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Welcome to
Knox County, Maine
History & Genealogy

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Source:
ANNALS
of the
TOWN OF WARREN,
in Knox County, Maine
with
Early History of St. George's, Broad Bay,
and
The Neighboring Settlements
of the
Waldo Patent
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By Cyrus Eaton, A.M.
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Second Edition
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Masters & Livermore, Hallowell.
1877
 

  PAGE.
CHAPTER I. - Situation, natural features, &c., of the town of Warren 1
   
CHAPTER II. - 12
   - Discovery and naming of St. George's River, with a glance at the other discoveries, settlements, and claims made in the vicinity
 - Indian war and Sickness of 1615 and '18
 - Monhegan, [Mona, in note,] Newharbor, Pemaquid, [Damariscove,] and Damariscotta.
 - Patent to Beautchamp and Leverett
 - Trading-house a St. George's
 - The Pantentees
 - Earliest settlers
 - Changes of jurisdiction
 - Condition of the country
 - the 1st, (King Philip's,) Indian war.
CHAPTER II. - 28
   - Dutch at Newcastle
 - The 2d Indian war
 - Pemaquid taken
 - Settlements east of Falmouth deserted
 - Indian chiefs
 - New Charter of Massachusetts, and Gov. Phips
 - Fort Wm. Henry, and skirmish at Damariscotta.
 - Peace
 - Death of Madockawando
 - Land at St. George's purchased of the Indians
 - Suppression of pirates,
 - [underground house;]
 - Queen Anne's War
 - Castine, the younger
 - [Monicook]
- Peace, and the Georgetown
 - Settlement far east,
 - Doings at St. George's
 - Seizure of Castine
 - The 4th Indian war
 - Attacks at Pemsquid and other places
 - At St. George's sloop and mill burnt,
 - Fort beseiged,
 - Made a pubic garrison
 - Expedition to Penobscot
 - Another attack on St. George's
 - Skirmish and death of Winslow
 - Naval warfare, and attack on St. George's
 - Close of the war.
 - Capt. Gyles.
 - Dummer's Treat, 1726
CHAPTER IV. - 46
   - Truck-house and agent at St. George's
 - Private traders.
 - Indian conference, 1727, and truck-masters
 - Gyles, justice of the peace
 - Gov. Dunbar
 - Pierpont, chaplain
 - Indian conference, 1732
 - Waldo, sole proprietor of St. George's
 - Prepares for extensive settlement,
 - Commences lime-burning
 - Visits St. George's
 - Confers with Indians
 - Contracts with twenty-seven settlers for the upper town.
 - Conditions
 - Names.
 - Saw-mill rebuilt
 - Lots laid out
 - Other settlements
 - Forbidden by the Indians, above tide waters.
 - Action of the Gen. Court thereon.
 - Garrison reduced.
 - Location of the first settlers
 - Their houses, employments, &c.
 - Earliest children born [hard times]
 - Fears of new rupture with Indians
 - Waldo, colonel
 - H. Alexander, first militia captain;
 - tea, [coffee.]
 - Threatening hostilities with Spain, and measures of defence.
 - First grist-mill and meeting-house.
 - Shipwreck at Mt. Desert.
 - First German settlers at Broad Bay.
 - Limits of the Waldo and Pemaquid patents settled by compromise.
 - Hardships of the German settlers.
 - [Hewes' letter, and Waldo's promises.]
 - Boice Cooper; [note.]
 - L. Parsons, &c.
 - 1741
CHAPTER V. - 74
   - New tenor currency.
 - Indian disaffection.
 - St. Georges's fort rebuilt.
 - Bradbury, commander.
 - Earliest death in the upper town.
 - Lower town extended.
 - War with France.
 - St. John's Indians hostile.
 - Precautions for preserving peace with Tarratines.
 - Militia, and scouting parties.
 - Louisburg expedition.
 - Effect at St. George's,
 - At Broad Bay.
 - Indians attack St. Georges.
 - Block-houses built.
 - Province sloop and Capt. Saunders.
