{"1": {"fulltext": "M.", "height": "3473", "width": "2246", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "i-\\\\ I\\nLibrary of Congress.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nChap L.-. i^\u00c2\u00ab2", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "^.r^ -.^2^ :Z ^%^C^\\n^^^1 .^L^/^^-^-^^j^\\nc", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nCENTENNIAL OF CASTINE\\nAN ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES AT THE CELEBRATION\\nOF THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF\\nTHE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN\\nJULY 9bb, 1896\\nPUBLISHED AND SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TOWN LIBRARY\\nCASTINE, MAINE\\n1896\\nik.\\\\", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "9 O OO\\nEiunavinci, Ipiintiiiii, anJ 36inJiiui\\nIn:\\nUbc !LaI5csi^c Iprcss, ipoitlant, /lOainc.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nOrganization, 7\\nHistorical Sketch, 9\\nThe Guests, 12\\nThe Day s ProgramiME, 13\\nThe Procession, 14\\nThe Literary Exercises, 15\\nThe Dinner, 49\\nEvENiNc; Incidents, 50\\nLetter fr().m J. W. Castine, M. P., 52\\nDisplay of Antiquities, 55\\nIncorporation of the Town, 64", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nOPP.\\nPAGE\\nCastine From the Brooksville side of the Harbor Frontispiece.\\nCard of Invitation, 12\\nBovs WITH Ancient Fire Engine, -13\\nMarines and Blue-Jackets from U. S. S. Columbia, 13\\nAncient Fire Engine, Hancock, -14\\nBlue-Jackets passing Custom House, 14\\nTriumphal Arch, -15\\nU. S. S. Castine, 24\\nIn Witherle Park, 24\\nDyce s Head, 28\\nThe William Hutchings House, 30\\nThe Joseph Perkins House, 30\\nThe John Perkins House, 34\\nThe Elisha Dyer House, 34\\nFort George and Dungeon, 38\\nWadsworth s Cove and Blockhouse Head, 42\\nThe Thatcher Avery House, 46\\nThe Joseph Wescott House, 46\\nU. S. S. Columbia, 50\\nOakum Bay, Castine, 56\\nIndian Bar, 62", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nTHE ORGANIZATION.\\nT^ARLY in the j^ear 1894, the citizens of Castine\\nbegan to consider the desirability of marking with\\na celebration the one hundredth anniversary of the\\nincorporation of the town under its present name.\\nAlthough the first settlement of the place dates far\\nback into the mists of such an antiquity as an Ameri-\\ncan community might claim for itself, one hundred\\nyears was all that could be reckoned for the lifetime\\nof the comparatively modern town of Castine and the\\nproposition to celebrate its centennial was regarded\\nwith favor because, among other considerations, it\\nM ould establish a point for the recurrence of anniver-\\nsaries yet to come.\\nAccordingly, in the warrant issued for the town-\\nmeeting held in March, 1894, an article was inserted\\nproviding for consideration of the expedienc\\\\ of cele-\\nbrating the one hundredth anniversary of the incorpo-\\nration of the town. At that meeting the whole matter,\\nafter some discussion, was referred to a committee of\\nfive citizens, who, in conjunction with the Selectmen,\\nwere to consider the proposition and report at the town-\\nmeeting to be held in the following ]\\\\Iarch. John F.\\nRea, George H. Witherle, Charles H. Hooper, Dr. E. E.\\nPhilbrook and C. Fred Jones were appointed to serve\\non the committee; and at the meeting in March, 1895,\\ntheir report, which was in favor of such a celebration.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "8 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nwas presented to the voters of the town. The report\\nwas accepted and adopted, and it was agreed that the\\ncelebration should, among other features, include pub-\\nlic exercises to be held on some da}^ to be selected from\\nthe months of June or July, 1896.\\nAt the same meeting a committee of citizens was\\nappointed, to act in conjunction with the municipal\\nauthorities, to concert such measures and make such\\npreparations for a suitable celebration as might be pos-\\nsible and desirable. The committee was as follows\\nSelectmen George A. Wheeler, John P. Shepherd and J. W.\\nPerkins, and Messrs. G. W. Perkins, Charles H. Hooper, George H.\\nWitherle. E. E. Philbrook, C. Fred Jones, John F. Rea, Alfred F.\\nAdams, John N. Gardner, W. S. Payson, Frank S. Perkins, George\\nM. Warren and Frank E. Rea. This General Committee was subse-\\nquently organized by the choice of Dr. George A. Wheeler (Chair-\\nman of the Board of Selectmen), as Chairman, Charles H. Hooper,\\nTreasurer, and C. Fred Jones, Secretary.\\nSub-committees were appointed by the General Committee, as\\nfollows\\nOn Tablets or Landmarks. Noah Brooks, George H. With-\\nerle and Alfred F. Adams.\\nOn Antiquities. Frank S. Perkins, Thomas E. Hale, John F.\\nRea, Mrs. L. M. Perkins, Mrs. S. T. Noyes, Mrs. Phoebe Whiting,\\nGeorge H. Emerson, F. P. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Foster, A. K.\\nBolan and E. E. Crockett.\\nOn Music. W. G. Sargent, Mrs. J. P. Shepherd, W. M. Law-\\nrence, F. A. Douglass, Dr. and Mrs. E. E. Philbrook, Miss Lucy\\nParker and W. A. Walker.\\nOn Literary Exercises. George H. Witherle, A. F. Richard-\\nson, Noah Brooks, J. W. Dresser, Mrs. W. H. Witherle and Mrs.\\nMaria Woodbury.\\nOn Decorations. Alfred F. Adams, F. S. Perkins, E. C. Bow-\\nden, Jerre Perkins, Charles W. Richardson, E. S. Perkins, W. H.\\nHooper, John M. Vogell and W. G. Sargent.\\nOn Naval and Marine Display. George A. Wheeler, George\\nM. Warren, J. N. Gardner, E. E. Crockett, Noah Brooks and R. B.\\nBrown.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "THE ORGANIZATION. 9\\nOn Printing. W. G. Sargent and John P. Shepherd.\\nOn the Public Dinner. C. Fred Jones, W. A. Walker, John\\nW. Perkins, George Wescott, Frank Hooper, N. P. Noyes and\\nA. W. Clark.\\nOn Invitations. A. F. Adams, George A. Wheeler and W. G.\\nStevens.\\nOn Salute and Bell -Ringing. John P. Shepherd, J. M.\\nVogell, Edward Morey, A. C. Coombs, George Morey and Julian\\nWebber.\\nOn Procession. E. F. Davis, Charles H. Hooper and George\\nL. Weeks.\\nOn Transportation. George M. Warren, J. M. Vogell, Aaron\\nChamberlain and Charles Smalledge.\\nOn Amusements. C. H. Hooper, Thomas E. Hale, Jr., Walter\\nS. Brown, Duncan Dunbar, Charles E. McCluskey, Walter Bartram,\\nThomas Perkins, E. S. Perkins and Wilbur Ward.\\nOn Fireworks. A. M. Devereux, John P. Whiting, J. Millard\\nDennett, John S. Sawyer, Jr., and Frank V. Grindle.\\nOn Evening Reception. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Lewis, Mr_\\nand Mrs. J. W. Dresser, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Shepherd and Mr.\\nand Mrs. Frank E. Rea.\\nOn Ball. ^W. G. Stevens, Bennett Perkins, W. S. Payson and\\nW. S. Macomber.\\nOn Bureau of Infor.aiation. W. S. Payson, Guy Sargent,\\nErnest M. Hatch, Clarence E. Wheeler, Alfred Rafnell, Leo Herrick,\\nNelson Woodbury, Russell Wescott, Otis H. Parker, Willis Ricker\\nand Harry Macomber.\\nOn Reception of Invi ted Guests. The General Committee.\\nCommittee of Audit. George M. Warren, George H. Witherle\\nand C. Fred Jones.\\nTHE HISTORY OF THE TOWN.\\nThe act incorporating the town of Castine was\\npassed February 8th, 1796; but the observance of that\\nanniversary being undesirable in the usually inclement\\nmonth of February, July 9th, 1896, was fixed upon as", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\ntlie date for the celebration. As a matter of history,\\nthe date of the original occupation of Castine, other-\\nwise the peninsula of Pentagoet, far precedes that of\\nthe settlement of any of the localities in this region of\\nthe Maine coast. The Plymouth Colony were the first\\nwhose activities here are recorded in history. Under\\nthe direction of Isaac Allerton, the Colony established\\na trading-post here in 1629; they held the place until\\n1632, when the French from Nova Scotia drove out the\\ntraders and settlers, in the temporary absence of All-\\nerton. After some years of desultory warfare, the\\nKnglishmen were finally expelled in 1635, and the\\nplace, then recognized as Pentagoet, came into full\\npossession of the French, who then reigned supreme\\nin Acadie.\\nInternecine quarrels disturbed the peace of the\\nregion for many years after this; and in 1654 the\\nEnglish again took possession, Cromwell being then\\nLord Protector. Wars between the French and English\\nfinally terminated in 1667 by the treaty of Breda under\\nwhich Pentagoet, along with all the territory Ijnng\\neastward thereof, was ceded to the French. About this\\ntime the Baron de St. Castin, a French officer who had\\nbeen engaged in the Canadian military service of his\\ncountry, came hither, and marrying a daughter of\\nModocawando, a powerful sachem, established himself\\nas a trader Castin lived in a style somewhat baronial\\nand was greatly influential during his stay. He was\\noccasionally involved in wars with the English who\\nstill harassed the French who held the coasts of Maine\\nadjacent to the English. The Baron sailed for France\\nin 1701 and did not return; but his two sons remained\\nand occasional mention of them is made in the annals\\nof the time.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE ORGANIZATION. 11\\nFrom 1728 to 1761 there is a blank in the history\\nof the place but in the j^ear last-named the English-\\nAmericans were dwellers here. About this time and\\nsubsequentl}^, the name of the locality was variously\\ngiven as Majabagaduce, Bagaduce, Biguj^duce, Bigi-\\nwiduce, and so on. In 1779, the American Revo-\\nlution being in progress, the inhabitants were mainly\\nloyal to the newly proclaimed Republic; the British\\nlanded in that year and took military possession\\nof the peninsula which was formidably fortified, Fort\\nGeorge, on the crown of the promontory on which the\\npresent town is built, being the key of the position.\\nAt the conclusion of the treaty of peace, in 1783, the\\nBritish evacuated the place and four years later,\\nFebruar}^ 23d, 1787, the settlement was incorporated\\nunder the name of Penobscot this included the land\\non both sides of the harbor, the peninsula, and a con-\\nsiderable portion of the mainland. The peninsula and\\na portion of the region now known as Brooksville was\\nincorporated as a separate township, known as Castine,\\nFebruary 8th, 1796. In 1817 the town of Brooksville\\nwas incorporated, being set off from Castine, and a\\nportion of the mainland, belonging to Penobscot, was\\nadded to the territor}- of Castine.\\nPenobscot celebrated its centennial in 1887 Cas-\\ntine had its one hundredth birthday in 1896, and that\\nof Brooksville will occur in the year 19 17. The far-\\nwandering sons and daughters of Castine were hospit-\\nably^ entreated to return to their native town when the\\nobservance of their Centennial was determined upon\\nand many of them came to renew the memories and\\nrefresh the affectionate loyalty in which they have ever\\nheld the beautiful and historic place which is endeared\\nto them by innumerable traditions, associations and", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nreminiscences. Prose and poetry have been invoked\\nto celebrate the attractions of Castine, and the pencil\\nof the artist has striven to do justice to its beauty.\\nStrangers sojourning here may well have adapted\\nDuncan s words to describe the lovely village, as one\\nshould say\\nThis Castine has a pleasant seat: the air\\nNimbly and sweetly recommends itself\\nUnto our gentle senses.\\nTHE GUESTS.\\nThe tide of summer visitors this year set in rather\\nearlier than usual for those who had learned to love\\nCastine as a place of restful resort during the warmer\\nmonths made haste to join in the celebration of its one\\nhundredth anniversary. Prominent persons through-\\nout the state were officially bidden to the festivities;\\nand the more important invitations were handsomely\\nengrossed on cards, designed and executed for the\\noccasion. The notable guests were as follows: United\\nStates Senator Eugene Hale, Representative Seth L.\\nMillikeu, Representative Charles A. Boutelle, Repre-\\nsentative Nelson Dingley, Jr., Supreme Court Justice\\nA. P. Wiswell, Lieut. O. W. Lowry, U. S. N., repre-\\nsenting the commander of the Columbia, and accom-\\npanied by nine other officers of the criiiser; Joseph\\nWilliamson, the historian of Maine, and the town offi-\\ncers of Penobscot and Brooksville. Among those who\\nwere invited and sent letters regretting their inability\\nto be present were J. W. Castine, M. P., South\\nAustralia; Chief Justice John A. Peters, of the State\\nSupreme Court; Associate Justices Lucilius A. Emer}^,\\nChas. W. Walton, Enoch Foster, Wm. P. Whitehouse,\\nand Sewall C. Strout; Speaker Thomas B. Reed and", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "r^i\\nr^\\n?r\\nC\\nC\\nc\\nH\\nC^\\nf\\n-Op-\\n.JlC 1-\\n0\\\\\\nP\\nc^\\n1l w\\no;", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Marines and Blue-Jackets from U. S. Steamship Columbia.\\nBoys with Ancient Fire-Engine.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE ORGANIZATION.\\n13\\nSenator W. P. Frye; Admiral F. M. Bunce, U. S. N.;\\nBrig.-Gens. Selden Connor and W. S. Choate Colonels\\nT. P. Shaw, F. C. Thayer, W. H. Fogler and E. C.\\nFarrington; Major A. G. Rollins; and Collector of the\\nPort W. J. Creamer. The Governor of the state, and\\nhis staff, also sent regrets. Chief Justice Peters, in his\\nletter of regret, expressed his admiration for the card\\nof invitation which he had received, and said that he\\nhad deposited it in the collections of the Bangor Histori-\\ncal Society as a valuable souvenir; and Justice Emery\\nwrote cordially and interestingly of the centennial\\nevent. Francis Van Wyke, formerly a citizen of Cas-\\ntine, and now 94 years of age, residing in Bangor, sent\\na letter conveying to his former fellow-townsmen his\\naffectionate remembrance of the dear old place and\\npeople, and expressing his regret that his advanced\\nyears and increasing infirmities prevented him from\\nrevisiting, at this time, the scenes of his youth.\\nTHE PROGRAMME.\\nThe date of the celebration having been determined\\nupon, the details of the programme were considered\\nwith carefulness and finally fixed by the following\\nfeatures\\n5.00 o clock A. M.\\n8.30 to 10.30 A. M.\\n10.30 to 12.00 A. M.\\n1.00 to 3.00 p. M.\\n2.00 to 6.00 p. M.\\nSunset\\n6.45 p. M.\\n8.30 p. M.\\n9.30 to 11.00 p. M.\\n10.00 p. M.\\nBell Ringing and Salutes.\\nProcession.\\nLiterary Exercises.