ment, and served at Valley Forge and other places to the end of the war. After the war closed, he spent some time in fishing on the Grand Banks, came to Maine, first to the Kennebec and Sandy Rivers, afterwards to Camden and this town. In 1791 and 1792, he worked on the mills in Union, boarding himself, but returned to this town, married, and settled at Watson's Point; where, after the building of the bridge, he was toll-keeper, and to the end of his life received as a pensioner the reward of his early services and privations. David Gay, a native of Attleboro', came from New London, N. H., whither he had removed with his father's family while quite young and where he was brought up to the trades of tanning and shoemaking. The whole journey hither through the wilderness, was performed on horseback. Commencing with boot and shoemaking at the Shore, he after some few years turned his attention to lime-burning, which he carried on extensively there, and is said to have been the first to send lime from what is now Rockland to the New York market. One of the earliest wharves in the city was built by him; - only Lindsey's, and perhaps Spear's, both of them small, having been built earlier. About 1811 he removed to the Marsh on the road to Mill River, where he lived 17 years, cleared a large lot of land, established a sawmill, and built the house now occupied by his oldest son. In 1828, he removed back to the Shore; where, for the remainder of his active days, he was extensively engaged in trade, lime-burning, and navigation. There he built a house, of bricks made on his own land; and it is said owned the first chaise in Rockland. He was a devoted member of the Universalist Society in Rockland, and died in 1855; having lived to see the place, which he had first known as an infant settlement in the woods of some half dozen families only, become an incorporated and thriving city.*

An article concerning the separation of Maine from the parent State, was, this year, dismissed by vote of the town at its May meeting. The intercourse between this place and Boston was at that time so intimate, in consequence of the wood, lumber, and lime, which found a market there, that a separation, involving as it did the entry and clearance of vessels, at every trip, seemed fraught with more inconvenience than benefit.

The school districts were again remodeled in December, but, from the small sum, viz.: £26, raised this year for the

* Rockland Gazette, W. E. Tolman, Esq., &c.

purpose, the amount of schooling in each district must have been scanty. Among the instructors employed about this time were Wm. Walsh aforesaid, who, this year, received £6, 8s. 4d., "for keeping school in the North-east Meadow District;" Daniel Andrews, £6, in the same district; Ambrose Snow, £9, at Wessaweskeag in 1790; John White, £5, 7s. 3d., in 1791, at Owl's Head Bay; John Ramsey, £12, in N. E. Meadow district; Samuel Rindes, £3, 8s., in W. Meadow district; and Jona. Adams, $68, in the Western district; the last three probably in 1793 and 1794.

This year was marked by the supposed death by drowning of George Killsa, who had settled and then resided at Owl's Head. Having visited some of the vessels lying in that harbor, he set out on his return in the darkness of evening alone in his punt. A man who was near by in a similar craft, afterwards remembered to have heard a gurgling sound, but suspected nothing at the time; and, though much search was made during the night and following day, no trace of the body was ever found.*

1792. On the 17th of April, Hezekiah Prince of Kingston, Mass., who, whilst an apprentice at the joiner's trade, had worked for the five preceding years here and at Vinalhaven, Camden, and Lincolnville, removed to this town with his chest of tools and clothes; at that time the whole amount of his worldly property. Being now twenty-one years of age, he fixed his home at the house of Isaiah Tolman, jr., which he had himself assisted to build the preceding year; took Jordan Lovett as an apprentice, and found an abundance of employment in Thomaston, Camden, and Warren. But, on June 23d of this year, Mr. Tolman had the misfortune to lose his valuable new house by fire, supposed to have been kindled from a broom set away in a corner, after being used about the hearth just before the family retired. This house was soon rebuilt, however, and the following year, 1793, became the first licensed tavern in what is now Rockland. By the burning of Tolman's house Prince lost all his clothes, except what he had on at work. Finishing his engagements for the season, he burnt a kiln of lime in the winter and took it to Boston for a market. In the winter of 1793-4 he took a journey to Virginia on horseback, then the common and almost only mode of travelling. Returning here, April 8, 1794, he recommenced his business as joiner and painter, on the houses of West, Perry, Curtis Tolman, and others of this town, of

* Mrs. G. B. Cooper.

the Dillinghams, J. Palmer, Wm. Molineux, Daniel Barrett, and Jacob Mansfield, of Camden; took Joshua Fuller as an apprentice; purchased a $500 lot of land in Camden; and built one-eighth of a schooner in company with Wm. M'Glathery of that town. In May, 1795, he removed to Wessaweskeag, and engaged work for his apprentices of Ephraim Snow and Wm. Mathews; whilst he himself chartered a schooner of Islesboro' and took a load of lumber to New York. Losing about $150 on this adventure, he returned to Wessaweskeag in August and resumed work. In 1796, he took John Miller, afterwards of Warren, as an apprentice; built the Wessaweskeag meeting-house, as elsewhere mentioned; did the joiner work on the schooner Betsey & Jenny; went into trade; married; and, about the end of the century, removed to Seal Harbor in St. George, where he manufactured salt in summer and the essence or extract of spruce in winter, both of which found ready sale in Boston.* At this time he considered his property worth $2500. Here we leave this enterprising mechanic, for the present, and return to the year 1792.

