Excerpt from The Jonesport Register, 1905

First Settlers, Indians - First White Visitors - First White Settlers - Growth of Settlement.

Prior to the arrival of the Whites, the region about Jonesport was inhabited by the Native Redmen. A mention of this race always quickens the interest of the reader, if he be a student of American History. Few and simple were their laws, yet more generally observed than the numerous enactments of civilized nations, which fill many volumes of statute books.

The early settlers in Maine got along peaceably, at first, with the Redmen, but, later, hostilities occurred. For this the Whites were partly to blame, for the Indian was often deceived and cheated out of his rights, by his better civilized neighbor. The knowledge that their hunting grounds would soon be overrun by the Whites, the influence of the French, who were hostile to the English, and the encouragement of their rebellious Chieftains, were additional causes for this race to enter into a controversy.

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