robbin visited us. 
 
 19. — To day was the first passing through the country, by 
 Mr. Russel. 
 
 May 6.— The earth has a most beautiful green face, 
 never knew the grass so forward nor so well set. 
 
 81. ---I sat out on a journey to Boston alone. 
 
 June 25.— Got home well, thank God most fervently. 
 
 July.— [There is no particular event, proper to be extracte 
 from tbe journal of this month.] 
 
 August 2.— I rode to North-Yarmouth, arid attended the 
 funeral of Mr. Loring. 
 
 11.-- -Public thanksgiving for the peace. 
 
 12 — Capt. Brad. Saunders here with the Indians, going to 
 Boston to treat about peace. 
 
 27. — Capt's. Darling and Hagget, [in mast ships] came in 
 last night, as did two ships before this week, to load by Capt 
 R By reason of the wet weather, my books and cloath 
 ha\ e heroine mouldy, and we were not able to shut our inner 
 doots, being swelled so through the whole summer. 
 
 September 11. — I have been discouraged about my enemie 
 they talk of a new meeting-house. 
 
 October 28. — The mast ship sailed. 
 
 November 24 and 28. — **** and are sending about 
 
 subscription for n new meeting-bouse, in favor of Mr.Wiswell. 
 
 December 13. — Our attention is very much drawn in, and 
 the >r* ost of our thoughts and talk is about the new meeting- 
 house for Mr. Wiswell. 
 
 20. — I spent the evening at Doct. Coffin's, who is breaking 
 ?nd decaying fast. 
 
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 29. — Mr. Brooks bere, who has had a call at N. Yarmouth. 
 
 [Mr. Smith was dejected at times, this month, but at other 
 times in good spirits. At the close of it he says it has pleased 
 God to give him a year of trouble.] 
 
 1764. 
 
 January 27. — We heard that old Harvard College was 
 burnt lately. 
 
 SO. — I am very ill to day. I bless God that the cough I 
 am now exercised with did not happen when I was first 
 wounded. [By a fall some time before, by which he had 
 broken two of his ribs.] 
 
 February 6. - This evening the signers for the new meeting 
 house had a meeting, when *** and m quarrelled and 
 fought in the street. A foundation for a church was thus laid 
 ******* the pillars tremble. 
 
 12. — (Sunday) One Mr. Murray (an Irishman put in here 
 from the eastward,) preached here p. m. extremely popular. 
 
 March 7. — The people at Boston are all inoculating at the 
 Castle and Shirley's Point with marvellous success, in the 
 new method with mercury, fee. 
 
 8. — The guards at infected houses in Boston are removed, 
 the people finding they can stop the spreading no longer. 
 
 27. — Annual town meeting. Capt. Gooding and Milk 
 added to the Selectmen because of the small Pox. 
 
 28. — Parish meeting. Stroudwater again set off. A 
 great struggle to get me an assistant, and all the principal 
 men for it, but *** headed the young men and the Stroud- 
 waterer'6 in the opposition and prevented it. 
 
 April 4.— Mr. Whitfield I hear is at York. 
 
 12. — Annual Fast, I had marvellous assistance which I had 
 rather note because I was in bondage before in thought of it 
 by reason of a slowness of thinking and speaking that has 
 come upon me, and takes away all fluency and makes me 
 think I'm a breaking, but I never performed better. All praise 
 to God who heard my cries. 
 
 May 20. — (Sunday) Mr. Deane preached p. m. He came 
 to town with Col. Tyng. 27. — Mr. Dean preached. 
 
 June 13. — Mr. Deane came here. 
 
 17. — Mr. Deane preached. 
 
 21. ---Mr. Bernard and Mr. Curwin came here. 
 
 25. — Mr. Curwin and Deane set off for Wiscasset. 
 
 28. — Messrs. Bernard, Curwin, and Deane returned. 
 
 29. — Visited Mr. Bradbury, Mr. Chipman with the gouf, 
 and others. 
 
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 July 2.— Messrs. Bernard, Curwin and Deane went off. 
 
 3. — We bad a chmch meeting, fail, and unanimous in giv- 
 ing Mr. Deane a call. 
 
 4. — Mr. Brooks was ordained. A multitude of people 
 from my parish, and a decent solemnity. 
 
 17. — The parish (at a meeting) concurred with the church 
 in the choice of Mr. Deane by a greai majority. They voted 
 him a thousand settlement, and 700 salary. 
 
 The new meeting house men, with the Stroudwater men, 
 made their utmost opposition to Mr. Deane's settlement, » 
 but in vain. The meeting was peaceable. I have been ex- 
 ceedingly earnest in prayer. I fail much, and have been 
 greatly distressed about myself and the people, but God has 
 remarkably appeared and the whole is a great scene of Pro- 
 vidence. 
 
 23. — The new meeting men had a meeting, and declared 
 for the church. They have been in a sad toss since the 
 parish meeting and made a great uproar, getting to sign for 
 the church. They began to frame the house. 
 
 Mr. Bromfield here. 
 
 August 15. — There was a council at Gorham that united 
 the two churches and dismissed Mr. Lombard. 
 
 23. — Capt. Hagget in a mast ship arrived with young Dr. 
 Coffin. 
 
 25 — Mr. Deane came here. 
 
 26 — Mr. Deane preached, a very full meeting. 
 
 28.---I had a great company drinking tea, among whom 
 were Col. Powel and his sisters. 
 
 30. — Mr. Hooper (church parson) came here yesterday and 
 with him Messrs. Tyng and Palmer. Governor Bernard put 
 in here. 
 
 31. — There is a sad uproar about Wiswell, who has declared 
 for the church and accepted (a day or two ago) of the call 
 our churchmen have given him to be their minister. 
 
 It broke out on a sudden, and happily tended towards Mr. 
 Deane's settlement. 
 
 September 2.— (Sunday) A great day this ! Mr. Hooper 
 preached to our new church people, and baptized several 
 children. We had notwithstanding, a full meeting especially 
 a. rn. when I preached, and Mr. Deane p. m. who then gave 
 his answer. 
 
 3. — Mr. Hooper with his company, Capt. Erving with his, 
 and Mr. Deane with Capt. Pearson and Major Freeman sat 
 out for Boston. The corner stone of the church was laid by 
 the wardens, who with their officers were chosen to day. 
 
 9. — (Sunday) Mr. Wiswel! preached in the Town-house. 
 
 26, — Capt. Brown (who was here last year and whose 
 
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 sfofp sunk going home) came here in another to load with 
 masts. 
 
 30. — (Sunday) Mr. Wiswell preached in the Court-house 
 to a small company. 
 
 October 4.— Mr. Brown (late of Marshfield) came here in 
 order to preach at Stroud water. 
 
 8. — Mr. Wiswell sailed in the mast ship, Capt. Hagget. 
 
 11. — Mr. Deane came to town, and with him Mr. Brooks, 
 with his wife. 
 
 17. — Mr. Deane was ordained. A great solemnity, and a 
 vast collection of people. Mr. Adams began with prayer, 
 Mr Miriam preached, Mr. Merril prayed before the charge— 
 I gave it, Peter gave the R. H. F. and Mr. Woodaid closed 
 with prayer. 
 
 £4.— Mr. Eaton was ordained at Harpswell. 
 
 The young folks have had a rampant frolic of it. 
 
 November 24. — Mr. Brown returnex! to Stroud water. 
 
 25.— (Sunday) Our Sabbath .Volickers now ride to hear 
 Brown, as they used to do Wiswell. 
 
 27.— I rode with Mr. Deane to Conant's and Proctor's ; I 
 prayed with the former who had his leg amputated by Nath. 
 Coffin, and Mr. Deane with the latter, who has his arm broken 
 in two places. 
 
 December 11. — I rode to Father Skillin's funeral. He 
 reckoned he was in his 100th year. 
 
 31. — The winter thus far has paid us off. There has been 
 nothing like it, since the winter between 1747 and 1748. 
 
 Obtaining help of God, I continue. I am in good health, 
 but am slow in recollecting and thinking. 
 
 1765. 
 
 January 3.— The country from Boston to Portsmouth is 
 entirely blocked with snow. 
 
 16.— Mr. Foxcroft was ordained at N.Gloucester. We had 
 a pleasant journey home, Mr. L. was alert and kept us merry 
 — a jolly ordination — we lost sight of decorum. 
 
 20. — (Sunday) Mr. Brown preached here. All the church- 
 men, except Mr. Hope, came to meeting, and p. m some that 
 went to Stroudwater, and many going turned back. 
 
 22.— The ships and other vessels loading here are a won- 
 derful benefit to us. They t.^te off vast quantities of timber, 
 masts, oar-rafters, boards, &c. 
 
 February 25 —A vessel from Newbury brought in 500 
 bushels of corn, and Dyer of Purpoodock 1000, which wjth 
 the flour in town are a wonderful relief to the people. 
 
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 March 4. — The church at N.Casco gave Mr. Fuller a call. 
 
 10. — One Davis brought from Boston 1000 bushels of 
 corn; and neighbor Mayo and Lieut. Thomes 1000 more. 
 
 12. — Col. Waldo came home with Brigadier Preble and 
 brings news that Stroudwater is made a parish by the Court 
 (with Long Creek) and that Purpoodock is not made a Dis- 
 trict. 
 
 14. — Jeremiah Pote came in from N. Carolina and brought 
 2900 bushels of corn ; Mr. Saunders sent here 500 bushels 
 in a schooner that brought as much more. 
 
 16. — Father Proctor died in the night aged 85. 
 
 27. — Annual parish meeting. My full salary and Mr. 
 Deane's were voted ntmine contradicente. Forty returned 
 their names and were therefore set off' to Stroudwater parish, 
 and £48 L. M. were allowed them. The Church parties' 
 petition to be exempted from paying to Mr. Deane's settle- 
 ment and salary, was dismissed. The meeting was quite 
 peaceable. Blessed be God. 
 
 April 9. — The robin this morning, first made his appear- 
 ance. 
 
 10. — The Spring bird (as usual) came this morning and 
 With the robin gave us a serenade. 
 
 22. — Stroudwater parish gave Mr. Brown a call. 
 
 May 8.— I w as over at the funeral of Cel. Cushing, w ho 
 died yesterday morning. 
 
 27. — Doct. Coffin with the palsy, continues breathing. 
 
 June 10. — Mr. Deane set olf for the ordination of Mr. 
 Winship at Woolwich. 
 
 July 11. — Mr. Deane's house was raised. 
 
 29. — I sat out for Cape Ann, with Sally and Peter in ano- 
 ther chaise, 
 
 August 1. — Got to Cape Ann about 10 o'clock. 
 6. — Rode to Boston. 
 12. — Sat out for home. 
 
 15. — Got home well, thanks to God. 
 
 15. — Last night there was a great mob in Boston, that de- 
 stroyed the new stamp house and attacked the Secretary's. 
 
 21. — Mr. Brown was installed. 
 
 22. — On Monday there was a second mob, that did violence 
 to Capt. Halloway's and Story's houses and almost ruined 
 the Lieut. Governor's whose loss by it is computed at £30,000. 
 Intoxicated by liquors, found in the cellar of Mr. Halloway, 
 the rioters inflamed with rage, directed their course to the 
 house of the Lieut. Gov. Hutchinson, whose family was in- 
 stantly dispersed, and who after attempting in vain to save 
 himself within doors, was also constrained to depart to save 
 his life. By four in the morning, one of the best houses in 
 the Province was completely in ruins, nothing remaining bu* 
 
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 the bare walls and floors. The plate, family pictures, most 
 of the furniture, the wearing apparel, about £900 sterling in 
 money, and the manuscript books which Mr. Hutchinson had 
 been thirty years collecting, besides many public papers in 
 his custody, were either carried off or destroyed. 
 
 September 10. — A mob lately attacked with great outrage, 
 Mr. Bennet, and did great damage. 
 
 12. — We hear of mobs continually at Newport, Connecti- 
 cut, &c. as well as in this Province. Affairs seem to be 
 ripening to an universal mob ; all relative to the Stamp offi- 
 cers, who are obliged to give up their commissions. 
 
 18. — We hear there is a change of the ministry at home 
 which gives great joy, and puts a stop to that of mobs relative 
 to the Stamp Act. 
 
 25. — The General Court was called together with respect 
 to the distressed state of the country, and the universal un- 
 easiness and opposition to the Stamp Act. 
 
 October 23. — The General Court met about the Stamp 
 Act. 
 
 25. — Mr. Thrasher was found dead this morning in his 
 loft. 
 
 November 6. — Mr. Williams' was ordained at New-Casco. 
 7. — Mr. Savage came with his wife to live •here. 
 December 23. — I prayed with Mrs. Cox on the news of the 
 death of her husband. 
 
 26. — News of Mr. Puddington being cast away. 
 
 1766. 
 
 January 8.— A mob here assembled, threatened the cus- 
 tom-house. 
 
 14. — Doct. CofBn, (who died on Saturday, the 11th) was 
 buried. 
 
 23.— This morning at 5 o'clock, we had a very alarming 
 earthquake, though not so great as that 5 years ago, yet con- 
 tinued as long. 
 
 » iV 24. — We had the repetition of an earthquake in several 
 smaller shocks. 
 
 February 12.— We have had news for a good while of a 
 change, in the ministry at home. The Duke of Grafion, and 
 General Conway, Secretaries in the room of the execrable 
 Earl of Bute, and Mr. Greenville, which gives us great joy, 
 with respect to the hopeful prospect of a redress of our colony 
 grievances. 
 
 28. — We have had of late, several vessels from England 
 with abundance of news relative to the Stamp Act, mostly 
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 promising a repeal or suspension of it. The nation, (city and 
 country, merchants and manufacturers) are in a mighty toss 
 about it, and the Parliament know not what to do between a 
 desire of relieving us, and of saving their own credit and 
 authority. It was a rash thing, occasioned by Mr. H. and 
 other New-England men, ripened by Mr. Greenville and the 
 old ministry. 
 
 Match 1. — In the course of the year past there have died, 
 the Duke of Cumberland ; the Prince William of the royal 
 blood of England ; the Emperor of Germany ; the Dauphin 
 of France ; the Princess Dowager of Orange; the reigning 
 Duke of Amhalt ; the Duke of Parma ; the Dukes of Bolton 
 and Dorset, and other great personages. 
 
 14. — To-day was as great a N. E. storm of snow as ever 
 was known, perhaps greater. 
 
 20. — Harper came in with 3000 bushels of corn. 
 
 25. — Annual town meeting, very full. The principal offi- 
 eers, the same as last year, except Mr. Ephraim Jones in the 
 room of Maj. Waite. 
 
 26. — Annual parish meeting. They established my salary 
 for the future (with my consent) £750 O. T. the same with 
 Mr. Deane's. The officers the same as last year. 
 
 50. — Had 6 pounds of Brewster's chocolate at 14d. a pound. 
 [I noticed this as one of hundreds of instances noted in Mr. 
 
 Smith's Journals, to show how fond he was of this nutricious 
 article.] 
 
 51. — The talk and concern of people since the storm, (the 
 14th) is about Weeks Si Company. We have good news 
 from home that gives us hopes of the repeal of the Stamp Act. 
 Mr. Pitt has very zealously engaged in our interest, and the 
 ministry is so. 
 
 April S. — I married Mr. Deane with Eunice Pearson. 
 
 May 16. — Capt. Tate in a large mast ship, came here, in SO 
 clays from London, and 24 from the Land's End, who brings 
 certain news that the Stamp Act is repealed. 
 
 18. — We had an express with confirmation of the repeal of 
 the Stamp Act. 
 
 19. — -Our people are mad with drink and joy ; bells ringing, 
 drums beating, colors flying, guns firing, the court-house 
 lluminated and some others, and a bonfire, and a deluge of 
 drunkenness. 
 
 20. — Our house was illuminated, and a great many others. 
 June 24.— The mast ship sailed. £apt. Haslop came in, 
 
 and a ship from Barbadoes. The Supreme Court sat. Judge 
 Lynde here also. 
 
 29.— (Sunday) The Lieut. Governor, Judge Oliver, Mr. 
 Gofy, Mr. Winthrop and Mr, Bowdoin, at meeting. 
 
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 July 24. — Public thanksgiving on account of the repeal of 
 the Stamp Act. 
 
 August 10. — I vvas married [to the widow Wendell.] 
 
 September 1. — The town is full of strangers. 
 
 30. — There is a great change in the ministry at home. Mr. 
 Pitt made a Viscount and Earl, and in great favor. 
 
 October 29. — There is a council meets at North-Yarmouth 
 to-day, viz : Messrs. Chandler, Hale, Langdon, Stevens, 
 Lancton and Morrill, with delegates. 
 
 November 1. — There are 6 large ships now lying in the 
 harbor. 
 
 17. — I had 19 pounds of chocolate (seepage 90.) 
 
 19. — There are great and universal complaints for want of 
 money, [a lamentable occurrence, but not an uncommon one.} 
 
 28. — Col. Powel and the justices are together all this week, 
 taking evidences about Mr. Hope's will. 
 
 December. — [Nothing suitable to the design of these 
 extracts.] 
 
 1767. 
 
 January 1. — Had S3 lbs. of Brewster's chocolate (see page 
 90.) 
 
 15. — Deacon Milk broke his thigh ; this is the third time. 
 
 19. — I returned (from Windham) on horseback. [This 
 mode of riding, Mr. Smith might have mentioned because he 
 went there in a sleigh : and I notice it because I was just now 
 reflecting, that notwithstanding his age, it appears to have 
 been his usual way of riding out ; (unless when he took his 
 wife with him) he was fond of a good horse, and of riding on 
 his back, and well knew how to manage one.] 
 
 February 3. — There has been a great fire at Boston, it con- 
 sumed twenty dwelling-houses, besides other buildings, most- 
 ly in Paddy's Alley. 
 
 24. — Mr. Craft returned from Boston. A broken heir of 
 old Hope, his will being vacated. 
 
 15. — Visited Capt. Ross, under a course of mercury, for a 
 cancer. 
 
 28. — The controversy and uneasiness with the Governor 
 continues and increases. 
 
 March 5. — John Cotton has had three lectures lately in this 
 neighborhood. 
 
 17. — He continues them. 
 
 21. — Obtaining help of God, I continue to this day, on 
 which I am 65 years of age. I bless God heartily, I have 
 
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 my health, and am stronger than I was through most of my 
 younger life. 
 
 April 22. — Craft broke into goal by the assistance of mother 
 Hope. 
 
 Mai/ 15. — Brigadier Preble was chosen our representative, 
 without opposition. 
 
 June 5. — Curtis Chute and one Young, where killed in an 
 instant by the lightning, at the widow Gooding's ; Harrison 
 and others hurt and near being killed, and the house near 
 being destroyed also. 
 
 30. — I sat out with my wife on a journey for Boston. 
 
 July 28.— We got home. 
 
 [On the 31st of this month, there was a violent hurricane in 
 Falmouth, which as Mr. Smith did not notice it) I have ob- 
 tained an account of, from a friend, as follows, viz. 
 
 " It commenced near Sebago Pond, took an easterly direc- 
 tion, passing through Windham, and directly over the Duck 
 Pond, passed through the north part of Falmouth, and the 
 south part of North Yarmouth, (now Cumberland) to the sea. 
 It appears to have been the most violent in the town of Fal- 
 mouth. It took the roof oft" the house of Mr.Purrington,situated 
 near the Duck Pond, and prostrated every tree in its way, ex- 
 cept a few sturdy oaks, but abated in some measure after it 
 entered North Yarmouth, so as not to do much damage in 
 that town. It extended in breadth about three quarters of a 
 mile."] 
 
 August SO. — Mr. Thacher preached all day. Mr. Deane 
 for him. 
 
 September 14. — Mr. Thacher gave his answer to Gorham. 
 
 16. — We have melancholy news from home, viz. That the 
 Parliament have passed a bill to prevent New-York from act- 
 ing in General Court until they comply with the billetings of 
 the king's troops there, and fixing salaries upon the Judges, 
 to be paid in duties laid upon wine imported, and many other 
 articles. 
 
 October 8. — Capt. Ross sailed for England in Capt. Heath 
 with Capt. Haslop. 
 28. — Mr. Thacher was ordained, (at Gorham.J 
 November. — [Nothing to be noticed.] 
 December 12. — I hear Wm. Tyng is appointed our sheriff. 
 
 1768. 
 
 [There does not appear to be any thing in the Journal of 
 the five first months of this year th »t merits particular notice.] 
 June 1. — Mr. Winter was ordained at Georgetown. 
 20. — There was a mob at Boston on Friday caused by 
 
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 seizing Hancock's sloop. The town is in a sad toss, on ac* 
 count of the Commissioners, &lc. 
 
 July 1. — Mr. Chipman was seized with an apopletic fit and 
 died in two or three hours. 
 
 8. — The Commissioners are fled to the Castle, which is 
 guarded by men-of-war. 
 
 9. — Matters are in a sad toss at Boston. The Governor 
 having dissolved the Assembly. 
 
 20. — Capt. Ross arrived here in a mast ship (Capt. Moore.) 
 
 30. — John Cotton has been here night and day in King 
 street, roaring, exhorting and warning and praying ever since 
 yesterday was se'nnight. He is very crazy. 
 
 August 24. — There was a mob to rescue Nathan Winslow 
 from gaol, but they were defeated. 
 
 September IB. — An Express arrived from Boston to have 
 the mind of the several towns, with respect to the troops ex- 
 pected there. 
 
 20. — Fast at Boston on account of the distressed state of 
 the Province. 
 
 21. — Town-meeting to consider of the Express from Bos- 
 ton. Chose Brigadier Preble to go to Boston to join the 
 proposed Committee of Safety for the Province in our pre- 
 sent distress. 
 
 30. — We hear that Col. Dalrymple arrived on Wednesday 
 from Halifax at Boston with two regiments, 1000 men. 
 
 October 1.— Mr. Thompson, and the proprietors of Pearson- 
 town, [now Standish] closed as to his settlement. 
 
 The ships came up and invested Boston, and the troops 
 landed. 
 
 8. — Things are in a sad pass in the country. 
 
 26. — Mr. Thompson ordained. (Ministers, Messrs. Wil- 
 liams, Brown (who preached) Smith, Foxcroft, Deane. 
 
 27. — Council at N. Yarmouth. Mr. Brookes' men all 
 failed. 
 
 November 2. — The Council at N.Yarmouth broke up, hav- 
 ing advised Mr. Brooks to ask a dismission, and the people to 
 give him £50 L. M. He has been at N.Yarmouth just five 
 years. 
 
 10 — The Cork troops arrived at Boston, which puts the 
 town anew in great confusion. 
 
 28. — I prayed at the funeral of Capt. Ross. 
 December 8.— Deacon Cotton died this morning. 
 
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 1769. 
 
 January. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 February 2. — Holland is torn to pieces by Hinkley, and 
 other creditors. 
 
 March 24. — Church meeting. Messrs. Moody and Tit- 
 comb, chosen Deacons. 
 
 April 6. — (Sunday.) It was so dark, I could with difficulty 
 read my notes. 
 
 [No wonder, for his Sermons were written in as fine a 
 hand as his Journal, about equal to a brevier type.] 
 
 8. — I first heard the spring bird. The robbin came a week 
 ago. 
 
 22. — The House of Commons, have concurred with the 
 House of Lords against us, and our public affairs have a dark 
 face and prospect. 
 
 May SO. — There was a famous Election this week. Elev- 
 en new Counsellors chosen. The Governor negatived nine 
 of them, together with Brattle and Bowdoin. Hawley refus- 
 ed. Cushing is Speaker and Adams Clerk. 
 
 June 19. — News that the Governor is ordered home, and 
 that the General Court is adjourned to Cambridge ; and 
 
 20. — That two of the regiments are ordered back to Halifax, 
 one to New-York, and the other to our Castle. 
 
 July. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 August 2. — Governor Bernard sailed this week. 
 
 September 8. — Sac. Lecture. Mr. Deane preached on the 
 Comet, which now appears. 
 
 26. — Sat out for Boston. 
 
 October 13. — Got home. 
 
 19. — There was a considerable Earthquake last night, and 
 another to day at noon. 
 
 November. — [Nothing to be noticed.] 
 
 December 6. — The Counsel at North-Yarmouth met for the 
 Ordination. 
 
 8. — Mr. Gilman was ordained. Mr. Deane preached. 
 
 1770. 
 
 January 24. — John went over the Ferry in a sleigh, and 
 back in six minutes. 
 
 25. — The Dutch sleigh went over four times and returned 
 in thirty minutes. 
 
 February 28. — We have had a close winter : as cold per- 
 haps as ever was. 
 
 March 10. — Mr. Lyde, (our new Collector) came to town 
 yesterday. 
 
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 I "2. — There has of late been many frays between the soldiers 
 and the inhabitants of Boston, occasioned by abuses from the 
 former ; but last Monday evening there was a very tragic one. 
 The soldiers in King-street, fired on the people and klled four 
 upon the spot, mortally wounded two more, besides wounding 
 five others. The town is in a great ferment and met the next 
 day, as did also the Governor and Council. The captain and 
 the murderous soldiers were apprehended and committed, and 
 the troops sent to the Castle. 
 
 31. — Obtaining help from God, I continue, and am this day 
 C8 years old : a wonder to myself and others. 
 
 £6. — We have the King's Speech to the Parliament (9th 
 January) which has the same unfavorable spirit as the former 
 one against us. 
 
 April 12. — Mr. Hubbard is dropped from being Commissa- 
 ry, and Gushing appointed in his room ; and John Preble as 
 Truck-master, in the room of Goldthwait. 
 
 16.— Col. Waldo died P. M. at 47 years of age. 
 
 20. — Col. Waldo was buried with great parade under the 
 Church, with a sermon, and under arms. 
 
 [His remains were afterwards removed to Boston.] 
 
 21 — We have news that the Revenue Act is repealed, ex- 
 cept as to Tea ; that Lieut. Governor Hutchinson is appoint- 
 ed Governor and Mr. Flucker, Secretary. No rejoicing at 
 the news. 
 
 May 1. — Mr. Flucker and Erving to see me. [They had 
 been here several times before.] 
 14. — A mast ship came in. 
 
 June 23. — Three ships sailed from hence this morning, a 
 jnast ship, a Deal ship, and a Scotch ship. 
 
 July 3. — C apt. Tate, in a large ship came in. 
 
 [Fasts were kept this month here, and at Scarborough, 
 Stroudwater, Windham, and North- Yarmouth, on account of 
 the drought. 
 
 August 1. — Mr. Foxcroft's Fast is to-morrow (at New- 
 Gloucester,) and Mr. William's (at New-Casco) to day. 
 
 2. — Last night came a most blessed rain ; it rained a great 
 deal. 
 
 September 17. — We hear that the Lieut. Governor has de- 
 livered up the Castle to Col. Dalrymple. 
 
 30. — Mrs. Tate was shot this morning, by a gun set for 
 thieves. 
 
 October 3. — We hear Mr. Whitefield died at Newbury, sab- 
 bath morning (Sept. 30.) 
 
 11. — The merchants and traders in Boston have agreed to 
 rescind the non-importation agreement. 
 
 12. — The General Court have agreed to proceed on busi- 
 ness at Cambridge. 
 
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 26. — The loss Boston has sustained, is rated at £ 150,000 
 and more. 
 
 November 16. — Capt. Brown came in here in a mast ship 
 to load. 
 
 13. — An exceeding great N. E. snow storm, with avast 
 abundance of rain, and very high tides. 
 
 20. — We hear that the late snow storm was much more se- 
 vere in Boston than here, and the greatest that ever was there. 
 The tides rose two feet higher than ever was known. From 
 the Conduit through the lower and Maine-streets, they sailed 
 in boats, where the water was up to a man's chin. The Cel- 
 lars were all full. Some warehouses afloat. The vessels 
 much damaged. One schooner thrown on Clark's wharf. 
 
 December 17. — I prayed with Mrs. Pike on the news of the 
 death of her husband. 
 
 1771. 
 
 January 9. — Mr. Moody was ordained at Arundel. 
 
 February 27.— A terrible and terrifying night, the last was; 
 a prodigious tempest that seemed as if it would blow down 
 our houses ; the wind easterly and a great storm of rain,"and 
 then snow, and very cold to day, and continues snowing. 
 
 March 25. — Governor Shirley died, aged 77. 
 
 April 28. — (Sunday.) Preached a sermon to seafaring 
 men. 
 
 May 3. — Two mast ships came in, Brown and Hinsdall. 
 June and July. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 August 1. — Sat out with my wife for Boston in Captain 
 Pike. 
 
 SO. — Returned in Capt. Holland. 
 September. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 October 28.-- We are in a great toss by the seizure of 
 Tyng's schooner by a tender. 
 
 November 13. — Mr. Savage [a naval officer] was mob- 
 bed. Collector Waldo came home from London. 
 
 December 15. — (Sunday ) Mr. Wiswal, being sick, the 
 Church people were generally with us. 
 
 1772. 
 
 January. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 February 28. — There have been many storms and gales of 
 wind through the winter, and three as severe snaps of cold 
 weather as ever was. 
 
 March 11. — We have lived upon Moose several days. 
 
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 15. — (Sunday.) I rode round through the town to meeting. 
 There was a good foot path as far as Mr. Cod man's ; and from 
 a canal very narrow, dug through the deep snow, so that 
 most of the people went through it singly in a long continued 
 string, close upon the heels of one another. 
 
 29. — (Sunday.) I could not see any way I could get to 
 meeting, and therefore did not attempt it. There is no sleigh- 
 ing through the Main-street, and through the other streets 
 the snow is up with the fences. 
 
 April. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 May 3. — (Sunday.) A very full meeting I had desirable 
 assistance, yet can't get over the suspicion, that I am slighted. 
 
 [Such entries in the Journal of Mr. Smith, were notunfre- 
 quent. Prayers and Sermons which he lea red did not meet 
 with acceptance, were often very highly approved.] 
 
 21. — There was a Moose killed upon the flats. He was 
 first started near my garden fence. 
 
 June 10. — A mast ship came in. 
 
 JulyS. — Goodwin was tried for murder and found guilty. 
 
 6. — Tate was arraigned and pleaded guilty. Goodwin was 
 sentenced [at Supreme Court, w hich sat th 8 week.] 
 
 8. — Visited and prayed with the prisoners. 
 
 [Several other ministers this month, in turn did the same.] 
 
 28. — Extremely hot. The thermometer at the highest. 
 - 29. — There was a prodigious tempest, with thunder and 
 lightning, in all the neighboring towns. 
 
 August 8. — Doctor Cooper and Mr. Bowes came to lodge 
 with us. With them came Doct. Winthrop, Hancock, Brat 
 tie, Hubbard and Calf. 
 
 12. — Hancock and company sailed for Kennebec. 
 
 September 9. — The people are in a sad toss about Murray's 
 not being asked to preach. 
 
 23. — The prisoner [Goodwin] who was to have been exe- 
 cuted to-morrow, has a further reprieve for five weeks. 
 
 October 4. — (Sunday.) Mr. Thacher preached here to the 
 great discontent of the people, many of whom went to church 
 at Purpoodock, and all in a sad toss. 
 
 3. — There is a famine of Bread in town, no Indian and no 
 Flour ; no Pork in town or country. 
 
 28. — The prisoner has been some days in a bad fiame, and 
 mad with every body. 
 
 29. — Goodwin, who by a second reprieve was to have been 
 executed to day, is reprieved again for a fortnight. A com- 
 pliment to Mr. Flucker, by solicitation of Wis we] and Clark. 
 
 November 8. — (Sunday.) The prisoner at meeting. 
 
 12. — Goodwin was executed. Mr. Clark preached a Lec- 
 ture, and prayed at the gallons. There was the greatest con- 
 rourse of people ever seen here. 
 
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 1 9. — I prayed with Deacon Milk, who died soon after. 
 December. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 1773. 
 
 January 14. — The measles is now spreading here. 
 February. — Extremely cold this winter. 
 March 29. — We hear of Capt. Howell's death in Holland. 
 April IS. — Attended the funeral of James Milk, [the Dea- 
 con's son.] 
 
 May 21. — Mr. Cummings came from Scotland to live 
 here. 
 
 30. — There is much zeal and hot talk amongst us about 
 a new Meeting-House.***** 
 
 June 11. — People at Boston, and the General Court are in 
 a great toss about the Governor's and Lieut. Governor's let- 
 ters, now come to hand from London. 
 
 29. — The Superior Court met. Judge Oliver, Hutchinson, 
 Ropes and Cushing. 
 
 July 8. — The Thermometer was up to 100. 
 
 29. — We sailed for Boston in a Packet (Pike. ) 
 
 September 25. — There is an epidemical vomiting and purg- 
 ing and fever among the children and others. 
 
 ^October. — [Almost every day Mr. Smith was out, praying 
 with the sick and attending funerals. Scarcely any thing else 
 is mentioned in his Journal for this month.] 
 
 November. — [The same, nearly, may be said for this 
 month.] 
 
 December. — [And for the chief of this, too.] 
 10. — The people at Boston are in a great toss relating to 
 India Tea. 
 
 22, 26. — [Mr. Smith here gives an account of the seizure, 
 with an appoplexy, in the night, of his son John, and of his 
 situation until the 26th, when he died.] 
 
 1774. 
 
 January 10. — My son Saunders, died of a paralitic disorder. 
 ♦23. — (Sunday.) It was so cold, I was but 15 minutes in ser- 
 mon. 
 
 February. — [Mr. Smith, from exposing himself at all sea- 
 sons, in the constant discharge of his ministerial duties, often 
 caught cold. He closes his Journal of this month as follows.] 
 — I bless God, that, through the winter, until now, I have 
 
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 escaped my old grievous cold, which has been so much the 
 affliction of my life. 
 
 March 8. — We have got sixteen quarters of lamb and mut- 
 ton left. 
 
 [Mr. Smith, it appears, was always well possessed with 
 family stores, either by presents, purchase, or by the fruits of 
 his garden and pasture.] 
 
 22. — Annual town meeting. Very full and very noisy. 
 They quarrelled about placing the Court-House. The officers 
 the same. Jere. Pote, Selectman and Treasurer, in the 
 room ofCapt. Jones. 
 
 31. — The robbin came and tuned up. 
 
 April 19.— We hear of the death of Mr. Emerson, Dr. 
 Cummings and Mrs. Fairfield. 
 
 23. — Harper came in (they say) with 4000 bushels of Corn. 
 May 12. — Major Freeman was chosen Representative. 
 
 14. — Yesterday General Gage arrived at the Castle as Gov- 
 ernor of the Province. Boston is shut up by act of Parliament. 
 The Custom-House is removed to Marblehead, and the Com- 
 missioners to Salem. 
 
 25 — Our people moved the Town House and School 
 House. 
 
 26. — At the Election, Brattle and Royal were dropped, and 
 eleven new Counsellors were chosen, but the Governor 
 slaughtered [negatived] the most of them ; among whom, 
 were Bowdoin, Winthrop and Dexter, (13 in all.) 
 
 June 1.— The fatal act of Parliament took place at Boston, 
 by which the port is shut up. The Commissioners are gone 
 with the Governor to Salem, and the Custom-House office to 
 Plymouth. 
 
 7. — The General Court is adjourned this day, to meet at 
 Salem* 
 
 *The House of Representatives, resolved : "That a meeting of Committees 
 from the several Colonies is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon 
 the present state of the Colonies, and the miseries to which they are and might 
 be reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament, respecting America, 
 and to deliberate and determine upon proper measures to be by them recom- 
 mended to all the colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their just rights 
 and liberties, civil and religious, and the restoration of that union and harmony 
 between Great-Britain and the Colonies,most ardently desired by all good men.'' 
 In pursuance of which resolution, a committee of five persons, (Thomas Gush- 
 ing. Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, James Bowdoin and John Adams, 
 Esq'rs ) was appointed to meet committees or delegates from the other Colonies, 
 at Philadelphia, or any other place, which shall be judged meet on the first day 
 of September next. On the 4th of Sept. delegates from eleven states appeared 
 at Philadelphia, and the next day, having formed themselves into a Congress, 
 unanimously chose Pay ton Randolph, President, and Charles Thompson, Sec- 
 retary. 
 
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 14. ---The bell tolled all day, as the harbor of Boston is 
 
 shut up. 
 
 17.— The Governor dissolved the General Court. 
 
 [But the members continued together, until, as guardians 
 of the people, they adopted such measures as the exigencies 
 of the (then) Province required.] 
 
 29. ---We had a Fast, relative to the sad state of our public 
 affairs. 
 
 30. — **** made an entertainment yesterday for the Tories, 
 (in opposition to the Fast) and *** and*** kept their shops 
 
 open. 
 
 July 21.— I find my feet fail, and I stiffen in walking. 
 [But his mental powers do not appear to have failed, nor 
 his ministerial abilities weakened.] 
 August — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 September 3. — The grand continental Congress are now 
 meeting at Philadelphia. 
 5, — The Congress met. 
 
 SI. — This morning came here from the eastern towns in 
 the county 500 men, near one half armed, to humble sheriff* 
 Tvng ; which having done, they went off. 
 
 22. — Major Freeman was chosen our representative. 
 
 October 26. — The grand continental Congress broke up. 
 
 .Yuvember 16. — Our [negro man] Jack died. 
 
 December 23. — I almost killed myself in praying at the 
 funeral of Jer. Tucker ; more than 200 people there. 
 
 27. — I prayed with the Free masons, had uncommon 
 assistance, (thank God.) [This is a sample of many records 
 of the same kind.] 
 
 1775. 
 
 January 2. — There is a great scarcity of corn in this part 
 of the country. 
 
 February 3. — We have the King's speech to the new Par- 
 liament, and the answer of both houses. 
 
 7. — People are much joyed by the debates of Parliament, 
 which they think begin to look in our favor. 
 
 13. — There are near 5000 bushelsof corn brought among us. 
 
 March I. — 'Tis said there are now 10,000 bushels of corn 
 lately brought in among us. 
 
 1G. — Annual fast, recommended by Congress. 
 
 22. — Annual town-meeting. A general overturn in favor 
 of the times. Capt. John Wait, Moderator, Deacon Moody* 
 Clerk, Smith Cobb, Treasurer, Major Freeman, Mussey Ow- 
 en, Bracket Merrill, Selectmen. 
 
 28. — 31r. King of Dunston, died. 
 
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 Aprils. — We have been flushed for some days with news 
 from home, that the merchants and manufacturers and others 
 were rising in our favor, and that Parliament was likely to 
 repeal ail the acts ; but have now news that sinks us entirely, 
 that Parliament and administration are violently resolute with 
 14 frigates, and 4 more new regiments,(all a coming) by force 
 to oblige us to a compliance with the laws. 
 
 12. — Capt. Coulson is very troublesome. 
 
 18. — General Gage sent 900 men by night to Concord, to 
 destroy our magazine there, which were driven back, though 
 reinforced with 1100 more.* 
 
 19. — To-day our people in many hundreds are collecting 
 from all the near towns. The people are every where in the 
 utmost consternation and distress. 
 
 20. — The country is all in alarm every where, sending sol- 
 diers to Boston. A civil war is now commenced. 
 
 21. — Our company of soldiers set out for Boston. 
 
 25. — We sent away to Windham our principal things. Our 
 people are many of them doing the same. 
 
 28. — We had about 40 men killed in the action of Wed- 
 nesday the 19th, and the regulars about 
 
 *On their arrival at Lexington, towards five in the morning, about 70 men be- 
 longing to that town, were found on the parade under arms. Maj. Pitcairn, 
 who led the band, galloping up to them, called out, " disperse, disperse you 
 rebels ; throw down your arms and disperse." The sturdy yeomanry not in- 
 stantly obeying the order, he advanced nearer, fired his pistol, flourished his 
 sword, and ordered his soldiers to fire. A discharge of arms from the British 
 troops, with a huzza, immediately succeeded ; several of the provincials fell,and 
 the rest dispersed. The firing continued after the dispersion, and the fugitives 
 stopped and returned the fire. Eight Americans were hilled, three or four of 
 them by the first fire of the British, the others after they had left the parade; 
 several were also wounded. 
 
 The important consequence which followed the event related in the foregoing 
 Bote, have induced me to insert it. I would further add, that " the British de- 
 tachment proceeded to Concord ; that a party of British light infantry followed 
 them, and took possession of the bridge, whilethe main body entered the town 
 and proceeded to execute their commission. They disabled two 24 pounders, 
 threw 500 pounds of ball into the river and wells, and broke in pieces about 60 
 barrels of flour." "The militia being reinforced, Maj. Buttrick, of Concord, 
 who had gallantry offered to command, advanced towards the bridge, but not 
 knowing the transaction at Lexington, ordered the men not to give the first fire,, 
 that the provincials might not be the aggressors. As he advanced, the light in- 
 fantry retired to the Concord side of the river and began to pull up the bridge , 
 and on his nearer approach, they fired and killed a captain and one of the pri- 
 vates ; the provincials returned the fire, a skirmish ensued, and the regulars 
 were forced to retreat." 
 
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 29. — A small man of war (the Canso, Capt. Moet) [Mowat'j 
 nas been here some time. Capt. Coulson and his ship t which 
 makes the people all in a toss. 
 
 SO.™ We are continually disquieted, apprehensive that we 
 and the whole country are inevitably and entirely ruined. We 
 hear that General Carlton of Canada, is coming upon us with 
 an army, and that 40 or 50 Indians are certainly discovered 
 upon the back of Royalstown,[now Durham]. This was soon 
 quieted. 
 
 May 1. — We hear the Bostonians have delivered up their 
 arms to the selectmen. 
 
 2.— We have a great army of twenty thousand or more of 
 our provincials at Cambridge and Roxbury, preparing to at- 
 tack General Gage, with the King's troops in Boston, while 
 the people there are in the utmost perplexity and confusion. 
 
 6.— -Boston is closely shut up, so that there is no going out 
 or coming in. On Saturday and Monday last, about 8 or 
 900 were permitted to go out. 
 
 8.— Various are the accounts we daily receive from Boston, 
 and little can be depended on, only that General Gage is daily 
 securing the town, having entrenched upon Beacon Hill, Fort 
 Hill and Cops Hill, while there is much talk of fresh forces 
 expected. 
 
 10. — Yesterday one Col.Thompson came here with a com- 
 pany of men from Brunswick, to take the man of war here 
 and Coulson's ship, and Capt.Moit his. 
 
 11. — Doctor and Parson Wiswell walking on the 
 
 neck, were taken by them and made prisoners, which made a 
 vast tumult. The Gorhamites, with some from Windham, 
 and Capt. Phinney, (called Colonel) Hart Williams and Stew- 
 ard, joined them in the night, and having rifled Coulson's 
 liouse of all in it, they went oft" a Friday.* 
 
 13. — The town has been in great distress, many women and 
 children have moved out, and the most have sent their princi- 
 pal goods into the country. A dreadful day ! 
 
 16.— Parson Wiswell went off. 
 
 29.— Yesterday our provincials had a skirmish with the 
 regulars at Chelsea, Noddles and Hog-Island ; we killed sev- 
 eral, but lost none. Drove the sheep and cattle away and 
 burnt a cutter. 
 
 June 4.— (Sunday) The church people met, and Edward 
 Oxnard read prayers. 
 
 ?.— A man of war (the Senegal) of 14 guns, Capt. Dud- 
 denson, came in here with two tenders. 
 
 14. — There was an alai jn muster. A goodly appearance ! 
 16.— Two thousand more troops and 350 horses arrived 
 
 Tor a particular account of this, (called " Ihompson's War") see appelistfx 
 
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 this week at Boston, so that Gage's army now consists of more 
 than six thousand, some say 7 or 8000. 
 17. — Charlestown was burnt. 
 
 19. — Friday night last, some hundreds of our provincial 
 army, began to entrench on a hill in Charlestown, and on 
 Saturday were attacked by more than two thousand of the 
 regulars, under the cannon of the man of war, Capt. Hill, and 
 floating batteries. Our men so vastly overpowered in num- 
 bers, were obliged to retreat with the loss of about fifty killed, 
 (among whom was Doc. Warren) and the regulars had a thou- 
 sand killed, some say 14 or near 1000, among whom are ££ 
 officers. 
 
 21. — Mr. Nash was ordained at New-Boston, [now Gray.] 
 
 £6. — People are apprehensive of a famine, there being a 
 scarcity of corn and flour. 
 
 July 1. — Capt. Ross came in with 3 or 400 barrels of flour. 
 
 8. — Capt. Bracket and company marched to Cambridge. 
 
 6.— Mr. Deane had a lecture P. M. to Capt. Bradish and 
 company, on their going to the army with a regiment from 
 these parts. 
 
 10.— Four vessels came in, S from the West Indies and one 
 from Maryland, with 1500 bushels of corn, and one before 
 with as much more. 
 
 13.-— Crosby came here in a brig with 3500 bushels of corn 
 
 and barrels of flour, so thai we are plentifully relieved 
 
 from all fears of a famine. Blessed be God. 
 
 16. — (Sunday) A full meeting; though so many are moved 
 back, and 60 of Bradish's men, who belong to us. 
 
 £0.— Continental fast. 
 
 August 13. — There is a company of soldiers here from the 
 eastward. 
 
 £5. — I went over toPurpoodock and lodged at Mr. Clark's. 
 
 £6. — I preached there with much assistance and to much 
 acceptance. Mr. Clark gone to the army. 
 
 September £5.— Parson Clark and Mr. Lancaster dined 
 here. 
 
 October 15. — (Sunday,) Mr. Deane being unwell, I preach- 
 ed all day, and administered both sacraments. 
 
 16. — A fleet of five or six vessels of war anchored at the 
 Island with Mowet, a cat bomb ship, two Cutter schooners 
 and a small bomb sloop. 
 
 17. — They came up before the town, P. M. sent word that 
 in two hours they should fire upon the town, which was res- 
 pited, 
 
 18. — 'Till nine this morning, when they began and continu- 
 ed 'till dark, with their mortars and cannon, when with ma- 
 rines landing, they burnt all the lower part of the town and up 
 as far as Mr. Bradbury's, excepting Mrs. Ross' two houses*, 
 
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 and son Thoirias' shop and stores, my house being included.' 5 * 
 1 rode to Windham just before the firing began, as did Mrs* 
 Smith yesterday. A solemn time ! 
 
 22. — (Sunday,) I preached at Windham. 
 
 My barn being saved, (though on fire several times,) we are 
 getting up here our hay, &c. 
 
 My house was the last that was burnt, though several times 
 on fire, and not 'till near dark, and kindled by [from] Capt. 
 Sanforth. We lost [here Mr. Smith enumerates what he 
 lost.] 
 
 November. — [Mr. Smith at Windham this month, he says,] 
 
 25. — I rode to Falmouth in order to preach, but could get 
 no lodgings, therefore returned to Mr. Codman's, [who then 
 lived at Gorham, near the bounds of Falmouth.] 
 
 Decembers — (Sunday,) I preached here all day, to the 
 soldiers and about 20 families. 
 
 4. — I returned to Windiiam, having met with great kind- 
 ness from Mr. Ilsley and wife, and made a very welcome 
 and very satisfactory visit. General Frye and Preble break- 
 fasted with me. 
 
 [Mr. Smith preached at Windham the other Sundays in 
 this month, and his son Peter once for him at Capt. Blake's, 
 where he frequently used to preach himself.] 
 
 Thus ends a very remarkable year, remarkable to all the 
 people of the State, but especially to the inhabitants of Fal- 
 mouth, [now Portland.] 
 
 1776. 
 
 January — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 February 10. — A fatal day. 
 
 11. — (Sunday,) Peter preached at Falmouth and I at 
 Windham. 
 
 12. — Peter returned with the sad news of his brother 
 [Thomas] being sick, which was confirmed by another letter 
 in the evening. He was seized on Monday with a pleurisy 
 and fever, at Cape Ann. 
 
 14. — We heard by Elwell, that he was much better on Sat- 
 urday, but 
 
 15. — To day we heard by a letter from Mr. Winthrop, that 
 he died on Saturday evening. 
 
 19. — His wife and Peter sat out for Cape Ann. 
 March 2. — Our Provincials began to cannonade and bom- 
 bard Boston. 
 
 *F«r a particular account of this, see Appendix. 
 
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 4 —The Provincials continued last night and to night, and 
 entrenched and fortified two hills on Dorchester neck. 
 7.— General Fast, 
 
 20.— We have the news confirmed that How, with the To- 
 ries, left Boston and fell down below the Castle. A surpri- 
 sing event ! 
 
 £1.— -The peri-pneumonich disorder, of which my son died, 
 has ever since prevailed ;n Falmouth, and is very mortal. Wes- 
 terman, T. Womninean and Dawson, have died on our Neck ; 
 Maj. Berry, Capt. Haskill, Bayley and Sawyer, at Back 
 Cove ; Mr. Wyer, Mrs. Riggs, Ficket and Trickey at 
 Stroudwater ; Dtinnam and Pearson at Presuinpscot ; Capt. 
 Buchnam and wife, Underwood and Austin, and others at 
 New Casco. We hear old McLellan lately died, also Zech- 
 eriah Sawyer and a son of Capt. Gooding and Mr. Merril. 
 
 27. — The troops and fleet sailed yesterday and to day from 
 Boston, supposed to Halifax. 
 
 AprU.—[M.r. Smith continued to preach at Windham, and 
 sometimes his son Peter for him at Falmouth. 
 
 Nothing now appears in his Journal of his praying and 
 visiting the sick, of which his former Journals were so full ; 
 nor are the pages half so full of other matters as they were 
 before the burning of the town, and his removal to Wind- 
 ham.] 
 
 14. — I preached all day at Windham. Peter for me. No 
 lodging, eating nor horse-keeping at Falmouth. 
 
 29. — (Sunday) Rode to Falmouth and preached. Dined 
 at Justice Pearson's and returned to Windham. 
 
 30. — Mr. Bodge was seized with the epidemic sickness ; it 
 is in many houses here, and every where through the coun- 
 try. A proper pestilence. 
 
 May 17. — I rode to Falmouth, p. m. 
 18.— Continental Fast. I preached, a. m. Dined at Jus- 
 tice Pearson's. 
 
 20. — (Sunday) I preached a. m. Dined at Deacon Tit- 
 comb's, where I lodged. 
 
 21. — Returned to Windham. 
 
 June 8. — We rode and dined at Major Freeman's [at Sac- 
 carappa.] Drank tea at Mr. Ross' and lodged at Mr. Cod- 
 man's [at Gorham.] 
 
 9. — Rode down to Falmouth. 
 
 10. — (Sunday) Put up at Mrs. Child's Preached, a.m. 
 [Some of these extracts may appear to be too unimportant 
 
 to be recorded here. They are inserted to shew the employ- 
 ment of Mr. Smith's time, in his exiled state.] 
 
 July 4. — A great plot discovered at New York, to destroy 
 the magazine, the staff-officers, k,c. 
 
 30. — We have news of the repulse and defeat of Commo- 
 
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 dore Sir Peter Parker, with eight men of war, and Earl Corn- 
 wallis and General Clinton, with their troops, in an attack on 
 Charleston, S. C. with great loss to them and but little to us. 
 [Mr. Smith rode to Falmouth four times this month.] 
 August. — [There is nothing particular in the Journal of 
 this month that need to be noticed. Mr. Smith rode to Fal- 
 mouth as often as in the last.] 
 
 September 16.— I gave up the whole of my last year's salary 
 to the parish, and accepted of £76 for this year. 
 
 [He rode to Falmouth, to preach but twice this month.] 
 October. — [Mr. Smith rode to Falmouth and preached 
 every Sabbath.] 
 November.— [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 December 4.— Every fourth man is drafted for the army 
 every where. 
 
 [Mr. Smith continued at Windham all this month. There 
 was one important event this year, which Mr. Smith has not 
 noticed. The Declaration of Independence, July 4th.] 
 
 1777. 
 
 January. — [There are but seven Entries made in the Jour- 
 nal of this month, and neither of them of any consequence.] 
 February 5. — We had a public Fast. I had (as usual) great 
 
 assistance. 
 
 9.— I am enabled to preach loud and strong. 
 
 13.— I prayed at the funeral of Mr. Enoch Moody, who 
 died suddenly a Monday evening. 
 
 March.— [Nothing to be remarked, but that altho' Mr.Smith 
 was 75 years old this month, he was able frequently to ride on 
 horseback, and to perform his ministerial duties " as usual," — 
 and that since the year 1775 his Journals are confined to one 
 page only for each month.] 
 
 April 19. — There has been no news for 5 or 6 weeks either 
 from our armies or Europe. • 
 
 30. — There is a great and increasing scarcity of provisions 
 except fish, of which there is a vast quantity. There is no 
 provision to be got, at Boston. A most distressing time. 
 
 May— [Nothing remarkable. It appears, however, that Mr. 
 Smith now lived at Falmouth, though he had not mentioned 
 his removal from Windham.] 
 
 19. — The town has chosen two Representatives, Brigadier 
 Preble and Capt. Noice. 
 
 June 2. — Howe with his army, have been for a good while 
 cooped up in Brunswick by Gen. Washington and his array 
 A Princeton, having had skirmishes in our favor. 
 
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 [The pages of his Journal now begin to be filled again, 
 but nothing remarkable this month.] 
 
 July. — [A full page, but chiefly relating to the weather, 
 (raw and cold until the 14th.) and to presents made to him.] 
 
 18. — We hear Ticonderoga is taken — it was deserted by 
 General St. Clair, without any fighting. 
 
 £0. — (Sunday) I improved the astonishing news, news 
 which throws the whole country into wonder and distress. 
 , Lord help us ! 
 
 23. — Howe's army is at Straten island. 
 
 August. — [The Journal now and until December follow- 
 ing, contain, as usual, two pages to each month. 
 
 1. — We hear Howe has left the Jersey's going somewhere, 
 either to Delaware or North River or Boston. 
 
 15. — We hear Howe has returned from Delaware to New 
 York, and intends to go up the North River to join Burgoyne, 
 who has got to Saratoga. 
 
 27. — Provisions awfully scarce and dear. 
 
 30. — We live from hand to mouth. God gives day by dav, 
 he. 
 
 31. — (Sunday) I was enabled to speak with great strength 
 and spirit. 
 
 September 1.— Our prospects are now better as to the 
 northern army, having had several successful victories. 
 
 7. — (Sunday) Was greatly assisted We have not had a 
 note for any sick person for 9 or 10 Sabbaths. 
 
 22. — General Washington, with half his army, had an action 
 (on the 1 1th) with the whole of Howe's, in which he lost the 
 field and several hundred men, and Howe double. 
 
 30. — Our Col. Brown, &c. have x got possession of Mount 
 Hope Defiance at the French lines, at Ticonderoga. 
 
 General Bmgovne has got into bad plight, enclosed by our 
 army under General Gates, Arnold and Lincoln ; near Fort 
 Edward. 
 
 October 22. — We have much and great news of the suc- 
 cesses of our Northern army, that have inclosed Burgoyne's. 
 
 25. — I have not been called out to any sifck person this 
 week. 
 
 26. — (Sunday) We had the news,p. m. by the post, authen- 
 tic, of the astonishing victory of Gen. Gates in taking Gen. 
 Burgoyne's whole army. Our people weie hereupon mad 
 in their rejoicing. 
 
 November 1. — Our Falmouth-built privateer sailed. 
 
 2. — (Sunday) I thought I did well, but imagined I was 
 slighted. 
 
 9. — (Sunday) Same. 
 
 SO. — (Sunday) I cant but think I am slighted. 
 [These suspicions are revived after a long interval.] 
 December 18. — Continental Thanksgiving. 
 
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 1778. 
 
 [The Journal for the first half of th's year and for Novem- 
 ber, have but one page for each month, all the rest have two 
 pages each and are full.] 
 
 January 5.— General Washington is gone into winter 
 
 quarters. 
 
 19.— The mast-ship (Capt. James) sailed. 
 February. — [The Journal for this month relates chiefly to 
 the weather.] 
 
 March 27. --Regimental Training, to enlist men to rein- 
 force General Washington. 
 
 29.— -(Sunday) Had marvellous assistance, freedom, &c. 
 
 Jlpril 13.— A French man of war came in here with a 
 packet to Congress. 
 
 19. — (Sunday) I preached all day. Mr. Deane at Bidde- 
 ford. 
 
 22.— Annual Fast,— was much assisted. 
 [I notice these expressions of assistance, to show how won- 
 derfully Mr. Smith held out ; now 76 yeais old.] 
 
 25. — We have great news ; that Lord North is seeking an 
 accommodation with the Colonies, by Commissioners to treat 
 with them. 
 
 May. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 June 17. — Five of our young men have lately been inocu- 
 lated and have got well. 
 
 20. — Our people are all mad about inoculation. They 
 have built anew Pest House, and the first class, of 41, are 
 entered. 
 
 22. — General How is gone, and Gen. Clinton with his ar- 
 my have left Philadelphia. 
 
 26. — The Commissioners frcm England are arrived to treat 
 
 about peace. 
 
 July 2. — Gen. How is gone home, and Clinton succeeds 
 him. 
 
 The British army have evacuated Philadelphia and taken 
 the rout of the Jerseys. Washington is pursuing them : Lee 
 is attacking, and Gates advancing to meet the Commission- 
 ers, and Congress are corresponding. 
 
 Between 2 and 18. — About this time (at Monmouth) our 
 army battled it all day with the enemy, and drove them. W r e 
 had" 160 killed and they 320 and left 60 prisoners. Many 
 hundreds of Hessians have deserted to us. 
 
 31. — People fear a famine. The Indian corn curls and is 
 like fo come to nothing, and ihere is no prospect of any pota- 
 toes nor turnips nor any sauce at all. Lord have mercy up- 
 on us. 
 
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 J2, — "We have news by a hand bill of the arrival of a 
 French fleet at the Hook, of 12 line of battle and 4 frigates, 
 and that the people are flocking to our army. 
 
 31. — We have news of the arrival of 11 more French men- 
 of-warat Sandy Hook, and they have taken 16 (out of 17) 
 ships from Cork with provisions. Also, that some of the 
 French fleet are co-operating with General Sullivan in an 
 attack on New York. 
 
 August 1. — All the talk is about the expedition to Newport. 
 The people are flocking there in companies of the principal 
 inhabitants, of Salem, Newbury, &c to co-operate with two 
 Brigades from General Washington's army, and the French 
 fleet who are at Newport. 
 
 21. — We hear that General Sullivan, with his army, are'en- 
 cauiped on the heights, within half a mile of the enemy, and 
 were to attack them yesterday. 
 
 31. — Our troops got off Rhode Island and are retiring to 
 Providence as head quarters, and that the French fleet got to 
 Boston last Friday. 
 
 September 1. — A British fleet under Admiral Byron, of 12 
 capital very large ships, are arrived at the Hook to reinforce 
 Lord How, against the French fleet. 
 
 18.— To day an express arrived from France at Piscata- 
 qua, with news that the French fleet had obtained a complete 
 victory over the British, and that England had declared war 
 against her. 
 
 21. — Boston is in a great toss, preparing for the British 
 fleet and army, expected to attack them and the French fleet. 
 
 80. — There is a terrible dysentary that prevails and rages 
 at the westward. There is not a child three years old left in 
 Mystic. Doct. Elliot died of it, and Mr. Adams of Water- 
 town. 
 
 October 20. — (Or thereabouts, for there is no particular 
 date.) The Commissioners at New York have put out a 
 manifesto, threatening the utmost horrors of war, in case of 
 our standing out against their proposals 'till the 12th of No- 
 vember next. 'Tis thought their design is to destroy all our 
 seaport towns. 
 
 We hear that the British fleet have fallen down to the Hook, 
 and that 150 ships, Transports, have come up the Sound, as 
 far as New Haven, and 'tis thought they are designed for Bos- 
 ton. That they are preparing against them at Boston. 
 Twelve hundred men are at work fortifying. 
 
 November S.~ The French fleet sailed from Boston, and 
 all is bow quiet as to fear from danger of the enemy's com- 
 ing. 
 
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110 
 
 12. — To-day there is as great a southerly storm of rain a» 
 has been known. It blew down fences, Mr. Butler's house 
 and other buildings. 
 
 16 — All the news is that the enemy are embarking at New 
 York for the West Indies and Halifax. 
 
 25. — Common laborers have four dollars a day, while min- 
 isters have but a dollar, and washer-women as much. 
 
 SO. — It is a melanc holly time upon many accounts. Law- 
 ful money is reduced to be worth no more than old tenor. 
 Creditors don't receive an eighth part of their old debts, nor 
 ministers of their salaries. 
 
 December 31. — The thought of people now is, that the ene- 
 my will keep Newport, New York, and Long Island, this 
 ■winter. 
 
 Through the favor of Providence, we are well stored with 
 provisions for winter. 
 
 It has been a year of such remarkable health in this Par- 
 ish, that for near the last half of it there has been but one note 
 for any sick person, (viz. Capt. Blake.) 
 
 Mr. Chase, minister of Kittery, was frozen to death. A 
 team with 4 oxen and an horse, and the driver w ere frozen to 
 death on Boston Neck, all standing up, as were several other 
 persons. 
 
 1779. 
 
 [The Journal of this, and all the succeeding years, are con- 
 tained in but one page only for each month.] 
 
 January S. — (Sunday,) T meet with much difficulty in see- 
 ing to read my notes. [It is surprising that he had not occa- 
 sion to make this observation long before.] 
 
 Our company of Soldiers are reduced to ten. 
 
 4. — It is wonderful how the people live here on the Neck, 
 for want of bread, there being little to be bought, and that so 
 monstrous dear. 
 
 8. — The people upon the Neck, universally, have for some 
 weeks past, suffered extremely for want of w ood, there hav-» 
 ing been no sledding, and the carting very bad, and wood 
 thereupon raised to 20 dollars a cord, [but doubtless in paper 
 money.] 
 
 10. — (Sunday,) It rained very hard A. M. I rode to meet- 
 in^ in a chaise and preached, but Mr. Deane not coming 
 down there was no meeting P. M. [Mr. Deane, after the 
 town was burnt, moved to, and lived at Gorham, near the 
 bounds of Falmouth.] 
 
 £S.— Good sledding ; wood has fallen to 3 dollars. 
 
Ill 
 
 23. — Congress hare called in 15 millions of their dollars 
 by way of tax this year ; two millions is the part of our State. 
 February — [Nothing that requires particular notice.] 
 March 21. — (Sunday,) My eyo sight failed and worried 
 me. 
 
 £7. — Mr. Frothingham dined with us. 
 April 1. — There is a grievous cry for bread in all the sea- 
 port towns, and there is but little meat and no fish yet. 
 
 6. — Parish meeting. The people voted not to make any 
 [further] allowance to their minister's salary, so they stand 
 £75 a year. 
 
 7. — Indi an meal is sold at 30 dollars a bushel. 
 
 13. — No news from England since the 9th Dec. What we 
 had then was, that they are meditating revenge, and a terrible 
 new campaign. 1200 troops are coming. 
 
 22. — We hear that three of our Continental vessels of war, 
 have taken a fleet bound from New York to Georgia with 
 Stores. 
 
 27. — I hear wood is 52 dollars a cord in Boston, and flour 
 at £50 per hundred, i. e. a barrel is more than my whole 
 salary. 
 
 May 8. — Corn is now sold at 35 dollars a bushel, and cof- 
 fee at 3 dollars a pound. 
 
 20. — Tyng and wife came here in a flag. 
 
 23. — Had great strength, never spoke louder nor better. 
 June 1. — Molasses is raised to 16 dollars, coffee 4, sugar 3. 
 
 8. — Tyng sailed at last, without Mrs. Ross, after a great 
 toss. 
 
 10. — A man asked 74 dollars for a bushel of wheat meal. 
 
 11. — Green peas sold at Boston at 20 dollars a peck. 
 Lamb at 20 dollars a quarter. Board GO dollars a week. 
 
 17. — We bought 3 pounds of halibut for a dollar. 
 
 18. — We have news of a large fleet of 800 troops in Pe- 
 nobscot Bay. 
 
 19. — We are greatly alarmed by the appearance of ten top- 
 sail vessels, which proves to be a fleet from Boston. Frigates, 
 &c. 
 
 June 20. — We are in a sad toss ; people moving out. Nev- 
 er did I feel more anxiety. 
 
 21.— We have news that the commanders, Lincoln and 
 Moultrie, have obtained a complete victory at Charleston, over 
 the regulars. 
 
 S3. — People are every where in this State spiritedly appear- 
 ing in the present intended expedition to Penobscot, in pursuit 
 of the British fleet and army there. 
 
 July 13. — Two brigs and a dozen transport sloops came in 
 from Boston, to carry our regiment of soldiers to Penobscot. 
 
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 19. — The vessels with their soldiers, sailed for Townsend 
 where the whole armament is to collect. 
 
 21. — The vessels of war (17) from Boston, went by us to 
 
 Penobscot. 
 
 23. — The enemy's fort at Stony Point, was taken by Gen. 
 Wayne. Fairfield and Norwalk burnt, and New-Haven 
 plundered by Tryon. 
 
 20. — (Sunday) A full meeting ; had much help; people 
 very sleepy. [This complaint was not unusual ; I thought 
 therefore I might mention it once.] 
 
 [Several acceptable presents are mentioned this month, as 
 well as almost every other.] 
 
