found: Work cat.: NUCMC data from Muscongus Patent collection, 1629 and 1975 to 1976(Muscongus Patent)
found: Dict. of Amer. Hist. (1976):v. VII, p. 219-220 (Waldo Patent embraced all the land from Muscongus Bay to the Penobscot River in the district of Maine; included in the orig. grant of James I to the Council for New England in 1620, it was transferred in 1629 to John Beauchamp and Thomas Leverett, whose heirs admitted, in 1719, the Ten Proprietors and the Twenty Associates into partnership in order to develop the resources of the country and hasten its settlement; by the 1730s Gen. Samuel Waldo began to settle the land; at his death (1759) the patent was inherited by two sons and two daughters, with a double portion for the eldest son; after the Revolution, four-fifths were purchased by Gen. Henry Knox; his wife had inherited one-fifth from her mother (Waldo's daughter); Knox moved to Maine (1796) to develop the lime and lumber industries and sell farms; when he died in Oct. 1806, the patent was divided among his creditors and broken up into small lots for sale)
found: Attwood, S.B. Length and breadth of Maine, 1945:p. 261 (Waldo Patent; tract "ten leagues square on west side of the Penobscot River" granted 13 Mar. 1630 by the Plymouth Council; included were the present towns of Waldo County except Burnham and Troy; variants; Muscongus Patent; Lincoln Patent (MH1))
found: Wikipedia WWW, Feb. 6, 2008(Waldo Patent; a letters patent also known as the Muscongus Patent or the Lincolnshire Patent, was an area of land 36 miles square in what is now the U.S. state of Maine)
