Bates of theĪnchor-Brocklebank Line, Liverpool 3 Edward M. States at Habanaj the Lords of the British Admiralty j Denis H. Freeman Matthews, First Secretary of the Embassy of the United Metzer of the Department of State in Wash¬ Others whose time has been freely given to aid in research workĪre : Edward C. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 5 Porter B. In military matters information has been furnished by Frederic W. Colenbrander, professor of Dutch history and the Chapin Dartmouth College Library, Miss Mildred L. Smith Ĭharleston Library Society, Miss Mabel L. Wilder j Bowdoin Museum of Fine Arts, the late Miss Annie E. Marion Cobb Fuller j Maine Historical Society, the late MissĮthel Paige Hall and Miss Mae Gilman Bowdoin College Library, Gerald Lawrence Waters Jenkins the Maine State Library, the late Henry E. Scotty Essex Institute of Salem, Miss Harriet S. Robbins,Ĭhief of Archives, State House, Boston j New England Historical and Gene¬Īlogical Society, Miss Josephine Elizabeth Rayne and Mrs. Public Library, Milton Edward Lord Harvard College Library, Walter B.īriggs Harvard College Observatory, L. Bolton, Miss Elinor Gregory and Miss MarjorieĬrandall j the Massachusetts Historical Society, Julius H. With his excellent knowledge of the many local routes and trails of theĪmong the libraries from which help has repeatedly come are: the BostonĪthenasum, Charles K. Ganong, of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Speck, of the University of Pennsylvania j Charles Clark Willoughby and the late Roland B. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, of Brewer, Maine,Īs well as to Prof. Perkins, Assistant State Geologist, and to Frederick W. Dudley Wright Knox, of the Navy Department, Washing¬įor assistance in geology and topography the compiler is indebted to Ed¬ J.įranklin Jameson, chief of the Manuscript Division of the Library of Con¬ Greene, now living at Boothbay Harbor the late Dr. Stephen Parsons, of Edge-Ĭomb j the manuscript history of the late Rev. The Wiscasset newspaper, Seaside Oracle, all of whom were long-time residents

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Alden Bradford, John Hannibal Sheppard, Rufus Tribute here given would be an adequate recognition of the altruism of hisĪmong the historians of earlier times whose records and researches haveīeen most helpful are: Rev. Together with his blue pencil, have saved the writer from many a pitfall. Tensive and accurate knowledge of history and untiring faculty for research, Albert Matthews ofīoston, former editor of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, whose ex¬ Through the invaluable and generous assistance of Mr. The result of seven years of intensive labor has been accomplished only Research from plantation days to the dismemberment of Pownalborough has Pownalborough now called Dresden, which has been amply dealt with byĬharles Edwin Allen in the History of Dresden, Maine, although the line of The Kennebec and Sheepscot Rivers, without encroaching upon that part of Ships which brought to this town its all-too-brief period of prosperity, as wellĪs the salient historical features of the territory lying between the valleys of Order to preserve, in so far as possible, the Indian lore, tales, traditions, and The following account of Wiscasset in Pownalborough was undertaken in To attempt the work which has been largely based on his researches. No consecutive story had been begun by him, the present writer was delegated Ing local subjects but when, at the time of his death in the summer of 1931, Ings of the Wiscasset Fire Society made those evenings replete with interest¬ That accurate and able historian, the late William Davis Patterson, whoseīrochures and biographies read at patriotic gatherings and the regular meet¬ The history of Wiscasset, formerly Pownalborough, would be written by TT was the long cherished hope of those concerned with such matters that The Salient Historical Features of the Territoryīetween the Sheep scot and Kennebec RiversĬopyright, 1941, by Judith Chase Churchill The Bray son House, the Meeting-house and the Court House.

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