===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: MEPENOBS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Cynthia" <Bunnydust@comcast.net> Subject: Sagadahoc Settlements: ..........Kennebec and "eatern parts"........part 18 (last posting for Sagadahoc settlements) This continues the : GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE; Noyes, Libby, and Davis, Portland,Me 1929-39 If you have missed any postings, check the archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Ma-Bay-Colony -- Previous postings: "Maine Beginnings" ....2 postings "Topography of Maine".....2 postings "Province of Maine"......5 postings(1-5) "Province of New Hamsphire"...5 postings (6-11 ) "Merchants accounts".....3 postings (12-13-14) " Sagadahoc Settlements"...3 posting , 15-16-17 (Monhegan , Muscongus,Pemaquid, Sheepscot, Kennebec) ---------- (my notes) [author's notes] - ARROWSIC UNDER JAMES II --Suffolk Court Files 2428. An unsigned copy, complete, with a gragment of the original [stray papers], of the grant by John Palmer, of the Council of New York,etc., of 900 acres on the southerly end of Arrowsic Island to: --Lawrence Dennis......John Tillman....John Buttery --James Widger....Samuel Bowles....John Moulton --John Ryford....Thomas Ashley....John Spencer ( Suffolk Court Files are in the Massachusetts Archives. Do check with Maine Archives,they may have copies) -- GRANTS ON THE ARROWSIC by Gov. Andros, Sept.6,1679 ; Documentary History of Maine, iv,386, from a copy in the Massachusetts Archives.,iii.36 - A letter to Thomas Lake of London from Mrs. Mehitalbe Warren and Elisha Hutchinson, dated at Boston, 20 June 1687, states that Sir Edmond Andros soon after the war gave the permission to about 20 families to settle on the lower end of Arrowsic Island but without ownership and that certain of these had now been given patents at Nequasset (Woolwich) by Gov. Dongan of New York: [Suffolk Court Files 139154] --Will. Slack.....100 acres --William Stevens....100 acres --James Denis....200 acres --Arthur Neal....100 acres --John Rely.....100 acres. ------ LIST OF MILITIA ON THE KENNEBEC RIVER: under Capt. John Rowden, May 1688-- [Mass.Archives, 128: 196] As printed in Documentary History of Maine, vi, 362: --- the following are authors corrections Add to list: Senior to Lawrence Dennis Alter on list: John Tollman to John Tellman alter on list: James Willliams to James Millians alter on list: Richard J. to Richard Lang alter on list: Thomas Felman to Thomas Helman following Matthew Salter, Larence Bickford following James Dennis, Will Denis ----------- SAGADAHOCK GUIDES WANTED IN 1689: --John Paine.....Wm Denis....John Hornebroke....John Parker [ Documentary History of Maine, iv. 465] -------------------- ACCOUNTS OF THE "EASTERN PARTS" and of several SETTLEMENTS that have ever been made of the lands formerly purchased by Mr. Wharton and now bought by Eight of US..... [ Prejepscot Mss] --The narrow carrying place that parts Casco Bay from Merrymeeting Bay, settled by Stevens, who has a son now in New Haven [Conn?] married to Parker's daughter. - SETTLEMENTS ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF SMALL POINT NECK: [this gives the names of settlers] -William Rogers -Thomas Watkins -___Lawson settled on land owned by Ephriam Savage -Mr Gooch, minister -John Filman -Capt Reynolds -John Layton [Leighton?] -Mary Webber, her son goes with Capt.Brackett -William Baker -Sylvanus Davis (now supposed Nelson?) -John Parker -Thomas Humphreys -Ichabod Wiswall -John Verin -Samuel Newcomb _William Cock and John Cock -Robert Edmunds [later claimed by Sir Charles Hobby] -James Mudge -Thomas Atkins [is said to have bought the whole neck down to Small Point; some of heirs living in Dorchester and Roxbury(Mass.) ] -Ambrose Hunniwell [worked for Capt Belcher] - ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE NECK ---only Drake who settled at Small point harbour--lived there only little while - ON MERRICONEGE NECK: only 2 settlements --Richard Potts --John Damarel - MAIR POINT---only one settler: John Phippany - MAQUOIT--- Robert Haines - SETTLEMENTS BETWEEN PEJEPSCOT AND SWAN ISLAND ON NORTH SIDE OF MERRYMEETING BAY: --Samuel York; also lived at Squam (NH?), Cape Ann(Mass.), --James Thomas...[it's said his family is supposed to be wholly extinct] --Williams.....[had no children] --James Giles [near Muddy River] --Thomas Giles [ 1 of Giles of Winnisemet Ferry and the other Giles lived at Salisbury(Mass.) ] --Thomas Watkisn at Shildrake Point --Alexander Browne on east side of mouth of Cathance River --Dependence Collicut at Point of Abegedasset River --One settlement at Swan Island by Collicut, Alexander Browne, and Humphrey Davies by turns. -------------------------- End of Sagadahoc Settlements Cynthia List administrator for: Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Ma-Bay-Colony (threaded archive) http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=<a-Bay-Colony (individual search) ========================================