The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-01-28
crowds that ever witnessed game of base ball

Wassawaukeags IT, Following were the bat
ting order of the teams, Penobscots, Charles
Sullivan, c., w. R. McGilvery, p, F. J. Biather
first base, Walter Staples, End base, Thomas
Kane, 3rd base, John Kane, s. s., P P Nichols,
r. f., Michael Ward, C. f., J. H. Sullivan, l. f.
Wassawaukeags, John Harris, c., Eustice CHM,
p, Hubert P. Berry, LIST base, C. S. Roberts,
End base, Ferdinand Partridge, Bird base
Charles S. Hichborn, S. S., Frank Colcord, r f.,
Melvin Partridge, c. f., Albert C.Colcord, l. f.,
The following members of the above teams
has since passed away: John Harris, William
R. McGilvery, Hubert P. Berry, Charles S.
Roberts, Albert C. Colcord.
In the first census Of the United States
taken in $780, Frankfort Plantation, which
then comprised the towns of Hampden, Win
terport Frankfort, Prospect. Stockton Springs
and Searsport the western boundary being
Halfway Creek Stream which flows from
Kane's Pond through Searsport village to Pc
nobscot bay, there were 1863 families with
total population of s91 persons. Here
few of the first settlers: Roger Merithew, John
Ames, John Sweetser, James Colson, Hateevil
Colson, John Bolan, William Sullivan, Ma
thaniel Clark, Ephraim Grant, James Clark,
Enoch Kingsbury, Oliver Parker, Joshua Treat,
Jr., Isaac Hopkins, Nathan Hopkins, Grant
Woodman, Andrew Tyler soloman Tibbetts,
John Sweetser, Joseph Boyd David Partridge,
Daniel Goodell, Clark Partridge, Benjamin
Shute, Nathaniel Cousins, Daniel Lancaster,
John Odom John Odom, Jr., John Sweetser,
Jr., Henry Black, Zethan French, John Pierce,
Samuel Showers, Isaac Clewley Nathaniel Cliff
ford, Jacob Clifford, William Hichborn, Joseph
Martini John Clifford, Miles Staples, Lang
worthy Lamphor, Samuel Nathan and William
Griffin, lothian Staples, William Pendleton,
Peleg Pendleton, Joseph Crazy, James Nick
oils, James Nickolls Jr., Henry Lord, Robert
Porter, Ephriam Simpson, Ichabod Colson,
Henry Black, Jr., Richard Hoyt, Archibald
Harding, Steven Littlefeld, Reuben Nickerson,
VIM. Kimball, Aaron Nickerson and Derrick FL
lis. On the westerly side of Halfway Creek in the
town of Belfast appear the names of Richard
Simpson, John Mudgett, John Gilmore, jerome
Stephenson, James Gilmore, Henry True, Sam
ue Houston, Jr., Robert Houston Robert
Steel, John Dolloff, John Durham, Jacob Ames,
Benjamin Nesmith, John Alexander and others.
Henry True lived on the farm now occupied by
Rev. R. G. Harbutt Winthrop Smith moved
across Halfway Creek into Frankfort and
built two story house opposite the Searsport
National bank on Main street in 1898 and died
there in 1904. The house was taken down in
1870. After the death of Winthrop Smith the
property came into the possession of Nahum
Mosman, the first physician of Prospect, who
died in 1924.
| From more definite news from Alaska con-
corning the death by drowning of Capt Cyrus
G. Nichols, it appears that Capt Nichols, in
company with Capt. Thompson and a Mr..
Powers, left Ketchikan, Alaska, on the 23d of
November in a schooner-rigged gasolene
launch to visit copper mining claim farther
north, in which the three were concerned.
Upon entering Clarence Strait they encounter
ed strong cross current which created a
choppy sea. Capt Nichols and Mr.. Powers
were sitting in the stern and Capt. Nichols had
been reading a letter After finishing the
| letter he put it in the pocket of an inside
coat and rose to his feet to button his over
coat. At this moment the boat was struck by
a sea and giving quick lurch Capt. Nichols
was thrown backwards overheard. Capt.
Thompson was asleep below at the time, and
before Mr.. Powers could put the boat about
and work back, Capt Nichols had gone down.
From the fact that he was a very strong
swimmer and would ordinarily have kept up
for long time though encountered by
winter clothing, it is presumed he must have
been struck and disabled by the propeller.
Capt. Nichols the of the late Capt.
Peleg B. and Hannah 7. (Curtis) Nichols, and
was born August 3D. 1871, board the ship
Moonlight, at Iquique, Peru He followed the
sea from boyhood and was probably the young
est man to bring ship home from China
having taken charge, when barely out of his
teens of ship R. R. Thomas owing to his father
Capt. P. B. Nichols, then in command of the
ship, being taken violently ill three days out
of Hong Kong. They put into Mauritius
for medical aid, which, however, was unavail-
ling, his father dying August 81, 1893 He
was buried at Mauritius and the young captain
sailed for home in company with the British
steel ship Jason. Shortly after leaving Maur-
titus the ships parted company and saw nothing
of each other until about days sail from their
destined port, when they sighted each other in
heavy gale which the Thomas came through
safely and arrived safely while the Jason was
lost with all hands but one apprentice named
Evans near Pamet River Life-saving station
near Cape Cod After making one or two voy-
ages master of the R. r. Thomas, Capt
Nichols, believing that the day of the sailing
ship was about over left the sailing ship for
the steamer. He made several voyages as
mate of the steamer Evelyn and then joined
U. S. S. Ajax as first officer. He was attached
to that ship some three or four years, after
which he went to the Pacific coast and there
was in command of steamers Edith and Ella
Rolfe. During the past year he had ploted
steamers in Alaskan waters during the sum-
mer but had engaged in numbering operation
at Ketchikan and was also interested in some
copper mining claims farther north, and it was
on an intended visit to one of these claims that
he lost his life. He leaves two sisters, Mrs
Samuel Robinson and Miss Mary H. Nichols of
Vancouver, B. c. and two brothers, Clifford P
Nichols of Dixfeld and Albert G. Nichols of
New York. Capt. Nichols one of the most
popular young mariners sailing out of Sears
port. He was of fine physique, weighing over
two hundred pounds and in his boyhood days