married to Rebecca, eldest daughter of Jane Macworth, as early as March 28, 1658, at which time he received from Mrs. Macworth a conveyance of land near the mouth of Presumpscot river, where he afterward lived.1 In addition to these persons there then lived in the bay, John Cousins, near the mouth of Royall's river; Thomas Hains, at Marquoit; James Lane, on the east side of Cousins' river; Richard Bray, on Mains' point in North Yarmouth; John Maine, at the same place; James . Parker, on the Kennebec river or its neighborhood; William Royall, on the east side of Royall's river, near its mouth; John Sears, probably on one of the islands. Besides thesc, there were Hugh Mosier, Thomas Morris, and Thomas Wise, who lived some where in the bay at this time, but at what particular place, we are unable to determine; probably in North Yarmouth.

The distribution of the inhabitants of Falmouth, in the several parts of the town is as follows: On the east side of Presumpscot river, lived James Andrews, Jane Macworth, Francis Neale, and Nathaniel Wharff; on the west side of that river, Róbert Corbin, John Phillips, Richard Martin, the settler at Martin's Point, opposide Macworth's Point; at Back Cove, George Ingersoll, George Lewis, John Lewis, and Nathaniel Wallis; on the Neck, lived George Cleeves, Michael Mitton, and Richard Tucker; at Purpooduck, Joseph Phippen, Sampson Penley, Thomas Staniford, Nicholas White, and probably John Wallis; Robert Jordan is the only name we meet with from Spurwink; Francis Small lived at Capisic, on a tract of land he purchased of the Indians.

The several parcels of land conveyed by Cleeves and Tucker, were invariably situated upon the margin of one of the rivers, or of the Back Cove. The earliest grants from them we meet with, were to Atwell, at Martin's Point, and to George Lewis,

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2 Martin married widow Atwell, and afterward occupied her farm.

at the entrance into Back Cove; these were made before 1640, and probably after June 8, 1637, the date of their possession under Gorges' deed. The next conveyance we have discovered, was of two hundred acres at Back Cove, to Wise and Mosier, in 1640, between the land of Atwell and Lewis. We find no trace of any other conveyances from those persons until 1646, when they granted to John Moses, "now of Piscataqua river," "one hundred acres of land in Casco bay, adjoining unto land formerly granted unto George Lewis," in consideration of seven years service as an apprentice to them.1 Between the date of the two last mentioned conveyances, Cleeves went to England and procured his commission from Rigby, and also May 23, 1643, a title to the same tract which had been granted to him by Gorges.

For a number of years after this period, Cleeves was engaged in a controversy with the agents of Gorges for the maintenance of his power as the deputy of Rigby; and after he was quietly established in his government, he soon became occupied in resisting the claim of Massachusetts. These employments, together with the continual opposition by which his administration was harrassed by discontented subjects, must have left him but little opportunity for the improvement of the large tract conveyed to himself and partner.

In 1650, May 1, he confirmed Peaks' Island to Michael Mitton, his son-in-law, under authority from Rigby, and January 1, 1651, by the same authority, he conveyed to him one hundred acres at Clark's Point, adjoining his dwelling-house, which Mitton "had possessed for ten years." February 24, 1651, he transferred to him all that tract lying in Casco bay, granted to him by Alexander Rigby, which he describes as being "now in the possession of me the said Cleeves and other of my tenants," also all the utensils, household stuff in and about the house and buildings, with all his houses, buildings, "cattle as well as cows

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and calves and steers and swine, young and old, as also all other cattle and goods," and mentions as the consideration a sum of money, and also "that he the said Michael Mitton, shall at all time and times hereafter maintain and provide for me, the said George Cleeves, and for Joan, my now wife, good and sufficient meat and drink, apparel and lodging and physick and all other necessaries for the relief of this frail life for both of us, and the longest liver of both of us, as well as for other considerations me hereunto moving as well the marriage of my daughter as otherways." Although this deed appears to have been regularly executed, yet it probably never took effect, as we find Cleeves afterward, even the same year, making conveyances of parcels of the same land; the deed was not recorded until 1717.

