The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-12-29
Camden for beauty.
Northport Tor pride,
Had it not been for CLANS.
Belfast would have died"

ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS
The first settlers OF our city We're of Scotch Irish
extraction, which implies, not rs is generally sup
posed, Il mixture Of descent, but simply that per
sons called, We're of Scottish lineage born in Ire
land. During the reign OF James Y, a colony of
scotch Presbyterlans emigrated to the northern
part Of that country. AntaSonstic To the lrish in
religious. civil and social principles their individual
lty vigorously preserved, and with that people,
who were Romans. nothing existed in common.
Outbreaks between them constantly occurred. The
two races never became connected by consanguini-
" or affinity. After sojourn in ireland, marked
bv priyaions and almost martyr-ke sutferings,
among which was the celebrated seISe of London
derry, where for Two months enduring hardshps
of which Paris has no conception, thirty thousand
men arrayed against the constitutional govern
ment, were held at bay, respectable number of
these coionists concluded to emigrate to America.
Like the Pilgrim Fathers, the anniversary of whose
landing is observed to-day, they sought i'll the new
world what the old had failed to hestow ,-'s secn-
rv for their labor, freedom of religious worship
and 1epose from persecution" They arrived at
Boston in the summer of l7ls. Sixteen families,
among whom appear the names OF Barnet, Clark,
Clen,lennn, Gregg. Mckeen, Mitchell, Morrison,
Ncsmith and Steele, whose sons and grandsons
subsequently founded our city, "hearing OF tract
of good land above Haverhl called Nutfleld rom
the abundance Of chestnut and walnut trees that
grew there" selected it for their residence. Soon
ioined by others, they built up Il town, which IN
honor of their former place OF abode, was called
Londonderry. They were generally men OF middle
age: robust. perseVering anu adventurous, sutn
AS were well suited to encounter the tolls OF com
mencing Il new settlement. Subjected to hardships
which would have discouraged men OF less energy,
they soon began to exert an influence extensive
and beneficial Our whole country is to-day the
better for them. In the words OF the Hon. Charles
H. Bell ''there has been almost no place OF emil
inence political, literary or professional, TO which
men of this descent have not attained. Inc num-
ber of them. whose names have been written In
history is endless
THE POTATO INTRODUCED INTO NEW ENGLAND
The pioneers of Londonderry first introduced the
potato into New England. So ignorant were the
inhabitants of the nature of this important VeSeta-
bic, that in the neighboring town of Andoyer the
secd-baIls were at first cooked rs the edible pro-
up the large, fair fruit. like many other lg-
norant people, they found that they had begun
wrong end foremost Yet in offset, it is said that
the first pound of tea seen in the new settle
mcnt, was rejected as unpalatable after having
been boiled. and the leaves served up as green's,
BY the rapid increase of early settlers and by
constant accessions from abroad, Londonderry be-
This definition Is given by Or. N. T. True OF Bethel
one of the most distinguished Indian philoiogiS''
living.