| Description | Before Thomas Rice and John Stinson J P, recounting how they settled on lands East of Kennebeck River, Colonel Dunbar offered to give them the deeds of these lands, but the execution was delayed and in 1733 he was removed to New Hampshire, their sufferings from the Indians etc, in 1764 they were legally incorporated into a town by the name of Boothbay, and, though poor, they have built a church, paid the public charges of government and proved themselves loyal subjects of George III
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