almost irreparable loss to Massachusetts, which might possibly have been avoided.

At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Dec. 11, an elaborate address on Dr. Dexter and the Pilgrims was made by the president, Rev. George E. Ellis, D.D., Unitarian. His traits were summed up by Dr. Ellis as follows:

"Dr. Dexter may fairly be regarded as the most thoroughly erudite and scholarly, able and accomplished-if not indeed, the very last man among us-of the original Pilgrim stock, of strong intellect, high culture and full attainment in deep and accurate historical lore, to represent in this generation the unreduced, unmixed faith, principles and religious polity of the fathers of Massachusetts. That unswerving loyalty he claimed for himself with equal fidelity and constancy. His fond and persistent lifework was to present the original Puritanism to his generation by tracing its rise and course, by interpreting and expounding it, and by stoutly standing for it. I do not recall ever having heard from his lips or read from his pen a single word of grudged allowance or apology for the stern beliefs or the doings of our Puritan forefathers. Some of us, however, might have needed his own verbal assurance of such a loyal kinship which had evidently passed under a mellow influence. His charming urbanity and courtesy, his geniality and tolerance of spirit, and the exuberant flow of his humor would never have suggested to us the grandness and austerity of his progenitors. But his record and his life-work fully sustain the heredity which he claimed lived in him."

MAJOR LEMUEL PRESCOTT, OF EASTPORT AND
LUBEC.

Lemuel Prescott was son of John Jr., and Sarah (Davenport) Prescott, of Dorchester, Mass., born there March 23, 1750. When the Revolutionary War came on, he enlisted and was a a Captain in Col, Whitcomb's Regiment at the seige of Boston, and later Major in Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment, of which David Cobb, afterward of Gouldsborough, was Lieutenant-Colonel. He was at Moose Island, in 1784, where he was found "trading in fish and lumber" with Col. John Crane, by General Rufus

152 The First Contract to carry the Mail East of Penobscot.

Putman and Capt. Park Holland. He was extensively engaged in lumbering. In 1798, he was chosen the first town treasurer of Eastport, and held many other town offices. He was appointed collector of Machias, in 1807; probably moved there. In 1808, he returned to Eastport and superintended the erection of Fort Sullivan and its necessary buildings. In 1811, he was appointed Collector of Passamaquoddy. In 1812, he was appointed a Colonel of the ninth United States Infantry which he declined to accept. After the close of the war he removed to Lubec. In 1824, he was a Presidential Elector. He died Aug. 1826. His funeral services were held at the meeting house and his remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of people under the escort of the Eastport Light Infantry, and the Eastport Artillery Company, meanwhile minute gun were fired at Fort Sullivan. Major Prescott was held in regard, as a man of upright and honorable character. He contributed liberally or his means for public objects.

THE FIRST CONTRACT TO CARRY THE MAIL EAST OF PENOBSCOT RIVER, 1795.

Hosea B. Wardwell, Esquire, of Penobscot, has kindly sent this Magazine the original Contract entered into between John Grindle of Sedgwick, and Joseph Habershams, Post Master General. Dated, Oct. 1, 1795.

The Contract provides that Grindle shall carry the mail of the United States from Passamaquoddy by Machias, Gouldsborough, Sullivan, Trenton and Blue Hill to Penobscot; and from Penobscot by the same route to Passamaquoddy once in two weeks at the rate $84.50 for every quarter of a year.

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Leave Passamaquoddy every other Saturday at eight o'clock, A.M. and arrive at Penobscot the next Friday at six o'clock P. M. Returning, leave Penobscot every other Saturday by ten o'clock forenoon and arrive at Passamaquoddy the next Friday by five o'clock.

The Schedule was subject to alteration by the Post Master General, and for any extra expense Grindle incurred by any change he was to have adequate compensation. He was to forfeit one dollar for each hour he was behind time. If he lost a whole trip he was to forfeit five dollars.

When the mail went by Stage wagon it was to be carried within the body of it and locked up at night in a secure place. Thirty minutes was allowed to the Post Master for opening and changing the mail. This contract was witnessed by Thomas Waterman and Abraham Bradley, Jr. and was to continue from Oct. 1, 1795, to Sept. 30, 1797, inclusive.

