Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-05-20

sembled, and by the authority of the same Tha,
that part Of the town of Surry in the County OF
Hancock, which lies northerly of a line begin.
| ming at stake on the western side of Union
| River, near its mouth, where the line between
| lot number twenty, now improved by John
| Jordan, and lot number twenty one, now i'm
| proved by Benjamin Lord touches said river
| thence running, on the line between said lots,
north seyenty-two degrees west one mile &
twenty two rods to a marked tree; thence north
| nifty degrees west to the westerly line of said
| Surry and that part of Trenton in said county,
| Included rs follows, VIZ. beginning at the
southeast corner of the Town of Ellsworth, in
said county; thence running south twenty five
degrees west, three miles one hundred and ten
| rods thence south eighty one degrees west to
Union River Bay; thence northerly by said Bay
and Union River to the southern Boundary line
of said Ellsworth ~ thence east ON said line
two miles 10 the place Of beginning-bc. and
they are hereby set OF from the towns of surry
aud Trenton and annexed to the said Town of
Ellsworth. And the Inhabitants OF the said
parts thus annexed to said Town of Ellsworth
shall hereafter be considered inhabitants of
said Town and shall there exercise and enjoy
all civil rights and privileges and be subject to
all civil duties and acquisitions in like manner
a the other inhabitants of said Town Pro
vidcd, however, that the said inhabitants of the
part thu annexed 10 the Town of Ellsworth
shall be respectively holden to pay their due
proportions of all monies granted prior To the
passing Of this act by either of the Towns to
which they heretofore respectively belonged ,
the same being legally assessed"
In 1872 large number OF the inhabi-
tants petitioned the general court to re-
store the town OF Ellsworth to its an
Gent boundaries. This availed nothing.
In 1921 all that part of the original
township OF Surry lying west of Union
river in Ellsworth, was set back on to
Surry through the influence of Leonard
Jarvis. This was against the wishes OF
every inha bitant residing on he territory
the most OF whom dated their letters
Ellsworth as before. The Ellsworth
post office was in Surry and the Surrv
post office six miles away. In 1929 the
Surry territory was re-annexed to Els
worth through the influence of John
Black. In 1922 there We're in the Ellis
worth part siXty-seven log and frame
houses, five stores, one law office, one
meeting house and one hundred and five
voters. In the Surry part of Ellsworth
there We're tifty-one houses, one tavern,
one office, two small meeting houses and
seventy-one voters. or all these one
hundred and seventy-six voters in 1922,
only sixteen We're alive in 1872.
THE ORIGINAL TOWN LINE.
No plan has been found which shows
just here the line between Trenton and
Ellsworth was. 1t was run out in 1868
by jones aud Erie, aud was as the sCirant
East and West Line 1t was the north
line of Trenton, Sullivan, Steuben and
Harrington running more than forty
miles due east, and the northerly part
of Trenton set off to Ellsworth March
3, 1909.
john Peters run out the Ellsworth
township in 1856. In one report he SAYS
he began at the northwest corner of Tren-
ton and run east on the north line of
Trenton to a pine tree the southeas
corner of Ellsworth and the southwest
corner of No. VIII tthe township east
of EllsWorth).
In another report he says he "hegan
on the east side of Union river nj
spruce stub two rods from the water on Il
point about ninety rods from Cabovc} thc
Widow Bates store (Which WAS on solo
mon Jordau's lott and run on the old line
due east one hundred rods 1t came ON
to rain and he went out to Mr.. Isaac
Lords. Next day he began where he
left off the day before and run one mile
to spruce tree; then one mile more to
line which stood about six rods to the
east OF Beal's brook COR Cards BROOKE
where he made southwest corner bounds
of No. VIII and the southeast corner
bounds of no. VII (now Ellswort h.. This
line was probably on the Levi Foster lot
The town of Trenton, August 26, 1903,