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Excerpt from Notes on the History of Waterford, Maine On the l0th Of October, 1775, Mr. David Mc. Quain, a young man from Boston, having by his industry Obtained about one hundred and fifty dollars, boldy ventured into the wilderness and took up his residence in the easterly part of Water ford with no companion but his dog. His first purchase was one lot of land, for which he gave forty dollars. On the approach of winter he retreated to the milder regions whence he came. In the spring, 1776, he revisited his lonely cottage. Again he sought winter quarters in the circle of his connexions; but in the spring of 1777, he left all his former acquaintances, became a steady cul tivator of his own soil, and has never since revisited the place of his nativity. As the wilderness around him was a residence of moose, bears and deer, he could generally Obtain a supply of some kind of venison. After raising domestick animals, having no household furniture, except a pail, a dish, and a spoon, his method of scalding his pork was to fill a trough with water, and then to put in heated stones until the water would scald. 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.