Harpswell Historical Society Newsletter Fall 2017 www.harpswellhistorical.org
[email protected] www.facebook.com/harpswellhistoricalsociety The Harpswell Historical Society is dedicated to the discovery, identification, collection, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of materials relating to the history of Harpswell and its people.. Johnson Harmon aggressive actions against English President’s Report Excerpted from A History of Harpswell, settlers. Dave Hackett At the Georgetown meeting, the Maine by Richard R. Wescott This past year has been a good Abnaki demanded specifically that one for our Society. A lot of good Johnson Harmon of York, Maine the settlements being made by the things have happened. We have had played an important role in the Pejepscot Proprietors around Mer- a few more visitors than in years early settlement of Merriconeag rymeeting Bay be withdrawn. The past. Artifacts regularly come to the [Harpswell] Neck, both as a set- Massachusetts delegates refused Museum, among them, a hooked rug tler and as an agent for the Pejep- to make any such pledge. In fact depicting the Basin Point Tide Mill, a scot Proprietors who, in the early they demanded and received four glass jar filled with wooden lobster eighteenth century, owned most of sachems as hostages for the Ab- pegs, and a Portland Cutter sleigh what is now Harpswell, Maine. He naki’s good behavior. (more about that in a bit), a wonder- was born in 1680 Father Râle, the Jesuit mission- ful tool collection, two school desks, The three winters from 1719- ary at the Norridgewock village one from the Orr’s Island School and 1722, with the permission of the of the Abnaki, who was militantly one from the old West Harpswell Pejepscot Proprietors who had opposed to the extension of British School and many more pieces of been granted Merriconeag Neck settlements in Maine, was angered our history.