1844 Survey by the Commissioners to locate grants,
and
determine the extent of possessory claims under the Treaty of 1842
Northern Aroostook Co., Maine
August 1844
Claims in the Aroostook River Valley
Granted and ungranted
Township D, Range 1 (now part of Fort
Fairfield)
Township F, Range 2 (now part of Presque Isle)
Township G, Range 2 (now part of Presque Isle)
Township H, Range 2 (now part of Caribou)
Township No.11, Range 5 (now Ashland)
Township No.12, Range 3 (now Mapleton)
Township No.13, Range 3 (now Washburn)
Township No.13, Range 4 (now Wade)
Masardis
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| Abstracted and formatted by , ©2004 from the Joint Report of the Commissioners to locate grants, and determine the extent of possessorty claims undre the late treaty with Great Britain, December 1844, pp.12-55, in the Archives of the State of Maine. | Extrait et mise en forme par , ©2004 du Joint Report of the Commissioners to locate grants, and determine the extent of possessorty claims under the late treaty with Great Britain, décembre 1844, pp.12-55, dans les Archives de l'état de Maine. |
| Put online by C. Gagnon, September 2004. Both above notices must remain when copied or downloaded. | Mise en ligne par C. Gagnon, septembre 2004. Si vous copiez ou transferez ces matérials, il faut inclure les avis ci-dessus. |
On the lands held by the State of Maine in severalty in the vicinity of the Aroostook River, the undersigned have set off to the persons whose names are here underwritten, the following desribed lots, having been possessed and improved by them, or by the persons under whom they claim, for more than six years before the date of the Treaty aforesaid:
No. | Firstname Lastname | Acres | Remarks
======|=========================================|=========|=============================================================================================================== Township D, Range 1
2 | David Burchell, . . . . . . . | 52 |
3 | Abel Humphrey, . . . . . . . | | Western part
3 | William H. Cary, Jr, . . . . . . . | | Eastern part
5 | Chaplin Nelson, . . . . . . . . | |
12 | John B. Wing, . . . . . . . . . | | Front part Township H, Range 2
3&4 | Alexander Cochran,. . . . . . . . | |
9 | Alexander Cochran,. . . . . . . . | | All that part which lies east of the road recently located and opened by authority of the State
Township No.12, Range 3. 14 | Joshua Christie, . . . . . . . | 157.36 |
16 | Edward Erskine, | |
| James Erskine, and | |
| Abigail, wife of | | | Winslow Churchill,. . . . . . . | 164.65 | Including that part of Mumford's Isldan which lies in No.12
17 | Peter Bull, . . . . . . . . . | 138.87 |
18 | Peter Bull, . . . . . . . . . | 87 | Including the part of Bull's Island which lies in No.12
102 | Dennis Fairbanks S.E.quarter | 40 | To be set off by lines parallel to the lot lines
103 | Dennis Fairbanks S.W.quarter | | | |---------| | | 627.88 |
Township No.13, Range 4. 22 | John F. Currier | |
On the lands held by Massachusetts in severalty, the Legislature of the Commonwealth, by the Resolves, approved March 16, 1844, having relieved the Commissioners from the duty of surveying the lots claimed by the settlers under the provisions of the said Treaty, the undersigned have heard the statements and proofs of the claimants, and have determined the extent of their several claims, and that the persons whose names are here underwritten are entitled to the following lots or parcels of land respectively, to be so surveyed and described, as best to include their improvements made thereon:
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No. | Firstname Lastname | Acres | Remarks
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Township G, Range 2.
North side of the River
| Isaac Morris, . . . . . . . . | 71 |
| John Nichols,. . . . . . . . | 81 |
| James Nichols,. . . . . . . . | |
| Andrew Scott,. . . . . . . . . | 118 |
| Thompson and Hayden,. . | 100 |
| Lewis Johnstone,. . . . . . . | 160 |
| William Pyle, . . . . . . . . . | 160 |
| Isaac Thomas, . . . . . . . . | 150 |
| John Allen,. . . . . . . . . | 120 | Where he lives, also
| John Allen,. . . . . . . . . | 20 | Isl'd No.3 on Parrott's survey
| Olive Finlason, . . . . . . . | 120 |
| Hector Sutherland, . . . . . . | 133 | Including NE half of island No.2
| Daniel & William Chandler, . . . . . . . | 140 | Including all the island occupied by them
| John Raford, . . . . . . . . | 140 |
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Township G, Range 2.
South side of the River.
| Jonathan E. Armstrong,. . . . . . . | 81 |
| Ferdinand Armstrong,. . . . . . . | 101 |
| Thomas Fields, . . . . . . . . | 142 |
| Benjamin Weeks,. . . . . . . . . | 142 |
| William McDougal, . . . . . . . | 120 |
| John Benjamin, . . . . . . . | 120 |
| Susanna Hooper, . . . . . . . . | 120 | Occupied by Veranus Chandler
| Benaiah Pratt, Jr,. . . . . . . | 80 |
| Thomas Jefferson Hobart, . . . . . . . . | 200 |
| Josiah Towle, | |
| Solomon Parsons, and | |
| George W. Towle,. . . . . . . . . | 200 |
| Thomas W. Naray,. . . . . . . . . | 120 |
| Ebenezer Oakes,. . . . . . . . . | 160 | Including island No.5, subject to dower of the widow of Jonathan Oakes
| Lewis Bradley,. . . . . . . . | 125 |
| Henry Bradley,. . . . . . . . | 164 | Including island No.4
| Daniel Hopkins,. . . . . . . . | 114 |
| Amos Heald,. . . . . . . . . | 130 |
| Widow Ann Currier 1/2 \ | 129 | Including SW half of island No.2
| Heirs of James F Currier 1/2 / | |
| Thomas W. Beckwith and | |
| John W. Beckwith, . . . . . . . | 140 | Including that part of Bull's Island in G, except about 6 acres occupied by P. Bull
| Peter Bull, . . . . . . about | 6 | Part of Bull's Island in Township G.
