Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Account of the Ceremonies at the Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Brighton, Maine, July 21, 1910: Containing Also the Addresses Delivered on That Occasion and Biographical Sketches
The tract in question, which embraced about acres, was made into a township which was at first called Pondicherry a name that in 1769 was changed to Bridgton, in honor of Mr. Bridges, one of the original grantees. The township was divided into eighty-six shares, of which sixty one were held by the original proprietors, one Was set apart for the support of the ministry, one for the first settled minister (the Reverend Nathan Church), one for Harvard College, one for the support of schools and one for the first settler in the township.
This first settler was Captain Benjamin Kimball, a sailor man who came from Ipswich, Massachusetts, during the spring of 1768. In consideration of the share given to him, Captain Kimball bound himself to build a convenient house of entertainment and to keep a store of goods. It does not appear that he fulfilled both of these conditions, for it was not until 1789 that the first tavern was built in Bridgton; and this was put up by William Sears, of Bev erly, Massachusetts, on the corner of the road opposite the present Bridgton House.
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