Masardis & Oxbow
Masardis was also known as No.10 Range 5; Oxbow was T10 Range 6.
The Aroostook River in Masardis during a heavy downpour.

The Aroostook River at the Oxbow.
Resources
List of Early Settlers
1854 Report of the
Commissioners
Masardis & Oxbow Links
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Masardis Town Office, School St., Masardis, ME
04759 207+435-2841
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List of Early Settlers from Land Office Field Notes at Maine State Archives
Location in Maine State Archives: 2117-0105 Box 3 Misc. Town
Records
Township No. 9 5th Range, on the Aroostook River between
Masardis & Oxbow.
There are on this Township the following settlers who are
desirous of obtaining their lots as soon as the same is surveyed viz.
John MATHISON |
George SAWYER |
Charles SIGOURNEY |
George CUSHING |
George E. INMAN |
Richard MADDOSE? |
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Report of the Commissioners Appointed Under Resolve of April 12, 1854 to
Locate grants and determine the extent of Possessory
Claims Under the Late Treaty with Great
Britain Augusta: Stevens & Blaine,
Printers to the State 1855
Location of Report at State of Maine Archives: Land
Office Records: Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1 Archival Box 1854 Record
Group Location A21R20 4-9 Box Number 1
"We have heard the statements and proofs, and have surveyed land set off
by metes and bounds, to the persons whose names are here underwritten, the
following described lots having been possessed and improved by them or the
persons under them whom they claim, for more than six years before the date of
the treaty."
[The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, the purpose of which
was to settle the boundary lines between the United States and Great Britain, in
this case, Maine and New Brunswick.]
In Masardis
Purchasers from the State, of lots improved before August 9, 1836, pages 9,10
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
9
9
19
28 |
Sarah E. Clayton
Eliza Sawyer
Charles W. Clayton
Lydia Sutherland |
40
33
120
123 |
These lots were conveyed to
Alexander Woodward, Dec. 13, 1847, under resolve of July 3, 1847. $368,69
had been paid in road work, on account of said lots; Nov. 16, 1852, lots
8, 12, 14, and 15, in Masardis, were conveyed to said Woodward,
under resolve of Aptil 3, 1852, for said sum of $368,69, done in labor on
the roads in Masardis. |
67 |
Amasa Goding |
62 |
Conveyed Dec. 13, 1847, under
resolve of July 3, 1847. $24,25 were paid on the notes before said
conveyance was made. |
68
69 |
Samuel Leavett
Samuel Leavett |
140
193 |
By resolve April 20, 1854, the
Land Agent is authorized to convey other lands, in consideration of
$147,38 paid on the notes given for said lots. |
70 |
Isaac Hacker |
170 |
Conveyed to Leonard Jones, Oct.
3, 1850, under resolve of July 3, 1847. |
73 |
William Cowperthwait |
190 |
By resolve April 18, 1854, the
Land Agent is authorized to convey other lands, in consideration of $91,50
paid on this lot. |
74 |
Sanford Noble |
190 |
By resolve April 18, 1854, the
Land Agent is authorized to convey other lands, in consideration of
$144,54 paid on this lot. |
In Masardis page 13
"We have examined the claims of persons under said
treaty, to lands possessed and improved by them, or those under whom they claim,
prior to the date of the treaty but whose possession and improvement had not
been commenced six years previous thereto, which lands were purchased or
contracted for before the date of the treaty, and have set off to the persons
whose names are here underwritten, tne following described lots:"
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
2 |
Stephen P. Hewes |
214 |
East and West division |
3 |
Stephen P. Hewes |
209 |
East and West division |
6 |
John Knowlan |
198 |
East and West division |
7 |
Jonathan Chase |
170 |
|
11 |
Hugh McGilvery |
122 |
|
12 |
Unknown |
143 |
|
14 |
Unknown |
159 |
|
15 |
Unknown |
166 |
|
16 |
Eliza Sawyer |
174 |
|
17 |
Jesse C. Broadstreet |
116 |
|
18 |
Caroline P. Hewes |
100 |
|
27 |
Sanford Noble |
75 |
18 Acres morrtgaged to Isaac
Hacker |
29 |
John Wessenger |
125 |
|
30 |
William P. Goding |
109 |
|
31 |
Samuel Leavett |
30 |
|
32 |
Samuel Leavett |
25 |
|
33 |
Amasa Goding |
22 |
|
34 |
William Fitzgerald |
15 |
|
54 |
William Cowperthwait |
135 |
|
55 |
Amasa Goding |
134 |
|
59 |
Sanfield Reed |
150 |
Except 1/4 acre in S.W. corner
conveyed to Isaac Hacker |
61 |
William Fitzgerald |
148 |
|
71 |
Homan Bragg |
188 |
Subject to a mortgage to
Jeremiah Swan |
72 |
Homan Bragg |
166 |
|
75 |
John Dean |
125 |
|
80 |
Jesse C. Broadstreet |
140 |
|
In Township No.9, Range 6 (Oxbow), pages 15,16
Lots purchased or contracted for, and improved before August 9, 1842
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
7 |
William Botting |
121,50 |
|
12 |
Elias H. Hayden |
140,10 |
|
14 |
Samuel Hayden |
151,32 |
|
15 |
Samuel
& Elias Hayden,
Isaac
B. Smith
|
236,40
162
|
Being
the East half of Section No. 17 |
31 |
Samuel
Hayden
John
Winn
|
152,96
164,41
|
Being
the North-West quarter of Section No. 28 |
Lots granted to encourage the erection of Mills, improved before August 19,
1842
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
9 |
John Winn |
136 |
|
10 |
John Winn |
141,50 |
|
26 |
John Winn |
137,25 |
|
27 |
John Winn |
149,87 |
|
from page 17:
"We have examined the claims of
persons who claim to be equitably entitled to land under said treaty, by reason
of possession and improvement, but whose possession had not been commenced six
years before the treaty, and have determined the extent of their several claims.
Many of the settlers, on said lots, have purchased or contracted for the
same, since the date of the treaty, and have thereby acquired a title to their
land.
Several of these lots are located on townships the title to which is not in
the State. The proprietors of said townships are willing to release their title
to said lots for a reasonable compensation, or exchange the same for other lands
belonging to the State.
In the record hereunto annexed, we have omitted those lots set off by the
former Commissioners, under the resolves of 1844, upon the St. John River, which
were not improved prior to the date of the treaty."
In Masardis, page 22
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
13 |
Eben P. Trafton |
158 |
|
26 |
Ambrose Palmer |
109 |
|
39 |
William Fitzgerald |
113 |
|
41 |
Solomon Brown |
159 |
|
42 |
Same |
144 |
|
43 |
do |
159 |
|
53 |
William P. Goding |
182 |
|
In Township No.9, Range 6 (Oxbow) page 22
Section & No. |
Name |
Acres |
Remarks |
2 |
Thomas Goss, Jr. |
171 |
|
13 |
Isaac
B. Smith
John
N. Winslow |
74,10
74,10 |
East
half
West
half |
29 |
John N. Winslow |
144,69 |
|
30 |
John N. Winslow |
149,87 |
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Masardis
& Oxbow Links
USGS Maps: http://docs.unh.edu/towns/MasardisMaineMapList.htm
USGS Maps: http://docs.unh.edu/towns/OxbowMaineMapList.htm
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