Excerpt from The Gray and New Gloucester Register, 1905Settlement was begun in 1750. In 1756 the proprietors made a report of the progress of the settlement to the legisla ture, in which they stated that they had laid out 63 lots of 60 acres each for settling lots, and built a meeting-house, erected 36 dwelling-houses and cleared a part of the lands, as, required by the conditions of the grant, but that they had been put to very great expense and suffering.The settlers lived in constant fear of hostile Indians. On May 17, 1755, the settlement was surprised by a large number of savages who destroyed the cattle, burned the meeting-house and all the dwelling-houses and obliged the settlers to ¿ee to places of safety.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.