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Survey Chart, Islesboro, 1884

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Knox purchased the remaining shares of confiscated land (some of the Waldo family members had made the mistake of remaining Loyalists, and their…"

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Samuel Waldo, ca. 1750

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"… out of the Broad-Bay Germans (settlers of the Waldo Patent in Waldoboro)” and “I will to my oldest son, sixty-seven thousand pounds to spend at…"

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Coll. 61, vol. 1A, p. 37

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… promoting a million-acre claim (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who…"

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Map of Lincoln, Thomaston, Maine in 1719

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Samuel Waldo built the first limekiln in which to burn stone quarried from the former prison site for shipment to the Boston market."

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Town from River, Thomaston, Maine 2002

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Map of the Waldo Patent, 1786The General Henry Knox Museum The first Europeans to stay in the area came as a result of the Muscongus Patent, a…"