A copy of the petition for an act of incorporation, and of the names of the signers, taken from Massachusetts records, was kindly furnished to the writer by Dr. John F. Pratt of Chelsea, Mass. The petition, dated March 10, 1810, was placed in the hands of Honorable James Carr, representative to the General Court of Massachusetts from Bangor, who was requested to take charge of it. The petition read as follows:

To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled, at Boston, June Session, 1810.

Humbly Sheweth: The subscribers, inhabitants of Township No. Three in the Fifth Range of Townships North of the Waldo Patent in the County of Hancock, that at Present there are between two hundred and two hundred and fifty souls resident in said Town and near fifty persons liable to pay taxes. That from the first settlement of said Township which is nearly eight years since, we have been deprived of the benefit and privilege of an incorporation. Wherefore your Petitioners pray the Legislature of this Commonwealth to incorporate them into a Town by the name of Garland, with all the rights and privileges that other towns in the Commonwealth by the Constitution,--Bounded as follows: East by Township No. Two, in the same Range, on the north by Township No. Three, in the Sixth Range; bounded on the West by Township No. Four in the aforesaid Fifth Range; bounded on the South by Township No. Three in the Fourth Range of Townships North of the Waldo Patent aforesaid, comformable to the original lines and corners as run and set up by Government. Surveyors in the year of our LORD 1792, originally intended to include a Tract six miles square be the same more or less. Your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.

Township Number three, March 1810

Signed
Edward Fifield
Isaac Hopkins
John Stevens
John Hayes
Nathaniel Fifield
John Trefetheren
Dudley L. Fogg
Thom's Gillpatrick Jr.
John Pratt
Benj. Gillpatrick
Thomas S. Tyler
Silas Libbee
William Blasdell
Jeremiah Flanders
Phillip Greley
Justus Hariman
Simeon Morgan
John Knight
John S. Haskell
Edward Pratt
Joseph Garland
Theophilus B. Morgan
Thomas Gillpatrick
Moses Gordon
Josiah Bartlett
John Jackman
Oliver Woodard
Enoch Jackman
Cutteon Flanders
Enoch Clough
John E. Gordon
Jacob Garland
William Dustin
Ezekiel Straw
Amos Gordon
John Chandler
William Godwin
Abraham Bond
Samson Silver
Isaac Wheeler
William Sargent
James McClure
John Stevens
Andrew Kimball
Eleazer Woodard

Something of the history of each person whose name appears on the petition has been given in preceding pages, except in cases of Isaac Hopkins, John Stevens, Dudley L. Fogg, John and Edward Pratt, Silas Libbee and Oliver and Eleazer Woodard. The name of Isaac Hopkins appears on the voting list only in 1812. It may be inferred that he was only a temporary resident.

John Stevens bargained for a small piece of land on John ChandlerÕs lot, where he lived only for a short time. He was a single man. Of Dudley L. Fogg tradition makes no mention. John and Edward Pratt were residents here but a short time. They early took up their residence in Piscataquis County.

Silas Libbee bought a piece of land on the old Harriman place, which he soon abandoned. He afterwards bought a part of the lot known as the Joseph M. Gerry place. He was not long a resident of Garland. Oliver Woodward made a beginning on lot four, range six, where George W. Adams formerly lived.

The petition for an act of incorporation was probably copied from the form which other townships had used. In response to the petition, the following act was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts: