Maine Genealogy
Source: The Bangor Historical Magazine, vol. 2 (Bangor, Me.: J. W. Porter, 1887).
Muscongus was a location later divided between the towns of Bristol and Bremen. Medumcook (Meduncook) was incorporated in 1772 as the town of Friendship.
[p. 158]PETITION FROM INHABITANTS OF MUSCONGUS AND MEDUMCOOK, 1767, TO THE GENERAL COURT.*
The inhabitants of Muscongus and Medumcook Plantations, represent that the Courts are held in Frankfort,† now in the western part of the County, and that a great part of the people who attend there have to lodge on the floor, or in barns, or set up all night by the fire; and they ask that the Courts may be removed to near the centre of the County.
Cornelius Morton.
Joshua Morton.
J. Collamore.
Sedate Wadsworth.
Abia Wadsworth.
Robert Sampson.
John Robinson.
Jacob Griffin.(?)
George Biggmore.
Jacob Graffam.
John Bigmore.
Eben Morton.
John Fraser.
John Grafton.
Jesse Thomas.
Samuel Condon.Samuel Jameson.
Daniel Jameson.
Alexander Jameson.
Cornelius Bradford.
John Bradford.
John Demorse.
John Demorse, Jr.
Elijah Cook.
Jacob Davis.
G. Davis.
William Davis.
Ebenezer Davis.
Nehemiah Davis.
Samuel Davis.
William Elwell.
William Elwell, Jr.‡
*From General Court Records, Jan. 4, 1767.
†Now Dresden, on the Kennebec River.
‡These men were, nearly all of them, from Plymouth County, Mass.
