”September 14th, 1808, the town voted to petition the President of the United States to suspend the operation of the Embargo laws. In the year following, William Jones, Calvin Selden, John Harlow, John Ware, and Richard Sawtelle, were chosen as a committee to correspond with other towns respecting the times, — the ‘ present critical situation of our national and public affairs,’ and to propose a plan by which the people could relieve themselves from the threatened destruction of public liberty .”

Reference Data:

History of the Old Towns Norrdigewock and Canaan, by John Wesley Hanson, 1849, page 220