Excerpt from Chipmans in Maine: A Genealogy In 1774 Benjamin Chipman removed from Kingston and, landing at North Yarmouth, Maine, proceeded to New Gloucester which was as far inland as any civilized people lived. In April 1779 he took up a claim in the south ern part of Bakerstown, now Poland, Maine, and was the first settler at South Poland and one of the pioneer settlers of the town; its first settler, Nathaniel Bailey, came in 1768. Benjamin Chipman's children all born in Kingston, Mass, were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.