 - Bounties for Indian scalps.
 - Skirmish at St. George's.
 - Destruction of Broad Bay.
 - Another skirmish at St. George's
 - Attacks at Damariscotta, [and the Lermond women and others killed.]
 - Attempt to blow up St. George's fort.
 - Creighton killed.
 - Cooper and Pitcher, captives.
 - Scarcity.
 - Peace concluded.
 - Settlers return. [Calderwood, &c.]
 - Kilpatrick, captain.
 - Agriculture, potatoes, &c.
- Character, occupations', religion, &c., of the early settlers.
 - Settlement at Broad Bay revived.
 - Conrad Heyer; [his death, &c]
 - Currency
 - Indian disturbances allayed.
 - Rutherford.
 - New Style.
 - Indian conference, 1752-3.
 - J. Hart.
 - Additional German settlers at Broad Bay, 1752-3
 - Their disappointment and suffering.
 - Scottish settlers at St. George's, 1753
CHAPTER VI. - 94
   - Indians complain.
 - Fort rebuilt and block-houses established.
 - French and Indian war.
 - Settlers go into garrison
 - Their condition there.
 - Care to conciliate Tarrantines, occasions dissatisfaction.
 - Letters of Burton, Kilpatrick, Bradbury, and Indians.
 - Cargill's expedition, and death of Margaret.
 - Scouts at St. George's.
 - Letter of Lieut. Fletcher.
 - Aggressions at St. George's
 - Death of Rutherford.
 - Indians distressed.
 - Forces at St. George's and Broad Bay.
 - Freeman's Journal.
 - Night Skirmish,
 - Disasters of the war, Henlys, Watson, Coltson, Elwell, Piper and others.
 - Remilly's journal
 - North, commander at St. Georges, 1757
CHAPTER VII. - 115
   - Garrisons.
 - St. George's fort reinforced
 - Attacked, and cattle killed.
 - Occupation of Penobscot.
 - Death of Gen. Waldo.
 - Pownal's popularity at St. George's
 - Abatement of hostilities.
 - [A list of settlers.]
 - Condition of the people during the war.
 - Sheep introduced.
 - H. Libbey.
 - Lincoln County established.
 - North judge.
 - Drought and wild game.
 - T. Fluker, proprietor.
 - 1st county tax.
 - Administration of justice.
 - Ulmer.
 - [1st meeting-house at Waldoboro'.]
 - Dr. Schaefler.
 - Saw-mill rebuilt.
 - Ship-building attempted in what is now Warren.
 - McLean, [and birth of John McLean.]
 - Garrison discontinued.
 - Location of the Scottish settlers.
 - Treaty of peace.
 - Death of Burton; [his gravestone.]
 - New settlers, Spear, Starret, Wheaton, Coplands, Vose, Counce, Sumner, Montgomery.
 - Physicians.
 - Locke, Fales, Packards, Hall, Watts, Buckland
 - Census.
 - Maize introducted, other crops, trace, &c.
 - Drown's claim at Broad Bay.
 - First regimental muster.
 - Death of North
 - First framed houses.
 - McIntyre's ferry.
 - Lermond's mills.
 - New settlements, Keag or S. Thomaston.
 - Lermond's cove or Rockland.
 - Megunticook or Camden.
 - Moravians and others leave Broad Bay.
 - Comet.
 - Duties, & c., 1770.
CHAPTER VIII. - 147
   - Army-worm.
 - New settlers at Broad Bay.
 - Ship-building.
 - Wreck of the Industry
 - Fatal snowstorm in October.
 - McIntyre, captain.
 - Disuse of British goods.
 - Wooden dishes.
 - Clothing.
 - Fashions.
 - Domestic manufactures.
 - Superstitions.
 - Education.
 - Religious privileges.
 - Saw-mil at Back River.
 - Plantation meetings.
 - Fever.
 - Waldoboro' incorporated.
 - Burton at the tea-party.
 - Progress of Politics.
 - Privates calamities
 - Fort Pownal dismantled.
