Extracts from the Letters of the Jesuit Missionary in Maine, Father P. Biard

By Charles Frederic Allen, Edward Payson Burnham, Ephraim Chamberlain Cummings, George Foster Talbot, George Freeman Emery, Henry Sweetser Burrage, Israel Herrick, James Phinney Baxter, James Ware Bradbury, Joseph Frye, Joseph Wheaton, Joseph Williamson, Josiah Hayden Drummond, Kittery (Me.). North parish, Maine Historical Society, Massachusetts. Commissioners on Mount Desert lands, 1808, Peleg Wadsworth, Pierre Biard, William Allen, William Mitchell Sargent

Extracts from the Letters of the Jesuit Missionary in Maine, Father P. Biard
Preview available
The commonwealth of Massachusetts granted the western part of Mount Desert Island to John Bernard, reserving to their occupants the lots settled prior to 1785. This commission was appointed to investigate the claims of such settlers.