“May 15.  Joel Adams, Matthias Hawes, and Jason Ware, three unmarried men form Franklin, Mass., came and settled on the north-west side of Round Pond.  Their land, which had been bought by Joel Adams, was divided into three farms of different sizes.  Lots were drawn for choice, and each obtained the farm he preferred.  Hawes had 225 acres, Ware 230, and Adams took two lots making 410 acres.  They lived together in a log-house which they built on Ware’s land, below the present Hawes House, and near the pond.  Their oven was on a ledge near their house.  Becoming rather dissatisfied with their mode of life, they hired Jemima Robbins, who began to keep house for them, June 20, 1780.  Here they continued till the ‘Royal Mess,’ as they called themselves, was broken up.  Each member contributed his share of the provisions, and their accounts are still preserved.  Joel Adams settled on the farm south of Muddy Brook, and now owned by the Rev. Mr. Irish.  Jason Ware settled on the north side of the same brook, where his son, Vinal Ware, now lives; and Matthias Hawes immediately north of him, on land now in the possession of his descendants.”

Reference Data:

A History of the Town of Union, in the County of Lincoln, Maine, by John Langdon Sibley, 1851, page 46