Note: I am forwarding the response of Christine Swager ref: her relatives' moving their homes from the Castine ME area. Any responses to Chris will have to be to her email directly, because she is not a listmember. -jr ================================================================ My cousin's ancestor was not just "over the line' but well into Maine. When the St. Croix River was suggested as the boundary (It was the site of the first French colony in 1603 but they only stayed one winter on an island in the river) Americans insisted that the river was what is now St. John River which would have given them half of present NB. The British thought the river was the Penobscot which would have given them a chunk of Maine. The Towers family settled on the north side of the Penobscot Bay at Castine which is south of Bangor. When they realized that was American territory they put their three houses on barges and moved them up the coast to St. Andrews which is just north of the place where the St. Croix empties into the Passamaquoddy Bay. You can see St. Andrews from the coastal highway in Maine. Although the houses have been altered they are still designated as the Castine houses.