Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-12-23
Editorial C Correspondence.
SEpGwIcK, Dee. 70, 1861,

SEpGwIcK, Dee. 10, 1861.
Dear Amer2caa -
Not very fine health and north east
snow storm keeps one within doors to-day;
and some borrowed volumes of the "Col.
lcctions of the Maine Historical Society"
serves ire with sufliciencv Of good read
ing. We cannot refrain from giving the
readers of the american brief items Of
interest taken from the History of Scar
borough. as the account of the early settle
ment Of this ancient town win serve as a
sample Of the early history of most towns
in Maine. Some of the doings and say
ings of the old settlers may seem odd and
homcly to us of a later day, hut we must
remember that century hence all of our
Mise dougs and sraver acts of 1865, will
appear to that froward and progressive age
the records of our weaknesses and frai,-
| ties.
Mr.. j. Wingate Thurston gives to Mr..
Willis, Esq, an amusing account Of the
marriage of Capt. Cammock the founder
of the town Of Scarborough. He courted
the daughter of the Earl of Warwick and
carried her off on a horse, swan the river
Crouch, being pursued, and arrived at
Maiden, where they were welded and
bedded' says the narrative. The Earl
seeing his daughter had vsntured her life
for the Captain gave them his blessing.
The frs, legal proprietor was Capt.
Thomas Commock 20 whom the Council of
Plymouth granted fifteen hundred acres
between BIcck Point and Spurwiek river"
This patent bears date July LIST, 1851.
Another principal early settlement was
at Blue Point in 1886. A grant of a
track of four miles in extent on the East
ern side of Soco river on the sea and eight
miles into the main land, was made fo
Thomas Lewis and Capt. Richard Bony-
thew. The patentees agreed to transport
and settle fifty families within seven years
and settle them upon it. This Richard
Bonythcw had son John who seems tc
have been a '.brick' and q troublesome
neighbor. He was known throughout
..the length and breadth of this and tho
Massachusetts Province, as an invinciblt
rebel" None of their laws could BE-
made to reach him. Massachusetts pro-
claimed him a rebel and set good pric,
$ upon his head.
The following epitaph was composed fo
him by rhymcr of those days:
f. Here lies Bonythew, the Sycamore Of saco;
lie lived n rogue, and died . knave, and went /
Hobbowaeko."
, Hobbowacko was tie satan of the In
: dams.
n In 1904 at the establishment of the roya
government, a court was held in Wells, a
: which was ordered. that every tow
i should take care that there be pair Q
stocks, cage, and a eoueking stool erect
ed between this and the next" TIL
i coucking ducking steel was a seat at
. tackled to beam. as bucket is attache
W d "tii-SNSSPf anu this IidCtu oNci
n pond and the person to be punished wa
: let down or ducked in the water at til
: pleasure of the officer. This was especi
4 ally reserred for scoidiag ,con,ea. Scarbo
rough was fined forty shillings for no
obeying this order.
Bridget Moon of Black Point wa
! punished by the court for complainin;
r against her neighbors and not making on
the charge.
One farm in town, known as Section
, Hill farm contains 1.-TWO hundred acres,th'
, number granted to settler by the nam
of Jocelyn two hundred years ago." hav
ing neither increased or diminished in siz,
T since first laid out in 1862.
In giving an account of an ancient fam
" by the name of Libby, the diiFeren
ways OF spelling the name are given. II
foot note it is suggested that the family
|, may have descended from Reginald Lab
be. who died in England in 1898, til,
inventory Of whose estate reads thus:
RE ginald Liable died worth chattels I.
the value of thirty-three shillinss and eigh
pence, leaving no ready money. His good
comprised cow and calf. two sheep ani
three lambs, three hens, a bushel and 4
half Of wheat, q scam Of barley. seam O