December 26, 1651, Cleeves conveyed to Nicholas Bartlett,* of Cape Porpus, "one hundred acres lying together in Casco bay, near unto the house of me, the said George Cleeves, to begin at the south-west side of the corn field, now employed for tillage and corn, by me the said Cleeves; the bounds to begin at the small water lake, which runneth into the cove, near the said corn field, and is to run eightscore poles into the woods, and from the cove south-west by the water side toward the house of Michael Mitton, one hundred poles, together with so much. marsh ground as is to be appointed to every other tenant for every hundred acres." This description points out the situation of the grant; it extended from Clay Cove to about where Union street now is, and included the whole width of the Neck.

* [Bartlett lived sometime in Scarborough.]

1 In the time of Gov. Andross, 1687, Bartlett petitioned for confirmation of this title, and represented that he bore arms for King Charles eight years, for most of which time he had no pay, especially the last three years he served in the Princes guard, and at last was forced to fly out of England for his life, poor and destitute; and in order to settle himself here, purchased land of Cleeves. That Danforth disposed of the land to other men who built upon it. He was then living in Salem.-York Records.

This tract was conveyed by Bartlett to John Higginson, Jr., of Salem, in 1700, and by Higginson's executors to John Smith of Boston in 1720, but it does not appear that it was ever occupied by Bartlett or those who claimed under him. It is very certain that it was entirely disregarded by President Danforth in the settlement of the town in 1680.

On the 20th February, 1653, Cleeves being in England, received from Edward Rigby a grant of one thousand acres adjoining the land formerly granted to him, "beginning at the little falls in Casco river, and running westwardly three hundred and twenty poles, and five hundred poles southwardly." Possession was delivered by Mitton to Richard Tucker by the appointment, and for the use of Cleeves; and July 18, 1658, Cleeves conveyed the same to Tucker for thirty pounds sterling. We hear nothing more of this title, and presume it died with Tucker.

These are the only conveyances we find from Cleeves previous to 1657; after that time they are more frequent, owing probably to the increase of immigration. In May, 1657, he granted to "James Andrews, son of Samuel Andrews, citizen of London, deceased," one hundred acres of land at the upper end of the marsh on Fore river, near Capisic. In this deed mention is made of a grant of one hundred acres next adjoining, by Cleeves to his granddaughter, Ann Mitton; we do not find the latter deed récorded, but the land is held under that title at the present day; Ann Mitton having married Anthony Brackett, who occupied the estate and left the whole, or part of it, to his posterity.*

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June 26, 1657, Cleeves conveyed to "John Lewis, eldest son of George Lewis, of Casco," one hundred acres bordering on his father's former grant of fifty acres. This was situated at Back Cove, not far from Tukey's bridge, and is part of the farm

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* [This forms part of the Deering farm at Back Cove.]

now owned by Henry Ilsley.* Lewis conveyed it to Nathaniel Wallis in 1674, who occupied it. November 20, of this year, Cleeves made another conveyance of fifty acres to George Lewis, lying southerly of his son John's grant, and extending to Fall Cove.

The earliest Indian deed we have met with of land in Falmouth, was made July 27, 1657, by Scitterygusset to Francis Small; it runs thus: "Be it known unto all men that I, Scitterygusset, of Casco Bay, Sagamore, do hereby firmly covenant, bargain, grant, and sell unto Francis Small, of the said Casco Bay, fisherman, his heirs, etc., all that upland and marshes at Capisic, lying up along the northern side of the river, unto the head thereof, and so to reach and extend unto the river side of Ammoncongan." The consideration for the conveyance of this large tract, about two miles in extent, was "one trading coat a year for Capisic, and one gallon of liquor a year for Ammoncongan."

We know but little of this Sagamore; Winthrop mentions him as the leader of the party which murdered Bagnall on Richmond's Island in 1631, and a creek near the mouth of Presumpscot river still perpetuates his name. What extent of territory he ruled over, or what distinguishing name his tribe bore, we have no means of ascertaining. We may, however, reasonably conjecture that his people spread between the Androscoggin and Saco tribes, and occupied the river Presumpscot and the large ponds from which it has its source. Aucocisco, the name that Capt. John Smith and other early writers apply to the natives upon this bay, may be considered as belonging to this tribe, which may therefore be called the Aucocisco, or as the name is now used, the Casco tribe, of which Scitterygusset was the chief Sagamore at this time.

The neighboring tribes had their appropriate appellations, and the name we have assumed, is the only one of those preserved by the early writers, which remains unapplied.

*[In 1861, the Woodman farm is part of it.]