 - The commander's letters to St. George's
 - Political views of the people there.
 - The Dolphin built.
 - Recruits for the army.
 - New Government officials.
 - Rev. J. Urquhart.
 - Revolutionary committee, 1775.
CHAPTER IX. - 171
   - New militia officers.
 - Declaration of independence.
 -Tax in clothing, &c. 
 - Soldiers for Machias.
 -Warren and Thomaston incorporated.
 - Stirlingtown or Union.
 - First town meeting in Warren.
 - Peabody.
 - J. Lermond's saw-mill.
 - Wyllie.
 - Oath of allegiance.
 - Coast guards. Scarcity.
 - Paskiel.
 - Second town meeting.
 - Rokes.
 - Fishery.
 - Town and other taxes.
 - Prices.
 - Vote on the constitution.
 - Proprietors of Waldo patent, absentees.
 - District of Maine.
 - Difficulties with Mr. Urquhart.
 - Rev. T. Whiting.
 - Biguyduce expedition.
 - Coast defence.
 - Drought and fires.
 - Currency.
 - Payson.
 - Gamble drowned.
 - First highway.
 - First representative .
 - Severe winter, 1780
CHAPTER X. - 194
   - Consequences of the defeat.
 - Transactions at Camden. Sloops captured.
 - Arrest of Long.
 - Wadsworth, commander.
 - Murder of Soule.
 - Execution of Braun.
 - Tax in clothing and beef.
 - Urquhart's salary.
 - First bridge over Oyster R.
 - Capture of Wadsworth and Burton,
 - Their escape.
 - Public burdens
 - New Emission of paper.
 - Controversy with Stirlingtown.
 - Dismission of Urquhart.
 - Arrival of his wife, &c.
 - Salem presbytery dissolved.
 - 1782
CHAPTER XI. - 213
   - Scarcity
 - Early run of alewives.
 - First pound
 - Payson, Sprague, and Africa Peter
 - People of color
 - Return of peace
 - Fisher, McCallum, O'Brien.
 - Schools.
 - Sufferers from paper money, Patterson, Mathews
 - Boggs's Bridge
 - Taxes.
 - Pebbles, first justice.
 - Annis.
 - Refugees, Nelson, Dicke
 - Scheme of annexation.
 - Bosworth
 - Peace
 - Casualty
 - First legal highways voted
 - Davis, the hunter, and Barrett
 - New settles, Dunbar, Crane,
 - First store at head of the tide.
 - Wild animals
 - Agriculture
 - First carts, breaking-up-plow and sleigh.
 - 1874
CHAPTER XII. - 226
   - Paper money, Cooper
 - Settlers on eastern and western roads to Union, west of N. Pond, east of Peabody's
 - Sloop Warren.
 - Fishery
 - Weston
 - Sloop Friendship
 - Tolman
 - First legal highway
 - Whiting, minister
 - First town school
 - Militia officers
 - Land titles, settlers quieted
 - New settlers, Andrews, Davis, Standish.
 - Meeting-house
 - Mills at upper falls.
 - Head
 - First child born at the village
 - Severe winters and famine.
 - T. Robinson, A. Kelloch, jr., Minegerson
 - Sloop Jane, mills, &c., at village
 - Federal constitution.
 - M. Cobb
 - Prices.
 - Spear, captain
 - Votes for Governor, &c.
 - Land titles
 - Fairbanks, Dodge, Webb
 - Cushing incorporated.
 - 1789
CHAPTER XIII. - 240
   - Additional settlers, Mero, I. Fuller, Cox, Rogers, Morrison, Keith, Carven, Alford, &c.
 - Tax payers.
 - Scho. Industry
 - First ox-wagon
 - Brackett & Davis.
 - Sullivan.
 - Meeting house
 - Dr. Schaeffer at Warren
 - Settlers on middle road to Union
 - Frost, Moore
 - Wild game.
 - Casualties
 - Removal of J. Lermond
 - First brig.
 - First bridge at village
 - New meeting house
 - Lovett
 - Two store houses
 - Social library
 - Vote on separation
 - Sale of pews, &c.
