Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1905-11-01
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supHItfik Hti0 hs Afpt We itAIu
that it was ''voted that Joseph Wood,
Jonathan Darling and Robert Parker be a
Committee to lay out Roads where they
should think proper to convean the Town
on this side of the Salt Pond"
The year previous the town voted ''For
10 clear Rhode from here TO Pronobscutti'
and chose a committee consisting OF Sam
uel Foster, Israel Wood, Robert Parker,
Joseph Wood and John Roundy to attend
10 laying ont said "Rhode''.
At the annual town meeting held ''Mon-
day, April 7, 1874, voted that the follow
ing Roads be recorded. VIII
II. The Road ON the Neck.
~ The Road leading to the Tide Mills
from the Main Road that leads 20 Mr.
Cartoons.
80. The Road from the Head of Blue
Hin Bay to Noice's Brook by Mr.. Joseph
Parker's.
81. The Road leading from Beech Hill
by the Meeting house to the Head of Blue
Hill Bay.
rs. The Road leading to the old Penob-
scot Road near Mr.. Robert Woods from
the Head of Blue Hill Bay by Capt.
Joshua Horizons"
The foregoing extracts from the records
fix the fact OF the location OF the first
roads laid out and built in the town.
For the purposes OF this paper our In
yestigation and statements will neces-
ssrily chiefly be confined to the consider
alton of the places and residents along
the roads designated above as the ''road
leading TO the Tide Mills" and "the Main
Road that leads to Mr.. Carleton's" in one
direction and to the Head OF the Bay in
the opposite direction.
1t appears by the records that there were
four person who settled in the south part
Of the town by the name of Carleton, whose
given names were Edward, Dudley, Moses
and David, all from Andovcr, Mass, and
evidently brothers. They built the mills
tirst known as Cartoons mills, mentioned
in the town records in ITO for the first
time when Dudley Carleton was elected a
selectman, in III was reelected and in
lTT2 was chosen one of a committee to
keep the fish course clear at Cartoons
mills.
April 3, iTT5, ''Voted that the fnhabi-
tanis OF the Town meet at the house OF Mr..
David Carleton the End Monday in May to
see Something abought making the hour
Something better, at s O'Clock in the
morning. Meeting Adjourned to house and
time aforesaid" Then follows this en-
try: 1.-THE Disturbance Between Britain
and America Prevented the meeting Ac-
cording to Adjournment" s.This Disturb
snce" probably was news OF the battle of
Lexington.
March Is, i776, David Carleton was
chosen one Of the committee OF CORE
spondence and in l77s surveyor OF lum-
Der.
March I, 1855, Moses Carleton was one of
committee OF three ''to hire Preacher
and Collect the Money to pay him."
Edward Carleton was chosen a surveyor
of lumber in 1859, and in 1872 and 1873 one
OF a committee to keep the fish course
clear. The fish course was at Carleton's
mills, to provide a passage for alewiyes to
.thepond above, where they went TO spawn.
At those mills also frost fish came to
spawn about the time OF Christmas, and
were taken in great numbers. Fish were
a valuable article of food for the settlers
of the town, and care was taken that the
.alewiyes should not be INSTRUCTED in their
yearly visits to the fresh water ponds
where they deposited their eggs and
Matched their young.
The writer well remembers the fish
course spoken OF, and that on certain days
when ''the fish were running" they could
be taken under regulations made by the
town, while ON other days the people took
fish unlawfufiy and subject to a fine.
In 1875, Edward Carleton was chosen
with others to superintend and inspect
the fish course, fix the place for catching
fish from Monday at sunrise until Wed
nesday at sunset. He was also allowed by
vote OF the town "three pence per light
for $50 lights OF sashes delivered for the
Meeting house" and chosen to present the
proposals to the church, by the town, for
tito offer through a committee to Jonathan
Fisher regarding his settlement, and that
Mr.. Carleton be desired to request the
church by a committee to wait upon
Jonathan Fisher, with the towns proposal
for an exchange OF the minister's lot and
Mr.. Carleton's lot, If he settles in the
town.
In 1877, "voted that Major David
Carleton have the consent OF this town to
bid upon the Pews as he shall please"
This was for the sale OF the psws of the
new meeting house, and would indicate
that Major Carleton had moved to Sedg-
wick and without the vote as above would
not have had the right to bid for the pews
when they came up for sale.
From the church records it is learned
that David Carleton and Mary, his wife,
owned the covenant and had baptised