Families of Machias, Maine: During the year 1764 the inhabitants sawed nearly 1,600,000 feet of lumber, an extraordinary season's work. The colony increased in 1765. The names of those coming at this time were: Elliot, Holmes, Libby, Foster, Seavey, Munson, Balch, Gretchell and Foss, all from the Scarborough; John Underwood who came from Kittery and was the first trader or storekeeper; and Jonathan Longfellow who came from Conwallis, Nova Scotia. In 1765 Morris O'Brien and his sons built a double saw mill on West Falls. The winter and spring of 1767 was one of widespread famine. Some called it "Clam Year". Jonathan Longfellow was this year appointed Justice of the Peace, the first civil officer commissioned east of the Penobscot River. The first proprietary meeting was held in September 1770. Stephen Jones was chosen clerk, Jonathan Longfellow, moderator; Benj. Foster, Samuel Scott and Sylvanus were made a committee to call future meetings; Ephraim Andrews, collector; Sylvanus Scott, treasurer. The Reverend James Lyon, a man of more than ordinary ability, of deep piety and an earnest patriot, a graduate of Princeton, came in 1771 and continued in service in both the east and west villages until his death in 1795. John Rutt, an Englishman, master of the schooner"Mary of Guilford" in 1527, penned with his own hand a map of the "Island just West of West Quoddie" and also "erected a cross thereon." These maps are available in the Historical Rooms at Paris. In 1633 the Plymouth colonists established a trading house here under Richard Vines. The French attempted to settle here in 1644; Governor Andros said that in 1688 there were three families here. Here was also a pine wilderness and untouched forests of timber, with water power of a most unlimited capacity. They made a clearing and then a double log house was built, for the Berry and Larrabee families who The "Margaretta" was the first British vessel captured by the Americans. Foster and Jeremiah O'Brien were commissioned as privateers and were very successful. In 1777 the British under Sir George Collier came to subdue the rebellious town. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail