Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-07-12
TRENTON.
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No. -, published in issue of August -,
1872 There have been many requests for their
continuance, and the author, William Freeman,
OF Cherry field. has kindly consented to con
tinue them.-Ed. american.
The fact is overlooked in the account
given in the maine Historical Maya
zine" that Benjamin Milliken first came
to Union river in 1861, and not 1857, and
built him a house, and operated there two
or three years "before he built, it is said,
dam and mill across the river from
Boat cove to Turner's point, and in 176s
he and his brother built a dam at the
head of tide at the lower falls Where
else did he make all his improvements,
and do his business on Union river prior
to 1867, il not as herein alleged? He never
lived on. or occupied, the lot he drew as
proprietor at the end of Oak point, and
do not understand that 1t is contended
that he occupied any other dwelling
house han the two spoken of by all who
have written upon the subject. One of
them must have been within the limits OF
township No. /, II not both. do not in
clude The camp at the Punch Bowl as one
of his dwellings.
There are several things which, unex-
planned, tend To show that the division
line we are trying to establish near the
bridge is AT or near the place marked for
it on the engraved plan to which we have
so often referred, and which it is proper
to mention.
John Peters when he commenced run
ming the boundary lines OF the eight
townships" Tuesday, the 18th of Septem-
hA hNt-t
corner of Trenton, as his field book states,
about ninety rods above the widow
Bates store: which would, II ii had been
exactly ninety rods land the widow,
Mary Bates store was then on the Bates
three and three-fourths acre lot pur-
chased OF solomon Jordan) bring the
line near v here the engraved plan puts 1t
(see Maine Historical Magazine page
203}. Three years before that, Feb. II,
1872, Benz. Bates, husband of Mary Bates,
sold one-half OF his three and three
fourths acres with house and howell upon
IT, Was the store on this half? In 1889
his widow, haiIing from salem, as ad-
ministratrix with power to sell, sold the
other half To Ebenezer Woodward OF Bos-
ton and gave deed in 1892 page 1871 OF
samel.
1t does not appear that these lots were
run out prior to 1872. The grant to De
Gregoire was not made until 1877 and
Peters did not run out the grant until
l7ss and the settlers lots until 1872
1t is not clear that the wido" Bates
store vas standing on that lot in
l1sB; after her husbands death she may
have had store nearer the town line and
the village. Peters in that survey speaks
of the store, and in the other over the
same dividing lin" made the same year
he does not mention it and he must have
guessed at the distance, or he would not
have used the language he did.
In lsu3 Trenton laid out a road from
Joseph Morrison's house, due north, 24o
rods to he town line Counting the
telegraph poles Mr.. Porter brings the
town line between the road leading to j.
W. Coombs house and the road leading
to Gideon Cooks house, and Joseph
Morrison. an aged settler and grandson
OF the original settler and living on the
place, tells him that he has no doubt that
the town line was between the two roads
ment toned. This evidence Is entitled to
much weight, but IN answer We call at :
tention to the fact that this road was laid
out only three years after Ellsworth was
Incorporated, and that the Legislature
made he southern line of Ellsworth just
where the petitioners asked to have 1t
done without reference or regard to any
known line between No. and No. |, but
when was an thlFely ne" anu ulheie''
line, a long distance belo" where betil
Millikrn built his first house and mill
and operated for about three years, be-
lieving, as the record gives us good reason
to conclude, that he was upon township
No OF which ne was one OF the chlei
proprietors, and settler under them ana
chairman of the committee TO survey and
locate settlers lots for the proprietors on
their townships
The line to which Mr.. Morrison refers
must be the one, If he IS right, that was
run out from the made up plan lmade as
correctly as circumstances would permit
by the petitioners to include the village
made up OF The settlements ON the corners
of the three towns and which never
agreed with any known or authorized
survey OF No. and is one OF the acts OF
the early settlers which in after days has
,apd.d 70 hpfop the ancient boundary