The Portland daily press., 1885-01-24


Ju e 12 1857
James ch sncellor Chiurgian, aged 2e years was
entered on b ard tho States ship Golden Faukon,
O.. the twenty yeight dsy of March, 1856 at which
time by reason of his being iDwant, desired
a ticket and reentered. He hath received
is to be deducted upon payment Of
his wages The duplicate of this ticket referred
10 be up the commissioners of the navy both
of which signed and sealed by u.s. the 18Th cay
OF May, 1857.
BEN. FosMAN. Captain.
Jon. GARDNER, Steward.
Jon FRANCIS Masier
WILL COOKE Buatswain.
Robert Grenill able an, aged thirty-iour
years entered on board the Stale ship Golden
Cock on the first day Of Septemb ber, 16 f. aud bath
C ntinued in Tie said ship until the 10Th day of
June TO lowing 1856 at which time by reas IN Of an
order discharged into the Hound and served AS
cook from the 26tn Gay Of Decem Der. He ha h re-
crved in clothes to the vaus of four pounds fifteen
payment of his wages. The duplicate of This
ticket referred to be sent up to the commissioner
of the navy both of which signed and sealed by
us at the 10th day of June 1856.
WILL. JARRETT, Captain
THus. HOLLAND, Checque
ALLINE BAL LING, Mas ter.
THEoP. SCOTT, Boatswain.
To the Right Worshiuful the Treasurer of the
NAVY.
ceior DO assign and make over the sole contents of
this ticket Will in written. upon considera ion of
full satisfaction of him already received unto Mr..
W alter Bare his assigns. Witness my hand
his Sd day OF June, 1857
JAMES CHANCELLOR.
Signed in tbe presence of
ED RIsHwAR'R.
MARY WHEELwRTGHT.
Hera copia of the ticket above mentioned. and the
assignment thereof taken ouG of the original and
examined. BY ED. RIsHWARTH, Rec. Or.
James Chancellor, chugriaD, mate; aged twenty
five years entel cd on board the Sta ship Tor
rngton, the seventeenth day of September, 655,
and hath continued in said ship in the Of the
State. until the twenty nth day of March 1866;
at which time by reason Of his remove into the Faul
nv h0at WI He has uad in
clothes the value of--which is 10 be Deducted
up. pay ment OF his wages. The duplicate of this
0 the navy both of ~hish are signed and sealed by
us the Sd day of April. 1885,
WILL GoDsIN, Captain,
= SMITH, Checque,
SIMON bo',AREY, Master.
EDWARD WAULHOCKNEss Boatswan.
To the Right Worshipful the Treasurer Of The Ma
Wy. NitDesseth- these presents that j. james Chan
celor Tor full satisfaction already received of Mr.
Walter Barefoot do make over ana assign nnte the
said walter Barefoot, my full aud right and in
terest OF this ticket Witness my hand this z1st
day OF May, 1857.
Signed and delivered in the presence of Ed Rish-
warth, Rec. CIR.
A true copy of this ticket and assignment there
of, examined and taken out of the original
BY ED. RIsHWARrH, Rec. Cr
June II, 1867.
After copying these papers, Mr.. Hull was at a
loss to know what was meant by State ships or who
wa the right worsLiptul treasurer of The navy re-
ferred TO, no history tradition give any infor
nation that at that time, 1867, any of the colo
MES sustained any navy or had any armed vessels.
But Admiral Preble, of Boston, gives full particu-
lars in reg ard to the matter. In letter to MIR,
hull. he writes, THAT without doubt these State
ships were vessels of war belonging to Great Bri-
tain. 1648-58. which superseded the Royal Navy of
Charles l. and was succeeded by the Royal Navy of
Charles III. Probably in consequence of the
troublesome times lin Mane) they were stationed as
near York as possible"
These vessels were undoubtedly anchored on the
Kttery side of the Pisca aqua river opposite Ports
mouth. Some OF these orders appear to have been
drawn by Edward Rish worth, who was the recorder
aud scrivener of those early days. Walter Bare
foot the purchaser of these tickets or ORDERS was
prominent citizen of PoItsn outh. He afterwards
became the Deputy Governor Of New Hampshire.
