Talk:Searsport, Maine

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Actually, if I recall correctly, David Sears of Boston did not give that much money to the town. It was named in his honor, since he maintained an estate there, on Sears Island. He donated something around one thousand dollars in recognition of the honor, towards the building of the original town hall.

143.229.136.192 03:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC) Former Penobscot Marine Museum employee.

That would make sense cnsiddering the fact that he was a nobody till then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.232.140.12 (talk) 01:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Citation for proposal to make Searsport the capital of Mass?
This is amusing and I was looking for more info, but found nothing about it in the citation listed: "In 1747, when fire destroyed the Province House in Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport, which was part of the Waldo Patent he purchased about 1720." Does anyone have any more details or a source of this story? Also, I didn't see any fire listed in 1747 for the Province House of Boston. TurilCronburg (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2022 (UTC)