 - Burying ground.
 - Road through village
 - To Barretstown or Hope
 - Blake, Lawrence, Page, Buxton, McBeath, Parsons.
 - Fulling-mill
 - Sloop Polly
 - First pleasure carriage
 - Mail and post office, [down to 1876,  N. Warren post office.]
 - Robbery and death of Schaeffer
 - Early snow storm.
 - 1793
CHAPTER XIV. - 257
   - Oyster R. bridge
 - State tax, drafted militia
 - Destructive frost
 - Bears
 - Wilde
 - Rev. J. Thaxter
 - Settlement of Rev. J. Huse
 - Church organized, &c.
 - Changes in the town
 - Knox at Thomaston
 - His works in Warren
 - W. H. Webb
 - School districts
 - Vessels
 - Harriman, Brown
 - Fatal accidents, [Morison]
 - Currency
 - Hog-reeves
 - Pound
 - Overflowing of roads
 - Choir
 - Military stores and officers
 - Company divided
 - D. Vose, Vaughan, Leach, F. Jones
 - Kelloch neighborhood
 - Vessels
 - Public bridge at village
 - Watsons set off to Thomaston
 - Divisions, town and national
 - Snow, Emerson, Wells, Dagget
 - Vessels
 - French spoliatons, Wilde's removal
 - Court-house
 - Accidents
 - Thatcher
 - Small pox
 - Political parties
 - Reg. muster
 - Fashions
 - 1800
CHAPTER XV. - 276
   - Schools, committee, teachers, and funds.
 - Bounty on crows
 - Oyster fishery
 - Shad and alewives, a town privilege
 - Commercial prosperity, and business men
 - Light-house and fort
 - Buildings and trees
 - Pleasure carriages
 - C. Reed and M. Smith
 - Cobb, J. Fuller, Wilbur Mallett, Hovey, J. Wetherbee, Gates, Stone, Newcomb, French, Brackett, Comery, A. Russel, Flack, Swift, Jackson, and Hays
 - Martin, Douglass, and Brakely
 - Military
 - Musical band
 - Masonic lodge
 - Civil and ecclesiastical changes in the vicinity.
 - The Baptist society, [its new house, deacons, &c.]
 - Loss by fire
 - By freshet
 - Canker-rash
 - Spruce and hemlock destroyed
 - Hoofail
 - Aurora borealis
 - earthquake
 - Eclipse
 - Casualties
 - Death of Knox.
 - 1806
CHAPTER XVI. - 297
   - Commercial embarrassments
 - Brig Sumner
 - Embargo
 - Parties
 - Petitions
 - Non-intercourse
 - Betterment act
 - [threat to Thatcher.]
 - Parkman
 - Attempt to impeach Justice Copeland
 - Vote on separation
 - Political movements
 - Lime inspection.
 - Fish-law
 - Wolves
 - Military stores
 - E. Thatcher, Hoar, Thomas,
 - Harrington, Maxey, R. Russel, D. Vaughan, Lamson, Watton, Benson, S. French, Isley, S. Lawrence, Starr, T. Wilson, Burgess, Miller, McLellan, Noyce, Knowlton, A. Young, and Caswell.
 - Warren Academy, [its preceptors to 1867.]
 - Sacred music
 - Agriculture and manufactures.
 - Hard times.
 - Casualties
 - [Sketch of Granny James, by A. F. J.]
 - Physical and meteorological phenomena.
 - Second embargo and war.
 - Convention at Wincasset.
 - 1812
CHAPTER XVII. - 313
   - Effects of war.
 - Coasting trade
 - High price of provisions
 - View of a naval action
 - Capture of the Peggy Rubicon.
 - The Alexander
 - Measures of defence
 - Abundant crop, and public burdens.
 - The British at St. George's R., [note, Burtons.]
 - Militia called out for defence of Camden.
 - A false alarm, [its origin.]
 - Second expedition to Camden.
 - [Rolls of Warren Militia Companies.]
