A History of Turner, Maine, from Its Settlement to 1886 (Electronic book text)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3of this State, on the eighteenth day of June 1768, upon certain conditions, as may appear by the resolve of that date. textit{Resolved, that for the reasons in said Petition assigned, the furthur term of three years be allowed said Proprietors for fulfilling the conditions required by the aforesaid Resolve of the 18th of June 1768, within which term the fulfillment of said conditions, by said Proprietors shall operate and be to all intents and purposes as satisfactory as if performed within the Term prescribed by the aforesaid Resolve of June 18th, 1768, said Resolve to the contrary notwithstanding. Sent up for concurrence. John Hancock, textit{Speaker. In Council, September 14th, 1779. Read and concurred. John Avery, textit{Dep. Sec. Consented to by the major) part of the Council. ) True copy. Attest: John Avery, textit{Dep. Sec. Dr. Howe says: These measures put the affairs of the plantation on sound footing again, and most of those who had been diverted from the enterprise, by entering into the military service, had now returned to Sylvester, and a number more of families had moved into the place, and several additional young men had taken up settling lots. I will therefore endeavor to furnish a detailed account of all the families and individual settlers in the plantation on the first of January, 1780. Up to this time there had occurred no death in the township, nor am I aware of more than one death which occurred in the military service among the settlers of Sylvester. Andrew Bass, of Halifax, who had taken up a settler's lot, went into the army and fell at Stillwater, at the capture of General Burgoyne and the army under his command. Inhabitants of Sylvester Canada in 1780: Jotham Briggs, wife and four children; Israel Haskell, wife and seven children; Daniel Briggs, wi...