Mr. Waldo came here immediately after he graduated, and the next year was chosen representative of the town, his family having long exercised great influence on account of a large estate here. While a member of the house this year, he received from Governor Shirley a commission as Colonel on the commencement of the war of 1744. In 1753 he went to Europe with authority from his father to procure emigrants to settle the Waldo patent, and by flattering representations and liberal offers he induced a number of Germans to follow him to his possessions in this State, many of whose descendants still occupy part of that territory. In August, 1760, he was married to Olive Grizzel of Boston, who died the next February, and in March, 1762, he married Sarah Erving by whom he had four sons, Samuel, John Erving, Francis, and Ralph, and two daughters, Sarah and Lucy. In 1760 he was appointed the the first Judge of Probate for the county of Cumberland,

"Book of Martyrs," first printed in London in 1563. The first of the name who came to this country was Thomas, who was admitted a freeman in 1638, and lived in Cambridge, where Jabez his son, the grandfather of the Jabez who came here, was born, 1646. The precise time that Mr. Fox came to this town we cannot determine, we find him here in 1743, when he was married to Ann, daughter of Wymond Bradbury of York, and aunt of Judge Theophilus of Falmouth. On her decease which happened not long after, he married the widow of Phineas Jones, by whom he had William, who died young, John, for many years a respectable merchant in Portland, and Mary, who married Edward Oxnard. Mr. Fox filled several important offices in town, was justice of the Peace, was repeatedly chosen representative to the General Court, and for the three years preceding his death was one of the Governor's council, the first ever chosen from the territory now forming the County of Cumberland. He died respected and lamented April 7, 1755, aged fifty. The mother of Mr. Fox was Mary Tyng, a granddaughter of Thaddeus Clark, who lived on the Neck and was killed by the Indians in 1690. Clark's wife being granddaughter of George Cleeves, the Fox family therefore inherit the blood of our first settler. The descent from Cleeves is thus, his daughter Elizabeth married Mitton, whose daughter Elizabeth married Clark, whose eldest daughter Elizabeth married Capt. Edward Tyng, a distinguished officer and statesman in Massachusetts; his daughter Mary married Rev. John Fox of Woburn, the father of our honored citizen Jabez. Another daughter of Capt. Tyng, Elizabeth, married a brother of Dr. Franklin.

which office he held until his death, April 16, 1770, in the forty-ninth year of his age.

The state of literature in town previous to the revolution, was not, it will be perceived, of a very elevated character; nor indeed from the situation of the people, could much have been expected. Yet when the small population of the Neck is considered, not exceeding nineteen hundred, at the very eve of the war, perhaps it contained as large a proportion of educated men as any other place in that day. In 1763 several gentlemen upon the Neck, desirous of promoting the diffusion of useful knowledge, and extending the means of information, made some attempts to establish a library. In 1765 twentysix persons had associated together for this purpose, all but two or three of whom lived upon the Neck. The progress of their laudable undertaking was extremely slow, and at the opening of the library in 1766, it contained but ninety-three volumes, of which ancient and modern universal history comprised sixty-two volumes, being just two-thirds of the whole number. Only part of this work was first put in, but in 1765 a subscription was raised among the members to complete the

The names of the first associates were Enoch Freeman, Be njamin Titccmb Stephen Longfellow, Richard Codman, Edward Watts, Thomas 'Scales, Paul Prince, John Waite, Benjamin Waite, Enoch Ilsley, Jonathan Webb, Francis Waldo, Thomas Smith, Moses Pearson, James Gooding, Josiah Noyes, John Cox, Jeremiah Pote, Alexander Ross, Ebenezer Mayo, John Wiswell, Richard King, Jedediah Preble, Ephraim Jones, Stephen Waite, and John Waite, Jr. Mr. King, lived in Scarborough. William Tyng and some others were admitted previous to the war.

The catalogue of the books is so small, we may be excused for publishing it entire. Ancient and modern universal history from No. 1 to No. 62 inclusive. The Reflector, 1 vol; Leland's view of the Deistical writers, 8 vols.; Prospects of Mankind, etc., 1 vol.; Lardner's history of the writers of the New Testament, 3 vols.; London Magazine from No. 71 to No. 79 inclusive, 1755 to 1763; Physico Theology, 1 vol.; Ray's Wisdom of God, 1 vol.; Propagation of Christianity, 2 vols.; Rapin's History of England, 7 vols., from 85 to 91 inclusive; History of Peter, Czar of Muscovy, 2d and 3d vols., volume 1 not put in. Total, ninetythree.

set, and thirty-nine pounds fifteen shillings were contributed on this occasion. Books at that period were not thrown from the press with the rapidity and in the quantity they are at this time; book-shops were rare, and all works of standard value were imported from England. It will be seen that among those which constituted the first library here, not one was printed in this country. Even the newspapers and almanacs which issued from our presses were very small and of mean quality. The formation of a library therefore under such circumstances, was a very serious undertaking, the difficulty of which cannot be felt now, when works in every departmemt of literature and science are scattered, like the leaves of the Sibyl, from a thousand presses. We believe this to have been the first establishment of the kind in Maine. Not much addition was made to the books previous to the revolution, and in the destruction of the town, the little collection was widely dispersed and a number of the books lost: during the war its operations were entirely suspended until 1780, when an attempt was made to collect the fragments and restore them to use.2

We shall resume the consideration of this subject in a future stage of our work and must now dismiss it to make room for matters which it has already anticipated.3

In this subscription Benjamin Titcomb gare a guinea, the other members a silver dollar each.