 - Trade with the enemy
 - Peace
 - Its effects.
 - Moral societies
 - Unpropitious seasons.
 - Emigration west
 - Bridges petitioned for
 - Wolves, and Elephant.
 - A. Lermond.
 - Paupers.
 - Rate of labor.
 - Road to Camden, and bridges, [Cornhill name.]
 - Meeting-house.
 - Separation of the State.
 - Party spirit allayed
 - Casualties, seasons, & c.
 - New corners, Kimball, Rawson, Hodgman, Howard, Hinkley, Jarvis, Howland, Parker, Carriel, Whitney, Hilt, R. Robinson, Waterman, L. Jones, Leeds, Joachin, Stetson, and Sawin.
 - Traders, J. Thompson, J. Burton.
 - First dancing-school, education, improvements, &c.
 - Burton's block-house.
CHAPTER XVIII. - 331
   - Unanimity at the first State election
 - Schools, S. agents, districts, &c.
 - Paupers
 - Ministerial tax.
 - Military matters, Burying-grounds, [the 1st, or Presbyterian, hearse, &c.] bridges, highways.
 - Fishery.
 - Inspectors of lime.
 - Valuation of 1829
 - Receipts and expenditures.
 - Surplus revenue.
 - Town-house
 - Votes for presidential electors.
 - On amendments of the constitution & c.
CHAPTER XIX. - 343
   - The history of the First and Second Congregational societies, [Methodist Class in Dist. No. 16,] with other ecclesiastical matter, from 1820 to 1850
CHAPTER XX. - 353
   - Benevolent and other societies, [note].
 - Celebrations.
 - Wild animals
 - Losses by fire
 - Casualties.
 - J. G. Lambright
 - T. D. Raeburn.
 - Weather and meteoric Phenomena.
 - Progress of improvement.
 - Emigrants to Thatcher.
 - Conclusion
CHAPT. XXI. - 401
   - Weather of 1851, crops, fish, &c.
 - Drs. Buxton, Kennedy, Banks, &c.
 - Burglary
 - No Sept. election
 - Maine law
 - The town's plan for high school, vote on roads, to hire money.
 - Business, town histories, and J. L. Sibley.
 - 2 deaths, weather of 1852.
 - loss of exclusive fish privilege
 - Grasshoppers, crops, early snow, ship-building
 - Revs. C. H. Wheeler, and Granger.
 - Vote on school books.
 - Election of Congressmen.
 - Deaths of Kincaid and S. Counce
 - Weather of 1853, winter lightning, sickly spring, Grasshoppers, rose slug, comet, &c.
 - Various town votes, choice of Supervisor of schools, &c.
 - Death of the Rev. J. Huse, D. Patterson and R. B. Copeland, of E. McIntyre
 - New bell, ten-hour system, vote for county Register
 - Great snow-fall of 1865, drought, and fires, crops and Agricultural Fair, anthem, &c.
 - Lyceum, Ladies' Sewing Circle, Mr. Granger, &c.
 - Ships, and ship-builder's bank
 - Dea. Page, sudden deaths, D. Dickey.
 - New hearse-house. Lincoln county divided 1855, weather, deer, Know-Nothingism, crops, the first  mowing machine.
 - Lyceum, Erosophian society.
 - Ladies' Social Library, Cong. church spire.
 - Warren Bible Society
 - Liquor agency
 - F. Bapt. conference, Elder Case, S. School picnic, Rev. L. Chase.
 - Politics
 - Action against assessors
 - Indian caps, prices, Stealing.
 - House burned.
 - Home insurance.
 - Small-pox, casualties
 - Snowy winter of 1856, wet summer, black knot.
 - Organ for Cong. church.
 - Pro-slavery outrages, despondency.
 - Rev. D. Q. Cushman installed.
 - Political lectures, doctors, ship-building, deaths of business men, cold, and changes of 1857.
 - Drowning of A. Leach.
 - Vote to petition on the fishery.
 - Comet, pearl fishery, wet haying, crops, earthquake, business panic, falling off of ship-building.
