Settled about 1635, incorporated as a town the same year. Probably so named because of the spirit of cooperation among the early settlers and the peaceable manner in which the town was purchased from the Indians. Before incorporation it was called a plantation at Musketequid (MA-T1/p14).
Elevation
180 feet
General Note
ID Key: ACAD - Acadia National Park; GNIS - Geographic Names Information System (USA); GNS - Geographic Names System (Canada); NRHP - National Register of Historic Places.
A reference book with genealogy and family stories of the ancestors and descendants of Augustus Charles Savage and Emily Manchester of Northeast Harbor, Maine