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Old Meduncook Plantation

INFORMATION WANTED ON A FRIENDSHIP SLOOP NAMED 'DEPRESSION': I own a Friendship Sloop built in 1899. Her name is Depression and has held that name since at least1935.I am trying to find some history on the boat . All I have is a picture taken in or around 1960 that says "Depression ,built by Wilbur Morse at Matinicus Island 1899 " It sounds to be like a contradiction , but I can't be sure because I have nothing else to go on.

I am a member of the Friendship Sloop Society and they don't seem to know much more than me. Can anyone help me ? I am scheduled to bring her to an antique boat show in Salem MA this summer and I'd like to have some info to tell the onlookers.   Keith Roberts  Keith@fjrobertsfloors.com   April 2002

History

The area was first explored in 1605. The town of Warren, incorporated in 1776, originally included the modern territory of Friendship. It was known as Meduncook prior to 1807.

I am interested in information shedding light on a small stone fort on Martin's Point in Friendship. With fewer spruce trees it would have overlooked that entrance to Friendship harbor and the Pemaquid side of Muscongus Bay . To me it appears too small for guns, but might have been an observation point -- I have always suspected during the French and Indian Wars or the War of 1812.

It would stand to reason that there are many of these in the area, and others may have information about them or may be wondering about them as well. I was told by a family elder that there was once an article in Downeast Magazine about such small forts. My family has spent summers in Friendship for nearly a century, and this fort has always been there. My family refers to it as the "Indian Rock," suggesting that we'd considered it ancient from the first time any of us saw it.

This isn't a geneology question, but it might be of interest to others researching local history.

Peter Evans   PeterEvans@NewPowerTech.com

Features

Friendship lies between Muscongus Bay and the Friendship River. Cranberry, Long, Otter & Moss Islands are included in it's territoy and Franklin Island Light, one of Knox Counties fourteen lighthouses, is situated there.

Sources

For photocopies of local Birth, Marriage and Death records send $1. and an SASE to Friendship Town Clerk's Office, Friendship, ME 04547. 207-832-7644

Or write Maine State Archive, LMA building, State House Station, Augusta, Me 04333, 207-287-5795, Hrs Mon-Fri 8-11:30 12:30-4

Copies of records of birth, marriage, and death from the year 1923 to the present can also be obtained from the Office of Vital Statistics, State House Station #11, Augusta, ME 04333-0011. Their fee is $10.00 for a certified copy or $6.00 for an uncertified copy.

For Probate Records send $1. and a SASE and request a photocopy of the 'Petition for Distribution or Administration' or 'Account of Administration' , (whichever is available), for the deceased individual. (Addresses below)

For Deeds of Land send $1. and a SASE and request a photocopy of the record for that individual.

For either of these use the following addresses:

• For 1636-1760 write York County Clerk's Office, Alfred, ME 04002
• For 1760-1827 write Lincoln County Clerk's Office, Wiscasset, ME 04578
• For 1827-1860 write Waldo County Clerk's Office, Belfast, ME 04915
• For 1860-present write Knox County Clerk's Office, 62 Union St., Rockland, ME 04841
  Phone # 207-594-0422, Fax # 207-594-0446

Friendship Historical Society, Box 321, Martin's Point Road, Friendship, ME 04547, 207-832-4826

Friendship Historical Museum, Box 321, Martin's Point Road, Friendship, ME 04547, 207-832-4826 or 207-832-4818, Sun 2:-4:, M-S 1:-4: July 1 through Labor Day

Friendship Library, Harbor Rd., Friendship, ME 04547 207-832-5332

Friendship United Methodist Church Records, 1830s, 1840s

Baptist Church Records, 1855



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Reference	Author	Owner/Email
Friendship, ME Vital Statistics.	.	David C. Young
'Records of Meduncook Plantation and Friendship, 1762-1899'	Melville Bradford Cook c1965	The Camden Area History Center
'Lawry of Friendship, Maine 1754 - 1982'	A. E. Sutton 1992	The Camden Area History Center
Knox County Directory, 1927		The Camden Area History Center
A History of Friendship	Dr. Hahn's notes comp. by Carleson pub. Hist. Soc.	The Camden Area History Center
'History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro' 1956 (has some Friendship families)	Jasper J. Stahl	The Camden Area History Center
Islands of Maine series	Charles McLane	The Camden Area History Center
'The Genealogy, History, and Alliances of the American House of DELANO 1621 to 1899', New York 1899 (contains a few Friendship Delano's and affiliated families to 1890)	Major Joel Andrew Delano	The Camden Area History Center
'Maine Families in 1790'Vol. 1-6, one generation back and one forward	ed. by Gray and Anderson	Mary J. Coombs
'Maine and NH Families'	Walter Goodwin Davis	Mary J. Coombs
Friendship Census Records 1850-1870	Priscilla Jones	At Maine State Archives. Does anyone have this?



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