These papers were recorded in the York Records
i stead of New Hampshire, because of the proxim-
Ivy Of the former place OF rec rd. htse few
leaves in the York Records ar all that IS Known,
and although but an incideut, conclusive as TO
tue fact IF these state ships of the Commonwealth
navy being here at that me.
rom various sources of information it is to be
supposed that romwell made full investigation of
the late Of affairs as then existing between Mas
sachusetis Anu Maize. In this his ssmpathies
uud ,ubtedly with Massachusetts and also being
determined that ro al y the supporters Of
Charles H. should oh ain no fvothold iu New Eng
land, he Caused those vessels of to proceed 20
Maine IN the arly part of 65f. They were prob
ably the same ships that two years previous cap
tured Nova Scotia from the French. There ships
we're bv Cromweil's orier stationed at Kittery |
really to take amy necessary part iu suppressng any
Governor of Massschus. It's. How long they re |
mained at KitterS is unknown. their services as |
an armed force were hot used or neeied. Most |
OF the inh .btans submitted quietly he iursdic-
tion of Massachusetts,, who gradually extended her
government and laws over the whole province, and
which continued from that time till 1920.
Following this came a very interesting |
paper read by L. B. Chapman on the subject |
OF Stroudwater Bridge.
FORE RIVER AND THE "GREAT BRIDGE" OVER IT. |
Mr.. Chayman began by giving the history of the |
name OF the river. he frelawney grant, he said, |
was bounded on the north by Case ;" river, so |
called. Winter. agent or the grant, had driven |
Tucker and Cleey-s ON the banks of the Spur
win e. On their settling on land now included Ill |
Portland he attempted 10 drive them away, CAIN |
ing that the Casco ia the grant was the present
Pie-um, scot They resisted his claim. and The |
courts sustained them A ter Winters dea h, one |
Robert Jord again opened the discussion the |
nocthern boundaries of the Trelawney grant, and |
The case again carried into thecourts which re-
versed its former decision and declared that the |
first or fore rive and not The Presumpscot the |
ue "Casco 0wins to these two adverse decisions /
the title to he land between the Fore and the Pre-
sumpscot became much vexed question. which |
hualy se.tled by the descendants of Jordan for
a vau abe consideration. releasing all their inter-
Since this decision of the courts this inlet
has been known as FORE river.
On the re-settlement of the town in 1Tl8 emf |
grafton flowed in from the South al d West. The /
Meek" was the great point Of attraction ana as
directly in the path of travel, some conveyance
across it was needed ferry was at first estab-
lished, but as this proved insufficient bridge $40
feet long with two causeways each seventy feet /
wide'' was built 1t is fact to be regretted that
known. Though such bridge would now a-days
be small our fathers had right to be proud vf it
then and to call it ''g1eat." It's erection was too
great enterprise for the town to carry in It's
corporate capacity, and Col. Thomas Westbrook had
charge of it. But the town of Portland still had it
under It's CONTROL is by the fact that in l749
they paid fine an Indictment for not keeping it
in good repair and that in the same year they Let
toned 10 have 1t converted into a toll bridge in
order to relieve them from the extraordinary ex- |
penses incurred in aintaning it.
In 1850 another petition was preferred to have |
the responsibility of the bridge transferred to the
county, aud the curt, refusing this, compromised
by charging atoll on travellers for the space of
d, 9 years. The next year it was voted 'that all
vessels loading and unloading at Stroudwater
Bridge pay eight pence a day each day they lay |
there In $780, "Forty-two pounds lawful money |
was yoted b, the town for repairs.
From the close of the kevolution until 1912 the |
hamlet of Stroudwater at the zenith of its |
prosperity. In 1885 Portland cut from Old |
Fa mouth incorporated separately, with the pro-
vision in the articles of separtion that the uhab
tants of Portland sh al amend and repair the great
bridge on Fore river, called. although The same
be no within the limits of Portland aforesa d.'
Three years after the town voted to raise eI60 for
repairs although they seem to have done it unwil-
lingly. In 1874 the Town votes that mo vessel
shall lay by the side of the bridge at Stroudwater'
and shortly after that 'nothDg shall be piled upon
the bridgo"-this last being in response to COM
plant OF the mail carrier
But the eraudest affair in which the old bridge
took part was on the occasion OF the visit of Presi
dent Monroe in 1917 afull account of which ap-
peared in the Eastern Argus of the date ofJuy ~,
1917. Nineteen arches were th rown oyer 1t, |
dressed with evergreen and roses tatefully fes-
tooned, and connected by evergreen WI cath, one
for each State with the name Of the State in large
symboicai of the uation. Surmopnting this arch |
was another shorter chord and deeper curve, |
the base resting upon it, dressed like the first in
evergreen, and embazoned In front with nineteen
different stars. A G0iRg eagle native of |
our own forest, and the symbol Of our martial Prov