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NOTES, 


HISTORICAL,  DESCRIPTIVE,  AND  PERSONAL, 


OF 


LIVERMORE, 


IN 


ANDROSCOGGIN    (FORMERLY   IN   OXFORD)   COUNTY, 


MAINE. 


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Morals  and  happiness  will  always  be  nearest  to  perfection  in  small  communities,  where 
functionaries  are  appointed  by  as  mimerous  a  body  as  can  be  brought  together  of  the  in- 
dustrious and  intelligent. — Walter  Savage  Landor. 


PORTLAND: 

PUBLISHED   BY   BAILEY   &   NOYES. 

1874 


B.    THURSTON   &   COMPANY,    PRENTEKS,    PORTLAND. 


CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER    I. 
Early  History,  ........  5 

CHAPTER    II. 
Topography,  Soil,  and  Productb,  .....  13 

CHAPTER    III. 
Eakly  Settlers  and  thelr  Families,  ....  15 

CHAPTER    IV. 

Industrial  Interests — Business — Course  of  Population,  .  43 

CHAPTER    V. 
Affairs  Political,  Municipal,  and  Military,         ...  57 

CHAPTER    VI. 
Matters  Religious  and  Ecclesiastical,        ....  64 

CHAPTER    VII. 
Concerning  Lawyers  and  Doctors,       .  .  .  .  ,  76 

CHAPTER    VIII. 
Notes  Miscellaneous,        .......  86 

CHAPTER    IX. 
Contributions — Reminiscences,    ......  96 

CHAPTER    X. 

The  Story  of  Thomas  Fish — 1782 — by  Elizabeth  Akebs  Allen,  118 

Appendix,        .........  125 


CHAPTER   r. 

EARLY    HISTORY. 

The  town  of  Livermore  is  in  Androscoggin  County,  twenty  miles 
north  of  Lewiston,  fifty  from  Portlnnd,  and  twenty-five  west  of 
Augusta.  Before  the  incorporation  of  Androscoggin  it  was  in  Ox- 
ford County.  Tlie  township  previous  to,  and  for  some  time  after,  its 
settlement  was  generally  known  as  Port  Royal,  from  the  fict  that  it 
was  granted  for  services  rendered  in  the  reduction  of  Port  Royal, 
Nova  Scotia,  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 

Previous  to  January  15,  1735,  many  petitions  were  presented  to 
the  Great  and  General  Court  in  Assembly  for  His  Majesty's  Prov- 
ince of  Massachusetts  Bay,  in  New  England,  by  towns  and  individu- 
als for  grants  of  land  for  services  and  losses  in  the  French  and 
Indian  wars.  Grants  were  made  on  certain  conditions  in  response 
to  these  petitions.  There  were  to  be  sixty  proprietors,  to  each  of 
whom,  as  well  as  to  the  first  and  second  settled  ministers  and  the 
schools,  a  lot  was  to  be  assigned.  Among  the  petitions  was  that  of 
Nathaniel  Harris,  Esq.,  to  whom,  with  others,  was  granted  township 
No.  2,  "on  the  east  side  and  next  adjoining  Connecticut  River,"  as  a 
gratuity  for  services  in  reducing  Port  Royal.  The  names  of  the 
original  sixty  proprietors  are  given,  together  vvitli  the  nunibei*  of  the 
lot  assigned  to  each,  three  lots  being  left  for  ministers  and  schools. 
November  24,  1736,  the  Great  and  General  Court  authorized 
Nathaniel  Harris  to  call  the  proprietors  together,  and  he  notified 
them  to  meet  at  the  house  of  Isaac  Baldwin,  innholder,  Friday,  Jan- 
nary  28, 1737.  A  regular  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  proprietors 
was  kept  till  November  1,  1743,  when  a  meeting  held  at  Weston  was 
adjourned  to  the  succeeding  May  on  account  of  the  "  rumor  of  war  with 
France,  and  the  winter  season  approaching."  There  is  no  record  of 
a  later  meeting  till  1750,  in  which  year  there  were  three  meetings, 
the  last  being  held  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  Mary  Leonard,  innholder, 
Watertown,  September  26th.  No  further  entry  is  made  till  May  23, 
1770,  when  a  meeting  was  held  at  Mr.  Samuel  Harrington's,  in 
Waltham.  At  this  meeting  the  question  was  put  "  to  know  the 
2 


6  HISTORY   OF  LIVERMOKE. 

minds  of  the  proprietors  if  they  would  pursue  their  claim  on  the 
equity  of  Port  Royul,"  and  it  was  cariied.  The  same  meeting  chose 
a  committee  of  thi-ee,  consisting  of  jMaj.  Livermore,  Dr.  Leonard 
Williams,  and  George  Babcock,  to  petition  the  General  Court  to  ob- 
tain another  grant. 

The  General  Court,  which  assembled  October  29,  1770,  was  peti- 
tioned accordingly,  the  petitioners  setting  out  the  facts  in  regard  to 
the  loss  of  title  to  township  No.  '2,  by  reason  of  its  having  been 
thrown  into  the  State  of  New  Hamjtshire  by  a  survey  which  had 
been  made  subsequent  to  the  oiiginal  grant.  June  11,  1771.  the 
General  Court  ])assed  a  resolve  granting  the  prayer  of  the  j)etition- 
ers,  and  to  the  original  grantees,  their  assigns  or  legal  re])resenta- 
tives,  their  heirs  and  assigns,  a  township  of  the  contents  of  six  and 
three-quarters  square  miles,  in  some  of  the  unappropriated  lands  in 
the  Province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  to  the  eastward  of  Saco  River, 
and  adjoining  some  former  grant,  on  the  condition  that  the  propi'ie- 
tors  settle  sixty  families  in  said  town  in  seven  years,  build  a  house 
for  the  public  worship  of  God,  settle  a  learned  Protestant  minister- 
and  lay  out  one  sixty-fourth  part  for  the  first  settled  minister,  one 
sixty-fourth  part  for  the  ministry,  one  sixty-fourth  part  for  the  use  of 
schools,  and  one  sixty-fouith  part  for  the  use  of  Harvard  College. 
August  9,  1771,  Samuel  Livermore  and  Leonard  Williams,  by  virtue 
of  the  powers  of  the  grant,  sent  Elijah  Livermore  and  Elisha  IL'ir- 
rington  on  an  exploring  expedition  to  select  the  land,  instructing 
them  "to  take  a  boat  and  pilot  at  Brunswick  Falls  and  proceed  up 
the  river  as  far  as  Rocky-jNIico."  A  township  of  land  lying  on  both 
sides  of  the  Androscoggin  River  adjoining  Sylvester  township  (now 
Turner)  was  selected.  It  contained  30,220  acies,  the  southeasterly 
portion  of  which  was  afterwards  set  off  to  the  towns  of  Leeds  and 
Wayne. 

Meetings  of  the  proprietoi-s  were  thereafter  held  regularly.  At  a 
meeting  at  the  house  of  Samuel  Livermore,  in  Walthain,  Jiiiie  17, 
1772,  Lieut.  Elijah  Livermore,  Caj)t.  Ebenezer  Learned,  and  Mr. 
Richard  Woodward  were  chosen  a  committee  to  run  the  lines  around 
the  townshij)  and  divide  the  intervale  on  the  west  side  of  the  river 
into  sixty-one  shares  and  lay  out  sixty-one  one  hundred  acre  lots  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river,  viz.,  one  for  each  proprietor,  and  one  for 
the  first  settled  minister.  At  a  meeting  held  at  the  house  of  Samuel 
Livermore,  in  Waltham,  November  11,  1772,  the  above  committee 
made  their  report,  but  did  not  divide  the  intervale,  it  not  being  sufti- 


HISTORY   OF   LIVEUMOIIE.  7 

ciently  extensive  to  be  diviiled  in  conformity  to  instructions.  They 
luid,  however,  run  out  lines  of  the  town,  and  of  sixty  lots,  being  in 
their  opinion  the  best  in  the  town,  lot  No.  37  was  allotted  for  public 
nse.  They  reported  that  there  was  a  failure  in  the  quantity  of  land, 
and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  present  a  petition  for  a  further 
grant.  It  was  voted  to  oi)en  a  horse-way  to  Sylvestertown  and  a 
cart-way  to  Pondtown  (now  Winthrop)  ;  but  February  24,  1773,  it 
was  voted  to  make  the  former  a  cart-way  also,  and  Elijah  Livermore, 
Ebenezer  Learned,  aiul  Thiomas  Fish  were  ai)pointed  to  perform  this 
service,  and  Avere  instructed  to  have  the  above  roads  cleared  by  the 
last  of  October  of  that  year.  At  a  meeting  held  November  3,  1773, 
it  being  stated  that  Samuel  Livermore,  the  moderator  and  a  member 
of  the  prudential  committee,  was  dead,  and  that  Nathaniel  Liver- 
more had  resigned  as  a  member  of  the  prudential  committee,  Leon- 
ard Williams,  Esq.,  Dea.  Elijah  Livermore  (heretofore  mentioned  as 
Lieut.  Livermore),  and  Mr.  Elisha  Harrington  were  chosen  a  com- 
mittee to  "manage  the  prudentials  of  said  proi)rietary."  The  ac- 
counts of  Dea.  Elijah  Livermoi'e  aiul  Thomas  Fish  for  clearing  roads 
to  the  town  were  presented  and  allowed.  That  of  the  foruier  was 
£40  10s.  lid.,  of  the  latter  £31  2s.  7d.  Thomas  Fish  was  appointed 
to  prosecute  trespassers,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  lay  out 
the  remainder  of  the  town. 

June  29,  1774,  Leonard  Williams,  Elijah  Livermore,  and  Elisha 
Harrington  were  made  a  committee  to  cause  a  saw  and  grist-mill  to 
be  erected  in  the  township,  A  meeting  was  held  October  12,  1774, 
and  adjourned  to  May,  1775,  concerning  which  the  following  entry 
appears  on  the  records  : 

"The  distressing  war  with  Great  Britain  breaking  out  April  19, 
1775,  and  all  being  obliged  to  resist  the  enemy,  the  place  to  which 
the  meeting  was  adjourned  being  so  near  the  theati-e  of  action  pre- 
vented any  meeting  Avhatever." 

No  meeting  was  held  till  January  17,  1779.  It  was  in  this  year 
that  Dea.  Liveiinore  came  to  Livermore  and  established  his  home 
therein.  Mrs.  Carvei-,  Josiah  Wyer,  and  EHsha  Smith  came  about 
the  same  time.  Josiah  Norcross  joined  them  soon  afterwjn-ds.  This 
first  year  was  disturbed  by  the  unfriendly  attitude  of  the  Indians  at 
Roccomeco,  but  no  actual  harm  was  done  by  them,  and  the  appre- 
hensions of  tlie  new  settlers  may  have  been  occasioned  by  the  do- 
mestic strifes  that  were  raging  among  the  natives,  rather  than  by 


C  HISTORY   OF   LIVERMOIIE. 

hostility  to  tlic  wliites;  for  soon  afterwards  tlie  Indians  wore  and 
ever  continued  to  be  in  amicable  relations  with  the  settlei-s,  and  were 
frequent  visitors  at  the  house  of  Dea.  Livennore. 

It  was  during  this  condition  of  affairs  that  an  Indian  judgment, 
combining  justice  and  ])unis1inient,  was  recorded.  An  Indian  at 
Roccomeco  had  killed  another  of  the  same  tribe,  Avho  left  a  squaw 
of  infirm  health  and  a  cri])ple.  The  murderer  Avas  arrested,  tried  by 
his  tribe,  found  guilty,  and  sentenced  to  support  and  care  for  and 
wait  upon  the  widow  of  the  slain  Indian  so  long  as  she  should  live. 
Vice-President  Ilamlin  has  often  heard  his  mother — a  daughter  of 
Dea,  Livermore — say  that  she  had  many  a  time  seen  the  Indian  car- 
rying the  woman  on  his  back  or  hauling  her  on  a  hand  sled.  The 
last  of  the  Ruccomeco  Indians  known  in  this  section  Avas  Pierpole, 
Avho  died  at  Lake  Uuibagog  more  than  half  a  century  ago. 

Major  Thomas  Fish,  before  referred  to,  followed  Dea.  Livermore 
to  the  new  settlement  within  a  year  or  two.  He  was  an  officer  in 
the  Revolutionaiy  war,  and  was  a  representative  of  one  of  the  origi- 
nal proprietors  of  township  No.  2  on  the  Connecticut  River.  He 
was  a  widower,  but  was  engaged  to  be  niarrietl  to  a  young  woman 
in  Winthrop  by  the  name  of  Betsey  Marrow.  Returning  from  a 
visit  to  her  in  January,  1782,  he  was  overtaken  by  a  severe  snow 
storm  and  perished,  near  a  large  elm  tree  on  the  intervale  at 
the  foot  of  the  hill,  on  the  top  of  Avhich  Dea.  Livermore  resided. 
His  remains  were  taken  to  Winthrop  and  buried  with  military  hon- 
ors.    His  lot  was  at  the  ])lace  known  as  "Fish  Meadow." 

August  29,  1781,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  confer  Avith  a 
committee  of  Phi])ps'  Canada  (now  Jay),  respecting  building  a  mill 
to  accommodate  both  townships.  June  19,  1782,  £60  and  the  mill 
lot  (so  called)  and  the  island  in  the  river  against  the  same  Avere 
granted  to  build  a  mill  on  the  brook  leading  from  Livermore  and 
Stinchfield  Ponds;*  and  p]Iijah  Livermore  Avas  agreed  with  to  erect 
the  mill. 

September  4,  1793,  it  Avas  voted  to  build  a  meeting-house  fifty  feet 
by  forty  on  lot  No.  36,  1st  division,  east  end,  and  near  the  centre  of 
the  townshij^  north  and  south,  and  £50  Avas  granted  therefor.  It 
was  also  A^oted  to  lay  out  a  road  from  Turner  to  Phipps'  Canada, 
from  Dea.  True's,  over  LovcAvell's  Hill,  and  running  between  the 
ponds  to  the  north  line  of  the  town. 

*Now  known  as  Long  and  Round  Ponds. 


HISTORY   OF  LI\rERMORE.  V 

Tlie  following  entries  among  others  appear  on  the  records  of  the 
])ropnetors  after  the  incorporation  of  the  town:  June,  1797,  Gen. 
Hull,  Esquire  Badlew,  Leonard  Williams,  Moses  Stone,  and  Edward 
Hastings  were  appointed  a  committee  to  sell  the  individual  lands, 
all  or  a  part.  June  20,  1799,  the  records  say  a  meeting  was  called 
for  this  day,  but  that  no  person  appeared.  There  is  no  record  of  any 
subsequent  meeting. 

The  fourth  settler  with  a  family  was  Lieut.  Samuel  Benjamin,  in 
March,  1783.  In  1789  the  heads  of  families  were  Dea.  Elijah  Liver- 
more,  William  Carver,  Elisha  Smith,  Samuel  Benjamin,  John  Walk- 
er, Josiah  Wyer,  James  Delano,  Reuben  Wing,  John  Monk,  Otis 
Robinson,  Cutting  Clark,  Ebenezer  Fislier,  Pelatiah  Gibbs,  Daniel 
Holman, Graves,  Nathaniel  Dailey,  and Randall. 

The  first  male  child  born  in  town  was  a  son  of  Josiah  Norcross, 
and  Avas  named  Elijali  Livermore  Norcross.  The  first  female  child. 
was  Nancy,  daughter  of  Josiah  Wyer.  Norcross  ])robably  resided 
on  the  northerly  side  of  Lovewell's  Hill,  on  the  place  afterwards 
owned  by  Sarson  Chase.  A  deed  from  Dea.  Livermore  to  Lieut. 
Samuel  Benjamin,  dated  October  10,  1782,  describes  the  land  con- 
veyed as  bounded  "  southerly  on  land  owned  by  Josiah  Norcross, 
easterly  on  Long  Pond  (so-called),  northerly  on  the  east  division 
and  another  pond,  westerly  on  said  pond  and  lot  No.  55." 


The  town  w^as  incorporated  by  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts 
by  act  passed  February  28,  1795,  and  approved  by  Samuel  Adams, 
governor.  The  meeting  for  organization  was  held  at  the  house  of 
Dea.  Elijah  Livermore,  April  13,  1795,  when  Elisha  Williams  was 
chosen  moderator;  Samuel  Ilillman,  clerk  and  treasurer;  David 
Learned,  Sylvanus  Boardman,  and  Pelatiah  Gibbs,  selectmen.  A 
collector  was  chosen  to  "collect  for  eight  pence  on  the  pound." 
James  Norton,  Elisha  Smith,  William  Lindsay,  David  Morse,  Samu- 
el Sawin,  Reuben  Wing,  and  Abraham  Fuller  were  elected  survey- 
ors of  roads;  Thomas  Chase,  David  Morse,  and  Elijah  Stevens, 
surveyors  of  lumber;  Ransom  Norton,  sealer  of  weights  and  meas- 
ures ;  Thomas  Chase  and  Isaac  Lovewell,  fence  viewers ;  Elijah 
Stevens  and  Abijah  Monroe,  hog  reaves,  and  James  Delano,  pound 
keeper.  On  the  tenth  of  the  following  August,  Elisha  Williams, 
Samuel  Benjamin,  and  Ransom  Norton  were  appointed  a  committee 
to  divide  the  town  into  school  districts.     It  was  voted  at  this  meet- 


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HISTOIIY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


iiig  "to  run  the  roads  straight  from  one  end  to  tlie  other  as  the  land 
will  admit,  witliout  any  regard  to  individuals."  That  this  vote  was 
literally  complied  witli  will  not  probably  be  disputed  by  any  one 
who  has  visited  the  town. 

At  the  first  annual  meeting  held  in  the  town  for  State  ofiicers, 
April  4,  1796,  all  the  votes  cast,  forty  in  number,  were  given  for 
Increase  Sumner  for  governor.  At  the  meeting  to  choose  an  elector 
for  president,  vice-president,  and  a  representative  in  congress,  No- 
vember 7,  1797,  "the  inhabitants  of  twenty-one  years  of  age  and 
resident  in  the  town  for  the  space  of  one  year  next  preceding,  hav- 
ing a  freehold  estate  within  the  town  of  the  annual  income  of  three 
pounds,  or  of  any  other  estate  of  the  value  of  sixty  pounds,"  gave 
Stephen  Longfellow,  for  elector,  eighteen  votes,  and  John  K.  Smith 
one  vote ;  fourteen  votes,  and  all  that  were  cast,  were  given  for 
Peleg  Wads  worth  for  representative  in  congress. 

The  question  of  a  sei)aration  of  Maine  from  Massachusetts  seems 
to  have  been  mooted  about  this  time,  and  at  a  town  meeting  held 
May  10,  1797,  all  the  votes  thrown  (twenty-two)  were  for  separation . 

The  next  year  a  vote  was  passed  giving  consent  to  a  division  of 
the  town  by  which  the  "  east  side  of  the  river  would  be  set  off  into 
a  town  by  itself."  The  town  Avas  finally  divided  and  East  Liver- 
more  incorporated  by  the  legislature  of  Maine  in  1843.  Dea.  Elijah 
Livermore  was  the  first  representative  from  the  town  in  the  legisla- 
ture of  the  Commonwealth.  He  Avas  elected  unanimously  May  9, 
1799. 

The  town  Avas  fortunate  in  having  for  its  founder  a  man  so  able 
and  so  Avise,  of  so  much  financial  strength  and  Aveight  of  character 
as  Dea.  Livermore.  He  Avas  truly  the  father  of  the  toAvn,  and  his 
name  is  held  in  honor  and  veneration  by  its  people.  And  he  Avas 
fortunate  in  the  character  of  the  most  of  his  associate  proprietors 
and  co-AVOrkers. 

Under  the  influence  of  such  men  the  settlers,  who  AA'ere  early  at- 
tracted to  the  town,  Avere  generally  men  of  good  character  and  of 
some  pecuniary  ability.  Few  towns  in  the  State  probably  owe  more 
to  the  ch'aracter  of  the  first  settlers  than  this  town.  Many  of  them 
had  been  officers  or  soldiers  in  the  Avar  of  the  Revolution,  and  Avere 
active,  earnest  men,  bent  upon  making  their  Avay  in  the  world.  The 
greater  portion  of  them  came  from  the  neighborhood  of  Boston  ; 
Cambridge,  Watertown,  and  Waltham  contributing  the  largest 
quotas ;  a  goodly  number  came  from  Martha's  Vineyard,  and  many 


HISTOEY  OF   LIVERMORE. 


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from  Worcester  and  Bristol  counties.  The  settlers  from  the  vicinity 
of  Boston  were  familiar  with  gardening  and  fruit  raising,  and  so  it 
happened  that  at  an  early  day  the  town  became  celebrated  for  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  its  grafted  fruit.  From  Bristol  and  Worces- 
ter counties  came  the  men  and  women  whose  descendants  have 
made  the  town  known  in  the  markets  of  the  State  and  of  Boston  for 
its  excellent  cheese. 

It  was  understood  that  the  materials  for  a  pretty  full  account  of 
the  early  history  of  the  town  had  been  collected,  and  perhaps  pre- 
pared for  publication,  by  the  Hon.  Elijah  L.  Hamlin,  of  Bangor. 
But  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  no  such  history,  or  evidence  of  prepa- 
ration towards  it,  has  been  found  among  Mr.  Hamlin's  papers.  The 
following  letter  from  Dr.  Henry  Bond,  of  Philadelphia,  to  the  late 
president  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  will  be  read  in  this  con- 
nection with  interest.  Dr.  Bond  was  an  eminent  physician  and  the 
author  of  The  Genealogies  and  History  of  Watertown,  an  able  and 
elaborate  work. 

Philadelphia,  May,  1858. 

William  Willis,  Esq. 

Dear  Sir. — I  spent  my  boyhood  in  Livermore,  Maine,  and  lived  a  part  of  the 
time,  between  the  death  of  the  last  of  my  parents  and  going  abroad  to  pre- 
pare for  entering  college,  in  the  family  of  Dea.  Ehjah  Livermore,  the  first  set- 
tler and  the  chief  proprietor  of  that  town.  Although  I  have  been  absent  so 
long— now  more  than  fifty  years— I  remember  the  place  of  my  childhood  with 
an  affectionate  interest  and  still  entertain  a  grateful  and  most  respectful  re- 
membrance of  the  worthy  deacon.  He  was  the  elder  brother  of  the  Hon. 
Samuel  Livennore,  chief  justice  and  U.  S.  Senator  of  New  Hampshire  (as  you 
may  see  in  Watertown  Family  Memorials,  p.  346,  etc.).  I  have  in  the  mean 
time  frequently  visited  the  scenes  and  the  friends  of  my  childhood,  and  I  have 
of  late  repeatedly  urged  a  venerable  friend  there  to  collect  the  materials  for 
the  history  of  that  town  before  it  is  too  late.  This  worthy  friend,  Dr.  Benja- 
min Bradford,  now  on  the  shady  side  of  seventy,  has  collected  some  materials, 
but  he  now  feels  so  sensibly  the  infirmities  of  age  that  he  is  unable  to  pursue 
it.  He  informs  me  that  the  papers  of  Dea.  Elijah  Livennore  have  passed  into 
the  hands  of  his  grandson,  Hon.  Elijah  Livermore  Hamlin,  of  Bangor.  From 
what  I  remember  of  Dea.  Livermore  I  should  expect  that  his  papers  might  be 
copious,  throwing  much  light  upon  the  planting  and  early  history  of  that 
town.  Mr.  Hamhn  is  a  native  of  Livermore  and  a  man  of  liberal  education, 
and  having  many  of  the  materials  in  his  hands  I  would  hope  that  he  will 
readily  consent  to  furnish  for  your  Historical  Collections  an  account  of  the 
planting  and  the  early  history  of  Livermore.  Dr.  Bradford  has  told  me  that 
he  will  cheerfully  render  such  aid  as  may  be  in  his  power.  He  has  been  town 
treasurer  forty-five  years !    This  is  remarkable  in  these  times  when  rotation  in 


12  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

office  is  so  very  generally  prevalent,  especially  in  the  Northern  States.  My 
object  at  this  time  is  to  recommend  to  you  to  write,  and  invite,  and  urge 
Mr.  Hamlin  to  prepare  for  you  a  history  of  Livermore.  It  is  a  good  inland 
country  town,  furnishing  no  stirring  incidents  or  illustrious  characters  to 
charm  the  world,  but  a  paper  might  be  prepared  that  would  deserve  a  place  in 
your  Collections,  and  that  would  be  perused  with  interest  by  many  readers. 
Very  respectfully  yours, 

Henky  Bond,  246  South  8th  Street. 


HISTORY   OF  LIVERMOKE.  13 


CHAPTER   II. 

TOPOGRAPHY,    SOIL,    AND    PRODUCTS. 

Situated  upon  the  middle  ground  between  the  hills  of  Oxford 
and  the  rolling  lands  of  Kennebec,  the  township  partakes  in  about 
equal  proportions  of  the  characteristics  of  both.  It  has  high  hills 
like  Hamlin's  (or  Mount  Sier),  Fuller's,  and  Waters'  or  Lovewell's, 
from  which  extensive  views  are  obtained — grand,  as  the  eye  turns 
towards  the  White  Mountains  and  the  mountains  of  the  northwest ; 
beautiful,  as  it  rests  upon  the  quiet  landscapes  that  extend  to  the 
confines  of  Casco  Bay  on  the  south,  and  to  the  Megunticook  Mount- 
ains, whose  bases  are  washed  by  the  waters  of  Penobscot  Bay,  on 
the  southeast. 

The  town,  without  being  rough,  is  picturesque.  It  was  when  first 
settled  heavily  wooded,  principally  with  pine,  hemlock,  maple, 
beech,  birch,  and  oak.  The  original  growth,  however,  has  been 
nearly  all  cut  off;  but  the  ai'ea  of  second  growth  is  rather  increasing 
than  diminishing.  There  are  in  the  town  many  noble  elms,  and 
upon  the  farm  formerly  owned  by  Isaac  Livermore  there  is,  or  was 
recently,  a  fine  row  of  chestnut  trees. 

While  in  large  portions  of  the  town  the  land  is  more  or  less 
rocky,  there  are  considerable  sections  quite  free  from  stones  and 
where  the  soil  is  of  a  sandy  loam,  as  in  the  immediate  valley  of  the 
Androscoggin,  and  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  village.  The  river  in 
its  course  along  the  eastern  boundary  of  the  town  is  broken  by  falls 
or  rapids  in  three  places,  to  wit,  at  a  point  near  the  south  line  of 
Jay,  at  Roccomeco,  and  at  the  Rips,  so  called,  in  "Tollawalla."  It 
has  several  fertile  and  beautiful  islands,  varying  in  size  from  five  to 
twenty  acres.  At  Strickland's  Ferry  (near  the  lower  end  of  Tollawal- 
la) is  a  view  of  surpassing  beauty,  which  has  been  photographed  by 
Capt.  George  W.  Brown,  of  Portland,  who  has  taken  several  other 
views  in  the  town,  and  with  great  success;  among  them  that  of  the 
residence  of  Dea.  Livermore,  erected  more  than  eighty  years  ago. 
He  has  also  taken  a  photographic  picture  from  a  very  fine  oil  paint- 


14  HISTOKY  OF   LIVERMORE. 

ing  of  the  Norlands  By  his  brother,  H.  B.  Brown,  the  well-known 
Portland  artist — especially  distinguished  as  a  marine  painter — for 
Elihu  B.  Washbnrne,  the  American  Minister  to  France.  It  has  been 
forwarded  to  Paris,  where  it  is  greatly  admired.  The  copy  forms 
one  of  the  illustrations  of  this  volume. 

The  soil  is  generally  strong  and  productive,  and  there  is  scarcely 
an  acre  of  what  may  be  called  waste  land  within  the  town.  Requir- 
ing more  labor  in  cultivation  than  the  lands  in  the  valleys  of  the 
Kennebec  and  Penobscot,  it  yields  equal  returns  to  the  labor  of  the 
farmer.  Apples  and  the  products  of  the  dairy  are  fanong  the  more 
noticeable  sources  of  income,  Avliile  Indian  corn  and  potatoes  are 
crops  which  will  average  with  those  of  other  towns  in  this  part 
of  the  State.  In  1800  Rev,  Paul  Coffin,  of  whose  visits  to  Liver- 
more  mention  will  be  made  hereafter,  says,  "  A  Mr.  Bemis  raised 
two  hundred  bushels  of  rye,  and  his  corn  is  believed  to  be  five  hun- 
dred bushels."  He  adds,  "Dea.  Livermore  had  a  most  thrifty  and 
bearing  orchard."  In  Mr.  Coffin's  journal  for  1798,  under  date  of 
September,  he  says,  "Went  to^Dea.  Livermore's  and  put  up  at  that 
good  house.  He  and  son  have  about  fifty  excellent  cattle,  many 
sheep,  horses,  and  an  orchard.  Their  house  is  large  and  high,  of 
four  rooms  and  two  chimneys.  They  have  four  barns  and  many 
sheds." 

There  are  four  ponds  in  the  town.  Round  and  Long  in  the  north- 
erly part,  and  separated  by  a  few  rods  only  from  each  other ;  Bart- 
lett's,  near  the  centre,  and  Brettun's,  in  the  southwesterly  quarter  of 
the  town.  There  are  several  streams,  none  of  them  large,  but  two 
of  them  severally  furnish  a  fair  supply  of  water  in  ordinaiy  seasons 
for  grist  and  saw-mills,  and  (in  their  day)  furnished,  it  for  carding 
and  clothing  mills.  There  are,  however,  excellent  powers  on  the 
westerly  side  of  the  Androscoggin  River,  one  at  Livermore  Falls, 
and  another  a  short  distance  above.  These  powers  are  as  yet  unem- 
ployed. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  15 


CHAPTER   III. 

EARLY    SETTLERS    AND    THEIR    FAMILIES. 

The  sketches  of  early  settlers  and  their  families,  which  can  I>e 
given,  must  be  brief,  and  limited,  as  a  rule,  to  those  who  were  in  the 
town  before  the  date  of  its  incorporation. 

The  first  settler  and  principal  proprietor  of  the  town,  and  in 
whose  honor  it  was  named,  Avas,  as  has  been  already  stated,  Elijah 
Livermore,*  who  was  born  in  Waltham,  Mass.,  March  4,  1730-1. 
He  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Livermore,  a  prominent  citizen  of  that 
town,  and  who  had  for  a  long  time  (we  are  told  in  Bond's  Genealo- 
gies) "the  greatest  share  of  the  municipal  business  of  the  town." 
He  was  selectman  from  1743  to  1764;  representative  from  1745  to 
1763,  and  town  clerk  and  treasurer  twenty-six  years.  Elijah  was  an 
elder  brother  of  the  Hon.  Samuel  Livermore,  who  was  born  1732, 
and  graduated  at  Nassau  Hall  in  1752,  settled  in  Holderness,  N,  H., 
about  1780,  and  of  whom  Bond  gives  the  following  record:  "He 
studied  law  with  Judge  Trowbridge  and  was  made  King's  attorney- 
general  for  New  Hampshire  by  Governor  Wentworth  in  1769. 
Soon  after  the  breaking  out  of  the  Revolution  he  Avas  made  the 
State  attorney-general;  was  several  times  delegate  to  the  Conti- 
nental Congress,  and  was  made  chief  justice  of  the  State  1782 ;  was 
member  of  the  convention  for  adopting  the  Federal  constitution, 
upon  the  adoption  of  which  he  was  elected  representative  to  con- 
gress ;  at  the  end  of  two  years  he  was  elected  United  States  sena- 
tor, which  office  he  held  nine  years  until  he  resigned  in  1800."  The 
Hon.  Samuel  Liverinore  was  the  father  of  Edward  St.  Loe  and 
Arthur  Livermore,  both  of  whom  were  judges  of  the  supreme  court 
of  New  Hampshire,  and  members  of  congress. 


*John  Livermore,  probably  the  ancestor  of  all  the  Llvermores  in  the  United  States,  em- 
barked at  Ipswich,  England,  for  New  England  in  April,  1634,  then  aged  twenty-eight,  in  the 
Francis,  John  Cutting,  master.  He  was  admitted  freeman  May  6, 1635,  and  was  in  Watertowii 
as  early  as  1642.  He  was  repeatedly  a  selectman  and  held  other  offices  of  trust.  He  was  by 
trade  a  potter.  His  parentage  has  not  been  conclusively  ascertained ;  but  there  is  reason  to 
suppose  that  he  came  from  Little  Thurloe,  county  of  Suffolk.— ^wu/'s  Genealogies. 


16  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

Elijali  Livermore  inherited  his  father's  homestead ;  was  a  heuten- 
ant  ill  the  militia  of  Massachusetts,  and  was  chosen  deacon  of  the 
Congregationalist  Church  in  Waltham  upon  the  death  of  his  fother. 
He  removed  to  Livermore  in  1779,  where  he  died  August  5,  1808. 
Good  sense,  integrity,  kindness,  and  a  genial  humor  were  traits 
which  most  distinctly  marked  his  character.  When  he  died  he  was 
mourned  as  a  good  mail  and  friend  by  the  people  of  the  town  which 
he  had  planted  with  so  much  care  and  wisdom.  The  children  of 
Deacon  Livermore  were  as  follows :  Abtgail,  b.  November  20,  1758, 
d.  1817.  She  married  Rev.  Elisha  Williams,  a  graduate  of  Yale 
College.  Mr.  Williams  moved  to  Livermore  about  1790  and  Avas 
the  first  school-master  in  the  town.  About  1798  he  became  pastor 
of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Brunswick.  He  died  in  Cambridge  in 
1845.  He  had  eleven  children.  A  daughter,  Sophia,  married  John 
Appleton,  at  one  time  a  resident  of  Portland.  William,  b.  Jan.  9, 
1763,  d.  in  Louisiana  in  1832.  He  was  bred  a  merchant  in  Boston  ; 
traded  some  time  on  Roccoineco  Point  in  Jay  (now  Canton), 
and  afterwards  in  Hallowell,  and  was  a  major  of  militia.  Danforth 
P.  Livermore  and  the  wife  of  Col.  Andrew  Masters,  of  Hallowell, 
were  his  children.  Hannah,  b.  Nov.  22,  1764,  d.  Jan.,  1785.  Isaac, 
b.  May  7,  1768,  d.  Oct.,  1820;  was  bred  a  merchant  in  Boston;  was 
in  trade  a  short  time  in  Hallowell,  Maine,  and  then  settled  in  Liver- 
more as  a  firmer,  and  where  he  was  a  justice  of  the  peace.  His 
children  were  Hannah,  b.  1796,  d.  1886;  Granville  Putnam,  b.  1798, 
now  of  St.  Joseph,  Missouri;  Eliza,  b.  1801 ;  Elijah,  b.  1804;  Hora- 
tio Gates,  b.  1807,  a  prominent  citizen  of  San  Francisco;  Abigail 
Williams,  Alma  Louisa,  and  Julia  Snow.  Sarah,  b.  Dec.  7.  1770, 
married  Robert  Pierpont,  of  Roxbury,  and  d.  Feb.  19,  1847.  He  lived 
on  the  old  Livermore  farm,  and  died  Dec.  9,  1811,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
two  years.  His  children  were  Hannah,  b.  1797,  d.  1819;  Robert,  b. 
1798,  a  resident  of  Livermore;  George  Washington,  b.  Jan.  17,  1800, 
a  resident  of  Livermore  Falls;  Elijah,  b.  1803,  d.  1818;  Charles 
Henry,  b.  1801,  d.  very  suddenly  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  Oct.  6,  1850; 
John  Murdock,  b.  1808,  d.  1818.  Anna,  b.  April  6,  1775,  married 
Dec.  14,  1797,  Dr.  Cyrus  Hamlin,  to  Avhom  reference  Avill  be  made 
hereafter.  Samuel,  the  youngest  child,  Avas  born  April  6,  1778, 
married  Lura  Chase,  daughter  of  Thomas  Chase.  He  died  Nov. 
26,  1823.  He  was  quite  frequently  a  tOAvn  officer,  and  at  several 
times  represented  the  toAvn  in  the  Massachusetts  legislature.  Bet- 
sey, his  oldest  child,  Avas  b.  in  1803,  d.  1822 ;    Emery,  his  only  son, 


HISTOEY  OF  LIVERMOllE.  17 

was  born  Feb.  18,  1809,  and  after  residing  in  Bangor  for  several 
years  moved  to  St.  Joseph,  Mo.;  Lura,  the  youngest  chikl,  born  Oct. 
25,  1815,  married  Levi  B.  Young,  of  Livennore. 

Widow   Carver   was   the  second  settler.     She  had  seven 

children,  William,  Jcwies,  Amos,  and  JVctt/tan,  and  three  daughters, 
one  of  whom  married  Cutting  Clark,  one  John  Winter,  and  one  was 
unmarried.  The  family  was  originally  from  Duxbury,  and  William 
settled  in  1780  on  the  lot  now  occupied  as  a  farm  by  George  Gibbs, 
son  of  John  Gibbs.  Mrs.  Carver  made  the  first  clearing  and  lived 
for  a  short  time  on  the  farm  Avhere  Col.  Lewis  Hunton  now  lives. 

JosiAH  Wyer,  the  third  settler  and  fifth  with  a  family,  Avas  born 
in  Watertown  in  1749  and  moved  to  Livermore,  or  Port  Royal,  as 
it  was  then  called,  in  1779.  He  married  Rebecca  Brackett,  of  Fal- 
mouth, Me.,  in  1782.  He  died  July  7,  1827.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolutionary  war,  an  orderly  sergeant,  and  was  in  the  battle  at 
Bunker  Hill.  He  was  buried  with  military  honors.  Mr.  Wyer  re- 
sided on  the  road  leading  towards  North  Turner  Bridge  from  the 
old  Methodist  meeting-house,  on  the  farm  now  occupied  by  Amos 
Beckler.  His  widow  died  June  18,  1836.  Their  children  were 
Nancy,  b.  Oct.  1,  1786,  who  married  Nathaniel  Soper,  and  d.  Sept. 
29,  1871.  She  was  the  first  female  child  born  in  the  town.  Her 
husband,  wdio  survives  her,  came  from  Pembroke,  Mass.,  in  1806. 
He  is  now  (1874)  eighty-seven  years  old.  Isaac,  b.  May  28,  1788, 
d.  in  the  East  Indies.  AVUliam,  b.  Mar.  30,  1790,  mariied  Lucy 
Baker,  and  d.  in  Livermore  Dec.  30,  1858.  He  was  a  volunteer  in 
the  war  of  1812,  and  his  son  Otis  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion.  Betsey,  b.  April  30,  1791,  married  David  Brickett. 
Sally,  b.  Sept.  7,  1792,  married  Thomas  Haskell,  d.  in  Livermore. 
Nathaniel,  b.  April  19,  1794,  d.  in  Livermore.  Ktbekah,  b.  Sept.  30, 
1795,  married  Job  Haskell,  d.  in  East  Livermore.  George,  b.  April 
2,  1800,  d.  in  Livermore.  Charles,  b.  Oct.  26,  1804,  married  Sopho- 
nia  Shaw. 

Elisha  Smith  came  from  Martha's  Vineyard  about  1780,  and  pur- 
chased and  lived  on  the  lot  afterwards  owned  by  Rev.  Thomas  Wy- 
man. 


18  HISTORY   OF  LIVERMORE. 

Samuel  Benjamin*  was  born  at  Watertown,  in  the  Province  of 
]\Iass:it'liusetts  U;iy,  Feb.  5,  1753.  At  the  breaking  out  of  tlie 
difficulties  witli  tlie  niotlier  country,  in  the  spring  of  1775,  he  joined 
tlie  company  of  Ca])tain  Daniel  Whiting,  of  which  he  was  the  first 
sergeant.  He  was  at  the  combat  of  Lexington,  on  the  ever-mem- 
orable morning  of  the  19th  of  April,  1775,  where  the  first  blood  was 
shed  in  the  great  struggle  for  Independence.  lie  was  also  at  the 
battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  on  the  17th  of  June,  1775,  and  at  Monmoutli, 
Yorktown,  and  many  other  battles  of  lesser  note  in  the  Revolution. 
His  whole  term  of  service  was  seven  years,  three  months,  and 
twenty-one  thiys,  and  it  is  doubtful  if  there  was  any  man  in  the 
Revolution  who  was  in  more  battles,  or  saw  more  or  harder  service. 
The  following  dechiration  of  Lieutenant  Benjamin,  made  for  the 
pur})ose  of  obtaining  a  pension,  contains  a  full  statement  of  his  ser- 
vice : 

"I,  Samuel  Benjamin,  a  resident  citizen  of  the  United  States  of 
America,  an  inhabitant  of  Livermore,  in  the  County  of  Oxford,  and 
State  of  Massachusetts,  on  oath  declare,  that  from  the  battle  of  Lex- 
ington, April  19,  1775,  in  whicli  I  was  engaged,  I  was  in  the  Conti- 
nental service  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  without  ever  leaving  said 
service,  even  so  much  as  one  day,  until  the  6th  day  of  August,  a.  d. 
1782.  I  served  the  eight  montlis'  service  in  1775  at  Cambridge,  in 
said  State;  in  1776,  as  soon  as  the  British  left  Boston,  we  marched 
to  Ticonileroga,  \^here  my  year's  service  expired  ;  and,  on  the  1st  of 
January,  1777,  I  received  from  John  Hancock,  President  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  an  ensign's  commission,  which  is  hereunto  an- 
nexed, and  continued  to  serve  under  said  commission  in  Captain 
Ebenezer  CleavehuKl's  company.  Colonel  Micliael  Jackson's  regi- 
ment, in  the  JMassachusetts  line,  in  the  army  of  the  United  Colonies, 
on  the  Continental  establishments,  until  I  received  a  commission  of 
lieutenant,  dated  Oct.  7,  1777,  under  which  commission  I  served  in 
the  same  company  abovesaid  (which  company  was  now,  and  had 
been  some  months  previous,  commanded  by  Captain  Silas  Pierce,  in 
consequence  of  the  resignation  of  said  Captain  Cleaveland)  until  th<^ 


*Mr.  Benjamin  was  a  descendant,  in  the  fifth  generation,  of  John  Benjamin,  who  arrived  in 
the  ship  Ijon,  Sept.  16,  1C32,  and  was  admitted  freeman  the  subsequent  November;  was  a  pro- 
prietor of  Candn'idge  and  perhaps  first  settled  there.  If  so,  it  was  only  for  a  short  time,  as  his 
house,  with  goods  to  the  amount  of  £100,  Wiis  burnt  in  Watertown  April  7,  1C3G.  Gov.  Win- 
throp  designates  him  as  "  Mr.  Benjamin,"  and  in  1642  he  had  the  largest  homestall  in  Water- 
town.    He  died  June  14, 1(H5.— Bond's  Genealogies. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE.  19 

6th  day  of  August,  a.  d.  1782,  when  I  had  liberty  to  leave  the  ser- 
vice— a  certificate  of  which,  signed  by  Colonel  Michael  Jackson,  is 
also  hereunto  annexed.  My  commission  of  lieutenant  I  sent  to 
Washington  last  winter,  and  have  it  not  in  my  power.  I  was  in  the 
battle  at  Lexington  abovesaid  before  I  engaged  as  a  Continental 
soldier;  and  afterwards  was  in  the  battle  of  Monmouth,  and  at  the 
taking  of  Cornwallis,  and  numerous  other  battles  of  less  magnitude. 
I  left  the  service  at  West  Point,  as  will  appear  from  the  annexed 
certificate.  Samuel  Bexjamin.'' 

This  is  the  certificate  above  referred  to : 

"This  may  certify  that  Lieutenant  Samuel  B.iij.-imin,  of  the 
Eighth  Massachusetts  Regiment,  has  retired  from  present  service,  in 
consequence  of  a  resolve  of  congress,  passed  the  23d  of  A])ril,  1782, 
and  is  thereby  entitled  to  half  pay  during  life,  by  a  resolve  of  con- 
gress, passed  the  3d  and  21st  of  October,  1780. 

Given  under  my  hand,  in  garrison.  West  Point,  this  6th  day  of 
August,  1782.  M.  Jackson, 

Colonel  Eighth  Massachusetts  Megimentr 

Lieutenant  Benjamin  was  married  to  Tabitha  Livermore,  of  Wal- 
tham,  Mass.,  by  the  Rev.  Jacob  Cushing,  pastor  of  the  Church  of 
Christ,  in  Waltham,  on  the  16th  day  of  January,  1782.  She  was  the 
sister  of  the  venerable  Nathaniel  Livermore,  who  is  now  living 
(1858)  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-three 
years;  and  was  a  relative  of  Dea.  Elijah  Livermore,  the  common  an- 
cestor being  Samuel  Livermore,  of  Watertown,  who  died  Dec.  5, 
1690. 

In  the  fall  of  1782,  Lieutenant  Benjamin  made  a  trip  to  the  Dis- 
trict of  Maine,  for  the  purpose  of  selecting  a  location  for  his  future 
home.  On  the  lOtli  day  of  October,  1782,  he  bought  of  Dea.  Elijah 
Livermore,  "of  Liverton  "*  (now  Liverniore),  "  Cumberland  County, 
Massachusetts,"  a  tract  of  about  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of 
land,  bounded  as  follows:  "Southerly  on  land  owned  by  Josiah  Nor- 
cross,  easterly  by  Long  Pond  (so  called),  northerly  on  the  last  divis- 
ion and  another  pond,  westerly  on  said  pond  and  lot  No.  55." 

On  the  next  day,  Benjamin  executed  a  mortgage  to  Livermore  of 
the  said  tract,  to  secure  the  payment  of  the  consideration,  viz. : 
twenty-five  bushels  of  corn,  and  twenty-five  bushels  of  rye,  in  twen- 


*This  name,  given  to  the  township  by  Maj.  Thomas  Fish,  did  not  jieniianently  %\\\i\  hint  that 
by  whicli  it  had  been  generally  known— Port  Royal. 


20  HISTOEY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

ty-six  months,  and  the  same  amount  of  corn  and  rye  in  three  years 
and  two  months.  The  consideration  expressed  in  the  deed  was 
thirty  pounds. 

In  October,  1796,  Benjamin  bouglit  of  Otis  Robinson  the  property 
at  Gibbs'  Mills,  now  so  called.  In  December,  1797,  he  bought  part 
of  lot  11,  on  the  east  side  of  the  Androscoggin  River  (now  East  Liv- 
ennore),  of  Nathaniel  Dailey;  and  in  1799  he  bought  the  other  part 
of  the  said  lot  from  Daniel  Stevens.  He  lived  on  this  place  until 
the  time  of  his  deatli,  on  the  14th  day  of  April,  1824.  He  was  the 
fourth  settler,  with  a  family,  in  the  town  of  Livermore.  He  first  oc- 
cupied a  log  cabin,  built  by  Major  Thomas  Fish,  a  Revolutionary 
officer,  at  M'hat  has  ever  since  been  known  as  the  "  Fish  Meadow." 
This  was  in  March,  1783. 

The  remains  of  Lieutenant  Benjamin  were  buried  in  the  quiet  lit- 
tle country  burying-ground,  on  the  western  bank  of  the  Androscog- 
gin River,  at  what  is  known  as  the  "Intervale."  He  was  buried 
with  military  honors,  and  a  modest  and  appropriate  monument 
marks  his  last  resting  place,  upon  which  is  the  following  inscription  : 

"  Tills  monument  is  erected  to  the  memory  of  Lieutenant  Samuel  Benja- 
min, who  died  April  14,  1824,  in  the  seventy-first  year  of  his  age ;  an  officer  of 
the  American  Eevolution,  who  fought  in  tlie  sacred  cause  of  his  country  and 
the  rights  of  mankind,  from  the  ever-memorable  morning  of  the  19th  of  April, 
1775,  to  the  surrender  of  Lord  Cornwallis,  at  Yorktown,  on  the  19th  day  of 
October,  1781,  and  from  tlience  to  the  close  of  that  sanguinary  war,  which  es- 
tablished the  freedom  and  independence  of  the  United  States,  and  gave  to 
them  a  distinguished  rank  among  the  nations  of  the  earth." 

The  widow  of  Lieutenant  Benjamin,  born  June  27,  1757,  died 
June  20,  1837,  at  the  residence  of  her  son.  Colonel  Billy  Benjamin, 
of  Livermore.  He  left  ten  children,  seven  of  whom  are  now  (1858) 
living  in  Maine. 

The  foregoing  notice  of  Lieutenant  Benjamin  is  copied  from  a 
pamphlet  containing  extracts  from  a  journal  which  he  kept  while  in 
the  war. 

He  was  frequently  in  town  office;  was  one  of  the  selectmen  from 
1801  to  1805,  inclusive.  His  children  were  Billy,  Samuel,  Nathaniel, 
Betsey,  Polly  and  Martha  (twins),  David,  Charles,  Elisha,  Ruth. 
Bilhj^  b.  March  13,  1785,  d.  March  31,  1849,  was  the  second  male 
child  born  in  town.  He  married  Phebe  Wellington,  whose  family 
came  from  Lincoln,  Mass.     IL;  was  a  man  of  military  bearing  and 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  21 

tastes,  and  was  a  colonel  in  the  State  railitia.  His  residence  was  on 
the  Intervale.  Samuel,  b.  Sept.  7,  1786,  d.  April  27,  1871,  learnt  a 
cabinet  maker's  trade  and  established  the  business  in  Winthrop. 
He  married  Olivia  Metcalf,  by  wliom  he  had  twelve  children,  of 
whom  eight  are  now  living.  NatJianiel,  b.  May  16,  1788,  d.  Dec.  19, 
1867,  married  Betsey  Chase,  by  whom  lie  had  seven  children,  six 
of  whom  are  living.  Betsey,  b.  Dec.  29,  1790,  married  Samuel 
Morrison,  of  Livermore.  She  died  Dec.  9,  1860.  They  had  five 
children.  Polly,  b.  Oct.  2,  1792,  married  Samuel  Ames,  of  Liver- 
more.  They  had  six  children,  of  whom  three  are  living  in  1874. 
Mr.  Ames  moved  to  Sebec,  in  the  County  of  Penobscot,  now  in 
Piscataquis  County,  before  1827.  He  went  in  a  few  years  to  Her- 
mon  near  Bangor,  and  was  for  one  year  a  representative  of  the  class, 
in  which  Hermon  was  embraced,  in  the  State  legislature.  He  died 
in  Hermon  April  7,  1862.  He  was  born  May  11,  1789.  His  widow 
survived  him  till  March  6,  1865,  when  she  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
three  years.  3Iartha  (or  Patty),  twin  of  Polly,  b.  Oct.  4,  1792,  mar- 
ried Israel  Washburn,  March  30,  1812,  d.  May  6,  1861.  David,  b. 
June  3,  1794,  married  Catherine  Stanwood,  of  Brunswick,  and  re- 
sides on  the  "old  Benjamin  farm,"  and  where  once  was  Benjamin's 
Ferry.  They  have  had  five  children,  three  of  whom  are  living. 
Charles,  b.  Aug.  2,  1795,  married  Lucy  Chase,  and  was  a  cabinet 
maker  on  the  Intervale,  in  Livermore.  He  died  May  10,  1834.  She 
survived  him  several  years.  They  left  Betsey,  who  married  John 
M.  Benjamin,  Esq.,  of  Winthrop.  Elisha,  b.  Oct.  10,  1797,  went 
South  and  died  in  New  Orleans,  December,  1852,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
five  years.  JRuth  married  Jonathan  Lovejoy.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom — Samuel  B.  M.  Lovejoy —  was  a  lieutenant  in 
the  civil  war.  She  was  b.  May  20,  1797,  and  d.  Feb.  3,  1869.  Two 
children  survive  her,  Elisha  B.,  whose  home  is  in  Livermore,  and 
Charles  B.,  a  resident  of  Portland. 

Reuben  Wing  came  from  Harwich,  Mass.,  and  married  a  daughter 
of  Elisha  Smith.  He  died  in  1861  on  the  farm  on  which  he  had 
lived  for  more  than  sixty-five  years.  He  was  a  good  man  and  much 
respected. 

Cutting  Clark  was  a  brother  of  Hannah  Clark,  Dea.  Livermore's 
first  wife.     He   lived   on  the  northerly  part  of  Fuller's  Hill.     He 

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22 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE. 


came  from  Waltham  soon  after  tlie  settlement  of  Livermore.  He 
was  born  Feb.  24,  1754,  and  lived  to  an  advanced  age.  He  was  a 
man  of  fei'tile  imagination,  and  a  famous  hunter  in  his  day.  His  de- 
vice for  preserving  the  lite  of  an  Indian  boy,  who  was  with  him  on 
a  hunting  expedition,  from  the  severity  of  the  cold,  is  among  the 
traditions  of  the  town,  and  was  at  once  unique  and  effective. 

Jabez  Delano,  Avho  married  Grace,  daughter  of  Daniel  Dailey, 
took  up  the  Major  Fish  improvement  at  the  Meadow,  having  pre- 
viously lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  vive^;  on  the  place  now  occupied 
by  Col.  Lewis  Hunton,  and  also  having  tended  for  a  time  Den.  Liver- 
more's  grist-mill  at  the  Falls.  He  was  a  man  of  religious  emotions, 
subject  to  backslidings  and  renewals  in  matters  of  faith.  His  broth- 
er, Zebedee,  planted  himself  on  the  fiirm  afterwards  owned  and  oc- 
cupied by  Thomas  Chase,  and  the  same  now  owned  by  the  town. 
He  was  a  Baptist  minister  and  m:)ved  to  Lebanon,  York  County. 
Another  brother,  James,  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  David 
Rich.  His  sons,  Calvin,  Abel,  and  Leonard,  settled  in  Livermore. 
With  these  was  a  fourth  brother,  Ebenezer,  who  lived  in  the  west- 
erly part  of  the  town,  beyond  the  farm  of  Isaac  Hamlin,  and  had  a 
large  family  of  boys — James,  Jesse,  John,  Preston,  William,  Hufus, 
Lewis,  and  Levi;  the  daughters  were  Nancy,  Hannah,  and  Iluldah. 
The  Delanos  came  from  Winthrop. 

John  Walker,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  of  Dea.  Gibbs,  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers,  and  lived  where  Gilbert  Hathaway  (who  came  from 
Freetown,  Mass.,)  afterwards  lived  and  died.  Walker  was  one  of 
Arnold's  men  in  the  expedition  by  the  Kennebec  River  to  Quebec  in 
1775.  He  was  the  father  of  Colonel  Dexter  Walker,  and  of  Elijah, 
Levi,  and  Jin/us  Walker. 

Daniel  Dailey  settled  on  the  f:irm  on  the  east  side  of  the  river, 
now  owned  by  Col.  Lewis  Hunton.  He  was  in  town  at  a  very  early 
date. 

Nathaniel  Dailey  (son  of  Daniel)  was  among  the  first  settlers 
in  Livermore.  He  cleared  the  farm  on  the  east  side  of  the  river 
afterwards  owned  by  Lieut.  Benjamin,  and  on  which  David  Benja- 
min now  lives. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE.  23 

Nezer  Dailey  (son  of  Daniel)  settled  on  the  west  side  of  the 
river  below  the  Falls.  He  owned,  at  one  time,  the  mills  built  by 
Dea.  Livermove  at  Brettun's ;  sold  them  and  moved  onto  a  farm 
above  North  Turner  Bridge.  His  son,  Warren,  lived  in  the  same 
neighborhood,  and  had  a  stammering  speech  which,  while  it  ob- 
structed, gave  peculiar  effect  to  his  recitals  of  the  successes  and 
disasters  associated  with  the  "crow  hunts"  to  which  he  gave 
much  of  his  time.  His  flither  had  a  second  wife  who,  for  some 
reason,  failed  to  enjoy  the  devotional  exercises  of  Iver  husband, 
which  Avere  often  tedious  and  always  loud,  but  which  she  and  her 
step-son,  Warren,  were  enjoined  to  attend.  As  soon  after  Mr 
Dailey  had  commenced  his  morning  prayer  as  was  safe  his  wife 
would  quietly  leave  the  room.  When  this  practice  was  discovered, 
the  husband,  to  prevent  her  going  out,  locked  the  door;  but  the  pre- 
caution was  unavailing,  for  the  wife  escaped  through  the  window. 
When  the  husband  perceived  liow  completely  the  old  lady  had 
flanked  him,  his  expressions  of  annoyance  and  vexation  were  scarce- 
ly in  harmony  with  those  which  had  so  lately  fallen  from  his  lips,  nor 
were  they  softened  by  the  advice  which  his  son  took  occasion  to 
give  him:  "D-daddy,"  said  Warren,  "you  should  w-w-watch  as 
well  as  pray." 

Pelatiah  Gibbs  came  from  Milford,  Worcester  County,  before 
1789,  and  took  up  the  farm  where  Ebenezer  Hinds  afterwards  lived ; 
was  often  in  town  office,  and  was  a  deacon  of  the  Baptist  Church. 
He  moved  to  Jay  (now  Canton).  Capt.  Jacob  Gibbs,  John  Gibbs, 
and  J^rank  Gibbs,  of  Livermore,  intelligent  men  and  excellent  citi- 
zens, were  his  sons.  Capt,  Gibbs  had  a  large  family  of  daughters. 
These  families  are  well  and  honorably  represented  in  the  town  at 
the  present  time, 

Abial  Turner  Avas  born  in  Scituate,  Mass,,  and  came  to  Liver- 
more  to  reside  with  his  son  John,  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  Abial,  John,  and  Fphraim,  his  sons,  were  early  set- 
tlers in  Livermore,     John  had  a  large  family  and  died  in  Livermore. 

Elijah  Fisher  was  born  June  17,  1758,  in  Norton,  Mass.  He 
was  in  Livermore  in  1789,  and  settled  on  a  farm  on  the  old  highway 
adjoining,  and  south  of,  the  Strickland  farm.     He  was  a  soldier  of 


24  HISTOEY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

excellent  reputation  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and  was  a  member 
of  "  Washington's  Life  Guard,"  under  Ca])t.  Caleb  Gibbs.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen,  on  his  birthday,  he  was  in  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill,  and  remained  in  the  service  for  nearly  six  years.  He  received 
a  pension  for  many  years  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Liver- 
more  in  January,  1842.  He  was  a  sincere  and  devoted  Baptist. 
Dea.  Fisher's  wife  was  Jerusha  Keene,  of  Taunton,  Mass.  She  died 
in  June,  1840.  They  had  eight  children,  of  whom  Grivfll,  b.  1795, 
;Salhj,  b.  1798,  Priscilla,  b.  1801,  and  ^Salome,  b.  1806,  are  (1874) 
living. 

David  Learned  came  to  Livermore  about  the  year  1790.  He 
was  from  Oxford,  Mass.,  and  a  son  of  Gen.  Ebenezer  Learned,  an  of- 
ficer in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Gen.  Ebenezer  Learned  was  one  of 
the  proprietors  of  this  town,  in  which  David  and  a  brother,  Haines, 
had  lots.  David's  lot  was  that  now  occupied  by  Capt.  Otis  Pray 
and  Israel  Washburn.  Haines'  lot  was  on  the  east  side  of  the  river. 
Haines  was  in  Shay's  rebellion,  and  did  not  come  to  Maine  until  sev- 
eral years  after  David.  David  was  the  first  trader  in  town.  Rev. 
Paul  Cofiin,  in  his  Missionary  Journal  for  1800,  says  that  he  sold 
goods  that  summer  "to  the  amount  of  1500.00."  It  was  not  far 
from  this  time  that  he  built  the  saw-mill  at  the  outlet  of  Bartlett's 
Pond.  He  was  a  brigadier-general  in  the  Massachusetts  Militia,  and 
the  first  sheriiF  of  Oxford  County,  as  his  nearest  neighbor.  Dr.  Ham- 
lin, was  the  first  clerk  of  the  courts  for  the  county.  At  the  election 
succeeding  the  incorpoi-ation  of  the  town  he  was  chosen  one  of  the 
selectmen,  and  was  a  representative  in  the  legislature  in  1800  and 
1801.  He  sold  the  southerly  part  of  the  farm  upon  which  he  first 
settled  to  Col.  Bartholomew  Woodbury,  of  Sutton,  Mass.,  and  the 
northerly  part  to  Dr.  Cyrus  Hamlin,  and  built  on  an  adjoining  lot  a 
fine  house,  at  the  time  remarkable  as  having  the  largest  panes  of 
window  glass  of  any  house  in  the  county.  When  Artemas  Leonard 
bouo-ht  Dr.  Hamlin's  place  in  1805,  he  (Leonard)  removed  the  store 
which  had  been  built  by  Gen.  Learned  to  the  spot  near  the  Hamlin 
house,  on  which  it  stood  till  after  1830,  and  occupied  it  till  1809^ 
when  he  sold  it  to  Israel  Washburn.  Gen.  Learned  died  in  1811, 
ao-ed  foi'ty-four  years,  on  a  voyage  from  New  Orleans  to  Boston. 
He  was  an  intelligent  man  and  of  easy  manners.  Mr.  Cofiin,  in  the 
journal   of   his   tour   in   1798,   has    this    entry :      "  Visited    David 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  25 

Learned's  family,  and  being  unwell  spent  the  day  with  this  pleasant 
and  serious  couple;  gave  them  instruction  and  Heramenway's  ser- 
mon." 