 •August 10. — We hear that Wheeler Riggs was killed at 
 Penobscot, and about sixty more are killed and wounded, and 
 among them, three Indians, and our army waiting for mortars 
 from Boston. 
 
 17. — We have news that the seige at Penobscot is broken 
 up, on the arrival of several frigates from New-York. 
 
 1G. — We hear our people have burnt all their vessels, and 
 are returning by land. A sad affair ! 
 
 22. — Our people are in a sad toss, expecting an attack from 
 the enemy. 
 
 £3. — We bought a pound of Tea at 19 dollars. 
 
 27. — Col. Jackson's regiment came here from Kittery. 
 September 1. — We are full of men, having not only Jack- 
 son's regiment, but Mitchell's also ; well defended. 
 
 3. — We w ere thrown into vast surprise by the coming in of 
 three large ships, which proved to be the Boston and Dean 
 frigates, and a prize ship. 
 
 4. — Another prize ship came in, both of them men of war. 
 7. — Ool. Jackson's regiment went away, being sent for by 
 
 Gates, upon the news of the arrival of Ashburnot, and the 
 troops at New-York. 
 
 2.).— ThePenobscot soldiers,(Col.Mitchell's)were dismissed. 
 
 26. — (Sunday) My eyes failed me. 
 
 October 3. — We have constantly repeated news that Count 
 D'Estang being on our coast, with tw enty line of battle ships 
 and ten frigates. 
 
 19. — I prayed with the regiment of militia. 
 
 28. — StilHiave repeated accounts of Count D'Estang. 
 .Yovember 1. — Mr. Bradbury moved to Newbury. 
 
 4. — Day of prayer through the State. 
 
 15. — Parish meeting about salary. Voted to do nothing. 
 
 22. — Capt. Sanford brought me 400 dollars, gathered by 
 subscription. 
 
 29. — We have news that Count D'Estang and Gen. Lincoln, 
 were defeared and had retreated at Savannah. Sad news ! 
 
 December 9. — Continental Thanksgiving. 
 
 23. — Wood is 70 dollars a cord ; Coifee 8 dollars a pound 
 
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 1730. 
 
 Januauy SI. — Severely cold, as perhaps ever was ; the 
 harbor down to the sea, lies froze up entirely. Thus January 
 leaves us as it found us, dismal, cold and windy [and snow 
 very deep.] 
 
 February 1. — Dole and others from head-quarters, bring 
 news that the country is blocked up with snow, and that they 
 suffer for want of wood and water. 
 
 18. — No news, but great stir about the Cartel shipwrecked. 
 
 March 24. — Young Mussey asks 500 i. e. above £1100 for 
 a hat. Laborers 30 a day. 
 
 27. — Parish meeting ; they voted a nominal sum. 
 
 SI.— The street to the meeting-house, remains full of snow. 
 
 April 7.— Brigadier Wadsworth came here in the conti- 
 nental Protector, Capt. Williams. 
 
 8.— A regiment of 600 men are raising ; 300 of them for 
 this place, 200 for Campden, 100 for Machias, 
 
 May 19.— An unusual dark day. 
 
 [Mr. Smith is yet able to ride on horse back, and to preach 
 with strength and spirit.] 
 
 June 10.--I had the shocking tidings of the death of my 
 daughter Lucy, (Mrs. ForbesJ 
 
 July 25.— Brigadier Wadsworth Avent to Camden. 
 
 29. — The joy occasioned by the arrival of the French fleet 
 is all over, by the coming of an English one under Graves. 
 
 August— [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 September 1.— News of a mob of 50.000 in London. 
 
 24. — Sir George Rodney, with ten line of battle ships, has 
 arrived at New-York, so that with Graves and Arbuthnots, 
 there, are 19. 
 
 October 2.— -The Tender act repealed lately. 
 
 5. — There is a discovery of a horrid plot of General Ar- 
 nold's giving up our grand fort at West Point. 
 
 10. — I had nothing for dinner and no prospect of any. 
 [But here Mr. Smith mentions a full supply. I note this, to 
 observe that in these calamitous times, such destitutions and 
 providential supplies were experienced by many.] 
 
 25. — Our new Constitution took place. 
 
 November 16. — A signal day of mercy! I was never so 
 anxious about wood and meal ; but was relieved marvellously. 
 
 [Mr. Smith then enumerates as before, the articles with 
 which he was fully supplied ] 
 
 December 3. — (Sunday) I preached with much aid ; Mr. 
 Deane not coming down. 
 
 7. — Continental thanksgiving, I preached ; Mr. Deane 
 whose turn it was) not coming down. 
 
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114 
 
 17. — (Sunday) I preached with much aid and attention. 
 
 [As Mr. Smith often complained of (at least a supposed) 
 want of attention, I think it proper to observe, that he often 
 noticed with satisfaction, the attention of his hearers.] 
 
 1781. 
 
 January 12. — Capt. Pearson Jones was buried. 
 
 20. — Wood is fallen from S00 to 120 dollars, i. e. a dollar 
 and a half silver. 
 
 February 22. — Mr. Thacher was dismissed about this time. 
 
 24. — The street is brim full of snow ; w e are buried up. 
 
 March 1. — We are in a woful toss by news from Captain 
 McCobb, of a scheme of an attack from Baggaduce. Two 
 men that were in it, say that a number of Tories w ere to disa- 
 ble our cannon and secure our magazine, while the vessels 
 made the attack. 
 
 6. — Our regiment were in arms. 
 
 SI.— Ihave had agood measure of health through the winter. 
 
 JlpriL — [Nothing remarkable, but the death of three per- 
 sons noted in the list of names at the end of this book.] 
 
 •May 3. — Annual fast ; had great assistance in prayer, but 
 sunk, and my eyes failed in sermon. 
 
 JunelQ. — A French convoy arrived in Boston with 1500 
 troops. 
 
 Jlugust 18. — Wood is at 2 dollars a cord, never so cheap. 
 
 22. — There is only hard money passing, and little of that. 
 
 September 1. — We have news of the arrival of 5 ships and 5 
 brigs at Baggaduce, that much disquiets us. 
 
 IS. — New-London and Groton burnt by Arnold. We fear 
 he is coming on us. 
 
 17. — I am relieved from a most anxious concern, Ihave 
 been in for four days, by the great news of the arrival of the 
 French fleet at Chesapeake and Washington, and hope he is 
 got there. 
 
 24. — Great expectation from Chesapeake, where there are 
 28 line of battle ships under Count De Grasse,with 8000 troops. 
 General Washington with 8000 ; La Fayette with near as 
 many. 
 
 October 4. — Capt. McLellan brought hand bills from Bos- 
 ton, with the news of the surrender of Cornwallis and his 
 army, and a great victory of the French fleet under Count 
 De Grasse, over that of the British under Graves and Hood. 
 Our people are rejoicing. 
 
 8.— -Admiral Digby is arrived at New-York with three ships 
 of the line, and Prince Henry on board. They have twenty 
 ships of the line there. 
 
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 15. — The great news ofCornwallis is prematine. 
 
 18. — We hear the British fleet with 7000 troops have sailed 
 from New-York ; their destination unknown. Boston is in a 
 sad toss. 
 
 19. — General Green has lately obtained a great victory in 
 killing a thousand and more near Charleston. 
 
 20. — Mr. Bodge came in this evening with idings of Mrs. 
 Smith being dangerously ill. 
 
 27. — TJxj post came express with the great news of the un- 
 conditional surrender of Cornwallis and his army on the 19th. 
 
 28. — (Sunday) Mr. Deane and I improved the occasion in 
 suitable sermons. 
 
 29. — Our people spent the day in usual rejoicings. 
 November 30. — A tedious month, the past, as ever was,and 
 
 heavy gales of wind from the north, constantly cold, cloudy 
 and rainy weather. 
 
 December.— [Nothing remarkable, unless it may be observ- 
 ed that Mr. Smith's performances this month, were satisfac- 
 tory to himself and acceptable to his hearers ; one of whom 
 said, after the annual thanksgiving, that he then " seemed to 
 be inspired."] 
 
 1782. 
 
 [The journals now begin to be written with not so fine a 
 pen; as the strokes of the letters are thicker, and the hand 
 writing larger than heretofore. The pages hewever, are as 
 full, though they do not contain so much.] 
 
 January 29. ---Very blustering and cold, dismal winter. 
 
 February 11.— Harper got in from Boston, having been 
 gone three months. 
 
 14. — People are in a sad tumult about Quaker meetings, 
 ministers and taxes. 
 
 25. — Lt. Kitts taken. Antigua blocked up. 
 
 26. — -The harbor down to the Islands remain shut up. 
 28.— We have the King's speech of 27th November ; noth- 
 ing material in it. 
 
 March 11. — A privateer brig is off here, and has taken 
 many vessels. 
 
 16. — Mr. Deane moved down here. 
 
 20. — Parish meeting ; voted Mr. Deane and myself, each 
 an £100 for last year, and this, with contributions. 
 
 24. — (Sunday) I worried through the street, going and 
 coming. Never was enabled to perform better. [Now 80 
 years old.] 
 
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 Jlprill. — (Sunday) Forgot my spectacles and could not 
 preach, but prayed, and begun and closed the sacrament. 
 
 £5.— Annual fast ; I preached all day. 
 
 28.— The West-Indies is like to be the seat of war, till the 
 approach of the hurricanes come, and then America. 
 
 28. — Admiral Rodney is arrived at the West-Indies with 
 ten ships of the line, which with Admiral Hood's there before, 
 make 34 of the line, a 40 gun ship and frigates ; Count De 
 Grasse has the same. 
 
 May 6.— Town meeting ; Capt. Noyes chosen representa- 
 tive. 
 
 8. — We have the great news that our independence is 
 acknowledged in England, and that their troops here, are 
 recalled. 
 
 15.— We have news of a grand naval battle in the Weft- 
 Indies. 
 
 21.— We have certain news of an entire change in the 
 British ministry. 
 
 23.— Capt. Cox is moving away to Nova Scotia. 
 
 June 4. — Sir Guy Charlton is arrived at New York, in the 
 room of Clinton, with an olive leaf of peace. Congress 
 won't treat with him. 
 
 25. — Little news. No more land fighting I hope. 
 July. — [Nothing; remarkable.] 
 
 August 16. — We hear the French fleet of 13 line of battle 
 ships and 4 frigates and 4000 troops, lately arrived at Boston. 
 Our prisoners in England are all liberated and sent to us. 
 
 19. — Great news. They are negotiating a general Peace 
 at Paris. 
 
 25 — (Sunday) Never was I more anxious before hand and 
 
 never had greater assistance. Thank God. 
 [Very many were the remarks of this kind.] 
 September 21. — Messrs. Codman and Freeman accepted 
 
 the office of Deacons. 
 
 26. — Our great prospects of Peace are vanished. 
 
 29. — (Sunday) My strength and voice and eyes failed me 
 much. 
 
 October. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 November 23. — There has been no fighting in America 
 this year. 
 
 December 8. — (Sunday) I went out and prayed, but it was 
 so dark I could not see to preach. 
 
 15. — (Sunday) Mest horrid cold and windy. I could not 
 stand it, but dismissed the people after praying and singing. 
 
 23. — About this time I confined myself, I was alarmed with 
 tiypocondriac disorders, viz. a fluttering and sinking at my 
 breast, a dismal restlessness, with profuse sweats every morn- 
 ing about 4 o'clock. Broke off from meat and coffee and 
 
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 took to Scotch barley broth. Had watchers, and was appre- 
 hensive death was fast approaching. Sent for Peter and wife, 
 (who came and tarried near a fortnight) moved into the 
 larger room, where my restlessness increased through the day, 
 and had an unusual intermission in my pulse. Sent for Dr. 
 Coffin (who thought I was dying) and for Dr. Barker. Had 
 a nurse and watchers every night, and in the whole a most 
 distressing visitation. 
 
 1783. 
 
 [The Journals for January, February and March are 
 missing.] 
 
 April 4. — Our men about this time had a mad day of re- 
 joicing — firing cannon incessantly from morning to night, 
 among the houses, and ended in killing Mr. Rollins. 
 
 8. — We have authentic accounts, many ways, of Peace, 
 though no official one from Congress. 
 
 9. — Goods at Boston fell in price near half. 
 
 The Preliminary articles of Peace were certainly signed 
 at Versailles the 20th January, and ratified the 3d of Febru- 
 ary. An inglorious Peace to Britain, but an happy one to 
 America. 
 
 18. — The proprietors of the Neck are making a grand 
 stone wall fence round it. 
 
 22. — I stepped out to the door for the first time, having 
 been confined to the House about four months. 
 
 26. — The post brought us a Proclamation from Congress, 
 for a cessation of hostilities. 
 
 May 1.— Our people had a grand rejoicing day, in which 
 they a. m. had a Lecture, (Mr. Brown preached,) a contribu- 
 tion for the poor, aud gathered 66 dollars and two-thirds. 
 Had a public Dinner and 13 cannon fired several times, the 
 whole very decently carried on. 
 
 4.— People are all damped in their extravagant rejoicings, 
 by accounts now brought, that there is no Proclamation come 
 for Peace, but only for a cessation of hostilities, and that 
 there is a violent opposition in Parliament against it. 
 
 June 6.— I began to drink tar-water. 
 
 8.— (Sunday) I ventured out and preached. Had marvel- 
 lous assistance. 
 
 14.— The measles is in town. 
 
 16. — Dyer came with flour, and brought the small pox. 
 
 17. — Cap*.. Ingraham [in addition to several former pre- 
 sents, gave me 1 | hundred of flour, to make up a barrel 
 —a grand gift, and to Mr. Deane the same. God rewatd 
 him greatly. 
 
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 [The names of other donors have not hitherto (except in 
 2 or 3 instances) been mentioned, they were too numerous. 
 This is noted as having been received with peculiar grati- 
 tude.] 
 
 18.— -Capt. Cole in a ship came in to load, as did also a 
 large mast ship. 
 
 31.— We have no accounts of the Definitive Treaty of 
 Peace being signed, nor of the evacuation of New York, tho' 
 constantly expected. General Washington has taken leave 
 of the army and retired, and all is peace. 
 
 [Mr. Smith preached every Sabbath this month, having as 
 he observed, " great assistance."] 
 
 •August 31.— (Sunday) Had marvellous assistance. It was 
 perfect pleasure in speaking. 
 
 September 13.— We have news that the plague is in Phila- 
 delphia and New York and that a hundred die daily. 
 
 October 24.— We have news that the Definitive Treaty was 
 signed ihe 2d of last month. 
 
 November 5.— Mr. Jewet was ordained at Gorham. 
 
 6.— Mr. Hilliard was installed (a Monday) at Cambridge. 
 
 December. — [Mr. Smith complained of severally ill turns 
 the last month and this : stili he continued to preach, with 
 more ease and spirit than usual ] 
 
 1784. 
 
 January. — [Nothing remarkable or unusual.] 
 February 29. — I have, through the goodness of God, been 
 carried through the winter, much beyond my fears. Never was 
 I more anxious in the approach thereof, and never had a more 
 comfortable winter, or suffered less by the cold. 
 
 March 5. — Mr. Deane returned, having been gone six- 
 weeks. 
 
 * 6. — Great rejoicings in Boston, on account of the Definitive 
 Treaty signed by Congress. 
 
 16. — Brigadier Preble, who died on Thursday night (11th) 
 Mas buried. 
 
 20. — The measles is in town. 
 
 April 10. — This place fills up very fast. There lately 
 came here, Mr. Hopkins, Robinson, Vaughan, Clark and 
 Codman. 
 
 12. — The trade of the place surprisingly increases. Our 
 vessels all come and go safely. 
 
 24. — Mr. Ilsley moved down here, as did Capt. Stevenson, 
 yesterday. 
 
il'j 
 
 [Mr, Smith, this week, observes, that he has had as happy 
 assistance as he could wish.] 
 
 May 23.— -(Sunday.) It was so dark, I could not see to 
 preach, and >o only performed with prayer* 
 
 [But he preached every other Sunday in the month.] 
 
 June 23. — Messrs. Hopkins, Butler,Cummings and Osgood, 
 sailed for England, 
 
 Juty 13. — (Sunday.) There was preaching for the first 
 time in Mr, Brown's Meeting-House. 
 
 2,1. — There came suddenly as great a tempest as ever I 
 knew, preceded by some hidious darkness, and accompanied 
 with a vast shower. 
 
 [Mr. Smith seems to have enjoyed his health at this time, 
 and, excepting the failing of his sight, to have renewed his 
 age, visiting and preaching, as usual.] 
 
 August I. — Strangers (traders and others) crowd in among 
 us surprisingly. 
 
 11. — Capt. Stone, Stephenson and Smith, have great 
 Houses raised. 
 
 21. — Mr. Edgar and family came here. 
 
 [Mr. Smith continues his preaching, and ministerial visits.] 
 
 September 18. — Col. Powell died last night at N.Yarmouth, 
 
 October 17. — (Sunday) I prayed, but it was so dark, I could 
 not see to preach. Mr. Deane preached all day. 
 
 November.- [No particular occurrence to be noticed this 
 month.] 
 
 December b. — (Sunday) I could hardly preach at all, and 
 fumbled so much, I am quite discouraged. [Opposite to this 
 date in the journal, Mr, Smith writes, " this was the last Sab- 
 bath I was out to preach." 
 
 I. I would observe here, that the journals for the two last 
 years were written on the large size paper, he formerly used, 
 and that each page was as full as it could hold. 
 
 £. That I have been more particular in the extracts from 
 them concerning Mr. Smith, in consideration of his age, and 
 that of his life drawing near to a close. 
 
 It appears by the diary of the late Rev. Doc. Deane, that 
 there were erected this year (on that part of Falmouth, which 
 is now called Portland) 41 dwelling houses, 11 stores, 7 shops 
 and 4 barns. The names of the owners are mentioned.] 
 
 1785. 
 
 January 1. — The Falmouth Gazette first appeared. [The 
 first paper printed in the town, published by Mr. Thomas B 
 Wait.] 
 
120 
 
 March Si. — Parish meeting ; voted the salaries, as the year 
 past, without opposition. 
 
 April 6. — The church people had a meeting, and subscrib- 
 ed £10 st. a man for a pew, in order to build a church. 
 
 29. — The post at last got in here, having been hindered near 
 j weeks. 
 
 Ma y 15. — (Sunday) I ventured out for the first time to 
 meeting, but did not preach. 
 
 June 5. — (Sunday) A delightful Sabbath, I began with 
 prayer, but could not see to preach. 
 
 20. — We are all in a blaze about singing : all flocking at 5, 
 10, and 4 o'clock to the meeting-house, to a Master hired,(viz. 
 Mr. Gage.) 
 
 29.— The people are all in a sad toss, supposing Polly 
 Grafton has the small pox. I prayed with her. 
 
 July 29.— The governor and lady here ; an Italian Count 
 also. 
 
 August 7.— Mr. Parker began to iread prayers to the church 
 people. 
 
 8.— Governor Hancock was to see me. 
 September 27.— There is now a dozen new large houses 
 building* 
 
 29.— Distresing times are opening on the country ; all the 
 money is gone, and therefore all business is coming to an end. 
 Octobers.— The court-house was raised. 
 15.— At P. M. 4 o'clock, a memorable dark time. 
 
 21. — For two days and two nights, it rained without ceas- 
 ing, as hard as ever was known, which raises the freshets in the 
 rivers in such a hideous manner, as to carry away all the 
 bridges on Pesumpscot river, and many elsewhere, and also 
 many mills. Saco bridges carried away. 
 
 28. — I am daily visiting, (when I can go out) either alone or 
 with Mrs. Smith. 
 
 November.— [Nothing remarkable this month.] 
 [It may be observed that Mr. Smith preached none the year t 
 past, nor since the 5th Dec. last year. He however attended 
 other ministerial duties, making prayers at meeting on the 
 Sabbath, and with the sick ; and though now and then com- 
 plaining, appears to have enjoyed pretty good health.] 
 
 1786. 
 
 January 2.— There was a considerable earthquake about 7 
 A. M. 
 
 4.-— Grand convention of delegates about a new state, who 
 voted articles of grievances, and adjourned to September. 
 
 *Doct. Dearie, in his diary, fays " that the number of houses erected this year 
 
 was 33. 
 
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 February. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 March 21. — This day I am 84 years old. I continue a 
 wonder to myself and many. 
 
 30. — Parish meeting, only 13 persons present. They sent 
 a committee to me about giving up my salary. 
 
 April 14. — Parish meeting by adjournment, having spent 
 the whole day upon it, they voted a salary to both ministers. 
 
 21. — The parish after several meetings, voted to pay my 
 arrears, viz. #250, but took off 55 for depreciation. 
 
 29. — Wearisome days and restless nights are appointed 
 unto me. 
 
 30. — (Sunday) I was very unwell, but ventured out and was 
 much assisted. 
 
 May. — [Nothing remarkable.] 
 
 June 28. — We sat out for Windham ; my chaise overset,and 
 wounded my forehead sorely, and I had liked to have bled to 
 death. Solemn thanks to my great preserver. 
 
 July 4. — Our Neck is set off, and incorporated into a town 
 by the name of Portland. 
 
 28. — My legs continue to swell. 
 
 August 5. — The whooping cough prevails ; Mrs. Smith and 
 I have it severely bad. 
 
 9. — I was unwell, but forced out to pray at the first meeting 
 of our new town, Portland. 
 
 27. — (Sunday) Deacon Freeman read sermons. 
 
 September 6. — The country seems to be in a general riot. 
 
 7. — Convention of delegates for a separate state. 
 
 October 25. — The whooping cough continues, and with it a 
 dreadful cankerous disorder. 
 
 November 2. — The country is in extreme confusion, occa- 
 sioned by the many county mobs, and the want of money to 
 pay the tdxes, &lc 
 
 December 6. — Shattuck, Smith, Parker and others, ring- 
 leaders of the mobs, were taken and carried to Boston last 
 Wednesday. 
 
 [Note. Sixteen dwelling houses were erected in Port- 
 land, in the coutse of this year.] 
 
 [I may make the same observ ation at the end of this year 
 with respect to Mr. Smith's performances, and (though not so 
 fully) as to his health, that I did the last year ; and with res- 
 pect to both years that by reason of Mr. Deane's bodily indis- 
 position, there was frequently no meeting.] 
 
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 1787. 
 
 January 17. — General Lincoln is now at Springfield, with 
 
 a grand array to reinforce General Sheppard against the army 
 of the Insurgents under Shays, at Pelham. 
 
 February — [Chiefly on the state of the weather.] 
 March 17. — It is agreed we have had the longest and cold- 
 est winter remembered. 
 
 21. — Tiiis day I am fourscore and five years old. 
 
 [And for 65 years before and 8 years after, he was a man 
 of prayer and a faithful minister of the gospel of Christ.] 
 
 22. — Fast day ; I was out and prayed A . M. and had great 
 assistance. 
 
 JlprilQO. — A great fire at Boston. It began near Liberty 
 Pole, and the wind blowing hard, (northward) carried away 
 all the buildings on both sides the way, 100 in all, including a 
 meeting-house and 50 houses. 
 
 23. — The new episcopal church was raised. 
 
 May 2. — Hard times ! no money ! no business, is the gen- 
 eral cry. 
 
 June 23. — A great uproar about Murray's not preaching. 
 July 31. — President Willard here. 
 
 August 16. — There w as a parish meeting about setting off 
 a number of the parish as a separate society. 
 
 28. — Town meeting,! voted to pull down the meeting-house 
 and got subscribers to build a new one. 
 
 September 12. — Town meeting.* They voted Mr. Deane, 
 and myself £75 each. The separatists voted themselves off. 
 
 23 — (Sunday) Mr. Freeman read sermons, and I made the 
 prayers. Had great assistance. 
 
 24 — Quakers annual meeting ; great numbers flocked 
 there. 
 
 27 — The grand convention finished and published the new 
 constitution of government for the confederated U. States. 
 
 October 3. — One Mr. Kellock come here to preach to the 
 separatists. 
 
 4. — I ain abroad a visiting with my wife almost every day. 
 11. — Poor Portland is plunging into ruinous confusion by 
 the separation. 
 
 14. — (Sunday) A great flocking to the separate meeting 
 last Sunday and this, in the school-house. 
 
 17. — The council met at Windham upon Peter's case. 
 
 November 3. — All the talk is about the new constitution of 
 government, fabricated by the late federal convention. 
 
 December 5. — Mrs. Smith and^nyself are sorely distressed 
 with the whooping cough,and rheumatism; have tedious nights. 
 
 + Hr. Smith must, I think, have meant here, parish meetings. 
 
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 t%. — Mr. Child was juried ; I was not out. 
 
 28. — I slept well three nights,but now had a sleepless night. 
 
 30. — I walked to meeting pretty comfortably. 
 
 [Thus ends the journal of the present year ; the pages of" 
 which for e;ich month, are all full ; but it is the last of this des- 
 cription. Mr. Smith, it appears, continued to exercise his 
 official duties, (except preaching) and to enjoy a remarkable 
 degree of bodily health and mental strength.] 
 
 1788. 
 
 [The Journal for this year is the last that can be found. 
 It contains only five unimportant entries in the month of Jan- 
 uary and three in the month of May. Mr. Smith lived after 
 this about seven years ; but his eyes grew dim and his bodily 
 strength became enfeebled. It could not therefore have been 
 expected that he should continue to exercise an employment 
 of this kind. Would that some person of equal diligence and 
 industry, had resumed and continued it.] 
 
 OF MR. SMITH'S RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS. 
 
 In addition to the view which the foregoing extracts will 
 afford, of the general character of Mr. Smith, I would observe 
 in regard to his religious sentiments, that he embraced the 
 opinions of Calvin in preference to those of Arminius. I 
 think it not improper however to notice, an oral communica- 
 tion, which he made to me some years before his death, and 
 which I then committed to writing. It is as follows, and was 
 considerd by him as 
 
 A brief Summary of the Christian Religion. 
 
 1. That God made man after his own image ; holy, just 
 and good, and therefore perfectly happy. 
 
 2. That man fell from this state of perfect rectitude, and 
 thereby brought upon or subjected himself to eternal misery. 
 
 3. That God so loved the world, that he gave his son Je- 
 sus Christ to redeem mankind from this state of punishment 
 for sin, who made an atonement therefor, by his sufferings 
 and death, and thereby purchased the grant of repentance. 
 
124 
 
 4. To enable man to repent, he promised to send his Ho- 
 ly Spirit to them who asked it. " If ye being evil, kc." 
 
 5. Therefore to recover a state of happiness, we are by 
 the assistance of the Spirit, to repent and be obedient ; and 
 by so doing, we shall obtain eternal life. 
 
 TO THE READER. 
 
 On closing this part of the work, and referring yon to what 
 is said in the preface, the Compiler thinks it proper to ob- 
 serve, that, in making the foregoing selections, he was aware 
 of the impracticability of suiting the taste of ail. What, to 
 one, may be considered unimportant, another may read with 
 satisfaction. He therefore solicits your candid consideration 
 of them, in a collective view. 
 
STATE OF THE SEASONS, WEATHER, &c. 
 
 1722. 
 
 February 5. Moderate weather. 12. Fine weather. 28. 
 Wet, stormy weather concludes the month. March 5. Fine 
 weather again. 16. Charming day. April 9. Thunder and 
 lightning, rain and hail. 30. Thus far it has been a very cold 
 dry spring. May 31. Fair weather concludes the month. 
 July 30. The hottest day that has been this year. An ex- 
 ceeding dry time, as ever was. September 30. Very hot for 
 the time of year. October 20. Very cold. 27. Excessive 
 cold. December, 2 — 9. Very hot indeed for the time of year, 
 more so than ever was known before. 
 
 1723. 
 
 January^. Raw, cold weather. February 1. A summer 
 day. April 30. It is thought it has been the forwardest spring 
 that has been known in the country, inasmuch as the blossoms 
 are dropt from the trees, and the 1st of the month, a man in 
 Cambridge, mowed a quantity of English grass. May 2, 
 Cooler weather. 25. Cool weather throughout the month. 
 October. It has been for a month past very stormy and uncom- 
 fortable weather as ever was known this time of the year. 
 JS/bvember. This has been a very cold month, snowed but 
 once. 
 
 1724. 
 
 April 11. The peach trees but now begin to blossom. 
 December 14. First snow fell to day. 29. Considerable snow, 
 but followed and consumed by rain. This month we have 
 had something like winter weather. 
 
 1725. 
 
 Nothing 'till April 30. It has been a very cold month. 
 May 29. This has been a cold month, and no rain, and noth- 
 ing more during the year. 
 
 1726. 
 
 January 31. This has been a very smart close winter. 
 February 3. The river froze over again last night. 9, More 
 11* 
 
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 moderate, the river breaking up. 16. The river froze over a- 
 gain. 28. This month has been severe, close weather, but no 
 storm all winter and not one thaw. March 2. More moder- 
 ate. 14. The fish not come upon the usual ground here. 
 April 27. People generally planting. This month has been 
 wet and uncomfortable weather. 'Tis thought in these parts, 
 to be a very backward spring. May 20. The peach and ap- 
 ple trees but now begin to blossom. 27. There has been ve- 
 ry little pleasant weather this month. June 20. There has 
 been a very great drought this spring. September SO. This 
 month has been cool, but ne great frost yet. October 30. 
 Several days past pretty cold. 
 
 1727. 
 
 February 10. Snowed all day. 11. A very cold day this. 
 16. A most charming pleasant day. 24. A very pleasant 
 day. March SO. We have had. very uncomfortable weather 
 this month. The spring is thought to be very backward. 
 (The pages of the Journal for the rest of the year, contain 
 nothing.) 
 
 1728. 
 
 January 11. For several days past, there has been a spell 
 of comfortable weather. IS. Avery terrible storm of snow 
 all day. The snow that fell to day is almost two feet upon a 
 level. 18. The coldest day we had this year. February. 
 There has been no thawy weather, but as close for six weeks 
 past as ever was known. Great scarcity of hay on account of 
 the drought last year. March 8. 'Till this day there has been 
 no appearance of winter's breaking up. 15. A wonderful 
 smile of providence in the snow going away. The creatures 
 were almost starved ; a great many have died this winter, ev- 
 ery where. April 6. Thus far we have had very pleasant, 
 comfortable weather for the season. 13. As much rain fell 
 to day as ever did in one day. 17. There just begins to be 
 some young feed now. SO. The most of this month has been 
 very cold. May 1. Last night there was a considerable frost. 
 June SO. Things begin to suffer much, by reason of the 
 drought. July 9. Our people, this day, begin to cut their 
 salt hay. November 30. The three days past has been really 
 cold. Presumpscot River froze up. December 30. Winter 
 sets in as cold as ever remembered in December. 
 
 [Note.— The Diary for 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732, is mis- 
 sing.] 
 
 1733. 
 
 January 8. Cold. 13. This whole week has been a spell 
 cf warm weather. £5. It does not seem to be very cold, yet 
 
If7 
 
 it was froze over to Purpoodock last night. February 8. Pro- 
 digious blustering and cold. 16. It thawed all last night. 22. 
 Ice still lies as far as North-Yarmouth. A man may walk 
 over to Hog-Island. 28. It is melancholy to see so much 
 snow as has fallen so late in the year. MarchlQ. There has been 
 but little of the snow consumed yet. 21. Comfortable weath- 
 er. 22. Snow mostly consumed. 27. Pleasant. 29. The 
 snow in the woods is near four feet deep. April 4. Cloudy 
 and cold. 13. Pleasant day. 16. Stroudwater still froze 
 over. 20. A cold and backward spring. 23. It is said to 
 have snowed at Saccarappa last night, knee deep. June 29. 
 It is a wonderful year for grass. August. Pigeons very 
 plenty. We kill more than we can eat. 20. Trot, with a 
 net, got 16 dozen this morning. September. Generally a 
 pleasant month. October 24. It froze in the shade all day. 
 November 4. Turnips are exceeding plenty. 24. Warm 
 weather. December 7. Wonderfully pleasant most of this 
 month. 
 
 1734. 
 
 January 11. Blustering and cold. 19. Rain. 28. Pretty 
 comfortable. February. Pleasant weather generally this 
 month ; tho' some days cold. March. All along warmer and 
 pleasanter than April last year. April 4. As hot a day as the 
 generality of summer. 19. Jack finished planting potatoes. 
 25. There is vastly more potatoes planted this year than ever. 
 May 9. Though the spring was at first very forward, things 
 don't come on as they promised. 22. Very warm and pleas- 
 ant. June 21. There never was (I believe) such a year for 
 grass. July 4. The raspberries begin to be ripe. 8. W 7 s 
 hear that at Boston, people die of the excessive heat. 23. It 
 is (I believe) as fruitful a year as ever was. September 6. 
 Extraordinary cold. 13. Pleasant. SO. We began to dig 
 our potatoes, so early, because we have so many to dig. 
 November 1. Feed is good yet. December. To the end of 
 this month the weather has been very moderate. 
 
 1735. 
 
 January. Though cold at times, there has been much pleas- 
 ant and moderate weather this month. February 28. This 
 has been a summer month, only two or three cold days. 
 March. Not so pleasant as the last month. April 9. Cold 
 and windy. 17. Quite hot. 21. Same. July 10. People 
 have began to mow. August 11. There has been so much 
 rain, it is feared there will be but little good English hay. 
 December. There have been several pleasant days this niOHth. 
 None remarkably cold. 
 
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128 
 
 1736. 
 
 February. A close cold winter. 28. It looks promising for 
 a forward spring. March 15. Severely cold. April 10. A 
 hot day. 11. The spring looks promising. 17. We dug the 
 lower garden and sowed carrots, parsnips, &c. May 29. It 
 has been through the whole of this month, except one week, 
 cold and raw. July 9. Sowed turnip seed. The fowls and 
 chickens have destroyed the grass-hoppers. 25. It is a won- 
 derful year for grass. August. Cold weather the last of this 
 month. September. It has been very dry all this month. 
 November 3. We puiied up all our turnips. Fine weather. 
 December 30. Hardly any winter yet. 
 
 1737. 
 
 January 2. 'Tis thought the ground is frozen four feet 
 deep. 11. It snowed all day. 16. A level snow of about 
 eight inches, but turned to rain. 17. Glare of ice. 18 to 22. 
 Snow. 27. More snow. 31. Pleasant. February. Rains 
 and pleasant weather alternately. March 26. It is a very 
 backward spring indeed. 30. Spring like day ; the trees do 
 hardly begin to bud. April 2. The goosberry bushes look 
 quite green. 11. Snowed all day. 18. Cloudy and cold. 
 20. It looks no more like spring than it did a month ago. No 
 plowing or gardening yet. 25. There is no grass at all. 
 May 2. We sowed our peas, and lower garden. 4. Multi- 
 tude of creatures are not able to get up, many have died. 9. 
 Warm to-day. 10. The whole neighborhood without milk. 
 17. The grass don't grow for want of rain. 20. A joyful, 
 seasonable rain. 24. Very pleasant. July IS. There never 
 was, in the memory of man, more seasonable weather. 20. 
 Grass is very thin. 22. No feed on the Nexk. 27. Grass- 
 hoppers plenty. August 8. The grass seems to be, but now, 
 shooting. 19. About this time our Almanac conjurer spoke 
 of a great storm, which alarmed multitudes of people, so that 
 some cut the tops of their corn ; but there was nothing like 
 what was prophesied of, that come to pass. September. Va- 
 rious weather this month, but on the whole a fine season for 
 the corn to dry. October 10. Cold. 19. Fine weather. 23. 
 It was never known to be so dry. No sawing nor grinding. 
 November 5. There has been some rains. 24. No grinding ; 
 we have had a bag of corn go from mill to mill, for about two 
 months, and not ground yet. December 18. It is remarkable 
 that there has been no northwesters this fall nor winter. 
 
 1738. 
 
 January. The month comes in warm like the beginning 
 of April. 23. Two things are remarkable, relative to the 
 
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 wind, for several months past, one is, that the wind always 
 comes about with the sun. The other, that after foul weath- 
 er, the wind comes as far as the S. W. and except once or 
 twice, no further. February. The former part of the month 
 cold. The last half, fair, pleasant and moderate weather. 
 March Plenty of hay, corn, &c. a vast difference on this ac- 
 count between last spring and this. *27. The frost is general- 
 ly out of the ground. It looks likely for a forward spring. 
 April 11. Jack dug the lower garden. 14. Unusually hot 
 weather. The spring is thought to be two or three days for- 
 warder than the last. May. Pleasant. We finished planting 
 potatoes to day. 15. Hot weather. 23. Fine pleasant day. 
 29. Abundance of rain. July 7. Grasshoppers. The drought 
 come on very severely and prevailed in such a manner as the 
 like was never known. September 3. More rackoon's, jays, 
 and red squirrels than ever was known. The weather this 
 month generally pleasant. November 5. There is, I think, 
 more grass now than in the summer. 23. Cold weather, 
 
 27. Snow last night, but fair and moderate to day. Decem- 
 ber. Frequent snows this month, but turned to rain, and the 
 latter part of the month remarkably slippery. 
 
 1739. 
 
 April 11. No appearance of any feed yet. 20. We have 
 remarkable seasonable weather. 30. There has been no rain 
 for about a month past, except a small shower. August 31. 
 We have had more hot weather these four days past, than all 
 the summer together. September 17. Last night there was a 
 very white frost, that killed the tops of our potatoes. October 
 8. The cold weather prevails as far as Boston, so that there 
 is no business going forward. 
 
 1740. 
 
 January. This month has been generally fair and pleasant. 
 February 18. A summer winter. We had only two snows 
 and sledding but about three weeks ; two or three snaps of 
 coldjweather, else constantly warm and open,and always fair. 27. 
 Warm southerly weather. MarchS. Asummerday. 10. Same. 
 18. Warm. 29. Charming weather. April 14. The spring does 
 not look very promising. 23. Exceeding hot. 30. A pleas- 
 ant day. May 11. A very backward, cold spring. June 25. 
 We have had the finest, most seasonable weather that can be. 
 Every thing is promising. July 22. It begins to be a dry 
 time. 28. As growing a season for about a month past, as 
 ever was in the memory of man. August 10. There has been 
 an uncommon season of hot weather this summer. October 
 
 28. It began to snow. 29. Snow melted much, yet it is three 
 inches deep. November 5. I believe no man ever knew s» 
 
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 winter-like a spell so early in the year. December 4. The 
 frost is still wholly out of the ground. 29. The Fore River 
 has been shut a day or two. 30. Several peisons walked over 
 to Purpoodock. 
 
 1741. 
 
 January 1. A little cooler, hut a pleasant day. 19. The 
 whole week has been a spell of charming weather. 27. A 
 ch .lining pleasant day. 29. Much cooler. 30. A great deal 
 of the Aurora Borealis. April 10. Melancholy time, the 
 snow lying, and little hay. 25. The snow has consumed 
 won-ierlully. 30. Roads now settled surprisingly ; the rea- 
 son is, there has been no frost in the ground the winter past. 
 
 1742. 
 
 January, Feb. No account of the weather is given. 
 March 11. The snow is four feet deep in the woods. April 
 18. Comfortable Sabbath. 25. Unusually hot. May G. The 
 grass grows wonderfully. 29. Same. Very hot weather for 
 a week past. Nothing further is said of the weather until 
 October 18. Some unusually hot days about this time, and 
 then, nothing until, December 23. Charming weather every 
 day. 29. Wonderful weather for about ten days past ; there 
 has been no cold weather yet. 
 
 1743. 
 
 Nothing said of the weather 'till, March 1. Very cold. 
 This has been a close winter: the snow being constantly so 
 deep in the woods, that the teams could not stir, though there 
 was not so much near us, and in Boston there was hardly any. 
 April 28. There has been no easterly weatbei this month, and 
 though cold, vet raw and chilly as usual. The roads are eve- 
 ry where as dry as summer. May 1. An uncommon dry 
 time. 7. Refreshing rains. June I. Indian corn wants heat. 
 20. A very dry time, people fear a drought. 22. It rained 
 plentifully. 27. There are millions of worms, in armies, ap- 
 pearing and threatening to cut offy eveiy green thing ; people 
 are exceedingly alarmed. July 1. Days of fasting are kept 
 in one place and another, on account of the worms. 28. An 
 exceeding scarce time for hay. It is £7 or £8 a load. Au- 
 gust!. Fine growing season. October SI. Wonderful weath- 
 er, moderate and dry. November 7. There has been no rain 
 for many weeks, so that not a mill goes in this part of the 
 country. 
 
 1744. 
 
 January, Feb. March. Nothing remarkable is said of the 
 weather or season, 'till April 29. A forward spring ; a great 
 
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 merey, on account of the scarcity of hay. No person ever 
 saw such an April in this eastern country, so dry and warm 
 and pleasant. May 1. A fine season as ever was known. 
 51. No person in the hind ever saw such a spring so hot and 
 intermixed with seasonable showers. We have ripe straw- 
 berries, and every thing more than a fortnight forwarder than 
 usual. July 15. A wonderful year for grass and hay, both 
 English and salt. Augusts. I don't .emember lhat pig- 
 eons were ever so plenty as now. October. 1 reckon this 
 month has been September, and September was October. 
 
 1745. 
 
 February. A very moderate, pleasant month, but little snow 
 fir foul weather. March 30. This month has been like Feb- 
 ruary ; a nonesuch ; wonderful pleasant, am: like April. 
 June. So cool a June lias not been known. August 18. 
 A good hay season. September 3d. No frosts 'till a night 
 or two ago. October 26. Warm and pleasant. November 16. 
 Uncomfortable weather ; deep snow in Boston that lies all 
 the week ; a considerable snow here. December 27. Thus 
 far moderate, and hardly iike December. SI. A blustering, 
 severe night. This is the first that looks like winter. No 
 sledding yet. 
 
 1746. 
 
 January 81. A fine moderate winter thus far. Only two 
 short cold snaps. February 24. The snow is S or 4 feet «?eep 
 in the woods. 28. The snow is still as deep as at any tune 
 this winter. March 20. A severe month, quite unlike the last. 
 The snow still covers all the Neck. 27. A sweet pleasant 
 day. April 11. Jack dug the upper garden. 12. The spring 
 is uncommonly forward. 18. 1 sowed peas, carrots, &c. 
 29. The most part of the week has been as dry as mid- 
 summer. May 4. The creatures were let on the Neck. 
 June 9. A fine growing season. 26, It comes on a very dry 
 time. July 9. A melancholy drought advances. SI. There 
 was a little rain this morning, but the ground is exceeding dry. 
 August 15. 'Tis thought the present is the greatest drought 
 that ever was in New-England. 24. Plentiful showers. 29. 
 It rains like a flood. September 29. It is an unusual, mode- 
 rate growing season. October 5. It is like the springing of 
 the year. The grass has grown surprisingly. Pleasant wea- 
 ther the latter part of the month. November 25. Indian corn 
 25s a bushel. SO. Hay ar Boston £20. December I. Very 
 pleasant day. 15. Severely cold. 
 
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 1747. 
 
 January 12. Our whole Bay froze over entirely. 19. 
 
 Moderate weather. February 28. Since the 7th, it has been 
 pleasant moderate weather. March 31. There has been no 
 high winds this month. No lion-like clays, more like April. 
 We had our upper garden dug. April 6 'Tis thought the 
 spring is full a month forwarder than usual. 9. The grass 
 grows wonderful!)'. 1G. English beans and peas , came up in 
 our garden. SO. The latter part of this month has been 
 pretty raw, cold and wet, and the grass no forwarder than 
 in the beginning of this month. May 24. The earth has a 
 line green face. June 30. Every thing is wonderfully flourish- 
 ing. July 10. Mowed some of my hay. 20. Mowers ex- 
 ceeding scarce. Mem. Yellow weed must be mowed early, 
 or it will be good for nothing. September 29. Tiieie has been 
 no fall like ibis, so modeiate and dry ; my potatoe tops look 
 more green and flourishing than at any time this year. Octo- 
 ber 23. This has been a dry fall, no w ater at the mills, or 
 grinding. December 24. The snow, though settled consider- 
 ably, is full 3 feet deep. 30. This has been a very unplea- 
 sant month. 
 
 1748. 
 
 January. A cold, snowy month. February. A cold, snowy, 
 uncomfortable month. March 1. Comes in smiling. The 
 rest of the month, generally cold and snowy. April 1. Comes 
 in joyfully. 8. The snow is all gone, except in a few drifts. 
 23. The earth looks beautifully green. May 15. Unusually 
 hot, dry weather. 20. It is but about 7 weeks since there was 
 5 £ feet of snow on the ground. 31. Melancholy time. All 
 the talk is about the heat and drought — never the like. June 
 2. Exceeding raw and cold. 14. An epidemic cold prevails. 
 20. Dry time comes on again. There has been showers fre- 
 quently, but no rain in the country this year. July 4. Fine 
 showers. 10. Dying hot. It is a most melancholy dry time. 
 The grass in the pastures is all burnt up. 18. A steady rain. 
 August 31. Dry, dry, very dry, and very hot. September 6. 
 Reviving rains. 24. A white frost. 29. Wonderful, hot 
 summer day. The grass grows as fast as ever I saw it. Oc- 
 tober 2. We began to dig our potatoes. No appearance of 
 moisture in the ground. 10. The ground froze hard this 
 morning. November 22. A moderate fall this. December. 
 Generally pleasant. 30. Severe snow storm. 31. Cold, and 
 the year ends stingingly. 
 
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 1749. 
 
 January 3. A very cold month, and the river froze over 
 on the 3d day, and was so on the 19th. February. A cold 
 month. March 11. An uncommon spring-like day, but most 
 of the month very cold. 30. Snow gone. April 8. The 
 ground is lit for ploughing. 21. Planted potatoes. MaySl. 
 A melancholy dry time. June 9. Same. 24. The grass- 
 hoppers do us more spoil than the drought. £9. They have 
 eaten up entirely an acre of potatoes. July 3. I reckon my 
 poultry (about 100) eat ten thousand grasshoppers every day. 
 Very hot. The most remarkable time that ever we or our 
 fathers saw. 13. As many grasshoppers as ever, but they 
 are a new growth. 24 The ground begins to look green, but 
 there are many grasshoppers yet. August. I never saw the 
 earth change its face so much any day as this. The whole 
 country is renewed and revived. October 14. Our potatoes 
 turn out universally small. 18. Snow. November 22. Cold 
 day 25. Severely and unusually cold. 89. 5 Tis thought 
 winter never sat in so early. Presumpscot river is frozen so, 
 that a man can walk over it. [December. Does not appear to 
 have been so severe.] 
 
 1750. 
 
 January and February. Nothing remarkable as to the 
 -weather. March 11. Warm, calm and pleasant for this time 
 of the year. 18. Raw. 23. Snow. 28. More snow. 30. 
 Pleasant. April. Some cold, and some pleasant weather. 
 •May 31. A wet and cold month, and yet there are millions 
 of little grasshoppers not killed. June 30. There has been a 
 happy intermixture of heat and wet for 3 weeks past. July 
 and August. Nothing remarkable. September. Cold the 
 latter part of the month, but the corn is like to be good. 
 
 1751. 
 
 January 6. No snow on the ground. 7. Snow storm. 
 12. Thaw. 15. The frost is entirely out of the ground. 21. 
 Weather like May. 24. This winter will go down memora- 
 ble to posterity. February. This month has been more like 
 spring than winter ; moderate generally, and several days as 
 warm as May. 28. Pleasant]weatber still. Thus winter ends, 
 a wonder through the whole. March 5. Snow storm. 13. 
 Fine spring weather the rest of the month, except the 4 last 
 days. April. A cold blustering month. May 8. Our Eng- 
 lish cherries did but to day begin to bloom. 17. They are 
 now in all their gaiety of blooming. 23. Growing season. 
 80. Never did things grosv faster, nor never a better prospect. 
 June 5. Very cold. 15. A wonderful time for grass, but the 
 12 
 
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 Indian corn wants heat. 26. Seasonable weather. October 
 4. We began to dig our potatoes. November 16. Moderate 
 weather. 24. Another wonder of a day, so calm, warm and 
 delightful. 
 
 1752. 
 
 January 1. The harbor froze over this morning. The 
 whole bay shut up. 12. People since the 1st, constantly pass 
 over to Purpoodock on the ice. 14. Went to Brunswick on 
 the ice, and returned without Macqua's Island, (See page 55.) 
 27. Ice broke up as far as Mr. Fox's wharf, (Seepage 56.) 
 February. Much snow. The roads blocked up, and travelling 
 bad. -May 2. Raw, cold ; every thing is backward. 15. The 
 trees do but now begin to blossom. 80. Raw,easterly weather, 
 as it has been all the month. June 15. There is a promising 
 prospect of grass, and the Indian corn starts wonderfully. 
 July 9. Begun to mow the upper ground. August 12. In the 
 evening there was dismal thunder and lightning, and abun- 
 dance of rain, and such a hurricane as was never the like in 
 these parts of the world ; it blew down houses and barns, 
 trees, corn, and every thing in its way. 21. There has been 
 more thunder and lightning, and it has clone more harm this 
 summer all over New-England, then ever was known. 31. 
 Dry weather. September 31 Dry, dry, dry; melancholy 
 drought. 30. It rained and stormed in the night a great deal. 
 October 9. A storm of rain. 80. W r e wonderfully fail in our 
 sauce by reason of the drought. 
 
 1753. 
 
 January and February. — Though there has been some 
 cold blustering weather, this season ; it has, upon the whole, 
 been a moderate winter. March. The first of this month 
 mostly cold ; Lhe last, moderate and pleasant. 31. The 
 spring surprisingly warm and forward. May 18. The first 
 pleasant day this spring. June. The season is uncommonly 
 forward. August 26. The grasshoppers have done much 
 damage. October 24. The frosts have held off wonderfully. 
 
 1754. 
 
 January and February. Generally moderate and pleasant. 
 March 6. The frost seems almost out of the ground. 15. Cold 
 and froze hard. April 6. This is the 13th day of fair, dry, 
 and therefore, pleasant weather. 18. This is the 25th. 31. 
 Cold but dry. May IS. Cloudy and foggy. The grass 
 grows surprisingly. 23. A remarkable hot day. July 1. I 
 have no grass growing in my mowing ground, and there is no 
 feed on the neck ; the reasons are, the open winter, three 
 
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 weeks early drought, and the grasshoppers. September 1. We 
 have no potatoes growing this year, because ot" grasshoppers. 
 £2. There is a melancholy drought. October 24. A great 
 storm. The earth is rilled w ith water. November 23. Unu- 
 sually moderate and pleasant all this fall. December 13. 
 Since the second day of this month, the weather has been 
 pleasant and the ground bare. 27. No sledding yet. 
 
 1755. 
 
 January. Several falls of snow, and some sledding. 2h 
 The ground almost bare. 22. Moderate, it hardly freezes a 
 night. 25. The ground bare. February 11. No snow this 
 month yet. 20. Some sledding, having had two or three 
 inches of snow. 30. Fine walking and very good sledding. 
 March 20. Very good sledding. 29. It snowed all day. 
 May 8. We have done gardening. 25. The creatures were 
 put on the neck. Jane 14. It rained abundantly. 28. Very 
 hot till P. M. when there arose a severe hurricane with rain. 
 Capt. Bennet's frame was blown down. July Id. The In- 
 dian Corn (by heat and alternate showers) grows finely. 
 August 26. No hot weather this summer (except eight days) 
 until to day. September 12. A wonderful growing season. 
 19. There was a frost. October 6. Warm. 14. Digging 
 potatoes. 26. Cold. December 6. A true winter's day. 15. 
 A fine summer's day. 
 
 1756. 
 
 January. Moderate and pleasant month, generally. 28. 
 The season seems so altered that the fish are struck in, as in 
 May. February. Much delightful weather. March. Some 
 blustering weather, but unlike March. 19. Rainy and warm 
 like May. April 12. The robbin has visited us several 
 springs past. May 11. Our heart-cherry trees and pair 
 plumbs, are blossoming. 19. They are all in the bloom. 
 (See page 68.) Hot and rainy. June 2. Things were never 
 so forward. Plenty of rain this month. 27. A hot sabbath. 
 July 12 to 15. Foggy. 20. A fine growing season. 22. We 
 are visited with worms, as we were thirteen years ago, which 
 have destroyed whole fields of English and Indian Corn in 
 divers places. 30. A wet summer this ! August 10. I never 
 saw such grass, so tall and thick. 26. Very hot. September 
 
 11. Extremely hot, but come on very cold. 24. The frost 
 has killed the brakes and leaves of Indian Corn. November 
 
 12. Fine weather. 30. It snowed very fast. December 7. 
 Severely cold. 10. A thaw. 23. A severe snow storm. 2ft,. 
 Fine warm weather for three days past, 
 
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 1757. 
 
 January 4. Cold. A fall of snow three inches 14. It 
 can't be better sledding. 18. The harbor is frozen over. 
 31 .It rained all last night. February 6. Deep snow. (See page 
 C7.) The rest of the month partly cold and blustering, partly 
 rainy, and partly pleasant. March. Begins pleasant but win- 
 dy. 5. The snow is five feet deep in the woods. 22. A se- 
 vere storm of snow. 2G. More snow. 29. Pleasant and 
 warm. April 3. More snow. 12. Rain. 15. More rain. 
 25. Rainy. May 10 and 16. The spring is very backward. 
 25. Raw cold. June 1. A very dry time, (see page 68.) 19. 
 Thougli there has been two or three small showers, the 
 drought awfully increases. 28. It rained most of last night 
 and this morning. Thus in the mount God is seen, but the 
 grain and grass are^much cut short. August 16. We have re- 
 freshing rains, and it is now a growing season. 30. It is con- 
 stantly hot, and becomes very dry again. September 17. A 
 refreshing rain. October. Much fine weather this month. 
 SI. Cloudy and cold. November and December. Common 
 winter months. 
 
 1758. 
 
 January 29. The snow is three feet and a half upon" a 
 level. February. Some pleasant weather, but in general a 
 cold month. March. Alternately cold and pleas.mt. April. 
 A cold month. 30. A very cold spring thus far. May Gen- 
 erally raw and cold. 31. People are every where, but now, 
 planting. June. Some pleasant days, but mostly raw and 
 cold. July. Little or no really hot weather this month. Very 
 wet. August 19. Fine weather, but not hot. 31. Very cold 
 all this week. September 28. The greater part of the Indian 
 Com in this town is_spoiled,|it was planter] so late ; and it has 
 been such a wet cold summer. October. Mostly cold and 
 unpleasant. November. Some pleasant, but mostly cold 
 weather. December 25. The harbor froze over to the Islands. 
 
 1759. 
 
 January 20. Incomparable sleighing. 31. A severe cold 
 winter hitherto. February. Some comfortable pleasant 
 weather this month. March. Same, but there were snow 
 storms the 22 and 26. April 4. The robbin visited us to day. 
 The spring birds have been here singing several days. This 
 month has been generally fair and pleasant, but cold 
 and dry. May 11. A warm day ; the first this spring. 
 16. The cherry trees are blooming 19. The grass is 
 forward. 24. A delightful warm day ; but, 31. Cold 
 
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 weather. There has been but one warm, and one hot day, 
 all this spring. June 5.Charming hot. 7. May storm. 14.Raw, 
 cool. 25. A happy growing season. July 2. A frost 18. 
 A deluge of rain. Cherries begin to be ripe. 31. It is so 
 wet a season, we are in no haste to cut our grass. August. A 
 fruitful summer, especially in pasturing and hay. September 
 1. Abundance of pidgeons. 18. Gale of win4 that blew down 
 the apples, &c. 26. Wonder of a hot day. 30. No frost 
 yet. October 18. No frost yet. 22. Charming day. 80. 
 Cold weather. November. Generally moderate this month. 
 December. Snows and cold weather, but not more than com- 
 mon for the season. 
 
 1760. 
 
 January and February. No weather unusual in winter 
 months. March 13. Pleasant. 17. Cold and windy. 23. 
 Snow. 30. The robbin and spring birds came a week or ten 
 days sooner than usual ; so much forwarder is the spring than 
 common. April. Several cold days. 27. Severe thunder 
 and lightning. May 1. The trees shoot out their leaves. 
 16. The heart-cherry trees begin to blossom (earlier than last 
 year, and then earlier than usual.) 31. No hot weather th'is 
 spring. Indian Corn looks poorly. June 26. There has 
 been but 24 hours of hot weather this year. July 12. 
 Hot weather for a week past. August 12. Hot and a 
 peerless growing season. September 1. Multitudes of grass- 
 hoppers. 16. Extremely hot. 17. Extremely cold. No- 
 vember 8. A gay morning and warm day. 14. Snow. 
 19. Exceeding cold. 23. Moderate weather. December 7. 
 Pretty cold. 20. Much colder. 26. Calm mornings all this 
 week, and moderate through the days. 
 
 1761. 
 
 January 11. The harbor froze over yesterday and to day. 
 26. A fine level snow, and enough of it. February. Wonder 
 of a month. The snow went away the 7th. March. Unusu- 
 ally moderate weather this month. April I. The season is 
 uncommonly forward, warm and pleasant. 22. Fine weather 
 continually. 30. Cold. June 25. It is as melancholly dry a 
 time as ever I saw. July 5* As great a drought as in 1749. 
 1-1. Gentle showers (see page 80.) 17. Plenty of pease. 
 20. Raspberries. August 1. The drought awfully continues. 
 12. No feed on the neck, a great while. 16. The drought in- 
 creases (see page 80.) 19. Storm of rain — (see page 80.) 31. 
 Marvellous growing time. Surprising change on the face of 
 the earth. September 25. The earth has a most beautiful greet* 
 face. October 6. The grass is better set than in the spring. 
 
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 December 81. We never had such a December ; it began with 
 snowing, and the snow is two feet upon a level. It gives fine 
 sledding. 
 
 1762. 
 
 February and March. (See page 81.) April 1£. Therobbin 
 and spring birds visit us. 28. Tne last of the huge mountain 
 ©f snow behind the garrison, disappeared. June 5. Melan- 
 choly dry time. All are now looking for an absolute famine. 
 £3. A dark day. July 3. (See page 81.) August. (Seepage 
 82.) October. It is very cold a days, but no frost in our gar- 
 den yet. November 30. The last 1 1 days have been moder- 
 ate and comfortable. December. Several delightful days this 
 ■aonth. 26. The fore river frozen over. 31. Winter sets in. 
 
 1763. 
 
 January 12. Incomparable sledding. 26. The harbor 
 froze over all this week. 31. The harbor broke up. Febru- 
 ary 4. The harbor is frozen over. 12. Same. 26. Same. 
 £8. Thus ends February, as it did last year, a severe winter as 
 any we have had, (see page 83.) March. A cold blustering 
 month. 28. It has been a cold tedious winter, (seepage 8S.) 
 April 15. There has been no rain this spring. The snow 
 goes away kindly. 12. The robbin and spring birds begin to 
 lune up. 18. — (See page 84.) 80. The roads and ground as 
 dry as summer. May, to 18. Fine weather. 20. Cold, 
 which prevents the cherry trees from blossoming. 24. The 
 freshets are raised higher than ever known. 27. W T arm 
 weather is much wanted, (seepage 84.) July 1. There is no 
 summer yet. 14. Not a hot night this summer ; indeed no 
 hot weather at all, but constantly wet. 21 Cold N. E. storm. 
 There has not been for two months past, 48 hours of fair 
 weather at one time. August 9. The weather continues fog- 
 gy and wet. 26. Fair weather since this day sen'ight ; a 
 great favor and rarity. September 10. A frost last night. 18. 
 A plenty of rain after a fortnight of dry seasonable weather. 
 28. We began to dig our potatoes- November 10. A long 
 storm. 14. w Very cold. 18. A great N. E. snow storm. 26. 
 There has been the week past a spell of moderate pleasant 
 weather. December 2. Moderate weather. 8. Raw i3. Pleas- 
 ant. 18. Blustering. 
 
 1764. 
 
 January 11. Harbor froze over. 26. There fell just as 
 much snow as was wanted and desired. Much business done 
 
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 this month. February. Generally moderate weather this 
 month. March 12. Cold and windy. 15. Warm. 25. Un- 
 comfortable. 28. Charming pleasant. April 14. The spring 
 is marvellously forward. 26. Pleasant day. May. Generally 
 a pleasant month. 25. The cherry trees are in full bloom. 
 June 14. The earth is sufficiently soaked. 18. It has a most 
 beautiful green face. SO. The fruits of it are promising. 
 August 18. A very dry time seems to be coming on. 31. A 
 very dry time indeed. September 7. There has been a great 
 deal of very cold weather. 18. Cold still. 19. A hot day. 
 26. Very cold. SO. Delightful sabbath. October S. Fine 
 weather. 13. Pleasant. 22. Very warm. 24. Cold and 
 windy. 26. A great storm, wind S. E. November 1. Pleas- 
 ant. 5. Dry travelling. 16. Very cold. 27. A fine day. 
 December 17. About 15 inches of snow upon the ground. 27. 
 There is between 2 and 3 feet. 31. It has thus far been a 
 severe winter ; nothing like it since 1747 and 1748, then it 
 was more so. 
 
 1765. 
 
 January 8. The whole bay is skimmed over. 14. Plea- 
 sant. 22. The heart of the winter seems broke. Incompar- 
 able sledding. 23. A charming day. 26. Very cold. 31. A 
 great storm. February 5. Tempestuous and cold. 12. The 
 ice lies over the harbor still. 14. A thaw. 18. Fine warm 
 weather. 25. There has been no snow all this month. March 
 2. Winter returns upon us. 13. A charming day. 22. Raw 
 cold. 24, Dismal snow storm. 31. Hot and pleasant, though 
 it has been raw and cold for some time past. April 9. The 
 robin this morning first made his appearance. 10. The spring 
 bird with the robbin, gave us a serenade. 11. The wind blew 
 fresh and cold. 19. Warm. 22. Raw cold. 30. The dry 
 time continues aud increases. May 1. Plentiful rain. 12 
 The spring is uncommonly forward. 14. The cherry blows. 
 25. Cold for 9 days past. 27. An extremely hot day. 29. 
 A growing season. June. A growing season. 30. A great 
 prospect of grain and grass, though the Indian corn, very 
 much wants heat. July. Alternately warm and cold. August 
 The pastures are dried up. September 2. Plentiful rains. 
 The earth has a new face. 15. Very cold. 24. A delightful 
 day. December 16. Snow. 31. Last night was as cold as 
 (perhaps) it ever was, in this country, and continues so, 
 
 1766. 
 
 January 6. The harbor remains shut up. 9. Fine wea- 
 ther. 17, Severely cold. 21. Rain. 30. Incomparably 
 pleasant. February 4, Fine sledding. 9. This is the 14th 
 
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 day since there has been any falling weather. 19. Pleasant 
 day. £6. Fair and pleasant. 28. Very cold. April. Gene- 
 rally pleasant. 27. The spring comes on finely. May 5. A 
 long spell of raw cold weather. 16. Our cherry trees begin 
 to blossom. 26. They are in full blow. 31. The spring is 
 uncommonly forward. The Indian corn in many places, has 
 come up. June 14. An uncommon growing season. July 
 SO. Rain every day ; never such a season ; yet the old grass 
 grounds have but poor burdens, owing to the last winter's 
 frost, which killed the grass. August 18. Such a growing 
 season, through the whole summer never was known. Sep- 
 tember 1. Cabbages are beginning to head. 10. Michaelmas 
 storms. 30. The earth has a most beautiful face. The Eng- 
 lish grass is now set and grows more than at any time this 
 year, and there has been no frost yet. October. Pleasant 
 weather most of the month. 31. A surprising warm sum- 
 mers day. November 1, 2. Two other such days. 9, IS. 
 Cold. 14. Moderate again. 17. A great storm of snow. 
 29. Geese and chickens plenty at 2s. a pound, turkeys 2s. 6d.* 
 ♦ Cold weather. December 5. Butter 5s. a lb. A moderate 
 month for December. 
 
 1767. 
 
 January 6. A deluge of rain has carried away most of the 
 snow. 11. Snow. IS. More rain. The last snow entirely 
 carried away. 17. More snow. 21. The roads are all ice 
 again. 26. More snow. 30. Incomparable sledding. Feb- 
 ruary. A cold month. 28. Warm and pleasant. March 3. 
 A great rain. 4. Storm. 12. Cold. 17. Charming day, 
 good walking. 24. Rainy. 30. We had smelts to day, two 
 coppers a dQzen. 31. Charming spring-like weather, a.m. 
 April 6. The robbins came and began to sing. May 12. 
 Strangely cold. 15. The heat breaks in upon us. 22. The 
 heart cherries are in the blow. 27. Cold. June 11. A grow- 
 ing season, but poor prospect of grass. 16. Cold. 21. Ex- 
 tremely hot, shower in the evening. 27. No rain since 21st. 
 SO. Showers. July 20. People are concerned about the 
 drought. 23. Great showers. SI. Deluge of rain. August 
 18. The grass grows more than in the spring. 23. Extreme- 
 ly hot. 26 and 28, the same. September £8. We began to 
 dig our potatoes ; moderate fall. October 13. Cold weather. 
 28. Storm of snow. 30. Charming pleasant, since the storm. 
 December 14. Snow. 19. Snow. 21. Exceeding cold ; the 
 thermometor down to 0. 28. More snow. The snow 4 feet 
 and more at Gloucester. 
 
 * Three prices must have been in old tenor- 
 
141 
 
 1768. 
 