2 All the books which survived the destruction of the town are now preserved and form a part of the Portland Atheneum,

3 The following memorandum found among Enoch Freeman's papers shows that the members of the society while catering for the mind did not forget the more humble concernments of the body. "Capt. Benjamin Waite has laid a wager with Mr. Richard Codman, of a turkey and trimmings for ye good of the members of the library, that the ferry ways from the brow above Proctor's wharf, must be built three hundred yards further off or longer than the ways at or from the rocks above Captain Bangs' wharf, in order that the ferry boat may lay afloat at low water." Though the subject of the wager is not kindred to the destination of the turkey, it indicates that the library was occupying a place in people's thoughts.

CHAPTER XV.

ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS-PURPOODUCK PARISH SET OFF-PRESBYTERIANS PURPOODUCK PARISHFIRST PARISH, NEW MEETING-HOUSE-Revival-GEORGE WHITEFIELD-New Casco PARISH-EpiscoPAL SOCIETY-SETTLEMENT OF MR. DEANE-QUAKERS.

The whole town notwithstanding its large extent of territory and the remote situation of many of its inhabitants, continued united in one parish until 1733, when by mutual consent the people residing on the south side of Fore river were incorporated by the General Court as a distinct parish. The dividing line of the parishes passed up Fore river to a point half a mile south of Stroudwater river, and thence extended due west to the line of Scarborough. On the 18th of September of the same year, the new parish held a meeting, at which they voted to build a meeting-house, and chose the Rev. Benjamin Allen to be their minister; he accepted the invitation and was installed November 10, 1734.3

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I The members of the first church dismissed to form the second, were John Armstrong, William Jameson, Robert Means, Robert Thorndike, and Jonathan Cobb. Joshua Woodbury, Dominicus Jordan, and Joseph White were afterward dismissed to join that church.

2 This is the present boundary line of Cape Elizabeth.

* Mr. Allen was born at Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard; he graduated at Yale College in 1708, and was settled at South Bridgewater in 1718; after preaching there about ten years he was dismissed by an ecclesiastical council. He died May 6, 1754, aged seventy-two-Mitchell's History of Bridgewater. He had several daughters; one married Rev. Mr. Upham of Barnstable county; another, Rev. Mr. Emery; a third, Clement Jordan, Esq., of Cape Elizabeth; a fourth,

The meeting-house which stands upon the hill opposite Portland, was erected in pursuance of the vote, the frame being constructed of white oak timber cut upon the spot where the house stands. A month previous to the settlement of Mr. Allen and the organization of the church, the number of communicants in Mr. Smith's church, including both parishes, at the sacrament, October 6, 1734, was seventy, which shows a rapid increase in the number in the period of seven years. After this separation, the records of the parish, which was no longer co-extensive with the town, were kept distinct and the first parish was regularly organized in pursuance of the statute in 1734. Dr. Samuel Moody was chosen the first clerk and annually re-elected until 1744, and again in 1746; Joshua Moody, his brother, was chosen the intervening years; Moses Pearson 1746 to 1750, and was succeeded by Stephen Longfellow, who was annually re-chosen twenty-three years.

In the church and parish at Purpooduck there was a strong element of Presbyterianism. The Scotch-Irish emigrants were all of this sect, and they could not easily lay aside the convictions in which they were educated and severely disciplined. Several of them had formed a substantial part of Mr. Smith's church until the Purpooduck parish was separated from it. Of the ten male members who subscribed the church covenant on the organization of the church in March, 1727, four were of that denomination, viz., Armstrong, Means, Jeals or Gyles, and Jameson. Beside these, there were in Cape Elizabeth three other Armstrongs, McDonald, two Simontons, and others,

1 This meeting-house was afterward enlarged by adding a piece of about fifteen feet to its width. This alteration left the pulpit in the middle of the floor, with gallerics and pews behind it, and was allowed to remain so until 1801.

Tristram Jordan, Esq., of Saco; and a fifth died unmarried at Cape Elizabeth. He lost five of his family by the throat distemper, a prevailing epidemic, in one week in September, 1738. He was the seventh son of James Allen of Martha's Vineyard, and was born in 1682. His wife was Abiah Mayhew of the same Island.