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From: "Jan" <>
Subject: LOOK-UP in Bangor Historical Magazine, please?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:59:48 -0800


I read this excellent history http://home.comcast.net/~downeastgenealogy/History/EarliestRecords.htm about the beginnings of all the little townships and villages in Eastern Maine after the French and Indian Wars ended.

The men of Salem and Boston who took pride in their un-calloused hands stayed put while the other men...our Grandfathers...the Wild Bunch with callouses...came East with adventure in their eyes.

Most of you know where your Grandparents had come from when they first arrived in Eastern Maine and you might know where they lived at the time they petitioned for land but I have no idea about my One and Only Mystery Grandfather, Robert Byard. He had no background....no parents....no siblings....and yet was one of the first three men to arrive (in 1762/63) and then stay...until death...in the Sedgwick area, called Plantation #4 at that time. Robert's piece of land, Byard Point, is still found on today's Maine maps. I just don't know where he'd been before the grants were given which brings me to my request for a look-up in the Bangor Historical Magazine.

In the website above, Newell Hall, the author, wrote that the "Grant That Ultimately Became Six Townships of the First Class (west of Union River) Plans were to be presented to the General Court for its acceptance, on or before 31 Jul 1763. The 359 grantees are named in the grant and reproduced in BHM pg 1620-23."

If someone has these volumes or volume which includes those three pages...1620-23...I would be so grateful if you'd look to see if my Grandfather's name is there.
Robert Byard...or phonetically spelled it could be Byeard...or Biard...or possible Bayard. He MAY have had a brother who came with him...possibly named James...or any given name, actually. If Robert was one of the petitioners, I'll have a new and wider horizon to search for his beginnings and he'll no longer be quite the Mystery Man he is now.

Thank you very much for your help

Jan (Byard) Saremi

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