Gen. Henry Knox, having now become interested as part owner in the Waldo patent, and having the purchase of the remainder in contemplation, this year sent a mineralogist to explore the same and ascertain what ores and mineral wealth it might contain. Accordingly, Monsieur Monvel, "a judicious young French gentleman, who was educated in the Royal academy in Paris" as such, came here and took up his quarters at Capt. T. Vose's, commencing his work on the 18th of May, and prosecuting the same with almost uninterrupted diligence till the 10th of Oct. 1792. During this interval, he seems, from his manuscript journal, to have explored the whole patent, mostly on foot and alone, searching its mountains and swamps, brooks and ponds; testing its ledges and boulders; and observing its soil, growths, and other advantages. Thomaston was particularly explored ; and the journal of his wanderings up and down the then wild and woody banks of the George's, Wessaweskeag, and Mill Rivers to the neighboring mountains and sea-coast, is interesting, and well agrees with more modern explorations. Other than the rich beds of lime-stone previously known, he seems to have discovered few minerals of value, except bog iron ore which he found between J. Reed's and T. Stevens's

The late H. Prince, Esq.; Diary and minutes furnshed by Capt. G. Prince of Bath; Jeremiah Tolman, Esq.; Mrs. Hannah Watson, &c.

houses, as also near Keen's, and more abundantly far back in the country. He took his departure for Boston in the sch. Polly, October 11th, and arrived at Philadelphia on the 1st of November.*

In June, 1792, Elder Isaac Case resigned the pastoral care of the First Baptist church, probably on account of the meagerness of his support. It is said that, on his removal from the place, he was compelled by poverty to resort to the charity of a well disposed man not of his society, Mr. Woodcock, for the means of transporting his household goods, who, having received the good man's thanks and blessing as he was about to return with his team, said to him, "you are entirely welcome to what I have done, Mr. Case, but take my advice, and never give your services, or settle in the ministry again, without having a sufficient living lawfully secured to you." The labors of this self-denying and devoted apostle of the Baptist faith continued to be sought for and were successfully rendered in various places to a very advanced age. His latest days were, it is believed, spent in Readfield, Maine. He was succeeded as pastor here, after a time, by Rev. Elisha Snow. This gentleman, who, during the busy and exciting scenes of the Revolution, had, as the reader may have observed, lapsed into worldly-mindedness and indifference to religion, now, with characteristic energy, entered upon a course in accordance with the great change he had experienced. When at length the war closed and American independence was acknowledged, he had felt himself left to the mercy of those who not only differed widely from him in opinion, but had also received injuries, real or supposed, at his hands, which they were now able and probably not unwilling to avenge. Pondering over his situation, and perplexed with the difficulties that surrounded him, he had been led, on the occasion before alluded to, to reflect seriously upon his past life, and soon after was suddenly overwhelmed with such a sense of its utter unworthiness in the sight of God and opposition to the spirit and teaching of the Gospel, that, whilst working in his garden, he was struck as with a palsy, and, helpless as a child to work or move, could only exclaim "God is just and I am damned!" This was the burden of his discourse when the first wave of his remorse had subsided and he had begun to find relief in penitential prayers and

* Original MS. Journal, written in tolerably good English, and furnished with a title page by Knox's own hand, -now in possession of Mr. Jas. E. Stimpson of Thomaston.

tears. Such was the apparent depth and sincerity of his contrition, that even to his enemies it seemed cruel to call it in question; and, in the great religious revival that was then in progress under the preaching of Mr. Case, none of the conversions appeared more supernatural and astonishing than that of Mr. Snow. Yet, conscious that

"Never can true reconcilement grow

Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep,"

he prudently withdrew, as before noted, and began his labors. as a servant of Christ in a distant field. Now, however, on the removal of Mr. Case, he returned to his old home and place, and was soon enabled, by his zeal, self-humiliation, and vehement eloquence in prayer and exhortation, to gain the ears, and through them in a great measure the confidence, which he ever after retained, of his townsmen and neighbors. Soon after the departure of Mr. Case, an unhappy dispute. arose among the members of this church, chiefly in reference to the doctrine of the atonement. Mr. Snow, whose active mind and energetic will were never without influence wherever exercised, believed and strenuously contended that the atonement made by Christ was partial, extending to those only who were elected and foreordained from all eternity to be saved; that against all such, the Father, having received satisfaction, had no further claim, and could not lawfully condemn them; and that, if Christ had died for all men, then all would have been entitled to salvation. Dea. Samuel Brown, on the other hand, believed that Christ died for all mankind; and that all, by complying with the required conditions, might obtain salvation through the atonement of his death. Each had their adherents in the church; and the dispute produced confusion for a considerable time; caused the ordinances to be neglected; and finally resulted in the exclusion of thirtyfour members by the majority. Among this number was the clerk, Dea. Brown, who, probably deeming his party as much the church in all respects but in numbers as their opponents, retained the records. He afterwards joined the Methodists or, according to some, the Freewill Baptists; removed to Camden, and subsequently to Ohio, carrying the records with. him.

These, the church never recovered; though several of the excluded members afterwards returned to its bosom.

The town meeting, this year, after the choice of moderator, “adjourned from N. Fales's to the house of D. Fales," where all the subsequent meetings during the year were held. Mr. Robbins, whose house had been made use of for that pur