by fire in February of the present year. Jacob was born there December 17, 1779 (the hard winter). His father died in 1780, and his mother returned to Nantucket when Jacob was six years old. I think it proper to mention him in this paper. The line, as given me by his son, Abraham Barker of Philadelphia, is as follows:Robert 1, Isaac 2, Samuel 3, Robert 4, Jacob 5, Abraham 6, Wharton 7, Samuel 8.

Jacob's career was an eventful one. He was a very successful Wall street operator, the owner of many ships and steamers, an able advocate, in politics a Democrat and one of the founders of Tammany Hall, and the friend of De Witt Clinton. He was the consignee of the engine which was imported from England to propel Fulton's first steamboat, on the Hudson. He was the friend of Jefferson, and aided in the discovery of Burr's conspiracy. He negotiated a loan of ten millions for the government to carry on the war of 1812. One of his letters to Secretary Campbell commences:" Esteemed Friend - Inclosed I hand thee a proposal to loan five millions of dollars," and shows that he retained the Quaker form of speech as well as the Quaker garb. A record of his life is filled with interesting incidents, both in New York and in New Orleans.

George Ramsdell was another Quaker who settled on the point where the Cochran-Oler Ice houses now stand, at Cedar Grove. He had a good reputation as a maker of oars. Joseph Bowman Bridge, uncle of General Samuel James Bridge, when once a passenger on an American vessel to England, and in the English

Channel, heard the officers of an English war vessel, which spoke them, inquire if they had any of Ramsdell's oars. The Ramsdells have entirely disappeared from Dresden, together with the little direct foreign trade which the town once enjoyed.

Along our Maine coast, and in many of our river towns may be found many names of Scotch-Irish origin, that is, people who came from the highlands of Scotland by way of the North of Ireland to America. These names are familiar ones, such as McFarland, McCobb, Campbell, Walker, Baker, McGown, McKown, McFadden, and many others.

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Andrew McFadden was born in the highlands of Scotland in the seventeenth century, removed to Ireland, and was with the besieged party at the siege of Londonderry in 1689. After the Battle of the Boyne, in 1690, he married a second wife, by whom he had three sons, James, Daniel and Andrew. In 1720 the family came to America, settling first at Somerset Point, now Center Point, north side of Merrymeeting Bay. About the same time, probably with him, came the McCobbs, McFarlands, Campbells, Walkers, Bakers, and others.

In 1722 the settlers at Somerset Point were driven away by fear of the Indians, and the McFaddens went to Georgetown. Here I find them petitioners to the Plymouth Company for grants of the land on which they, as was the case with many others, had settled, supposing they were upon land that was not claimed by anybody except the Indians.

Andrew's son James married Rebecca Pierce and

had seven children, of whom Thomas, born in 1740, was the ancestor of the McFaddens in Fairfield. Daniel, son of Andrew, is the ancestor of Charles R. McFadden, late sheriff of Kennebec county. Orrin McFadden, of Dresden, now probate judge of Lincoln county, is descended from Andrew, third son of the Scottish highlander. Colonel Orrin McFadden was a teacher in Georgia when the civil war commenced. To avoid conscription he joined a Georgia regiment, and when on picket duty for the first time managed to escape to the Federal lines near Savannah. Mustered into the United States service in 1863 and discharged in 1867, as Lieutenant-Colonel, his regiment being composed of colored troops which he helped to recruit in Louisiana. Since then he has held the office of collector at Wiscasset, was a member of the Maine Legislature, and has held several town offices in Dresden.

These, my friends, are records of some FrankfortPownalboro-Dresden families. Lack of time and present imperfect data prevent the presentation of records of other families equally interesting, such for instance as Lithgow, Bridge, Gardiner, Call (our earliest settlers), Cushing, Doctor Tupper, Twycross, Gorham, Polereczky, White of Cork Cove, Bailey, Theobald, Johnson, Patterson, Bowman, the Scottish Doctor George Morrison, educated in Edinburgh, and his family, once residents of Dresden, now widely scattered, and others. But if more evidence is needed to establish the claim that the first settlers in the present town of Dresden, under the Plymouth proprietors,

were mostly Huguenots, from France, via. Germany it shall be forthcoming. Residents of Dresden who have taken interest in such matters have smiled when they have seen the statement that their ancestors were German, and no mention has been made of their French origin. The baptismal register which I have read presents us with dates which take us back to the time of Louis XIV (Louis the Great), of France, of whose reign Henry Thomas Buckle, in "History of Civilization," writes:

It must be utterly condemned if it is tried even by the lowest standard of morals, of honor, or of interest, . . In his reign every vestige of liberty was destroyed; the people weighed down by insufferable taxation; their children torn from them by tens of thousands to swell the royal armies; the resources of the country squandered; a despotism of the worst kind firmly established. At the instigation of a corrupt and tyrannical clergy, he revoked the Edict of Nantes, by which the principle of toleration had for nearly a century been incorporated with the law of the land, let loose upon the Protestants troops of dissolute soldiers, and lost to France thousands of her most industrious and most intelligent inhabitants, who sought refuge in different parts, taking with them that skill which had enriched their own country.

And Buckle bewails the fact that because it was the golden age of French literature, the age of Pascal, of Bossuet, of Fenelon, of Molière, and of Racine, there are those who would seek to hide or to apologize for the excesses of a dissolute and tyrannical prince.

Are we of Maine, by indifference, or otherwise, doing in perhaps a less offensive manner that which drives many of our better citizens to seek for opportunities elsewhere, as the victims of French tyranny sought our

shores so long ago? Let us no longer be indifferent to our own advantages, our own history. And I cannot better close this paper than by quoting the words of a native of Dresden, a scholarly man, who comes of a scholarly family. Henry Kirk White, principal of Lincoln Academy, in the town of Newcastle, in an excellent address on Teaching Patriotism, delivered in this city in January last, at a session of a teachers' association, said, among other good things, when speaking of the importance of teaching local history:"The children have long enough been taught about the glorious land of somewhere else. I wouldn't teach scholars to sing 'I love thy rocks and rills' and then tell them that Maine is a good state to emigrate from. If a man doesn't love his town which he has seen, how can he love his country which he has not seen? Teach the children something of what we have to be proud of, not necessarily in the great West or the sunny South, but what Maine, Portland, Newcastle, [and I add Dresden] have to be proud of."

THE CONDUCT OF PAUL REVERE IN THE PENOBSCOT EXPEDITION,

BY JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.

Read before the Maine Historical Society, February 26, 1891.

THE entire failure of the Penobscot expedition, in 1779, of which so much had been expected, and upon which had been expended such an amount of money from an already depleted treasury, caused immense