 - Mild Jan. of 1858, wet spring, seizure of fish-nets, hail shower, Donati's comet, gale, &c.
 - Vote of inquiring into town expenses, to sustain fish committee, on license or prohibition.
 - Lecture of E. Burritt.
 - Hon. M. H. Smith.
 - Religious interest.
 - Class of Methodists formed.
 - Atlantic telegraph
 - Dull times, emigration
 - Freshet of 1859, cold June, house burned.
 - European war.
 - Drought, auroras, the Am. Skunk, Sept. gale.
 - Shaking or jarring
 - Vote to oppose alteration of line of Warren and Thomaston.
 - Stage accident.
 - Musical festival the Fourth.
 - Boy drowned.
 - Suicides and other crimes
 - Votes to borrow Warren Sch. fund, to build a new pound, &c.
 - Weather of 1860, haloes, drought, comet, eclipse, wanderers, earthquakes.
 - Band of Hope.
 - Knox county organized.
 - Wide Awakes, political excitement.
 - Kerosene oil.
 - house burned.
CHAPT. XXII. - 434
   - Woman perished in snow-storm, 1861.
 - T. Davis.
 - Votes on burying-ground, and bridges.
 - Spring, civil war, flag raised, 4th Maine regiment and its Warren members.
 - Enlistments elsewhere, and later in 1861
 - 4th of July, comet, national fast.
 - Death of Col. Head.
 - Diphtheria, barn burned.
 - Sons of Temperance
 - Drs. Bean and Brown.
 - Weather of 1862.
 - Sickness, Sterling cemetery, destruction by lightning
 - Soldiers in 1st Me. cavalry, in 2d battery mounted artillery, in 15th and 19th Me. regiments, in  20th Me., and a specimen of them.
 - Town vote on bounties and the draft.
 - Volunteers, and history of Co. B, 24th Me. regiment.
 - Vote on death of selectman, his successor.
 - Bank suspension, change, prices, &c., winter and spring of 1863.
 - Aid to families voted
 - Drought, sickness, sudden deaths.
 - 4th of July celebration.
 - Poor crops.
 - War and the draft.
 - Vote of bounty to conscripts.
 - National Thanksgiving, hymn, &c.
 - Cong. pulpit, S. S. picnic, Sons of Temperance.
 - Union rally, supper to returned soldiers.
 - More men, town votes bounty, a recruiting committee, and to borrow money
 - Volunteers to 43d Penn. and 2d Maine cavalry.
 - Prices rise.
 - Warren Powder Manufacturing Co., 1864 winter storm, lizard, cold.
 - Stables and barn burned.
 - Soldiers' aid.
 - W. dramatic club's levees.
 - Earthquake, drought, forest fires.
 - War troubles, enlistments into 1st reg. District Columbia cavalry transferred to 1st Me. cavalry.
 - Vote for heavy tax, for new loan of school fund, &c.
 - Prices.
 - National Fast.
 - Rev. E. S. Beard installed.
 - Votes in view of a draft, &c.
 - National Thanksgiving
 - Discouragement, political meetings, draft.
 - Soldiers in other regiments, to end of war.
 - Autumn weather, business, shipping.
 - W. Social Library
 - Death of town clerk and school committee
 - Prayer week, 1865, and weather
 - Peace news and rejoicings.
 - Death of President, funeral services, fasts.
 - Town's first auditor, committee on fish laws, vote to procure 16 more to fill quota, to reconsider and reduce town stock vote.
 - Caterpillers
 - 4th of July celebration
 - Lightning, sudden death, drought, fires.
 - Golden wedding
 - Oct. snow, deer, fevers.
 - S. S. Christmas tree
CHAPTER XXIII. - 468
   - Weather, 1866.
 - Meteor, April lightning, ale-wives, hail.
 - Police, selectmen's report printed, dog-tax.
 - L. Boggs selectman.
 - Barque Oneco
 - Changes at Cornhill, hotel.
