Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-05-12
SIl,

SIR.
think have given you the Names Of
all that is in my List more than | suppose
you have in yr own. have been so much
at Falmouth lately. s design, If well to
Set out for Boston in about Ten days,
that can not we'll leave home. or would
have attended the meeting. | shall be al
ways ready 4 Hing TO serve them in any
things that lays in my power. ! have no
Interest in the Town nor don't expect To
have chance to get one Right tho
think the trouble | have had would give
me the privilege Of one Right In Each
! Town provided | paid my part of the
Charge.
am y'r Most Hum'bl Serv't,
JER. POWELL.
Please to give my Compli-
ments to your good faith
er & Mother
To Mr.. Samll Freeman"
! We have an original paper containing a
| full list of the names of the sixty persons
| who gave bonds under the Tnorndike
| grant, aud as those named in the list are
/ mentioned in the deed, or grant given by
| the General Court to Paul Thorndike and
| others, Jan. u, 1894, confirming the grant
| them here. The only difference seems to
| be that the grantees names are somewhat
trsnsposed; and to one not reading the
full list there would appear to be different
grants. The grant Of Feb. %, 1862 ran to
Eben Thorndike and others, and the grant
| of Feb. q, 1864. to Paul Thorndike and
others The latter being a confirmation
of the former.
1t was upon petitions Of the proprietors
of No. One that the grants were confirmed
in l164. The proprietors Of the several
townships through their clerks sent a let
ter to Jere. Powell, Dec. 27, 1863, to mott
fly him that said proprietors choose you
to represent US and speak for US at the
| Gen'l Court To have the said townships
confirmed to us, agreeable to the new
plans" Action was taken upon their pc
tiiions Jan. 27, 1894. and the six town
ships were confirmed in the manner set
forth in the grant of that date. All Of
said townships being included in the same
deed and each township was specifically
conveyed to separate associations formed
from the grantees mentioned in the origi-
nal grants as before stated. with the ex-
ception perhaps of the few persons who
had not given bonds and others had taken
their places.
We quote from a certified copy of the
grant to Paul Thorndike and others of
1894, sufficient to show that it is only the
confirmation of the grant to Eben Thorn
dixie and others of 1862, and give the
names of the grantees as they are found
therein.
Friday, January 81, 1854
sin the House of Representatives, Re
solred, That the Grant of the six Town
ships East of Penobscot, be, and hereby is
confirmed to the several Grantees men
toned in the draft hereunto annexed re-
spectively in manner as is therein men.
toned, and that his Excellency the Gov.
ernor, be desired to cause the Province
Seal to be annexed to a fair draft, and
sufficient Duplicates thereof, and to sign
the same and that the Secretary be direct
ed to sign the said Grant in the name OF
the Board, and the speaker to sign it in
the name of the House.
In Council read and Concurred
Consented to by the Governor"
Then follows the draft or deed which
. we omit and only give the names of the
grantees of township No. One with the de
scription as surveyed in 1853 by Jones ane
Frye.
. "The Governor, Council and House Of
Representatives Of the said Province oi
the Massachusetts, Bay In the Great anC
, General Court assembled have given anC
granted, and hereby do give and grant un
to Paul ThorndIke, Samuel Freeman
David Alden, Samuel Gates, Andrew Sim
? onton, Joseph Wilson, John Thorndike
t Joshua Woodbury., Nathaniel Jordan
, Jun'r, Ezekiel Cushing. Esq'r. Jeremial
Gushing. Ezekiel Gushing. Jun'r, Rober
e Thorndike, Jun'r. Stephen Hutchinson
? John Bradbury, Stephen Hutchinson. The
ophilus Herrick, Ebenezer Thorndike
, Nicholas Thorndike, Benjamin Thorndike
q Anthony Dyer. George Dyer, William
Dyer, Nathaniel Ailliken, Joseph Ailliken