Gen.  Learned  gave  the  name  Oxford  to  the  county  upon  its  incor- 
poration, in  honor  of  the  town  of  his  birtli.  His  widow,  Mary 
(Hurd)  Learned,  died  in  Livermore,  Jan.  14,  1863,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety-seven  years  and  four  months.  She  retained  her  focul- 
ties  to  the  time  of  her  death,  and  to  the  very  last  took  a  deep  interest 
in  the  fortunes  of  the  Union  cause.  Her  ardent  wish  that  she  might 
live  to  see  its  triumph  was  not  granted.  Their  children  were  Maria, 
Samuel,  Charles  D.,  and  Eliza. 

Maria  married  Publius  R.  R.  Pray,  Avho  had  removed  to  Liver- 
more  with  his  brothers,  Ephraim  and  Otis,  about  1810.  He  after- 
wards studied  law  in  the  State  of  New  York  with  Hon.  Samuel  Nel- 
son, late  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  and 
settled  in  Pearlington,  Miss.,  where  he  became  an  eminent  jurist. 
He  was  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  High  Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals, 
and  published  the  Revised  Statutes  of  the  State  in  1836.  He  died 
Jan.  11,  1840.  Samuel  went  South  nearly  half  a  century  ago,  and 
of  his  history  little  is  known.  Charles  D.  is  a  lawyer  in  Mississij^pi. 
Eliza  died  unmarried,  in  Livermore,  June  17,  1870.  Mrs.  Learned 
had  a  brother  (William  Hurd)  who  made  a  firm  and  built  a  house 
at  the  head  of  Bartlett's  Pond,  but  who  remained  in  town  only  a 
few  years. 

Thomas  Chase  moved  to  Livermore  September,  1790.  He  was 
born  in  Tisbury  (Martha's  Vineyard)  Sept.  30,  1755,  died  in  Liver- 
more, April,  1844.  He  married  Desire  Luce,  March  8,  1781.  She 
died  in  1851.  In  early  life  he  was  a  sailor  and  was  with  John  Paul 
Jones.  He  was  an  intelligent  man  and  of  the  strictest  integrity.  A 
correspondent  of  the  Bangor  Whig  visited  Mr.  Chase  when  the  lat- 
ter was  eighty-eight  years  of  age.  From  his  letter  the  following 
extract  is  made  :  "  He  delights  to  tell  the  history  of  his  early  life, 
to  relate  the  story  of  his  numerous  adventures  and  sufferings.  But 
it  is  when  he  comes  to  speak  of  Paul  Jones  and  his  daring  exj^loits; 
when  he  is  describing,  it  may  be,  the  engagement  between  the  Rich- 
ard and  the  Serapis,  that  his  eye  kindles  and  sparkles,  and  his  voice, 
broken  and  almost  inaudible  before,  becomes  strong  and  clear,  and 
he  is  ready  to  shoulder  his  crutch  and  show  how  ships  were  taken 
seventy  years  ago. 


26  HISTORY   OF  LIVERMOEE. 

The  ontlines  of  his  story,  as  near  as  I  can  recollect,  are  as  follows : 
A  privateer  came  to  the  Vineyard  in  the  early  days  of  the  Revolu- 
tion for  the  purpose  of  engaging  a  number  of  men  to  go  out  cruising 
on  the  coast.  Chase  and  about  a  dozen  other  young  men  joined  the 
ship.  After  they  had  sailed  they  were,  for  the  first  time,  informed 
that  their  destination  was  the  coast  of  England.  At  this  intelligence 
they  were  "  a  good  deal  struck  up,"  though  there  were  a  fcAV  Avho 
were  not  disjdeased  with  the  idea  of  going  abroad,  and  among  this 
number  was  Chase,  who  had  a  love  of  adventure  and  a  strong  desire 
to  see  foreign  countries. 

They  had  not  been  long  on  the  English  coast  before  they  discov- 
ered a  British  man-of-war  much  too  strong  and  powerful  for  them. 
As  they  were  not  discovered  for  some  time  they  hoped  to  escape, 
but  this  hope  was  not  fulfilled,  and  they  were  finally  captured.  In  a 
few  days  the  prisoners  were  put  into  another  shii^,  and  were  in  three 
different  ships  in  the  course  of  four  months,  in  one  of  which  their 
sufferings  were  very  great,  it  having  on  board  over  fourteen  hundred 
souls — men,  women,  and  children,  French  and  Americans.  The  ship 
was  foul,  the  prisoners  were  dirty,  many  were  sick,  and  large  num- 
bers died.  At  last  the  American  prisoners  were  landed  at  Plymouth, 
England,  and  carried  before  two  justices  and  a  clerk  and  arraigned 
for  treason.  Witnesses  were  examined  and  they  were  told  that 
they  would  be  committed  to  "  Mill  Prison  on  suspicion  of  treason 
against  his  most  Gracious  Majesty,  George  the  Third,  and  would 
there  await  their  trial  or  his  Majesty's  most  gracious  pardon."  They 
were  committed  to  this  famous  (or  infamous)  })rison  and  kept  there 
twenty-three  months,  during  which  time  they  underwent  almost  in- 
credible privations  and  sufferings.  At  the  end  of  twenty-three 
months  (two  years  and  a  quarter  after  they  were  made  j^risoners) 
they  were  exchanged  for  British  prisoners  and  sent  to  P'rance,  and 
were  landed  at  a  small  town  about  ten  miles  below  Nantes.  Here 
they  found  a  recruiting  ship  and  were  persuaded  to  enlist  for  the 
purpose  of  filling  the  crews  required  for  the  squadron  then  fitting  out 
at  L'Orient  for  John  Paul  Jones. 

While  on  board  ship  at  the  latter  place  Mr.  Chase  saw  John 
Adams.  Mr.  Adams  was  on  the  quarter  deck  in  his  morning  gown, 
and  was  accompanied  by  his  son,  John  Quincy  Adams,  then  a  boy 
ten  or  twelve  years  old. 

Chase  was  of  the  crew  of  the  Alliance,  Captain  Landais.     His  ac- 


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count  of  the  engagement  between  the  Bon  Homme  Richard,  etc., 
and  the  Serapis  and  Countess  of  Scarborough  agrees  in  the  main 
with  that  given  by  Mr.  Cooper,  but  differs  in  some  respects.  He 
will  not  allow  that  the  Alliance  deserved  all  the  left-handed  compli- 
ments paid  to  her  by  Cooper.  According  to  Chase's  account  it  was 
the  Alliance  and  not  the  Pallas  that  disabled  the  Countess  of  Scar- 
borough ;  that  it  was  in  consequence  of  the  broadsides  from  the  Al- 
liance that  she  struck ;  that  the  Pallas,  coming  up,  rendered  valuable 
assistance  and  was  left  in  charge  of  the  prize  while  the  Alliance 
went  to  the  aid  of  Jones;  and  here,  Mr.  Chase  says,  she  rendered 
good  service,  not  to  the  enemy,  as  Mr.  Cooper  would  have  it,  but  to 
Jones.  When  Jones  sailed  alongside  of  the  Serapis  her  commander 
hailed  him,  inquiring,  "  Who  are  you  ?  "  Jones  made  no  answer  and 
the  question  was  repeated,  accompanied  by  the  threat,  "Tell  me  or 
I  will  fire  into  you."  "  I  will  tell  you  when  I  get  a  little  nearer," 
roared  Jones,  in  a  voice  that  almost  drowned  the  thunder  of  a  dis- 
charge of  broadsides  which  took  place  at  that  moment. 

Chase  was  afterwards  under  Jones  several  months  and  became 
quite  well  acquainted  with  him.  He  was  a  man  of  mechanical  inge- 
nuity and  an  excellent  worker  in  wood,  and  while  at  Mill  Prison  had 
beguiled  many  a  weary  hour  in  whittling  out  some  very  curious 
wooden  ladles,  one  of  which  Jones  happened  to  see  after  he  came  to 
command  the  Alliance,  and  it  pleased  him  so  much  that  he  gave 
Chase  half  a  guinea  for  it  for  a  punch  ladle.  He  then  employed  him 
as  a  cabin  joiner.  While  Chase  was  in  this  service  he  saw  a  great 
deal  of  Jones  and  had  the  vanity  to  believe  that  he  was  quite  a 
favorite.  Mr.  Chase  represents  that  Jones  was  liked  by  his  own 
crew,  but  not  so  much  by  that  of  the  Alliance.  The  crew  of  the 
Alliance  were  greatly  attached  to  one  of  their  lieutenants,  a  Mr. 
Barclay,  of  Boston,  with  whom  Jones  had  a  falling  out.  Jones,  says 
Mr.  Chase,  was  a  stern  man,  brave  and  impetuous ;  a  good  man 
when  the  crew  did  well,  the  devil  when  they  did  not.  He  wanted 
things  in  their  proper  time  and  way  and  place,  and  would  have  them 
so.  He  had  a  voice  like  a  cannon,  but  which  in  ordinary  conversa- 
tion was  "rather  thick  and  grnm."  He  was  of  light  complexion  and 
something  below  the  medium  stature." 

Mr.  Chase's  children  were  as  follows :  Thomas  Chase,  Jr.,  b.  Feb. 
22,  1782,  who  was  a  colonel  of  militia,  delegate  to  the  constitutional 
convention  in  1819,  and  representative  from  Livermore  in  the  legis- 


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HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


lature  from  1820  to  1827.  Thomas  Chase,  3d,  formerly  a  lawyer  in 
Farmington,  now  a  resident  of  Wasliington,  D.  C,  father  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Akers  Allen  (Florence  Percy),  is  his  son.  Lura,h.  March 
11,  1784,  married  Samuel  Livermore.  Lathrop^  b.  March  22,  1787, 
was  a  physician  and  settled  in  Vassalboro.  James,  b.  Nov.  16,  1789, 
married  Anna  Pitts,  both  of  whom  are  now  living  in  this  tOAvn. 
Bebecca,  who  married  Tristram  Tilton,  was  b.  Sept.  20,  1792.  Olive 
and  Lydia  (twins),  b.  Nov.  8,  1795.  Olive  was  unmarried,  and 
Lydia  married  Asa  Barton.  Lucy,  who  married  Charles  Benjamin, 
was  b.  Sept.  14,  1801,  and  d.  November,  1844. 

Capt.  Tristram  Chase,  a  brother  of  Thomas,  was  a  ship  master. 
He  settled  on  the  westerly  side  of  Long  Pond,  not  far  from  his 
brother  Sarson.  He  was  lost  at  sea  about  the  beginning  of  the  cen- 
tury. His  widow  married  Col.  Jesse  Stone.  He  left  several  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Charles  T.,  now  living,  has  been  for  many  years  a 
successful  trader  in  Dixfield.  A  daughter,  Betsey,  married  Nathaniel 
Benjamin.    Ahby,  another  daughter,  mai-ried  Charles  Barrell. 

Sylvester  Norton,  who  moved  from  Edgarton,  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, in  1789,  with  his  sons,  Bansoni,  James,  and  Zebulon,  was  a 
shoemaker,  and  will  be  referred  to  hereafter.  He  died  Aug.  8,  1841, 
in  the  eighty-fifth  year  of  his  life. 

Ransom  Norton  lived  near  the  corner,  and  was  first  a  deacon  in 
the  Baptist  Church  and  afterwards  a  clergyman.  He  died  Oct.  25, 
1834,  aged  seventy-two.  Susannah,  his  wife,  died  March  2,  1830. 
His  sons,  Jones,  Jethro,  and  Charles,  settled  in  the  northerly  part  of 
the  town.  Jones  and  Jethro  afterwards  went  to  Massachusetts  and 
died  there.  A  son  of  the  latter,  Eugene  L.,  has  been  Mayor  of 
Charlestown  and  a  member  of  the  Senate  of  Massachusetts.  He  is 
a  successful  business  man.  John,  another  son,  was  a  colonel  in  the 
civil  war.  , 

James  Norton  settled  in  the  westerly  part  of  the  town,  where  he 
resided  till  his  death  in  1841.  His  sons  were  Moses,  Ira,  Tristram, 
and  James;  the  daughters  were  Prudence,  Patty,  Lydia,  Lucy,  and 
Olive.     He  was  one  of  the  "  four  partners,"  so  called. 


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29 


Zebulon  Norton",  tlie  youngest  son  of  Sylvester,  took  up  the 
fiirm  situated  on  tlie  road  from  North  Livermore  to  the  Falls,  about 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  from  the  former  place,  upon  Avhich  he  re- 
sided till  his  death  in  October,  18G5,  at  the  age  of  eighty-ciglit  years. 
He  married,  first.  Hannah,  daughter  of  Dea.  Pelatiah  Gibbs,  and 
afterwards  Mary  Merritt.  He  had  twelve  children,  of  whom  nine 
are  now  (1874)  living,  viz. :  Sylvester,\>.  June  12,  1804;  3Iary,  b. 
April  5,  1810,  now  living  at  Dexter,  Me.,  the  widow  of  George, 
son  of  tlie  late  Capt.  Alpheus  Kendall ;  David,  b.  Aug.  25,  1812,  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Oldtown  ;  Herman,  b.  Feb.  18, 1814,  who  resides 
in  Quincy,  Illinois;  Sewall,  b.  Sept.  19,  1817,  and  lives  on  the  "old 
farm;"  Jane,  h.  July  14,  1822,  the  Avife  of  E.  C.  Brett,  Esq.,  of 
Bangor,  Clerk  of  the  Judicial  Courts  for  Penobscot  County ;  Lydla, 
b.  Aug.  10,  1824,  who  married  Henry  Bond  Bradford,  of  Livermore ; 
JEllen  C,  b.  Aug.  2,  1828,  who  married  John  R.  Brett,  and  lives  in 
San  Francisco;  Hannah  E.,  b.  Dec.  1,  1837,  wife  of  John  Hathaway, 
who  lives  in  Quincy,  Cal. 

Mr.  Norton  was  a  selectman  for  many  years,  and  was  a  man  of 
strict  integrity  and  great  firmness  of  character;  a  man  wdio  could 
not  only  say  "no"  when  duty  or  principle  required,  but  who  was 
not  easily  moved  from  his  opinions.  Once  at  a  school  meeting  when 
his  brother  Ransom  pleaded  earnestly  for  the  use  of  the  scliool-house 
for  the  purpose  of  holding  a  religious  meeting,  and  besought  the 
voters  to  be  accommodating  and  not  stubborn  and  set  up  their  own 
wills  against  their  neighbors,  "Uncle  Zeb,"  as  he  was  familiarly 
called,  replied,  "  I  had  rather  liave  my  own  will  than  anybody  else's 
will,  and  so  had  you,  brother  Ransom."  The  point  against  "brother 
Ransom,"  who  was  not  unlike  "Uncle  Zeb"  in  the  firmness  with 
which  he  held  his  opinions,  was  thought  to  be  peculiarly  well  taken. 

Samuel  Hillman  moved  to  Livermore  in  1788,  at  the  age  of 
nineteen.  He  was  one  of  the  "four  partners,"  so  called,  Sylvanus 
Boardman,  Ransom  and  James  Norton  being  the  others.  He  mar- 
ried Jane  Norton,  sister  of  Ransom  and  James,  and  became  a  Meth- 
odist preacher.  He  died  in  Monmouth,  Kennebec  County,  at  the 
age  of  eighty  years.  He  had  seven  children,  of  whom  the  Rev.  A. 
P.  Hillman,  of  Cape  Elizabeth,  is  one.  A  younger  brother,  Moses, 
settled  in  Livermore,  on  the  Intervale,  in  1817,  where  he  died  Dec. 
17,  1823.     Tristram  Hillman,  Esq.,  for  whom  Hillmau's  Ferry  is 


30  HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE. 

named,  and  who  has  held  many  municipal  offices  in   town,  is  son    of 
the  last  named. 

Samuel  Sawin  was  born  in  Watertown  May  8,  1762,  was  a  sol- 
dier in  the  Revolution,  married  April  18,  1792,  Martha  Mason.  He 
settled  in  Livermore  about  1788.  He  lived  near  Mr.  Thomas  Cool- 
edge,  senior,  and  like  him  was  a  grower  of  fine  fruit.  He  frequented 
the  Portland  market  for  many  years.  He  married  for  a  second  wife 
Sarah  Webb,  of  Portland.  His  younger  brother,  Abijah,  born  Jan. 
15,  1764,  married  Prudence  Adams  Feb.  25,  1788,  and  settled  in 
Livermore,  not  far  from  Samuel.  Besides  Samuel  /Saioin,  Jr.,  who 
resides  at  the  Corner,  none  of  the  children  of  Samuel  or  Abijah  are 
now  in  Livermore. 

Isaac  Love  well  removed  from  Weston,  Mass.,  and  was  in  Liver- 
more before  1790.  He  purchased  of  Samuel  Whiting  the  large  farm 
on  the  northerly  side  of  the  hill  known  as  Lovewell's  (or  Waters') 
hill  on  the  old  highway,  and  had  one  of  the  largest  orchards,  and 
with  it  one  of  the  best  cider  mills,  in  town.  He  amassed  a  very 
considerable  property  for  a  new  settlement,  by  farming,  loaning 
money,  and  "putting  out"  neat  stock  and  sheej)  to  "double  in  four 
years."  He  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  Church  and  one  of  its 
most  liberal  benefactors,  contributing  generously  to  its  support  while 
living,  and  leaving  it  a  handsome  bequest  at  his  death.  He  became 
quite  deaf  while  comparatively  a  young  man.  He  considered  the 
State  law  in  respect  to  the  collection  of  debts  as  unreasonably  prej- 
udicial to  the  creditor,  and  greatly  inferior  to  the  "old  Monartcli 
laws,"  as  he  called  the  laws  of  the  province.  Though  regarded  by 
many  as  hard  in  his  dealings,  he  did,  under  the  constraint,  it  may 
be,  of  the  good  counsellor  who  drew  his  will,  an  act  of  justice  such 
as  men  of  kindlier  fame  have  in  similar  cases  omitted  to  do,  in 
making  adequate  provision  for  the  support,  through  life,  of  an  old 
servant  avIio,  though  of  feeble  intellect  and  ungraceful  person,  had 
been  faithful  and  devoted  to  him  and  his  family. 

Heney  Bond,  of  Watertown,  was  born  Jan.  14,  1762.  He  was  a 
son  of  Col.  William  Bond,  who  was  a  lieutenant  colonel  and  acted 
as  colonel  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  was  colonel  of  the  twen- 
ty-fifth regiment  in  the  Continental  army.     He  went  with  it  in  1776 


HISTOEY  OF  LH^RMOEE.  31 

to  New  York,  and  tlience  to  Canada.  He  died  Aug.  31,  1776,  la- 
mented as  an  able  officer  and  true  patriot.  His  son  Henry,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  notice,  tlien  fourteen  years  old,  accompanied  him  to  New 
York  and  Canada,  and  was  with  him  at  his  decease.  In  June,  1790, 
the  son  moved  to  Livermore,  where  he  had  previously  purchased 
land  and  half  of  the  first  grist  and  saw-mills  erected  in  the  town. 
He  was  a  deacon  of  the  first  church,  and  the  second  school-master  in 
the  town.  The  first  school-house  in  Livermore  Avas  built  a  short 
distance  north  of  his  mills  (before  mentioned  as  having  been  erected 
by  Dea.  Liveimore).  He  manied  Hannah  Stearns  May  21,  1789, 
and  died  March  27,  1796,  leaving  two  children,  a  son  and  a  daugh- 
ter. Henry,  the  son,  Avas  born  in  Watertown,  March  21,  1790,  grad- 
uated at  Dartmouth  College  in  1813,  in  which  he  was  afterwards  a 
tutor  for  nearly  two  years.  He  was  educated  as  a  physician,  and  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1817.  He  settled  first  at  Concord, 
N.  H.,  and  then  moved  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  resided,  devoted 
to  his  profession — in  Avhich  he  became  distinguished — till  his  death 
in  May,  1859.  He  was  never  married.  He  was  author  of  "Geneal- 
ogies of  the  Families  and  Descendants  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Watertown,  Mass.,  including  Walthani  and  Weston,  to  which  is  ap- 
pended the  early  history  of  the  town,"  published  in  1855,  a  volume 
of  near  1100  pages,  the  copyright  of  which  he  gave  to  the  N.  E. 
Genealogical  and  Historical  Society.  Hannah,  the  daughter,  born 
in  Livermore  April  15,  1794,  married  William  Dewey,  of  Augusta, 
Me.,  and  died  Nov.  24,  1827.  The  widow  of  Mr.  Bond  married,  for 
a  second  husband,  Zebedee  Rose,  of  Livermore. 

*Thomas  CoOLiDGE  movcd  from  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  Livermore 
in  June,  1790,  and  had  a  large  farm  and  excellent  orchard  of  grafted 
truit  in  the  westerly  part  of  the  town.  He  died  in  1834  at  the  age 
of  eighty.  His  widow,  Lucy  ( Wyeth)  Coolidge,  died  Oct.  16,  1850, 
at  the  great  age  of  ninety-six  years  and  eight  months.  He  had  nine 
children.  Jonas,  the  eldest,  lived  in  Boston  ;  his  daughter  Eliza- 
beth married  Hon.  Peter  Harvey.  Daniel  was  one  of  the  most 
wealthy  and  successful  farmers  in  the  town ;  was  a  captain  of  caval- 

*The  ancestor  of  the  Coolidges  of  Watertown  was  John  Coolidge,  who  was  admitted  a  free- 
man May  25, 1636,  and  was  a  selectman  many  times  between  1636  and  1677 ;  was  a  representa- 
tive In  1658,  and  was  often  employed  in  witnessing  wills,  taking  inventories,  and  settling 
estates.  Mr.  Somerby  says  "  the  Coolidge  family  seem  to  have  been  settled  In  Cambridge, 
England,  from  a  very  remote  period." — Bond's  Genealogies. 


32  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

ry.  Major  Elisha  Coolidge,  of  Jay,  is  his  son.  Cornelius  settled  in 
Dexter,  Me.,  where  he  liad  a  fine  farm.  Thomas  was  a  farmer  who 
grew  much  clioice  fruit.  He  died  in  Livermore  June  25,  1846. 
Elisha  went  to  Solon,  Somerset  County,  when  a  young  man,  and 
became  a  trader,  amassing  a  large  fortune.  ITejyzibah,  the  only  sur- 
vivor (1874)  of  this  family,  married  Alden  Chandler,  and  lives  in 
Oxford,  Me.  Setsey  married  Artemas  Learned,  a  trader  in  Liver- 
more,  who  moved  to  Hallowell  and  became  a  merchant  and  after- 
wards a  banker. 

Joseph  Coolidge  and  fmiily  migrated  from  "VValtham  in  June, 
1790,  in  company  with  his  relative,  Thomas  Coolidge.  lie  took  up 
a  farm  near  the  line  of  Livermore  in  the  part  of  Jay  that  is  now 
Canton,  but  his  associations  were  largely  in  the  former  town,  Avhere 
several  of  his  children  settled.  His  father  was  killed,  as  Bond  says, 
in  the  battle  of  Lexington,  April  19,  1775  (but  it  was  probably  dur- 
ing the  retreat  from  Concord),  and  he  was  himself  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  the  Revolution,  having  been  a  member  (1780)  of  the  four- 
teenth regiment  of  the  Continental  array.  The  privations  which 
were  fi-equently  the  lot  of  the  early  settlers  of  this  neighborhood 
were  illustrated  in  the  experience  of  Mr.  Coolidge.  He  relates  that 
the  year  he  moved  into  Jay  there  was  a  scarcity  of  provisions  and, 
in  consequence,  much  suiFering.  His  family  was  at  one  time  desti- 
tute of  food,  and  he  went  (believing  it  to  be  the  only  place  where 
he  could  find  any)  to  Dea.  Livermore's.  The  deacon  told  him  that 
he  had  no  corn,  and  that  the  best  he  could  do  for  him  was  to  furnish 
him  with  a  horse  to  ride  to  the  Kennebec,  Avliere  it  was  understood  ' 
corn  might  be  purchased,  and  with  money  to  pay  for  it.  Thus 
armed,  Mr.  Coolidge  set  out  for  the  down-east  Egypt.  Returning, 
with  his  corn  on  the  horse's  back,  he  reached  the  Androscoggin 
River  late  at  night,  but  the  boat  was  on  the  west  side,  and  the  ferry- 
man lived  (at  Dea.  Livermore's)  so  far  away  that  he  could  not  raise 
him.  At  this  moment  a  heavy  shower  came  up,  and  Mr.  Coolidge, 
tying  his  horse  and  removing  the  corn  from  his  back,  peeled  a  hem- 
lock tree,  placed  the  bark  over  the  corn,  plunged  into  the  river, 
swam  it,  found  the  boat,  crossed  with  it,  took  his  horse  and  corn 
aboard,  recrossed  the  river,  and  proceeded  on  to  his  home,  which  he 
reached  at  two  o'clock  in  the  morning.  Arrived  at  home  wet  and 
hungiy — for   he   had    eaten    little   since  the  previous  morning — he 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE.  33 

aroused  his  wife,  and  she  made  him  a  "Johnny  cake,"  which  he  said 
was  the  sweetest  food  he  ever  ate. 

William  Cooltdge,  son  of  William,  of  Waltham,  horn  in  that 
town  Jan.  28,  1777,  married  in  1799  Mary,  daugliter  of  iMajor  Jona- 
than Hale,  of  Sutton,  settled  in  Liverraore,  was  the  first  captain  of 
the  first  company  of  militia  therein,  was  a  school-master  and  farmer, 
and  lived  on  the  farm  afterwards  owned  and  occupied  by  Amos 
Edes.  He  moved  away  about  1808.  He  was  a  relative  of  Thomas 
and  Joseph. 

JdNATHAN  GoDiNG,  bom  in  Waltham  Feb.  25,  1762,  married  Ruth 
Sargent,  and  moved  to  Livermoi-e  in  1790,  and  had  a  farm  north  of 
the  Corner,  Avhere  he  planted  a  nursery  and  introduced  many  choice 
varieties  of  apples  and  pears.  His  children  were  Peter,  who  lived 
in  Jay,  Jonas  and  Sjoencer.  wlio  became  farmers  in  Livermore,  Han- 
nah and  Benjamin  Myrick. 

Abijah,  John",  and  Abel  Monroe,  brothers,  moved  from  Lincoln, 
Mass.,  about  1790,  and  settled  in  Livermore. 

Abijah  Moxeoe  was  the  first  innkeeper  in  town,  and  his  house 
was  near  what  was  known  as  Sanders'  Corner.  He  died  in  1823. 
He  kept  an  excellent  tavern,  which  travelers  (of  Avhom  there  were 
many  in  those  days  upon  what  was  the  great  highway  leading  from 
Portland  to  Farmington),  feeling  sure  of  good  fare,  would  lay  their 
plans  to  reach  whenever  they  could  do  so  without  too  great  an  ef- 
fort. For  years  it  was  quite  an  exchange  for  the  townspeople. 
The  first  four  lawyers  who  successively  practiced  in  the  town  lived 
with  Mr.  Monroe  and  had  their  office  in  his  house.  The  neighbors 
and  townsfolk  would  repair  there  to  see  one  another,  learn  the  news, 
relate  what  had  happened,  renew  the  past,  revive  the  scenes  and  re- 
call the  events  and  sayings  of  the  war — in  which  numy  of  them  had 
been  actors — 

While  jokes  much  sti-onger  than  their  flip  went  round, 

though  the  flip  was  by  no  means  intended  for  weak  heads.  Owing 
to  failure  in  health  Mr.  Monroe  lost  the  power  of  easy  locomotion, 
and  so  was  accustomed  to  sit  in  his  large  arm-chair  in  the  j^^^blic 
room  from  morning  till  night,  reading  when  there  was  no  company 


34  HISTORY   OF  LIVERMOKE. 

Koine  book,  generally  the  Bible,  with  which  he  became  so  familiar  as 
to  be  able  to  quote  from  any  part  of  it  with  an  accuracy  that  was 
scarcely  less  than  marvellous.  He  delighted  in  theological  discus- 
sion and  allowed  no  opportunity  for  it  to  escape  unimproved.  He 
had  a  tilt  with  tlie  Rev.  Jabez  Woodman,  A.  M.,  a  Baptist  clergy 
man  of  New  Gloucester,  which  lasted  from  dinner  to  the  small 
liours  of  the  next  day,  and  ended  in  the  conversion  of  Mr.  Wood- 
man to  Mr.  Monroe's  way  of  thinking.  He  had  not  equal  success 
with  the  Rev.  Dr.  Payson,  by  whom  a  discussion,  which  had  sprung 
up  between  them,  was  rather  abruptly  terminated,  leaving  the  good 
doctor  minus  a  dinner,  and  the  publican's  money-till  unrcplenished 
by  the  coin  of  the  great  preacher. 

Rev.  Paul  Coffin,  in  the  recoi-d  of  a  "missionary  tour"  in  1798, 
makes  this  entry  :  "Aug.  30th.  .  .  Invited  by  the  wife  of  Abijali 
Monroe  to  put  up  with  them  for  the  night.  He  had  just  sprung  his 
net  on  six  dozen  pigeons  and  took  them  all.  To  take  a  whole  flock 
is  a  common  thing  with  him.  Aug.  31st.  .  .  Returned  to  Mon- 
roe's and  put  up  for  the  night.  He  and  his  wife  are  sensible  and 
agreeable." 

Mr.  Coffin  was  in  Liverraore  again  in  1800  and  put  up  with  Mon- 
roe, with  whom  he  seems  to  have  had  quite  an  entertaining  religious 
colloquy  at  the  expense  of  the  Baptists,  who  were  multiplying  in 
the  town. 

John  Monroe  was  a  farmer  and  died  in  Livermore  April  2,  1856, 
at  the  age  of  ninety-two  years.  Mary,  his  widow,  died  Nov.  1, 
1861,  at  the  age  of  ninety-four.  His  son  John^  a  successful  teacher 
in  early  life,  and  a  member  of  the  legislature  in  1861,  was  a  resident 
of  the  town  until  his  death  in  1873.  Allen.,  his  second  son,  lives  in 
Milo,  Piscataquis  County,  and  the  youngest  son,  Abijah,  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Richmond.  Va.  His  daughter,  Luda,  married  Rev.  Caleb 
Fuller,  a  Methodist  clergyman.  She  died  many  years  ago.  A 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Fuller  married  Hon.  E.  K.  Boyle,  a  prominent 
lawyer  of  Belfast. 

Abkl  Monroe,  born  May  14,  1769,  died  June  24,  1861.  He  mar- 
ried Martha  Bixby,  of  Keene,  N.  II.,  and  for  a  second  wife  Salome 
Hinds,  of  Livermore.  The  Hon.  Joseph  S.  Monroe  (recently  de- 
ceased), Senator  and  Judge  of  Probate  for  Piscataquis  County,  was 


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his  son.  His  oldest  daughter,  Patty.,  married  Maj.  Isaac  Strickland, 
of  Livermore,  and  died  in  1873.  Jitlia,  the  second  daughter,  mar- 
ried Elias  T.  Aldrich.  She  has  been  dead  many  years.  3Iary,  the 
third  daughter,  lives  in  Keene,  N.  H.,  and  Lttcy,  the  youngest 
daughter,  in  Boston.  Isaac,  the  oldest  son,  was  drowned  in  Bart- 
lett's  Pond  about  1820;  the  second  son,  Nathan,  has  been  dead 
more  than  forty  years. 

Sylvanus  Boardman,  who  was  a  native  of  Martha's  Vineyard, 
came  to  Livermore  with  Mr.  Hillnian  and  the  Nortons.  He  was  an 
able  minister  of  the  Bai)tist  denomination,  of  whom  more  will  be 
said  hereafter. 

P>HRAiM  Child  was  born  in  Waltham  July  26,  1760.  He  came 
to  Livermore  about  1794,  and  settled  on  the  farm  where  his  son 
Abijah  lives.     His  first  wife  was  Lydia  Livermore,  a  sister  of  Lieut. 

Samuel  Benjamin's  wife.     His  second  wife  was  Herrick.     Mr. 

Child  died  in  1825. 

Benjamin  Park  lived  near  Abijah  Monroe's  and  was  the  father- 
in-law  of  Mr.  Monroe.  He  died  in  1825,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two 
years. 

Lieut.  Samuel  Foster  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war 
and  died  in  1825,     He  lived  on  the  east  side  of  the  liver. 

Samuel  Atwood,  the  first  captain  of  the  company  of  cavalry  or- 
ganized in  Livermore  in  1809,  was  born  iti  Dighton,  Mass.,  and  set- 
tled first  at  Brettun's  Mills  about  1795,  and  then  in  the  westerly 
part  of  the  town.  He  was  an  active,  intelligent  man,  and  was  often 
employed  as  a  town  ofticer.  Among  his  children  were  Captain 
JHezekiah  Atwood,  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Livermore,  now  recently 
deceased ;  E2yhraim  Atioood  and  Lorenzo  Atwood,  who  removed  to 
Buckfield,  where  they  were  engaged  in  trade  for  many  years.  /Sam- 
uel, another  son,  moved  to  Lexington,  Somerset  County.  A  daugh- 
ter, Hepzihah,  married  Artemas  Cole,  of  Buckfield. 

Richard  Merritt  was  a  native  of  London  and  an  employee  in  a 
large  mercantile  firm  engaged  in  the  American  trade.     He  had  seen 


36  HISTORY   OF  LIVEHMOEE. 

Boston  merchants  in  London  and  became  interested  in  their  coun- 
try, and  when  he  decided  to  emigrate  to  America  brought  from  the 
London  house  a  letter  of  commendation  saying  that  he  could  be 
trusted  with  "untold  gold."  He  married,  in  1795,  Mercy  Coolidge, 
sister  of  Joseph  Coolidge,  who  settled  in  Jay  in  1790,  and  followed 
Mr.  C.  to  that  town  in  a  few  years;  but  he  soon  removed  to  Liver- 
more,  where  he  lived  until  his  death  in  1826.  His  widow  died  in 
1840,  aged  eighty-six.  He  w^as  in  person  a  small  man  and  of  quaint 
manners.  He  had  known  in  England,  he  said,  men  "who  heard  in 
their  ears,  understood  in  their  elbows,  and  carried  their  brains  in 
their  shoes." 

Henry  Grevy,  a  Hessian,  after  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary 
war,  in  which  he  had  been  a  soldier  in  the  British  army,  came  to 
Livermore  and  settled  on  a  fiirm  east  of  Lieut.  Benjamin's,  about  a 
mile  from  the  river,  and  where  he  lived  until  his  decease.  He  had 
two  daughters  who  are  now  living  in  Bangor.  He  w^as  a  prudent, 
saving  man  and  instructed  his  family  to  "  eat  their  bread  and  smell 
of  their  cheese." 

Ebenezer  Pitts,  born  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  in  1757,  moved  to  Liv- 
ermore from  Ward,  Mass.,  in  1791,  and  entered  upon  and  occupied 
till  his  death  in  April,  1831,  a  farm  near  the  Corner,  the  same  now 
occupied  by  his  grand-son,  Ebenezer  Pitts.  His  wife  was  Mary 
Ellis,  of  Knynham.  He  was  a  good  citizen.  His  son,  Philip,  and 
his  daughters,  Anna,  who  married  James  Chase,  and  Prudence,  who 
married  David  Reed,  settled  in  Livermore.  Philip  married  Dinah, 
daughter  of  Sylvester  Norton.     He  died  in  1828. 

Major  Joseph  Mills  Avas  a  half  brother  of  Lieut.  Samuel  Benja- 
min and  followed  him  to  Livermore  in  a  few  years  after  the  latter 
came  here.  He  took  up  the  farm  afterwards  owned  by  Capt.  Satnu- 
el  Atwood.  When  he  sold  this  form  to  Capt.  Atwood  he  bought 
and  moved  oflto  the  farm  on  Butter  Hill,  now  owned  by  Daniel 
Briggs.  He  sold  this  place  more  than  half  a  century  ago  and  went 
to  Pennsylvania.  He  had  several  children,  and  was  a  prosperous 
farmer. 

Lieut.   Elijah    Wellington,  from  Lincoln,  Mass.,  settled  at  a 


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very  early  dnte  on  the  east  side  of  the  river  in  Livermore.  Elijah^ 
who  is  now  living,  Nathan^  who  had  the  old  farm,  and  Elhridge,  a 
ITniversalist  clergyman  of  Alton,  Me.  (recently  deceased),  and 
Phehe^  who  married  Col.  Billy  Cenjamin,  were  his  children. 

Amos  Livermoue,  who  married,  first,  Hannah  Sanderson,  and 
afterwards  Eunice  Luce,  and  after  her  death  her  sister,  Phebe  Luce, 
and  was  a  brother  of  the  wives  of  Snmuel  Benjamin  and  Ephraim 
Child,  was  born  in  Waltham,  June  3,  17G5,  and  died  Sept.  15,  1826. 
He  came  to  Livermore  in  1795,  and  first  lived  on  the  farm  afterwards 
owned  by  Spencer  Godding.  He  had  several  children,  of  whom  one 
only,  Eunice^  the  widow  of  Richard  Merrill,  is  now  living  in  this 
town.     Her  home  is  on  the  Intervale. 

Daniel  Holman  emigrated  from  Worcester  County  before  1793, 
and  made  a  farm  about  a  mile  southwesterly  from  the  Corner,  which 
Ids  son,  Abner,  afterwards  owned  and  occupied.  He  was  one  of  the 
seventeen  original  members  of  the  first  Baptist  church  in  Livermore. 

Hastings  Strickland,  born  in  Nottingham,  N.  H.,  Aug.  17, 
1768,  moved  to  Livermore  in  1795.  He  was  the  son  of  the  Rev. 
John  Strickland,  of  Turner,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College,  and  his  wife 
was  Sally  Perley,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Perley,  of  Gray. 
She  was  born  June  14,  1774.  He  had  a  large  farm,  with  an  exten- 
sive orchard  and  a  cider  mill,  on  the  main  road,  about  half  a  mile 
south  of  Monroe's  tavern.  Paul  CoflSn  visited  him  in  1797.  He 
says:  "Rev.  Strickland  kept  Sabbath  with  us;  baptized  Isaac,  child 
of  Hastings  Strickland,  and  Sally."  Mr.  Strickland  died  March  9, 
1829,  and  his  widow  Aug.  11,  1842.  His  children  were  John,  Isaac, 
Samuel  P.,  Hastings,  and  Lee.  Jb/m,  b.  Sept,  10,  1794,  d.  in  Liver- 
more Jan.  22,  1867.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and  frequently  a 
town  ofiicer.  Lysander  Strickland,  of  Bangor,  and  Lyman  Strick- 
land, of  Houlton,  are  his  sons.  Isaac,  b,  Dec.  17,  1796,  resides  at 
Livermore  village  and  is  a  wealthy  and  prominent  man  in  the  town; 
was  major  of  a  battalion  of  cavalry,  and  for  two  years  a  State  sena- 
tor. /Samuel  P.,  b.  June  25,  1801,  has  been  a  major-general  in  the 
State  militia,  a  member  of  the  executive  council,  and  of  both 
branches  of  the  legislature.  He  resides  in  Bangor.  Hastings  Avas 
b.  May  16,  1803.  He  was  a  major  of  cavalry,  sheriff  of  Penobscot 
4 


38  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

County,  and  member  of  the  executive  council  of  the  State  and  of  tlie 
legislature  from  Bangor,  in  which  city  he  resides.  Lee,  b.  July  14, 
1806,  was  a  colonel  in  the  Maine  militia.  State  senator,  and  county 
commissioner  for  Androscoggin  County.  He  was  colonel  of  the 
Eighth  Regiment  Maine  Volunteers  in  the  late  civil  -war.  Colonel 
Strickland  was  a  resident  of  Livermore  and  one  of  the  directors  of 
the  Androscoggin  Valley  Railroad  Company.  He  died  in  the 
autumn  of  1873,  leaving  three  sons,  Drs.  Isaac  Strickland,  of  Ban- 
gor, and  Charles  L.  Strickland,  of  Charlottetown,  P.  E.  Island  ;  and 
Augustus  Strickland,  of  Livermore. 

Nathaniel  Pbrley,  Esq.,  was  a  native  of  Gray,  and  a  son  of  the 
Rev.  Samuel  Perley.  He  settled  in  the  last  century  in  the  south 
part  of  the  town,  near  the  Turner  line.  He  was  a  justice  of  the 
peace  for  many  years.  He  died  in  1844.  Three  of  his  children  are 
living,  Nathaivid^  in  Illinois,  Uhver,  in  Livermore,  and  3Iaria,  who 
married  Samuel  Fernald,  also  in  Livermore. 

Simeon  Howard  moved  from  Sutton,  Mass.  He  had  a  farm  near 
the  old  Methodist  meeting-house.  It  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Bigelow.  He  was  a  thinfty  man,  and  built  a  large  house  and  exten- 
sive out-buildings.     He  died  in  1840. 

Abeam,  John,  and  Isaac  Fuller  came  from  Harwich,  Mass.,  to 
Winthrop,  and  in  1795  moved  to  Livermore.  Abram  settled  near 
the  Ferry,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  where  he  lived  many  yeais, 
but  about  1833  went  to  Lagrange,  Penobscot  County,  where  several 
of  his  sons  had  already  gone. 

John  owned  the  mills  north  of  the  Intervale,  called  Fuller's  Mills. 
He  died  in  Livermore,  1829,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five. 

Isaac  kept  the  Ferry  at  the  Intervale  for  many  years.  He  died 
March  28,  1851,  eighty-two  years  old.  He  was  a  Revolutionary 
soldier. 

Capt.  Peter  Haines  was  born  in  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  in  1766,  and 
moved  from  Readlield  in  1796  and  settled  on  the  east  side  of  the 
Androscoggin  River,  where  he  had  a  large  and  good  farm.  He  was 
a  selectman  of  the  town  for  several  years  and  held  many  other  of- 
fices.    He  died  November,  1843.     He  raised  a  family  of  fourteen 


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children,  ten  of  whom  are  now  living.  His  sister,  Joanna,  married 
Daniel  Evans,  father  of  the  late  Hon.  George  Evans,  LL.  D.  The 
history  of  the  family  of  Capt.  Haines  is  more  immediately  connected, 
with  that  of  East  Liverniore,  where  his  sons,  Francis  F.^  Sullivan^ 
and  Columbus,  now  reside ;  a  daughter  was  the  first  wife  of  the  Rev. 
George  Bates. 

Asa  Baktlett,  a  native  of  Holden,  Mass.,  came  from  that  town 
to  Livermore  before  1800.  He  lived  on  the  farm  on  the  northerly 
shore  of  Bartlett's  Pond,  now  owned  by  Charles  Fuller.  He  moved 
to  Harmony,  Piscataquis  County,  and  died  there  in  1839.  His  wid- 
ow, Hannah  fFuller)  Bartlett,  died  in  1861.  Of  his  children,  Ozias, 
Nathan,  Cyrus,  and  Cyrena  are  living.  Ozias  and  Ci/rus  in  Harmo- 
ny, Nathan,  in  Livermore,  and  Ci/rena  in  Sidney,  Kennebec  County. 
The  saw-mill  built  by  Gen.  Learned  at  the  outlet  of  Bartlett's  Pond 
was  managed  by  Mr.  Bartlett  for  many  years. 

About  the  beginning  of  the  century  Col.  Bartholomew  Woodbury 
came  from  Sutton,  and  purchased  the  farm  on  which  Capt.  Otis 
Pray  now  lives.  With  him,  or  soon  afterwards,  came  Thomas  and 
David  Rich.  Col.  Woodbury  returned  to  Massachusetts  after  a  resi- 
dence of  a  few  years  in  Livermore,  but  the  Piiches  remained  perma- 
nently and  were  excellent  citizens. 

Jacob  Bemis  moved  to  Livermore  from  Sutton,  Mass.,  very  early 
in  the  present  century.  His  wife,  a  sister  of  the  late  Simeon  How- 
ard, is  now  living  (on  the  farm  Avhere  her  husband  settled  seventy 
years  ago),  at  the  great  age  of  ninety-two  years,  in  the  enjoyment 
of  good  health.  She  reads  the  public  journals  and  takes  a  lively  in- 
terest in  Avhat  is  going  on  in  the  world  around  her.  Mr.  Bemis  died 
July  20,  1858. 

Jesse  Kidder,  from  Oxford,  Mass.,  was  in  Livermore  as  early  as 
1802.  He  owned  the  fai"m  now  tlie  property  of  John  White,  Esq., 
with  whom  his  widow,  in  the  one  hundred  and  third  year  of  her 
age,  has  her  honae. 

John  Bigelo^v  moved  from  Worcester  in  the  same  year.  His 
sons,  Andrew,  John  Warren,  IToioard,  and  Leander,  were  all  good 
fiirmers  and  settled  in  the  town.     John  Warren,  born  July  15,  1807, 


40  HISTORY   OF  LIVEEMORE. 

married  Oscn,  second  diuigliter  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford,  and  died 
Feb.  26,  1856.  He  Avas  an  intelligent,  enterpiising  man  and  a  good 
citizen.     He  left  sevei'al  children. 

George  Chandler  was  born  in  Duxbury,  Mass.,  Sept.  6,  1782, 
and  died  in  Liverniore,  after  a  residence  in  it  of  nearly  seventy 
years,  Aug.  20,  1871.  He  was  a  quiet  man,  well  informed,  and  of 
the  stanehest  integrity.  He  lived  for  many  years  on  the  farm  now 
owned  by  James  M.  Ph'doon^  son  of  James  Philoon,  a  native  of 
the  county  of  Armah,  Ireland,  who  came  to  Liverniore  in  1817  from 
Abington,  Mass.  The  latter  died  in  1845.  His  widow,  Christiania 
(Burrell),  died  in  1859.  His  third  son,  Gridley  Thaxtei\  is  a  pros- 
perous farmer  in  Livermore.  JoJin^  the  second  son,  lives  in  Massa- 
chusetts. 

Ira  Thompson  was  born  at  Middleboro,  Mass.,  Aug.  3,  1780,  and 
his  wife,  Sophia  Drew,  was  born  at  Kingston,  Mass.,  Oct.  15,  1782. 
He  settled  in  Livermore  in  March,  1803,  on  one  of  the  best  farms  in 
town,  on  which  he  resided  until  his  death,  Feb.  13,  1857.  It  was 
near  the  Corner,  or  North  Livermore.  His  wife  died  June  29,  1856. 
They  had  eleven  children,  all  of  whom  are  living,  viz.:  Ira  J9.,  a 
farmer  in  Livermore;  Susan  D.,^\\\o  married  Rev.  Charles  Miller; 
Elbrulgc  (?.,  now  of  Foxcrolt ;  Clarinda  M.,  wife  of  John  Monroe  ; 
ylrac/,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Bangor;  Boadicea  X.,*  who  married, 
first,  Abner  S.  Aldrich,  and  afterwards  George  W.  Pierpont;  Eras- 
tus^  a  shoe  manufacturer  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.;  Ahhy  S.,  who  married 
the  Hon.  Joseph  S.  Monroe ;  Job  D.,  wlio  lives  on  the  old  tarm  ; 
Charles  0.,  a  merchant  of  Chicago,  and  Mari/,  wife  of  William 
Wyman,  of  Livermoi-e. 

Mr.  Thompson  was  captain  of  the  north  militia  company  in  1816, 
and  a  representative  in  legislature  in  1820.  For  more  than  thirty 
years  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  First  Baptist  Church. 

Naphtali  Coffin  was  born  in  Wiscasset,  April  16,  1776,  and 
came  to  Livermore  in  the  summer  of  1799.  He  owned  the  farm 
near  the  Fish  Meadow  where  Capt.  Hezekiah  Atwood  lived  for 
many  years.  His  children  were  William,  Nancy,  Stephen,  Warren, 
Sally,  Elhridge  G.,  Louisa,  Lorenzo  H.,    Calvin,  Angela,   Charles 

*Boadicea  died  in  the  fall  of  1873. 


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R.,  Abhy  Vesta,  twelve  in  all.  He  died  at  Livermore  Falls  Oct.  4, 
1870,  one  of  the  numerous  comj)any  of  Livermore  men  and  women 
who  have  passed  the  boundary  of  four  score  years  and  ten. 

Dea.  Benjamix  Tkue  was  a  farmer  and  much  respected. 

Col.  Josiah  Hobbs  resided  near  the  Turner  line  on  a  good  farm. 
It  was  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  Elder  Norton's  meeting- 
house. He  was  a  well  informed  man,  much  respected,  and  not  un- 
trequently  in  town  office. 

Daniel  Briggs  had  a  productive  farm  on  Butter  Hill,  the  same 
once  owned  by  Capt.  Saj[uel  Pumpelly.  Pumpelly,  or  Pilley  as 
he  was  familiarly  called,  was  a  man  of  strong  mind  and  great  mother 
wit;  but  lie  suffered  from  a  feeling,  which  prevailed  to  some  extent 
among  his  acquaintances,  that  his  principles  were  upon  a  lower  plane 
than  his  natural  gifts.  When  a  boy,  living  in  Turner  (from  which 
town  he  moved  to  Livermore  and  to  which  he  afterwards  returned) 
Dr.  Dix  and  party,  proprietors  of  the  present  town  of  Dixfield,  ar- 
rived at  Major  Leavitt's  inn  en  route  to  their  township.  They  had 
traveled  so  far  in  carriages,  but  from  the  condition  of  the  roads  were 
here  obliged  to  take  saddles,  and  several  were  wanted.  Pumpelly, 
a  lad  of  a  dozen  years,  passed  the  entire  night  m  hunting  for  saddles 
and  bringing  them  to  the  tavern,  and  his  services  were  recognized 
by  the  doctor,  as  he  was  about  to  depart  in  the  morning,  by  his 
placing  in  the  boy's  hand  a  piece  of  silver  coin  known  in  those  days 
as  a  fourpence  ha'penny,  worth  six  and  a  quarter  cents.  Pilley 
eyed  it  sharply  as  the  doctor  moved  away,  when  he  called  to  him  in 
a  loud  voice  to  "  come  back  and  get  his  change." 

For  many  years  after  the  organization  of  the  new  county  the  ses- 
sions of  tlie  courts  at  Paris  were  largely  attended,  the  custom  being 
for  everybody  who  could  spare  tlie  time  and  afford  the  expense,  to 
visit  Paris  court  week.  Pilley,  who  was  a  sort  of  pettifogger,  was 
always  in  attendance.  The  throng  of  people  was  so  great  that  the 
boarding  houses  were  crowded  with  guests  who,  as  a  rule,  were  lodged 
two  in  a  bed.  But  Pilley,  who  was  of  most  exaggerated  obesity,  ob- 
structed this  practice,  so  far  as  he  was  concerned  himself,  by  sleeping 
without  his  shirt.  Three  hundred  pounds  avoirdupois,  in  this  form, 
was  not  apt  to  attract  a  bed-fellow.  Hiram  Briggs,  who  married 
Bethia,  daughter  of  Capt.  Otis  Pray,  a  good  farmer,  owns  this  farm. 


42  HISTOEY  OF  LIVERMOEE. 

Bexjamin  Winslow,  from  Freetown,  Bristol  County,  was  here 
very  early  in  this  centur3\  He  had  a  large  farm  between  the  Corner 
and  the  Jay  line. 

Perez  Ellis,  from  Raynham,  in  the  same  county,  first  settled  on 
the  farm  near  the  Corner  afterward  owned  and  occu2)ied  so  long  by 
Dea.  Ira  Thompson. 

Besides  these  there  wei*e  in  town  James  TimherlaJce^  from  Rayn- 
ham, farmer  and  teamster  on  the  south  road  ;  Capt.  John  Leavitt, 
from  Rochester,  Mass.,  farmer  and  drover  and  a  prominent  citizen  ; 
Solomon  Edes  and  Capt.  Charles  J.  Baker,  whose  farms  were  near 
that  of  Mr.  Bigelow ;  Isaac  Fuller,  whose  farm  was  on  the  souther- 
ly slope  of  Fuller's  Hill  and  next  adjoining  that  now  oAvned  by  John 
Sanders  ;  Ichahod  Boothhy,  for  many  years  a  stage-driver  between 
Portland  and  Boston,  whose  house  was  in  the  Perley  neighborhood ; 
Thoynas  and  Hezekiah  Bryant,  whose  farms  Avere  in  the  same 
neighborhood ;  Isaac  Hamlin,  half  brother  of  Dr.  Cyrus,  who  lived 
under  the  shadow  of  Hamlin's  Hill,  or  Mount  Sier,  as  it  was  chris- 
tened by  Thomas  Coolridge,  jr. ;  Samuel  Beals  and  David  S.  Whit- 
man, on  the  west  road ;  Elisha  Chenery,  whose  house  was  above 
the  Corner;  Deacon  John  Elliot  and  William  Thompson,  who 
lived  in  the  north  part  of  the  town;  Rufus  Hetoett,  from  Raynham, 
whose  farm  was  on  the  south  road;  James  Walker,  a  good  firmer, 
on  the  road  from  the  Corner  to  Hillman's  Ferry,  and  others,  to  refer 
to  whom  would  occui)y  more  space  than  the  limits  set  to  these  notes 
will  admit,  who  moved  to  this  town  and  became  residents  therein  in 
the  earlier  days  of  its  history. 

Notices  of  other  early  settlers  (and,  in  a  few  instances,  fuller 
sketches  of  persons  mentioned  in  this  place)  will  be  found  in  subse- 
quent chapters.  Undoubtedly,  many  persons  and  families,  of  whom 
some  record  ought  to  be  preserved,  have  been  overlooked  in  the 
prepai-ation  of  these  notes.  For  such  omissions,  want  of  recollection, 
and  failure  of  persons  who  could  do  so  to  furnish  the  necessary  in- 
formation, must  be  pleaded  in  explanation  and  excuse. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  43 


CHAPTER   IV. 

INDUSTRIAL    INTERESTS.       BUSINESS.       COURSE    OF    POPULATION. 

Tub  leading  interest  .of  this  town,  as  of  tlio  great  majority  of  the 
country  towns  in  the  State,  is  agriculture.  There  are  in  it  many 
good  farms  and  relatively  few  poor  ones ;  yet  there  are  no  great 
farms,  none  of  extraordinary  extent  or  productiveness,  and  no  farm- 
ers of  large  wealth.  There  are,  however,  many  farmers  who  are 
"  well-to-do,"  and  who,  in  earlier  times,  would  have  been  called  rich.  ■ 
If  there  is  not  great  wealth,  there  is  but  little  poverty.  The  valua- 
tion of  the  town  in  1870  was  $524,260.00.  This,  in  a  population  of 
less  than  1,500,  when  the  basis  of  such  valuation  is  understood,  and 
when  it  is  remembered  that  this  aggi*egate  includes  no  overgrown 
estates,  indicates  a  thriving  and  independent  community — such  a 
community  as  is  the  strength  and  hope  of  a  country  like  ours. 

Of  the  facilities  that  have  been  provided,  and  the  trades  and  oc- 
cupations that  have  been  supplied,  for  the  wants  and  convenience  of 
the  town,  a  brief  account  will  now  be  given,  with  notices  of  some  of 
the  more  prominent  individuals  who  have  been  connected  with 
them,  so  far  as  the  space  that  can  be  spared  for  the  purpose  will  per- 
mit. 

MILLS. 

The  first  mills  in  town  were  a  saw-mill  and  grist-mill,  erected  by 
Dea.  Livermore,  as  early,  probably,  as  1782  or  1783,  near  the  outlet 
of  Long  Pond.  The  mills  were  afterwards  known  as  Gibbs'  mills. 
He  sold  them  to  Otis  Robinson ;  Robinson  sold  one-half  to  Henry 
Bond,  who  reconveyed  to  Robinson ;  Robinson  then  sold  the  whole 
to  Lieut.  Samuel  Benjamin;  Benjamin  sold  to  Nathaniel  Dailey ; 
Dailey  to  James  Parker;  Parker  to  Eli  Putnam;  Putnam  to 
Thomas  Rich,  and  Rich  to  Jacob  Gibbs,  by  whose  name  they  have 
been  known  for  half  a  century. 

Mills  at  the  Falls,  on  the  east  side  of  the  river,  were  erected  two 


44  HISTOEY  OF  LIVEP.MORE. 

years  afterwards  by  Dea.  Liverniore  and  sold  to  Thomas  Davis  ; 
Davis  sold  them  to  William  Chenery  and  Dwight  Stone.  A  saw- 
mill, fulling-mill,  and  carding-mill  were  erected  by  John  Fuller, 
above  the  Intervale,  on  the  Gibbs'  mills  stream,  in  1812,  and  subse- 
quently a  grist-mill.  A  saw-mill  was  built  by  Gen.  Learned,  over 
seventy  years  ago,  at  the  outlet  of  Bartlett's  Pond.  A  fulling-mill 
and  saw-mill  were  erected  in  1804,  by  Joseph  Horsley,  on  Bog 
Brook,  a  mile  from  its  entrance  into  the  stream  that  issues  from 
Brettun's  Pond.  This  mill  attracted  custom  from  a  great  distance. 
Mills  were  built  by  Dea.  Livermore  at  the  outlet  of  this  pond.  He 
sold  them  to  Ca])t.  Henry  Sawtelle;  Sawtelle  sold  them  to  Nezer 
Dailey,  and  Dailey  to  William  H.  Brettun,  who  owned  them  for 
many  years.  At  this  place,  now  known  as  Livermore  Village,  but 
formerly  called  "Brettun's  Mills,"  are  two  saw-mills,  a  grist-mill, 
and  other  machinery  moved  by  water  power;  and  a  large  mill  with 
steam  power,  which  is  used  in  various  manufactures,  has  recently 
been  built  by  Theodore  Russell,  a  gentleman  of  enterprise  and  busi- 
ness activity.  About  1830  there  was  considerable  excitement  in 
this  neighborhood  on  the  subject  of  hemp  growing,  and  a  large  mill 
for  the  preparation  of  hemp  for  the  market  was  built  at  the  Falls, 
on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  by  F.  F.  Haines,  Esq.,  and  others. 
But  owing  to  the  exhausting  effect  of  the  crop  upon  the  land,  and 
the  want  of  remunerative  sales,  the  business  was  continued  but  a 
few  years,  and  the  mill  was  converted  to  other  uses.  There  was, 
many  years  ago,  a  saw-mill  in  the  north-west  corner  of  the  town, 
near  the  Canton  line. 

CARPENTERS. 
David  Morse  Avas  a  carpenter  and  house  joiner,  but  did  several 
kinds  of  work  beside.  He  was  from  Sherburne,  Mass.,  and  was 
among  the  early  settlers  in  Livermore.  He  moved  to  Lexington, 
Somerset  County,  many  years  ago,  where  he  was  a  justice  of  the 
peace.  He  was  a  man  of  great  ingenuity.  His  tenns  were  "six 
shillings  a  day  for  joiner  work,  seven  shillings  for  mason  work,  and 
eight  shillings  for  mill  work."  Jonathan  Morse,  the  blacksmith,  was 
his  brother.  His  residence  was  in  the  south  part  of  the  town,  on 
the  old  main  road,  near  his  brother.  Col.  Elias  Morse.,  also  a  car- 
penter, was  his  son.  The  place  is  now  owned  by  Ira  D.  Thompson 
and  Lysauder  Fernald,     There  were  carpenters  and  joiners  in  town 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


45 


before  Mr,  Morse,  as  there  were  several  during  his  time,  and  have 
been  many  since. 

Before  him  were  Thomas  Wixg,  who  was,  also,  a  mill-wrigOit,  and 
Isaiah  Keith. 

Ebexezer  Hinds,  Jr.,  came  after  him  and  did  a  good  deal  of 
wark  here  in  the  early  jjart  of  the  century.  He  was  from  Freetown, 
Mass.,  Avhere  he  was  born  Oct.  14,  1775,  and  arrived  in  Livermore  in 
July,  1801.  He  had  twelve  children,  viz.:  Ebenezer,  Salome,  Gil- 
bert, Amy,  Maria,  Hannah,  Leonard,  Clarissa,  Albert,  Elbridge  P., 
and  Elbridge  C,  all  of  whom  except  Elbridge  P.,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy, are  now  (1873)  living.  He  gave  the  first  Republican  vote 
cast  in  the  town. 

