Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1900-11-07
TRENTON HISTORY.
Eariy Grants TO CondIlIse and De
Gregoire.
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IN 1855 TIE ruisr Of France gave TO one
CcadAisc OF Cz1sllse. q noted French
general DO hsd dlstingais bed himself IN
warfare bosh rs Frsaee ard in this c5gn-
try. 8 trseg Of land Ga ths main, together
with TIE assssd e NJ Il=~erf- He took
nominal u.ossss.son soon after. not know
ing. p-obs bly,, wSers it was situsied- Dor
csr5ag Tor ;es ysIue. tie dlec IA France
in i7s3
Bat iiltl. = Known aboa; tbs graft
until l7s2. " sen TIE general ocari GRANTEES
Re islSrc Of Ms. Desert to 81 English
governor. bat tie gran; did not include
suy Of tbs nan lad. Daring The Rsyo-
icf soa THIS Essn Became 80 obnoxious to
The cosouists that bss posss ss4oas ssre
.orte ted.
In l7s6. Madame Maria Theresa De Gre
gore arrived IN this country from France,
and Rih her husband appeared before
tie general court IN Boston. peilt3oning
for confirmation Of Ger rights to ihss
land A. TIE granddaughter u Coadilise.
and bis legal betr. Ibe general court
granted bsr plea, JGiy 6. i7s5, exsmpttng,
however. the land occupied by actual set
tiers. This was something unGsus at
the time, ss but few French claims were
recognized, they having long since lost
most Of their possessions in North Amer
ica. But France bad been g good friend
to us in the Revolution, and the granting
of this favor was core partly, no doubt,
a. matter OF courtesy TO our friends and
allies.
Madame De Gregoire and her husband
and several children were Bstursiix~d by
q special act about the me time, and
thus as citizens, their title to THE tract
Of land, EN- bEsciDg sky thousand acres
or more east OF the Penobseot river, wss
secure and legal. Soon after this they
went to the Island VI Mt. Deeert and set
tied in " bat was aiterwsro incorporated
ss the town Of Eden. The land wss
offered to settlers Tor = an acre, but the
writer has been upshle 10 fud any con-
veyance directly from Madame De
Gregoire to an sciua! buyer. and il Is
very dog ot:Gi IL they received much from
their possessions, as II IS said they died
Madame about three years sitter. Both
are buried near Hull's Cove. In Eden.
The first settlement INSIDE al Fountain
lsVsIe, now Lamoine. by the French,
Ha- probably uades grant given before
the Revolution, and Vas in 10 way con-
hected with this. The second French
settlement; fsmoue item q De~Islcs and
DeLaitirel WAS no doubt subject to the
grant made TO Madame DeGtegoIre.
How long tL!s title remained IA her
Possession, the writer is uus bic TO say,
out Ia l7si the town OF Trenton voted 10
make a demand o. Madame Deer gotre for
land for schoolhouse, also land Tor the
first settled minister, Of 800 acres. and al!
the town priviieges-w hatever bat might
be is no. clear. This certainly establishes
her ownership at thst dale to lands in
Trenton.
As to how the title granted 10 Madame
DeGregoire was finally settled, history Is
silent. Trenton was formerly known SIS
No. !, OF the six second-cla=s townships
granted by Massachusetts in I7e2 or 1864.
In June, l1s5, 1t was confirmed TO Paul
Thorndike and Others. There Is an &C.
count OF a settlement in 1863, but with he
exception OF the first French settlement
before referred to, it is doub IL there
were many settlers prio. to the Revolu-
ton.
The town was incorporated Feb. Is,
1879, and then embraced quite a large ter
ritory-the whole of the present towns OF
Trenton and Lamoine, part OF Hancock
then called Kilkenny and a piece OF
Ellsworth, with two or more townships.
1t was then in Lincoln county.