Harmony:  INCORPORATION
The East Somerset County Register
1911-12
Compiled and Published by Chatto & Turner
Auburn, Maine
Clarence I. Chatto; Clair E. Turner
page 110-111

  
INCORPORATION
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and 
three.

An act to incorporate the Plantation of Vaughanstown in
the county of Kennebec into a town by the name of Harmony.

Section 1st.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representative in General Court assembled and by the au-
thority of the same that the Plantation called Vaughanstown
in the county of Kennebec bounded as follows: Beginning at 
a cedar tree marked S. W. 1790, standing on the northerly 
banks of Moose or Pickerel pond, the same pond being on the 
west branch of the Sebasticook river, thence running west three
miles and fifty six rods to a spruce tree marked............being
the southeast corner of Township Number Two, second range
north of the Plymouth claim, thence north six miles to a beech
tree marked, standing on the south of the one million acres 
sold to William Bingham, thence east six miles on the south
line to a beech tree and a large heap of stones being the south-
east corner of aforesaid million acres, thence south six miles to 
a large sprue tree marked ------------, thence west about one
hundred rods to the aforesaid Moose or Pickerel pond, thence
by said pond on the northerly side thereof to the first mention-
ed tree, containing twenty-three thousand and forty acres ac-
cording to the plan of the same made by Samuel Weston in
the year 1790, with the inhabitants thereon; be and hereby are 
incorporated into a town by the name of Harmony and the said 
town is hereby vested with all the powers, privileges and im-
munities which other towns in this Commonwealth do or may
by law enjoy.

Approved by Cabel Strong, Governor of Mass., June 15, 
1803.

Eli Weston, Esq., was empowered to issue a warrant for a 
town meeting and he issued same to John Merrill.


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