 February I. There is a great body of snow upon the ground. 
 10. 4£ feet in the woods, so that people are heat out of them, 
 and pour in their teams with wood. 27. All the week has 
 been warm like April, and indeed all the month. The win- 
 ter must be accounted moderate, except December and a week 
 in November ; the thermometer is generally between 86 and 
 40 deg. March. Generally cold and windy. 20. A terrible 
 storm of snow. April 1 A groat storm of snow. 9. It con- 
 tinues cold and windy. 21. A backward spring. 29. Ther- 
 mometer rose to 64, 30, sunk to 47. May 13. Cold still, and 
 the spring unusually backward. 20. The thermometer up to 
 72. 21. Now 76, but P.M. sunk 20 deg. The cherries and 
 damson trees begin to blow. 28. The face of the earth is 
 renewed and beautifully green. June to 12. Frequent 
 showers. 14. A great storm as ever we knew ; wind S. S. E. 
 that did a great deal of damage. 20. Warm; here we may 
 reckon summer begins. July 16. It rains almost every day. 
 22. A happy season for Indian corn. 25. Very hot. 26. 
 The cherries are a good deal colored. 31. Hot weather con- 
 tinues. September 16. Seasonable weather all the week. 29. 
 A great frost last night, spoiled the unripe corn. November 6. 
 Pleasant. 20. A great storm of rain. 27. Snow. 30. It 
 has been an uncommon cold, cloudy, rainy fall, as well as 
 summer. December 31. The snow is all gone, and the ground 
 bare. 
 
 1769. 
 
 January. Very moderate weather most of the month. Feb* 
 ruary. Cold weather came on. 17. The harbor and whole 
 bay froze up. 18. Warm like summer. 21. Still warmer. 
 28. Here the weather changes to winter again. March (31) 
 has been a spell of true winter weather. April 15. We set 
 out our cabbage stumps. 20. Very cold spring hitherto. 29. 
 Very dry and very cold weather. May. Generally cold and 
 rainy. June. Generally cold. 25. Fine hot weather. 29. 
 Cold again. July 5. Raw cold. 14. Very dry. 22. Ther- 
 mometer at 83. From this time, much rain to the end of the 
 month. August. A full and good crop of hay, and success, 
 in making it ; and there is as good a prospect as the latter 
 harvest. September. Foggy days. 8. Dreadful N. E. storm. 
 12. Cold nights but pleasant days. 16. An extraordinary 
 week of warm days. 26. Delightful weather. 29. Charming 
 weather every day. October 12. A deluge of water. 17. 
 Another cold day. 27 to 31. Pleasant weather. November 
 7. We have had a cold fall. 16. Very cold. 29. Last night 
 
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 the thermometer was down to 12. December 2. More mod- 
 erate. 8. Severe cold. 13. Thermometer at 3 o'clock down 
 to 3. 23. At 4. 31. At 2, but fair weather and good 
 walking. 
 
 1770. 
 
 January 5. Thermometer 2 deg. below 0. 7. Storm of 
 rain; thermometer 47. 18. Thermometer 8 below 0. 23. 
 The harbor remains shut up. 25. Colder still. 28. A warm 
 day. February 1. Thermometer 3 below 0. 15. Thaw. 23. 
 Snowed all last night. 27. Thermometer 3 below 0. We 
 have had a close winter, as cold perhaps as ever was. March 
 9. Delightful fair morning. 14. Very cold, and good sledding. 
 18. The last sleighing. 31. Snow gone. Not much windy 
 weather the month 'past. April 8. Pleasant. 19. Windy 
 and cold. 28. Very hot ; thermometer up to 23. May 5. 
 Thermometer 74. 16. English cherries begin to blow. 25. 
 Rainy. 29. Showry ; the spring is unusually forward. June. 
 Some raw cold days. 25. Hot growing season. 29. Ther- 
 mometer 90. July 11. Hot dry weather since 25th June ; 
 after which, there were frequent rains. September 8. Dry 
 again. 14. A deluge of rain. 20. Indian corn is thought to 
 be out of danger. October 1. A delightful day. 3. Stormy 
 and cold. 1 1. A deluge of rain. 20. An exceeding great N. 
 E. storm. 29. Pleasant ; the most of the month has been 
 raw. cold, rainy and stormy. November. Generally moder- 
 ate and pleasant till 27th. December. Generally moderate 
 and pleasant, and (no snow) thermometer almost down to 0. 
 
 1771. 
 
 January 13. The frost seemsto be getting out of the ground. 
 17. A vast deal of rain. 31. It began to snow ; thus far an 
 unusually moderate winter ; but February has paid us off. 
 21. Thermometer down to 0. April. ('Till towards the last 
 of the month) Has been generally cold and unpleasant. May 
 fi The spring is thought to be very forward. 20. The heart 
 cherry trees are all in blossom. June 17. Unusual cold days, 
 hitherto. 30. A remarkable growing season for every thing 
 but Indian corn, which is exceeding backward. July 4. Ther- 
 mometer up to 84. 11. Cool day. 18. Cool still. SO. Very 
 hot. August 14. People admire the seasonableness of the 
 weather through the summer, and the universal fruitfulness. 
 October 19. A delightful summer day. 20 and 23 the same. 
 28 and 29. Two very cold freezing days. November. Much 
 such a month as last November. December, has paid us 
 severely, the whole of it (except 2 or 3 days) has been steadily 
 cold, (extraordinarily so) and stormy and snowing. 24. The 
 thermometer was 4 cleg, below 0. 
 
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 1772. 
 
 January 17. Peerless sledding. 31. Though it has snow- 
 fid very often this month, there has been no deep snows. Feb- 
 ruary 12. Thermometor at 0, and in the evening 4 degrees 
 below 0. 13. 16 degrees below 0. 14, 4, and 15, 8 degrees 
 below 0. 16. A moderate day. 20. A deluge of rain. 25. 
 Easterly storm. 28. A beautiful gay morning. 29. It has 
 snowed more then 21 times, all of them (except the last) very 
 level. March. A cold, stormy, blustering month. April. 
 Several storms and a number of pleasant days. May 1 and 2. 
 Very hot. 12. Frosts and ice. 20. Growing time; the 
 plumb and cherry trees are blooming. 25 to 30, Raw cold 
 and rainy. 31. A summer day. June. Several cold days, 
 yet a growing season. August 12. The grass uncommonly 
 well grown and good. 26. A deluge of rain. 30. Hct weather, 
 and a growing time as ever was. September 30. It has been 
 a remarkable fruitful summer. October 30. 'Tis thought that 
 near a quarter of the spring, summer and fall, has been rainy 
 weather, and most of it stormy. December. Several summer 
 like days this month. 
 
 1773. 
 
 February. A'cold blustering uncomfortable month, except 
 the 3 last days which were pleasant and moderate. March 1 . 
 Very moderate. 14. Pretty cold. 31. Spring like day. 
 April showers and melodious singing of the birds: among 
 which were two robbins, in such a manner as I never knew 
 the like. Aprils. Raw cold. 8. Spring like weather. 15. 
 Raw cold. 21 Some warm days. 25. Rainy. 30 Raw 
 cold easterly weather. May 1. The spring is thought to be a, 
 month forwarder than usual. 10. Wonderful hot summer 
 weather. 12. The heart cherry and pear trees in blow, and 
 the common cherries and plumb trees are just upon it. 22 to 
 26. Rainy. June 3. A hot day. 7. Cooler. 11. Cold. 
 15 Strawberries plenty. 23. Wonderful weather. 28. Ex- 
 tremely hot, thermometer at 92. July!. A melancholy dry 
 time. 12. A smart thunder shower. 20. A great rain. Sep- 
 tember 9. Damsons begin to be ripe. 12. Very cold. 18. 
 Very hot. 27. The wells fail. 28. Extremely hot. 29. 
 A storm of rain SO. There has been no frost to do any 
 damage. October 31 This month has been a wonderful, 
 moderate, pleasant season. December 10 A storm of rain. 
 11. Surprising pleasant day. 19. It snowed all last night and 
 most of to-day. 
 
144 
 1774. 
 
 January 10. The thermometer in the study was down toO, 
 and in the woodhouse 8 degrees below 0. 11. It was 6 deg. 
 colder 22. The thermometer was down to the bottom of 
 the plate. 31. More moderate. February 11. Moderate. 
 14. The snow is about a foot deep in the woods. March 31. 
 This month has been very moderate. The robbins came and 
 tuned up April 8 It has not froze in the house since the 
 beginning of February. 13 The spring is very forward. We 
 began to dig our garden, 24- A surprising hot summer day. 
 29. Storm of rain. May. A raw cold month; the spring 
 backward. 31. A hot day. June 6. Cold. 10. Summer 
 breaks in upon us. 17. Set out cabbage plants. July 10. 
 Not a cherry or plumb this year. 12. A memorable growing 
 season 20. We have had many small messes of peas. 29. 
 Very hot ; a fine hay season August 11. A melancholy 
 dry time. 29. The flies are vastly troublesome. September 
 1. Very hot and dry. 16. It is an exceeding dry time. 29. 
 Cold. SO. Very hot. October 10. Every day is unusually 
 warm and constancy dry. 14. Thunder shower,with a deluge 
 of rain. 23. Warm. November 3. It is almost as dry as be- 
 fore. 5. It rained plentifully. 11. A calmn and pleasant 
 day. 16. A deluge of rain fell. 20. Very cold. 22. Storm 
 of snow. 25. Storm of rain. 28. Warm and pleasant. 
 December 8. Thete is no frost in the ground. 14. Cold. 19. 
 Rain all day, and at night a prodigious tempest ; the rest of 
 the month, snow and cold. 
 
 1775. 
 
 January 6. Very cold days. 23. Very moderate weather. 
 27. A summers day. 28. Wonderful moderate. February 7 . 
 There has been no snow, and but little rain since the 29th of 
 December; wonderful weather, we saw two robbins. 11. 
 Warm day 18. Cold. 20 N Snow, incomparable sledding. 
 21. A summers day. 23. A great snow storm. March 7. 
 The fvost seems out of the ground in the streets. [On this 
 day, (March 7) in the year 1621, Mourt says, in his relation of 
 the affairs of Plymouth : " We begin to sow our garden 
 seeds. " — Prince's Chronology '] 15. We have wonderful mod- 
 erate weather. 28. It has been a wonder of a winter ; so 
 moderate and unfreezing. Aprils. Cold days. 5. Avery 
 stormy snowy day. 12. Cold N. E. snow storm. May 6. 
 The spring hitherto has been, and is cold, wet and backward, 
 except the grass. 19. Hot summers day. 24. Raw and cold. 
 SJ9 Hot summers day. 31. The cherry and plumb trees are 
 out of, and the apples in the midst of blossoms. June!. A 
 hot and dry season. 16. There was a small frost. 22. Cold 
 
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 for several days. 29. A great storm of rain. July 2. The 
 face of the earth is renewed affectingly, but no grass on the 
 neck. 11. It rained plentifully. 12. An extreme hot day. 
 21. A fine shower. August 12 We have plentiful rains. 
 20. A wonderful year for fruit of all sorts. 29. It rained 
 abundantly. September 30. A great frost. October 11. Ve- 
 n .hot. 21. A great storm after the burning of the town, 
 that lasted three days. November. The whole of this month 
 has been one continued spell of severely cold windy winter- 
 like weather. December %\. Severely cold, 
 
 1776. 
 
 January 29. This month (like the two past) has been con- 
 stantly and severely cold. The wind has been westerly all 
 winter. February. A dismal cold snap of weather. 29. The 
 winter past has been the coldest, in the whole, that has been 
 known. The ground has been constantly covered with snow. 
 March 19. It seems as if the summer was breaking upon us. 
 April 22. It is a very cold, wet and backward spring. May 
 8. The ground has frozen three nights past. 10. A hot day 
 and night. 12. Hot. 17. The heat continues. 28. Cold 
 weather, all the week. 31. Very cold still. June 12. Hot 
 summer. 19. A drought seems to be coming on with worms. 
 £f>. A small shower. 28. Hot for several days past. 29. 
 Showers. July. Plentiful rain through this month and tke 
 next. September 20. Remarkable warm weather. 30. No 
 frost yet to do any harm. A great prospect of Indian Corn. 
 November. This whole month has been remarkable for fine 
 moderate weather. December 6. It is constantly moderate. 
 18. Signs of snow, but none. 20. Very cold. 27. Extreme 
 cold. 31. Cold; very poor sledding. 
 
 1777. 
 
 January IS. Pretty good sledding. February 11. It snow- 
 ed allday. 15. Very cold. 21. Storm of snow. 23. Con- 
 tinual snow storms. March 17. It has been surprising warm 
 weather for some time. April 6. Bad walking. 12. A won- 
 derful w eek of warm weather. May 15. It is agreed to be 
 the coldest weather, and most backw ard spring that ever was# 
 20. Raw cold. 25. A hot summer day. 26 Raw cold, with 
 a deluge of rain. June 30. Cold, very cold ; nothing ever 
 like it through the whole spring, and yet every thing is flour- 
 ishing, perhaps never more so, except Indian Corn. July 9. 
 A great cold storm, with much rain. 13. Dismal cold. 15. 
 13 
 
146 
 
 A hot summers day. 17. Every thing is flourishing. £9. A 
 marvellous fruitful season as to every thing. August 18. 
 Never was there such gardens, never such fields, never such 
 pastures, never such a year for every thing. Hot weather to 
 the end of the month. September 2. The earth is burdened 
 with its fruits. 8. There was a frost in several of the back 
 tow ns that killed the corn leaves. 13. Another great frost. 
 The corn not hurt. 23. N. E. storm. 27. Fair. 30- Cora- 
 foi table. Ocioler 9. Hitherto this month, very pleasant 
 weather. 10. Deluge of rain and very high wind. 11. Very 
 cold. 21. It snowed all day. 25. The week past, raw cold 
 winter weather, November. A cold stormy month. 
 
 1778. 
 
 January and February. True winter, both as to cold and 
 snow. March 31. The whole month past has been a tedious 
 spell of severely cold, stormy, snowy weather. April 2b- It 
 has been almost constantly cold and very windy. 28. We 
 sowed our garden five weeks sooner than last spring. 30. 
 The spring is forward, the ground is dry, but the weather cold. 
 May 8. Rainy. 15. A summers day. 31. There has been 
 a great frost two nights past. June 14. Cold weather a few 
 days. 27. Fine weather for the Indian Corn, which grows 
 wonderfully, and there is as great a prospect of all the fruits of 
 the earth as ever was. July 2. It is a dry time. 18. The 
 drought awfully continues. 27. It is as grievous a drought as 
 ever was known. 31. People fear a famine. The Indian 
 Corn curls, and is like to come to nothing ; and there is no 
 prospect of any potatoes nor turnips, nor any sauce at all. 
 August 6. Plentiful rains. 9. Uncommon hot. It has been 
 through the whole, a fine seasonable and remarkable hot sum- 
 mer. 16. Rain. 20. Extremely hot. 21. A shower, short, 
 but plentiful. 26. A shower. September 17. No frost to do 
 any damage. SO. Potatoes have grown to the wonder of all. 
 October 1 to 8. Wonderful fine weather. 19 to 22. Same and 
 hot. 28. Wonderfully moderate. November and December. 
 Generally very cold and stormy — (see page 110.) 
 
 1779, 
 
 January 4. — (See page 110.) 21. The harbor and whole 
 bay froze over. 26. Remained so till to day. February 1. 
 Pleasant. 4. Hot thavvy day. 7. Fair and moderate. 10. 
 Thawy. 13. Windy and cold. 22. Moderate, March 2 to 
 3. Delightful days. 9. Snow. 12. Storm of snow. 19. 
 
147 
 
 Snow. 22. Southerly snow storm. April I. A grievous cry 
 for bread. 10. Four days past pleasant and warm. 19. 
 Flounders plenty. £4. Pleasant. 26. Began to dig our gar- 
 den. May la. The cherries and plums began to blow, but 
 no grass yet. June 23. Strawberries at the best. 25. Sever- 
 al days of hot weather. Every thing flourishes vastly. July 
 5. The Indian Corn was never so forward and flourishing. 
 14. A fine hot rain. 25. Steady rain. A wonder of a sea- 
 son. August 31. Cut our corn stalks. Never was the corn 
 so forward. Poor hay season, by reason of the almost daily 
 rains. September 4. A great tempest of rain. 12. Rainy. 
 18. Very hot- 24-. A wonder of a potatoe year, so many, so 
 large, and so good. October 1. No frost yet, though very 
 cold for three days past 4. Warm. 10. Very hot. 
 23. Hot summer day. 29. Wonderful fine weather. 
 Never such a fine season. November 30. A moderate fall. 
 December 31. The past has been a true winter month, very 
 cold and stormy, with repeated snows. 
 
 1780. 
 
 January. A cold stormy month. — (see page 1 13.) February . 
 Some thaws and some cold weather until the 15th, thence to 
 the 24th, moderate. 25. Very cold. 29. A most delightful 
 day ; a weather breeder. March®,. Blustering day, lion like 
 March. 7. Pleasant. 12. Tempestuous. 18. Moderate and 
 pleasant since the 12th. 26. Windy and cold. April 15. 
 Moderate spring like weather. May 1. No warm weather 
 yet. 10. Summer forenoon, quite reviving. 11. Cold and 
 windy. 18. A cold backward spring. 24. A little summer- 
 ish. 27. Thunder showers, quite needful, it being a dry time. 
 SO. No grass yet. June 30. A wonder of a winter the past, 
 and a spring, and a summer thus far, so cold and till now dry. 
 July 1. The grass grows to the admiration of all. 4. Very 
 hot. 18. Plenty of rain. 28. Extreme hot. August®,. A 
 blessed rain. 7 to 16. Sultry hot. 18. A wonderful change 
 from very hot to very cold. 22. A fine season for vegetation. 
 21. A memorable hot night. 27, Extremely hot. 29. In- 
 tense hot day and night. 31. A great rain ; very cold. Sep- 
 tember 1. Cold still. 3. Heavy showers. 21. Calm hot sum- 
 mers day. November 1. A great snow storm. 30. The whole 
 monih generally cold and stormy. December 1 and 2. Se- 
 verely cold. 9. Moderate all the week. 18. No snow on 
 the ground. 23. Snowed about five inches. 28. More snow. 
 -S6. Snow knee deep. 28. The roads are all blocked up. 
 
January 6. Fine sledding. 9. Extreme cold. £8. A great 
 storm of snow. £8. Rain and a thaw. February 1. Snow 
 again, but turned to rain. 5. Severe cold storm of snow. 9. 
 Extreme cold. 17. Great storm of snow. 20. Blustering 
 and very cold. 24. The street is brimful of snow, we are 
 buried up. March 10. Cold month thus far ; fine sledding. 
 15. A beautiful spring. 18. Rain and snow. 23. It snowed 
 all day. 28. Very cold and windy. April 3. A great snow 
 storm. 11. A heavy rain. 19. Snow again. 22. Cold and 
 windy. 29. Moderate. May 1. Pleasant day, quite reviving. 
 9. Cold and windy. 15. Warm. 20 and 21. Summer 
 days. 30. Hot summer weather. June 11. A fine growing 
 season. 19. Heavy shower, with thunder and lightning, and 
 great hail. 27. A deluge of rain. 30. No summer but three 
 days. July 5. A hot day and night. 8. Extremely hot. 15. 
 Very hot. 24. Small showers ; a very dry time. 30. A 
 merciful shower. August 6. A grievous drought. 13. A 
 plentiful rain. 20. A deluge of rain. September 15. Hot 
 weather. 80. Fine weather. 24. A summer's day. October 
 SJ Horrid col>!. 10. A very hot summer's day. 11. Hotter 
 (like this day 59 years.) 22. It froze last night. 31. A mod- 
 erate fall, thus far. November 2. A great storm, and a deluge 
 of rain. 11. A moderate day. 18. Rainy. 23. Blustering 
 and cold. 25. Storm of snow. 30. A tedious, cold, stormy 
 month. December 7. Snow. 1 1. Good sledding. 28. Storm 
 of fine snow. 31. Another great snow storm. 
 
 1782. 
 
 January 1 to 7. Thaws. 11. Snow. 13. A great storm of 
 snow. 16 and 17. Severe cold. 28. Colder. 30. The har- 
 bor has been froze up a fortnight. 31. Colder still, (see p.l 15) 
 February 3. Still cold and snowy. 12. Colder than any day 
 yet. 28. A long, close, stormy and severe winter as perhaps 
 ever was known,(see p. 115) March 1. Moderate. 6. Rainy. 
 14. Afinedav. 18. A deluge of rain. 23. Lion-like March, 
 2G. High wind and cold. April 2. A delightful day. 7. A 
 heavy rain. 14. A pleasant day. 16. The spring is moder- 
 ate and forward. 28 and 29. Pleasant. 30. The spring is 
 thought to be remarkably forward. May. A cloudy and wet 
 month, but few fair days and not a hot one. June 30. A 
 wonder of a season ; the Indian corn that was backward, re- 
 vives, revived and flourishes. August 31. A memorable 
 summer, with but few hot days. September 4r. A horrid cold 
 iay. 16. Very cold. 17. Pleasant summer's day ; a won- 
 
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 der ! 24. Plentiful rains. 30. A delightful day. October 
 5. A week of pleasant weather. 14. A dry time. 17. A grand 
 rain. 23. A delightful warm day. 25. Another. 31. It snow- 
 ed most of the day. November^.. Very cold. 9. Moderate. 
 28. Horrid cold and windy. December. A cold month. 
 
 1783. 
 
 No Journal of the weather 'till April, which was in general 
 a pleasant month. May 9. After an unusual dry spring hith- 
 erto, there fell a deluge of water last night. 10. Another 
 great rain. 20. Very cold. 21. Very warm. 22. A deluge 
 of rain. 29. A hot "day. 30. Very hot. June. The first 
 part of the month cold, cloudy and wet. The latter part, very 
 hot. July G. It rained plentifully. 11. A grand rain. 19. 
 Hardly any hot weather this month. 25 and 26. Vejrv hot ; 
 our gardens are surprisingly flourishing. 30. A deluge of rain. 
 August 7. Extreme hot. 8 and 9. Very cold, raw and win- 
 dy. 12. Cold. 16. Extreme hot. 19. A surprising grow- 
 ing season. 21. A very hot day. 24. Extremely hot. 28. 
 More rain. 31. A remarkable uneven summer; some few 
 days extremely hot, but the most of it, heavy raw weather, 
 with sea- winds and cold. September, has been like the sum- 
 mer, and particularly like the last month of it. October. The 
 same, never the like ; a most memorable year. November 12. 
 A strange warm day. 13. A deep snow. 28. A great storm. 
 December. The first half moderate, the latter, cold and 
 stormy. 
 
 1784. 
 
 January 31. The first week of this month was moderate,but 
 the rest horrid cold, stormy, snowy weather. February. A 
 cold month, and indeed a cold winter through the whole, the 
 longest and coldest ever known. March has been moderate 
 and not so very windy as usual. April 6 It snowed yester- 
 day and went away to-day. 17. This is the 3d day of cold, 
 rainy, snowy weather. 29. Raw, cold, the spring is very 
 backward. May 9. A pleasant day. 15. A hot summer's 
 day. 25. A deluge of rain. June 3. A hot morning. 5. A 
 hot day ; thus summer breaks in upon us. 12. Cold. 18. 
 Hot. 20. Very hot. 27. (Sunday) A terrible tempest,whick 
 obliged me to break off in my sermon. 30. As growing a 
 season as we could wish ; strawberries are very plenty, large 
 and good. July. Frequent rains this month- 20. Extremely 
 hot. 31. Fair and good hay season, but not before, (see p. 119) 
 August 4. Heavy rain. 14. We have had a week of very 
 hot weather. 18. A wonderful growing season. 23. Great 
 
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150 
 
 rains frequently. September 2. A deluge of rain. 14. Un- 
 commonly cold. 19. Cold. 29. A warm delightful day. 80. 
 No frost yet to hurt the corn or do much damage. November 
 30. A wonderful month ; so moderate, and no hard frost 'till 
 last night. December 9. It has not froze in the house yet. 11. 
 Perhaps there never was so moderate a season. 13. Cold and 
 windy; winter seems to be setting in. 19. A terrible windy, 
 cold day. 20. Snow. 22. Another terrible storm of snow. 
 
 1785. 
 
 February 3. Very cold, the harbor is froze up. 12. A cold 
 stormy day. 12. Very cold and stormy. 20. Moderate for 
 several days. £5. An exceeding great driving storm of snow. 
 March 1. Very cold. 9. More snow but level. 15. Very 
 ■cold and Wittily. 24. Blustering cold. 31. True winter 
 weather. Aprils. More snow. 7. Middle-street is all water 
 and mire. 10. Back-street, ihe snow is as high as the fences ; 
 no sleighs can pass. 13 and 14. Very cold. 24. The snow 
 consumes surprisingly, but it is 2 or 3 feet deep in the woods. 
 28 and 29. Wonderful warm, spring-like days. May 5. Clou- 
 dy and dull for 5 days past. 8. Rainy. 14. A deluge of 
 rain. 19. The country people are but now beginning to plant ; 
 the spring is so very backward, cold and wet. 23. The May 
 storm. 27. Deiuge of rain, fatal 'tis feared to the Indian 
 corn, just planted. 30. A hot day, which causes the cherry 
 and plumb trees to begin to blossom. 31. Another hot day 
 which occasions great joy. June 2. A very hot day. 7. Cold. 
 18. Very hot weather. 21. Cold and rainy. 22. Very hot. 
 23. Raw cold. 25 and 26. Hot. 27. Piercing cold, 29. Hot 
 day. SO. Perhaps there never was a more seasonable year for 
 grass. July 31. We have had marvellous seasonable weather 
 hitherto ; every thing is very flourishing, never a better pros- 
 pect. August 8. A deluge of rain. 9. Remarkably cold. 
 18. Third day of hot weather. 20. The heat continues -; 
 Happy season ! 22. A 7th hot day. 27. Cloudy, windy and 
 cool. September, has been (except a day or two) a month of 
 raw, cold, uncomfortable weather, but no frost yet. October. 
 This month has been unusually cold, raw and unpleasant. 
 (See p. 120) November 6. Cold Sabbath. 9. Heavy, dull 
 weather. 23. A N. E. storm. 26. Another. 27. A pleas- 
 ant Sabbath. December 2. Cold. 4. Storm of snow. 7. 
 Snow again. 8. Horrid cold. 17. A deluge of rain, and a 
 thorough thaw. 18. A summer's day. 19. Another ; the 
 snow is all gone and the frost out of the ground. 25. Cold. 
 SO. Severe cold storm of snow. 
 
151 
 
 1736. 
 
 January. A cold month, though it closes moderately. Feb - 
 ruary 18. A warm day, but the rest of the month was cold 
 weather and good sledding. March 7 and 9. Pleasant and 
 moderate. 10. Windy and cold. 14. Moderate. 19. A 
 most beautiful day. 26. A surprising warm summer's day. 
 April comes in raw and cold. 2. A severe snow storm. 9 
 to 14. Cold and windy. 22. The whole week (except Fri- 
 day) has been heavy, raw, rainy weather. May 31. The 
 spring is thought to be fenvard ; most people have planted. 
 June 1. Summer commences with a hot day. 4. Extreme 
 hot. 5. Cold. 7-. Very hot. 13. Growing season. 30. 
 Never was more seasonable weather, and never a greater pros- 
 pect as to all the fruits of the earth. July 2. Extreme hot. 
 9 and 11. Same. 12. Rain, happy season. 18. Cold. 22. 
 But a few hot days yet. 30. Hot A. M. but dismal sea wind 
 P. M. August 9U Very little hot weather this month. Sep- 
 tember. The whole of this month has been wonderfully mod- 
 erate. October 30. A wonder of a fall this, hitherto ; almost 
 constantly one uniform course of moderate weather. It has 
 been as dry and hot as summer, no rain but one day. No- 
 vember 12 Raw and cold. 17. It snowed and came up win- 
 dy and cold. 20. Cold. 25. Fine sledding ; true winter 
 since the 17. 30. So dry a fall was never known. There is 
 no water in the earth ; the wells fail, and the prospecf is dark 
 as to water. December 1 to 3. Very cold. 5. Storm ofsnow. 
 8. Another, greater. 14. Moderate. 20. The roads are all 
 blocked up with snow. 24. Cold and stormy ; a vast deal of 
 damage done by the late storms. 31. The weather moderated* 
 
 1787. 
 
 January. Almost the whole of this month, it has been se- 
 verely cold. February 3. Cold weather. 12. A little more 
 moderate. 19 and 20. Cold. 28. There have been no deep 
 snows with us, but from Portsmouth to Boston, the roads have 
 been blocked up, and to Newport and New-London, it has 
 been vastly deeper. Truly a memorable winter. March 1. 
 The heavy dull weather still continues. 4. Last night there 
 was a great storm of snow, near afoot. 12. Pleasant. IS. 
 The snow is 5 feet deep in the woods. 15. The closest win- 
 ter remembered. 19. Wonderful warm, pleasant day. 21. 
 Winter seems to be over. April 4. A hot summer's day. 5. 
 Cold again. 8 to 17. Moderate and pleasant. 19. Five days 
 of very blustering and tempestuous cold weather, night and 
 day. 30. From the 17, this has been a cold month; but 
 few warm days, yet we begin to dig our garden 3 weeks soon- 
 er than the two years past. May 8. A hot summer's day. 10. 
 
152 
 
 A storm of rain. 16. The dreadful eastern weather continues. 
 25. A deluge of rain. £6. Horrid cold and frosts. SI. A 
 con/ spring. June 2,. Dismal raw and cold. 18. The week 
 past was hot weather. 24. A hot but windy Sabbath. 25. 
 Heavy rain. 30. Indian corn is backward, but there is a good 
 prospect of English grass. July 1 to 3. Raw, cold, easterly 
 weather. 7. Four days past, very hot. 17. A fine rain. 19. 
 Very cold. £3. There has not been a hot night this summer. 
 31. Nothing like summer yet. Alas ! for the Indian corn. 
 August I and 2. Raw cold. 3. Summer breeses. 13. Fog- 
 gy. 21. No hot weather yet. 27 Cold. SO. Warmer. 
 September. Some warm and some cold weather. October 2 
 and 3. Hot summer days. 8. Cold. IS. A week of warm 
 weather. 20. A week of uncommon cold, windy weather. 
 1L Three surprising hot days. 31. The raw, heavy, cold 
 weather returns. November 30. This month has been favor- 
 ably moderate. The ground has hardly froze, and no snow. 
 December. The weather lias, this month, been quite moderate. 
 
 A respectable citizen of Portland, has handed to me 
 the following : 
 1808. 
 
 April 14. Put the seeds of beets, carrots and onions in the 
 ground, in my garden, Portland. 20. Grafted appletrees. 
 30. Asparagus was fit to cut. May 1. Peach and pear-trees, 
 gooseberries and currents were in blossom; beets are come up. 
 
 1809. 
 
 July 11. Pulled carrots for the table. 3. Commenced 
 mowing my grass at the farm. 
 
 1810. 
 
 April 24. Put the seeds of carrots, beets, onions and pars- 
 nips in the ground. May 14. Onions, carrots, beets, pars- 
 nips, cucumbers and muskmellons are all up and growing well 
 — pear and plumb-trees are in blossom. 
 
 1811. 
 
 March 16. Put the seeds of cabbage, lettice and radishes in 
 the ground, and they did well. 28. Sowed sweet marjorum 
 and other pot herbs, the frost being out of the ground. April 
 1. The cabbage, lettice, is up and growing well. April 8. 
 Planted potatoes on my farm, and had them fit for eating the 
 last of June; also green peas. 
 
 1816. 
 
 April 11. Was a snow storm, the ground covered with snow, 
 and much frost in the ground. ^#"<xy21. Pear-tree=, currants 
 and gooseberries are in blow. 
 
153 
 
 I have just now seen in a late Boston paper, the following 
 lines taken from the Bermuda Gazette. The reader, after 
 perusing the foregoing Diary will, I think, be gratified with 
 their insertion in this place. 
 
 Varied circumstances of our Globe and its 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 Each day 'tis freezing, thawing, hailing, snowing, 
 Raining, thundering, lightning, calm and blowing ; 
 The sun illumes one half each moment's space, 
 While darkness follows swift and fills its place ; 
 Each part therefore partakes its share of light, 
 The poles, per annum, have one day and night, 
 While Northern climes are sowing seed in spring, 
 The Southern ones are gathering harvest in. 
 When Summer's heat almost consumes the first, 
 The latter are almost benumb'd with frost. 
 Phcebus is always -rising, southing, setting — 
 Some going to rest, others up are getting ; 
 Each day makes many widows, many wives ; 
 Each day earth loses eighty thousand lives; 
 While infants cry at the first dawn of light, 
 Old age is crying for the loss^of sight ; 
 The former looking for that bliss before, 
 The latter retrospectively deplore ; 
 Each says in turn, though earth is richly blest, 
 Look upward, man, for this is not your rest ; 
 There's none but Him who doth the whole control, 
 Is capable to fill the spacious soul ; 
 In Him confide, to Him your troubles tell, 
 And soon you'll find that he doth all things well. 
 
 Names of persons deceased, whose deaths are noticed 
 in the foregoing Extracts. 
 
 1747. 
 
 Old Mr. Pride. 
 Ephraim Nason. 
 
 1748. 
 
 1733. 
 Capt. Larrabee. 
 Mr. Woodward. 
 Mr. Walton. 
 
 1734. 
 Mr. Adams. 
 
 1736. 
 Mr. Pitman. 
 Mr. Bosworth. 
 Daniel Kent. 
 
 1738. 
 Joseph Pride. 
 Mr. Avery. 
 Mr. Toppan. 
 Mr. Townsend. 
 
 1744. 
 Mr. Trickey. 
 Father Thomes. 
 
 1746. 
 Increase Pote. 
 
 Justice Moody. 
 Capt. Larrabee. 
 
 1749. 
 Nathan Bangs. 
 Mr. Young." 
 
17 50. 
 Hcnj. Sweetser. 
 Mr. Roberts. 
 Mr. Newman. 
 Capt. Wheeler/ 
 
 1751. 
 
 Pote. 
 
 Deac. Lnnt. 
 
 1753. 
 Mr. Dabney. 
 Mr. Pitman. 
 Samuel Watts. 
 
 1754. 
 Oliver Bradbury. 
 
 1755. 
 Justice Noyes. 
 
 1756. 
 Justice Frost. 
 Dea. Westcoat. 
 N. Harding. 
 
 1756. 
 Mr. Fox. 
 Mr. Marston. 
 Mr. Weeks. 
 Justice Strout. 
 
 1759. 
 Brig. Waldo. 
 Mr.Minot. 
 Mr. Sweetser. 
 
 1761. 
 Mr. Bramhall. 
 Mr. Bangs. 
 Mr. Clough. 
 Josiah Sawyer. 
 
 1762. 
 Father Gooding. 
 Mr. Pollow. 
 
 1763. 
 Rev. Mr. Lonng, 
 AT, Yarmouth. 
 
 1764. 
 Capt. Minot. 
 Mr! Eaton. 
 Jacob Stickney. 
 Fathei Skillins. 
 
 1765. 
 Henry Wheeler. 
 Father Proctor. 
 CoJ. Cushing. 
 
 154 
 
 Thomas Sawyer. 
 Mr. Thrasher. 
 Mr. Hope. 
 
 1766. 
 Doct. Coffin. 
 Mr. Thomes. 
 Old Deac. Cobb. 
 
 1767. 
 Old Jacob Sawyer. 
 Joseph Pollow. 
 Deac. Cobb. 
 
 1768. 
 Mr. Wallis. 
 Jabez Bradbury. 
 Capt. Ross. 
 Deac. Cotton. 
 
 1769. 
 Capt. Waite. 
 Mr. Anderson. 
 
 1770. 
 Col. Waldo. 
 Samuel Clark. 
 Mr. Marston. 
 Mr. Pike. 
 
 1771. 
 Capt. Stickney. 
 
 1772. 
 Mr. Holt. 
 Old Mr. Sawyer. 
 Solomon Gooding. 
 Mr. Lunt. 
 Deac. Milk. 
 Job Winslow. 
 
 1773. 
 Capt. Howell. 
 James Milk, jr. 
 Mr. Cates. 
 
 1774. 
 David Stickney. 
 Jer. Tucker. 
 
 1775. 
 Capt. Robinson. 
 Capt, Moody. 
 
 1776." 
 Mr. Westerman. 
 Mr. Dawson. 
 Mr. Wyer. 
 Mr. Riggs. 
 Mr. Ficket. 
 
 Mr. Trickey. 
 Mr. Buckman. 
 Old Mr M'Lellan, 
 Maj. Berry. 
 Capt. Haskell. 
 Mr. Bay ley. 
 Mr. Sawyer. 
 Old Mr. Quimby. 
 
 1777. 
 Mr. Motley. 
 Mr. Cook. 
 Enoch Moody. 
 Capt Noves. 
 
 1778. 
 Loring Cushing. 
 Justice Pearson. 
 
 1779. 
 Wheeler Riggs. 
 
 1780. 
 Capt. Ingersol. 
 
 1781. 
 Pearson Jones. 
 Mr. Bradley. 
 Capt. Blasdell. 
 Capt. Usley. 
 Capt. Gooding. 
 Mr. Noves. 
 
 1782. 
 Benj. Proctor. 
 Mr. Tucker. 
 Mr. Brazier. 
 Old Mr. Berry. 
 Mr. Marston. 
 
 1783. 
 Old Mr Graves. 
 Capt. Step. Waite. 
 
 1784. 
 Brio;. Preble. 
 Anthony Bracket. 
 Mr. Greele. 
 Mr. Deer'mg. 
 
 1785. 
 Mr. A vers. 
 John Bradburv. 
 Benj. Haskell! 
 
 1786. 
 Mr. Clemens. 
 
 1787. 
 Levi Merrill. 
 
Of the Rev. Mr. Smith, as given by Rev. Elijah Kellogg, 
 in an Oration, pronounced at his interment, May Zdth, 
 1795, and soon after, printed by the request of a joint com- 
 mittee, of the churches in Portland. 
 
 " Under that sable shrowd lies one, who had long escaped 
 the King of terrors. He stood till all his fellows had fallen 
 around him : he stood like the venerahle oak on the hleak hill, 
 from whence trees less durable, had long been driven by .lie 
 resistless storms. But now death has brought him down. 
 He is holding him a trophy t& his accursed banner; he is 
 dragging him in triumph at his hateful car, which hath rolled 
 off all the preceding generations of mankind ! Surely there is 
 no immortality here ; no permanent stale for man. 
 
 Leaning pensive on the bier of the deceased, we will indulge 
 a little to the recollection of his life. It is a tribute due to his 
 services. It is a tribute due to his character. It is due to his 
 longevity. As there was no minister below this place in the 
 province of Maine, when he was ordained ; nor in all the 
 boundaries of the present County,^ he hath been justly styled 
 the evangelist of the cast. This town was for the most part 
 'a forest ; the back country a wilderness, infested with hostile 
 savages. His expressed diocess embraced an extent of terri- 
 tory, which now composes three large towns.* In this cir- 
 cuit he labored incessantly ; sometimes by night as well as day ; 
 lie was a physician both of body and mind f 
 
 When favored with a time of refreshing from the presence 
 of the Lord, he preached almost every day in the week. He 
 was not without the seals of his ministry. He was sound in 
 the faith once delivered to the saints. While living he favor- 
 ed uie with his discourses. In knowledge of the Scriptures 
 and of eminent authors on divinity, he excelled. In judg- 
 ment he was not deficient. His imagination was lively, and 
 his memory tenacious % It is conceded by all who heard 
 
 ^Cumberland. 
 
 ♦Portland, Cape-Elizabeth and Falmouth. Within these limits are at 'pre- 
 sent seven christian societies. [Now may be added, the town of Westbrook, 
 and several other christian societies.] K 
 
 fThe want of a Physician induced Mr. Smith to turn his attention to tl.e 
 medical art, in which he became considerably skilful. 
 
 iMr. Smith's memory, and all his mental faculties, held out surprisingly. 
 
him, that he was an instructive and agreeable preacher. He 
 was moved himself, therefore his hearers were moved. By 
 his prayers, I acknowledge mysplf to have been edified. There 
 were in them a richness of expression, a devotion and pathos 
 seldom possessed. In his manners there were dignity and 
 ease. In conversation he was grave, but not superstitious : 
 instructive, affectionate and happy in anecdote. On his 
 tongue there dwelt a satirical edge with which he chastised 
 and shamed the vicious, w hen arguments would hot jonvince. 
 lie well knew how to apply the balm of Gospel premises to 
 wounded souls. Being himself a man of sorrows and ac- 
 quainted with grief, his heart was full of sensibility. 
 
 He entered with peculiar tenderness into the afflictions of 
 his people, and comforted them with those consolations, w hich 
 he had found undei like circumstances. 
 
 He lived happily with his people till the hour of his death, 
 during a ministry of more than G8 years. Excepting the two 
 last he was enabled to perform some part of divine service. 
 Possessing an early fame in his profession, to have exchanged 
 the capital* for this then distant and lonely residence, where 
 he knew not but the savage would scalp him in his bed, was 
 no small sacrifice !f Like the patriarch of old, he went out 
 from his native place, not knowing whither he was going, 
 nor what the Lord would do with him. He was employed as 
 an instrument to cause the wilderness to bud aud blossom as 
 the rose. 
 
 He hath deserved ivell of the Church. We mean not to sug- 
 gest that he had no failings. He never believed it himself. 
 Our hearts are tGo sincere to indulge the strains of unqualified 
 panegyric. " For there is not a just man upon earth, who 
 doeth good and sinneth not" He who will not forgive, shall 
 not be forgiven. He who cannot excuse a fault in others, him- 
 self is most faulty. He is not a brilliant sun with here and there 
 a mote passing over its face ; but an opake planet under a to- 
 tal eclipse. He who hath not brought with him the mantle of 
 charity, to cover the failings of the deceased, himself uncov- 
 ers the nakedness of his own ancestors, and disturbs the ashes 
 of his dead. 
 
 A life of more than 93 years, how replete with incidents ! 
 what changes must the possessor have seen ! On the record 
 of Harvard's sons, we find his solitary name ; to all around is 
 
 *Mr. Smith was a native of tie town of Boston, descended from honorable 
 
 parents. 
 
 tSeveral persons were shot and scalped by the Indians just in the neighbor- 
 hood of what is now called Portland, 19 years after Mr. Smith was settled. 
 
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 prefixed the signature of death* The wilderness, where he 
 first pitched his tent, is now the place of vineyards and of 
 gardens. Not a soul, that first composed his flock, is now in 
 the land of the living ! He beheld a wide destruction in his 
 own family, which carne in upon him like a breach ofwaters.f 
 He lived to see this town respectable in numbers and charac- 
 ter ; adorned with elegant buildings and rising in commerce. 
 He saw it also laid in ashes in one day ; himself and his flock 
 scattered abroad to wander without shelter under inclement 
 *kiesj He beheld the town gradually rising from its ruins 
 to its present state of prosperity. He lived under the reigns of 
 four different sovereigns.^ He saw death take one governor 
 after another from the head of the province ; judges from the 
 bench, and the ministers of God from his temple. He beheld, 
 his countrymen greatly oppressed ; struggling to wrench 
 themselves from the manacles of royal prerogative. Most 
 fervently did he pray for their success. 
 
 He was indulged to see his country arriving to liberty and 
 independence; the object of the revolution accomplished ; 
 the fedeial government organized, and for several years, as a 
 citizen, enjoying its blessings. What changes! What vicis- 
 situdes are here ! ! ! It suits with the sadness, with the 
 morality of the hour to dwell upon them. They conduct us 
 through the long tract of lapsed time. We are walking 
 among the tombs of our fathers ! It revives the remembrance 
 of what they suffered, to prepare for us this fair inheritance. 
 
 Venerable Pilgrim ! Thy long journey is happilv closed. 
 Thy way-worn body hath at length found its rest. Though 
 on a bed of earth, its slumbers shall be sweet till awakened by 
 Jesus to immortality. 
 
 *>Ir. Smith received the honors of the University in Cambridge when he was 
 18. 
 
 fMr. Smith buried two wives and five children; three (two sons and a daugh- 
 ter) in the midst of their usefulness. 
 
 +By the infamous Moet, in the fall of 1775, as a requital for the kind and polite 
 treatment, which he received from the inhabitants. 
 
 §Queen Anne. George I. George II. George III. 
 
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 CHARACTER 
 
 Of the Rev. Mr. Smith, as taken from a discourse, delivered 
 by the Rev. Samuel Deane, D. D. May 31, 1795, being the 
 Lord's day after his funeral. 
 
 " He was the son of Thomas Smith, Esq. late merchant 
 in Boston, and born in that capitol of Massachusetts, on the 
 tenth day of March, old style, in the year of our Lord 1702. 
 In his early youth, and as he has often said, too early, being 
 only 14 years of age, he was, after a laudable progress in the 
 preparatory studies, admitted as a student of Harvard College 
 in Cambridge ; where during his four years residence, he so 
 well performed his exercises as to receive approbation. But 
 his improvements became more rapid after he had received 
 the honors of that excellent seat of learning ; as from princi- 
 ple, he pursued his studies with increasing industry, while his 
 judgment was advancing nearer to maturity. In the vigor of 
 youth, though born to good prospects, and with a genius fit 
 to have shined in other important professions, he devoted 
 Himself to the most important, laborious and self-denying 
 work of the evangelical ministry, and applied himself sedu- 
 lously to theological studies. 
 
 At his first exhibitions in the sacred desk, though he was 
 not more than twenty-two years of age, his performances, 
 both in free prayer and in preaching, were much approved by 
 the ablest judges, and his popularity was remarkable. After 
 officiating with applause in Boston, and different parts of the 
 adjacent country ; and after having had invitations to settle, 
 which he declined on account of his youth ; he was induced 
 about the year 1726, to proceed to this place, to act in the 
 double capacity of chaplain to the troops stationed here, and 
 preacher to the inhabitants of Falmouth, who consisted of no 
 more than about forty families, some of which were respecta- 
 ble. After more than a year's residence among them, at their 
 unanimous call and importunity, he was induced courageously 
 to give himself to the ministry here, though this was at that 
 time a place greatly exposed to the furious incursions of the 
 savages of the wilderness. 
 
 On the 8th day of March, in the year 1727, the church was 
 formed, consisting of only ten male members,besides the elect 
 pastor, of which ten, not one has been living for a considera- 
 ble number of years past. On the same day Mr. Smith was 
 ordained pastor of the church, it being the first church that 
 was gathered to the eastward of Wells ; since which time his 
 pastoral relation has continued to the day of his decease, 
 which was sixty eight years, and two months and a half,which 
 
159 
 
 brought him into the 94th year of his age. He preaqhcd in 
 his turn till the close of the year 1784, and his mental facul- 
 ties since ihat period have been so little impaired, that until 
 within about a year and a half of his decease, he has assisted 
 in the work of the sanctuary, with ability and to edification, 
 by his public prayers. Not more than one instance is recol- 
 lected of a mini>try in this country, so long protracted. This 
 servant of God is a memorable, and almost singular instance, 
 not only of longevity, but of continued usefulness in his sacred 
 employment, in which he acted with industry and zeal. As a 
 star in* the east to lead men to Christ, he shone in the pulpit 
 with superior lustre ; and for a long course of years, has been 
 considered as the most distinguished preacher in this part of 
 the country. 
 
 Though his voice was always feeble, the excellency of his 
 elocution, accompanied with a venerable and becoming grav- 
 ity, rendered his performances very acceptable. Possessing 
 in high degrees the gift and spirit of prayer, devotion could 
 not but be excited in the breasts of the serious part of his 
 audience. In sermons, his composition was elegant, and his 
 language chaste and correct. Nor was he wanting in anima- 
 tion and pathos, in his pertinent addresses to different sorts of 
 hearers. He was punctual and frequent in his pastoral visits 
 to the sick and afflicted, to whom he was an important and 
 able adviser and assistant. His visits were the more highly 
 prized by the sick, as he was considered as skilful in medicine, 
 which he practised gratis among his people, for a number of 
 years, in the infancy of the settlement. Watchfulness against 
 sectarism,and a steady and decided friend to the congregational 
 churches, he was a constant asserter of the doctrine of grace, 
 according to the rational scheme of moderate Calvinism. He 
 knew how to unite orthodoxy with candor and charity, like 
 the late excellent Dr. Isaac Watts, whose theological writings 
 he much approved. 
 
 Constitutionally possessed of exquisite sensibility, he was 
 convinced that his task was the more difficult,to govern himself 
 according to the strict rules of reason and religion ; but this 
 did not deter him from the undertaking. Blest with a singu- 
 lar strength of memory, which he retained but with little 
 abatement to the last, and with a lively imagination, his con- 
 versation was at once instructive and entertaining. His course 
 of life was not only regular and useful, but in many respects, 
 exemplary and alluring. Perhaps the most striking traits in 
 his religious character were his spirituality in devotion and 
 communion with God ; and his most exact and scrupulous 
 temperance in all things which, under God, undoubtedly con- 
 tributed to the long continuance of a constitution not natu- 
 rally strong. His hearers can witness how often he enlivened 
 
160 
 
 their souls with the fervency of his addresses to the throne o. 
 grace in public ; how ready he was in private to give a spir- 
 itual and heavenly turn to conversation ; and what a faculty 
 he had of doing it with dignity and ease, in a manner not apt 
 to disgust, but to attract and edify. They have observed his 
 conversation enough to convince them that his mind was 
 habitually turned to things of everlasting importance. They 
 have seen how constant and well directed his endeavors have 
 been to promote the interest of religion ; and how great and 
 laudable his concern for the welfare of immortal souls. 
 
 Considering the celebrity of his public discourses, it is rather 
 strange that his publications have been so few. 
 
 We know of none, besides a sermon delivered at the ordi- 
 nation of the i.Rev. Solomon Lombard, at Gorham, and 
 another preached to the sea-faring men of his own parish. 
 
 In the varying scenes of hfe,and in so long a course of years, 
 it is no wonder that his afflictions have been great and mani- 
 fold. He has not only paid the usual tax upon long life, being 
 bereaved of most of his family and dear connections by death ; 
 but seen this flourishing settlement, his own house among the 
 rest, a prey to devouring flames, kindled by a merciless foe. 
 All which, besides many other trying providences, he has 
 borne with most remarkable fortitude and resignation. In 
 addition to his other qualifications of a christian bishop, he 
 was given to hospitality. In his better days, his house has 
 been the noted resort of foreigners, and strangers from differ- 
 ent parts of this country, and of his clerical brethien, where 
 they were generously entertained. He knew what it was to 
 devise liberal things, and feel for the unhappy. Ever chari- 
 table and tender hearted, his lenity towards debtors^ and relin- 
 quishment of just debts and claims have been such as might 
 only be expected from one who placed his trust in the care of 
 Divine Providence, and did not consider his treasure as lying 
 on this side of heaven. In imitation of St. Paul, he often 
 sacrificed his right for the furtherance of the gospel. The 
 reality of his patriotism, is beyond dispute. 
 
 In the late war, which our unnatural enemies made upon 
 us, he deeply commisserated the case of his oppressed and 
 bleeding country; and most affectionate and persevering 
 were his supplications to heaven for her deliverance. 
 
 In the last week of his life, he informed me " that in his 
 early youth, he had solemnly dedicated himself to the service 
 of God, and particularly before his ordination ; and that 
 through the course of his life, he had been wont ro hold solemn 
 days of fasting and secret devotion." He added " that he had 
 often experienced the greatest comfort in these seasons of 
 extraordinary communion with God ; and often wished he 
 could have continued in such frames, as when in the mount 
 
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 with God. But he had never experienced such ineffable joys 
 of assurance, as some christians are said io have enjoyed." 
 
 Since I have been much acquainted with the state of his 
 mind, w hich is several years, the thought of approaching dis- 
 solution, appeared to be uncomfortable and dismal to him. 
 And it seems that the thought of this great change was seldom 
 absent from his mind. But as death drew near, his fear of it 
 was apparently abated. He improved in many of the chris- 
 tian graces. He was more and more constant and affectionate 
 in prayer. Lamenting his imperfections, and renouncing all 
 self-dependence, his hope was placed on the mercy of God, 
 through the merits of the Redeemer. 
 
 He seemed towards the last to have almost, or quite con- 
 quered all fear of the last enemy. For he said in my hearing, 
 more than once, " I long to be in the arms of my dear Re- 
 deemer." And once he uttered these expressions, " I do not 
 wish to continue here, I can do nothing but trouble my friends." 
 Without much apparent disease, his nature was exhausted by 
 a gradual decay. He had apparently no pangs in his death ; 
 but calmly fell asleep, as we trust, in Jesus. Such was our 
 venerable friend, and such his exit. 
 
 [Before I obtained a copy of the sermon from which the 
 above character is extracted, I had completed the foregoing 
 work. Upon reading it, I could not but remark how well it 
 agreed with the journals, and the observations I have made.] 
 
2 conclude (his part of the work,with the following par- 
 ticulars respecting the First Parish in Falmouth. 
 
 It appears by the records cf the First Parish in Falmouth, 
 That the first meeting of the inhabitants was holden at the 
 meeting-house, on the 18th February, 17S3 — 4. It was warn- 
 ed by Roger Deering, Esq. Justice of the Peace, on the 
 application of Moses Pearson, Joshua Moody, Stephen Green- 
 leaf, Henry Wheeler, William Pote, and Moses Goold, for 
 t he purpose of choosing parish officers, and to see if the parish 
 would "erect and build a garrison round the Rev. Mr. Smith's 
 house, and any house in said parish, proper for defence." 
 On this they voted in the negative. On the other matters, 
 they chose Moses Pearson, Clerk ; John East, Henry Whee- 
 ler, and Moses Pearson, Parish Committee. 
 
 Extracts from the Journals of this time. 
 
 March 5, 1735—6. Voted, that the people of New-Casco, 
 have ££5 allowed them to pay a minister, &c. 
 
 Janum-y 11, 1738. Voted them £28 for the same purpose. 
 
 July 17, 1740. Voted, that the meeting-house on the neck, 
 called the society meeting-house, [being built by certain pro- 
 prietors] be a parish-house forever, [on certain conditions, 
 which the proprietors agreed to.] 
 
 March 7, 1742. Voted not to grant the request of a num- 
 ber of the inhabitants of New-Casco, to be released from 
 paying rates to the Rev. Mr. Smith, the ensuing year. 
 
 August 26, 1745. Voted, that Justice Noyes, Mr. Freeman 
 and Mr. Mills, be a committee to enquire why the new meet- 
 ing-house is not finished. 
 
 March 12, 1749 — 50. Stephen Longfellow, Esq. was first 
 chosen Parish Clerk, and it appears, was successively appoint- 
 ed to that office until the year 1773, when Theophilus Brad- 
 bury, Esq. was appointed, who was continued in that office 
 till 1799, when Mr. Joseph Noyes was chosen. In 1781, 
 John Frothingham, Esq. was chosen. He was repeatedly 
 chosen till 1815, when he declined serving, and Ebenezer 
 Mayo, Esq. was ehosen in his stead. He was continued till 
 1819, when George Bradbury, Esq. was chosen, who was re- 
 appointed in 1820, and also for the present year 1821. 
 
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 March 27, 1750. Four men were appointed " to take care 
 that the boys" were "guilty of no misdemeanor at the meet- 
 ing-house on the Sabbath." 
 
 May 8, 1752. Voted, that the inhabitants on the eastward 
 of Presumpscot river,have their parish tax remitted to them 
 the present year. 
 
 A like vote was passed in 1753, and so long as they hired a 
 minister to preach for them. 
 
 March 20, 1753. On the petition of Simon Gookin, and 
 others, voted that there be an alteration made in the meeting- 
 house by moving each end as far as the galleries, twelve feet, 
 so as to make twenty eight new pews below, and four above, 
 with a proper additional number of windows, agreeable to a 
 plan exhibited. Several other votes passed to carry this into 
 effect. 
 
 JVovember 23, 1753. The inhabitants of New-Casco,having 
 petitioned the General Court, to be set off as a separate par- 
 ish, and the parish having been notified thereof, voted unani- 
 mously to consent thereto, and that as many others living on 
 the west side of Presumpscot, as should find it convenient,, 
 might have liberty to join them. 
 
 March 10, 1756. Voted, that £25 be raised to purchase 
 Tate and Brady's Psalm Books', with the tunes annexed. 
 [They cost above £50.] 
 
 June 12, 1758. Voted that there should be a bell provided 
 for the parish. 
 
 March 14, 1759. Voted that there be a steeple built to the 
 meeting house. 
 
 On the petition of Samuel Waldo and others, voted that 
 there should be a new parish taken partly out of the first and 
 partly out of the second parish of this town. [Here the bounds 
 of it are described, and it was afterwards called the fourth 
 parish.] 
 
 •August 17. At a meeting called to see if the parish would 
 build a number of pews between the pulpit and each side the 
 gallery, the article was dismissed. 
 
 July 17, 1764. Voted that the parish concur with the church 
 in their choice of Mr. Samuel Deane, to be settled as a col- 
 league pastor, with the Rev. Mr. Thomas Smith. 
 
 March 27, 1765. Voted, that the article " to see whether 
 the parish will excuse the people who belong to the church of 
 England from paying towards the settlement and salary of the 
 Rev. Mr. Deane," be dismissed. 
 
 [Their taxes afterwards were remitted until 1773, when 
 they were omitted to be taxed.] 
 
 January 23, 1786. Voted to petition the General Court 
 for leave to sell the parsonage lands in order to raise a fund 
 for the support of the ministry, and to tax the pews until such 
 fund be raised. 
 
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 August 28, 1787. A subscription having been set on foot 
 for taking down the meeting-house and building a new one ; 
 the parish voted that they would consent thereto, provided a 
 sufficient number of subscribers could be obtained to build the 
 same, and would compensate the owners of the pews in the 
 old house. [It remains yet, firm and good.] 
 
 September 12 On the application of Joseph M'Lellan and 
 others, voted, that they, with such others as should see fit to 
 join them, beset off from this parish. 
 
 January 22, 1788. The parish appointedan agent to reply 
 to their petition to the General Court for that purpose, and 
 instructed him to oppose an unconditional separation. 
 
 August 15, 180S. The parish took measures for building 
 a number of pews in the front of the galleries. 
 
 August 18, 1806. The parish appointed a committee to 
 procure some suitable person to preach on probation as a can- 
 didate for a colleague with Doct. Deane. 
 
 April 10, 1807. The parish annulled this vote and author- 
 ized the parish committee to procure an assistant to Doct. 
 Deane. 
 
 April 14, 1808. The parish renew their vote to obtain a 
 colleague for Doct. Deane. 
 
 October 17, 1808. Voted, that the parish do not concur 
 with the church in their call of Mr. John Codman,as colleague 
 pastor with the Rev. Doct. Deane. 
 
 February 27, 1809. Voted to conrur with the church in the 
 choice of Mr. Nichols, as colleague Pastor with the Rev. Doct. 
 Deane. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 1. Preface, - 
 
 2. Family Record, 
 
 S. Extracts, &c. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 To some particular matters mentioned in the Extracts. 
 
 A. 
 
 Alarm (at Boston 44) 72 
 Agreement, non. im. rescinded, 95 
 
 Army at Cambridge, 102 
 
 Arnold's Plot, 113 
 
 B. 
 
 Braddock's defeat, 62 
 
 Byng, Admiral 66 
 
 Bernard, Gov. 94 
 
 Brooks dismissed, 93 
 
 Boston shut up, 99 
 
 Bombarded, 104 
 
 Battle of Lexington, 101 
 
 Bunker Hill, 103 
 
 with Howe, 107 
 
 at Monmouth, 108 
 
 Burgoyne's army taken, 107 
 Baggaduce, 114, See Penobscot, 
 
 British ministry changed, 116 
 
 c. 
 
 Caballers, 19 
 Convention of ministers at Bost. 34 
 Clark, Rev. at Q. Elizabeth, 61 to 66 
 
 Canada, 74 
 
 County divided, 76 
 
 Cherries, 68 
 
 Crown Point, 73 
 
 Castle delivered up, 90 
 
 Cotton, John 91, 93 
 
 Church, Episcopal raised, 122 
 
 Confusion, ib. 
 
 Count De Estang, 112 
 
 Counsellors negatived, 90, 94 
 
 Congress (first) met, 100 
 
 Charlestown burnt, 103 
 
 Cornwallis surrendered, 114, 115 
 
 Constitution, new 113 
 
 Court House raised, 120 
 
 D. 
 
 Death of eight ministers, 48 
 
 Disastrous Events, 52 
 Distressing times, 44, 45, 46, 54, 100 
 
 Deacons, 57 
 
 Dunlap, dismissed, 77 
 
 Drought, distressing, 68, 80 
 
 Dissentary, 109 
 
 Depreciation of monev, 110, 111 
 
 Dark day. 120 
 
 Earthquakes, 
 
 E. 
 
 18, 27, 36, 63, 64, 79, 
 89, 94, 120 
 
 F. 
 
 Falmouth settled, 
 burnt, 
 
 15, 16 
 104 
 55, 120 
 58 
 83 
 75 
 
 76, 91, 122 
 81 
 
 Freshets. 
 
 Families number of 
 Frolic to Rings, 
 Flat and M'Lean, 
 Fires in Boston, 
 Fire in the woods, 
 Fleets and troops, 94, 103, 105, 106, 
 109, 113, 114, 116 
 French convoy arrived, 114 
 Fort at Stony Point taken, 119 
 Fairfield burnt, 112 
 
 G. 
 
 Gorbam Council, 69 
 
 General Court dissolved, 100 
 
 Gates takes Burguo.yne's army, 107 
 
 Gooding convicted of murder, 97 
 
 Gage, Governor 99 
 
 Groton burnt, 114 
 
 Gazette first printed here, 119 
 
 H. 
 
 Hollis, a benefactor to H. Col. 21 
 Harbour frozen, 32, 55, 113, 115 
 
 Houses, 74, 119 to 122 
 
 Healthy times, 69, 81, 116 
 
 Harvard College burnt, 85 
 Howe, 106, 107, 108, 114 
 
 Hard times, 122 
 Hurricane, 92, see also page 134 
 Hooper, 86 
 
 Indians, 
 Independence, 
 Insurrection, 
 Inoculation, 
 
 K. 
 
 King Georges' death, 
 Kellogg came here, 
 
 L. 
 
 Lisbon destroyed, 
 Lombard, Rev. Mr. 
 i — dismissed. 
 
 10 to 84 
 106, 116 
 122 
 
 56, 85, 108 
 
 73 
 122 
 
 64 
 70 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Lexington Battle, 101 
 
 M. 
 
 Sleeting House, 73 
 
 Moose killed in town, 97 
 
 Murray, Parson 85, 97 
 Mobs at Boston, 26, 88, 92 
 
 here and other places, 89, 93, 
 
 113, 121 
 
 Massacre in Boston, 95 
 Mowat, 102. 103, 104 
 
 N. 
 
 New Style, 56 
 
 New Casco set off, 58 
 
 Niagara, 73 
 New York Legislature restrained, 92 
 
 Norwalk burnt, 112 
 
 New London burnt, 118 
 
 New Haven plundered, 112 
 ORDINATIONS. 
 
 Allen, 24 
 
 Brooks, 86 
 
 Cooper, 42 
 
 Eaton, 87 
 
 Foxcroft, 87 
 
 Fairfield, 82 
 
 Oilman, 94 
 
 Hemmenway, 73 
 
 Jeffries, 12 
 
 Jewet, 118 
 
 Leavit, 41 
 
 Lombard, 54 
 
 Mr. Clanathan, 26 
 
 Moody, 96 
 
 Miller, 82 
 
 Morse, 6i 
 
 Nash, 103 
 
 Smith, T. 18 
 
 Smith, P. fi2 
 
 Tbacher, 92 
 
 Townsend, 79 
 
 Wight, 36 
 
 Wiswell, 67 
 
 Winthrop, 88 
 Williams, 
 
 o. 
 
 ©xnard, Edward, 102 
 P 
 
 Purpoodock convulsed, 60 to 63 k 75 
 Peace with Indians, 49, 81, 84 
 
 with England, 117, 118, see 
 
 treaties, 
 
 Paper currency called in, 50, 53 
 
 Psalm books, 77 
 
 Plot discovered, 105 
 
 Penobscot expedition, 111,112 
 
 Plague in Philadelphia, 118 
 
 Portland, a new town, J2I 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quakers, 31, 85, .53, 66, 115, 122 
 Quebec surrendered, 74 
 seige raised, 76 
 
 R. 
 
 Revivals in religion, 35, 42 
 
 Kebeiliou in Scotland, 42, 43 
 
 Iiecoi Uo lost, 17 
 
 Ross' garret floor fell, 
 Rihhmond, sch. master, 
 Relief from scarcity, see scarcity. 
 Revenue act repealed, 
 Revolutionary War, 
 
 s. 
 
