October 1794

Town of Noridgewock to—Obadiah Witherell, William Sylvester, and John Ware, Dr. —as Committee for said Town to finish the meeting house.

1795. paid Ware 6s for 1/2 m 10d Nails

”The late John Ware was very strenuous in his efforts to have the Courts sit in Norridgewock. He said that he was willing the other towns should have all that belonged to them. Being asked what that was, he replied, ‘ the gallows rope to Anson, and the whipping post to Canaan.’ In 1809, the court held its sessions in the meeting-house.”

The house was made tolerably habitable, and on the 29th of September, 1794, the pews were sold at public vendue, to …John Ware, …

Reference Data:

History of the Old Towns Norrdigewock and Canaan, by John Wesley Hanson, 1849, pages 238-9 and 346