Ante volume 3, page 72.

History of Eastport and Passamaquoddy from which I have gleaned much relating to Major Prescott.

SOLOMON HATHORN, OF BREWER AND MILFORD.

He was born in Marlborough, Mass. and married Mary Gates in that town. He was brother of Silas Hathorn, of Bangor. He was a soldier in the French War in Nova Scotia. He was at Owl's Head prior to 1770 and about 1772 came to Bangor. That year he and his brother built for themselves or Major Robert Treat a saw mill at the mouth of the Penjejawock stream, near Red Bridge, which was the first in Bangor. As an original settler he had lot No. 26, which he sold Robert Treat and lot No. 99 which he sold William Forbes and lot No. 105, of which he had a deed of Jan. 22, 1805.

He moved directly across the river into what is now Brewer about 1784. He was living there in 1785 with his wife and ten children. He was a petitioner to General Court for land in 1785 and a grantee in 1788.

He held town offices in Orrington from the time of its incorporation in 1788 to 1795.

He moved to Sunkhaze, now Milford in 1796 and settled on the first lot northerly of Sunkhaze stream. Park Holland* found him there in 1797 with "a small house and nine acres cleared, four of which is corn." I have not ascertained the date. of his or his wife's death. I give his children, as near as I could get them.

i.

EBER. b. April 8, 1763; settled at Sunkhaze. Milford. He married Hannah Nichols of Eddington. Nov. 4, 1797, by Rev. Seth Noble, pub. in Orrington, August 14. He was killed by being run over by his team about 1831. His widow Hannah was appointed administratrix of his estate, May 31, 1831. Children probably :

3. Polly. b. March 5, 1798; mar. Isaac Haynes of Passadumkeag, Jan. 21, 1819. She d. Oct. 19, 1877. He d. Sept. 6, 1856. Twelve children.

4. Betsey; m. Charles Brown, of Milford, Sunkhaze. He d• April 11, 1852; aged 56 years, 9 months. She d. Feb. 19, 1856, aged 56 years, 2 months. Several children.

5. Lucinda, m. Joseph Reed of Milford, 1826-7. He b. Winthrop, July 9, 1800. Their daughter, Mary Belcher, m. Paul Dudley, second, June 15, 1850; she d. Oct. 14, 1854. Several children.

6. Alexander G., of Milford; m. Eliza A. Low; she d. Aug. 17,

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1846, aged 32.
May 18, 1847.

He m. second Abby W. Howard, of Bangor,
He d. Sept. 25, 1852, aged 46.

7. Nancy, m. John Davis, of Edinburg.

8.

Eber, m. Melinda Shem way. (?)

9. Nichols, m. Caroline Burt.

10. Isaac, m. Elsie J. Riggs, March 19, 1849.

ii. MOLLY, m. Jacob Cook, of Orrington, August, 1791, by Col. Jonathan Eddy, said to have removed to Dixmont.

iii. RHEUMAH, b. Sept. 11, 1767; m. Samuel Gilmore, of Holden. Revolutionary soldier. He d. Feb. 27. 1845, aged 79. His widow d. Jan. 26, 1864, aged 96 years, 4 months and 15 days. Their daughter Lucy, m. John Wiswell of Orrington and Frankfort, 1814; parents of Arno Wiswell of Ellsworth, and grandparents of Andrew P. Wiswell, of Ellsworth, speaker of Maine House of Representatives, 1891.

iv. GATES, m. Hannah Mann, July 6, 1799, published in Orrington as "both of Sunkhaze" June 17. He d. 1817. Solomon Blake was appointed guardian of Robert, Samuel and Eunice, minor children of Gates Hathorn, late of Sunkhaze, above 14 years old, Nov. 6, 1817. Children, perhaps not in order:

1. Robert, b. March 22, 1800. (?)

2. Robert, b. Jan. 8, 1801; m. Lydia A. Darling. of Enfield, June 11. 1826, in Brewer. Three children, among whom was Mary L., who m. Adoniram J. Darling of Enfield.

3. Samuel. of Eddington; m. Prudence Rowell in Brewer, Sept. 19, 1830.

4. Eunice.

5. Gates. m.

Kingsbury.