\\nDinner.\\nBoat Races and Amusements.\\nSalute.\\nConcert at Fort George.\\nFireworks in Front of Fort.\\nReception at Normal Hall.\\nBall at the Town Hall.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nIt was also agreed upon that the collection of\\nantiquities, made for the occasion by the committee on\\nthat branch of the exercises, should be on view at the\\nNormal School House, on the 9th and loth of the\\nmonth. It may be remarked here that the collection\\nwas one of great interest, the variety and value of the\\narticles shown proving the scrupulous care and vener-\\nation with which the present generation has preserved\\nthe relics and reminders of the olden time. A list of\\nthese objects will be found at the end of this little\\nvolume.\\nThe eventful Ninth of July dawned bright and\\nbeautiful, and the thunder of the early morning salute\\nawoke the people of Castine to the enjoyment of a fes-\\ntivity of patriotic gratulation. On the previous day the\\nmagnificent United States cruiser Columbia, detailed\\nfrom the North Atlantic Squadron by orders from the\\nNavy Department, had arrived in the harbor, and, with\\nthe revenue cutter Woodbury and visiting and Cas-\\ntine yachts, was now decked out with flags and bunting\\nin brilliant array. The waters of the harbor sparkled\\nin the summer sun and the luxuriant foliage of the\\nshade trees for which Castine is famous was stirred\\nby a pleasant breeze.\\nTHE PROCESSION.\\nNE of the most important and attractive features of\\nthe procession, which formed on the common and\\nmoved on time, was a detachment of about two hundred\\nblue-jackets and marines from the cruiser Columbia,\\nunder the command of Lieut. O. W. Lowry, U. S. N.\\nThe martial bearing and the free, swinging march of\\nthe men won the plaudits of the crowds of spectators.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Blue Jackets Passinor Custom House.\\nANCIENT FIRE-ENGINE -HANCOCK.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 15\\nThe line was headed by the Belfast Brass Band dis-\\ncoursing most excellent music. Officers of the man-\\nof-war, in full-dress uniform, rode in carriages with\\nmembers of the General Committee, invited guests,\\naged citizens and those who were to participate in the\\nliterary exercises of the day. An organization of\\nyoung men of Castine birth, resident in other places,\\nThe Castine Club, marched in the line with a\\nbanner of their own and with the Lawrence Cornet\\nBand, of Castine; they were greeted with many a\\nround of applause along the line of march. Another\\nfeature of the parade was the ancient fire-engine, The\\nHancock, dating from 1804, whose tub was designed\\nto be filled from leathern buckets provided by the\\nhouseholders of the town. This interesting relic was\\nescorted by a company of stalwart youths.\\nThe houses and stores along the route of the pro-\\ncession were handsomely and profusely decorated with\\nbunting and artistic devices the skillful hands of\\nprofessional decorators had been employed for that\\npurpose during the preceding days. At the intersec-\\ntion of Main and Court Streets was erected a great tri-\\numphal arch of wood covered with evergreen, adorned\\nwith flags and streamers, and bearing on its front\\ntowards the port the word which was on the lips of all\\nthe people WELCOME.\\nTHE LITERARY EXERCISES.\\nJUST before arriving at the Trinitarian Congrega-\\ntional Church on Main Street, the procession was\\ndisbanded, and the literary exercises in the church\\nwere begun. A large platform had been built at the\\nchancel end of the edifice and seats provided for the", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nspeakers, t he clergy, invited guests, the band and the\\nCastine Club. After music by the band, the great\\naudience, which filled every part of the building, was\\ncalled to order by the Chairman of the General Com-\\nmittee, Dr. Geo. A. Wheeler, who spoke as follows:\\nADDREvSvS OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CENTENNIAL\\nCOMMITTEE.\\nLadies and Gentlemen: We have recorded the say-\\ning of a wise man of old that there is for everything\\na season and a time for every purpose under the\\nheaven; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time\\nfor keeping silence and a time for speaking. The\\nhour for the latter has now arrived, but I do not pro-\\npose to inflict upon you any length}^ remarks of my\\nown, as others are to follow me whose province it is to\\ncall up before you fond recollections of the past, to\\ninvite your attention to some of the more important\\nand salient events in our history, or to charm your\\nears with the rythmic cadence of verse. I would only\\nremind you at this time that there are epochs in the\\nhistory of nations, states, even village communities,\\nas well as in the lives of individuals, which serve as\\nmile-stones to mark their career. One of these epochs,\\nand the most important one of all in the histor}^ of\\nthis town, we are met to celebrate to-day, and it is well\\nfor us to make a pause in the headlong pursuit of busi-\\nness or pleasure which characterizes the times and for\\na brief period to take into our consideration some of\\nthe many events which have marked our course as a\\nmunicipality.\\nIt is now my pleasant duty, for and in the name of\\nthe town of Castine, to extend, officially, to its sons\\nand daughters who for this occasion have returned to", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 17\\nthe place of their nativity, to the former citizens who\\nhave once more come back to tread its well-remembered\\nstreets, to the distinguished guests here assembled,\\nand to all strangers within our gates to each and\\nall a generous and hearty welcome.\\nI also have the pleasure of introducing to yow as\\npresident of the day a native of this town personally\\nwell knowm to a majority of its inhabitants known to\\nmany as the B03 Emigrant to California, and widely\\nknown throughout the land not onl}^ for his reportorial\\nservices during the late w^ar but also for his subsequent\\nsuccess in the world of literature. I have the honor\\nto introduce to you Mr. Noah Brooks.\\nADDREvSS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE DAY.\\nOn being introduced by the Chairman, Mr. Brooks\\nsaid\\nMr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: This honor\\nwhich has been given me is accepted with sincere grat-\\nification. After years of wandering I am once again a\\ncitizen of my native town, the beautiful town whose\\ncentennial we celebrate to-day. It is a dream fulfilled\\nthat, after so long an absence, I am able to unite with\\nyou in the festivities incident to this anniversar}^ of\\nour beloved town s foundation and I am actuall}^ here,\\nspending the evening of ni}^ days where I spent a happy\\nbo3diood. Pardon this personal allusion.\\nThis is Castine s day. We welcome with real\\npleasure those of our guests to whom the fame of the\\nbeauties of this region ma}^ have dimly come and we\\ntrust that 3 ou will say with one of old, The half has\\nnot been told. To ^^ou we feel like offering an apology\\nfor our apparent youthfulness. We are really much\\nolder than we look. Being feminine for a place is", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nalwaj^s she we may claim for our town tlie privi-\\nlege of tlie gentler sex and say of her that she is older\\nthan she looks. For if we date back, as we should, to\\nthe time when the God-fearing Pilgrims under Isaac\\nAllerton hung up their hats here in 1629, this village\\nis 267 years old. Don t go away with the notion that\\nwe are only 100 years of age.\\nTo our friends from Penobscot and Brooksville we\\nneed not offer any such apology they know us of old.\\nWe parted from Penobscot 109 j^ears ago. And, as an\\neminent American statesman once said to a British\\naudience, We have always been sorry that we let 3 ou\\ngo. For you the latch-string still hangs out. And\\nBrooksville, named for one of the numerous Brooks\\nfamily ^John of that ilk, who was Governor of Massa-\\nchusetts at that time parted from us, regretfully, let\\nus hope, in 1817 and at the same time a part of Penob-\\nscot (the better part, let us say) came back to us and\\nclung around our off-neck for, although we have no\\nnigh-neck, we have an off-neck which is very near and\\ndear to us and it is there we have the region re-ceded\\nto us by Penobscot.\\nWith special warmth of affection do we greet here\\nthose of our own native townspeople whose hearts, we\\nknow, have alwaj^s been with us in the homes which\\nthey have builded in other parts of the American\\nRepublic. Unwillingly leaving us, because the bounds\\nof our little peninsula are too strait for a big popula-\\ntion, they have joyfully come home to join in the cele-\\nbration of our one hundredth birthday. We are sure\\nthat in whatever state they have found themselves,\\neach one of them has always said of Castine My\\nheart, uutraveled, fondly turns to thee\\nCome, now, let us celebrate ourselves. It is a cause", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 19\\nfor pride and gratitude to us that so many of our old-\\ntime friends and neighbors have proved in other parts\\nof the land the value and the worth of an early train-\\ning in old Castine. The hardy virtues, the manly\\nindependence and the unflagging industry of the sons\\nof Maine have greatly contributed to the glory and\\nhonor of the American people wherever Maine men\\nhave been called b}^ enterprise and adventure. In\\neverv department of human activity you will find the\\nman from Maine alert, active, hard-working, law-\\nabiding; he is the builder of the state, the champion\\nof the free school and the defender of the rights of\\nman. It is possible that the Government of the United\\nStates might worry along for a while without Maine\\nmen but such a contingency is remote, and seems\\nhardly probable. For in every emergency of the state,\\nwherever a leader or a champion of liberty has been\\nwanted, a man from Maine has been sent for. In the\\nold days, when American commerce whitened every\\nsea with its sails, a British publicist complained that\\nif it happened that an English voyager landed to take\\npossession of a supposedly unclaimed island in remote\\nseas, he would find a Bangor schooner bobbing up and\\ndown among the bushes, or a Portland pedler trading\\njackknives with the unbreeched natives. In like man-\\nner, even now, whether you are camping in the mount-\\nain solitudes of California, shooting alligators in the\\nswamps of Florida, or prospecting in the mines of\\nCentral America, there you will find the law-making,\\nlaw-enforcing Yankee, with a perfect genius for gov-\\nernment pervasive, all-knowing and ready to preach\\nor trade. Is it too much for us to claim our share in\\nthis moral and material propaganda of the Western\\nContinent? Nay Maine has always been a leader in", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nthe crusade and Castine has never been behindhand.\\nTo-da}^, in these historic shades, enriched with\\nmultitudinous precious memories of the more recent\\npast in which our forebears had part, we unite in cele-\\nbrating the goodness of God who has made us a happy\\nand prosperous community, an integral part in one of\\nthe great nations of the earth. This occasion addresses\\nitself not only to the dwellers in Castine, but to every\\npatriotic American citizen who claims a home in this\\ndelightful laud. An anniversary like this may well\\nthrill the chords of tender memories of every lover of\\nhome and countr3\\\\ For each one of us may say:\\nThere is a land of every land the pride,\\nBeloved by Heaven o er all the world beside;\\nThere is a spot of earth supremely blest,\\nA dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.\\nWhere shall that land, that spot of earth, be found\\nArt thou a man a patriot Look around,\\nAnd thou shalt find, where er thy footsteps roam.\\nThat land thy country and that spot thy home!\\nTHE ODE BY REV. WILLIAM BRUNTON.\\nAfter prayer offered by the Rev. John P. Cushman,\\npastor of the Congregational Church, an organ prelude\\nwas plaj^ed by Willis A. Richer and the audience rose\\nand sang to the air of Auld Lang Syne the following\\node, written for the occasion by the Rev. William Brun-\\nton, pastor of the Unitarian Congregational Church:\\nT/ie Bonnie Town of Old Cast inc.\\nOne hundred years have flown away,\\nTo honor our good town\\nWe all rejoice to greet the day.\\nAnd spread its fair renown;", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 21\\nFor old Castine, dear friends,\\nFor brave Castine,\\nOur happy heart glad greeting sends\\nFor old Castine\\nWhat beauty all about it lies.\\nHow beautiful it seems.\\nHow fair its sea, how blue its skies,\\nIt is like land of dreams;\\nOur bonnie old Castine,\\nOur dear Castine\\nNo brighter spot was ever seen\\nThan our Castine\\nWhat lovely homes are sheltered here.\\nWhat loving hearts and true;\\nTo us and ours tis always dear,\\nIts beauty blest and new\\nThis lovely town, Castine,\\nOur old C astine,\\nOf all the bay it is the queen\\nOur dear Castine!\\nOur hearts and voices blend as one,\\nIn honor of Castine\\nAnd when a century more is gone,\\nWe pray she still will queen\\nThis lovely town, Castine,\\nOur own Castine,\\nNo fairer spot was ever seen\\nThan old Castine\\nSCRIPTURE READING.\\nThe Rev. U. G. Lyons, pastor of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church, was then introduced, and he read\\nthe following selections of Scripture:\\nPsalm xc, verses i to 6 and 12 to 17: Lord, thou hast been\\nour dwelling place in all generations.\\nBefore the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst\\nformed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting\\nthou art God.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 CENTENNIAL OE CASTINE.\\nThou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, Return, ye children\\nof men.\\nFor a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it\\nis past and as a watch in the night.\\nThou carriest them away as with a Hood they are as asleep in\\nthe morning they are like grass that groweth up.\\nIn the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it\\nis cut down and withereth.\\nSo teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts\\nunto wisdom.\\nReturn, O Lord, how long and let it repent thee concerning thy\\nservants.