It has been said that children are among the earliest productions of a new colony. Whether this is true as a general proposition or not, it was true of the settlement at Lincolntown as facts will show. There is a tradition that in the year 1803, the second year of the settlement, a son was added to the household of Joh and Agnes Grant Knight. If the fact is in harmony with the tradition, this was the first birth in the new township. On the 24th of January, 1804, there was born to Miriam Chase, wife of John M. Chase, a daughter, Polly Chase. To the family of Joesph and Zeruiah Garland, there was the addition of a daughter, Zeruiah Garland, born February 3, 1804. To the family of Justus and Miriam Harriman there was the addition of a son, Manoah Harriman, born May 14th, 1804, and to the family of Isaac and Betsey Murray Wheeler, there was the addition of a son, Reuben Wheeler, born September 20th, 1804. These records were copied from family records and entered upon the records of the town after itŐs incorporation in 1811.