Hathorn" of Bangor.

6. Rheumah, m. first ; second,

7. Daughter, m. Billington.

8. Daughter, in the West.

Three children, one, "Lew

Ward, of Veazie.

SOLOMON, JR.. m. Sarah Leavens, of Jarvis Gore; pub. in Orrington

Sept. 13, 1809.

vi. EUNICE, b. April, 1765; m. removed to New Brunswick.

Jewell or Sewall and said to have

vii. JESSE, was in Edinburg, about 1813. He m. Mary A. Nichols, of Eddington. He was drowned at Great Works, 1822-8. Children:

1. John. of Lincoln; m. first, Arabella Spencer; second, Lovina Bodwell.

2. George, d. unmarried.

3. James, m. Adela Spencer.

4. Louisa, m. John Webster.

5. Almira, d. young.

6. Eliza A., m. first Samuel DeBeck (?) and second Donald or Daniel Smith, of Chester.

7. Hiram, of Mattawamkeag, m. first Mehetable Spencer and second Charlotte Reed.

8. Franklin, d. in childhood.

viii. BETSEY, m. Asaph Gates, of Brewer, July 9, 1794. He d. 1801. She m. second Lemuel Tozier, of Exeter, 1804. He removed to Brewer, then Dedham. Children:

1. Jacob Gates.

2. Rheumah Gates. Did she marry Allen McLaughlin in Brewer

1828?

ix. ELI, b. Jan. 17, 1785; settled in Milford; m. Hannah W., daughter of Paul Dudley, Oct. 4, 1812, in Brewer by John Whiting, Esquire. She was born Sept. 26, 1794. Children:

1. Solomon, b. Feb. 22, 1812; of Milford; m. Julia A. Field, of Sidney, Feb. 20, 1845. He went to California about 1852, and I believe died about that time.

2. Paul Dudley, b. Nov. 27, 1813, of Milford, and Bangor. Married first Loantha Wyman, Dec. 29, 1847-8; she was b. Aug. 12, 1827 and d. 1850. He m. second Martha Wyman, sister of his first wife. Their daughter, Sada L., m. Dr. Thomas U. Coe of Bangor; pub. in Bangor, May 18, 1867.

3. Martha. b. Dec. 4, 1815; m. Samuel Orcutt, Oct. 17, 1833. He was the well known tavern keeper on Penobscot River; b. Aug. 19, 1805 and d. 1864. She m. second Col. Shepard Bean of Lee, 1868, and d. a few years since. He d. a year or two since.

4. Matilda D., b. Nov. 2, 1817; m. William T. Willey, of Milford. He b. 1808 and d. 1844.

5.

6.

Rebecca, b. Nov. 30, 1819, d. Mar. 5, 1841.

Emma b. April 8, 1822, d. Feb. 6, 1846.

7. Catherine, b. March 26, 1824, unmarried.

8. William, b. Dec. 31, 1825, d. may 26, 1846.

9. Nancy, b. March 2, 1828 m. Everett Crocker.

10. Lucretia, b. June 20, 1830.

11. Adeline, b. July 5, 1832, m. Lewis Wendendorf?

12. Charles, b. Oct. 24, 1834, d. Oct. 18, 1836.

13. Lucy M., b. March 19, 1839, m. John Dudley, of Milford.

PETITION FROM SULLIVAN, 1797.

(Communicated by Dr. J. F. Pratt, of Chelsea, Mass.)

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled:

The memorial of Agreen Crabtree, Oliver Wooster, Phillip Hodgkins and the undersigners, humbly Sheweth That we are the Free holders and Inhabitants of above one third part of the Town of Sullivan, in County of Hancock, humbly sheweth that we are so separate from the Eastern part of said Town by the water of Frenchman's Bay and Taunton Bay that it is very Inconvenient and at some times impossible for us to Meet together, either for the Worship of God or schooling our children, or to meet in Town meetings, therefore we humbly pray, so that we may be set off from the East part of said Town as a separate body, and may be invested with full powers to vote money for the benefit of the people, and assess the Same, to receive our part of the State and County Taxes and assess the same.-In fact to be impowered with all the powers of a free precinct, and that our bounds may be as followeth: Beginning at the Southwest corner of