Also known as Forestville Plantation; Lyndon; Eaton Grant;
Eaton Plantation; Township Letter H Ranges 1 & 2; Township I Ranges 1
& 2.
Resources
Report of the
Commissioners
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Report of the Commissioners
Appointed Under Resolve of April 12, 1854 to Locate
grants and determine the extent of Possessory Claims Under
the Late Treaty with Great Britain Augusta:
Stevens & Blaine, Printers to the State 1855
Location of Report at State of Maine Archives: Land
Office Records: Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1 Archival Box 1854 Record
Group Location A21R20 4-9 Box Number 1
"We have heard the statements and proofs, and have surveyed land set
off by metes and bounds, to the persons whose names are here underwritten, the
following described lots having been possessed and improved by them or the
persons under them whom they claim, for more than six years before the date of
the treaty."
[The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, the purpose of which
was to settle the boundary lines between the United States and Great Britain,
in this case, Maine and New Brunswick.]
from page 17:
"We have examined the claims
of persons who claim to be equitably entitled to land under said treaty, by
reason of possession and improvement, but whose possession had not been
commenced six years before the treaty, and have determined the extent of their
several claims.
Many of the settlers, on said lots, have purchased or contracted for the
same, since the date of the treaty, and have thereby acquired a title to their
land.
Several of these lots are located on townships the title to which is not in
the State. The proprietors of said townships are willing to release their
title to said lots for a reasonable compensation, or exchange the same for
other lands belonging to the State.
In the record hereunto annexed, we have omitted those lots set off by the
former Commissioners, under the resolves of 1844, upon the St. John River,
which were not improved prior to the date of the treaty."
In the Tract Granted to General Eaton pages 19, 20