 SICKNESS, 
 Throat distemper, 
 Quincy, 
 Fever, 
 Small Pox, 
 Epidemical, 
 I'leuri>y, 
 Cough, 
 Measles, 
 
 Whooping cou»h, 
 Peri pneumonic, 
 Scarcity of bread, fcc 
 
 99 to 1 
 77, 
 
 26, 28, 31, 
 
 30, 
 
 34, 41, 54, 
 
 55, 
 24, 
 
 73, 98, 117, 11 
 121, 12 
 
 105 
 
 26, 27, 28, S 
 57, 83. 97, 100 to 1 1 
 Success in the war, 
 Storms, 32, 44, 90. 96, 1 
 
 Small Pox at Boston, 55. 56, 
 
 at Falmouth, 68, 78, 108 
 
 Snow, deep 67, 70, 97, 11 
 
 67 
 77, ' 
 96 
 85 
 88 
 
 Scalps, 
 
 Steeple raised, 
 Shirley, Gov. died, 
 Stroudwater set off" 
 Stamp office destroyed, 
 
 act repealed, 
 
 Savage mobbed, 
 Senegal man of war, 
 Shattuck and others, 
 Shavs' insurrection, 
 Separatists, 
 
 T. 
 
 Treaties with Indians, 
 
 102 
 121 
 
 122 
 122 
 
 14, 29, 51, 56 
 59 see peace 
 107 
 
 Ticonderoga, 73, taken, 
 Tyng appointed Sheriff, 
 
 hi6 schooner seized, 
 
 Tate, Mrs. shot, 
 
 Tate, guilty of murder, 97 
 
 Thompson, Col. 102 
 Tempests, 97, 11 
 
 Tumult, 102 
 Troops arrive at Boston, 94, 103 
 
 sail for Halifax, 101 
 
 defeated, 106 
 
 Tender act repealed, 113 
 
 Thatcher dismissed, 114 
 
 u. 
 
 Uproars, 51, 78, 79, 
 
 w. 
 
 War with France, 
 
 revolutionary. 
 
 Washington born/ 
 
 Wbitefiekl, 
 
 Winter mild, 
 
 severe, 
 
 Wiswal distracted 
 See 
 
 36 to 82 
 99 to 117 
 21 
 
 coops up Hew, 106 
 pursues theBrit. army. 108 
 37 to 39, 81 
 •ath of 95 
 54 
 81 
 8! 
 
 82, 84, 86 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 4. Varied circumstances of our globe and its inhabitants. 
 
 5. Names of persons deceased whose deaths are noticed in 
 the foregoing Extracts. 
 
 6. Character of Mr. Smith, as given by Rev. Elijah Kel- 
 log. 
 
 7. Character of Mr. Smith as given by the Rev. Dr. Sam- 
 uel Dean. 
 
 8. Of the first parish in Falmouth. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 In page 47, the last line but one, for purpose read suppose* 
 Page 67, line 17, for it, read the Journal. 
 
AN 
 
 TO THE 
 
 -EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS 
 
 KEPT BY THE 
 
 KEY. THOMAS SMITH, 
 
 LATE PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST 
 IN FALMOUTH, IN THE COUNTY OF 
 YORK, (NOW CUMBERLAND.") 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A VARIETY OF MATTERS, 
 
 COLLECTED 
 
 BY SAMUEL FREEMAN, ESQ. 
 
 PORTLAND : 
 
 PRINTED BY A. SHIRLEY, 
 1821. 
 
< 
 
IT was not oontemplated when I made the extracts from Mr. 
 Smith's Journals, to collect any other matters ; but considering- 
 it would give an additional interest to the work, I have thought 
 it proper to collect some things, which, though they have been 
 already published, are in but few hands — and some others, not 
 before published, which I thought would be useful and enter- 
 taining, and which would probably never be otherwise present- 
 ted to the public view. Among the former is an account of the 
 Indian Wars, so far as they related to Falmouth, or Casco Bay, 
 and the vicinity, and were anterior to the war events mentioned 
 in the Journals. Among the latter, are, extracts of letters — 
 proceedings of the town of Falmouth — accounts of religious and 
 charitable societies, &c. which it is needless to enumerate here . 
 They will be seen in the following pages, and a list of them 
 (with an Index to shew their places) given at the end of the 
 book. 
 
 ft F, , 
 
 July, 1821. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 FALMOUTH. 
 
 THE town of Falmouth, formerly called Casco Bay, origin- 
 ally embraced the present towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, 
 Portland and Westbrook. It began to be settled at an early 
 period. It is noticed in Governor Hutchinson's history of Mas- 
 sachusetts (as will be seen in a subsequent page) as early as the 
 year 1645. The settlement of it therefore commenced before 
 that year. — Mr. Hubbard, in his narrative of the Indian Wars, 
 from 1607 to 1677, speaking of Casco Bay, says, " On the south 
 side of it is a small village, called Falmouth ; all or most of it, 
 lately destroyed by the Indians." 
 
 The following account of it is transcribed from Sullivan's 
 History of Maine : — 
 
 " Casco Bay," says he, " or what is now called Falmouth, 
 and Portland, was taken up very early, by traders and fisher- 
 men, who did not expect to make permanent settlements, but 
 who sold their privileges, or rights of preoccupancy, from one 
 to another, as suited their convenience. 
 
 " In the year 1643, Sir Alexander Rigby sent George Cleaves 
 over, as governor of the plough-patent, or province of Ligonia*. 
 This tract had not been under any regular government. The 
 patent on Kennebeck did not extend to it ; the patents on Saco 
 river, were within the bounds of it ; and those, together with 
 Camock's patent in Scarborough, were much in the way of Rig- 
 by's charter. The Massachusetts took advantage of these con- 
 troversies, and extended their claim so as to comprehend Cas- 
 co Bay, or a great part of it. When Cleaves set his commission 
 on foot, he was opposed by Vines, who held the patent on the 
 west side of Saco river, granted to him and Oldham in the year 
 1629. Cleaves, as agent to Rigby, made a deed to Michael Mit- 
 ten, in the year 1643, of two thousand acres of the land which is 
 
 •Note. w The province of Ligonia extended south of the river Sagad ihock 
 {now Saco river) i. t.ftom the west of Cape Porpus to the east of Cape Eliza* 
 hsih, \o miles— and 40 miles back from the sea* 
 
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6 
 
 now in Portland. George Mountjoy had a grant from Gorges, 
 of lands in or near the same place. The title under the deed to 
 Mitten has been preserved from the wreck of Rigby's patent. 
 Rigby granted to George Cleaves, in the year 1650, one thous- 
 and acres in Casco, but that grant has become obsolete. 
 
 "The contentions continued until the restoration, after which 
 nothing was said respecting Rigby's patent ; and when the 
 Province of Maine became the property of the Massachusetts 
 Colony, an end was put for some time to all other claims. Some 
 time between the year 1680 and 1690, President Danforth, un- 
 der the authority of the colony, made a deed to Anthony Brack- 
 . et, and seven others, of land in the town of Falmouth, in trust. 
 The Indians had renewed their depredations, at that time, & the 
 irar continued until the year 1692, when the town was entire- 
 ly broken up. The inhabitants began to return again, about the 
 year 1708 ; but the claims were not settled until the year 1718, 
 at which date a book of claims was opened in the Secretary's 
 office, to register the claims. It was then found that there had 
 been such a variety of titles, as rendered it necessary to give 
 more weight to actual possession, than to ancient conveyances. 
 This again called up the possessions under grants from all the 
 old patentees, and originated a controversy between old and 
 new proprietors, which has never yet been settled. The town 
 was incorporated in the year 1718*, and those who call them- 
 selves the new proprietors, had the management under the title. 
 
 •The following is a copy of the act.- 
 
 At a great and general court or assembly of his majesty's province of the 
 Massachusetts bay, in New England, held October 29, 1718. 
 
 The report of John Wheelwright, Esq. &c. appointed by an order of this 
 court, passed at the session begun and held the 28th of May last, to be a Com- 
 mittee tor regulating the settlement of Falmouth, in Casco Bay, is as follows, 
 viz : 
 
 Pursuant to a vote of the great and general assembly of his majesty's prov- 
 ince of the Massachusetts buy, in New England, held at Boston, May, 1715, 
 powering and appointing the subscribers to be a committee to prosecute the 
 regular settlement of the eastern frontiers, and in answer to the petition of the 
 proprietors and settlers of the town of Falmouth,. in Casco bay, in the year 
 '.717 and 1718, who have mad? application to us the said committee, according 
 -0 the direction of the general court, We have, upon the 16th day of this prestnt 
 
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 and authority of Massachusetts. There was no distinction be 7 
 tween town meetings, and proprietors' meetings, prior to the 
 year 1730, but settlers were admitted as proprietors, on paying 
 a certain sum of money ; and thus the heirs and assigns of the 
 
 month of July, taken a view of the said town of Falmouth, and upon maturede- 
 liberation and consideration, we offer the report to this honorable court, as 
 follows, viz. 
 
 The dividing bounds between Scarborough and Falmouth, we find to be the 
 line from the first dividing branch of Spurwink river, from thence to run into 
 the country eight miles north wtst, and from the said branch as the river runs 
 into the sea, and the easterly bour.ds of Falmouth to extend to certain islands, 
 known by the name of th; Clabboard islands, from a red oak tree upon the 
 Maine, over against said islands, marked F. on the south side, andso southeast 
 over a white rock, into the sea, and from said tree eight miles into the coun- 
 try ; and according to the best of our judgment, we have determined the spot 
 whereon the ancient town of Falmouth stood, and a fort was formerly built by 
 order of the government, and where there are already settled above twenty 
 families, in a compact and defensible manner, to be a very agreeable place for 
 the settlement of a town, being bordering on a fine navigable river,, guarded 
 from the sea by adjacent islands, most commodious for the fishery, and is ao 
 commodated with several large streams for mills, as well as a large quantity 
 of good land, for the encouragement of husbandry: and we are of opinion there 
 is a fair prospect of its being in a little time a flourishing town ; and hi order 
 to the enabling them to a methodical procesdingin their affairs, we are of opin- 
 ion that it is absolutely necessary that they be invested with power to act as a 
 town as soon as may be with conveniency. We have also left our advice with 
 them, with respect to the laying out theirjstreets and highways, as also for 
 the placing their meeting house, after the most commodious manner, for the 
 benefit of the town in general. 
 
 Signed, John Wheelwright, Abraham Preble, John Leighton, Lewis Bane, Jo- 
 seph Hill. 
 
 In the house of representatives, Nov. i\th, 1718. 
 Read, and ordered that the report on the other side be accepted,»nd that the 
 bounds of the town of Falmouth be continued, confirmed and ratified, as in the 
 said report is set forth, and that the inhabitants of the s^'u\ town that now 
 are, and hereafter shall be, from time to time invtstcd with the same powers 
 and authorities to act, manage, direct and order the affairs of the said town- 
 ship as other towns are. Provided, that this order shall in no measure prejudice 
 and infringe any just right or title that any persons have to lands there, and 
 that fifty f <milies, at the least, more than now arc, be admitted as soon as may 
 be, and settled in the most compact and defensible manner that the land will 
 allow of. 
 
 In Council, read and concurred. 
 
 Consulted to, SAM'L SHUTE, 
 
 Copy examined 
 
 Per J. WILLARD, Sectary* 
 
8 
 
 ancient settlers and grantees of Gorges and Rigby, were gener- 
 ally excluded, unless when by an ancient and continued posses- 
 sion, they supported their claims. 
 
 " The records, if there were any, before the year 1692, were 
 not preserved, although there was no other town which was 
 then broken up, where the records were not saved ; but there 
 was no other place where the desolation was so complete, as it 
 was in the town of Falmouth. It will appear that the records of 
 the towns on the west of Falmouth, were preserved, a9 well as 
 those of the town of North Yarmouth." 
 
 CAPE ELIZABETH. 
 
 " The town of Cape Elizabeth, before the American revolu- 
 tion, joined with Falmouth in the choice of a representative, but 
 in all other respects was a separate corporation. * * * There 
 is an Island on the south side of Cape Elizabeth, called Rich- 
 mond's Island, formerly called Richman's Island. This Island, 
 with the land adjacent, and that in all Casco, was granted by 
 Rigby, before the year 1646, to Robert Trelawny, who estab- 
 lished a fishery on the Island, and sent one John Winter over as 
 his agent, to conduct the business. Rigby sent one Richard 
 Gibson to his province, as an Episcopalian clergyman : he wan- 
 dered away to Piscataqua, and finally became a preacher to 
 fishermen at the Isle of Shoals. Soon after this, Robert Jordan, 
 and another Episcopalian clergyman, came over, under the en- 
 couragement of Trelawney : he married John Winter's daugh- 
 ter, and in him all of the name of Jordan in the country are to 
 acknowledge an ancestor. 
 
 " Winter died in the year 1646, and Jordan administered on 
 his estate, and in the year 1648, obtained an order of the court, 
 under Rigby's government, to sequester the whole of Trelawney 's 
 estate, for a debt due to Winter for services. A large tract of 
 land is now held by the posterity of Robert Jordan, under that 
 order of court, and within the town of Cape Elizabeth ; but 
 there are so many clashing titles, under Gorges, Rigby, the In- 
 
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 dians, and others in the town of Falmouth and in Cape Elizabeth, 
 that the greater part of the land has been lost to Jordan's heirs, 
 who never seemed to contend for their right until it became 
 too late to reclaim it. * * * When the country was cut off 
 by the savages, in 1692, that town became desolate ; but the 
 settlement again revived in 1710. The government was settled 
 over it, with the other parts of Casco Bay, in the year 1718. 
 
 " Some people have supposed that Trelawney had a patent 
 from the council of Plymouth ; but this I believe to be a mistake. 
 His title was under Rigby's patent, which was originally gran- 
 ted to Dy and others. But these patents were all treated with 
 neglect, or contempt, during and after the civil wars between 
 Charles and the parliament : and nearly all the lands in Cape 
 Elizabeth were taken up anew, under President Danforth's ad- 
 ministration of the Massachusetts government, in that part of 
 the country. 
 
 " There has been no recent calamities by the Indian wars in 
 Cape Elizabeth. In the reign of Queen Anne, there was an 
 attack of the savages on the people of Purpoodock, or Spring- 
 Point. The wife of Josiah Wallis was killed, and two children 
 taken from her. The wife of Benjamin Wallis was killed ; the 
 wife of Joseph Wallis, Thomas Leavit, and one Medford, with 
 their families, were carried into captivity. Josiah Wallis fled to 
 Scarborough, and carried his son John, then a boy, on his back, 
 and saved him from the savages." Thus far Sullivan. 
 
 The following is taken f rom the Church Book of Records, in the 
 hand writing of the Rev. Mr. Smith : 
 
 " Anno 1716, one Ingersol built an hut on Falmouth Neck, 
 where he lived alone some time, and was thence called Gover- 
 nor Ingersol — He was afterwards drowned at Presumpscotwith 
 one Millet by the damming of the ice — raising an head of water 
 in the night while they were asleep. New-Casco fort being de- 
 molished by order of government a few months after this, viz. 
 1717, Major Moody who had been the commanding officer, with 
 Capt. Larabee who had been a Serjeant, moved their families 
 down to the Neck, and built them houses. About this time 1715, 
 
10 
 
 Mr. Skillin and Bracket settled on their father's old farms at 
 Back-Core. Now came also Capt. Coller and built a house, as 
 did one Proctor, Doughty, Rounds, Mills, Hall, two Scales's 
 (brothers) father Thomes, Wass, (twelve in all) and John Bar- 
 ber and father Gustian (who died June 1718.) 
 
 Samuel Cobb came here in 1717, when there was only one 
 house on Purpoodock side of the water, just built and inhabited by 
 one Doct, Winslow. In 1718, said Cobb moved his family to 
 Falmouth Neck when there were 14 families there (including 
 his.) This year Falmouth was anew incorporated a township by 
 the General Court, and the tract of Land granted to some of the 
 ancient proprietors, tog-ether with others who signed with them 
 in a petition for it. 
 
 N. B. The General Court was ignorant of its being formerly 
 granted to the old settlers who were broken up and driven away 
 when the town and fort were destroyed by the French and In- 
 dians, and hence ensued infinite confusion and quarrels be- 
 tween these new and old proprietors — the former not allowing 
 the latter any title nor those others that had purchased farms of 
 Sir Ferdinando Gorges' agent, till all was settled in a course of 
 law. 
 
 Anno 1722, in the latter end of July a war broke out with the 
 Indians, which continued 3 years, and kept back the growth of 
 the settlement. 
 
 In the year 1725, in June (the war ending the summer) I 
 [Thomas Smith] came here and found one Mr. Peirpoint (who 
 was Chaplain to the army, whose head quarters were on this 
 Neck) preaching to the people. There was then 45 families in 
 the whole town, viz, 27 upon the Neck, 1 at New-Casco, and 17 
 at Purpoodock and Spirwink, most of them poor, and some of 
 them miserably so. They had 4 or 5 years before erected a 
 meeting-house, which they had only covered, and the floor of it 
 contained the people, with the fishermen and soldiers and other 
 strangers, that used to frequent the place much. The people of 
 Purpoodock had also a log house on the Point, which they built 
 partly for a Garrison to the families on the Point, and partly for 
 
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 meeting houses in which the whole town assembled every third 
 Sabbath. 
 
 March 8, 1726-7, a Church was gathered and I (Thomas 
 Smith) was ordained Pastor. 
 
 At the first meeting- of the inhabitants, under the Act of In- 
 corporation in 1718, the following town officers were chosen, 
 viz, Joshua Moody, Clerk — Samuel Moody, Treasurer — John 
 Wass, William Scales, Dominicus Jordan, John Pritchard and 
 Benjamin Skillins, Selectmen. 
 
 To show who were considered by the inhabitants as the most 
 suitable persons to manage their town affairs, from that period 
 to the time when the town of Portland was set off — I think it 
 proper to present a list of their names, and the offices to which 
 they were respectively appointed, as follows, viz : 
 
 TOWN CLERKS, &c. 
 
 from to 
 
 from to 
 
 1719 1720 
 
 1720 1722 
 1723 1725 
 1726 
 
 1727 1729 
 1730 
 
 1731 1732 
 1733 
 
 Joshua Moody. 
 Samuel Cobb. 
 Joshua Moody. 
 Peter Walton. 
 Samuel Cobb. 
 Moses Pearson. 
 Samuel Moody. 
 Moses Pearson. 
 
 1734 1743 Samuel Moody, 
 
 1744 Joshua Moody. 
 
 1 745 1746 Samuel Moody. 
 1747 1749 Moses Pearson. 
 1750 1772 St'n. Longfellow. 
 1773 1780 Nath'l G. Moody. 
 1780 1786 JnoFrothingham. 
 
 TOWN TREASURERS. 
 
 from 
 
 to 
 
 
 from 
 
 to 
 
 1719 
 
 1720 
 
 Samuel Moody. 
 
 1744 
 
 
 1721 
 
 
 Samuel Cobb, 
 Samuel Moody. 
 
 1745 
 
 
 1722 
 
 1727 
 
 1746 
 
 1754 
 
 1728 
 
 1729 
 
 Benj. Ingersol. 
 
 1755 
 
 
 1730 
 
 
 John East. 
 
 1756 
 
 1760 
 
 1731 
 
 1732 
 
 Joshua Moody. 
 
 1761 
 
 1765 
 
 1733 
 
 1734 
 
 Henry Wheeler. 
 
 1766 
 
 1767 
 
 1735 
 
 
 Moses Pearson. 
 
 1768 
 
 1772 
 
 1736 
 
 
 Th's. Westbrook. 
 
 1773 
 
 
 1737 
 
 
 James Gooding. 
 
 1774 
 
 
 1733 
 
 
 The Selectmen. 
 
 1775 
 
 
 1739 
 
 
 Joseph Noyes. 
 
 1776 
 
 1785 
 
 1740 1742 
 
 Ezekiel Gushing. 
 
 1786 
 
 
 1743 
 
 
 John Waite. 
 
 
 
 Joshua Moody. 
 John Waite. 
 Enoch Freeman. 
 John Waite. 
 James Mills. 
 Benj. Waite. 
 Ephraim Jones. 
 James Milk. 
 Ephraim Jones. 
 Stephen Waite. 
 Smith Cobb. 
 John Waite. 
 Enoch Ilsley. 
 
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 SELECTMEN. 
 
 Note. In this List the names are placed in the order of time 
 in which they were first appointed. The figures at the right 
 band shew how many years each one served during the whole 
 period, viz: From 1713 to 1786. The persons against whose 
 name no figure is annexed served but one year each. 
 
 1718 
 
 
 
 
 John Wass, 
 
 
 Charles Frost, 
 
 2 
 
 William Scales, 
 
 
 Joseph Noyes, 
 
 4 
 
 Dominicus Jordan, 
 
 5 
 
 Robert Mitchell, 
 
 
 John Pritchard, 
 
 2 
 
 Ezekiel Cushing, 
 
 9 
 
 Benjamin Skillins, 
 
 4 
 
 James Merrill, 
 
 4 
 
 Samuel Moody, 
 
 7 
 
 Phineas Jones, 
 Jeremiah Riggs, 
 
 
 Benjamin Larrabee, 
 
 
 3 
 
 Richard Coller, 
 
 
 James Milk, 
 Christopher Strout, 
 
 16 
 
 John Sawyer, 
 
 5 
 
 8 
 
 Matthew Scales, 
 Daniel Ingersol, 
 
 2 
 
 1744 
 
 
 2 
 
 Enoch Freeman, 
 
 3 
 
 William Roberts, 
 
 
 John Merrill, 
 
 
 Samuel Buckman, 
 
 
 John Robinson, 
 
 5 
 
 James Armstrong, 
 
 
 Stephen Randall, 
 
 2 
 
 Benjamin York, 
 
 4 
 
 John Snow, 
 
 5 
 
 Samuel Cobb, 
 Benjamin Ingersol, 
 
 4 
 
 Joseph Thompson, 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 William Cotton, 
 
 13 
 
 John Brown, 
 
 
 George Berry, 
 
 2 
 
 John East, 
 John Perry, 
 
 *6 
 
 Samuel Skilling, 
 
 2 
 
 
 Wm. Buckman, 
 
 6 
 
 Joshua Woodbury, 
 
 
 Enoch Moody, 
 
 3 
 
 1731 
 
 
 Wm. Simington, 
 
 2 
 
 Thomas Haskill, 
 
 
 John Waite, 
 
 3 
 
 Moses Pearson, 
 
 7 
 
 1756 
 
 
 John Coy, 
 
 
 Isaac Ilslcy, 
 
 2 
 
 John Tyng, 
 
 
 Humphrey Merrill, 
 
 15 
 
 Henry Wheeler, 
 Edmund Mountford, 
 
 5 
 
 David Strout, 
 
 5 
 
 
 Joseph Mariner, 
 
 
 James Buxton, 
 
 
 Wm. Slemmons, 
 
 9 
 
 James Brickie, 
 
 
 Ephraim Jones, 
 
 4 
 
 Robert Thorndike, 
 
 3 
 
 Stephen Waite ^ 
 
 4 
 
 Joseph Cobb, 
 
 
 Samuel Cobb, 
 
 
 Gowen Wilson, 
 Joshua Moody, 
 
 2 
 
 Benjamin Winslow, 
 
 
 2 
 
 Nathaniel Carle, 
 
 10 
 
 James Gooding, 
 
 11 
 
 Jeremiah Pote, 
 
 
 Thomas Westbrook, 
 
 2 
 
 1775 
 
 
 James Noble, 
 Joseph Thompson, 
 
 2 
 
 Benj. Mussey, 
 
 
 2 
 
 John Bracket, 
 
 
 Nathaniel Noyes, 
 
 6 
 
 William Owen, 
 
 
 John Waite, 
 
 4 
 
 Nath. Wilson, 
 
 2 
 
13 
 
 John Johnson, Jr. 2 
 
 Joseph Noyes, 9 
 Pearson Jones, 
 
 Daniel Dole, 3 
 
 Benj. Titcomb, 3 
 
 Richard Codman, 2 
 
 Solomon Haskill, 2 
 
 Bracket Marston, 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES TO 
 
 1719 William Scales, 
 
 j 7 20 Samuel Moody, 
 
 1721 None, 
 
 1722 Dominicus Jordan, 
 
 1723 None, 
 
 1724 Uncertain, 
 
 1725 Major Moody, 
 
 1726 Samuel Moody, 
 
 1727 None, 
 
 1728 None, 
 
 1729 None, 
 
 1730 Uncertain, 
 
 1731 Uncertain, 
 
 1732 Uncertain, 
 
 1733 Uncertain, 
 
 1734 Dominicus Jordan, 
 
 1735 Uncertain, 
 
 1736 Uncertain, 
 
 1737 Moses Pearson, 
 Phinehas Jones, 
 
 1738 Uncertain, 
 
 1739 Phinehas Jones, 
 
 1740 Moses Pearson, 
 
 1741 Joshua Bang-s, 
 
 1742 Uncertain, 
 
 1743 Samuel Moody, 
 
 1744 Samuel Waldo, 
 
 1745 Jabez Fox, 
 
 1746 Uncertain, 
 
 1747 Jabez Fox, 
 1743 Enoch Freeman, 
 
 1749 Moses Pearson, 
 
 1750 Jabez Fox, 
 
 1751 Do. 
 
 1752 Do. 
 
 1753 Jedediah Preble, 
 
 1754 Do. 
 
 •Under the new Constitution. 
 
 Joseph McLcllan, 
 
 Samuel Freeman, 
 
 Enoch Ilsley, 
 
 Joshua Freeman, 
 
 Stephen Hal!, 
 
 Thomas Child, 5 
 
 Daniel Ilsley, 
 
 James Frost, 2 
 
 THE GENERAL COURT. 
 
 1755 Charles Frost, (dec'd.) 
 Enoch Freeman, 
 
 1756 Enoch Freeman, 
 
 1757 Samuel Waldo, 
 
 1758 Do. 
 
 1759 Do. 
 
 1760 Do. 
 
 1761 Do. 
 
 1762 Francis Waldo, 
 
 1763 Do. 
 
 1764 Samuel Waldo, 
 
 1765 Do. 
 
 1766 Jedediah Preble, 
 
 1767 Do. 
 
 1768 Do. 
 
 1769 Do. 
 
 1770 Do. 
 
 1771 Do. 
 
 1772 William Tyng-, 
 
 1773 William Tyng-, 
 Jedediah Preble, 
 
 1774 Enoch Freeman, 
 
 To the Provincial Congress. 
 
 1775 Samuel Freeman, 
 
 1776 Jedediah Preble, 
 Joseph Noyes, 
 Samuel Freeman, 
 John Waite, 
 
 1777 Jedediah Preble, 
 Joseph Noyes, 
 
 1778 Joseph Noyes, 
 Samuel Freeman, 
 
 1779 None, 
 
 1780 *Jedediah Preble, 
 Joseph Noyes, 
 Stephen Hall, 
 
 1781 Stephen Hall, 
 
 C2 
 
14 
 
 1782 Joseph INoyes, 1735 Joseph Noyes, 
 
 1783 Do. 1786 Do. and 
 ♦784 Do. and John Frothingham, 
 
 Benjamin Tilcomb, 
 
 MINISTERS. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Smith was the first settled Minister in this 
 .'own.* He was ordained March 8, 1727, and was the only min- 
 ister in the town until November 10, 1734, when the Rev. Mr. 
 Allen was installed at Cape-Elizabeth, which was till then a part 
 of Mr. Smith's parish. " There was a block house held by some 
 few families at Purpoodock point — and a Garrison and a few fam- 
 ilies at Spirwink ; at those places he used alternately to minis- 
 ter to the people." There was no other minister in the town un- 
 1 il other parishes were set off. Of the first parish, the Rev. Sam- 
 uel Deane was settled as a minister with Mr. Smith, Oct. 
 17, 1764. They continued together until the death of Mr. 
 Smith, (May 23, 1795.) Mr. Deane then became sole pastor, 
 and remained so until the settlement of the Rev. Mr. Nichols, 
 June 7, 1809. 
 
 CAPE-ELIZABETH, OR SECOND PARISH. 
 
 This parish was set off from the town of Falmouth by a vote 
 passed May 7, 1733. 
 
 The Rev. Benjamin Allen was the first settled minister of this 
 parish.f He was installed (as above mentioned,) November 10, 
 1734, and continued to be sole pastor until his death, (May 6, 
 1754.) On the 10th October following the church, by a major- 
 ity of one, voted to call to the ministry then, the Rev. Mr. Holy- 
 
 • It appears however, by the Records of the Town from the yemr 1720 to 1724, 
 that the inhabitants employed Preachers from time to time ; and though I 
 have no account of any, except the Rev. Mr. Burrows, between the years 168$ 
 and .690, (of whom h-reafter) ;t is not probable they were vholiy destitute. 
 
 f'Thrre was at some time, a Mr. Hrnry from Scotland, who used to preach 
 the re, who wis sn (centric character, and rendered himself contemptible, by 
 Ms levity and indiscrctior.''' 
 
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 oke, and the Congregation concurred by a majority of two, bu!; 
 on account of the dissentions among- them, he was not settled. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Clark, succeeded Mr. Allen, and was installed 
 May 21, 1756. Next to him was the Rev. William Gregg who 
 was ordained in January, 1801. He continued in the ministry 
 there, about nine years, and was succeeded by the Rev. Benjr- 
 min Sawyer, who was ordained in 1810; but sometime after the 
 Rev. Mr. Gregg returned, and was installed in January 1816, an.l 
 is the present minister. 
 
 NEW-CASCO, OR THIRD PARISH. 
 
 This Parish was set off from Falmouth, December 12, 1753. 
 
 The Rev. Peleg Wiswell, was the first settled minister of this 
 parish. He was ordained November 3, 1756, and continued in 
 that office until September 1764, when he accepted a call from 
 a number of persons, (who seceded from the first parish,) to settle 
 over them as an Episcopalian minister. The Rev. Ebenezer 
 Williams was their next minister. He was ordained Novem- 
 ber 6, 1765,* and continued such until the time of his death, 
 February 25, 1799. His successor was the Rev. William Mil- 
 timore, who was ordained June 19, 1803, and is now the minis- 
 ter of said parish. 
 
 STROUD WATER, OR FOURTH PARISH. 
 This parish was set off by a vote of the town of Falmouth, in 
 March 1753. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Brown, was the first minister. He was in- 
 stalled August 21, 1765, and continued in the ministry until his 
 death in October 1798, though for about a year he was, on ac- 
 count of his impaired health, unable to preach. 
 
 He was succeeded by the Rev. Caleb Bradley, who was or- 
 dained October 9, 1799, and is the present Minister. 
 
 •The Church in March preceding, gave a call to a M . Fuller, but it does not 
 appear whether he accepted the call or whether the congregation concurred in 
 it or not. 
 
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 EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
 This society was formed on the 4th November, 176*3, by the 
 -written agreement of 41 persons to procure a lot of land and 
 build a " meeting- house for divine service." On the 23d July, 
 2764, an increased number expressed in writing- under their 
 bands, their desire " that the worship to be carried on in said 
 house should be agreeable to the laws of Great Britian," and on 
 the 4th of September following-, invited the Rev. John Wiswel 
 ki to accept of the pastoral charg-e over them," and desired "that 
 he would apply to the Lord Bishop, for ordination." He accep- 
 ted their invitation, complied with their desire, and became 
 their minister accordingly. He continued such until 1775, 
 when he left them, and when the house which they had built 
 was consumed in the conflagration of the town by Capt. Mowat. 
 Thus was the society at that time in respect to assembling- 
 for public worship, broken up, and continued in a dispersed 
 state until 1805, when Mr. Parker read prayers for them, in a 
 hired room about two years — After him, viz. in July 1787, 
 they agreed to employ Mr. Thomas Oxnard, in tho same ser- 
 vice, in the (then new) school house which they had hired for 
 the purpose. He continued in it until March 1792. Mr, Jo- 
 seph Hooper was next employed for about a year. After him 
 there were no stated performances until 1797, when the Rev. 
 Joseph Warren was employed and was continued until 1800. 
 (This year the pulpit seems to have been unoccupied.) In 1801 
 the society engag-ed the Rev. Timothy Hilliard, who officiated 
 until 1809.* 
 
 From this time there were only occasional supplies until June 
 1817, when the Rev. Mr. Olney was eng-aged in the service of 
 the society, and continued about three months. He was fol- 
 lowed in September 1818, by the Rev. Mr. Tenbroeck who is 
 now the instituted Rector. 
 
 •During this period, viz. in 1802 and 1803 their present Brick church was 
 nuilt.— Previous to that they erected a temporal y building on the spot where 
 
 •heir first church stood. 
 
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 PROCEEDINGS OF THE TOWN OF FALMOUTH, 
 
 from they car 1768, to the year 1775. 
 On the 21st September, 1768, the town appointed Jededinh 
 Preble, Esq. to join a committee of convention to be holden at 
 Boston to consult and advise upon such measures as his majes- 
 ty's service and the peace and safety of his subjects in the prov- 
 ince might require. The following were the instructions given 
 |H him by the town : — 
 
 " You are hereby instructed and enjoined not to comply in 
 said convention with any proposals there made that shall be 
 illegal and unconstitutional, but that you heartily join with 
 them in any legal measure of obtaining redress of our present 
 grievances ; such as humbly petitioning our gracious Sovereign 
 for relief, or urging his excellency Governor Bernard to call a 
 new Assembly to set in General Court, to take all possible care 
 of preserving the rights, liberties and properties of the good 
 people of this Province, and in case the civil officers in the 
 government should in any case stand in need of their hands 
 being strengthened to put the laws of this government in execu- 
 tion, that you join in convention in every legal method to aid 
 and assist them according as the emergency of the case may 
 require ; and in all your consultations in said convention it is 
 the desire of the town that you advise to the most mild and 
 peaceable measures, and from time to time to acquaint the 
 town with any material event that shall occur, wherein they 
 may be interested in such a manner as may not be inconsistent 
 with the public good." 
 
 On the 7th January, 1773, the town gave the following in- 
 structions to its representative, William Tyng, Esq. which were 
 previously prepared, reported and signed by a committee ap- 
 pointed for the purpose.* 
 
 Sir — Whereas we are sensible there is reason to complain of 
 infringements on the liberties of the people of this province, 
 
 •yiz: Enoch Freeman, Moses Pearson, Stephen Longfellow, David Wyer, 
 jun, John Waice* Stephen Waite, Enoch Ilsley, William Slemraons, 8enjamm 
 Titccmb, 
 
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and as you are a representative for this town we would offer a 
 few thing-s for your consideration on transacting- the very im- 
 portant business that may lay before the General Court at the 
 next sessions. We are not about to enumerate any grievances 
 particularly, as we doubt not the wisdom of the General' Court 
 is amply sufficient to investigate, not only every grievance but 
 every inconvenience the province at present labours under; all 
 we mean is to suggest some method whereby all grievances may 
 be redressed. And considering the singular abilities and good 
 disposition of the present Governor, together with his family 
 being embarked on the same bottom with ourselves, we know 
 of no expedient more effectual than for the members of the 
 General Court, by a rational and liberal behaviour, to concili- 
 ate the affections of his Excellency : The particular mode of 
 doing this, we must leave to their wisdom and prudence, which 
 on this important occasion they will undoubtedly exert, o*Jy beg 
 leave to observe that could his Excellency be prevailed upon to 
 join the other branches of the legislature in supplicating the 
 throne for redress of any of our grievances : it appears to us 
 the most probable way of obtaining his Majesty's Royal atten- 
 tion and relief. 
 
 THE YEAR 1774. 
 
 The records of the town for the year 1774, shew it to have 
 teen a year of anxiety and deep consideration as well as such as 
 to require active exertions and prudent conduct. 
 
 Jan. 25. A meeting was warned for the choice of a commit- 
 tee to make answer to the several letters received from the Com- 
 mittee of correspondence in Boston, and to correspond with thera 
 as occasion might require, and in general to do what might be 
 thought best for the public welfare under the alarming circum- 
 stances then existing. 
 
 Feb. 3. At a meeting of the inhabitants they agreed upon an 
 answer, and expressed their sentiments in the following manner, 
 
 That having too patiently waited along time in hopes that the 
 Governor would join the other branches of the Legislature in 
 
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 petitioning the king for a redress of American grievances, we 
 now find it in vain still to hope or expect any relief through his 
 means. Having therefore considered seriously and attentively 
 the general opposition throughout 'the continent, to some late 
 acts of parliament, which lay taxes on us for the purpose of rais- 
 ing a revenue from us without our consent or opportunity of de- 
 liberating on the expediency thereof; we think it our duty, which 
 we owe our fellow countrymen and our posterity, to declare our 
 sense and opinion in a matter which so highly concerns the wel- 
 fare of the present generation and the happiness of our children 
 yet unborn. First then we declare it as our opinion that neith- 
 er the Parliament of Great Britain nor any other power on earth 
 has a right to lay a tax on us but by our own consent or the con- 
 sent of those whom we may choose to represent us. This is one 
 of the most important articles of the glorious Magna Charta, the 
 liberties of which we have a right inviolably to enjoy, and it is 
 not only agreeable to the laws of God and nature, but it is in- 
 terwoven in the constitution of the human mind. 
 
 In parliament we have none to represent us, and the great dis- 
 tance of Great Britain which is separated from this continent 
 by a vast and hazardous ocean, renders it impossible that we evei 
 can either in reason or equity. But to prevent the inconven- 
 ience which this want of representation would subject us to, we 
 have by compact yet unbroken, by a charter which our fore- 
 fathers purchased for us, a parliament of our own, or rather a su- 
 preme provincial court, where we are equally represented, and 
 to whose laws, in obedience to the law of God alone ought we to 
 be subservient. No man can serve two masters. To be subject 
 to two legislative powers;, renders us liable to a double subservi- 
 ency, which the natare of government does not require. A cor- 
 rupt and disaffected ministry have hitherto attempted to enslave 
 us, by bringing, or endeavoring to bring us to submit to acts of 
 parliament, which they and some of our enemies, adders in our 
 bosoms, had unjustly planned, and of which the late formidable 
 stamp act was a manifest instance. 
 
 This has happily been repealed, but now, still determined to 
 execute their mischievous schemes, they have let loose the mon= 
 
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 $trous Eas»t India, Company upon us to devour us, who have be- 
 o-un their baneful commission by endeavoring to wash down the 
 fatal pill with the bewitching, the unsalutary Bohea Tea, which 
 they have sent out in large quantities to the different cities and 
 principal towns on the continent, to allure us with its gilded 
 bait. 
 
 And here we cannot help expressing our resentment against 
 some of our own countrymen who have been egging on their 
 deep laid schemes. What encouragement must it give our en- 
 emies in Britain, when they find that men born and educated a- 
 mong us, have spoken enmity against and have endeavoured to 
 represent us as rebels and disaffected subjects. We believe our- 
 selves to be as loyal subjects to his most gracious majesty King 
 George the third as any in his European dominions. To him we 
 owe our firm allegiance, and his crown will we maintain to our 
 Jatest breath. Nor dp we desire to live free from the restraint 
 of good government. We detest anarchy and confusion — but 
 we say it again, we cannot think it just to be subject to the 
 . control of a parliament 3000 miles distant from us, who neither 
 can either seasonably hear or thoroughly be acquainted with the 
 situation of our affairs. 
 
 It is with deep concern and uneasiness that we find ourselves 
 reduced to this unhappy alternative either to resist or yield — if 
 we yield we own the power that oppresses us and must forever 
 submit to its despotic sway— if we resist, we oppose that same 
 oppressive power, and must exert our resolutions with unremit- 
 ted ardor for our own security. If we yield we detach ourselves 
 from the general body of our fellow countrymen and must en- 
 dure their just reproaches. We must suffer the evils which a 
 servile submission will bring on us and our posterity and convey 
 the brand of infamy and shame to succeeding generations. We are 
 therefore constrained by the sacred obligations of patriotism, self- 
 preservation, & the tender ties of filial affection, to join our breth- 
 ren of the several towns on the continent in opposing the opera- 
 tion of their encroaching acts. Nature dictates, reason directs 
 and conscience urges us to support our freedom ; our happiness 
 depends upon it. Our cause is just and we doubt notfully coo 
 
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 sonant to the will of God. In him therefore let us put our trust, 
 let our hearts be obedient to the dictates of his sovereign will, 
 and let our hands and hearts be always ready to unite in zeal 
 for tke common good, and transmit to our children that Sacred 
 Freedom which our fathers have transmitted to us and which 
 they purchased with their purest blood. 
 
 We therefore further resolve, 
 
 1. That we will not suffer to be imported from Great Britain 
 to this town any articles whatever, on which the Parliament has 
 laid a duty with the purpose of raising a revenue from us with- 
 out our consent. 
 
 2. That we will have no dealings or correspondence with any 
 person who may wilfully promote either directly or indirectly 
 the operation of such arbitrary acts. 
 
 3. That it is the opinion of this town that one of the most ef- 
 fectual means for obtaining a redress of our grievances is for 
 every town to make proof of their virtue by desisting from the 
 use of ali India tea. Therefore, 
 
 4. Resolved, that whoever shall endeavor to allure the minds 
 of the people by any means whatever to use India tea until the 
 act imposing a duty thereon is repealed, is pursuing measures in 
 direct opposition to that freedom which the whole continent are 
 at this time contending for, and evidently proves how little they 
 are concerned if all America are enslaved, if they can but there- 
 by enrich themselves. Therefore, 
 
 5. Resolved, that we will not buy or sell any India tea, what- 
 ever, after this third day of February until the act which lays a 
 duty thereon is repealed, and will hold in detestation every per- 
 son who shall aim to counteract the designs of this town in this 
 respect. 
 
 C. Resolved, that as we are at a great distance from Boston 
 the metropolis of this province and cannot have so early intelli- 
 gence of encroachments upon our rights as they have, we do ac- 
 knowledge our obligations to them for their early notices of ap- 
 proaching danger, & for their intrepid behaviour upon the late tea 
 ships arrival. And we trust they will still be our watch tower, 
 
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 and they may depend on our utmost endeavors to support them 
 at all times in defence of our rights and liberties. 
 
 And then passed the following- Votes, viz : — 
 
 Voted, 2d. That the said committee of correspondence be a 
 standing committee to correspond v/ith the committee of corres- 
 pondence for the town of Boston. 
 
 Voted, 3d. That the Selectmen of this town be a committee 
 of inspection, whose business it shall be to observe if any per- 
 sons buy or sell tea contrary to the resolves of this town, and to 
 make report thereof to the committee of correspondence. 
 
 Voted, 4th. The Selectmen be and hereby are desired to with- 
 hold their approbation for license, for tavern keeping or retail- 
 ing to such person or persons as may presume to buy or sell tea 
 contrary to the aforesaid resolves. 
 
 Voted, 5. That Mr. Benjamin Mussey, Mr. Robert Pagan, 
 and Mr. Enoch Moody, be a committee to enquire what quan- 
 tity of tea is in town, of what quality, in whose hands it is, and 
 when imported and make report at the annual meeting in March 
 next. 
 
 Voted, 6. That a copy of these proceedings be by the Town 
 Clerk transmitted to the committee of correspondence in Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 At this meeting Capt. Jeremiah Pote and Mr. Robert Pagan 
 desired their dissent might be entered to the sixth Resolve, and 
 to the epithets given the ministry and East India Company. 
 
 June 30. A meeting of the inhabitants was called, to take in- 
 to consideration the alarming state of the province, " and the 
 other provinces of the continent,"with respect to the infringement 
 on their rights and liberties by some late acts of the British Par- 
 liament, and in particular the late cruel edict for blocking up 
 the harbour of Boston. At this meeting they directed their com- 
 mittee to write a sympathising letter to the committee of Boston 
 acquainting them " that we look upon them as suffering for 
 the common cause of American Liberty, that we highly applaud 
 them for the determinations they have made to endure their dis- 
 tresses, till they shall know the result of a continental Congress, 
 and would beg leave to recommend to them to persevere in their 
 
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 patience and resolution, and that so far as our small abilities wiii 
 extend we will encourage and support them." 
 August 30. At a meeting of the inhabitants they agreed to 
 • the draft of a letter reported by their committee in answer to 
 one received from the town of Boston, in which are the follow- 
 ing detached sentences. 
 
 " We beg leave to intreat you to persevere with your usual 
 fortitude and patience in that glorious cause which j ou have 
 hitherto so laudably defended, and we rejoice that though sur- 
 rounded by a fleet and army, you yet remain firm and resolute.'* 
 " What trust have we in Government ? What dependence on 
 our salutary laws, if they are liable to be altered or annulled 
 without our knowledge or consent ?" 
 
 " We would with patience bear our trouble, but we hope the 
 approaching Congress, on which we look with expectant and 
 impatient eyes, will adopt some method to redress our growing 
 grievances." 
 
 " We ardently wish a restoration of that harmony which once 
 so happily subsisted between our mother country and us ; but 
 till the wished for time arrives, we hope a sacred regard to our 
 oppressed country will influence every mind to the preservation 
 of peace and good order" *** Looking up to Him who is 
 the great Governor of all events, for help and direction, that He 
 may le«id us into such measures as will be agreeable to his will, 
 and we obtain his divine blessing." 
 
 The town then voted, That Jedediah Preble, Esq. Enoch Free- 
 man, Esq. Stephen Longfellow, Esq. Mr. Enoch Ilsley and Mr 
 Samuel Freeman, be a committee to meet committees from the 
 several towns in this county to consider what measures it will be 
 expedient to adopt for the general interest of the County in the 
 present alarming situation of our public affairs ; and that said 
 committee write to said towns, acquainting them with this vote, 
 and appoint the time and place of meeting.* 
 
 *In consequence of this vote, a Convention of gentlemen from different parts 
 of the county was soon after held at F 1 mouth, at which a number of Resolu- 
 tions were passed ; which as they exhibit a view of the important situation of 
 affairs at that time, T ihi ik proper to insert at full length as follows : — 
 
 CUMBERLAND COUNTY RESOLVES. 
 At a meeting of the jollotuing gentlemen chosen by the several towns in the county 
 of Cumberland, held at Falmouth, in said county, on the list day of Septem- 
 ber, 1774, at thehcme ofMn. Greek, viz. from 
 
 Talmouth, the Hon. Enoch Freeman. Esq. ; Stephen Longfellow, Esq. ; Mr. 
 
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 Sept. 29. At a town meeting, " voted, That the Hon. Enoch 
 Freeman, Esq. our Representative [chosen the 7 th September, 
 to attend the General Court to be convened at Salem,] be andhere- 
 
 Richard Codman, Capt. John Waite, Ml Enoch Ilsley, and Mr. Samuel Free- 
 ma. . 
 
 Scarborough, Capt. Timorhy McDaniel, Capt. Reuben Fogg, Mr. Joshua 
 
 Fabyau. 
 
 2i T or tk-Yar -mouth, Mr. John Lewis, David Mitchell Esq. , Messrs. Jonathan 
 Mitchel, John Gray, William Cutter. 
 
 Gorham, Solomon Lombard, Esq. ; William Gorham, Esq: ; Capt. Edmund 
 Phine>, Opt. Briatit Morton, Mr. Joseph Davis. 
 
 Cape-El izabeth. Dr. Clement Jordan, Messrs. Peter Woodbury, Samuel Dunn, 
 Capt. Judah Dye', Dr, Nathaniel Jones, Mr. George Strout. 
 
 Brunswick, Messrs. Samuel Tnompoon, Samuel Stanwood. Capt. Thomas 
 Monitor*. 
 
 Hrfpsivefl, Mr. Joseph Ewing, Capt. John Stover, Mr. Andrew Dunning. 
 Windham, Messrs. Zerubbabel Hony well, Thomas Trott, David Barker, 
 Neiu-Glouceiter, Messrs. William Harris, Isaac Parsons. 
 The Hon. Enoch Fre-m«n, Esq. was chosen Chairman. 
 Mr. Samuel Freeman, Clrrk. 
 
 A Committee from the body of people who were assembled at the entrance 
 of the town, waited on this convention, to see if they would choose a commit- 
 tee of one member out of each town, to join them to wait upon Mr. Sheriff 
 Tyng to see whether he would act in his office, under the late act of Parlia- 
 ment for regulating the government. 
 
 On a motion made, voted, that a messenger be sent to the said SheriffTyng, 
 to desire his attendance at this convention. A messenger then waited upon 
 Mr Tyng with the following billet, viz. 
 
 w Mr. Sheriff Tytig's company is desired at the Convention cf the county, not)) 
 sitting at Mrs. Greele's. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. 
 
 ** Wednesday, Sept. zist, 1774, 11 o'clock, A. M." 
 
 Mr. Tyng accordingly attended, and after some interrogations, subscribed 
 the following declarations, viz. 
 
 " County of Cumberland, Falmouth, September ar, 1774. 
 Whereas great numbers of the inhabitants of this county are now assem- 
 bled near my house, in consequence of the false representations of some evil 
 minded persons, who have reported that 1 have endeavoured al! in my power 
 to enforce the late acts of parliament, relating to this province : I do hereby 
 solemnly declare that I have not in any way whatever acted or endeavoured 
 to act in conformity to said act of parliament: And in compliance with the 
 commands of the inhabitants so assembled, and by the advice of a committee 
 from the several towns in this county now assembled in Congress, I further 
 declare I will not as Sheriff of said county, or otherwise, act in conformity to, 
 or by virtue of, said acts, unless by the general consent of the said county. I 
 further declare, I have not received any commission inconsistent with the 
 ch -rter of this province, nor any commission whatever, since the first day of 
 July last. « WILLIAM TYNG." 
 
 " County of Cumberland, 
 
 " At the convention of committees from the several towns in the said coun- 
 ty .held at the house of Mrs. Greele. in Falmouth, in said county , September 
 r,ist, 1774 Voted. That the foregoing, by William Tyng, Esq. subscribed, is 
 s at : .sfactory to this convention. 
 
 » Attest , SAMUEL FREEMAN.'.' 
 
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 by is instructed, that in case the House of Representatives should' 
 resolve themselves into a provincial Congress, that he do join 
 with them in said Congress."' 
 
 Nov. 28. The town appointed a committee of eleven to " see 
 that the several articles of the association of the grand Amer- 
 
 The convention then formed themselves into a committee to accompany 
 Mr.Tyngto che body of the people, to present the above declaration, and ad- 
 journed to the old Town-House, at 3 o'clock, P.M. the deliberation to be in 
 public- 
 
 The committee accordingly went with Mr. Tyng, who read the declaration 
 to the people, which they voted to be satisfactory, and after refreshing them- 
 selves, returned peaceably to their several homes. 
 
 P. M. 3 o'clock, met according to adjournment. 
 
 Voted, That Mr. Samuel Freeman, Solomon Lombard, Esq. Stephen Long- 
 fellow, Esq. David Mitchel, Esq. John Lewis, Capt. John Waite, Samuel 
 Thompson, Capt. Timothy Mc Daniel, Doctor Nathaniel Jones, Isaac Parsons, 
 Enoch Freeman, Esq. David Barker and Capt. John Stover, be a committee to 
 draw up the sentiments of this convention, and report the same at the ad- 
 journment. 
 
 Then adjourned to Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. 
 
 September 22, Met according to adjournment, when the committee presen- 
 ted the following report, which after being read, paragraph by paragraph, 
 was unanimously accepted, viz. 
 
 The great concern with which the people of this county view the increasing 
 differences, which now subsist between the mother country and the colonies, 
 & the dark prospect which some late acts of the British parliament have in par- 
 ticular opened to them, has occasioned the several towns herein to choose 
 committees for this convention. ** To consider what measures it would be 
 thought expedient to adopt for the general interest of the county, in the pres- 
 ent alarming situation of our public affairs."' We therefore, the said commit- 
 tees, pursuant to the request of our respective towns, guided by a strong at- 
 achment to the interests of our oppressed country, think it proper with res- 
 pect and deference to our brethren in other counties, to make known our 
 minds as follows. 
 
 B We think it the indispensable duty of every subject of the English constitu- 
 tion, for our own sakes as well as that of future generations, to use his utmost 
 care, and endeavour, according to the station he is in, to preserve the same 
 inviolate and unimpaired ; for we regard it, not only as the foundation of all 
 our civil rights and liberties, but as a Byst>-.m of government, the best calcu- 
 lated to promote the people's peace" and happiness* And we lament that in the 
 present administration there are men so lost to all the principles of honor, 
 equity and jastice, as to attempt a violation of the rights which we have long 
 enjoyed, and which while we profess ourselves, a3 we now declare we do, 
 allegiant subjects to George the third, our rightful Sovereign, we have a right 
 still to enjoy entire and unmolested : And it is a melancholy consideration .. 
 
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 Tcan Congress be duly observed by the inhabitants of the town.' 
 
 Dec. 21. A meeting was called to consider the address of 
 the provincial Congress, to raise money for the encouragemen 
 of minute men, and to adopt other warlike measures, 
 
 that the acknowledged head of this respected state should be induced to p 
 his sanction to such laws as tend to the subversion of that glorious freedo 
 which preserves the greatness of the British empire, and gives it reputati 
 throughout all the nations of the civil world. It is too apparent that the Bri 
 ish ministry have long been hatching monstrous acts to break our constitu- 
 tion, and some they have at length brought forth. We think the colonies de- 
 serve a better treatment from his Majesty than this which he assents to. We 
 are his loyal subjects, St merit his re gard,& cannot help thinking that if he would 
 pursue his own unbiassed judgment, and lay aside the selfish council of wick* 
 ed and designing men, he and his subjects would bt- mutually happy, and prov- 
 ocations on both sides ce^se. But since the ministry have borne their tyranny 
 to such a length as to endeavour to execute their wicked designs by military 
 force in our metropolis we fear it is their aim to introduce despotic monarchy 
 But though their tyranny and oppression seems now with hasty strides to 
 threaten all the colonies with ruin and destruction, we hope no vengeance will 
 affright, or wiles allure us to give up our dear bought liberty, that choicest 
 boon of Heaven, which our fathers came into these regions to enjoy and which 
 we therefore will retain, while life enables us to struggle for its blessings. 
 
 We believe our enemies supposed we must submit and tamely give up all our 
 rights. It is true a vigorous opposition w ; ll subject us to many inconveniences, 
 but how much greater will our misery be if we relinquish all we now enjoy, 
 and lay our future earnings at the mercy of despotic men f We cannot bear 
 the thought. Distant posterity would have cause to curse our foily, and the ri- 
 sing geueration would justly execrate our memory. We therefore recommend 
 a manly opposition to those cruel acts, and every measure which despotism can 
 invent to « tbridge our English liberties," and we hope that patience will pos- 
 sess our souls, til : Providence shall dissipate the gloomy cloud, and restore us 
 to our former happy state. 
 
 The late act for regulating the government of this province we consider, in 
 particular, as big with mischief and destruction, tending to the subversion of 
 our charter and our province law*, and in its dire example, alarming to all the 
 colonies. This through the conduct of some enemies among ourselves, will 
 soon bring us into difficulties which will require some able council to remove. 
 We ther?fore recommend to each town in this county to instruct their several 
 Representatives to resolve themselves with the other members of the House, 
 at their approaching session, into a Provincial Congress for this purpose. 
 
 To this Congress we shall s-ibmit the general interest of the province, but 
 for the particular benefit of this county, we do advise and recommend, 
 
 I. That thv justices of the sessions and court of common pleas, and eve.ty 
 other civil offic- r in this county, which no authority can remove, bat that 
 which constituted them agreeable to charter and our own provincial laws, 
 
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 THE YEAR 1775. 
 Was big with important events. See the following account 
 of Thompson's War, Extracts of Letters, account of the burn- 
 
 would religiously officiate in their several departments, as if the aforesaid act 
 had never been invented, and that every private person would pay a strict obe- 
 dience to such officers, be always ready to protect and to support them, and 
 promote a due observance of our own established laws. And if any person 
 whatsoever should henceforth in any manner dare to aid the operation of the 
 said tyrannic net, they should be considered as malignant enemies to our char- 
 ter rights, unfit for civil society, and undeserving of the least regard or favov 
 from their fellow countrymen. 
 
 2. That every one would do his utmost to discoui age law suits, and likewise 
 compromise disputes as much as possible. 
 
 3. That it be recommended to the Hon* Jeremiah Powell, Esq. and Jedidiah 
 Preble, Esq. constitutional counsellors of this province, residing in this coun - 
 ty, that they would take their places at the board the ensuing session as usual. 
 
 4. Wecannot butapprove of the recommendation given by the convention of 
 Suffolk county to the several collectors of province taxes not to pay one far- 
 thing more into the province treasury, until the governmtnt of the province is 
 placed on a constitutional foundation,©!* until the provincial congress shall or- 
 der otherwise ; and we recommend the same to the several collectors in this 
 county. But we thtuk it the duty of :he several collectors of county, town and 
 district taxes, to perfect their collections, and pay the same into their several 
 treasuries as soon as possible. And here we think it proper to observe, that 
 though we do not coincide in every instance with oui Suffolk brethren, which 
 may be owing to a want of knowing all the circumstances of affairs, yet we 
 highly applaud th«ir virtuous zeal, and determined resolutions. 
 
 5. We recommend to every town in this county, charitably to contribute to 
 the relief of our suffering brethren in our distressed metropolis. 
 
 6. Lest oppression, which maketh even wise men mad, should hurry some 
 people into tumults and disorders, we would recommend that every individual 
 in the county use his best endeavors to suppress, at all times, riots, mobs, and 
 all licentiousness, and that our fellow subjects would consider themselves as 
 they always are, in the presence of the great GOD, who loveth order, and not 
 confusion, 
 
 I 7. That when a general non importation agreement takes place, we shall look 
 upon it to be the duty of every vender of merchandise to sell his goods at the 
 present rates ; and if any person shall exorbitantly enhance the prices of his 
 goods, we shall look upon him as an oppressor of his country. And in otder to 
 prevent imposition in this respect, we recommend that a committee be chosen 
 in each town to receive complaints against any who may be to blame herein. 
 And if he shall refuse to wait on such committee, on notice given, or be found 
 culpable in this respect, tiis name shall be published in the several towns of the 
 county, as undeserving of the future custom of his countrymen. 
 8. That every one who has it in his power, would improve our breed of sheep. 
 
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 ing of the town, &c. From the Records of the town, it is not 
 thought expedient to make any further transcript. 
 
 The affairs of the town, as they respect the war and public 
 
 ar.d as far as possible, increase their number ; and also encourage the raising of 
 flax, and promote the mmufactu~es of the country. 
 
 9. As the very extraordinary and alarming act for establishing the Roman 
 catholic religion, and French laws, in Canada, may introduce the French or In- 
 dtans into our frontier 1 owns, we recommend that every town, and individual 
 in this countv, should bp provided with a proper stock of military stores, ac- 
 »crJiug to our province law, und that some patriotic military officers be cho- 
 sen in each town to exercise their several companies, and make them perfect 
 in the military art. 
 
 10. Our general grievances being the subject of deliberation before the cor- 
 tiner.t t! congress, renders it inexpedient to consider them particularly ; 011 their 
 wisdom we have a great dependence, and we think it will be our duty to lay a- 
 side every measure to which we h we advised, that may be variant from theirs, 
 and pay a due regard to their result. 
 
 And now we think it proper to declare, that as we have been recounting the 
 hardships we endureby the machinations of our enemtei at home, we cannot 
 burjjratefully acknowledge oar obligation to those illustrious worthies, our 
 friends of the minority, who .constantly opposed those wicked measures, and 
 would heartily wish that some great and good men, would invent and mark out 
 some plan that will unite the parent state to these its colonies,and thereby pre- 
 vent the effusion of christian blood. 
 
 Then, Voted, That every member of this convention be severally interroga- 
 ted whether he now has, or will hereafter take any commission under the 
 present act of parliament, for regulating the government of this province. 
 
 The members were accordingly interrogated, and each and every of them 
 answered in the negative. 
 
 Voted, That the several committees which compose this convention, or the 
 major part of each, be, and hereby are, desired to interrogate the civil officers 
 and other persons whom they may think fit, in their respective towns, wheth- 
 er they now have, or will hereafter take, any commission under the aforesaid 
 jet. 
 
 Voted, That the whole proceedings of this convention be, by the clerk, 
 r i ansmitted to the press, and also to the town clerks of the respective towns in 
 his county, as soon as may be. 
 
 Voted, That this convention be continued, and that the committee of Fal- 
 mouth ,ar the major part of them, be, and hereby are, empowered, on any occa- 
 sion, that in their opinion requires it, to notify a meeting of the delegates there 
 if, at such time and place as they may think proper, setting forth the occasion 
 : hereof. 
 
 Voted, That the thanks of this convention be given to the hon. Enoch Free- 
 man, Esq. for his fyithfulservices as chairman. A true copy. 
 Attest. SAMUEL FREEMAN, Clerk. 
 
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 measures, were conducted chiefly by a Committee of Corres- 
 pondence, Safety and Inspection.* 
 
 The following will exhibit some of their proceedings at three different peri- 
 ods of this year,— £J. 
 
 1 
 
 Falmouth, January +th, 1775- 
 The Committee of Inspection met, pursuant to adjournment, at Mrt.Greely's 
 Present, Messrs. Benjamin Titcomb, Smith \V. Cobb, 
 
 Enoch Ilsley, Pearson Jones, 
 
 Benj. Mussey, jedidiah Cobb, 
 
 Jos.McLellan, John Butler, 
 
 Pelatiah March, SamM Freeman, 
 
 Joseph Noyes, Theophilus Parsons. 
 
 The Chairman absent. 
 
 Voted, That Mr. Benjamin Titcomb be Chairman of this Committee for this 
 evening. 
 
 The Committee proceeded to give their opinions respecting Mr. Smith's re- 
 quest [made with due deference to the committee, as the »n!y proper authority, 
 existing at that time.] 
 
 Voted, That Mr. Smith be desired to attend. 
 
 Mr. Smith attended and was heard. 
 
 Voted, That it is the opinion of this Committee that Mr. Smith if he should 
 sell the powder he imported from Great Britain at 2oj. per. Ib. would violate 
 he 9th article of the American Association, 
 
 Voted, That the chairman or (in case of his absence) any three of the commit- 
 tee should be impowered to convene the committee whenever he or they should 
 think proper. Attest, THEO. PARSONS, Clerk. 
 
 Falmouth, March 2d, I775» 
 At a meeting of the Committee of Inspection, at the library chamber, to deter- 
 mine what ought to be done with respect to a vessel that arrived here thisday 
 from Bristol, suppostd to have goods and merchandize for Capt, Thos. Coulson 
 on board. 
 
 Voted, That Mr. Benjamin Mussey, Capt, Joseph McLellan and Mr. Benjamin 
 Titcomb be a committee to employ some persons to see that no goods are landed 
 from said vessel during the debates of the Committee of Inspection, and to de- 
 sire that Capt. Coulson and the master of said vessel would attend this Com- 
 mittee, Capr. Coulson and the master accordingly attended; and being asked 
 if said vessel came from Bristol, and what she had on board, ?nswered that she 
 did come from Bristol, and had on board rigging, sails and stores for a new 
 ship lately built here, by Capt . Coulson, 
 
 Voted, That Capt. Joseph McLellan , Mr. Jedidiah Cobb, Mr. Benjamin Mus- 
 sey, and Mr. Samuel Freeman be committee to go on board said vessel or em- 
 ploy some other persons to go on board her to see whether she has on boa^d any 
 goods other than the rigging sails and stores for said new ship. 
 
 The meeting was then adjourned to eight o'clock to-morrow morning to meet 
 at the library chamber, and that in the mean time the absent members be de- 
 sired to attend. 
 
 d2 
 
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 THOMPSON'S WAR. 
 The following account of " Thompson's War," so called, is 
 transcribed from an original letter, written by a gentleman at 
 Portland, to his friend at Watertown. 
 
 Falmouth, May 18, 1775. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 It may not be disagreeable to you to have a more particular 
 
 Falmouth, March 3d, 1775* 
 The committee of Inspection meet pursuant to adjournment. 
 Present, Enoch Freeman, Esq. Messrs. Daniel llsley, Benj. Titcomb, Enoch 
 Ilsley, John Wa'te, Stephen Waite, Benj. Mussey, Wm. Owen, Sam"! Knights, 
 Jedidiah Cobh, John Butler, Jabex Jones, Smith Cobb, Peletiah March, Pear- 
 son Jones, Joseph Noyes, Samuel Freeman, Joseph McLrllan t Theophilus Parssns. 
 
 The question being put, whether Opr. Coulson's taking said rigging and 
 sails out of the vessel in which they arrived, and his appropriating them to 
 rig his new ship in order to send her to England, will be a violation of the 
 American Association. 
 
 After a long aad serious debate, it was 
 
 Resolved in the affirmative by a majority of 14105. 
 
 Voted, therefore, that said rigging, sails and stores, for said new ship, ought 
 forthwith to be sent back again, without breaking any of the packages thereof— 
 by a majority of 14 to 5. 
 
 Voted, N.C. D. That all other goods and merchandize that were imported in 
 said vessel ought also forthwith to be sent back again , without breaking any of 
 the packages thereof, 
 
 rr Voted, That Messrs. Enoch Ilsley, John Waite and Daniel Ilsley be a commit- 
 tee, immediately to inform Opt, Coulson of the result of this committee, 
 *nd that they aie now sitting, if he is desirous to attend them. Capt. Coulson 
 attended, and informed the committee the vessel in which his rigging and 
 sails arrived was so out of repair that she was unfit to return back again, un- 
 'il she was repaired, and that in order to repair her, the freight must be taken 
 aut. The meeting was then adjourned to 3 o'clock P. M. to meet at the same 
 place. 
 
