Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1890-03-27
BLuEHILL BAY. March 81, 1916.

oe- was thought Proper of the Inhabitants y
rus there was no Coroner within Twenty Mile
70 of Said Place to Chuse Mr. John Round
art as a fore Man to Twelve Jury Men then an
'or there to Examine the Rody and how Sal
de Hinckley Came to his End Whereas Ever
so and Each OF them one thought that h
OF perlshed with the Cold and Said jury hs
hereunto set our Hands this 3ist Day O
" March, l776. John Roundy fore Man
IN Zebadish Shnttuck. Nathan Parker. jos
'r- hua Horton, Thomas Coggn, Jonathan
n Darling. James Candsg-, ISr-al Wood
ar Ez-kiel Osgood. Jedediah Holt, Jo.epl
O. Wood Jr. Phineas osgood, Daniel o..
so good"
ot IN connection with the preceding anc
"a ior the same reasons - above stated.
ne am inclined to copy from the same hooh
$ the record Of another inques, holden the
er same year.
: BLUEHILL BAY, Aug. IL. l776
" Att the House of Wells Stanley being
d Called together on the Melancholy Occs-
N sion Of the Death of Said Staney's Wife
e t" Examine how She Came to her End and
y Being tn remote Place where there was
< no coroner to be had According to Law
|, the People made choice of Capt. BENZ
Bates As Coroner and the Body Being
: Examined found tina, She Layd vial.nt
0 Hands on Herself aud Hanged herself.
( Nicholas Holt Fore Man. Dudley Carlton.
! Thomas Mtlliken. Thomas Garland. Joseph
4 Currier. Benjamin Crocker. Samuel MINI.
Ken, ,Corneleas Morgan. Jeremiah Colburn
{ Al the south par, of this towns 4
narrow portion Of land. bounded on the
, north and west BY the Buehlll Falls and
ny 'he long salt water pond. and on the
east by Bluehll Bay. and exten ling south
eriy some three Or four miles 10 the Brook
lin town line and which has xlways been
known IS "Blu-hill Neck"
Eight lot-, Of 50. scres each. on the
north end we're laid ouI hy the town, Nov
], 1867. and bounded and described =.
above sppear>, and owned by the person.
above named Is the original settler. there
on; and besides those persons Others h, |
the name OF Carter, Day, Morse Eaton |
Hamilton. Friend and Daly soon located
there Thi, Mr.. Dsly and his wife we're
Irish people and he was a deserter from
the English army when at Castinc In 1913
His wife WAS, at the time OF her death
the oldest person who ever lived In Blue
hlil' being nearly LOG years old. aud he liv-
ed Ia he 90
In the olden times the aboye.named Mr.
Friend, whose name was Benjamin. nr-t
TOOK lot OF land on the north side of the
bay near 10 that of Jonathan Darling and
between the lots taken up by Seth Kim
ball and Eli-ha Dodge. but he soon moved
across the bay to the neck. where nearly
or quite all Of those people have descend.
ants now living ,
Previous To the time when the first
bridge was built over the falls, the peop.
on this neck suffered many Inconvenience.
a. they had no communication with III. I
other parts of the town, exran, .ctto q
even TO bury their dead "a lien, location I
at th- head OF the bay, a,a for cemetery |
But il seems that there was quite diver \
~ltv OF pplUNfu hb'ht lue tbatAct Hh' ~
agreement seemed quite hopeless. Now
thl- Mr. Friend Sa- quite a singular sort OF
a man. and with all,ws rather selfish Wis
innary aud super>iitinus and quite nhsii-
nate in his disposition and hung out like a {
tiger: but, at last. when he saw that near
" all the others seemed to bc against him, :
he said We'll you and all your folks
can be buried there but | never will so long
a. have nv senses" To prevent any
further contention about the matter the
town iuterfcred and assumed the Often
sive and voted Feb 6, 1877. that Benja
min Friend John Roundy and Samuel
Morse be a committee TO provide burying
ground on the neck whereupon Mr
Friend gave the town deed of par. OF
hi, farm for "burying ground" on con
dltion that the town should build fence
around it which they did with cedar
posts and refuse boards" | notice by the
records OF the town that committee ws>
appointed March 6, l169, consisting OF
Jonathan Day. John RouLdy and Benjamin
York. ITO lay out roads where they may
think proper on the neck, and At the same
| meeting Joseph Wood, Jonathan Darling
aud Robert Parker were chosen commit
tee TO lay out roads to convene the peo-
1 pie this side Of the falls and the salt pond.
Two Of the bridges built by the town
over the falls, in consequence Of the great
force of the tide, the Ice and the wind, to-
a.
rlec away. whereupon the town concluded
TO build third one in more substantial
and permanent manner of granite and iron.
The previous bridges had granite piers,
well for the new bridea, which, think, il,
the only iron bridge in this county
As this neck has become quite an i'm |
portant part of the town, am inclined to
say something more ,bout It. The road
on this neck leads from the falls south
erly to Brooklin and Sedgwick. the most
of which is nearly striight and quite level.
and crosses the lots O. land about midway
. from the bay to the salt pond, and thus
quite conveniently difiding the lots into
tItlage anu grass iasu ou tho Cast Si"S'
, sloping towards the bay, and on the west
side into pasture ant woodland, sloping
toward the salt pond. This road is in full
view of the beautfulbay ard Of several
islands, the largest Of which is about sew
P en- mile, long and oI an average about two
: miles wide, and has always been known as
y Long Island" whreon there are several
e good farms and about $50 people and
e where there is quie a lot of granite and
$ quite large amount Of granite business is
: being done.
l. The road on this neck with its beautiful
surroundings, ,affods one of the most pleas
d ant and desirable places for driving and
id pleasure seeking hat can be found in all
lie this region. and 10 place around this bay
k is any better situted or any more desra-
IS BILE for t e Location of cottages to accom-
IN modate summe visitors than Bluehill
. Neck.
d. In nv next article, No. IL. as matter
a. of historical Interest, propose to copy
I'D q few pages of ne first book of the rec
r. ords OF this town and to speak more par
ct ticularIv about he Wood and the HiDck-