Sampson Silver came into the township first in 1804 in the employment of Amos Gordon. In 1805, he came again and worked for John Chandler. During this year he purchased of Amos Gordon a part of lot ten, range five, felled two acres of trees and erected buildings. In 1810 he married and commenced housekeeping. Mr. Silver's old homestead was later the home of Albert G. and Parker Gordon.

Isaac Copeland, who had purchased the westerly part of lot eleven, range five, of John S. Haskell, and had felled an opening on it in 1809, built a house in 1810 and moved his family into it in the autumn of the latter year. He had previously lived in Elkstown. His place was afterwards owned and occupied for many years by the late Stephen D. Jennings, and passed from him into the hands of his son, Mark C. Jennings.

Cutteon Flanders, a brother of Jeremiah Flanders. emigrated from Hopkinton, N. H. in 1810 and settled on the lot afterwards owned by Asa H. Sawtelle, and now owned by John Hayden.

Ezekiel Straw emigrated to the township from New Hampshire in 1810, and purchased lot seven, range seven. Two years later, having made a clearing and built a house, he married (Abigail Kirkpatrick) and commenced housekeeping. Mr. StrawÕs old homestead is now owned and occupied by Lionel Lincoln.

The Rev. John Sawyer made a beginning on lot six, range ten, in 1810, and resided there for several years. The old Sawyer homestead was subsequently owned and occupied by Edward Fifield and I. A. Palmer. It is now owned and occupied by D. F. Patten.

Mr. SawyerÕs first visit to the township was in 1809, when he bore with him a commission from the Maine Missionary Society for a few weeksÕ service.

This society had been organized only a single year at that time. Mr. Sawyer was among its earliest missionaries. His labors have created a deep religious interest and resulted in the organization of a Congregational church, the third organized within the present limits of Penobscot County--the church at Dixmont being the first, that of Brewer the second and Garland the third. The early history of garland Congregational church and a biographical sketch of Mr. Sawyer, will appear in another connection.