Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . thePenobscot or on the sea-coast; to present to the Gen-eral Court by the thirty-first of the following July theirplans of the survey; to settle each township with sixtyProtestant families within six years ; to build an equalnumber of dwelling-houses, at least eighteen feet square;to fit for tillage three hundred acres of land; erect ameeting-house and settle a minister. One lot in eachtownship was to be reserved for the parsonage, one forthe first settled minister, one for Harvard College, andanother for the
Castine, past and present; the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town . thePenobscot or on the sea-coast; to present to the Gen-eral Court by the thirty-first of the following July theirplans of the survey; to settle each township with sixtyProtestant families within six years ; to build an equalnumber of dwelling-houses, at least eighteen feet square;to fit for tillage three hundred acres of land; erect ameeting-house and settle a minister. One lot in eachtownship was to be reserved for the parsonage, one forthe first settled minister, one for Harvard College, andanother for the use of schools. By an Act of the General Court of Massachusetts,the township of Maja-bagaduce was incorporated , 1787. under the name of Penobscot. Seven yearslater, Feb. 10, 1796, the town, by another Act. was di-vided into two separate towns. The larger portion re-tained the name of Penobscot. The southerly portion ofthe old town was incorporated under the name of Cas-tine, in memory of the noted man whose life was sointimately connected with the history of Pentagoet. It. Incorporation. 47 included within its bounds what is now no inconsiderableportion of the town of Brooksville. In accordance with the requirements of the Act of In-corporation, Castine was held responsible for three-fifthsof the debts of the old town, and received the same pro-portion of the property of that town. As at the timePenobscot was the shire town of Hancock county, and asall the county buildings were situated upon this penin-sula, Castine was declared, by the Act aforesaid, to bethe county town. The annals of the town from this timeuntil the year 1812 present little that would be of inter-est to the general reader. The inhabitants, though indig-nant at the Right of Search claimed by England, wereat the same time, like all the seaboard towns, opposed tothe Embargo Act of ISO. Probably no place in the State of Maine has passedthrough so many changes as the peninsula of , French,
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