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Knox County
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St. George’s and
its neighborhood was one of the earliest points visited and occupied by
Europeans. In 1630, Leverett and Beauchamp, two English merchants,
received by grant from the Plymouth Company, the territory lying between
the Penobscot and Muscongus Rivers, extending north far enough to form a
tract 30 miles square, or nearly 600,000 acres. This was first known as
the Muscongus, and, subsequently, the Waldo patent, from having passed
into the ownership of that family. This patent forms the basis of most of
the land titles in Knox and Waldo counties. In 1694, Sir William Phips
acquired a partial title to lands in the southern part of Knox County, by
purchase from Madockawando, a famous chief of the Tarratines. The two
block-houses which, by subsequent enlargements, became Fort St. George,
were erected in 1719—1720.
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