Incorporation and Municipal Records of 1802 History of Danville as Told by the Town Records of Pejepscot & Danville, Maine 1802-1866 (1st posted) The records were compiled & typed by the late Charles Starbird of Danville, Maine. Incorporation and Municipal Records of 1802 Petition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge and 30 others for the Incorporation of the Town 1799. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sitting in Boston for the session of 1799 - This Petition Herewith That the Inhabitants living between the town of New Gloucester, Lewiston, Durham, and Poland, known by the name of Pejepscot Claim and (Moses) Little's Gore, in which place no provison having been made by the Proprietors Claiming the same for public roads, nor researved lands appropriated to encourage schools or preaching the Gospel or any other necessary or useful instition, and being desirous of promoting them themselves to the best of their power, Pray the Honorable Court to incorporate All the lands between the town aforesaid by the name of heritage, with the equal powers and privileges annexed to other incorporated towns and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray. Andrew Robinson Giddinge Job Lane Thomas Goss Jr Michael Smith Thomas Finson John Fogg Oliver Wiswell John Merrill Jonathan Row Wm Plummer Solomon Dyer Solomon Larrabee Ebenezer Witham William Parsons Ebenezer Jordan Gideon Haskell John Brooks Jr True Woodbury Philip Mills Williams Nevens William Elwell Moses Fitz Benjamin Mitchell Lemuel Dyer Joseph McKenney James Jordan John Brooks George Leach Pelatiah Smith William Parsons Jr John Stinchfield In the House of Representatives 25 Jan 1800 Report of the Committee on Applications for Incorporation of Towns The standing Committee appointed to consider Applications for Incorporation of Towns, to who was referred the Petition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge and others Inhabitants of Pejepscot Claim and (Moses) Little's Gore, praying for Incorporation, Report the following order Which is submitted Stephen Longfellow Jr Order Commonwealth of Massachusetts On the petition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge & others Inhabitants of the Pejepscot Claim and Little's Gore, praying for Incorporation - Ordered that the Petitioners cause an attested copy of said Petition & this Order thereon to be published three weeks Successively in the Eastern Herald and Gazette of Maine printed at Portland the last publication to be at least thirty Days before the Second Wednesday of the first Session of the next General Court, that all Persons interested may then appear & show cause if any they have why the Prayer thereof should not be granted. In Senate Feb 17, 1800 read and accepted Sent down for concurrence Samuel Phillips, Pres. In the House of Representatives 17 Feb 1800 Read & concurred Edward W Robbins, speaker Remonstrance of the Pejepscot Proprietors to the Petition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge and others? The Honorable Senate & the Honorable House of Representatves in general Court assembled The memorial and remonstrance of Josiah Little humbly sheweth that your memorialist is owner and agent for about three sevenths parts of the land prayed for to incorporate by a petition of Andrew R. Giddinge and others - said has been divided and am in right the Pejepscot Proprietors for more that thirty years past, your memorialist had reserved a Considerable part of the land tat he owned for the purpose of the timber it being handy to the river, notwithstanding his desire it has been in your memoralist power to prevent the settlement and strip and waste on said numbers of which on with an avowed desire to make the strip &c to carry of what they could saying the land was in dispute and they had a good right to it as anybody; your memorialist brot action of Trespass and ejectment against several, and got them in the supreme Judicial Court where the defendants employed Council and the Council stating to the Court that land was in dispute between the Pejepscot Proprietors and the Commonwealth and that it was not certain who would be the owner; by which means the Causes has been continued from time to time to the next court that is to be holden in the County of Cumberland - the dispute between the Commonwealth is now settled and the land is found to be propretors - and now to incorporate that land with its present inhabitants will be very injurious not only to your memotialist but to those that now are settlers on the land & hold the same in fee as by incorporation all the inhabitants that are within its incorporation gain as inhabitant and of Course loose one in the towns from which they came, which your memorialist conceives will be very injurious and unjust as it was not in his or the other owners of property to prevent settlement nor has there been time since the division of the cause to make a settlement those are now onthe land a number of which are not able other to make the damages good which they have done or to purchase the soil for these reasons and many more which may be offered your emeorialist most humbly prat that sufficient may be given to make a settlement with theses that are on the land without a right, before an incorporation is made; or if made that a clause be inserted that none but those that are freeholders shall gain hibitancy thereby as in duty bound shall ever pray Josiah Little In the House of Representatives 11 June 1800 Read and committed to the standing committee on application for Incorporation of town to hear the petitioners report. Sent up for concurrence Edward W Robbins, skeaker In Senate 12 June 1800, Reas & concurred Samuel Phillips, Pres. Report of the Standing Committee on Application for Incorporation of the Town (Pejebscot) Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider applications for Incorporation of towns on the Petition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge and others inhabitants of Pejebscot Claim and Little"s Gore so called praying that said Claim & Gore may be incorporated into a Town, reported that said petition be referred for further evidence. 12 June 1800 Which is submitted Final Report of the Committee Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Committee of both Houses appointed to consider applications for Incorporation of the Town on the Peition of Andrew Robinson Giddinge & others Inhabitants of Pejepscot Claim and Little's Gore in the County of Cumberland praying that said Claim and Gore may be incorported into a Town report that the petition have leave to bring in a Bill for that purpose 4 Feb 1802 Act of Incorporation of Pejepscot In the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred & two. An Act to incorporate the plantation called Pejepscot Claim and Little's Gore in the County of Cumberland into a town by the name of Pejepscot. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represntatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the plantation heretofore, called the Pejepscot Calim, with a gore of land called Little's gore, in the County of Cumberland, as described within the following bounds, with the inhabitants thereon, be and they hereby incorporated into a town by the name of PEJEPSCOT, beginning northeasterly by a line drawn in the middle of the Great Amerescoggin River, southeasterly by the town of Durham, southwesterly by the town of New Gloucester and northwesterly by the town of Poland. And the said town is hereby invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities with which other towns are vested by the Constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. And be it further enacted that Nathaniel C. Allen Esq be, and he is hereby authorized to issue his Warrant, directed to some suitable inhabitant of the said town of Pejepscot requiring him to notify and warn the inhabitants of the said town qualified by law to vote in town affairs, to meet at such convenient time and place as shall be expressed in said Warrant to choose all such officers as other towns within this Commonwealth are by law required to choose in the months of March or April annually. In the House of Representatives 4 Mar 1802, this bill having had three several readings passes to be enacted Edward W. Robbins, Speaker In the Senate 6 Mar 1802, This Bill having had two several reading passed to be enacted David Cobb, Pres, March 6, 1802 by Governor Approved, Caleb Strong True copy Attest John Avery, Secy Next time: "Warrant of Col. Nathaniel C. ALLEN, the first town meeting of Danville, Maine. David C. 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