 - Fatal accident, 4th of July celebrations, Atlantic telegraph
 - Hail shower, wolf, loupcervier, squirrels.
 - Organ for Bap. church, the Head mansion, Christmas tree
 - Winter 1867, religious interest.
 - Rev. A. Prince
 - Warren Manufacturing Co.
 - Spring geese, lightning, insects, prices, strawberry festival, diphtheria, &c.
 - International telegraph and office
 - Vote on amendment of temperance act.
 - Knox & Lincoln railroad.
 - Coal.
 - Sept. snow, fevers, barn burned, shower of meteors.
 - Stirling school-house, lyceum and lectures, Winter of 1868.
 - Auditor dispensed with
 - Town's R. Road committee
 - Trouble about town's money and tax collector.
 - Vote on amendment to Constitution
 - The great fire and loss of the factory buildings
 - The great fire and loss of the factory buildings
 - A. H. Hodgman
 - Measures for rebuilding and vote of the town
 - Barn burned
 - D. Dickey, 2d.
 - Wet spring, horse stolen, 4th of July picnics.
 - Bones ploughed up.
 - Death of sisters on one day.
 - flag raisings.
 - Store entered
 - Oct. snow, meteoric shower, levees of S. Schools and W. dramatic club.
 - Winter weather of 1869.
 - Accident on K. & L. R. R., work.
 - First steam whistle and rebuilt factory.
 - Votes on fishery, unpaid taxes, reports of investigation committees, in favor of George's Valley R. R., &c.
 - Mill burned, and a house.
 - School-house moved.
 - Weather,
 - Great gale.
 - Deaths by falls.
 - Weather.
 - Burglary
 - Weather 1870, fog-trumpet, sickness
 - Temperance lectures and George's Valley lodge of I. O. of G. Templars.
 - Warren cornet band.
 - Town's action in relation to uncollected taxes.
 - On town house, and builds new one.
 - Bapt. revival, Cong. church repaired.
 - Electricity
 - 4th of July celebrated.
 - Drought, cabbage worm, Fair of N. Knox Hor. and Ag. Society, social gathering in new town house and Glover Hall.
 - Cold of Jan. 1871.
 - Change in politics of town
 - Agent for town house.
 - Votes to choose road commissioners
 - Selectmen issue town bonds, pay those due.
 - Have chare of the Russell estate, &c., to exempt from taxation ten years all manufactories.
 - R. R. Depot, steam saw-mill, built.
 - Rev. O. Richardson
 - Solar circles, want to snow, draught, hay crop, lunar rainbow, &c.
 - Warren Farmer's M. Fire Ins. Co.
 - Warren Shoe M. Co., and tenement houses, business.
 - R. R. cars and track, changes, stages, &c.
 - Autumn weather.
 - mill burnt.
 - Christmas gathering
 - 1872, weather, Death of Mero.
 - Failure of W. Powder M. Co.
 - Want of hay.
 - Loupcervier.
 - Votes for auditor, printed reports, town safe, to accept Copeland road, exchange State for town bonds, aid small districts, pay bill damage from sidewalk
 - Insane man.
 - Weather, accidents, excursions, 2 houses burned.
 - Road prevented
 - Ag. & Hor. Fair.
 - Epizootic, weather.
 - Death of Col. Thatcher, 1873, lightning, heavy snow fall, freshet.
 - Murder of Dr. Baker.
 - Early drought.
 - Gale, crops.
 - Waldoboro' Cen. celebration
 - Lad drowned.
 - White squirrel, votes "to investigate," to re-district schools, to introduce salmon in river, to enforce gun-powder statute.
 - German American Powder Co.
 - Woolen Manu. Co. and other business, new firm.
 - Rev. N. T. Dutton and Bapt. church.
 - Elmwood Lodge of I. O. of Good Templars, also George's River and Petersburg Lodges.
 - warren Free High School.
CHAPTER XXIV. - 497
   - Winter of 1874, resorts, &c., votes to insure Town house, on County buildings.
 - Warren Cheese Factory
 - Spring, illness, catterpillars, alwives, currant-worm, comet, 4th of July, electricity, fatal accident.