Nathaniel  Soper,  Abnee  Holman,  and  S^vmuel  P.  Holmax 
were  much  employed  as  carpenters  and  joiners,  as  was  Obededom 
Brown,  Avho  possessed  something  of  the  humor  of  Artemus  Ward, 
to  whom  he  was  uncle.  In  face,  and  particularly  in  expression,  he 
bore  a  strong  resemblance  to  Charles  Dickens,  the  novelist. 

Samuel  Boothby,  from  Woolwich,  and  Alfred  Parker,  who 
was  born  in  Minot  in  1788,  were  carpenters.  Mr.  Parker  married 
Ruth  Pray  and  had  several  children.  He  came  to  Livermore  with 
his  fathci-.  who  remained  in  town  but  a  few  years,  in  1800.  His 
residence  is  in  the  Gibbs'  neighborhood.  His  son,  Publius,  was  an 
artist  of  considerable  repute. 

Zebedee  Rose,  from  Dighton,  Mass.,  who  had  at  one  period  of  his 
life  followed  the  seas,  was  a  carpenter.  He  was  an  early  settler,  and 
his  home  was  in  the  neighborhood  of  Gibbs'  Mills.  He  married  the 
widow  of  Henry  Bond  and  had  five  children,  of  whom  Zebedee, 
George,  and  Charles  are  now  residents  of  Livermore. 

Apollos  Jones,  from  Taunton,  who  married  a  sister  of  Thomas 
Chase,  the  elder,  and  liad  a  family  of  fifteen  children,  was  a  carpen- 
ter and  lived  on  the  northerly  slope  of  the  Fuller  Hill. 

Samuel  Hersey,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Isaac  Livermore, 
was  a  carpenter.  He  moved  from  Roxbury.  Several  of  his  sons 
are  living  in  this  State.  Simeo7i  is  a  trader  in  Hallowell ;  Isaac 
resides  in  Livermore,  and  his  son,  Artemas,  who  married  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Hon.  Jairus  S.  Keith,  of  Oxford,  is  a  physician  of  good 
repute  in  that  town. 


46 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE, 


MASONS. 

It  has  already  been  stated  that  David  Morse  worked  sometimes  as 
a  mason,  but  this  was  not  his  trade  or  leading  employment.  Peter 
Humphrey,  a  native  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  was  the  first  mason  by  trade 
who  resided  in  the  town.  He  came  about  1800  and  died  in  a  few 
years.  He  was  a  good  workman,  and  first  settled  on  "Butter  Hill," 
and  next  cleared  up  the  farm  where  George  Chandler  lived  for  many 
years.  His  son,  John  Humphrey^  a  veiy  intelligent  and  promising 
young  man,  Avho  after  his  father's  death  went  to  live  Avith  his  uncle, 
Jesse  Kidder,  was  killed  by  the  falling  of  a  tree  while  at  work  in  the 
woods  about  the  year  1828.     His  widow  long  survived  him. 

There  have  been  quite  a  number  of  masons  living  in  town  since 
the  death  of  Mr.  Humphrey. 

BLACKSMITHS. 

Otis  Robinson  was  the  first  blacksmith  in  town.  He  became 
owner  of  the  mills  as  before  related.  He  sold  them,  was  ordained 
a  Baptist  clergyman,  and  moved  to  Shapleigh,  York  County,  and 
from  Shapleigh  to  Salisbury,  N.  H.  Rev.  Paul  Coffin  refers  to  him 
in  his  "missionary  tour"  in  1800. 

Capt.  Jonathan  Morse  was  among  the  earliest  blacksmiths  who 
came  to  Livermore.  He  seems  to  have  been  an  old  settler  when  Mr. 
Coflin  first  visited  the  town.  He  pi'eached  at  his  house  and  em- 
ployed him  in  the  line  of  his  trade;  he  speaks  of  him  as  "my  friend 
Morse,  the  excellent  blacksmith."  He  had  great  celebrity  as  a 
shoer  of  horses  and  oxen.  His  first  wife  was  killed  by  the  fall  of 
his  brother's  house  Aug.  15,  1799.  In  the  summer  of  1824  he  was 
thrown  from  his  wagon,  near  the  store  of  Mr.  Washburn,  and  both 
his  legs  were  broken.  He  came  from  Sherburne,  Mass.,  and  died 
Oct.  30,  1848. 

David  Read,  of  Attleborough,  Mass.,  was  in  Livermore  in  1793, 
^nd  in  that  year  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  first  Baptist 
Church.  He  was  a  blacksmith  and  had  a  shop  at  the  Corner.  He 
died  in  Livermore  in  April,  1870,  at  the  age  of  ninety-four.  Mr. 
Read,  soon  after  Dr.  Hamlin  came  to  Livermore,  pursued,  under  his 
instruction,  for  some  time,  the  study  of  medicine ;  but,  notwith- 
standing a  strong  predilection  for  this  profession,  he  finally  aban- 
doned the  purpose  of  making  this  profession  his  life  employment,  and 
returned  to  his  trade  as  a  blacksmith,  which  he  followed   until  the 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE.  47 

infirmities  of  age  compelled  him  to  give  it  up.  Stillman  Jiead,  a 
much  respected  citizen,  and  recently  a  trader  at  the  Falls,  is  his  son. 

Dea.  William  Sanders  had  a  blacksmith's  shop  in  the  southerly- 
part  of  the  town,  but  he  moved  to  Gibbs'  Mills  and  worked  at  his 
trade  there  for  many  years. 

Nathan  Bartlett,  son  of  Asa,  has  been  engaged  in  the  trade  of 
a  blacksmith,  at  his  shop  near  Sander's  Corner,  for  half  a  century. 

Jeremiah  Bean  was  a  well-known  blacksmith  at  the  Corner  forty 
years  ago. 

James  H.  Putnam  was  a  blacksmith,  largely  employed  by  Sarson 
Chase,  jr.,  the  carriage  and  sleigh  maker,  whose  shop  was  near  the 
old  Learned  mangion. 

Ebenezer  Pray,  a  brother  of  Capt.  Otis  Pray,  carried  on  this 
trade  for  a  few  years  in  the  shop  that  had  been  occupied  by  Putnam. 
He  removed  to  Worcester,  Mass.,  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago. 

TAN^NERS. 

CoL.  Jesse  Stone  was  very  early  in  Livermore  and  carried  on  the 
business  of  tanning  at  North  Livermore,  where  also  he  kept  for 
many  years  a  tavern.  He  came  from  Ward,  Mass.;  was  boim  Nov. 
11,  1765,  and  died  Feb.  28,  1857.  He  was  a  selectman  as  early  as 
1802  and  frequently  afterwards;  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  and 
postmaster  at  the  North  Livermore  office.  Of  his  sons,  Dwight^ 
William,  and  Mattheio  Merry  are  living.  William  was  a  graduate 
of  Bowdoin  College  and  studied  law  in  Hallowell  with  the  Hon. 
Peleg  Sprague,  commenced  business  at  West  Prospect  (now  Sears- 
port),  and  then  moved  to  the  State  of  Mississippi.  Dwight  resides 
in  Massachusetts,  and  Matthew  M.  at  Livermore  Falls. 

Captain  Alpheus  Kendall  (recently  deceased  at  Dexter,  Me.,) 
built  the  second  tannery  in  toAvn.  It  was  near  the  outlet  of  Bart- 
lett's  Pond.  He  was  an  excellent  workman,  and  a  high-toned  man. 
He  was  captain  of  the  Livermore  company  of  cavalry.  His  only 
surviving  son,  Stedman,  lives  in  Dexter. 

John  Smith  moved  from  Brentwood,  N,  H.,  in  1816,  and  estab- 
lished himself  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  near  the  Falls,  as  a 
tanner.  The  business  has  been  large  and  profitable.  Mr.  Smith's 
wife,  Mary  Sanborn,  died  in  November,  1869.  He  is  a  man  of  en- 
terprise and  was  greatly  instrumental  in  eifecting  the  construction 
of  the  Androscoggin  Railroad. 


48  HISTORY  OF   LIVEEMOEE. 

Caleb  Smith,  son  of  the  former,  carries  on  the  tanning  business 
in  the  old  yard  of  liis  father,  and  like  his  father  is  a  useful  and  enter- 
prising citizen.  He  is  the  present  representative  of  Livermore  in 
the  State  legislature. 

SADDLER. 
Capt.  Simeon  Waters,  a  native  of  Sutton,  Mass.,  was  by  trade  a 
saddler.  He  settled  in  Livermore  March  16,  1802,  and  commenced 
work  at  his  trade.  He  soon  became  a  farmer,  also,  and  provided 
himself  with  one  of  the  largest  and  best  farms  in  the  town,  situated 
on  the  southerly  side  of  the  hill  which  has  been  known  sometimes 
as  Lovewell's,  sometimes  as  Waters',  Hill.  He  was  the  second  capt- 
ain of  the  Livermore  company  of  cavalry ;  was  elected  a  representa- 
tive from  Livermore  in  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  in  1806, 
1808,  1809,  1810,  1812,  1814,  1815,  1816,  and  1818.  He  served  fre- 
quently as  a  town  officer.  He  survived  his  wife  (Betsey  Marble) 
many  years,  dying  March  27,  1866,  aged  ninety-four  years  and  ten 
months.  His  surviving  children  are  Clarendon^  who  lives  on  the  old 
farm  ;  Brooksa  and  Almira,  who  reside  in  Livermore,  on  the  old 
Learned  place ;  CoA?t/«a,  who  married  Rev.  Peter  Hassinger,  and  is 
settled  in  Abington,  Illinois;  Abigail,  wife  of  Bela  T.  Bicknell,  of 
Bath,  Me.;  Simeon,  who  lives  in  Kansas,  and  Emeretta,  a  teacher  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo. 

SHOEMAKERS. 

Sylvester  Norton  and  Dea.  Sarson  Chase  were  among  tlie 
first  shoemakers  in  town.  Norton's  shop  was  near  the  Corner,  and 
Chase  had  a  shop  on  his  farm,  on  the  northerly  slope  of  Lovewell's 
Hill.  Mr.  Chase's  children  were  Jane,  who  married  Isaac  Haskell, 
of  New  Gloucester;  BlayJiew*  who  was  a  shoemaker  and  now  lives 
at  the  Falls;  /b'arsow,  now  employed  at  the  navy  yard  in  Charles- 
town,  and  Mary,  who  married  Charles  Howar(L 

John  Sanders,  whose  shop  was  near  Monroe's,  was  a  man  of 
great  capacity  for  doing  work.  Of  his  children  now  living  Joh7i  is  a 
prosperous  farmer  and  owns  the  large  farm  formerly  held  by  Capt. 
Daniel  Coolidge ;  Emeline  married  William  Poole  and  lives  on  the 
Capt.  Baker  farm  in  Livermore.     Ira  Towle  worked  with  Sanders. 

*Mr.  Chase  died  February,  1874. 


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49 


Samuel  Harmon  and  Thomas  Lord,  a  pensioner  of  the  wnr  of  181'i, 
were  in  this  business.  It  is  now  carried  on  quite  extensively  for  tlie 
trade  at  tlie  village.  Sumner  Soule  &  Co.  em})l<)y  in  it  (1873)  one 
hundred  hands,  and  S.  V.  Young  twenty. 

MILL-WEIGHTS. 

Thomas  Wing  was  the  first  mill-wright  in  town  and  lived  at 
Brettun's  Mills. 

Ephratm  and  Otis  Pray  came  from  Oxford,  Mass.,  in  1810,  and 
were  extensively  engaged  as  mill-wrights  in  Livermore  and  the 
neighboring  towns,  and  were  superior  workmen.  Their  brother, 
Publius  R.  R.,  was  an  apprentice  with  them  a  short  time.  Otis  was 
a  captain  of  the  Livermore  cavalry  company,  and  became  a  farmer. 
He  is  now  living  at  a  ripe  old  age  on  the  farm  which  he  has  occu- 
pied for  more  than  sixty  years.*  He  married  Bethia  Weeks,  of  Wayne, 
and  after  her  decease,  her  sister,  Eliza  Weeks,  who  survives  hira.  His 
son,  Albert  C  Pray^  who  was  in  the  civil  war  and  has  been  a  repre- 
sentative to  the  State  legislature,  lives  on  the  same  farm.  Another 
son,  Otis  Arktoright,  is  a  successful  business  man  in  Minneapolis. 
His  brother,  Ephraim,  died  many  years  ago.  A  daughter,  Bosetta, 
married  Chandler,  and  lives  in  Bridgwater,  Me.  BnmUa^Xhc  second 
daughter,  married  Getchell,  and  lives  in  Minnesota,  and  Betlda^  the 
youngest,  is  the  wife  of  Hiram  Briggs,  of  Livermore. 

CABLSTET   MAKERS. 
The  earliest  cabinet  makers  w^ere  probably  Thomas  Chase  and 
Samuel  Boothby  who,  however,  were  carpenters  and  f  irmers  also. 
Charles  Benjamin  was  a  cabinet  maker  early  in   the  present  cen- 
tury, doing  excellent  work  at  his  shop  on  the  Intervale. 

CAERIAGE  AND  SLEIGH  MAKERS. 
Sarson  Chase,  jr.,  was  engaged  for  many  years  previous  to  18S0 
in  the  carriage  and  sleigh  making  business.  He  had  fine  tnste,  and 
his  carriages  and  sleighs  were  among  the  best  that  were  made  in  his 
time  in  the  State.  His  sleighs  were  in  demand  from  Portland  to 
Bangor.  He  is  now  employed  at  the  naA^y  yard  in  Charlestown, 
Mass.  Bela  T.  Bicknell,  now  of  Bath,  carried  on  the  business 
successfully  for  several  years  at  the  shop  previously  occupied  by  Mr. 
Chase. 

*Capt.  Pray  died  March  C,  1874,  aged  eighty-five  years  and  twelve  days. 


^^  HrSTOllY  OF  LIVEr.MORE. 

SCYTHE  AND  SNEATH  MAKERS. 
Before  tlie  division  of  the  town,   Samuel  Park  carried  on  the 
business  of  scytlie  making  for  several  years  at  the  Falls. 

Ueney  Aldrich,  at  Brettun's  Mills,  M-as  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  scythe  sncaths.  Mr.  Aldrich  came  from  Uxbridge,  Mass., 
in  1808.  He  died  on  Long  Island,  N.  Y.,  in  1846.  Plis  wife,  Nancy 
Stanley,  of  Swansey,  N.  H.,  died  in  Mobile  in  1865.  Ilis  children 
wereiVms  T.,h.  in  1809,  d.  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  October,  1850; 
Abner  S.,  b.  in  1811,  d.  in  New  York,  1848;  A^igela,  who  married 
Barzillai  Latham,  b.  in  1813,  d.  in  1864;  EUzaheth,  who  married 
WilliamCutts,  d.  in  1844;  Bwiiel.h.  in  1817,  now  living  in  New 
OHeans,  and  Ncmcy,  b.  in  1819,  d.  in  New  York,  1843.  Elias  T. 
was  a  merchnnt  in  Bnngor,  where  he  erected  the  fine  residence 
which,  nfier  he  removed  from  that  city,  was  owned  by  the  late  John 
Barker,  Esq.  He  died  suddenly  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  some  twenty- 
five  years  ago.  His  friend  and  com])anion,  Charles  H.  Pierpont, 
died  at  the  same  time.  Seth  Ballou,  a  relative  of  Mi'.  Aldrich' 
was  much  in  his  employment. 

CLOCK  MAKER. 
KiLAH  Hall,  who  worked  at  the  trade  of  clock  making,  lived  in 
the  southerly  part  of  the   town.     He    was   a   native    of  Raynham. 
His  son,  Amasa,  was  a  watch  maker  and  jeweller  in  the   South  and 
at  Lewiston. 

CLOTHIERS   AND    CARDERS. 

Tlie  first  pi-ol)ably  to  do  business  as  a  clothier  or  carder  in  town 
was  Joseph  Houslev.  It  was  aliout  the  oi)ening  of  the  century  that 
lie  built  mills  for  these  trades.  They  were  on  Bog  Brook,  near  the 
residence  of  his  brother,  James  Horsley.  Mr.  H.  married  a  daugh- 
ter of  Benjamin  Parks,  and  had  Christopher  Cohimbus,  the  prince 
of  fiddlers  in  all  the  country  side;  Leonora,  a  beautiful  girl,  who 
married  John  A.  Pitts,  of  Winthrop,  who  afterwards  moved  to 
C^hicago,  and  Myrtilla,  who  died  unmarried. 

John  Fuller  and  Joiix  A.  Kimuall,  at  Fuller's  Mills,  were  en- 
gaged in  this  trade  for  several  years. 

James  Hanxa,  an  excellent  workman  and  intelligent  man,  a  na- 
tive of  the  north  of  Ireland,  was  in  this  business  at  the  village  for  a 
considerable  period.  But  before  him  was  Ozias  Bartle?t,  who 
moved  to  Harmony,  Somerset  County,  nearly  fifty  years  ago. 


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51 


There  was  a  fulling  mill  and  carding  machine  at  the  Falls  from  an 
early  day. 

TRADERS. 

Gen.  Learned,  as  has  been  already  stated,  was  the  first  trader,  or 
storekeeper,  in  town.  After  hira  was  Aetemas  Leonard,  who  oc- 
cu))ied  the  Learned  store,  having  removed  it  to  the  lot  purchased  of 
Dr.  Hamlin.  Leonard  was  a  native  of  Raynham,  Mass.,  and  opened 
his  store  in  Livermore  in  1805.  He  married  Betsey,  daughter  of 
Thomas  Coolidge,  by  whom  he  had  three  children.  He  did  a  large 
business  for  a  new  town  in  the  country.  In  1809  he  sold  his  farm 
and  store  to  Israel  Washburn  and  moved  to  llallowell. 

William  H.  Brettun,  born  in  Raynham,  Mass.,  March  '21,  1773, 
moved  to  Livermore  in  1804,  and  owned  and  occupied  a  large  farm 
on  the  main  road,  about  a  mile  from  tlie  north  line  of  Turner,  where 
he  had  a  productive  orchard  and  a  store.  About  the  year  1810  he 
pui'chased  the  mills  and  water  power  at  the  village  (for  a  long  time 
known  as  "  Brettun's  Mills  "  )  and  there  carried  on  for  many  years 
grist  and  saw-mills,  shingle  and  clapboard  machines,  carding  and 
fulling-mills,  and  a  pot-ash.  He  also  had  a  store  from  which  were 
sold  large  quantities  of  goods.  He  was  successful  in  accumulating 
property.  In  1835  he  sold  his  estates  in  Livermore  and  moved  soon 
afterwards  to  Bangor,  where  he  died  Sept.  10,  1837.  In  the  early 
part  of  the  century  he  was  a  good  deal  in  town  office,  and  several 
times  a  representative  in  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts.  His  wife 
(to  whom  he  was  married  May  15,  1796,)  was  Anna  Sarah  Leonard, 
a  sister  of  Artemas  Leonard.  She  died  Sept.  22,  1847.  WilUant 
7/!  ^rei^icn,  Jr.,  his  eldest  son,  married,  October,  1824,  Elizabeth  A. 
Williams,  of  Taitnton,  and  settled  in  Livermore  and  continued  in 
trade  there  after  his  father's  removal.  He  mariied  for  his  second 
wife  Deborah  Washburn,  widow  of  Davis  Washburn,  and  sister  of 
his  first  Avife.  He  died  Feb..  19,'  1864.  Another  son,  Seranns  X.,  re- 
sides in  Hampton,  Illinois.  His  eldest  daughter,  (larinda,  married 
Maj.  Hastings  Strickland,  formerly  of  Livermore,  but  now  of  Ban- 
gor. Hannah^  the  second  daughter,  married  Hon.  James  T.  Leav- 
itt,  of  Skowhegan,  and  has  been  dead  many  years.  Amanda,  the 
youngest  daughter,  died  unmarried. 

Israel  Washburn  was  born  in  Raynham,  Mass.,  Nov.  18,  1784. 
He  came  to  Maine  in  1806,  visiting  Bangor,  Eddington,  Mariaville, 
Trenton,  and  Livermore.     He  remained  some  months  at   the  latter 


52  HISTOKY  OF  LIVEEMOKE. 

l)lacc,  and  tlicn  went  to  the  County  of  Lincoln,  where  he  was  em- 
]»k)ye»l  for  a  year  or  more  as  a  scliool  teacher,  and  after  this  engaged 
in  trade  and  sliip  building  witli  Barzilhii  Wliite,  at  White's  Land- 
ing, now  Richmond,  on  the  Kennebec  River.  In  1809,  l)aving  pur- 
chased of  Artemas  Leonard  his  farm,  store,  and  goods  in  Livermore, 
lie  commenced  business  here  as  a  trader,  in  which  he  remained  until 
1829.  His  subsequent  years  ha\'e  been  passed  upon  his  farm,  known 
as  the  '^  Norlands,"  where  he  now  lives  (1873)  at  the  advanced  age 
of  eighty-nine  years.  During  the  earlier  part  of  his  i-esidence  in 
this  town  he  was  much  of  the  time  in  office  as  town  clerk  and  select- 
man, and  was  a  representative  in  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  in 
1815,  1816,  1818,  and  1819.  He  married  Martha  Benjamin,  of  Liv- 
ermore, March  30,  1812.  She  died  May  6,  1861.  They  had  eleven 
children,  of  whom  nine  are  now  living.  Israel  (LL.  D.)  was  edu- 
cated for  the  bar,  and  settled  at  Orono,  Penobscot  County,  Decem- 
er,  1834.  He  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  profession,  so  far  as 
the  discharge  of  official  duties  would  permit,  until  about  1860.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  State  legislature  in  1842,  and  a  re]»resentativo 
from  the  Penobscot  District  in  the  thirty-second,  thirty-third,  tliirty- 
fouilh,  thirty-fifth,  and  thirty-sixth  congresses  of  the  United  States. 
He  resigned  his  seat  in  Congress  January  1,  1861,  to  enter  upon  the 
duties  of  the  office  of  goveinor  of  the  State,  having  been  elected 
thereto  the  previous  autumn.  He  was  re-elected  in  September, 
1861,  and  declined  a  subsequent  election.  In  November,  1863, 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  collector  of  the  port  of 
Portland,  and  has  held  that  office  to  the  present  time  (1873).  He 
is  j)resident  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Tufts  College.  Alger- 
tion  /S.  Avas  a  merchant  in  Boston,  and  afterwards  a  banker  in 
Hallowell,  where  he  now  lives.  Elihu  B.  studied  law  in  Boston 
and  at  the  Harvard  Law  School ;  went  to  Illinois  in  1840  and  com- 
menced practice  with  Charles  S.  Hempstead,  Esq.,  at  Galena.  In 
1852  he  was  elected  representative  in  congress  and  was  continued  in 
this -office,  by  subsequent  elections,  till  March,  1869,  being  at  the 
time  of  his  retirement  the  oldest  member  by  consecutive  elections, 
or,  in  congressional  parlance,  "the  Father  of  the  House."  In  March, 
1869,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Grant  Secretary  of  State,  but 
soon  afterwards  resigned  that  position  to  accept  the  office  of  Minis- 
ter Plenipotentiary  to  France.  He  was  in  Paris  as  Minister  during 
the  seige  by  the  Prussians  and  the  reign   of  the   Commune.      Cad- 


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63 


v:alader  C.  (LL.  D.)   was   a  lawyer,   and   settled  in  Mineral  Point, 
Wisconsin,  about  1841.     lie  now  lives  in  Madison  in  that  State. 
He   was   a   member   of  the   thirty-fourth,   thirty-fifth,   thirty-sixth, 
thirty-ninth,  and  fortietli  congresses ;  was  a  major-general  of  volun- 
teers in  the  late  civil  war,  serving  principally  in  the  valley  of  the 
lower  Mississippi  and  in  Texas.     In  November,  1871,  he  was  elected 
Governor  of  Wisconsin.     Martha  married  Col.  Charles  L.  Stephen- 
son, a  native  of  Gorham,  Me.,  and  lives  in  Galena,  111.     Charles  A. 
was  in  Washington,  D.  C,  a  short  time  after  leaving  college    (Bow- 
doin)  in  1848,  and  went  to  California  where  he  became  a  newspaper 
publisher  and  editor.     He  was  an  elector  at  large  from  that  State  in 
1860;  and  in   1861  was   appointed  Minister  Resident  to  Paraguay. 
He  was  recalled  at  his  own  request  in  1869,  and  is  now  a  resident  ot 
Oakland,  Cal.     He  is  author  of  a  History  of  Paraguay,  an  elaborate 
work  in  two  large  volumes,  and  of  several  other  works.     Samuel  B 
was  a  shipmaster  in  the  merchant  marine,  and  afterwards  was  in  the 
lumber  trade  in  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota.     He  was  a  captain  in  the 
volunteer  force  in  the  navy  in  the  late  civil  war.     He  now  resides  at 
the  Norlands.     Mary  B.  (deceased)  married  Gustavus  A.  Buffum,  of 
Clinton,  Iowa.      William  I),  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1854' 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  is  now  extensively  in- 
terested in  timber  lands  and  mill  property  in  Minnesota.     He  has 
represented   the   city  of  Minneapolis  in  the  State  legislature,  and 
from  1861  to  1865  was  surveyor-general  of  the   State.     Caroline  A. 
married  Dr.  Freeland  S.  Holmes,  who  was  a  surgeon  in  the   Sixth 
Regiment  Maine  Volunteers,  and  died  while  in  the   service  in   Sep- 
tember, 1863.     Her  home  is  in  Minneapolis. 

Davis  Washburn,  a  native  of  Raynhani  (and  cousin  of  Israel), 
commenced  trade  at  North  Livermore  about  1819.  He  had  previ- 
ously been  in  business  in  Hallowell  with  Asa  Barton.  After  remov- 
ing to  Livermore  he  was  interested  in  a  store  at  Dixfield,  his 
brother-in-law,  James  M.  Williams,  of  Taunton,  being  a  partner  in 
the  business  at  both  places.  Their  trade  was  quite  large.  He  died 
in  1832,  at  the  age  of  forty.  His  widow,  several  years  afterwards, 
married  William  Henry  Brettun,  jr.  His  surviving  children  are 
George  W.  C.  WasJiburn^  of  Needhara,  Mass.,  and  John  M.  Wash- 
hum,  of  Boston,  Treasurer  of  the  Old  Colony  Railroad  Company. 
NeJiemiah,  his  youngest  son,  died  in  Washington  in  1873. 

Charles  Barrell  was  for  a  time  a  partner  with  Mr.  Washburn, 
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54 


HISTOEY   OF  LIVERMOEE. 


and  afterwards  liad  a  store  upon  tlie  Intervale,  He  was  a  member 
of  the  legislature  from  Livermore  in  1831 ;  was  proprietor  of  the 
Elm  House  in  Portland  for  many  years,  and  owned  and  sold  the  val- 
uable property  on  which  is  now  situated  the  prosperous  village  of 
Ligonia,  in  Cape  Elizabeth.  C  31.  Barrell,  the  well-known  con- 
ductor on  the  railroad  from  Waterville  to  Danville  Junction  for 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century,  is  his  son. 

Jefferson  and  Mekritt  Coolidge  were  traders  at  North  Liver- 
more  for  several  years,  transacting  an  extensive  country  trade.  Jeff- 
erson sold  out  and  went  to  Buckfield,  and  Merritt  moved  to 
Hallowell.  Afterwards  both  settled  in  Portland  and  became  whole- 
sale grocers.  Merritt  died  in  1866,  Among  the  other  traders  in 
town  were  Simeon  Hersey,  Palmer  Elliot,  Otis  Thompson,  at 
the  Corner,  and  Samuel  B,  Holt,  Abner  S,  Aldrich,  Barzillai 
Latham,  Isaac  and  Lee  Strickland,  Dorillus  Morison,  and  G. 
W.  C.  Washburn,  at  the  village.  Within  the  last  half  century 
there  have  been  many  traders  in  the  town,  but  further  notices  can- 
not be  given  within  the  limits  to  which  these  sketches  must  be  con- 
fined. 

In  that  part  of  the  town  which  is  now  East  Livermore  there 
were  several  traders  at  an  early  day,  among  Avhom  were  Elisha 
Pettingill  and  Lot  P.  Nelson  at  the  Falls, 

Samuel  Morison,  who  had  been  an  officer  in  the  militia  and  a 
dejjuty  sheriff  for  many  years,  living  on  the  west  side  of  the  river, 
previous  to  1830  opened  a  store  on  the  east  side,  at  Haines'  Corner. 
He  was  born  in  Falmouth,  Me.,  May,  1788,  and  settled  in  Livermore 
as  early  as  1810.  He  moved  to  Bangor  in  1835,  Avhere  he  was  depu- 
ty sheriff  and  recorder  of  the  municipal  court.  His  wife  (a  daugh- 
ter of  Lieut,  Samuel  Benjamin)  died  Dec,  9,  1860,  and  he  survived 
her  until  September,  1867,  They  had  five  children  :  Samuel  Benj- 
amin (M,  D,  Bowdoin  College,  1837),  who  practised  his  profession 
first  in  Livermore  (which  town  he  rejiresented  in  the  legislature  in 
1842  and  1844),  and  afterwards  in  Bangor,  where  he  has  resided  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Second  Regiment  Maine 
Volunteers,  and  is  now  pension  agent  for  the  eastern  district  in 
Maine ;  I)orillus,  a  jirominent  and  wealthy  citizen  of  Minneapolis, 
Minn,,  and  for  two  years  its  mayor;  Harrison  G.  0.,  a  lawyer  in 
Sebec,  Piscataquis  County,  and  representing  that  class  in  the  legisla- 
ture of  Maine  for  1841,  now  a  citizen  of  Minneapolis,  and  now  or 


HISTORY  OF  LI^^3EM0RE. 


55 


recently,  an  officer  of  the  internal  revenue;  Russell  S.,  a  merchant  in 
Bangor;  Betsey,  Avife  of  Samuel  F.  Fuller,  formerly  a  trader  in  East 
Livermore,  and  now  a  farmer  in  Bangor,  and  Dorcas,  wife  of 
Nelson  Jordan,  a  trader  at  Lincoln,  Me. 

Francis  F.  Haines,  son  of  Capt.  Peter  Haines,  was  about  1830  in 
trade  at  East  Livermore  Corner  and  at  the  Falls,  having  a  partner 
and  doing  a  large  business,  for  the  time,  under  the  firm  of  Haines  & 
Page.  At  a  subsequent  time  Job  Haskell  was  his  partner  in 
trade.  He  has  been  an  active  justice  of  the  peace  for  many  years, 
has  frequently  been  in  town  office,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
legislature.  He  married  Linda  Bates,  sister  of  Hon.  James  and 
Rev.  George  Bates,  in  1812.  His  children  were  Emeline,  wife  of 
Earl  S.  Goodrich,  Esq.,  of  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  Linda  Ann,  wife  of  Hon. 
Timothy  O.  Howe,  U.  S.  Senator  from  Wisconsin ;  Mary,  widow  of 
the  late  Dr.  E.  P.  Eastman,  of  Platteville,  Wis.;  Francis  F.  (de- 
ceased), who  was  an  artist;  Silas  B.,  a  lawyer  in  Colorado;  3Iar- 
shall,  deceased ;  Sophia,  wife  of  Joseph  Lee,  of  St.  Paul,  and 
Frederic,  a  physician  in  Skowhegan.  Mr.  Haines'  first  wife  died  in 
1861,  and  he  married  in  1862  the  widow  of  the  late  Hon.  Stephen 
H.  Kead,  of  Lewiston.     Mr.  Haines  was  born  in  February,  1793. 


Williamson,  in  his  History  of  Maine,  places  the  population  of 
"Livermore  and  Richardson,"  in  1790,  at  400.  Livermore,  alone,  in 
1795,  the  date  of  its  incorporation,  had  probably  not  over  that  num- 
ber. In  1798,  Rev.  Paul  Coffin  {vide  Missionary  Tour  in  Maine) 
says  it  contained  130  flmiilies.  From  the  time  of  its  incorporation 
until  1820  there  was  a  large  immigration,  principally  from  Massachu- 
setts; nor  was  the  increase  of  population,  if  we  are  to  believe 
Mr.  Coffin,  to  be  wholly  accounted  for  in  this  way.  In  his 
journal  of  the  tour  made  in  1798  he  writes:  "There  were  in 
this  place  six  pairs  of  twins  under  five  years."  Thus,  with  these 
liberal  and  wholesome  sources  of  increase,  the  progress  of  the  good 
town  seemed  to  be  assured,  and  so  it  was  for  a  season.  But,  at 
length,  owing  in  part  to  a  policy  of  the  State,  about  forty  years  ago, 
unfriendly  to  the  introduction  or  increase  of  manufactures,  and  in 
part  to  the  opening  of  the  boundless  and  promising  regions  of  the 
West,  and  in  a  less  degree  to  other  causes,  a  period  of  rest,  followed 
by  one  of  retrogression,  set  in. 

The  course  of  population  since  the  commencement  of  the  present 


66  HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 

century  has  been  as  follows :  1800,863;  1810,1,560;  1820,2,174; 
1830,  2,445;  1840,  2,745.  After  the  division  of  the  town  (1843), 
1850,1,764;  1860,1,596;  1870,  1,467.  As  will  be  seen,  there  has 
been  a  steady  decrease  of  population  since  1850.  There  is  some 
reason  to  believe,  however,  that  there  has  been  a  turn  in  the  tide. 
Manufactures  of  wood,  and  of  boots  and  shoes,  and  of  some  other 
articles  have  been  introduced  and  established ;  population  seems  to 
be  flowing  in  ratlier  than  out  of  the  town,  and  altogether  there  ap- 
pears to  be  promise  of  a  healthy  growth  in  the  future,  especially  if 
the  "  Yalley  Railroad  "  shall  be  built. 


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CHAPTER    V. 

AFFAIRS    POLITICAL,    MUNICIPAL,    AND    MILITARY. 

It  appears  that  in  the  year  1797  the  question  of  separating  the 
District  of  Maine  from  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts  was 
agitated,  and  the  people  of  Livermore  were  called  upon  to  express 
tlieir  opinion  on  the  proposition.  This  was  done  by  vote  in  town- 
meeting,  on  the  tenth  of  May  in  that  year,  at  which  all  the  votes 
cast  (twenty-two  in  number)  were  in  favor  of  separation.  Thus 
early  were  the  people  of  this  town  of  the  belief  that  it  was  for  the 
interest  of  Maine  to  cut  loose  from  the  parent  Commonwealth,  and 
set  up  for  herself.  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  their  vote  was  a 
wise  one,  or  that,  if  it  had  been  followed  by  separation  as  early  as 
the  beginning  of  the  century,  Maine  would  have  originated  a  policy 
for  herself,  built  up  business  centres  of  her  own,  and  have  gathered 
within  her  boundaries  in  seventy  years  after  her  independence  a 
population  much  larger  than  she  now  re})orts.  Tlie  subject  came  up 
again  in  1807,  when  the  vote  of  the  town  was,  for  separation, 
eighty-three;  against  it,  fifty-four.  In  1816,  the  town  declared  for  a 
new  State  by  the  decisive  vote  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-three  yeas 
to  eight  nays.  Upon  the  question  of  adopting  the  State  Constitu- 
tion in  1819  the  affirmative  vote  was  seveiityrsi.v,  the  negative  two. 

There  was  during  the  early  times,  it  would  seem,  a  general  impa- 
tience of  existing  relations  and  a  desire  for  change,  for  not  only  did 
the  inhabitants  of  the  town  wish  to  be  set  off  from  Massachusetts  in 
1797,  and  subsequently,  but  many  of  theni  were  uneasy  in  view  of 
their  relations  toward  each  other.  And  so  in  1798  the  people  began 
to  interest  themselves  on  the  question  of  dividing  the  town.  At  a 
public  meeting  in  that  year  a  vote  was  passed  giving  consent  to  the 
setting  off  of  the  territory  on  the  east  side  of  the  river  into  a  town 
by  itself.  The  project,  however,  was  allowed  to  sleep,  and  was  not 
renewed  till  1843,  a  period  of  forty-five  years,  when  it  was  carried 
into  effect  and  the  town  of  East  Livermore   incoi-porated.     In   1804, 


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the  inhabitants  of  a  neighborhood  in  Jay  seem  to  have  made  some 
movement  towards  annexation  to  Livermore,  but  the  town  I'epelled 
the  suitors  by  voting  on  the  fourth  day  of  November  in  that  year 
that  "  the  bend  of  tlie  river  in  Jay  shall  not  be  annexed  onto  this 
town."  Upon  the  question  of  county  relations  the  opinions  of  the 
people  were  not  without  some  changes.  Jan.  11, 1796,  the  town  voted 
"to  remain  as  we  are  in  preference  to  a  new  county."  On  Jan.  16, 
1804,  it  voted  to  be  annexed  to  the  new  county  (Oxford).  On  the  fifth 
of  the  next  month  it  reconsidered  this  action  and  voted  to  be  annexed 
to  Kennebec.  But  January  3,  1805,  it  swung  back  to  its  first  posi- 
tion, and  again  voted  "to  join  the  new  county  now  in  contempla- 
tion." A  few  uionths  after  this  the  county  of  Oxford,  including 
Livermore  within  its  limits,  was  organized,  and  the  town  contrib- 
uted thereto,  in  the  persons  of  Gen.  David  Learned  and  Di-.  Cyrus 
Hamlin,  its  first  sheriff"  and  clerk.  The  county  of  Androscoggin 
Avas  incorporated  in  1854.  Li  it  are  ten  towns,  among  which  are 
Livermore  and  East  Livermore,  and  the  cities  of  Lewiston  and 
Auburn.  Auburn  is  the  county  seat.  It  is  the  most  compact,  and 
perhaps  the  most  thriving,  county  in  the  State. 

The  vote  of  the  town  at  different  periods  indicates  the  political 
opinions  of  the  citizens.  In  1795,  at  the  first  election  after  the  in- 
corporation, it  voted  for  governor,  and  (as  has  been  stated)  gave  all 
its  votes  (40)  for  Increase  Sumner,  In  1796,  it  cast  18  votes  for 
Stephen  Longfellow  for  elector  of  president  and  vice-president  and 
1  vote  for  John  K.  Smith,  and  it  gave  all  its  votes  for  Peleg  Wads- 
worth  for  representative  in  congress.  In  1800,  its  votes  for  repre- 
sentative in  congress  were,  for  Stephen  Longfellow,  61 ;  Daniel 
Davis,  36;  John  K.  Smith,  25.  In  1801,  Caleb  Strong,  the  federalist 
candidate  for  governor,  had  37  votes,  and  Elbridge  Gerry,  the  re- 
publican candidate,  had  18  votes.  In  1802,  Strong  had  73  votes  and 
Gerry  1  vote.  In  1804,  Strong  had  82  and  James  Sullivan  44  votes. 
In  1805,  the  town  became  republican,  and  Sullivan  had  63  votes  to 
48  for  Strong.  In  1809,  Levi  Lincoln  (republican)  had  126  votes 
anil  Christopher  Gore  (federalist)  47 ;  for  lieutenant-governor, 
Joseph  B.  Varnum  121  and  D.ivid  Cobb  46  votes.  In  1812,  the 
vote  was  202  for  Gerry  and  43  for  Strong.  In  November  of  this 
year  James  Madison  received  108  votes  for  president  and  DeWitt 
Clinton  received  36  votes.  The  gubernatorial  vote  in  1814  was,  for 
Samuel  Dexter,  198,  for  Caleb  Strong,  45.  Benjamin  Bradford  and 
William  II.  Brettun  were  elected  delegates  to  the  Brunswick  Con- 


HISTORY   OF  LIVEEMOIIE.  59 

A'ention  (on  the  question  of  separation).  Miircli  16,  1818,  Enoch 
Lincohi,  for  tlie  office  of  representative  in  congress,  received  45 
votes  and  Jndah  Dana  11  votes.  At  the  State  election,  on  the  sixth 
of  the  succeeding  April,  tlie  vote  stood,  according  to  the  record, 
"For  governor.  His  Excellency,  John  Brooks,  Esq.,  44;  Hon.  Benja- 
min W.  Crowningshield,  113." 

The  town  from  an  early  period  in  Mr.  Jeiferson's  administration 
was  steadily  an;l  decidedly  republican.  It  gave  its  vote  for  John 
Quincy  Adams  in  1824,  and  in  1828  it  cast  for  him  11)4  votes  to  50 
for  Gen.  Jackson.  In  this  year  it  gave  Reuel  Waslibui'n,  for  con- 
gress, 211  votes  auil  20  to  J.  W.  Ripley.  For  governor,  in  1830, 
Jonathan  G.  Huuton  received  261  votes  and  Samuel  E.  Smith  136. 
Dr.  William  Snow,  of  the  east  side,  was  elected  representative.  In 
1832,  the  vote  for  governor  was,  Daniel  Goodenow  (national  repub- 
lican), 282,  Samuel  E.  Smith  (democratic  republican),  113.  For 
president,  the  Clay  electors  had  254,  the  Jackson  109,  and  the  anti- 
masonic  19  votes.  In  the  sharply  contested  election  of  1834,  Peleg 
Sprague  (whig)  had  306  votes,  Robert  P.  Dunlap  (democratic),  151, 
and  Thomas  A.  Hill  (anti-masonic)  19.  In  1837,  Eilward  Kent 
(whig)  received  293  and  Gorham  Parks  (dem.)  138  votes.  In  1840, 
the  vote  was,  for  Kent,  376;  for  John  Fairfield  (dem.),  157.  In  the 
presidential  election  of  1856  (after  the  division  of  the  town),  Fre- 
mont (rep.)  received  240  votes  and  Buchanan  (dem.)  99.  Hannibal 
Hamlin  (rep.),  for  governor,  242;  Wells  and  others,  139.  Israel 
Washburn,  jr.  (rep.),  received  in  1860  211  votes  for  governor  to  149 
for  Ephraim  K.  Smart  (dem.).  Abraham  Lincoln  in  1864  had  219 
votes  and  Gen.  George  B.  McLellan  113  votes  for  president.  U.  S. 
Grant  (rep.)  in  1872  received  183  votes  to  88  for  Horace  Greeley 
(liberal  rep.  and  dem.).  Farther  details  in  this  direction  are  unnec- 
essary. The  majorities  were  uniform  and  considerable  for  the  old 
republican  party  so  long  as  that  party  existed,  and  they  have  since 
been  uniform  and  equally  strong  for  the  national  republican  party 
(1828  to  1834) ;  for  the  whigs  (1834  to  1854),  and  for  the  i-epublican 
party  since  1854. 

Perhaps  the  strength  of  the  anti-federalist  feeling  in  town,  in  the 
days  of  the  greatest  vigor  of  that  party,  cannot  be  better  illustrated 
than  by  recording  the  following  sentiment  given  by  one  of  its  citi- 
zens at  a  Fourth  of  July  celebration  at  the  Norlands  in  1812 : 
"Caleb  Strong,  Governor  of  Massachusetts;  dark  and  mysterious 
are  the  ways  of  Providence."     A  subsequent  celebration  at  the  same 


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HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


place  (1830)  was  noteworthy  for  an  expression  (thus  early  made) 
on  the  question  of  woman's  sphere  and  rights.  Rev.  George  Bates 
delivered  an  oration  in  the  church.  An  arbor  was  extended  upon 
the  lawn  of  the  Norlands  in  which,  after  the  services  in  the  church, 
dinner  was  served.  The  dinner  was  largely  attended,  and  many 
toasts  were  drunk  and  speeches  made.  Charles  D,  Learned,  Esq.,  of 
Mississippi,  son  of  Gen.  Learned,  of  whom  mention  has  been  made 
as  one  of  the  early  settlers  in  the  town,  was  present  and  made  a 
speech  which  threatened  for  the  moment  to  interrupt  the  harmony 
of  the  occasion,  but  for  a  moment  only,  and  the  festivities  pro- 
ceeded, when  a  good  lady,  inspired,  it  may  be,  by  what  had  hap- 
pened, sent  in  to  the  table  a  sentiment  expressing  the  hope  that  the 
occasion  might  not  be  marred  by  a  too  familiar  acquaintance  Avith 
the  wine  cup ;  whereupon  a  gentleman  at  the  table  immediately 
proposed,  "  Woman — let  her  remember  that  her  place  is  not  to  go 
about  meddling  with  public  matters,  but  to  stay  at  home  and  mend 
her  husband's  breeches."  The  reception  of  this  toast  was  such  as 
to  show  that  woman  and  her  rights  were  appreciated  and  respected 
even  then.  At  this  celebration  another  toast  was  given  which  is 
remembered.  It  was  something  like  this :  "  Francis  Baylies,  of 
Massachusetts,  and  Peleg  Sprague,  of  Maine;  twin  brothers  having 
tNvo  political  fathers,  one  called  Jackson,  and  the  other  called  Adams." 


Some  brief  references  to  the  municiiial  doings  and  aftairs  of  the 
town  during  the  eai'ly  stages  of  its  history  are  subjoined : 

The  second  town-meeting  was  held  at  the  house  of  Dea.  Elijah 
Livermore  Aug.  10,  1795.  Chose  David  Learned,  moderator. 
Voted  to  raise  £30  for  support  of  roads.  Voted  to  raise  £40  for 
supj)ort  of  schools.  Voted  to  raise  £5  for  supporting  the  poor  and 
paying  town  officers  and  other  town  charges.  Voted  to  warn  town- 
meetings  by  posting  n\)  notification  at  the  dwelling-house  of  Reuben 
Wing,  at  the  Ferry,  and  the  three  mills  of  said  town. 

At  the  annual  meeting  March  6,  179G,  Elisha  Williams  was 
elected  moderator;  Samuel  Hillman,  clerk  and  treasurer;  and  Da- 
vid Learned,  Sylvan  us  Boardman,  and  Thomns  Chase,  selectmen. 

May  9,  179G,  chose  Isaac  Livermore  delegate  to  attend  a  conven- 
tion to  be  held  in  Paris. 

March  6,  1797,  Elisha  Williams  Avas  chosen  moderator;  Cyrus 
Hamlin,  clerk  and  treasurer;  David  Learned,  Haines  Learned,  and 
Isaac  Livermore,  selectmen ;  Abijah  Monroe,  Samuel   Hillman,  and 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  61 

Daniel  Clark,  assessors.  Voted  not  to  act  on  the  eighth  article  in 
the  warrant,  which  was  to  consider  "the  desire  of  William  Lindsey 
and  other  inhabitants  of  the  south-east  part  of  the  town  requesting 
their  being  set  off  to  the  town  of  liittlesborough  "  (Leeds). 

On  the  seventeenth  of  April  of  this  year  the  line  of  the  old  cen- 
tral highway  of  the  town  was  changed  by  vote  of  the  town  as  fol- 
lows :  Voted  to  alter  the  road  running  from  the  outlet  of  Saberdy 
Pond*  by  Mr.  Nathaniel  Dailey's  to  Mr.  Isaac  Lovewell's,  viz.,  run- 
ning two  rods  the  west  side  of  Nathaniel  Dailey's  house,  thence  north 
within  six  rods  of  the  west  side  of  David  Learned's  housef  to  an  oak 
stump,  thence  on  north  to  the  west  side  of  Dr.  Hamlin's  house  about 
two  rods,  thence  on  to  Mr.  Lovewell's  where  it  is  now  traveled. 

1798,  March  5.  At  the  annual  meeting  this  day  "the  presence, 
aid,  and  blessing  of  the  Supreme  Law  Giver  was  invoked  by  Mr. 
Elisha  Williams  in  a  jivayer  peculiarly  elegant  and  pertinent."  The 
following  officers,  among  others,  were  chosen  :  Elisha  Williams, 
moderator;  Cyrus  Hamlin,  clerk  and  treasurer;  Isaac  Liverraore, 
Abijah  Monroe,  and  Daniel  Clark,  selectmen ;  Nathaniel  Perley, 
Peter  Haines,  and  Benjamin  True,  assessors. 

1799,  March  4.  Dr.  Cyrus  Hamlin  was  chosen  moderator,  and 
Elisha  Williams  was  chosen  clerk  and  treasurer.  Benjamin  True, 
David  Learned,  and  Abijah  Monroe  were  elected  selectmen,  and 
Nathaniel  Perley,- Peter  Haines,  and  David  Morse,  assessors. 

1800,  11,000  was  voted  for  highway  repairs,  also  1100  for  a  road 
from  John  Records'  to  the  south  line  of  the  town,  and  $100  for 
building  a  bridge  at  the  outlet  of  Turner  Pond.l  $300  Avas  raised 
for  schools  and  $50  for  town  charges. 

1801,  March  2.  Dr.  Hamlin  was  chosen  moderator,  and  Gen. 
Learned  clerk  and  treasurer,  and  five  selectmen  were  elected,  viz., 
Sylvanus  Boardman,  Nathaniel  Perley,  Pelatiah  Gibbs,  Samuel  Ben- 
jamin, and  Uriah  Foss.  At  an  adjournment  at  the  Baptist  meeting- 
house $300  Avas  voted  for  breaking  roads  in  the  winter. 

1802,  May  5.  Voted  that  the  representatives  of  Livermore  be 
instructed  to  oppose  the  proposed  bridge  across  Androscoggin 
River  at  Davis'  Mills  (the  Falls)  in  Livermore  and  advocate  the 
proposed  bridge  in  Jay. 

At  the  annual  town-meeting  April  6,  1812,  Rev.  Joshua  Sonle, 
afterwards  Bishop  Soule,  of  the  Metliodist  Episcopal  Church,  was 
elected  moderator.     He  was  a  member  of  the  school  committee   in 


*Bartlett's  Pond.        tNow  owned  by  heirs  of  Capt.  Otis  Pray.        jNow  called  Brettun's  Pond. 


62  HISTOPvY  OF  LIVEKMOEE. 

1816,  and  was  for  several  years  a  respected  and  influential  citizen  of 
the  town. 

In  March,  1839,  the  town  pnrcliased  of  William  Thompson  the 
flirm  situated  on  the  road  from  North  Livermore  to  the  Falls,  the 
same  now  or  recently  owned  and  occupied  by  Leander  Bigelow,  on 
which  to  make  provision  for  the  support  of  its  poor.  This  farm  was 
sold  in  1843,  and  that  formei-ly  owned  by  Thomas  Chase,  on  the  east 
side  of  Long  Pond  and  northerly  of  Gibbs'  Mills,  was  bought  of 
Phineas  Gibbs  March  19,  1860,  and  is  now  occu))ied  for  a  home  for 
the  poor.  A  practice  had  previously  existed,  and  one  which  avms 
common  to  a  large  number  of  the  country  towns  in  Maine  and 
New  England,  of  striking  off  the  support  of  the  town  paupers 
in  open  town-meeting  to  the  lowest  bidder.  At  the  spring  meet- 
ing held  April  2,  1821,  the  usual  vote  was  passed  "to  set  up  the 
poor  of  the  town  at  public  auction,"  and  Mrs.  L and  four  chil- 
dren were  bid  off  at  $2.99  per  week;  that  is,  the  lowest  bidder 
agreed  to  provide  for  and   support  them  for  a  year  for  this  sum. 

S h  C e,  a  spinster  who  lived  to  be  nearly  one  hundred  years 

old,  a  member  ot  one  of  the  churches  in  town,  and  a  famous  tea 
drinker  in  her  day,  whose  recipe  for  tea  making  of  "  a  spunful  for  a 
pairson  and  a  spunful  for  the  pot"  was  fiivorably  regarded  by  her 
old  lady  friends,  was  struck  off  at  the  price  of  seventeen  cents  per 
week  !  Tlie  auction  continued  until  contracts  were  made  for  the 
maintenance  of  twelve  human  beings  for  a  year  at  the  smallest  ex- 
pense for  which  any  one  would  contract  to  support  tliem.  That 
such  a  practice  at  this  day  wonld  seem  inhuman,  and  have  no  toler- 
ance among  the  people  of  the  town,  is  evidence  that,  whatever  may 
be  her  relation  to  the  past  in  respect  to  material  interests,  to  out- 
ward growth  or  decay,  in  those  matters  which  refer  to  our  common 
humanity,  and  have  regard  to  the  influence  of  Christian  civilization 
among  men,  she  occujjies  a  position  greatly  in  advance  of  that 
which  she  held  fifty  years  ago. 


The  first  militia  company  in  town  was  organized  in  1800.  David 
Learned  was  captain;  William  Coolidge,  lieutenant;  Henry  Saw- 
telle,  ensign.  This  company  embraced  all  the  territory  west  of  the 
river.  In  1803,  the  company  was  divided,  making  two  comj^anies  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river,  and  in  the  same  year  a  company  was  or- 
ganized on  the  east  side.  Previous  to  the  division  Learned  had 
been  elected  major  of  the  regiment  and  Coolidge  had  moved  away. 


HISTORY  OF  LR^ERMORE. 


63 


The  first  officers  of  tlie  north  company  were  Jesse  Stone,  captain  ; 
Jacob  Gibbs,  lieutenant;  Thomas  Cliase,  jr.,  ensign.  Of  the  south 
company  tlie  first  officers  were  Henry  Sawtelle,  captain;  James 
Starbird,  lieutenant;  Joseph  Mills,  ensign.  Of  the  east  company 
the  ofiicers  first  elected  were  Peter  Haines,  captain;  Robert  Morri- 
son, lieutenant;  Theodore  Marston,  ensign. 

In  1809,  a  company  of  cavalry  was  formed  in  Livermore,  a  majori- 
ty of  whose  members  were  residents  of  the  town.  The  first  ofiicers 
were  Samuel  At  wood,  captain;  Isaac  Talbot,  of  Turner,  first  lieu- 
tenant;   ,  second  lieutenant;  Aaron  S.  Barton,  of  Dixfield, 

cornet.  Subsequently,  tlie  ofiicers  and  members  of  the  company 
were  nearly  always  inhabitants  of  Livermore.  The  captains  of  the 
company  elected  after  Captain  Atwood  were  Simeon  Waters,  Daniel 
Coolidge,  Alpheus  Kendall,  Isaac  Strickland,  Otis  Pray,  Hastings 
Strickland,  JMatthew  jNI.  Stone,  Hezekiah  Atwood,  Elisha  Coolidge, 
and  Rufus  Hewett.  The  company  was  constituted  for  many  years, 
in  large  proportion,  of  the  intelligent  and  active  young  men  of  the 
town,  and  was  imbued  with  the  true  military  spirit.  It  was  the 
pride  of  the  people.  No  boy  or  girl  belonging  to  the  town  ever 
attended  the  "general  muster,"  at  Canton  Point,  and  saw  the 
"troopers"  enter  the  field,  mounted  upon  the  finest  horses  that 
could  be  procured  for  the  occasion,  and  clothed  in  scarlet,  but  was 
proud  to  acknowledge  that  he  (or  she)  too  hailed  from  Livermore. 

From  these  organizations  graduated  many  a  local  military  celebri- 
ty, facile  princeps  among  whom  was  Colonel  Billy  Benjamin,  every 
inch  a  soldier,  whose  voice  rich,  but  thunder-toned,  and  whose  man- 
ly form  and  martial  bearing  as  he  rode  upon  the  field  on  muster-day, 
calling  "Attention,  the  regiment!"  will  not  be  forgotten  by  any  person 
who  was  privileged  to  be  present  on  one  of  those  notable  occasions. 

In  the  late  civil  war  the  loyal  men  of  Livermore  rallied  to  the 
support  of  their  country's  flag  with  promptness  and  alacrity.  She 
contributed,  as  they  were  called  for,  her  full  quotas  of  volunteers, 
made  generous  ])rovision  for  the  families  of  her  absent  soldiers,  and 
has  cheerfully  paid  to  the  last  dollar  all  assessments  made  and  all 
liabilities  incurred  on  account  of  the  war. 

In  the  appendix  Avill  be  found  the  names  of  those  who  gave  their 
services  to  their  country  in  its  hour  of  peril.  In  what  manner  this 
inland  country  town  performed  her  duty  in  "the  uprising  of  a  great 
people  "  may  be  inferred  from  this  roll  of  honor.  It  contains  ninety- 
four  names  in  a  population  of  less  than  fifteen  hundred ! 


64  HISTOKY   OF  LIVEKMOEE. 


CHAPTER   VI. 

MATTERS    RELIGIOUS    AND    ECCLESIASTICAL. 

Deacon  Livermore,  the  founder  of  the  town,  Avas  not  only  a 
CongregationaUst,  but  the  deacon  of  a  clinrch  of  tliat  denomination 
in  Watertown,  before  lie  came  to  Port  Royal,  and  it  would  seem 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  his  earliest  care,  after  the  planting  of  his 
settlement  had  well  commenced,  would  have  been  to  establish  a 
church  of  his  own  faith  among  his  people.  Undoubtedly,  this  was 
his  desire  and  purpose,  and  this  presumption  is  supported  by  the 
fact  that  a  special  effort  was  made  to  this  end  about  the  year  1793, 
and  that  preaching  was  had,  from  time  to  time,  by  Rev,  John  Strick- 
land and  others  who  were  CongregationaUst  ministers.  But  from 
some  cause,  of  which  no  positive  and  well  accepted  account  remains, 
this  attempt  was  unsuccessful.  It  is  believed,  however,  that  it  will 
not  be  difficult  to  form  from  the  facts  which  are  known  a  satisfactoiy 
hypothesis  as  to  what  this  cause  was.  Deacon  Livermore  was,  in 
the  first  place,  more  a  practical  than  a  controversial  or  proselyting 
Christian,  and,  in  the  second  place,  he  inclined  to  that  school  of  his 
church  which  was  arminian  rather  than  calvinistic  in  doctrine. 
And  while  it  is  true  that  the  larger  part  of  the  settlers  during  the 
early  years  of  the  town  were  Congregational ists,  there  were  a  con- 
siderable number  who  were  not;  and  of  the  Congregationalists  a 
portion  were  Calvinists.  The  Rev.  Elisha  Williams,  a  son-in-law  of 
Dea.  Livermore,  was  a  Baptist  and  Calvinist,  and  a  movement  was 
made,  in  which  some  of  the  most  earnest  and  zealous  men  in  the 
town  participated,  to  gather  a  Baptist  Church.  As  all  positive  and 
sincere  efforts  are  apt  to  be,  this  was  rewarded  with  speedy  and 
marked  success.  But  it  did  not  receive  the  sympathy  of  Dea.  Liv- 
ermore, and  so  having  failed  to  plant  a  church  of  his  own  denomina- 
tion, he  found  himself^  as  between  the  two  sects  wdiich  sought  his 
favor  and  membership,  more  in  sympathy  with  the  Methodists,  rep- 
resented in  the  town  by  Rev.  Jesse  Lee,  and  who  had  gathered 
about  him  not  a  few  enthusiastic  believers,  than  with  the  Baptists. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  65 

These,  then,  were  the  militant  and  aggressive  religious  and  ecclesi- 
astical forces  in  the  town ;  and  a  vigorous  contest  was  maintained 
by  each  to  justify  by  the  results  it  achieved  the  superiority  of  its 
faith  to  that  of  its  rival,  and  its  better  adaptedness  to  the  needs  and 
condition  of  the  people.  But  all  this  while  many  settlers  who,  like 
Dea.  Livennore,  had  been  connected  with  Congregationalist 
Churches,  or  (if  not  church  members)  with  Congregationalist  fami- 
lies and  parishes,  and  who,  like  him,  were  not  inclined  to  attach 
themselves  to  a  church  or  society  of  Calvinists,  unlike  him,  were  not 
attracted  to  the  Methodists.  They  were  men  who  would  have  been 
glad  to  be  connected  with  a  church  or  parish  of  the  "  Standing  Or- 
der" if  there  had  been  one,  and  who,  if  such  an  organization  had 
been  made,  would  very  probably  have  gone,  in  after  years,  with  that 
section  of  the  denomination  which  followed  Dr.  Channing  and  the 
Wares  in  their  revolt  against  the  orthodoxy  of  the  day.  And  so,  be- 
ing left  as  sheep  without  a  shepherd,  when,  during  the  last  yeaVs  of 
the  eighteenth  century.  Rev.  Isaac  Root  and  Rev.  Thomas  Barnes, 
itinerating  disciples  of  tlie  Universalist  faith,  came  among  them, 
they  felt  at  liberty  to  hear  and  give  hospitable  reception  to  the  doc- 
trines of  these  pioneers,  the  only  champions  Avith  them  of  the  Broad 
Church.  These  denominations,  the  Baptist,  Methodist,  and  Univer- 
salist, have  been  the  principal  and  almost  the  only  organized  ecclesi- 
astical bodies  in  town  to  the  present  time.  Their  relative  strength, 
as  exhibited  by  the  per  capita  division  of  the  ministerial  fund  for 
1871,  and  which  does  not  greatly  vary  from  the  average  returns  for 
the  last  half  century,  is  Baptists,  thirty  parts ;  Methodists,  twenty- 
eight  parts;  Universalists,  fifty-eight  parts;  all  others,  thirteen 
parts.  This  fund  was  derived  from  the  sale  of  lots  of  land  in  the 
town  which  had  been  reserved  and  set  apart,  in  the  original  grant, 
for  this  object.  The  land  was  sold  many  years  ago  and  the  proceeds 
were  funded,  the  income  only  being  used  by  the  several  denomina- 
tions, according  to  their  respective  numbers. 

