A settlement made in 1720 or earlier upon the Clarke and Lake purchase on the east side of the Kennebec River, under the efforts of the heirs and Robert Temple. It extended from the Eastern River down to Chop Point (territory now in Dresden and Woolwich)
Petition to Massachusetts provincial congress for relief, dated Machias, May 25, 1775 and signed by 89 residents: p. 125-127. Report of the Committee of correspondence of Machias to the Provincial congress on the Margaretta affair, dated June 15, 1755: p. 129-131.