Lubec High School - Quoddy Light Yearbook (Lubec, ME)

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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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