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CHAPTER XV.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.-Town Meetings. Notifications. Places of holding them.
Town Officers. Oath of Office in 1787. Town Clerks. Selectmen. Assess-
ors. Constables. Collectors. Treasurers. Tithingmen. Fish Wardens.
CHAPTER XVI.
TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.-First Burial Place. Old Burying Ground. First
Private Burying Ground. Second Private Burying Ground. East Union
Burying Ground. Hearses. Common. Pound. Town House.
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CHAPTER XVII.
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FIRST MEETING-HOUSE. Early Efforts for a Meeting-house. Spot selected.
Location changed. Contracted for. Porch. Raising. Enclosed. Pillars.
Pulpit Window. Outside to be finished. Temporary Seats. Pews. Roof
to be painted. Sale of Pews. Names of Owners. Lock voted. Descrip-
tion of the House. Pews built in the Gallery. Repairs. Stove. Decay
and Desecration of the House. Taken down. Associations with it. Cus-
toms. Marriage Publishments. Dogs and Dog Whippers.
CHAPTER XVIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.—1779 to 1806: Going to Meeting at St. George's.
John Urquhart. Isaac Case. Nine Pounds raised for Preaching. William
Riddel called. Aaron Humphrey. Two hundred Dollars raised. Mode of
dividing the Money. Abraham Gushee called. Jabez Pond Fisher called.
Jonathan Gilmore. Henry True called and settled.
CHAPTER XIX.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, continued. — Organization of the First Congrega-
tional Church. Mr. Huse's Account of the Proceedings. Conduct of
Samuel Hills and the Rev. Messrs. Sewall, Bayley, and others. Articles
of Faith. Covenant. Signers' Names. Opposition by the Hills Party.
Hills's "Ex Parte" Council, Sept. 10, 1806. Conduct of the Hills Party
about the Ordination. Hills censured. Council, June 29, 1808. Hills's
"Ex Parte" Council, Feb. 15, 1809. Second Congregational Church or-
ganized. Mr. Huse's Letter concluded.
CHAPTER XX.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, continued. 1807 to 1819: Proceedings of the Town
to pay Mr. True. Remission of Ministerial Taxes. Signers to the Metho-
dists; to the Friends; to the Baptists. Movements to dissolve the Town's
Contract with Mr. True. Incorporation of the First Congregational Society.
Dissolution of the Town's Contract.
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, continued. 1816 to 1825: Attempts to raise Money.
Dissolution of Mr. True's Pastoral Connection with the Church and Society.
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Result of the Council.
Obstacles to a Union.
Proposals for uniting the Congregational Churches.
Union effected.
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XXII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, continued. 1825 to 1850: Preachers after the Union.
Freeman Parker. George W. Fargo. Ordination and Dismission of Oren
Sikes. Meeting-house. Ordination and Dismission of Uriah Balkam.
Samuel Bowker's Ordination.
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XXIII.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, continued.
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- METHODISTS AND BAPTISTS.-Metho-
dist Church and Society. First Methodist Preaching. Circuits and Dis-
tricts. Organization. Places of Worship. Meeting-house. Camp Meetings.
Parsonage. Preachers. Baptist Church and Society. Central Baptist Church. 217
CHAPTER XXIV.
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, concluded. UNIVERSALISTS.— First Universalist
Preaching. Organization. Maine Association. John Bovee Dods. Con-
stitution. Preachers. Meeting-house. Bell,
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POLITICAL HISTORY. - Voting. Separation of Maine from Massachusetts.
Harmony and Diversity of Sentiment. Embargo. Petition to the President
of the United States. Reply. Remonstrance. Petition to the Legislature of
Massachusetts. Celebration, July 4, 1810. Celebration in 1814. Ode and
Hymn.
CHAPTER XXVII.
POLITICAL HISTORY, concluded. - Members of Congress. Governors. Lieute-
nant-Governors. Town Representatives. Justices of the Peace. Coroners.
Post Offices and Postmasters.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FINANCIAL HISTORY.-Taxes. Early Apportionment of Taxes. Controversy
with Warren. Petition to the Legislature in 1780. Petition to the Legisla-
ture in 1783. Plantation Taxes. Taxes since the Incorporation. Taxes
paid in Produce. Exemption of Philip Robbins, jun. Table. Adams's
Petition to the Legislature in 1794. State of the Finances in 1795. Dollars
and Cents. Taking the Valuation. Payment of Taxes.
FINANCIAL HISTORY, concluded. - Reed's Case. Surplus Revenue. Paupers.
Warning out of Town. Maintenance of the Poor..
CHAPTER XXX.
HIGHWAYS.-Early Difficulties in Travelling. Moss. Paths. Spotted Trees.
Exposure of Matthias Hawes. First Roads. First Highway Districts.
Character of the Roads. Corduroy Roads. Boating and Visiting. Ox
Sleds. First Teaming to Neighboring Towns.
CHAPTER XXXI.
HIGHWAYS, concluded.— Surveyors and Commissioners. Taxes. Compensa-
tion. Time for doing the Work. Breaking Roads in Winter. Comparative
Value of Money and Labor.
CHAPTER XXXII.