The  zeal  and  interest  in  religious  matters  exhibited  by  the  people 
of  the  town  in  the  first  stage  of  its  history  are  illustrated  in  some 
notes  by  Thomas  Chase,  Esq.,  made  in  1852,  in  the  blank  pages  of 
Major  Fish's  Journal,*  of  which  the  following  extract  is  given 
"  Livermore  was  famous  for  producing  preachers  at  an  early  day. 
The  first  was  Henry  Bond,  of  Watertown,  Mass.,  about  1797.     He 

*This  Journal  may  be  found  in  the  appendix. 


66  HISTORY   OF  LIVERMORE. 

died  in  Livermore."  (There  are  two  eri'ors  in  this  extract;  first,  Mr. 
Bond — if  his  son,  Dr.  Bond,  is  correct  in  his  "Genealogies" — was 
not  a  clergyman,  but  was  a  school-master,  and  secondly,  he  died  in 
March,  1796.  But  Perez  Ellis,  not  mentioned  by  Mr.  Chase,  was  a 
Baptist  minister  about  this  time.)  "The  second  was  Otis  Robinson. 
He  moved  to  Shapleigh,  then  to  Salisbury,  N.  H.  The  third  was 
Elisha  Williams.  .  .  The  fourth  was  Zebedee  Delano,  from  Win- 
throp.  He  went  to  Lebanon.  The  fifth  was  Samuel  Hillman,  from 
Martha's  Vineyard,  a  Methodist.  He  died  in  Monmouth  ;  was  one 
of  the  '  four  partners.'  The  sixth  was  Samuel  Simmons,  of  Connec- 
ticut. He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution  ;  was  at  the  taking  of 
Montreal,  the  battle  of  Quebec  under  Gen.  Montgomery,  the  taking 
of  Gen.  Burgoyne  under  Gen.  Arnold,  and  many  other  battles,  and 
lastly,  at  the  battle  of  Monmouth.  He  died  in  Canton,  Oxford 
County."  (Franklin  Simmons,  the  sculptor,  who  is  now  living  in 
Rome,  is  the  great  grandson  of  this  man.)  "The  seventh  was  Sylva- 
nus  Boardman,  from  Martha's  Vineyard.  He  died  in  New  Sharon  ; 
was  one  of  the 'four  partners.'  The  eighth  was  Thomas  Wyman. 
He  died  at  Livermore ;  was  a  son  of  Abram  Wyman,  of  Woburn, 
Mass.,  an  Indian  fighter.  The  nintli  was  Levi  Walker,  from  Mllford, 
Mass.  He  was  son  of  John  Walker,  who  went  with  Benedict 
Arnold  to  Quebec;  was  first  a  Methodist,  afterwards  a  Baptist.  He 
went  to  Massachusetts.  The  last  I  knew  of  him  he  was  at  Stonitig- 
ton,  Conn.  The  tenth  was  Pliny  Brett.  He  returned  to  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.,  where  he  originated;  was  a  Methodist.  The  eleventh 
was  Ransom  Norton,  from  Martha's  Vineyard.  He  died  at  Liver- 
more and  was  one  of  the  'four  partners.'" 

The  "  four  partners,"  mentioned  above,  the  names  of  three  of 
whom  are  here  given — the  other  was  James  Norton — came  from 
Martha's  Vineyard  to  Livermore  about  the  same  time,  and  under 
some  agreement  to  share  with  each  other  their  gains  and  losses. 

BAPTISTS. 

The  first  denomination  fairly  in  the  field  was  the  Baptist.  A  brief 
but  interesting  history  of  this  church  has  been  contributed  by  its 
pastor  (1873),  Rev.  Carleton  Parker,  and  is  as  follows : 

"  History  of  the  Baptist  Chukch. — The  formation  of  the  first 
Baptist  Church  in  Livermore  was  the  result  of  a  revival  which  oc- 
curred in  a  somewhat  singular  manner  in  the  year  of  1793.  Mr.  Z. 
Delano,  who  subsequently  became  a  Baptist  preacher,  but  then   a 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE. 


67 


thoughtless  sinner,  while  on  a  visit  in  Winthrop,  heard  a  sermon 
preached  by  Elder  Case,  in  the  Congregational  meeting-house,  from 
Romans  i.  5.  While  listening  to  the  preacher  the  Lord  discovered 
to  him  his  wretched  condition  as  a  sinner.  He  returned  home,  filled 
with  a  sense  of  his  own  sinful  ways,  and  remained  for  some  time  in 
a  distressed  state  of  mind.  At  length  he  submitted  his  heart  to 
Christ  and  commenced  the  worship  of  God  in  his  own  family,  but 
revealed  not  his  new-found  hopes  to  his  neighbors.  His  light,  how- 
ever, was  not  long  hidden;  an  interesting  providence  of  God 
brouglit  it  forth.  Elisha  Williams,  son  of  a  Congregational  minis- 
ter, of  East  Hartford,  Conn.,  a  liberally  educated  young  man,  was  at 
that  time  in  Livermore  teaching  school.  One  morning,  while  pass- 
ing to  the  school-house,  he  called  on  Mr.  Delano  and  found  him  en- 
gaged in  his  religious  devotions  witli  his  family.  Being  himself 
thoughtless,  and  not  knowing  of  a  pious  flimily  in  town,  this  unex- 
pected event  made  a  deep  impression  and  was  blessed  of  God  to  the 
salvation  of  his  soul.  Before  reaching  his  school-house  he  was  so 
overpowered  with  a  sense  of  his  lost  condition  that  he  called  upon 
God  for  mercy.  God  heard,  and  he  was  soon  rejoicing  in  a  Saviour's 
love.  This  was  the  commencement  of  a  work  of  grace  among  the 
peoiole.  The  converts  had  distinct  and  cheering  views  of  the  doc- 
trines of  the  gospel,  and  were  bold  to  invite  sinners  to  Christ.  As 
usual,  ojjposition  became  violent,  but  the  grace  of  God  prevailed, 
alnd  many  were  made  new  creatures  in  Christ  Jesus.  Several  be- 
came Baptists,  and  on  the  7th  of  August,  1793,  a  regular  Baptist 
Church  was  duly  organized,  consisting  of  seventeen  members.* 
The  organization  took  place  in  a  barn,  now  owned  iind  occupied  by 
Mr.  James  Chase.  Frequent  and  large  additions  were  made  to  this 
church.  For  a  time  they  met  in  a  school-house;  then  they  built  a 
small  meeting-house  in  which  they  worshijied  until  1807,  when  they 
erected  a  new  meeting-house  at  the  Corner,  now  called  North  Liver.- 
more.  In  the  first  revival  Elder  Case,  of  Readfield,  and  Mr.  Smitli, 
of  Fayette,  were  the  principal  Baptist  ministers.  Mr.  Smith  aided 
the  church  a  short  period  after  it  Avas  organized.  Rev.  Sylvanus 
Boardmau  and  Rev.  Ransom  Norton  were  among  those  whom  God 
called  at  that  time  with  an  holy  calling.     Rev.  Zebedee  Delano  and 

*The  names  of  origiual  members  are  as  follows:  Daniel  Holman,  Pelatiah  Gibbs,  Isaac 
Lovewell,  Elisha  Williams,  Otis  Robinsou,  Henry  Bond,  James  Delano,  Zebedee  Delano, 
Thomas  Wymau,  Peter  Godding,  David  Reed,  Anna  Gibbs,  Hannah  Robinson,  Mai-y  Delano, 
Susanna  Wyman,  Grace  Delano,  Catherine  Walker. 


68  HISTOEY   OP   LIVEEMOEE. 

-Rev.  Elisha  Williams  entered  at  once  upon  the  M'ork  of  the  minis- 
try. Six  others  also  have  gone  out  of  this  church  as  ministers  of 
the  gospel,  viz.,  Henry  Bond,*  Otis  Robinson,  William  Goding, 
Thomas  Wyrnan,  Jnson  Livermore,  and  William  Wyman.  Isaac 
Lovewell,  one  of  the  original  members,  distinguished  himself  by  his 
benevolence  and  liberality.  He  sustained  a  large  share  in  the  erec- 
tion of  their  second  house  of  \vorshi]>,  and  at  his  death  he  made  a 
donation  to  the  church  of  |810  to  aid  the  support  of  the  gospel. 

The  following  are  the  names  of  the  })astoi's,  with  the  year  of  their 
settlement:  Rev.  Sylvanus  Boardraan,  1802;  Rev.  John  Haynes, 
1811;  Rev.  David  Nutter,  1824;  Rev.  R.  Milner,  1834;  Rev.  Na- 
than Chapman,  1836;  Rev.  Charles  Miller,  1839;  Rev.  John  Billings, 
1844;  Rev.  A.  B.  Pendleton,  1846;  Rev.  David  Nutter,  1849;  Rev. 
Lucius  Bradford,  1853;  Rev.  William  A.  Durfee,  1859;  Rev.  E.  S. 
Fish,  1861 ;  Rev.  Carleton  Parker,  1871. 

This  church  has,  by  numerous  dismissions,  aided  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  four  churches  in  its  vicinity.  Notwithstanding  these 
dismissions,  and  numerous  others  to  individuals  who  have  removed 
their  relation  to  churches  where  they  now  reside,  God  in  mercy  has, 
at  diffei-ent  times,  made  additions.  Within  the  last  two  years 
twenty-nine  have  been  added  to  this  church  ;  the  whole  number  of 
members  is  now  ninety-six.  The  meeting-house  built  in  1807  was 
burned  down  in  1847,  and  the  present  one  was  dedicated  to  the 
worship  of  God  in  1848.  In  the  summer  and  fall  of  1871  this  house 
was  thoroughly  repaired,  painted,  and  carpeted.  A  nice  chandelier 
was  presented  to  the  church  by  Mr.  Arad  Thompson,  of  Bangor, 
Me.,  and  Mr.  Erastus  Thom]ison,  of  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  sons  of  the 
late  Dea.  Ira  Thompson,  of  Livermore." 

It  appears  by  the  town  records  that  on  the  2d  of  October,  1807, 
the  town  voted  "  to  accept  the  Rev.  Sylvanus  Boardman  as  town 
minister,  to  have  the  remaining  part  of  right  of  land  by  giving  secu- 
rity for  $450  to  be  divided  between  the  Methodist  and  Universalist  so- 
cieties." For  some  reason  this  plan  was  not  carried  into  execution,  no 
j)ayment  or  security  was  made  to  the  other  societies,  and  Mr.  Board- 
man  labored  rather  as  the  minister  of  the  Baptists  than  of  the  town. 
He  was,  however,  greatly  respected  by  the  people,  without  regard  to 
church  or  sect,  and  exercised  a  large  and  wholesome  influence  in  the 
town.     He  was  a  representative  from  Livermore  in  the  legislature  of 

*As  to  Mr.  Bond  see  page  66. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEKMOr.E. 


69 


the  Commonwcaltli  in  1802.  His  son,  the  Rev.  George  Dana 
Boardman,  the  distinguished  and  devoted  missionary,  was  born  in 
Livermore  Feb.  8,  1801.  lie  died  in  Bunnah  Feb.  11,  1831.  He 
graduated  at  Waterville  College  in  tlie  class  of  1822,  studied  at  the 
Theological  Seminary  in  Andover,  and  was  ordained  at  North  Yar- 
mouth, Me.,  Feb.  16,  1825,  He  sailed  for  Calcutta  in  the  same  year, 
where  he  arrived  on  the  2d  of  December.  He  acquired  the  Burraan 
language  and  entered  ui)on  his  labors  at  JMaulmain  in  1827,  and 
planted  a  mission  which  became  the  central  point  of  all  the  Baptist 
missions  in  Burmah.  He  was  earnest,  laithful,  and  successful,  but 
fell  a  victim  to  the  exertions  which  liis  zeal  and  fidelity  urged  him 
to  make.  He  has  left  a  very  precious  name,  not  in  his  own  church 
only,  but  throughout  Christendom. 

The  Rev.  John  Haynes,  the  second  minister,  enjoyed  the  longest 
pastorate  of  any  of  the  nunisters  of  this  church.  Nathaniel  Haynes, 
Esq.,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin  College,  and  a  lawyer  and  editor  in 
Bangor,  who  died  about  1835,  and  Col.  Isaac  C.  Haynes,  of  Hamp- 
den, formerly  editor  of  the  Bangor  Democrat,  were  his  sons.  A 
daughter  married  the  Hon.  Calvin  Hopkins,  of  Mt.  Vernon,  Me. 

The  next  long  pastorate  was  that  of  Rev.  David  Nutter,  an 
Englishman,  a  man  of  ability,  and  in  his  first  settlement  exhibiting 
remarkable  power  as  a  revivalist.  Mr.  Nutter  has  recently  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty  years.  Mr.  Nutter  was  during  his  first  pastorate 
in  Livermore  a  frequent  correspondent  of  the  periodicals  of  his 
church.  The  church  and  parish  have  been  fortunate  on  the  whole 
in  the  character  of  their  ministers.  They  have  been  good  men  and 
citizens  as  well  as  acceptable  pastors  and  teachers. 

Among  the  members  who  were  earnest  and  active  in  carrying 
forward  the  work  of  the  church  and  promoting  its  2:)rosperity  in  its 
early  days  were  Deacons  Ransom  Norton,  Sarson  Chase,  Pelatiah 
Gibbs,  William  Sanders,  .John  Elliot,  Ciiarles  Barrell,  Ira  Thompson, 
Dr,  Cyrus  Handin,  Messrs,  Henry  Bond,  Jesse  Kidder,  George 
Chandler,  James  and  Mayhew  Chase,  William  Thompson,  James 
Walker,  and  Elder  Thomas  Wyman. 

Second  Baptist  Church. — A  small  meeting-house  was  built  by 
the  Baptists  in  the  southerly  part  of  the  town  about  1810,  and  a 
church  was  gathered  of  people  living  in  the  neighborhood,  some  in 
Turner,  but  the  majority  in  Livermore.  The  Rev.  Ransom  Norton 
was  for  nearly  thirty  years  its  faithful  and  devoted  pastor,  traveling 
6  ' 


70  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

on  every  Sundny  from  his  home,  nearly  six  miles  distant,  to 
minister  to  his  little  flock.  His  compensation  was  in  his  work, 
and  not  in  his  fee,  for  his  pecuniary  reward  must  have  been  very 
small.  Since  the  decease  of  Elder  Norton  the  church  has  experi- 
enced many  changes.  Its  old  hoixse  of  worship  has  been  abandoned 
and  a  new  one  erected  near  North  Turner  Bridge.  Mr,  Norton  was 
not  brilliant  or  learned,  but  he  was  a  grave,  honest  man,  who 
wrought  in  a  "sad  sincerity"  for  his  people  and  the  truth  as  he  un- 
derstood it. 

Church  in  East  Livermore. — Before  the  division  of  the  town 
a  church  was  organized  in  East  Livermore,  at  a  place,  about  a  mile 
below  the  Falls,  called  "  Shy."  It  was  afterwards  removed  to  the 
Falls,  where  it  has  enjoyed  a  good  measure  of  prosperity,  and  has 
recently  erected  a  commodious  and  handsome  brick  church.  The 
Rev.  Jared  F.  Eveleth  is  its  ])resent  pastor;  its  first  was  Rev.  Rob- 
ert Low. 

FREE  BAPTISTS. 
Recently  a  cliurch  of  this  denomination  hns  been  organized  in 
town,  which  holds  its  meetings  at  the  Center,  in  the  meeting-house 
formerly  occupied  by  the  Methodists.  It  has  for  its  minister  the 
Rev.  Hezekiah  Atwood,  son  of  the  late  Cn])t.  Hezekiah  Atwood,  of 
Livermore. 

METHODISTS. 
In  the  year  1793,  the  Rev.  Jesse  Lee,*  of  Virginia,  while  on  a 
preaching  tour  in  the  district  of  Maine,  visited  Livermore,  where  he 
remained  for  some  time  and  ])lanted  the  seed  from  which  grew  up, 
at  length,  a  strong  and  vigorous  tree.  He  labored  earnestly  and 
with  much  success  to  teach  the  doctrhies  and  commend  the  polity  of 
the  church  founded  by  John  Wesley.  It  was  favorable  to  the  pur- 
pose of  Mr.  Lee  that,  in  the  absence  of  any  religious  organization 
holding  arminian  or  moderately  calvinistic  views,  Dea.  Livermore 
became  interested  in  his  work  and  gave  to  it  his  sympathy  and  aid. 
When,  tM'o  years  after  the  advent  of  Mr.  Lee,  the  first  Methodist 


*Mr.  Lee  was  born  in  1758  and  died  in  1816.  The  new  American  Cyclop.-cdia  says,  "  He  be- 
came a  preacher  among  the  Methodists  in  1783  and  a  traveling  companion  of  Bishop  Asbury. 
His  notes  have  been  the  basis  of  much  of  the  early  history  of  Methodism  in  America.  He  was 
chaplain  to  congress  during  six  successive  terms.  He  is  best  known  as  the  apostle  of  Metho- 
dism in  New  England." 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE.  71 

Class  in  town  was  formed,  Dca.  Liverraore  and  wife,  and,  at  least, 
one  of  his  daughters,  joined  it  as  members,  and  from  that  time  until 
his  death,  in  1808,  he  was  one  of  the  most  influential  supporters  of 
the  church  which  it  represented. 

A  church  was  organized  in  1803,  through  the  instrumentality,  in 
large  part,  of  the  Kev,  Joshua  Soule,  then  a  resident  of  Livermore, 
and  subsequently  a  bishop  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and 
widely  known,  especially  at  the  South,  where  he  lived  for  many 
years.  Mr.  Soule  was  a  presiding  elder  and  presided  at  the  first 
quarterly  conference  meeting  held  in  the  town,  which  was  in  1803. 

The  meeting-house  at  the  center  of  the  town  was  built  in  1803. 
It  is  still  standing,  but  is  no  longer  occupied  by  the  Methodists. 
For  many  years  before  the  division  it  was  used  by  the  town  for  its 
municipal  meetings  and  for  elections.  Owing  to  changes,  which  had 
been  going  on  for  a  long  time  in  the  membership  of  the  church,  it 
was  no  longer  a  central  or  convenient  point  for  their  meetings,  and 
so  in  the  year  1871  the  parish  bought  the  spacious  house  at  the  Cor- 
ner, formerly  owned  by  Col,  Stone,  and  by  suitable  alterations  made 
an  exceedingly  neat,  convenient,  and  pleasant  house  of  worship. 
This  ohl  parish,  in  its  new  church,  is  now  enjoying,  as  its  honorable 
history  and  its  devotedness,  not  only  to  its  religious  faith,  but  to 
every  good  work  and  movement  for  the  benefit  of  the  community  in 
which  it  is  placed,  deserves,  a  goodly  degree  of  prosperity.  Meet- 
ings are  held  in  the  church  at  the  Corner  and  at  the  village 
on  alternate  Sundays.  This  church  has  now  one  hundred  and  twen- 
ty members,  while  the  two  churches  of  which  it  was  the  parent,  one 
at  the  Falls  and  the  other  at  East  Livermore,  have  each  a  member- 
ship nearly  or  quite  as  large. 

So  far  as  is  retneinbered,  or  as  can  be  traced  from  any  records  re- 
maining, the  clergymen  of  this  den:>niiuation  who  have  statedly 
preached  in   town    are    as   follows:     Revs.  Joshua   Soule,  John   T. 

Adams,  Dr. Adams,  Samuel  Hill  man,  Samuel  Thompson,  John 

Wilkinson,  David  Stimpson,  Aaron  Hum])hrey,  Eli  Howe,  Allen  H. 
Cobb,  Joshua  Randall,  Charles  Virgin,  Philip  Munger,  George  Web- 
ber, D.  D.,  David  Copeland,  Abel  Alton,  Benjamin  Burnham,  Asa 
Greene,  S.  P.  Blake,  Benjamin  Foster,  Alvah  Hatch,  John  True, 
Joseph  Gerry,  James  Farrington,  Daniel  Dyer,  E.  H.  Gammon,  Sam- 
uel Ambrose,  Daniel  Waterhouse,  Caleb  Mugford,  Joseph  Hawkes, 
W.  C.  Stevens,  S.  W.  Pierce,  S.  B.  Bailey,  S.  S.  Gray,  Isaac  Lord, 
Francis  Grosvenor,  Nathan  Andrews,  M.  B.  Cummings,  Joseph  Fair- 


72  HISTORY  OF  LIVEr.]\IOr.E.  , 

banks,  and  the  present  pnstor  (wlio  has  kindly  conimnnicatcd  most 
of  the  materials  from  which  this  notice  has  been  n>:ide),  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Hillman. 

Of  those  who  in  the  early  time  labored  faithfidly  for  the  upbuild- 
ing of  this  church  may  be  mentioned  the  names — in  addition  to  that 
of  Dea.  Livermore — of  Samuel  Livermore,  Cajjt.  Charles  J.  Baker, 
Simeon  Howard,  Samuel  Hillman,  Robert  Hayes,  John  Hayes,  Na- 
than Soide,  brother  of  Bishop  Joshua  Soide  and  fatlier  of  Rev. 
Asbury  Soule,  Col.  Thomas  Chase,  jr.,  Aaron  Barton,  John  Monroe, 
and  Abel  Monroe. 

UNIVERSALISTS. 
Between  the  years  1795  and  1807  there  was  occasional  preachinc? 
in  school-houses  and  dwelling-houses  by  itinerating  ministers  ot  this 
persuasion,  principally  by  the  Rev.  Isaac  Root  and  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Barnes,  whose  labors  were  not  unfi-uitful  in  the  harvest  of  proselytes. 
In  the  latter  year  a  society  was  formed  at  a  ineeting  held  on  the 
twenty-fourth  of  November,  at  which  Capt.  Samuel  Atwood  was 
elected  moderator,  and  Dr.  Cornelius  Holland,  clerk,  treasurer,  and 
collector.*  A  vote  was  passed  to  raise  money  by  subscription  for  the 
support  of  preaching.  A  subscription  paper  was  drawn  up  and  put 
in  circulation,  the  names  to  which,  and  the  amounts  subscribed  by 
each,  will  appear  in  the  appendix.  From  receipts  in  the  possession 
of  the  parish  it  would  appear  that  Mr.  Root  preached  to  this  society 
a  part  of  the  time,  at  stated  periods,  in  the  years  1808,  1809,  1810, 
and  1811.  It  is  probable  that  JMr.  Barnes  preached  occasionally  dur- 
ing this  period.  At  a  parish  meeting  on  the  4th  of  March,  1809, 
Capt.  Simeon  Waters  was  chosen  moderator,  and  Dr.  Holland,  clerk 
and  treasurer,  and  it  was  voted  to  pay  Mr.  Root  four  dollai's  a  Sun- 
day for  preaching.  In  1814,  at  a  parish  meeting,  it  was  voted  to 
employ  a  minister,  and  Abijah  Monroe  and  David  JNIorse  were 
chosen  a  committee  to  engage  one.  It  was  also  voted  to  hold  the 
meetings  at  the  school-house  near  Dr.  Bradford's. 

In  1816,  the  Rev.  Mi".  Sargeant — his  christian  name  does  not  ap- 
pear— was  employed  for  a  short  time  at  live  dollars  a  Sunday.  In 
this  year  a  convention  was  held  in  the   Baptist  meeting-house,  and 

*There  jn-obablj'  had  been  some  kind  of  an  organization  before  this  time,  althongh  no  record 
of  it  remains;  for  at  this  meeting  Thomas  Jiryant  was  appointed  to  collect  subscription  in  the 
hands  of  Artemas  Leonard,  a  former  collector,  and  reference  is  made  to  the  "  Universal  Soci- 
ety "  in  the  record  of  a  town-meeting  held  the  October  previous. 


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Col.  Stone  Avas  engaged  to  provide  entertainment  for  the  ministers 
and  singers  in  attendance,  at  tlie  expense  of  the  society.  The  next 
ye&r  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford,  Israel  Washburn,  and  Samuel  Beals 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  procure  a  preacher,  and  it  was  voted 
to  raise  the  money  for  his  support  by  subscription.  There  is  no  rec- 
ord for  1818,  but  in  May,  1819,  Benjamin  Bradford,  Israel  Wash- 
burn, and  Capt.  John  Leavitt  were  chosen  a  standing  committee, 
and  Israel  Washburn,  Jesse  Stone,  Renel  Washburn,  Ebenezer 
Hinds,  Jr.,  and  E])hraim  Pray  were  a  committee  to  make  arrange- 
ments for  the  association  which  was  to  be  held  the  next  month.  It 
was  also  voted  "that  the  standing  committee  be  empowered  to  find  a 
home  for  our  minister."  Who  the  minister  contemplated  in  thia 
vote  was  does  not  appear.  Among  ihe  ministers  who  preached  be- 
tween 1811  and  1819  were  the  Rev.  Thomas  Barnes,  Rev.  Mr.  But- 
terfield,  and  probably  Rev.  B.  Streeter.  Rev.  William  Farwell,  of 
Vermont,  also  visited  and  preached  in  the  town  during  this  period. 

Between  1819  and  1827  there  was  preaching  every  year  for  a  part 
— generally  half — of  the  time  by  Mr.  Streeter,  and  the  Revs.  Wm. 
A.  Drew,  Jabez  Woodman,  George  Bates,  Sylvanus  Cobb,  and  2)er- 
haps  by  others.  In  the  latter  year  steps  were  taken  for  the  building 
of  a  church,  and  on  the  eighth  of  September  a  parish  meeting  was 
held  at  Avhich  William  H.  Brettun  was  elected  moderator,  and  Dr. 
Bradford,  clerk.  A  committee,  consisting  of  Otis  Pray,  Jesse  Stone, 
William  H.  Brettun,  Isaac  Strickland,  Ebenezer  Hinds,  jr.,  Daniel 
Coolidge,  and  Daniel  Biiggs,  were  appointed  to  fix  on  a  suitable  site 
for  a  meeting-house,  estimate  the  expense  thereof,  and  ascertain,  as 
near  as  might  be,  the  number  that  Avould  assist  in  defraying  it;  and 
two  weeks  were  allowed  them  to  make  their  report.  At  the  ad- 
journment it  was  voted  "that  the  most  suitable  site  for  the  meeting- 
house is  between  the  dwelling-houses  of  Israel  Washburn  and  Otis 
Pray."  The  meeting  was  further  adjourned  to  the  sixth  of  October, 
at  which  time  it  would  seem  a  plan  of  the  house  was  presented,  for 
it  appears  that  Ebenezer  Hinds,  jr.,  Abner  Ilolman,  Reucl  Wash- 
burn, Henry  Aldrich,  and  Simeon  Waters  were  made  a  committee 
to  appraise  the  pews.  The  meeting  was  then  adjourned  to  the 
twentieth  of  October,  when  a  building  committee,  of  which  Henry 
Aldrich,  Benjamin  Bradford,  and  Otis  Pray  were  the  members,  was 
appoiuted.  It  was  voted  at  this  meeting — for  the  paiish  took  the 
precaution  to  sell  the  pews  before  a  blow  was  struck  on  the  work — 
"  that  one-third  of  the  sum  for  which  each  pew  shall  sell   shall  be 


74  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

paifl  the  first  of  May  next  and  the  residue  the  first  of  January, 
1829."  The  sale  of  pews  was  then  commenced  and  was  continued 
from  time  to  time  until  fifty-four  out  of  the  sixty-one  pews  which 
the  house  would  contain,  and  enough  to  warrant  the  making  of  con- 
tracts for  the  building  of  it,  were  sold.  Contracts  for  materials, 
stone  work,  wood  work,  etc.,  were  entered  into.  John  Griffith, 
Jr.,  did  the  stone  work,  and  the  general  contractor  was  Ezra  Gary,  of 
Greene.  The  house  was  comj)]eted  by  the  spring  of  1829,  and  in 
June  of  that  year  was  dedicated,  the  Rev.  William  A.  Drew  preach- 
ing the  sermon.*  Great  preparation  was  made  for  the  music  on  the 
occasion.  Apollos  Osgood,  of  Buckfield,  and  Horace  Gould,  both  of 
whom  enjoyed  groat  local  celebrity  as  singers,  Capt.  John  Simmons, 
of  Canton,  with  his  bass  viol,  and  Moses  Sears,  of  Winthrop,  with 
his  violin,  assisted  upon  the  occasion.  The  house  had  a  capacity  for 
seating  four  hundred  persons,  was  of  fine  proportions,  and  was  sur- 
mounted by  a  graceful  spire.  From  its  elevated  situation  it  is  a 
conspicuous  object  in  the  landscape  from  many  miles  around. 
Upon  the  final  settlement  of  the  accounts  for  its  construction,  it  was 
found  that  the  receipts  from  the  sale  of  pews  were  seventy-two  cents 
in  excess  of  the  cost  of  the  church,  and  the  auditors  of  accounts 
recommended,  and  the  proprietors  unanimously  voted,  "that  the 
building  committee  be  discharged  from  that  sum."  Repairs  upon 
the  church  were  made  in  1839,  under  the  direction  of  Ebenezer 
Hinds,  Jr.,  Otis  Pray,  and  Samuel  P.  Holman,  committee.  Further 
repairs  Avere  made  in  1850,  for  which  Otis  Pray,  Daniel  Briggs,  and 
M.  M.  Stone  were  the  committee. 

After  the  erection  of  the  church  its  pulpit  was  supplied  by  Messrs. 
Bates  and  Drew  and  the  Rev.  Seth  Stetson  until  1832.  The  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Stoddard  was  the  minister  in  1832  and  1833,  the  Rev.  Ja- 
bez  Woodman  in  1884  and  1836,  Rev.  George  Bates  in  1835. 
Rev.  George  W.  Quimby,  now  editor  of  the  Gospel  Jianner,  was 
settled  as  pastor  iji  1837  and  remained  four  years.  In  1839,  Rev. 
Mr.  Quimby,  Israel  Washburn,  and  Clarendon  Waters  were  a  com- 
mittee to  report  a  constitution   and   by-laws  for  the  parish.     Rev. 

*The  venerable  William  A.  Drew,  of  Augusta,  for  so  many  years  proprietor  and  editor  of 
the  Gospel  Banner,  writes  under  date  Jan.  10,  1874:  "  The  church  at  the  Norlands  was  dedi- 
cated June  18,  1829.  It  was  calculated  that  there  were  over  one  thousand  people  present, 
within  and  around  the  house.  The  ministers  present  were  Bros.  Bates,  of  Livermore,  Thomp- 
son, of  Farmington,  Murray,  of  Norway,  Merrill,  of  New  Gloucester,  and  Drew,  of  Augusta, 
who  preached  the  dedicatory  sermon  from  John  ii.  16.  I  believe  I  have  that  sermon  yet  on 
hand.    It  was  voted  to  have  it  published,  but  this  I  declined." 


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75 


Ezekiel  Vose  succeeded  Mr.  Quimby  in  1840  and  was  pastor  until 
1843,  when  he  left,  and  Rev.  Robert  Blacker,  of  Norridgewock,  was 
called  to  the  pastorate,  in  which  he  continued  until  1850.  Rev. 
Frederic  Foster  was  his  successor  until  1855.  Since  1855,  the 
preachers — with  the  exception  of  occasional  supplies — have  been 
Revs.  W.  R.  French,  D.  T.  Stevens,  and  O.  H.  Johnson.  During 
the  year  1873  extensive  repairs  and  improvements  upon  the  church 
were  made.  Changes,  since  the  erection  of  this  church,  in  the  line 
of  travel,  in  business,  in  the  residence  of  the  members  of  the  parish, 
and  the  inconvenience  of  reaching  the  old  church  in  the  winter 
season,  when  the  roads  over  the  hills  are  filled  with  snow-banks,  sug- 
gested, many  years  ago,  the  building  of  a  church  at  the  village  for 
the  accommodation  of  a  large  portion  of  the  society.  So,  without 
any  division  of  the  parish  or  secession  of  members,  but  in  order  that 
better  accommodations  might  be  secured  to  many,  and  strength 
gained  for  the  common  parochial  expenses,  it  was  at  length  deter- 
mined that  a  new  church  should  be  built.  Accordingly,  in  1869,  a 
handsome  church  with  a  vestry  in  the  basement  was  erected.  It 
was  dedicated  in  November  of  that  year,  the  Rev.  Araory  Battles, 
of  Bangor,  preaching  the  sermon.  A  fine-toned  bell  was  hung  in 
the  .tower  in  1870,  and  a  good  organ  of  sufficient  power  has  been 
supplied  by  the  active  exertions  of  the  ladies  of  the  parish. 

Maj.  Isaac  Strickland,  Col.  Lee  Strickland,  Col.  Silas  Morse,  Ori- 
son Rollins,  Esq.,  Messrs.  Hiram  Briggs,  Charles  Springer,  William 
Pollard,  William  H.  Bennett,  Sumner  and  Richard  Morse,  Palmer 
Elliot,  Sumner  Soule,  N.  Turner,  and  S.  and  S.  Phillips  were  among 
the  members  who  took  an  active  interest  in  the  erection  of  this 
church. 

Before  the,  division  of  the  town,  a  union  meeting-house,  in  the 
building  of  which  the  Universalists  and  Methodists  co-operated,  was 
erected  in  East  Livermore,  near  Haines'  Corner.  It  was  dedicated 
Sept.  8,  1825. 


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CHAPTER   VII. 

CONCERNING    LAWYERS    AND    DOCTORS. 

Notices  having  been  made  of  clergymen  who  have  liad  pas- 
torates, residences,  and  temporary  or  occasional  engagements  to 
preach  in  the  town,  it  remains  to  give  some  facts  and  references  in 
respect  to  the  lawyers  and  physicians  wlio  have  been  residents  of 
the  town  and  eiigaged  in  the  practice  of  their  respective  professions 
therein. 

LAWYERS. 

The  fii-st  laAvyer  who  settled,  in  town  was  probably  a  man  by  the 
name  of  Strong,  whose  christian  name  is  not  remembered.  His  of- 
fice Avas  at  the  inn  of  Abijah  Monroe;  but  he  did  not  remain  long 
in  town.     He  was  from  Vermont. 

Jonathan  G.  Hunton  had  an  office  at  Monroe's,  and  was  for  a 
year  or  two  in  practice  of  the  law  there,  dividing  his  time,  it  is  be- 
lieved, between  this  town  and  Readfield,  where  his  residence  proba- 
bly was.  Mr.  Hunton  was  born  in  Unity,  N.  H.,  in  1781.  He 
opened  an  office  in  Readfield,  Kennebec  County,  about  the  year 
1807,  and  resided  in  that  town  until  1837,  when  he  moved  to  Dix- 
mont,  in  the  County  of  Penobscot.  He  died  at  Fairfield,  in  the 
County  of  Somerset,  He  Avas  a  member  of  the  executive  council  in 
1829,  and  governor  of  the  State  in  1830, 

The  next  lawyer  was  Ezra  Kingman,  His  office  was  at  Mon- 
roe's, Mr.  Kingman  was  born  in  B]ast  Bridgewater  July  20,  1789; 
commenced  the  study  of  law  with  Hon.  William  Baylies,  in  West 
Bridgewater,  in  1806 ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  commenced 
practice  in  Livermore.  He  returned  to  East  Bridgewater  and  went 
into  trade  with  his  father;  Avas  a  member  of  the  legislature  for  six 
years  and  taught  school  six  years.  He  Avas  chosen  toAvn  clerk  and 
treasurer  Avhcn  the  town  Avas  incorporated,  in  1823,  continuing  to 
hold  the  same  office  at  intervals  until  his  death,  Feb,  13,  1852,     He 


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77 


was  much  esteemed  and  respected  by  his  townspeojile.  His  sister, 
Hannah,  married  the  Hon.  Simon  Greenleaf,  LL.  D.,  long  a  distin- 
guished lawyer  in  Portland,  and  afterwards  a  professor  in  the  law 
school  at  Cambridge. 

Asa  Kixg,  a  native  of  Vermont,  wandered  here  from  New  Hamp- 
shire soon  after  the  departure  of  Mr.  Kingman  and  opened  an  office 
at  Alonroe's.  King  was  a  man  of  respectable  talents  and  attain- 
ments, but  of  intemperate  habits.  Owing  to  this  infirmity  he  found 
but  little  encouragement  in  Livermore,  and  in  a  year  or  two  moved 
to  Hebron,  to  which  goodly  town  his  bad  habits  accompanied  him. 

Hakry  Wood,  of  Grafton,  Mass.,  M'as  King's  successor.  He  came 
in  1814,  and  remained  here  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  about 
three  years.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Gardner  Brown,  then  of 
Dixfield,  but  afterwards  of  Bath.  He  returned  to  Grafton  at  the 
urgent  request  of  his  aged  parents  and  was  made  the  principal  heir 
to  their  estate.  He  was  a  well-educated  man,  pleasant,  social,  com- 
panionable, but  not  a  great  student  or  much  distinguished  at  the 
bar.     His  office  was  at  the  Corner. 

Richard  Belcher  followed  Wood  and  was  here  in  1817.  He  re- 
mained about  two  years,  when  he  removed  to  Winthrop.  He  after- 
wards resided  in  Freeport  and  Waldoboro.  His  place  of  business 
was  at  North  Livermore,  or  the  Corner,  as  it  was  called. 

Reuel  Washburn  (a  younger  brother  of  Israel  Washburn), 
who  was  born  in  Raynham,  Mass.,  May  21,  1793,  and  grad- 
uated at  Brown  University  in  the  class  of  1814,  read  law  with 
the  late  Hon.  Albion  K.  Parris,  at  Paris,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1818.  He  opened  an  office  soon  afterwards  at  the 
Corner  in  Livermore,  and  has  resided  there  ever  since,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  a  residence  for  about  a  year — in  1851  and  1852 — in  Osh- 
kosh,  Wisconsin.  He  did  a  good  business  in  his  profession  for  many 
years,  especially  in  conveyancing,  drawing  wills,  and  making  collec- 
tions. His  great  carefulness  and  integrity,  as  well  as  his  accurate 
legal  knowledge,  secured  to  him  the  confidence  of  the  community  in 
an  especial  manner.  In  contested  questions,  also,  he  was  much 
trusted,  for  few  men  prepared  their  cases  more  thorougly  or  tried 
them  moi-e  wisely  than  he.  He  was  register  of  probate  from  1821 
to  1823,  senator  from  Oxford  County  in  1828  and  1829,  and  execu- 
tive councillor  in  1830.  He  was  elected  to  congress  in  1829,  but 
was  deprived  of  his  seat  by  the  counting  against  him  of  five  votes, 
which  had  been  given  to  other  persons  for  other  offices,  but  which, 


78  HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 

under  the  system  of  voting  at  that  time  in  force,  of  pLacing  the  votes 
in  separate  boxes,  were,  by  mistake,  deposited  in  the  box  used  for 
receiving  votes  for  representative  to  congress  instead  of  that  used 
for  receiving  votes  for  senator,  as  was  intended.  As  illustrating  the 
recklessness  of  party  spirit  at  that  day,  and  indicating  the  low  tone 
of  political  morals  at  that  time,  the  facts  in  this  case  will  be  given 
in  detail : 

According  to  the  official  count  of  the  votes  as  returned  to  the 
governor  and  council,  Mr.  Washburn  lacked  five  votes  of  a  major- 
ity. In  those  days  it  was  not  necessary  to  express  uj^on  the 
ballot  the  office  for  which  the  candidate  was  voted  for;  but  the  se- 
lectmen held  separate  boxes  for  as  many  officers  as  were  voted  for. 
For  example,  a  box  for  governor,  another  for  senators,  and  still  an- 
other for  town  representative,  etc.  In  the  town  of  Canton,  Otis  Hay- 
ford,  Esq.,  made  a  mistake  by  casting  a  senatorial  ballot,  with  the 
names  of  George  French  and  Nathaniel  Howe  upon  it,  into  the  box  for 
representative  to  congress.  He  discovered  his  mistake  the  very  mo- 
ment the  ballot  dropped  from  his  hand  and  asked  permission  of 
the  selectmen  to  correct  it.  but  was  refused.  This  senatorial  ballot 
should  have  been  rejected  as  illegal  and  void,  as  all  blank  ballots  are 
rejected,  because  it  is  impossible  to  tell  who  was  intended  to  be 
voted  for,  and  no  voter  has  a  right  to  cast  more  than  one  ballot  for 
the  same  officer.  But  this  illegal  senatorial  ballot  was  counted  and 
returned  as  tioo  separate  votes.  Thus,  Mr.  Ilayford  was  compelled 
to  carry  two  votes  against  the  candidate  he  intended  to  vote  for. 

Bridgton,  in  the  County  of  Cumberland,  belonged  to  this  con- 
gressional district.  In  this  town  a  senatorial  ballot,  with  three 
names  upon  it,  by  mistake  in  the  same  way,  was  put  into  the  box  for 
representative  to  congress,  and  was  counted  and  returned  as  three 
separate  votes.  If  these  two  illegal  senatorial  ballots  had  been 
rejected,  then  there  would  have  been  a  choice.  These  fjicts  were 
proved  before  the  committee  on  elections  and  were  not  disputed,  but 
a  partisan  house  of  rej^resentatives  denied  Mr.  Washburn  his  seat, 
deciding  that  no  election  had  been  made.  It  seems  incredible  at 
this  time  that  party  spirit  could  go  so  f;ir  as  to  defeat  an  election  on 
such  grounds  as  these,  and  it  is  to  the  honor  of  the  age,  and  a  wit- 
ness to  its  \^%t  improvement  over  the  last  generation,  that  such  an 
act  of  palpable  injustice  would  not  now  be  attempted  or  tolerated  by 
any  political  party — or  defended  by  any  partisan,  however  bitter  or 
unscrupulous  he  might  be. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 


79 


Mr.  Wnsliburn  was  a  representative  from  Livermore  in  the  legisla- 
ture for  the  years  1832,  1833,  1834,  1835,  and  1841.  He  has  held, 
also,  many  municipal  oflices  and  was  judge  of  probate  for  Andro- 
scoggin County  from  1857  to  1859,  when  he  resigned  the  office.  Pie 
lias  continued  in  the  practice  of  the  law  for  hfty-six  years  and  is 
still  consulted  and  employed  in  his  profession.  His  children  are 
iianem  W.,  who  was  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College,  in  1845,  and 
educated  to  the  bar;  he  was  a  lawyer  in  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin,  and 
for  several  years  was  ju<lge  of  the  circuit  court  of  that  State ; 
Alonzo,  who  has  resided  many  years  in  the  west;  Seth  D.,  a  lawyer 
in  Livermore;  he  married  in  March,  1870,  Julia,  daughter  of  Job 
Chase,  Esq;  Harriet,  unmarried,  and  Ellen,  the  wife  of  Dr.  Roscoe 
Smith,  of  Turner. 

Barzillai  Streeter  had  an  office  at  the  village  for  a  short  time 
prior  to  1840 ;  but  his  character  and  habits  were  not  such  as  to  se- 
cure the  confidence  or  respect  of  the  people. 

William  A.  Evaxs,  a  brother  of  Hon.  George  Evans,  was  in  the 
practice  of  the  law  at  the  Falls  for  several  years  before  the  division 
of  the  town.     He  is  now  at  Fort  Fairfield,  Aroostook  County. 

Grove  Catlix  was  at  the  Falls  after  Mr.  Evans  left,  before  the 
organization  of  the  new  town,  as  well  as  afterwards. 

PHYSICIANS. 
Until  the  year  1795  the  people  had  been  dependent  upon  physi- 
cians in  the  towns  of  Winthrop  and  Turner;  but  the  population 
had  increased  and  become  so  large  that  they  felt  that  it  was  unnec- 
essary longer  to  submit  to  this  inconvenience,  and  efforts  were  made 
to  find  a  man  of  good  character  and  ability  in  his  profession,  and  in- 
duce him  to  make  his  home  in  the  new  town.  Among  the  candi- 
dates who  presented  themselves  were  Dr.  Cyrus  Hamlin,  of 
Harvard,  Mass.,  a  young  man,  then  but  recently  admitted  to  the 
profession,  and  another,  whose  name  is  not  recalled,  but  who  was 
said  to  have  received  the  preference  of  Deacon  Livermore,  at  a  citi- 
zens' meeting  called  to  decide  the  question,  "Who  shall  be  our  doc- 
tor?" But  the  voice  of  the  majority  was  in  fovor  of  Dr.  Hamlin, 
and  he  paid  off  the  deacon  for  his  error  of  judgment  by,  a  year  or 
two  afterwards,  marrying  his  daughter.  The  action  of  this  meeting 
was  followed  up  by  the  preparation  of  a  paper  by  the  Rev.  Sylvanus 


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HISTORY   OF  LIVEEMORE. 


Boardman,  tlie  Bajitist  minister,  which  was  signed  by  some  of  the 
principal  inhabitants,  and  of  which  a  copy  is  given  below: 

"  Whereas  tlie  town  of  Livermore  is  destitute  of  a  physician,  and 
as  the  inhabitants  are  subject  to  great  inconveniences  on  account  of 
the  distance  they  have  to  travel  in  order  to  procure  one,  and  being 
informed  by  Dr.  Hamlin  that  he  contemplates  settling  in  said  town, 
and  wishes  to  know  the  minds  of  the  people  in  this  respect,  we,  the 
subscribers,  hereby  testify  that  it  is  ngreeable  to  our  wishes  that  he 
should  settle  with  us,  and  tliat  we  Avill  contribute  all  that  we  can, 
consistently,  to  his  encouragement  so  far  as  his  prudent  conduct  and 
skill  in  liis  profession  shall  commend  him  to  our  esteem. 

Sylvanus  Boardmax. 

Ransom  Norton. 

William  Hurd. 
Livermore,  Sept.  1,  1795.  Isaac  Livermore." 

The  original  paper  (with  the  exception  of  some  of  the  names 
which  have  been  torn  off)  is  in  the  possession  of  Dr.  Hamlin's 
daughter,  Vesta,  the  widow  of  the  late  Dr.  Job  Holmes,  of  Calais. 

It  may  be  added,  that  the  people  of  the  town  of  svifficient  abil- 
ity agreed  to  board  the  doctor  and  his  horse  for  one  year  gratuitous- 
ly. Dr.  Hamlin  resided  in  Livermore  till  1805,  having  a  large 
practice  as  a  physician  and  enjoying  the  confidence  of  the  people.  He 
bought  a  form  of  Gen.  Learned,  near  to  that  occupied  by  the  latter, 
in  what  was  then,  practically,  the  center  of  the  town,  and  upon  its 
principal  thoroughfare,  and  erected  thereon  a  large  and  convenient 
two-storied  house.  It  was  a  spot  of  exceedingly  great  natural 
beauty  which  the  doctor  selected  for  his  home,  and  it  was  made 
more  pleasant  by  the  good  taste  which  prompted  him  and  Gen. 
Leai-ned  to  plant  a  long  row  of  elm  trees  u])on  the  line  of  the  road 
between  their  residences,  which  grew  amain  and  long  ago  became 
stately  and  beautiful.  So  long  as  these  grand  old  trees  shall  stand 
and  flourish  they  should  keep  the  names  of  those  who  planted  them 
in  fresh  and  grateful  remembrance. 

When  the  County  of  Oxford  was  incorporated,  it  found  Gen. 
Learned  and  Dr.  Hamlin  among  its  most  prominent  and  able  men, 
and  they  were  naturally  selected  for  its  principal  ofiicers.  The 
former  was  made  sheriff  and  the  latter  clerk  of  the  courts  for  the 
new  county.  But  while  Gen.  Learned's  office  permitted  him  to  con- 
tinue his  residence  in  Livermore,  Dr.  Hamlin's  required  his  removal 


HISTORY  OF  LivErv:\ror.E.  81 

to  the  sliirc  town.  And  so,  in  this  year,  he  sohl  liis  prf]tcvty  in 
Livc'i-niore  and  removed  to  P.'U'is.  Pie  was  atterwards  slieiitl^"  ot  tlic 
county.  He  died  Feb.  2,  1829.  Dr.  Hamlin  married  on  tlie  fourth 
of  December,  1797,  Anna,  daughter  of  Dea.  Elijali  Livermore.  She 
surA-ived  him  many  years,  dying  Aug.  25,  1852.  Tlieir  cliihh-en  were 
Elijah  Livermore  (a  son  of  tlie  same  name  liad  died  in  infancy  the 
year,  before),  Cyrus,  Elizn,  Anna,  Vesta.  Hannibal,  and  Hannah. 
Elijah  was  born  in  Livermore  March  29,  1800,  graduated  at  Brown 
Univeisity  1819,  and  practiced  hnv  for  several  years  at  Columbia,  in 
the  County  of  Washington.  During  his  residence  in  this  county  he 
was  .1  representative  in  the  legislature  from  his  town,  and  also  a 
State  senator.  He  moved  to  Bangor  in  the  year  1835,  and  resided 
there  until  his  death,  July  16,  1872.  While  a  resident  of  Bangor 
he  was  a  member  of  both  branches  of  the  legislature  of  Maine,  and 
land  agent  lor  the  State  for  the  years  1838  and  1841.  He  was  also 
a  mend:)er  of  the  executive  council  of  the  State,  and  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Bangor.  In  1848  and  1849  he  was  the  whig  candidate  for 
governor,  and  was  commissioner  under  the  treaty  with  Great  Britain 
of  1854  to  define  the  fishing  limits  between  the  two  countries.  The 
Maine  Historical  Society  lost  in  his  demise  one  of  its  most  valuable 
and  esteemed  members.  The  remark  made  by  Dr.  Bond,  in  his 
"  Genealogies,"  in  reference  to  his  grandfather  (and  who  he  is  said 
to  have  resembled,  especially  in  the  fine  vein  of  humor  which  made 
liis  society  so  delightful)  is  applicable  to  IMr.  Hamlin,  viz.:  "He  was 
a  man  of  great  Avorth."  Cyrus,  born  in  Livermore  July  16,  1802, 
was  educated  for  the  medical  profession,  and  received  his  degree  of 
M.  D.  at  Bowdoin  in  1828.  He  settled  in  Calais,  and  died  at  Gal- 
A'cston,  Texas,  whither  he  had  gone  for  the  benefit  of  his  health, 
jVIay,  1839.  ^ift'^a,  born  April  4,  1804,  was  unmarried.  Anna,  horn 
July  14,  1805,  married  Hon.  Daniel  Brown,  of  Waterford,  whom  she 
survives.  She  now  resides  in  Paris.  Vesta,  Avho  was  born  June  6, 
1808,  married  Dr.  Job  Holmes,  of  Calais,  jM.  D.  Bowdoin  College, 
1826.  Dr.  Holmes  settled  in  Calais  and  died  there  a  few  yeai-s 
since.  Hannibal  (LL.  D.),  was  born  in  Paris  Aug.  27,  1809,  settled 
in  Hampden,  Penobscot  County,  as  a  lawyer,  but  resides  now  in 
Bangor.  He  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  Maine  in  1836, 
1837,  1838,  1839,  1840,  and  1847,  presiding  as  speaker  of  the  house 
of  representatives  in  1837,  1839,  1840;  a  representative  from  Maine 
in  the  twenty-eighth  and  twenty-ninth  congresses ;  governor  of 
Maine  in  1857 ;   vice-president  of  the  United  States  from  1861  to 


82 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE. 


1865  ;  collector  of  the  port  of  Boston  in  18G5  and  1866;  U.  S.  sen- 
ator, elected  (1848)  for  four  years  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and  subsequent- 
ly elected  for  three  full  terms;  aid-de-camp  of  Governor  Fairfield  ; 
commissioner  of  schools  for  the  County  of  Penobscot,  and  commis- 
sioner of  the  Stnte  of  Maine  in  1861  and  1862  in  respect  to  her 
fortifications,  Hcmmtli  Livermore^  born  1814,  married  Dr.  Thomas 
B.  Townsend,  M.  D.  Bowdoin  College,  Avho  died  soon  after  his  mar- 
ri.'ige, 

Dk.  Cornelius  Holland  was  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  as 
a  jjhysician  for  a  few  years  after  1805.  His  home  was  at  Monroe's. 
He  finally  settled  at  Jay  (now  Canton)  Point,  where  he  had  an  ex- 
tensive jiriictice.  He  <lied  1871,  at  an  advanced  age.  He  was  twice 
elected  to  congress  from  the  Oxford  district. 

When  Dr.  Hamlin  removed  to  Paris  he  was  succeeded  by  Dr. 
Bp:njamin  Prescott,  a  son-in-law  of  Gen.  John  Chandler,  of  Mon- 
mouth. Dr.  Prescott  was  a  native  of  Winthrop,  and  had  a  good 
reputation  in  his  profession. 

In  1809,  he  sold  his  house  to  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford,  and  set- 
tled in  Dresden,  Me.,  and  afterwards  moved  to  Bath.  Dr.  Bradford 
moved  to  Livermore  in  August  of  that  year,  where  he  resided  till 
his  death  in  May,  1864,  at  the  age  of  eighty  years.  He  was  the  son 
of  Chandler  Bi-adford,  of  Tui'ner.  As  a  ])hysician,  he  was  careful 
and  judicious  and  had  a  large  practice;  as  a  man,  he  was  genial, 
wise,  ami  of  rare  humor;  as  a  citizen,  useful  and  honored.  He  Avas 
for  several  years  a  member  of  the  Maine  legislature  from  Livermore, 
and  in  1841  was  a  member  of  the  executive  council.  He  Avas  much 
esteemed  by  Governors  Lincoln  and  Kent,  witli  whom  he  was  in  in- 
timate relations,  fur  his  good  sense  and  admirable  colloquial  powers. 
He  was  the  treasurer  of  the  town  for  fifty-one  consecutive  years. 
Dr.  Bond,  in  his  letter  quoted  elsewhere,  speaks  of  him  in  terms  at 
once  api)reciative  and  just.  He  married  Martha  Bisbee,  whom  he 
survived  (she  having  died  in  1863),  and  by  whom  he  had  a  family  of 
thirteen  chihlren,  of  Avhom  the  following  survived  him:  Flora^ 
Avidow  of  Merritt  Coolidge,  Esq.,  a  merchant  of  Portland;  Osca^ 
Avidovv  of  John  W.  BigeloAV,  Esq.,  of  Livermore ;  Celia,  wife  of 
Maj.  Elisha  Coolidge,  of  Jay;  Henry  Bond,  farmer,  Avho  resides  on 
the  old  place,  and  two  years  after  the  death  of  his  father  was  elected 
town  treasurer,  which  oflice  he  has  held  ever  since;  Martha,  Avife  of 
Joseph  Locke,  Avho  lives  in  Minnesota ;  Algernon  Sidney,  a  fanner, 
Avho  also  lives  in  Minnesota. 


HISTOTIY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


83 


The  old  social  library,  which,  for  many  years,  furnished  excellent 
reading  to  the  families  of  the  subscribers,  was  kept  at  Dr.  Brad- 
ford's. There  were  in  it  a  goodly  number  of  valuable  books,  largely 
histories  and  travels — as  Hume,  Robertson,  Marshall,  Gordon, 
Bruce,  Brydone,  and  Lady  Mary  Wortley  Montague.  There  were 
also  on  its  shelves  Goldsmith's  works,  including  "  The  Earth  and 
Animated  Nature;"  The  Spectator,  in  eight  volumes,  and  other 
books  of  the  best  kinds.  The  modern  novel  had  no  place  there,  but 
the  works  of  Cervantes  and  Le  Sage  were  on  its  catalogue,  and  not 
seldom  in  the  hands  of  its  j^atrons;  and  the  doctor  had  a  private 
library — to  which  his  neighbors  had  access — not  large,  but  miich 
read.  A  man  of  quiet  but  excellent  humor,  he  had  no  books  which 
he  read  oftener  or  enjoyed  more  than  tlie  works  of  Laurence  Sterne, 
Dean  Swift's  Tale  of  a  Tub,  Knickerbocker's  History  of  New  York, 
and  the  poems  of  Peter  Pindar  and  George  Colman.  Tristram 
Shandy  furnished  an  inexhaustible  resoui'ce  for  quotation  and  illus- 
tration. Dr.  Bradford  was  pretty  regularly  supplied  by  Rufus  Pray, 
then  a  law  student  in  New  York,  with  Noah's  Advocate,  and  his 
neighbor,  the  storekeeper — whose  love  of  reading  possibly  exceeded 
liis  interest  in  the  shop,  and  who  found  more  pleasure,  it  may  be  ven- 
tured to  say,  in  Burns'  poems  than  in  day-book  or  ledger — was  a  sub- 
scriber to  the  JVeio  England  Galaxy,  edited  by  Joseph  T.  Buckingham. 
In  good  things  and  bright  sayings  these  papers  led  all  others  in  the- 
country.  If  Noah  excelled  in  humor,  Buckingham  was  unrivalled 
in  satire.  His  "attentions"  to  Alexis  Eustapheive,  the  Russian  con- 
sul at  Boston,  and  to  the  Rev.  John  Newland  Maffit,  with  his  Brom- 
field  Street  pranks,  afforded  these  neighbors  infinite  amusement. 

To  see  one  of  them  approaching  the  house  of  the  other  on  a 
stormy  day,  when  the  session  might  be  long  and  uninterrupted,  gave 
unbounded  pleasure  to  the  young  people  of  the  favored  household, 
who  iinderstood  well  what  was  coming — the  news  of  the  day,  the 
funny  sayings  of  Noah,  the  sharp  ones  of  Buckingham,  the  anecdote 
never  stale  however  often  repeated,  the  freshest  joke  of  the  neigh- 
borhood, the  body-shaking  laugh  of  the  genial  doctor,  the  more  ex- 
plosive one  of  his  companion — and  with  these,  at  not  infrequent 
intervals,  discourse  on  higher  themes,  earnest  discussions  of  topics 
political,  religious,  literary,  and  social,  wlien  Algernon  Sidney, 
Burke,  Jefferson,  Archbishop  Tillotson,  William  VYhiston,  Dr. 
Priestley,  Jonathan  Mayhcw,  the  dialogues  of  Elhanan  Winchester, 


84  HISTORY  OF  LIVETIMORE. 

Addison,  Goldsmltli,  or  Dr.  Johnson,  were  quoted  and  commented 
on. 

Sometimes  Capt.  Kendall  and,  perchance,  Capts.  Waters  and  Pray 
were  present  also,  and  at  such  times  the  discourse  was  more  likely 
to  be  political,  when  State  matters  and  public  men  were  discussed 
with  rare  intelligence  and  the  freedom  that  became  independent 
thinkers.  At  one  time,  the  theme  might  be  the  Missouri  comprom- 
ise and  John  Holmes'  connection  with  it,  or  the  separation  of  Maine 
from  Massachusetts  with  references  to  Mr.  Holmes'  theory  of  "  five- 
ninths;"  at  another,  it  would  be  the  controversies  of  the  Bucktails 
and  the  Clintonians  in  New  York,  or  the  "era  of  good  feeling," 
heralding  the  election  of  Dr.  Eustis  as  governor  of  Massachusetts  ; 
again,  it  would  refer  to  the  Panama  mission,  and  later  to  the  north- 
eastern boundary  qnestion,  and  the  lal)ors  of  their  honored  friend, 
P]noch  Lincoln,  the  chivalrous  governor,  whose  love  of  Maine  was 
so  earnest  and  so  touching.  Previous  to  the  new  departure  at  the 
close  of  Mr.  Monroe's  administration,  the  doctor,  the  storekeeper, 
and  Capt.  Waters  had  been  republicans,  and  the  other  captains,  fed- 
eralists; but  they  came  together  in  the  support  of  John  Quincy 
Adams,  for  president,  against  Mr.  Crawford  in  1824,  and  Gen.  Jack- 
son in  1828,  and  were  never  afterwards  divided  in  their  political 
views  or  party  atfiliations. 

When  theology  or  religion  was  the  topic,  as  was  not  schhjm  the 
case,  it  needed  no  great  discei-nment  to  discover  that  they  were  all 
stanch  adherents  of  the  Broad  Church,  reverent  in  feeling,  and  apt 
and  valiant  in  the  maintenance  of  its  views  and  doctrines. 