\\nO satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be\\nglad all our days.\\nMake us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted\\nus, and the years wherein we have seen evil.\\nLet thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory unto thy\\nchildren.\\nAnd let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us and estab-\\nlish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our\\nhands, establish thou it.\\nHebrews viii, from verse 8 to the end: Behold the days are\\ncome, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the\\nhouse of Israel and the house of Judah.\\nNot according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in\\nthe day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land\\nof Egypt because they continued not in my covenant and I\\nregarded them not, saith the Lord.\\nFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel\\nafter those days, saith the Lord; I will put their laws into their\\nmind and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God\\nand they shall be to me a people.\\nAnd they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man\\nhis brother saying, Know thou the Lord; for all shall know me from\\nthe least to the greatest.\\nFor I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins\\nand their iniquities will I remember no more.\\nIn that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old.\\nNow that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 23\\nA vSONG OF PATRIOTISM.\\nThe President of the Day then introduced Judge\\nWarren C. Philbrook, of Waterville, formerly of Cas-\\ntine; and that gentleman, who has a famous tenor\\nvoice, sang a solo from Von Suppe s opera of Fati-\\nnitza, My Native Land, with fine effect and excellent\\nmethod.\\nPOEM BY MR. JOHN W. DREvSSER.\\nThe President of the Day then said: When I\\nwas a youngster in this my native town, so many years\\nago that I hesitate to say when that was, one of the\\nbig, bright boys in the Master s school that I\\nattended was famous for his scholarship and literary\\ngifts. How little did we think then that the time\\nwould ever come when, a grizzled veteran myself, I\\nshould sit on the Castine Centennial platform with\\nhim and introduce him to a Castine audience. But\\nthe time and the man have come and it is now my\\npleasure to introduce to you one of 3^our own life-long\\nfriends and fellow-townsmen, Mr. John W. Dresser,\\nwho will read you a poem which he has written as a\\npart of his contribution to the celebration of this day.\\nMr. Dresser s poem, which was received with great\\napplause, was as follows\\nThe eventful dawn of a centennial day\\nComes only once, my friends, to you and me.\\nMay we not ask ourselves in serious mood\\nWhy are we here Of good what have we done\\nAnd what more may we do in life s brief span\\nFor the quick passage of a hundred years\\nSo marks for us the rapid flight of time,\\nWe re startled as we pause, and think that they\\nWho with us lived and loved and thought and planned.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nWere our own friends, perhaps our very sires.\\nCome then, go kindly back with me in thought;\\nWe ll say tis seventeen hundred ninety-six\\nWe stand once more on soil made famous long\\nBy strife and conflict for possession s sake.\\nThe Baron, with his own peculiar skill,\\nHad lately won it from the savage grasp,\\n(Macdocawando s daughter now his bride),\\nAnd French and Indian life were joined in one.\\nBut years rolled on, and great unrest and change,\\nAnd caring not to hold his costly prize.\\nHe left it open for contention still.\\nMeagre indeed the records of the past\\nFrom then to later time, when Britain saw\\nThe future value of this noted spot;\\nOur own fair land now counted it as hers,\\nBut England fiercely claimed it as her own,\\nAnd sent her fleet with their two hundred guns,\\nAnd men who fought on Europe s battle-fields,\\nUnder their tried and bravest generals.\\nIn truth our forces far outnumbered theirs,\\nFor Massachusetts sent her ablest ships\\nWith stern resolve to save her own domain\\nFrom Mother England s greedy, grasping hand.\\nTis sad to say we had no leader there,\\nAnd gloomy hours were given to wild retreat;\\nOne single day of Hull or John Paul Jones\\nHad sent their squadron flying from our shores.\\nAnd so these Englishmen became our guests\\nMade free with all that came within their sight,\\nGrew very merry over our defeat.\\nTurned upside down on parlor window-panes\\nOur Yankee Doodle they had so long scorned;\\nThey learned to know it better later on\\nThey made their beds in our Masonic Hall,\\nAnd when at last their time had come to leave,\\nMade choice of emblems and Masonic tools,\\nThings quite unnameable, you know, of course.\\nThey left the altar, had no use for that,\\nThe dreaded coftin, too, still less they craved", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "U. S. STEAMSHIP CASTlNE.\\nIN WITHERLE PARK.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES.\\n25\\nBut to their everlasting shame be t said\\nThey stole the ancient goat, ne er since been seen.\\nFort George they seemed to think could not be moved,\\nAnd proudly now it stands on yonder crest,\\nTo mark for aye their own cheap victory.\\nWith more than generous thought and toil and care\\nOur own good townsman has full well secured\\nIts future safe and free from selfish hands,\\nAnd from unwise and rude intrusion, too\\nOur sons, a hundred generations hence,\\nShall gladly bless him for the thoughtful deed.\\nWe ask what influence brought our fathers here,\\nWhat could have led them to this quiet spot?\\nThe Baron s fort swept all the river s mouth,\\nAnd on the rising hilly crest, Fort George\\nCommanded all the scene on every side.\\nExceeding fair it was, so rich the view\\nFrom off those high and new-thrown battlements,\\nThat quick to one of keen, observant eye\\nMight come the thought, This, this shall be my home!\\nHow more than vain, indeed, the effort now\\nTo picture the fair scene before us spread.\\nGrowing upon us with our life-long growth\\nMountain and river, far-off island, bay.\\nSequestered inlet deepening light and shade.\\nThe safe and spacious harbor, wide and deep.\\nReady for men of action here to bring\\nThe fruits of commerce to her waiting shores.\\nHere, then, in those old far-off years were found\\nMen who in choosing well their homes could say,\\nHere s room for youth and growing enterprise,\\nAnd fairest promise of complete success.\\nWe call their names men of as sterling worth\\nAs ever trod our old New England soil\\nThe Perkins, largest owners of your lands,\\nWitherle and Howe, Bryant, Hale and Gay,\\nThe Adamses and Crawford, Jarvis, Mead,\\nAnd soon the tide of sure prosperity\\nCame flowing freely to our Castine shores.\\nHer port the one exchange for hundred miles", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 CENTENNIAL OE CASTINE.\\nOf all the country round by sea and land.\\nAnd now she builds her ships, proportion large,\\nFor their entire equipment well supplied.\\nThe product mainly of their own skilled hands.\\nTimber and rope and sail and spar and chain\\nGave many willing hands their daily wage.\\nNo men who ever trod the quarter-deck\\nOf merchant ships, wherever they might sail,\\nStood higher in the great commercial world\\nThan these, the old commanders of our fleet,\\nHowe, Whitney, Perkins, Wescot, Dyer, Gay\\nNo men more safe, more sure, more shrewd than they\\nPlanned wisely those adventurous voyages\\nTo foreign shores they bought, they sold, they brought\\nOld Europe s products to New England s marts\\nAnd their own port had often larger part\\nOf all their freight, when they were homeward bound.\\nThe fishermen on all our rock-bound coast\\nFor more than fifty years knew this the place\\nFor early needs, or for their full supply.\\nOur wharves and all our docks in early spring\\nWere often crowded thickly as they lay\\nPreparing for the coming outward trip\\nAnd then the creaking block and mallet s click\\nTold loudly of the busy, healthful life.\\nMeanwhile there gathered round our firesides here\\nThose who in earlier youth had honored well\\nThe grand old sterling stock from which they sprung.\\nHere now was wealth in fullness to supply\\nLarge store of culture and of wider growth.\\nThey asked us now for better, higher schools,\\nFor newer methods, for such large demands\\nThat all our pupils should at once be called\\nTo fuller exercise of mental power.\\nThen Abbott s patient care and toil and thought\\nBrought to us all a rich and great reward\\nA noble teacher compassed all his wish\\nWe greet hnn here to-day with grateful hearts.\\nAnd then, successful, faithful teachers here\\nWere called from us too soon to higher place.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES.\\nAnd thus the praise and well-earned fame we gained\\nFor love and care of Education s gifts\\nBrought us at length our valued Normal School.\\nWith grateful, thankful hearts we now recall\\nThe always-faithful ever-watchful care\\nOf Dingley and the noble Chamberlain,\\nThe zealous Fletcher, and the loving man\\nWhose quiet ways made many young men strong.\\nAnd may we not rejoice with one to-day\\nWho, as he guides it in its daily course,\\nSeems to make sure its future worth and growth\\nTo William Mason s early care and thought,\\nIn the old days when books were few and rare,\\nWe owe our ever-growing library.\\nHappy are we that now his mantle falls\\nOn one who fills it with most generous grace.\\nOur own, our valued townsman, Noah Brooks.\\nAn old physician claims a grateful word,\\nA strong, historic figure of the past\\nFor all his time he gave, and thought and growth,\\nNo other service his to yield or grant.\\nWhen life and health were given him in trust.\\nHow keenly, too, he felt the nation s strife,\\nAnd when Secession s claims were first revealed\\nAnd Sumter s guns called northern men to arms,\\nA quick response we gave to Lincoln s call,\\nOur Company s flag the first to leave the state,\\nTrue hearts replied and opened wide the purse,\\nAnd fair hands made the soldiers wounds to heal.\\nNo truer, braver men e er met the foe\\nAnd her long roll-call fills a noble page.\\nSadly reluctant now we turn our thought\\nTo many years of change, to downward trend\\nMen will grow old. Tides rise and then must fall;\\nAnd when at last the topmost mark is reached,\\nWith earnest striving still we struggle on\\nTo stem the ebbing current of decay.\\nThe rapid, quick-timed coming in of steam,", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nAnd then the gradual going out of sail,\\nMade sure the shipwreck of prosperity,\\nAnd brought decline to all our seaport towns.\\nMen stood appalled and could but sadly ask,\\nWhat shall become of all that labor claims\\nWhat shall supply so large, so great a need,\\nSuch vital source of all substantial good\\nBut let us not too soon desparing cry;\\nEarth, air and sea still hold for us the power\\nTo win and charm ev n as in years long past\\nMen who in life-long earnestness will strive\\nTo here create a hundred happy homes.\\nEven now we surely find for thankful hearts\\nMore than we ever thought to cheer us on.\\nSee where the Porters lovely mansion stands;\\nThough Witham s boulders there so thickly lay,\\nWe never dreamed they e er would be disturbed\\nTill Gabriel s trump should sound and wake the dead.\\nSee the Ames acres as they fast increase.\\nAnd show us verdant robes of living green\\nAnd Keener s quiet, dainty summer home.\\nWhere sunny hearts and faces always shine.\\nAnd Witherle Park, now open free to all.\\nBy ever generous heart and willing hand.\\nAnother kind of growing wood is found\\nOn Dyce s Head than we had ever thought.\\nOn stoniest soil Wood somehow seems to take\\nThe deepest root Grow on, grow on, O Wood!\\nWe ll welcome all the summer birds you bring;\\nMore of the Littles, please we re fond of Wings,\\nAnd all the tasty Pols and lively Burrs\\nPerhaps we d like a few more artists, too.\\nAnd then we see McLaughlin s vine-clad home,\\nAnd feast our eyes on Blake s and Morey s lawns.\\nThe Wilsons pleasant, picturesque abode,\\nAnd Fuller, all to happy in his choice,\\nStands proudly overlooking all below.\\nGlad voices from Bates cottage now we hear.\\nAnd Brastow s thoughtful words we all enjoy,\\nAnd last, Oh, no! not least, by river bank,", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DYCE S HEAD.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 29\\nThe one quaint cottage our friend Bolan planned,\\nThat more than generous, open-hearted man\\nWho takes our hearts by storm with kindly deeds.\\nSo gladly do we welcome those who come\\nTo share with us our genial summer suns;\\nNot one among them all has ever asked\\nFor Fashion s claims or for her noise or rout.\\nThey come for needed rest from toil and care.\\nFor grateful respite from the city s round,\\nDo we not note with pride their quality.\\nAnd ever cry as children do for more.\\nOur one Centennial day Many have come\\nTo look once more upon the dear old home\\nThey may not grasp the father s loving hand,\\nThey may not feel the mother s warmer kiss.\\nBut the old mansion s door stands open wide.\\nAnd brings back all the memories of the past.\\nThen let us make more beautiful this ground\\nAnd claim that not one old historic spot\\nA vandal hand shall ever mar or spoil,\\nFor the bright scenes that brought our fathers here\\nMay lure once more the old-time thrift and growth.\\nStill one more tribute now we ask to pay\\nTo those whose daily thought and word and act\\nGave us the heritage we love and hold;\\nAs backward now we look upon their lives\\nOur words are all too poor to tell their worth.\\nFor Memory s faithful links are true and strong,\\nAnd bind our hearts to them in loving thought.\\nBravely and well they fought life s battle here,\\nAnd left their deeds to win our grateful praise.\\nHow strange, how great, how marvelous the change\\nSince yonder peaceful hillside gave them rest!\\nNo more for us the busy shipyard s scene\\nNo more for us the lofty sail is spread\\nNo more by man the hempen thread is spun\\nNo more we hear the blacksmith s hammer ring.\\nWe talk to-day with all our far-off friends,\\nOr visit them at will in foreign lands\\nAs though they lived near by, just o er the way;", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "30 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nWe know no limit, set no bounds of ours\\nTo Man s supreme control of Nature s laws\\nWe ask for light, and other lights are pale\\nBefore a ray which now we throw at will.