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Excerpt from Genealogy of the McFarland Family of Hancock County, Maine Even before the above grants were legalized by the General Court settlements began to be made in different parts of the county. In the Spring of 1761, Capt. Abraham Somes of Gloucester, Mass. Took up a land grant at the head of the inlet now known as Somes' Sound in Mount Desert, where he built a mill and made other improvements. In 1762, Col. Jonathan Buck and four other men from Haverhill, Mass., settled in Township No. 1, now Bucksport. Joseph Goss moved to No. 2 in 1764 and gave it the name Orland. The first per manent settler in Penobscot was Charles Hutchings in 1768. Town ship No. 5, now Blue Hill, was settled in 1762 by Joseph Wood and John Roundy from Beverly, Mass. In the same year a settlement was begun at Sullivan by Sullivan, Bean, Simpson and others. Ben jamin Milliken settled in Ellsworth in 1763, which is also the date of the settlement of Eden by the Thomas family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.