Of  these  neighbors,  since  the  recent  decease  of  Capt.  Pray  at  the 
age  of  eighty-five  years  and  twelve  days,  one  only — the  venerable 
Israel  Washburn,  the  storekeeper  and  long-time  magistrate — re- 
mains. While  he  is  nearly  blind  from  the  efiect  of  cataracts,  which 
began  to  be  a  source  of  inconvenience  about  fifteen  years  ago,  his 
general  health  is  excellent,  and  his  memory,  at  almost  fourscore  and 
ten,  is  remarkr.bly  active  and  distinct,  covering  things  new  and  old, 
and  small  as  well  as  great,  so  thoroughly  that  it  would  seem  no 
event  or  anecdote  of  which  he  ever  had  knowledge — from  the  day 
when  a  boy  of  five  years  he  advocated  the  adoption  of  the  federal 
C(mstitution,  against  Daniel  Wilbur,  to  the  general  election  in  1872, 
in  wliich  he  took  a  lively  interest — had  escaped  its  marvellous  grasp. 

Timothy  Howe  was  a  well-educated  physician  and  a  man  of 
much  intelligence.     He  came  to  Livermore  in  1814,  or  perhaps  earli- 


HISTORY  OF  LIYEEMOEE, 


85 


er.  In  November  of  that  year  lie  Avas  member  of  a  committee  to 
petition  the  legislature.  He  lived  at  the  village  in  1816,  and  soon 
afterwards  moved  to  Turner,  where  he  passed  the  rest  of  his  life. 
His  son,  Timothy  0.  Iloioe,  was  born  in  Livermore  Feb.  24,  1816. 
He  was  educated  to  the  bar,  settled  in  Readfield,  Kennebec  County, 
and  represented  that  town  in  the  State  legislature  in  1845.  He  em- 
igrated to  Wisconsin  soon  afterwards,  and  settled  at  Green  Bay, 
where  he  practiced  law  with  success,  and  was  judge  of  the  circuit 
and  supreme  courts  from  1850  until  his  resignation  in  1855.  In 
1861  he  was  elected,  and  in  1867  and  1873  re-elected,  to  the  United 
States  senate.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Francis  F.  Haines,  Esq., 
of  East  Livermore.  Z.  11.  Howe.,  postmaster  at  Monroe,  Wis.,  is 
also  a  son  of  Dr.  Timothy  Howe. 

Previous  to  the  division  of  the  town.  Dr.  William  Snow,  Dr. 
Charles  Millett,  Dr.  William  B.  Small,  Dr.  William  Cart 
(father  of  Annie  Louisa  Cary,  the  great  vocalist),  and  perhaps 
others  were  in  practice  on  the  east  side  of  the  river. 

De;  S.  B.  Morrison"  was  in  jDractice  at  the  village  for  several 
years.     Since  his  removal  Drs.  Barnard,  William  Drown,  Al- 
bert L.  Fbye,  J.  W.  Bridgham,  John  Ladd,  and  I.   C.  Dunham 
have  been  physicians  in  the  town. 
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86  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

NOTES    MISCELLANEOUS. 

Fkee  Masons. — Preliminary  steps  towards  the  organization  of  a 
Lodge  of  Masons  were  taken  in  March,  1811,  and  as  early  as  the  second 
day  of  July  of  that  year  intelligence  was  received  that  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts  had  .granted  the  petitioners  a  charter,  convey- 
ing full  powers  as  a  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  by  tlie  name 
of  Omental  Star  Lodge,  No.  21,  At  a  meeting  Apiil  21,  1812,  the 
charter,  bearing  date  June  IB,  1811,  and  of  masonry  5,811,  signed 
by  Timothy  Bigelow,  Grand  Master,  Francis  -J.  Oliver,  Senior  Grand 
Warden,  Benjamin  Russell,  Junior  Grand  Warden,  John  Proctor, 
Grand  Secretary,  Andrew  Sigourney,  Grand  Treasurer,  was  re- 
ceived. At  this  meeting  the  following  officers  of  the  Lodge  were 
chosen,  viz. :  Samuel  Small,  Master ;  William  H.  Brettun,  Senior 
Wai'den  ;  Simeon  Waters,  Junior  Warden  ;  Jesse  Stone,  Treasurer  ; 
Sylvester  Strickland,  Secretary.  Aug.  28,  1816,  "the  Lodge  was 
duly  constituted  and  solemnly  consecrated,  according  to  the  ancient 
usages  of  Masons,  by  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts." 
A  hall  for  its  accommodation  was  built  at  the  Corner  in  1818.  An 
act  of  incorporation  granting  the  right  to  hold  real  and  personal  es- 
tate was  passed  by  the  legislature  Feb.  10,  1823.  VVhile  the  Lodge 
was  kept  in  working  order  and  officers  were  generally  elected  from 
year  to  year,  no  work  was  done  from  February,  1829,  to  December, 
1843.  After  the  period  of  inaction,  superinduced  by  the  Morgan 
excitement,  had  passed,  the  Lodge  awoke  to  new  life,  and  has  since 
enjoyed  a  satisfactory  degree  of  prosperity.  Many  of  the  best  citi- 
zens of  Liverinore  and  neighboring  towns  have  been  connected  with 
it. 

In  a  compendious  and  model  History  of  the  Lodge,  recently  pub- 
lished, prepared  by  Hon.  Reuel  Washburn,  a  long-time  member,  and 
P.  G.  M.  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  some  notices  are  given  of 
the  original  members.  It  is  therein  said  that  Samuel  Small  was  by 
profession  a  physician,  who  in  the  prime  of  life  had  an  extensive 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 


87 


practice  and  the  confidence  of  his  patients,  and  who  as  a  man  had 
the  respect  of  his  fellow-citizens;  that  he  served  his  adopted  town 
in  the  legislatures  of  Massachusetts  and  Maine,  and  tlie  County  of 
Oxford  in  the  senate  of  Massachusetts  and  of  Maine,  and  was  also  a 
member  of  the  executive  council.  As  a  Mason  he  was  a  devoted 
friend,  and  well  posted  in  the  lectures  and  work.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  eighty-three  years.  Oriental  Star  Lodge  have  great  reason 
to  respect  his  memory.     Others  are  mentioned  as  follows: 

"William  Henry  Brettun  was  an  active  business  man,  who 
amassed  a  large  property. 

Simeon  Waters  was  a  saddle  and  harness  maker  by  trade,  but 
has  always  given  some  attention  to  farming.  He  has  been  several 
times  elected  representative  from  the  town  of  Livermore  in  the  leg- 
islature of  Massachusetts. 

Sylvester  Strickland  was  a  trader  and  merchant. 

Oliver  Pollard  was  a  trader  and  innholder. 

Isaac  Livermore  was  a  well-educated  gentleman — lived  on  a  farm 
— health  feeble — could  not  do  much  labor,  but  was  poj^ular  as  a 
magistrate,  and  did  considerable  business  in  that  line. 

Libeus  Leach  was  a  farmer. 

Ithamar  Phinney  was  a  farmer. 

James  Johnston  was  a  foreigner,  an  Irishman,  engaged  in  farming. 
He  had  a  diploma  duly  authenticated  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ire- 
land. 

Isaac  Root  was  a  minister  of  the  gospel. 

James  Waite  was  ar  blacksmith. 

Aaron  S.  Barton  was  a  housewright. 

Jesse  Stone  was  a  tanner  and  innholder — very  much  beloved. 

Dexter  Walker  Avas  a  farmer  and  deputy-sheriff. 

Cornelius  Holland  was  a  physician  with  large  practice.  He  has 
had  the  confidence  of  his  constituents  in  a  high  degree.  Has  been 
twice  elected  to  the  senate  of  Maine  from  Oxford  County,  and  twice 
elected  representative  in  the  congress  of  the  United  States  from  the 
same  county.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  convention  that  framed 
our  State  constitution,  and  represented  the  town  of  Canton  the  first 
two  sessions  of  the  legislature." 

Dr.  Small  was  a  resident  of  Jay,  as  were  Rev.  Moses  Stone,  Still- 
man  Noyes  and  Joseph  Covill,  Esqs.,  gentlemen  of  great  worth  and 
respectability,  and  active  Masons,  whose  loss  was  sincerely  mourned 
by  their  brethren  and  their  fellow-citizens  generally. 


88  HISTORY   OF  LIVEEMORE. 

Dr.  Holland  was  of  Canton.  This  "venerable  and  much  respected 
brother  died  at  his  late  residence"  on  the  second  of  June,  1870,  aged 
eighty-six  years,  ten  months,  and  twenty-four  days. 

MINISTERIAL  AND  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 
The  lands  reserved  in  tlie  grant  of  the  town  for  ministerial  and 
school  purposes  were  sold  many  years  ago,  and  the  proceeds  were 
placed  in  the  charge  of  trustees.  The  interest  on  these  funds  may 
be  used  from  year  to  year.  Upon  the  division  of  the  town,  the  pro- 
portion equitably  belonging  to  East  Livermore  was  paid  over  to  that 
town.  The  income  of  the  ministerial  fund  is  apportioned  annually 
to  the  several  religious  societies,  according  to  the  dii-ection  given  by 
the  legal  voters  to  the  assesssors. 

POSTMASTERS  AND  MAIL  CARRIERS. 

The  first  postmaster  in  town  was  Dr.  Benjamin  Prescott,  and  the 
next  was  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford.  When,  about  1830,  Dr.  Bradford 
removed  to  the  farm  Avhich  he  had  purchased  of  Alexander  Kincaid, 
Isaac  Strickland  was  appointed  postmaster,  and  after  he  had  held 
the  office  for  a  few  years  it  was  removed  to  the  village,  where  it  has 
since  been  kept,  and  where  there  have  been  several  postmasters,  the 
pi'esent  being  G.  T.  Piper. 

Offices  were  subsequently  established  at  North  Livermore,  Liver- 
more  Center,  and  South  Livermore.  Reuel  Washburn  was  the  first 
postmaster  at  North  Livermore ;  Jesse  Stone  the  second;  the  post- 
master at  this  time  is  Roscoe  Coding.  The  postmaster  at  Liver- 
more Center  is  John  Bigelow ;  at  South  Livermore,  Job  Chase. 

The  first  mail  carrier  (1806)  was  Josiah  Smith.  His  route  was 
from  Portland,  via  New  Gloucester  and  Turner,  to  Livermore,  re- 
turning by  way  of  Hartford,  Buckfield,  and  Paris,  and  making  the 
round  trip  once  a  Aveek.  Previous  to  this  time  John  Walker  had 
for  many  years  visited  Portland  weekly,  as  a  sort  of  expressman, 
carrying  and  bringing  packages,  doing  errands,  and  taking  and 
bringing  letters  to  and  from  the  nearest  post-office  on  his  route. 

A  post  route  was  established,  after  the  close  of  the  war  of  1812, 
from  Readfield,  by  way  of  Livermore,  to  Farmington,  and  Jedediah 
White  was  the  first  post  rider  thereon.  In  1826,  a  route  from 
Brunswick  was  established,  and  "post"  Chase  was  the  first  carrier 
of  the  mails  on  it.  For  two  years  previous  to  this  time,  Joseph 
Griffin,  of  Brunswick,  had  maintained  a  mail  route  from  Brunswick 


HISTOKY  OF  LIVERMOEE.  89 

to  Jay,  principally  for  the  distribiitioa  of  the  3£aine  Baptist  Herald^ 
of  which  he  was  the  publisher.  The  Readfield  and  Farmington  line 
was  discontinued  before  1830,  and  routes  opened  and  mails  put  on 
which  supplied  its  place.  One  route  was  from  Augusta  to  Dixfield  ; 
another  was  from  Portland  to  Farmington,  on  both  of  which  the 
mails  were  taken  in  coaches,  or  stages,  as  they  were  called. 

CENTENARIANS. 

Although  there  have  been  a  good  many  men  and  women  in  town 
who  have  lived  to  be  more  than  ninety  years  old,  only  two  have 
reached  an  age  not  bounded  by  a  century  of  years.  Tliey  are  Capt. 
David  Hinklet,  and  Sarah,  widow  of  Jesse  Kidder.  Capt. 
Hinkley  was  born  in  Bath,  Me.,  Jan.  8,  1766.  His  father  moved  to 
Hallowell  and  settled  ou  Hinkley's  plain — from  whom  it  derived  its 
name — in  1775.  Capt.  Hinkley  well  remembered  the  passing  of 
Arnold's  expedition,  in  September  of  that  year,  up  the  Kennebec 
en  route  to  Quebec.  This  occurrence  was  the  more  distinctly  im- 
pressed upon  his  memory,  from  the  fact  that  a  fine  patch  of  water- 
melons, which  he  had  himself  planted,  was  robbed  by  Arnold's  men. 
He  settled  in  Livermore  in  1805,  and  died  here  December,  1867, 
having  reached  the  great  age,  lacking  a  few  days,  of  one  hundred 
and  two  years.  He  voted  for  Washington  for  president  at  the  first 
election  under  the  constitution,  being  then  twenty-three  years  old, 
and  he  voted  at  every  subsequent  presidential  election  that  was  held 
during  his  life.  His  last  presidential  vote  was  for  Abraham  Lincoln 
in  1864.  Tlie  following  notes  referring  to  Capt.  Hinkley  and  his 
times  are  copied  from  the  journal  of  a  family  residing  in  Livermore  : 

"  He  was  an  intelligjent  man  and  a  o:ood  citizen.  He  voted  for 
Washington  at  the  first  election  of  president  under  the  constitution, 
and  voted  at  every  presidential  election  since.  In  September  last 
(1867)  he  rode  six  miles  to  vote  for  Governor  Chamberlain,  and 
a  few  days  before  he  died  expressed  a  hope  that  he  might  live  to 
vote  for  Gen.  Grant  for  president. 

Benjamin  Franklin  was  in  the  vigor  of  his  years,  and  George 
Washington  was  a  young  man  of  thirty-four,  when  Capt.  Hinkley 
was  born.  Wolfe  had  fallen  at  Quebec  but  a  little  more  than  six 
years  before,  and  Gray's  Elegy,  which  Wolfe  recited  the  night  before 
he  fell,  had  just  been  published.  Dr.  Johnson  was  maintaining  that 
taxation  was  no  tyranny,  and  the  first  Pitt  was  still  the  grandest 
figure  in  the  house  of  lords. 


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HISTORY   OF  LIVERMOEE. 


How  much  came  to  pass,  how  many  things  were  done,  within  the 
limits  bounded  by  the  life  of  this  venerable  man!  Will  the  little 
one  of  to-day,  who  shall  live  till  1967,  see  as  much  accomplished 
within  his  time?  Will  he  measure  improvement  in  morals,  progress 
in  science,  art,  literature,  in  religious  ideas,  in  government,  in  mate- 
rial helps,  equal  to  those  witnessed  in  the  lifetime  of  Capt.  Hink- 
ley  ?  Will  the  turnpike,  the  steamboat,  the  railroad,  the  photograph, 
the  telegraph,  be  superseded  by  achievements  as  much  greater  than 
they  as  they  are  better  than  what  they  displaced?  Will  our  chil- 
dren travel  from  Livermore  to  the  'Hub'  in  half  an  hour,  and  from 
the  'Hub'  to  the  moon  in  half  a  day?" 

Mrs.  Kidder,  daughter  of  Dea.  Ebenezer  Humphrey,  a  prominent 
citizen  of  Oxford,  Mass.,  was  born  Oct.  30,  1771.  She  married  Jesse 
Kidder  of  the  same  town.  They  came  to  Livermore  in  1802,  to 
which  place  her  brother,  Peter  Humphrey,  had  previously  moved. 
They  settled  on  the  form  under  the  hill  about  half  a  mile  west  of 
that  of  Gen.  Learned,  and  where  Mr.  Kidder  died  in  August,  1857. 
Mrs.  Kidder  is  now  (1874)  living  with  John  White,  whose  wife  is  a 
distant  relative,  upon  the  farm  on  which  she  has  resided  for  more 
than  seventy  years.  She  is  very  deaf,  but  although  in  her  one  hun- 
dred and  third  year  her  health  is  remarkably  good,  and  her  face 
smooth  and  fair  as  a  girl's. 

FERRIES. 

The  first  ferry  opened  was  below  the  farm  now  owned  by  Col. 
Lewis  Hunton,  in  the  neighborhood  of  Tolia walla.  It  was  called 
Wing's  Ferry.  In  a  few  years  it  was  ajiparent  that  it  Avas  not  on 
the  line  of  any  of  the  principal  highways  necessary  for  the  accom- 
modation of  the  residents  of  the  town,  and  it  was  abandoned,  and 
a  ferry,  formerly  Fuller's  but  now  called  Hillman's  Ferry,  was 
established  at  the  Intervale,  Another  ferry  was  opened  below  and 
near  the  Falls,  and  yet  another  at  Lieut.  Benjamin's.  This  last- 
named  ferry  was  discontinued  some  forty  years  ago,  and  a  ferry  was 
opened  in  the  southerly  part  of  Tollawalla,  called  first  Norris'  and 
afterwards  Strickland's  Ferry.  The  Androscoggin,  being  a  river 
that  rises  rapidly  and  to  a  great  height  in  freshets,  and  the  cross- 
ings being  unfavorable  for  the  maintenance  of  bridges  on  the  line  of 
the  principal  highways,  no  bridge  was  erected  across  the  river  Avith- 
in  the  town  until  about  1850,  when  one  was  built  at  the  Falls.  It 
was  carried  oW  in  the  freshet  of  1870,  but  was  rebuilt  in  1872. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE.  91 

KAILROADS. 

There  is  no  railroad  in  Livermore,  but  the  Androscoggin  Rail- 
road, now  a  branch  of  tlie  Maine  Central  Railroad,  extending  from 
Leeds  Junction  to  Farmington,  runs  upon  the  East  Livermore  side 
of  the  river  the  entire  length  of  the  former  town,  and  near  its  east- 
ern boundary.  A  charter,  however,  has  been  obtained  for  a  road  to 
extend  from  Lewiston,  via  Auburn,  North  Auburn,  Turner,  North 
Turner,  Livermore,  Canton,  and  Dixfield,  to  Rumford  Falls.  This 
road,  as  far  at  least  as  Livermore,  is  likely  to  be  built  at  an  early 
day.  Traversing  a  productive  farming  territory  and  passing  sevei'al 
thriving  villages,  as  this  road  will,  when  built,  it  will  constitute  an 
important  and  valuable  feeder  to  whichever  of  the  roads  leading 
rom  Lewiston  to  Portland  it  shall  be  connected  with.  Whether  it 
shall  be  united  with  the  Maine  Central  road  or  with  the  Grand 
Trunk  road,  a  branch  will  doubtless  be  built  from  Livermore  vil- 
lage to  the  Falls. 

CHANGES— THE  SITUATIOlSr. 

The  town  is  no  longer  in  many  respects  what  it  was  thirty  or 
forty  years  ago.  Its  families  have  changed  ;  old  ^miliar  names  ai'e 
no  longer  familiar;  old  customs,  habits,  and  ways  of  working, 
thinking,  and  speaking  have  passed  away,  and  new  ones  have  taken 
their  places.  Much  that  could  not  well  be  spared  has  been  lost. 
The  era  of  the  picturesque,  the  humorous — it  will  not  do,  remem- 
bering the  civil  war,  to  say  the  chivalrous — is  perhaps  past.  The 
shoemaker,  and  his  poor  relation,  the  cobbler,  the  traveling  tailor  and 
seamstress,  the  fulling-mill  and  carding  machine,  the  "potash,"  the 
quilting,  the  husking,  the  paring  bee,  and,  it  may  be  feared,  the 
spelling  school,  are  things  of  history,  and  seldom  anything  more. 
They  have  felt  the  inevitable  law ;  but  his  claims  to  be  a  philosopher 
will  not  be  readily  admitted  who  denies  that  the  operation,  of  this 
law  is  on  the  whole  for  improvement  and  progress,  and  for  improve- 
ment and  progress  here  in  Livermore  as  well  as  elsewhere.  Doubt- 
less, the  emigration  to  other  places  of  so  many  active  and  intelligent 
young  men  and  women  as  the  town  has  spared  in  these  later  years 
is,  in  many  respects,  to  be  regretted;  but  there  are  considerations 
which  will  not  be  overlooked  whenever  the  subject  of  Ihese  losses  is 
presented,  and  which  will  suggest  that  they  are  not  wholly  irrepara- 
ble. The  exodus  of  young  men  from  the  town  has  been  materially 
repaired  by  the  introduction  of  labor-saving  implements  and  expedi- 


9.2  HISTOEY  OF  LIVEEMOEE. 

ents,  and  especially  by  railroads.  The  annual  jDroduct,  though 
varied  in  kind  somewhat  from  what  it  was  forty  years  ago,  is  as  con- 
siderable in  amount,  and  of  greatly  increased  value,  whether  meas- 
ured in  money  or  by  its  power  to  purchase  commodities  of  necessity, 
convenience,  and  luxury. 

The  practice  of  the  farmer  now  is  to  sell  at  home  for  cash,  and 
many  articles  which  formerly  had  no  marketable  value  now  yield  a 
handsome  profit.  Formerly,  the  markets  were  Hallowell,  Bath,  and 
Portland,  principally  the  last.  The  average  farmer  would,  in  the 
course  of  a  winter,  go  to  market  three  or  four  times.  His  pung, 
drawn  by  a  single  horse,  would  take  a  load  of  eight  or  nine  hundred 
pounds,  and  the  trip  would  occupy,  if  the  last-named  towns  were 
the  markets  visited,  three  days.  A  dressed  hog,  a  tub  or  two  of 
butter,  half  a  dozen  cheeses,  a  keg  of  cider  api^le-sauce,  a  hundred 
pounds  of  dried  apples,  and  perhaps  a  few  chickens  or  turkeys 
would  fjrm  a  not  unusual  assortment,  and  would  make  a  reasonable 
load  for  a  single  horse  to  draw  over  a  highway  so  uneven  and  snow- 
blocked  as  the  farmer  would  be  likely  to  find.  The  contents  of  his 
pung  Avould,  ordinarily,  bring  him  not  over  fifty  dollars,  half  in  cash 
and  half  in  goods.  The  money  paid  out  on  the  trip  would  be  not 
far  from  three  dollars.  Net  result :  cash,  $22.00 ;  goods,  barter 
price,  125.00,  cash  price,  $20.00=142.00.  To-day  the  same  articles 
would  yield  him  at  his  door  at  least  $125.00  cash.  But  the  change 
to  the  farmer's  advantage  does  not  stop  here.  Not  only  does  he  re- 
ceive nearly  three  dollars  where  forty  years  ago  he  received  one,  for 
such  products  of  the  farm  as  have  been  mentioned,  but  other  prod- 
ucts, which  at  that  time  had  no  sale,  because  they  would  not  bear 
transportation,  are  now  important  sources  of  income.  Potatoes,  ap- 
ples, and  green  corn  for  canning  may  be  mentioned  in  this  category. 
It  is  a  poor  yield  that  does  not  give  more  than  one  hundred  bushels 
of  potatoes  to  the  acre,  and  an  exceptional  year  when  they  cannot 
be  sold  on  the  farm  or  at  the  neighboring  station  for  fifty  cents  a 
bushel.  Apples,  which  are  cheaply  and  extensively  raised,  are 
worth  from  two  to  five  dollars  a  barrel  at  home — an  average  for  ten 
years  not  falling  below  three  dollars.  Green  corn,  where  a  canning 
house  is  not  too  far  oif,  will  return  a  j^rofit  of  fifty  dollars  to  the 
acre;  it  sometimes  yields  a  hundred. 

Compare  these  returns  with  the  best  the  firmer  knew  when  Enoch 
Lincoln  was  governor,  or  with  the  best  the  firmer  in  Wisconsin, 
Iowa,  or  Minnesota  realizes  to-day,  and  it  will  be  seen  how  little 


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real  occasion  our  industrious  farmers  have  for  complaining  of  their 
lot.  Forty  years  ago  the  majority  of  the  farmers  were  in  debt  and 
in  frequent  correspondence  with  attorneys  and  deputy-sheriifs. 
Now,  a  farmer  in  debt  is  the  exception.  The  rule  is  that  he  has 
government  bonds,  a  deposit  in  a  savings  bank,  or  a  permanent  in- 
vestment in  Northern  Pacific,  or  some  other  western,  railroad  obli- 
gation. 

It  is,  unfortunately,  true  that  in  too  many  instances  he  has  failed 
to  invest  his  surplus  funds,  "  where  they  would  do  most  good" — in 
his  farm,  fences,  and  buildings.  But  he  may  comfort  himself,  if  he 
has  sufficient  philosophy  or  patriotism,  with  the  reflection  that  what 
he  has  robbed  his  farm  of  has  gone  to  build  railroads  and  cities  in 
distant  States  and  that,  though  the  sight  of  his  money  shall  never 
again  gladden  his  eyes,  it  has  not  been  wholly  lost  to  the  country. 

But,  notwithstanding  these  mistakes,  this  farmer  is  better  off  than 
his  father  or  grandfather  was,  and  would  not  wisely  exchange  places 
with  any  other  in  the  east  or  in  the  west.  Thirty  millions  of  dollars 
in  the  savings  banks  of  the  State,  and  a  sum  still  larger  in  other 
sound  investments,  by  those  whom  he,  and  men  of  toil  in  other  lines, 
represent,  is  not  a  showing  that  implies  pauperism  in  our  rural  dis- 
tricts, or  postulates  their  early  and  complete  desertion. 

But  Avith  'these  gains  of  the  modern  farmer  he  must  submit  to  one 
loss,  serious  and  irremediable — the  old-time  marketings,  so  packed 
with  fun,  frolic,  and  Jceen  enjoyment,  when  a  dozen  neighbors  would 
set  out  in  company  with  their  train  of  pungs  for  the  market  town. 
The  cold  might  be  piercing,  the  winds  boisterous,  and  the  roads 
filled  with  drifts,  but  sooner  or  later  the  Avayside  inn,  with  its  glow- 
ing hearthstone  and  its  ruby  landlord,  was  reached  ;  the  horses  were 
carefully  blanketed  and  fed ;  their  drivers,  who  were  their  owners, 
were  seated  around  the  blazing  fire,  raiding  with  unaffected  sharp- 
ness upon  the  doughnuts  and  other  contents  of  their  "mitchin" 
boxes,  while  the  genial  warmth  of  the  chimney,  assisted,  perhaps,  by 
sometliing  comfortable  from  the  "bar,"  would  elicit  from  Capt. 
Leavitt  the  admission  that  it  was  "moderating;"  to  which  the  bluff 
and  hearty  host  would  respond:  " Hang  it,  Leavitt,  were  you  ever 
here  when  it  didn't  mo^era^e?"  and  the  echoing  laugh,  the  joke — 
the  story,  whose  humor  was  keen  and  true — went  round,  until  the 
time  for  dejxarture  was  at  hand  when  the  frugal  bills  were  paid,  coats 
were  buttoned,  comforters  adjusted,  and  hearty  "good-byes"  said 
by  guests  and  host. 


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The  variety  store,  at  the  Mills,  the  Corner,  or  the  Hillside,  is  no 
longer  the  attraction — at  once  shop,  exchange,  and  loafer's  retreat — 
that  it  was  formerly ;  the  lawyer  has  ceased  to  be  counsellor,  men- 
tor, oracle ;  and  the  doctor,  who  was  so  wise  as  to  be  looked  up  to 
with  admiration  bordering  u])on  awe,  walks  with  his  neighbors,  side 
by  side,  in  the  light  of  common  day.  There  shines  no  more,  at 
night,  the  cheerful  taper  in  the  tiny  window  of  the  shoemakers  tiny 
shop,  and  the  fires  of  the  blacksmith,  in  more  than  half  the  forges 
where  years  ago  they  were  wont  to  burn,  have  been  extinguished, 
never  to  be  rekindled.  The  unity  and  solidarity  of  the  town — its 
independence,  its  sufficiency  within  itself  for  almost  every  occasion 
and  every  need,  and  the  society  which  these  conditions  j^roduced — 
are  things  that  Avere.  Men  grieve  that  they  can  be  no  more;  and 
then,  in  healthier  mood,  they  ask  themselves  whether,  if  they  could, 
they  would  bring  them  back  at  the  expense  of  the  things  by  which 
they  have  been  supplanted  or  succeeded. 

No  longer  isolated  and  self-dependent,  the  people  reach  to  and 
feel  the  world  without,  and  the  world  without  touches  and  visits 
them.  Commodities,  manners,  and  modes  of  thought  are  ex- 
changed, and  the  free  circulation  improves  and  benefits  both 
parties — twice  blessed,  like  the  quality  of  mercy.  The  hats, 
boots,  and  coats  of  men,  the  dresses  and  bonnets  of  women, 
are  at  once  better,  cheaper,  and  more  comely  and  tasteful 
than  they  were  when  they  were  fiishioned  and  wrought  at  home. 
The  taste  is  educated ;  the  thrifty  farmer  is  no  mere  boor,  and  if  he 
wants  something  of  the  ease  of  the  city,  he  makes  it  up  by  superior 
intelligence.  The  way  is  opened  for  every  man  to  do  the  best  the 
thing  he  can  the  best  do.  And  woman,  too,  is  no  longer  shut  out 
from  the  occupations  and  competitions  of  the  world.  Her  right  to 
labor  and  grow  strong,  wise,  useful,  and  beautiful  finds  room  to 
express  itself  under  these  new  conditions  as  it  could  never  find  be- 
fore. And  thus,  under  the  combined  influence  of  the  division  of 
occupations  and  the  commingling  of  individuals,  of  the  separation 
of  industries  and  the  intertwining  of  interests,  the  world's  work  of 
material  development,  of  social  gain,  of  culture  and  civilization  goes 
on,  and  the  town's  work,  too. 

If  three  or  four  farms,  each  unprofitable  when  managed  and 
worked  for  the  usual  variety  of  crops,  being  adapted  to  only  one  or 
two  kinds,  are  united  to  make  one  large  sheep  or  dairy  farm,  and  are 
worked  with  profit,  the  town  surely  loses  nothing  by  the  change,  un- 


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95 


less  the  decrease  of  its  pauper  list  be  deemed  a  loss.  The  self-sus- 
taining, profitable  form  requires  in  the  end  more  hands,  affords 
better  wages,  and  educates  to  higher  skill  than  the  half  dozen 
starveling  homes  could  do.  This  process  of  sorting  and  sifting;  this 
policy  of  giving  farms  over  to  the  crops  or  uses  for  which  they  are 
best  adapted,  of  finding  out  Avhat  they  were  made  for  and  respecting 
the  answer,  of  treating  natui'e  as  an  ally  rather  than  as  an  enemy, 
are  going  on  and  will  go  on  despite  all  the  efforts  that  may  be  made 
to  arrest  or  defeat  them.  Enough  is  known  of  this  town  to  make  it 
plain  to  intelligent  husbandmen  that  it  affords  opportunities  for  the 
successful  prosecution  of  their  work.  Its  sky  and  soil,  ordained,  as 
it  should  seem,  for  producing  an  apple  as  closely  fibred  and  as  richly 
flavored,  as  juicy  and  long-keeping  as  is  raised  in  any  ly^vt  of  Amer- 
ica; by  whose  chemistry  the  grasses  of  these  hills  are  constrained  to 
furnish  material  for  cheese  such  as,  when  made  by  skilful  hands,  leads 
in  all  the  markets  where  it  has  been  introduced ;  which  give  to  In- 
dian corn  a  peculiar  and  unequalled  fitness  and  value  for  purposes 
of  canning  and  preservation;  and  to  the  potato  a  brittle  jacket  and 
a  liberal  harvest-home,  are  their  backers  and  guarantors ;  and  better 
ones,  more  reliable,  more  certain  to  respond  upon  demand  and 
notice,  will  scarcely  be  found  anywhere. 


96  HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE. 


CHAPTER    IX. 

CONTRIBUTIONS    AND    REMINISCENCES. 

]My  Alma  Mater — Her  Students^  Professors,  and  Patrons,  by 
"  Uncle  John." — The  first  school-house  in  the  Doctor  Bradford 
district  Avas  built  about  the  beginning  of  the  century.  It  was  an 
old-fashioned  square  building,  with  a  hipi^ed  roof,  and  was  never 
painted ;  it  stood  on  the  same  spot  where  the  present  school-house 
stands.  The  master's  desk  was  on  the  east  side  of  the  room  be- 
tween two  enormous  fire-places,  where  wood  was  burned  daily  by 
the  cord.  Wood  then  cost  nothing  but  hauling,  and  great  havoc 
was  made  in  its  consumption.  The  scholars  took  turns  in  building 
the  fires;  there  was  some  emulation  as  to  Avho  could  keep  the  best 
fires.  It  might  have  been  in  the  summer  of  1820  or  1821  that  a 
violent  tornado  took  the  school-house  in  its  track  and  blew  ofi"  a 
part  of  the  roof  into  the  field  near  by,  and  levelled  all  the  fences  on 
both  sides  of  the  road.  I  remember  to  have  rather  enjoyed  it,  es- 
pecially in  going  home  through  the  puddles,  where  a  score  of 
urchins  had  great  fun,  wading  to  their  knees.  The  old  school-house 
finally  came  to  the  humiliation  of  being  converted  into  a  wood- 
liouse,  and  afterwards  it  was  very  near  being  destroyed  by  fire. 

Jane  Monroe  was  the  first  school-ma'am,  within  my  remembrance, 
who  pointed  out  to  the  very  smallest  scholars  the  A,  B,  C,  with  a 
white-handled  penknife.  She  was  not  a  relative  of  the  two  or  three 
families  of  that  name  living  in  the  district.  Her  father  was  a 
Scotchman,  who  came  to  this  country  with  Hugh  Orr,  a  man  of  con- 
siderable prominence  in  Bridgewater,  in  the  old  colony.  She  kej^t 
the  school  four  summers,  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  the  elders  and 
benefit  of  the  children.  Unfortunately,  for  the  neighborhood,  she 
ventured  one  day  to  go  to  Connecticut  on  a  visit,  and  happily,  for 
herself,  made  the  acquaintance  of  a  very  estimable  gentleman  by  the 
name  of  Boyd,  to  Avhom  she  was  soon  married.  She  never  taught 
the  A,  B,  C,  with  the  "  white-handled  penknife,"  to  any  children  but 
her  own  any  more.     Her  regard  for  the  people  did  not  cease  with 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE.  97 

herrcmoAal.  She  continued  to  make  periodical  visits  to  the  old 
school  district,  and  took  a  deej)  interest  in  her  young  j;ui)ils,  and  I 
believe  I  am  safe  in  saying  that  they  were  influenced  for  good  by 
her  kind  and  judicious  instruction.  She  was  a  jierson  of  intelligence 
and  culture,  and  of  great  sweetness  of  temper  and  manners,  and  is 
remembered  and  spoken  of  to-day,  by  the  few  now  living  about  the 
old  school-house,  with  peculiar  interest  and  afiiection. 

After  Miss  Monroe  came  Abigail  Talbot,  from  Turner.  She  was 
an  excellent  teacher,  and  kept  two  or  three  summers.  She  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Cordelia  Allen,  of  Hartford,  a  well-educated  and  accepta- 
ble teacher,  who  incurred  the  displeasure  of  "Uncle"  Zach 
Chickering  for  receiving  the  addresses  of  his  brother,  who  he  seems 
to  have  destined  to  be  his  companion  in  bachelorhood.  Miss  Allen 
married  George  W.  Jones,  a  respectable  man,  and  moved  to  Penob- 
scot County. 

Afterwards,  Susan  Chandler,  of  Wayne,  an  excellent  instructress, 
and  a  very  pleasant  and  popular  young  lady,  kept  the  school.  Miss 
Lucy  Howe,  daughter  of  Doctor  Howe,  and  sister  to  Hon.  Timothy 
O.  Howe,  U.  S.  senator  from  Wisconsin — who  kept  the  school  one  or 
two  winters,  perhaps  about  the  time  his  sister  was  keeping  in  the 
summer — followed  Miss  Chandler. 

The  writer  had  graduated,  with  all  the  schooling  it  w\as  ever  his 
good  or  evil  fortune  to  receive,  previous  to  Tim's  experience  in  the 
district,  but  he  well  remembers  seeing  him  during  his  school-master 
experience,  tall  and  angular  in  person,  with  an  amiable  and  benig- 
nant expression,  and  strongly  resembling  his  father,  the  doctor,  who 
was  a  popular  and  genial  gentleman. 

I  do  not  remember  much  of  Perkins,  the  first  master  in  the  new 
school-house.  Nathaniel  Haynes,  son  of  Elder  John  Haynes,  might 
have  followed  Perkins.  He  became  a  lawyer  and  politician,  and  set- 
tled in  Bangor. 

E.  F.  Deane  came  on  about  this  time.  Deane  was  afterwards  a 
lawyer,  and  settled  in  Gardiner.  He  kept  three  or  four  winters.  He 
was  a  hard  disciplinarian,  and  was  charged  with  inflicting  capital 
punishment  upon  the  younger  boys  as  a  sort  of  terror  to  the  big  boys 
on  the  "back  seats."  He  had  an  enormous  ferrule,  made  of  bird's-eye 
maple,  and  I  remember  his  cruelly  ferruling  Jacob  Childs,  a  weak 
and  inoffensive  person,  incapable  of  a  misdemeanor,  because  he  did 
not  dare  to  thrash  the  guilty  parties.  I  never  entirely  forgave  him 
for  this  cowardly  performance,  and  I  think  he  lost  favor  with  the 


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ham.lsome  girls  in  the  school,  who  detect  a  cowardly  man  with  un- 
erring instinct,  and  no  doubt  he  was  punished  by  an  uj^braiding  con- 
science for  many  a  long  day.* 

Oakes  Thompson  succeeded  Mr.  Deane  and  was  an  acceptable 
master.  He  gave  a  good  deal  of  attention  to  declamation,  and  his 
recitation  from  Pope's  Homer,  commencing 

"  Aurora,  now  fau-  daughter  of  the  dawn," 

was  the  special  admiration  of  the  boys;  yet  it  never  received  the 
favor  that  was  afterwards  accorded  to  John  Monroe's  "Hohenlin- 
den,"  "  Again  to  battle,  Achians,"  and  "  The  Highlander."  Among 
the  incidents  of  Mr.  Thompson's  school  I  remember  the  follow- 
ing :  A  class,  consisting  of  a  young  man  and  a  small  boy, 
was  called  out  for  recitation  in  geography.  The  answers,  as  laid 
down  in  the  book,  were  given,  the  last  of  which  (referring  to  the 
position  of  the  Island  of  St.  Helena)  having  been  correctly  made  by 
the  boy,  the  master  inquired  of  the  elder  scholar,  "  What  great  man 
was  imprisoned  there?"  "I  have  not  got  so  far  as  that"  was  the 
response.  Not  far  from  this  time  the  same  boy  and  a  girl  of  about 
his  age  were  reciting  a  lesson  from  one  of  the  grammars  of  the 
period,  in  which,  in  opposite  columns,  names  were  set  down,  repre- 
senting the  masculine  and  feminine  genders,  as 

Man  Woraau 

Boy  Girl 

Husband  Wife 

Uncle  Aunt 

the  boy  giving  the  first  and  the  girl  the  second  column.  The  re- 
sponses proceeded  till  the  last,  when  the  boy  having  said  "  uncle," 
the  girl  promptly  answered  "  pismire,"  bringing  a  suffusion  to  the 
master's  cheeks  and  an  audible  "snicker,"  such  as  only  the  old-time 
country  school  could  give,  from  the  boys  and  girls. 

Lyman  Rawson,  afterwards  judge  of  probate  for  Oxford  County, 
Hiram  Bradbury,  John  Monroe,  Jr.,  and  Samuel  Dinsmore,  now  or 
formerly  an  M.  D.  in  Piscataquis  County,  were  among  the  subsequent 
masters  of  tliis  school  during  the  winters  that  covered  my  curricu- 


*Our  conti-ibutor  is  rather  severe  on  Mr.  Deane,  who  was  one  of  the  best  masters  the  school 
ever  had,  and  enjoyed  the  respect  and  confidence  of  the  parents  in  an  eminent  degree.  Ho 
was  a  member  of  Howdoin  CoHege  at  the  time  of  his  scliool-keeping  in  Livermore.  After  his 
graduation  he  studied  law,  in  Gardiner,  with  Hon.  George  Evans,  and  when  admitted  to  the 
bar  became  a  partner  of  that  gentleman. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMOEE,  99 

lum,  though  I  think  my  attendance  during  the  term   of  the  last- 
named  was  rather  as  a  resident  graduate. 

The  winter  schools  were  very  full,  sometimes  numbering  eighty 
scholars  or  more,  and  among  tliem  were  a  good  many  big  fellows 
who  occupied  the  seats  of  honor,  called  the  "back  seats."  They 
were  not  so  perfect  in  their  lessons  as  in  feats  of  wrestling,  snow- 
balling, and  "washing  the  faces"  of  the  boys  in  the  snow.  I  forget 
under  what  reign  five  of  these  big  fellows  !iad  built  a  desk  before 
the  fire,  and  had  taken  possession  one  morning  before  the  arrival  of 
the  master,  where  they  could  kick  the  shins  of  the  small  fry  as  they 
were  warming  themselves  at  the  fire.  They  had,  however,  but  a 
single  field  day,  enjoying  themselves  hugely  under  the  delusion  that 
possession  was  the  "nine  points"  in  their  case.  The  high  court  of 
"committee  men"  got  wind  of  the  proceeding  and  met  in  Star- 
chamber  conclave  in  the  evening  and  adopted  decided  measures  for 
the  utter  discomfiture  of  the  confederates.  When  the  valiant 
builders  of  desks  and  benches  came  to  school  next  mornino-  their 
demoralization  was  complete,  finding  all  their  carpenter  work,  ex- 
cepting what  had  been  used  to  kindle  the  morning  fire,  broken  to 
flinders  and  pitched  into  the  middle  of  a  four-acre  lot.  The  heroes 
took  to  the  back  seats  with  mortification  and  kept  hid  behind  their 
books.  'Twas  a  perfect  Waterloo.  They  couhl  not  endure  the 
roguish  winks  of  the  boys  and  girls,  and  some  of  them  were  so  dis- 
gusted with  the  hard  road  to  knowledge  that  they  left  the  track 
"  where  fame's  proud  temple  shhies  afar,"  and  have  never  been  heard 
of  since. 

The  spelling  schools,  speaking  schools,  and  debating  clubs  were 
sources  of  a  good  deal  of  pleasure  and  perhaps  some  profit  at  the 
time.  There  was  considerable  dramatic  talent  among  the  scholars, 
and  the  exhibitions  in  that  line  were  frequent.  John  Monroe  was 
enthusiastic  and  indefatigable  in  preparing  for  the  performances  and 
arranging  the  pro.perties  and  scenery  of  the  stage.  Many  of  the 
old  mothers,  whose  lives  were  a  constant  sacrifice  for  their  children, 
were  teased  to  death  for  carpets,  blankets,  curtains,  and  clothes  lines 
to  furnish  the  theatre.  John,  who  was  a  good  reader  and  prided 
himself  on  his  elocution,  and  Avas  the  great  representative  of  trage- 
dy, appeared  in  more  than  one  of  Shakspeare's  plays.  His  greatest 
achievement  in  this  line  was  in  the  character  of  Marc  Antony  in 
'Julius  Caesar."  At  this  time  the  Scotch  Tartan  plaids  were  in 
great  vogue.    John  had  a  gay  cloak   (the  envy  of  all  the  scholars) 


100  HISTOEY  OF  LIVERMORE. 

with  big  arm-holes.  Tlie  great  point  he  made  on  the  stage  was  in 
exhibiting  one  of  tliose  openings  in  the  cloak  to  the  audience,  with 
the  exclamation,  "Look  you  here,  see  where  ran  Cassius'  dagger 
through;  see  what  a  rent  the  envious  Casca  made!"  etc.  Snelling 
Monroe  always  "giggled"  at  this  point. 

The  reading  books  of  the  period — the  "  Columbinn  Orator," 
"American  Preceptor,"  "Scott's  Lessons,"  and  "Murray's  English 
Reader" — were  full  of  extracts  from  the  old  English  comedies. 
These  sterling  old  plays  were  well  studied,  and  the  acting  of  them 
Avould  not  suffer  in  comparison  with  that  of  the  more  pretentious 
academy  boys  of  the  present  day.  Sir  Charles  and  Lady  Rackett  in 
"  Three  Weeks  after  Marriage,"  Lovegold  and  Lappett  in  the 
" Miser,"  Boniface  and  Aimwell  in  the  "Beaux  Stratagem,"  Lady 
Townly  and  Lady  Grace  in  the  "  Provoked  Husband,"  BelCour  and 
Stockwel)  in  the  "  West  Indian,"  were  among  the  favorite  pieces. 
Abijah  Monroe,  son  of  Uncle  John,  was  very  felicitous  in  reciting 
"Pity  the  Sorrows  of  a  Poor  Old  Man,"  and  always  brought  down 
the  house. 

Oar  entertainments  were  sometimes  aided  by  Mr.  Thomas  Hanna, 
a  native  of  Lisburn,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  of  good  family  and  ed- 
ucation, who  by  some  curious  fortune  dropped  right  down  here  in 
the  wilderness.  He  was  known  as  "  The  Colonel,"  and  had  some 
talent  as  a  venti-iloquist.  He  resided  in  the  bailiwick  for  several 
years.  If  the  colonel  had  a  weakness  it  was  for  an  occasional  glass 
of  toddy,  and  it  was  a  dodge  of  his  to  decline  his  role  of  "  Killing 
the  Calf"  until  the  consideration  of  a  glass  of  old  Jamaica  was  pro- 
duced, which  never  failed  to  inspire  him  to  his  best  efforts  in  his 
peculiar  line.  But  sometimes  he  could  be  persuaded  to  "Kill  the 
Calf"  for  the  delectation  of  the  boys  and  girls  who  attended  these 
exhibitions,  although  he  knew  that  on  such  occasions  he  could  have 
no  dram. 

John  Humphrey,  who  was  the  only  son  of  his  mother,  and  she  a 
widow,  was  among  the  more  promising  young  men  of  the  district. 
His  accidental  and  early  death  caused  universal  sorrow.  He  Avas  a 
nephew  of  "  Aunt  Kidder,"  now  living  at  the  advanced  age  of  one 
hundred  and  two,  and  was  a  great  reader  of  books,  especially  of  the 
old  English  authors,  and  had  devoured  every  book  in  the  town 
library.  He  took  an  active  part  in  all  our  dramatic  entertainments, 
and  was  an  enthusiastic  declainier.  He  drew  largely  from  the  Ro- 
man history  and  orators  for  his  themes.     I  can  see  him,  as  if  it  were 


HISTORY  OF  LTVERMORE.  101 

but  yesterday,  in  the  speech  of  Adherbal  to  tlie  Roman  senate,  im- 
ploring their  assistance  against  Jugurtha.  Tlie  Revolutionar)'^  ora- 
tors, also,  such  as  Dr.  Warren,  John  Adams,  and  Patrick  Henry, 
held  a  place  of  honor  in  his  repertoire.  He  had  a  high-toned  and 
laudable  ambition,  and  a  cliivalrous  spirit,  with  the  utmost  simplici- 
ty of  character,  and  had  he  lived  could  scarcely  have  failed  to 
achieve  a  useful  and  honorable  career  in  life.  The  snows  of  more 
than  forty  winters  must  have  lain  on  his  breast,  and  'tis  a  grateful 
pleasure  to-day  to  place  this  slight  offering  of  remembrance  on  his 
almost  forgotten  grave. 

These  exhibitions  were  not  postponed  on  account  of  the  weather; 
blow  high,  blow  low,  come  rain,  or  come  snow,  the  attendance  was 
jirompt  and  full.  Abijah,  John,  and  Snelling  Monroe,  and  all  from 
tlie  extreme  outlying  homes  came  a  mile  and  a  half  through  the 
drifts,  and  perhaps  after  chopping  in  the  woods  all  day.  Nothing 
but  a  tremendous  storm  kept  the  girls  at  home;  the  hope  of  their  ap- 
proval and  appreciation  might  have  had  some  influence  in  bringing 
the  young  Rosciuses  of  the  period  to  their  very  best  efforts. 

'Twas  no  uncommon  thing  for  the  boys  and  girls  to  assemble  at 
the  school-house  on  moonlit  nights  for  a  bout  at  sliding  down  hill. 
There  was  no  little  rivalry  about  the  speed  of  the  sleds,  and  the  ef- 
fort to  get  a  good  start  was  as  exciting  as  we  see  nowadays  at  the 
trotting  park.  The  truth  of  history  requires  me  to  say  that  among 
all  the  sled-owners  Stedman  Kendall  came  out  the  winner,  Sted. 
built  the  best  fires,  cut  the  most  wood,  could  skate  the  fastest,  and 
catch  the  most  pickerel  of  any  boy  in  the  neighborhood. 

The  Livermore  Social  Library  was  always  kept  at  the  doctor's; 
the  cupboards  in  the  kitchen  and  parlor  were  the  alcoves  where  the 
books  were  placed.  The  volumes  were  not  extensive,  but  were 
select,  embracing  many  of  the  standard  English  authors.  "The 
Pilgrim's  Progress,"  "Robinson  Crusoe,"  and  "The  Vicar  of  Wake- 
field" were  read  over  and  over  again,  and  the  old  ladies  in  the 
neighborhood  never  discovered  to  their  dying  day  that  they  had 
been  reading  the  best  romances  that  were  ever  written,  though  they 
regarded  novels  as  a  delusion  and  a  snare.  "The  Arabian  Nights' 
Entertainments"  were  literally  "used  np."  Sterne's  works  were 
read  by  the  old  folks.  The  doctor  was  fond  of  reading  aloud  from 
Sterne,  and  the  story  of  Uncle  Toby  and  Le  Fever  was  a  great 
favorite  with  him,  closing  with  Uncle  Toby's  oath,  "  He  shall  not 
8 


102 


HISTORY  OF  LIVETIMORE. 


die,  by  heaven,"  and  the  statement  that  the  "  accusing  spirit,  which 
flew  up  to  heaven's  chancery  with  the  oath,  blushed  as  he  gave  it  in  ; 
and  the  recording  angel,  as  he  wrote  it  down,  dropped  a  tear  upon 
the  word  and  blotted  it  out  forever."  The  seliolars  used  to  take 
the  library  books  into  school  to  read,  winch  with  the  school  books 
before  sj^oken  of  gave  them  a  healthy  literary  tone. 

Capt.  Pray  kept  the  dancing  school  in  the  winter  in  the  old 
Masonic  hall  over  his  sho]).  The  young  gentlemen  were  provided 
with  sheepskin  pumps  from  the  midnight  bench  of  John  Sanders, 
There  was  rivalry  in  the  dancing  school  ns  well  as  in  the  sliding 
school.  It  would  be  invidious  to  name  the  most  elegant  and  grace- 
ful  on  the  "  light  fantastic  toe,"  but  I  remember  very  distinctly  the 
"swing  balance,"  which  was  executed  with  singular  grace  by  one  of 
the  lads,  who  to  this  day  prides  himself  on  that  special  performance 
even  more  than  he  does  uj)oa  his  slight-of-foot  exhibition  at  Mem- 
phis, when  the  rebels  were  upon  his  track,  for  it  served  him  well,  it 
is  reported,  on  a  recent  occasion  when,  as  chief  magistrate  of  a 
western  Commonwealth,  he  opened  the  ball  given  in  honor  of  a 
Russian  Prince.  Columbus  Horsley  tipped  the  fiddle  for  twelve  and 
a  half  cents  jt?e?*  capita  an  evening,  regular,  with  an  extra  charge  for 
nights  when  the  school  was  visited  by  scholars  from  the  outlying 
districts.  A  man  by  the  name  of  Ford  sometimes  kept  a  short 
school  at  Horsley's  hall  in  summer,  between  the  hay  and  grain  har- 
vest. His  style  of  dancing  was  more  modern  than  Capt.  Pray's 
method,  and  it  was  admitted  that  he  took  the  fly  off"  on  "swinging." 

The  ball  dresses  of  the  period  Avere  not  from  the  Lyons'  looms 
but  were  woven  by  the  fair  hands  of  the  fair  wearers  themselves, 
and  after  passing  through  the  mill  of  Kimball,  celebrated  as  the 
best  clothier  and  dresser  in  half  a  dozen  counties,  came  out  smooth 
and  shining,  and  were  very  attractive  to  look  on.  Kimball  was 
something  of  a  gallant,  and  was  accused  of  ])artiality  to  his  favoiites 
among  the  damsels,  which  he  indicated  by  giving  to  them  a  favorite 
tint  of  coloring,  much  to  the  disgust  of  the  homely  girls. 

About  this  time,  when  Chase  and  Morrow  were  in  full  tide  of  suc- 
cessful experiment,  and  furnished  all  the  country  with  better  sleighs 
than  the  minds  of  men  had  ever  conceived,  Horace  Gould  kept  the 
singing  school.  He  had  a  magnificent  voice  and  Avas  a  successful 
teacher.  It  has  always  been  thought  that  some  fine  musical  talent 
was  lost  to  future  years  by  his  persistence  in   the  opinion  that  cer- 


HISTORY  OF  LrV^EUMORE. 


103 


tain  youngsters  had  better  "  wait  till  another  winter"  before  taking 
lessons. 

Uncle  John  Monroe  lived  quietly  under  the  hill.  Uncle  Abel 
lived  on  the  top  of  the  hill,  but  not  so  quietly.  He  was  of  an  in- 
quiring mind  and  slightly  aggressive,  and  delighted  in  theological 
disputes  and  was  always  ready  for  a  controversy.  The  itinerant 
Universalists  were  tolerably  thick  in  those  days,  preaching  round  in 
the  school-houses  and  barns,  and  wherever  one  put  up  his  head 
Uncle  Abel  was  ready  to  hit  him.  He  afterwards,  it  is  understood, 
became  himself  a  Broad  Churchman,  trusting  in  a  universal  redemp- 
tion. His  wife,  a  lady  of  culture  and  refinement,  was  connected 
with  the  fimily  of  the  late  Col.  Israel  Thorndike,  of  Boston.  Uncle 
'Bijah  kept  the  wayside  inn,  one  of  the  old-fashioned,  comfortable 
taverns,  with  a  great  fireplace  for  wood,  and  the  cleanest  sanded  floor 
in  the  world.  It  was  a  treat  to  sit  there  in  your  comfortable  kitchen 
chair.  The  ministers,  the  young  lawyers  and  doctors  who  were 
waiting  for  something  to  turn  up,  might  be  found  at  Uncle  'Bijah's, 
on  the  pleasant  summer  days  under  the  portico,  or  in  the  chimney 
corner  in  the  long  winter  evenings.  It  was  there  that  the  young 
professional  aspirants,  who,  according  to  Dr.  Holland,  had  spent  the 
"  principal,"  lived  on  the  "  interest  of  their  money." 

Uncle  Philoon  was  an  honest  son  of  Erin,  and  a  useful  and  con- 
venient man  to  have  about.  Nobody  was  his  match  with  the  sickle 
in  the  autumn,  and  in  the  short  Avinter  days  you  could  hear  his  flail 
in  all  the  neighboring  barns.  He  was  always  in  good  spirits.  This 
was  a  common  refrain  to  his  sounding  flail : 

"  King  Geoi-ge  on  the  throne 
Is  a  good  king  I  own, 
But  the  memory  of  King  William  forever." 

When  Henry  Aldrich  and  Seth  Ballon  were  setting  the  world 
around  Brettun's  Mills  crazy  with  the  new  patent  threshing  ma- 
chine which  they  had  introduced,  Philoon  visited  the  Mills,  and 
on  his  return,  in  reply  to  my  father's  question  "  What  is  the  news," 
replied, 

"  There's  nothing  new 
But  Aldrich  and  Ballou." 

He  preferred  Capt.  Samuel  Morison  for  representative  in  the  legisla- 
ture to  Dr.  Bradford,  because  he  said  he  "  would  credit  his  keeping." 
There  was  an  unusually  good  race  of  men  in  the  circle  known  to 


104 


HISTORY   OF  LIVEEMOEE. 


ray  boyhood.  Dr.  Bradforc],  Capt.  Waters,  Capt.  Pray,  Capt.  Kendall^ 
Capt.  Leavitt,  George  Chandler,  Jesse  Kidder,  Uncles  John,  Ahijali, 
and  Abel  Monroe,*  Uncle  Bartlett,  the  Coolidges,  the  Stricklands' 
and  the  Chases  were  good,  solid,  honest,  faithful,  and  stanch  men  ; 
men  of  convictions  and  principles,  with  an  honest  purpose  for  every 
duty,  and  Avho  made  all  reasonable  sacrifices  to  educate  their  chil- 
dren, that  their  lot  in  life  might  be  better  than  their  own.  They 
settled  a  new  country,  underwent  the  ])rivations  attending  early  set- 
tlers, worked  hard,  fared  hard,  but  with  industry  and  good  manage- 
ment lived  comfortably.  It  was  a  neighborliood  of  great  social 
harmony.  I  don't  remember  a  neighborhood  quarrel.  They  were 
all  politicians,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent,  and  not  witliout  ambition ; 
they  read  the  newspapers  with  interest;  they  discussed  and  criticised 
all  questions  of  neighborhood.  State,  and  country;  were  a  trifle  more 
conservative  than  their  descendants,  perhaps,  but  were  intolerant  of 
injustice,  oppression,  meanness,  and  lying.  Most  of  them  lived  to 
old  age,  and  died  and  were  buried  where  their  lives  had  been 
passed.  Capt.  Kendall,  a  man  of  great  spirit  and  keen  sense  of 
honor,  followed  his  children  to  a  newer  but  not  a  happier  country. 
An  early  sorrow  had  settled  a  dark  veil  upon  his  fice  which  was 
never  lifted  again.  I  look  back  with  a  sort  of  mournful  pleasure, 
not  unmixed  with  pride,  upon  their  useful  and  honest  lives,  and  feel 
thankful  for  the  lessons  they  imparted.     May  they  rest  in  peace  ! 

And  from  the  primitive  old  brown,  and  later  old  white,  school- 
house,  without  a  letter  of  Latin  or  Greek,  with  the  simple  instruc- 
tion in  reading,  writing,  and  arithmotic,  I  slid  quietly  and  unnoticed 
away  from  the  good  old  neighborhood,  while  a  great  many  other 
boys,  more  flivored,  went  to  the  high  schools,  academies,  and  col- 
leges. No  wonder  that  when,  at  a  long  subsequent  period,  a  bright 
and  ingenuous  youth  was  hearing  others  discuss  their  graduations 
and  their  degrees,  their  class  days  and  commencements,  and  was  told 
that  the  writer's  alma  mater  was  represented  by  the  old  faded 
school-house,  he  should  have  been  struck  with  amazement  that  one 
with  such  scant  opportunity  "  should  be  so  wise." 


Extracts  from  Notks  made,  in  the  journal  of  3I(ij.  Thomas 
Fish^  Jan.  10,  1852,  by  Thomas  Chase,  Esq.,  of  Washington,  D.  C 

From  a  careful  examination  of  these  ancient  entries  (they  were 
made  by  Thomas  Fish,  of  Oxford,  in  the  county  of  Worcester  and 

*Almo3t  every  farmer  In  town  over  fifty  years  old  was  called  "  Uncle." 


HISTORY   OF  LIVERMORE.  105 

State  of  Massachusetts),  I  find  tliat  lie  was  a  surveyor,  and  for 
that  reason  was  employed  by  Dea.  Liverniore,  and  finally  de- 
cided to  settle  in  Livermore,  Dea.  Livermore  purijosed  to  remove 
to  Livermore  about  a.  d.  1775,  but  the  "times  that  tried  men's 
souls"  coming  on,  that  great  project  was  abandoned  for  the  time  be- 
ing, and  he  did  not  leave  Waltham  until  April,  1779,  and — tarrying 
at  Winthrop  some  four  or  five  months,  while  he  raised  a  crop  in 
"  Liverton  "  and  built  a  frame  house — removed  to  his  new  farm  on 
the  west  bank  of  the  Androscoggin  River,  and  near  the  centre  of 
the  town,  in  the  fall  of  1779;  of  course  the  winter  of  1779-80  was 
the  first  he  passed  at  Livermore. 