\\nEven like the lightning s Hash, o er land and sea\\nAmazed we look through solid matter now,\\nAs though we knew it but transparent glass.\\nAsk we for heat, earth s stubborn metals melt,\\nTouched by this fervent, all-subduing volt;\\nAnd steam, so long our greatest source of power,\\nGives place to this unseen but mighty force.\\nTo-day that twinkling spark tells time and space\\nTo yield the boundless claims they called their own;\\nFor even life and thought and being seem\\nSubservient to that mysterious power\\nSo drawn from vast Creation s heavenly dome.\\nMay he who holds it in his mighty hand\\nAnd garners with it all created things.\\nSo fill our hearts and all our fleeting lives\\nWith love to God and generous love to man,\\nThat sweeter far in heavenly homes above\\nShall dawn for us Centennials yet to come.\\nMR. GEO. H. WITHERLE S HIvSTORICAL ADDRESS.\\nIntroducing tlie orator of the day, after music by\\nthe orchestra, Mr. Brooks said: Pardon me if I once\\nmore revert to a personal reminiscence. It is the priv-\\nilege of old age to be garrulous and retrospective. In\\nthose earlier years, of which I have already spoken,\\nthere were in the school, then taught by Mr. S. W.\\nMitchell and by Mr. Chas. A. Spofford, two lads who\\nwere wont to speak pieces for the delectation of fellow\\nscholars and visitors. They sometimes declaimed such\\ndialogues as the quarrel scene from Julius Caesar,\\nthe colloquy between Hamlet and Homtio, or that", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "f?^\\nj:;.i%g\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00c2\u00abk\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Nil\\nL\\nm\\n1^!^^\\nThe JOSEPH PERKINS HOUSE, built 179!\\nThe WILLIAM HUTCHINGS HOUSE, date unknown.\\nWilliam Hutchings, ai the time of his death in 1866, was the last survivor, but one, of the soldiers\\nof the American Revolution. He was born in York, Me., in 1764; his father removed to Majabagaduce\\nin 1768; he enlisted in the Army of the Revolution in 1781; he died in his own house, which is in\\nPenobscot, about six miles from Castine.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 31\\nbetween Percy and Doilglas in Percj^ s Masque, mak-\\ning the old woods by the Block House ring when they\\nrehearsed their parts before their public appearance.\\nIt is a strange mutation of life that has brought one\\nof these boj^s, after years of absence from his beloved\\nbirthplace, to introduce the other, who has alwa3^s been\\na resident among you, to a Castine audience on a day\\nof Centennial celebration. Yet so it has come to pass,\\nand with real pleasure, although with diffidence, I pre-\\nsent to you Mr. George H. Witherle, who will now\\naddress 3 ou. Mr. Witherle was cordially greeted by\\nthe audience and spoke as follows\\nAn old town with a history. Such is Castine whose\\ncentennial we celebrate to-day. Not specially old as a\\nseparate municipality, for Maine has more than five\\nscore towns whose incorporation dates further back\\nthan a hundred j^ears. But few of them have tradi-\\ntions and records of the past like ours, running so\\nnearly to the very beginnings of New England, so full\\nof stirring and romantic interest, so worthy of remem-\\nbrance and narration.\\nMost of you are doubtless familiar with the con-\\nception of the marvelous possibilities growing out of\\nthe theory of the endless transmission of every wave\\nof light through infinite space. A being whose eyes\\nw^ere endowed with infinite telescopic power and with a\\ncapacity of motion vastly exceeding that of light itself,\\ncould leave the earth, outstrip the rapid raj^s, see in\\nreverse order all that has passed on our globe, and\\nreach at length a distance where onlj^ the formless\\nvoid and darkness on the face of the deep would meet\\nhis gaze. And while accurate thinking discloses many\\ndifficulties in the way of clear and perfect vision of all\\nthe world s past scenes, even by such a being, yet", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "32 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nenough remains to authorize the use of the conception\\nin efforts of romance or imagination, even of that\\nsoberer and more matter-of-fact imagination whose aid\\nmust always be summoned on an occasion like this.\\nTo give new facts of history, or even a compendious\\nabstract of the alread}^ known, is not our purpose, but\\nto present a few brief and incomplete pictures, to take\\nhurried glimpses by the way, to explain, to comment,\\nto suggest. Thus we will use the grand idea referred\\nto as an instrument to aid in recalling some fragments\\nof the history of our town, though only in the imper-\\nfect manner in which all instruments are employed by\\nunskilled and unpracticed hands. And with these\\nimagined powers we will start on our outward and\\nbackward journey.\\nThe present fades, familiar surroundings vanish,\\nwe have bewildering glances at strange forms and\\nfaces in our dizzy flight. Now even the land and sea\\nare hidden. For the tremendous ice sheet covers all\\nthe region, overwhelms the summit of Katahdin, buries\\ndeep the Camden and Mount Desert Hills, fills all our\\ninland waters and ends in mighty cliffs, giviug birth\\nto gigantic icebergs, far out in the gulf of Maine.\\nThe summer sun shines down on its dazzliug surface,\\nbut no summer sights are there, no life save its slow,\\ncrushing, irresistible movement. We have peuetrated,\\nperhaps, too far into the depths of space and time, and\\nwill return with diminished, though still unimagin-\\nable, speed.\\nThe frost of ages is passing away. We look down\\nupon a soaked and draggled earth, bare and worn, yet\\none upon which, with minor differences, we still recog-\\nnize the present form and outline of hill and valley,\\ninlet and bay. Slowly or swiftly, as we time our", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 33\\nhomeward flight, grasses and shrubs clothe the soil,\\nflowers bloom, trees spring up, birds rest on their\\nbranches and dot the air in their flight, wild beasts\\nare roaming through the forests and over shore and\\nupland. Among them man appears.\\nCenturies upon centuries glide away before us,\\nunnumbered seasons run their course. Pause for a\\nmoment and consider the aspect of a July day here a\\nthousand years ago. Main and island are overspread\\nwith woods, such as we call primeval, clothed with the\\nvaried greens of a diversified growth. Within, we find\\nbroad spaces free from underbrush,\\nWhere are mossy carpets better\\nThan the Persian weaves,\\nwhere the trees rise in majestic columns worthy of\\nGod s first temples and through each branch enwoven\\nskylight a dim, religious liglit sifts down and spreads\\naround, such as never glorified an old cathedral. Yet,\\nas a whole, the interior is dark, damp and gloomy, full\\nof decayed and prostrate trunks, abounding in wind-\\nfalls and impenetrable thickets, among which, now and\\nthen, an Indian trail winds its obscure way. Tracks\\nof great forest fires may deform the landscape, of\\nsooty blackness, if recent, bleached white and ghastly\\nif of older date. Small clearings may relieve it, giving\\nlight and air to accustomed camping places, or satisfy-\\ning the needs of the rude and scanty aboriginal agri-\\nculture. No white sail reflects the sunshine, no swift\\nsteamer disturbs the waters. They are only rippled\\nby the paddle and the birch canoe, whose owners, not\\nunlikely, are among our earliest summer visitors, escap-\\ning from the hot interior to enjoy the cool breezes of\\nthe bay, and the feasts of clams and other products of", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "34 CENTENNIAL OE CAS TINE.\\nthe shore and salt water, whose remnants, in the\\ndeposits of shells and bones along our beaches, still\\nremind us of their existence.\\nIt may be hard to picture clearl}^ this outward scene.\\nHow much farther removed from our consciousness the\\nmental state of these children of the forest, so shut off\\nfrom all connection with the great outside world, or\\nknowledge of it, so devoid of the thoughts and inter-\\nests which fill our lives.\\nA hundred years later, the Northmen first tread the\\nsoil of New England. Did the}^ penetrate our inlets\\nor land on our shores Should we see on the waters\\naround us the vessel bearing to Vinland, Thorfinn\\nand Gudrida, parents of the first white American, or\\nThorhall, the hunter, on his perilous exploring expedi-\\ntion? Little doubt that some of those hardy wanderers\\nwould come within the circle of our gaze, but they\\npass and leave no certain sign.\\nAt last Columbus gives a new world to the old.\\nBut the narratives of the sixteenth century supply little\\npositive knowledge of the navigators who may have\\nvisited Maine s eastern coast, and not until the seven-\\nteenth commences do we begin to emerge from the\\nmists of inference, tradition and unreliable statement,\\nto find authentic records. These may enable us, after\\nvainl}^ scrutinizing unknown voyagers, to recognize\\nChamplain, in his little vessel, sailing from Port Royal\\nnow Annapolis, Nova Scotia, first giving names to Mt.\\nDesert and Isle an Haut, passing up the bay in full\\nview of our peninsula and ascending the Penobscot to\\nthe site of Bangor.\\nHow interesting would be a clear vision of the next\\none hundred years. How the tangled skein of events\\nmight be unravelled and their dim course be made", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "^fw\\n^^^^j^gjgt-\\nMi\\nThe JOHN PERKINS HOUSE, built about 1765.\\nThe ELISHA DYER HOUSE, built about 1 8u0.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 35\\ndistinct. Rough and stalwart actors appear on the\\nscene, their lives full of intrigue and adventure, toil,\\nstrife and danger, seeking by trading or raiding, b}^\\nfair means or foul, to promote their own private inter-\\nests and the supremac}- of France or England.\\nFirst, in this spot where our gaze is centeied we\\nmay see temporary French occupants; next, about\\n1629, the establishment of the Pilgrim and Puritan\\ntraders from ]\\\\Iassachusetts, with its var3nng fortunes,\\nits plunder by a French vessel, its seizure by D Aul-\\nney in 1635, the appearance off the harbor of the\\nredoubtable Miles Standish, accompanied by an armed\\nship, intent upon recapture, but foiled by the haste of\\nGirling, her captain, the smoke of who^e guns is man-\\nifest as he heedlessly burns all his powder and fires\\naway all his shot, at so long a range as to be harmless\\nto his eneni3\\\\\\nThen comes the long struggle between D Aulney\\nand his French rival, La Tour. Scenes of trade and\\nstrife are relieved b^^ the milder vision of Friar Leo of\\nParis conducting the religious exercises at the foun-\\ndation of the chapel in honor of our Lady of Holy\\nHope and engraving on the copper sheet the rough\\ncommemorative inscription so strangely preserved for\\nalmost two centuries and a half. D Aulney s death\\nscene and the marriage ceremony of his widow with\\nhis old-time rival now flit before us, and after a few\\nmore years the martial figure of Castine appears, in\\nall the vigor of early manhood.\\nWould that power of thought and charm of lan-\\nguage might be given to treat that adventurous life as\\na gifted pen might treat it, and bring it before us as\\nvividly to-day as the penetrating eyes we are imagining\\nmight see it. A strange mixture indeed was the life of", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "36 CENTENNIAL OE CAS TINE.\\nmany so-called gentlemen of the mediaeval sort, who\\nscorned avocations which our democratic ideas recog-\\nnize as among the worthiest, while they easily adapted\\nthemselves to savage associations and manners from\\nwhich we should shrink.\\nWe behold him, when scarceh^ past the age of boy-\\nhood, leaving his home among the Pyrenees, fighting\\nagainst the Turks in aid of the Emperor of Germany,\\nand later guarding Canadian settlements against Indian\\noutbreaks. Then, in 1667, when France made peace\\nwith the tribes and the regiment of which he had\\nbeen a subordinate officer was disbanded, he journeys\\nthrough the woods from Quebec to the spot which now\\nbears his name. The description of the old fort here,\\ndrawn up three years afterwards, when Acadia was\\nformerly transferred b}^ England to France, the can-\\nnon, magazine, chapel, dwellings and other buildings,\\nthe well, the garden of fruit trees near b}^, even this\\nabbreviated catalogue ma}^ aid us in realizing some of\\nhis life s surroundings.\\nThis fort is the defence of the harbor, the point of\\nattack of every enemy, whether of the two Dutch\\nraiders, who forcibly captured it, or of the hated\\nAndros in the frigate Rose, before whom its occupants\\nretired without resistance. Here often comes the brave\\nand sagacious Modocawando, here lives his dusky\\ndaughter, over idealized, doubtless, by the poet, but\\nnot improbably endowed with man}- wild and natural\\ncharms.\\nHere the Romish Priest always finds welcome and\\nshelter, with sympathy and aid in the exercise of his\\ncalling. Here the Indian flocks for trade, or rendez-\\nvous for war, specially do we note the gathering and\\ndeparture of the canoe fleets transporting the Indian", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 37\\ncontingents, sharing in the capture of Fort Loyal at\\nFalmouth in 1690 and of Pemaquid in 1696.\\nFinally, on some day not far removed from the\\nbeginning of a new century, he who to our eyes has so\\nlong been the central figure treads for the last time the\\nsoil of Pentagoet, leaves his children and the Indian\\nassociates over whom his influence had been so great,\\nand departs for his native France.\\nIn the harsh outlines of his face\\nPassion and sin have left their trace.\\nYet, save worn brow and thin gray hair,\\nNo signs of weary age are there.\\nHis step is firm, his eye is keen.\\nNor years in broil and battle spent,\\nNor toil, nor wounds, nor pain have bent\\nThe lordly frame of old Castine.\\nFor an uncertain period, Anselm, the elder son,\\nmakes headquarters here. He retains his father s influ-\\nence with the Indians, serves gallantly in three sieges\\nof Port Ro^^al by Provincial forces, and receives a com-\\nmission as lieutenant in the French army. The record\\nof his marriage to the daughter of a French officer is\\npreserved in Nova Scotia; as also of two sisters to\\nFrench gentlemen, one the grandson of La Tour and\\nD Aulney s widow.