Their Chief Wesumbe, also known as Captain Sunday, was friendly with Small and warned him of a plot against his life.

A group of renegade tribesmen planned to murder Small rather than pay him the furs they owed him.

Small escaped after watching his trading post in what is now Cornish burn to the ground.

Known as the Ossipee Tract, it comprised the present-day towns of Limington, Limerick, Cornish (formerly Francisborough), Newfield, Parsonsfield and Shapleigh (which then included Acton).

It was named after Limington in Somerset, England, the home county of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine.

Another important early trade was logging, with the timber manufactured at various water power mills into lumber, boxes, shingles and clapboards.

[4] Davis Memorial Library was built in 1912 to designs of noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens.

Today, 22 buildings in the town center are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The highest point in town is Sawyer Mountain, at an elevation of 1,198 feet (370 m) above sea level.

It borders the towns of Baldwin to the north, Standish to the east, Hollis and Waterboro to the south, and Limerick and Cornish to the west.

The original descendants settled Limington, Maine in 1783, and as soon as the land was cleared, apple trees were planted on a few acres.

Manley Brackett is the eighth generation of Brackets which still farms the land growing apples and many varieties of pumpkins and squash.