Remarks. — The  towns  of  Winthrop  and  Readfield  were  first 
called  "  Pond  Town,"  and  it  seems  Winthrop  was  first  so  called  in 
1773,  as  by  foregoing  *  The  town  of  Turner  Maj.  Fish  here  seems 
to  call  Sylvester.  "Phipps'  Canada"  in  the  foregoing  is  now  Jay  and 
Canton.  About  this  time,  or  soon  after,  Bethel  and  Rumford  were 
called  "  Sudbury-Canada."  Fryeburg  and  vicinity  were  the  ancient 
"Pigwacket,"  and  (1773)  still  retained  that  name.  (I  had  forgotten 
to  say  that  "Canton  Point"  is  the  ancient  "Roccomeco"  of  the  In- 
dians.) Hallowell  was  at  this  time  (1773)  and  long  afterward 
called  "  The  Hook."  Augusta  was  "  The  Fort,"  for  the  reason  that 
a  fort  was  there  built  to  protect  the  first  settlers  against  the  Rocco- 
meco and  Norridgewock  Indians. 

I  now  propose  to  give  a  short  narrative  of  Thomas  Fish,  derived 
principally  from  the  late  Samuel  Livermore,  Esq.,  the  youngest  son 
of  Dea.  Elijah  Livermore  (who  married  my  aunt,  Lura  Chase,  born 
at  Martha's  Vineyard),  Widow  Anna  Hamlin,  a  daughter  of  the 
deacon,  residing  at  Paris  Hill,  the  late  Josiah  Wyer,  of  Livermore, 
and  Jabez  Delano,  also  of  Livermore.  The  widow  Hamlin  is  the 
only  one  of  these  persons  now  living  (a.  d.  1852,  Jan.  16th).  Fish 
was  a  widower.  The  writer  does  not  know  the  date  when  Thomas 
Fish  was  born,  but  supposes  it  was  about  the  year  1750,  perhaps 
eai'lier.  After  surveying  and  lotting  out  the  township  of  Livermore, 
or  a  considerable  portion  of  it,  and  abandoning  for  the  then  present 
time  the  settlement  of  it,  in  consequence  of  the  breaking  out  of  the 
Revolutionary  war,  Thomas  Fish  went  into  the  patriot  army  as  an 
officer.  Whether  he  ever  held  more  than  one  commission  the  writer 
knows  not,  but  during  the  latter  part  of  his  military  career  he  was 

*That  i3,  by  statement  in  Maj.  Fish's  journal. 


106 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


a  major  in  the  Continental  array  and  an  active  and  efficient  officer. 
He  resigned  and  left  the  army  about  the  time  of  the  actual  close  of 
the  war,  some  two  years  before  the  treaty  of  1783.  Deacon  Liver- 
more  had  removed  to  his  new  home,  and  Maj.  Fish  took  up  his 
abode  with  him ;  he  was  an  umnurried  man,  a  widower  with  two  or 
three  children,  a  competent  surveyor  and  an  active  business  man  for 
those  times;  he  either  was  a  shoemaker  by  trade  or  had  taken  up 
that  business  in  order  to  imj^rove  what  would  otherwise  have  been 
waste  time. 

It  will  be  seen  by  the  preceding  sketches,*  in  the  handwriting  of 
MaJ.  Fish,  that  the  first  route  from  Boston  to  Livermore  was  by 
water  to  Falmouth,  now  Portland,  thence  by  land  through  the  sev- 
eral towns  and  townships,  the  last  of  which  is  now  Minot,  the  east- 
erly part  of  which  is  now  Auburn,  and  Turner,  to  Livermore.t  It 
was  soon  ascertained  to  be  an  easier  route  to  go  up  the  Kennebec 
River  to  Hallowell,  tlience  by  land  through  what  is  now  VVinthrop, 
Wayne,  and  East  Livermore,  to  Livermore,  crossing  the  Androscog- 
gin below  "the  rips,"  a  mile  below  what  has  since  been  Benjamin's 
Ferry.  This  ferry  below  the  rips  was  kept  by  old  Reuben  Wing, 
the  husband  of  "Aunt  Priss  Wing,"  a  somewhat  famous  personage 
in  the  early  history  of  Livermore ;  and  the  writer  has  it  by  tradition 
that  Dea.  Livermore  gave  Wing  a  lot  of  land  on  the  east  side  of  the 
river  to  keep  the  ferry  for  the  accommodation  of  those  wishing  to 
pass,  who  also  paid  their  ferriage.  On  this  route  Maj.  Fish  be- 
came acquainted  in  the  family  of  old  Mr.  Marrow,  with  one  of 
whose  daughters  he  became  a  fovorite  It  was  the  first  or  sec- 
ond winter  (probably  the  second,  for  Maj.  Fish  "had  made  his 
pitch"  and  built  him  a  "log  cabin  "  near  the  upper  end  of  "the  great 
meadow,"  and  Avhere  soon  alter  was  built  the  first  school-house  in 
town,  in  which  the  writer  "took  his  degree,"  which  meadow  still 
retains  the  name,  "  Fish  Meadow,")  that  Maj.  Fish  took  his  shoe- 
maker's tools  and  went  to  Winthrop  to  woi'k  a  few  weeks  at  shoe- 
making,  bvit  more  particularly  to  do  up  a  small  job  of  courting  the 
Marrow  girl,  preparatory  to  their  marriage,  which  was  to  take  place 
on  his  next  visit.  After  tarrying  at  Mr.  Marrow's  a  few  weeks  he 
left  for  Livermore.  Unfortunately,  a  cold  north-east  snow  storm 
commenced  that  same  day,  making  it  a  hard  day's  work  to  travel  on 

♦These  sketches  will  he  found  in  the  appendix. 

tThe  journal  of  the  trip  in  1772  (to  be  found  in  the  appendix)  waa  kept  in  anotlier  book. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE. 


10*7 


foot  to  Dea.  Livennore's  in  one  day,  and  he  did  not  get  across  the 
river  till  after  dark.  When  about  half  a  mile  short  of  the  deacon's, 
on  the  south  part  of  that  farm,  by  mistake  he  turned  out  of  the 
road  to  the  west  side  something  like  a  rod,  and  finding  his  mistake 
turned,  to  the  east,  and  crossing  the  road  and  traveling  by  a  cir- 
cuitous route  along  tlie  south  and  east  of  the  hill  through  the  deep 
snow,  apparently  became  exhausted.  He  hung  up  his  pack  on  the 
dead  limb  or  knot  of  a  spruce  tree;  there  was  a  burnt  stub  near 
by  on  which  he  made  many  marks  and  scratches,  as  was  supposed 
to  give  some  account  of  his  last  cruise,  and  also  to  give  some 
directions  as  to  his  little  property,  but  nothing  intelligible  could 
ever  be  made  of  the  writing  or  scratching  on  the  stub.  He  laid 
himself  down  beside  a  pine  tree,  turned  up  by  the  roots,  and 
died.  He  was  found  about  three  days  afterwards.  Uncle  Jabez 
Delano  being  the  first  who  found  him.  Thus  died  Maj.  Thomas 
Fish,  After  enduring  the  hardships  of  a  surveyor,  even  moi-e,  the 
hardships  of  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  he  died  alone  in  a 
swamp,  with  not  a  friend  to  close  his  eyes. 

From  my  Uncle,  Samuel  Livermore,  I  first  heard  the  facts  concern- 
ing Maj,  Fish.  He  pointed  out  to  me  the  place  (a.  d.  1817)  where 
Fish  died.  The  pine  root  and  about  ten  feet  of  the  trunk  stttl  re- 
mained, as  when  Fish  died.  In  1850,  I  was  there  and  it  was 
removed ;  it  was  on  the  plain  nearly  east  from  Dea.  Livermore's 
house,  about  six  rods  from  the  bottom  of  the  hill,  and  about  twenty 
rods  south  of  the  road  leading  from  (now)  Hillman's  Ferry,  up  by 
the  old  Dea.  Livermore  house,  to  the  Methodist  meeting-house. 
Uncle  Jabez  Delano  told  me  the  same  in  substance  as  my  Uncle 
Samuel  Livermore,  and  further  that  it  was  not  known  by  Dea.  Liv- 
ermore's folks  that  Maj.  Fish  had  left  Winthrop  for  a  day  or  two. 
As  soon  as  it  was  known  search  was  made  (I  think  Delano  then 
lived  at  Winthrop),  and  his  track  could  be  and  was  followed,  by 
which  means  he  was  readily  found ;  also  his  deviation  from  the  road 
at  first  was  made  known  by  his  track.  On  the  night  Maj.  Fish  died, 
and  about  midnight,  Dea.  Livermore's  folks  heard  a  noise  as  of  one 
in  distress,  and  some  of  them  got  up — the  deacon  himself,  my  father 
says ;  the  noise  ceasing,  they  thought  it  must  be  some  wild  beast, 
and  did  not  answer  nor  fire  guns. 

Widow  Anna  Hamlin,  by  whose  kindness  I  am  favored  with  this 
antiquity,  told  me  last  Tuesday — Jan.  27,  1852 — "I  was  a  very  little 
girl  when  Maj,  Fish  froze  to  death,  and  slept  in  the  trundle  bed.     It 


108  HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 

was  in  the  evening  when  they  got  Maj.  Fish  to  our  house;  he  was 
crooked,  as  he  died,  and  they  laid  him  upon  the  hearth  before  the 
fire  to  tliaw  him.  Several  times  I  looked  out  over  the  headboard  of 
my  trundle  bed  and  saw  them  thawing  Maj.  Fish  so  that  they  could 
lay  him  out.  He  was  buried  at  Winthrop,  and  not  a  stone  tells 
where  he  lies.  Two  years  since  a  daughter  of  his  Avas  still  living  in 
Massachusetts,  and  one  of  the  Livermore  connections  saw  her;  she 
wished  to  have  her  father's  ashes  removed  to  Massachusetts,  but  his 
place  of  rest  could  not  be  pointed  out." 

The  sword  that  Maj.  Fish  had  in  the  Continental  army  was  used 
by  Maj.  William  Livermore,  the  deacon's  oldest  son.  He  let  my 
father  have  it,  and  he  used  it  until  he  was  made  colonel,  when  he 
bought  another.  My  father  let  my  Uncle  Gilbert  Hathaway  have 
the  "Maj.  Fish  sword."  It  was  a  short  but  heavy  sword,  probably 
a  genuine  "broad  sword;"  it  had  been  ground  sharp,  and  was  a 
very  formidable  weapon  in  the  hand  of  a  skilful  swordsman.  I  re- 
member that  sword  very  distinctly.  I  also  distinctly  remember 
Maj.  Fish's  cellar,  near  where  the  "Fish  Meadow  school-house"  used 
to  be,  and  assisted  ray  schoolmates  to  bury  two  hedge  hogs  in  it 
that  Uncle  Jabe  Delano  had  killed  in  his  coin  field  with  a  pitch- 
fork in  1808  or  1809. 

Wild  Beasts. — Wild  beasts  were  plenty  in  Livermore  in  those 
early  days.  I  give  a  few  fxcts.  Uncle  Jabe  Delano  and  two  others, 
each  having  an  axe,  had  crossed  the  river  below  the  rips,  at  the  old 
Wing  Ferry,  some  distance  below  Benjamin's  Ferry  and  the  Jona- 
than Merrill  farm,  having  been  at  work  for  old  Mr.  Norcross — who 
died  soon  after  and  was  buried  in  a  severe  north-east  snow  storm  (as 
per  Uncle  Nat  Dailey) — and  soon  after  taking  their  course  up  I'iver 
toward  Dea.  Livermore's,  "treed"  a  smallish  bear;  they  had  no  gun 
with  them,  but  they  must  have  the  bear;  so  two  of  them  cut  the  tree 
down  ;  Uncle  Jabe  placed  himself  favorably,  and  when  the  tree  fell 
he  "seized  the  bear  by  the  heels  and  swung  him  over  his  head  till 
he  got  to  a  tree  and  knocked  his  brains  out."  Uncle  Jabe  met  a 
large  bull  moose  on  the  east  side  of  the  Fish  Meadow,  about  twenty 
rods  east  of  the  road  across  the  Meadow,  when  looking  for  part- 
ridges. Luckily,  he  had  a  ball  in  his  pocket,  and  rolling  it  into  his 
gun  shot  the  moose  dead  on  the  spot,  at  the  moment  the  moose  was 
going  to  attack  him.  "Moose  Hill"  in  the  north-east  corner  of  the 
town  was  so  named  from  the  circumstance  that  Dea.  Livermore  shot 


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a  moose  there  with  his  own  hand.  Tlie  carcass  of  that  moose  was 
secured  for  a  time  in  a  hole  on  the  deacon's  intervale,  not  far  from  a 
lone  pine  tree  that  has  been  there  ever  since  I  can  remember. 


Segregations  from  Entries  referring  to  Zivermore,  made  in 
1873,  by  Thomas  Chase,  Esq. 

Casualties.— Among  tlie  early  settlers  in  the  south  part  of  the 
town  was  Jonathan  Morse,  afterwards  captain  of  the  "South  Compa- 
ny." JMorse  was  a  blacksmith,  but  was  also  making  for  himself  and 
family  a  farm.  He  had  got  a  barn  frame  raised  when  a  neighbor- 
woman,  a  xMrs.  Keith,  wife  of  Eben  Keith,  called  to  see  Mrs. 
Morse  one  afternoon;  both  these  women  had  nursing  children. 
After  chatting  awhile  in  the  house  they  went  out  to  see  the  new 
barn  frame,  taking  their  infonts  with  them.  They  sat  down  upon 
the  sill  of  the  barn  when,  without  anytliing  to  attract  their  atten- 
tion, alarm  them,  or  arouse  their  fears,  the  broken  fragments  of  the 
frame  were  upon  them;  it  was  a  total  wreck.  Mrs.  Morse  was 
killed  where  she  sat,  but  her  infant  in  her  arms  was  not  seriously 
injured.  Mrs.  Keith  and  inflxnt  Avere  not  badly  hurt ;  all  this  was 
done  by  a  whirlwind. 

An  early  settler  in  town  was  Stephen  Fisher.  He  lived  on  the 
south  road,  not  far  from  Dea.  Fisher's.  I  know  not  how  numerous 
his  family  was  in  1794  or  thereabouts,  but  he  had  one  little  girl* 
four  or  five  years  old.  One  day  in  mild  weather  she  was  missing 
from  the  house.  Search  was  made  about  the  house,  then  about  all 
the  buildings,  all  the  fences,  all  the  neighborhood,  and  finally  the 
whole  town  and  part  of  Turner  were  in  the  search,  which  continued 
for  seven  days,  when  a  little  apron  was  found  about  a  mile  from  her 
home  that  she  had  on  when  last  seen,  and  under  such  circumstances 
as  to  make  it  probable  that  she  had  been  devoured  by  some  evil 
beast;  but  some  people  always  doubted  it  and  thought  her  drowned 
or  strangled  in  the  Bog  Brook.  Three  generations  are  nearly  past, 
and  the  little  Fisher  girl  has  never  been  seen  or  heard  of. 

There  was  a  pond  which  I  knew  as  Bartlett's  Pond  while  I  so- 
journed in  the  town  of  my  nativity,  at  the  outlet  of  which  Capt. 
Kendall  used  to  have  a  tan-yard.  This  is  a  small,  black,  deep  pond, 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  long  by  less  then  half  a  mile  wide.     The 

*There  is  some  doubt  whether  this  child  was  a  girl  or  boy. 


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HISTORY  OP  LIVERMORE. 


first  jjerson  drowned  there,  to  my  knowledge,  was  the  daughter  of 
Luther  Lovewell,  and  niece  of  Isaac  Lovewell,  a  girl  some  ten  or 
twelve  years  old.  It  was  early  in  this  century.  She  was  crossing 
the  pond  on  tlie  ice  in  the  spring  and  broke  in.  The  next  were 
three  boys  near  my  age,  perhaps  about  the  year  1817.  It  was  Sun- 
day morning,  and  they  were  bathing  Avith  their  clothes  off;  they  got 
on  a  raft  of  loose  bits  of  boards,  were  frightened,  and  drowned  each 
other,  there  being  i;o  one  present  able  to  rescue  them.  One  of  these 
boys  was  Nathan  .Monroe,  second  son  of  "Uncle"  Abel;  another 
Avas  named  Folsoni;  tlie  name  of  the  other  I  have  forgotten.  The 
fifth  person  I  remember  as  being  drowned  in  Bartlett's  Pond  was  a 
young  Bicknell,  from  Hartford;  he  Avas  an  aj^prentice  to  my  relative 
Sarson  Chase.     Young  Bicknell  Avas  drowned  about  1825. 

Another  startling  fact  I  Avill  name:  Stacey  Knox  bought  the 
William  Chamberlain  firm  (I  should  think)  prior  to  1800;  he  got 
Avell  off  as  a  farmer,  but  Avent  into  the  lumbering  business  and  lost 
all,  and  Avas  drowned  at  Livermore  Falls,  1820,  1825,  or  later. 
But  the  main  fict  I  am  after  is  this :  Mr.  Knox  had  a  son,  Daniel, 
okl  enough  for  military  service  in  1812,  a  tall,  slim  man;  could 
outwalk  the  Avandering  Jew,  or  almost  anybody  ever  heard  of,  and 
Avas  braA'e  to  a  fault.  He  enlisted  in  the  Avar  of  1812;  Avas  on  the 
Canada  frontier;  and  Avhenever  volunteers  Avere  called  for  a  dan- 
gerous exi>edition,  Daniel  Knox  Avas  one.  When  Commodore  O.  H. 
Perry  Avanted  more  men  for  his  terrible  fight  on  Lake  Eiie,  and  Avas 
permitted  to  call  for  volunteers  from  the  land  force,  Daniel  Knox 
Avas  among  the  first;  was  on  the  commodore's  "flagship;"  when 
that  became  disabled  and  Perry  Avished  to  charge,  and  called  for 
twelve  men  to  roAV  him  in  an  open  boat,  Daniel  Knox  was  one  of 
"that  tAvelve;"  Avhen  Perry  stopped  the  first  shot  hole  in  their  boat 
Avitli  his  oimi  coat.,  Daniel  Knox  stopped  the  second  Avith  his  own 
jacket.  Daniel  Avas  in  for  the  Avar,  nor  did  his  friends  and  family  at 
Livermore  see  him  as  soon  as  some  other  soldiers  got  home,  and 
there  was  a  report  for  a  week  or  tAvo  that  he  Avas  killed  for  his 
money;  but  Daniel  came  safe  and  sound  at  last.  Daniel  Avas  in- 
dustrious always,  and  Avhen  his  father  Avent  into  the  lumber  busi- 
ness used  to  Avork  for  him.  About  1820  or  later  I  think,  in  the 
spring  of  the  year,  they  were  breaking  in  a  brow  of  logs  on  Mus- 
quito  Brook,  in  the  toAvn  of  Jay ;  the  brow  gave  way  Avhile  Daniel 
Avas  on  it,  or  before  it,  and  broke  him  all  to  pieces. 

Two  of  my  grandfather's  brothers  came  to  Livermore  soon  afler 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE. 


Ill 


he  came,  and  settled  on  a  lot  of  land  adjoining  and  northerly  of 
Isaac  Lovevvell's;  their  names  Avere  Tristram  and  Sarson.  Uncle 
Sarson  took  the  west  half  of  tlie  lot,  and  Tristram  the  east,  on 
the  west  side  of  the  pond  at  the  south  end.  Sarson  was  a  shoe- 
maker. Uncle  Tristram  had  been  a  sea  captain,  nor  did  he  entirely 
abandon  that  business  on  settling  at  Livermore.  I  think  it  was  in 
1801,  he  made  a  voyage  to  the  V/est  Indies,  for  some  merchant  or 
sliip  owner  at  Portland.  His  voyage  out  was  safe  and  prosper- 
ous. On  his  return  he  was  lost  overboard  in  a  gale  and  could 
not  be  recovered.  He  left  a  wife  and  three  children  at  his  com- 
fortable and  pleasant  home  in  Livermore.  About  this  time  Col. 
Jesse  Stone  lost  his  first  wife  and  soon  after  married  Capt.  Chase's 
widow  for  his  second  wife.  Col.  Stone  had  three  children  of  his 
first  wife:  Polly,  who  married  Ephraim  Pray,  and  lived  at  the 
Falls ;  Dwight,  who  went  to  Massachusetts,  and  Capt.  John  Stone, 
who  mari'ied  Ann  Orill  Coolidge.  John  died  young,  and  his  widow 
married  Sewall  Cram,  Esq.,  of  Wilton,  a  particular  friend  and  asso- 
ciate of  mine.  Aunt  Chase  had  three  children  when  she  married 
Col.  Stone :  Elizabeth,  who  married  Nathaniel  Benjamin,  and  lived 
and  died  on  the  Intervale ;  Abigail,  who  married  Charles  Barrell, 
afterwards  a  deacon,  and  a  very  worthy,  good  man ;  they  had  a  large 
family;  I  have  not  learned  of  her  death;  Charles  T.  Chase,  of  Dix- 
field,  a  prominent  business  man,  was  Uncle  Tristram's  youngest 
child,  and  was  an  infant  when  his  fother  was  lost.  Col.  Stone  and 
Aunt  Stone  had  two  children,  both  sons ;  William  A.  went  south, 
and  the  second,  Mathew  Merry  Stone,  lived  at  the  Falls  the  last  I 
knew.     Col.  Stone  lived  to  be  a  very  old  man. 

The  other  painful  circumstance  I  will  ngw  relate  is  this:  Nap- 
thali  Coffin  and  wife  were  among  the  early  settlers  in  Livermore. 
They  were  from  Wiscasset,  and  had  a  large  family,  most  or  all  of 
whom  were  born  at  Livermore.  The  first  two  children  were  Wil- 
liam, and  Nancy  (who  was  Mrs.  Atwood) ;  the  third  was  Stephen, 
who  was  very  near  my  age.  These  children,  with  several  others, 
were  gathered  at  John  Gibbs'  with  his  children  ;  I  was  among  them. 
Our  ages  varied  from  three  to  seven  years ;  Stephen  Coffin  was  four 
years  old,  the  same  age  that  I  was.  In  our  sport  and  play  we  got 
to  climbing  upon  an  old-fashioned  hay-cart  body  that  leaned  against 
a  fence,  up  edgewise.  Unluckily,  we  got  too  many  on  for  the  lean 
of  the  body  to  overbalance  us,  and  it  fell  over  from  the  fence  upon 
some  ten  or  twelve  of  us ;  most  of  us  were  hurt  more  or  less,  and 


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HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 


poor  Steplien  Coffin  so  badly  that  he  died  in  a  short  time  ;  most  of 
the  others  are  gone  long  since. 

But  one  of  the  most  afflicting  and  painful  accidents  or  casualties 
that  has  ever  happened  in  my  native  town  was  as  follows:  Among 
the  early  settlers  of  Liverraore  were  a  Mr.  Weston  and  a  Mr.  Rowell. 
Weston  was  on  a  river  farm  east  side,  and  Rowell  on  a  river  farm 
west  side,  and  nearly  opposite  each  other,  something  like  a  mile  be- 
low the  Falls.  Some  one  near  the  Falls  made  "a  falling  bee,"  and 
all  hands  turned  out  to  fell  trees,  Weston  and  Rowell  among  them. 
By  a  tree  or  "drove"  going  the  wrong  way  both  Weston  and  Row- 
ell were  killed  on  the  spot!  My  fathei-,  then  a  minor,  hel}ied  my 
grandfather,  whose  name  I  bear,  to  make  their  coffins  and  put  them 
in  them.  I  remember  six  (probably  all)  of  Weston's  children,  three 
sons  and  three  daughters.  Two  of  the  daughters  married  Asa  Lane 
and  Eben  Whittemore,  and  lived  near  the  Falls  on  the  east  side ; 
the  other  daughter  married  a  Stront,  of  Poland  or  thereabouts. 
The  two  elder  sons  left  Livermore  not  many  years  after  the  painful 
death  of  their  father,  and  their  whereabouts  has  ever  since  been  un- 
known ;  the  youngest  son,  Jonas  Weston,  Esq.,  or  Rev.  Jonas  Wes- 
ton, Avas  for  many  years  a  prominent  citizen  of  Livermore,  also  a 
prominent  Methodist  preacher.  Past  middle  age  he  went  to  Penob- 
scot County,  from  which  section  he  was  a  member  of  the  senate  of 
Maine,  His  wife  was  Catherine  Barton,  eldest  sister  of  my  first 
wife. 

Facetiae. — There  w^as  a  cavalry  company  in  Livermore,  and  one 
of  its  members  for  some  years  was  a  man  by  the  name  of  Gideon 
Southard,  an  eccentric,  queer  genius.  Southard  was  at  a  training 
of  the  company  at  the  Washburn  place,  with  several  of  his  neigh- 
bors, also  troopers,  and  the  moment  they  were  dismissed  Southard 
called  loudly  to  those  going  with  him  to  hurry,  for  he  had  promised 
his  wife  to  come  home  that  night  sober,  and  if  he  was  not  at  home 
about  that  time  his  wife  would  be  so  mad  he  could  not  live  with 
her.  Having  a  little  business  to  do,  they  urged  him  to  tarry  a 
while.  Soon  as  possible  they  were  ready,  and  called  Southard,  who 
very  deliberately  said :  "  My  wife  has  got  as  mad  as  she  can  get  by 
this  time,  and  it's  no  use  to  hui-ry." 

Isaac  Lovewell  was  called  rather  a  hard-faced  man  in  his  deal- 
ings and  money  matters.  One  day  at  town-meeting  some  little 
trouble  came  up  between  him  and  another,  and  the  other  accused 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  116 

Lovcwcll  of  Imving  no  conscience.  Many  were  present  ami  took 
part  in  tlie  chat.  Lovewell  insisted  that  he  liad  as  niucli  conscience 
ns  any  of  them.  Abel  Monroe  intimated  that  he  might  have,  bnt 
that  it  mnst  be  a  very  convenient  one,  and  would  stretch  and  con- 
tract to  favor  Ids  interest.  Many  others  gave  laughable  opinions. 
P^inally,  John  Howard,  a  younger  brother  to  "  Uncle  Sim,"  decided 
that  Lovewell  had  the  best  conscience  of  any  man  in  town  ;  "  though 
it  was  somewhat  old,  it  was  just  as  good  as  new,  never  having  been 
used." 

Dea.  Livermore  usually  built  a  saw-mill  and  grist-mill  at  or 
near  the  same  place,  and  for  several  years  lie  owned  three  or  four 
sets  of  these  mills  at  one  and  the  same  time.  Of  course  he  was  in 
need  of  millers.  There  was  a  man  in  that  region,  I  think  in  P'ay- 
ette,  named  Walton,  of  whose  integrity  and  uprightness  some  had 
doubts.  This  man  had  just  l)een  made  a  deacon,  of  which  fact  Dea. 
Livermore  was  not  aware.  He  applied  to  Dea.  Livermore  "to  tend 
his  grist-mill"  at  the  Falls.  Livermore  was  cold  and  repulsive  on 
the  occasion,  and  Walton  urgent  in  proportion;  finally,  Walton 
told  the  deacon  of  his  advancement  to  a  deacon&liip.  "Well,  well," 
said  Livermore,  "then  you  are  Deacon  Walton."  "Yes,"  said  Wal- 
ton, now  confident  of  success,  "  I  am  Deacon  Walton."  Livermore, 
with  one  of  his  biggest  puffs,  so  peculiar  to  himself,  said,  "Well, 
Dea.  Walton,  anything  Avill  do  for  a  deacon,  but  it  requires  an  hon- 
est man  for  a  miller.''''     Dea.  Walton  was  not  successful. 

ToLLAWALLA. — Every  neighborhood  of  Livermore  was  always  re- 
spectable except  i^erhaps  one,  and  that  exception  lasted  only  for  a 
few  years.  I  have  already  called  its  name,  "Tollawalla."  Perhaps 
there  may  still  be  some  stigma  upon  or  attached  to  that  name,  so  I 
will  do  that  away.  This  is  the  neighborhood  lying  from  Col.  Lewis 
Hunton's  to  Strickland's  Feriy,  on  both  sides  the  river.  Old  jMr. 
Wing,  who  kept  the  first  ferry,  with  his  wife,  "Aunt  Pri^s,"  old  Mr. 
Norcross,  and  Haines  Learned  were  the  first  settlers  here.  Noi- 
cross  died,  sometime  prior  to  18U0,  and  was  buried  in  the  midst 
of  a  cold  north-east  snow  storm.  Learned  failed  in  business,  and 
went  South,  where  he  afterwards  died ;  three  of  his  daughters 
married  Morisons,  very  worthy  women.  So  all  the  old,  first  settlers 
had  left  Tollawalla  except  the  Wing  family.  A  family  or  race  of 
Lovejoys  came  in  there.  1  knew  five  of  the  men  and  one  or  two  of 
the  women.     Things  w^ere  missing  by  the  peoi)le,  and  finally  horses, 


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HISTOIIY  OF  LTVERMORE. 


etc.,  etc.,  and  there  were  strangers,  suspicious  strangers,  hanging 
about  ToUnwalla;  but  these  depredations,  perhaps  most  of  them 
fancied,  were  increasing,  and  Bishop  Soule,  then  Elder,  his  brother 
Nathan,  my  fatlier,  and  many  others  made  up  their  minds  to  bring 
the  Tolhiwallians  to  justice,  and  rid  the  town  of  the  eviL  I  can 
now  look  back  fifty  or  sixty  years,  I  trust  with  candor,  and  ever 
seem  to  see  that  this  great  zeal  for  honesty  and  i-iglit  Avas  carried  so 
far  as  to  be  a  persecution  against  the  inluibitants  of  that  neighbor- 
hoo<l.  It  was  about  a  State's  prison  crime  for  a  stranger  to  be  found 
there;  several  were  sent  to  the  State's  Prison  of  Massachusetts  for  a 
term.  Tiie  Tolhiwallians  had  to  leave ;  some  went  to  one  place, 
some  to  another.  But  all  this  does  not  explain  the  etymology  of 
the  name  "  Tollawalla."  This  Avas  the  Indian  name  of  the  rips  just 
below  Col.  Huntou's,  and  meant  the  little  falls,  rips,  or  rapids,  and 
really  in  itself  means  nothing  worse  or  more  disre])utab]e  than  the 
honorable  name,  Liverrnore.  The  rips  were  so  called  by  the  Rocco- 
meco  Indians.  JMy  reader  will  readily  see  a  similarity  between  tliis 
name  and  the  name  of  that  tribe  itself,  Boccomeco;  also  from  the 
same  tiibe  and  language  came  the  name  of  Kumford  Falls,  Penni- 
cook,  or  Great  Falls. 

I  learned  to  count  as  the  Roccomeco  Indians  used  to,  iu  my 
younger  days,  and  to  amuse  the  reader  I  will  give  their  numerals, 
aiming  to  give  their  precise  pronunciation  in  our  letters,  using  no 
silent  ones. 

English  Indian 

One  Pussuck  (accent  as  marked) 

Two  Nees 

Thi-ee  Wass 

Four  Yorr 

Five  Palamus  (a  as  in  father) 

Six  Umkittish 

Seven  Tebamus  (a  as  in  father) 

Eight  Sasack 

Nine  Noliwee 

Ten  JMetala  (a  as  in  father) 

I  think  I  have  already  said  that  the  Indian  name  of  the  river  was 
Ain-er-es-cog-gin.  These  Indians  used  but  ten  numerals,  but  could 
repeat  thetn  at  pleasure,  as  we  do  ours.  This  Indian  method  of 
counting,  as  well  as  many  otiier  facts  before  stated,  I  learned  from 
my  Uncle  Samuel  Liverrnore.     So  fur  Mr.  Chase. 


HISTORY  OF  Ln^RMORE.  115 

Of  Certain  Tramps  and  Oddities. — Tlic  tOAvn  used  to  be  vis- 
ited frequently — more  perliaps  during  the  last  decade  of  the  half 
century  succeeding  its  settlement  than  at  any  other  period — by 
pedlars,  beggars,  charlatans,  tramps,  and  odd  characters  generally, 
some  of  whom  made  it  at  times  their  head-quarters. 

Prominent  among  the  pedlars  was  Joshua  Brown,  a  native  of 
some  town  on  the  lower  Kennebec,  who  is  said  to  have  been  crazed 
in  early  manhood  by  unrequited  love.  In  the  better  days  of  his 
itineracy  he  carried  his  wares,  consisting  chietly  of  needles,  pins, 
thimbles,  cotton  and  linen  thread,  sewing  silk,  and  tapes,  on  horse- 
back. His  traveling  expenses — moderate  as  they  were,  for  his  pecul- 
iarities and  strange  simplicity  made  him  a  not  unwelcome  guest  at 
the  wayside  homes  where  he  was  wont  to  call,  and  at  which  the 
charge  for  sup])er,  lodging,  breakfast,  and  horse-kee{)ing  could  often 
be  cancelled  by  a  darning  needle — gradually  exhausted  his  cajiital, 
and  he  was  compelled  at  last  to  trudge  on  foot,  with  his  diminished 
stores.  A  fond,  garrulous  old  man,  whom  the  children  were  always 
glad  to  see  and  hear,  his  visits  were  not  so  much  enjoyed  by  the 
elder  sisters  and  maiden  ladies  of  the  household,  to  whom,  to  the 
great  amusement  of  the  mirth-loving  younkers,  he  never  failed,  with 
absolute  impartiality,  to  offer  himself  as  a  candidate  for  matrimojiy. 
When  a  matter-of-fact  maiden  lady,  to  Avhom  he  proposed  marriage, 
answered  with  a  prompt  and  curt  negative,  like  the  Laird  of  Cock- 
pen,  upon  a  similar  occasion,  "•he  gave  no  sigh,"  but  "mounted  his 
mare,"  and  only  said  as  he  rode  away,  "I  think  you  must  be  a  Fos- 
terite,  my  pretty  dear,"  leaving  her  to  wonder  what  that  might 
mean. 

There  was  a  class  of  stragglers  who  frequented  the  town  for 
many  years,  called  "  cider  pots,"  who  went  from  house  to  house  beg- 
ging for  cider.  They  were  commonly  hard  cases,  seedy  and  sodden, 
but  inotfensive.  One  of  a  better  type  than  the  general  is  remem- 
bered. He  was  a  man  of  education  and  had  evidently  seen  ha]»pier 
days.  He  had  the  carriage  and  tone  of  a  gentleman.  Calling  in 
the  afternoon  of  a  delicious  summer  day  at  one  of  the  hospitable 
orchard-flanked  mansions  in  the  town,  he  inquired  if  he  could  be 
favored  with  a  mug  of  cider.  Receiving  an  attirmative  answer,  he 
seated  himself  in  the  doorway  and  patiently  awaited  the  return  of 
the  large-hearted  matron,  to  whom  he  had  addressed  his  petition. 
When  she  had  given  him  the  cider  he  sat  it  upon  the  floor,  and  re- 
peated from  beginning  to  end,  in  a  voice  of  singular  sweetness  and 


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HISTOKY   OF  LIVEIIMORE. 


pathos,  Wonlsworth's  "  We  are  Seven."  He  then  drank  off  his 
cider  and  bade  tlie  hidy  good-bye.  She  liad  never  seen  or  heard 
the  poem  befure,  but  tlie  stanza, 

"  And  often  at  the  sunset,  sir, 
When  it  is  bri<ifht  and  fair, 
I  take  my  little  pon-inger, 
And  eat  my  supper  there," 

never  ceased  to  liauiit  her  memory  until  she  was  herself 

"  In  the  churchyard  laid." 

A  peripatetic  Irish  tailor,  by  the  name  of  Brennan,  who  made  and 
mended  clothes  for  the  more  substantial  families,  enlivened  many  a 
household  by  his  tales  of  the  "old  country,"  and  by  good-natured 
threats  of  vengeance,  with  his  goose,  upon  all  enemies  of  good  little 
boys  and  girls. 

A  well-remembered  denizen  for  a  year  or  two,  between  forty  and 
fifty  years  ago,  was  Jeremiah  Gil  man,  from  Vermont,  a  sort  of  char- 
tered rascal,  and  the  cliampion  liar  of  the  town.  His  fables  were  so 
impudently  and  outrageously  improbable,  so  various  and  audacious, 
that  Zachariah  Chickering  declared  he  received  assistance  from  the 
father  of  lies  himself.  His  name — and  inore's  the  pity — will  doubt- 
less outlive  that  of  the  good  deacon  whom  he  had,  as  he  boasted, 
"tackled"  on  a  question  of  religion,  and  worsted  "on  the  pinnacle 
of  the  Scripture." 

A  psettdo  doctor,  pretentious  and  imposing,  haunted  the  town  for 
a  season  about  this  time.  He  related  with  circumstantial  detail  and 
curious  plausibility  many  wonderful  cures  of  the  sick  and  remarka- 
ble transformations  of  the  healthy,  which  had  been  accomplished  by 
his  treatment.  He  found  some  dupes,  but  unfortunately  they  were 
not  of  "the  slaves  who  ])ay."  There  was  living  in  town  a  respecta- 
ble old  gentleman,  protuberant  and  unwieldy,  whose  wife  was  as 
singularly  and  inconveniently  lean  and  thin  as  he  was  gross  and 
stout.  The  doctor  proposed,  for  a  moderate  consideration,  to  trans- 
fer, without  pain  or  danger  to  either,  the  surplus  rotundity  of  the 
liusband  to  the  wife.  But  reasonable  as  his  terms  were,  he  was  not 
encouraged  to  make  an  experiment  which  promised  results  so  happy 
and  so  greatly  desiderated!  He  left  town  not  long  afterwards,  dis- 
appointed, saddened,  not  to  say  affronted,  by  the  want  of  faith  of 
these  excellent  people  in  Ids  power  to  do  tliem  good.  But  if  they 
wanted  faith,  the  gossips  of  the  town,  whose  wonder  and  theme  he 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE.  117 

had  been,  did  not ;  nor  did  they  cease  for  many  years  to  lament  the 
incredulity  which  deprived  their  neighbors  of  the  benefit  which 
they  might  have  so  surely  derived  fi'om  the  magical  power  of  the 
great  doctor. 

More  substantial  is  the  history  and  better  verified  are  the  works 
of  William  Godfrey  Martin,  who  was  a  Hessian  soldier,  in  the  Brit- 
ish army,  and  served  in  America  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  After 
its  close  he  came  to  Maine,  and  for  a  good  many  years  was  in  and 
about  Livermore.  He  professed  to  have  been  an  educated  physician, 
and  boasted  of  having  effected  some  remarkable  cures.  He  told  a  pa- 
tient that  he  Avas  educated  at  the  Royal  College  in  Leyden,  and  had 
read  "  Booerhave  in  Latin,  a  book  as  big  as  that  bed,"  pointing  to 
an  old-fashioned  large-sized  bed  upon  which  the  patient  was  reclin- 
ing ;  and  that  he  bought  his  medicines  by  wholesale  in  Portland  of 
the  "  Sharleyarvin,"  meaning  the  eminent  apothecary  and  physi- 
cian, Dr.  Shirley  Ervin.  "Having  been  born  under  Jupiter,"  he 
said,  "I  can  generally  tell  what  ails  folks."  He  claimed  to  have 
been  a  Mason  in  the  "ninth  arch"  before  he  left  Germany. 
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118  HISTOKY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 


CHAPTER    X. 

THE  STORY  OF  THOMAS  FISH. 

1782. 

BY    ELIZABETH    AKERS    ALLEN. 

Almost  a  hundred  years  ago, 

While  Maine's  sparse  hamlets  were  scattered  wide, 
And  threatened  still  by  the  savage  foe — 

Where  the  turbulent  Androscoggin's  tide 
In  fetterless  freedom  flowed  at  will, 
Unspanned  by  bridge  and  untasked  by  mill — 

Unvexed,  as  it  threaded  the  forest  gloom, 

By  floating  lumber  or  hindering  boom — 
Across  the  ice  on  a  winter  day. 

As  thickly  the  dizzy  snow  came  down, 
A  traveler  toiled,  on  his  tiresome  way 

To  New  Port  Royal  from  Winthrop  town. 

All  day  long  it  had  snowed  and  snowed^ 

And  now  the  drifts  were  heavy  and  deep ; 
For  a  score  of  miles  he  had  kept  the  road 

Buried  and  blocked  by  the  tempest's  sweep — 
But  beating  his  hands  to  keep  them  warm, 
He  faced,  undaunted,  the  blustering  storm — 

For  only  a  little  space  away 

The  end  of  his  weary  journey  lay. 
But  all  too  soon  did  the  shadows  fall, 

And  the  chill  gray  twilight  leave  the  skies, 
And  night  let  down,  like  a  solid  wall, 

Its  thick  black  curtain  before  his  eyes. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORE.  119 

With  weary  muscles  and  straining  sight, 

He  bent  his  head  to  the  furious  blast, 
And  toiled  and  struggled  with  sturdy  might, 

And  pictured  the  rest  he  should  find  at  last — 
Blessing  the  way-marks  which  let  him  know 
The  hidden  pathway  beneath  the  snow. 

Had  he  not  Avalked  it,  in  dark  and  light, 

Often  and  often,  before  to-night  ? 
But  the  mighty  wind,  from  the  bleak  northeast. 

Seized  him  and  smote  him  and  made  him  reel, 
His  feet  grew  numb,  and  their  aching  ceased — 

But  the  sharp  snow  stung  him  like  points  of  steel. 

It  beat  like  sand  in  his  blinded  eyes. 

And  filled  his  nostrils,  and  choked  his  breath — 
And  the  cold  seemed  slowly  to  paralyze 

His  brain  to  a  drowsy  dream  of  death. 
Stumbling,  wading — he  rose  once  more 
Deafened  and  dazed  by  the  tempest's  roar, 

And  yet  again  through  the  drifts  he  pressed. 

With  cold  hands  beating  his  aching  breast, 
And  pulses  faltering — while  so  near, 

Only  a  short  half  mile  before. 
Were  warmth  and  safety  and  friendly  cheer 

In  the  dwelling  of  Farmer  Livermore. 

The  farmer's  kitchen  was  broad  and  bright, 

And  cheerily  out  on  the  driving  storm 
Streamed  from  its  windows  the  ruddy  light 

Of  the  social  hearth-fire  wide  and  warm ; 
But  the  inmates  shuddered  beside  the  fire. 
As  the  raging  tempest  shrieked  in  ire. 

And  the  striving  gusts  in  the  chimney  cried. 

While  higher  the  snow-banks  piled  outside. 
But  nine  had  struck  from  the  tall  old  clock ; 

The  ashes  over  the  coals  were  pressed ; 
The  door  was  fastened  with  bolt  and  lock. 

And  the  farmer's  household  souojht  their  rest. 


120  HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMORE. 

Long  after  fire  and  lights  were  out, 
And  half  asleep  as  the  farmer  lay, 

He  dreamed,  or  fancied,  he  heard  a  shout 
In  the  stormy  tumult,  far  away. 

Alert  he  listened — and  caught  once  more 

The  voice  half  lost  in  the  wind's  wild  roar — 
Muffled,  faint,  on  the  snow-thick  air, 
It  came  like  the  cry  of  a  great  despair — 

And  the  farmer,  leaving  his  pillow  warm. 

Went  out  in  the  darkness  and  strove  to  hear, 

In  the  fitful  pauses  of  blast  and  storm, 
Again  the  voice  that  had  reached  his  ear. 

Long  he  listened,  but  all  in  vain — 

Never  again  came  the  pleading  cry ; 
Over  the  clearing,  and  Avide  pine  plain, 

The  wrathful  tempest  swept  heedless  by ; 
And  he  turned  again  to  the  sheltering  door, 
Doubting  and  querying  more  and  more. 
"  The  night  is  terrible — who  would  be 
Out  at  a  time  like  this,"  said  he, 
"To  face  this  bitter  and  bleak  northeast?" 
And  he  crept  again  to  his  pillow  warm ; 
"  It  was  but  the  cry  of  a  scared  wild  beast 

Roused  from  its  lair  by  the  howling  storm." 

The  wanderer's  heart  grew  sick  with  fear ; 

He  had  lost  the  road — and  he  struggled  back 
Manfully,  stoutly — for  life  was  dear — 

Eager  to  reach  the  baffling  track ; 
But,  sore  bewildered  and  chilled  and  blind, 
Crossed  it,  leaving  it  far  behind. 

Floundering,  plunging,  with  slow  advance. 

Away  from  his  life's  last  feeble  chance. 
What  wonder,  when  from  his  heart  was  riven 

The  precious  hope  he  had  tri«d  to  nurse, 
If  he  lost  all  faith  in  earth  and  heaven, 

And  blamed  his  fate  with  a  bitter  curse  ? 


HISTORY  OF  LIVEEMOEE. 

Could  he  be  lost  ?     He  had  passed  this  way 

On  many  a  wide  exploring  tramp ; 
Had  planned  with  careful  and  close  survey 

The  road  to  the  earliest  settler's  camp ; 
And  long  ere  the  first  log  house  was  made 
Had  slept  in  the  forest,  unafraid, 

With  curtain  of  leaves  and  pillow  of  moss; 

Had  roamed  the  ridges  and  swamps  across, 
With  compass  and  quadrant,  stake  and  chain, 

And  ti'aced,  and  measured,  and  noted  down, 
And  conned,  and  studied,  again  and  again. 

The  boundary  lines  of  the  purposed  town. 

Was  this  the  end?     Should  he  never  see 
The  growth  and  glory,  by  land  and  wave. 

Of  the  infant  nation  he  helped  to  free, 
The  young  republic  he  fought  to  save  ? 

Never  again  would  his  vigorous  hand 

Clear  the  trees  from  the  virgin  land, 
Never  with  cordial  warmth  again 
Answer  the  grasp  of  his  fellow-men  ? 

Never  more  should  he  ford  the  streams 
Or  rove  the  woods  of  the  future  town  ? 

And  was  this  the  end  of  his  happy  dreams  ? 
And  thus  must  his  brave,  strong  life  go  down  ? 

He  thought  of  the  home  he  had  toiled  to  frame. 
The  new-built  house  in  the  meadow  set — 

(The  faithful  meadow  still  bears  his  name, 
And  the  half-filled  cellar  is  seen  there  yet.) 

The  home  that  waited  its  coming  crown — 

The  promised  sweetheart  in  Winthrop  town; 
And  did  she  slumber  with  peaceful  breath 
While  he  was  battling  alone  with  death? 

Or  did  she  wake  from  her  happy  sleep. 

And  peering  out  through  the  midnight  dim. 

Noting  the  snow-fall  dense  and  deep, 
Think  of  his  journey  and  pray  for  him? 


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122 


HISTORY  OF  LWERMORE. 

Was  this  the  end  of  his  fond  desire  ? 

Was  it  for  this  inglorious  close 
His  life  passed  scathless  amid  the  fire 

Poured  from  the  cannon  of  foreign  foes  ? 
Was  it  for  this  lie  had  dared  to  press 
Into  the  heart  of  the  wilderness, 

And  met  and  grappled,  without  a  fear. 

The  dangers  and  toils  of  the  wild  frontier  ? 
Was  it  to  die  in  the  woods  alone, 

Freezing  slowly  to  senseless  rock. 
He  was  saved  in  the  perils  his  life  had  known, 

And  spared  by  the  Indian's  tomahawk  ? 

Ah,  liow  cruel  seemed  all  on  eai'th ! 

All  he  had  prized,  or  loved,  or  known ! 
What  could  friendship  or  love  be  worth, 

Since  they  left  him  to  die  alone? 
Empty  mockery  seemed  they  then. 
Love  of  women  and  praise  of  men, 

False  and  hollow  and  useless  all ; 

And  he  pierced  the  night  with  his  frenzied  call, 
And  pushed  again  through  the  hopeless  drift. 

And  shouted  and  shrieked  with  his  failing  breath, 
Striving  with  desperate  will  to  lift 

The  growing  stupor  he  knew  was  death. 

Did  his  heart  go  back  to  his  fresher  years, 
His  early  manhood, — his  children  twain, 

Who  long  with  questions  and  sobs  and  tears 
Would  wait  his  coming  and  wait  in  vain, 

Afar  in  their  Massachusetts  home  ? 

Or  did  his  wavering  memory  roam 

To  the  few  bright  days  of  his  wedded  life. 
And  linger  last  with  his  long-lost  wife  ? 

Haply  her  love's  serene  control, 

Hovering  near  him,  a  helpful  power. 

Lent  new  strength  to  the  tortured  soul 
At  war  with  fate  in  that  dreadful  hour. 


HISTORY  OF  LIVERMORB. 

Utterly  wearied  out,  at  length, 

He  paused  by  the  roots  of  a  fallen  pine, 
Yet  strove  with  his  last  remaining  strength 

To  leave  some  record,  or  trace,  or  sign. 
For  those  who  would  seek  and  find  him  there ; 
On  a  half-burned  stump,  by  the  wind  blown  bare, 
With  his  trusty  knife  in  the  nerveless  hold 
Of  fingers  stifl"  with  the  cruel  cold, 
He  tried  to  fashion  a  word — in  vain — 

The  knife  escaped  from  his  frozen  hand. 
And  his  feeble  message  of  love  and  pain 
No  mortal  ever  could  understand. 

Powerless  longer  to  strive  or  shout, 

He  dropped  on  his  desolate  death-bed  there ; 
The  final  flicker  of  hope  went  out 

And  left  him  alone  with  his  black  despair. 
Little  he  thought,  as  he  slowly  sunk 
Down  to  die  by  the  pine  tree's  trunk, 
With  never  a  helping  hand  to  save 
Or  beckon  him  back  from  his  snowy  grave- 
Little  he  dreamed,  on  his  pillow  cold, 

That  after  the  lapse  of  a  hundred  years, 
His  mournful  story  would  still  be  told, 
With  tender  pity  and  many  tears. 

Sweetly  a  strange  delirium  stole 

The  sense  of  anguish  and  pain  away ; 

For  a  merciful  moment,  across  his  soul, 
A  wondrous  vision  of  summer  lay ; 

The  sunshine  warm  on  the  sweet  pine  woods. 

The  murmur  of  wide,  green  solitudes. 

The  glancing  leaves  by  the  breezes  stirred, 
The  gurgle  of  brook  and  the  song  of  bird ; 

Softly  the  fluttering  pulse  grew  still. 
As  spent  waves  die  on  a  pleasant  shore ; 

The  wrathful  tempest  had  wrought  its  will. 
And  the  cold  and  darkness  vexed  no  more. 


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HISTORY  OF  LIYEEMOEE. 

And  the  merciless  snow  kept  on  and  on, 
And  draped  his  bed  with  a  curtain  white, 

And  covered  his  cold  cheek,  pale  and  wan ; 
And  three  days  after,  at  fall  of  night — 

When  a  flying  rumor  of  dread  and  fear 

Had  startled  the  settlers  far  and  near. 
And  sore  alarmed  at  his  long  delay. 
They  followed  his  track  where  he  lost  the  way^ 

They  found  him  frozen  and  stark,  and  bore, 
With  awe-struck  faces  and  whispered  speech, 

His  stiffened  form  to  the  very  door 

He  had  tried  so  vainly  and  long  to  reach. 

There  in  the  evening  firelight  warm. 

They  thawed  the  frost  from  his  rigid  limbs, 
And  gently  straightened  his  poor  bent  form ; 

And  with  prayer,  and  sermon,  and  quaint  old  hymns. 
Their  fitting  and  simple  burial  rite,  , 

They  buried  him  in  his  sweetheart's  sight ;  ^ 

With  tender  reverence  they  laid  him  down 

Near  her  dwelling  in  Winthrop  town. 
His  grave  was  nameless,  and  none  may  know. 

So  many  the  changing  years  have  been. 
Where  the  kind  earth  opened,  so  long  ago. 

Her  warm,  brown  bosom  and  took  him  in. 

Scarce  remembered  and  seldom  told, 

Even  in  the  homes  of  the  self-same  town 
Where  the  traveler  died  of  the  bitter  cold, 

Is  the  sorrowful  history  here  set  down. 
The  mournful  story  of  Thomas  Fish ; 
Yet  oft  indulging  my  childish  wish, 

My  fixther  told  me  the  legend  true 

When  fiercely  the  mad  Maine  snow-storms  blew; 
The  tale  of  the  gallant  pioneer, 

Frozen  to  death  in  the  driving  snow 
Of  the  winter  midnight,  wild  and  drear. 

Almost  a  hundred  years  ago. 


APPENDIX. 


Petition  of  Samuel  Livermore  and  others,  Committee,  for 
A  JS'ew  Grant — Kesolve  of  General  Court — Order  for  Se- 
lection AND  Location. 

Province  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay. 

To  the  hon'''^  Thos.  Hutchinson,  Esq^,  Lieut.  Governor  and  Com- 
mander in  Chief  in  and  over  said  Province  to  the  hon"*  his  Majesty's 
Council  and  House  of  Eepresentatives  in  General  Court  assembled  the 
29  day  of  Oct.  1770. 

The  Petition  and  Kemonstrance  of  Samuel  Livermore,  Leonard  Wil- 
hams,  and  George  Badcock,  a  Committee  appointed  by  a  Society  who 
were  Proprietors  of  a  Township  of  Land  granted  to  ISTath'l  Harris,  Esq'., 
and  others  by  said  General  Court  in  the  year  1736,  as  a  gratuity  for  their 
service  in  the  Eeduction  of  Port  Eoyal,  humbly  sheweth.  That  the  said 
Proprietors  in  observance  of  the  condition  of  their  Grant  proceeded  to 
lay  out  said  Township  and  returned  a  plan  of  the  same  to  the  same 
Court  for  their  approbation  which  was  approved  of  by  them  according- 
ly; That  then  the  Grantees  proceeded  to  perform  the  conditions  of  their 
Grant  by  allotting  out  the  house  lots,  and  some  began  to  build  thereon, 
and  repaired  to  said  town  with  design  to  dwell  there,  clear'd  roads  and 
built  a  saw-mill  at  the  charge  of  the  Proprietors,  with  many  other 
charges,  in  the  whole  amounting  to  more  than  £1,000  of  the  then  cur- 
rency, as  by  the  Book  of  Records  of  said  Proprietors  clearly  appears, 
besides  their  expence  of  time  and  labour.  But  yet  it  happen'd  that  a 
war  broke  out  and  many  of  the  inhabitants  were  killed,  others  taken 
captive,  others  surprized  and  discouraged;  and  immediately  by  the  set- 
tlement of  the  bounds  between  this  Province  and  the  Province  of  'New 
Hampshire,  to  our  great  loss  and  disappointment,  the  town  fell  within 
the  bounds  of  Kew  Hampshire  Province,  whereby  the  Proprietors  were 
wholly  deprived  of  all  the  profit  and  advantages  they  expected  to  reap 
and  enjoy  for  their  services  aforesaid,  and  suffered  great  loss  not  only 


126  APPENDIX. 

in  time  but  in  money  in  laying  out  their  lotts,  clearing  roads,  &c.,  and 
have  no  way  to  obtain  relief  but  by  the  interposition  of  your  Honors. 
Your  Petitioners  therefore  pray  your  Honors  would  take  the  same  into 
your  wise  consideration,  and  appoint  a  committee  to  enquire  into  the 
equity  of  our  claims  and  also  the  claims  of  several  others  who  were  in 
the  same  expedition,  but  have  received  no  favor  therefor,  and  who  de- 
sire to  be  admitted  with  us,  and  grant  leave  to  remove  ovir  pitch  to  some 
other  place  in  some  of  the  unappropriated  lands  in  said  Province,  and 
your  Petitioners  as  in  duty  bound  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 

Samuel  Livermore,") 
Leonard  Williams,  >  Committee. 
George  Badcock,      ) 

The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  Petition  of  Samuel  Liver- 
more,  Esq'.,  and  others  have  enquired  into  the  facts  therein  set  forth 
and  judge  them  to  be  true,  and  therefore  are  of  opinion  that  the  follow- 
ing Kesolve  pass: 

In  the  House  of  Kepresentatives  June  11,  1771,  Resolved  that  the 
Prayer  of  this  Petition  be  granted,  and  that  there  be  granted  to  the 
I'etitioners,  and  to  the  assigns  or  legal  representatives  of  the  original 
Grantees  in  said  Petition  mentioned,  their  heirs  and  assigns,  a  township 
of  the  contents  of  six  miles  and  three-quarters  square,  in  some  of  the 
unappropriated  lands  in  the  Province  of  Maine  to  the  eastward  of  Saco 
River,  adjoining  to  some  former  Grant,  to  satisfy  the  Grant  of  a  Town- 
ship therein  mentioned,  which  they  lost  by  the  running  of  the  line  be- 
tween this  Province  and  the  Province  of  New  Hampshire,  and  that  the 
Petitioners  at  the  cost  of  themselves  and  their  associates  cause  the  same 
to  be  laid  out  by  a  skilful  surveyor  and  chainmen  under  oath  and  return 
a  Plan  of  the  same  to  this  Court  for  their  acceptance  within  twelve 
months,  and  the  said  Grantees  shall  hold  the  same  to  themselves,  their 
heirs  and  assigns  forever,  upon  the  following  conditions,  viz.:  That  the 
Grantees  within  seven  years  settle  sixty  families  in  said  Township,  build 
a  house  for  the  public  worship  of  God  and  settle  a  learned  Protestant 
minister,  and  lay  out  one  sixty-fourth  part  for  the  first  settled  minister, 
one  sixty-fourth  jiart  for  the  ministry,  one  sixty-fourth  j)art  for  the  use 
of  schools,  and  one  sixty-fourth  part  for  the  use  of  Harvard  College  for- 
ever.* 

Sent  up  for  concurrence.  T.  Gushing,  Speaker. 

In  Council  June  11, 1771.  Read  and  concurred.    T.  Flucker,  Sec. 

Consented  to.  T.  Hutchinson. 

A  true  copy.    Attest  Thos.  Flucker,  Secretary. 

Record  the  above  copy.  Per  Leonard  Williams,  Propr's  Clerk. 

*A  further  time  for  the  performance  of  these  conditions  was  allowed  by  the  Legislature  of 
Massachusetts,_by  Resolve  June  17, 1779. 


APPENDIX. 


127 


To  Lieut.  Elijah  Livermore  and  Mr.  Elisha  Harrington. 

Gentlemen", — By  virtue  of  the  Power  vested  in  us  by  the  foregoing 
Grant  we  appoint  you  jointly  to  lay  out  said  Township,  with  such  other 
assistance  as  you  shall  tind  necessary,  with  the  following  instructions, 
that  you  go  directly  to  Brunswick  Falls.  On  your  way  thither  call  at 
Col.  Bagley's,  get  what  information  you  can  of  him,  both  as  to  the  best 
land  and  best  place.  At  Casco  Bay  consult  likewise  with  Capt.  Jones, 
and  get  what  knowledge  you  can.  At  Brunswick  take  a  Boat  or  Battoe 
and  a  skilful  Pilot,  go  up  Androscoggin  River,  see  what  the  navigation 
is,  proceed  up  as  far  as  Eocky  Meco,  explore  the  distance  from  any 
Grant;  if  the  land  is  good  and  will  make  a  good  Township  lay  one  out 
9  mile  and  forty  rods  long,  and  five  mile  wide  if  you  can  adjoin  it  any 
former  Grant;  if  not  and  by  extending  to  ten  miles  and  ^  long  you  can 
obtain  the  Intervale  lay  it  out  there  ten  miles  and  ^  long  and  four  miles 
and  ^  wide.  If  the  land  will  not  suit  go  up  Little  Androscoggin  River ; 
if  the  land  will  there  suit  lay  it  out  under  the  same  instructions.  If  you 
cannot  obtain  a  Township  there,  take  the  best  advice  and  best  Pilots  you 
can  and  lay  it  out  in  the  best  place  and  manner  you  can.  We  likewise 
appoint  you,  Mr.  Elisha  Harrington,  Surveyor  of  said  Township  with 
power  with  the  concurrence  of  Mr.  Livermore  to  appoint  and  agree  with 
some  other  skilful  Surveyor  to  compleat  said  survey  if  you  should  be 
called  off  before  you  have  compleated  the  same.  We  expect  you  will 
compleat  a  Plan  of  said  Township  and  send  or  bring  it  to  us  as  soon  as 
possible  that  we  may  present  the  same  to  the  General  Court  for  their 
acceptance. 
Given  under  our  Hands  this  ninth  day  of  August  1771. 

Samuel  Livermore, 
Leonard  Williams. 


128 


APPENDIX. 


B 

The  names  of  the  original  Proprietors  of  the  Township  No.  2,  for 
which  this  on  Androscoggin  Kiver  is  granted  as  an  equivalent,  together 
with  the  names  of  the  persons  who  claim  under  them  and  to  whom  the 
right  of  the  original  Proprietors  are  sold  for  payment  of  taxes. 


Original  Proprietors  of  No.  2. 


Persons  claiming  under  said  Proprietors  and 
persons  to  wliom  rights  are  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes. 


Nathl.  Harris,  Esq.,  his  son,  Stephen  Harris. 