\\n(Jn one occasion he is taken by strategem from his\\nresidence and carried to Boston, a prisoner, charged\\nwith offenses of a hostile sort, but after five months\\nconfinement, a thorough investigation by the com-\\nmittee of the general court and in accordance with pub-\\nlic sentiment, he is discharged. Of Joseph Dabadis,\\na younger brother, scattered records remain, specially\\na letter addressed by him to the lieutenant-governor of\\nMassachusetts, claiming compensation for a small", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "38 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nvessel taken from liim near Naskeag Point. All, how-\\never, fade out from written history and here again our\\nfar-seeing eyes might afford undreamed-of knowledge.\\nFaint surmises, indefinite traditions about squatters in\\nthis neighborhood, occupants of the buildings at Fort\\nPentagoet and children born there, might thus c(\u00c2\u00bbme\\ninto the realm of fact.\\nWe should surely note the expedition of 1759,\\nwhich erected the works at Fort Point, and Governor\\nPownal with twenty men sailing across the bay one\\nafternoon, in the sloop Massachusetts, visiting the\\nabandoned fort and settlements, hoisting the king s\\nflag and drinking the king s health, a sort of picnic,\\napparently, and should doubtless agree with him that,\\nfrom the site and nature of the houses and remnants\\nof the fields and orchards, it had once been a pleasant\\nhabitation.\\nWith the close of the French and Indian War, the\\nbuilding of Fort Pownal and the granting of town-\\nships for settlements by Massachusetts, the old order\\nchanges, giving place to new. Settlers flock in, this\\npeninsula, divided into eight lots, being apparently\\ntaken up in 1761, Trott s Ledge and Dyce s Head still\\npreserving the names of the occupants of each extrem-\\nity. If we love the marvelous we may obtain a glimpse\\nof the witch wife, next neighbor to the latter, who often\\ntorments him in the form of a black cat with fiery\\neyes, as she limps home, scorched and crippled, when,\\nafter one uncommonly trying visitation, he seizes\\nher and throws her into a bed of coals. Hunting,\\nfishing, lumbering, clearing, tilling the occupations\\nof pioneers, but of men who come to subdue the wil-\\nderness men who are making homes and laying the\\nfoundations of a state, now prevail. Intelligence from", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": ":^l\\ni^\\n^S\\nft^\\n^^.J^i;^\\ntV^\\nIWC^^ raT\\n^Ot\\n^i^-\\nte\\n.5**", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 39\\nwithout comes mostly by water and at irregular inter-\\nvals. Imperfect reports sift in of the stirring events\\npreceding the Revolution and the echoes of the shot\\nheard round the world doubtless are resounding here.\\nStartling rumors come of intended British military\\noccupation. At this time more than loo lots have\\nbeen taken up in Plantation No. 3, or Majabagaduce,\\nOne June morning in 1779, William Hutchings\\nthe Revolutionar}^ soldier to be and an uncle, fishing\\nnear the Fox Islands, sight the expected fleet and with\\nthe exclamation from the latter, There comes the\\ndevils, start for their homes up the Bagaduce, stop-\\nping on the way to witness the first hostile landing\\nand reconnoissance at the foot of what is now Main\\nStreet. Then follow a few busy weeks, the felling of\\ntrees, the laying out of Fort George, the forced labor\\nof the inhabitants from all around, the hasty attempts\\nto complete or strengthen the defences, as the certainty\\nof an attack in the near future, b} the Massachusetts\\nforces, becomes manifest, and on July 24th the Penob-\\nscot expedition, the most numerous, though not the\\nmost powerful squadron which ever floated on our\\nwaters, about forty vessels, enters the bay.\\nTo manv of us it is an old story yet how eagerly\\ndo we scan its visible presentment. The unsuccessful\\nattempts of Lovell to land on this peninsula, the\\ncapture of Nautilus Island, the driving of the British\\nsloops of war, Albany, North and Nautilus, from their\\nanchorage near its entrance further up the harbor,\\nthe successful landing, in the earl}^ morning of the\\n28th, under cover of the guns of the shipping, Trask,\\nthe young musician, pla3 ing on his fife behind the\\nrock, the crashing of the round and chain shot among\\nthe woods on the steep western bank, the hurried flight", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "40 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nof the larger part of the British defenders, the firmer\\nstand and the deliberate retreat of John Moore, the\\nyoung lieutenant, the only officer who did not leave\\nhis post too soon. A good deal startled, he admits,\\nat the first fire, but this went off gradually after-\\nwards the intrenching by the Americans on the\\nridge commanding Fort George, the attempts to sur-\\nround it by batteries, the cannonading, the skirmish-\\ning, the loss of opportunities, the divided counsels, are\\nnot all these things written in the journals of eye-\\nwitnesses and the ]\\\\Iassachusetts archives? Also the\\ncoming of the powerful British relief squadron from\\nNew York, headed by the Raisonable Sixty-four (the\\nship in which England s greatest admiral, Horatio\\nNelson, first saw sea service), the disgraceful and\\npanic-stricken retreat, four ships pursuing seventeen\\nsail of armed vessels, transports on fire, men-of-war\\nblowing up, all either burnt, sunk or captured the\\ntroops and sailors struggling back to safety through\\nthe woods.\\nAnd so Majabagaduce settles down quietly under\\nBritish rule, a quiet only ruffled by such events as the\\ncutting out of an armed brig by Little, by the skillfully\\nplanned and daring escape of W adsworth and Burton\\nfrom Fort George on a dark and stormy June night,\\nand by the entrance into the bay for reconnoitering pur-\\nposes of the French frigate Hermione. The defences\\nare increased and strengthened, most of the patriots,\\nwith their families, leave the neighborhood, and natur-\\nally there is a collection of tories in their place, a fact\\nwhich has brought unjust and unreasonable criticism\\nand aspersion on our patriotic record.\\nTo this period belongs the scheme of creating the\\nProvince of New Ireland, east of the Penobscot with", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 41\\nBagaduce for its capital a province where the Church\\nof England is to be established, whose political insti-\\ntutions are to be of a very aristocratic sort, and the\\nfreer republican spirit of the rest of New England\\nshut out. Had this been done, Castine, with a different\\nname and a larger population, would now be under the\\nBritish flag, and few of us who are present would have\\nbeen gathered here to-day. But the firmness of John\\nAdams, when the treaty is made, saves Eastern Maine\\nto the Union.\\nAnd now again our space-penetrating eyes would\\ndisclose secrets of unmeasured interest. We only\\nknow that some day in January, 1784, weeks after New\\nYork passed under American control, the last forces\\nembark and the last ships sail away, the last British\\nflag is lowered and the last sign of dependence upon\\nEngland disappears from our Atlantic coast many\\nresidents who adhere to the royal government, several\\nhundred in all, leaving at or before the evacuation and\\nsettling in St. Andrews or vicinity. About six hun-\\ndred inhabitants remain in Majabagaduce. On this\\npeninsula but thirty-eight, with five two-story and\\nthirt3 -two one-story houses, two wharves and two\\nstores upon them, A great change from the crowded\\ngarrison life and the naval bustle of years. But the\\nexiled patriots soon return, emigration again flows in,\\nempty houses are filled. In 1787 Majab?.gaduce is\\nincorporated as the town of Penobscot her residents\\nfirst enjo}^ the privileges of municipal government and\\nexercise the rights of freemen in voting for state and\\nnational officers. But the town is too extensive and\\ncumbrous and its interests are too diversified long to\\nremain a unit. Its religious interests are divided\\nearlier than its political ones and after much discus-", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "42 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nsion tlie old churcli on the Common is built in 1790,\\nthe territory on which its supporters reside constitut-\\ning the second parish of Penobscot, afterwards the first\\nof Castine.\\nOn June 6, 1795, the petition of ]\\\\Iark Hatch and\\neighty-seven others of the second parish, for a separa-\\ntion from the town, is presented in the Massachusetts\\nHouse of Representatives, by whom does not appear,\\nand in accordance with the report of the committee on\\nincorporation of towns, it is voted that the petitioners\\nbe heard on the third Wednesdaj^ of the next session.\\nAfter this hearing leave is granted the petitioners to\\nbring in a bill. This passes both Houses February 8th,\\n1796, and is signed by Governor Samuel iVdams Febru-\\nary 13th. No name for the new town is inserted in the\\noriginal petition and no certain knowledge exists in\\nregard to the person whose good taste suggested that\\nwhich we bear, so appropriate and distinctive. The\\nfirst town-meeting is held April 4, 1796, thus complet-\\ning the event whose centennial we now celebrate. But\\nthe men, even of this latter da}-, have all departed,\\nthough we have known those who have seen and known\\nthem, and it is still at an unimaginable distance that\\ntheir forms could meet our eyes, that we could see\\nthem in their daily avocations, in their Sunday wor-\\nship, in their town-meetings, discussing their disputes\\nwith the proprietors of Township No. 3, and passing\\nresolves against the embargo, or gathered in the old\\nchurch listening to the Fourth of July address by\\nHon. Isaac Parker, M. C, or to the funeral discourse\\nupon the death of Washington by Rev. William Mason,\\nmade more impressive by the sombre drapery of its\\nwalls and the mystic services of the Masonic order, or\\nreading the account of these services in the Castine", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "K^?^\\n11T^", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 43\\njournal^ the first newspaper east of the Penobscot, of\\nwhich only one worn and imperfect file now remains.\\nBut we must not linger by the way.\\nThe irritation produced by England s prolonged\\naggressions has culminated in war and the air is rife\\nwith new rumors of invasion. The officer commanding-\\nthe small garrison at Fort Madison agrees to give\\nwarning of the appearance of a hostile fleet by firing\\nthree guns with a short interval between. Early in\\nthe morning of September ist, 1814, a puff of smoke\\nis seen, and a loud report rouses every slumberer. A\\nsecond brings all to their feet, and the echoes of the\\nthird have hardl}^ died awaj^ before the whole popula-\\ntion are in the streets, hurrying to outlooks on the hill.\\nThere, stretching across the bay, distinct in the clear,\\ncalm autumn twilight, slowly drifting with the tide, is\\nthe formidable squadron a sight such as will never\\nbe seen on earth again the ships of the line. Dragon,\\nBulwark and Spencer, frigates, sloops of war and\\ntransports, with more than three thousand men. The\\nsouth wind breezes up and the fleet makes more rapid\\nprogress. Fort Madison fires one useless shot, its\\nlittle garrison retreats and its magazine explodes.\\nParson Mason and the selectmen row out with a flag\\nof truce and surrender the town. The fleet anchors on\\nthe western shore. A detachment of troops makes a\\nrapid landing at Wads worth s Cove and a quick march\\nup the hill. Again, and let us hope for the last time,\\nthe flag of St. George floats over the soil of Castine.\\nThe next few months are the busiest and most\\ncrowded in our history. Legitimate trade is extensive\\nand profitable, smuggling is rampant, occupation abun-\\ndant, social life gay, personal property, except in ship-\\nping, secure. The system of fortification is elaborated.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "44 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nAll the trees on the unsettled part of the peninsula\\nare cut down officers are quartered on the inhabitants,\\nsome pleasant and gentlemanly, others rough and\\nbrutal. But a strict militar}^ rule is galling at best.\\nOne, who was a young man then, used to tell of some\\ntrying experiences in evading sentinels, while return-\\ning late at night from visits to his lady love. All\\nhearts are joj^ful when peace brings freedom and quiet,\\nand faces as well as houses are illuminated when the\\nfleet sails away and the stars and stripes are hoisted.\\nAnd now we approach scenes within the memory of\\nthe living. Fort George, for a while, is occupied by\\nUnited States troops. 1817 brings the incorporation\\nof Brooksville and the adjustment of the boundaries\\nof Castine to their present limits, with onl}^ one later\\naddition, the Buker farm. The years have much of\\npersonal and local interest, for which we cannot dela3\\\\\\nWe note, however, in the thirties, the long-regretted\\nremoval of the courts, inevitable after the cutting\\ndown of the limits of Hancock Count}^, bravel}- fought\\nagainst, finally brought to pass, it is perhaps allowable\\nto say now all feeling is over, by some rather sharp\\npractice of our Ellsworth friends. In this decade,\\nalso, comes the bloodless Aroostook War and the ser-\\nvice of a portion of our Castine Company, the Hancock\\nGuards, in the winter campaign near our northern\\nboundary.