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– including the property we know today as Brewster Point - was first recorded as a seventeenth century land grant by King Charles the First. English settlers began moving into the region in 1759, and by 1768 had established three local settlements: one at Camden Harbor, one at Goose River (later Rockport village), and one at Clam Cove (later Glen Cove, the southernmost section of Rockport, including Brewster Point).
A Mr. William Gregory was recognized by historian John Locke as the first known settler of record at Brewster Point, or “Leverett’s Neck,” as it was then known. During the Revolutionary War Mr. Gregory is said to have housed militia on his property – soldiers in the barn, officers in the house, Penobscot Indian supporters in the woods – even refugees driven by the British from Belfast and Camden took temporary shelter on Gregory’s land.
In 1770 the Jameson cousins “took up land” on Leverett’s Neck, with Alexander Jameson establishing a homestead on the Brewster Point property, some evidence of which survives today. Jameson sold back to the Gregory family in 1801, who subsequently sold to Captain William Brewster in 1806, who, when he died in 1852 – the probate records show – was making his living as a farmer at Brewster Point. |
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