The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-10

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one while ruggedly maintaining the
other
: By an act of June IA, 1894, the Htown
was divided into three distinct parishes,
and In October of that year Rev. Daniel
Stone was ordained to the pastoral care
OF the first church OF the middle parish
Of Hallowell," and he continued in that
charge until 1909. The committee that
waited upon Mr.. Stone in relation to his
settlement was composed of William
Brooks, Joseph North, James Bridge,
William Howard and Seth Williams. The
matter was of deep Importance, for the
meeting house was the central point of
all New England communities.
In the same year Talleyrand and Louis
Philippe visited Pittston, HallowelI and
Augusta, being guests of General Dear
born at Pittston, and of Charles Vaughan
at Hallowell. 81
1t was observed that Talleyrand affect
ed not to be able to talk or understand
English, and that Louis Philippe con-
versed for both, a fact illustrative of the
difference between the two men, differ
ence which should not be confused by
confounding the parties. On one occa-
sion Talleyrand fell into the river, and
was saved from drowning by boy hold
ing out to him his fishing pole. Subse-
quent events showed that that boy and
his pole carried Caesar and his fortunes.
BENJAMIN Vaughan, who sustained
such close relations to Chief Justice Jay
and aided SO largely in securing the trea-
ty of peace of 1888, did not join his BROTH
er at Hallowel until 1897.
Between that part of the town now
called Hallowell, which was known as
the Hook, from contraction of the In
dian name OF the place, and that part
which is now Augusta, and was then
called the Fort an ardent rivalry sub
sisted, which resulted in the division into
| two towns, separation which was inev-
liable after the Kennebec Bridge Com
lpany was chartered with authority to
erect bridge at Fort Western in Halo
WELL between Pollard Ferry and the Mill
Brook" which was February s, 1886.
Among the incorporators were Samuel
and William Howard, Joseph North,
Daniel Cony, William Brooks and James
Bridge.
The act "To divide the town of Halo
we'll, in the county of Lincoln, into two
towns, and to incorporate the northerly
part thereof into town by the name OF
Harrington, was approved February
90, 1897, by Samuel Adams
. In early periods names embodied char
acteristics, and although in later years
they grew to convey no special meaning,
q certain interest has nearly always3s Eat
tached to them. Shakespeare and Sterne
bear striking testimony to their import
ance in individual instances. Indeed, we
have recognized that there is something in
a name, by waving few months of ac-
tual age, and dating our career from to-
lday
The derivation of Harrington is not
far to seek. In the spring of 1929 Colonel
Dunbar made his appearance at Pema-
quid with royal commission appointing
him governor of Sagadahock, and, after
repairing the fort, laid out the territory
between the ,Muscongus, and Sheepscaot
rivers into three townships, which he
named Townsend, Harrington and Wal
pole, in honor of members of the cabinet
of George II; Harrington including the
southern part of Bristol. William Stan
hope was a distinguished soldier and
statesman during the reigns of the first
two sovereigns of the house of Bruins
wick. From 1715 to 1923 he was engaged
in diplomatic missions of the highest
Importance, and having concluded in the
latter year the treaty of Seville, was ele-
waited to the peerage by the title of Baron
Harrington of Harrington, an ancient
parish of the county of Northumberland.
The name having become obsolete at
Bristol was awaited of by the trainers of
though soon after discarded, is still per-
lpetuated in the State, as it well might
be, for the cause of the change of name
was not by reason of any special objec-
ton to the name itself.
Cushnoc was the head of the tide and
as fishing operations of some magnitude
were carried on there, our witty rivals at
the Hook seized on the fact to nickname
the new town "Herringtown" Perhaps
the witticism could have been borne, vet
as it SO happened that Deacon Samuel
Cony owned valuable fishing right at
Cushnoc, it may be that his son Daniel
thought the joke had a personal applica-
nd i.
assistance of General Sewall, to bring
about the change by the act of June 9,
1897.
AS in the instance of Harrington, so in
that Of Augusta, there had been pre-
vious Augusta, laid out at Small Point
by the Pejepscot proprietors, and wiped
out by the Indians some seventy five
years before. But unlike Harrington
our name was not derived from the form.
ter settlement. The selection was made
by Daniel Coney as one appropriate and
pleasing in itself, and particularly com
mended to him by considerations of an
cient friendship
When General, then Captain, Henry
Dearborn passed up the valley of the
Kennebec in IT'S on the expedition tc
Quebec. he was so captivated by It's love-
illness that he returned to it when the wal
was over, purchased large tract of land
in Monmouth, and finally settled in that
part of Pittston which is now Gardiner
He had fought at Bunker Hill, Quebec,
Saratoga and Yorktown. besides being
at Ticonderoga, and had So distinguished
himself at Monmouth that our neighhor-
ing town was named, in his honor, fo1
that battle. The day after Lexington q
daughter was born to him, who received
the name of Pamela Augusta, and it is
well authenticated that the town Of Au-
gusta was named for this daughter by
Judge Cony. 1t may be remarked in
passing that she married Allen Gilman
of Hallowell, who after her early death,
removed to Bangor, being the first lawyer
who settled there and the first mayor OF
that city.
Henry Dearborn and Daniel Cony,
both of whom had commenced life as ply
sicians, were both at the capture of Bur
goyne, and that fact of itself would fur
nish a sufficient explanation of Judge
Cony's action, apart from the conceded
beauty and accomplishments of the lady.
Perhaps it should also be mentioned
that Judge Cony was intimately ac-
quainted with Governor Bowdoin's fami-
ly,. and particularly with James Bow
dom, with whom he sat in Governor
AdamS'S COunci1 Judge Sumner succeed