140 FOREST COMMISSIONER''s REPORT. 



on my index cards as "Within the Waldo Patent" — some one 

 hundred islands and ledges. 



Fox Islands. 



The first permanent settlement of these islands was in 1762. 

 By the time of the Revolution there were a great many settlers 

 on the two islands. After the Peace of 1783 a great many new 

 settlers arrived. A meeting was held in March of 1785 by the 

 inhabitants and it was voted to petition the general court praying 

 to be quieted in full possession of their lands — "They therefore 

 pray that Your Honor would relinquish any claims that the 

 Commonwealth may have to the said islands, to all the inhab- 

 itants, their heirs and assigns forever." 



Resolve of March 13, 1786: 



"Whereas it appears to the court from a survey and plan of 

 certain islands lying in Penobscot Bay, within the County of 

 Lincoln, called Fox Islands, taken by Rufus Putnam in the year 

 1785, that said islands contain 16,527 acres (and that not more 

 than one-half of said islands is of any value) whereon were 

 seventy-five settlers before the first day of January, 1784; and 

 whereas John Calderwood and other settlers on said islands have 

 petitioned this court for a grant of the same to them their heirs 

 and assigns ; 



Therefore resolved : That all the islands belonging to and 

 composing the Division of the Fox Islands as described on the 

 aforesaid plan, viz : Bounded westerly and northerly by Penob- 

 scot Bay; easterly by Fox Island Bay (which separates these 

 islands from the Isle au Haut and Deer Island Division of 

 islands) and southerly by the Atlantic Ocean, be and are hereby 

 granted and confirmed, with all the privileges and appurtenances 

 to the same belonging, to John Calderwood and the other settlers 

 who settled there before the first day of January, 1784, their 

 heirs and assigns, on condition that the said Calderwood and 

 others interested as aforesaid appropriate of good land two 

 hundred acres for use of the ministry, and two hundred acres 

 for the use of a grammar school ; and that they pay into the 

 treasury of this Commonwealth within one year from this date, 

 on interest, the sum of 108 pounds in specie, for the expense of 

 surveying the said islands and other charges, and also the sum 

 of 66 pounds, 7 shillings, in consolidated securities of this Com- 

 monwealth. 