 Falmouth, 3<f March, 1775. 
 The committee met, at 3 o'clock, T.M. pursuant to adjournment. 
 Voted, That the sub-committees, chosen by the 1st and 2d votes ef yesterday 
 discharged from any further service as sub-committees. 
 
 Voted, That this committee will exert their utmost endeavours to prevent all 
 ••he inh-birants of this town from engaging in any riots, tumults and insurrec- 
 tions, or attacks on the private property of any persont as pernicious to the 
 real interest thereof, as well as injurious to the liberty of America in general, 
 and that they will, as far as lies in their power, promote peace and good order, 
 as absolutely necessary to the existence of society. 
 
 Ordered, That the result of this committee, together with the foregoing vote* 
 
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 account of the solemn scene that has been acted here for two 
 
 last past, be posted op in some public place in the town, signed by the chairman. 
 
 Attest, THEOPHILUS PARSONS, C/trk. 
 
 3 
 
 Falmouth, September %7d, [775. 
 At a meeting of a committee ofthesaid town of Falmouth, chosen on the 19th 
 Instant, Co put the Resolves of the General Court and Congress of this colony in 
 execution, 
 
 Voted Mr. Enoch Moody, Chairman— Mr. Nat. Green Moody, Clerk. 
 
 Voted, That Capt. P— be ordered to go to the General Court, byUnd, on or 
 before Thursday next, to answer for his conduct with respect to his exporting 
 fish. 
 
 Voted, That Capt. Wm. McLellan, and Messrs. B. Marston and I. Nichols be 
 a committee to wait on Mrs. Ross, concerning a letter sent her from Boston. 
 Meeting adjourned to 5 o'clock. 
 The committee met according to adjournment. 
 
 The committee who waited on Mrs. Ross reported, that she said she had not 
 received any letter from her daughter at Boston, since August 10th, and that 
 not relating to public affairs ; and if in future ste shall hear of any thing that 
 may probably injure the town, they may depend upon her giving information. 
 
 Mr. W— — was sent for and examined and found guilty of being concerned 
 with Capt. P— — , in shipping fish from the Isle of Shoals to the West In- 
 dies : Therefore, Voted, That Mr. W— — bt ordered to go to the General 
 Court, by land, at the same time with Capt. P , and upon the same occasion. 
 
 Sent for Mr. P , and, upon examination, found him clear of being con- 
 cerned in shipping the above fish. 
 
 Voted, That Messrs. Moses Plumer, John Bagley and Wm. McLellan be a 
 committee to inspect inward and outward bound vessels. 
 
 Meeting adjourned to the house of Enoch Moody on Tuesday next, at 5 
 o'clock, P.M. 
 
 Met, and adjourned to Thursday, iv o'clock, at the sasne place. Then a 
 
 letter was dispatched to the General Court, concerning — fand — — , 
 
 Who were this day ordered to go there under the care of Mr. JohnjThrasher, who 
 has a warrrant for that purpose. 
 
 Voted, That if Mr. John Thrasher does not proceed as above, that a warrant 
 be issued to Capt, Joseph Noyes, to convey the above - and - to the 
 General Court. 
 
 October 3d. The committee met at the desire of Mr, Samuel Longfellow J 
 Xrho on his passage to the West Indies, met with a gale of wind, damaged his 
 vessel, and lost part of his deck-load, and asks leave to re-load his vessel, and 
 proceed on his voyage. Then 
 
 Voted, That he be not permitted to take any more loading on board. 
 
 Deacon Titcomb and Mr. Enoch Ilsley applied for leave to send a sloop on a 
 "Whaling voyage. The committee voted that it w*s not in their power. 
 
 To shew further what kind of government existed at that time, I would achl 
 the following: 
 
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 Falntiuth, Kov.4th,t77S- 
 At a meeting of a number of gentlemen, from the several towns, at Col. 
 Tyng's house, Col. Jona. Mitchell chosen Moderator, P. Jones Clerk. 
 
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 or three days past, than it can be expected common fame will 
 give you :— 
 
 Last Tuesday morning, Lieut. Col. Thompson,* of Brunswick, 
 with about 50 armed men, with each a small bough of spruce 
 in his hat, and having a spruce pole, with the green top on it 
 for a standard, landed on the back part of our neck, at a place 
 called Sandy Point, where there is a grove of thick trees. In 
 that place they lie, unknown to the people of the town, seizing 
 and detaining several persons that happened to pass that way, 
 till about 1 o'clock, when Capt. Mowat, the Surgeon of his ship, 
 and the Rev. Mr. Wiswal, taking a walk that way for their pleas- 
 ure, were seized and made prisoners. As soon as the master o 
 the ship (one Hogg) heard of it, he wrote to Col. Freeman, that 
 if Capt. Mowat and the other prisoners were not delivered up 
 in an hour or two (I do not certainly know the time) he would 
 lay the town in ashes. — You can hardly conceive the consterna- 
 tion, confusion and uproar that immediately ensued. Our wom- 
 en were, I believe, every one of them in tears, or praying or 
 screaming ; precipitately leaving their houses ; especially those 
 whose husbands were not at home, and widows ; hurrying their 
 
 Mr. James Sullivan was chosen Commander in Chief over the Militia and 
 the other companies now in pay in the province. 
 
 Votedy That 4 persons be appointed to assist Mr. Sullivan. 
 
 Voted, That Col. Mitchel! be second in command— Col. Fogg third— Deacon 
 Titcomb, Major Noyes. 
 
 Mr. Isaiah Tucker be commander to take care of the cannon and see them in 
 order. 
 
 Voted a committee to supply the soldiers. 
 
 Voted one person to supply the people, and Mr, Wm. Owen was chosen. 
 Voted a person to collect what balls we can get. Mr. Bracket Mars ton, and 
 Mr. John Bagley, to collect the balls. 
 
 •This Thompson was a portly man, not ot a very tall stature, but somewhat 
 corpulent, and apparently of a robust constitution ; rather fierce in appearance, 
 but not supposed to be possessed of much real courage. Nature had furnished 
 him with strong mental powers, and a capacity which, if it had been rightly 
 directed and employed, might have rendered him a useful member of Society 
 —but his mind needed cultivation. 
 
 He was witty in conversation, and would often, when in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, set in motion the risibles of his brother members. 
 
 His religion was not of the purest kind— his political principles were demo- 
 cratic, or, as parties were then distinguished, a zealous whig. 
 
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 goods into countrymen's carts, never asking their names, though 
 strangers ; and carrying their children, either out of town, or 
 i up to the south end, according to the greater or less irritability 
 of their nerves. Some persons bedrid, or in childbed, were 
 hastily removed, with no small danger of their lives. Several 
 gentlemen of the town, who could attend it, and I among the 
 rest, immediately repaired to Col. Thompson's camp ; and after 
 obtaining leave of the advance guard, were permitted to speak 
 with him. We endeavored to persuade him to deliver up the 
 prisoners, by all the rational arguments we could think of; but 
 he appeared inflexible and even furious. Here and there one 
 in the town (none but Tories however) were at first for rescuing 
 the prisoners by our militia ; but the general voice of the town 
 was to observe a strict neutrality, excepting persuasives and 
 arguments. 
 
 Col. Phinney, of Gorham, colonel of the minute men, being 
 in town, and fearing a rescue, or for some other reason, sent out 
 for his men, I suppose without asking the advice of any body \ 
 and soon afterwards sent word that they need not come into 
 town. Night was coming on, and the weather cool and windy, 
 which endangered the health of some of the gentlemen, at least 
 in th.6 open field. It was therefore agreed by Col. Freeman 
 and his advisers, at the desire of Mowat and by the free consent 
 of Thompson, that the company of Cadets should escort the par- 
 ty and the prisoners to Mr. Marston's, in order that a consulta- 
 tion might be further held there. The two companies remain- 
 ed embodied before the door. Col. Thompson remained unwil- 
 ling to deliver up the prisoners, insisting much that Divine Prov- 
 idence had thrown them into his hands, and that it was open and 
 settled war between the Colonies aud Britain. But he was 
 more and more convinced that the whole force of the town 
 was against him, and found himself disappointed of a rein- 
 forcement that he expected to meet him here ; so that by about 
 9 o'clock in the evening he was much cooled : and the prison- 
 ers giving their parole, that they would deliver themselves into 
 his hands at nine the next morning, General Preble and Cole- 
 
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 nel Freeman pledging themselves for them, he consented to set 
 them at liberty. Upon which Mowat, having- expressed his 
 gratitude to the town in strong terms, went aboard, and dismis- 
 sed a number of our people, whom the master had, during the 
 afternoon, caught in boats, and made prisoners. But when CoL 
 Thompson's men found that he had given Mowat his liberty, 
 they were hard to pacify. Not only Col. Phinney's minute men, 
 but most of the militia from Gorham, Scarborough, Cape Eliza- 
 beth and Stroudwater, in the whole, amounting, it is said, to 
 600, came into town before morning, highly enraged at Capt. 
 Mowat's being dismissed, and seemingly determined to destroy 
 his ship. Wednesday morning, when it was found that Mowat 
 would not deliver himself up, the army took and made prisoners 
 of Gen. Preble and Col. Freeman, threatening to treat them 
 in the same manner as they would treat Mowat, if they had himr 
 Even their children were not permitted to speak with them, 
 and they had no dinner that day. All the officers of the com- 
 panies then present, agreed to resolve themselves into a com- 
 mittee of War ; and after some hesitation they admitted the 
 officers of our companies on the neck, into the committee. In 
 which committee a vote was passed by a considerable majority, 
 that Capt. Mowat's ship ought to be destroyed. In the next 
 place, they appointed a committee out of their number, to con- 
 sider in what manner it should be done. This committee have 
 not yet reported as I can find. But they have proceeded to call 
 men before them who were suspected of being tories, to ques- 
 tion them, to draw promises from them, and especially to draw 
 money and provisions from them. The Rev. Mr. Wiswal deliv- 
 ered himself up very willingly, and seemed rather impatient till 
 they had him with them ; saying to some that passed by his 
 door, he was ready to die at any time, as he knew he was in a 
 good cause, the cause of the church of England. 
 
 The committee interrogated him concerning his political 
 principles. He declared an abhorrence of the doctrine of pas- 
 sive obedience and non-resistance ; and that he thought Great 
 Britain had no right to tax America internally, but as to the 
 
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 late a€ts of Parliament, he had not examined them, and did not 
 choose to give his opinion concerning them. 
 
 Old Mr. Wyer had a file of men sent after him, who holding 
 a pistol to his breast, forced him to go before the committee ; 
 and when there, he was interrogated, whether he had said, " the 
 militia ought to rescue capt. Mowat ?" to which he answered 
 in the affirmative. Also, whether ne did not think it an impru- 
 dent speech ? to which he answered, yes. Also, whether he 
 were of the same mind now ? He answered, no, as matters are 
 circumstanced. Then whether he would say any thing again 
 against the body of men in town. He said no. The commit- 
 tee soon agreed to dismiss him, and one of them said he was not 
 worth their notice He thanked the gentlemen for their civil- 
 ity, made a low bow, and departed. Capt. Steward called to the 
 crowd before the door, to make way for Mr. Wyer, and told 
 them out of the window, the committee had dismissed him as 
 unworthy of their notice. 
 
 Capt. Pote was fetched before the committee without making 
 any resistance, though he had made formidable preparations to 
 defend himself. It is reported that the committee made him give 
 them, for the benefit of the body, about £ 50 O. T. in cash and 
 provisions, and that they have bound him in a bond of £2000, to 
 appear at the Congress of the Province, and give an account of 
 himself to them. They taxed General Preble some barrels of 
 bread and a number of cheeses ; and two barrels of rum for each 
 company then in town, which he readily gave them, Wednes- 
 day afternoon, in value about £10, L. M. Wednesday evening, 
 they made out a bill of £158. L. M. against Preble and Free- 
 man, to satisfy the body for their time and trouble in the expe- 
 dition ; but I hear they have dropped that demand. 
 
 Yesterday morning they entered the house of Capt. Coulson, 
 and they use it as a barrack. The men made so free with a 
 barrel of N. E. rum, which they found in the cellar, that some 
 of them were quite, and others almost drunken. 
 
 Between meetings yesterday Calvin Lombard, being raised 
 with liquor, went down to the water side and fired a brace of 
 balls at Mowat's ship, which penetrated deep in its side. Tha 
 
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 nre was answered from a fusee on board, but with no aim to do 
 execution. — Capt. Mowat immediately wrote to Col. Freeman 
 to deliver up Calvin, and to raise the Militia to dispel the mob 
 from the country, as he called them ; assuring" him that other- 
 wise he must fire upon the town. This threw the town again 
 into a panic ; but we had, notwithstanding, a pretty full meeting 
 in the afternoon. 
 
 Yesterday they hauled Captain Coulson's boat up to the house, 
 where it remained till just now, three quarters after twelve, 
 when near a hundred men hauled it up through the streets and 
 into Capt. Pearson's back lot, down almost to the Cove. It is 
 reported that Mowat sent word, or wrote on shore last evening, 
 that he had bought that boat of Coulson, and paid for it, and that 
 if it were not returned immediately, or speedily, he would fire 
 upon the town. He doubtless saw it hauled away just now ; 
 but he has not fired as yet, and here I sit writing at my desk in 
 the old place, being fully convinced that Mowat never will fire 
 upon the town, in any case whatever. My house is turned in- 
 to a kind of barrack. Several have removed bedding and other 
 goods into it. We are full a nights. 
 
 I dont know why people think themselves so safe here, unless 
 it be because my wife is not yet much affrighted. 
 
 This morning the Committee sent to Deacon Titcomb for 
 lOOlbs of bread, who returned for answer, that he had no bread, 
 but what he wanted for himself ; but if the company would go 
 - out of town, immediately he would give it them. Col. Finney 
 promised that he would do his utmost endeavour to get them out 
 of town to day : therefore the bread was delivered. 
 
 Friday 3 o'clock. — They have just hauled another boat over 
 to back cove, and left it with the former. The boat belongs to 
 the ship. They have this day carried off Mr. Tyng's Bishop, a 
 piece of plate said to be worth 500 O. T. and his laced hat, but 
 they say they only take these things as pawns to make the own- 
 ers behave better, or to that purpose. 
 
 Friday 6 o'clock. — The Gorham Company being the only one 
 
3; 
 
 that remained here since Wednesday evening, excepting 
 Thompson, are now gone out of town, being urged and coax 
 ed to it, by Col. Phinney. 
 
 The town thinks itself greatly relieved by it. 
 
 These companies paid no regard to the Fast yesterday. 1 
 cannot find that any of them attended public worship, except 
 one : nor any one of their officers except Col. Phinney. He 
 was sent for to back cove by Col. Mitchell and Col. Merrill, 
 who were vexed at the proceedings of the armament, and came 
 to give advice. But Thompson would not wait on his senior. 
 
 The soldiery thought nothing too bad to say of the Falmouth 
 gentry. Some of them were heard to say as they walked the 
 streets yesterday, " This town ought to be laid in ashes." I find 
 the plan was concerted beforehand on purpose to humble Fal- 
 mouth, for its arrogance in sending a message to Thompson 
 last week, to dissuade him from coming to take the ships. He 
 then wrote to Col. Freeman that he had wholly laid aside his 
 design ; and being reminded of it, his answer was " there is 
 policy in war." 
 
 Saturday, A. M. — Thompson is not gone as we supposed last 
 night. The ship has sent out a little vessel with a swivel to 
 interrupt him. If he had gone last night, he would have been 
 destroyed. 
 
 Your friend and servant, 
 
 P. S. Being disappointed last Saturday of sending the above, 
 I am now able to add something more. — Capt. Mowat sent a 
 letter to the town on Saturday, informing them that he had 
 heard that Fort Guns were going to be brought in and replacr 
 ed, in order to destroy his ship ; and demanding of the town to 
 return his boats and drive out of town the cowardly mob that 
 was here. The selectmen warned a town meeting, to meet at 
 8 o'clock Monday morning. They met accordingly, and gave 
 Blowat such an answer as pleased him. " That the town disap- 
 proved of the proceedings of the armed body, but that we were 
 unable to resist them." 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Wiswal went on board ship on Saturday ; and 
 Sabbath morning sent to his Wardens that he should not preach 
 
3b' 
 
 in the Church, but that they might come on board if they pleas- 
 ed and hear him. — None went. Some say he has taken a final 
 leave of his people : how it is, I cannot yet find out His Fam- 
 ily remains here, and he is gone to Portsmouth, some say and 
 think to get himself a settlement there. His people seem to be 
 universally set against him, except a few high Tories, and wish 
 never to see his face any more. 
 
 Yesterday Mowat and Coulson and their ships departed for 
 Portsmouth. 
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 From original letters, written at Falmouth, in the year 1775, by 
 the Chairman of the Committee of Safety and Inspection, to 
 the Representative of the said town at the Provincial Con- 
 gress. 
 
 April 12, 1775. 
 Last night we had a Letter from the Committee at Boston, 
 wherein they say they should be extremely uneasy to find any 
 omission of duty " in behalf of this Province and the other colo- 
 •' nies, as the eyes of the whole continent are upon us. The 
 •' tools of power wish for an opportunity to charge us with neg- 
 ligence, and are watching for it, to make a division between 
 this Province and the other Colonies. We therefore again 
 ' { recommend to you, as our firm opinion, that you conform 
 " strictly and religiously to the association of the Continental 
 " Congress, in every respect, without favour or affection to any 
 " person whatever. We are of opinion, to suspend the publica- 
 «* tion of your Resolves respecting Capt. Coulson, till we hear 
 " from you whether he has complied with the request of the 
 " Committee, conformable to the Resolution of the Continental 
 " Congress." Coulson no sooner arrived, but the next day had 
 the Canso Man of War up to town, and his old Bristol sloop a- 
 long side of his new ship, taking out the goods. But it seems he 
 cannot get any of our people to help him, and I do not think he 
 will be able to get his ship loaded and rigged, unless he gets the 
 man of war's men to do it. And I hear that capt. Mowat has 
 been pressing men ; some he releases, and some retains. And 
 h is suggested by some, that his design is, to supply capt. Coul- 
 son with men from bis own ship. We shall do all we can to pre- 
 
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 vent any other person from breaking- the association. I do not 
 think it will be amiss for you to acquaint some of the Commit- 
 tee of Inspection in Boston, of Capt. Coulson's conduct with 
 which the people in general, in town and country, are very 
 much roiled. 
 
 We rejoice in your zeal and firmness, in so trying a time as 
 this, and we pray God to support you in so good a cause as the 
 preservation of our liberties, civil and religious. 
 
 april 25, 1775. 
 Our people are moving out their provisions, and some fami- 
 lies. The people are apprehensive of the ship, Capt. Mowat, 
 and some tenders who have been to Penobscot, and brought a- 
 way the guns from there. We are in a sad plight for want of 
 powder though we have enough to last one brush. Our people 
 are full of fire. I wish they may have conduct as well as cour- 
 age. 
 
 may 5, 1775. 
 
 You have done well in writing so much to me and the Se- 
 lectmen, of whom I am one. 
 
 It has been the principal intelligence we have received since 
 the wicked excursion of the Banditti sent out by Gage to rob 
 and murder our people. 
 
 Intelligence is looked for chiefly from the camp and round it. 
 From these out skirts, little can be expected but rumour and re- 
 ports — seven eighths of them without the least foundation. We 
 have lately heard that the Penobscot Indians are highly exas- 
 perated at Capt. Goldthwait for suffering the tender to disman- 
 tle the fort there, and carrying the powder and stopping the 
 rich trade, and that a number of men were?,going to take him for 
 delivering up the fort . 
 
 Perhaps it would be prudent for the Congress to send down 
 and secure the Indians in our interest. 
 
 We, the selectmen, have this moment agreed with one Jabez 
 Matthews and one David Dinsmore of New Gloucester to go over 
 to Quebec to make discovery, whether any Canadians are in 
 motion to come on our back settlements or to excite the Indians 
 to doit — and I have written to Mr. Remington Hobby of Vas- 
 
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 salborough to procure one or two more to go with them as hun- 
 ters. They are charged to be cautious not to let the Canadians 
 haye reason so much as to suspect their business. 
 
 may 10, 1775. 
 
 We are in confusion, though Col. Thompson wrote us he had 
 laid aside the scheme of coming here to take the ship Canso, yet 
 he appeared yesterday morning on the back of the neck. * * * 
 (See page 32) I cant help thinking but that it is a very impru- 
 dent action and fear it will bring on the distruction of the town, 
 for we can make no defence against a man of war and undoubt- 
 edly, in a short time there wont be a house standing here. Pray 
 let Congress be informed of this affair and let us know whether 
 Thompson had such orders — and pray the Congress to give us 
 some direction, for we are in such confusion, nobody seems to 
 be rational. 
 
 MAY 11, 
 
 The letter of this date contains an account of Thompson's 
 War so called, [See page 30] the following particulars only may 
 be added thereto, viz. 
 
 That Brigadier Preble and Col. Freeman wrote to Capt. 
 Mowat by Mr. Pagan, of the situation they were in, owing to 
 his forfeiting his word and honor, and that their lives and estates 
 lay at stake. (Indeed Thompson's men talked of carrying them 
 on the neck and shooting them — but he wrote for answer that 
 he had sent on shore that morning some clothes to be washed 
 and bring off some clean ones, and that some of the men had 
 threatened the messenger that they would cut him in pieces, and 
 that if he came on shore he should be shot and never come on 
 board again alive — so that he did not care to come on shore un- 
 less he could be of service to accommodate matters. Whereup- 
 on their grand committee sent for them into their chamber which 
 they could hardly get into, for the guards in the entry — and ac- 
 quainted them that they wanted refreshment, and if they would 
 supply them (337 men) they might go home, which they did at 
 the cost of £100, O. T. They also called on capt. Pote and Mr. 
 Ilsley to contribute, and got as much from them. Some of them 
 were for making further demands, saying they had not paid 
 
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 enough, but their officers did not approve of it, however they 
 insisted upon it — What ! says Col. Phinney, wont you be gov- 
 erned by your officers ! We have obeyed them long enough 
 they said, considering what we have got by it. Well, says Phin- 
 ney, if that's the case, I have done. However, they would have 
 a vote for it, and Col. Thompson was going to put it. Mr. 
 Frothingham standing by, said to Col. Thompson — Put the ques- 
 tion, whether they will leave it to their officers to determine ; 
 which he did, and it passed in the affirmative, except a few, one 
 or two of which cried of vexation, at the officers determining 
 against their motion. 
 
 " Good God ! give us a regular government or we are undone." 
 
 MAY 13, SATURDAY. 
 
 Capt. Mowat has written two letters to the people of this 
 town, demanding of them the man that fired at the ship — the 
 boats they had taken — and assurance that there is no cannon 
 coming out of the country, to be used against his ship, as he 
 says they have reported to him ; and declares that the moment 
 a shot of any kind shall be fired from the town, or any part of 
 the shore, either upon the ship or boats belonging to her, he 
 shall consider Falmouth in a state of open rebellion, and there- 
 upon shall give proper signals before he fires, and not move his 
 ship till he has it in writing from the town that no such design 
 is intended ; and next Monday the town meet to give answer to 
 his letters. I have only time to say that the gentlemen at North 
 Yarmouth highly disapprove of Thompson's attempt to take the 
 Canso. Col. Mitchel and Esq. Powell do not like the conduct 
 of some of our people, * * * and * * * * who have got a number 
 of 'listing papers, and assume the office of Colonels, and appoint 
 their own officers, Captains, Adjutants, &c. 
 
 I must now conclude, and say — God grant that order may 
 come out of confusion, and that the Congress would give such 
 directions in all parts of the Province, that no such tumultuous 
 assemblies may be seen, heard or felt again, without a head, 
 without proper authority, without rule or order — that our 
 lives and properties may not lie at the mercy of such men as 
 
 W— S , and J R and the rest, as bad or worse. 
 
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may 16, 1775. 
 
 The letter of this date gives an account of the " storing" by 
 Capt. B — , as he termed it (i. e. throwing into the river) a Gun- 
 delo, of (the sweeping of) some Coal, taken from a brig from 
 Ireland, where it was taken for ballast — while the subject was 
 under consideration of the committee. 
 
 may 24. 
 
 You have informed me that the last Provincial Congress did 
 me the honour to choose me one of the Committee of Safety for 
 the Province * * *. I would cheerfully attend that service, 
 without delay, but at present I can't possibly go up * * * *. My 
 time is so taken up on one public affair and another, that I am 
 obliged to neglect my own business, to my great damage. The 
 trouble and difficulty of getting a quorum of the committee to- 
 gether, throws the whole burden, in a manner, upon me. 
 
 I heard, to-day, that lately there were a number of Indians up 
 Androscoggin river, consulting what side to take, but could not 
 agree among themselves. 
 
 A man from Deer Island, near Penobscot, gives a melanchol- 
 ly account of the distress the people are in that way, for the want 
 of bread, owing to the stoppage of trade : he heard that several 
 children had died of hunger. What will become of them God 
 only knows. We are not able to help them or ourselves. 
 
 Our Committee of Correspondence has just voted an applica- 
 tion to Congress, praying that the regiment raised here might 
 be stationed among us, for our defence. 
 
 may 30. 
 
 The letter of this date gives an account of two men, who were 
 convicted before Stephen Longfellow, Esq. of a breach of the 
 peace, and fined — but refusing to comply with the sentence, 
 were with much difficulty imprisoned — and adds, 
 
 " It is expected they will, notwithstanding, be taken out of 
 
 Goal, by force, by the people of , where they belong — 
 
 and I cannot help thinking it in a great measure owing to Col. 
 Thompson's manoeuvre, as it seems to be their common opinion 
 that there is no law." 
 
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 JUNE 4, 1775. 
 
 Capt. John Cox, from Boston, brings us an account of a 
 battle at Noddle's Island. He says the sloop near Winnisimit, 
 that had the first brush, cut or slipped her cables, and came 
 and fastened to his stern. He was shocked to see the blood 
 running- out of the Skuppers. There were a number dead 
 and wounded on deck, but they did not seem to be willing to 
 give an account how many. * * * * They were much frighted. 
 
 From the general down to the common soldier afraid to go to 
 bed for fear of the Yankees. They seemed all to be in a panic. 
 
 JUNE 8. 
 
 The ship Senegal, Capt. Duddington, arrived yesterday, and 
 lies down by Preble's Island. She is a sloop of about 16 guns. 
 Hope she has no design of annoying us. Sheep and Cattle are 
 most in danger. 
 
 The man that committed a rape at North Yarmouth, cut his 
 throat this afternoon, and died. 
 
 JUNE 13. 
 
 I think I wrote you, in my last, that the Senegal was arrived. 
 I then supposed the design was to plunder the Islands and shores, 
 and perhaps it will be so, but to my great surprise yesterday 
 
 morning, that arch Coulson arrived with his new ship, and 
 
 stopped below, near the Senegal. Upon sight of him, the blood 
 of the people grew hot — the committee met — the people began 
 to get his masts, &c. afloat, to carry them out of his way, and 
 the committee advised them to secure the masts that Coulson 
 had here to load with, and his effects not to be carried off, but 
 reserved towards making good the damage he and such as he had 
 occasioned this country. — About 11 o'clock, Dr. Coffin, [a sister 
 of whom was the wife of capt. Coulson] had leave to go on board, 
 and soon returned with two letters, one from Capt. Coulson and 
 the other from Mr. Tyng, who came with him. Coulson endeav- 
 ored to excuse his conduct, and begged he might take in his 
 cargo, for Mr. Garnet's sake — but more heartily that his wife 
 might have liberty to go on board. 
 
 Mr. Tyng, said the reason he did not come on shore as soon 
 as he armed, was because he was afraid it would create some 
 
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 uneasiness, and therefore sent for his wife on board on which 
 Mr. Tyng and Mrs. Coulson got John Barnard's men to set 
 them on board,but before they got to Preble's wharf (from Tyng's) 
 they were stopped and turned back — the people choosing 
 to have some assurance from Capt. Duddington that he came 
 peaceably without any intention to commit hostilities before they 
 suffered their wives to go to them : whereupon Doct. Coffin was 
 permitted to go on board again, which produced a letter from 
 Capt. Duddington to Tyng & Coulson in answer to theirs to him 
 on the subject, wherein he writes thus : " I am very sorry that 
 the arrival of his Majesty's sloop Senegal under my command 
 should prove any wise detrimental to youis ! any persons in- 
 terest, or that the people of Falmouth should put such a vague 
 construction upon the orders I have to govern me, which are 
 solely, to protect the property and person of his Majesty's faith- 
 ful subjects, not to distress them, and this I am fully determined 
 religiously to observe." 
 
 Whereupon the committee wrote to them that their wives 
 might go on board provided they would be content to remain on 
 board till the ship sailed, which being agreed to by their answer 
 they had a permit to go on board Coulson's ship, and to carry 
 with them necessary bedding, &c. : but could not consent that 
 Coulson should carry off his masts, &c. : as he is a declared ene- 
 my and has put this town to a great deal of charge and trouble ; 
 but that the people have stopped them towards refunding the 
 charge agreeable to a resolve of Congress. The men enlisted 
 are on duty watching the Islands and shores, &c. 
 
 The new post rider came here last Saturday before night with 
 the mail containing a packet of letters for me. The people here 
 seem to be well pleased at your care and endeavour to inform us 1 
 so often of the most material intelligence in this day of expecta- 
 tion, you will still go on to gratify your constituents. 
 
 june 14, 1775. 
 
 Lane is returned here from Penobscot, with four Indian Chiefs, 
 Orono, Joseph Pearse, Poreris and one more bound up to the 
 Congress — Orono seems to be a sensible, serious man, and a 
 hearty friend* I cant help thinking but that they should fee well 
 
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 treated, justice done them respecting their lands, &c. an3 care 
 taken that they are properly supplied with such things as shall* 
 enable them to get their living- in their own way, by which they 
 may be now and forever secured to the interest of this country. 
 We have had a conference with them, and they chose to re- 
 serve what they had to say till they got to the grand council of 
 the Province. We have provided a chaise to carry them to Ports- 
 mouth and money to Lane for their expences. * * * One Mr. 
 Oilman is their interpreter who speaks their tongue freely, and 
 seems to be a clever young man. * * * We wished them a hap- 
 py journey and a happy agreement with the council. 
 
 june 15, 1775. 
 
 I would only mention, one affair that confirms me in my opin- 
 ion that whatever men are stationed here (and it is really neces- 
 sary there should be) they ought to be under the government and 
 direction of somebody besides themselves, for Mr. Thomas Smith 
 told me yesterday that Col. Phinney wanted 4 or 5 barrels of 
 Pork, and he upon Col. Phinney's telling him the Province 
 would pay as soon as the Roll was made up, let him mark 4 bar- 
 rels, and that afterwards Capt. Stuard came and demanded the 
 Pork in such a rough and abusive manner that he was afraid 
 to refuse him any thing, if he was to demand all he had. 
 
 JUNE 26, 
 
 Coulson's boat and five men went up to Presumpscot Bridge 
 with their arms ; they said they went for water, but the people at 
 New Casco thought they went for timber masts,&c if they could 
 find any for loading the ship. * * * They seized the boat, men 
 and three guns and kept them under guard till next day, ,when 
 Capt. Samuel Noyes wrote me of it as chairman of the commit* 
 tee, who immediately met, and by their order I wrote Noyes to 
 keep them till further orders. — Coulson wanted his men. We 
 wanted Coulson gone, that we might have a little peace and 
 quiet. He sent to the committee. The committee gave him 
 to understand that if he would give them assurance of his leav- 
 iug the port, he might have his boat and men, but the guns must 
 be kept to pay the charge of keeping his men at New Casco, &c» 
 and accordingly wrote to Capt. Noyes, to let the men and boat 
 
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 go as soon as the ship was under sail ; and going out of the har- 
 bour, Capt. Stuart and his men went to New Casco. Maj. 
 Brown, also from N. Yarmouth, and Capt. Samuel Noyes, and 
 their men : and we understood that they had considered the mat- 
 ter and thought the boat ought not to go, so on Saturday Capt. 
 Stuart brought the men to town and left the boat &c. behind ; 
 carried the men to Marston's, and sent to me as chairman 
 of the Committee to supply them with provisions, but I told 
 Stuart as they had stopped the boat and guns which were 
 not chargeable keeping, he might keep the men himself : since 
 they had no regard to the committee's advice I would have noth- 
 i ng to do with the men, and I hear they were dismissed and went 
 on board the ships last Saturday evening, but whether Coulson 
 will get his boat or not, I can't say. I am afraid he can't sail 
 without it, having no others ; for Col. Thompson's army took his 
 other two boats away. But enough of this. 
 
 Mr. Jabez Matthews is returned from Canada and has given 
 me a verbal account of his travel and the rough reception of 
 some of the Canada Indians and some French bailffs, &c. : and 
 that had it not been for the good disposition of the French people, 
 especially the women, he believes he and the three men that 
 went with him would have been confined in goal and not got 
 back again at all : three men who went from Kennebeck about 
 a fortnight before him have not been heard of since. Mr. 
 Matthews says that, from what he could learn from a clever fel- 
 low who interpreted for him, the French people are determined 
 not to come out against us. As I found it was impossible to give 
 a full and perfect idea of his account in writing I have sent him 
 up to the Congress to give an account himself. 
 
 AN ACCOUNT 
 Of the destruction or burning of the town of Falmouth, on the 
 18th of October, 1775* 
 
 •I have before me, two public papers, each of which contains this account, 
 without variation, even in a single word. One is "The Continental Journal 
 and Weekly Advertiser," of September 1 2, 1776, published in Boston, by John 
 Gill. It is introduced as follows : '* The following account of the destruction 
 of the town of FAJLMOUTH, on the 18th of October, 1775, was sent to Messrs, 
 
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 Falmouth, January 15, 1775. 
 Last March, one Capt. Ooulson, who had been for two or three 
 years an inhabitant and trader in this town, imported from Great 
 Brittad, a quantity of sails and rigging : He immediately applied 
 to the committee of inspection for leave to use them, in prepar- 
 ing* a ship he had launched for her voyage to England. The 
 committee judged it would be a breach of the Continental Asso- 
 ciation, and refused to give him liberty, though they thought 
 the case was hard, and would gladly have construed the asso- 
 ciation in his favour ; but he grew angry, and bade defiance to 
 committees and congresses. However, under the pretence of 
 going to the Provincial Congress for leave to rig, he went and 
 obtained the Canceau, Capt. Mowatt, which arrived about the 
 beginning of April, and under her protection rigged his new 
 ship. 
 
 On the ninth day of May, Capt. Mowat fell into the hands of 
 Lieut. Col. Thompson and company, * who had lain in wait for him; 
 but, by the earnest solicitation of some gentlemen among us, as 
 the navy of Britain had not then commenced any hostilities 
 against any part of the continent, and as we expected several 
 provision vessels to arrive soon, which we stood in great need of 
 he was persuaded to set him at liberty, the said Mowat, promis- 
 ing to deliver himself up the next day, which promise he did not 
 
 Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, printers at Cambridge, sometime in January last, 
 in order to be inserted in their paper ; but soon after one of the printers dying, 
 and the other being confined a long time by sickness, it could not have a place 
 in that paper as was intended ; and having been mislaid ever since, was the rea- 
 son of its not making its appearance before now. It being of importance to the 
 unhappy sufferers of that town, that the world should be made acquainted with 
 a true state of that inhuman act, it is now given to the public. 
 
 The other is a «' supplement to the Eastern Argus" published at Portland, 
 November li, 1820, introduced thus : *• The following account of the destruction 
 of Falmouth, now Portland, is taken from the Remembrancer, published ia 
 London during the war of our Independence. A [complete set in 1 7 vols, is now 
 rarely to be met with in England ; and we believe, as seldom in this country. 
 A fruitless search was lately made to obtain two copies abroad —one for a dis- 
 tinguished American scholar and statesman, and another for the Library of 
 Congress. 
 
 Besides the one in our possession, there is a set in Bowdoin College Library." 
 
 Ed. ArgUs. 
 
 * See Page 32. 
 
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 think proper to fulfil. A day or two after, without any affront 
 or injury being offered him by the town, Capt. Mowatt sent us 
 a letter, threatening to fire upon the town, if we would not by 
 force expel Col. Thompson and his company. Instead of re- 
 garding it, the town treated Col. Thompson with civility, and 
 his men were victualed at the expense of persons in this town, as 
 long as they pleased to tarry with us ; the town expecting as a 
 consequence of it, for two or three days to be canonaded : In 
 which time the inhabitants were at great expense and trouble 
 in removing themselves and effects into the back settlements. 
 
 Soon after this one Mr. Crandall was taken into custody by 
 Admiral Greaves ; and after he was liberated, reported, that the 
 Admiral enquired of him whether Capt. Coulson had loaded r 
 To which he answered in the negative ; and that the Admiral 
 then said, if that town .prevents his loading, I will lay it in ashes 
 or to that purpose. This report was but little attended to at 
 the time, as the said Mr. Crandall was but little known in this 
 place. But since the conflagration we have obtained from him 
 the following deposition. 
 
 " I Philip Crandell, of Harpswell, in the county of Cum- 
 berland, and province of Massachusetts Bay, being of lawful 
 age, do testify and sa)', that some time in the month of June 
 last, I sailed from Harpswell for Salem, and upon m}' passage 
 there, I was forcibly taken by an armed vessel and carri- 
 ed into Boston ; and being in the presence of Admiral Greaves, 
 he asked me if such a man of war (he named her, but I forgot 
 her name, had arrived at Falmouth ? I answered that I heard 
 she had. He then asked me if I thought she would be opposed 
 by the people P I replied I could not tell. He then asked me if 
 Capt. Coulson was loading at Falmouth ? I answered that I had 
 heard he met with such opposition from the people as to prevent 
 it. Upon which the Admiral said you may tell them, if they 
 will not let him load, that I will send a ship or ships, and beat 
 the town down about their ears. I then told the Admiral, that 
 Capt. Coulson's being prevented loading was not owing to the 
 inhabitants of Falmouth-neck, but to the country people. I do 
 not remember that the Admiral made any reply, or said any 
 thing further relative to Falmouth or Capt. Coulson. And fur - 
 ther 1 the deponent say not. PHILIP CB AN DELL. ' r 
 
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 Cumberland ss. Harpsweix, jan. 1, A. D. 177 C. 
 
 Then the above named Philip Crandell, personally appeared 
 and made solemn oalh to the truth of the above deposition by 
 him subscribed, before me 
 
 WILLIAM SYLVESTER, Just. Pacts. 
 
 Mr. Crandell's mistake in thinking Capt. Coulson's being- 
 prevented loading was not owing to the inhabitants of Falmouth. 
 ncck, will appear by and by. Capt. Mowat, despairing as we 
 suppose, of being able to protect Capt. Coulson, went away with 
 him to Portsmouth. Capt. Coulson returned the 7th day of 
 •June in his ship, together with the Senegal, Capt. Duddington. 
 The same day or the day following^ a party of the inhabitants of 
 the neck, by the direction of the town's committee, and in com- 
 pliance with a resolve of the Provincial Congress, to prevent 
 tories carrying their effects out of the country, seized a number 
 of masts, which the said Coulson was just ready to take in, and 
 towed them up a river, to a place where neither Coulson nor 
 Duddington dared to go after them. 
 
 Nothing further happened that we can recollect, that has any 
 connection with the destruction of the town, excepting our 
 generally obeying the authority of Congresses, until Monday 
 the 16th day of October last : When Capt. Mowat, in the Can- 
 ceau, with another larger ship, called the Cat, a large schooner 
 and a small sloop, all armed vessels, arrived in our harbour, and 
 anchored down by the islands, a league from the town. As the 
 town perceived it was Capt, Mowat, by whom they were before 
 threatened, and knew him to have great reason to be bound in 
 gratitude to several gentlemen in it, it was the less alarmed. 
 But supposing him to be in quest of cattle and provisions, the 
 committee sent the greater part of Capt ISoyes's men, and some 
 of Capt. Knight's to guard the islands, where there were large 
 stocks of cattle and quantities of hay. The next day, being 
 Tuesday, we saw the fleet warping up towards the town, as the 
 wind did not favour them : And about 4 o'clock, P M. they an- 
 chored in a line close to the town. Though the public has been 
 told, that Capt. Mowett came ashore at this time, it is not true- 
 He sent a messenger with a flag, who delivered the following 
 letter: 
 
 % ; 
 
Canceau, Falmouth, Oct. 16th, 1775. 
 
 M After so many premeditated attacks on the legal preroga- 
 tive of the best of sovereigns, after the repeated instances you 
 have experienced in Britain's long forbearance of the rod of 
 correction, and the manifest and paternal extension of her hands 
 to embrace again and again, have been regarded as vain and 
 nugatory ; and in place of a dutiful and grateful return to your 
 king and parent state, you have been guilty of the most unpar- 
 donable rebellion, supported by the ambition of a. set of designing 
 men, whose insidious views have cruelly imposed on the credu- 
 lity of their fellow creatures ; and at last have brought the whole 
 into the same dilemma ; which leads me to feel not a little the 
 Toes of the innocent of them in particular, from my having it 
 •n orders to execute a just punishment on the town of Falmouth } 
 in the name of which authority, I previously warn you to re- 
 move without delay, the human specie out of the said town, for 
 which purpose I give you the time of two hours, at the period of 
 which a red pendant will be hoisted at the main top gallant mast 
 iiead, with a gun. But should your imprudence lead you to shew 
 f he least resistance, you will in that case free me of that human- 
 ity so strongly pointed out in my orders, as well as in my incli- 
 nation. I do also observe, that all those who did on a former oc- 
 casion fly to the king's ship under my command for protection, 
 that the same door is now open to receive them. 
 
 The officer who will deliver this letter, I expect to return im- 
 mediately unmolested. I am, &c. 
 
 H. MOWETT. 
 
 The town met immediately, and appointed the honorable Jed- 
 ediah Preble, Esq. Doct. Nathaniel Coffin, and Mr. Robert Pa- 
 gan, a Committee to wait upon capt. Mowett, to know of him 
 in general the meaning of "his letter, and the reasons for the 
 threatenings therein contained. The Committee acted accord- 
 ingly, and have testified as follows : 
 
 Capt. Mowett informed us, that his orders from the Admiral 
 did not authorise him to give any warning to the inhabitants; 
 but that they required him to come opposite the town with all 
 possible expedition, and there burn, sink and destroy : and that 
 he had taken upon him to .give this warning at the risk of his 
 commission. He further teld us, that these orders did not res 
 
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 pect this town only, but also all the sea-port towns upon the 
 continent. We then expostulated with him upon the severity of 
 such orders, and entreated that, if possible, some method might 
 Jbe fallen upon to save the town ; or at least to give the inhabi- 
 tants an opportunity of removing some of their effects, &c. Up- 
 on which he said, if the inhabitants would, in the morning by 8 
 •'clock, deliver up four pieces of cannon, which were in the 
 town, with their arms in general, and ammunition, he would in 
 that case do no hurt to the town, until he had dispatched an ex- 
 press to the Admiral, who, he did not doubt, would order him to 
 save the town. And as a token that his demand would be com- 
 plied with, he required that eight arms should be delivered up 
 by 8 o'clock that evening, which should be the condition of the 
 town's being safe till 8 o'clock next morning. We told him we 
 were pretty certain these demands would not be complied with ; 
 but that in discharge of the trust reposed in us, we must inform 
 the town of his demands. — Upon this we went to the County 
 House, and acquainted our constituents with the terms above 
 mentioned, who disapproved of delivering up the cannon or their 
 arms. But that they might have an opportunity of removing- 
 the sick, with the women and children, and as many of their ef- 
 fects as possible, they ordered the eight arms to be sent on 
 board, and desired us to inform capt. Mowett, that the town 
 would meet early in the morning, and send him an answer by 8 
 o'clock. The town accordingly met in the morning, and re 
 solved by no means to deliver up the cannon, or their arms, and 
 sent us with this message ; at the same time desiring us to en- 
 deavour to prolong the time on board as long as possible, that 
 more effects might be removed. We went on board with this 
 message, and staid till half past 8 o'clock, when we were desired 
 to go ashore, and capt. Mowett, at our request, gave us half an 
 hour longer to get out of the way ourselves : at the expiration 
 of which time the firing upon the town began. 
 
 Jedediah Preble, 
 Robert Pagan, 
 Nathaniel Coffin. 
 
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 It was about 9 o'clock on Wednesday, being- the 18th of Oc- 
 tober, that the firing began from all the above mentioned ves- 
 sels with all possible briskness, discharging on every part of the 
 town, which lay on a regular descent towards the harbor, an 
 horrible shower of balls from three to nine pounds weight,, 
 bombs, carcasses, live shells, grape shot and musket balls. The 
 firing lasted without many minutes cessation, until about six 
 o'clock, p. m. during which time several parties came ashore and 
 aet buildings on fire by hand. Parties of our people and others 
 from the neighboring towns, ran down to oppose them, and it is 
 thought killed several. One officer after he fell was stripped of 
 a neat pair of pistols, his flask and cockade. Through the good- 
 ness of God no life was lost on our side, and only one man wound- 
 ed, viz. Mr. Reuben Clough of this town, Had no opposition 
 been made, we do not believe they would have left one building 
 standing r and more opposition would have been made, had not 
 the people's attention been taken up in securing their effects. 
 Besides, it was very unfortunate that our companies of sea-coast 
 men were put under the direction of a Committee ; for they did 
 not, and we suppose could not, get together in the hurry of af- 
 fairs ; and therefore could give no authorative directions. 
 
 As near as we can judge about three quarters of the buildings, 
 reckoning according to their value, are consumed, consisting of 
 about 130 dwelling houses, many of which held two or three 
 families apiece ; besides barns, and almost every store and 
 warehouse in town. St. Paul's Church, a large new building 
 with the bell ; a very elegant and costly new Court House, not 
 quite finished ; a fine Engine, almost new ; the old Town House, 
 and the Public Library were all consumed. But one or two 
 wharves have escaped the flames ; and every vessel in the har- 
 bour of any considerable bigness was burnt, excepting two, 
 which the enemy carried away with them. The warning given 
 was so short, that but few teams could be procured to remove 
 the goods out. Much was carried out by hand. But as far as we 
 can learn, not much more than half of the moveables were sa- 
 ved out of the buildings that were burnt. All the compact part 
 of the town is gone ; and among the hundred dwelling houses 
 
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 that arc standing there are but few good buildings, and fliose 
 damaged with balls passing through them or bombs bursting. 
 They are mostly the refuge of the town, and their owners do not 
 generally inhabit them, as we are apprehensive our enemies will 
 soon endeavour to seize so fine a harbour as ours, and to possess 
 themselves of so advantageous a post as the remarkable emi- 
 nence on our neck. 
 
 Our hearts ache for the misery in which a great part of our 
 people are involved. The most were greatly impoverished be- 
 fore the final catastrophe, by the decay of navigation and trade, 
 which were our sole means of snpport. So many have lost a part 
 or the whole of their substance, that we conjecture not less than 
 a hundred families must have suffered for want of necessaries, 
 unless relieved by charity. The settlements back of us are new 
 and but little cultivated. The inhabitants are mostly poor, and 
 have never yet been able to raise their own bread, so that much 
 alms is not to be expected from them. 
 
 From this state of facts, it follows most evidently, in the first 
 place, that the town of Falmouth was destroyed for no other rea- 
 son, but because of its obedience to the Continental and Provin- 
 cial Congresses, and its attachment to the cause of liberty and 
 America. In the next place, that those who live remote from 
 us, would do well to minister something out of their abundance 
 for the relief of our suffering poor, until it becomes possible for 
 them to get into some way to support themselves, as we find with 
 pleasure and gratitude, this province by its representatives have 
 begun to do. 
 
 Soon after this catastrophe, there was an alarm which spread 
 itself in a very extraordinary manner. All the sea coast was 
 alarmed on the same night from Boston to Kenebec, with an 
 universal cry that the British troops were landing to burn the 
 habitations of the people. This alarm urged the people to throw 
 up slight fortifications on the harbours. And while the town* 
 
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 west of Falmouth were employed in that business, capt. Sy- 
 mond came into the harbour of that town, with a ship of more 
 force than all those which had destroyed it. An express was 
 sent to the other towns, and a number of volunteers went to the 
 assistance of the remains of Falmouth, and joined the people 
 there. When they arrived, the captain of the ship sent on shore 
 to forbid their throwing up any works ; they however proceed*- 
 cd, and prepared the materials for a battery, and fitted two six 
 pounders, which were all the artillery they had. On seeing 
 that they were determined to attack the ship with the means 
 they could command, the captain forgot his threatening, and 
 went out of the harbour as soon as he could get away. 
 
 "The General Court, on hearing this matter stated to them, or- 
 dered that a sufficient force should remain there all the winter, 
 with 400 troops raised for the purpose of defending the sea coast, 
 and with authority to call in all the militia of the District, if it 
 should be found necessary. Brigadier General Frye was sent 
 by General Washington to take the command in the succeed- 
 ing spring ; but there never was another attempt upon the 
 place. The forts which were thrown up hastily, and without mrch 
 skill, before General Frye came, are to be seen there now." 
 
 Sullivan. 
 
 Of John Bonithan. 
 
 At a General Court holden at Saco, Oct. 21, 1645, John Bon- 
 ithan of vSaco, in the Province of Maine, having been summon- 
 ed divers times, in his Majesty's name, to appear at said Court, 
 and hath refused, threatening to kill or slay any person to lay 
 hands on him ; and divers judgments, executions and warrants 
 of the good behaviour against him, is adjudged an out-law, and 
 proclaimed a rebbel. 
 
 Ordered, by consent of this Court, that if Mr. John Bonithan 
 be taken, that he be sent forthwith to Boston, to answer to such 
 things as there shall be brought against him. 
 
 Ordered, for the charges of the General Court at Saco, for 
 the Province of Maine, £4. 10. Saco to pay 10s. ; Casco 10s. ; 
 Qeorgiana* 20s. ; Piscataquaf 50s. — Cot. Mas. Hist. Society. 
 
 * The name given in the charter from Gorge to York, of the territory 
 h tween PiscaUqua and Wells. 
 
 t Suj>pos d iv cOmprthemV the ifJids known by the names of lattery a; 
 Yrk. 
 
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 Certain Presentments of Grand Juries. 
 We present Charles Potum, for living an idle, lazy life ; fol* 
 lowing no settled employment. Major Bryant Pembleton join- 
 ed with the Selectmen of Cape Porpus to dispose of Potum ac- 
 cording- to law, and to pnt him under family government. 
 
 We present Jere Guttridge for an idle person, and not provi- 
 ding for his family, and giving reproachful language to Mr. Nat 
 Frier, when he reproved him for his idleness. 
 
 The Court for his offence, adjudges the delinquent to have 20 
 lashes on his back, and to bring security to the court to be of 
 better behaviour in providing for his family. 
 
 We present Adam Goodwine for denying the morality of the 
 4th Commandment. 
 
 We present the Selectmen of the town of Kittery, for not ta- 
 king care that their children and youth be taught their cate- 
 chism, and education according to law. 
 
 ibid. 
 
 Similar presentments were made against the Selectmen of the 
 several towns of Cape Porpus, Scarborough and Falmouth. 
 
 Although these and the two following articles, do not but in 
 one or two particulars, relate to the town of Falmouth, it was 
 thought the insertion of them would afford some amusemeut to 
 the reader. 
 
 1647. 
 
 Petition to the General Court, of William Cutt and -~ Cuttery, 
 That John Reynolds, contrary to an act, in Court, that no 
 wimin shall live upon the Isle of Shoals, hath brought his wife 
 thither, with an intention there to live and abide — 
 
 And hath also brought upon Hogg island, a great stock of 
 goats and hogs, which does not only spoil and destroy ranch 
 fish to the great damage of several others, and likewise many 
 of your petitioners, but also spoil the spring of water that is oa 
 that island, by making it unfit or unserviceable for any manner 
 of use, which is the only relief and sustenance of all the rett 
 of the Island. 
 
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 Vour petitioners therefore pray that the said Reynolds may "be 
 ordered to remove his goats and swine from the island forth- 
 with — Also that the act of court beforementioned may be put 
 in execution, for the removal of all inhabiting- there — and you: 
 petitioners shall pray. 
 
 Order of Court thereon. 
 
 Whereas by the aforesaid request, the general complaint of 
 the fishermen and owners of the Isle of Shoals, that it is a great 
 annoyance and prejudice for Mr. John Reynolds to keep his 
 sheep and goats on the Isle of Shoals — It is by mutual consent 
 of this court, ordered, that Mr. John Reynolds shall within 
 twenty days remove all his swine that he hath at Hogg Island, 
 from thence or any other island of these islands that are inhabi- 
 ted with fishermen. And as for the removal of his wife (if n*> 
 further complaint against her) she may yet enjoy the company 
 of her husband. These dated the 20th October, 1647. 
 
 Col. Mass. Hist. Society. 
 
 1649. 
 
 A BODDY POLLITICK. 
 
 Whereas the Inhabitants of Piscataqua, Georgiana and Wells, 
 in the Province of Mayn have here begun to prppo gat and pop- 
 uliet these parts of the country did formerly by power deriva- 
 tive from Sir Ferdinando Gorges Knight, exercise — the regu- 
 lating the affairs of the country as ny as he could according to 
 the laws of England — and such other ordinances as was thought 
 meet and requisit for the better regulating thereof. 
 
 Now forasmuch as sir Ferdinando Gorges is dead, the country 
 by their generall letter sent to his heirs in June, 1647 and 48. 
 But by the sad distractions in England noe return is yet come 
 to hand. And command from the Parlament not to meddle 
 insoemuch as was granted to Mr. Rigbey.* Most of the Com- 
 missioners being dep'ted the Province. The inhabitants are 
 lor present in sume distraction about the regulating the affairs 
 of these fites : For the better ordering whereof till further order 
 power and anthoryty shall come out of England ; the inbabit- 
 
 *Rigbey claimed lands in Falmouth and Scarborough. 
 
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 ants with one free and universanimus consent due bynd them- 
 selves in a boddy pollitick a combination to see these parts 
 of the country and Province regulated according- to such laws 
 as formerly have been exercised and such others as shall be 
 thought meet, not repugnant to the fundamental laws of our 
 native country — And to make choyse of such Governor or Gov- 
 erners and magistrates as by most voysses they shall think meet. 
 
 Dated in Georgiana, alias Accoms. the day of Julie, 1649. 
 The privilege of charter excepted. (Copied literatim.) ibid. 
 
 1692. 
 
 Of George Burroughs. 
 
 G. Burroughs who had been a preacher several years before at 
 Salem village, & afterwards, at Wells, in the province of Maine, 
 was this year indicted at a court holden at Salem, in the county 
 of Essex, in the words following, viz : " Essex, ss. The jurors 
 for our sovereign lord and lady, the king and queen, present, 
 That George Burroughs, late of Falmouth, in the province of 
 Massachusetts, Clerk, the ninth of May, in the fourth year of 
 their reign, and divers other days and times, as well before as 
 after, certain destable arts called witchcrafts and sorceries, 
 wickedly and feloniously hath used, practised and exercised, at 
 and within the town of Salem in the county of Essex, aforesaid, 
 in, upon and against one Mary Wolcot, of Salem village, in the 
 county of Essex, singlewoman, by which said wicked arts, the 
 said Mary Walcot, the ninth day of May in the fourth year above 
 said, and divers other days and times, as well before as after 
 was and is tormented, afflicted, pained, consumed, wasted and, 
 tormented, against the peace." 
 
 Three other bills were found against him for witchcrafts up- 
 on other persons, to all which he pleaded not guilty, put himself 
 upon trial, &c. 
 
 The afflicted persons and the confessing witnesses were first 
 examined ; for although by the advice of the elders their evi- 
 dence was not conclusive, yet from presumption which arose 
 from it, and with other circumstances to corroborate it, the proof 
 
might be sufficient to convict*. One circumstance was, that 
 being a little man, he had performed feats beyond the strength 
 of a giant, viz. had held out a gun of seven feet barrel f with 
 one hand, and had carried a barrel full of cider from a canoe to 
 the shore. Upon his urging that an Indian, who was present, 
 held out the gun also, and the witnesses not remembering that 
 any witnesses were there, it was said this Indian must have been 
 the black man or the devil, who the witness swore looks like 
 an Indian. Other evidence was given of his harsh treatment of 
 his wives, having been twice married ; and of his pretending to 
 them that he knew what had been said in his absence, and his 
 persuading them to give it under their hands in writing, and to 
 swear to it^ that they would not reveal his secrets. And it was 
 further said they had privately complained to the neighbors that 
 their house was haunted with spirits. And a brother of one of 
 his wives swore, that going out after strawberries, upon their 
 return, he went into the bushes on foot, and though they rode a 
 quick pace, yet when they came near home, to their astonish- 
 ment they found him with them J, and that he fell to chiding his 
 wife for talking to her brother about him, and said he knew 
 
 * Margaret Jacobs had been brought to accuse herself, and then to charge 
 Burroughs and her own Grandfather; but struck with horror, chose to lose 
 her own life, rather than persist in her own confession, and recanted all she 
 said, and begged forgiveness of Burroughs, who is said to have freely forgiven 
 her. 
 
 t This gun is now in the Academy at Fryeburg. A gentleman of that 
 town, whom I requested to inform me as to the weight of this gun, writes me 
 as follows : I have calkdupon the Prc«eptorof the Academy, and weighed 
 the gun mentioned. The weight now,isa2*:b. There is missing, the breech 
 mounting and part of the breech ; also the ramrod, which I think would weigh 
 6 or 7 lb. more. Its whole length is 7 feet 8 inches. The barrel is about 6 feet 
 3 inches." 
 
 t With as much propriety Mr. Burroughs might hive been charged with 
 witchcraft, for what was at the time considered a surprising entra»ice into 
 that part of Falmouth which is now called Portland. When he and his wife* 
 with some others in company with them were coming to th.*c town, and had 
 got as far as Stroutwater, he parted from them, and having before been ac- 
 quainted with the way, came through the woods, on foot, (in a direction near- 
 ly as the road is now,) while they travelled in the old road, round the shore hy 
 Fore River ; and became h« arrived before ;hem,they thought he employed the 
 dtvil to assist him ! 
 
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 their thoughts, which his brother said wa9 more than the devU 
 knew ; to which Burroughs said, that his god told him. 
 
 Against this evidence he urged, that a man was with him, to 
 show that another walked as fast as he did ; and this was deter- 
 mined to be the black man also. And upon the whole, he was 
 confounded, and used many twistings and turnings, which I 
 think we cannot wonder at. 
 
 At his execution, he concluded his dying prayer, with the 
 Lord's prayer ; probably to convince some of the spectators of 
 his innocence, for it was the received opinion, that a true witch 
 could not say the Lord's prayer without blundering. 
 
 Thus far Hutchinson. 
 
 Sullivan, in his History of Maine, says, that " Burroughs was 
 born in the County of Essex, and was a preacher in Falmouth, 
 in the year 1685*. What his education was, or where he ac- 
 quired it, is not known at the present day * * *." That " he 
 was a man of a bad character, and of a cruel disposition." — See 
 Aw account of Burroughs' Trial. He observes that, 
 
 *' The affidavits of the witnesses were taken in writing, and 
 sworn to in open court, and are now on the files of the Court of 
 Common Pleas in Salem. 
 
 " Samuel Webber testifies, that " about 7 or 8 years before that 
 time he lived at Casco Bay. George Burroughs was then minis- 
 ter there, that having seen much of his great strength, and the 
 said Burroughs coming to our house, we were in discourse about 
 the same, and he then told me, he had put his fingers into a 
 bung hole of a barrel of molasses, and lifted it up, and carried 
 it round him and set it down again." 
 
 " There was another man who testified, that " he saw parson 
 Burroughs put his fore finger into the muzzle of a large gun, 
 and hold it out straight." 
 
 " Susannah Shelden testified, that " Mr. Burroughs' appari- 
 tion came to her, and told her that he had killed three children 
 of his neighbor's, his own two wives, and two of his own chil- 
 dren" 
 
 * He lived in a house which was built near where Judge Frofhinghara now 
 iives, on land which is now a part of Free-Street, running by his house towards 
 the house of the Hon. Matthew Cobb : 4 * rtie cellar of which has been seen since 
 the year 1770." 
 
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 " Mercy Lewis testified thus: " Burroughs took me up- on an 
 high mountain, and shewed, me all the kingdoms of the earthy 
 and offered them to me, if I wouid write in his book ; and said 
 he would throw me down and break my neck, if I would not ; 
 and said that he kept the devil as a servant in his shop."' 
 
 " Before the grand jury, Ann Putman testified as follows : — 
 " on the 8th of May, 1692, I saw the apparition of George Bur- 
 roughs, who grievously tortured me, and urged me to write in 
 his book, which I refused. Then he told me, that his first two 
 wives would appear to me presently, and tell me a great many 
 lies, but I must not believe them. Then immediately appear- 
 ed to me the form of two women, in winding sheets, and nap- 
 kins about their heads, at which I was greatly affrighted ; and 
 they turned their faces towards Mr. Burroughs, and looked very 
 red and angry, and told him that he had been very cruel to them, 
 and that their blood cried for vengeance against him ; and also 
 told him, that they should be clothed with white robes in hea- 
 ven, when he should be cast down to hell, and he immediately 
 vanished away. As soon as he was gone, the two women turn- 
 ed their faces to me, and looked as pale as a white wall, and told 
 me they were Mr. Burroughs' two wives, and that he had mur- 
 dered them. And one told me, that she was his first wife, and 
 he stabbed her under the left breast, and put a piece of sealing 
 wax in the wound ; and she pulled aside the winding sheet, and 
 shewed me the place. And also told me that she was in the 
 house where Mr. Paris* then lived, when it was done. And 
 the other told me that Mr. Burroughs, and a wife he hath now, 
 killed her in the vessel, as she was coming so see her friends 
 from the eastward, because they would have one another. And' 
 they both charged me to tell these things to the magistrates, be- 
 fore Mr. Burroughs' face, and if he did not own them, they did 
 not know but that they should appear. This morning also, Mrs. 
 Lawson and her daughter, told me that Mr. Burroughs murder- 
 ed them. This morning also, appeared to me another woman 
 in a winding sheet, and told me that she was Goodman Fuller's 
 
 •The minister of Danver*, yrho first set the matter of prosecuting for witch, 
 craft oh foot. 
 
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 irst wife, and that Mr. Burroughs killed her, because there wab 
 a difference between her husband and him. Also, on the 9th 
 day of Ma)-, during- the time of his examination, he did most 
 grievously torment Mary Wolcot, Mercy Lovis, Elizabeth 
 Hubbard and Abigail Williams, by pinching-, pricking and 
 choaking them. 
 
 "There was some other evidence to corroborate this. Bur- 
 roughs was found guilty, on all the indictments, and was execu- 
 ted. 
 
 " There was an extraordinary delusion in the old colony of 
 Massachusetts at that time, as well as in Europe. In both coun- 
 tries many innocent people suffered an ignominious death, and 
 there can be no doubt but that the people who appeared to b<5 
 tortured were possessed by evil spirits of some kind or other ; 
 nor have we any reason to doubt, whether there was not some 
 extraordinary cause from the state of the atmosphere, or from 
 something else, which operated on the nerves of the judges, and 
 on the people at large, depriving them, in a great measure, of 
 their rational faculties. 
 
 " If Burroughs had continued at Falmouth he might have fal- 
 len a victim to the savages, but he would not have been execu- 
 ted for witchcraft, because there never was a prosecution for 
 that crime to the eastward of Piscataqua river." 
 
 FACETIOUS TRIAL, 
 Or the case of Woodside v. Orr, about the year 1766. 
 As the following^ccount of this trial, which was the subject 
 of pleasing conversation at the time when it took place, will 
 probably afford some amusement to the reader ; and as the re- 
 sult of it was both honourable and satisfactory to the parties con- 
 cerned, I think no apology is necessary to be made for the in- 
 sertion of it. The account was lately given to me by a very 
 respectable gentleman who was personally acquainted with all 
 the members of the court. 
 
 Soon after William Woodside, of Brunswick, had obtained a 
 commission of Justice of the Peace, for the county of Cumber- 
 land. [Francis Barnard being Governour cf the Province,] Mr. 
 
