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Bounds of the Town of Belmont in the State of Maine

Incorporated February 5, 1814

(Excerpted form the “History and Genealogy of the Town of Morrill, Maine” by Robinson, Morse, and White with permission of the Morrill Historical Society. This information is also available from the public records of the General Court of Massachusetts)

The following was supplied by the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary’s Department

Boston

September 9, 1896

As “A true extract from the original act, to establish the easterly part of the Plantation, heretofore called Greene, in the County of Hancock, as a town by the name of Belmont.  Bounds of the Town of Belmont, in the State of Maine, incorporated February 5, 1814”

Beginning at a yellow birch tree, being the southeasterly corner of the town of Belfast, thence north, twenty-two degrees west, by the line of Said Belfast, four miles and two hundred and ninety-two rods to a maple tree, being the northeasterly corner of Belfast aforesaid, thence continuing the same course by unincorporated lands, two miles and one hundred and seven rods to a stake and stones, thence north, eighty-three degrees west, by the Plantation of Knox, two miles and one hundred and twenty rods to a stake and stones in the line of Montville, thence south, thirty-four degrees west, by the line of said Montville, one mile and one hundred and ninety-eight rods to a stake and stones, being the North corner of Searsmont, thence south thirty-four degrees, East, by the line of Searsmont, three hundred and ten rods to a stake and stones, thence south twenty-six degrees east by the line of said Searsmont, eight miles to a birch tree, in the line of Lincolnville, thence north, fifty-six degrees east, by the line of Lincolnville one mile and two hundred and seventy-five rods, to a stake and stones in the line of Northport, thence northwest by the line of said Northport, eighty-two rods to a stake and stones, thence north fifty-six degrees east, by the line of said Northport, one mile and forty-five rods to the place of the beginning.

Henry B. Pierce

Secretary of the Commonwealth