University of Maine at Portland - Reflection / Umpire Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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.. it September 1, 1689 a party of Indians canoed . r in- the early morning fog and attacked the ' ; the musket fire that rattled in the orchard was attic 0f the Second Indian War t1689-16971 nthan Bracken was wounded, and died shortly there. mdtet't. Jr. was taken prisoner; their farmstead ompous and mtund Major Benjamin Church , aneged to repel the invasion, but the vietory was $153 beequent attacks brought about the complete ' 'of'Falmmzth and the coast. This section was to see . colonization until 1715. mkett, one of the surviving sons of AnthOny returned in that yea: to reclaim the farm which had '- andovergrown after twentysix years of-disuse. 13.0115 tacttlement close-by, and a treaty ending the 1111698, the fields were again sown and a dwelling taf' neat the spot on which later was construcred a farmhouse. -e farm, as the plat became knowm remained property For Wenty-f'tve relatively quiet and prose . While the young seaport approadted its adoles- son,Zachatiah's namesake, was born on the property egg and lived no a venerated eightyvfout, a tare age '5 t . e'eommon dispositiom of the time. In 1740, the 7 Fat and outlying fields were sold to joseph Noyes. caiaia-I'IM, as a representative from the area, and in 17?9 he was a member of a committee formed to author a con- stitution for the Province which determined what form ofgov- emment this province of Massachusetm and Plymouth Bay would assume after the Declaration oflndependence. By the fol- lowing spring, public Opinicn undement a change on the subject and so had Noyes. Noyes retired from his appointment and enjoyed the reputa- tion of being an honored townsman. Upon his death, he bequeatheti the Back Cove farm to his eldest son, josiah. Josiah had married Mary Lunt of Newbury in 1727; their youngest child, Sarah, married Moses Lunt in 1773 and to that family was bequeathed his 500 acres on the Neck, as the large peninsula was then of tradition called. Their son, Amos Lunt, who was without heir, sold the acreage to James Deering, the son of a prosperous and enterprising merchant, in 1802'. The land now entered its most respecmd and colorful period under theatre of this honored and wealthy speculatot. The farm was transformed from a series ofhatd-tilled fields and orchards into a businessmau's expansive country estate. Skilled labor was hired to cultivate and tend the land for the purpose of rededicating to appearance alone the acreage that had long been bloodied farmland. The boundaries of the tenurtured area included most of the land between the present boundaries of Forest and Deering Avenues, containing DeeringOaks Park and an area which extended a considezable diStance to the west.