ISBN: 9781231027844

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLOCK AND GARRISON HOUSES OF ANCIENT FALMOUTH. BY LEONARD B. CHAPMAN. Bead before the Maine Historical Society, May 3,1894. Ancient Falmouth included within her territorial bounds the present towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, and the cities of Portland, Deering and Westbrook. At the time of adoption Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLOCK AND GARRISON HOUSES OF ANCIENT FALMOUTH. BY LEONARD B. CHAPMAN. Bead before the Maine Historical Society, May 3,1894. Ancient Falmouth included within her territorial bounds the present towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, and the cities of Portland, Deering and Westbrook. At the time of adoption of a municipal government in 1718, a heavy growth of wood covered the entire region, excepting the parts covered by water, and the few small places where clearings had been made by prior attempts at settlement. Indented by tide water, crossed by Presumpscot River, its tributaries, and Stroudwater River, it was, unquestionably, a region abounding in game and fish, to all of which the Indian was strongly attached, as the many evidences of his reluctance to vacate plainly show. Protection against molestation from the native savage was naturally one of the first considerations of the European settler upon the primeval soil; but to-day is so remote and the records made at time of occurrences so few and difficult to find, all that transpired during early occupancy can never be known. August 17, 1727, Col. Thomas Westbrook of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was admitted a citizen of the town. The autumn of the same year Gen. Samuel Waldo of Boston, Massachusetts, purchased part of the fresh-water mill privilege located on the westerly sideof Fore River, and in connection with Col. Westbrook commenced the erection of sawmills, since which time the locality has been known by the name of Stroud- water. Then not a single habitation was there of which a record can be found. A settlement had been commenced about fifty years before, and a mill was built; but at the time of the advent of Waldo and Westbrook the whole region was a forest, with the exceptions here named, through which the b. Books, History~~General, Collections-Of-The-Maine-Historical-Society~~Maine-Historical-Society, 999999999, Collections of the Maine Historical Society [1st Ser, Maine Historical Society, 1231027843, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781231027844

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLO… More...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLOCK AND GARRISON HOUSES OF ANCIENT FALMOUTH. BY LEONARD B. CHAPMAN. Bead before the Maine Historical Society, May 3,1894. Ancient Falmouth included within her territorial bounds the present towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, and the cities of Portland, Deering and Westbrook. At the time of adoption of a municipal government in 1718, a heavy growth of wood covered the entire region, excepting the parts covered by water, and the few small places where clearings had been made by prior attempts at settlement. Indented by tide water, crossed by Presumpscot River, its tributaries, and Stroudwater River, it was, unquestionably, a region abounding in game and fish, to all of which the Indian was strongly attached, as the many evidences of his reluctance to vacate plainly show. Protection against molestation from the native savage was naturally one of the first considerations of the European settler upon the primeval soil; but to-day is so remote and the records made at time of occurrences so few and difficult to find, all that transpired during early occupancy can never be known. August 17, 1727, Col. Thomas Westbrook of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was admitted a citizen of the town. The autumn of the same year Gen. Samuel Waldo of Boston, Massachusetts, purchased part of the fresh-water mill privilege located on the westerly sideof Fore River, and in connection with Col. Westbrook commenced the erection of sawmills, since which time the locality has been known by the name of Stroud- water. Then not a single habitation was there of which a record can be found. A settlement had been commenced about fifty years before, and a mill was built; but at the time of the advent of Waldo and Westbrook the whole region was a forest, with the exceptions here named, through which the b. Books History~~General Collections-Of-The-Maine-Historical-Society~~Maine-Historical-Society General Books LLC<