Interesting but not conclusive. A fourth (a member of our association and therefore entitled to credence) said that Caesar built a cabin not far from the site of the Island Pond house, married a light colored woman, and had children, one of whom was a daughter named Ginger. Now Ginger is said to have been at work in a family in that part of the chestnut country known as Londonderry, where nothing was known against her character except that she was a Methodist, but as she regularly attended the Presbyterian meeting, that was overlooked. On warm summer days, the doors of the meeting-house stood wide open, and while the preacher did his best to keep his congregation awake, the dogs who had accompanied their owners from home occasionally came in, up one aisle, around in front of the pulpit, and out at the door by the other. Ginger declared this sacrilege, and failing to make the elders take heed to her remonstrance, provided herself with a long supple sprout from the wood nearby, which she deposited unobserved at the end of her seat, a modest plank reserved for colored sisters. In due time the canine procession entered. As it passed Ginger she laid her stick over the backs of the intruders with a resounding whack. The yelping that followed thoroughly awakened the congregation. The preacher, who from his coigne of vantage observed the whole affair, paused for a moment "while ceased the dreadful din," and then went calmly on with his sixthly.

Now this seems on the face of it satisfactory, but a fourth appears on the scene more extraordinary still. Caesar Harvey escaped from Capt. John Smith, presumably at the Isles of Shoals, as this is the nearest point that venturous navigator ever approached these shores, and he is certainly not reported to have ventured on the turbulent waves of the Massabesic. I am told that this view of the origin of Caesar Harvey was supported by many plausible arguments. Now if this theory be true, Caesar Harvey at the time of his advent here must have been lively and living in 1614, so that by the time

the first settlers reached this locality Caesar must have been about one hundred and fifty years of age. It is perhaps as well to stop here for at this rate we shall get back to the original Caesar and imperial Rome.

At an early date, probably in 1738 or thereabout, John Proctor came from Ipswich, Mass., to Londonderry. In 1806 his son John moved to Derryfield and bought six hundred acres in the fourth division south of Cogswell's place, on the west shore of the Massabesic. Here he built a house suitable to his present requirements which, as family and means increased, was enlarged and improved until the present commodious home, a view of which is herewith given, was completed. The late Mr. Luther S. Proctor, son of the above-named John 2d, was a member of the Manchester Historic association, and a notice of his life is given, with portrait on page xxxv, volume 3, of the HISTORIC QUARTERLY.

As a matter of course those approaches to the Massabesic which afforded mill privileges were taken first. The history of mills in the region has been partially given by Mr. Huse in a previous number of this quarterly, and is fully set forth in Chase's "History of Chester" and in Potter's "History of Manchester." For the common use of settlers sawmills, grist and fulling mills were needed and soon provided. The late S. C. Griffin of Auburn claims that one James Horner built a fulling mill on the site where the Griffin sawmill now is in 1720, but as the earliest recorded meeting of the proprietors of Chester was in that year it does not seem probable that Horner could have purchased a lot and had a mill in operation so soon. Moreover, Chase says that the first settlers came not much before 1735. "At an adjourned meeting of the proprietors held Dec. 11, 1735, voted, the land which the Lotlayers Laid out at the request of John Calfe for an amendment to two home lots and a half held by him, which transcript was read at the last Proprietors meeting and put to vote for confermation and past