1762 Ebenezer Thorndike Petition
[Bangor Historical Magazine pg 1960-1961]
Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Jan'y 3d, 1762
To His Excellency Francis Bernard, Esq'r, Captain General and Governor in and oveOver his Majesty's Province afores'd, the Honorable, His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled.
We, the Subscribers, having been soldiers at Fort Pownall and now settled at a Place called Magebaggadeuse on the Eastern Side of Penobscot Bay, and others desirous of settling there themselves, or settling other good Families in their Room; for the accomodation of Numbers that want Land, and to carry on the Fishery, Humbly request your Excellancy and Honours wou'd Please to grant your Petitioners and their Heirs, a Township to be bounded as follows, beginning about three Miles above Casteens River, at a Place called Sandy Point and to run East-North_East Eight Miles, then South-South-East to the Ocean and then West-South-West Eight Miles and then to the first Bounds mentioned: containing a Neck of Land, Water and Islands; and your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.
| Edward Milliken | Joshua Sylvester, Juner |
| Nath'll Milliken | Samuel Sylvester |
| Joseph Brown | David Sylvester |
| John Bicknell, Jun'r | Samuel Sylvester |
| Eben'r Thorndike | Samuel Trask |
| Samuel Freeman | Joseph Trask |
| Eze Cushing | David Trask |
| Ezekiel Cushing, Jr | Spencer Bret |
| Jeremiah Cushing | Douglas Colby |
| Joseph Milliken | Thomas Trask |
| Sam'l Cate | Thomas Williamson |
| Nathaniel Harmon | Benjamin Frizzel |
| John Trott | Adam Sylvester |
| Samuel Trott | Paul Thorndike |
| John Trott | John Mulberry Milliken |
| Thomas Trott | Thomas Milliken |
| Stephen Hutchinson | Benjamin Robbins |
| Samuel Osborn | Benjamin Robbins, Jun |
| Mark Haskell | Archibald Haney |
| Benj'm Milliken | Josiah Henrey |
| Lemuel Smith | Daniel Noyes |
| Sam'l Elvill | Stephen Coombs |
| Dan'l Mackey | Joshua Coombs |
| Will'm Meservey | Andrew Simonton |
| Henry Herrick | William Dyer |
| William Morgan | George Dyer |
| William Bartlett | Benjamin Thorndike |
| John Roundy | David Allen |
| Nicholas Thorndike | John Thorndike |
| Andrew Thorndike | Joshua Woodbury |
| Joseph Wood | Samuel Clark |
| William Haskell | John Robinson, Jun'r |
| Anthony Dyer | Nath'l Ingersoll |
| Thomas Strout | Nathaniel Jordan, Jr |
| Samuel Wood | Joseph Wilson |
| Sam'l Trask | Edward Milliken, Jr |