Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1894-07-12

their petition had there been one.
had just finished the foregoing when
the last number of the "Maine Historical
Magazine" Vol. 8, was placed in my
hands and in it find additional help to
sustain my position.
On page 22 you will find the fol-
| lowing paragraph, viz: cat a town
meeting held in Trenton, Nov. Sd, 1900,
James Payson was chosen clerk, pro tenn
pore; voted to send Capt. William Blunt
to General Court to have dockage in
their State and county taxes the adjacent
district refused to pay in consequence of
being set off from the town" / have left
out he word Ellsworth inserted in brack-
cts by the editor after the word district.
To understand the full force of the
above paragraph we will premise that in
1894, Peters in his plan calls the settle
ment next adjoining Trenton on the
north New Bowdoin, and in 1898 the pc
titioners for the act of incorporation
style themselves Inhabitants of plantation
No. I.
Trenton at that date was divided into
districts. February 26, 1900, Ellsworth
was incorporated November 3, 1900
| Trenton votes to send a man to the gem
eral court to get an abatement on their
State and county tax because the djacent
district refuse to pay their tax in conse-
quence of being set off from the town
CTrenton). Is there any ambiguity or
|
Here is district that was prior to Feb
ruary 26, 1900 in the town of Trenton,
and on that date was set off to the town
of Ellsworth by being included with
township No. 7, some way, in the act of
incorporation upon the petition of the in
habitants of No. I, upon which l have
already commented and tried to explain.
If this district had been or been in
tended to mean plantation No. I, New
Bowdoin, or Ellsworth, or any portion of
them, the vote would have expressed
something near what was meant. 1t was
simply a district of Trenton which had
been taxed by Trenton, as a part of that
town. The general court set it off to
Ellsworth and it became the ad jacent dis
trict, as he vote called it, and had become
part of Ellsworth by being annexed to
that town, having been set off from its
mot her town. This district refused to
pay the tax for that reason, and probab bly,
because they We're set off in February and
consequently were not legally taxable
that year in Trenton, but she, having
been taxed for that district by the State
and county and not being able to collect
it OF the district, applies to the general
court to have that "tax locked" Now
if that vote of the town and phrase lad
jacent district" set off from Trenton
meant the whole territory of Ellsworth
with its large upper districts, or settle
ments (for at that date there was quite a
population north OF Main street,, would
the vote have read as it does?
This district set off from Trenton Feb.
%. 1900, by being Incorporated with No.
!, into the town of Ellsworth, as the
records would seem to indicate, covers
the territory about which there has been
so much doubt and uncertainty as to
which township it belonged.
do not give this solution Of the town
vote az positively correct, only what |
/ Z n L q a rpag bile a.
| ton OF it, 1t seems that in 1896 Off the
date is right1 the town voted to send
James Payson to consult a lawyer in
4 Penobscot because 1.-THE district refused
to pay their taxes" This needs explana-
t ton. w. +.
CHERRYFIELD, June l, 1894.
The gehtlemanly, accommodating and
efficient archive clerk at the State house,
Boston, the Hon. j. J. Tracy, aided by his
assistants, after persistent labor covering
spare intervals for many weeks to find
the original returns OF the surveyors " he
run out township No. 6, (the Surry town
ship and to find the record of the grant
" hich contained the description of the
township, which is referred to in various
resolves of the general court of Massa-
T
ing the record of the grant containing
the description sought for. The index OF
! the volume in which it was found con
! tains no reference to it. There is no in
t dex guide or clue as to where 1t could be
found among the many volumes OF rec
ords, papers and documents relating to
the eastern townships, so far as known,
u lxr htr hot / :
brought to light.
1t is still a mystery why this grant
which was made in 1863 should have
been left out in the lawsuit between
the proprietors of No. 6 and Theodore
Jones, before mentioned, and why it was
not indexed and why the original returns
containing the description of the town
ship, should at the same time be missing
from the files and cannot now be found
OF course the description agrees with
he plan. | insert here the copy sent me
COURT RECORDS, Vol. -, FACE go.
And The said Governor, Council and House
. of Representatives Assembled n aforesaid have
grant urto David Marsh, Enoch BARTLETT, James
+ Duncan, Moses Hazlen, John White Joshua
SAWYER, James sawyer. Israel Morrill,, Isaac
Bradley, Josiah Fulsom, James Coock, Thom
rs West, John Eaton, William Fairfield viii
lam Grcenleaf Dudley Ladd, William Cuock,
Jonathan Webster, Jun'r, Isaac Osgood, Jere
miah Hessetiue, James Robson, Isaac Snow,
Nathaniel Rolf, EHoch Badger, John Ayrc3,
Barnard kimball, Jacob Buck, Moses ilazIen,
Amm'h Moorc-, Eheuezer Porter, Jeremiah
Peckcr, Edmund Moores, David Remmick
Timothy George, Richard Emerson, jun'r, Ed
f mund Iierrerluan, Charles lladdock, Benjamin
M0ores, Nathan Baker, Joshua Springer, VIII
lam Fairfield, John Mullken, Jonathan Buck
( John rel, Andrew frink, samuel Souther
james Pcckcr, Daniel Hills, William bradley,
| Ezekiel Wilson, Cutten Marsh, David Marsh,
jun'r, Moses Marsh, Jonathan Marsh, Enocl
Marsh Nathaniel Marsh. William Townsend
/ samuel Clemens, Ebeneler ktmbal, and James
( McHard and their heirs All that Tract of land
or Township being the Sixth of the said six
Townships beginning at the East corner of the
said nth Township on the Sea Shore a. afore
said and running along the aforesaid line de
t scribcd to be the boundary between the nftl
and sixth Townships unto the said Great Divis
t ional line, and along the said divisional line
North Easterly unto the Monument at the North
East end of the said great Divisional line and
from thence by a line running South SiNty.ont
| degrees East six miles and eighty four poles