\\nFar different the demands on the men of 61, when\\nthe guns of Sumter resound not less loudl}^ or widely\\nthan the shot from Concord in 1775. Castine responds\\npromptly and bravely. Our still distant eyes behold\\nthe crowded farewell meeting to Company B, Second\\nMaine, the first regiment in the field from our state,\\nheld in the old church on the evening of April 26th,", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 46\\nand our streets thronged in the t^\\\\ilight of the next\\nmorning to give them last hand shakes and part-\\ning words. We see other war meetings, other depart-\\nures for the front we scan eager and anxious faces,\\nsaddened or jo3 ful, as varying reports come from the\\nseat of war. We witness the grand outburst of delight\\nwhen Lee surrenders, and the smoke of the cannon\\nthundering around the bay as never since the con-\\nflicts of the Revolution the passionate grief at the\\ndeath of our beloved Lincoln, the sad memorial ser-\\nvices, the minute guns on his funeral day. Of the\\ntrue and loyal men, living or dead, who by land and\\nsea, from Pennsj^lvania to Louisiana, from disastrous\\nBull Run to glorious Appomattox, bravely stand for\\nthe honor of our town and the integrit}^ of the union,\\nhow gladly would we speak. We cannot name them\\nall. We will specif}^ none. We know them. We will\\nremember them.\\nWeary with gazing and wandering in the past, we\\nwill close our eyes to the pictures which the last thirt}^\\nyears unfold. We open them again in the present, on\\nthis centennial da}^, in this gathering, amid this Jul}\\nsunshine, with guests whom we joyfully welcome, with\\na ship floating on the waters of our harbor of which\\nthe men of a hundred years ago never could have\\ndreamed, before which all the combined fleets of the\\npast could hardly make a longer stand than IModoca-\\nwando s squadron of birch canoes.\\nFriends of my earlier days, scattered among this\\naudience, you for whom\\nThe same horizon bends\\nAbove the silver sprinkled hair,\\nThat bore the light of morning skies\\nTo childhood s wonder waiting eyes,", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "46 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nwhether like 3 Ourself, Mr. President, returned to 3 our\\nboyhood s home after bus}^ ^^ears among men of\\nthought and men of action, or, like others, life-time\\nresidents in our quiet town, j^ou need no superhuman\\npowers of speed or sight to picture the events of half\\na centur} As memory does its faithful work, how\\nmuch, long since gone into the realm of history, stands\\nclearly out in our mental vision, but more clearly still,\\nin a different sphere from history.\\nWhat greetings smile, what farewells wave,\\nWhat loved ones enter and depart,\\nThe good, the beautiful, the brave,\\nThe heaven lent treasures of the heart.\\nFor all that we have received, the Lord make us\\nthankful, make us ready to discern the workings of his\\nkindly Providence, in whatever befalls the home, the\\ntown, the nation, and enable us to say from our hearts,\\nthat life has been, and still is, well worth living. But\\nif we have longings and regrets for the past, or fears\\nfor the future, let us put them aside to-day. For the\\none let us cherish reverent and tender memories, for\\nthe other inspiring hope. Hope, that in the new cent-\\nury upon which we are entering, we shall strive to\\nperform more worthil}^ one grand function of the New\\nEngland town, to be a school of pure democracy no\\nless an effective school if often full of turbulent scholars\\nhope that though we may never attain wealth, high\\nculture or lofty intellect, we may always abound in\\nintelligent, thoughtful, earnest men and women. As\\nindividuals we soon shall slumber among earth s for-\\ngotten millions, forgotten b}^ the great world, but not\\nby Him who careth for the grass of the field and with-\\nout whom no sparrow falleth.\\nMay we humbly trust that with the imperfections\\nof our lives some good influences have been mingled,", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "The THATCHER AVERY HOUSE, built about I lib, by Capt. John Perkins.\\nThe JOSEPH WESCOTT HOUSE, built about 1800.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE LITERARY EXERCISES. 47\\nwhose effects shall run through the coming century,\\nand even when it ends shall still quicken the hearts of\\nthose, who then fill the places where we stand to-da}^,\\nwith regard for our noblest ideals.\\nPOEM BY MRS. SANFORD B. DOLE.\\nThe presiding officer then said: A valued contri-\\nbution to these exercises comes to us from the far-off\\nisles of the Pacific. Airs. Dole, wafe of Hon. Sanford\\nB. Dole, President of the Hawaiian Republic, is one of\\nthe fair daughters of Castine; and she has written for\\nthe Centennial celebration of her native town a poem\\nwhich she would perhaps have read to us; but she is\\nnot here, and there is no telephonic communication\\nwith Honolulu. But we shall be favored with a read-\\ning of Mrs. Dole s beautiful l3a ic from the lips of her\\nniece and namesake. Miss Anna Cate Witherle, whom\\nI have the honor to present to you. Miss Witherle\\nread with clearness and grace the following lines\\nBaron Vincent de St. Castine\\nThe name rings out full stately and fair,\\nBut the Baron is no longer there,\\nGone with his beautiful Indian Queen,\\nAll the dusky Indians have tfitted and Hown\\nAnd the pale face is left to rule alone,\\nBut the name still lingers Castine! Castine!\\nSweetest of all sweet names I ween!\\nAnd fair and stately indeed is she\\nAs she sits in her beauty beside the sea,\\nAnd the sounding waves roll on roll on.\\nAnd a hundred years have come and gone,\\nBearing their burdens of want and of woe,\\nBearing souls out to the great unknown;\\nDesolate wrecks over unknown seas.\\nWhere there s never a sail to catch the breeze,\\nBut broken spars and tangled ropes.\\nBearing downward our loves and hopes;", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "48 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nDrifting out o er the stormy main\\nNever to come into port again\\nMay the good Lord help us for such as these!\\nBut June still lives with its skies of blue!\\nThe fields are full of daisies and clover,\\nThe birds are trilling the orchards through,\\nAnd the lilacs are making the old world over;\\nAh June is a rare and ancient lover!\\nLook up Sweetheart for the world is true!\\nWe stand on the brink of a larger day.\\nWhere love shall guide us along the way,\\nWhere in worlds of science and realms of thought\\nThe evolution of truth is wrought\\nAnd nature is holding her splendid sway.\\nThe past is gone, with its rhythm of beauty.\\nIts jarring discords and notes of pain\\nThe future is dim as we look to greet it,\\nBut a hundred years will come again;\\nAnd shoulder to shoulder we go to meet it,\\nStrong in the good there is to gain,\\nStrong to battle for right and truth.\\nFor the grand ideals and hopes of youth,\\nFor selfishness conquered and evil slain.\\nSilently over the Bigwiduce\\nDaybreak is coming in tints of pearl,\\nFlushing the river with roses bloom,\\nMaking an opal out of the sea.\\nWhere the fisher boats their sails unfurl.\\nWaking the world to a perfect dawn.\\nJust as a hundred years agone.\\nGod still watches over thee,\\nO beautiful town beside the sea\\nSilently over the Camden hills\\nThe sun is setting in seas of gold\\nFolding the tired land to sleep\\nIn a glory of colors manifold.\\nWrapping thee close in a golden sheen,\\nGod is watching: thee loved Castine!", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE DINNER. 49\\nAt the request of the President of the Day, the\\naudience then stood up, and, led by the organ and a\\nquartette, sung the grand old hymn, America, with\\nthrilling effect, the orchestra furnishing an obligate\\naccompaniment as the volume of song rolled on. A\\nbenediction was then pronounced by the Rev. William\\nBrunton, and while the assemblage dispersed, Mr.\\nRicker pla3ed a postlude on the organ, and the exer-\\ncises were over.\\nTHE DINNER.\\nT*HERE was some confusion in the arrangements for\\ndinner, owing to a rush of excursionists from other\\ntowns, the great warship in the harbor being one of\\nthe chief attractions of the day. The unmanageable\\nnumber of these people interfered with the programme\\nat the Acadian Hotel, where the dinner was served;\\nthe result was that the post-prandial exercises were\\npractically suspended but the repast was an excellent\\none. The menu was as follows\\nMENU.\\nConsomme Royal. Tomato aux Croutons.\\nQueen Olives. Native Lettuce. Sliced Cucumbers.\\nBoiled Penobscot River Salmon au Petit Pois.\\nPomme de Terre a la Parisienne.\\nBaked Chicken Halibut, Maitre d Hotel.\\nBoiled Philadelphia Capon, Celery Sauce.\\nBoiled Leg Southdown Mutton, Caper Sauce.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "50 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nRoast Young Turkey, Crab Apple Jelly.\\nRoast Sirloin of Beef, Dish Gravy.\\nRoast 1896 Spring Lamb, Mint or Brown Sauce.\\nBaked Macaroni au Fromage.\\nPine Apple Fritters au Rhum.\\nFricassee of Chicken a la Printanier.\\nLobster Salad with Mayonnaise Dressing.\\nCabbage Salad, French Dressing.\\nCold Cincinnati Ham. Cold Ox Tongue.\\nHalford Table Sauce. Shrewsbury Ketchup. Table Oil.\\nMashed Potatoes. Boiled Potatoes. Green Peas.\\nString Beans. New Squash. New Beets.\\nStrawberry Shortcake.\\nVanilla Ice Cream. Chocolate Ice Cream.\\nAssorted Cake. Oranges. Bananas.\\nIce Chilled Watermelon.\\nTea. Coffee. Cocoa. Milk.\\nINCIDENTS OF THE EVENING.\\nHpHE little town was crowded with visitors during tlie\\nday, numerous excursions from points around\\nPenobscot Baj^ and River bringing thousands to par-\\nticipate in the celebration; great numbers also arrived\\nby land from adjacent towns. The incidents of the day\\npassed off without accident, and in the evening the\\nfireworks, the reception and the ball closed the long", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "MESSAGES FROM ABROAD. 51\\nprogramme. The fireworks were displayed from an\\nenclosure on the sloping ground in front of old Fort\\nGeorge nearest to the town and the exhibition was a\\nvery brilliant and satisfactory one. The cruiser\\nColumbia had fired a national salute in the middle\\nof the da}^, and during the evening a powerful search-\\nlight was turned on from the ship, illuminating the\\nwater front and the town in the wonderful manner\\npeculiar to these inventions.\\nTwo large yachts from the cruising squadron of the\\nSouth Boston Yacht Club, the flagship Thelma and\\nthe schooner Windward, under command of Vice\\nCommodore W. D. Gowen and Rear Commodore E. H.\\nLansing, and Fleet Captain G. P. Field and Captain\\nW. A. Ruddick, respectively, took an active part in\\nthe festivities. The yachtsmen burned a fine display\\nof fireworks from a barge anchored in front of the\\ntown, adding to the enjo^nnent of the occasion. Many\\nofficers from the white cruiser and the yacht fleet\\nattended the ball in the evening.\\nThe quiet night came down on a weary but happy\\npeople, satisfied with the fortunate celebration of the\\none hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of\\ntheir town and sincerely glad that no disaster had\\nmarred the enjoyment of the long-looked-for birthday\\nof Castine.\\nMESSAGES FROM ABROAD.\\nT)LEASANT messages came from the invited guests\\nwho were unable to be present, Senator W. P. Frye\\nsending word that illness alone, which he regretted\\nmore than he could express, prevented him at the last\\nmoment from coming in response to the invitation", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "52 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nwhich he had already accepted. From far-off Monte-\\nvideo came a letter from Commander Thomas Perry, of\\nthe United States Ship Castine, saying that the\\nwriter and his brother officers on the vessel greatly\\ndeplored their unavoidable absence from the anniver-\\nsary celebration of the town for which their ship is\\nnamed. The}^ expressed their cordial and affectionate\\ninterest in all that would mark the day.\\nLETTER FROM J. W. CASTINE, M. P.\\nFrom South Australia came a letter from ]\\\\Ir. J. W.\\nCastine, M. P. This gentleman is believed to be a\\nlineal descendant of the Baron de St. Castin, and his\\ninterest in all that relates to the ancient town that\\nbears his familj^ name is naturall}^* very deep. His\\nletter is as follows\\nGlenburn, RivERTOisj, April 14, 1896.\\nTo Dr. G. A. W/ieekr, Chairman of the Centennial Committee of the\\ntotvn of Castine, Maine, U. S. A.\\nMy Dear Sir It was indeed an agreeable surprise for me to\\nreceive your most kind letter, dated the 12th of December last.\\nThe cordial invitation it conveyed, viz., for me to be present and\\nparticipate with you in the festivities connected with the celebration\\nof the 261st year since the earliest settlement, and the centennial of\\nthe incorporation of the town that bears my name, sent a thrill of\\npatriotism through my veins such as almost induced me to pack up\\nmy portmanteau and hasten across the sea to the ancient and\\nadopted home of the once renowned and valiant nobleman, Jean\\nVincent de Saint Castine, from whom there is every reason to believe\\nI am the solitary descendant. Believe me, my dear sir, it is not a\\nsmall obstacle that prevents my accepting the invitation of your\\ncommittee; as, if there could be any event in the history of any\\none s life more interesting than another, it certainly would be the\\nfact of the dim memories of the past resuscitated and the lives and\\nactions of one s forefathers being prominently recognized by a peo-\\nple living so many generations after.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "ArESSAG/:S FROM ABROAD. 53\\nIt is to me a sad disappointment that owing to the immense\\ndistance the British Isles are from here I am unable to search the\\nnational records in order to trace back the historical family line\\nbeyond what I obtain from our family Bible. I notice, however, the\\nBible was only printed in 1813, so the record has evidently been\\ntaken from some county register, probably that of Cornwall in the\\nwest of England.\\nThe following is the record:\\nDaniel Castine, born Feb. 7, 1708.\\nRobert Castine, a son, born Nov. 18, 1745.\\nWilliam Castine, a son, born Nov. 17, 1768.\\nJohn Castine, my father, born April 19, 1808.\\nJohn William Castine, only son, the writer, born May 27, 1846.\\nFour stalwart sons and one daughter have been born to me; my\\neldest son is the only one at present married and a daughter is the\\nissue of the marriage.\\nThe name of Castine, therefore, a generation ago almost extinct,\\nis now likely to be perpetuated in the direct line for some genera-\\ntions to come. If the above genealogy be correct, and I have no\\nreason whatever to doubt it, then there remain, at the most, but two\\ngenerations between the life of the Baron and that of Daniel Cas-\\ntine, and I believe there would be little difficulty in discovering the\\nmissing link if one could search the official documents connected\\nwith the stirring times during the reign of Louis XIV of France\\nand Charles II of England. I firmly believe that it was during this\\nperiod that Anselm and Joseph Dabadis, the Baron s two sons, were\\ntaken to England and there domiciled, either by compulsion or choice.