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| | 4011 |
No. | Firstname Lastname | Acres | Remarks
======|==========================================|=======|===============================================================================================
Township No.13, Range 3.
| Peter Bull, . . . . . . . . . | | That part of Bull's Island which lies in No.13
| Nathaniel Churchill,. . . . . . . | 66 | Including island No.8
| Jabez S. Currier, and | |
| Joshua Dunn, . . . . . . . . . | 140 | In lot No.5, in Block 4.
| John Hickey, . . . . . . . . | 140 | On both sides the river, including island No.7.
| Lawrence Farrel, . . . . . . . . | 74 |
| Wilder Stratton, . . . . . . . | 140 | Including island No.1.
| Heirs of William Munford 1/2 \ | | Lot No.1, in Block 5, and that part of Mumford's Island which lies in No.13
| Widow Elizabeth Munford 1/2 / | |
| Joshua Christie, . . . . . . . | 27 |
| Job Churchill,. . . . . . . | 20 |
| Stephen Harris, . . . . . . . . | 72 |
| Ebenezer Esty, . . . . . . . . . | 140 | Including islands nos.2 and 6.
| |-------|
| | 894 |
On the Townships belonging to the State of Maine in severalty, many of the settlers had purchased their lots previously to the date of the Treaty, and had given their notes to the State, payable one quarter in cash in four years, and three quarters in labor on roads under the direction of the Land Agent in three years, and at the date of the Treaty were claiming their lots by virtue of deeds from the Land Agent, conditioned for the payment of said notes. Some of these purchasers have fully paid the amount of their notes in cash and labor, and thus have an indefeasible title to their lands. Most of them have paid nearly or quite the amount payable in labor on the roads; and a few have paid nothing.
On Township D in Range 1, and F in Range 2, some of the settlers, subsquently to the commencement of their improvements, received deeds under grants made by the State of Maine previously to the Treaty, for the encouragement of mills, and thus have absolute titles to their lots.
In both these classes of cases, the occupants who had been in possession more than six years before the date of the Treaty, deem themselves to have, equitably, as strong a claim to the consideration and bounty of the government, as those who had been in possession for no longer period, and had made no contract with, or payment to the State.
But it appears to the undersigned [the Comissioners], that, as they had already acquired a title to their lands by contract with the State, their claims are not within the powers conferred by the Resolves upon the Commissioners.
These claimants are as follows:
No. | Firstname Lastname | Acres | Remarks
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Township D, Range 1.
Purchasers from the State, of lots improved before August 9, 1836
1 | Joseph Fisher, . . . . . . . . | 16.60 |
9 | John Rediker,. . . . . . . . | 122 |
11 | Isaac Leach or | |
| William Johnstone,. . . . . . . | 102.65 |
14 | James Campbell, . . . . . . . | 82.14 |
Lots granted to encourage the erection of mills, improved before Aug.9, 1836
6 | Michael McKenney, . . . . . . . | 63.67 |
7 | Martin Murray, . . . . . . . . | 80.17 |
13 | John Dorsey, . . . . . . . . | 100 |
15 | James Fitzherbert,. . . . . . | 86.69 |
16 | Heirs of Nathan Johnstone,. . . . . . . | 122.80 |
17 | Nicholas Dee,. . . . . . . . . . | 139 |
19 | Samuel Fitzherbert,. . . . . . | 158 |
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Township F, Range 2.
Purchasers from the State, of lots improved before August 9, 1836
6 | Eleazer P. Whitney,. . . . . . . . | 159 |
27 | Gowen Wilson, . . . . . . . . | 187.12 |
29 | Ephraim Clark,. . . . . . . . . | 155.76 |
Lots granted to encourage the erection of mills, improved before Aug.9, 1836
3 | Dennis Fairbanks,. . . . . . . | 168 |
4 | Dennis Fairbanks,. . . . . . . | 160 |
15 | Dennis Fairbanks,. . . . . . . | 134.88 |
16 | Dennis Fairbanks,. . . . . . . | 140.70 |
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Township No.11, Range 5.
Purchasers from the State, of lots improved before August 9, 1836
15 | Solomon Soule,. . . . . . . . . | |
17 | Thomas J. Page, . . . . . . . . . | 144 |
19 | John S. Gilman, and | |
| Elbridge G. Dunn, . . . . . . . . . | 118.45 |
44 | Benjamin Howe, . . . . . . . . . | |
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Masardis
Purchasers from the State, of lots improved before August 9, 1836
9 | Alexander Woodard,. . . . . . . . | |
19 | Alexander Woodard,. . . . . . . . | |
28 | Alexander Woodard,. . . . . . . . | 123 |
67 | Amasa Goding, . . . . . . . . | |
68 | Samuel Leavitt,. . . . . . . . | |
69 | Samuel Leavitt,. . . . . . . . | |
70 | Leonard Jones,. . . . . . . . . | |
73 | William Cowperthwait, . . . . . | |
74 | Sanford Noble,. . . . . . . . . | |
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