Excerpt from History of Piscataquis County, Maine: From Earliest Settlement to 1880 The writer also is largely indebted to Greenleaf's Survey of Maine, published in 1829, for historical data of great value, and now not easily obtained, for this work, and like wise Williamson's History of Maine, though once furnished by the State, to all the incorporated towns, are now hard to be found. This troublesome destitution reflects severely upon the carelessness of former town clerks, 'and also upon the borrowing propensities of unnamable individuals, who do not believe it a duty to return a borrowed book to its lawful pos sessor. In the history of the different churches and religious socie ties, I haye depended upon the published and accepted His tories and Minutes of the different denominations; and the respective authors of theseare responsible for their correct ness. 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.