Capt.  Samuel  Googen,  sold  for  forty 

shillings  to  James  Kettle. 

Capt.  Benj.  Flagg,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to  Capt.  Benj.  Flagg. 

Capt.  Ebenezer  Woodward,  sold  for 

payment  of  taxes  to  Kichard  Woodward. 

Capt.  Ebenezer  Learnard,  his  son,        Capt.  Ebenezer  Learnard, 

Capt.  John  Hazzeltine,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  Asa  Hazzeltine. 

Thomas  Gibbs,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Capt.  Ebenezer  Learnard 

Jonas  Ward,  himself,  Jonas  Ward. 

Ebenezer  Whiiople,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to  William  Campbell. 

Ensign  Thomas  Harrington,  his  son,    Thomas  Harrington. 

Lieut.  Samuel  Lyon,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to 

William  Cheaney, 

James  Colburn,  sold  for  payment  of 
taxes  to 

Ebenezer  Lyon,  sold  for  payment  of 
taxes  to 

Dea.  Thomas  Marshall,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to 

Lt.  Jerijah  Wales,  sold  for  payment 
of  taxes  to 

John  Sawin,  sold  for  payment  of 
taxes  to 

John  Ward,  sold  for  payment  of 
taxes  to 

Ephraim  Sautle,  sold  for  payment 
of  taxes  to 


Thomas  Fish. 

his  son,  Thomas  Cheaney. 


John  Clark,  Jun'r. 
John  Clark,  Jun'r. 
Ebenezer  Marshall. 
Isaac  Gleason. 
Daniel  Sawin. 
John  Clark,  Jun'r. 
Isaac  Gleason. 


APPENDIX.  129 

Persons  claiming  under  said  Proprietors  and 
Original  Proprietors  of  No.  2.  persons  to  whom  rights  are  sold  for  pay- 

ment of  taxes. 

Isaac  Parker,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Isaac  Gleason. 

Jonathan  Gates,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Elijah  Livermore. 

John  Stearns,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Capt.  Benjamin  Flagg. 

Jonathan  Wellington,  himself,  Jonathan  Wellington. 

Nath'l  Davis,  sold   for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Kichard  Woodward. 

Eliphelet  Lyon,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Simeon  Pond. 

Wd.  Hannah  Badcock,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  John  Badcock. 

Josiah  Sautle,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  David  Haven. 

Nath'l  Whitmore,  Asa  Hazzeltine. 

Ebenezer  Hartshorn,  Samuel  Livermore,  Esq. 

John  Harwood,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  John  Clark,  Jun'r. 

Eev.  John  Whiting,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  William  Badcock. 

Daniel  Googen,  Esq.,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  Jabez  Totnam. 

Rev.  Warham  Williams,  his  son,  Leonard  Williams,  Esq. 

Thomas  Marshall,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to  John  Clark,  Jun'r. 

Ebenezer  Hubbard,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  Capt.  Thomas  Denny. 

William  Chubb,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Isaac  Gleason. 

John  Maddock,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Capt.  John  Fuller. 

Ensign  Joseph  Fuller,  his  son,  Abraham  Fuller,  Esq. 

Thomas  Bobbins,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to  Capt.  Thomas  Denny. 

Samuel  Smith,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Samuel  Smith  Learnard. 

Peter   Lyon,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Isaac  Gleason. 

Benjamin  Munroe,  his  son,  Benjamin  Munroe. 


130 


APPENDIX. 


Original  Proprietors  of  No.  2. 


Persona  claiminfj  under  said  Proprietors  and 
persons  to  whom  rights  are  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes. 


Joua.  Ball,  sold  for  iiayment  of  taxes 

to  John  Ball. 

Kath'l  Dike,  sold  to  Anthony  Dike 

Bemus  Woodward,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to  Isaac  Gleason. 

Dea.  Ebenezer  Goodhue,    sold  for 

payment  of  taxes  to 
Benjamin  Wood,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to 
William  Robinson,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to 
Benjamin  Corey, 
John    Cager,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to 
Nathan  Whipple,  sold  for  payment 

of  taxes  to 
Israel  Reese,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to 
Peter  Hunt,    sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to 
John  Ramsey,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to 
Benjamin  Chadwick,  sold  for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to 
David  Knap,  to 
Benjamin    Aldridge,   sold   for  pay- 
ment of  taxes  to  Isaac  Gleason. 
William  Puffer,  sold  for  payment  of 

taxes  to  Seth  Adams. 

The  foregoing  extract  from  the  Proprietors'  Records  was  entered 
therein  in  1771.  Between  that  time  and  1779  a  large  number  of 
rights  or  shares  came  to  Dea.  Elijah  Liverraore  by  purchase  at  tax 
sales  and  from  individual  proprietors. 


John  Clark,  Jun'r. 

John  Clark,  Jun'r. 

Elisha  Harrington. 
Asa  Hezzeltine. 

John  Clark,  Jun'r. 

Isaac  Gleason. 

Lt.  Elijah  Livermore. 

Moses  Stone,  Jun'r. 

Isaac  Gleason. 

Lt.  Elijah  Livermore. 
Jeremiah  Whittemore. 


APPENDIX.  131 

c 

A  GOTJRNAL  of  our  Joumay  To  Lot  out  our  Toivnship  on  Anclroscoggen 
Tiiver. 

Set  out  from  Waltham  for  Boston  Tuesday  August  18,  1772,  waited 
for  fair  wind  till  Fryday  S  of  clock  in  the  morning  Then  set  sail  in  a  fine 
Large  Sloop  Called  the  Feuix  and  had  a  very  good  voige  Landed  near 
CoUon  Lithgros  miles  U]^  Kenebeck  Eiver  on  the  next  Day  about  four 
o  clock  Afternoon, 

23  Set  sail  3  o  clock  Afternoon  went  to  merry  meeting  Bay. 

24  Set  sail  6  o  clock  morning  and  that  Tide  went  to  Pownalboro,  next 
Tide  went  to  Gardner  town. 

25  Set  sail  7  o  clock  Kan  up  to  Bombay  Hook*  where  we  Ran  a 
ground  at  the  turn  of  Tide  then  took  our  stores  in  Boat  up  to  Snows  a 
mile  Below  Fort  western.  About  5  o  clock  Fish  and  I  went  forward 
about  4  mile  in  order  to  procure  a  battoe  for  our  use  ether  to  buy  or 
make  or  Borrow. 

26  a  rainy  morning  spent  the  whole  day  without  success. 

27  our  Store  arrived  at  Winthrop  about  noon  wee  Bought  boards  to 
make  a  Battoo  then  went  to  Mr.  Frosts  about  2  mile  from  Wilson  pond. 

28  wee  Hired  Icabud  How  to  help  us  wee  paid  our  Teamster  Mr. 
How  and  Fish  began  the  battoo  and  the  rest  carried  the  stores  forward 
toward  the  pond. 

29  battoo  finished  about  noon  then  lanched  into  said  pond  and  got 
safe  over  about  Sunset.f 

Lots  on  the  east  side  of  the  river  were  laid  out  in  the  months  of  Sep- 
tember and  October,  1772,  by  Ebenezer  Waters,  surveyor,  and  Elijah 
Livermore  and  Richard  Woodward,  chainmen. 

Accounts  of  parties  connected  with  the  survey  of  1772  as  allowed  and 
paid: 

Ebenezer  Waters, £19 

Capt.  Ebenezer  Learned,       18    6s. 

Richard  Woodward, 22 

Lieut.  Elijah  Livermore,       46    3s.  8d. 

Thomas  Fish, 7  18s. 

*Hallowell. 

tit  is  not  certainly  known  who  made  these  entries.  They  are  in  a  small  memorandum  book 
that  was  in  possession  of  Dea.  Livermore ;  but  they  are  not  in  his  hand  writing.  There  are 
many  other  entries  in  the  book,  some  of  which  seem  to  have  been  made  by  a  "  Sudbiiry-Cana- 
da"  man.  The  ones  here  given  were  undoubtedly  made  by  Ebenezer  Waters,  Capt.  Learned, 
or  Mr.  Woodward. 


132  APPENDIX. 

D 

JOURNAL   OF  THOMAS  FISH. 

Thos.  Fish  his  Book  price  7s.  6cl.  of  Oxford  in  the  County  of  Worces- 
ter New  England. 

Jornal  from  Oxford  to  Androscoggen  River  April  26, 1773.  Left  Ox- 
ford Dinner  at Loged  at  Framinham. 

27  to  Boston  Spoak  for  a  passage  a  Board  of  Capt  John  Martins 
Sloop,  Name  the  Salley,  Belonging  to  Falmouth. 

28  Got  our  Stores  ahoard  waiting  for  a  fare  wind. 

29  waiting  for  a  fare  wind. 

30  Sailed  7  o  the  clock  in  the  morning  came  of  aganst  Dear  Ireland 
head  wind. 

May  1  Day  1773  Saild  half  after  8  and  at  Sun  Set  of  agains  Epswech 
bay  Ninty  six  Saile  of  Vessels  all  In  Sight  at  once  pleasant  weather 
fare  wind  but  Small. 

2  Sunday  In  at  Falmouth  at  one  of  the  clock  afternoon  three  o  clock 
come  To  an  ancer  at  Town. 

May  3rd  Day  1773  got  our  stoares  out  of  the  Vessel  and  Stoard  them 
In  Mr  Shattucks  Store  Left  Falmouth  2  o  the  clock  On  the  afternoon 
Traveld  Eleven  miles  and  cared  our  packs  very  heavey  Loged  at  Mr 
Joseph  Latens  North  Casco. 

4th  Traveld  4  miles  |  throw  the  woods  before  Breakfast  killed  one 
piggon  and  Eat  for  Breakfast  at  Knight  at  Mr  Stinchfield  of  New 
Gloucester  Very  hot  weather  met  Mr  Livermores  Team  a  going  after 
thee  Rest  of  the  Stoars  Left  Behind. 

5th  Set  out  for  our  township  Mr  James  Stinchfleld  our  pillot  D. 
Mixer  Thos.  Fish  Willm  Foster  Ebiz  Gleas  (on?)  Lieut.  Livermore  be- 
hind to  bring  up  our  Stores  traviled  to  Little  Amascoggen  9  mile  from 
New  Goucester  waided  the  River  Willm  Foster  fell  in  to  the  River  all 
over  with  3  axes  and  a  grait  coat  on  his  Shoulders  Killed  4  Pigons  one 
patrage  campt  by  great  Wilson  pond  30  miles  to  Little  amascoggen* 
meashuard  by  the  chain  9  miles  to  wilson  pond,  In  wading  I  wet  my 
watch  in  the  works  and  Did  Not  stop  and  take  water  out. 

6th  Day  began  to  clear  our  Road  Set  the  woods  af  fire  and  burnt  our 
gun  stick  Lay  very  coald  for  our  Blankets  is  behind  with  our  Stores. 

7th  Day  Lieut  Livermore  and  his  hands  come  to  us  at  Ten  of  the 
cloack  with  stores  and  had  bad  luck  In  crosing  Little  amasoggen  River 

*Probably  from  Falmouth. 


APPENDIX.  133 

and  fell  In  with  one  hors  and  our  Stores  (were)  Yary  much  wet  and 
Left  us  at  2  of  the  Cloack  and  Keturnd  after  more  Stores  Claard  the 
Road  to  a  large  Brook  Vary  Bad  pasing  till  thare  is  a  bridg  built — the 
1st  Day  of  may  Lieut  Livermore  Left  Falmouth  with  his  Team  and 
hands. 

8  Still  at  worck  on  our  Road  Kild  2  patriges  cetch  Fish — Encampt  by 
a  pleasant  pond  our  pilot  Returd  to  us  at  Sun  Set,  marked  the  Road  out. 

9  Sunday  morning  our  pilot  Left  us  he  was  In  our  Emplouy  3  Days 
besides  Sunday  to  goe  home  in — Delivrd  Mr  James  Stinchfield  my  Deed 
to  Keep  or  Leave  at  the  Registers  office  In  Falmouth  if  he  has  opertu- 
nyty  To  get  Recorded  Deed  of  my  Land  In  port  Royal  Township — this 
Knight  vary  sharp  Litning  and  Thunder  vary  hard  Til  about  12  o  the 
clock. 

10  Clearing  our  Road  vary  much  Tormented  with  the  flys — hot  Day 
thunder  and  Litning  veary  hard  and  Sharp  til  midnite  much  Rain  Lay 
uncomfortable  this  Knight  Cleard  the  Road  within  one  mile  of  20  mile 
River  bad  Logs  by  the  mile  to  gather  to  cut  out  of  the  Road  we  have 
Not  Eat  but  2  meals  of  Solt  provistion  Since  we  have  been  In  the  woods 
Fish  and  patridges  plenty  Saw  whare  the  thunder  Struck  a  tree  not  far 
from  our  camp  Last  Knight, 

11  Clearing  Road — this  Knight  Phipses  Cannaday  Comraitees  campt 
with  us,  bound  up  to  theire  Towship  to  Loting  out, 

12  Lieut  Livermore  and  his  hands  come  to  us  about  Ten  o  the  clock 
forenoon,     this  Knight  Rany. 

13  Day  Lieut  Livermore  crost  the  Twenty  mile  River  with  4  oxen  1 
hors — this  Day  caryd  our  Bagage  over  Dito  River  and  Encampt  Near 
the  River,     crost  with  the  Road  at  three  o  the  clock.     Rany  Knight. 

14  Rany  morning  Rany  all  Day  Encampt  on  the  East  side  of  20  mile 
River  Fish  plenty  Trouts  vary  Large  and  plenty  Lay  hear  with  our 
Blangkets  Strecht  all  Day. 

15  Lieut  Livermoor  and  I  Sett  out  in  order  to  vew  the  Land  for  the 
Rod  In  To  our  Township  about  15  miles  the  way  we  went  and  it  Raind 
Some  when  we  Set  out  and  was  as  rainy  a  Day  as  a  most  Ever  I  New 
and  Lieut  Livermoor  went  to  goe  Round  a  Swamp  to  se  if  the  Land 
would  not  beter  acomadate  for  the  Road  and  got  Lost  from  (us)  and  I 
Hr'd  three  guns  and  continued  hollering  for  2  hours  and  half  by  Times 
before  he  came  to  me  and  then  we  Sett  out  towerds  and  arived  at  our 
ground  camp  at  Dusk — but  Like  to  have  Layd  in  the  wood  all  Knight 
without  fire  but  to  our  grait  Jouy  Mr  How  of  pond  Town  was  thare  a 
Sleep  in  my  old  Saw  bunk  I  had  thare  the  Last  year  and  had  a  good  fire 
and  I  puld  of  my  Shirt  and  Rung  it  as  Dry  as  I  could  and  warmed  it 
and  put  on  again  and  I  Did  the  same  by  my  Blanket  and  Lay  Down  in 
my  wet  cloaths  and  Rested  as  comfortable  as  I  could — we  wet  our  plan 

10 


134  APPENDIX. 

and  it  come  into  9  peces  which  cost  us  some  Trovible  having  no  other 
with  us. 

16.  Sunday  Keturned  to  our  people  to  20  mile  Kiver— by  the  misfor- 
ting  we  had  a  Satturday  we  was  oblige  to  Return  for  want  of  provistion 
and  I  Snapt  my  gun  at  a  Large  buck  moose  well  Loaded  with  a  ball  but 
the  powder  being  wet  a  saterday  and  Damp  to  my  grait  Sorow  Did  not 
goe  off  and  Ileturd  to  our  peopell  and  all  Avas  well  with  them  and  found 
them  Eating  Som  hot  patrige  Broath  whitch  Did  not  com  a  mis  to  us 
also  for  we  had  not  Eat  any  hot  victtuls  Since  we  left  them. 

17  munday  went  with  Lieut  Livermoore  to  help  iiim  Drive  his  cattle 
Into  Town  and  got  along  vary  well  Except  his  hors  fell  Down  and  cut 
his  Knee  and  Lamed  himself — got  within  about  one  mile  of  camp  at 
Dusk  and  haveiug  a  grait  mind  to  git  in  to  our  camp  (we)  on  yoak  our 
oxen  and  I  set  my  compas  and  it  being  so  Dark  that  I  could  not  Se  the 
Needle  but  Tuck  East  to  be  West  and  Sheard  of  about  one  mile  and 
Struck  the  grait  meadow  and  was  oblige  to  Ly  on  an  Island  in  the 
raadow  and  after  Long  Trial  we  got  fire  but  had  Noe  ax  with  us  Nor 
provition — Sum  Rany  but  we  Campt  Down  as  well  as  we  cold  and 
Starved  it  out  haveing  eat  Noe  hot  victtuls  Since  morning  but  wished 
for  Day  Light  before  it  com — arived  at  our  grand  camp  Eight  o  clock 
morning. 

18  Tusday  a  Loocking  over  the  Town  to  find  whare  will  best  aconio- 
date  for  the  Road — patridges  or  pigons  almost  Every  Day  the  Dog  came 
a  croast  a  pocapine  and  filled  his  nose  with  Quills. 

19  Wensday  Returned  to  Silvester  to  our  people  and  arived  thare 
about  5  o  the  clock  and  Jest  before  I  got  thare  the  Dog  Stole  Sum 
Chease  and  converted  it  to  his  own  use  and  as  he  broack  the  Law  he 
Reed  his  punishment  Jest  as  I  arived  and  in  about  one  hour  after  he 
Tread  a  vary  Large  pocopine  and  I  Shot  it  and  Skiud  it  and  he  Stoed 
the  whole  Body  (in)  to  him  that  he  nead  not  Steal  no  more  provition. 

20  Thusday  about  the  oald  Task  daring  Road  past  a  Large  Brook- 
about  12  o  the  clock  bagane  to  Raine  Set  in  araining  and  Beat  us  of 
from  our  worck  before  Knight  Vary  Rany  and  uncomfortable  weather 
for  our  Busness  14  &  loth  Days  all  our  hands  Lay  by  by  Reason  of  Rain 
besides  sevaral  other  times  part  of  a  Day.  this  Day  we  had  patrige  for 
Diner  and  after  we  had  Dind  I  Tuck  the  gun  and  went  about  100  Rods 
from  the  camp  and  Kild  2  more  for  the  Next  Day — our  famyly  is  small 
Nobody  hear  but  Foster  and  Gleason  and  I — father  Mixer  and  Lieut 
Livermore  and  his  hands  Left  us  the  17th  Day  to  goe  to  our  New  Ox- 
ford Ryal  to  plant  corn  and  prottous  (potatoes)— this  Time  a  Drawing  a 
plan  of  our  Town  by  the  oald  peacess  that  was  wet  and  made  out  So  as 
that  it  will  answer  our  Town  at  this  time. 

21  Set  out  to  goe  for  Stores  to  Little  andrascoggen  River  to  Mr  Lanes 


APPENDIX. 


135 


arived  thare  Jest  before  Knight  and  put  up  our  Stores  for  marching  the 
N^ext  moning. 

22  Day  Satturday  Set  out  heavy  Load  upon  our  Back  But  we  had  one 
cag  we  cald  the  Bull  which  helpt  us  cary  the  Rest  at  Every  Spring  we 
Eluded  the  Bull  we  come  Twelve  mile  and  Night  com  on. 

23  Sunday  arived  at  our  camp  this  morning  and  found  all  things  well. 
2-1:  Day  monday  moved  forard  on  our  Road  about  1  mile  and  haf  about 

2  0  the  Cloack  thare  come  up  a  Thunder  Shoure  and  Raine  and  Thunder 
Vary  hard  Sharp  Litning,  Rand  till  Knight. 

25  Tusday  pleasant  and  cold  and  the  flyes  Did  not  bite  So  bad  as 
useyal. 

26  Wensday  or  Election  and  vary  Rany  and  noe  Bread  nor  meal 
Some  croas  and  crocked  Went  Into  our  Town.  Rany  all  the  way  and 
arived  at  the  Grand  Camp  about  Two  o  cloack — Lieut  Livermore  had 
Jest  Killed  a  fat  calf  and  the  Sight  of  the  calf  with  other  good  Neacce- 
carys  made  us  (in)  as  good  condition  as  Ever — hear  we  found  Phipses 
cannaday  men  come  to  Se  us  also.  To  spend  a  few  Soshable  hours  with 
us  and  Thay  told  us  that  thay  Kild  a  fat  calf  the  Day  before  to  Keep 
Election  with,  but  thare  cow  Run  away  into  the  wood  wild  and  thay  had 
not  milked  hir  since  thay  Kild  the  calf,  but  not  Somuch  to  be  wonderd 
at  for  she  was  of  the  Natives  of  the  Land  thare — So  we  had  som  further 
Discorse  about  flyes  thay  asked  me  if  I  had  Sean  any  and  I  tould  them 
I  had  Sean  a  few  but  thay  would  not  beleve  me  had  not  my  check  and 
face  and  hands  ben  almost  Raw  whitch  proved  that  I  Spoack  the  Truth. 
I  Should  not  ben  cald  one  of  Varassatay  by  them  So  after  a  little  past 
time  In  Eating  Some  fresh  Veal  and  Drinking  Some  W.  Enda  Toddy 
we  parted  with  our  Neabours  we  went  to  grinding  our  axes  for  the  Next 
Days  Servis. 

27  thusday  the  hands  at  work  on  the  Road  Next  to  the  River  for  Ave 
cold  not  git  any  meal  to  cary  out  with  us  but  expect  Som  Tomorow 
from  pond  Town  by  Mr  How  and  I  went  up  to  the  meating  house  Lot 
and  Layd  out  the  Road  and  marked  Down  to  the  Entervale. 

28  the  ould  Task  and  thar  come  a  Scout  of  Gnats  Down  upon  us  this 
Day  the  first  we  have  Sean  and  we  expect  thousands  Directly,  the  Black 
flyes  Seam  to  abate,  but  the  muscatoes  are  Vary  Numer's  among  us  and 
a  grait  many  of  them  will  weigh  half  a  pound — not  apeace  tho' — the  wind 
Vary  high  to  Day  So  that  we  amagin  (imagine)  Mr  how  could  not  cros 
ammascogen  pond  that  our  meal  is  not  come. 

29  Satturday  at  worck  at  the  Road  till  12  of  the  clock.  Left  Foster  to 
fech  out  Some  meal  and  Gleason  and  I  went  out  to  our  camp  In  Silves- 
ter for  we  was  afraid  the  wild  Beasts  would  Distrouy  our  Stores  and 
cloaths  if  we  Left  them  thare  any  Longer  and  we  markd  the  Road  5 
hundred  Road  acroast  5  Lots  and  got  to  our  camp  Jest  as  the  Sun  Sot 


136  APPENDIX. 

one  mile  and  a  half  from  our  Town  Line  into  Silvester  and  found  all 
things  well  but  Noe  meal  nor  Bread. 

30  Sunday  this  moning  made  a  Breakefast  of  Chocolate  and  Buter 
and  Chease  but  noe  Bread,  Diner  Noe  Bread  but  about  2  o  the  Cloack 
we  heard  a  cracking  in  the  Brush  and  I  tuck  the  gun  into  my  hand 
thinking  it  to  be  a  moose  but  as  sone  as  it  came  in  Sight  Who  Should  it 
be  but  our  Nabour  Foster  with  half  a  bushel  of  meal  to  his  Back  whitch 
Rejoyst  us  as  much  as  the  Sight  of  a  moose  it  Semes  he  thoat  marcy 
was  before  Sacrillse  tho  it  was  Sunday  he  new  we  had  Noe  bread  and 
Soe  come  out  to  us. 

31  Monday  unfortanate  to  and  Remarkable — Foster  cut  his  Knee  or 
Jest  above  his  Knee  throuw  3  thicknesses  of  garter,  Trowsers  1  thick- 
ness, Stocken  2  thicknesses.  Not  vary  bad  it  was  cut  half  after  Nine 
and  ten  minets  after  Eleven  he  came  vary  Near  being  Kild  and  (was) 
Remarkably  preserved.  I  was  afelling  a  tree  about  20  Inches  throu 
varay  Tall  and  when  I  found  thee  tree  was  agoing  I  give  the  word — 
Take  care,  and  foster  was  about  4  Road  frome  me  upon  a  Log  about  3 
feet  from  the  ground  and  Stood  and  Looked  of  the  tree  as  it  was  a  fall- 
ing and  the  tree  fell  on  the  Log  he  was  on  and  gave  it  a  cant  and  Turnd 
him  Rite  under  the  Tree  he  fell  Right  under  a  Log  he  was  on  and 
buckled  him  up  Into  a  heep  and  the  tree  Settled  on  him  and  Struck  the 
Breath  out  of  his  Body  and  Stouuded  him  and  the  ax  fioe  out  of  his 
hand  about  eight  feet  from  him  and  he  was  In  that  posistion  that  he 
could  not  help  him  Self  and  Gleason  Lifted  the  Log  about  one  Inch  and 
I  Turnd  his  head  it  being  buckled  under  his  Body  So  that  as  he  come 
(to)  he  could  Jest  help  him  Self  So  as  to  get  out — hurt  his  Shoulder 
Some  and  Beat  his  Leg  Black  and  Blue  and  give  his  whole  Body  a  uni- 
vers  (al)  Shock. 

June  1  Day  Tusday  Rany  this  morning  till  after  Nine — went  to  worck 
and  about  three  o  cloack  Beat  of  by  Rane  and  a  good  Deal  of  thunder 
but  not  Near — com  home  to  our  camp  and  Sett  the  girles  to  washing 
and  Keep  them  washing  till  thare  finger  was  Sore  and  the  Bouys  tended 
the  Kittels  with  water — the  first  time  of  washing  Since  we  Left  home, 
our  Linnings  and  wollens  Look  vary  White  but  our  muslings  and  cam- 
bricks  we  thot  Not  best  to  wash  to  Day  becaze  the  weather  looks  Dowt- 
full  for  Driing  and  we  are  going  to  move  to  morow  and  we  thot  it  would 
make  them  yalow  So  that  thay  would  not  be  fit  to  be  Sean  in  the  meat- 
ing  hous.* 

2  Wensday  Cloudy  Loose  Weather  this  morning  Lowary  all  Day  but 
we  worcked  all  Day  on  the  Road  and  fitting  muscatoes  till  Dusk — about 
Ten  o  the  cloack  a  Bare  came  within  few  Road  of  our  camp — all  a  sleep 

*We  have  here  an  example  of  the  Surveyor's  humor. 


APPENDIX.  137 

but  I,  and  I  Let  him  come  prity  N"ear  and  waked  the  Dog  thinking  he 
might  Tree  him  and  he  Stood  and  Snuffed  a  Spell  and  I  Tuck  the  gun 
in  my  hand  and  the  Dog  Jumpt  Into  the  Bruech  (brush)  about  three 
Road  and  come  back  frited  allmost  to  Death  and  yeald  with  his  Brussels 
Stuck  up  and  he  Laramed  (alarmed)  all  our  camp  and  I  Let  him  out 
and  he  folloed  him  of  a  Spell  and  com  back  againe  glad  he  was  alive  and 
we  had  IN'oe  Little  Laff  of  our  Suprize  and  the  fear  the  dog  Sustaned  for 
a  fue  minits — we  cleard  the  Road  into  our  Township  this  Day, 

3  Day  Thusday  Rany  amost  al  Day  but  we  movd  about  2  mile  and  ^ 
mile  into  our  Town. 

4  Friday  old  worck  Broak  1  ax  to  Day. 

5  Day  Sattur  Day  I  went  into  Town  to  grind  Fosters  Ax  broack  yes- 
terday and  the  flyes  bit  me  the  worst  I  have  ben  bit  Since  1  have  ben  in 
the  woods — a  woolf  com  and  hould  Round  our  camp  and  made  much 
Rout  amongus. 

6  Day  Sunday. 

7  Day  monday  about  10  o  the  Clock  Phipses  Cannaday  men  come  to 
VIS  and  thay  Kooked  thare  Dinner  at  oure  house  and  was  bound  home  all 
harty  and  after  we  had  Drunk  a  Little  Brandy  Toddy  and  Eat  Diner  to 
gather  we  parted.  This  after  None  I  moved  all  our  housing  Stuff  with 
our  provition  with  a  little  help  2  mile. 

8  Day  Tusday  this  after  N^oon  the  Dog  Kiled  a  pocopine  and  filled  his 
mouth  full  of  quiles  and  caused  a  good  Deal  of  Truble  to  get  them  out 
of  his  mouth  we  tied  his  legs  and  gaged  him  and  worcked  about  an 
houre  upon  him  and  he  was  vary  glad  after  it  was  over. 

9  Day  Wensday  this  Day  cloudy  afternoon  Rany  Knight  and  the  wind 
Blue  So  that  we  was  afraid  to  go  to  Sleep  but  Keept  awake  all  Night 
amost  for  feare  of  being  Kild  by  the  Trees. 

10  Day  Thusday  Traviled  in  to  Lieut  Livermoores  for  we  was  afraid 
to  Stay  in  the  woods  any  Longer  the  Trees  fell  so — cleard  of  about 
Noon  and  we  Returnd  again  to  camp. 

11  Friday  at  work  at  the  Road  went  in  to  our  camp  at  Knight  (Ex- 
pected) whare  Mr  How  had  markd  our  Road  from  Winthrop. 

12  Day  Satturday  Rany  in  the  foorenoon  afernoon  at  worck  at  the 
Road. 

13  Day  Sunday  Set  out  to  Wintrup  10  o  the  cloack  Struck  our  Town 
Line  In  the  Loar  of  Tyall  somwar  near  whare  it  crosses  a  bever  Dam 
and  folod  it  about  Two  mile  and  Steard  of  E  S  E  and  Struck  a  pond  and 
thoat  it  was  great  andresscoggen  pond  and  steard  of  E  S  E  and  Struck 
Dead  River  about  half  after  one  and  Still  Steard  our  corse  and  Struck 
Wintrup  North  part  of  the  Town  one  nir  Earses  (Sears' V)  Improvement 
— Vary  Rany  and  Struck  this  improvement  about  foure  o  the  clock  hin- 
dred  by  the  Raine  so  that  we  Did  not  git  to  mr  Hows  till  Knight. 


138 


APPENDIX. 


14  Day  monday  set  out  at  one  of  the  clock  to  mark  oure  Koad  to  poart 
Eoyal  and  at  Knight  campt  by  grait  anderascoggin  pond  and  as  we  was 
En  camping  we  heard  Something  growling  Like  a  bare  and  we  went  of 
from  our  camp  and  we  found  2  cubs  up  on  a  Tree  and  I  shot  one  of 
them  and  mr  how  Shoat  the  other  and  we  had  Som  for  brakefast  and 
had  a  vary  good  brakefast. 

Road  finished  to  Day. 

15  Day  Tusday  Set  out  this  morning  and  Struck  the  River  by  fishes 
Iseland  about  Eleven  o  the  cloack — 1  (o'clock)  our  hands  Washing  up 
for  hom. 

16  Day  wensday  after  Lieut  Livermoores  cattle  that  was  runaway 
Steard  of  about  12  o  the  cloack  Struck  thare  Tracks  and  follow  of  after 
them  till  Sun  Set  but  could  Kot  over  take  them  our  hands  cutting  a 
Road  to  the  falls  and  campt  with  out  Blanket  or  Victuals  Kext  Day  I 
got  in  ]t«rext  Day. 

17  Thusday  at  Eleven  o  the  clock  24  hours  without  any  victules  Ex- 
cept one  pan  cake  this  afternoon  packed  up  our  things  for  marching 
home  about  the  Sun  Set  foure  miles  on  our  Jorney  Som  Raine  and  thun- 
der. 

18  Fryday  got  into  Mr  Laines  about  the  middle  of  the  afternoon  and 
Refreshed  our  Selves  and  Rested  our  Selves  at  Little  andrew  Soggen 
River. 

19  Saturday  crost  the  River  and  got  to  Mr  Stinchfield  about  Eleven  o 
the  Clock  and  Refreshed  ourselvs  and  Sot  of  for  falmouth  Traveled  to 
Mr  Winslows  in  North  casko  and  Loged  thare. 

20  Sunday  at  falmouth  afternoon  went  to  church*  Quarterd  at  Mr 
Shattucks. 

21  Day  Monday  and  Looking  out  for  a  pasage  found  2  Vesels  Liakely 
to  Saile  in  2  or  three  Days  but  it  happend  that  a  Yesel  from  Canybeck 
fell  in  with  the  Land  in  the  foog  and  put  In  to  falmouth  to  fill  water 
and  we  axadantally  Se  the  Capt  and  agreed  with  him  for  a  pasage  and 
put  our  Stoares  a  board  in  about  15  minits  and  Sailed  down  the  harbour 
but  for  want  of  wind  we  was  oblige  to  come  to  an  anker  againe  we 
Sailed  at  Sunsett  and  come  to  about  Nine  o  the  clock. 

22  Day  Tusday  Lay  wind  bound  and  went  a  shoare  againe — about  five 
o  the  clock  the  wind  com  Round  to  the  Nox'ord  and  we  com  to  Saile  and 
went  out  of  the  harbour  fare  wind  but  Small. 

23  wensday  Still  on  our  pasage  Small  wind  but  pleasant  the  Sun  about 
an  houre  high  thare  com  up  a  Small  Squall  Som  thunder  and  Raine 
plasant  Knight. 

24  thusday   this   morning  Round  cape  pan  Beating  all   Day   Small 

♦They  probably  heard  Parson  Smith  preach. 


APPENDIX.  ^'^'^ 


Brease  part  of  the  Time  Lashed  to  a  vesell  Becalmed  about  T^n  o  the 
clock  got  within  the  Light  and  Run  up  to  gorges  Island  and  it  Died 
away  calm  and  we  Run  on  the  Island  but  the  Tide  being  flowing  we  go 
of  Sone  without  any  Damage-and  com  too  above  Long  Island  for  want 
of  winde  about  Day  Light  and  Lay  till  the  Next  Tide. 

25  Fryday  about  2  o  the  clock  come  to  toing  m  Leue  (lieu)  of  comm, 
to  Saile  for  we  had  Noe  wind  and  at  fore  o  the  clock  ^ve  Landed  our 
Bacace  and  Foster  and  I  Set  out  for  home  and  went  to  Lieut  Liver- 
moore  of  waltham  about  10  o  the  clock  In  the  Evening. 

26  Satturday  vary  hot-and  Traviled  home-Vary  hard  Days  work  fox 


me. 


Journal  of  a  second  visit  to  Port  Royal  in  1773. 

\u-ust  23  Day*  To  winthoop  to  attend  Town  meeting  to  Se  if  thay 
woullLay  out  road  to  meat  ours    29  Sunday    30th  at  Town  meting    31 

monday  horn  againe.  ,       . 

Sept  3  Day  1773  To  vew  the  Road  Mr  How  markd  to  Se  if  I  cold  not 

Sheer  the  Swamppy  land  But  found  Noe  way  Nor  found  Noe  way  to 

crose  fishes  Brook  with  a  bridge. 

4  Day  to  the  Southard  of  the  marks  but  found  Noe  way  fox  the  Road 

to  o-oe  Near  the  marks.  „v^„f  i 

6  Day  up  fishes  Brook  aod  found  it  could  Be  pasd  by  a  Bndge  about  1 
JeJf^maeBiverStruokof  for  Bevev  Brook  aud  found  whare  .t 
could  be  forded  about  2  miles  from  the  Eiver.  ,  ,     c,  if  ,1,. 

7  Day  marked  from  fishes  Brook  to  Bever  Dito  and  vewd  o  Se  if  the 
Road  lid  come  from  fishes  Brook  to  the  Biver  and  found  yary  good 

'' 8  DaTweftt  Beaver  Brook  and  markd  E  S  E  and  Struck  our  Town 
Unclurs  miles  from  grate  Andarsscoggen  Pond  and  went  to  80  mde 
Eiver  to  Se  if  the  Road  could  Not  goe  furtlrer  to  the  E  and  Koith  to 
Rriiw  it  Strait  with  my  marks  but  found  a  vary  Swamp. 

Day  Tuck  a  beaclr  hill  Near  our  Town  Line  and  found  .t  went  up 
with  a  modret  assent  and  Doun  with  a  modoret  Desent  and  markd 
North  about  2  miles  to  Beaver  Brook  and  Struck  my  marks  about  half  a 
mile  to  the  west  of  our  Town  Line. 

Octobr  5  1773  to  wintrup  to  Let  out  and  See  a  Bout  a  Bridge. 

rCto  Mr  Craigg  Let  out  the  Bridge  to  Mr  Craigg  Struck  of  west 
and  By  Southard  and  Struck  Brags  Lot. 

7  Day  home  and  vewed  the  Road  with  Mr  How. 


♦Major  Fish  seems  to  have  returned  to  Maine  iu  August. 


140 


APrENDIX. 


Reed  of  Capt  Brown  Mr  whitemore  Mr  googe   peirse  commitc   to 
Phips  Cannayday  4  axes 

Markd  S.  W. 
Reed  at  Poart  Royal  2  Md  Huds  W 

to  take  care  of  1  Meat  Tub 

but  not  to  1  Butter  Dito 

hazard  2  Keggs  Mkd  A.  B. 

1  Box  of  Mr  Ivory 
Octobr  ye  12d 
1773 


A  Memarandom  From  Oxford  to  poart  Royal. 

April  18  Day  1774  Sett  out  for  Boston  Dind  at  Grafton  at  Knight  at 
waltham  at  Deacon  Livermores. 

19th  to  Boston  to  Look  for  a  pasage  Lodged  at  the  Sign  of  the  Lamb 
— Vary  hard  Thunder  and  Lightning. 

20th  found  a  pasage  a  Board  of  Capt  John  Campbell  Sloop  her  Kame 
the  Polly  Traveled  up  to  waltham  to  Deacon  Livermores  and  thared 
Lodged, 

21  Thusday  to  Boston  a  hying  Stores  Lodged  at  the  sign  of  the  Lamb. 

22d  Bying  Stores  and  waiting  for  a  pasage. 

23  Satturday  got  oure  Stores  aboard  and  a  q.  after  8  Eight  in  the 
Evining  come  to  Sail. 

24  Sunday  maid  wood  Island  and  at  Six  o  clock  in  the  Evening  Stode 
in  for  Seguin  at  12  o  the  clock  com  to  an  anker  in  the  mouth  Kanebeck 
River  at  Knight. 

25th  Nine  o  the  clock  in  the  morning  come  to  Saile  the  wind  a  head 
beat  up  the  River  about  five  mile  the  tide  faileing  us  we  come  too. 

26  Beat  up  the  River  to  Long  Reach  Left  the  Sloop  and  went  up  the 
River  with  Mr  Suel  in  his  Boat  Arived  at  Mr  Agraves  at  ten  o  the  clock 
at  Knight  at  Pownalborough  much  vary  Soar  hands  a  Roing. 

27  Road  up  the  River  against  a  very  Swift  freshet  to  Deacon  Clarks 
Travelled  to  winthrup  to  hyer  a  Teame  to  fetch  up  our  Stores  hyerd  Mr. 
Brag. 

28  Back  to  Kenebeck  River  and  up  to  Winthup  again  Lodged  at  Mr. 
Whiteonge  (Whitings?). 

29  to  Mr  Hous  Set  out  to  goe  to  Mr  Fullers  Towards  our  town  mised 
the  Right  Road  and  went  out  of  our  way  about  one  mile  and  then  struck 
through  the  woods  about  4  miles  in  order  to  Strike  a  bridge  cald  craiggs 
Bridge  and  Struck  within  Ten  Rods  of  said  bridge  kiled  one  patterage 
on  our  march  Encampt  by  fullers  meadow  Vary  Rany  Day  Rany 
Knight  Mr  Willington  Taken  not  well. 


APPENDIX. 


141 


Satturday  went  to  Shoe  Mr  Ballard  our  town  Line  we  left  Mr  John 
Badcok  with  Mr  Willington  Vaiy  Kany  Returnd  to  our  camp  found  Mr 
AVillington  Violently  Seized  with  a  pain  in  his  head  and  much  Distresd 
at  his  Stummuch  got  him  into  Mr  Braggs. 

May  ye  1st  Sunday  Rany  went  to  Mr  hows  to  Lodg.  While  I  am  now 
writting  I  heard  credabbly  that  4  men  was  Drownded  at  Versalborough 
Lieut  Warring  from  pepperrell  Deacon  Browns  Son  of  Concord  the 
others  unnone  to  me. 

2d  Day  went  to  Mr.  Hopkins  after  my  Instrements  Left  behind  in  our 
chist  Bought  a  vary  (large?)  pack,  come  to  Mr  Chndlers  (Chandlers) 
found  Mr  Willington  moved  from  Mr  Braggs  to  Mr  Chandlers  vary  sick 
and  Staid  with  him  this  Knight. 

3  Day  measured  the  Road  from  Mr  Chandlers  and  markd  every  mile 
on  the  Tree  that  it  come  out  against  on  the  Tres  the  South  Side  of  the 
Road  found  the  Road  to  be  18  mile  and  ^  wanting  13  Rod  found  our 
people  campt  whare  30  mile  River  Empties  into  grait  Ammasoggen 
pond. 

4  Day  Set  out  with  part  of  our  Stores  and  crosed  Ammascoggen  Pond 
went  Down  Dead  River  to  greait  Ammascoggen  River  Land  our  Stores 
and  fired  2  guns  for  a  token  that  we  had  arived  and  with  much  Joy  thay 
Reeved  the  token  and  maid  the  best  of  thare  way  to  us  for  they  baud 
Not  Eat  any  victules  cooked  with  water. 

6  Day  Set  out  to  Run  a  line  to  the  west  part  of  our  town. 

6  Day  Surveying  and  Saw  Some  Ice  in  a  back  cove  of  our  River  Laid 
on  the  Bank  by  the  freshet  out  of  the  Sun. 

7  Day  went  up  the  River  and  found  all  things  well  at  my  chest  and 
Deacon  Livermore  well  at  his  camp. 


MiNUTS  OF  THE  SwAMP. — South  End  of  the  Town  from  Dead  River 
West  to  Grait  ammascog  River  250  Rods  Hard  Land  200  Rods  through 
Black  Swamp  277  Rods  Loe  Land  to  the  River. 


MiNUTS  of  the  Roads  from  the  S.  W.  corner  adjoineing  Silvester 
Runing  S  60  E  from  Sd  corner  86  R  Struck  the  Road. 


142 


APPENDIX, 


COPY   OF   ENTRIES  IN  MAJ.  FISH'S  JOIJENAL. 

Keceived  of  Mr  Thomas  Fish  &  william  foster  the  sum  of  twelve  shil- 
len  Laf ul  money  for  there  Pasages  from  Boston  to  fahnouth. 

PrMe 

John  Martin. 
Falmouth  May  ye  3th  1773. 


Mr.  Eglz  Gleason  to  cash  paid  Lieut  Livermore 


June  the  21d  1773  Willm  Foster  to  cash  paid  him  at  fahnouth 
June  29  1773  Paid  for  Mr  David  Mixr  Board  to  Lieut  Liver- 
more  for  three  weaks  and  1  Day 


June  28  Day  1773. 

Old  T. 

3=17=6 

OldT. 

6=15=0 


L.  M. 

1=2=0 


E.  Gleason  to  Cash 

Poai'k  Shuger  chease  1  Purs 

Novr  4th  paid  13  Dollers  E  Gleason  to  wards  his  wages 

Paid  Willm  Foster  9  Dollers  his  wages. 


WiNTHROP  Octr  ye  18  1773. 

Old  T. 

2=9=6 


Mr  Ebn  Ballard  to  cash  paid  Deacon  Livermore  for  Tobaco 
June  ye  28  1774 


0=14=0 


July  14  Day  1773.    Kecd  of  Lieut  Elijah  Livermore  of  Wal- 

tham  to  by  Nales  and  hay  seed 
Bought  of  Mr  Marshell  of  Boston  4  M  lOd  Nailes  a  47=6 

Bought  of  J  Stevens  of  Winthrop  4  bushell  of  hay  seed  a  18 
Bought  of  Mr  Chandler  3  bushell  of  hay  seed  a  18 


Old  Tener 

19=0=0 
9=10=0 

3=12=0 
2=14=0 

6=16=0 


Octr  ye  15  Day  1773 

Lieut  Livermore  Dr  to  order  from  me  by  David  Mixer  Law. 

money  7= 

Novembr  3d  1773  Settled  the  above  acct. 


=19=6 


APPENDIX.  143 

July  1773 

Mr  Icobocl  How  Dr  Winthrop  To  51b  |  of  Chocolate  3=  0=6 

Octr  ye  7  to  1  gun  18=18=0 

12  Cash  paid  Josiah  Mixer  0=  6=0 

Cash  lent  0=  9=0 
Octr  ye  15  Day  1773  Eecd  the  above  of  Mr  How. 


At  Winthrop  Abraham  Merefield  Dr  to  one  Jacket  old  Tener     6=15=K) 
May  ye  4d  1774  Abraham  Merefield  cr  by  Cash  5^10=0 

Cash  6=5 


the  3d  Wensday  In  march  1774  Propriators  meting  at  Mr  Isaac  Glea- 
sons  Waltham  10  the  clock. 

the  4th  Wensday  in  In  June  1774  meating  of  our  propriators  at  Isaac 
Gleasons  of  Waltham. 


December  14  D  1773  Due  Mr  Ep  Balard  if  he  has  i  Eight  4=  3=0 

Deem  29  gave  Mr  Daniel  Phillips  my  Note  for  the  sum  of  2=16=8 

payable  within  one  year. 


NOTE   ON  THE   COVER   (INSIDE)   OF   MAJOR  FISH'S  JOURNAL. 

Doct.  Noas  of  Boston  lives  near  funel  Hall  prsebyjebscot  Company. 


May  1774. 

Notes  of  Ammasoggen  Kiver  from  Bever  Brook  abrest  Long 
Island  4  Kod  fro^i  South  End. 

R       D         R 

N    23    E    24    2  at  20 
N     20    E     60    2  at  40 

R 

N      5    W    20    2      00    12 

N    28    W    41     3  IJ*A°'*.''?P^^^^"^ 

i  17  Rod  of  ye  41  R 

N      6    E    21    2  at  10 

N    30    E    23  Falls 


144 


APPENDIX. 

N 

55 

E 

9 

2 

N 

14 

E 

33 

N 

56 

E 

18 

3 

Fall  white 

K 

10 

E 

8 

N 

20 

E 

20 

6 

N 

10 

W 

25 

4  at  12 

00 
10 
33 

W 
E 

60 
54 
14 

3 

(  5  at  S.'i 
}  3       51 

(  6     m 
(  2  at  20 
\  3      20  End  of  these  Falls 

fishes 

N 

30 

E 

6 

N 

00 

91 

N 

15 

E 

54 

Lot  No  9  Bore  S  82  W 

N 

37 

E 

40 

8 

N 

3 

E 

28 

4 

N 

23 

E 

34 

8 

2^ 

8 

W 

72 

4 

30 

N" 

5 

E 

20 

2 

10 

N 

30 

E 

23 

6 

N 

12 

W 

42 

6 

N" 

39 

W 

52 

(  5       20                                       ■  -•  ^ 
7        "" 

X 

70 

W 

26 

2 

10 

(     t 

N 

54 

W 

40 

2 

N 

64 

W 

88 

2 
2 

20 
40 

N" 

61 

W 

37 

28  Struck  the  River 

N" 

44 

W 

18 

N 

35 

W 

44 

2 

20 

N 
K 

18 
8 

W    12 
E  143 

(4    20 

^5    40 
(6    80 

N 

13 

E 

34 

N" 

18 

E 

132 

CS    40 

N 

8 

W 

22 

V" 

N 

10 

E 

41 

34 

1 
30 

W 
E 

08 
22 

6 
8 

52 

Corse  struck  over  abont 
IRod 

against  Narrow 

N 

13 

E 

34 

pasage 

N 

16 

W 

26 

N 

12 

E 

6 

3 

Met  Mr  Sheppard  a  Su 

the  River  from  the  Town  Line 
between  Liverton  and  Phippses 
Caunaday 


APPENDIX.  145 

Notes  of  Livermores  pond  In  Liverton  May  1774  began  at 
Mr  Willm  Badcocs  Line  Running  N. 


R 

Distance 

N 

28 

E 

20 

2 

K 

2 

W 

64 

4 

N 

15 

W 

20 

N 

25 

W 

24 

DRR 

(    3    20 

12 
31 

W136 
W    44 

\    5    aO 
<    6    40 
>  10    20 
V  11    36 

N 

9 

W 

20 

4 

N" 

20 

W 

60 

14 

N 

46 

W 

32 

X 

24 

W 

24 

2 

W 

s 

s 

s 

00 

18 

11 

1 

0 

W 
E 
E 

34 
13 

70 
14 

8  Rod  to  corner  between 
155  &  156  Ngh 
after  striking  the  Line 
at  the  N  End  of  the  pond 
15  from  the  pond  at  the  end 
of  34°  west 

s 

13 

E 

17 

s 

9 

E 

79 

(   5    60 
I    7 

(    6    20 
\   4    23 

12    40  West  5  R  of  sett 

s 
s 

25 
36 

E 
E 

43 
60 

s 

00 

0 

30 

s 

17 

E 

46 

8    10 

s 

00 

0 

27 

s 

15 

w 

14 

' 

s 

12 

E 

19 

to  loting  Line  first  men 

Acrost  the  Pond  on  said  Line 
S  87°  30  minutes  E 
N  1°  30  minutes  W  12  Rod  6  Links 
S  71°  30  minutes  E 


146  APPENDIX. 

E 

SUNDEY   EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  PROPRIETARY  RECORDS. 

Meeting  November  3,  1773,  at  the  house  of  Isaac  Gleason,  innholder  in 
Waltham. 

Voted  and  chose  Mr  Thomas  Fish  to  prosecute  in  behalf  of  the  Pro- 
prietors to  final  Judgment  and  Execution  (Facultate  sxibstituendi)  any 
person  or  persons  who  shall  commit  trespass  on  said  Township. 

Voted  that  they  will  lay  out  the  remainder  of  said  Township  and  that 
they  will  lay  out  exclusive  of  what  is  drawn  3  Lotts  of  one  hundred 
acres  to  each  Right,  and  the  remainder  in  equal  parts  to  each  Right, 

Voted  to  choose  a  Committee  of  three  persons  to  perform  said  service. 

Voted  and  chose  Dea"  Elijah  Livermore,  Capt  Ebenezer  Learned 
and  Mr  Thomas  Fish  a  committee  for  that  purpose. 

Voted  that  the  Committee  now  chosen  sort  the  lotts  in  an  equal  pro- 
portion to  quality  as  possible  so  that  each  Proprietor  draw  his  lots  at  one 
draught. 

Voted  that  said  Committee  perform  said  service  between  the  first  day 
of  next  April  and  the  first  day  of  ISTov'  next. 

Voted  that  they  hire  the  Proprietors  in  said  business  provided  they 
will  work  as  reasonably  seasonably  and  faithfully  as  others  will. 

Voted  and  granted  a  tax  of  forty  eight  shillings  on  each  Right  to  de- 
fray the  expenses  of  settling  and  laying  out  said  Township. 

Voted  that  one  half  of  said  tax  be  paid  to  the  Treasurer  at  the  next 
meeting  of  said  Proprietors  and  the  other  half  by  the  first  day  of  next 
August. 

Voted  and  granted  Mr  Isaac  Gleasons  account  of  the  expenses  of  this 
meeting  amounting  to  £2  lis  lid  and  order"  the  Treas'  to  pay  it. 

Meeting  at  inn  of  Isaac  Gleason,  June  29,  1774. 

Voted  to  choose  a  committee  to  agree  with  some  person  or  persons  to 
build  a  Saw  Mill  and  Grist  Mill  on  said  Proprietry  and  to  engage  said 
person  or  persons  200  dollars  and  100  acres  of  land  they  giving  security 
to  erect  a  Saw  Mill  this  year  and  a  Grist  Mill  next  on  said  Township 
and  to  keep  them  in  repair  the  space  of  fifteen  years  and  to  saw  for  the 
Proprietors  for  common  price  and  grind  for  lawful  profits. 

Voted  and  chose  Leonard  Williams  Esq'  Deacon  Elijah  Livermore 
and  Mr  Elisha  Elarrington  a  committee  for  said  purpose. 

Voted  and  granted  Mi  to  each  of  the  ten  first  who  shall  settle  families 


APPENDIX.  147 

in  said  Township  and  build  a  house  there  provided  they  settle  there  and 
build  a  house  before  the  year  177G,  and  give  security  to  dwell  there  five 
years. 

Meeting  at  the  house  of  Micajah  Gleason,  innholder  in  Framingham, 
October  12,  1774. 

Voted  that  the  Clerk  be  directed  to  record  the  bounds  of  the  lots  in 
said  Township  as  they  are  or  shall  be  returned  by  the  Surveyors  Eleazer 
Waters,  Ephraim  Ballard  and  Thomas  Fish  and  with  what  Committees 
they  perform  each  survey  and  that  the  clerk  be  directed  to  call  upon 
Ephraim  Ballard  and  Thomas  Fish  for  a  return  of  the  bounds  of  the  lots 
surveyed  by  them. 

At  a  meeting  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Isaac  Gleason,  innholder^  Wednesday, 
March  3,  1779,  it  was  "  Voted  and  chose  Leonard  Williams  Esq., 
Dea.  Elijah  Livermore  and  Mr  Elisha  Harrington  a  Committee  to  peti- 
tion the  Great  and  General  Court  for  a  further  time  to  fulfil  the  condi- 
tions of  the  Grant  of  said  township,  the  times  having  been  such  that  it 
has  been  impossible  to  fulfil  the  same  in  the  time  allowed." 

This  petition  received  a  favorable  answer. 

At  a  meeting  Sept.  12,  1781,  a  motion  was  carried  for  a  Committee  of 
two  to  "  view  and  rejiort  where  there  are  proper  places  to  build  mills." 

"  Voted  and  chose  Dea.  Elijah  Livermore  and  Major  Thomas  Fish  a 
committee  for  said  service." 

This  is  the  last  time  that  the  name  of  Thomas  Fish  appears  upon  the 
proprietors'  records. 

Meeting  November  6,  1783. 

Voted  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  lay  out  and  clear  such  roads 
to  the  inhabitants  in  said  Township  as  shall  be  thought  conducive  to  the 
good  of  said  Propriety  and  repair  the  old  way  not  to  exceed  thirty 
pound  and  lay  their  accounts  before  the  Proprietors  at  tJieir  next  meet- 
ing for  their  acceptance. 

Voted  and  chose  D°  Elijah  Livermore,  Lieut  Sam'  Benjamin  and  Mr 
Daniel  Holman  a  Committee  therefor. 

Meeting  at  the  house  of  Benjamin  Bird,  innholder  in  Waltham,  January 
13,  1790. 

Voted  to  choose  a  committee  to  prefer  a  Petition  to  the  General 
Court  obtain  Grant  of  land  for  that  part  of  the  Townshi]?  which  by  as- 
certaining the  bounds  between  said  Township  and  the  town  of  Turner 
now  falls  into  the  town  of  Turner. 

Voted  and  chose  Dea°  Elijah  Livermore  Leonard  Williams  Esq'  and 
Daniel  Holman  a  committee  therefor. 


148  APPENDIX. 

F 

Copy  of  two  receipts  in  the  handwriting  of,  and  signed  by,  Elijah 
Livermore,  in  the  book  in  which  the  "  Journal  of  1772  "  was  kept. 

Waltham  Jan'  19, 1756 
Received  of  Mr.  Daniel  Harrington  Six  pound  thirteen  Shillings  and 
four  pence  in  part  of  a  note  Elij  Livermore. 

Waltiiam  January  19, 1756 
Then  received  of  Nath'  Livermore  two  pound  in  part  of  a  note  that  is 
due  to  Sa"  Livermore,  Esq. 

received  by  me  Elij  Livermore. 


G 

MEMORANDA  OF  CERTAIN  DEEDS. 

Samuel  Livermore,  Leonard  Williams,  and  Nathaniel  Livermore,  Com- 
mittee, etc.,  conveyed  to  Thomas  Fish,  cordwainer,  of  Oxford,  in  the 
County  of  Worcester,  "  one  whole  right  or  share  in  the  township  granted 
to  Samuel  Livermore  and  others  June  11,  1771."  This  deed  was  dated 
November  11,  1772,  and  recorded  in  the  Cumberland  Registry,  Vol.  9, 
p.  22. 

Jonas  Ward,  of  Worcester,  releases  to  Fish  Nov.  6, 1773,  "  one  whole 
right  or  share  in  township  &c  I  being  one  of  the  original  grantees  in 
said  town  and  the  House  Lots  in  the  first  division  of  my  said  I'ight  in 
said  township  being  No.  28."     (Vol.  13,  p.  415.) 

November  24,  1773,  Thomas  Fish,  of  Oxford,  conveyed  to  William 
VFai.son,  of  Oxford  (Vol.  10,  p.  438),  one  whole  right  or  share  in  said 
township. 

August  7,  1780,  Josiah  Wyer,  of  Liverton,  yeoman,  conveyed  to 
Thomas  Fish,  of  Liverton,  gentleman,  50  acres  half  of  27th  lot  in  the 
first  division.  This  deed  was  acknowledged  June  19,  1782,  and  recorded 
Vol.  13,  p.  414,  Cumberland  Registry. 

August  9,  1781,  Amasa  Allen,  of  Charlton,  Worcester  County,  con- 
veyed one  hundred  acres  to  the  townshij?.  No.  9, 1st  Division. 

April  10,  1781,  Asa  Uasseltine,  of  Upton,  Worcester  County,  con- 
veyed to  Thomas  Fish  lots  18  and  8,  1st  Division,  containing  one 
hundred  acres  each. 

Sept.  16,  1785,  Elijah  Livermore  conveyed  to  Wm.  Bachelor,  of  Liver- 
ton, 50  acres. 

Oct.  1, 1785,  Elijah  Livermore  conveyed  to  Daniel  Dailey  50  acres, 
part  of  No.  11,  east  side  of  the  river. 

Oct.  13, 1785,  Same  conveyed  to  Wm.  Carver  lot  14,  west  side. 

Oct.  14, 1785,  Elijah  Livermore  conveyed  to  Pelatiah  Gibbs  lot  33,  west 
side  of  the  river. 


APPENDIX. 


H 


149 


Names  of  the  Representatives  to  the  Great  and  General  Court  of 
Massachusetts  and  to  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Maine  from  the 
first  one  after  the  organization  of  the  town  in  1795  to  1874. 

TO  THE   GREAT  AND   GENERAL   COURT. 
Date  of  Election. 

1799  Elijah  Livermore. 

1800  Gen.  David  Learned. 

1801  Gen.  David  Learned. 

1802  Eev.  Sylvanus  Boardman. 

1803  Dr.  Cyrus  Hamlin. 

1804  No  record  made  of  any  election. 

1805  Voted  not  to  send. 

1806  Capt.  Simeon  Waters. 

1807  Nathaniel  Perley. 

1808  Capt.  Simeon  Waters. 

1809  Capt.  Simeon  Waters. 

1810  Capt.  Simeon  Waters. 

1811  WilUam  H.  Brettun. 

1812  William  H.  Brettun  and  Capt.  Simeon  Waters. 

1813  William  H.  Brettun  and  Samuel  Livermore. 

1814  Capt.  Simeon  Waters  and  Israel  Washhurn. 

1815  Capt.  Simeon  Waters  and  Israel  Washburn. 

1816  Capt.  Simeon  Waters  and  Ira  Thompson. 

1817  Voted  not  to  send. 

1818  Capt.  Simeon  Waters  and  Israel  Washburn. 

1819  Israel  Washburn. 

TO   THE   LEGISLATURE   OF  MAINE. 

1820  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1821  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1822  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1823  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1824  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1825  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1826  Thomas  Chase,  Jr. 

1827  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford. 

1828  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford. 

1829  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford. 
11 


150  APPENDIX. 

1830  Charles  Barrell. 

1831  Dr.  William  Snow. 

1832  Keuel  Washburn. 

1833  Reuel  Washburn. 

1834  Reuel  Washburn. 

1835  Reuel  Washburn. 

1836  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford. 

1837  Samuel  B.  Holt. 

1838  Samuel  B.  Holt. 

1839  Dr.  Willard  Kelsey. 

1840  Dr.  Willard  Kelsey. 

1841  Reuel  Washburn. 

1842  Dr.  Samuel  B.  Morison. 

1843  Isaac  S.  Daly. 

1844  Dr.  Samuel  B.  Morison. 

1845  Isaac  S.  Daly. 

1846  Rev.  Philip  Hunger. 

1847  Dr.  Benjamin  Bradford.^ 

1848  James  Chase. 

1849  Dr.  William  B.  Small. 

1850  Nathaniel  Norcross. 

1851  Nathaniel  Norcross. 

1852  Held  over  under  the  amended  constitution. 

1853  Gen.  John  B.  Morrow,  of  Dixfield.^ 

1854  Elbridge  G.  Harlow,  of  Canton. 

1855  Thomas  C.  Gurney,  of  Canton. 

1856  Peter  Trask,  of  Mexico. 

1857  Orrison  Rollins,  of  Livermore. 

1858  Calvin  Stanley,  of  Dixfield. 

1859  Thomas  C.  Gurney,  of  Canton. 

1860  Sewall  M.  Norton,  of  Livermore. 

1861  John  Monroe,  of  Livermore. 

1862  Solon  Chase,  of  Turner.^ 

1863  Solon  Chase,  of  Turner. 

1864  Charles  W.  Fuller,  of  Livermore. 

1865  Daniel  H.  Kilbreth,  of  Livermore. 


iThis  electiou  of  Dr.  Bradford  was  only  made  after  fifteen  different  trials.  The  first  voting 
was  at  the  regular  State  electiou  Sept.  14th,  resulting  in  no  choice.  The  town  continued  vot- 
ing once  or  twice  a  month  till  tlie  fifth  day  of  July  following,  when  Dr.  B.  was  finally  elected. 
It  then  required  a  majm-Uy  of  all  the  votes  cast  to  elect. 

2Thi8  year  Livermore  was  classed  with  Canton,  Dixfleld,  and  Mexico  as  a  representative  dis- 
trict. 

8Thi8  year  Livermore  was  classed  with  Turner  as  a  representative  district. 


APPENDIX. 


151 


1866  Philip  Bradford,  of  Turner. 

1867  Philip  Bradford,  of  Turner. 

1868  Albert  C.  Pray,  of  Livermore. 

1870  Zebulon  H.  Bearce,  of  Turner. 

1871  James  Fish,  of  Turner. 

1872  Rufus  Prince,  of  Turner. 

1873  James  A.  Caiy,  of  Turner. 

1874  Caleb  Smith,  of  Livermore. 


LIST  OF   SUBSCRIBERS 

(with  the  amounts  subscribed)  for  the  support  of  preaching  in  the  Uni- 
versalist  Society  in  1807. 


Thomas  Bryant $300 

Cornelius  Holland 3.00 

Isaac  King 1.00 

Samuel  Beals 2.00 

Ezra  Parker 2.00 

John  Wormwell 2.00 

Joseph  Horsley 5.00 

Daniel  Child 3  00 

Asa  Haskell 3.00 

Joseph  Mills 3.00 

Henry  Sawtelle 3.00 

Ephraim  Griff eth 2.00 

William  Cooper 2.00 

Hezekiah  Bryant 2.00 

Simeon  Waters 3.00 

Samuel  Atwood 5.00 


David  Learned S5.00 

Israel  Paul 2.00 

Gideon  Southworth 2.00 

John  Leavitt 2.00 

John  Griff  eth,  Jr 2.00 

Abel  Delano 1.50 

John  Griffeth 2.00 

David  Morse 2.00 

Isaac  Hamlin 1.00 

Rouse  H.  Leavitt 1.00 

Jonathan  Morse 3.00 

John  Turner 1.00 

Samuel  Benjamin 4.00 

Jonathan  Bryant 2.00 

Jesse  Stone 2.28 


APPENDIX. 


CATALOGUE    OF   SCHOLARS 

In  Livermorc,  made  by  Benjamin  Foster.  Mr.  Fo.stcr  was  a  popular 
and  successful  teacher  of  schools  in  Livermore  from  1806  to  1810  or 
1811.  For  which  of  these  years  the  subjoined  list  was  made  does  not 
appear. 


Allen  Eben. 
Abbot  Hull. 
Abbot  Bill. 
Abbot  Elizabeth. 
Abbot  Bethiah. 
Abbot  Anna. 
Abbot  Polly. 
Basford  Eeuben. 
Basford  Nabby. 
Basford  Anna. 
Boardman  Sally. 
Boardman  George. 
Boardman  Hohnes. 
Bond  Hannah. 
Bigelow  Polly. 
Bigelow  Eliza. 
Bigelow  Caroline. 
Barton  Asa. 
Barton  Catherine. 
Barton  Sally. 
Barton  Eunice. 
Barton  Aaron. 
Benjamin  William. 
Benjamin  Nathaniel- 
Benjamin  Betsy. 
Benjamin  Patty. 
Benjamin  Polly. 
Benjamin  David. 
Benjamin  Charles, 
Benjamin  Elisha. 
Benjamin  Euth. 
Basford  Ebenezer. 
Basford  Joanna. 
Basford  Mercy. 


Blanchard  James. 
Beals  Jennet. 
Beals  Olive. 
Britton  William. 
Bartlett  Cyrus. 
Bartlett  Nathan. 
Billings  Abijali. 
Billings  Munro. 
Commins  Sally. 
Commins  Lucy. 
Commins  Asenath. 
Cooper  Sally. 
Cooper  Sukey. 
Cooper  Polly. 
Chase  Betsy. 
Chase  Nabby. 
Chase  Charles  T. 
Chase  Lydia. 
Chase  Olive. 
Cochran  William. 
Cochran  Nancy. 
Cochran  Stephen. 
Carver  Eleazer. 
Child  Lewis  W. 
Child  Joseph. 
Child  True. 
Child  Elisha. 
Clark  William. 
Clark  Samuel. 
Clark  Mary. 
Chase  Munro. 
Chase  Sarson. 
Chase  Jane. 
Chase  Mary. 


APPENDIX. 


153 


Child  Manson. 
Child  Bloe. 
Clark  Lydia. 
Dolbier  Polly. 
Dennett  Moses. 
Dennett  Nabby. 
Delano  John. 
Delano  Jabez, 
Delano  Samuel. 
Edes  Phebe. 
Edes  Eliza. 
Edes  Maria. 
Edes  Nabby. 
French  Betsy. 
French  Sally. 
Fuller  Philenia. 
Fuller  Hannah. 
Fuller  Anna. 
Fuller  Betsy. 
Fuller  Jesse  Lee. 
Fuller  Orin. 
Fuller  Samuel. 
Foster  Asenath. 
Fuller  Nabby. 
French  Rebecca. 
Fuller  Rebecca. 
Fuller  Sally. 
Fuller  Ruth. 
Gibbs  Patty. 
Goding  Rhoda. 
Goding  Hannah. 
Goding  Zebulon. 
Griffin  Obed. 
Griffin  Hezekiah. 
Griffin  Sally. 
Griffin  Betsy. 
Hathaway  William. 
Hubbard  Nathaniel. 
Haskell  Hezekiah. 
Haskell  Polly. 
Holman  Dolly. 
Holnian  Samuel. 
Holman  Daniel. 
Hathaway  Luther. 
Hathaway  Patience. 
Hathaway  Eben. 
Hersey  Mary. 

11* 


Hersey  Samuel. 
Hersey  Eliza. 
Hersey  Isaac. 
Hersey  William. 
Hurd  Polly. 
Hurd  Betsy. 
Hurd  John. 
Hurd  Hannah. 
Hains  Francis. 
Hains  J  crush  a. 
Hains  Peter. 
Hains  Hannah. 
Hains  Henry. 
Hains  Henry. 
Hains  Rossetta. 
Holmes  Clark. 
Hamlin  Anna. 
Hamlin  Greene. 
Jackson  Nancy. 
Judkius  Fanny. 
Judkins  Asa. 
Judkins  Anna. 
Judkins  Hannah., 
Judkins  Patty. 
Kenny  Maria. 
Kimball  Jane. 
Kenny  Rachel. 
Kenny  Elisha. 
Livermore  Granville. 
Livermore  Hannah. 
Livermore  Eliza. 
Livermore  Elijah. 
Learned  Samuel. 
Learned  Charles. 
Learned  Maria. 
Lovel  Luther. 
Leavitt  Myloza. 
Leavitt  Sukey. 
Learned  Edward. 
Leadbetter  Luther. 
Leadbetter  Thomas. 
Leadbetter  Charles. 
Leadbetter  Huldah. 
Mayhew  Eliza. 
Mayhew  Phebe. 
More  Sally. 
Merrill  Eunice. 


154 


APPENDIX. 


Merrill  Joseph. 
Merrill  Silas. 
Merrill  Eichard. 
Monroe  Sally. 
Monroe  Luda. 
Monroe  Hannaln. 
Monroe  Nathan. 
Monroe  Isaac. 
Merrill  Salome-. 
Mills  Sally. 
Mills  Persis. 
Mills  Appy. 
Mills  Jnlia. 
Mills  Lewis. 
Morrison  Cybil. 
Norton  Sukey. 
Norton  Jones. 
Norton  Jethro. 
Norton  Mary. 
Norton  Nabby. 
Norton  Ira. 
Norton  Patt3^ 
Norton  Moses. 
Norton  James. 
JTorton  Tristram. 
Philbrick  Hannah. 
Philbrick  Jane. 
Philbrick  Eliza. 
Philbrick  Betsy. 
Philbrick  Charlotte, 
Philbrick  Harriet. 
Philbrick  Eunice. 
Philbrick  Anna. 
Philbrick  Thomas. 
Philbrick  Stephen. 
Philbrick  Maria. 
Pratt  Sally. 
Pitts  Polly. 
Pitts  Anna. 
Pierpont  Robert. 
Pierpont  George. 
Pierpont  Elijah. 
Pratt  Lucy. 
Parker  Benjamin. 
Parker  Jesse. 
Parker  Lucy. 
Parker  Rupanna. 


Parker  Nancy . 
Parker  Clarissa. 
Packard  Alanson. 
Packard  Sylvanus. 
Parker  Simon. 
Packard  Jerusha. 
Paul  Phebe. 
Paul  Ellis. 
Paul  Olive. 
Rowell  Betsy. 
Rowell  Bulla. 
Rowell  Abijah. 
Reed  Lucinda. 
Reed  Phillips. 
Rose  Zebedee. 
Rose  Church. 
Randall  Samuel. 
Randall  Mary. 
Randall  Joshua. 
Randall  Asa. 
Stevens  Clarissa. 
Stevens  Hannah. 
Stevens  Nabby. 
Stevens  Wealthy. 
Stevens  Markwell. 
Stafford  Moses. 
Stone  Sally. 
Stone  William. 
Stacy  Dolly. 
Stacy  William. 
Stacy  Hiram. 
Stacy  Sukey. 
Strictland  John. 
Strictland  Isaac. 
Strictland  Hastings. 
Strickland  Poily. 
Sawtelle  Lavinia. 
Sawtelle  Elmira. 
Sawtelle  Nathan. 
Sawtelle  Joanna. 
Sawtelle  Harriet. 
Sawin  Patty. 
Sawin  Samuel. 
Sawin  Rebecca. 
Sawin  Daniel. 
Sawin  John. 
Sawin  Abijah. 


APPENDIX. 


155 


Sawin  Polly. 
Thompson  Roxanna. 
Turner  Nabby. 
Turner  Persis. 
Turner  Arethusa. 
Winter  Olive. 
Wyman  Sally. 
Wyman  Eliza. 
Wyman  Witham. 
Wyman  Sukey. 
Wyman  Thomas. 
Wing  Mary. 
Wing  Susanna. 
Wing  Daniel. 
Wing  William. 
Wing  Emory. 
Wing  Samuel. 
Wyer  Diana. 
Wyer  William. 
Wyer  Sally. 


Wyer  George. 
Woodbury  Polly. 
Woodbury  Asa. 
AVaters  Eliza. 
Warren  Aurelia. 
Wing  Hannah. 
Washburn  Cynthia. 
Washburn  Olive. 
Washburn  Abner  W. 
Wyman  Peter. 
Whitman  Ereelove. 
Whitman  Snow. 
York  Gideon. 
York  Shadrach. 
York  Rachel. 
Young  Jacob. 
Young  Moses. 
Young  Aaron. 
Young  William. 


LIVEEMORE   SCHOOL,  1810,   EAST   SIDE. 


Abbot  Hall. 
Abbot  Bill. 
Abbot  Elizabeth. 
Abbot  Bethiah. 
Abbot  Anna. 
Abbot  Polly. 
Abbot  Rachel. 
Bomp  Zephaniah. 
Benjamin  Nathaniel. 
Benjamin  Patty. 
Benjamin  David. 
Benjamin  Polly. 
Benjamin  Charles. 
Benjamin  Elisha. 
Benjamin  Ruth. 
Black  William. 
Basford  Ebenezer. 
Basford  Johanna. 
Basford  Mercy. 
Basford  Elvira. 
Barton  Asa. 
Barton  Katherine. 
Barton  Sally. 


Barton  Eunice. 
Barton  Aaron. 
Barton  Lavinia. 
Chandler  Belinda. 
Chandler  Polly. 
Chandler  Dudley. 
Clark  Oliver. 
Dutton  Thomas. 
Eastman  Caleb. 
Fuller  Philena. 
Puller  Hannah. 
Fuller  Anna. 
Fuller  Betsy. 
Fuller  Jesse  Lee. 
Fuller  Selah. 
Fuller  Orin. 
Fuller  Samuel. 
Fuller  John. 
Foster  Asenath. 
Fellows  Benjamin. 
Fellows  Stephen. 
Hobbs  Jonathan. 
Hains  Francis. 


156 


APPENDIX. 


ITains  Jerusha. 
Hains  Hannah. 
Hains  Peter. 
Hains  Henry. 
Hains  Arabella. 
Hains  Harvey. 
Hains  Rosella. 
Judkins  Lavinia. 
Judkins  Asa. 
Judkins  Hannah. 
Judkins  Polly. 
Judkins  Anna. 
Judkins  Lucy. 
Leadbetter  Thomas. 
Leadbetter  Charles. 
Leadbetter  Huldah. 
Leadbetter  Benjamin. 
Morrill  Elijah. 


Morrison  Cybil. 
Morrison  Euth. 
Pillsbury  Eben. 
Randall  Samuel. 
Randall  Joshua. 
Randall  Asa. 
Swift  Sally. 
Whitaker  Stuart. 
Washburn  Cynthia. 
"Washburn  A.  Waterman. 
Wyman  Daniel. 
York  Rachel. 
York  Gideon. 
York  Shadrach. 
Young  Aaron. 
Young  William. 
Young  Joshua. 


The  spelling  of  the  names,  though  not  in  all  cases  according  to  the 
usage  of  the  parties  themselves,  stands  as  written  by  Mr.  Foster. 


K 


AMERICAN  ANCESTORS  OF  CAPT.  DAVID  HINKLEY,  THE  CENTENARIAN. 

Samuel  Hinkley  and  wife,  Sarah,  with  four  children  came,  in  1634, 
from  Tenterden,  Kent,  England,  in  ship  "Hercules;"  settled  at  Scitu- 
ate  with  his  pastor.  Rev.  Mr.  Lothrop.  Finally  settled  in  Barnstable, 
1638-9;  was  father  of  Thomas,  w^ho  w^as  Governor  of  New  Plymouth 
eleven  years  to  the  time  when  that  colony  was  united  with  Massachu- 
setts. 

Thomas — married  Mary  Richards  and  Mary  Glover. 

Samuel —      "        Sarah  Pope. 

Samuel —      "        Mary  Freeman. 

Shubael*—   "         Mary  Smith. 

Thomas —      "         Deborah  Mitchell,  Mary  Taylor. 

David,  born  in  Georgetown  January  8, 1766. 


*Shubael,  the  grandfather  of  David,  moved  from  Cape  Cod  and  settled  in  Georgetown,  Me. 
His  wife  was  a  native  of  York,  Me. 


APPENDIX. 


157 


By  the  favor  of  Z.  K,  Harmon,  Esq.,  of  Portland,  the  following  lists 
of  officers  and  soldiers  of  the  militia  from  Livermore,  who  wont  to  the 
defence  of  that  town  in  the  war  of  1812,  are  given. 

In  the  war  of  1812-14,  when  the  State  militia  were  called  out  for  de- 
fence of  the  sea-coast  towns,  two  companies  were  called  out  from  this 
town  and  marched  to  Portland  for  the  defence  of  that  place.  These 
companies  were  commanded  by  Capts.  Elias  Morse  and  William  Mor- 
ison  and  were  attached  to  Lieut.  Col.  Samuel  Holland's  regiment.  A 
copy  of  Col.  Holland's  staff  roll  is  given  below;  those  marked  with  a  * 
were  from  Livermore: 


Samuel  xlolland,  Lieut.  Col. 

Moses  Stone,  Ilajor. 
*.Toshua  Soule,t  Chaphdn. 
*  James  Chase,  Adjutant. 
*Henry  "Wood,  Quartermaster. 


*John  Briggs,  Paymaster. 
Cornelius  Holland,  Surgeon. 
Ebenezer  Ellis,  Sergeant  Major. 
Daniel  Austin,  Quartermaster  Seryt. 
John  Hearsej',  Drum  Major. 


When  the  militia  had  been  in  the  service  at  Portland  about  two  weeks, 
not  much  prospect  for  a  light  appearing,  the  three  Oxford  County  regi- 
ments were  consolidated  into  one,  which  regiment  was  commanded  by 
Col.  William  Rj'erson  and  continued  in  service  from  Sept.  25,  to  N'ov.  5, 
1811.  The  following  are  the  Livermore  men  who  served  under  Col. 
Holland  14th  to  24th  Sept.,  and  also  under  Col.  Eyerson  25th  Sept.,  to 
5th  Nov.,  1814. 


CAPTAIN   morse's   COMPANY. 


Elias  Morse,  Captain. 
Henry  Aldrich,  Ensign. 
Nathaniel  Soper,  Sergeant. 
Thomas  Haskell,        " 
Daniel  Child,  " 

Hardwick,        " 

John  Fisher,  Corporal. 
John  Hayes,         " 
John  Griffith, 
Bradish  Turner,    " 
Xezer  Bailey,  Musician. 
Seth  Ballon,  " 


Privates. 
Samuel  Ames. 
Lucius  Andrews. 
Lescom  Andrews. 
John  Blgelow. 
Samuel  Beals. 
lAither  Beals. 
Samuel  Boothb3^ 
Thomas  Bryant. 
Simeon  Brown. 
George  Chandler, 
Joshua  Campbell. 


t Afterwards  Bishop  Soule. 


158 


APPENDIX, 


Didymus  Edgecomb. 
Warren  Dailey. 
Daniel  Edgecomb. 
Joseph  Eoss. 
Elijah  Fisher. 
Grinfill  Fisher. 
Seth  Foster. 
Samuel  Fuller. 
Daniel  Graflfam. 
Eli  Hathaway. 
Josiah  Hobbs. 
Joseph  Jackson. 
Stephen  Jones. 
Oris  Morse. 


Luther  Lovewell. 
David  Morse,  Jr. 
Jonathan  Mei'rill. 
Simeon  Putnam. 
Paul  Kobinson. 
David  Rich. 
John  Strickland. 
Daniel  Safford. 
John  Safford. 
Gad  Soper. 
Alexander  Soper. 
William  Saunders. 
Abijah  Sawin,  Jr. 
James  Starbird. 


The  following  were  Livermore  soldiers  who  served  after  the  draft 
from  Sept.  25,  to  Nov.  5,  1814. 


Elias  Morse,  Captain. 
Henry  Aldrich,  Ensign. 
John  Griffith,  Corporal. 

Privates. 
Lucius  Andrews. 
Luther  Beals. 
Simeon  Brown. 
Elijah  Fisher. 
Daniel  Edsiecomb. 


Daniel  Graffam. 
Eli  Hathaway. 
Joseph  Jackson. 
Luther  Lovewell. 
David  Morse,  Jr. 
David  Rich. 
James  Starbird. 
Alexander  Soper. 


CAPTAIN   MORTSON'S   COMPANY. 


William  Morison,  Captain. 
Thomas  Davis,  Lieutenant. 
Billy  Benjamin,  Ensign. 
Alden  Wellington,  Sergeant. 
Martin  Farrington,        " 
Obed  Wing, 

Timothy  Eastman,        " 
Francis  F.  Haynes,  Musician. 
Daniel  Dolley,  " 

John  Clark,  Corporal. 

Samuel  Randall,  " 

Nehemiah  Knowles,  " 
Jacob  Lovejoy,  " 


Privates. 
Datus  T.  Allen. 
Ebenezer  Burgess. 
Charles  Benjamin. 
David  Bartlett. 
Samiiel  Burgess. 
Amos  Carver. 
Samuel  Dunn. 
Stephen  Dutton. 
Benjamin  Farrington. 
Abraham  Fuller. 
Stephen  Freeman. 
John  Hodgdon. 


APPENDIX. 


169 


Samuel  C.  Hodgdon. 
Abraham  Hodgdon. 
Paul  Hammond. 
Amos  Hobbs. 
Thomas  Leadbetter. 
Oliver  S.  Lyford. 
Samuel  Lyford. 
Joseph  Lyford. 
Jonathan  Libby. 
Joseph  Morrill. 
Elijah  Morrill. 
Jeremiah  Knox. 
Simeon  Norris. 
William  Norris. 


Samuel  Norris. 
Moses  Page. 
Edmund  Phillips. 
Nace  Smith. 
William  Smith. 
William  Stinchfield. 
Ebenezer  Tanner. 
John  A¥yman. 
Elijah  Wellington. 
Adam  Wilbur. 
Lewis  White. 
Geo.  Walker. 
Moses  Young. 
Moses  Young,  Jr. 


The  following  were  Livermore  soldiers  who  served  after  the  draft 
from  Sept.  25,  to  :Nov.  5,  1814. 


William  Morison,  Captain. 
Thomas  Davis,  Lieutenant. 
Alden  Wellington,  Sergeant. 
John  Clark,  Corporal. 

Jacob  Lovejoy,        " 
Erancis  F.  Haynes,  Musician. 

Privates. 
Datus  T.  Allen. 
David  Bartlett. 
Ebenezer  Burjjess. 


Amos  Carver. 
Didymus  C.  Edgecomb. 
Abraham  Fuller. 
Abraham  Hodgdon. 
Thomas  Leadbetter. 
Samuel  Lyford. 
Joseph  Morrill. 
Elijah  Morrill. 
Edmund  Phillips. 
Elijah  Wellington. 
Moses  Young,  Jr. 


There  were  a  large  number  of  Livermore  men  who  enlisted  into  the 
United  States  army  for  one  year  and  during  the  war,  and  served  in  the 
34th  and  45th  Regiments  of  Infantry,  whose  names  cannot  now  be  ob- 
tained to  insert  in  this  work. 


16()l  APPENDIX. 


M 


NAMES   OF    SOLDIERS    FHOM    LIVERMORE    IN    THE    WAR    OF    THE     RE- 
BELLION. 

First  Cavalry. 

1  Doble  William,         Oct  31, 1861. 

2  Hutcliins  Joseph  R,    "     "       " 

3  Kussell  Alonzo  P.,      "     "       " 

4  Ricker  Milton  F.,  Dec.  10, 1863. 

5  Ripley  Henry  W.,    "      "      "       Died  at  New  Orleans  July  1st. 

6  Atwood  James  K,  "     22,     " 

7  Dunn  Daniel  D.,      "     24,      " 

Infantry,  1st  Regiment. 

8  Fuller  George  H.,  July  28,  1863. 

9  Hodgdon  George  F.,  Jan.  23, 1864.    Wounded  in  action . 

Sd  Tiegiment. 

10  Harris  Charles,  July  16,  1861. 

4i/i  Regiment. 

11  Brown  William  L.,  Aug.  20,  1863. 

12  Dyer  Adoniram  L.,  July  24,  1863.     Died  at  Brandy  Station. 

Sth  Regiment. 

13  Strickland  Lee  Col,  Sept.  7,  1861.     Resigned  Dec.  13,  1861. 

14  Jones  Eben  M.,  Feb.  29,  1862. 

1.5  Monroe  Chas.  F.,  Sept.  7,  1861.     Wounded  June  3,  died  June  6. 

16  Shurtleff  Sylvan  G.,  June  1,  1864.     Promoted  Lieutenant. 

17  Kilbreth  Leander  L.,   "    4,     "  "        Sergeant. 

18  Goding  Emulous  L.,  Sept.  7, 1861. 

19  Mitchell  George  W.,  Jan.  1,  1864.     Promoted  Sergeant. 

20  Ricker  Wesley,  Sept.  7, 1861. 

21  Wyer  Charles  L.,  Jan.  1,  1864.     Wounded  in  battle  Aug.  17th. 

22  Ross  Daniel  W.,       "     "      " 

23  Beckler  William,  July  29,  1863. 

24  Niles  Timothy  B. 

25  Strickland  Aug.  XL,  Q.  M.,  Sept.  9, 1861.    Resigned  Apr.  29, 1862. 

26  Timberlake  W.  11.,  2d  Lieut.,  Sept.  7,  1861.     Res.  Dec.  31,  1861. 

27  Waterman  Louis  A.,  2d  Lieut.,  Jan.  23,  1865.    Dis.  Jan.  18, 1866. 

28  Ridley  Jonathan,  Feb.  29, 1864.    Promoted  Corporal. 

29  Stevens  LeRoy,  Sept.  7,  1861.     Killed  at  Gettysburg. 

30  Quinby  Edwin  F.,  Sept.  7,  1861.    Died  at  Port  Royal  1862. 


APPENDIX.  161 

9th  Regiment. 

31  Harvard  Stillman,  Sept.  23,  1864. 

32  Sweetser  Fred.  B.,     "      24,     " 

10th  Regiment. 

33  Putnam  John  A.,  Aug.  14,  18(54. 

12th  Regiment. 

34  Childs  Henry  O.,  Feb.  7,  1865. 

14i/i  Regiment. 

35  Morse  Eliphalet  C,  Jan.  1, 1864.     Killed  in  battle. 

lath  Regiment. 

36  Brown  Benjamin  F.,  Dee.  20,  1861. 

37  Pearson  Edward,  Jan.  25,  1864. 

IQth  Regiment. 

38  Smith  James  C,  Oct.  3, 1861. 

39  Allen  Jonathan,  July  31,  1863. 

40  Bartlett  J^athan,  Jr.,  Aug.  14,  1862.     Died  in  Libby  Prison. 

41  Allen  Charles  W.,        "       20,     " 

19th  Regiment. 

42  Campbell  Augustus,  Aug.  18,  1863. 

^Oth  Regiment. 

43  Pray  A.  C,  Sergeant  Major,  Aug.  29,  1862. 

44  Morrill  William  W.,  Aug.  9, 1862.     Killed  in  battle  May  8th. 

45  Thompson  A^d,      Aug.  29, 1862.     Promoted  Lieutenant. 

46  Neal  George  D.,  "       "       " 

47  Brown  Edward  K.,     "       "       " 

48  Drake  Elisha  O.,         "       "       " 

49  Pratt  Sereah  M.,         "       "       " 

50  Smith  Seba,  "       "       " 

51  Williams  Philip,  Jr.,"       "       " 

23(?  Regiment. 

52  Nash  James  T.,  Captain,  Oct.  17, 1862. 

29th  Regiment. 

53  Leavitt  Volney,       Sept.  16, 1864.    Killed  in  battle. 
64   Childs  Marshall  W.,     "      "       "         Wounded. 

55   Ellis  Charles  P.,  "      "       " 

66   Nash  Leonard  F.,        "      "       "         Wounded  and  died. 
57  Wyman  Henry  A.,  Dec.  12, 1863. 
12 


162 


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58 
59 
60 
61 
62 
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64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 
70 
71 
72 
73 

74 
75 

76 
77 
78 
79 
80 
81 
82 
83 
84 

85 
86 
87 
88 
89 
90 
91 


92 

93 
94 


30th  Regiment. 
Barrows  Cyrus  M.,  Sergeant,  Dec.  15,  186.'3. 
Robins  George  W.,  "  '*      "       " 

Goding  William  H.  IT.,     Dec.  15,  1863. 
Harrington  Charles  H.,       *•'      "       " 
Brown  Francis  S.,  "      "       " 

Fuller  Isaac  D.,  ct      u       u 

Keith  Charles  W., 
Merrill  Roscoe  F., 
Moore  William  S., 
Norton  Alden  L., 
Rollins  George  F., 
Viniug  Llewellyn  C, 
Casey  John, 
Coolidge  George  H., 
Fernald  Philemon  H., 
Roberts  Frank, 


Promoted  Corporal. 


28, 


15, 


Died  in  prison. 


iMst  Regiment. 
March  10, 1864. 

,      "      23,    " 


Battles  Caleb, 
Beckier  John  W. 
Morse  Loren  W.,       "       "       " 
Morse  Elias  A.,  "       "       " 

Norton  Hebron,         "       "       " 
Pratt  Thomas  M.,      •'       11,     " 
Edgecomb  Alonzo  D.,  April  2,  1864. 
Merrill  Henry  R.,  "       "      " 

Taylor  Israel  C,  "       "      " 


Winslow  Gilbert, 
Rose  George  V., 


"       "      "         Wounded. 
■'      16,     " 


32fZ  Regiment. 
March  23,  1864. 


Killed  on  picket. 


Cole  Charles  E., 

Rose  Henry  B., 

Atwood  Charles  H.,    "        "       " 

Morse  Charles,  "        "       " 

Gibbs  Charles,  April  2,  1864.     Wounded. 

Bigelow  John  W.,      "      "      " 

Irving  Samuel  P.,  April  14,  1865. 

Fourth  Battery. 
Goding  Martin,  Dec.  19,  1864. 

First  Veterans. 
Emery  Ira,  March  1, 1864. 
Fuller  George  H.,  July  28, 1864. 


APPENDIX.  163 


N. 


ADDITIONS,  CORRECTIONS,  ERRATA. 

Dea.  Elijah  Livermore  married  (1st)  Dinah  Harrington,  bap.  May  20, 
1733;  she  died  Sept.  30, 1759:  and  he  married  (2d)  April  6,1762,  Hannah 
Clarke,  b.  in  Newton,  January  14,  1740,  dan.  of  Capt.  eTohn  Clarke;  she 
died  March  17,  1827. 

In  the  list  of  ''  heads  of  families  "  in  1789,  given  on  page  9,  the  name 
of  "  Graves  "  appears.  Henry  Grevy,  the  Hessian  soldier,  is  undoubtedly 
the  person  there  referred  to. 

Accounts  in  reference  to  Major  Fish's  last  visit  to  Winthrop  are  con- 
flicting. Mr.  Chase  (p.  106)  says  he  had  been  to  Winthrop  a  few  weeks, 
working  as  a  shoemaker,  and  paying  attentions  to  the  young  woman  who 
was  soon  to  be  his  wife. 

While  it  will  be  entirely  safe  to  depend  upon  Mr.  Chase  in  respect  to 
the  circumstances  of  the  death  of  the  Major,  and  to  all  matters  that 
transpired  at  Livermore,  it  is  highly  probable  that  the  Winthrop  ac- 
counts, relating  to  his  departure  on  his  return  to  Livermore,  are  correct. 
These  accounts  are  to  the  following  effect: 

Mr.  Z.  A.  Marrow,  of  Winthrop,  understood  to  be  a  relative  of  Miss 
Betsey  Marrow,  the  affianced  of  Maj.  Fish,  writes — 

"He"  Major  Fish,  "  left  the  house  of  Mr.  Nathaniel  Fairbanks,  of 
Pond-town,  now  Winthrop,  with  two  sides  of  leather,  about  three  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon  for  Port  Royal,  now  Livermore.  There  were  no  roads 
at  that  time  and  only  spotted  trees  for  a  guide.  It  is  said  that  he  per- 
ished near  the  Androscoggin  River,  within  one  mile  of  his  home." 

C.  Fairbanks,  of  Winthrop,  writes  the  Lewiston  Journal,  April,  1874 — • 

"  My  father,  Nathaniel  Fairbanks,  was  one  of  the  lirst  settlers  of  Win- 
throp. He  built  a  tannery  two  miles  east  of  Winthrop  village  in  1778, 
the  first  tannery,  I  think,  in  Kennebec  County.  There  was  no  road  from 
Winthrop  village  except  a  spotted  line,  as  it  was  called,  from  Winthrop 
to  Livermore.  Major  Thomas  Fish  came  to  my  father's  house  from  Liv- 
ermore in  those  days  for  half  a  side  each  of  sole  and  upper  leather.  He 
arrived  at  3  P.  M.  The  snow  was  knee-deep  and  the  weather  cold.  It 
was  in  January,  I  think,  between  the  years  1781  and  1783.  Major  Fish 
was  asked  to  remain  all  night,  but  declined,  saying  he  must  return  home 
that  night.  He  left  for  Livermore,  but  perished  of  cold  and  fatigue, 
when  near  his  home." 

Betsey  Marrow,  to  whom  Major  Fish  was  engaged  to  be  maiTied,  be- 
came the  wife  of  Jonas  Stevens,  of  Winthrop,  where  she  lived  and  died. 

The   wife  of  Major  Fish  was  Naomi  Mixer,  of  Sutton,.  Worcester 


164  APPENDIX. 

County,  Mass.  The  records  of  Oxford,  in  the  same  count}^  where  Major 
Fish  resided,  show  the  following  entries: 

"  Thomas  Fish,  of  Oxford,  and  Naomi  Mixter,  of  Sutton,  were  married 
in  Oxford,  the  25th  day  of  June,  A.  D.  1767,  hy  the  Kev.  Joseph  Bow- 
man." 

"  Kuth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Fish  and  Naomi  his  wife,  was  born  the 
5th  day  of  December,  A.  d.  1768."  It  is  understood  that  there  were  two 
children  of  this  marriage,  but  the  Oxford  records  indicate  that  one  only 
was  born  in  that  town. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  Major  Fish  in  his  journal  speaks  of  "  fa- 
ther Mixer,"  who  was  with  him  in  1773.  Previous  to  the  return  of  the 
Major  to  Livermore  in  1780-81,  Mrs.  Fish  had  died. 

Nathan  Wellington,  of  East  Livermore,  who  has  been  dead  sev- 
eral years,  owned  the  farm  on  which  his  father,  Lieut.  Elijah  Wellington, 
settled.     The  farm  is  still  in  possession  of  the  family. 

Hartavell  Baker,  John,  Robert,  and  Hanson  Hayes,  were 
among  the  early  farmers  in  the  center  of  the  town. 

Francis  Morrill  was  a  blacksmith,  whose  shop  was  at  Fuller's  Mills, 
near  half  a  century  ago.     lie  became  a  Methodist  clergyman. 

Joshua  Campbell,  from  Raynham,  planted  himself  on  the  liver 
above  the  Turner  line,  about  1800. 

Isaac  Fuller,  whose  farm  was  on  the  southerly  slope  of  Fuller's 
hill,  so  called,  in  the  westerly  part  of  the  town,  moved  from  Kingston, 
Mass.,  a  great  many  years  ago.  His  children  were  Asa,  Ira,  Woodman, 
Rebecca,  Ruth,  Sarah,  and  Lura.  Ira  resides  in  Phillips,  Me.  Wood- 
man, and  Lura,  who  married  S.  W.  Phillips,  live  in  this  town.  The 
others  are  dead. 

Joseph,  and  his  sons,  Richard,  Benjamin,  and  Jonathan, 
Merrill  were  farmers  on  the  west  side  of  the  river.  The  name  is  still 
represented  in  town.  The  late  Ambrose  Merrill,  of  Hallowell,  was  a 
son  of  the  last-named. 

George  O.  Chickering  lives  on  the  south  road,  whither  he  removed 
some  years  ago  from  the  west  part  of  the  town.  He  had  a  brother,  Zach- 
ariah,  who  has  been  dead  many  years.  Mr.  Chickering  is  believed  to  be 
the  oldest  man  now  residing  in  Livermore,  being  93  years  old. 

Col.  Wm.  Morison  and  his  brothers,  Robert  and  James,  moved 
to  the  east  side  early  in  the  century.  The  first  two  settled  in  Sebec 
about  fifty  years  ago,  but  James  remained  in  East  Livermore,  where  his 
sons,  Cyrus  and  Haines  L.,  reside.  He  died  October  18,  1867,  aged  86^ 
years. 

West  Robinson  had  a  farm  under  Fuller's  hill,  on  the  east  side.    He 


APPENDIX.  165 

died  about  1846.  His  children  were  Cyrus,  Clarinda,  Olive,  West, 
Chandler,  Hannah,  and  Albion. 

Perez  Howard,  whose  home  was  on  the  northerly  side  of  Lovewell's 
hill,  next  to  the  farm  now  owned  by  Abijah  Childs,  was  a  native  of 
Bridgewater,  Mass.  His  children  were  Perez  (who  was  a  teacher  in 
Carlisle,  Pa.),  Charles,  Stillmau,  and  Leonard.  Charles  and  Leonard 
went  to  Piscataquis  county. 

Amos  Perley  settled  in  the  West  Kobinson  neighborhood,  and  after- 
wards moved  to  Canton,  where  he  died.  He  was  from  Winthrop.  His 
children  were  Zenas,  Mary  Ann  (who  married  Allen  Monroe),  Martha 
Drew,  and  Sarah  Smith. 

Asa  Francis,  whose  residence  was  midway  from  Sanders  corner  to 
the  village,  was  from  Minot,  Me.  His  children  were  Olive  (who  married 
A,  B.  Barton,  Esq.,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.),  Lewis,  and  Benjamin  and 
David,  twins.     He  died  about  1865. 

James  Horsley  was  a  neighbor  to  Mr.  Fi-ancis.  He  migrated  from 
New  Hampshire  over  seventy  years  ago,  and  died  in  Livermore  in  1845. 
His  children  were  Eliza,  Caroline  (both  of  whom  were  married  and  left 
town),  and  John,  an  inhabitant  of  Dixfield. 

Lieut.  Israel  Paul's  farm  was  on  the  eastemi  bank  of  Brettun's 

Pond.  He  was  from  Berkeley,  Mass.,  and  settled  in  Livermore  about 
three-quarters  of  a  century  ago.  He  had  two  sons,  John  and  Barzillai, 
both  of  whom  are  dead.     Of  the  daughters    who  grew  up,  one  married 

John  Sanders,  one  James  Horsley,  one Quinby,  of  Turner,  and 

one  Thomas  Coolidge;  the  last  two  are  now  living. 

Medad  and  II^athan  Sawtelle  were  farmers  in  town.  Medad 
moved  to  Quincy,  111.,  a  long  time  ago.  Kathan  settled  in  Livermore, 
where  he  died  Oct.  27, 1872. 

Benjamin,  Daniel,  and  Didymus  Ebgecomb  were  from  the  county 
of  York.  They  settled  near  the  center  of  the  town,  in  the  Meserve  neigh- 
borhood. Joseph  Meserve,  a  native  of  Falmouth,  Me.,  was  a  farmer. 
He  had  four  children, — Mary,  who  married  Stearns  Gibbs;  Joseph  M., 
who  married  Martha  Coolidge,  was  a  lawyer  of  great  promise,  and  died 
young,  in  Augusta,  some  eight  or  ten  yeai's  ago;  and  Maria  and  Abby, 
both  of  whom  are  dead. 

Eben  Keith  came  from  Raynham  to  Livermore  towards  the  close  of 
the  last  century,  and  was  a  farmer.  His  son,  Martin  Keith,  has  a  good 
farm  on  the  road  from  South  Livermore  to  Strickland's  ferry. 

Page  9.  Jonathan,  not  Josiah,  Norcross  was  the  father  of  the  first 
male  child  born  in  Livermore.  Jonathan  Norcross  married,  April  15, 
1760,  Martha  Springer.    They  were  from  Georgetown,  Me. 


166  APPENDIX.  , 

Page  21.    In  the  last  two  lines  of  this  page,  read  "  Cutting  Clarke  was 
a  brother  of  Hannah  Clarke,  Dea.  Livermore's  second  wife." 

Page  32.     Line  13,  for  "  in  the  former  town,"  read  "  in  Livermore." 

Page  35.    It  was  Nathan,  and  not  Isaac ^  Monroe,  who  was  drowned  in 
Bartlett's  pond. 

Page  36.     In  the  notice  of  Major  Joseph  Mills,  Hiram  Briggs  should 
take  the  place  of  Daniel  Briggs. 

Page  39.     In  notice  of  Henry  Grevy  substitute  "resided"  for  ''lived." 

Page  41.     Line  23  should  read  "  placing  in  the  boy's  hand  a  silver 
coin,"  etc. 
Page  44.     Por  "  mill,"  in  9th  line,  read  "  fulling  mill." 

Page  45.     Line  15,  read  '•  who  possessed  something  of  the  humor  of 
'Artemus  Wai'd.'  " 

Page  46.     In  the  next  to  the  last  line,  read  "  it "  for  "  this  profession." 
Page  50.     It  was  Hiram  A.  Pitts  who  married  Lenora  Horsley. 

Page  51.    Bead  "  There  were  a  fulling  mill  and  carding  machine  at  the 
falls  from  an  early  day." 

Page  55.    In  22d  line  strike  out  the  word  "  alone." 

Page  64.     3d  line,  for  "  Watertown  "  read  "  Waltham." 

Page  149.    From  1820  the  figures  indicate  the  years  of  "  service,"  and 
not  of  "  election,"  of  the  Bepresentatives. 


Representative  elected  in  1867  was  S.  G.  Shurtleff,  and  not  Pliilip  Bradford. 
John  Sanders  was  a  member  of  the  23d  Resiment. 


INDEX. 


Androscoggin  River.  . .  90 

Androscoggin  Railroad 91 

Alma  iVIater,  my 96 

Additions 103 

Aldrich,  Heui-y 73,  103 

Family  of 50 

Allen,  Elizabeth  Akers.28, 118 

Ames,  Samuel 21 

Atwood,  Samuel 03,  72 

Family  of 35 

Atwood,  Rev.  Hezekiah.. .   70 

Baptists 64,65,69 

Broad  Chiu-ch 84 

Bridges 90 

Blacksmiths -    46 

Ballad— Thomas  Fish 118 

Badcock,  George 6, 126 

Badlew,  9 

Bailey,  Rev.  S.  B 71 

Baker,  Hartwell 164 

Ballon,  Seth 50,  103 

Barton,  Asa 28 

Barton,  Aaron 72 

Barnes,  Rev.  Thomas. .  .65,  72 

Barrel!,  Charles 28,  69 

Barnard,  Ur 85 

Baker,  Charles  J 42,  72 

Baker,  Hartwell 164 

Bartlett,  Asa 104 

Family  of 39 

Bartlett,  Nathan 47 

Bates,  Rev.  Greorge 

39,  59,  60,  73,  74 

Beals,  Samuel 42 

Bemis,  Jacob 14,  39 

Bean,  Jeremiah 47 

Belcher,  Richard 77 

Benjamin,  Sam'l.  .9,  18;  43,  67 

Family  of 20 

Benjamin,  Billy 37,  63 

Benjamin,  Samuel 21 

Benjamin,  Charles 28 

Benjamin,  Nathaniel 28 

Benjamin,  David 21 

Benjamin,  Elisha 21 

Bennett,  William  H 75 

Bigelow,John — f.amily. . . .  39 

Blacker,  Rev.  Robert 75 

Boardman,  Rev.  Sylvanus. 

9,  35,  60,  66,  68,  80 
Boardman,  Rev.  Geo.  Dana  69 

Bond,  Henry 30,  66,  67,  69 

Bond,  Dr.  Heni-y.  . .  .11,  31,  65 

Boothby,  Ichabo'd 42 

Boothby,  Samuel 45, 49 

Bradford,  Dr.  Benjamin  . . 

11,  73,  88,  103 

Family  of 82 

Bradford,  Henry  B 29,  82 

Bradford,  Rev.  Lucius 68 

Brettuu,  Wm.  H.,  44,  73, 86, 87 

Family  of 51 

Briggs,  Daniel 41, 73,  74,  75 


Briggs,  Hiram 41,  49 

Bridgham,  Dr.  J.  W 85 

Bryant,  Thomas 42 

Bryant,  Hezekiah 42 

Carpenters 44 

Cabinet  makers 49 

Carriage  &  Sleigh  Makers .  49 

Clock  Maker 50 

Clothiers  and  Carders .50 

County  Road 58 

Church,  Baptist 64, 65,  66 

Church,  2d  Baptist 69 

Church,  (E.  L.) 70 

Church ,  Free 70 

Chui-ch,  Methodi.<t. .  .64,  55,  70 
Church,  Universalist.64,  65,  72 

Church,  Union 75 

Congi-egationalists 64,  65 

Centenarians 89 

Changes 91 

Casualties 109 

Contributions 96 

"Cider  Pots" 115 

Corrections 163 

Carver,  Mrs 7 

Carver,  William 17 

Gary,  Dr.  William 85 

Catlin,  (irove 79 

Chase,  Thomas 9,  45,  49,  60 

With  Paul  Jones 25 

Family  of 27 

Chiise,  Thomas,  jr.  .27,  72, 114 

Chase,  Thomas,  .id 28 

Chase,  Tristram,  and  fam- 
ily  28,111 

Chase,  Sarsou,  and  family. 

48,69 

Chase,  Mayhew 36,  69 

Chase,  James 69 

Chase,  Job 88 

Chase,  "  Post," 88 

Chase,  Sarson,  jr ; 49 

Chickering,  George  O 164 

Chickering,  Zachariah 97 

Chenery,  William 44 

Cliandler,  George  .  .40,  69,  104 
Child,  Ephraim— family..  .   35 

Clarke,  Cutting 9,  21 

Clark,  Daniel 61 

Collin,  Rev.  Paul 

14,  24,  34,  37,  46,  55 

Coffin,  Naphtah .40,  111 

Coolidge,  Thomas — family.  31 

Coolidge,  Joseph 32 

Coolidge,  William 33 

Coolidge,  Daniel 73 

Coolidge,  Jefferson 54 

Coolidge,  Merritt 54 

Coolidge,  Elisha 82 

Cutts,  William 50 

Campbell,  Joshua 164 

Dedication 74 


Doctors 79 

Dancing  Schools 102 

Doctor,  cipseudo 116 

Deeds,  mem.  of  certain. . .  .148 
Dailey,  Nathaniel. . .   .9, 22,  43 

Dailey,  Daniel 22 

Dailey,  Nezer 22,  44 

Dailey,  Warren 22 

Delano,  James 9,  22,  67 

Delano,  Jabez 105,  107,  108 

Family  of 22 

Delano,  Grace 67 

Delano,  Zebedee 66,  67 

Family  of 22 

Delano,  Ebenezer — family.  22 

Drowne,  Dr.  William 85 

Dunham,  Dr.  I.  C 85 

East  Livermore  (incor- 
porated)   57 

East  Livermore  (Union 

Church) 75 

Early  Histoiy 5 

Early    Settlers   and    their 

families 15 

Ecclesiastical  matters 64 

Entries    in    Major    Fish's 

journal 142,143 

Errata 163 

Edes,  Solomon 42 

Elliot,  John 42 

EUiot,  Palmer 54,  75 

Ellis,  Perez 42,  66 

Evans,  William  A 79 

Edgcomb,  Benjamin 165 

Edgcomb,  Daniel 165 

Edgcomb,  Didymus 165 

Ferries 90, 106 

Free  Masons 86 

Farm  Products 92 

Fourth  of  July  Celebration  59 

Facetia; 112 

Fernald,  Samuel :>>i 

Fernald,  Lysander 44 

Fish,  Thos.7, 8, 104, 118, 132, 1(>3 

Fish,  Rev.  E.  S 68 

Fislier,  Elijah,  9— family. .  23 

Fisher,  Stephen 109 

Foster,  Samnel 35 

Foster,  Rev.  Frederic 75 

Frye,  Dr.  A.  L 85 

Fuller,  Abram 38 

Fuller,  Isaac 38 

Fuller,  John 38,  44,  50 

Fuller,  Isaac,  2d 42, 164 

Francis,  Asa 165 

Gore,  Chandler's 58 

Grant,  Petition  for 125 

Gibbs,  Pelatiah 9,  67,  69 

Family  of 23 

Gibbs,  Jacob 43 

Gibbs,  Phineas 62 


168 


INDEX, 


Goding,  Jonathan— family  33 

Goding,  Peter 67 

Goding,  Spencer 00 

Goding,  Roseoe 88 

Grevy ,  Henry,  9  (as  Graves)  3(5 
Gritfitli,  Jolin 74 

HAMLIN,  Db.  Cvrus 

58,  60,  61,  69,  79 

Family  of 81 

Hamlin,  Elijah  L 11,  81 

Hamlin.  Isaac 42 

Hamlin,  Hannibal 59,  81 

Hamlin,  Anna 105, 107 

Haines,  Feter 61 

Family  of 38 

Haines,  Francis  F 44 

Family  of 5o 

Haynes,  Rev.  John 68,  69 

Haynes,  Nathaniel 69,  97 

Haynes,  Isaac  C 69 

Hall,  Kilah 50 

Hall,  Amasa 50 

Haskell,  Job 17,55 

Haskell,  Isaac 48 

Harmon,  Samuel 49 

Hayes,  John 72,  164 

Hayes,  Robert 72,  164 

Hayes,  Hanson 164 

Harrington,  Elisha  9 

Hastings,  Edward 9 

Hathaway,  John 29 

Hathaway,  Gilbert 108 

Hersey,  Samuel— family.. .  45 

Hersey ,  Simeon 54 

Hewett,  Rufus 42 

Uillman,  Rev.  Samuel  . . . 

9,  60,  66,  71,  (2 

Familv  of 29 

Hillman,  Moses 29 

Hillman,  Tristram 29 

Hinds,  Ebenezer,  jr 73 

Family  of •IS 

Hinkley,  David 89, 156 

Holman,  Daniel 9,  37,  67 

Holman,  Abuer 37,  45,  73 

Holman,  Samuel  P 45,  74 

Hobbs,  Josiah ;il 

Howard,  Simeon 38,  72 

Howard,  Charles 48 

Howard,  John 113 

Howard,  Perez 165 

Horsley,  Joseph 44 

Family  of "^^ 

Horsley,  Christopher  C.  50, 102 

Horsley,  James 165 

Holt,  Samuel  B 54 

Holland,  Dr.  Cornelius. . . . 

72,  82,  87,  88,  103 

Howe,  Dr.  Timothy 55,  84 

Howe,  Tlmo.  0 55,  85 

Kurd,  William 25 

Humphrey,  Peter 46 

Humphrey,  John 46,  100 

Hunton,  jona.  G 58,  76 

Hunton,  Lewis 9^^ 

Indians,  Roccomkco.  .8, 114 

Indian  Judgment 8 

Indian  Language 114 

Incorporation 9 

Industrial  Interests— Busi- 
iit^j^s, 43 


Journal— to  Androscoggin 

River 131 

Journal  of  Thomas  Fish.. .  132 
.Journal  of  Fish's  2d  Visit.  139 

Jones,  Apollos 45 

Johnson,  Kev.  O.  H 75 

Johnson,  James 87 


"Killing  the  Calf".  100 
Kendall,  Alpheus..  .47,  84, 104 

Kendall,  Stedman 47, 101 

Keith,  Isaiah 45 

Keith,  Ebenezer 109,  165 

Keith,  Martin 165 

Kingman,  Ezra 76 

King,  Asa 77 

Kincaid,  Alexander 88 

Kidder,  Jesse 39,  69, 104 

Kidder,  Sarah 90 

Knox,  Stacy HO 

Knox,  Daniel HO 

LivERMOBE,  Samuel — 

0,  15,  126,  127 
Livermore,  Samuel  (son). . 

11,15 

Livermore,  Elijah,  6, 10,  11, 15 

04,  65,  70,  105,  113,  163 

Family  of 16 

Livermore,  Arthur 15 

Livermore,  Edward  St.  Loe  15 

Livermore,  Nathaniel 7 

Livermore,  Amos 37 

Livermore,  Jason 68 

Livermore,  Samuel  (son  of 

Elijah) 107 

Livermore,  Isaac 60,  61,  87 

Livermore,  William 1U8 

Lindsay,  William 9 

Lovewell,  Isaac 

9,  30,  67,  68,  112 

Lovejoy,  Jonathan 21 

Lord,  Thomas 49 

Low,  Rev.  Robert 70 

Ladd,  Dr.  John 85 

Leavitt,  Johix 93,104 

Lee,  Rev.  Jesse 64,  7i 

Learned,  Ebenezer 6,  24 

Learned,  David 

9,  44,  58,  60,  61,  80 

Family  of 24 

Learned,  Haines  24,  60 

i.,eonard,  Artemas 32,  51 

Location  of  Grant 127 

Lawyers 76 

Lewiston,  City  of 58 

Library,  Social 83,  108 

Livermore,  East 10 

Methodist.? 64,  65,  70 

Meeting  Houses 8 

Masons 46 

Masons,  Free 86 

Mills 43,44 

Millwi-ights 49 

Ministerial 65,  88 

Mail  Carriers 88 

Marketings— Old  Time.. 92,  93 

Militia 62,  63 

Municipal  Affairs 60 

Memorandum — Oxford  to 

Port  Royal 140 

Minutes   of  Swamps   and 

Roads 141 

Martin,  Wm.  Godfrey 117 

Merrill,  Joseph 164 

Merrill,  Richard 37,  164 

Merrill,  Jonathan  &  Ben- 
jamin   164 

Mills,  Joseph 36 

Miller,  Rev.  Charles 40,  68 

Milner,  Rev.  R 68 

Millet,  Dr.  Charles 85 

Monk,  Jolm !1 

Morse,  David.  .9,  44,  46,  61,  72 

Morse,  Jonathan 46,  109 

Morse,  Elias 44 

Morse,  Silas 75 

Morse,  Sumner 75 

Morse,  Richard 75 


Monroe,     Abijah     9— Inn 

33,  60,  61 
Monroe,  John,  and  family 

34,  72,  103 
Monroe,  Abel,  and  family 

34,  72,  103,  113 
Monroe,  John,  jr.. ..... . . . 

40,  98,  99,  101 

Monroe,  Jane 96 

Monroe,  Nathan 110 

Morrill,  Francis 164 

Meserve,  Joseph  &  J.  M.  .165 

Morison,  Samuel 21 

Family  of 54,103 

Morison,  Dr.  S.  B 85 

Morison,  WiUiam 164 

Morison,  Robert 164 

Morison,  James 164 

NOELANDS 59 

jjotes- by  Thomas  Chase.. 

104, 109 

Nelson,  Lot  P 54 

Norton,  Sylvester 28,  48 

Norton,  Ransom  .  .9,  66, 67,  69 

Family  of 28 

Norton,  Zebulon,  and  fam- 
ilv   ^^ 

Norton,  James 9,  66 

Family  of 29 

Norcross,  Josiah 9, 165 

Norcross,  Jonathan 165 

Nutter,  Rev.  David 68,  69 

Oxford  County 58 

Officers  of  Militia 62,  63 

Oriental  Star  Lodgt 86 

Outlook 94 

Physicians 79 

Political  Notes 57 

Proprietors,  Original 128 

Proprietors.  Extracts  from 

Records  of 146 

Paupers •••  6- 

Population 55,  5b 

Post-offices  and  Post-mas- 

Park,  Benjamin 35 

Parker,  Rev.  Carleton 68 

Parker,  James 43 

Parker,  Alfred 45 

Perley,  Nathaniel, 61 

Family  of 38 

Perley,  Amos 165 

Pendleton,  Rev.  A.  B 68 

Petti  ngill,  Elisha 54 

Phillips,  S.  &  S 75 

Philoon,  James,  and  fam- 
ily  40,  103 

Pierpont,  Robert,  and  fam- 
ily   16 

Pierpont,  George  "W...  .16,  40 
Pitts,  Ebenezer,  and  fam-    ■ 

ily 36 

Piper,  G.  T 88 

Poole,  William 48 

Pollard,  William (5 

Paul,  Isr.ael ■/•••J^.? 

Pray,  Otis..  .49,  73,  74,  84,  102 

Prav,  Ephraim.. 49 

Pray,  Publius  R.  R 25,  49 

Pray,  Ebenezer 47 

Pray,  Alberto •■  49 

Prescott,  Dr.  Benj 82,  88 

Putnam,  James  H 47 

Putnam,  Eli 43 

Pumpelly,  Samuel 41 

QuisBY,  Rev.  Geo.  W..  .  74 

ROAD 8 

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INDEX. 


169 


Roccomeco 13 

Religious  and  Ecclesiasti- 
cal Notes 64 

Representatives     to     the 

Legislature 149 

Reminiscences 96 

Randall 9 

Reed,  David 36,  46,  67 

Rich,  Thomas 39,  43 

Rich,  David 39 

Rollins,  Orison 75 

Root,  Rev.  Isaac 65,  72,  87 

Robinson,  Otis. .9,43,  46,  66,  67 

Robinson,  West 164 

Rose.  Zebedee,  and  family  45 

Rowell 112 

Russell,  Tlieodore 44 

Separation 10,  51 

Soil  and  Products 13 

School  Fund 88 

Schools— Old  Time 96 

Sliy 70 

Saddler 48 

Shoemakers 48 

Scythe  and  Sneath  makers  50 
Scholars,  Catalogue  of. . .  .152 

Soldiers- war  of  1812 157 

Soldiers — civil  war 160 

Sawin,  Samuel 9,  30 

Sawin,  Samuel,  jr 30 

Sawin,  Abijah 30 

Sanders,  Jolin 48 

Sanders,  "William 46,  69 

Sawtelle,  Henry 44 

Sawtelle,  iMedad 165 

Sawtelle,  Kathan 165 

Simmons,  John 74 

Simmons,  Samuel 66 

Small,  Dr.  Wm.  B 85 

Smith,  Elisha 7,  9, 17 

Smith,  John 47 

Smith,  Caleb 48 

Snow,  Dr.  William 59,  85 

Soule,  Rev.  Joshua.61,  71, 114 
Soule,  Nathan 72, 114 


Soule,  Rev.  Asbury 72 

Soule,  Sumner 49,  75 

Soper,  Nathaniel 17,  45 

Southard,  Gideon 112 

Springer,  Charles 75 

Stevens,  Elijah 9 

Strickland,  Hastings 37 

Strickland,  John 37,  51 

Strickland,  Isaac 

35,  37,  54,  73,  75 

Strickland,  Samuel  P 37 

Strickland,  Hastings,  jr.37,  51 

Strickland,  Lee 37,  54,  75 

Strong 76 

Streeter,  Barzillai 79 

Stetson,  Rev.  Seth 71 

Stoddard,  Rev.  Jeremlali..  71 

Stevens,  Rev.  D.  T 75 

Stevens,  Rev.  W.  C 71 

Stone,  Je.sse 

47,  73,  86,  87,  88,  111 

Stone,  M.  M 47,  87 

Stone,  John  S Ill 

TOLLAWALLA 13,  90,  113 

Tanners 47 

Traders 51 

Tornado 96 

Tramps  and  Oddities 115 

TiltOD,  Tristram 28 

Timberlake,  James 42 

Thompson,  William 42,  69 

Thompson,  Ii'a,  and  fam- 
ily  40,69 

Thompson,  Ira  D 44 

Thompson,  Job  Drew 44 

Towle,  Ira 48 

True,  Benjamin 41,  61 

Turner,  Abial,  and  family  23 
Turner,  N 75 

Universalist.s 72, 151 

Union  Meeting  House 75 

Valuation 43 

Vamum,  Joseph  B 58 


Vose,  Rev.  Ezekiel 75 

War,  Civil,  Town  in  the  63 

Winthrop 105, 106, 108 

Wild  Beasts 108 

Walker,  John 9,  88 

Walker,  James 42,  69 

Walker,  De.vter 87 

Washburn,  Israel 21,  51 

Family  of 52,  73,  84 

Washburn,  Reuel.. .  .59,  77,  86 

Family  of 79 

Washburn,  Davis 53 

Washburn,  G.  W.  C 54 

Waters,  Simeon.. 72,  73,  84,  86 

Family  of . . .   48 

Waters,  Clarendon 48,  74 

Waterhouse,  Rev.  Daniel..  71 

Walton,  Dea 113 

Weston,  Rev.  Jonas 112 

Wellington,    Elijah,    and 

family 36 

Wellington,  Nathan 164 

Wellington,  Rev.  Elbridge  37 

Webber,  Rev.  George 71 

Whitman,  David  S 42 

White,  John 39,  90 

White,  Jedediah 88 

Williams,  Leonard.. 6,  126, 127 

Williams,  Elisha 

9, 16,  61,  64,  67 

Wing,  Reuben 9,  21 

Wing,  Thomas 45,  49 

Winslow,  Benjamin 42 

AVood,  Harry 77 

Woodward,  Richard 6 

Woodman,  Rev.  Jabez..34,  73 
Woodbury,  Bartholomew.  39 
Wyer,  Josiah 7,  105 

Family  of 17 

Wyman,  Rev.  Thomas 

66,  67,  69 
Wyman,  William 40,  68 

Young,  Le^i  B 17 

Young,  S.  B 49 


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