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 John Orr, a townsman of his, gave out some hints, that lie sup- 
 posed the Governor had been deceived in granting the commis- 
 sion, and that Woodside had shewed him, (the Governor,) some 
 original letters from persons of distinction in England, to 
 Woodside's Father, as made and sent to him, and thereby ren- 
 dering him a person of consequence and importance. At a 
 court of General Sessions of the Peace held at Falmouth, at the 
 same time of the Inferior Court, of C. P. Woodside attended and 
 complained to them of this conduct of Orr, upon the act against 
 libelling and lying — And David Wyer, who at that court acted 
 as king's attorney, was employed to draw up the complaint in 
 writing in a formal manner directed to the Court, (the grand 
 jury having been dismissed) — Woodside seemed very urgent 
 that this business should be brought to a hearing. — But as Mr. 
 Orr was a reputable townsman, it was agreed that the business 
 should be discussed in an evening at the long room at Freeman's 
 the innholder, where the court in those days always dined. 
 The members of the Court of Sessions — the gentlemen of the 
 bar, and some of the most respectable gentlemen of the town 
 were notified of the time and place and desired to attend. Mr. 
 Orr had some how obtained a printed copy of the proceedings 
 of a treaty between the commissioners of the government and 
 the eastern Indians, where complaints were made by the In- 
 dians against Woodside for selling them brass rings for gold 
 rings intended to be used by way of offsett to his spotless char- 
 acter. After the gentlemen to the number of 30 and upwards 
 had assembled, it was agreed that Jere. Powell should be presi- 
 dent of the meeting, and declare the decisions of the meeting 
 upon such points as were discussed, and Orr was to make such 
 satisfaction, by way of acknowledgement, as the company 
 should adjudge reasonable, and might consist with the dignity 
 of the Justice to accept — and two or three of the gentlemen of 
 *he bar, upon each side, were to argue and make observation 
 upon the occasion. Some punch and wine were introduced for 
 the use of the company and the litigants. The charge of scan- 
 dalum magnatum was then read by the king's attorney — and 
 cxpationed. The gentlemen of the bar, present, were Mr. 
 Chipman, of Marblehead— Mr. Pyncheon, of Salem-*-Daniel 
 Farnham, of Newjbpry — Samuel Livermore, of Portsmouth, and 
 soiae others not now recollected— and after the subject matter 
 
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 had been discussed, replied to, and remarked upon, for an hour 
 or two, President Powell, by the consent of Mr. Justice Wood- 
 side, put the following question, to the members of the Grand 
 Court — That if they had received no opinion to the prejudice 
 of Justice Woodside, from the reports John Orr had circulated 
 of him, he (Woodside) would be satisfied and surcease any fur- 
 ther prosecution of the business — and each one was seriatim to 
 deliver his opinion, and the President was then to declare pub- 
 licly the decision. It was amusing to observe the great atten- 
 tion of Woodside during the period the members were deliver- 
 ing with great gravity their sentiments on this important occa- 
 sion, some of which were lengthy, after which the President 
 declared, that it was the sentiments of a large majority, that 
 this grand assembly entertained no opinion to the prejudice or 
 disadvantage of Justice Woodside, from any thing that John Orr 
 had said respecting him ! The punch and wine first brought in 
 being consumed, conversation was had about the reckoning, 
 and as the meeting was held at the desire of Woodside and 
 Orr, it was proper that they should pay the reckoning. The 
 general question was pretty soon decided — but then a question 
 was made, in what proportion ? Many and perhaps the larger 
 part were about to decide that Orr should pay a pistareen, and 
 Woodside the residue — but the President fearing it would put 
 a period to the present good humour which subsisted between 
 the parties, proposed, (as it was the usage in those times, when a 
 gentleman of note first received a commisson to make a Treat 
 to his particular friends and acquaintance) that Justice Woodside 
 should pay the reckoning, called the shewing, upon opening hi 3 
 commission. — To this Mr. Justice Woodside cordially assented 
 Whereupon the President ordered in a double bowl of punch and 
 three or four bottles of wine, to drink his health ; and Mr. Long- 
 fellow, the Clerk of the Court, then read aloud the commission 
 of William Woodside, for a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland 
 county — the gentlemen all standing up while the commission was 
 in reading. 
 
 The shewing was said to be about a Josephvs. 
 
 Account of Thomas Bird's Trial. 
 Some time in June or July, 1789, a small vessel of about 20 
 or 30 tons burthen, came to Casco Bay, and the persons on boarcb 
 
entered into a barter traffick with the inhabitants of Cape Eliz 
 abeth. Such suspicious circumstances were circulated respect 
 ing them, that the persons who came in her — Jackson, an Ame 
 ican, originating from Newton, Mass., Hans Hanson, a Swede, 
 and Thos. Bird, an English or Irishman — were apprehended, 
 and brought before the Supreme Judicial Court, then sitting at 
 Falmouth, near the close of the Court, for examination. From 
 whose examinations, taken down in writing, it appeared that 
 the vessel they came in belonged to one Hodges, of England ;— 
 that under the command of Capt. Connor they had been trading 
 off the coast of Africa ; — that, owing to the arbitrary and abusive 
 conduct of the Captain, they had killed him, and came off with 
 the vessel, with such effects as were on board, to America.— 
 They were then severally told, that they were under no neces- 
 sity to relate, or make answer to a question that would criminate 
 themselves. Bird, after this caution, appeared very open and 
 frank, and acknowledged that he fired the gun, loaded with one 
 or more balls, in the night time, that killed Capt. Conner, and 
 seemed to palliate or justify his conduct on account of the Cap- 
 tain's conduct. Upon this, the Supreme Judicial Court commit- 
 ted them to the Jail in Falmouth, for the piratical murder of 
 Conner on the high seas. 
 
 At this period, the Supreme Judicial Court of the several States 
 in the Union, with the maritime or admiralty Judge, were by an 
 Ordinance of the old Congress, authorized to try piracy and 
 felony, committed on the high seas, by the oaths of Grand and 
 Petit Jurors, according to the common law : and the Massachu- 
 setts Legislature, in February, 1783, passed a law for carrying 
 the Ordinance into effect. But before the next session of the 
 Supreme Judicial Court in the county of Cumberland, an act of 
 the Congress, under the Federal Constitution [unto whom the 
 thirteen United States had ceded all their powers in maritime 
 and admiralty matters] passed the Judiciary Act, establishing 
 District, Circuit, and a Supreme Court. To the jurisdiction of 
 the Circuit Court, piracies and felony on the high seas, and all 
 other capital offences were committed — and to the District Court 
 ni Maine was committed all the powers of a Circuit Court of the 
 
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 United States. — The District Judge of Maine was appointed in 
 September, 1789 ; and the time for holding the first court was 
 the first Tuesday of December, 1789, when the court met, and 
 with its respective officers, viz. Henry Dearborn, the Marshal, 
 William Lithgow, District Attorney, and Henry Sewall, Clerk, 
 were then regularly inducted into office. — The second court was 
 held in that part of Pownal borough, now Wiscasset, in March, 
 1780, where it was not thought expedient to do any thing with 
 the person committed in Falmouth jail, for a capital offence on 
 the high seas, except making arrangements, agreeable to the 
 statute's direction, for a grand and three full petit jurors, to be 
 summoned to the June District Court, then next to be held at 
 Portland. 
 
 The Grand Jury, of whom Deacon Titcomb was foreman,, 
 found a bill against Bird, as principal, for the murder of Conner ', 
 on the high seas, and Hanson, as being present, aiding aud abet- 
 ting him therein. The prisoners, upon their arraignment and 
 pleading not guilty, had John Frothingham and William Syms 
 assigned as council, and a copy of the indictment and a list of the 
 panel of jurors delivered them two full days before the day as- 
 signed for trial. — On Friday morning the trial commenced (to 
 accommodate the public curiosity, in the meeting-house in the 
 first parish, where the Rev. Thomas Smith and Samuel Dean 
 officiated) and a petit or jury of trial, of whom Deacon Chase, 
 of Pepperell [now called Saco] was foreman. Jackson, one of 
 the accomplices, was improved as a witness, whose testimony, 
 with the voluntary confession of Bird, taken in writing, before 
 the Supreme Judicial Court, as before mentioned, and some other 
 circumstances, as the stain of blood and the mark of the ball on 
 board or in the cabin of the vessel, appeared satisfactory to the 
 jury to return a verdict, about the close of the same day, against 
 Bird, of being guilty. — The jury found Hanson, the otherperson, 
 not guilty. And on Saturday morning (in the court-house) after a 
 motion in arrest of judgment, made by Syms, because the latitude 
 and longitude of the sea, where the crime was committed, was 
 not named in the indictment, was overruled, sentence of death 
 was pronounced on the prisoner convicted, arid the clerk was 
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 directed to issue a precept under the seal of the Court, directed 
 to the Marshal, to carry the Judgment of the Court into execu- 
 tion — which the records of the District Court may more par- 
 ticularly shew. And execution was afterwards accordingly done 
 by Marshal Dearborn and his assistants, some time about the last 
 Friday of the same month of June, 1790. — As many of the inhab- 
 itants of Portland and the neighbouring towns may recollect* 
 some doubts were had, whether, as all executions by death in 
 Massachusetts, were by a statute made in 1777, to be carried in- 
 to effect, by a precept from the Supreme Executive of the State, 
 having a copy of the judgment of the Supreme Judicial Court 
 thereto annexed, a similar precept ought not to be had, in cap- 
 ital cases, from the President of the United States. 
 
 But as before the Revolution, the clerks of the Supreme Court 
 of Judicature, Court of Assize, and General Jail Delivery, had 
 always issued precepts, by order of the court, for carrying into 
 effect their judgment, in capital cases, and there being no 
 special provision made in the statutes of the United States 
 respecting that matter, it was concluded to be a necessary inci- 
 dent to a court, having jurisdiction of a crime, to issue all neces- 
 sary precepts for carrying its<judgment or sentences into execu- 
 tion. And it is supposed that the same mode has been ever since 
 used upon similar cases, in the Circuit Court of Massachusetts. 
 
 As it was understood from Bird's counsel, that application 
 would be made for a pardon, in consideration of its being the 
 first capital conviction in the United States, in a court of the 
 United States, after adopting the federal constitution, a copy 
 
 the indictment, and the proceedings thereon to the judgment 
 and order for execution were immediately forwarded to President 
 Washington, who then resided at New York. But he declined 
 pardoning or suspending the time of execution to a later, period 
 than bad-beec directed by the court 
 
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 1*1121 summit imms* 
 
 Although " the wars which the inhabitants of Falmouth have 
 been engaged in, with the savages, can never be correctly giv- 
 en in history, nor the place in Casco Bay, where committed,"* 
 be in all cases ascertained, I have thought it would be agreea- 
 ble to the reader, to present him with the following view of 
 them as collected from the respective histories mentioned in 
 the margin ; and (as near as can be) in tke order of time in 
 which the events took place. 
 
 1675. 
 
 The same time that Philip began his hostilities in Plymouth 
 colony, the Tarentines or eastern Indians were insulting the 
 English settled in New Hampshire and in the province of Maine. 
 They began with robbing the English, as they passed in their 
 boats and canoes, and plundering their houses of liquors, ammu- 
 nition and such moveables as they could easily carry off.f 
 
 In the month of September in this year, " a horrible outrage 
 was committed upon the family of an antient man whose name 
 was Wakeley, an inhabitant of Casco Bay, who had several 
 years before removed from Gloucester or Cape Ann, out of 
 some discontent, which afterwards he often bewailed, resolved 
 either to return back or remove to some securer place ; but he 
 wa3 arrested by the sons of violence before he could effect his 
 purpose. 
 
 M This old man, together with his wife, his son and his daugh- 
 ter in law, (then far advanced in pregnancy,) with three grand 
 children, were cruelly murdered by those barbarous savages at 
 one time ; another of his grandchildren was taken alive and led 
 into captivity. A daughter of his was said to have been carried 
 to Narrhaganset, which shews that they joined with the south- 
 ern Indians in the rebellion. When once these Indians had im- 
 brued their hands in English blood, they were emboldened to 
 the like bloody attempts in the adjacent places. 
 
 * Sullivan, t Hutchinson. 
 
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 <c This Wakeley lived so far from his neighbours, or else wae 
 encompassed with creeks or rivers, that no relief could present- 
 ly be sent to him ; however, Lieut. Ingerson, of Casco,* the next 
 day with a file of men, repaired to the place where his house 
 stood, to see what was the reason of the fire they discerned the 
 day before, where they found the house burnt to ashes, the bod- 
 ies of the old man and his wife half consumed with the fire, the 
 young woman killed and three of the grandchildren having 
 their brains beat out, and their bodies laid under some oaken 
 plank not far from the house ; one girl of about 1 1 years of age 
 was carried captive by them, and having been carried up and 
 down the country some hundred of miles, as far as Narragan- 
 set fort, was this last June returned back to Major Waldron, by 
 one Squando, the Sagamore of Saco ; a strange mixture of mer- 
 cy and cruelty. 
 
 " At Casco Bay, Lieut. Ingerson's son, with another man go- 
 ing out a fowling about this time, were both killed before they 
 returned home, his father's house being burnt with many others 
 thereabouts." 
 
 1676. 
 
 f" On the 11th of August, a party of Indians began their out- 
 rages at Casco in a most perfidious and treacherous manner, 
 killing and carrying away captive to the number of 30 persons- 
 and burning their houses ; amongst whom was the family of one 
 Anthony Bracket, an inhabitant of Casco, who was thought to 
 have been killed, but he himself, with his wife and one of her 
 five children carried away captive with a negro, did happily es- 
 cape from their bloody and deceitful hands, in November next 
 ensuing. 
 
 The following circumstances in the assault of Mr. Bracket, 
 are thought " worthy a more particular remembering." 
 
 One of the Indians called Simon, (and the chief) of those 
 who were concerned in the assault had been confined in Dover 
 
 •Ingerson lived on a point of land on the east side of Presumpscot river iff 
 what has s'.nce been called Ne w Casco.— Sullivan- 
 TTbe accounts for this and the preceding year are taken fronYHubbard, 
 
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 prison, from whence a little before he made his escape and came 
 ■with a counterfeit pass to Casco, where he acquainted him with 
 this Mr. Bracket and often frequented his house. " Upon the 
 9th of August some of the Indians having- killed his cow, Simon 
 promised to bring* them to him ; meantime they, of the place, 
 sent two men to Major Waldron's at Dover, to complain of 
 this injury done by the Indians; but before their return, very 
 early in the morning- on the 11th of August, Simon with a party 
 of Indians came to Mr. Bracket's house, and told him these were 
 the Indians that had killed his cow, but as soon as he had said 
 that, the Indians went farther into his house and took off all the 
 guns they could see. Bracket asked them what was the mean- 
 ing* of that, Simon replied, that so it must be, asking him withail, 
 whether he had rather serve the Indsans or be slain by them, 
 to which he answered, that if the case were so, he would rather 
 choose to serve them than be killed by them. Simon replied 
 then they must be bound, which was presently done. The said 
 Bracket, his wife and a negro, were all bound by the Indians : 
 his wife had a brother, who offering to resist was killed forth- 
 with ; the rest, with five children were led away prisoners.' 
 
 The manner of their escape, is thus related by Hubbard 
 " The Indians that led them captive, having brought them to 
 the north side of Casco Bay, news was brought to them of the sur- 
 prisal of Arowsic's house in Kennebeck, with all the stores there- 
 in, which did so rejoice them, that they made all haste to share 
 in the good things there to be had. Thus eager to be gone, they 
 promised Bracket and his wife that they also should have a share 
 therein if they would make haste after them, bringing along a 
 burthen allotted to each of them. The woman having a little 
 before observed an old birch canoe lying by the water side, hop- 
 ed it was an opportunity providence offered for their escape ; 
 whereupon she first prudently asked the Indians to let the negro 
 their own servant (at the same time carried captive by them) 
 help them to carry their burthen, which was granted ; then she 
 begged of them a piece or two of meat, which was not denied 
 them. Thus being furnished with help and provision, the In- 
 dians leaving them behind to come after with their several bur- 
 
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 thens, and a young child, they could not but look upon it as a 
 nutus Divinus, to bid them shift for themselves. The woman al- 
 so found a needle and thread in the house, with which she mend- 
 ed the canoe, while they tarried on that side of the bay, in which 
 they soon ventured to get away, which prosperously succeeded ; 
 for in that old canoe they crossed a water eight or nine miles 
 broad, and when they came on the south side of the bay, they 
 might have been in as much danger of other Indians, that had 
 lately been about Black Point, and had taken it ; but they were 
 newly gone. So things on all sides thus concurring to help for- 
 ward their deliverance, they came safely to the flat at Black- 
 Point, where also by special providence they met with a vessel 
 bound for Piscataqua, that came into that harbour but a few 
 hours before they came thither, by which means they arrived 
 safe in Piscataqua river soon after ; all which circumstances are 
 very worthy to be noticed." 
 
 " In another side of the town, as three persons were going to 
 reap at Anthony Bracket's, passing from an house where they 
 left their canoe, met with John Mountjoy and one Wakely, to 
 whom they told what had happened, and soon after they heard 
 two guns fire, whereby it seems two men were killed ; where- 
 fore coming back towards Thomas Bracket's, where they had 
 left their canoe, they saw him shot down by the Indians ; one of 
 the three, not so well able to run, hid himself in the bushes, in 
 hope to make his escape more conveniently afterwards, which, 
 accordingly he did ; but in the mean time he saw the Indians 
 carry away Thomas Bracket's wife and children. Soon after, 
 the three men aforesaid got safe to Mr. Mountjoy's Garrison ; 
 but not trusting to the security of that Garrison, they soon after 
 repaired to an island in the bay, called James Andrews' island. 
 One George Lewis and his wife tarrried all this time in their 
 house till the next day, when they had opportunity to get safe 
 to the island aforesaid, together with the two men that were now 
 returned from Major Waldern's ; whither they had been sent, 
 but too late, to make complaint of the Indian that had counter- 
 feited his pass to travel into thase parts, and had done this mis- 
 chief. 
 
The day after, one George Felt, suspecting the worst, by rea§- 
 on of a smoke he saw on the opposite side of the town, took his 
 wife and children into a canoe, to see what the matter was ; but 
 when he came near a point of land, not far off, he found several 
 of his neighbours' goods, which made him conclude that their 
 owners were killed, and which was a sufficient warning to him 
 likewise to fly for his life, which he did to the same island. After 
 a number of them had escaped thither, they recollected that they 
 had left powder behind them in one or two places ; whereupon 
 they determined to venture a party of them in the night, to pre- 
 vent the Indians from having advantage thereby, and for their 
 own defence, if occasion should require ; accordingly their at- 
 tempt succeeded well, for they brought away a barrel of powder 
 from the house of one Wells, and likewise a considerable quan- 
 tity out of a chest in a store-house, where the Indians had been 
 ransacking, and had taken things out of the other end of the 
 chest yet overlooked the powder. In this surprisal of the plan- 
 tation in Casco Bay, called Falmouth, there were 34 persons 
 killed and carried into captivity. 
 
 ********** 
 
 " When the aforesaid exploits were done by the Indians about 
 Casco Bay, several of the inhabitants removed to Jewel's island, 
 where they hoped to be more secure from the Indians, but the 
 barbarous enemy, finding so little resistance made against them 
 on the main ' and, a considerable party of them came with their 
 canoes to destroy that island also, about three weeks after the 
 abovementioned mischief. 
 
 There was a fortified house upon the island, where the English 
 that either kept upon the island, or repaired thither, hoped to 
 secure themselves. But at the time the Indians assaulted the 
 place, many of the English were absent, and few left in the gar 
 rison but women and children. Some were gone to other places 
 to fetch Indian corn, others were in a boat, employed about fish, 
 amongst whom was one Richard Pots, with two more. 
 
 The wife of the said Pots was washing by the water side, 
 where she was occupied with her children, and carried away in 
 sight of her husband, who was not a little distressed with that 
 
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 sad spectacle, but was incapable of affording any relief to h\& 
 wife or children. One of these little innocents, espying his 
 father in the boat, ran into the water, calling for help ; but an 
 Indian was running after him to catch him up ; the poor man, in 
 a great agony, being within half a gun shot, was about to fire 
 upon the Indian, but fearing he might wound, or perhaps kill his 
 child, which the villain had seized and was carrying off, he for- 
 bore, chusing rather to have him carried away alive than expose 
 him to the loss of his life or limbs by shooting at the Indian. 
 
 " It is said some of the Indians were killed by those in the gar- 
 rison. 'Tis mentioned that a lad at one shot killed two or three 
 of them ; some guns were found afterwards under the fort, which 
 were supposed to have belonged to some of the Indians that were 
 killed. Some that were abroad when the fort was assaulted, 
 desperately broke in through the Indians, whereby at the last 
 many people were preserved. Some flying away from Jewel's 
 Island, in a canoe, towards Richmond's Island, met with a ketch, 
 to which they made known the distress the people were in, who 
 therefore went to the place, and took in all the people they found 
 there, and carried them off to a place of more safety. Yet there 
 were several persons said to be killed, and carried away at that 
 time, viz. three men, who were known to be killed, two women 
 and two children, that are supposedto be yet alive, though in the 
 enemy's power. 
 
 " From thence they went to Spurwink, where they assaulted 
 one place or more, and killed one man, wounded another, and 
 carried another away captive. ***** 
 
 " Within a while after, or about the same time, another fatal 
 accident befel 6 or 7 persons belonging to Casco ; for upon the 
 23d of September, some persons that belonged to a sloop or shal- 
 lop, that were pressed into the service, were desirous to save 
 some of their provisions, to which end they first made their 
 address to Capt. Hathorn (under whom they were ordered to 
 serve) desiring they might be released ; the Captain told them 
 he could not do it, but desired them to have patience for a while > 
 they told him they must and would gO, else their families must 
 starve at home ; the Captain told them further of the danger 
 
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 and bid them not stir at their peril. However, go they would, 
 and soon after went to Mountjoy's Island, to fetch sheep, where 
 they landed seven men. But the Indians suddenly fell upon them, 
 when they betook themselves to the ruins of a stone house, where 
 they defended themselves as long- as they could ; but at last they 
 were all destroyed either with stones cast in upon them, or with 
 the enemy's shot, except one, who though at first it was hoped his 
 wounds were not mortal, yet soon after died thereof. Amongst 
 these was one George Felt, much lamented, who had been more 
 active than any man in those parts against the Indians ; but at 
 last he lost his own life amongst them, in this too desperate an 
 adventure/' 
 
 " On the 12th of October following, near an hundred of the 
 Indians made an assault upon Black Point, all the inhabitants 
 being gathered into one fortified place, which a few hands might 
 have defended against all the Indians on that side of the coun- 
 try ;" but one Mug, the leader of the Indians, " who had from a 
 child been well acquainted with the English, and had lived some 
 years in English families," and at this time shewed some cour- 
 tesy to them, offered a treaty to Mr. Josselyn, chief of the gar- 
 rison, and u promised liberty for all that were there, to depart 
 with their goods, upon surrender of the place." 
 
 " The said Josselyn reports, that when he came back from his 
 treating with Mug, all the people were fled away out of the gar- 
 rison, having carried away their goods, by water, before his re- 
 turn, insomuch that having none but his household servants to 
 stand by him, he was capable of making no resistance, and so 
 surrendered." — Thus far Hubbard. 
 
 1686. 
 
 There is no account of further wars in this part of the coun- 
 try, until the year 1686, when Sir Edmund Andross was ap- 
 pointed Governor of Massachusetts. There were no doubt fre- 
 quent hostilities committed, but there are none of the particu- 
 lars, which took place, between 1676 and 1686, preserved. In 
 1676, there was a peace made between the government at Bos- 
 ton, and the Indians of Penobscot : whether the influence of 
 H 
 
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 that treaty extended to all the Savages, or whether they had 
 other motives to peace, is now unknown*. 
 
 In 1639, the Savages again attacked the eastern country, and 
 Col. Church was employed in the command of forces raised near 
 Boston, to support the people at Casco Bay. His orders were 
 from Thomas Danforth, President of the Province of Maine. 
 He was to rendezvous at Falmouth, in Casco Bay. There was 
 also an order from Governor Bradstreet, who had been elected 
 by the people, after Sir Edmund Andross was sent away. By 
 this commission he was to rendezvous at Falmouth ; to have un- 
 der his command captains Willard and Hall, and to make war 
 against the savages in and about Casco Bay. 
 
 There was then a fort of some consequence at Casco ; and 
 when col. Church arrive ! at what is now Portland, he receiv- 
 ed intelligence that there were 700 French and Indians on the 
 Island, assembled for the purpose of taking the fort. Thencxt 
 day there was an engagement between the troops under Church 
 and the Indians. There is no account of this action, excepting 
 what Church gives in his history, and he has, from his being un- 
 acquainted with the country, described the place where it hap- 
 pened in such a manner, that it is very difficult now to fix upon 
 it with any degree of certainty. He says that he carried his 
 army unto the woods before day, and after fixing his scouts, he 
 returned to town ; when after sunrise, one of Bracket'sf sons 
 informed him that the enemy were in his father's orchard. 
 
 It is clear from this circumstance, that the Indians must have 
 gone either up Fore River and landed above the toWn, or have 
 gone up Back-Cove, and landed at the head of it. The latter 
 may be believed to be the most probable, because Church says, 
 that he fought the Indians across the river, and was informed 
 that they had men round the head of it, to go into town j and 
 we may well suppose this river to be the creek which runs up 
 from the water of Back Cove. Besides this, the Indians drew 
 off to the northward, which, they could not have done, if they 
 were on the south side of Fore .River. The action was termi- 
 
 * Solllvan. 
 
 r Mather sr.ys capt. Bracke t wai killed. 
 
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 nated in favor of Church ; and though his troops suffered very 
 much, yet he saved the town, and the whole eastern country by 
 that action. There were no more attempts made by the sava- 
 ges on Falmouth in that year*. 
 
 1689. 
 
 Extract of a lelter, written by a gentleman of Cascoj. 
 "Many were the outragings and insultings of the Indians 
 upon the English while Sir Edmund Andro3 was Governor. Af: 
 North Yarmouth and other places- at the Eastward, the Indians 
 killed sundry cattle, came into houses and threatened to knock 
 the people on the head ; and at several times gave out reports 
 that they would make a war upon the English, and that they 
 were animated to do so by the French. The Indians behaving 
 themselves so insultingly gave just occasion of great suspicion. 
 In order for the finding out the truth, and to endeavour the pre- 
 venting of a war, Captain Blackman a Justice of the Peace, with 
 some of the neighbourhood of Saco River^ seized several Indians 
 that had been bloody murderous Rogues in the first Indian War, 
 being the chief ringleaders, and most forward to do mischief. 
 The said Captain Blackman seized to the number of between 
 sixteen and twenty, in order for their examination, and to bring 
 in the rest to a treaty. The said Blackman soon sent the said 
 Indians with a good guard to Falmouth in Casco Bay, there to 
 be secured until orders could come from Boston concerning 
 themt." 
 
 1690. 
 
 In the spring of this year, the savages attacked tbe town a- 
 gain. There was a fort near the water side, where Deering's 
 house now stands, and another on the hill, near where the bu- 
 rying ground now is ; and another on the rocky ground, south 
 from the place where the first meeting house stands. The two 
 last mentioned, were not very capable of defence ; the people 
 abandoned the one near where the burying grouud is ; and in 
 order to injure the assailants, placed a burning match in a hole 
 bored into a barrel which contained gun-powder, with a hope. 
 
 * SuMivan. 
 
 t Mather Magnalia. t :bid. 
 
that,- as the Indians entered, the powder would kindle, and give 
 them an explosion. But the first who entered, espied the match, 
 and extinguished it. They then proceeded, and carried the fort 
 by the water side by an assault, and the other surrendered. By 
 this success, one hundred people fell into their hands, and the 
 town was desolated. The slain had no funeral solemnities, 
 though their bones were gathered up by Col. Church the next 
 year, and laid under the earth. The country then being under 
 the g-overnmcnt of Massachusetts Province, measures were a- 
 dopted for its protection. A strong fort was erected, near the 
 water side in Portland, called Fort Loyal, and commanded by 
 capt. Tyng. Divers other forts and garrisons were made in the 
 town, by which the inhabitants were generally protected, and 
 the town was increased in number of inhabitants*. 
 
 CASCO LOST. 
 " About the beginning of May 1690, the French and Indians 
 between four and five hundred were seen at Casco, in a great 
 fleet of canoes passing over the bay ; but not seeing or hearing 
 any more of them for two or three weeks together, the Casconians 
 flattered themselves with hopes that they were gone another 
 way. But about May 16, those hopes were over ; for one Gres- 
 son a Scotchman, then going out early, fell into the mouths of 
 these hungry savages. It proved no kindness to Casco, though 
 it proved a great one to himself, that a commander so qualified 
 as Capt. Williard, was called off two or three days before. But 
 the officers of the place now concluding that the whole army 
 of the enemy were watching for an advantage to surprize the 
 town, resolved that they would keep a strict watch for two or 
 three days, to make some further discovery before they sallied 
 forth. Notwithstanding this, one Lieut. Clark, with near thirty 
 of their stoutest yonng men, would venture out as far as the top 
 of an hill in the entrance of the wood, half a mile distant from 
 the town. The outlet from the town to the wood, was through 
 a lane that had a fence on each side, which had a certain block 
 house at one end of it ; and the English were suspicious, when 
 they came to enter the lane, that the Indians were lying behind 
 • Sullivan. 
 
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 the fence, because the cattle stood staring that way, and would 
 not pass into the wood as they used to do. This mettlesome 
 company then ran up to the fence with ahuzza! thinking- there- 
 by to discourage the enemy, if they should be lurking there ; 
 but the enemy were so well prepared for them, that they an- 
 swered them with an horrible vengeance, which killed the Lieu- 
 tenant with thirteen more upon the spot, and the rest escaped 
 with much ado unto one of the garrisons. The enemy then 
 coming into the town, beset all the garrisons at once, except the 
 fort ; which were manfully defended, so long as their ammuni- 
 tion lasted ; but that being spent without a prospect of a recruit, 
 they quitted all the four garrions, and by the advantage of the 
 night got into the fort. Upon this the enemy setting the town 
 on fire, bent their whole force against the fort, which had by 
 it a deep gully that contributed not a little unto the ruin of it ; 
 for the besiegers getting into that gully, lay below the danger 
 of our guns. Here the enemy began their mine which was car- 
 ried so near the walls that the English, who by fighting five days 
 and four nights, had the greatest part of their men killed and 
 wounded* (Capt. Lawrence mortally among the rest,) began 
 a parley with them. 
 
 Articles were agreed, that they should have liberty to march 
 onto the next English town, and have a guard for their safety 
 in their march ; and the French commander, lifting up his hand, 
 swore by the everlasting God for the performance of these ar- 
 ticles. But the agreement was kept as those that were made 
 with Hugonots used to be. The English being first admonish- 
 ed by the French that they were all rebels for proclaiming the 
 Prince of Orange their King, were captived, and many of them 
 cruelly murdered by the Indians. Only some of them (and par- 
 ticularly Major Davis) were carried unto Canada where the 
 gentry very civily treated them. The garrisons at Papoodock, 
 Spurwink, Black Point and Blue Point, were so disanimated at 
 these disasters, that without orders they drew off immediately 
 
 * When Gov. Phips, accompanied by the famous Benjamin Church, went 
 from Boston to build a Fort at Pcmaquid in 1792, they stopped at Casco in their 
 way and buried the bond of the dead, and took off the great gunsthat were there. 
 
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 to Saco twenty miles within Casco, and from Saco in a few days 
 also they drew off to Wells twenty miles within the said Saco ; 
 and about Wells drew off as far as Lieut. Storer's*." 
 
 1694. 
 
 " The Indians (as the captives inform us) being 1 hungry, and 
 hardly bestead, (accommodated,) passed through deserted Cas- 
 co, where they espied several horses in Capt. Bracket's orchard. 
 Their famished squaws begg'd them shoot the horses, that they 
 might be revived with a little roast meat ; but the young men 
 were for having a little sport before their supper. Driving 
 their horses into a pond, they took one of them, and furnished 
 him with an halter suddenly made of the main and the tail of 
 the animal, which they cut off. A son of the famous Hegon was 
 ambitious to mount this Pegasaean steed ; but being a pitiful horse- 
 man, he ordered them for fear of his falling, to tie his legs fast 
 under the horse's belly. No sooner was this beggar set on horse- 
 back, and the spark in his own opinion, thoroughly equipt, but 
 the mettlesome horse furiously and presently ran with him out 
 of sight. Neither horse nor man were ever seen any more ; the 
 astonished tawnies howled after one of their nobility, disappear- 
 ing by such an unexpected accident. A few days after they 
 found one of his legs (and that was all) which they biiried in Cap*. 
 Bracket's cellar, with abundance of lamentationf." 
 
 1698—9. 
 
 Jan. 14. A treaty which Gov. Phips made with " the Indian 
 Kings of the East" in 1693, but which they did not faithfully ob- 
 serve, was this year " renewed, ratified and confirmed, at Mare's 
 Point in Casco Bay, subscribed by Moxus and a great number 
 more| 
 
 1702. 
 
 At Casco Bay, the Indians came together, being upwards of 
 500 besides Frenchmen, commanded by Monsieur Bobasier, who 
 had ransacked & laid waste several settlements, and being flusir- 
 
 • Mather's Magnalia. 
 
 t M-ither's Ma£Tiai;a. 
 
 * Ibid. 
 
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 ed with success, and having one great sloop and two shallops and 
 much plunder, attempted to undermine the fort by the water 
 side, in which they proceeded two days and two nights, and 
 would have effected their design if they had not been prevented 
 by the arrival of Capt. Southack, who raised the seige, made 
 them bring their sloops, with all their stores and plunder — re- 
 duced their shallops, and shattered their navy, which was up- 
 wards of 200 canoes. 
 
 1703. 
 
 Governor Dudley had a conference at Casco, with delegates 
 from the tribes of Norridgewalk, Penobscot, Pigwacket, Peno- 
 cook and Amariscoggin, who assured him, that they had not the 
 most distant thought of breaking the peace ; that the union was 
 11 firm as a mountain, and should continue as long as the sun and 
 moon." But while they made these assurances, they were 
 strongly suspected of hostile intentions. 
 
 Whether such suspicions were well founded or not, in the 
 space of about six weeks after, a body of 500 French and Indians 
 in various parties, attacked all the settlements from Casco to 
 Wells, and killed and took 130 people, burning and destroying 
 all before them. — Indeed, " the whole eastern country was in 
 a conflagration, no house standing, or garrison unattacked*." 
 
 1712. 
 
 In the spring after the peace of Utrecht was known in Amer- 
 ica, the Indians sent in to Maj. Moody, at Casco, to pray that 
 there might be a peace between the English and them : also 
 proposed a. treaty to be held there — but the Governor thought 
 it more to his honor to oblige them to come to Portsmouthf. 
 
 1723. 
 
 In April, the Indians killed and took eight persons at Fal- 
 mouth and Scarborough. Among the dead was the Serjeant of 
 the fort, Chubb, whom they took to be Capt. Harmon, and no 
 less than fifteen of them, aimed at him at the same time and 
 lodged eleven bullets in his body. This was lucky for the rest, 
 many more escaping to the fort than would have donef . 
 
 * Holmes' Amer. Annals. 
 
 t Hutchinson, J Ibid. 
 
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 1725. 
 
 A cessation of arms was agreed upon, and four delegates came 
 soon after to Boston and signed a treaty. 
 
 Indians' Cruelty to Captives. 
 Their cruelty was chiefly exercised upon children, and such 
 aged, infirm or corpulent persons as could not bear the hardships 
 of a journey through the wilderness. If they took a woman far 
 advanced in pregnancy, their knives were plunged into her 
 bowels. An infant, when it became troublesome, had its brains 
 dashed out against the next tree or stone. Sometimes to tor- 
 ment the wretched mother, they would beat the child till almost 
 dead, or hold it under water till its breath was just gone, and 
 then throw it to her to comfort and quiet it. If the mother could 
 not readily still its weeping, the hatchet was buried in its scull. 
 A captive, wearied with the burden laid upon his shoulders, was 
 often sent to rest the same way. * * * Sometimes a fire would 
 be kindled, and a threatening given out against one or more, 
 though there was no intention of sacrificing them, only to make 
 sport of their terror. * * * If a captive appeared sad and de- 
 jected, he was sure to meet with insult ; but if he could sing 
 and dance and laugh with his master, he was caressed as a broth- 
 er. They had a strong aversion to negroes, and generally kil- 
 led them when they fell into their hands. * * * A sale among 
 the French of Canada was the most happy event to a captive, 
 especially if he became a servant in a family ; though sometimes 
 there, a prison was their lot, till opportunity presented for their 
 redemption ; while the priests employed every seducing art to 
 pervert them to the Popish religion, and induce them to aban- 
 don their country. These circumstances, joined with the more 
 obvious hardships of travelling half naked and barefoot through 
 pathless deserts, over craggy mountains and deep swamps, 
 through frost, rain and snow, exposed by day and night to the 
 inclemency of the weather, and in summer to the venomous 
 stings of those numberless insects with which the woods abound ; 
 the restless anxiety of mind, the retrospect of past scenes of 
 pleasure, the remembrance of distant friends, the bereavements 
 
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 jj experienced at the beginning or during- the progress of the 
 captivity, and the daily apprehension of death, either by famine 
 or the savage enemy ; these were the horrors of Indian captivity. 
 
 On the other hand, it must be acknowledged that there have 
 been instances of justice, generosity and tenderness, during- these 
 wars, which would have done honour to a civilized people. * * * 
 They would sometimes " carry children on their arms and 
 shoulders, feed their prisoners with the best of their provisions, 
 and pinch themselves rather than their captives should want 
 food." 
 
 In thus preserving- the lives and health of their prisoners, they 
 doubtless had a view of g-ain. But .the most remarkably favor- 
 able circumstance in an Indian captivity, was their decent be- 
 haviour to women. I have never read, nor heard, nor could 
 find by inquiry, that any woman who fell into their hands, was 
 ever treated with the least immodesty, but testimonies to the 
 contrary are very frequent*. Whether this neg-ative virtue is 
 to be ascribed to a natural frigidity of constitution, let philoso- 
 phers inquire : the fact is certain. Belknap. 
 
 For particular instances of cruelty, see Mather's Magnalia, 
 — One only of many I will here transcribe. 
 
 MARY PLAISTED. 
 Mary Plaisted, the wife of Mr. James Plaisted, was made a 
 captive by the Indians, about three weeks after her delivery of 
 a male child. They then took her with her infant, off her bed, 
 and forced her to travel, in this her weakness, the best part of a 
 day, without any respect of pity. At nig-ht, the cold ground, in 
 the open air, was her lodging- ; and for many a day she had no 
 nourishment but a little water, with a little bear's flesh, which 
 rendered her so feeble, that she, with her infant, were not far 
 
 * Miry Rowlandson, who was captured at Lancaster in 167$, has this pas- 
 sage in her narrative : »* I have been with these roaring lions and savage bears, 
 that feared neither God nor man, nor the devil, by day and night, alone and in 
 company, sleeping all sorts together; and yet not one of them ever offered me 
 the least abuse of unchastity in word or action. Other testimonies might be 
 added. 
 
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 from being- totally starved. Upon her cries to God, there was 
 at length some supply sent in, by her master's taking a moose, 
 the broth whereof recovered her. But she must now travel ma- 
 ny days through woods and swamps, and rocks, and over moun- 
 tains and frost, and snow, until she could stir no farther. Sit- 
 ting down to rest, she was not able to rise, until her diabolical 
 master helped her up, and then took her child from her, and car- 
 ried it unto a river, where stripping it of the few rags it had, he 
 took it by the heels, and against a tree dashed out his brains, and 
 flung it into the river. So he returned unto the miserable moth- 
 er, telling her, she was now eased of her burthen, and must walk 
 fester than she did before. 
 
PART SECOND 
 
 PORTLAND. 
 
 FRESENT STATE OF THE TOWN OF PORTLAND. 
 
 THE town of Portland is about three miles long, and upon an 
 average about three quarters of a mile wide. It contains with- 
 in its limits (exclusive of streets, and what is covered with wa- 
 ter) 2151 acres of land, and 6 acres of marsh, and at present, 
 8581 persons*. 
 
 There are now the following public buildings in the town, 
 viz : a State House — an elegant Brick Court House — a large 
 Stone Gaol — a large three story Brick Academy f — a large 
 three story B,rick Building belonging to the Bank of Portland 
 — a like Brick Building formerly erected for an Insurance Of- 
 fice, but now owned by the Cumberland Bank, and occupied as 
 a Bank, a Custom House, and other Offices — Ten Houses of 
 Public Worship, viz : 3 for Congregationaiists — 1 for Baptists 
 —1 for Episcopalians — 1 for Methodists — 1 for Union Society — 
 1 for Independent Methodists — 1 for Friends — and 1 for Univer- 
 salists — 5 School Houses — 700 Dwelling Houses ; in, or adjoin- 
 ing which, are 61 Shops J— 260 other Shops— 306 Barns — 66 
 Ware Houses — 11 Bake Houses — 6 Distiil-Houses — 7 Tan Hou- 
 ses — 7 Slaughter Houses — 1 Iron Works and Furnace — 94 oth- 
 
 * This is according to the last census, 1820. By the census of 1810, the 
 town then contained 7169. In 1800—3704. And in 1790, but S240. 
 
 t The two upper stories of this building are now occupied by Masonic 
 L odgfs. 
 
 t A gentleman has sent me an account of the number of buildings in this 
 town, in the year 1 797, whicn I think proper to note here, as follows, viz : — 
 dwelling houses, 390 ; mechanics' shops, 86 ; barns and out-houses, 288 ; mer. 
 chants' stores and shops, 78 ; offices, 5;rope t.tctories, 3 ; distilleries, 2 ; meet 
 ing houses, 4; school-houses, 2 ; court-bouse and gaol. 
 
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 er Buildings — a Post-Office — 15,583 Tons of Vessels— 392,096 
 superficial Feet of Wharves — a Library, belonging to a number 
 of persons associated for its support, containing about 1200 Vol- 
 umes — an Insurance Office — Institution for Savings — and 27 
 other Institutions and Societies, (as hereafter particularized) be- 
 sides Religious Societies — 6 Engines — 7 Public Schools*, viz. 
 4 Masters' Schools ; 3 Mistress' Do. ; and about 40 Private 
 Schools. 
 
 Accounts of the Societies here follow : — 
 
 RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES. 
 1. 
 
 The First Congregational Society. 
 
 This Society is coeval with the town of Falmouth, being what 
 remained of it, after the separation of other Societies taken 
 therefrom. At the incorporation of the town of Portland, the 
 Rev. Mr. Smith, and the Rev. Mr. (late Doct.) Deane, were 
 Colleague Pastors. Mr. Smith died, May 23, 1795 ; and Doctor 
 Deane, Nov. 12, 1814. [See page 14.] 
 
 2. 
 
 The Second Congregational Society. 
 
 This Society was incorporated March 17, 1788. The Rev. 
 Mr. Kellogg, was the first Pastor. He was ordained Oct. 1, 
 1788. The Rev. Mr. Payson was ordained as a Colleague with 
 him, Dec. 16, 1807. A dissolution of this connection took place, 
 in Dec. 1811; in consequence of which, the gentleman last 
 mentioned, became, and now continues to be, the sole Pastor. 
 
 3. 
 
 The Third Congregational Society. 
 The Third Congregational Society, was incorporated March 
 8, 1808. It had no settled Minister, until March 14, 1810, when 
 
 * While the printers are preparing the types for this page, it appears by 
 an advertisement of the School Committee, that an additional School is soon to 
 be established, to consist of scholars selected from the other schools, " for 
 cheir proficiency and good behaviour ;" and it is required of the Instructor,, 
 that he be well qualified to teach the English, Latin, and Greek Languages % 
 Mathematics^ Composition and Elocuthn, to the extent usually taught in Acad 
 emits," 
 
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 at Church was formed, and the Rev. Nathan S. S. Beeman or 
 dained as Pastor of the said Church and Congregation. About 
 a year after, his health became impaired, and he took a journey 
 to the Southward for the improvement of it. He was gone about 
 ten months, and having- found the climate more favorable to his 
 health than this, he requested, and, by agreement of his society 
 and a mutual Council called for the purpose, obtained a regular 
 dismission in June, 1812. Previous to this, the Society being 
 destitute of a Minister, the Rev. Mr Kellogg, whose pastoral 
 connection with the second church and congregation in Port- 
 land had been dissolved, was employed to minister to such as 
 were disposed to assemble in the Meeting-House of said Society ; 
 but those who were members of the Church all left it and went 
 for religious instruction to the Meeting-House of the second 
 Parish*. Those who remained formed a new Society, under the 
 denomination of the Chapel Congregational Society — but the 
 former Society continued in existence until February, 1814, 
 when, by agreement with the members of the Chapel Congre- 
 gational Society, who had purchased the pews of all the mem- 
 bers of the third Society, not desirous of being united with them, 
 made a joint application to the Legislature for an act to set off 
 and annex to the new Society those members who had joined in 
 the formation of it, and to dissolve the said third Congregational 
 Society, on certain terms and conditions mentioned in said act- 
 Their request was complied with, and the Society was thereupon 
 dissolved. 
 
 Chapel Congregational Society. 
 
 This Society was formed some time before the 18th March. 
 1812, partly by some who had been members of the third Congre- 
 gational Society and partly by others, who had joined them, 
 when a church was formed, and the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, then 
 installed as the pastor of the same. 
 
 The Society was incorporated the 24th Oct. following. The 
 Rev. Thomas Murdock having received and accepted a call to 
 
 •They were sometime after received as members of the Church in said Paris;*. 
 I 
 
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 • settle, as a colleague with Mr. Kellogg", was ordained on the 
 29th Sept. 1819 — hut by agreement with the church and con- 
 gregation, and by a mutual Council called for the purpose, he 
 was, on or about the 28th March last (1821) regularly dismissed 
 — so that Mr. Kellogg is now sole pastor of that church. 
 
 5. 
 
 Episcopalian Society. 
 [See page 16.] 
 
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 Friends. 
 
 It may not be amiss to observe, as to the Society of this denon> 
 mation, that it originated in England, A. D. 1644 — having for 
 >ts head George Fox, born at Drayton, in July, 1624. 
 
 In about seven years, the preachers of their principles increas- 
 ed in number to such a degree that no less than sixty ministers 
 were raised up in Great Britain, and before the close of that 
 century were spread in most of the European Kingdoms and in 
 America. Adherents to them first came to New England in 
 1656. Here, as well as in England, they met with cruel perse- 
 cutions, which it would be foreign to my design to set forth. 
 
 Before the year 1696 they held meetings as other christians 
 for worship, on the first day of the week ; also at other times as 
 occasions required. At an annual meeting that year, it was 
 recommended to Friends living at a distance, to hold meetings 
 in their familes; and for the regular administration of discipline 
 and other helps, they established in their Society four other kinds 
 of meetings, viz. Preparative, Monthly, -Quarterly and yearly 
 meetings. In these worship and business were connected. 
 
 The authority of the first was only to judge of the propriety 
 of carrying the matters before it to the higher meetings, at 
 which deputies, consisting of persons of both sexes, are appoint- 
 ed to remove it to the next in order, and there join in the trans- 
 action of any other business that may regularly come before 
 the m. The first meeting in the State of Maine was held in the 
 -i per part of York, in Dec. 1662, by three women, who had 
 
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 been prosecuted and whipped at Dorer, in N. H. (viz. Ann^ 
 Coleman, Mary Tomkins and Alice Ambrose.) 
 
 Soon after, another was held at Berwick — but no account of 
 any other meeting- can be found for more than 60 years, when 
 in October, 1730, one was held by a few families found in Kit- 
 tery. 
 
 In 1743 a meeting- for worship was set up in Falmouth, and in 
 1750 one was regularly established in Berwick. 
 
 The next was established in Windham, in 1779. After this, 
 meetings were multiplied in' different parts of the State, when, 
 in 1790, the present Society in Portland was established. It is 
 unnecessary to enumerate the many meetings that have been 
 established since. I will only add, that the most general awa- 
 kening-, or, in the language of the Society, " the most general 
 convincement, that has ever taken place in Maine, happened 
 during the Revolutionary War, principally through the instru- 
 mentality of David Sands, late of Cornwall, in the State of New 
 York, an eminent minister of this Society." 
 
 The foregoing account was taken from a more particular one, 
 handed to me by a respectable member of the Portland Society, 
 and though it may be considered as principally historical, will, 
 I flatter myself, be acceptable to the reader. 
 
 The tenets of the Society, and their mode of worship, are well 
 known, as well as the spread of such Societies throughout the 
 United States. Were it otherwise, I should think it improper 
 to extend this article by an insertion of them. No further ac* 
 count therefore, I apprehend, will be expected. 
 
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 The Methodists. 
 " The first Minister of this Denomination who visited Port- 
 land, was Rev. Jesse Lee, a. d. 1793. And in the following 
 year, a Society of this order was formed, which continued un- 
 der the care of Circuit Preachers, until the year 1804, when 
 the Rev. Joshua Taylor, was stationed in the Society, and con- 
 tinued with them two years*. He was succeeded by Rev. Da - 
 
 * "According to the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, their 
 Ministers who belong to the itinerant connection are not stationed more than 
 two years successively, and often bat one year, in the same place.'* 
 
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 vid Batchelcr, who coatinued one year. Rev. Joel Winch, 
 came next, and was successful in laying- the foundation of their 
 present House of Worship, and tarried two years. Rev. E- 
 paphras Kibby followed, and was with them two years. Rev. 
 Martin Ruter, one year. Rev. John Lindsey, one. Rev. Dan- 
 iel Fillemore, two. Rev. Eleazer Wells, one. Rev. Jacob San- 
 born, one. Rev. Elijah Hedding, one. Rev Charles Virgin, one ; 
 and Rev. Solomon Sias, two years. Rev. Elijah Kilborn, is the 
 present Minister. Rev. Joshua Taylor, having- located in Port- 
 land, still continues with this Society. 
 
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 First Baptist Society in Portland. 
 
 This Society was incorporated February 12, 1820. By an 
 act passed June, 1820, it is provided that any persons belonging* 
 to the town of Portland, desirous to become members of this So- 
 ciety, by giving- notice thereof in writing- to the Clerk of the 
 Parish or Society they intend to leave, seven days at least be- 
 fore the annual meeting- thereof, and being- accepted by said first 
 Baptist Society, shall from and after such acceptance become 
 members of the same ; and any person may cease to become a 
 member of said Society by giving- notice in writing- to the Clerk 
 of the same in manner aforesaid : 
 
 Provided, That in both cases such persons shall be holden to 
 pay all taxes lawfully assessed on their polls or estates at the 
 time of their joining- or leaving- said Society. 
 
 By the same act all the powers and privileg-es given to the 
 other religious societies and proprietors of Meeting-Houses in 
 Portland, by an act passed February 12, 1809, are extended to 
 this society, and to the proprietors of the Meeting-House by 
 them occupied. 
 
 "The first Baptist Church in this town was constituted July 
 24, 1801. The number of members at that time was ten ; one 
 of this number was Mr. Benjamin Titcomb, who was requested 
 to take charge of them as their pastor the 28th Sept. following 
 In 1803 the first Baptist Meeting-House in Portland was erected 
 by the Baptist Society. In 1804 Mr. Titcomb was dismissed to 
 
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 the Baptist church in Brunswick, of which church he continues 
 to be the pastor. His successor was the Rev. Josiah Convers, 
 ordained October 21, 1807. At his request he was dismissed 
 from the pastoral office, April 30, 1810. 
 
 After this, the Rev. Caleb Blood was requested by the church 
 to take the pastoral care. With this request he complied and 
 commenced his labors in June of the same year. In 1811 a 
 new and capacious house of worship was erected. — Mr. Blood 
 died March 6, 1814." 
 
 The next Pastor was the Rev. Thomas B. Ripley, ordained 
 July 24, 1816, and he is yet the Pastor of that Church. 
 
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 Union Society. 
 
 On the 11th of January, 1810, " twelve persons, who had fel- 
 lowship with each other," and considered themselves as " bora 
 of God, and united in one spirit," conformable as they conceiv- 
 ed, to that of St. Paul, manifested in the fourth chapter of his 
 epistle to the Ephesians, u embodied themselves tog-ether," with 
 a Pastor by the name of Elias Smith, and 4 mutually agreed to 
 drop all party names by which professors of different denomina- 
 tions distinguished themselves in that day,' and, 4 from their 
 belief in Christ, as the true Messiah, to resume the ancient name 
 of Christians" by which the disciples of Christ were called in 
 the days of the apostles. According- to these principles, they 
 have fellowship and communion with christians of all descrip- 
 tions. " Although the Church was gathered by Mr. Smith, they 
 are not to be considered as embracing- his peculiar tenets, any 
 more than those of any other sectarians. They have no creed 
 but the Scriptures — are under no ecclesiastical government ; 
 but endeavor, according- to the best of their understanding-, to 
 decide all questions according to the perfect law of liberty." 
 
 " Elder Smith continued with them over one year, and then 
 move 6T to Philadelphia." They soon after invited Elder Samuel 
 Rand, " to take the pastoral care of the Church, who continues 
 with them to the present time." 
 
 In August, 1817, the Church, and others associated with 
 i3 
 
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 them, purchased the old Court House ; and have since made it 
 a very neat and commodious house of worship. The Society 
 was incorporated in April, 1821, by the name and style of 
 " Union Society." 
 
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 Independent Methodist Society. 
 This is not the name assumed by the Society, for they have 
 not any yet ; but they are such in reality — not being 1 under the 
 discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, although they are 
 Methodists by profession. They belonged in part, to the Socie- 
 ty of Methodists in this town — from which, on the last Sabbath 
 in January, a. d. 1819, fifty of them seceded. On the seventh 
 day of February next following, they by agreement formed this 
 Society, and admitted others to join them. After which, they 
 engaged Mr. Timothy W olcott, who had been an ordained El- 
 der, and who had withdrawn bis standing with them, to be, and 
 lie now is, their Minister. They have also appointed such Offi- 
 cers, and made such regulations, as they deemed proper, and 
 have lately built a new Meeting House. 
 
 11. 
 
 The First Universal Society in Portland. 
 Though for many years there have been individuals in Port- 
 land, professing to believe in the Doctrine of " Redemption and 
 Universal Salvation," who " have occasionally employed teach- 
 ers, whose religious views they considered more cong-enial with 
 their own, than those of the stated preachers of the several 
 Churches ; they were never duly organized and associated for 
 the regular support of the gospel, and their particular faith, till 
 Feb. 12, 1821." The y have been since, (viz. on the 12th April, 
 1821,) legally established as a Society, in the manner pointed 
 out by a late law of the State, entitled " An Act concerning" 
 Parishes." Their present Minister is the Rev. Russell Strceter. 
 The Society has "male choice of such Oflicers for the year, as 
 were deemed necessary," and appointed ' a Committee' to erect 
 " a convenient House for Public Worship." '* The lot, and 
 some materials for the balding, are purchased." 
 
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 [Since writing the above, (about two months since,) the Soci- 
 ety has erected, and completely finished, with a high Steeple, 
 a very handsome Meeting House, seventy-five feet in length, and 
 forty-four feet in width. A Bell, for said meeting-house, weigh- 
 ing 1236 pounds, has just arrived.] 
 
 OTHER SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; 
 
 Arranged according to t/ie priority of time in which they were 
 formed. 
 
 Portland Library. 
 This was originally established in 1763. It was revised in 
 1786, and re-established in 1806. A catalouge of the books, with 
 a list of proprietors, and new regulations, were published in 1815, 
 and republished with amendments in 1821. The number of 
 members was not to be limited. New members are admitted 
 by a major vote of the society present at any meeting ; the vote 
 to be determined by yeas and nays in writing, or by a standing 
 committee of the proprietors. Every member is required to 
 pay two dollars annually for the increase of the library. The 
 present number, holding each a share is 78. It now contains 
 about 1200 volumes. 
 
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 Portland Academy. 
 This institution was incorporated in 1794. It has a large 
 three story brick building, which, with the land on which it 
 stands, cost $7300. The two upper stories are now occupied by 
 masonic lodges. Its funds, which consist of bank stock and a 
 loan certificate, produce an annual income, amounting with the 
 rent of these two stories, to about $240.* The salaries of the 
 Preceptor and his assistant are now paid by the tuition money 
 of the students. The Trustees meet monthly. The number of 
 students is limited to 70. 
 
 * Some generous donations have been made to the Academy, but they canr^ot 
 be correctly ascertained. , 
 
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 Portl and Marine Society. 
 This society was designed " for the promotion of the know! 
 edge of navigation and seamanship, and for the relief of decayed 
 and disabled seamen, and that of poor widows and orphans of 
 deceased seamen." It was incorporated in 1796. Its funds are 
 about $4000. The number of its members, is 62. 
 
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 Portland Benevolent Society. 
 This society was incorporated in the year 1 803. Its design 
 was to relieve and assist those who might require relief in a 
 manner different from that which is by law provided, for the 
 support and employment of the poor. It was not to go into op- 
 eration, until the sum subscribed should amount to $6000. This 
 sum was obtained by subscriptions, of from five to fifty dollars a 
 year and one prompt payment of twentj^ dollars. Through the 
 misfortune of some members, and the delinquency of others the 
 funds drawing interest are now but little more than $3000. This 
 interest, with the annual contributions, which have amounted up- 
 on an average to $100 a year, are the supports of the Society. 
 Some private donations have aided it ; but those since the estab- 
 lishmeut of the Society, have amounted only to 133 dollars. 
 Managers are annually appointed to distribute the sums received. 
 They meet once every month for this purpose. 
 
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 Bible Society of Maine. 
 This was the fourth Bible Society established in the United 
 States. (The first was at Philadelphia — the second at Hartford, 
 Conn. — and the third at Boston.) It was formed in August 1809, 
 and incorporated in March 1810. It has no funds that draw in- 
 terest, but is supported by subscriptions, donations and contri- 
 butions. The number of subscribers has been nearly two hun- 
 dred, subject to the payment of one dollar annually, the chief 
 of whom are inhabitants of Portland — but from divers causes, 
 the number of efficient members has been much reduced (per- 
 
 *As the meetings of this Society, and of its Trustees, are hoJJen in no other 
 p5ace thin Port^nc', I have thought it fit to insert the account of it herrt 
 
03 
 
 haps one half.) The donations made to the Society since its es- 
 tablishment (including 1 j£l00 from the British and Foreign Bible 
 Society, and sums received from the Oxford Bible Society) a- 
 mount to $1987. The contributions at the annual meetings of 
 the Society (when a Discourse or Address is delivered) have 
 amounted, on an average, to $86 a year. The Trustees meet 
 once every two months, and have sub-committees for the pur- 
 chase and distribution of Bibles, under their direction — but the 
 extentof their business has been reduced by the recent establish- 
 ment of Independent Societies in every county in the State, except 
 that in the county of Oxford, which is auxiliary to this. By a 
 vote of the Society, at a meeting held at Portland, on the 16th 
 October, 1816,itbecame auxiliary to the American Bible Society. 
 
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 Portland Female Society for Missionary Purposes. 
 This Society was instituted August 1st, 1809, " for the express 
 purpose of aiding Missions." The present number of members 
 is 121. None are to be admitted but such as sustain a good 
 moral character, and whose views and motives they have reason 
 to hope are right. No member is holden to pay more that one 
 dollar a year. The members of it meet on the last Wednesday 
 •f every month. The time (more than what is necessarily em- 
 ployed in transacting the business of the Society) is devoted to 
 religious exercises. 
 
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 The Portland Foreign Mission Society. 
 This Society was originally instituted, Jan. 30, 1812, " for 
 the purpose of raising money to aid the American Board of 
 Commissioners for Foreign Missions," in their design of send- 
 ing Missionaries to the Heathen. It was not to continue in 
 existence longer than three years, unless a majority of the 
 members should by a new subscription see fit to renew it. It 
 was renewed accordingly, May 15, 1816, under some new con- 
 ditions and regulations ; one of which was, that each member 
 or donor might have his contribution applied, either to the pur- 
 pose of aiding the American Board of Commissioners, agreea- 
 
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 bly to its original design— of promoting" the translation cf the* 
 Holy Scriptures— or of educating Heathen children and youth. 
 
 It provides for an anoual meeting, sermon or address, and 
 contribution, at such time and place as the committee for con- 
 ducting the business of the society may appoint; the contributions 
 to be applied in equal proportion to the several purposes above- 
 mentioned. Each member of the society had liberty to subscribe 
 for the payment of such a sum annually as he saw fit. The num- 
 ber of original members was 51, and the amount of their annual 
 subscription upwards of $300. The present number is fifty, and 
 the annual amount of their subscription $120. 
 
 8. 
 
 Female Charitable Society. 
 This society was formed in 1812, and consisted at that time of 
 but 20 members. The number now is 112. It is supported by 
 their annual subscriptions, amounting to $120, and an annual 
 contribution made on the delivery of a discourse adapted to the 
 occasion. It was formed " for the purpose of making clothing, 
 and distributing the same to meritorious poor, and loaning bed- 
 ding and clothes to the sick." It also, (during the summer 
 months) " supports a school for female children." 
 
 9. 
 
 Baptist Female Missionary Society. 
 
 The object of this society, is to raise money " for the express 
 purpose of aiding missions." 
 
 It was instituted Nov. 2, 1812. The members meet on the 
 first Monday of every month, P. M. It is supported by subscrip- 
 tions ; each member subscribing such a sum to be paid annually 
 as she shall see fit. None are admitted members but those who 
 sustain a good moral character. The present number is 84. 
 The annual subscriptions from 70 to 80 dollars. 
 
 10. 
 
 The Young Men's Society. m 
 This was formed in 1814, for religious conversation and in- 
 struction, The members, eighteen in number, at first contrib- 
 
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 uted monthly, but now quarterly, to raise a fund from which to 
 relieve the needy and to afford aid in the education of indigent 
 young men. They now have one who has his chief, if not only, 
 support from it. The contributions have hitherto amounted 
 from 125 to $160 a year. 
 
 Society for suppressing Vice and Immorality. 
 A Society of this denomination was established this } r ear(1814) 
 and may yet be in existence — but as it seems to have been for 
 some time past inactive, I have not numbered it in the list of other 
 - Societies. 
 
 11. 
 
 Auxiliary Tract Society. 
 This society was formed Jan. 1, 1815. It is supported by sub- 
 scriptions of different sums, not less than one dollar paid annu- 
 ally. Each subscriber is entitled to receive the amount of his 
 subscription in tracts at the cost. 
 
 If any remain on hand, after thirty days notice in one or more 
 of the public newspapers, they may be distributed by the com- 
 mittee. Its annual meeting- is on the first Wednesday of January. 
 The officers are a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secre- 
 tary, Collector, and Committee of purchase and distribution. 
 'The number of subscribers is 80, and the amount of the annual 
 subscription, about eighty dollars. 
 
 12. 
 
 Maine Charitable Meclianic Association.* 
 This society was instituted January 16, and incorporated 
 June 14, 1815. The act of Incorporation renders it capable in 
 law " to purchase, have, hold, use, take, possess, retain and en- 
 jo)', in fee simple or otherwise, any personal or real estate, not 
 exceeding the value of $10,000 in real estate and $10,000 in 
 personal estate," and gives it power "to sell, alien and dispose 
 of the same at their pleasure. 
 
 The objects contemplated by the society are " the promotion 
 of industry, the encouragement of enterprize, and the ameliora- 
 tion of the condition of the unfortunate." Its government is vest- 
 
 • As the meetings of this societies 'and of its trustees are holdcn in no 
 Sther rpbce than Portland, I have seen fie to insert the account of it here. 
 
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 ed in a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and nine 
 Trustees. Each member pays one dollar annually. The num- 
 ber of members at the formation of the society was 132. There 
 have been some admitted since. 
 
 The meetings of the association are on the first Tuesdays of 
 April and October. Of the articles of its Constitution the fol- 
 lowing is the " conclusion" : " It is recommended that all meet- 
 ings of the association shall be opened with prayer to Almighty 
 God, that he would condescend to meet with us, direct us, and 
 bless us." 
 
 It has a fund of about $800, drawing interest. 
 
 Every Appentice, on arriving at twenty-one years of age, 
 who shall have served his apprenticeship with fidelity and atten- 
 tention, is to be furnished with a certificate of approbation, in a 
 form prescribed, under the hands of the President and Vice-Pres- 
 ident, and the seal of the association. 
 
 Under the government, and through the instrumentality of 
 this association, with the aid of benevolent individuals, there was 
 in September last, a library established, which is denominated 
 
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 The Mechanics Library^ 
 for the use of the Apprentices of the respective members. It 
 now consists of 1200 volumes, and has 300 persons, who partake 
 of its benefits. 
 
 14. 
 
 Maternal Association. 
 This is a Religious Association of Females who are mothers 
 of children ; and is designed for inculcating religious principles 
 in their minds — or, in the words of their printed Constitution, 
 44 bringing them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord 
 agreeably to their covenant engagements." The members meet 
 once a month for reading, conversation and prayer ; and once in 
 three months are allowed to bring to the place of meeting such 
 of their female children, as are between 4 and 14 years of age. 
 A small contribution is made at each meeting, for the formation 
 of a select Library. It was instituted Feb. 14, 1816. The pres- 
 ent number of Members is sixty. 
 
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 15. 
 
 Peace Society of Maine*. 
 