BRIDGES.-Log Bridges. Lower, or True's Bridge. Middle Bridge, at Bache-
lor's Mills. South Union Bridge. Upper Bridge, at Hills' Mills. Report on
Bridges in 1805. Appropriations.
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CHAPTER XXXIII.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.- Earliest Schools and Teachers.
Schools at a later
Period. School Children in Summer. Drink. Recess. Josiah. Com-
plaints and Punishments. Girls' Work in School. Reading. Spelling.
Noontime and Dinners. Winter Schools. Severer Punishments. Intermis-
sions in Winter. Studies. Evening Schools.
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY, concluded. -School Districts. School Houses. School
Committees. School Agents. School Children. School Money. High
Schools. Lyceum. Libraries.
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CHAPTER XXXV.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY.-College Graduates. Lawyers. Physicians. Indian
Doctor. Urine Doctor. Singing Masters and Singing Schools. Brass Band. 318
CHAPTER XXXVI.
MILITARY HISTORY.-Revolutionary Soldiers. Loyalist. Incidents in the
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Infantry Officers. Light Infantry. Its Or-
ganization and Dress. Its Officers. Rifle Company. Its Organization and
Dress. Rifles. Its Officers. Disbandment.
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MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - War of 1812 Pay voted by the Town.
Drafts. Alarm. Companies ordered out. Parade on Sunday. March to
Camden. Peace. Soldiers from Union in the Army. Texan War. Mexi-
can War.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. Difficulty with the Waldonian Officers.
The
Dinner. Waldonian Influence in the Field. Election of Lieut.-Col.
Bachelder. Precedence of Rank on the Field. Remoteness of Musters.
Pecuniary Considerations. Indignation at a Military Election. Acts of the
Legislature. Excitement.
CHAPTER XL.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. -Violent Rain-storm. The Companies at
Waldoborough Meeting-house. Uncomfortable Feelings. Burial of the
Colonel under Arms. Uneasiness. Anecdotes. Line formed. Irregular
March to the Muster-field. Rogue's March. Unsuccessful Attempt to
stop the Music. Orders misunderstood. Confusion. Desertion. Hur-
rah.
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MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Col. Avery Rawson. Charges against him
stopped. Charges against Officers in Union. Trial of Lieut.-Col. John
Bachelder. Trial of Capt. Lewis Bachelder.
CHAPTER XLII.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Trial of Capt. John P. Robbins. Objections
and Protest. Charges and Specifications. Result.
CHAPTER XLIII.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Evasion of the Laws. John Chapman Rob-
bins becomes Clerk. Loss of the Company Roll. Muster near Trow-
bridge's, in Warren. Lieut. Ebenezer Cobb. "A good time." Horsemen
ride about the Muster-field. Robbins gives Orders. Unsuccessful Attempts
to arrest him. Notes for Fines burnt as Wadding.
CHAPTER XLIV.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Orders to elect Officers. Movements to Re-
elect Capts. Bachelder and Robbins. Nathan Bachelder chosen Captain.
Pardon Robbins and the Cabbage. Re-election of Capt. Noah Rice. He is
cashiered. Voluntary Trainings and Muster. Aroostook War. Rifle Com-
pany disbanded. Philo Thurston. Ebenezer Ward Adams chosen Captain.
His Trial and Imprisonment.
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CHAPTER XLV.
MILITARY HISTORY, continued. - Two Companies of Infantry. Election of
Officers at Amos Walker's. March to the Common.
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CHAPTER XLVI.
MILITARY HISTORY, concluded.
Qualifying Remarks. Extension of the Un-
military Spirit. Change of Public Sentiment. Military Musters. .
CHAPTER XLVII.
382
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY. - Early Hunting and Hunters. Boggs.
Anderson.
Davis and the Tortoise. Dické. The dogs Tuner and Lion. Laws about
Deer and Moose and Deer-reeves. Deers. Moose. Their Haunts. Time
and Manner of hunting them. Their Yards. Transportation of Moose Beef.
Dressing and cooking it. Moose in Summer. One killed in Seven-tree Pond. 386
CHAPTER XLVIII.
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY, continued. - Bears. Bear Traps. Setting Guns. Bears
caught by David Robbins and Jessa Robbins. Baited and killed by Ezekiel
Hagar. Love Rum. Taken to Boston and shot. Encounters on Seven-
tree Pond; on Hart's Hill; on Hills Point; on Simmons's Hill; on the
Robbins Neck. Adam Martin. Jason Ware and his Dog Sambo. Fate of
Sambo. Mrs. Hart and the Bear Trap.
CHAPTER XLIX.
ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY, continued.- Wolves. Wolf-hunt. Cat-vaughan. Foxes.
Personal Experience. Fox seized by Asa Messer. Beavers. Raccoons.
Musquash. Minks, Sables, and Loup-cervier. Weasel.
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ZOOLOGICAL HISTORY, concluded. - Fish Laws. Salmon.
Alewives. Fish-
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hawks and Eagles. Eels. Smelts. Trout and Pickerel. Other Fish.
CHAPTER LII.
CONCLUSION.- Design. Sources of Information. Changes since the Settle-
ment. Possibilities and Responsibilities.
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