\\nTo the inhabitants of the town of Castine, through you, I desire\\nto say that the traditions of the past, in connection with the family\\nname, are being upheld by the descendants of the doughty Baron.\\nHe, a wanderer from the shores of France, became a sojourner in a\\ndistant land, wherein he lived for many years, helping to found and\\nbuild up a mighty nation; and a monument to his valor and energy\\nhas evidently been raised in the pretty town on the Penobscot River\\nnow called Castine.\\nThe writer, with, 1 suppose, an imbued instinct and love for\\ntravel, exploration and adventure, after leaving his native home in\\nthe west of England, has for the past thirty-three years or more\\nbeen striving to found and to build up an empire, not, of course, in", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "54 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nAmerica, but in the sunny climes of the southern seas and young\\nas this country is, even now might it be said of her, She is a brill-\\niant gem in the diadem of the British nation.\\nBy a strange coincidence, and it is somewhat noteworthy, the\\ngovernment of this colony has thought fit to honor my public actions\\nby declaring a large tract of country, measuring upwards of ten\\nmiles square, to be named after me.\\n[With some general remarks concerning the probability of a\\ngrand federation of English-speaking people at some future time,\\nand the vast possibilities of such a union, Mr. Castine continues:]\\nHow much would I give to have been able personally to convey\\nthese sentiments to the inhabitants of Castine and through them to\\nthe people of the L nited States; and most certainly had it not been\\nfor important matters, over which I have no control, I refer to the\\ngeneral elections for our lower house of parliament, taking place\\nwithin the next four weeks, and which, after having been returned\\nto four successive previous parliaments, induces me again to enter\\nthe lists and contest, you would have thrust upon you the modern\\nframe of Old Castine.\\nYour most cordial Invitation I shall treasure up, and my children,\\ndoubtless, will ever respect the town and its inhabitants that bears\\nthe family name.\\nTo the United States government I also owe a debt of gratitude\\nin perpetuating that name. One of your men-of-war is called Cas-\\ntine, and it was a source of disappointment to me last year when\\nthat vessel was at Tamatave that she was unable to visit Australia,\\nwhen I might have become acquainted with your representatives,\\nher officers and crew.\\nOf course, you are well acquainted with the doings and progress\\nof our colony, with which, for many years, I have been so closely\\nassociated. Indeed, mine has been a busy commercial and political\\nlife here, but the old martial spirit asserts itself from time to time.\\nFor sixteen years I have had the privilege of holding a commission\\nin Her Majesty s volunteer infantry forces, now holding the rank of\\nmajor. My four sons also have served in the ranks. Some years\\nago when the ]:)ritish troops suffered rather severely in South Africa,\\nyour humble servant volunteered for service in that country. Already\\nI am intimately associated with one of your states; some time ago\\nthe Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Nevada appointed\\n3nd constituted me their official representative at the Grand Lodge", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE DISPLAY OF ANTIQUITIES. 55\\nof South Australia, another fraternal tie between your mighty\\nnation of over 60,000,000 and our rising and promising counterpart\\nof 4,000,000.\\nAnimated by these fraternal feelings, my desire now is to be\\nassociated in some way or other with the old town of Castine and\\nits inhabitants, so that the friendship that seems to have grown up\\nbetween us may develop into affection and the link so long missing,\\nassociating the past with the present, may find a fitting place in the\\nchain of historical associations.\\nIt appears there is a tradition that the Castine boys are born\\nweb-footed. I can hardly believe it! Might I ask, is the curfew\\nbell still rung at g o clock, and, if so, do you all put out the lights\\nand then retire to peaceful slumber? Are all the elderly ladies still\\nprovided with footstoves when they attend church 1\\nNaturally I shall anxiously look forward to the receipt of the\\nparticulars of your demonstration, and, if I am not encroaching too\\nmuch upon your good nature, may I ask you to instruct your secre-\\ntary to send me the interesting details.\\nOnce more regretting my inability to be present on or near the\\nfirst of July next, and wishing the inhabitants of the town of Castine\\nhealth, wealth and every possible happiness, I have the privilege to\\nremain, my dear Dr. Wheeler,\\nYours most sincerely,\\nJohn William Castine.\\nTHE DISPLAY OF ANTIQUITIES.\\nHpHE exhibition of antiques and relics was one of sur-\\npassing interest and attracted throngs of visitors\\nto the Normal School Building while it was open. In\\nthe following list of articles shown the names of the\\nowners of the objects are printed in italics\\nOLD BOOKS, DOCUMENTS, ETC.\\nA System of Doctrines, 1793. Mrs. Willard Devereux.\\nFamily Bible of the Capt. John Perkins family, 1765.\\nFamily Bible of the Foster family, 1776.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "56 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nAn account of the trial of Seth Elliott for the murder of his son.\\nElliott was hanged in Fort George in 1824. Airs. G. W. Perkins.\\nCatalogue of books in the Town Library, 1801. Mrs. G. W.\\nPerkins.\\nWatts s Divine Songs, 1726. Mrs. WiUard Devereiix.\\nExposition of the Assembly s Shorter Catechism, in 250 ser-\\nmons delivered between 1658 and 1706. Mrs. F. ]V. Foster.\\nThe New England Primer. Mrs. F\\\\ IV. Foster.\\nThe Christian Almanac for 1825. Mrs. F. Jf\\\\ Foster.\\nAn account of the trial of Ebenezer Ball for the murder of\\nCaptain Downs, 181 1. Ball was hanged in Fort George. Mrs. G.\\nW. Perkins.\\nThe New England Primer. Miss Liny Adams.\\nThe National ^gis, Dec. 16, 1818, and July 9, 1806; The\\nEastern American, published in Castine, Me., Nov. 19, 1828;\\nThe Massachusetts Spy, published in Worcester, Mass., Sept. 26,\\n1821.\\nBill of sale of a negro slave, dated Albany, N. Y., May 23, 1760.\\nMrs. Alfred Attains.\\nMaps of the United States, 1818, 1823, 1828. Rev. J. P. Cushman.\\nHebrew Grammar, 1623. Bct.J. J Cushman.\\nGreek Testament, 177 1; The New England Primer, 1691.\\nRc7\\\\ J. P. Cushman.\\nHandbill advertisement of Edward Sharp, Bigwaduce, 1784.\\nG. H. Witherle.\\nCommission of Samuel Noyes as Ensign, March i, 18 10. G. H.\\nIFither/e.\\nLicense to Cunningham, Lime Burner, June 5, 1794. G. H.\\nWitherle.\\nOrder from Rear Admiral E. W. Griffith, R. N., not to burn\\nAmerican shipping in the Bagaduce, Sept. 2, 1814. G. Witherle.\\nAdvertising handbill of steamboat from Boston to Eastport, Me.,\\nJune 20, 1827. Geo. FI. Witherle.\\nCopy of certificate of incorporation of town of Castine, Me.,\\n1796. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.\\nAccount of the capture of the ship Hiram, 1801. Mrs. C.J.\\nWhiting.\\nCommission of Joshua Witherle, Captain of Artillery, signed by\\nJohn Hancock and dated 1782. G. H. Witherle.\\nCertificate of stock in Castine Bank, April i, 18 18. G. H. Witherle.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE DISPLAY OF ANTIQUITIES. 57\\nNote of Castine Bank, April i, iSiS. G. H. Wifhcrlc.\\nClearance of schooner Ranger, Jan. 3, 1795. G. H. W itJierlc.\\nBank notes, as follows: Bank of Charleston, S. C, $5, 1794;\\n^6, 1777; $8, 1776; Massachusetts Bay, ^3, 1780; Bank of New\\nJersey, 3 shillings, 1776; 20 shillings, same bank and date; i-6th of\\n$1, U. S., 1776; Bank of South Carolina, $90, 1779, and $3, 1776.\\nGeo. H. E/nc/son.\\nHOUSEHOLD ARTICLES AND DRESS.\\nEasy chair brought from England about 1670. Dr. G. A. Wlicclcr.\\nChair belonging to Mr. Holbrook, first settler on Holbrook s\\nIsland, Castine Harbor, about 250 years old. Mrs. C. F. Clarke.\\nChair formerly owned by the Joy family, brought to Castine\\n(then Penobscot) in 1806 from Llnion River. Capt. B. Dunbar.\\nOne of twelve chairs brought from England to York, Me., near\\nthe middle of the 17th century, by the Weare family, and brought to\\nCastine (then Penobscot) 17 7-, being then the property of Phctbe\\nWeare, wife of Capt. Joseph Perkins. Noah Brooks.\\nRocking-chair, has been in the Hatch family since 1790. Frank\\nHooper.\\nChair formerly belonging to Dr. William Crawford, and supposed\\nto be about 175 years old. John AleLanghlin.\\nThe original Master s chair, of Hancock Lodge, F. A. M., in\\nuse since 1794. Mrs. F. M. Hibbcrt.\\nRocking-chair, over 100 years old, formerly belonging to William\\nHutchings, of Penobscot, who lived to be i 00 years old. Airs. Jane\\nStraw.\\nRocking-chair formerly belonging to Mrs. Lanpher, made before\\n1696. Mrs. G. J erki/is.\\nRocking-chair brought from York, Me., by Capt. John Perkins\\nin 1764. Airs. Elisha Perkins.\\nChair formerly belonging to Mistress Anne Bradstreet, The\\nTenth Muse made in England, probably near the close of the\\n17 th century. Miss C. O. Stearns.\\nChair formerly belonging to Joshua Hooper, 1 789. Frank Hooper.\\nWelsh plate, 150 years old; another of English make, 100 years\\nold. Airs. Flizabeth Bridges.\\nTable used by the paymaster of the British troops, who was\\nquartered with the Lawrence family, during the war of 18 12. Airs.\\nC. F. Clarke.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "58 CENTENNIAL OE CASTINE.\\nTable from the John Perkins mansion, 1781. Writing desk of\\nCapt. Perkins been in possession of the family since 1767. Mrs.\\nElisha Perkins.\\nPiano formerly owned by Gen. Alexander Macomb, who defeated\\nthe British at the battle of Plattsburgh, September, 18 14. Capt.\\nRowland Brinvn.\\nBaby clothes made for Mrs. Lydia A. Greene, daughter of Jona-\\nthan and Nancy Perkins, born Dec. 10, 1825. Mrs. F. IF. Foster.\\nTwo pewter platters used by the British while in occupation of\\nCastine (then Penobscot) during the Revolution. John F. Rea.\\nChest owned by Mark Hatch, one of the early residents of\\nPenobscot (now Castine), when the British took possession. Filled\\nwith valuables, the chest was carried to the coast of New Jersey and\\nburied; was brought back when the family returned in 1785. Capt.\\nJerry Hatch.\\nBed-spread, part of the wedding outiit of Mrs. Jonathan Hatch,\\nmarried in 1824. Mrs, F. J J Poster.\\nTowel spun and wove by hand, 75 years ago. 3frs. p] JF. Foster.\\nTable belonging to the first generation of Stockley, an heirloom\\nof the Stockbridge family, 150 years old. F S. P\\\\-rkins.\\nFire tongs formerly belonging to William Hutchings, the cente-\\nnarian, of Penobscot. Joh?i F. Rea.\\nPestle and mortar brought from York, Me., by the Joseph Per-\\nkins family, previous to the Revolution. John F. Rea.\\nTin kitchen or roaster, 100 years old; tin bread-baker, 50 years\\nold, and frying-pan, 100 years old. Robert Dyer.\\nFrying-pan over 100 years old, formerly property of Dr. J. L.\\nStevens.\\nFire tongs, have been in the Avery family since 1775.\\nCandle-moulds used in 1800. Mrs. Pjteretia IFebster.\\nLantern, too years old. Jonas Dirner.\\nKnife-box of the Avery family, made in 17 12.\\nWafifle-iron left in the Hale house by the British, 18 14. T. E. PPale.\\nAncient foot-stove. John F. Rea.\\nDoor-lock from the old Jarvis house. John F. Rea.\\nHall clock of the Johnston family. Danie/ Johnston.\\nMortar used for pounding corn. A. J. Mograge.\\nPitchfork used by Dea. David Wilson, 1788. IF. JFebster.\\nWarming-pan from the Peletiah Leach family, 1775. Capt. Piennett.\\nOld card-table from the Jarvis estate.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE DISPLAY OF AN7V0 CITIES. 59\\nWillow-pattern platter, 1775; also teapot, formerly belonging to\\nDeputy-Governor Thomas Dudley, of Massachusetts, who was in\\noffice from 1634 to 1650. T/ios. E. Hale.\\nMug and pitcher, Liverpool ware, made for Clapt. David Dunbar,\\nof Penobscot now owned by Capt. DaTiI Dunbar, Castine.\\nPewter porringer and plate, 125 years old. Dr. E. E. Fhilbrook.\\nTray, decanter and wine-glasses, before 1790. Mrs. Lucretia\\nWebster.\\nMiniature trunk in which money and jewelry belonging to Mrs.\\nLucy P. Whitney were locked and hidden in a drain during the Brit-\\nish occupation of Castine (then Penobscot), in the war of 1812.\\nMrs. PJuvbe Whiting.\\nChina plate, 100 years old. Dr. E. E. Fhilbrook.\\nBall dress of pink silk, 150 years old, worn by Miss Hannah\\nOrcutt. Mrs. G. W. Perkins.\\nPlatter, with brown center and blue edge, 80 years old. Airs.\\nD. P. Colson.\\nPiece of the wedding dress of the great-grandmother of Dr. G.\\nA. Wheeler.1 1670.\\nMug, over 100 years old. Dr. E. E. Philbrook.\\nPickle leaf, Davenport ware, date unknown, formerly belonging\\nto Mrs. Margaret Perkins Brooks. Noah Brooks.\\nDecanter formerly belonging to Capt. Joseph Perkins; date\\nsomewhere before 1790. Noah Brooks.\\nSugar-bowl, cup and saucer, formerly belonging to Margaret\\nPerkins Brooks, 1808. Noah Brooks.\\nSampler worked in iSii by the mother of F. W. Foster. Mrs.\\nE. IF. Foster.\\nFan, 200 years old. Airs. Joel Perkins.\\nSampler worked in 1698 by Elisabeth Cotton. Airs. Joel Perkins.\\nMug formerly belonging to Dr. Jotham Moulton. Aliss Lucy\\nAdams.\\nDish and platter, willow ware, known to be 125 years old. Airs.\\nE P. Lezc is.\\nChina pitcher, between 90 and 100 years old. Aliss Ida Crawford.\\nBread-basket, 1776. Airs. J. W. Dresser.\\nCup, saucer and plate, over 100 years old. Aliss Alary Jackson.\\nJapanned tray, over 100 years old. Dr. E. E. J hilbrook.\\nChina teapot, over 100 years old. Airs. Bartravi.\\nGreen silk calash, worn 65 years ago. Miss Afary Dyer.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "60 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nBlue Staffordshire platter, age unknown. Afrs. Philip Hooke.\\nDecanter, 1760. Airs. L. M. Perkins.\\nYellow teapot, over 100 years old. Aliss Clara Steariis.\\nDecanter belonging to the Straw family, 84 years old. Airs.\\nJane Straw.\\nTwo pitchers, Liverpool ware, marked severally M. W. and\\nD. W., made for David Wilson and Miriam Wilson, on the order\\nof their son, Capt. Benjamin Wilson. David ]ViIso/i Webster and\\nAirs. F. W. Foster.\\nPewter pitcher and teapot, known to have been in use in 1775,\\nin the family of the late Mark P. Hatch.\\nWorked pocket formerly used by the Hatch family.\\nPitcher, 100 years old. Mrs. G. W. Perkins.\\nCrockery soup-tureen given (filled with tea) to Mrs. Samuel\\nNoyes by a British officer at the evacuation of Castine (then Penob-\\nscot), in 18 16. Airs. Samuel T. Noyes.\\nCup and saucer, formerly belonging to the family of Capt. David\\nDunbar, between 90 and 100 years old. Mrs. Lucy J. Thomas.\\nTidy of netted work, 125 years old. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.\\nYoung lady s needle-book and wallet, with small mirror, supposed\\nto be over 100 years old. The Whitney Family, Castine.\\nPitcher formerly belonging to the grandfather of John F. Rea,\\nand marked with his name, over 100 years old. John F. Rea.\\nLiverpool pitcher marked Benjamin and Jane Williams.\\nLinen table-cloth used by Washington at Lansingburgh, N. Y.,\\nduring the Revolution. Mrs. A. F. Adams.\\nIvory thread-spool used when the spooling of thread was first\\nintroduced. Airs. G. W. Perkins.\\nDoor-knocker from the old Mann house of pre-Revolutionary\\ntimes. John F. Rea.\\nAncient washing-machine. G. H. Wifherle.\\nHouse fire-bucket, 182 1. Airs. S. T. A oyes.\\nPair of wool-cards, 100 years old. Hudson Devereux.\\nWork basket, 100 years old. Mrs. G. W. Perki)is.\\nMirror brought to Castine about 1770 by Capt. John Perkins.\\nG. H. Witherle.\\nCandlestick, 150 years old. AI. P. Hatch Family.\\nPin cushion, over 100 years old. Aliss Clara Stearns.\\nSampler worked by the mother of Mrs. Willard Devereux at the\\nage of 9.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE DISPLAY OF ANTIQUITIES. 61\\nPewter spoon and dish. Jolui F. Rea.\\nDish, loo years old; spectacles, 80 years old. Mrs. N. P. Noyes.\\nSilver spoon made in Castine (then Penobscot) in 1808. G. IF.\\nPet-kiiis.\\nSilver spoon made between 1746 and 1760. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.\\nSilver porringer belonging to the Whitney family, over 100 years\\nold. Mrs. S. K. Whiting.\\nBaby s cap, 75 years old. G. W. Perkins.\\nSampler worked by the wife of President Day, Yale College, 1799.\\nTwo ancient mirrors. Hudson Devereux and Mrs. J. N Gardner.\\nOLD COINS.\\nOne of the silver pieces of eight found on the Grindle place,\\nand known as the Castine coins, dated 1667. A oah Brooks.\\nPine-tree shilling, 1632, and oak-tree twopence. G. H. Emerson.\\nCopper cents of 18 12. F. S. Perkins.\\nDemi Louis d or (gold), 1642; found near the old French fort.\\nG. H. Witherle.\\nPORTRAITS AND PICTURES.\\nPainting of Twinklebury Castle, by Mary Ann Cockayne, Gib-\\nraltar, 18 1 4, given to Richard Hawes, Castine. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.\\nOil painting of ship Robert Morris coming into the port of\\nHavre in 1833. Mrs. L. M. Perkins.\\nPortrait of Mrs. Hannah Avery. The Avery Fanii/y.\\nPicture, Emblem of Africa, bought by Capt. John Perkins,\\n1797. Mark Devereux.\\nSix colored engravings, Wanderings of the Prodigal Son,\\ndated July 2, 1797. G. W. Perkins.\\nSteel-engraved likeness of John Holmes, Representative in Con-\\ngress from the District of Maine, 18 19, and subsequently Senator\\nfrom Maine. Noah Brooks.\\nOil painting of ship Canova, built in Frankfort, Me., 1823. G.\\nH. Witherle.\\nPhotographs of the Castine family now living in Australia. Dr.\\nGeo. A. Wheeler.\\nPortrait of Capt. John Perkins, one of the earliest residents of\\nPenobscot, now Castine. Mrs. Elisha Perkins.\\nPortrait of John Perkins, born 1777. G. W. Perkins.\\nPortrait of Stover Perkins, born 1781. G. W. Perkins.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "02 CENTENNIAL OF CASTINE.\\nPortrait of Robert Perkins. Daniel Joluiston.\\nI^ortrait of Mrs. Robert Perkins and infant Lucy. Daniel Johnston.\\nPortrait of Major Otis Little and his wife, Dorothy Perkins\\nLittle. Mrs. Lucy Wallace.\\nPortrait of Miss Betsey Avery, 1793, 1863. Mrs. Echnund Abbott.\\nPortrait of Mrs. Hannah Avery, who came to Penobscot, now\\nCastine, 1783. Mrs. Edmund Al^bott.\\nPortrait of Mark P. Hatch and wife. The Hatch Heirs.\\nPortrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Adams. The Adains Heirs.\\nPortrait of Thomas E. Hale, with sword-cut made in the canvas\\nby an English officer in 18 14. Thos. E. Hale., Sr.\\nPortrait of Josiah Hooke, 1744, 1S29. F. A. Hooke.\\nEngraved likeness of Col. William Henshaw, commissioned Adju-\\ntant-General of Massachusetts forces, 1775. Dr. Geo. A. Wheeler.\\nEngraved likeness of Sir John Moore, framed in oak from the\\nBritish transport St. Helena. G. H. Withcrle.\\nColored engraving of La Famille Imperiale, printed in Paris,\\n1808. N oah Brooks.\\nEngraving of the town of Castine in 1843. Witherle.\\nSilhouette likenesses of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lawrence, made\\n90 years ago. Mrs. G. W. Perkins.\\nEngraved likeness (ideal) of the Baron de St. Castin, framed in\\nwood from palisade of the Baron s fort. W. H. Hooper.\\nMILITARY RELICS.\\nSword used at the battle of Bunker Hill. G. A. Wheeler.\\nCanteen used in the Revolutionary War by Samuel Chamberlain,\\nof Vermont. W. H Lawrence.\\nOfficer s dress sword, war of 18 12. Rev. J. P. Ciishman.\\nCannon balls from old French fort, Castine. G. H. Witherle,\\nG. A. Wheeler and John F. Pea.\\nCannon ball, two grapeshot and piece of shell plowed up in the\\nvicinity of Fort George, Castine. Mrs. A. J. JlLograge.\\nFlag presented to the Hancock Cadets, or Fairport Nine,\\n1840. Noah Brooks.\\nOld colored engravings, Comforts of hidustry and Miseries\\nof Idleness. Mrs. Ellen Perkijis.\\nOld picture of the boy Harry (Capt. Henry Whitney), on the\\nship Hiram, taken by the French in iSoo. Mrs. C.J. Whiting.\\nHinges from the powder magazine in Fort George, 1779. G. H\\nWitherle.", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE DISPLAY OF ANTIQUITIES. 63\\nMusket used in the Revolutionary War. F. Grindlc.\\nCannon ball fired by the British while pursuing the American\\nfleet up the Penobscot River, 1779; the missile struck a dwelling-\\nhouse, passing in at one side and coming out at the other. Jolin F. Rea.\\nKnapsack carried by color sergeant J. H. Noyes in the Aroos-\\ntook War. Mrs. S. T. Noyes.\\nUniform button of Scotch dragoons, Revolutionary War. Curtis\\nSt 67 a IS.\\nDress chapeau of U. S. naval officer, 1S12. Rev. J. P. Cushvian.\\nGrapeshot, Revolutionary War. Geo. Devereiix.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nUnique collection of horse-shoes. John F. Rea.\\nCane made from a palisade of old Fort Pentagoet by S. T. Noyes.\\nPewter communion service of the First Congregational Church,\\nCastine (then Penobscot), 1796. Mrs. S. K. Whiting.\\nHand-cuffs and leg-irons used in 1779 in the conveyance of pris-\\noners on the northern frontiers of the United States. Jolin F. Rea.\\nHames used in 1796. The Avery Heirs.\\nAncient sun-dial. John F. Rea.\\nThe original charter of Hancock Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 4, 1794.\\nBass viol, 1782. Josiah Hooke.\\nThe Tyler s sword, Hancock Lodge, F. and A. M., No. 4, 1794.\\nJewels of same, used since 1794.\\nAutograph book. P. Cushvian.\\nSilver brooch belonging to Capt. Joseph Perkins, dates before\\nthe Revolutionary War. Noah Brooks.\\nStock-buckle, Scotch make, 1776. Mrs. Nellie Hawes.\\nWatch left in Castine by the British at the evacuation, 18 15.\\nW. H. Sargent.\\nPocket-book given in 1789 by Capt. Jack Lowder to his betrothed\\nbride, Polly (Mary) Joy, of Union River, now Ellsworth. Mary Joy\\nDunbar.\\nCane of Ebenezer Fitts, first bell-ringer of Castine.\\nSeveral canes made from the timbers of the British transport St.\\nHelena, wrecked in Castine Harbor, 1779.\\nThe Austin coat-of-arms, brought from England in 1792. G. H.\\nWitherle.\\nIndian stone gouge, found in Castine.\\nAncient French pipe. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.\\nAncient snuff-box. Dr. G. A. Wheeler.", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "64 CENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nINCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.\\nnpHE petition of the inhabitants of that part of\\nPenobscot which was subsequently called Castine,\\npraying for a separate incorporation, was presented to\\nthe General Court of Massachusetts, June, 1795, the\\nDistrict of Maine being at that time a part of the State\\nof Massachusetts. At the time of the presentation of\\nthe petition, the name of the proposed town had not\\nbeen detei mined upon; there is no record of the name\\nof the person who suggested the fortunate title subse-\\nquently given to the town, or of the date of filling the\\nblank left in the petition for the name Castine. The\\nact of incorporation was not passed until the month of\\nFebruary next succeeding the presenting of the peti-\\ntion. Following is an attested copy of the petition, now\\non file in the archives of the State of Massachusetts:\\nTo the Hon Senate Hon House of Representatives of the\\nCommonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled-\\nJune 1795-\\nThe subscribers Inhabitants of the Southern Part of the Town\\nof Penobscot in the County of Hancock Humbly shew-\\nThat the said Town is in Extent from the southern to the North-\\nern end Eighteen Miles and 240- Rods that it is so Intersected\\nwith Water and the settlements in it are so scattered as to render it\\nExtremely Inconvenient to the people to Conduct Town business\\nunder their present Circumstances- That the difficulty of fixing one\\nPlace of Publick Worship is so great as to make an agreement\\namong the Inhabitants a thing hardly to be expected- And that\\nthe Natural situation of the Town, its great Extent and the Inter-\\nfering Interests of the Various parts are such as to Create uneasi-\\nness and dissentions; in Consequence of which all Publick spirit\\nseems to decay and all those Institutions and Establishments which\\nPromote the Harmony and good Order of Society are in great\\nMeasure Neglected-\\nThat this spirit is not peculiar to the People of this Town, but\\nNaturally and Necessarily flows from the situation and form of the", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN. 65\\nTown, so that we see no probability of our difficulties being removed\\nbut by a Division of the Town into two. A measure which we think\\nwould be equally benificial to both Parts as each then would get Rid\\nof the Inconveniences which at present impede and obstruct the\\nOnly Measures which can give Importance to either part- Your\\nPetitioners further shew that the said Town is large enough to bear\\na Division, that it is increasing fast in Inhabitants and that they\\ntrust and believe that the measures now prayed for will Promote the\\nInterest and advantage of all the Inhabitants of the Town as well\\nas your Petitioners- They therefore Pray that that Part of the\\nTown of Penobscot which they Inhabit contained within the follow-\\ning boundaries may be Incorperated into a separate distinct town\\nby the name of Begining at the Water side at the Boundary\\nline between John Condens and John Wassens thence Running south\\n78 f degrees East Course to the line that divides Penobscot from\\nSedgwick thence southwestwardly adjoining said Sedgwick to Burks\\nHarbour on Penobscot Bay so called thence round Cape Roseway on\\nsaid Bay Including Spectacle and Holbrook Isleand to the south-\\nwestern Extremity of the Peninsula of Penobscot thence on Penobscot\\nRiver to the North western Corner of Andrew Steels land thence on\\nthe Northern side of said Steels land to the Northeast Corner of the\\nsame thence southwest about Eighty Rods thence on the Northeast\\nline of land lately possessed by William Wescott Deceased to Major-\\nbagw aduce River so Called thence across the said River or Harbours\\nto the bound first mentioned- and together with all the Islands\\nwithin said lines, and as in duty, bound shall ever pray Penobscot\\n23 May 1795.\\nMark Hatch with 87 others Benj.- Howard\\nJoseph Perkins Edward Howard Juner\\nRichard Hunewell Mark Hatch Jur\\nJos Woodman Stover Perkins\\nGeo. Halliburton John Bray\\nMichel Day henery Bray\\nBenj Courtney John Bray Juner\\nDaniel Moor Caleb Bray\\nJere.miah L pham Josiah p. Woodbury\\nAvery Little William Preston\\nTho Stevens Samuel Smith\\nW Reidhead Elisha Dyer", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "66\\nCENTENNIAL OF CAS TINE.\\nFRANCIS E. BaKMAN\\nJohn Bakman\\nJohn Lee\\nDavid Willson\\nAndrew Steel\\nSam a. Whitney\\nSamuel Whitney\\nGeorge Whitney\\nWilliam Whitney\\nBattry M. Powars\\nEben. Frye\\nSamuel Nicholls\\nJohn Perkins\\nDoty Little\\nHoLBROOK Martin\\nJames Douglass\\nNeall Mc cancy\\nJon Holbrook\\nSamuel Woodman\\nAbel Hosmer\\nEbenezer Leland\\nJ (^NATHAN Foster\\nRichard Condon\\nDaniel Costin\\nMalchi Orcutt\\nJacob Orcutt Jun\\nEdward Howard\\nSmith Woodward\\nTimothy Condon\\nhis\\nElisha X Hopkens\\nmark\\nLuther Marble\\nMoses Gay\\nBarnabas Higgins\\nOliver Parker\\nRich Jackson\\nSiLVANUs Bangs\\nEphraim Cook\\nSamuel Rogers\\nTho^ Phillips\\nDan Johnston\\nBenj Milliken\\nJacob L. Morgan\\nRogers Lawrence\\nAndrew Webster\\nAndrew W. Blake\\nW Turner\\nWilliam Robinson\\nJohn Bakman Jnr\\nMicakel Dyer\\nJohn Coffen jur\\nBenjamin Redman\\nReuben Mayo\\nWilliam Moor\\nThomas Corsen\\nJohn Corsen\\nBenjamin Howard jun\\nDaniel Blake\\nJames Crawford\\nDavid Howe\\nJosiah Crawford\\nHutison Bishop\\nJames Scott\\nJohn Collings\\nIn the House of Representatives, June 6, 1795.\\nRead and committed to the stand- Comm on Incorporations\\nof towns.\\nSent up for Concurrence.\\nEdward H. Rohbins, Spk^\\nUofC", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN. 67\\nIn Senate, June 8, 1795.\\nRead and concurred.\\nSam*- Phillips, Presdt.\\nCommonwealth of Massachusetts,\\nOffice of the Secretary,\\nBoston, May 23, i8g6.\\nA true copy.\\nWitness the Seal of the Commonwealth.\\nseal. (Signed) Wm, M. Olin,\\nSecretary,", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "23 1900", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3129", "width": "2028", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3140", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialofcast00cast_0104.jp2"}}