Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-28

readily be recognized as BomaZine Is
land especially if the trip was made al
low water and also the appropriateness
of calling this body of water New
| Meadows creek or river.
TO call the body of water between
Sebascodegan Island and West Bath
and Phippsburg a creek or river is a
little inaccurate to say the least.
| in further support of this position
there is to be had map of this locality
| on which the water above Foster s
Point is marked New Meadows river.
This map is one published more than
{. hundred years ago and 1 do not know
| where there is but one copy and L can
| not get that unless | take the owner
with me.
| The most plain and satisfactory in
depreciation for me of the language of
the act describing the bounds of the
counties is as follows: Two new
counties are formed from York county;
| the eastern bounds of the county of
| York are described and determined;
| then the eastern bounds of the county
| of Cumberland are described and de-
| termined having bounded Cumberland
on the west by the eastern bounds of
the county of York; Cumberland's
| eastern bound is fixed at Small Point
the eastern point of Casco bay; then
the bounds of the county of Lincoln are
given bounding it westerly by the east
ern bounds of the county of Cumber-
land and the act then says, Including
all the islands to the eastward of the
tvv IF Nd Of at1 .
therefore 1 maintain from this reason
ing alone no island west of Small
Point can be in Lincoln county.
Having decided that no island west
of Small Point is in Lincoln county,
where shall we place them?
l send herewith a map to which ref
erence will have to be had in order to
follow the matter easily.
North Yarmouth was settled in 1880,
settlement was broken up by the In
dams in 1858, renewed again in 1921.
Georgetown was incorporated in
1716 and these two towns joined each
other.
The line separating these two towns
was unusual in that it took a certain
course and had it's southeastern ter
minus in the Atlantic ocean. 1t cut
the southern end of this town in the
neighborhood of Atkins bay so 1 have
been told. At any rate a part of Small
Point was in North Yarmouth for some
where around 1740 the people living on
Small Point petitioned the Massachu-
sets Legislature to be annexed to
Georgetown which petition was grant
ed
l have written the Secretary of State
of Massachusetts for a copy of this
document but have not yet obtained it.
While l have no definite knowledge
of the North Yarmouth line | found
after l had pasted the map together
that to take a straight edge and place
it on the north eastern boundary of the
| town of Pownal it cut this town about
where l had been told it did.
Searching for authority to do this
found that Pownal was set off from
Freeport, and that F'reeport was set off
from North Yarmouth. Again l noticed
that in the extract from the bounds of
| Brunswick reference was made to the
point where North Yarmouth line was
| touched, viz, at Bungamunganock, and
| you will see that the line, as I have
| drawn it in red ink, comes very near
| what is called Bunganuc Landing, on
the map. Assuming that this is cor
rect the island of Malaga would come
in the corporate limits of North Var
mouth. and as / understand that the
petition above referred to only re-
lated to the people living on the main
| land. no island in Casco bay ever was
in Lincoln county.
OF course no claim can be made that
| thn-r, ;.In - II al
Harpswell was set off from North Var
mouth and is composed of a certain
number of specified islands any way,
and these are not included.
1t might be well to notice the name
New Meadows a moment. AS under
stand it, this name came from strip
of land in the town of Brunswick
somewhere above Gurnet Bridge, which
went by this name. There is consider
able confusion as to what was the
New Meadows river in all records OF
the nineteenth century, and I send
herewith a copy of the line between
this town and Bath which well Illus
trates it when it terminates the line as
follows: con the west bank of cove
of Casco Bay or New Meadows river;
thence south east to the middle of the
channel of said cove; thence by the
middle of the channel as above defined
to New Meadows river or Stephens
river
An extract from the original boundary
of Brunswick is here given:
Beginning at the mouth of brook oil
rivulet called Bungamunganock rum ms
into Maquoit bay, where 1t touches
North Yarmouth line and from the mouth
of said brook to run upon a course north
northwest half westerly five miles into
the wilderness. leaving a wedge or strii
of land between said line and Nortf
Yarmouth; from thence upon course
northeast four miles to the second fall:
of Amascoggin alias Androscoggin river
from thence down said river by For
George and down Merrymeeting bay 81
: far as Stevens Carrying Place, including
several small islets lying in said rive
above said Carrying Place. to the head o
| the creek or river that runs up the othe
side of said Carrying Place; thence dow
said creek or river to the mouth there
OF Including an island therein.
- The report of the commissioners on tn