Duncan Chessom, Francis White. To one acquainted with the names now common in this town, this catalogue of early residents will be chiefly interesting as showing the almost total change in names which has occurred here since the seventeenth century. The causes of such a change will soon become apparent. Some whose names only are here presented were active citizens, bearing well their part in the management of the town's affairs, and at the same time faithful to their own interests. Of such we would write more did space allow. Others were quite poor fishermen, and yet poorer planters, of whom we know scarcely anything more than their names. No event of much importance, excepting those already noticed, occurred during the first forty years of the town's history; or if they did no record of them has been discovered. The forward rank that Scarborough held amongst the larger towns of the early Province, is the best proof of the worth and energy of these her first children. The excellent advantages of her situation are unchanged; and that towns, then hardly equal to her companionship, have since exceeded her so far in growth, and all prosperity, or, that they have at least retained their old position while she has not, can be owing to nothing but the later neglect of advantages which were then improved. It is evident from the contrast that the early townsmen were, to say the least, more enterprising than their successors of the last half century have been. Falmouth on the one side, and Saco on the other, for many years kept nearly an equal pace with this town in population and general growth.*

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As late as 1791 the census shows a very slight difference in population between Portland and Scarborough. The returns for the two towns then were-Portland 2240-Scarboro' 2235! Compare with this the census of

1850,

CHAPTER V.

JOHN JOCELYN AT BLACK POINT.

Among the most valuable records relating to the early history of our country are those preserved in books written by the settlers themselves, or by the few travelers who were induced for novelty's sake to visit the "wilderness of America. "Of the former the "Journal" of the excellent Gov. Winthrop is an invaluable specimen; of the latter the Voyages of John Joce lyn Gent. are peculiarly interesting to us. This traveler was the brother of Henry Jocelyn, and spent nine years with him at Black Point. His first visit here was in 1638. He arrived on the 14th July of that year, and staid until September of the next year. He came again 1663, and remained until 1671. Four years after his last return to England he published a narrative of his visit which is a curious medley of the "odds and ends" of his experience in New England. The views here given of the manners and customs of New England two hundred years ago must have been mostly derived from Jocelyn's observation of those amongst whom he resided. We suppose much that he states in a general manner, as relating to the whole of New England, to be inferred from what he knew of those with whom he daily met in his walks about Black Point, and at the fireside of his brother. This renders his book very important to our present purpose, as illustrating the condition, habits, and general character of the early townsmen. It is for this reason we extract so much from it, copying such parts of the account as our limits will allow, only wishing that the whole might be had so easily as to render these extracts superfluous.*

* Jocelyn's book is now rarely met with. There is a copy, we believe, in the Library at Cambridge. In these pages use has been made of the accurate transcript of the Masachusetts Historical Society, in Vol. 3d, series 3d of its invaluable Collections. The title page of the author's edition is this:

been in the

The notice of his embarkment for this country is in these words: "A. D. 1638: April 26. I went on board the Nicholas of London, of 300 Tuns burden-manned with 48 sailors -the master Robert Taylor, The merchant Mr. Edward Tynge with 164 Passengers, men, women, and children." Here follow notices of Capt. Cammock, who appears to have Nicholas on his return from a visit to England. "May 12. One Martin Fry, a shipping servant to Capt. Thomas Cammock, was whipt naked at the cap-stern, with a cat with nine tails, for filching 9 great Lemmons out of the Chirurgeon's Cabbin, which he eat rinds and all in less than an hour's time." " June 19. Capt. Thomas Cammock (a near kinsman of the Earl of Warwick) now had another lad, Thomas Jones, that dyed of the small pox." "June 26. Capt. Thomas Cammock went aboard of a bark of 300 Tuns laden with Island wine, and but 7 men

"An Account of Two Voyages to New England, Wherein you have the setting out of a Ship with the Charges; the Prices of all neccessaries for furnishing a Planter & his Family at his first Coming; A Description of the Country, Natives & Creatures; The Government of the Country as it is now possessed by the English &c. A large Chronological Table of the most remarkable Passages from the first discovery of the Continent of America to the year 1673.

By John Josselyn Gent.

The Second Addition.

Mirnner. distich reudered English by Dr. Heylin.

Heart take thine ease

Men hard to please

Thou haply mights offend;

Though one speak ill

Of thee, some will

Say better; ther's an end.

London.

Printed for G. Widdows at the Green

Dragon in St. Pauls Churchyard.

1675."

in her, and never a gun, bound for Richmond's Island, set out by Mr Trelawney of Plymouth."

July 3. We anchored before Boston." "July 12. I took boats for the Eastern parts of the country, and arrived at Black Point in the Province of Main, which is 150 miles from Boston, the 14th day, which makes my voyage 11 weeks and odd days." The voyager's first adventure at Black Point is described on the next page of his book, where there are important allusions to localities, which remain to this day almost unchanged. He says "About the 10th of August I hapened to walk into the woods, not far from the sea-side, and falling upon a piece of ground overgrown with bushes, called there black cnrrence, but differing from our Garden Currence, they being ripe and hanging in lovely bunches, I set up my piece against a stately. oak with a resolution to fill my belly, being neere half a mile from the house: upon a sudden I heard a hollow thumping noise upon the rocks approaching towards me, which made me presently to recover my piece, which I had no sooner cocked than a great and grim over-grown she-wolf appears, at whom I shot, and finding her Gor-belly stuffed with flesh newly taken in, I began presently to suspect that she had fallen foul upon our goats, which were then valued (our she-goats) at Five Pounds a goat: Therefore to make further discovery I descended (it being low water) upon the sea-sands with an intent to walk round about a neck of land where the goats usually kept. I had not gone far before I found the footing of two Wolves, and one Goat betwixt them, whom they had driven into a hollow betwixt two Rocks. Hither I followed their footing, and perceiving by the crowes that there was the place of slaughter, I hung my piece upon my back, and upon all four clambered up to the top of the rock, where I made ready my piece and shct at the dog-wolf who was feeding upon the remainder of the Goat, which was only the fore-shoulders, head and horns, the

rest being devoured by the she-wolf, even to the very hair of the goat-and it is very observable that when the wolves have killed a beast, or a hog, not a Dog-Wolf among them, offers to eat any of it, till the she-wolves have filled their paunches." Cammocks house, where Jocelyn was living, is supposed to have been situated near the "Ferry Rocks." The neck here referred to as the goat pasture, may be recognized as "Cammock's Neck" by the rock to the top of which our traveler clambered on "all-four." Those well acquainted with the locality here incidentally described will have no difficulty in recognizing the spots referred to in this account. In another place Jocelyn says: "Goats were the first small cattle they had in the country. He was counted nobody who had not a trip, or flock, of goats; a he-goat gelt at Michaelmas and turned out to feed will be fat in a month's time, and is as good meat as a weather."

Sept. 24. Monday about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a fearful storm of wind began to rage, called a hurricane. It is an impetnous Wind that goes commonly about the compass in the space of 24 hours. It began from the N. N. W. and continued till the next morning-the greatest mischief it did us, was the wracking of our shallop, and the blowing down of many tall trees, in some places a mile together."

"1639. May, which fell out to be extream hot and foggie. About the middle of May I killed within a stone's throw of our house, above four score snakes, some of them as big as the small of my leg, black of colour and three yards long, with a sharp horn on the tip of their tail two inches in length."

Much has been written of late, both in prose and verse, about that mysterious monster of the deep, the Sea-Serpent: here is a very early notice of him, and of another strange creature of the sea. "June 26. Very stormie, Lightning and Thunder, I heard now two of the greatest and fearfullest thunder-claps that ever were heard, I am confident. At this time we had