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Excerpt from The Bridgton Town Register, 1905 To encourage settlement they offered 100 acres of this land to each settler who should clear 12 acres of land, erect a house, and settle a family thereon before 1771. In 1767 a road was opened, sufficiently wide for passage on horseback, from Long Pond to Pearsontown Fort, at Standish Corner, and the name of Pondicherry, by which it had been known, was exchanged for that of Bridgton, in honor of Moody Bridges, proprietor's clerk, and a leading spirit in the enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.