This listing is for the original hardcover, cloth over board book, 247 pages, measures approx 7.5"x4.75" .

A Brief History of Winthrop, From 1764 to October 1855 by David Thurston. Portland: Brown Thurston, 1855.

CONTENTS. 

CHAPTER I. 
Location, ---------13 
Boundaries, Early Settlers, ------ 14 
Grants of Land, --------16 
Soil and Productions, ----•• 18 
Social Habits, 20 
Scenery, ---------21 

CHAPTER II
Other settlers, ---------23 
Chandler's Grant, 24 
Incorporation of the Town, --••-- 25 
First Town Meeting, 25 
Burying Places, --------26 
Town Meetings, --------27 
Gardiner's Dam, -28 
Taxes, 30 
Provision for the Poor -------33 
Bounties, 33 
Valuation of Property, ;: - - 33 

CHAPTER III
Roads, -34 
Representatives, - - - - - - - -38 
Town Officers, 38 
Moderators, ------ --38 
Town Clerks, 43 
Select Men, 44 
Town Treasures, --------47 
Constables, ---------43 

CHAPTER IV. 
Division of the Town, ------ 52 
Division of the State, -------53 
Against Monopoly, -------56 
Hardships of the Early Settlers, - - 
Patriotism, --------69 
Honorable Confession, -------74 
Politics, 77 

CHAPTER V. 
Standard of Weights, -------83 
Pounds, --------.83 
Warning out of Town, - - . - - 84 
Manufactures and Mechanics, - - . - - - 85 
Banks, --- -89 

CHAPTER VI. 
Education, 
Graduates,
Doctors, 
Physicians who have practised in Winthrop, - - 100 
Lawyers --------- 104 
Lawyers who have practised in Winthrop, - - - 105 
Preachers, - - - - - - - - -107 

CHAPTER VII
Ecclesiastiegal History, - - - - - - -110 
Congregationaliste, - - - - - - - HO 
Friends, --»------ 124 
Episcopal Methodists, ------ 125 
Calvinist Baptist Church, ------ 126 
Universalists, .------- 129 
Christian Band, -------- 132 
Freewill Baptists, 132 
Houses for Worship, ------- 132 
Ministerial Fund, - - 140 

CHAPTER Vm. 
florals, - - - - . - - - - 143 
AVinthrop Society for the promotion of good iMoixils, - 144 
Temperance, -------- 145 
Forts made by the Town to effect a reformation of Morals, 148 
Temperance Tavern, - - - - - - -151 
Washingtonian Society, - - - - - - 151 
Watercure Establishment, - - - - - -168 
Marriages and Deaths, ------ 169 
Genealogical Register, - - - - - - -172 
Sons of Temperance, - - - - - - -152 
Watchman's Club, 152 
Anti-Slavery, 153 
Society for Mutual Improvement, - - - - I55 
Moral reform Society, ------- 157 
Agricultural Societies,- ------ 153 
Kennebec Agricultural Society, - - - - -159 
Literary Societies, - - - - - -'- 161 
Anderson Institution, - - - - - - -162 
Franklin Society, ------- 165 
Lyceums, --------- 165 

APPENDIX. 

NOTE A. 
Deed to Early Settlers, - 

NOTE B. 
Act to Incorporate the To-wTi of Wintlirop, - - - 215 

NOTE C. 
Warrant for Tow-n Meetings, 1772, - - - - 219 

NOTE D. 
Namea of the original members of the Congregational Church and the Covenant, - • - - - 221 

NOTE E. 
Vote of land, &c., to Rev. Da\id Jewett, - - - 225 

NOTE F. 
An act to Licorporate the Town of Readfield, - - 227 

NOTE G. 
An act to Incorporate the First Congregational Society of Winthrop, 230 

NOTE H. 
Account of ordination of Rev. Messrs Belden, Thurston and Sawyer, -- 233 

NOTE I. 
An act to Incorporate the Methodist Society, - ¦ 236 

NOTE K. 
Names of the original members of the Baptist Church and ordination of Rev. Messrs. Ingraham, Merriam & Powers, 239 

NOTE L. 
Names of the members of the Universalist Chm'ch, - 241 

NOTE M. 
Constitution of Society for the Promotion of good Morals 243 

NOTE N. 
Constitution of Society for Mutual Improvement, - -246

Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera.
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