IMPORTANT FAMILIES

THE GLEASON FAMILY HAD MEMBERS IN TOWN OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.  OTHER NAMES KEEP CROPPING UP THROUGH ENSUING YEARS.  TRASK WAS ONE OF THE PROPRIETORS, BARNARD, WELL EDUCATED, WAS THE FIRST SELECTMAN.  KNAPP DID MUCH TO BUILD THE NEW TOWN, RENDERING MANY SERVICES IN THOSE EARLY DAYS.  CAPT. WALTER CARPENTER, "A TRUE MAN OF LETTERS" WAS SENT AS A DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AT PORTLAND IN 1819.

MEXICO OFTEN IN THOSE DAYS, WAS CALLED MEXICO CORNER OR MEXICO VILLAGE. THE GLEASON FARM FOLLOWED THE CONTOUR OF THE RIVER BEND AND WAS REFERRED TO AS THE INTERVAL FARM.  PETER TRASK HAD SETTLED NEAR THE DISTRICT LINE, STEPHEN BARNARD LIVED ONE MILE FROM THE TOWN ON HARLOW HILL AND NATHAN KNAPP ALSO LIVED ON HARLOW HILL, BUT LATER SOLD HIS FARM TO AARON LUFKIN.  ANOTHER HARLOW HILL RESIDENT WAS AARON MOORE, AND HIS IS THE OLDEST MARKER IN THE "OLD PART" OF THE MEXICO CEMETERY.

IN THE YEAR 1819 MAINE MADE ANOTHER EFFORT AT SEPARATION FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN JAN., 1819 GOV. BROOKS ANNOUNCED THAT "THE TIME OF SEPARATION IS AT HAND.  COMFORMABLE TO THE ...ACT OF JUNE 19TH LAST, THE 16TH OF MARCH NEXT WILL TERMINATE FOREVER THE POLITICAL UNITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PROPER AND THE DISTRICT OF MAINE AND THAT DISTRICT, WHICH IS BONE OF OUR BONE, FLESH OF OUR FLESH, WILL ASSUME HER RANK AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE IN THE AMERICAN CONFEDERACY."