 - trained bear, tramps, heavy rain, picnics, arctic owl.
 - Deaths from coal gas.
 - Lectures, &c., business and the Woolen Manu. Co. failing. 1875, winter severity, store burnt, first car-load of corn.
 - extreme cold, levee, revival at Cornhill, &c.
 - Votes against High School, for road commissioners, raising grade of S. Warren bridge, putting town burying-grounds in better condition.
 - Cold spring, sickness.
 - Freshet and Starrett bridge.
 - Fishery and Seizure.
 - Taxes
 - Business, powder works, frost, baptisms, county lodge, spelling matches.
 - High school graduation, deaths at village and at S. Prison.
 - Thefts, tramps, gypsies, Indians.
 - 4th of July
 - Great hay crop, insects.
 - Lectures, two funerals in one day.
 - Girl drowned
 - Eclipse.
 - Deaths of E. Smith and H. Mero
 - Tiger fire engine
 - Rev. L. Goodrich installed, and Hist. Cong. church.
 - New hearse, child burned.
 - Golden Wedding.
 - Nov. severity.
 - Loupcervier or wildcats, deer.
 - Christmas, suspension Th. savings bank, failure shoe factory.
 - 1876, centennial sunrise, bare ground, frost fish.
 - Christian band, levees, concert,
 - Store burned.
 - Elmwood lodge installation
 - Warren Reform Club and ladies' aid society
 - Sudden death on land and sea..
 - Equinoctial gale, freshet.
 - Votes for fitting out Tigar Engine F. Co. & c., weather, canker-rash, girl burned to death.
 - N. Warren post office and store destroyed
 - Centennial tree planting, June dog-days, building.
 - Gif of the O'brien charity fund of the town of Warren.
 - resolutions.
 - Centennial 4th of July
 - Cornet band and Tigers at Rock.
 - Great heat, slight rainfall.
 - 2 houses burned, Death of town clerk.
 - Gatherings.
 - Incendiarism, fatal explosion at powder works, &c.
 - Other accidents.
 - Death of Dr. Buxton.
 - House burnt, early snow, horse treatment.
 - National elections.
 - Celebration of Warren's centennial.
 - Weather, meteors, crops.
 - High school examination, and W. O. Fletcher.
 - Academy burned, Warren Times, (note).
 - Weather, to close the year.


TABLE OF GENEALOGY - Index of names.
498
TABLE I. - Highways, 1783 to 1872 498
TABLE II. - Valuation, 1790 to 1870 655
TABLE III. - Population, 1790 to 1870 656
TABLE IV. - County Taxes paid by Warren and neighoring 656
TABLE V. - Principal town officers, 1777 to 1876 657
TABLE VI. - Justices of the pea1782 to 1876 662
TABLE VII. - Licenses granted, to residents on St. George's river, prior to 1777 664
Licenses granted to residents of Warren, 1778 to 1837 664
TABLE VIII. - Votes for Governor, 1788 to 1876 665
TABLE IX. - Taxes raised, proceeds of the fishery, pauper expenses, &c., 1778 to 1876 668
TABLE X. - Return of the Superintending School committee, 1850 & 1876 669
TABLE XI. - Return of the Superintending School committee, 1850 & 1876 669
TABLE XII. - Officers of the regiment in which the militia of Warren has been included 672
TABLE XIII. - Vessels Built, 1770 to 1876 673
TABLE XIV. - Deaths, 1797 to 1850 678
TABLE XV. - Vernal progress, 1805 to 1876 679


ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portrait of Cyrus Eaton. facing the title page.
Plan of Warren facing Chapter I, page 1
Map of St. George's and vicinity facing IV, page 46
Wood cut, Conrad Heyer facing page IV, page 84
Heliotype likeness of an old letter, facing Chapter IV, page 61
Portrait of Gen. Joseph Warren facing Chapter IV, page174
Portrait of Hon. Edward O'Brien. facing Chapter IV, page 468


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