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Till' UUODDX LIG T tnts to entnle her to a representative she hould unlte x 1th Eastport for that purpose There were 584 souls and only one school house located in what IS now 'Wo 3 North Lubec There wa noehurch butp1ov1s1ons were soon made for erecttng one Rev Ephraim Abbott 't missionary vrsrted the town about th1s tlme He reported that tnere were very few books here rn No 9 non Trescott and that he distrlbuted 97 b1bles 76 testaments and 74 spelling books The Narrant for the first town meetmg was issued to Mr Samuel Beal one of the 1nhab1tants and freeholders of the town of Lubec and was datedj ly 7 A D 1811 and s1gned Ol1verShead Justlce of Peace On the fifth day of Noxember 1812 Lubec voted for the first time for electors Umted States the counties of Hancock and Washington bemg entitled to one elector Phe first money to be rarsed by a tax was on Apr1l 5 813 and the amount was S100 This was a modest sum but xt should be remembered that the people were poor and that the war made hard tlmes for the young town At first these eastern Waters were ahve wlth American prrvateers whlch cut off a lxrge part ofthe Brrtish commerce of the bay They finally were driven out or captured by the Bxltrsh navy which was drawn here by the1r depredations Fmally all eoastwrse trade was stopped and goods had to b transported bs land mer roads xxh1ch were almost rmpassable Only txxo f'11'Dll1GS had settled at Flagg s point Lexus F Delesdern1er's and Nehe C149 mxah Small s The formers parents were French Huguenots from Geneva SWIYZGT land and who settled in Cumberland county Nova Scotia Here Lexus was born rn 1751 and grew up preJud1ced against the English bec use of their mhuman treatment of the F1 ench Acad1ans He Jomed a band vt hose sx mpatlues vt ere for the Colon1sts then 1n 'trms and under Colonel Eddie made an attack on Fort Cumberland at the head of the bas and suffered a severe defeat He XV1fh others, escaped through the wllderness to Machms Here he found Colonel john Allan one of h1s fathers nelghbors, who took h1m mto government SSTVICC wlth a lieu enant s comml sron Whlle servmg under Allan he Vlblted Passamaquoddy several t mes and whe 1 the w tr was over c une h re to lne On the e tabhshment of the Felelal Customs Dxstrlct of Psssama quoddy tn 1789 he was appomted rts first colleetor x 1th lns ofiiee at Flagg s Pomt In 1794 he was appoxnted post m ster but ne did not retun hrs office long The rn uls came lrregularly once a week tl ans p lrted on foot through the woods About this time Solomon Rlce establlsheu a stor at Rlce s Island and Lewxs Deles dernler moved the collector s ofiice there nd afterwards to Moose Islam Here he went through the mtzmg struggle whlch the fove nment h td NV1Lh the ptrate smug, glers ouung the embargo precedmg the last war wlth England Colonel Lemuel Trescott succeeded Mr Delesdermer He was born m Brxstol County Mass 1n 1751, and had served as Majorm the Rewolutlon After the war he came to Quoddy and began manufact v u J, H , , , . . t.. l V' t,, , ' . , h - ' 1 K Y K 5 ,A ' , 1 l . A , , a . V N n A . . . ' 51 ' ' . s Q ' . 'I ' ' f . , ' I 1 . v , n g t 1 , s o 'O A ' V I , A Q -1 . L ' ! - - 1 ,I s ' L' s n n Q I, Q. 1 . . , x S ' . 1 ' 4 1 I I Y I I I l .' l 2 , 'L A 2 ' , z. e H. t - as of the Presuient and Vrce-Pres1dent of the , , ., - - ., . . . s . I V ' ' ' s ' 1 ' ' s . , 1, ' ' I C -I ' f ,, , ' s an , - u - , ' : ' , J. , A , . L ' L . ' . . - , ,f .' , Y' , ' -i . . . - ' e ' -'r 5 . . '- - I ' . v, , ' 7 Q Q I 1 x f 1 J x . . , A U . L . ' f f ' f ' , , ' ' . ct 1. , . Y . :D xi- 1 L ' ' - y- ' -, 1. f l . f .' ' ' ' A c ' . . 1 . . K4 K A . . 1 ' . X I s , ' 4 Lx I 1 7 v 1 I I ' . - . , 7 . . . 1 '1 1 1 1 - c 1 ' ' ,
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THE QUODDY LIGHT Htstnrg nf 11111 er HE FRENCH were the first to ex Dlore and settle rn Lubec They sarled these beautrful bays and anchored ln these harbors 1n 1604 slxteen years before the Pxlgrrms landed on Plym outh Rock They commumcated wrth the Indlans whom they afterwards Chr1st1an 1zed and they named the country from Cape Sable to the Penobscot r1ver Acadxa afterward corrupted 1n part by the Indrans and Englrsh rnto Quoddy About 154 years later French Canad1ans escapmg from Nova Scotla settled on these shores and traces of them stxll exrst at North Lu b c and South Bay human hand Standmg facmg the north and extendlng the rlght hand palm up ward w1ll illustrate the form Phe thumb IS West Quoddy Head the first finger lS Flagg s Pomt the town proper the second finger rs North Lubec the thxrd Denbow s Neck and the fourth Crow s Neck The rntervemng spaces are West Quoddy Bay Johnson s Bay Cobscook and Straight Bays West Quoddy Head IS the most eastern pomt of land rn the Umted States and was known by the Indrans as Cheburn Here IS located the most eastern llghthouse rn the Umted States establlshed ln 1809 Flagg s Poxnt was so called from a man of that name who came here rn the latter part of the last century and bu1lt a cabm a httle below the present Mooney house He claimed the whole pomt but drd not C135 succeed 1n holdmg xt so he removed later to Grand Manan The Indran name was Kabaumkeag a real Etchemm name and better than the mongrel Quoddy Cam pob llo a Canadlnn lsland on the east, is separated from this pomt by a small arm of the sea known as the Narrows This IS only about 300 feet wrde at low t1de and before the channel was dredged rt could be forcled on foot at the lowest trde Seward s Neck now North Lubec was settled about the same time as Moose Isl and or soon after the war ln 1785 The two places were lncorporated as one town rn 1798 and named Eastport There y ere achusetts New Hampshire, western Marne and the Provlnces Some were soldiers in the Revolutlon others refugees from Can ada who had espoused the Amerlc rn cause The land was afterward surveyed and each settler secured hrs txtle from the state of Massachusetts by paymg five dol lars bes1des the cost of surveyxng It was thought that the mterests of the people on the mam land ' as It was then called would be better served by a sepa rate orgamzatlon and a petltron to that end was srgned by both sectlons The name, Lubec suggested lt 1S said, by Mr Weston a lawyer was spelled Lubeck untrl 1818 The act to set off and 1ncorp0 rate the town passed the General Court and was approved by the Governor, on June 21 1711 It was provlded that untll the new town should have enough xnhablt O - I ' ' ' S ' km gl, . . ' , . .x ' . . . . 1 4 ,, - , . I ' N- . - N.. . i I 3 . . t . . 4 1 ,7 7 , Q I I , 1 I I s h , I . 3 . n ' V The conformation of the town is like the 244 inhabitants, all SQUHUCFS. fl'Om MHSS- : . 1 A . . . , y l . n . . ' ' 4. I ' . - , . 1 ' . 5 . Y , K I 1 ' Y , ' I Y . l . , , ' ' I I Y L- ' ' - 7 I ' , L - , . I ga . , . I I 1 n n I , l ' Y l , . . . - I x -
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