 This Society originated in 1816, and was organized by the 
 «stablishment of a Constitution, and appointment of Officers, on 
 the 31st January, 1817. It was the second of the kind in the 
 State of Massachusetts, and the third in the U. S. ; one in New- 
 York being the first. The object of it is, " to exhibit in a clear 
 and distinct manner, the pacific nature of the Gospel, and to difl 
 fuse a spirit of love and harmony, and an enlightened philan- 
 thropy and benevolence throughout the world ;" in pursuance 
 of which, they have procured and distributed, sundry tracts, and 
 principally a series of Pamphlets, entitled, " The Friend of 
 Peace." The Society may be considered as in an infant state ; 
 but it is hoped, that by suitable and sufficient nourishment, it 
 will grow and become powerful, and with the help of similar so- 
 cieties, which are continually multiplying, hasten on the time 
 when wars shall cease, and benevolence prevail, throughout 
 the world. The number of its members is now but forty-two, in- 
 cluding eight Clergymen, who are not " subject to any annual 
 contribution or other expense." The rest pay one dollar a year. 
 Each subscriber is entitled " to receive one half of his subscrip- 
 tion, in such pamphlets or publications as the Society may pro- 
 cure, and at the lowest price." 
 
 Three of its members have lately died ; one of whom, Doct. 
 Appleton, was the first President of the Society. It has no oth- 
 er support than a contribution at its annual meetings, when a 
 discourse or address is delivered to promote the object of the In- 
 stitution. 
 
 16. 
 
 Portland Union Sabbath School Society* 
 The important object of this Society " is the moral and relig- 
 ious instruction of the young, by means of schools kept every 
 Sabbath, at suitable seasons of the year, and during such time of 
 the day, as may not be devoted to public worship." 
 
 It was instituted Sept. 6, 1816, under the name of " The Part- 
 land Sunday School Society," and its present Constitution estab- 
 lished, under the above title, Jan. 21, 1821. Its officers, viz. a 
 
 • As the meetings of this society, and of its trustees, ar< hol i n in no other 
 place than Portland, I have thought it fit to insert the account of it here. 
 
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98. 
 
 President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary, together 
 with the Teachers and Supernumeraries for each School, are 
 annually appointed at a meeting- 'holden on the third Monday of 
 March. The ^Instructors appoint one of their number as Su- 
 perintendant of their respective Schools. To the discretion of 
 the Superintendant and Teachers for the time being-, is left the 
 method of regulating and conducting- the School. The several 
 Ministers of the Gospel, in town, and the Female Teachers for 
 the time being, are admitted members, and invited to attend the 
 meetings of the Society. 
 
 The number of Members (besides these) is 94. The expens- 
 es of the Society, for the purchase of Books,!|&c. are defrayed as 
 they occur, by voluntary contribution. In 1819, the Society 
 had received, during the preceding year, $219 25 ; and expen- 
 ded $217 34. 
 
 I have had an opportunity to peruse the records of its proceed- 
 ings, and am impelled to say, I felt an interest and satisfaction 
 therein. 
 
 17. 
 
 Juvenile Benevolent Society. 
 This is a Female Society, which was instituted Dec. 25, 1816, 
 and now consists of Sixty Members. Tbey annually pay fifty 
 cents each, which is applied to the benevolent purpose of cloth- 
 ing indigent children, and -educating heathen youth. They 
 meet/mce in every month. 
 
 18. 
 
 Female Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews. 
 
 The style of this .Society fully expresses its object ; and its 
 funds are to be applied to it, " according to the discretion of the 
 Board/" They are raised by payment of ten dollars, which con- 
 stitutes a member for life ; or by paying annually a sum not less 
 than fifty cents. 
 
 The members generally pay one dollar a year each — some 
 more. 
 
 The present number is 100. It was instituted Feb. 1 1. IS 17 
 
9 ( J 
 19 
 
 Trustees of the Charity Fund in the First Parish. 
 A Fund of $833 was raised by the subscription of the Ladies 
 of said Parish, previous to the year 1818. They afterwards ap- 
 pointed two Gentlemen of the Parish, to manage the same. — 
 These Trustees, of whom the Minister or Ministers of the Par- 
 ish are always ex officio to be one, were incorporated for the pur- 
 pose, Feb. 10, 1818. They, with some other Gentlemen of the 
 Parish, have contributed by subscription, the sum of $610, for the 
 increase of the funds, which now of course amount to $1443. 
 The interest thereof (or the income only) is to be applied by 
 the Trustees, " in assisting- and relieving the poor and necessi- 
 tous members of the Parish, according to their best discretion, 
 so as most effectually to answer the design of those who created 
 the same." 
 
 20. 
 
 Second Church of Portland Missionary Society. 
 On the 12th of June, 1818, the members of the Second 
 Church in Portland, formed themselves into a Society, for the 
 purpose of educating pious young men for the Missionary ser- 
 vice. It is generally denominated, The Church Missionary So- 
 ciety. 
 
 The Funds of this Society are raised by monthly contribu- 
 tions at the concerts of prayer, and quarterly contributions af- 
 ter the communion service. Its concerns are managed by ten 
 Trustees, consisting of the Pastor of the Church y the four Dea- 
 cons, and five other members. The amount of money receiv- 
 ed, up to the 4th Nov. 1820, was $659" 71*. It has now un- 
 der its support; three Beneficiaries, two of whom are at Bow- 
 doin College. 
 
 21. 
 
 Trustees of the Ancient Landmark Charity Fund. 
 This Institution was incorporated June 19, 1819. 
 The Trustees have power to receive, possess, and hold bv 
 * Besides this, the same Church contributed the last month, after com- 
 munion service, to the American Education Society, the sum of 300 dolls. - 
 the receipt of which, has been publicly acknowledged by the Treasurer of thi* 
 Society. 
 
100 
 
 gift, grant, and purchase, any real or personal estate : Prow 
 dcd the value thereof do not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars — 
 and are to employ the income, interest and profits arising from 
 such estate, in acts of charity and benevolence, and not other- 
 wise. The present amount of its Funds, drawing interest, is 
 $1500. 
 
 22. 
 
 Beethoven Society. 
 " The Beethoven Society of Portland, was instituted, Janua- 
 ry 16, a. d 1819. It consists at present of fifty -five members, 
 male and female. Its object and design is, to cultivate and pro- 
 mote a correct taste in the science and practice of Sacred Har- 
 mony, and to co-operate with other similar Societies in our 
 Country, in reviving and bringing forward into public notice, 
 those works and compositions of eminent masters, which justly 
 entitle them to an imperishable name among all the lovers of 
 sacred song. This Society, though of recent origin, has alrea- 
 dy received many flattering tokens of public patronage ; and 
 their concerts, which have occasionally been given, have been 
 fully attended. 
 
 " Its privileges of membership, are not limited to Portland ; — 
 many Gentlemen from different parts of the State, are made 
 honorary members, without being subject to the regulations, 
 which govern the stated meetings of the Society. 
 
 14 Beethoven, whose name this Society bears, stands second to 
 none of the masters of melody, who have arisen and shone up- 
 on the present age. And while a similar Society in Boston, has 
 inscribed on their escutcheon the celebrated names of Handel 
 and Haydn, the Beethoven Society of Portland, assumes the 
 name of one, whose genius seems to anticipate a future age, and 
 labors for the benefit of posterity." 
 
 23. 
 
 Female Education Society of Portland and the Vicinity. 
 This Society was formed in 1819, " for the purpose of assist- 
 ing in the education of indigent pious young men for the Gos- 
 pel Ministry ;" and is auxiliary to the Maine Branch of the A- 
 merican Education Society. 
 
101 
 
 The present number of its members is one hundred. It has 
 a Board of Managers, and is supported by annual subscriptions 
 and contributions. 
 
 Their annual meeting; is on the first Wednesday of June. 
 
 The annual subscriptions amount to about $120. 
 
 24. 
 
 Institution for Savings for the town of Portland. ■ 
 This Institution was established by an act of incorporation, 
 passed June 11, 1819. With the usual powers necessary to car- 
 ry into effect, the design of bodies corporate, it is made " capa- 
 ble of receviug from any person or persons, disposed to obtain 
 and enjoy the advantage of said institution, any deposit or de- 
 posits of money, and to use and improve the same to the best ad- 
 vantage ; the income or profits- thereof, to be applied among 
 persons making the deposits, their executors or administrators, 
 in just proportion." The principal may however be withdrawn, 
 at such reasonable times, and in such manner as the Society 
 shall direct and appoint. 
 
 25. 
 
 Portland Relief Society. 
 
 This Society was incorporated Feb. 7, 1820. By the act of 
 incorporation, it is enabled to hold real and personal Estate, to 
 the value of Ten Thousand Dollars ; and to employ the income, 
 interest and profits arising therefrom, " in acts of charity and 
 benevolence ; and not otherwise." 
 
 The members of it are the same with those of the Portland 
 Lodge. Its funds amount to about $1500. 
 
 26. 
 
 Female Benevolent Society. 
 The design of thisjSociety is " to promote all the objects of pub- 
 he charitable benevolence — such as Bible, Missionary, Educa- 
 tion, Tract and' other benevolent Societies." The present num- 
 ber of members is 55, each of whom pays (in quarterly payments) 
 an annual subscription of such a certain sum, as she sees fit to 
 subscribe, being generally one dollar or fifty cents.-It was insti- 
 tuted April 24 y 1820. 
 
 K2 
 
10® 
 
 27. 
 
 Portland Auxiliary Marine Bible Society. 
 
 This Society was instituted Sept. 10, 1820. Its sole object i« 
 to circulate the Holy Scriptures among- seamen. Each member 
 pays annually seventy-five cents, and ten dollars constitutes a 
 member for life. Any member may receive the amount of his 
 subscription in Bibles, at the cost. — Its Board of Directors meet 
 once in three months. The annual meeting* is on the second 
 Monday in February. 
 
 After supplying- the demands, and paying* incidental expenses, 
 the surplus is to be transmitted to the Treasurer of the Ameri- 
 can Bible Society. — The present number of members is 86- 
 
 28. 
 
 Trustees of the Methodist Society in Portland. 
 
 By an act passed in February, 1821, Lemuel Gooding, Thoma6 
 Dodg*e, Joshua Taylor, Isaac Davis, Nicholas Stickney, Luther 
 Rice and John Ay res, and their successors, together with the 
 minister having the pastoral charge, for the time being, of the 
 Methodist Society in Portland, connected with the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, as one of the United Societies thereof, were 
 incorporated by this name — and empowered to take and hold 
 real and personal estate, the income whereof should not exceed 
 $3000, and to give and grant, or bargain and sell the same, ac- 
 cording to the will and intent of the grantors or donors, and for 
 the benefit of the Society and not otherwise. 
 
 The number of the Board is not to exceed seven, four of whom 
 including the President, to form a quorum. They have power 
 to fill vacancies, and to make by-laws, not repugnant to the laws 
 of the State, nor the discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church*. 
 
 ft will not I presume be thought improper, nor will it I think 
 prove unacceptable to the reader, if I add to the accounts of 
 the beforementioned Charitable Societies, the following Poet- 
 ical Address " To the Affluent ;" — nor to the accounts of the 
 Missionary Societies 3 if I subjoin the succeeding " Mission- 
 rjry Hymn" 
 
103 
 
 TO THE AFFLUENT. 
 
 "Assist them, hearts from anguish free, 
 " Assist them, sweet humanity I" 
 
 AH ! ye who meet stern winter's frow«. 
 Upheld by Fortune' 's powerful hand ; 
 
 Who see the chilling snow fall down, 
 With all her comforts at command ; 
 
 O. I think of their less happy doom, 
 Whom Poverty's sharp woes assail, 
 
 No sparkling fire, no cheerful room, 
 
 Revives their cheek, cold, wan, and pale. 
 
 Deep howls the wind ! the pelting rain 
 Drips through the shattered casement cold,- 
 
 While the sad mother's arms contain 
 Her infant, shivering in their fold. 
 
 In vain they raise their piteous cry v 
 And plead at hungry Nature's call ; 
 
 Their only food>a mother's sigh — 
 Their only warmth the tears that fall, 
 
 Stretch'd on his miserable bed", 
 
 The wretched father sinks in grief ; 
 
 Pale sickness rests upon his head, 
 And only hopes from death relief. 
 
 The parent's tender, mournful eyes 
 Mingle their faint and humid beams ; 
 
 Fresh woes from retrospection rise,. 
 
 Fresh source from memory's fountain streams*. 
 
 O, rich ! the transports might be thine, 
 To soothe their sufferings into peace ; 
 
 To bid the sun of comfort shkie, 
 
 And want's oppressive empire cease ! 
 
 To see the glow of health's return 
 
 Reanimate their faded cheek ! 
 Life's feeble spark rekindled, burn, 
 
 And give what language cannot speak t 
 
 On Fancy's pinion oft I roam 
 
 With Pity, partner of my flight i 
 Forget awhile that griefs my own, 
 
 And taste a soothing, sweet delight 
 
104 
 
 forget the many poignant woes, 
 That weigh this drooping form to earth ; 
 
 Where restless sorrow hopes repose, 
 'Scap'd from those ills which gave it birth 
 
 Oh ! ye embarked for pleasure's shore, 
 Restrain awhile the fluttering sail ! 
 
 At pity's call retard the oar, 
 Nor let her pi aintive pleading, fail 
 
 MISSIONARY HYMN. 
 
 " Glad we hear from day to day, 
 
 What the Lord is doing, 
 How tli e gospel wings its way, 
 
 Sinners hearts subduing : 
 
 " What a glorious work is his, 
 
 Work forever lasting, 
 Every other work but this, 
 
 Fading is and wasting. 
 
 " While the judgments of the Lord, 
 Heaven and earth are shaking ; 
 
 Rous'd from slumber by his word, 
 Thousands are awaking. 
 
 * Swiftly flies the joyful sound ? 
 
 Heavenly truth declaring,; 
 To a guilty world around, 
 
 News of pardon bearing. 
 
 ft Saviour, let thy message run, 
 
 Message of salvation ; 
 Takes its circuit like the sun, 
 
 Visit every nation. 
 
 *' Earth has long been overspread, 
 Overspread with sadness ; 
 
 Let the day spring come with speed- 
 Bringing light and gladness." 
 
105 
 
 Having thus given an account of the present state of Portland, 
 
 I would close this part of the work by presenting to the citizens 
 of Portland the following 
 
 LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS, 
 From the time the town was incorporated to the present time. 
 
 SELECTMEN. 
 
 John Fox, in 1786, 1787 and 1795, - - *5 
 
 Nathaniel Deering, 1786, 1787, 2 
 
 Peleg Wadsworth, 1786, 1787, 1788 and 1789, - 4 
 
 Samuel Freeman, 1788 and 1789, and from ) 24 
 
 1791 to 1812, inclusively, \ 
 
 Thomas Robinson, 1788, 1789, - 2 
 
 James Lunt, 1790, - - - 1 
 
 Ebenezer Preble, 1790, - - - - 1 
 
 Daniel Ilsley, 1790 and 1804, 2 
 Woodbury Storer, 1791, 1792, and from 1794 to 1800, inclu 9 
 
 John Thrasher, 1791, 1792 and 1800, - - 3 
 
 Nathaniel F. Fosdick, 1793 to 1796 inclusively, - 4 
 
 Daniel Tucker, 1793, 1796 to 1800, also from ) » 
 
 1813 to 1816 inclusively, S 
 
 Daniel Epes, 1795 to 1797 inclu. - 3 
 
 Matthew Cobb, 1797 to 1799 inclu. - - 3 
 Robert Boyd, 1798 to 1799, 1800 & from 1808 to 1811 inclu. 7 
 
 Isaac Ilsley, 1801, 1807, ... - 2 
 
 Thomas Motley, 1801, - - - - - 1 
 
 Joseph H. Ingraham, 1801, 1802, 1803, and ) ' 
 
 from 1810 to 1817 inclu. $ ". 11 
 
 Joseph Titcomb, from 1801 to 1806, and ) n 
 
 from 1808 to 1811, inclu. $ iU 
 
 Joshua Rogers, from 1801 to 1806 inclu. - - , 6 
 
 John Mussey, 1802, 1803 and 1807, - - - 3 
 
 George Bradbury, 1805, 1806 and 1808, - - 3 
 
 Moses Lunt, 1807, - - - - 1 
 
 David Green, 1807, 1 
 
 Stephen Tukey, 1808 to 1811 inclu. - - - 4 
 
 Joseph Ilsley, 1809, 1 
 
 Enoch Preble, 1812 and 1813, 1817 and a 818, - - 4 
 
 Samuel F. Hussey, 1812, - . - - - 1 
 
 Josiah Dow, 1812, 1 
 
 Peter Warren, 1813 to 1816 inclu. - - 4 
 
 Cotton B. Brooks, 1813, 1814, - - - 2 
 
 • These figures shew the number gf years each person serv«d within the peri- 
 od above mentioned. 
 
106 
 
 Robert Douglass, 1814 to 1816 inclu. - - * - 3 
 
 JohnHobart, 1815, 1816, 2 
 
 Stephen Long-fellow, Jr. 1817, ----- i 
 
 Isaac Adams, from 1817 to 1821 inclu. - 5 
 
 Joshua Richardson, 1817 to 1821 inclu. 5 
 
 Benjamin Ilsley, 1817 to 1721, - 5 
 
 Woodbury Storer, Jr. 1818 to 1821, - 4 
 
 Mark Harris, 1820 and 1821, 2 
 
 TOWN CLERKS, 
 
 John Frothingham, from 1786 to 1796, - - - - 11 
 
 Isaac Ilsley, 1796, 1 
 
 Stephen Patten, from 1797 to 1807, - - - - 11 
 
 Samuel Homer, from 1807 to 1813, - - - - 7 
 
 Oliver Bray, from 1814 to 1819 inclu. - 6 
 
 Joseph Pope, 1820 and 1821, 2 
 
 TOWN TREASURERS. 
 
 Enoch Ilsley, from 1786 to 1800 inclu. - 15 
 
 Lemuel Weeks, from 1801 to 1807 inclu. 7 
 
 Matthew Cobb, from 1808 to 1818 inclu. - - 11 
 
 Samuel Trask, from 1819 to 1821, .... 3 
 
 REPRESENTATIVES 
 At the General Court of Massachusetts. I 
 
 1787 John Fox, 1808 Same and Isaac Adams* 
 
 1788 John Fox, 1809 Same and same, 
 
 1789 Daniel Davis, 1810 D Tucker, Jos. Titcomb, 
 
 1790 John Fox, Daniel Davis, M. Cobb, J. H. Ingraham, 
 
 1791 John Fox, W. Jenks, Isaac Adams, 
 
 1792 John Fox, Daniel Davis, 1811 Jos. Titcomb, M. Cobb, 
 
 1793 Dan'l Davis, Dan'l Ilsley, Geo. Bradbury, Jos. H. 
 
 1794 Same, Ingraham, Isaac Adams, 
 
 1795 D. Davis, Sam'l Waldo, Enoch Preble, 
 
 1796 Daniel Tucker, 1812 Geo. Brabury, Joseph H^ 
 
 1797 Same, Ingraham, Isaac Adams, 
 
 1798 Woodbury Storer, Enoch Preble, Richard 
 
 1799 Same, Hunnewell, James Neal, 
 
 1800 Same, Wm. Crabtree, 
 
 1801 Joseph Titcomb, 1813 Jos. H. Ingraham Isaac 
 
 1802 Same, Adams, Enoch Preble, 
 
 1803 William Symmes, James- Neal, Stephen 
 
 1804 Jos. Titcomb, W. Symmes, Longfellow, Wm. Fran- 
 
 M. Cobb, D. Tucker, cis, Seward Porter, 
 
 1805 Same and Smith Cobb, 1814 Same (except E. Preble) 
 
 1806 Geo. Bradbury, Jos. Tit-1815 Jos. H. Ingraham, Isaac 
 
 comb, Jos. H. Ingraham, Adams, James Neal, Se- 
 
 M. Cobb, Wm. Jenks, ward Porter, H. Smith. 
 
 1807 Same, Wm. B. SewaU, 
 
107 
 
 1816 Josiah Paine, Jacob Quin-1 SI 9 Charles Fox, N. Kinsman, 
 
 cy, Daniel How, Robert Samuel Baker, Phinehas 
 
 Strong, Phinehas Var- Varnum, Robert llsley, 
 
 num, John Mussey, Jr. Samuel Ayer, 
 
 1817 Jos. H. Ingraham, Isaac At the Legislature of Maine . 
 
 10 ioT Adan f,; t v. ixt" a 182 ?^ Asa Clap, Nicholas Em- 
 
 1818 Isaac Adams, John Wood- and > G .* ' r« 
 
 man, 1821 \ ery Simon Gresnleaf* 
 
 PART THIRD, 
 
 COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 
 This county was set off from the county of York, in the year 
 1760. 
 
 The following are the names of the Towns in the county, with 
 
 the years in which they were respectively incorporated. 
 
 
 Names. 
 
 Incor, 
 
 Names. 
 
 Incor. 
 
 Scarborough, 
 
 1658 
 
 Durham, 
 
 1789 
 
 Northyarmouth, 
 
 1713 
 
 Bridgton, 
 
 1794 
 
 Falmouth, 
 Brunswick, 
 
 1718 
 
 Poland, 
 
 1795 
 
 1738 
 
 Otisfield, 
 
 1798 
 
 HarpswelL, 
 
 1758 
 
 Baldwin, 
 
 1802 
 
 Windham, 
 
 1762 
 
 Minot, 
 
 1802 
 
 Gorham, 
 
 1764 
 
 Danville, 
 
 1802 
 
 Cape Elizabeth, 
 
 1765 
 
 Raymond, 
 
 1803 
 
 New Gloucester, 
 
 1774 
 
 Harrison, 
 
 1805 
 
 Gray, 
 
 1778 
 
 Pownal, 
 
 1808 
 
 Standish, 
 
 1785 
 
 Westbrook, 
 
 1514 
 
 Portland, 
 
 1786 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 1821 
 
 Freeport, 
 
 1789 
 
 
 ' Supreme Judicial Court 
 
 Previous to the year 1798, the records of this Court were 
 kept in Boston, where people were obliged to go, or send for 
 executions, copies, &c. Since that period the records for this 
 county have been kept in Portland. 
 
 * This gentleman, having been appointed Reporter of Decisions, 8cc, after- 
 ward resigned his seat, and Isaac Adiins waa chosen to supply his place. 
 
Court of Common Pleas. 
 
 The following is a list of the Justices of the Court of Common 
 Pleas from the year 1760, with the number of years, in which 
 each of them held the office. 
 
 John Minot. Esq. 
 
 Ezekiel Gushing-, Esq. 
 
 Enoch Freeman, Esq. 
 
 Edward Milliken, Esq. 
 
 Jeremiah Powell, Esq. 
 
 Alexander Ross, Esq. 
 
 Moses Pearson, Esq. 
 
 Jonas Mason, Esq. 
 
 Solomon Lombard, Esq. 
 
 David Mitchel, Esq. 
 
 John Lewis, Fsq. 
 
 Jedediah Preble, Esq. 
 
 Josiah Thatcher, Esq. 
 
 William Gorham, Esq. 
 
 Stephen Longfellow, Esq. 
 
 Robert Southgate, Esq. 
 
 John Frothingham, 
 
 Circuit Court of Common Pleas. 
 Benjamin Green, Esq. 
 Judah Dana, Esq. 
 William Widgery, Esq. 
 
 Business of these Courts. 
 To give a general and comparative view of the business done 
 at these courts, from the year 1776, I insert here, the number 
 of Entries of civil actions in each year, as follows, viz : 
 
 from 1760 to 1761, 
 
 2 Years- 
 
 1760 
 
 1764, 
 
 5 
 
 1760 
 
 1788, 
 
 29 
 
 1760 
 
 1771, 
 
 12 
 
 1763 
 
 1781 
 1767^ 
 
 19 
 
 1766 
 
 2 
 
 1770 
 
 1775, 
 
 6 
 
 1773 
 
 1777, 
 
 5 
 
 1776 
 
 1781, 
 
 6 
 
 1778 
 
 1786, 
 
 9 
 
 1782 
 
 1803, 
 
 22 
 
 1782 
 
 1783, 
 
 2 
 
 1784 
 
 1799, 
 1804, 
 
 16 
 
 1789 
 
 16 
 
 1797 
 
 1811, 
 
 15 
 
 1801 
 
 1811, 
 
 11 
 
 1804 
 
 1811, 
 
 8 
 
 1812 
 
 1821, 
 
 10 
 
 1812 
 
 1821, 
 
 10 
 
 1813 
 
 1821, 
 
 9 
 
 Years. 
 
 En. 
 
 Years. 
 
 En. 
 
 Years. En. 
 
 In 1776 
 
 9 
 
 In 1791 
 
 166 
 
 In 1806 1678 
 
 1777 
 
 15 
 
 1792 
 
 167 
 
 1807 2422 
 
 1778 
 
 18 
 
 1793 
 
 166 
 
 1808 2293 
 
 1779 
 
 26 
 
 1794 
 
 267 
 
 1809 1855 
 
 1780 
 
 20 
 
 1795 
 
 161 
 
 1810 1193 
 
 1781 
 
 49 
 
 1796 
 
 217 
 
 1811 1187 
 
 1782 
 
 61 
 
 1797 
 
 351 
 
 1812 1422 
 
 1783 
 
 162 
 
 1798 
 
 468 
 
 1813 1115 
 
 1784 
 
 181 
 
 1799 
 
 593 
 
 1814 879 
 
 1785 
 
 196 
 
 1800 
 
 684 
 
 1815 916 
 
 1786 
 
 143 
 
 1801 
 
 867 
 
 1816 1117 
 
 1787 
 
 62 
 
 1802 
 
 885 
 
 1817 1537 
 
 1788 
 
 52 
 
 1803 
 
 1277 
 
 1818 1224 
 
 1789 
 
 77 
 
 1804 
 
 1460 
 
 1819 1333 
 
 1790 
 
 118 
 
 1805 
 
 1467 
 
 1820 1396 
 
109 
 
 PROBATE COURT. 
 "List of the Judges and Registers, with the time they commen- 
 ced the duties of their Office, and the number of years in 
 which they held the same. 
 
 Judges, \ Registers. 
 1760. Samuel Waldo, 11 years. 1760. J. Stockbridge, 2 years. 
 1770. EnochFreeman 13 1761. S. Longfellow t# 
 
 1782. Win. Oorham 23 1775. SamM Freeman 30 
 
 1804. Sam'l Freeman 17 1804. J. Fiuthingham 12 
 
 1820. Albion K. Parris 1 1815. H. Southgate 7 
 
 SESSION COURTS. 
 From the Year 1760, to March 1808. 
 
 All the Justices of the County, 
 From March 1808, to November 1809. 
 Court of Sessions. Justices. -—Isaac Parsons, Joseph E. Fox 
 croft, William Hasty, Jotham Stone, Theodore Mussey. But 
 the latter did not qualify himself to act. 
 
 From November 1809, to September 1811. 
 The Court of Common Pleas, 
 From Sept. 1811, to March 1812. 
 Court of Sessions. Justices. — Isaac Parsons, William Hasty, 
 Theodore Mussey, Jotham Stone, Joseph C. Boyd. 
 
 From March 1812, to Nov. 1814. 
 Same. Justices. — The same, except Joseph C. Boyd. In his 
 stead, Woodbury Storer. 
 
 From Nov. 1814, to Sept. 1819. 
 Circuit Court of Common Pleas — with the addition of two 
 other Justices, viz. Ammi R. Mitchell and Lothrop Lewis. 
 
 From Sept. 1819, to Sept. 1820. 
 Court t>f Sessions. Justices, — Ammi R. Mitchell, Peleg 
 Chandler and Luther Fitch. [But the latter did not accept the 
 appointment.] 
 
 Since Sept. 1820, by appointment under the authority of the Statt 
 of Maine. 
 
 Court of Sessions. Justices. — Woodbury Storer, Chief Jus 
 
110 
 
 tice ; Peleg Chandler, Phinehas Ingalls, William Hasty, Se 
 ''omb Jordan. 
 
 SHERIFFS. 
 
 Moses Pearson, Esq. from 1760 to 1763- € years 
 
 William Tyng, Esq. 1768 1775- 8 
 
 John Waite, Esq. 1776 1809-34 
 
 Richard Hunnewell, Esq. 1809 1811 [See below.} 
 
 Joseph Foxcroft, Esq. 1811 1812-1 
 
 Richard Hunnewell, Esq. 1812 1821-13 
 
 CLERKS, 
 
 Stephen Longfellow, Esq. from 1760 to 1775-16 
 Samuel Freeman, Esq. 1775 1811 [See below.} 
 
 Joseph C. Boyd, Esq. 1811 1812- 1 
 
 Samuel Freeman, Esq. 1812 1820-46 
 
 Under the authority of the State of Maine. 
 
 William T. yaughan, 
 
 1820 
 
 1821- 2 
 
 
 CRIERS. 
 
 
 Joshua Freeman, 
 
 from 1760 to 1766- 7 
 
 Timothy Cutter, 
 
 1766 
 
 1789-24 
 
 Pelatiah Fernald, 
 
 1789 
 
 1806-18 
 
 WiDiam B. Peters 
 
 1806 
 
 1821-16 
 
 COUNTY TREASURERS. 
 
 James Milk, 
 
 from 1760 to 1773-14 
 
 Ephraim Jones, 
 
 1773 
 
 1776- 4 
 
 Enoch Moody, 
 
 1776 
 
 1777- 2 
 
 Joseph Mc Lellan, 
 
 1777 
 
 1803-27 
 
 Horatio Soutkgate, 
 
 1803. 
 
 1804- 2 
 
 Elias Merrill, 
 
 1804 
 
 1821-18 
 
 REGISTERS OF DEEDS. 
 Enoch Freeman, from 1760 to 1788-2& 
 
 The Clerk, ex officio, 1788 1790- 3 
 
 Isaac Ilsley, ^90 1804-15 
 
 Ehas Merrill, Esq. 1804 1821-18 
 
Hi 
 
 COURTHOUSES. 
 
 The first Court House, 50 by 34, was built in 1774. Com- 
 mittee for builing the same, Stephen Longfellow, Esq. 
 
 The second, 48 by 34, was built in 1787. Committee for build- 
 ing the same, Capt. Joseph Mc Lellan. 
 
 The third and present one, 60 by 50, was built in 1816. 
 Committee for building the same, Richard Hunnewell, Esq. 
 Barret Potter, Esq. and Albert Newall, Esq. 
 
 COUNTY HOUSE. 
 The present County House was built in 1799. 
 building the same, Woodbury Storer, Esq. 
 
 Committee for 
 
 GAOLS. 
 
 The first Gaol in this town was built before the County was 
 separated from the County of York. 
 
 The second, 33 by 13, was built in the year 1769. Commit- 
 tee for building the same, Capt. James Milk. 
 
 The third or present Gaol was built in 1799. Committeefor 
 building the same, Samuel Freeman, Esq. and William Gorham^ 
 Esq. This is a Stone Gaol, of 50 by 34. The builder, or chief 
 workman and director, was Mr. John Park, of Groton, who 
 built the Gaol at Concord. 
 
 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 
 Names of those who held the office of a Justice ef the Peace, be 
 fore the County of Oxford was made a separate County in 
 1805 ; arranged according to the date of their Commission?- 
 Note. Those with this mark, (*) are deceased. 
 
 * Enoch Freeman * John Lewis 
 
 * Jedidiah Preble * Joshua Fabyan 
 
 * Aaron Hinkley * Peter Noyes 
 
 * Wm. Simonton *Rich'd Codman 
 
 * David Mitchel * Sam'l Thompson 
 
 * Wm. Sylvester * Nath'l Purrington 
 
 * Wm. Thompson * David Strout 
 
 * Win. Gorham * Ephraim Jones 
 Samuel Freeman Isaac Parsons 1 
 
 * Clement Jordan. 
 
 * Edward Russel 
 
 * Edmund Phinney 
 
 * Samuel Small 
 John Deane 
 Robert Southgate 
 Daniel Davis 
 
 * George Peirce 
 
 * Josiah Thatcher 
 
112 
 
 * Joseph Noyes 
 John Frothi ogham 
 
 * George Lewis 
 
 * Samuel Merrill 
 
 * Benj. Dunning 
 
 * Stephen HaU 
 Wiiiiam Widgery 
 
 * Isaac Snow 
 
 * Nath'l Larrabee 
 
 * Joseph Hooper 
 
 * Paul Little 
 
 * Ichabod Bonney 
 
 * Samuel Calef 
 
 * John Cushing 
 Josiah Peirce 
 
 * John Peterson 
 
 * Andrew Dunning 
 Enoch Perley 
 Peter T. Smith 
 
 * John Greenwood 
 
 * William Martin 
 
 * Samuel Foxcroft 
 Stephen Longfellow 
 John Turner 
 Isaac Sturdevant 
 Stephen Purrington 
 Archelaus Lewis 
 
 ■ Isaac llsley 
 Job Eastman 
 
 Peleg Chandler 
 Ammi-R. Mitchel 
 Elisha Williams 
 John K. Smith 
 Michael Little 
 
 * Pclatiah March 
 Daniel Stowell 
 Gustaphus A. Goss 
 Samuel Paris 
 Moses Merril 
 Ebenezer Thrasher 
 
 * Osgood Carleton 
 Luther Cary 
 Cyrus Hamlin 
 Ebenezer Mayo 
 Woodbury Storer 
 Peter O. Alden 
 
 * Samuel Andrews 
 
 * William Symmes 
 
 * Charles Coffin 
 
 * Salmon Chase 
 Joseph Emerson 
 Lothrop Lewis 
 William Thompson 
 
 * John P. Little 
 
 * Sam'l Farnsworth 
 William Livermore 
 Josiah Burn am 
 
 * Timothy Pike 
 Ezekiel Whitman 
 George E. Vaughan 
 Isaac Parker 
 Caleb Prentiss 
 Andrew R. Giddins 
 Theodore Mussey 
 Nathaniel Perley 
 Rich'd Hunnewell 
 James Paine 
 Arvida Hey ford 1 
 George Bradbury 
 Barret Potter 
 John Dunlap 
 James Prince , 
 Homes Thomas. 
 Edwd. Richardson 
 
 * Josiah Bisco 
 John Perry, jun. 
 
 * Dominicus Record 
 
 * Foster Waterman 
 Jos. Mc Lei lan, jun. 
 Samuel Perley 
 Joseph E. Foxcroft 
 Jacob Mitchel 
 Elias Merril 
 Hugh Mc Lellan 
 J. Thompson 
 
 * Jesse Rice 
 
 In the whole, from 1760 to 1805, while the towns in Oxford 
 were a part of the County, (being a term of 45 years) the ap- 
 pointments to the office of a Justice of the Peace, were in num- 
 ber, 113. The number appointed in the County since Oxford 
 was separated from it, (being a term of 15 years) is 192. 
 
 I close this part of the work with the following short account 
 of the 
 
 Cumberland Baptist Missionary Society. 
 This Society was instituted July 24, 1816. Its object is, ■ to 
 
113 
 
 assist by its funds and influence, in the measures now in opera- 
 tion, to send the gospel among the heathen." Its Directors con- 
 sist of the President, two Vice Presidents, a Corresponding Sec- 
 retary, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and three Trus- 
 tees. Its funds are composed of subscriptions of one dollar or 
 more paid annually by each member, and by a contribution at 
 4he annual meetings, at which a sermon is delivered, and a con- 
 tribution made. The time of this annual meeting is the third 
 Wednesday of June. The present number of members is uncer- 
 tain. There are, however, 59 in Portland, and 19 in North- 
 Yarmouth. The monies collected are sent to " the Board of 
 Managers of the Baptist General Convention of the United 
 Slates." 
 
 PART FOURTH, 
 
 STATE OF MAINE. 
 An Account of the District, now State of Maine, as it is con- 
 tained in the Charge of the Hon. David Sewall, Esq. to the 
 Grand Jury, at the District Court, held at Portland, June 1, 
 
 Gentlemen of the Grand Jury > ' 
 
 It may be useful to mention something of the origin and chan- 
 ges of government that have happened in this Eastern Territo- 
 ry, prior to a particular consideration of the business which has 
 called us together at this time. 
 
 It is now 183 years since the first settlement was attempted 
 to be made in any part of the territory now known by the Dk- 
 Irict of Maine. This settlement was upon the western side of 
 Sagadahock river near the sea, in the year 1G07. But it was of 
 short continuance, being abandoned within a year after its com' 
 mencement. 
 
 More than twenty years after thct period, Sir Ferdinando 
 
to 
 
 Gorge, an. active member of the Council of Plymouth, in Old 
 England, obtained from that Council a grant of a large tract of 
 land. And upon a surrender of their charter to the Crown of 
 England, from whence it was derived, had a grant and confir- 
 mation of the same, by patent from King Charles the first — des- 
 cribing the territory, as extending from Piscataqua river to Sa- 
 gadahock river, and back from the sea coast between those riv* 
 ers, and the rivers of Newichwanick and Kenebeck, that ran 
 into them, north-westerly one hundred and twenty miles, by the 
 name of the Province of Maine*. This patent or charter, which 
 bears date the 3d day of April, 1639, from an unacquaintance 
 with the general course of the rivers Newichwanick and Ken- 
 nebeck, was supposed to comprehend a country on the conti- 
 nent of America, of one hundred and twenty miles square, and 
 has distinguished this part of the territory, by the appellation of 
 the PROVINCE OF MAINE. This charter to Gorge, con- 
 tained very ample powers of government, as large, it is said, as 
 ever a sovereign of England committed to a subject. But they 
 seem calculated more to aggrandize the lord proprietor, and 
 make him absolute in his principality, in matters civil, military 
 and ecclesiastical, than for securing to the persons who should 
 inhabit here, any permanent privileges, exclusive of what de- 
 pended upon the will and pleasure of the lord proprietor. 
 
 However, in justice to the memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorge, 
 it may be observed, that no traces remain of his having abused 
 the powers of government committed to him ; but that he took 
 great care and pains, and expended large sums of money, in ma- 
 king settlements in various parts of the territory, which eventu- 
 ally proved to be of very little advantage to himself or any of his 
 descendants. He appointed a deputy Governor and Council, 
 and instituted Courts of J usjLice, some of the record* of which 
 are yet extant. 
 
 About the year IC47, some of his council moved out of the ju- 
 risdiction — these who remained conceiving their power to have 
 ceased by his death, which happened about that time. And the 
 
 * The islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, were Included in this 
 patent, bat are now no port of the District of Maine* 
 
115 
 
 civil war which raged in England, prevented his descendants 
 from taking any care of the Province, or even to make answer 
 to the pressing letters wrote on the occasion. 
 
 The inhabitants sensible of the absolute necessity of civil gov- 
 ernment, in the year 1649, unanimously entered into a concise 
 constitution or form of government, stiled a combination, wherer 
 in they agreed to choose a Governor and other officers annually, 
 and to be governed by the general laws of England, and such 
 other regulations, as the persons by them annually elected 
 should make. This kind of government continued until the 
 year 1G52, when the fewness of the inhabitants and their scat- 
 tered situation, occasioned their applying (as their ueighbors of 
 New Hampshire had some years preceding) to the Colony of 
 Massachusetts, for assistance and protection against the In- 
 dians. And the Massachusetts Colony construing the northerly 
 line of their patent to Rosewell, &c. in 1628, to be three miles 
 due north of the most northerly part of any river that emptied 
 into, or was connected with the river Merimack, and to extend 
 the same line east to the Atlantic Ocean, and west to the South 
 Sea — this place, three miles north of the most northerly part of 
 the Merimack, they fixed somewhere in the Lake Winnepesco- 
 ky, in the lat. of 43° 43' 12" — and by a corresponding observa- 
 tion of the latitude on the sea coast, found that an east line from 
 thence, would strike the shore of Casco Ba)'. And this line thus 
 run, would include all the then inhabited part of New- Hamp- 
 shire, and nearly the whole of Maine. And from this circum- 
 stance it is probable, they more readily exercised the powers 
 of government over them. 
 
 From that time (1652), until after the restoration of King 
 Charles the second, New-Hampshire and Maine, were in all res- 
 pects, considered as parts of the Massachusetts. About the year 
 1664, the Commissioners appointed by the Crown of England 
 to visit the New-England Colonies, came into the Province of 
 Maine, and appointed Magistrates, who exercised their author- 
 ity but a few years. For soon after the departure of the Com- 
 missioners, the Massachusetts colony sent down their Magis- 
 trates.. And from the disputes which arose from the officers 
 
116 
 
 who derived their authority from different sources, the civil and 
 political affairs of Maine were in some degree of confusion. But 
 the magistrates appointed under the colony of Massachusetts 
 prevailed ; and the government of the Territory returned again 
 to its former channel under the Massachusetts. Until upon the 
 repeated applications of Gorge's descendants and capt John 
 Mason, (who claimed IN T ew Hampshire to the crown of England) 
 an order issued inhibiting the Massachusetts to exercise juris- 
 diction any longer. • And New-Hampshire was, in 1679, made a 
 distinct government under the crown, by a commission to 
 President Cutts. And about this time the Massachusetts colony, 
 by their agent, Lieut. Governour Usher, purchased of Gorge, 
 the grandson and heir at law of Sir Ferdinando, the Province of 
 Maine, for £1250 sterling. And conceiving that by this pur- 
 chase they obtained as well the powers of Government contained 
 in its charter, as the soil, administered the government in the 
 Province of Maine, agreeably to the directions prescribed there- 
 in, until the Massachusetts colony Charter was vacated by a 
 judgment in Chancery, in 1684. When the new Charter of 
 William and Mary was granted in 1692, the territory of Maine, 
 and that east of it called Sagadahoc, and also all Nova Scotia, 
 were incorporated with the old colony of Plymouth, together 
 with the colony of Massachusetts, into one government by the 
 name of Massachusetts Bay* 
 
 From these several transactions may be collected the con- 
 nection of what is now denominated the District of Maine, and 
 which includes all the territory on the sea-coast, from the mouth 
 of Piscataqua river, to the river St. Croix, 300 miles and more 
 in length, and from 50 to 80 miles in breadth, and comprehen- 
 ding the counties of York, Cumberland, Lincoln, Hancock 
 and Washington with the Massachusetts — notwithstanding the 
 intervention of the State of New Hampshire. 
 
 The foregoing account is copied from the Columbian Centi- 
 rel, printed at Bostcn, August 25, 1790» 
 
117 
 
 General Cetrnit of Maine, at the following Period*. 
 
 Counties. Incor. 
 
 1790. 
 
 1800. 
 
 1810. 
 
 1820. 
 
 York* 
 
 1691 
 
 28,821 
 
 37,729 
 
 41,877 
 
 46,284 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 1760 
 
 25,450 
 
 37,921 
 
 42,813 
 
 49,339 
 
 Lincoln, 
 
 1 /OU 
 
 29,962 
 
 30,100 
 
 42,992 
 
 52,953 
 
 Hancock, 
 
 1789 
 
 
 ifi lift 
 
 Jv,U<) 1 
 
 31,071 
 
 Washington, 
 
 1789 
 
 2,758 
 
 4,436 
 
 7,870 
 
 12,746 
 
 Kennebec, 
 
 1799 
 
 
 24,394 
 
 39,564 
 
 42,638 
 27,185 
 21,698 
 
 Oxford, 
 Somerset, 
 
 1805 
 ,1809 
 
 
 
 
 Penobscot, 
 
 1815 
 
 
 
 
 13,931 
 
 Time of Separation and Organization of the State. 
 Maine was conditionally separated from Massachusetts by an 
 Act of the General Court of Massachusetts, June 19, 1819. 
 Its Constitution was formed Oct. 28, 1819. 
 
 It became entirely an independent State, March 15, 1820. 
 The first election of Governor, Senators | j iq%q 
 
 and Representatives took place S 
 The first Legislature was held at Portland, May 31, 1820, 
 
 SOCIETIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS, 
 Note. — The account of these are placed in the order of time 
 in which they were respectively formed* 
 
 Bowdoin College. 
 This Institution was incorporated by the Legislature of Mas- 
 sachusetts, June 24, 1794. By the act of incorporation, it was 
 to be under the government and regulation of two certain bodies 
 politic and corporate, viz. The President and Trustees, and The 
 Overseers. 
 
 The President and Treasurer were to be ex officio members 
 of the former, and the number (including them) were never to 
 be greater than thirteen, nor less than seven. The President 
 of the Trustees to be ex officio President of the College. — They 
 
 •It may not be correct to gay that thii county was incorporated in 1691; but 
 it then first became such in the Province cf Massachusetti—ttds being the year 
 wbtn Maine was annexed to that Province. 
 
its 
 
 may hold any estate, real or personal, provided the annual in' 
 come of the same should not exceed the sum of Ten Thousand 
 Pounds. They have power to elect a Vice-President and Sec- 
 retary of the Corporation — to make by-laws — to determine and 
 prescribe the mode of ascertaining- the qualification of the stu- 
 dents, requisite to their admission — to repair the buildings of the 
 College — to settle, divide and manage, or sell, convey and dis- 
 pose of the five townships of land, granted to> them for the use of 
 the College, or any part thereof : — and with the concurrence of 
 the Overseers, to elect Trustees, President and Treasurer, or 
 any officer of the College — to fill up vacancies — to remove any 
 Trustee who might become incapable of discharging the duties of 
 his office, or any Officer of the College—to purchase or erect 
 any house or other building, which they judge necessary for the 
 College — to determine what Officers shall be established for the 
 said College, their duties, salaries', emoluments and tenures — 
 to appropriate funds — to accept a'ny estate, when the donation 
 may be made upon condition — to determine the qualification for 
 the students requisite to their admission — to confer such de- 
 grees as are usually conferred by Universities for the education 
 of youth — and to make, alter, amend or repeal any [rules, orders, 
 or by-laws, for the government of the College. 
 . The number of the Overseers (including the President of the 
 College and Secretary of the Corporation, who were to be ex 
 officio members) was never, to exceed forty-five, nor less than 
 twenty-five. — They have power to elect a President, Vice-Pres- 
 ident and Secretary, and to fix the tenures and duties of their 
 respective offices — to remove any Overseer who may become 
 incapable of discharging the duties of his office — to fill up va- 
 cancies — and to agree or disagree to any election, vote, order or 
 act of the President and Trustees, made necessary by the Act 
 of Incorporation, to give effect and validity to the same, of 
 which they are to notify that Board in convenient time ; but no 
 business was to be transacted at any meeting, unless fifteen of 
 them, at least, were present. But 
 
 The terms and conditions mentioned in the act of their incor- 
 poration have by consent, and by a law of this State, passed 
 
119 
 
 June 18, 1820, been " so far modified, limited oranulled, a9 thai 
 the President and Trustees and Overseers shall have, hold, use 
 and enjoy their powers and privileges in all respects ; subject^ 
 however, to be altered, limited, restrained or extended," as the 
 Legislature of the State shall judge " necessary to promote the** 
 best interests of the Institution and by another law, passed 
 March 19, 1821, the following alterations have been made, viz . 
 — The number of Trustees are increased to not less than twenty 
 nor more than twenty-five : No business to be transacted by less 
 than thirteen, and the number of Overseers never to 'be less 
 than forty-five nor more than sixty : The Secretary of the Trus- 
 tees not to be an Overseer : The Treasurer not to be a Trustee 
 nor an Overseer : Vacancies to be filled in either Board only at 
 the annual meeting in September. 
 
 By an act passed June 28, 1820, the sum of three thousand 
 dollars, annually, was granted to the Institution for the term of 
 seven years from the 14th Feb. 1824, to be paid from monies 
 arising from the tax on Banks. 
 
 The first acting President* of the College, was Jhe Rev. Jo- 
 seph Mc Kean. He was appointed in J 802, and died in 1807. 
 
 The next was the Rey. Jesse Appleton. He was appointed in 
 .1807, and died in 1819. When 
 
 The Rev. William Allen was appointed, and now holds the of 
 fice. 
 
 
 Presidents of the Board of Overseers. 
 
 
 i. Hon. 
 
 David Sewall, from ,1794 to 1 800 
 
 6 Years. 
 
 2. 
 
 Daniel Davis, 
 
 1800 
 
 1805, 
 
 5 
 
 3. 
 
 James Bowdoin, 
 
 1805 
 
 1807 .... 
 
 2 
 
 4. 
 
 David Sewall, 
 
 1807 
 
 1808..!. 
 
 1 
 
 1.5, 
 
 James Bowdoin, 
 
 1808 
 
 1809.... 
 
 1 
 
 6. 
 
 David Sewall 
 
 1809 
 
 1816.... 
 
 7 
 
 "- 7. 
 
 Samuel Freeman, 
 
 1316 
 
 iai9.. .. 
 
 3 
 
 .8. 
 
 Jeremiah Bayley, 
 
 1819 
 
 1821.... 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 •The late Rev. Dr. Deane was, 1 believe, by previous appointment, nominally 
 he first, 
 
1 20 
 
 This account is taken from the Massachusetts Register. A ■ 
 List of the other Officers of the two Boards, and of the Executive 
 Government, how holding 1 their respective Offices, as well as the 
 Vacations, qualifications for admission, and the Course of Studies 
 to be pursued at the College, may be seen in the " Maine Reg- 
 ister" for the present year 1821. 
 
 The number of students graduated sipce its establishment ia. | 
 as follows — viz. 
 
 In 1806 
 
 7 
 
 1811 
 
 6 
 
 1816 
 
 11 
 
 1807 
 
 3 
 
 1812 
 
 7 
 
 1817 
 
 8 
 
 1808 
 
 6 
 
 1813 
 
 5 
 
 1818 
 
 19 
 
 1809 
 
 5 
 
 1814 
 
 15 
 
 1819 
 
 11 
 
 1810 
 
 12 
 
 1815 
 
 8 
 
 1820 
 
 12 
 
 The number in the class to be graduated the present year, 
 1821, is said to be 21. 
 
 Maine Missionary Society. 
 This Society was incorporated March 3, 1809, " for the pur- 
 pose of extending- the knowledge of God our Saviour, by sending 
 *he glorious gospel to those who are destitute of the public and 
 stated means of religious instruction." It has not yet any per- 
 manent funds, from which any income is realized. By the last 
 will and testament of Peter Thacher, Esq. of Gorham, made in 
 1810, the residue of his Estate, after payment of sundry lega- 
 cies, was given to the Society. But the Society has received 
 nothing to this day, though it is said something is expected soon. 
 The late Doct. John Wingate, of Hallowell, devised to the So- 
 ciety, two Farms, which were thought to be worth '$ 2000 each, 
 but his widow has the use of them during her life. 
 
 The sources from which the Society has derived support are, 
 1 . From the members of the Society, the number of whom is be- 
 tween 4 and 500, who pay, on admission, one dollar, and two 
 dollars annually. 2. From Auxiliary Societies. 3. From Con- 
 gregational Collections; and 4. Individual donations. "The 
 receipts, of course, are different in different ye^rs — varying 
 from $500 to $1500." The income of the Society " has been 
 applied almost exclusively to the support of missionaries in the 
 destitute places in Maine. — It has been the object of the Society 
 to assist those who are endeavoring to help themselves, and to 
 rud in the settlement and permanent establishment of Ministers. 
 
121 
 
 — The Society has generally met on the fourth Wednesday of 
 June annually. 
 
 Bible Society of .Maine. 
 [See page 92.] 
 
 Society for Theological Education in Maine. 
 
 This Society was formed by gentlemen living- in different 
 parts of the District (now State) of Maine, and incorporated 
 Feb. 27, 1812, " for the purpose of raising a fund to assist those 
 well disposed young men, that are desirous of entering: into the 
 work of the gospel ministry, but by a deficiency of pecuniary re- 
 sources, are unable to prosecute a course of regular studies ne- 
 cessary to qualify them for a station so important and useful."' 
 It was to continue for the term of thirty years. 
 
 Though I have taken much pains, I have not been able to ob- 
 tain any particular account of this Society. From the vague 
 information I have received, I have formed an idea that it con- 
 sisted of but about twenty members, whose subscriptions were 
 not for any certain sum, but optional ; and that it has since its 
 establishment, given way to the " Maine Charity School," 
 which emanated from it, or been superseded by the " Maine 
 JBranch of the American Society for educating pious Youth for 
 the Gospel Ministry." For the accounts of these Societies. 
 See below, and page 123. 
 
 Just as the above was going to the press (and I deferred wri- 
 i ing it until a day or two before,) a respectable gentleman in- 
 formed me, that the funds of this Society were all transferred to 
 the above mentioned " Maine Charity School."— Aug. 24, 1821 
 
 Waterville College. 
 This Institution was established by the General Court of Mas- 
 sachusetts, Feb. 27, 1813, under the name of the " Maine Liter- 
 ary and Theological Institution," for the purpose of educating 
 youth. 
 
 The powers given to the Society are such as are usually given 
 to Societies of this kind. It is made " capable of having, hold- 
 ing and taking in fee simple or any less estate by gift, grant, 
 devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other effects, real or 
 M 
 
122 
 
 personal — Provided the annual income should not exceed the 
 sum of $ 30,000." The clear rents, issues and profits of which is 
 to be appropriated to the endowment of the Institution in such 
 manner as most effectually to promote virtue and piety, and a 
 knowledge of such of the languages and of the liberal arts and 
 sciences as the corporation from time to time should direct. 
 It may erect and keep in repair such houses and other buildings 
 as the Board of Trustees shall judge necessary, but no business 
 shall be transacted unless thirteen are present. 
 
 By the act of its incorporation there was granted a township 
 oflarl " to be vested in the corporation of the institution, for 
 the use, benefit and purpose of supporting said institution, to be 
 by them holden in their corporate capacity, with full power to 
 sell, convey and dispose of, for settlement only, and to no one 
 person a larger quantity than one thousand acres, in such way and 
 manner as shall best promote the welfare of the Institution, to 
 be laid out under the direction of the committee for the sale of 
 eastern lands. 
 
 By an act passed June 19, 1820, the President and Trustees of 
 this Institution are authorized and empowered to confer such de- 
 grees as are usually conferred by Universities established for the 
 education of youth, provided that said corporation shall confer 
 no degree other than those of Bachelor of Arts and Master of 
 Arts, until after the first of January 1820, and provided also that 
 the said corporation shall not make or have any rule or by-laws 
 requiring that any number of the Trustees shall be of any par- 
 ticular religious denomination — Provided that no student sus- 
 taining a good moral character, shall be deprived of any privi- 
 leges of said Institution or be subjected to the forfeiture of any 
 aid which has been granted by said Institution for the purpose of 
 enabling him to prosecute his studies, or be denied admission to 
 said Institution or the usual testimonials on closing his studies, 
 on the ground that his interpretation of the scripture differ from 
 those, which are contained in the articles of faith adopted* or to 
 be adopted by said Institution. 
 
 ♦ The Institution has not adopted any article of faith, and I am well assured 
 
 does not intend to. 
 
123 
 
 No President of the College lias yet been elected ; but the 
 business of education is carried on under the superin tendance of 
 the Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin. The present number of students is 
 about thirty. A four story brick building is now erecting-, of 
 eighty feet in length, and forty in breadth. 
 
 By an act of June 28, 1820, one thousand dollars annually, 
 for the term of seven years, from the 14th February, 1821, was 
 granted to this institution, to be paid from the tax on banks, one 
 fourth of which is to be appropriated towards the partial or total 
 reduction of the tuition fees of such students, not exceeding one 
 half the number of any class who majr apply therefor. 
 
 The Rev. Sylvanus Boardman, is the present President of the 
 board of trustees. 
 
 Maine C/iarity School. 
 
 " This School originated with the Society for Theological 
 Education, and is nearly connected with that Society. 
 
 " In 1812, some measures were taken to establish the Institu- 
 tion. 
 
 " On the 25th of Feb. 1814, it was incorporated for the pur- 
 pose of promoting religion and morality, and for the education 
 of youth in such languages, and in such of the liberal arts and 
 sciences, as the Trustees thereof should from time to time judge 
 the most useful and expedient for the purposes of the Seminary, 
 and as they might accordingly direct. 
 
 " The number of Trustees was never to be more than fifteen, 
 nor less than nine. They may choose officers as they may see 
 fit. They may receive and hold in fee simple or otherwise, any 
 lands or other estate, real or personal — provided the annual in- 
 come thereof shall not exceed the sum of $ 15,000, and may dis- 
 pose of the same in such way as they may judge will be most 
 conducive to the general interest of the seminary, and the pro- 
 motion of piety and literature. 
 
 " In 1816, it went into operation at Hampden, on the Pen- 
 obscot. 
 
 " In 1819, it was removed to Bangor, where it is permanent- 
 ly established. 
 
124 
 
 ; ' The Institution depends in a great measure for support, on 
 charitable contributions, and the good providence of God, who 
 has the hearts of men in his hands. 
 
 " It lias two Professors, one of Theology, and one of Classical 
 Literature, and twenty-two Students. Six graduated last year. 
 Commencement, the last Wednesday in August. The Term of 
 Studies is four years : three are devoted to literary and classi- 
 cal Studies, and one to Theology. To all pious students, pre- 
 paring for, the ministry, tuition is offered gratis. Pious and in- 
 digent students are assisted as to board and clothing, from the 
 funds- But it is expected that they will do what they can to 
 support themselves, and they are required to refund one half of 
 what is granted for their support. Young men of good moral 
 character, but not designed for the ministry, may be admitted 
 into the seminary and enjoy the literary advantages, paying for 
 their instruction." 
 
 I am indebted for the foregoing account, to a Rev. Gentle- 
 man, who kindly forwarded it to me at my request. 
 
 Since the insertion of this account I have seen in the Bos- 
 ton Pvecorder of August 18, 1821, the copy of a letter from the 
 Treasurer of the society, dated July 24, containing a list of 
 receipts from the 1st December last, in donations, subscription 
 and collections by agents, amounting to $1378,66 besides "large 
 quantities of clothing, and many valuable books — also, a deed 
 from Henry Ladd, of Portsmouth, N. H. conveying real estate, 
 value unknown ; and one from Isaac Davenport, of Milton, Mass. 
 securing to the seminary, a scite for its buildings, estimated at 
 not less than $1000." The writer says " We have on our list 
 fourteen beneficiaries," and that " the whole expense of the 
 seminary will for the current year, a little exceed $3000," and 
 " that the income will fall considerably short of three fourths 
 of that sum." 
 
 Maine Charitable Mechanical Association. 
 The meetings of this Society being holden, and the officers of 
 it residing in Portland, I have given an account of it among 
 those of other Societies in that town. [See p. 95.] 
 
125 
 
 Peace Society of Maine. 
 [See page 97.] 
 
 Maine Agricultural Society. 
 This Society was incorporated Feb. 1C, 1813. It is made ca 
 pable in law, of purchasing-, taking- and holding-, estate real and 
 personal, provided the annual income should not exceed the 
 sum of $ 30,000. And it may make, establish, and put in exe- 
 cution, such laws and reg-ulations, not repug-nant to law, as may 
 be necessary for its g-overnment ; and appoint officers for the 
 well governing- and ordering- the affairs of the Society. 
 
 I cannot give a better account of this important Society, than 
 in the words of a very respectable member of it, who has been 
 so obliging' as to comply with my desire that he would furnish 
 me with one — It is as follows : — 
 
 "In the year 1307, an Agricultural Society, was incorporated 
 under the name of the Kennebec Agricultural Society. It was 
 partly formed out of the remains of a Society of persons, who 
 had voluntarily and. with good effect associated, in the year 1787. 
 for the promotion of agriculture, by means of the importation of 
 seeds, cattle and implements. The newly incorporated Society, 
 of 1807, continued in an active state for some years ; and trans 
 mitted various papers to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, 
 which were published along with the Memoirs of that Society, 
 making indeed part of them. After a time, however, this new 
 Society became dormant ; and, some of the members, being- 
 joined with other individuals who favored the adoption of a more 
 extensive plan, a meeting took place at Brunswick, which being; 
 soon followed by other steps, terminated in the formation of the 
 present Society. 
 
 The first president was the Hon. Samuel S. Wilde, one of the 
 Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ; and the second 
 was the Hon. William King, the late Governor of Maine, who 
 still presides over this Society, (July 1821.) 
 
 There has been one shew of cattle, &c. which was held at 
 Hallowell, in October 1820 ; and a second is appointed to be 
 M2 
 
126 
 
 held at the same place, in October of the present year, (1021.) 
 
 The leading- object of this Society, as embracing in its view 
 the agricultural concerns of the whole State, is to unite every 
 county of the State in its management and support. Hence, 
 every county has a vice president and two trustees assigned to 
 it ; and a committee is expected to be formed in each county, 
 to collect and transmit information to the parent Society, and 
 become the organ of local distribution for whatever may be 
 placed, for that purpose, in its hands. There is also a committee 
 of publications attached to the Society, having a central position, 
 (viz. near the head of the tide waters of the Kennebec,) which 
 has published various Essays, intended to imitate the form of ar- 
 ticles in our Cyclopedias ; these memoirs appearing first in the 
 newspapers of the State, which were most central, and being 
 copied into such others within the State, as found it convenient 
 to insert them. 
 
 The Annual Meeting of the Society is at the time of the shew 
 of cattle, &c. ;and the trustees also, who have the management 
 □fttfese shows, have at least three meetings appointed within the 
 year. 
 
 The funds of the Sooiety consist at present solely of the con- 
 tributions of its members, who are in number about two hundred ; 
 each paying one dollar per annum, or five dollars for life. The 
 State has as yet furnished no aid ; but it is hoped that some pat- 
 ronage, of a pecuniary nature at least, will be provided for the 
 Soeiet}-, at the ensuing- sessions of the State Legislature, in con- 
 formity to a practice now becoming universal throughout the 
 Union, and which the labors of this Society, the importance of 
 ^ + s objects, and the respectability of many of its members, seem 
 10 merit. 
 
 The above fund is the whole source, from whence the premi- 
 ums of the Society are furnished, and the whole of its incidental 
 expenses defrayed; under which head however we must not in- 
 clude, that of advertizing ; its advertisements having hitherto 
 been inserted, by a noble generosity, in the various newspapers 
 nf the State, fiee of all charge." f 
 
 July 14, 1821. 
 
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 Besides this Agricultural Society, there is in Maine, one in 
 Oxford County, also one in Somerset County, and another in the 
 town of Winthrop. 
 
 Eastern Branch of the Massachusetts Evangelical Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 " The great object of this Society, is " to furnish to the des- 
 titute inhabitants of our own country, and especially the Dis- 
 trict of Maine, the means of religious instruction and moral im- 
 provement, giving occasional aid to towns and parishes, in sup- 
 porting the gospel ministry." One of the articles of its Con- 
 stitution, contains a resolution in the following words, viz. 
 " That no persons shall be employed as its Missionaries, but such 
 as are sound in the faith once delivered to the saints ; approved 
 for their knowledge, prudence and piety ; animated with chris- 
 tian zeal ; diligent in their proper calling ; and ready to endarc 
 hardships, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ." And by another it 
 contemplates to imitate the example of the parent Society, who 
 made it " one important part of their duty, to give their aid in 
 the instruction and superintendance of schools." It was insti- 
 tuted June 10, 1813. 
 
 " It is supported by donations and annual subscriptions of one 
 dollar each. A donation of twenty dollars, constitutes the do- 
 nor a member for life. One has been made, by a person un- 
 known to the Society, of one hundred dollars. The present 
 number of members is about one hundred. 
 Maine Branch of the American Society for educating pious 
 Youth for the Gospel Ministry. 
 This Society (of which the late Doct. Appleton was the first 
 President) was established at Portland, Jan. 7, 1819. The name 
 of it shews the design of its institution. Any person may be- 
 come a member, by subscribing its constitution, and paying a 
 sum not less than two dollars, and may continue a member as 
 long as he shall pay annually that sum. Twenty-five dollars, 
 paid by any person, makes him a member for life. Provision is 
 made in the Constitution, for the formation of Branch Societies, 
 and their representation in this Society ; also, for annual meet- 
 ings and contributions. 
 
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 In regard to applicants for aid from the Society, and those 
 who may be received as beneficiaries, the directors are to gov- 
 ern themselves by the general principles of the parent society. 
 
 The present number of members is ninety-four. The amount 
 cf sums received since its establishment is $ 1425, and that of 
 sums expended, $ 724. 
 
 Trustees of the Maine Baptist Education S ociety. 
 
 This Society was instituted August 17, 1819. It is supported 
 by annual subscriptions of different sums, not less than one dol- 
 lar ; annual contributions, and auxiliary societies. On the 5th 
 of February 1821, Sylvanus Boardman, Jeremiah Chaplin, Tho- 
 mas B. Riple}', Robert Low, Calvin Stockbridge, John O'Brien, 
 their associates and successors, were incorporated into a body 
 politic, by the name of the " Trustees of the Maine Baptist Soci- 
 ety ; M who were, by the act of incorporation, empowered to 
 make by-laws for the management of their affairs, and to take 
 and possess any real or personal estate, to the value of sixty 
 thousand dollars, and to give and grant, bargain and sell, or 
 lease the same. They have also power to elect such officers as 
 they may deem necessary, and fill all vacancies in their number, 
 occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise. 
 
 The number of Trustees is not to exceed twenty. They meet 
 annually at Waterville, on Tuesday, P. M. next before the an- 
 nual meeting of the Corporation of Waterville College. 
 
 All the Estate of the Corporation, both real and personal, is 
 to be improved to the best advantage, and the annual income 
 thereof, and so much of the principal as the Trustees shall judge 
 proper, together with the annual subscriptions and contribu- 
 tions, applied in making provision for the education of such per- 
 sons for the ministry, as they may deem fit subjects therefor. 
 Medical School. 
 
