. Ancient city of Gorgeana and modern town of York (Maine) from its earliest settlement; also its beaches and summer resorts. nies. 177G, Aug. 5. — Twelve .dollars bountyoffered. [Probably for military recruits.] 177G, Dec.—Bounty increased to fo :rpounds, ten shillings. Prices paid : for pork,threepence a pound; oxen, six shillings ayoke ; horses, seven sliillings apiece. 78 Ancle lit City of (ior^rrmd. 1777, Aug. 18. — Bounty six pounds. 1777, Nov. — Three hundred and sixty-eight pounds for ammunition, arms, and menraised. 1778, May. — Sixty pounds bovmty, 1780.—John Hancock had sixty-sixvot
. Ancient city of Gorgeana and modern town of York (Maine) from its earliest settlement; also its beaches and summer resorts. nies. 177G, Aug. 5. — Twelve .dollars bountyoffered. [Probably for military recruits.] 177G, Dec.—Bounty increased to fo :rpounds, ten shillings. Prices paid : for pork,threepence a pound; oxen, six shillings ayoke ; horses, seven sliillings apiece. 78 Ancle lit City of (ior^rrmd. 1777, Aug. 18. — Bounty six pounds. 1777, Nov. — Three hundred and sixty-eight pounds for ammunition, arms, and menraised. 1778, May. — Sixty pounds bovmty, 1780.—John Hancock had sixty-sixvotes for governor. • 1781.—John Hancock had thirty voles. *1781, June. — Daniel Emery appointedconstable. 1782, April. — John IL-ncock receivedforty-three votes; whole number cast, fifty-one votes. 1782, March. — Twenty-four shillingsbounty for killing a Molf,. young or old,within limits of town. The bounty for killing a wolf being oftenas high as ten dollars, it was thought thatthe same animal sometimes did duty morethan once, by which means the town wascheated into paying for him _t\vicc 80 Ancient Cltg of GovfjcanH, EARTH QUAKES C:)LD AVKATlIKIl SNOW-STORM S. The first day of the month of June, 10138,is memorable on account of the first greatearthquake whi-h ocrnrrod aflcr the settle-ment of the country. The course was fromwest to east, its duration about four minutes,and the earth was unquiet for twenty noise was like that of a multitude ofcarriages driven swiftly over chimneys \vere thrown down, theAvaters greatly agitated, and the vessels inthe harbors and at the wharves violentlyshaken. In 1727 occurred the second great earth-quake that New England experienced. Ithappened in the evening of October 29, atabout ton oclock, The atmosphere wascalm, the sky cloudless, and the moon walk-ing in her brightness. The shock extendedover a tract of some hundred miles in extent. Modern Town of Torlc. 81 shaking the buiklings, ov
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