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ISLEBORO, MAINE

• Early Settlement*

Islesborough was first settled in 1769 by William Pendleton and Benjamin Thomas.  It was incorporated January 28, 1789.  The titles to the lands were secured in 1801 from General Henry Knox.  One of the first settlers named Gilkey, before he had made much improvement, was impressed into the British service, while his wife and two children were left in poverty on the island to gain a living as best they could.  The town was first represented in general court in 1820, by Thomas Waterman.

* From "A Gazetteer of the State Of Maine" by George Varney published in 1886 as excerpted from Ray's Place

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