Kennebec and Sandy Rivers
Legislative Petition -- 1835
"To the Legislature of Maine
"We the undersigned citizens of the State respectfully represent that
great injury is experienced by the good people of this State and particularly
by that portion of them which reside on and in the vicinity of the waters
of the Kennebec River by the dams which have been erected across the Kennebec
and its branches especially that branch called Sandy River and thereby preventing
the free egress and regress of those Fish called Alewives, Shad, Salmon
and Trout, and indeed for every kind of Fish which formerly passed up the
waters of those Streams before the erection of said dams.
"And we further represent that the privilege of these kinds of Fisheries
is of great and essential benefit to the public and to be deprived of them
is a public injury which in our humble opinion requires redress. And for
that purpose we earnestly solicit the attention of the Legislature to the
subject and pray that passage ways through the several dams across the Kennebec
River and its branches may be kept open at those seasons of the year when,
or during which these several kinds of Fish usually pass up these streams.
Signed
Thomas Yeaton
John Yeaton
John Yeaton, Jr.
Isaac F. Swan
Francis Swan
William Swan
Roger Ela
Jacob Ela
Robert Ela
Israel Smith
William Smith
Elisha Atkins
Samuel D. Luce
Samuel Woods
William Philbrick
Samuel Bradley
Charles Arnold
David Smith
Benjamin Ray, Jr.
Isaac Proctor
James Morse
D.H. Linscott
Eben Weekes, Jr.
James R. Woods
Thomas B. Ridley
Paul Prince
John S. French
Simon Greenleaf
Ezekiel Tolman
Isaiah Bean
John W. Meader
George Hovey
Ransford Norcross
Joshua Sawyer
Jeremiah Harding
Asa Teague, Jr.
Daniel Teague
Joseph Rollins
John Goodridge, Jr.
John Jewett
Levi Robbins
Emerson Purner
Source: Original Document on file at Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine.
Legislative GY (Graveyard). 1836. A27 RO1 7-2. Box 101.
Legislative Petition -- 1836
"To the Legislature of Maine
"We the undersigned citizens of the State respectfully represent that
great injury is experienced by the good people of this State and particularly
by that portion of them which reside on, and in the vicinity of the waters
of the Kennebec River and its branches by the dams which have been erected
across the Kennebec and its branches especially that branch called Sandy
River and thereby preventing the free egress and regress of those Fish called
Alewives, Shad, Salmon and Trout, and indeed for every kind of Fish which
formerly passed up the waters of those Streams before the erection of said
dams.
"And we further represent that the privilege of these kinds of Fisheries
is of great and essential benefit to the public and to be deprived of them
is a public injury which in our humble opinion requires redress. And for
that purpose we earnestly solicit the attention of the Legislature to the
subject and pray that passage ways through the several dams across the Kennebec
River and its branches may be kept open at those seasons of the year when,
or during which these several kinds of Fish usually pass up these streams."
Signed
O.L. Currier
Varnum Cram
Christopher Dyer
John Fuller
Jas. S. Harriman
Jas. S. Atkins
Isaac Sawyer
Ebenezer Bean
Francis Swan, Jr.
Ayres Sanderson
Rufus Sanderson
Jeremiah Stover
Jedediah Stover
Harrison Green
William Baker
William Baker, Jr.
Isaac Baldwin
Nathan Baldwin, Jr.
Noyes Ames, Jr.
Ezra Willard
Wyman Oliver
David Oliver
Edward Oliver
Stanhouse Riggs
David Bradbury
George Bradbury
James Deane
Joshua Sawyer, Jr.
Francis Bradbury
Samuel Watson
John Chandler
John Watson
Samuel Goodridge
Samuel Trask
George W. Robinson
William Damren
Hiram L. Irvine
Source: Original Document on file at Maine State Archives, Augusta, Maine.
Legislative GY (Graveyard). 1836. A27 RO1 7-2. Box 101.
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