 This School was established by an Act of the Legislature, 
 passed June 27, 1820, to be " under the control, superin tend- 
 ance and direction of the President and Trustees, and Over- 
 seers of Bowdoin College, for the instruction of Students in 
 Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery, Chemistry, Mineralogy and Bot- 
 any who are to appoint learned Professors thereof. These 
 
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 Professors arc to " deliver regular lectures in their respective 
 branches, at such times as the Corporation shall prescribe." 
 
 For the benefit of this School, and for procuring- the neces- 
 sary Books, Plates, Preparations and Apparatus, the Legisla- 
 ture in the same Act, granted the sum of $ 1500 ; and the sum 
 of $ 1000 annually, until it shall otherwise direct. 
 
 Maine Congregational Charitable Society, 
 By an Act of the Legislature of the State of Maine, passed 
 January 23, 1821, the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, and fourteen oili- 
 er Ministers of the Gospel, with their associates and successors, 
 were incorporated into a body politic, for the humane and benev- 
 olent purpose of affording relief and support to the indigent wid- 
 ows and children of deceased ministers : and for that purpose 
 were authorised to take and hold any estate whose annual in- 
 come should not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, and to 
 give or grant, or bargain and sell the same ; and with all the pri- 
 vileges usually granted to other Societies instituted for purposes 
 of charity and benevolence. 
 
 Maine Medical Society. 
 This Society was established by an Act of incorporation pass- 
 ed March 3, 1821, which gives it " power to take and hold any 
 real or personal estate, to the value of $ 1 0,000 ; and to give, 
 grant, bargain and sell the same, provided the whole amount of 
 the income of such estate, together with all fines and penalties, 
 received by the Society, shall be applied to uses consistent with 
 the design of the Institution." The act made it the duty of the 
 Society, at their first meeting, to appoint Censors or Examiners, 
 for the examination of all who having been Students in Medi- 
 cine and Surgery according- to the regulation of the Society, 
 should offer themselves to be approved and licensed as practical 
 Physicians and Surgeons ; and " from time to time to describe 
 such medical instruction or education as they should deem re- 
 quisite for candidates previous to their examination, to be pub- 
 lished in at least, two Newspapers printed in the State. Every 
 approved candidate is entitled to a letter testimonial of the ap- 
 
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 probation and license to become a practitioner, and may be ad- 
 mitted to the degree of Bachelor, or Doctor in Medicine at Bow- 
 doin College, and have the use of the Society's Library. And 
 after three years' approved practice, and being of good moral 
 character, be admitted a fellow of the society. 
 
 The Society may annually elect Counsellors, and may annex 
 fines to the breach of any by-law, not exceeding fifty dollars to 
 any one fine. The annual meetings of the Society are to be 
 holden at Brunswick, on the Tuesday next preceding the first 
 Wednesday of September in each year. 
 
 In addition to the beforementioned Societies, there are in the 
 State of Maine the following — viz. 
 
 Augusta Union Society — for the improvement of morals and 
 diffusion of useful knowledge. Instituted June 2, 1819. Incor- 
 porated June 10, 1820. 
 
 Bucksport Female Charitable Society. Incorp. Jan. 1, 1815. 
 
 Thomaston Charitable Society. Incorporated in 1819. 
 
 Wiscasset Female Asylum. 
 
 Eastport Mechanic Association. 
 
 Thomaston Marble Manufacturing Company. Incorporated 
 1218. Also a 
 
 Female Missionary Society, in each of the following towns — 
 viz. Bridgeton, OtPfield, Cushing, Thomaston — and a 
 
 Foreign Missionary Society at Wiscasset, one at Bath, and 
 another at Portland ; of which last see page 93. 
 
 MASONIC SOCIETIES. 
 The Grand Lodge of Maine. 
 This Lodge was incorporated by the Legislature of the State, 
 June 6, 1820. By the act of its incorporation it is enabled " to 
 take and hold, for charitable and benevolent uses, any real es- 
 tate to the value of twenty thousand dollars, and any personal 
 estate to the value of sixty thousand dollars," and to dispose of 
 the same, " with all the privileges usually granted to other So- 
 cieties, instituted for purposes of charity and benevolence/' 
 And by an article of its by-laws, it constitutes " The Grand 
 Master, Deputy Grand Master, Grand Wardens and Recording 
 
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 Grand Secretary a Board of Trustees of such estate. By other 
 articles it establishes a Charity Fund, " which shall be from 
 time to time increased, by adding- thereto one half of all monies 
 that may be in the Treasury at every annual meeting of the 
 Grand Lodge, over and above the debts of the Grand Lodge, 
 and one half of all donations not specially appropriated by the 
 donors." This fund is to be under the direction of the Trustees 
 before mentioned, and six brethren, who are not acting officers 
 of the Grand Lodge, being- elected by ballot, for the term of 
 three } T ears, and constituting-, during that term, a permanent 
 part of the board, who meet on Monday preceding each quar- 
 terly communication of the Grand Lodge. 
 
 The meetings of the Grand Lodge are to be in Portland, on 
 the second Thursdays of January, April, July and October. 
 
 Under the jurisdiction of this Lodge, there are now within 
 the State thirty-six subordinate Lodges, two of which are es- 
 tablished in Portland. Each of these have a Fund for charita- 
 ble purposes, established by acts of incorporation. 
 
 Cumberiand-New-Gloucester. Adoniram — Limington. 
 Ancient Land Mark-Portland. Tranquil — Minot. 
 
 SECOND DISTRICT. 
 
 The following is a list of them. 
 
 FIRST DISTRICT. 
 
 Portland — Portland. 
 Saco — Saco. 
 
 York — Kennebunk, 
 Freeport — Freeport. 
 
 Pythagorean — Fryeburg-. 
 Oriental — Bridgton. 
 Oxford — Paris. 
 
 Oriental Star — Livermore. 
 Blazing Star — Rumford. 
 
 THIRD DISTRICT. 
 
 Kennebec — Hallowell. 
 Maine — Farmington. 
 Village — Bowdoinham, 
 Northern Star — Anson. 
 Bethlehem — Augusta. 
 
 Temple — Winthrop. 
 Hermon — Gardiner. 
 Waterville — Waterville. 
 Somerset — Ncrridgewalk. 
 
 FOURTH DISTRICT. 
 
 Solar— Bath. 
 United — B runswick. 
 Lincoln — Wiscasset* 
 Union — Union. 
 
 Amity — Camden. 
 Orient — Thomaston. 
 St. George — Warren. 
 
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 FIFTH DISTRICT. 
 
 Hancock — Castinc. Felicity — Bucksport. 
 
 .Rising Virtue — Hampden. Belfast — Belfast. 
 
 SIXTH DISTRICT. 
 
 W arren — Machias. Eastern — Eastport. 
 
 Tuscan — Columbia. 
 
 Portland Lodge. 
 This Lodge was originally instituted in March, 1760, and in- 
 corporated February 7, 1820. Its Funds is at present $1500. 
 (See page 101) Stated meetings the second Wednesday of eve- 
 ry month. 
 
 Antient Land Mark Lodge. 
 This Lodge was originally instituted in June, 1806, and in- 
 corporated June 19, 1819. The amount of its present Fund is 
 about $1500. (See page 99.) Stated meetings the first Wednes- 
 day in every month. 
 
 There is also a 
 
 Grand Royal Arch Chapter for the State of Maine. 
 
 Organized February 7, 1821. Its jurisdiction extends through- 
 out the State, and it has four subordinate Chapters, one of which 
 is in Portland, viz. 
 
 Mount Vernon Chapter. 
 This Institution is not incorporated but was formed and or- 
 ganized at Portland, about fifteen years ago ; soon after which 
 it established a Fund of about $500. Its stated meetings are held 
 in Portland, on the third Mondays of each of the autumnal and 
 winter months. 
 
 The other Chapters are Montgomery Chapter, Bath — New 
 Jerusalem Chapter, Wiscasset — Jerusalem Chapter, Uallowell. 
 There is also established in Portland 
 
 A Council of Royal Masters and Appendant Orders. 
 Stated Convocation at Masons' Hall, the first Mondays in 
 January, April, July and October. 
 
 Also, 
 
 An Encampment of Knights Templars and Appendant Order.*. 
 
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 ACADEMIES. 
 Besides the Portland Academy, of which some account has 
 been given, (See Page 91,) Academies have been established 
 in the following- places in the State of Maine, arranged accord- 
 ing- to the order of time in which they were respectively incor- 
 porated. 
 
 Towns. 
 Berwick,. 
 Hallowell, 
 Fryeburg-, 
 Machias, 
 Lincoln, 
 Gorham, 
 Bluehill, 
 Hampden, 
 Hebron, 
 Bath, 
 
 Farmington, 
 
 Time of Incor. 
 March, 1791 
 March, 1791 
 Feb. 1792 
 March, 1792 
 Feb. 1801 
 March, 1803 
 March, 1803 
 March, 1803 
 Feb. 1804 
 March, 1805 
 Feb. 1807 
 
 Towns. 
 Bloomfield, 
 Belfast, 
 Warren, 
 Brfth, (Female) 
 Bridg-eton, 
 Limerick, 
 Monmouth, 
 Saco, 
 
 North-Yarmouth, Feb. 
 Augusta,( Female) June 
 Bangor, (Female) June 
 
 Time of Incor. 
 Feb. 1807 
 Feb. 1808 
 Feb. 1808 
 March, 1808 
 March, 1808 
 Nov. 1808 
 June, 1809 
 Feb 
 
 1811 
 1814 
 1817 
 1818 
 
 BIBLE SOCIETIES. 
 
 Bible Society of Maine. 
 
 As the Meetings of the Bible Society of Maine, and of the 
 Trustees of said Society, have always been holden at Portland, in 
 the County of Cumberland ; and as since its incorporation an 
 Independent Society has been formed in each of the other coun- 
 ties of the State, (except Oxford, which is auxiliary to the 
 Maine Bible Societ}',) I have placed some account of it among- 
 the accounts of other Societies in that Town. 
 
 Besides this and the Count}^ Societies, there are in the State } 
 the Kennebec Marine Bible Society — the Biddeford and Saco 
 Marine Bible Society — and at Portland, an Auxiliary Marine Bi-r 
 ble Society. Of this last, See Page 102. 
 
 BANKS. 
 
 Names. Capitals. 
 Cumberland, $ 200,000 
 
 Kennebunk, 100,000 
 Bath, 100,000 
 Hallowell & Augusta, 150,000 
 Wiscassct, 100,000 
 
 Water yille. 
 
 Bang-or, 
 
 Lincoln, 
 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 
 Names. 
 Portland, 
 Saco, 
 Augusta, 
 Kennebec, 
 Gardiner, 
 Casline, 
 
 Passamaquoddy, 
 
 Capitals. 
 200,000 
 120,000 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 100,000 
 
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 I have thus given a general account of the late District, (now- 
 State) of Maine, and of the several Institutions, which have been * 
 formed therein, for the State at large ; together with a list of 
 those whose operations are confined to particular portions of 
 the State, so far as I had any knowledge of them. This was all 
 I had in contemplation, when I made a division of this Appen- 
 dix into four parts, except the Census and Valuation of Estates, 
 which I purpose to insert at the end of it — not only for extend- 
 ing the information thereof more generally, and for the better 
 preserving the knowledge of the present population and wealth 
 of the State, but that its progress in these respects may be as- 
 certained in time to come. 
 
 The following account of Lovewell's Fight, is inserted by 
 particular request : as an event of peculiar interest, it will 
 doubtless gratify many, and J>e received with general satisfac- 
 tion. 
 
XOVE WELL'S FIGHT. 
 
 An account of CapU John LovczoeWs Battle zoith the In- 
 dians, at Pigwacket, ( now Fryeburg,) in the begin- 
 ning of the year 1 725. 
 
 [taken from belknap's hist, of new-hampshire.] 
 
 The success of the forces at Norridgwock, and the large pre- 
 mium offered for scalps, having- induced several volunteer com- 
 panies to go out, they visited one after another of the Indian 
 villages, but found them deserted. The fate of Norridgwock 
 had struck such a terror into them, that they did not think them- 
 selves safe at any of their former places of abode, and occupied 
 them as resting places, only when they were scouting or hunt- 
 ing. 
 
 One of these volunteer companies, under the command of 
 Capt. John Lovewell, of Dunstable, was greatly distinguished, 
 firstyby their success, and afterwards by their misfortunes. This 
 company consisted of thirty : and at their first excursion to the 
 northward of Winnipiseogee lake, they discovered an Indian 
 wigwam, in which were a man and a boy. They killed and 
 scalped the man, and brought the boy alive to Boston, where 
 they received the reward, promised by law, and a handsome 
 gratuity besides. 
 
 By this success his company was augmented to seventy. They 
 marched again, and visited the place where they had killed the 
 Indian, and found the body as they had left it two months before. 
 Their provision falling short, thirty of them were dismissed by 
 lot and returned. The remaining forty continued their march 
 till they discovered a track, which they followed till they saw r. 
 
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 smoke, just before sunset, by which they judged that the enemy 
 were encamped for the night. They kept themselves conceal- 
 ed till after midnight, when they silently advanced, and discov- 
 ered ten Indians asleep, round a fire, by the side of a frozen 
 pond. Love well now determined to make sure work ; and pla- 
 cing his men conveniently, .ordered part of them to fire, five at 
 ence, as quick after each other as possible, and another part to 
 reserve their fire. He gave the signal, by firing his own gun, 
 which killed two of them ; the men firing according to order, 
 killed five more on the spot ; the other three starting up from 
 their sleep, two of them were immediately shot dead by the re- 
 serve ; the other, though- wounded, attempted to escape by cros- 
 sing the pond, but was seized by a dog, and held fast till they 
 killed him. Thus in a few minutes the whole company was de- 
 stroyed, and some attempt against the frontiers of New-Hamp- 
 shire prevented ; for these Indians were marching from Canada, 
 well furnished with new guns, and plenty of ammunition. They 
 tad also a number of spare blankets, mockaseens and snow-shoes, 
 for the accommodation of the prisoners whom they expected to 
 take, and were within two days' march of the frontiers. The 
 pond where this exploit was performed, is at the head of a 
 branch of Salmonfall River, in the township of Wakefield, and 
 has ever since borne the name of Lovewell's Pond. The action 
 is spoken of by elderly people, at this distance of time, with an 
 air of exultation ; and considering the extreme difficulty of 
 finding and attacking Indians in the woods, and the judiciori9 
 manner in which they were so completely surprised, it was a 
 capital exploit. 
 
 The brave companj 7 , with the ten scalps stretched on hoops 
 and elevated on poles, entered Dover in triumph, (Feb. 24) and 
 proceeded then to Boston ; where they received the bounty of 
 one hundred pounds each, out of the public treasury, (March 9.) 
 
 Encouraged by this successs, Love well marched a third time 
 (April 16 ;) intending to attack the village of Pigwacket, on the 
 upper part of the river Saco, which had been the residence of a 
 formidable tribe, and which they still occasionally inhabited*, 
 
 *To attempt a march of more thaw 100 miles into the wilderness, where 
 not a friendly hut, or civilized inhabitant were to be met with— when 
 
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 His company at this time consisted of forty-six, including a chap- 
 lain and surgeon : two of them, proviug lame, returned : another, 
 falling fick, they halted and built a stockade fort, on the west 
 side of the great Ossipee pond ; partly for the accommodation of 
 the sick man, and partly for a place of retreat in case of any 
 misfortune. Here the surgeon was left with the sick man, and 
 eight of the company for a guard. The number was now re- 
 duced to thirty-four. Pursuing their march to the northward, 
 they came to a pond, about twenty-two miles* distant from the 
 fort, and encamped by the side of it. Early the next morning, 
 {May 8,] while at their devotions, they heard the report of a 
 gun, and discovered a single Indian, standing on a point of land, 
 which run into the pond, more than a mile distant. They had 
 been alarmed the preceding uight, by noises round their camp, 
 which they imagined were made by Indians, and this opinion 
 was now strengthened. They suspected that the Indian was 
 placed there to decoy them, and that a body of the enemy was 
 in their front. A consultation being held, they determined to 
 march forward, and by encompassing the pond,. to gain the place 
 ^rhere the Indian stood. And that they might be ready for- ac- 
 tion, they disencumbered themselves of their packs, and left 
 them, without a guard, at the north-east end of the pond, in a 
 pitch pine plain, where the trees were thin, and the bushes^ at 
 that time of the year, small. It happened that Lovewell's march 
 had crossed a carrying- place, by which two parties of Indians, 
 consisting of forty-one men, commanded by Paugus and Wahwa, 
 who had been scouting down Saco river, were returning to the 
 lower village of Pigwacket, distant about a mile and a half from 
 this pond. Having fallen on his track, they followed it till they 
 came to the packs, which the)' removed ; and counting them,, 
 found the number of his men to be less than their own. They 
 
 savages and wolves were " lords of the soil /" — where u dangers prest on 
 
 every side .'" was a desperate adventure, reserved for the daring spirit 
 
 of an intrepid Loveivell. There was not at the time of the battle a white 
 
 inhabitant within fifty miles of the scene of action. 
 
 , * The printed accounts say forty : it is probable the march was circu 
 
 itous. 
 
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 therefore placed themselves in ambush, to attack them on their 
 return. The Indian who had stood on the point, and was' re- 
 Lurning to the village, by another path, met them, and received 
 their fire, which he returned, and wounded Lovewell and anoth- 
 er, with small shot. Lieut. Wyman firing- again, killed him, and 
 they took his scalp*. Seeing no other enemy, they returned to 
 the place where they had left their packs ; and while they were 
 looking for them, the Indians rose and ran towards them with a 
 horrid yelling. A smart firing commenced on both sides, it be^ 
 ing now about ten of the clock. Capt. Lovewell and eight 
 more were killed on the spot. Lieut. Farwell and two others, 
 were wounded. Several of the Indians fell ; but, being superior 
 in number, they endeavored to surround the party, who per- 
 ceiving their intention, retreated, hoping to be sheltered by a 
 point of rocks which ran into the pond, and a few large pine 
 trees, standing on a sandy beach. In this forlorn place they took 
 their station ; on their right, was the mouth of a brook, at that 
 time unfordable ; on their left, was the rocky point ; their front 
 was partly covered by a deep bog, and partly uncovered ; and 
 the pond was in their rear. The enemy galled them in front 
 and flank, and had them so completely in their power, that had 
 they made a prudent use of their advantage, the whole company 
 jnust either have been killed, or obliged to surrender at discre- 
 tion — being destitute of a mouthful of sustenance, and an escape 
 
 * Tliis Indian has been celebrated as a hero, and ranked with the 
 Roman Curtius, who devoted himself to death, to save his country. [See 
 Hutchinson's Hist. Vol. II. p. 315.] Having been on the spot where 
 this celebrated action happened, and having conversed with persons who 
 were acquainted with the Indians of Pigwacket, before and after this 
 battle, I am convinced that there is no foundation for the idea that he 
 was placed there as a decoy, and that he had no claim to the character 
 of hero. The point on which he stood, is a noted fishing place ; the gun 
 which alanned Lovewell' s company, was fired at a flock of ducks ; and 
 when they met him, he was returning home with his game and two fowl- 
 ing pieces, The village was situated at the edge of the meadow on Saco 
 river, which here forms a large bend. The remains of the stockades 
 were found by the first settlers, forty years afterwards. The pond is in 
 the township of Fryeburg. 
 
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 being impracticable. Under the conduct of Lieut Wyman, they 
 kept up their fire, and shewed a resolute countenance, all the 
 remainder of the day ; during which, their Chaplain, Jonathan 
 Frye*, Ensign Robbings, and one more, were mortally wounded. 
 The Indians invited them to surrender, by holding up ropes to 
 them, and endeavoring to intimidate them by their hideous 
 yells. But they determined to die, rather than yield ; and by 
 their well directed fire, the number of the savages was thinned, 
 and their cries became fainter — till just before night, when they 
 quitted their advantageous ground, carrying off their killed and 
 wounded, and leaving the dead bodies of Lovewell and his men 
 imscalpedf. The shattered remnant of this brave company, col- 
 lecting themselves together, found three of their number unable 
 to move from the spot ; eleven wounded, but able to march, and 
 nine who had received no hurt f. It was melancholy to leave 
 (heir dying companions behind, but there was no possibility of 
 removing them. One of them, Ensign Robbins, desired them 
 to lay his gun by him charged, that if the Indians should return 
 before his death, he might be able to kill one more. After the 
 rising of the moon, [with their consent,] they quitted the fatal 
 spot, and directed their march towards the fort, where the sur- 
 geon and guard had been left, [hoping to find a recruit, and to re- 
 turn with fresh hands, to relieve tliem.] To their great surprise, 
 
 * Mr. Frye, the only son of Capt. James Frye, of Andover, was a 
 young gentleman of a liberal education, who took his degree at College, 
 1723. He was greatly beloved by the company, for his excellent perform- 
 ances and good behaviour, and fought with undaunted courage till about 
 the middle of the afternoon, when, being mortally wounded^ he could Jight 
 no longer, but prayed audibly several times, for the preservation and suc- 
 cess of the residue of the company. 
 
 j By the best information, which was afterwards obtained from the 
 indians who were in the engagement, there were about eighty of the sav- 
 ages, opposed to our valorous hero, with only thirty-two men. The num- 
 ber killed on the part of the enemy, including their Paugus, was forty- 
 five. It was supposed and believed thai not more than twenty of the ene* 
 rrtyxvent off well 
 
 t The fight continued very furious and obstinate till towards night. 
 
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 they found it deserted. In the beginning of the action, one man 
 (whose name has not been thought worthy to be transmitted to 
 posterity) quitted the field, and fled to the fort*, where, in the 
 
 * Solomon Kies also came to the fort. When he had fought in the bat- 
 tle till he had received three wounds, and had become so weak by the loss 
 of blood that he could not stand, he crawled up to Ensign Wyman, in the 
 heat of the battle, and told him he was a dead man ; but (said he) if it be 
 possible, I will get out of the way of the Indians, that they may not get 
 my scalp. Kies then crept off by the side of the pond to where he prov- 
 identially found a canoe, when he rolled himself into it, and was driven by 
 the wind several miles toward the fort ; he gained strength fast, and 
 icached the fort as soon as the eleven before mentioned ; and they all ar- 
 rived at Dunstable on the 13th of May, at night. 
 
 On the 15th of May, Ensign Wyman, and three others, arrived at Dun- 
 stable. They suffered greatly for want of provisions. They informed, 
 that they were wholly destitute of all kinds of food, from Saturday mor- 
 ning till the Wednesday following ; when they caught two mouse squir- 
 rels, which they roasted whole, and found to be a sweet morsel. They 
 afterwards killed some partridges and other game, and were comfortably 
 supplied till they got home. 
 
 Eieazer Davis arrived at Berwick, and reported, that he and the other 
 three who were left with him, waited some days for the return of the men 
 from the fort, and at length, despairing of their return, though their wounds 
 were putrified and stank, and they were almost dead with famine, yet they 
 all travelled on several miles together, till Mr. Frye desired Davis and 
 Farwell not to hinder themselves any longer on his account, for he found 
 himself dying, and he laid himself down, telling them he should never rise 
 more, and charged Davis, if it should please God to bring him home, to go 
 to his father and tell him that he expected in a few hours to be in eterni- 
 ty, and that he was not afraid to die. — They left lxim, and this amiable 
 and promising young gentleman (who had the journal of the march in his 
 pocket) was not heard of again. 
 
 Lieutenant Farwell, who was greatly and no doubt deservedly applaud- 
 ed and lamented, was also left by Davis within a few miles of the fort, and 
 was not afterwards heard of. But Davis getting to the fort, and finding 
 provision there, tarried and refreshed himself, and recovered strength to 
 travel to Berwick. 
 
 • Josiah Jones, another of the 4 wounded who were left the day afterthe 
 fca;ht but a short distance from the scene of ac*tion, traversed Saco river, 
 and after a fatiguing ramble, arrived at Saco, (now Biddeford) emaciated, 
 and almost dead from the los> of blood, the putrefaction of his wounds and 
 
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 style of Job's messengers, he informed them of Lovewell's death, 
 and the defeat of the whole company ; upon which they made the 
 best of their way home, leaving- a quantity of bread and pork, 
 which was a seasonable relief to the retreating survivors. From 
 this place, they endeavored to get home*. Lieut., Farwell, and 
 the Chaplain, who had the journal of their march in his pocket, 
 and one more, perished in the woods, for want of dressings for 
 their wounds. The others, after enduring the most severe hard- 
 
 the want of food. He had subsisted upon the spontaneous vegetables of 
 the forest ; and cranberries, fyc. which he had eaten, came out at a wound 
 he had received in his body. He was kindly treated by the people at Sa» 
 co and recovered of his wounds. 
 
 Several of the Indians, particularly Paugus, their Chief, were well 
 known to Lovewell's men, 8f frequently conversed with each other, during 
 the engagement. In the course of the battle, Paugus and John Chamber- 
 lain discoursed familiarly with each other, and the latter assured Paugus 
 that he should kill him ; Paugus also menaced him a and bid defiance to his 
 insinuations ; when they had prepared their guns, they loaded and dis- 
 charged them, and Paugus fell. 
 
 A son of Paugus, after it had become a time of peace, went to Dunsta- 
 ble, to revenge his father's death, with the death of Chamberlain. — He did 
 »ot go directly to Chamberlain's, but to the house of a neighbor, where he 
 tarried several days, on some pretended business, that his design might 
 npt be discovered ; his errand was however suspected, and a hint given 
 to Chamberlain— who cut a port-hole above his door, through which he 
 very early one morning discovered an Indian behind his wood-pile, lying 
 with his gun pointing directly to the door ; and it was supposed that the 
 same musket which had conveyed the mean of death to the bosom of the 
 great Paugus, also proved fatal to his son, as he was not afterwards heard 
 of. 
 
 It is also reported of this Chamberlain (who was a stout and courage- 
 ous man, and who used to say that he was not to be killed by an Indian) 
 that he was once fired at by an Indian, as he was at work in a saw-milk 
 at night ; he was in a stooping position, and did not discover the Indian 
 till he fired, who was so near him he immediately knocked him down with 
 a crow bar, with which he was setting his log. 
 
 Lieut. Josiah Farwell, Mr. Chaplain Frye and Elias Barrows were 
 Wounded and died by the way, in attempting to return home. 
 
 * As they proceeded on, they divided into three companies, one morn- 
 ing, as they were passing a thick wood, for fear of making a track, by 
 
142 
 
 slaps, came in, one after another, and were not only received 
 with joy, but were recompenced for their valor and sufferings ; 
 and a generous provision was made for the widows and children 
 of the slain. 
 
 A party from the frontiers of New-Hampshire were ordered 
 out to bury the dead ; but by some mistake did not reach the 
 place of action. Col. Tyng, with a company from Dunstable, 
 went to the spot, and having found the bodies of twelve, buried 
 them, and carved their names on the trees where the battle was 
 fought. At a little distance he found three Indian graves, which 
 he opened; one of the bodies was known to be their warrior 
 Paugus. He also observed tracks of blood, on the ground,- to a 
 great distance from the scene of action. It was remarked that 
 a week before this engagement happened, it had been reported 
 in Portsmouth, at the distance of eighty miles, with but little 
 variation from the truth. Such incidents were not uncommon,, 
 and could scarcely deserve notice, if they did not indicate that 
 a taste for the marvellous was not extinguished in the minds of 
 the most sober and rational. 
 
 This was one of the most fierce and obstinate battles which 
 had been fought with the Indians. They had not only the ad- 
 vantage of numbers, but of placing themselves in ambush, and 
 waiting with deliberation the moment of attack. These circum- 
 stances gave them a degree of ardour and impetuosity. Love- 
 well and his men, though disappointed of meeting the enemy in 
 their front, expected and determined to fight. The fall of their 
 commander, and more than one quarter of their number, in the 
 first onset, was greatly discouraging ; but they knew that the 
 situation to which they were reduced, and their distance from 
 the frontiers, cut off all hope of safety from flight. In these 
 circumstances, prudence as well as valor dictated a continuance 
 of the engagement, and a refusal to surrender ; until the enemy, 
 
 which the enemy might follow them. One of the companies came upon 
 three Indians, who pursued them some time. Mean while, Elias Bar. 
 row, one of this party, strayed from the others, and got over Ossipee 
 fiver, by the side of which, his gun-case was found, but he was not heard 
 $f afterward*. 
 
M3 
 
 awed by their brave resistance, and weakened by their own loss, 
 yielded them the honor of the field. After this encounter the 
 Indians resided no more at Pigwacket, till the peace. 
 
 This account of Lovewell's battle was collected, by Mr. Bel- 
 knap, from the authorities cited in the margin, and from the 
 verbal information of aged and intelligent persons. The names 
 of the dead, on the trees, and the holes where both had been in- 
 terred cut out, were plainly visible, when he was on the spot 
 in 1784. The trees had then the appearance of being very 
 old, and one of them was fallen. 
 
 O^pThe Notes printed in italics, and that which is inserted 
 at, and continued from, page 140, are taken from a pamphlet, 
 written by the Rev. T. Symmes, pastor of a Church in Brad- 
 ford, and printed by A. & J. Shirley, in 1818 ; wherein he has 
 preserved the names of Capt. liovewell's (or as he spells the 
 name, Lo veil's) company. 
 
CENSUS, 
 
 AND 
 
 VALUATION OF ESTATES, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 STATE OF MAINE. 
 
 Taken in the Year 1820. 
 
 COUNTY OF YORK. 
 
 
 Persons. 
 
 foils. 
 
 Estat&s ■ 
 
 Alfred, 
 Arundel, 
 
 1271 
 
 275 
 
 yo,yo7 
 
 2478 
 
 500 
 
 324,122 
 
 Berwick, 
 
 2736 
 
 544 
 
 200,428 
 
 jBiddeford, 
 
 1738 
 
 366 
 
 164 706 
 
 Buxton, 
 
 2590 
 
 534 
 
 160,070 
 
 Cornish, 
 Elliot, 
 
 1088 
 
 189 
 
 59,863 
 
 1634 
 
 352 
 
 * 108,928 
 
 Hollis, 
 
 1762 
 
 342 
 
 94,918 
 
 Kittery, 
 
 1886 
 
 406 
 
 116,091 
 
 Lebanon, 
 
 2223 
 
 431 
 
 116,689 
 
 Lyman, 
 
 1367 
 
 283 
 
 76,232 
 
 Limerick, 
 
 1377 
 
 268 
 
 85,126 
 
 Limington, 
 
 2122 
 
 434 
 
 97,557 
 
 Newfield, 
 
 1147 
 
 213 
 
 67,336 
 
 Parsonsfield, 
 
 2355 
 
 474 
 
 159,272 
 
 Saco, 
 
 2532 
 
 543 
 
 286,542 
 
 Sanford, 
 Shapleigb, 
 
 1831 
 
 372 
 
 102,950 
 
 2815 
 
 578 
 
 138,584 
 
 8outh Berwick, 
 
 1475 
 
 299 
 
 131,758 
 
 Waterborough, 
 
 1763 
 
 342 
 
 78.029 
 
 York, 
 
 Kennebunk, 
 
 3224 
 
 672 
 
 256,940 
 
 2145 
 
 4d3 
 
 235,023 
 
 Wells, 
 
 2660 
 
 576 
 
 170,920 
 
 Total, 
 
 46,284 
 
 9,476 
 
 * $3,329,059 10 
 
 COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 
 
 Persons. Polls. Estates. 
 
 Baldwin 1124 242 45,970 
 
 Bridgton, 1160 263 76,966 
 
 * The cents, in ths expressed valuation of each town, are left out ; but they 
 are included in the addition of the yhoie amount of the Estates in each county , 
 
 O 
 
146 
 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Jrolls. 
 
 T 1 I 1 
 
 Estates. 
 
 iiruuswictr, 
 
 one a 
 
 553 
 
 210,382 
 
 Pan* ito Vifif Vi 
 v><*['c 1 .1 l^cHJc III. 
 
 
 
 91,577 
 
 Danville, 
 
 moo 
 
 212 
 
 48,585 
 
 D ii rVia m 
 
 » ' Ul 11 CI il 1 , 
 
 
 9/1 Q 
 
 on 
 
 yy, 1 it> 
 
 i almouth y 
 
 
 JiiJ 
 
 174,446 
 
 Freeport, 
 
 
 483 
 
 179,404 
 
 Oorham , 
 
 OOAA 
 
 569 
 
 241,255 
 
 Gray, 
 
 14/y 
 
 268 
 
 88,040 
 
 Harrison, 
 Harpswell, 
 
 
 157 
 
 40,78S 
 
 
 
 88,576 
 
 Minot, 
 
 
 492 
 
 133,669 
 
 New- Gloucester, 
 
 1 COQ 
 
 I04J0 
 
 366 
 
 147,390 
 
 North- Yarmouth, 
 
 O040 
 
 oUI 
 
 00 1,741 
 
 utisnclcl, 
 
 1 1 A ^ 
 
 1 107 
 
 222 
 
 78,160 
 
 t orllanu, 
 
 000 i 
 
 1734 
 
 1,695,185 
 
 Poland, 
 
 1353 
 
 273 
 
 53,195 
 
 Pownal, 
 Raymond, 
 
 I05l 
 
 245 
 
 75,851 
 
 1396 
 
 208 
 
 42,387 
 
 Scarborough, 
 
 2232 
 
 436 
 
 233,698 
 
 Standish, 
 
 1619 
 
 358 
 
 140,823 . 
 
 Westbrook, 
 
 £494 
 
 513 
 
 2*6443 
 
 Windham, 
 
 Thompson Pond Plan. 
 
 1793 
 
 398 
 
 126,123 
 
 150 
 
 51 
 
 12,339 
 
 Total, 
 
 49,339 
 
 10,164 
 
 $4,711,918 7* 
 
 COUNTY OF LINCOLN. 
 
 Alna, 
 
 Appleton Plantation, 
 
 Bath, 
 
 I3oothbay, 
 
 Bowdoin, 
 
 Bowdoinham, 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 Camden, , 
 
 Cushing, 
 
 Dresden 
 
 Edgecomb, 
 
 Friendship, 
 
 Georgetown, 
 
 Hope, 
 
 Jefferson, 
 
 LitcbfiVld, 
 
 Lewiston, 
 
 Lisbon, 
 
 Montville, 
 
 Montville Plantation, 
 
 New-Castle, 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls. 
 
 Estates. 
 
 975 
 
 237 
 
 86,964 
 
 511 
 
 82 
 
 23,840 
 
 3026 
 
 541 
 
 236,367 
 
 1950 
 
 404 
 
 81,326 
 
 1777 
 
 339 
 
 73,459 
 
 2259 
 
 429 
 
 130,68$ 
 
 2927 
 
 582 
 
 164,766 
 
 1825 
 
 381 
 
 131.177 
 
 600 
 
 121 
 
 37,100 
 
 13?8 
 
 298 
 
 88,236 
 
 1629 
 
 294 
 
 69.201. 
 
 587 
 
 130 
 
 25.338 
 
 1165 
 
 255 
 
 75,988- 
 
 1179 
 
 199 
 
 57,192 
 
 1577 
 
 26t 
 
 79,168 
 
 2120 
 
 4'2 
 
 108,892 
 
 1312 
 
 23T 
 
 69 629 
 
 2240 
 
 358 
 
 98,875 
 
 1266 
 
 263 
 
 73.67T 
 
 409 
 
 75 
 
 10,682 
 
 1240 
 
 250 
 
 68,816 
 
147 
 
 Nobleborougb. 
 
 Palermo, 
 
 Phipsburgh, 
 
 Putnam, 
 
 St. George, 
 
 Thomaston, 
 
 Topsham, 
 
 Union, 
 
 Waldoborough, 
 
 "Wales, 
 
 Warren, 
 
 Whitefield, 
 
 Wiacasset, 
 
 Woolwicb, 
 
 Total, 
 
 Belfast, 
 Belmont, 
 Blue hill, 
 Brooks, 
 
 Brooksville, 
 
 Bucksport, 
 
 Castine, 
 
 Deer Isle, 
 
 Eden, 
 
 Ellsworth, 
 
 Frankfort, 
 
 •Gouldsbcrougb, 
 
 Islesborough, 
 
 Jackson, 
 
 Knox, 
 
 Lincolnville, 
 
 Monroe, 
 
 Mount Desert, 
 
 Northport, 
 
 Orland, 
 
 Penobscot, 
 
 Prospect, 
 
 Searsmont, 
 
 Sedgwick, 
 
 Sullivan, 
 
 Surrey, 
 
 Swansville, 
 
 Thorndike, 
 
 Trenton, 
 
 Vinalhaven, 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls, 
 
 1553 
 
 308 
 
 1056 
 
 203 
 
 1119 
 
 250 
 
 652 
 
 240 
 
 1325 
 
 223 
 
 2651 
 
 575 
 
 1420 
 
 214 
 
 1391 
 
 388 
 
 2244 
 
 552 
 
 515 
 
 98 
 
 1826 
 
 394 
 
 1 4 ^ J 
 
 262 
 
 2131 
 
 400~ 
 
 1330 
 
 374 
 
 n, 292 
 
 35 
 
 52,953 
 
 10,692 
 
 COUNTY OF HANCOCK. 
 
 Person*, 
 
 Polls. 
 
 20 26 
 
 402 
 
 744 
 
 149 
 
 963 
 
 215 
 
 318 
 
 70 
 
 972 
 
 200 
 
 1655 
 
 351 
 
 975 
 
 209 
 
 1842 
 
 370 
 
 764 
 
 145 
 
 892 
 
 205 
 
 2127 
 
 410 
 
 560 
 
 151 
 
 639 
 
 143 
 
 375 
 
 71 
 
 560 
 
 112 
 
 1294 
 
 $41 
 
 630 
 
 162 
 
 1349 
 
 309 
 
 939 
 
 179 
 
 610 
 
 128 
 
 1009 
 
 169 
 
 1771 
 
 351 
 
 675 
 
 156 
 
 1420 
 
 281 
 
 872 
 
 227 
 
 428 
 
 96 
 
 503 
 
 103 
 
 438 
 
 103 
 
 639 
 
 116 
 
 1308 
 
 281 
 
 Estates 
 102 007 
 
 62,653 
 
 83,466 
 
 32.226 
 
 34,650 
 161,504 
 
 88,321 
 
 87.453 
 180.396 ( 
 
 31,179 
 126,576 
 
 59,101 
 162,814 
 106,520 
 7,577 
 
 $3,153,707 35 
 
 Estates. 
 146,046 
 21,757 
 68,796 
 27,695 
 51,195 
 117,449 
 174,41s 
 102,961 
 34.782 
 70 635 
 130,592 
 44,110 
 34.152 
 31,454 
 41,429 
 69,095 
 34.470 
 56,006 
 40,883 
 45,349 
 55.605 
 94,348 
 38.953 
 75,278 
 57.939 
 25,598 
 32;0?7 
 40,376 
 35,264 
 53,371 
 
3 48 
 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls. 
 
 Estate*. 
 
 Mariaville, 
 
 
 33 
 
 13,094 
 
 No. 14, or Mariaville S. 
 
 12 
 
 4,858 
 
 No. 26, or Mariaville N. 
 
 18 
 
 7,069 
 
 No, 27, or Richards, 
 
 
 10 
 
 5,753 
 
 No. 8 & 9, or N. Sullivan 
 
 
 13,969 
 
 No. 15, or Eastbrook, 
 
 
 10 
 
 5,508 
 
 No. 13, or Otis, 
 
 
 
 9,000 
 
 Waldo Plantation, 
 
 
 40 
 
 3,113 
 
 Residue of Bingham's 
 
 Purchase, 
 
 
 
 No. 10, adjoining Steuben, 
 
 
 
 Total, 
 
 31,071 
 
 6,312 
 
 tfl Q£;i ICQ Q/i 
 $1,C70J, Ion o4 
 
 COUNTY OF KENNEBEC. 
 
 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls. 
 
 Estates. 
 
 Augusta, 
 Cheaterville, 
 
 2457 
 
 494 
 
 183,029 
 
 612 
 
 142 
 
 41,629 
 
 Clinton, 
 
 1356 
 
 279 
 
 72,743 
 
 Belgrade, 
 
 1121 
 
 187 
 
 53,148 
 
 China, 
 
 894 
 
 170 
 
 40,647 
 
 Dearborn, 
 
 463 
 
 94 
 
 15,095 
 
 Fairfax, 
 Farrniogton, 
 
 1204 
 
 220 
 
 55,347 
 
 1938 
 
 397 
 
 143,235 
 
 Fayette, 
 
 828 
 
 165 
 
 52,955 
 
 Freedom, 
 Gardiper 
 
 788 
 
 154 
 
 30.711 
 
 2053 
 
 343 
 
 230,812 
 
 Green, 
 
 1309 
 
 238 
 
 72,624 
 
 Hallowell, 
 
 2919 
 
 599 
 
 316,982 
 
 Harlem, 
 
 862 
 
 JOO 
 
 30.130 
 
 Joy, 
 
 5^5 
 
 91 
 
 22,012 
 
 Leeds, 
 
 1534 
 
 268 
 
 86,018 
 
 Malta, 
 
 1054 
 
 183 
 
 29,080 
 
 Monmouth, 
 
 1596 
 
 310 
 
 91,597 
 
 Mount Vernon, 
 
 1293 
 
 271 
 
 72,709 
 
 New Sharon, 
 
 1219 
 
 240 
 
 69,055 
 
 Pittston, 
 Readfield, 
 
 1337 
 
 286 
 
 94,697 
 
 1513 
 
 328 
 
 125.208 
 
 Rome, 
 
 533 
 
 97 
 
 12,297 
 
 Sidney 
 
 1890 
 
 356 
 
 131,735 
 
 Temple, 
 
 615 
 
 119 
 
 22,008 
 
 Twenty-five Mile Plan. 202 
 
 38 
 
 9,063 
 
 Unity, 
 
 978 
 
 169 
 
 50,615 
 
 Vassalborough, 
 
 2434 
 
 457 
 
 214,776 
 
 Vienna, 
 
 665 
 
 127 
 
 34,827 
 
 Waterville, 
 
 1709 
 
 361 
 
 159,607 
 
 Wayne, 
 
 1051 
 
 203 
 
 52,335 
 
 Wilton, 
 Winthrop, 
 
 1115 
 
 228 
 
 50,145 
 
 1619 
 
 342 
 
 126,544 
 
 Winslow, 
 
 935 
 
 202 
 
 86,874 
 
 Total, 
 
 42,63,2 
 
 8,213 
 
 $2;880,302 10 
 
143 
 
 COUNTY OF OXFORD. 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls. 
 
 Etlules , 
 
 A n r) AT* A V 
 
 Auuo ver j 
 Albany, 
 
 IRE* 
 
 7ft 
 
 32,605 
 
 Zoo 
 
 72 
 
 16,158 
 
 zjrownncio, 
 
 : z 1 
 
 J Of* 
 
 40,034 
 
 
 i ^01 
 
 i Jul 
 
 000 
 
 88,1 16 
 
 
 19fl7 
 
 256 
 
 70,450 
 42,327 
 
 X-ZfelJUlal n , 
 
 / / lit 
 
 152 
 
 Dixfield 
 r ryeuurg, 
 
 695 
 
 124 
 
 38,907 
 
 10^7 
 
 176 
 
 59,737 
 
 
 1£>Q 
 
 28 
 
 3,964 
 
 VT 1 1 ■ .1 i ^ 
 
 
 57 
 
 17,522 
 
 
 "909 
 
 99 
 
 17,075 
 
 
 Hartfnrd 
 
 J 1«J<J 
 
 246 
 
 76,093 
 
 
 1 >z / 
 
 "350 
 
 118,354 
 
 ft. -All aLU «j 
 
 700 
 
 160 
 
 32,224 
 
 
 1fi14 
 
 329 
 
 90,368 
 
 if^' 1 
 
 4^fk 
 
 92 
 
 25,527 
 
 ijivtlUilm. • 
 
 9174 
 
 416 
 
 142 496 
 
 
 
 24 
 
 15,061 
 
 IS orw&y 
 
 Ift^O 
 i JU 
 
 256 
 
 92,479 
 
 i.^ e w r jf | 
 
 ^01 
 
 
 39,799 
 
 t unci, 
 
 487 
 
 120 
 
 27,939 
 
 Pari* 
 
 10V4 
 
 370 
 
 122,851 
 
 11 mfnrd 
 
 i v UiUlUl U, 
 
 871 
 
 
 67 882 
 
 Sumner, 
 
 1048 
 
 194 
 
 61,324 
 
 
 940 
 
 55 
 
 2l',967 
 
 Turner, 
 
 1726 
 
 
 145 532 
 
 
 1035 
 
 251 
 
 78,656 
 
 • I ClU, 
 
 
 
 35 519 
 
 Wnndof nclr. 
 
 
 7Q 
 
 27^124 
 
 Plantation No. 1, 
 
 7fi 
 
 9*i 9fift 
 
 Jin ward Gorp. 
 
 t>7 
 
 10 
 
 3,615 
 
 Grant, 
 
 
 
 2,850 
 
 Fryeburg Academy, 
 
 JA 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 Township letter D-"*»to 
 
 
 
 J. Gardner, 
 
 
 3,075 
 
 Township letter"E— to 
 
 
 
 •T Gummim** 
 
 
 
 3,080 
 
 No. 1, first Range, 
 
 
 
 3,337 
 
 No. 1, letter A. 
 
 
 
 5,233 
 
 No. 2, letter A. 
 
 
 
 4,276 
 
 No, 2, first Range, 
 Ne. 3, first Range, 
 
 
 
 3,312 
 
 
 
 4,416 
 
 No. 5, first Range, 
 
 
 
 
 No. 4, third Range* 
 No. 2, third Range, 
 
 
 
 3,150 
 
 
 
 3,150 
 
 No. 4, fourth Range, 
 £0, 2 7 second Range, 
 
 
 
 3,456 
 
 
 • 
 
 3,456 
 
 o2 
 
150 
 
 No. 3, 
 No. 3, 
 Letter 
 lette 
 Letter 
 No. 5, 
 No. 8, 
 No. 4, 
 No. 6, 
 
 Total 
 
 Persons, 
 second Range, 23 
 third Range, 
 C. adjoining 
 r B. 
 B. 
 
 fourth R-ange, 
 
 PolU. 
 
 27,185 5,281 
 COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT. 
 
 Estates. 
 4,608 
 3,150 
 
 4,980 
 3,840 
 3,515 
 3,450 
 3,000 
 3,500 
 
 $1,756,324 41 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls. 
 
 Estates, 
 
 Atkinson, 
 
 245 
 
 46 
 
 20,713 
 
 Bangor, 
 
 1221 
 
 267 
 
 132,998 
 
 Brewer, 
 
 734 
 
 147 
 
 49,699 
 
 Carmel, 
 
 153 
 
 38 
 
 * 20,545 
 
 Corinth, 
 
 296 
 
 63 
 
 24,771 
 
 Dixuiont, 
 
 515 
 
 106 
 
 29,796 
 
 Dexter, 
 
 461 
 
 95 
 
 27,390 
 
 Exeter, 
 
 583 
 
 109 
 
 27.688 
 
 Eddington, 
 
 276 
 
 60 
 
 19,130 
 
 Etna, 
 
 194 
 
 42 
 
 15,094 
 
 Foxcroft, 
 
 211 
 
 52 
 
 14,539 
 
 Guilford, 
 
 325 
 
 65 
 
 9,883 
 
 Garland, 
 Hampden, 
 
 275 
 
 54 
 
 24,121 
 
 1478 
 
 341 
 
 107,598 
 
 Ilermon, 
 
 277 
 
 55 
 
 22,056 
 
 Levant, 
 
 143 
 
 29 
 
 16,687 
 
 Newburgh, 
 
 328 
 
 0«J 
 
 0A Tift 
 24, /IS 
 
 New-Charlestowo, 
 
 344 
 
 87 
 
 29,483 
 
 Newport, 
 
 512 
 
 114 
 
 27,650 
 
 Orriagton, 
 
 1049 
 
 214 
 
 58,216 
 
 Crono, 
 
 415 
 
 100 
 
 24,690 
 
 Sebcc, 
 Saogerville, 
 Sunkhaze Plan*. 
 
 431 
 
 88 
 
 23,874 
 
 310 
 
 79 
 
 20,976 
 
 
 29 
 
 12,127 
 
 Williamsburgh, 
 
 107 
 
 23 
 
 10,253 
 
 Brownsville Plant. 
 
 
 37 
 
 13,483 
 
 Blakesburgh do. 
 
 
 19 
 
 11.904 
 
 No. 1— 3d Range, 
 
 207 
 
 46 
 
 12,487 
 
 No. 1— 4th Range, 
 
 72 
 
 13 
 
 11,097 
 
 No. 1— 7th Range, 
 
 150 
 
 32 
 
 6,216 
 
 No. 3— 3d Range, 
 
 131 
 
 30 
 
 14.873 
 
 No . 3 6th Range, 
 
 215 
 
 54 
 
 11,792 
 
 No. 4, East P. River, 
 
 
 26 
 
 2,737 
 
 Township No. 6— 9th R. 
 
 16 
 
 5 
 
 6,702 
 
 Do. No. 7 - 8th R. 
 
 
 4 
 
 3M88 
 
 Leesmont, or No. 3~7th R. 9 
 
 10 
 
 7,816 
 
151 
 
 Persons. Polls. 
 Jams' Gore, (so called) 139 20 
 Aaron Forbes' Grant, 
 T. Harling's Grant, 
 
 13,931 2,667 
 COUNTY OF SOMERSET. 
 
 Estates. 
 5,790 
 300 
 300 
 
 $903,683 90 
 
 Persons. 
 
 Polls, 
 
 Estates. 
 
 Anson, 
 
 QAR 
 
 190 
 
 52, 1 36 
 
 A 
 
 Avon, 
 
 
 88 
 
 24 888 
 
 Athen9, 
 
 
 137 
 
 
 Dioomneiu, 
 
 
 160 
 
 62 112 
 
 Bingham, 
 
 
 56 
 
 14*060 
 
 Corn ville, 
 
 
 131 
 
 49,475 
 
 Canaan, 
 
 14 #U 
 
 262 
 
 55,450 
 
 Corinna, 
 
 41 1 
 111 
 
 69 
 
 11,218 
 
 Embden , 
 
 644 
 
 132 
 
 30,314 
 
 r airneici, 
 
 IfiftQ 
 10U57 
 
 290 
 
 93,100 
 
 Freeman, 
 
 £17 
 D 1 / 
 
 99 
 
 20 238 
 
 nariianci, 
 
 
 88 
 
 18,780 
 
 584 
 
 112 
 
 28 003 
 
 Industry^ 
 
 / 1 o 
 
 16 
 
 38,201 
 
 Kingfield, 
 
 
 77 
 
 9,303 
 
 Moscow, 
 
 286 
 
 48 
 
 16 764 
 
 Madison, 
 
 OO 1 
 
 183 
 
 68,910 
 
 Mercer, 
 Norridge wockj 
 
 
 139 
 
 33,104 
 
 14^4 
 
 296 
 
 88 696 
 
 New Portland, 
 New Vineyard, 
 
 ft17 
 Oil 
 
 161 
 
 44,094 
 
 Oat 
 
 104 
 
 28 93t 
 
 NnrtVi Hill 
 
 .'uriii mil, 
 
 481 
 
 94 
 
 16 86^ 
 16,301 
 
 PWilina 
 r limps, 
 
 
 110 
 
 Palmyra, 
 
 336 
 
 88 
 
 30,781 
 
 Plantation No. 1, 1st R. 
 
 250 
 
 44 
 
 1 4^954 
 
 Do. No. 7, 7th R. 
 
 44 
 
 11 
 
 8,277 
 
 Do. No. 2, 1st R. 
 
 98 
 
 18 
 
 11,843 
 
 Ripley, 
 
 325 
 
 66 
 
 17,873 
 
 St. Albans, 
 
 371 
 
 71 
 
 21 123 
 
 Solon, - 
 
 468 
 
 95 
 
 28,080 
 
 Strong, 
 Starks, 
 
 862 
 
 153 
 
 37,950 
 47,352 
 
 1043 
 
 167 
 
 Warsaw, 
 
 315 
 
 70 
 
 19,580 
 
 Parkman PI. 
 
 225 
 
 30 
 
 12,258 
 
 Sebasticook PI. 
 
 
 10 
 
 6,873 
 
 East Pond Setlement, 
 
 144 
 
 10 
 
 1,608 
 
 Bingham's Purchase, 
 
 336 
 
 139 
 
 701 
 
 Township No. 8, 8th R. 
 
 
 
 6,900 
 
 Township No, 9, 8th R. 
 
 73 
 
 
 6,900 
 
 Total 21 % 698 
 
 4,023 
 
 $1,278,241 70 
 
i»2 
 
 COUNTY OF WASHINGTON. 
 
 Persons, 
 
 Addison, 519 
 
 Calais, « 418 
 
 Columbia, 537 
 
 Cherryfield, 241 
 
 Deuuysville, 557 
 
 Eastport, 1937 
 
 Harrington, 723 
 
 Jonesborougb, 675 
 
 Lubec, 1430 
 
 Machias, 2033 
 
 Perrj, 407 
 
 Steuben, 780 
 
 Robbinatown, 424 
 
 Plantation No. 9, 264 
 
 Do. — 11 362 
 
 Do. — 23 70 
 
 Do. — 12 182 
 No. 1, First Range, 
 
 — 1, Second Range, 
 
 — 3, First do. 
 
 — 2, Second do. 
 
 — 3, or n. k. Machias 
 
 — 6, 61 
 
 — 7, 74 
 
 — 10, 164 
 
 — 13, 47 
 
 — 14, 29 
 
 — 15, 201 
 
 — 16 114 
 
 — 17, 48 
 
 — 18, 20 
 
 — 19, 34 
 
 — 20, 50 
 "Bingham's Purchase, 
 Holten's Plantation, 117 
 
 Polls. 
 95 
 
 95 
 135 
 121 
 134 
 388 
 144 
 153 
 328 
 469 
 90 
 153 
 86 
 36 
 76 
 41 
 44 
 
 30 
 30 
 20 
 30 
 
 40 
 
 25 
 
 15 
 
 Total 
 
 Counties. 
 York, 
 
 Cumberland, 
 
 Lincoln, 
 
 Hancock, 
 
 "Washington, 
 
 Kennebec, 
 
 Oxford, 
 
 Somerset, 
 
 Penobscot, 
 
 Total, 
 
 12,746 2,778 
 AGGREGATE. 
 
 Persons. 
 46,284 
 49,339 
 52,953 
 31,071 
 12,746 
 42.632 
 27,185 
 21.698 
 13,931 
 
 Polls. 
 9,476 
 10,-164 
 10,692 
 6,312 
 2,778 
 8,213 
 5,281 
 4.023 
 2.667 
 
 297,839 59,60e 
 
 Estates. 
 34,707 
 40,062 
 65,356 
 32,942 
 54,758 
 231.327 
 35,063 
 43,815 
 123,851 
 161,602 
 31,592 
 43,547 
 40,456 
 20,252 
 15,983 
 
 7,464 
 25,815 
 
 4,810 
 
 6,000 
 
 6.154 
 
 4,t)08 
 
 8,867 
 
 8,530 
 
 7,818. 
 13,202 
 
 4.608 
 
 5,248 
 
 9,860 
 
 9,120 
 
 5.600 ' 
 
 4,608 
 
 4,608. 
 
 7,200 
 101,305 
 
 3.456 
 
 $1,223,600 2£ 
 
 Estates. 
 3,329,059 
 4,711,918 
 3,153,7a7 
 1,951,158 
 1,223 600 
 2,880 302 
 1,756 324 
 1,278,241 
 903.6 83 
 
 $21,187,99? 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS:. 
 
 r. FALMOUTH. 
 
 
 Page. 
 
 P 
 
 igfc. 
 
 Preface 
 
 3 
 
 Thompson's War 
 
 30 
 
 Falmouth 
 
 5 
 
 Extracts from Letters 
 
 38 
 
 Cape Elizabeth 
 
 8 
 
 Burning of Falmouth, 
 
 46 
 
 Town Clerks 
 
 11 
 
 Of John Bonithan 
 
 54 
 
 Town Treasurers 
 
 
 Certain Presentments 
 
 55 
 
 Selectmen 
 
 12 
 
 Petition of Wm. Cutts <$• al. 
 
 56 
 
 Representatives . , 
 
 13 
 
 Order of Court thereon 
 
 M 
 
 Ministers 
 
 . 14 
 
 A Boddy Pollitick 
 
 U 
 
 Second Parish 
 
 
 Of George Burroughs. 
 
 57 
 
 Third Parish 
 
 15 
 
 Facetious Trial 
 
 61 
 
 Fourth Parish 
 
 
 Thomas Bird's Trial 
 
 63 
 
 Episcopal Church 
 
 16 
 
 Indian Wars 
 
 67 
 
 Proceedings of the Town 
 
 . 17 I 
 
 Letters from a Gent, of Casco 
 
 75 
 
 The Year 1774 . 
 
 . 18 1 
 
 Casco Lost 
 
 76 
 
 Cumberland Resolves ■ 
 
 23 
 
 Indian's Cruelty- 
 
 80 
 
 The Year 1775 
 
 27 j 
 
 Mary Plaisted 
 
 81 
 
 II. PORTLAND. 
 
 Present State of . . .83 
 
 Religious Societies . . 84 
 
 First Congregational . 44 
 
 Second Congregational . " 
 
 Third Congregational* . M 
 
 Chapel Congregational . 85 
 
 Episcopalian Society . 86 
 
 Friends . . . . ■ u 
 
 The jVIethodists . . 87 
 
 First Baptist Society . 88 
 
 Union Society . . 89 
 
 Independent Methodists . 90 
 
 First Universal Society . 44 
 
 Other Societies and Institutions. 
 
 Portland Library . . 91 
 
 Portland Academy . . " 
 
 Portland Marine Society . 92 
 
 Portland Benevolent Society . " 
 
 Bible Society of Maine . 41 
 
 Female Missionary Society . 93 
 
 Foreign Mission Society . 44 
 
 Female Charitable Society . 94 
 
 Baptist Female Mis. Society . 44 
 
 The Young Men's Society . 44 
 
 Society for snppressing Vice, 4 - c. 95 
 Auxiliary Tract Society . 4 - 
 Maine Char. Mechanic Society 96 
 Maternal Association . 44 
 Peace Society . . 97 
 P. Union Sab. School Society 44 
 Juvenile Benev. Society . 98 
 Female Jews Society . „ 
 Trustees of Char. Fund, 1st P. 99 
 Second Church of. P. Miss. So. 14 
 Ancient L. Mark Char. Fund 44 
 Beethoven Society . . 100 
 Female Education Society . 
 Institution for Savings . 101 
 Portland Relief Society . 44 
 Female Benevolent Society . 4> 
 P. Aux. Marine Bible Society 102 
 Trustees of Methodist Society 44 
 Address to the Affluent . 103 
 Missionary Hymn . 104 
 Town Officers . 105 
 Selectmen . . " 
 Town Clerks . . . 103 
 Town Treasurers . . '* 
 Representatives . . 44 
 
 * This Society being legally dissolved, is not now to be numbered as 
 one of the Societies in the town. The whole number, therefore, is but 
 ten. 
 
154 
 
 III. COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. 
 
 List of Towns 
 Supreme Judicial Court 
 Court of Common Pleas 
 Circuit Court of Com. Pleas 
 Business of these Courts . 
 Probate Court 
 Session Courts 
 Sheriffs . 
 Clerks . 
 
 107 
 
 Criers .... 
 
 
 y 
 
 County Treasurers 
 
 
 108 
 
 Registers of Deeds 
 
 
 
 Court Houses . . . 
 
 in 
 
 
 County House 
 
 
 109 
 
 Gaols .... 
 
 
 
 Justices of the Peace 
 
 
 110 
 
 Cunib. Baptist Miss. Society 
 
 112 
 
 IV. STATE OF MAINE. 
 
 Judge Se wall's Account of . 113 
 
 General Censu6 . . 117 
 
 Organization of . . ** 
 
 Societies and other Institutions. 
 
 Bowdoin College . . 117 
 
 Maine Missionary Society . 120 
 
 Maine Bible Society . 121 
 
 Maine Charitable School . 123 
 
 Do. Char. Mechanic Assoc. . 124 
 
 Maine Peace Society . 125 
 
 Maine Agricultural Society . «• 
 
 E. Br. of Mass. Evan. Miss. So. 127 
 
 Trus. of Bap. Education So. 128 
 Medical School . . u 
 
 Congregational Char. Society 129 
 Medical Society . . M 
 
 List of other Societies . . 130 
 Masonic Societies . . " 
 
 Academies . . . 133 
 Bible Societies . . " 
 Banks 
 
 Lovewell's Fight . . 135 
 
 Census and Valuation . 146 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The Extracts from Mr. Smith's Journals, were transcribed in Janua- 
 ry and February, A. D. 1821. Most of the accounts of Societies and 
 other Institutions, were prepared in April and May ; and other parts of 
 the work, at different times from March to June. It was put to the press 
 sometime in July. During the printing of it, additions and amendments 
 were occasionally made, as a view to improvement and correctness, 
 seemed to require. 
 
 If it should meet the expectations of those, who have encouraged its 
 publication, or afford any entertainment or useful information to the 
 feader, it will be gratifying to THE COMPILER. 
 
ADDITIONS TO THE CENSUS, 
 Omitted in their places, but included in the aggregates of the 
 counties, to which they respectively belong. 
 
 LINCOLN. 
 Monhegan Island*, 
 
 PENOBSCOT. 
 Plantation No. 1, 
 
 No. 
 
 2, 
 3, 
 4, 
 
 1, 6th Range, 
 
 2, 7th do. 
 5, 8th do. 
 
 Gore r State Land, 
 Plantation No. 1, 
 
 2, - • 
 
 Metawascaf, 
 
 WASHINGTON. 
 N. Limeric Plantation, 
 Plantation No. 3, 
 
 SOMERSET. 
 Plantation No. 1, 3d Range, 
 
 1, 2d do. 
 
 2, 2d do. 
 4, 
 
 No. 5, or Chandlersville, 
 Township north of No. 1, in 
 
 3d Range, 
 No. 2, east of Moscow, 
 No. 1, 3d Range, 
 
 Million Acres, north of Harmony 90 
 No. 3, 3d Range, 
 
 KENNEBEC. 
 Place adjoining Fairfax, 
 
 OXFORD. 
 
 Batchelder's Grant, 
 No. 4, 
 
 Chandler's Gore, 
 
 
 Peru, - 
 
 343 
 
 68 
 
 Township, No. 6, 
 
 - 323 
 
 
 Township, letter B. 
 
 . 6 
 
 
 Township, No. 3, 2d Ran 
 
 ge, - 23 
 
 99 
 
 " 8, 
 
 • 155 
 
 18 
 
 " #? - 
 
 - 113 
 
 146 
 
 Andover Gore, 
 
 - 31 
 
 125 
 
 Holmes, or No. 2, • 
 
 84 
 
 85 
 
 Ketchum, 
 
 44 
 
 61 
 
 Hamlin's Grant, 
 
 65 
 
 ■ 172 
 
 HANCOCK. 
 
 
 27 
 
 
 60 
 
 Plantation No, ?, 
 
 82 
 
 108 
 
 8, 
 
 - 173 
 
 1114 
 
 " 9, 
 
 - 133 
 
 
 14, 
 
 67 
 
 
 15, - 
 
 - 41 
 
 27 
 
 Little Spruce Head, 
 
 - 5 
 
 211 
 
 Duck Island, 
 
 18 
 
 
 Matmicus Island, 
 
 . 103 
 
 
 Butter Island, 
 
 11 
 
 27 
 
 Eagle Island, 
 
 8 
 
 66 
 
 Great Spruce Head, 
 
 - 14 
 
 28 
 
 BeeCh Island, 
 
 8 
 
 37 
 
 Hog Island. 
 
 5 
 
 155 
 
 Marshal's Island, 
 
 7 
 
 
 Placentia Island, 
 
 39 
 
 1 
 
 Back Island, 
 
 9 
 
 19 
 
 Township, No. 1, 
 
 49 
 
 41 
 
 33, - 
 
 - 14 
 
 ny90 
 
 20 
 
 - 200 
 
 20 
 
 26 
 
 - 103 
 
 
 Mark Island, 
 
 T 
 
 
 Burnt Goat Island, 
 
 - 218 
 
 26 
 
 Long Island, 
 
 19 
 
 
 Pond Island, 
 
 10 
 
 
 Township, No. 8, 
 38, 
 
 98 
 
 91 
 
 - 29 
 
 171 
 
 21, 
 
 15 
 
 42 
 
 « 27, 
 
 47 
 
 • This Island is undoubtedly included in some town, 
 t Matawasca is a French settlement, near Canada, 
 
The Reader is desired to make, with a pen, the following 
 
 CORRECTIONS. 
 
 page 11 — Dele " #c." at the end of the words " Town Clerk." 
 
 16— Line 17, alter 1805 to 1785. 
 „ 29— Insert, between the 24th and 25th lines of the Note, the 
 figure 2. 
 
 „ 32 — In some copies, for 44 Master," say Marston. 
 „ „ — At the bottom line, previous to " a zealous whig," iusert 
 he was. 
 
 95— Second line from the bottom, for "Societies." write 
 ^Society.