The events that occurred in the township in 180-2 seemed to promise its early occupation by families. In the summer of this year openings were made on nineteen different lots with the purpose of making homes for an equal number of families. These openings were widely scattered over the township. The proprietors had unwisely determined to withhold from sale the lots on each alternate range with the expectation that when the lots available to settlers had been peopled, those on the reserve ranges would command higher prices. This policy brought numerous hardships and discomforts to its inhabitants and retarded the growth of the township. It separated families by long distances in a wilderness, destitute of roads, while every consideration of comfort and convenience. of safety and sympathy. made it very desirable to have those homes in such proximity to each other as to favor neighborly intercourse.

It increased largely the burden of road making and delayed the division of the town into school districts, the building of schoolhouses and the opening of schools.

The names of the men who made beginnings in the township in the summer of 1802, the place from which they came so far as known, and the lots upon which they settled, are as follows:

Moses Hodsdon of Levant, Me., now Kenduskeag, took possession of lot number seven of the fourth range as agent of the proprietors who desire to retain it because it encompassed the principal water power in the township. Lot number seven in the sixth range was selected by Isaac Wheeler, Esq., of Rutland, Mass. John S. Haskell of New Gloucester, Maine, selected lot number eleven in the fifth range which is now owned by one of his grandsons. Thomas S. Tyler settled on lot number nine in the fifth range. Edward Sargent of Boscawen, N. H. made a beginning on lot number three in the fifth range. He built a camp near the present residence of Samuel O. Davis. Being a carpenter he early came to the conclusion that a carpenterÕs wages in Bangor promised a more certain support for a family then farming in the new township. He left the township and took up his residence in Bangor. Samuel O. Davis and David Allen now own and occupy the lot abandoned by Edward Sargent.

William Sargent, a brother of Edward Sargent, made a beginning on lot number three in the fifth range, where he resided for several years. It subsequently passed into the hands of Luther Rideout and is now occupied by his son James L. Rideout.

John M. Chase, from Danville, Maine, made a beginning on lot number one in the seventh range. It afterwards passed into the hands of Isaac Wheeler, Esq. It was owned and occupied by Ezekiel Page for some years and subsequently by Bradbury G. Atkins, whose family own and occupy it at the present time.

Joseph Garland, who had the honor of giving name to the town, made a beginning upon lot nine in the seventh range, where he cleared the land, erected buildings and resided for about twenty-five years. Samuel Greeley, from Salisbury, N. H., purchased this farm about the year 1827, where he lived until his death, when it passed into the hands of his son, James Greeley. It is now owned by David Dearborn. Enos Quimby made a beginning on lot number ten in the seventh range, where he remained but a short time, subsequently sold to Moses Smith and left the township. Mr. Finson emigrated from New Gloucester, Maine.

Peter Chase made a beginning on lot seven in the seventh range, and built a house three later, but abandoned it soon after. never having a family here.

Arnold Murray, from Palermo, Maine, made a beginning on lot eight in the ninth range.

Justus Harriman, from Salisbury, N. H. made a beginning on lot nine in range nine, where he remained through life.

James Garland, from Salisbury, N. H. made a beginning on lot ten in the ninth range.

Thomas Gilpatrick made a beginning on lot eleven in the ninth range.

Joseph Saunders, from New Gloucester, Maine, made a beginning on a part of lot four, range nine.

The ranges of land which covered the surface of the township extended from its eastern to its western limit. Of the men who made beginnings in 1802, five selected lots on range five, an equal number made beginnings on range seven, and seven of those men showed a preference for range nine. The latter range runs near the summit of the range of hills which extended from east to west across the northern section of the town. This range now embraces some of the most productive lands in the town.

A majority of the pioneers who made beginnings in 1802 became residents of the town for longer or shorter periods. Some of them lived here to a good old age, and, casting off the responsibilities of active life, where many years earlier they had assumed them, they quietly passed their last years in the homes which their own sinewy arms wrested from the wilderness.